Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

There are, in my estimation, only a couple of sins in music that are entirely unforgivable, and chief amongst them is to be boring. And that's my problem with this, an album that seems to have garnered plaudits and critical acclaim off the back of very little. For all the sonic bells and whistles, this is such a monotone-sounding collection; unvarying in tempo, tone or ambition. The melodies are boring; Jeff Tweedy has a boring voice; the bing-bong-whizz sound effects (or should that be affects?) are boring. I hate this album with a rare passion.

Pretty boring album, there's some decent songs in the middle but it starts off with nothing and ends with nothing, I was not impressed with most of the songs on this album

This album is LOVELY. Just out there enough that you can see a few wee aliens. But warm enough it’s like a big hug that smells like weed. Class.

I'm glad I listened to this album through my good headphones. The instrumentation is more interesting than I've given it credit for in the past. Dad loved Wilco, and I'm glad I can finally connect with it too. I'll listen to this album again.

I couldn't wait for this album to end.

Oh my... what a breath of fresh air! I've heard of Wilco but never taken the time to hear them out. This is the perfect bridge between Guster and Bright Eyes. They are sensitive with substance, but never whiny. Now that would be good enough to get my attention, but they make great use of distortion, sounds, and beats to really add some depth. The autoplay for youtube after this album suggests a day in the life by the beatles and I would agree that this album shares a lot with that track. My first impression was a 3 star album due to the lofi sound, but it grew to a 4 with the emo substance and then a 4.5 with the progressive instrumentals. A phenomenal record!

Cohesive as an album and has some interesting sounds, but those elements never quite combine. It's weird to say, since that should undermine the overall cohesion. Perhaps that means I'm not quite getting it. But the effect is that listening to the LP puts me halfway between "This is almost very good." and "This is nice background noise."

It was on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot that Jeff Tweedy's obsession with deconstruction and the studio reached its apotheosis. Tweedy always wrote simple songs, often based on Americana, which gave him the freedom to screw around with attenuating the structures, adding dissonant elements and noise, and subtracting or layering elements, all in the service of asking the question, "What makes a song work?" and laying bare the artifice of the studio. Fortunately for us listeners, Tweedy's obsessions aren't simply academic--his layering is often gorgeous and never more than on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Nowadays, it's common for bands to have heavily ambient elements and noise jostling for attention alongside more conventional song structures. I would bet that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has a lot to do with that. Also Eno, industrial music from the 80s, and a bunch of other influences, but I digress. The songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot work both as deconstruction and as catchy tunes. You don't have to be a music geek to enjoy Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but it definitely deepens the experience.

This is an easy one. This is one of my absolute favorite albums of all time, maybe even top 5. Every single song is good, and several of them are great. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart is the perfect first song for this album, and it just keeps going from there. The album is sad and sweet, but also revels in some happy moments, like War on War and Heavy Metal Drummer. I'd also recommend the documentary about the making of this album if you can find it (titled: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) 5/5

How the fuck are there two Wilco albums in this list? It's alright, but hardly noteworthy. Christ, what if there's more? Fun fact: Wilco sleeps upside down.

Genuinely impressed by how boring it is.

NO! Just fucking no! Every algorithm in existence suggests that my indie-pop, singer-songwriter soul should love Wilco, and worship this goddamn album. I've tried. I really have. Took a long hiatus from it. Trying again in good faith via this site. Just a whiney, whiney nasely warble dragging my ears across a very lame, non-energetic blob of dull. Fucking no. Wilco annoys me.

I don't really know what to take from this album. Is it iconic because this sound was the first in a wave of bands cutting albums like this later? This album has interesting stuff in terms of sonic textures but I don't see the cohesive whole where I care about it? I don't give a shit about this album.

I've listened to a little Wilco here and there over the years, but not this album. Gotta say, I really like it - love it when indie rock dabbles with ambient. This sounds like an album Pavement would put out a couple of months after developing a penchant for cat tranquillizers. Fave track - "Radio Cure" for that melancholy, "Poor Places" for those number station samples....

I bought three of Wilco's albums before this one. While I never bought Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, I was given as a present the documentary on making this album. There was a lot of drama around this album with the drummer leaving just before the recording and guitarist / co-songwriter Jay Bennett leaving just after. To top it off, Reprise (their label) refused to release the record. Wilco paid Reprise peanuts to buy out their rights to the record and then signed with the label Nonesuch who paid Wilco much more than Wilco paid Reprise. fyi, Warner Brothers owns both Reprise and Nonesuch. GONG! On the first song the drums are more conspicuous than on any other Wilco song; the drummer clearly wanted to let everyone know there was a new sheriff in town. lol The album has a smattering of upbeat songs and many of the typically very quiet introverted ballads that populate Wilco’s albums. The experimental music in the last 30 sec. of Poor Places and all of Reservations doesn't work for me. It was worth a try I guess; I understand musicians wanting to try new things but this didn't work for Wilco and should have been left on the cutting room floor. The experimental accents on I'm Trying to Break Your Heart are quite good. The differentiator between this song and Reservations is that the experimentation is an accent rather than the main course. Jeff's pensive voice on ballads is an acquired taste. On “Being There", Wilco’s second album, the songs with strong rhythms were so good you were motivated to play the whole album and invest the time to get to know (and get to like) the ballads. There are good songs with strong rhythms on this album, including Kamera, Heavy Metal Drummer and I'm Trying to Break Your Heart. War on War is also good. I can imagine that previous iterations of this song sounded like a nice Jeff Tweedy ballad that all but devoted Wilco fans would hate but it was then engineered to produce a catchy and experimental beats oriented tune. While the songs with strong rhythms are good, they're not on par with Wilco's best.

this album was an exercise in restraint. there were some god awful sounds throughout the album, like that loud static noise?! the lead singer, jeff tweedy, has an unremarkable voice that even sometimes sounds like pure whining. those sorts of things soured me on the rest of the album very quickly. wilco did get something right: "heavy metal drummer" is the best song on this album. it's cute, charming, and there are no awful sounds on it. unfortunately, what that means to me is that wilco is capable of creating good, enjoyable music but chooses not to.

A little over a month ago I gave a mixed review of Wilco's Being There but said I was looking forward to the "indieheads essential" YHF. Well here we are. And color me impressed, every track stands out... no filler. Simple melodies, some catchy, some super experimental, with an aesthetically pleasing folky voice that reminds me of Sufjan Stevens. By far, the star of the album is the creative songwriting, covering themes of angst and existential dread. I really love the lyrics. My favorite is on "Ashes of America." Lyrics are full of literary devices that evoke imagery that speaks of the narrator's twisted and often flawed mindset. Vocals perfectly reflect the melancholic tone. Experimental techniques often reinforce the confusion and anxiety. However, this is also a double-edged sword, it gets a little too obscure. Especially in that first song. It took me a few listens to come up with some attempt of what they're talking about, and then to read interpretations online. "Oh so he's a drunk driver who improves his alcoholism from the size of an aquarium to a dixie cup." This can be a distracting (or engaging) experience for new listeners, making it slightly inaccessible since the songwriting is the main shine. The other fault that prevents this album from being perfect is the cohesion of the album. The songs stand really well on their own, and could be improved by some track reshuffling. But as is, the moods expressed in one song get totally disrupted by the next. "War on War" ends chaoticly, then immediately goes to a melodic and soothing "Jesus etc," then the deep introspective and political "Ashes of American Flags," then to the catchy pop "Heavy Metal Drummer." I'm not sure what to feel because it doesn't give me time to breath and prepare for different emotions. The intro "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" and closing "Reservations" perform their roles well respectively, but the rest either needs to be reshuffled or placed on different albums.

My dad’s response when I asked him what he thought of R.E.M. is apt here: “They have good arrangements.”

Yeah I would like this if I was a gen x democrat dad but I'm not so I think it's whiney and lame. This was a chore and a half. No thanks!

Sometimes I worry that all the lore surrounding this album overshadows the fact that it’s fucking fantastic. I’m not the world’s biggest Wilco fan but I do enjoy their music, and this is rightly regarded as peak Wilco. It sucks that there was so much tension and drama in the making of this, but the end result is so good. Also fun, as I’ve begun to explore his work more, I can definitely sense the fingerprints of Jim O’Rourke all over this.

Transcendent. This album was originally scheduled to release on 9/11, yet it somehow captures the post-9/11 ethos perfectly. It's also fresh today. Complex in all the right ways, without sacrificing listenability or accessibility. It's cliche for hipsters to fawn over this album, but in this case, they're right. Best track: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Absolute classic album. Top 200 for me. Essential listening.

Meh, not for me. Some parts were interesting.

meh

I think if I didn't read your reviews before listening I wouldn't have spent the whole thing thinking: 'There's no way this is a five star album' then maybe I would have enjoyed it a lot more. It was great in parts but also just not that good boys, I'm sorry, I'm bringing it down

A little weird, not very melodic, not too much fun

It was okay. Generally inoffensive, but not that exciting. Not sure I really needed to hear it before I die. Feels like it might be a grower... Seems I was right about it being a grower. Enjoying it more on second listen. Some really nice guitar sounds. Vocals reminiscent of Mark Everett. Don't think it will ever be a favourite album, but I like it enough to revisit again.

It slightly hurts me that Mermaid Avenue is on this list. Maybe one of the few times where I’d argue less is more. Just having Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would be fine. If you aren’t looking for a full deep dive, all you need from this band is right here. I’m not sure why I ever listened to this album in the first place. Or what has kept me coming back. In the back of my mind I know there’s probably something better out there I could be spending my time with. Maybe it’s my dislike towards being told the music I listen to isn’t cool. I definitely feel like a hipster when this is on, but I promise you I am not. It’s surprising, because I’ve heard enough music similar to this that I’ve actively disliked to know this is generally not my thing. In some way, the crown jewel of Jeff Tweedy’s career resonates with me in a way I have found few other albums capable of doing. This is my definitive Americana/indie rock album. The weather was so beautiful today. At least I thought it was. Very windy but not uncomfortably cold, with the slightest hint of rain coming down. Pretty gloomy, but fitting for the season. That’s sort of the way I see this album. It’s so steeped in a deep and suffocating melancholy, but there is an ever so small amount of hope coming in through the crack in the door. The light at the end of the tunnel. Something like Radio Cure is oppressively sad, and feels gray and bleak in comparison to the song that precedes it. The lyrics are really where that hipster idea comes from. A lot of what he’s saying might not have any profound meaning. But every so often there is something really good. “Distance has no way of making love understandable” and “I know I would die if I could come back new” have always stuck out to me. Reservations is particularly a song I want to talk about. It had been a while since I last heard it, so I was going in more blind than not. But it’s hard to really explain the effect it had on me. The best way I can break it down is as if the song physically expunged all of the air from my lungs. I was left feeling winded and short of breath. By no means is it a traditionally written indie rock song, but it’s a positively beautiful one. I may never really know why I continue to come back time and time again to this. But it has rooted itself deeply in my heart, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Rating: 10/10!

A modern masterpiece and in so many ways, probably still the quintessential Wilco album.

I knew I liked them from 'California Stars' and 'Jesus etc' but didn't expect this. I'm completely hooked and can't stop playing it. Every track, every minute, every moment gets better and better with every listen. So much depth, so immersive. I love it.

Always hard to decide whether I think this or Sky Blue Sky is a more perfect record, but it is like comparing Abbey Road to the White Album. And yes, I made that parallel, because Wilco is that good. I think this is a culmination of everything the band (and Jeff Tweedy before Wilco) had been doing in the years before, while the addition of Nels Cline on the next album took things to an entirely new level. Both are always worth the listen.

Absolutely Excellent.

Listened to this album on repeat for a year when it came out. LOVE LOVE LOVE. so sad that this incarnation of wilco didn't stick around for longer.

One of the great recods of our time.

I fucking love this band! I've been listening to Wilco for a long time now, and this is their best album. period. from lyrics, to the instrumentals and just the feel of the album, it's one of my favorites.

This one’s a little overrated, isn’t it? Like maybe just a tiny bit? It is. Like Kid A, this is one of those albums that doesn’t really surpass the sum of its influences, at least if you’re familiar with the music of Wilco’s contemporaries in the Chicago indie scene. On Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco feels a bit indebted to the music that was going on around them in the Chicago post-rock scene and the broader indie rock world. You hear traces of Tortoise or The Sea and Cake in the record’s bubbling analog synths and the influence of Jim O’Rourke (Gastr Del Sol and later Sonic Youth), who mixed the record, is readily apparent on the more experimental songs. If YHF was your introduction to this sort of alt-rock minimalism, I can understand this record ranking highly for you, much like Kid A might open the door to the worlds of Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada for Radiohead listeners. If you were already familiar with Jim O’Rourke or John McEntire or Stereolab before hearing this record, you might not find it all that special. …and honestly, “Heavy Metal Drummer” is pretty much a Pavement song. I think it’s about time we all came to terms with that. Don’t get me wrong, I think there are some fantastic songs on this record: Ashes of American Flags, Jesus, etc, Kamera and Pot Kettle Black are all excellent. It’s just that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot leans more on experimentation than song craft to me, and the experimentation doesn’t always work. Wilco found a better balance of the two on 1998’s Summerteeth, which, to my ears, is the Wilco record to beat.

Las bandas que se conocen gracias a personas que dejan en uno marcas para toda la vida tienen una mayor relevancia. Otro recuerdo. Se trata de un trabajo más ¿solemne? ¿oscuro? O algún concepto que aúne a ambos. Es increíble la función de The Beatles en toda la música. Fueron como una pandemia benévola y parece que lo seguirán siendo. El disco abarca distintas emociones desde lo musical. Quizás eso lo hace particular.

The first Wilco album I heard, and the reason why I expect the others to be so much better than they actually are. This is really good, a lovely set of songs enhanced by electronic fiddling and distortion. Kamera, War on War, Jesus etc, are all great, and the eponymous numbers station broadcast integrated into Poor Places is a stark and haunting climax. I can even tolerate Heavy Metal Drummer this time around. Happy to spend the day with one of the more interesting indie albums of the 2000's once again.

I first heard this album when it was new. I already had a respect for Wilco, but wasn't that familiar with their music. When Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was released, the reception felt like this was the next Radiohead. I listened to it once or twice, but I just didn't understand what anyone loved about this album (just like my reaction to OK Computer). I didn't get it and Wilco was off my radar forever. When this album came up as my next listen, my first reaction was "Oh really?!? We're doing this again?" However, I did actually enjoy the listen this time. Nothing that knocks my socks off. Just a good solid album that almost piques my interest. The whole album just got me in the mood for Golden Smog, what I would consider a better version of Wilco. I was most engaged in the middle of the album (from Jesus Etc. to I'm The Man Who Loves You). At one point, near the end of Ashes of American Flags (I was doing yard work at the time), the lyric "All off the falling leaves filling up shopping bags" played while I was actually emptying my mower bag into the larger bin. Eerie, but appreciated. This album was definitely worth the second listen before I die. I may hear it again, I might not. It was a good experience though and I give thanks for the suggestion even though I was sceptical out of the gate. Edit: I realized the impression this album gives me... Pavement light.

The most successful Wilco's album. Great calm and melancholic mix of art-rock / indie rock. Recording sessions were documented for the film "I Am Tryind To Break Your Heart". Reprise Record refused to release the album because they felt unhappy about the end result so the band streamed the album for free on their website in 2001. Later in 2002 the album was oficially released by Nonesuch Records and critics acclaimed the album as one of the grratest albums of the 2000s.

Fourth Wilco album. They made a documentary about the making of. Their drummer was fired at the beginning of the sessions, and a guitarist was fired after the album was made. A good listen.

Some great songs and some meh. Would be 3.5 if I could.

The first listen went by a little unnoticed. So I played it again. There were parts that got my attention but nothing that really grabbed me by the balls.

Suffers from 'Macbeth is Boring' syndrome.

The album is just so lifeless and uninspiring and never picks up. Greatly lacks rhythm and anything truly memorable. But not bad enough to not have in the background at the very least.

This album was just very very uneventful and boring

YHF? You have failed?

Two or Three good Songs but as a whole quite Boring. Too centered around lead Singer/lyriks. Lacks the melodic elements and dynamics to excite.

Solid. Pleasant alt-country. 7/10

Not worth the effort.

Dreary. Sorry, couldn’t find anything to like much here.

Like country moved to the suburbs

I wanted to like this more. This seems to be in my musical wheelhouse, but it came to me an competent but generally uninteresting. It began to blur together.

Oscar Kilo

not very interesting or energetic

Horrível

Nothing grinds my gears more than a singer who sounds like they're bored while singing

Maybe I'm not the target audience for this album but I couldn't get into this at all, it was too slow and it didn't grab my attention. From a quick Google search on Wilco, I found they were listed as alt-rock but I think they're much more alt than rock as alt-rock is a genre I usually enjoy. The bright spots in the album were the instrumentals and the lowest point was definitely capping off what I would consider to be a snoozefest with a 7 minute song. Overall yankee hotel foxtrot is more boring than bad, but honestly, I'd rather cringe than yawn. Best song: Jesus Etc. Worst Song: Reservations Skips: The whole album

This is so unremarkable that I'm inclined to believe that this albums inclusion on this list is the result of someone's having been paid off. I mean really. I make it a point to listen to each of these albums at least once through, but this one was a real challenge to not skip the aggressively boring tracks. 1/5

The perfect album to start the new millennium and usher in a champion of the alt indie scene.

This album is really fucking good. Most every song leaves an impression. Just everything was so well done. I got nothing else to really say about it, I don't know much else about Wilco besides the three albums on this list

An icon. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is one of the all time album openers. Just an incredible song and Jeff doesn’t stop there. Jesus, etc, Kamera, Radio Cure… honestly after the opening half you’re still catching your breath by the time it all winds down. Easy 5

Sometimes I find Wilco a bit too esoteric or experimental. Not this album! Forgot how many really good songs are on this one. Jesus… feels very “Uncle Tupelo” to me (I will they’d stayed together) and I love Heavy Metal Drummer. This and the very first Wilco album are my favorites from them.

Maybe one of my favorite albums of all time? Ambitious, epic and such a sound from a very specific time.

Probably a top 25 all-time album for me, and likely only my third favorite Wilco record. Just outstanding in every sense of the word. 5+/5

Wilco. 5

Perfect background music...

Fantastic Wilco record. Nothing more to really say about that.

Amazing album.

Perfect album from start to finish and if you don’t know the background on how this album came to be it is an amazing story.

Somehow, this has never not sounded perfect to me. It never gets old, never sounds dated, and every time I put it on I end up on a months-long Wilco binge.

this is an album that you sit down and listen to. It is not background music, you need to commit yourself to sit down and enjoy it. It is experimental, but it hooks you with incredible harmonies and beautiful instrumentation and samples. it is so close to a 5 star album that I am giving it 5. "How can i be closer yet so far away" Reservations is a perfect way to end the album

Wilco and this album are definitely something I have heard of but I couldn't have told you anything about their genre of music. This album was one I definitely enjoyed. Stripped back and a bit experimental but melodic. I think this is one of those albums that really grows on you. Already I listened to it a second time and liked it even more. Think this will be a favorite for me.

If I’m ever in a situation where I have to prove to someone I’m a late 30s white guy, I’ll just show them this 5 star review.

I'm glad I stumbled across Wilco about ten years ago. I didn't care much for them then, but my opinion has grown over time. The shadow of this album looms large over the modern indie scene, and the album artwork warms my architect heart. Favorite track (on this listen): "Heavy Metal Drummer."

Genuinely one of my favourite albums ever. Perfect road trip music

A favorite

I see this often compared to OK Computer. But it is better and more personal yet still global in both its disparate and hope. It seems remarkably ambitious and still messy. I love so many songs on here and I come away moved after listening everytime.

Best album so far deserves six stars out of five.

I really enjoyed this album. Personal enjoyment: 5/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

I absolutely adore this album. I love Jeff Tweedy's way of putting words together. (Pro tip: read his book "How To Write One Song.") I loved the crazed arrangements and instrumentation, the attempt to make something stunningly beautiful that will also make a record exec have an absolute fit. I love the way that thinking about this album makes me feel like I'm getting smarter. I love the fact that I finally listened to a "deluxe version" of an album and the "unified theory" remasters sound totally different than the originals, and maybe designed a bit to piss off fans who only want the album preserved in amber. I even love the way it made me ask if I've been too hard on prog rock. (I don't really think I have, but maybe I can listen with bigger ears.)

i tbh melted so much and so firmly into this that when i got to the other side i realized i didnt actually form any cogent thoughts rly hfjsd. best attempt after the fact: sounds alternately like its being transmitted from the other side of the country or the other side of the galaxy, a bunch of the melodies feel like theyve been around for forever, and maybe its just cuz its when my lucidity started coming back to me but poor places is grabbing my soul as a Song Of Significance for the future.

El disco que cambió las reglas. Entre Nirvana y Radiohead, Wilco han sido y son otro grupo fundamental por recorrido, actitud y producción. Siempre he comparado a Wilco con Primal Scream por su variedad en estilos siempre bien ejecutados. A su vez, Jayhwaks, el otro grupo esencial de Americana, los comparo con Teenage Fanclub. Este Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, al margen de anécdotas como haber sido publicado para descarga gartuita por haber sido rechazado por la misma compañía que luego pagó millones por publicarlo en CD después de haberse negado y dárselo gratis a Wilco para que hicieran con él lo que les diera la gana, tiene canciones emblemáticas (Ashes of american flags, War on war, Jesus etc. , Radio Cure, I am trying to break yoru heart, Kamera, Heavy metal drummer... es que todas son geniales). Fue el último con Jay Bennett... y se vaya que si se nota, como la producción y giro de Jim O'Rourke. Disco esencial (aunque a mi me guste más Summerteeth) de una banda imprescindible. El año del revival garagero con Is this it de los Strokes y White blood cells de los White Stripes como punta de lanza, así como otros discos estupendos: el canto del cisne de Bjork con Vespertine, Things We Lost in the Fire de Low, Rock action de Mogway, el album verde de Weezer, Origin of symmetry de Muse, Morning view de Incubus, Gold de Ryan Adams, The Invisible Band de Travis, Rings Around The World de Super Furry Animals, Hot Shots II de The Beta Band, debuts de Gillian Welch o Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, It's a Wonderful Life de Sparklehorse.... (otros discos notabes también fueron Love and theft, Hallelujah! de La Buena Vida, Pleased to Meet You de James, Free All Angels de Ash, Souljacker de Eels, Can Our Love... de Tindersticks o el segundo de Manu Chao) y con la electrónica a pleno rendimiento ya fuera por vía experimental (Amnesiac), estética (Discovery de Daft Punk, los debuts de Gorillaz, Röyksopp, Zero 7) o simplemente lúdica (Fever de Kilye, Survivor de las Destiny´s Child...) ese mismo año publican Madredeus el sugerente Movimento y Gotan Project La revancha del tango.

One of the true indie aughts masterpieces

Top 20

This album rocks. Awesome, beautiful, melancholic. Grabs you and holds you close for the 50 min runtime. Never listened to before but I’m glad I did.

Jesus etc

The goat

The indiest of indie rock. Shout out to Chicago's corncobs

This is why I don’t like telling people what kind of music I like. Give me a genre-defining 80s punk rock band and I’m cold. Give me a 6 minute indie rock song of one man moaning that starts and ends with 30 seconds of, as far as I can tell, random fucking noises, and my brain is like ‘ohh yeah that’s the good stuff’. Would I like it less if I didn’t already know it was popular? Maybe.

It's the real deal

All timer with 0 skips

This album is just incredible. It's not only the most experimental of Wilco, it has their strongest song writing.

Great album, but maybe not my favorite wilco album?

Nice.

One of the greatest albums I've ever listened to.

It's war on war from what I've seen. We had made reservations, but no one wants to commit to them. The day before, I had broken the kamera, which added to the already tense mood. Not even saying I'm the man that loves you did the trick like before. The ashes of American flags colored the ground as the rambling preacher raged at the sky above regarding all things apocalyptic, hellfire, Jesus, etc. Why do we keep dwelling in these poor places, I will never know. And I don't wish to know as I'm trying to figure out the meaning of pot kettle black. The heavy metal drummer is on again, as the pre-teens' prayer for a radio cure becomes more elusive by the day. And the only thing we've got left, in order to stay sane, is a clarion call that will reverberate for the remainder of our days: I am trying to break your heart. I am trying to break your heart.

Lots of emotions, moods, rhythms and rock n' roll dimensions

I'm so happy Wilco's on this list. Jeff Tweedy's a quintessential songwriter, whose work everyone should hear! Having said that, this isn't my favourite Wilco album. Sorry, I'm a Nels Cline fan, and I hope Sky Blue Sky is also on the list! Having said that, it's still an amazing album, released at a dark time in American history - perhaps a dark time in Wilco history too. The music is moody and at times unmelodic, but it's also beautiful. Some songs are heavily produced, while others are just raw and seemingly random. Kamera sounds so well produced compared to I Am Trying To Break Your Heart. I like the high-low octaves in the chorus, a technique I first heard used by Squeeze. Pot Kettle Black's guitar in the verses sound a lot like the Cure's In Between Days. Maybe it's just me, but it's still a great song. Liked songs added: - Kamera - War On War - Jesus Etc. - Heavy Metal Drummer - I'm The Man Who Loves You - Pot Kettle Black - Reservations

Great.