Jeff Tweedy Reveals Which ABBA Song He Didn’t Initially Like

[@clarewillison9379]

This man is a treasure. Value him and keep him warm and safe forever. 💝

[@tristyevely3798]

I'm big fan of Family Trips with the Meiers Brothers and Jeff's theme song actually gets stuck in my head all the time. It's very cstchy.

[@JJPsyc]

Jeff is one of my all time favorites and kind of a genius.

[@lashendawest7509]

We love Jeff tweedy and seth meyers

[@nathantaylor-gk5qm]

Uncle Tupelo is the beginning band featuring Tweedy and his friend Jay Farar in their young years. Farar went on to lead the band Son Volt, and Jeff created Wilco. The Uncle Tupelo early years 89 to 91 album is fantastic and raw. I was a fan of Jay Farar's voice and the originality of their alt-country-rock sound at that time. I have the CD to this day. It is a great album, and I am 49 years old. Peace through Music

[@Ahzpayne]

Somehow managed a better version of CCR's "Effigy" than CCR did 🤯

[@nor123abc]

🎶🎤Family trips with the Meyers brothers, here we go…😄 Also, my favorite Wilco song is How to Fight Loneliness.💓

[@bookbwitched6823]

What an amazing gift, this man is a GOOD man.

[@nathantaylor-gk5qm]

Wilco is fantastic live, and Jeff Tweedy is amazing solo in the smaller venues that he toured with various artists, including his kids. He is humble and funny. I have to read this book. His only other book was well done and I imagine from the lines Seth read that this book will be better. Peace through Music and Literature

[@michaeldematteis3409]

Didn’t know Jeff wrote another book.cant wait to get it.have both his others,great books

[@Batters56]

As a Brit this is great, understatement, self effacement, being uncomfortable talking about your own success. Lovely guy.

[@Abmotsad]

I had a very similar experience. In high school, I was part of the hard rock contingent. It was a vital part of my identity that I hated pop music. I was SO COOL. What an idiot. Then, when I was a bit older, I heard that one of Pete Townshend's favorite songs was "SOS" by ABBA. It took way too long to understand that I can like whatever I want to like. Now I'm 59. I have well over 2000 records. Everything from Judas Priest to Air Supply to Zero 7 to Mozart to Frank Sinatra to Willie Nelson. Young people: don't waste time trying to be cool by not liking things. It makes you tedious.

[@wabbajack2]

As a former tedious young person, hard agree.

[@lisab9541]

Air Supply is so underrated. Really good music. I'm not into a lot of hard metal or punk, definitely not much rap, but there are always exceptions. Gotta be open.

[@xavierrobinson9126]

+1 for Zero 7!!

[@bubblesezblonde]

I just realized this is like the last of the late night shows that talks to authors....nice interview.

[@LukeVanGeest]

Thanks for having him on here Seth. Need to read this book!

[@okrajoe]

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot still rulez!

[@cungar1001]

Wish he would have talked about more songs he loved. Guess I'll have to buy the book.

[@rockturtleneck]

Nice interview, planning to pick up that book. I had a Dancing Queen experience in college when a friend turned me on to Neil Diamond's Hot August Night album.

[@bgusenius]

My friend helped book Jeff at one of the theaters he played on his solo tour this summer and I tried (and failed) to get a quick meet-and-greet. Had I succeeded, I'd planned to ask about the theme song for Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers (here we go).

[@marktaylor2502]

I am a pro songwriter/ musician This same thing happened to me with Dancing Queen. I was in a Home Depot a couple of years back and was struck by what a perfectly crafted piece of pop music it is! I will never own it but much can be learned from it.

[@doriwiljt]

❤ Jeff

[@johngrayatkinson1214]

Jeffs great. Used to jam with his roommate Chris in Bellville,IL

[@angel1329us]

I love him to pieces and I have for many years. I am a die hard Wilco fan, and the greatest concerts I have ever seen were back to back nights of Wilco at Red Rocks. So there is deep love here, and I don't really care, wear what you want, Jeff, it doesn't matter to me, BUT..... I don't understand why he would rather wear that cap, than wash his hair.

[@smoothjester07]

Jeff Tweedy is a perfect name for a musician.

[@clarkb5137]

love how at 2:25 seth tried to get jeff to say dawned on me

[@slimzimm1031]

Dancing Queen is a stone classic.

[@angel1329us]

No doubt. It's sweeping and epic.

[@heywazup99]

I live a couple blocks from Jeff. I'll ask him about the Family Trips song if I see him

[@ohbusiness]

my dream is to run into him at some point. I have run into Michael Shannon and it went about as well as you would expect

[@nansenscat9315]

Muzzle of Bees 🥰

[@cricketcricket91]

I had the same experience as Tweedy but with a cowboy hat (living in New Zealand)

[@johnmcevoy3598]

We all grow up and shed our pre-conceived notions of good and bad, hopefully.

[@dreamwell2020]

Here's one more question I wish Seth had asked at the end there. "Do people sometimes come up to you to tell you what they've gotten out of one of your songs, and then you get to empower them by explaining that you didn't put any of that wisdom in there?"

[@bsquared4604]

I wanted to hear seths further thoughts on dancing queen and then he pivoted. Arrrggh, I that happens.

[@Puffsdad]

If it sounds good, it is good.

[@WalkingmanPattaya]

Not into ABBA "Dancing Queen" but did like some Bee Gees,. He looks like a Rock folk guy? Where is the Beret?? Got to let the hair flow man, ...Let your freak flag fly... from "Almost cut my Hair," David Crosby, CSN&Y ( Hats are for outdoors)

[@h7opolo]

i notice the stores play that song frequently. it must have been shown to positively affect sales.

[@jennybee42]

Wow he looks an awful lot like Scott Tanner, the lead singer of Land Ho!

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

I love how honest and genuine he is. But his band name would make more sense if his name was Roger. I agree with Jeff that he has no business writing a book. He should get a ghost writer. Anyone who says things like "conceptually conceived", and "my humbleness" shouldn't be in charge of putting words on pages. But his music is truly next level gifts from Heaven. Of course, ABBA was four angels with Heavenly voices, so what would you expect?

[@ftm84]

Some people write better than they speak. His first book is a really great read. You should check it out.

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

I'm sure. I'm just poking fun.

[@ftm84]

Right on. @@user-tc5pl3zw3h

[@MadDragon75]

I was fortune enough to be able to listen to whatever I want. I generally listen to hip hop music. My friends will look at me funny when I listen to Bach and Beethoven... But they didn't judge.

[@marquee-moon]

With all love, someone needs to make hipster garden gnomes based on Jeff Tweedy.

[@jkozy1981]

I love that the greatest songwriter of the 21st Century looks like he’s about to tell you your catalytic converter is going bad.

[@dagobello]

Correction: you didn’t have to be an ass when saying “humility” instead of “humbleness”. They are both correct. You made me doubt myself and I had to google which was correct.

[@nathantaylor-gk5qm]

I did the same, honestly.

[@paulheckbert]

Correction to the correction: nobody was an ass

[@dagobello]

@@paulheckbert you’re wasting your time. Seth doesn’t have a show named “Corrections to Corrections”.

[@billadams9986]

Correction, that was not Jeff Tweedy, that was Ben Warheit doing a bit.

[@amcaesar]

I was gonna say that.

[@mst3kpimp]

jeff looks like sean lennon and artie lange had a baby.

[@kazza6078]

Is it Aw-ba or Ah-ba?

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

The only ABBA song I've never liked is "Mama Mia"

[@amirgat1285]

What's all the fuzz about? what did he say anout ABBA that was uniqe? wise? so he heard the song from speakers...so?

[@NewMessage]

Beret to touque isn't a far distance...

[@CreativeGPX]

This seems like Jack Black before his coffee. An insult to neither man.

[@jackson5116]

Oh, brother, Tweedy didn't grow up in a small Illinois town, he grew up in metro St Louis, the 20th largest metro area in the US. Belleville, IL is only about 15 miles east of downtown St Louis where the Cardinals, Blues, Rams, and other professional major teams played. Give me a break, there are 3 Metrolink (St Louis version on the El Train) in Belleville connecting it to St Louis. Big difference. He could have worn it in St Louis.

[@AndorranStairway]

Uhh did anyone else think this was Jack Black from the thumbnail?

[@cungar1001]

No Jeff's thumbnails don't look anything like Jack's

[@Dr_1212]

👍

[@eveofthewood]

THAT'S what Jeff Tweedy looks like now???

[@eneobande7433]

Jeff Tweedy looks like Jack Black

[@scottbaxendale323]

You got it backwards.

[@batman_knightt]

thats Jack Black

[@debbibobetty5620]

Good show but you should have held his book up for your audience as you were saying goodnight. Every second in PR light is immeasurable.

[@wabbajack2]

Pretty sure it's 1/60th of one minute.

[@debbibobetty5620]

@@wabbajack2 millions in Hollywood time

[@Ahzpayne]

In order to maintain the level of respect I have for him I would hope it was all of the ABBA songs. I hope it remains all of the ABBA songs. And no. More love is not the goal. There are so many people and so many things deserving of hatred. Like ABBA. And optimism. LOL

[@tonyfan3]

And this guy is definitely is NOT related to Steve Dahl??

[@tyr409]

I'm calling for a Boycott for Corrections, featuring Seth Meyers, Twice Emmy nominated, web-series, critically acclaimed. Whirlwind of laughs... I want to get paid if you use anymore of my comments... So... I'm on Strike!

[@ericminch]

OK, I'm with you brother. Let's set up a picket line. Any volunteers to make the coffee? I like mine with some milk. And a side of scrambled eggs with two sausages and hash browns. Maybe some orange juice. Make that a screwdriver. Make that a double.

[@mikejawoski5904]

Jack Black looking old now

[@Davetv1121]

Dork

[@FinnikOdair]

Seth I really don’t think ABBA is pronounced “aah-bah”

[@AlvenmodFoto]

Actually, he gets it closer to the Swedish pronunciation than the typical English pronunciation, well done even though it does sound weird in an English sentence 😂

[@RayasNegroOvejas]

to my swedish ears, it sounded good! in swedish, the "a's are hard/short, at least the first one - actually, they can maybe be comparable to "a car". it's pretty… clean. some other accents, dialects, languages… can seem to add other letters, just because how they pronounce things. I can think of english "a's as cursive, like in…say, "blame", which sort of brings a "j" into the "a" in my ears and isn't used in the name (here). anyway, it isn't so strict. how do you pronounce it?

[@FinnikOdair]

@@RayasNegroOvejas @AlvenmodFoto love the depth of this explanation and dying to know if you are also jackals. I pronounce the first ‘a’ like the the a in ‘cat’ and then the remainder like Seth does I think. It’s just the long A at the beginning that sounds so odd to me. But I’m Australian not Swedish so don’t have a huge claim to the correct pronunciation. Do you say it like Seth?

[@Dragonflies48]

It is in New England. Seth's family moved to N.H. when he was 10.

[@AlvenmodFoto]

@@FinnikOdair I am Swedish, so just establishing my subject matter expertise first 😉 the way Seth says it is not 100%, but it's closer than the traditional English pronunciation as you mention saying it as "cat", it should be closer to the a's in "car", but shorter and with more punch

[@ryanmpfeiffer]

I'm not sure anyone can pull off the loose beanie look tbh.

[@JacWarner]

Oh Seth. Please start pronouncing Abba properly. Basically- the next person you see will pronounce it correctly. And yes- your kids will definitely say it right. Dude.

[@ROLtheWolf]

Looks like Jeff Tweedy is still living on the streets in box...

[@AlexanderJEBradley]

I love how Jeff Tweedy wore a shirt... not a suit, but better than what Seth is wearing. Wear a suit Seth!

[@Zenithx3]

After watching this, I still have No idea who he is and do not care.

[@davedecastris8741]

And yet you took time out of your idealess and careless life to drop a note here on the internet about what you watched and how it made you feel. It is human to fail-good work.

[@Zenithx3]

Some people lack charisma and make boring guests for a late night show. It IS human to fail.@@davedecastris8741

[@Dragonflies48]

Your loss.