Album of the day (#1233): Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco - Music

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Today's album of the day

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2002.
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Overall rank: 54
Average rating: 85/100 (from 689 votes).

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Tracks:
1. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
2. Kamera
3. Radio Cure
4. War On War
5. Jesus, Etc.
6. Ashes Of American Flags
7. Heavy Metal Drummer
8. I'm The Man Who Loves You
9. Pot Kettle Black
10. Poor Places
11. Reservations

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Sublime.

As weird as it is looking back, this was one of the first records (alongside Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker and Drive-by Truckers' The Dirty South) to kindle an interest in alt-country which led me to some of my favorite records (Rainy Day Music, Sackcloth 'N' Ashes, etc.) I also thought it was fairly boring on my first listen which obviously changed over time since my initial listen in 2005.

Happymeal

Really good album, but I prefer Tweedy's work with Uncle Tupelo by quite some distance.

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I found this album just after I found Illinois. Which was a happy coincidence. Anyway, this album is really amazing.
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Truly one of the best of the best. Jeff Tweedy and company's masterpiece. This album is rich and layered and ably, very ably, covers a wide palate of sounds and emotions and styles. Seamlessly mixes pop and avant-garde elements; blues and rock styles, utter despair with nostalgic joy, defeat and triumph. This is a very complete artistic peice.

How can I express how much I love this album and why? There have only been a very few albums that influenced me in my teenage years or any years of my life like this did. The lyrics struck a chord with me. They were poetic and abstract yet also sometimes very soft. And the messages expressed throughout are very mixed. The album really sounds like a beautiful soundtrack to life and to trying to come to an understanding of what you are doing and why.

But really the beauty of this album is in the details, the little far off horns and sounds and things that float in and leave like some sort of dream, the desolate echo effect on "Ashes of American Flags", the hectic and agitated ending of "War on War", the deep apathy and sadness on the majority of "Radio Cures" which rises up into hopeful yearning at the end, the perfect resolution of the closer "Reservations" where Tweedy seems to have finally found his stable truth in his crazy life - "I've got reservations about so many things but not about you." Yeah, this album is a godsend.

"Picking apples for the kings and queens and things I've never seen."
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My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

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Meh. Pleasant meh, but meh nonetheless.

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Mercury wrote:

Truly one of the best of the best. Jeff Tweedy and company's masterpiece. This album is rich and layered and ably, very ably, covers a wide palate of sounds and emotions and styles. Seamlessly mixes pop and avant-garde elements; blues and rock styles, utter despair with nostalgic joy, defeat and triumph. This is a very complete artistic peice.

How can I express how much I love this album and why? There have only been a very few albums that influenced me in my teenage years or any years of my life like this did. The lyrics struck a chord with me. They were poetic and abstract yet also sometimes very soft. And the messages expressed throughout are very mixed. The album really sounds like a beautiful soundtrack to life and to trying to come to an understanding of what you are doing and why.

But really the beauty of this album is in the details, the little far off horns and sounds and things that float in and leave like some sort of dream, the desolate echo effect on "Ashes of American Flags", the hectic and agitated ending of "War on War", the deep apathy and sadness on the majority of "Radio Cures" which rises up into hopeful yearning at the end, the perfect resolution of the closer "Reservations" where Tweedy seems to have finally found his stable truth in his crazy life - "I've got reservations about so many things but not about you." Yeah, this album is a godsend.

"Picking apples for the kings and queens and things I've never seen."

You look like Saoirse with all your feminine avatars recently so I read all your posts as Saoirse and it's kinda annoying tbh lol

Edit: I now realize that actually all your avatars have been females, but I could differ between you two from the fact that your's used to have boobs

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