Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The album Reprise turned down, built from tape edits at The Loft and hailed as one of the defining rock records of the 2000s.
Wilco, 2002
- Released
- 23 April 2002
- Recorded
- Late 2000 to July 2001
- Studio
- The Loft, Chicago; CRC and Soma E.M.S., Chicago
- Label
- Nonesuch
- Producer
- Wilco
- Length
- 51:51
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Its working title was Here Comes Everybody. The final name came from a phonetic-alphabet call on The Conet Project, Irdial's box set of numbers-station recordings, and a clip used in Poor Places led to a lawsuit settled out of court. The cover shows Chicago's Marina City towers. Tweedy wrote the words, and the music with Jay Bennett on eight of the eleven tracks. Tweedy and Stirratt arranged the horns and strings, Jim O'Rourke mixed it at Soma, and Steve Rooke mastered it at Abbey Road.
Uncut judged it a more successful record than Kid A, and Q found it battered, bonkers and bewitching. It was certified gold in 2004. For its twentieth anniversary the band played it in full in New York and Chicago with strings and horns, and an 11-LP Super Deluxe set in 2022 added four alternate sequences and a 2002 show at the Pageant in St. Louis. Pitchfork gave the reissue ten and called the album one of the defining rock records of the decade.
Track listing
- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart6:57
- Kamera3:29
- Radio Cure5:08
- War on War3:47
- Jesus, Etc.3:50
- Ashes of American Flags4:43
- Heavy Metal Drummer3:08
- I'm the Man Who Loves You3:55
- Pot Kettle Black4:00
- Poor Places5:15
- Reservations7:22
Personnel
- Jeff Tweedy vocals, guitar; horn and string arrangements
- Jay Bennett keyboards, backing vocals; engineer
- John Stirratt bass, backing vocals; horn and string arrangements
- Glenn Kotche drums, percussion
- Leroy Bach keyboards, guitar
- Jim O'Rourke mixing, additional engineering
- Ken Coomer additional performer
- Craig Christiansen additional performer
- Fred Lonberg-Holm additional performer
- Jessy Greene additional performer
- Chris Brickley engineer
- Steve Rooke mastering
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Sources
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wikipedia
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Nonesuch Records
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Discogs
- Jeff Tweedy, Tape Op (2019)
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition), Pitchfork (2022-09-24)