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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot flac album
  • Performer Wilco
  • Title Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  • Date of release 2003
  • Country US
  • Style Alternative Rock, Country Rock
  • Other formats VOX MP4 MIDI WAV AA XM RA
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1308 mb
  • Size FLAC 1638 mb
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 287

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 subsequently left the label. Wilco signed with Nonesuch Records (another Warner label) in November of that year, and the album was officially released on April 23, 2002.

About Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Considered by many to be Wilco’s magnum opus - and an album which seemed like it might never see the light of day. The album was recorded in late 2000 and early 2001 at the band’s Chicago studio, The Loft. Upon hearing it, their label, Warner Bros. Reprise Records, asked them to change the album, something the band was unwilling to do. Instead, months later and with the record in tow, Wilco signed to Nonesuch Records - another Warner Bros.

On April 23rd, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot finally emerges.

Unwilling to change the album to make it more commercially viable, the band bought the finished studio tapes from Warner/Reprise for 50,000 dollars and left the label altogether. The turmoil surrounding the recording and distribution of the album in no way diminishes the sheer quality of the genre-spanning pop songs written by frontman Jeff Tweedy and his bandmates.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the fourth album by Chicago-based rock band Wilco. Wilco acquired the rights to the album when they left the label.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot could consist of just those two songs and it'd probably still be a classic. Truth is, it took me about 5 listens to even pay attention to any other song. It's just one of those albums.

Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," Nonesuch Debut Album, Released 15 Years Ago. Wilco made its Nonesuch Records debut with the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot fifteen years ago today, on April 23, 2002. On the album, Wilco delivers a thrillingly experimental work that scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album "simply a masterpiece. The New York Times said that "songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements" on the album. Rolling Stone named Yankee Hotel Foxtrot the No. 3 Album of the 2000s.

Album · 2002 · 11 Songs. Having hinted at their art-rock ambitions on 1999’s Summerteeth, Wilco goes all in here. For every nod to the winsome songcraft of Bob Dylan, there's a burst of avant-noise rock or a bloom of psychedelic freakiness. Strings, slide guitar, synths, glockenspiel-the group leaves no sound unturned. The spirited pageant is anchored by the weathered vocals of Jeff Tweedy, who mixes free-associative lyrics with poignant observations of angst and despair. As he states plainly, he's "trying to break your heart. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco.

Tracklist Hide Credits

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
1-01 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 6:57
1-02 Kamera 3:29
1-03 Radio Cure 5:08
1-04 War On War 3:47
1-05 Jesus, Etc. 3:50
1-06 Ashes Of American Flags 4:43
1-07 Heavy Metal Drummer 3:08
1-08 I'm The Man Who Loves You 3:55
1-09 Pot Kettle Black 4:00
1-10 Poor Places 5:15
1-11 Reservations 7:22
YHF Bonus EP
2-01 Camera
Written-By – Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy
3:44
2-02 Handshake Drugs 5:12
2-03 Woodgrain 1:42
2-04 A Magazine Called Sunset 2:38
2-05 Bob Dylan's 49th Beard 2:21
2-07 More Like The Moon 6:05

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Nonesuch Records
  • Copyright (c) – Nonesuch Records
  • Manufactured By – Warner Music Australia
  • Distributed By – Warner Music Australia
  • Pressed By – Digital Audio Technologies Australia
  • Published By – Words Ampersand Music
  • Published By – You Want A Piece Of This Music
  • Recorded At – The Loft
  • Recorded At – Chicago Recording Company
  • Recorded At – Soma Electronic Music Studios
  • Mixed At – Soma Electronic Music Studios
  • Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios

Credits

  • Arranged By [All Horn And String Arrangements By] – Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt
  • Art Direction, Design – Lawrence Azerrad
  • Booking – Bob Gold , Frank Riley
  • Engineer – Chris Buckley, Jay Bennett
  • Engineer [Additional] – Jim O'Rourke, Jonathan Parker
  • Legal – Joseph L. Grier*
  • Management – Tony Margherita
  • Mastered By – Steve Rooke
  • Mixed By – Jim O'Rourke
  • Music By – Jay Bennett (tracks: 1-02 to 1-06, 1-08 to 1-10), Jeff Tweedy
  • Performer [Wilco Is/was] – Glenn Kotche, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, LeRoy Bach
  • Performer [With] – Craig Christiansen, Fred Lonberg-Holm*, Jessy Greene, Jim O'Rourke, Ken Coomer
  • Photography By – Sam Jones
  • Producer – Wilco
  • Words By – Jeff Tweedy
  • Written-By – Wilco (tracks: 2-02 to 2-06)

Notes

Limited 2CD edition featuring bonus EP with 6 exclusive tracks.

All tracks published by Words Ampersand Music (Warner Tamerlane Publishing Co., BMI) and You Want A Piece Of This Music (Bug Music, ASCAP), except tracks 1, 7, 11 published solely by Words Ampersand.

Recorded at the Loft, Chicago. Additional recording at CRC and Soma E.M.S., Chicago.
Mixed at Soma E.M.S.
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London

℗ & © 2002 Nonesuch Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Manufactured and distributed by Warner Music Australia.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 9 325583 020605
  • Matrix / Runout (CD1): 7559796692 A E1
  • Matrix / Runout (CD2): 7559796695/2 B E4
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPIL 311

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
LP 5161 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ‎(2xLP, Album, Ltd) Sundazed Music, Nonesuch LP 5161 US 2002
AMCY-19025 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ‎(CD, Album) Nonesuch AMCY-19025 Japan 2002
79669-2 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ‎(CD, Album, Enh, RP) Nonesuch 79669-2 US Unknown
79669-2 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ‎(CD, Album, Enh, RP) Nonesuch 79669-2 US Unknown
7559-79669-2 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ‎(CD, Album, Enh, Whi) Nonesuch 7559-79669-2 Europe 2002