Description:Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the fourth album by Chicago-based rock band Wilco. The album was completed in 2001, but Reprise Records, a Warner Music Group label, refused to release it. Wilco acquired the rights to the album when they left the label. In September 2001, Wilco streamed the entire album for free on their website. Wilco signed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the fourth album by Chicago-based rock band Wilco. The album was completed in 2001, but Reprise Records, a Warner Music Group label, refused to release it. Wilco acquired the rights to the album when they left the label. In September 2001, Wilco streamed the entire album for free on their website. Wilco signed with Nonesuch Records (another Warner label) in November of that year, and the album was officially released on April 23, 2002.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was a critical and commercial success, and is their best selling album, with over 500,000 copies sold in the U.S. and topping the Pazz and Jop critics' poll for 2002. Critical success endured, and the album was widely listed among the greatest albums of the 2000s in many popular publications. It was Wilco's first album with drummer Glenn Kotche, and the last with multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jay Bennett and drummer Ken Coomer.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Nonesuch Release date : 23 April 2002 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0075597966923 UPC: 075597966923
"Released: April 23, 2002
Genres: Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Americana, Psychedelic Rock
Favourite Tracks:
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
- Jesus, Etc.
- Kamera
- Pot Kettle Black
- War On War"
schwarzerabt added this to a list 3 months, 3 weeks ago
"Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
Jesus, don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can combine anything you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad"
m08221196 added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago
"I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I'm hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you?
Let's forget about the tongue-tied lightning
Let's undress just like cross-eyed strangers
This is not a joke, so please stop smiling
What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
I want to glide through those brown eyes dreaming
Take it from the inside, baby hold on tight
You were so right when you said that I've been drinking
What was I th"
The Flagship added this to a list 1 year, 5 months ago
""Jesus etc." is worth the album price alone but there are many more really good pop/rock songs here. Essential stuff.
I miss the innocence I've known
playing Kiss covers
beautiful and stoned"
littlesprout added this to a list 3 years, 3 months ago
""When Reprise Records refused to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco posted it for free on the internet. Two hundred thousand downloads later, Nonesuch Records (owned by the same company as Reprise) released the album - it became critical and commercial gold.""
The Flagship added this to a list 3 years, 5 months ago
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