Music CD - Wilco: yankee hotel foxtrot

	Music CD: yankee hotel foxtrot Artist: Wilco List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $9.29 Your Save: $ 9.69 ( 51% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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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
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075597966923 Format: Enhanced Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: 2002-04-23 Studio: Nonesuch
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Keep looking. Comment: Threw mine in the trash. I do like trying new music. Really I do. This is not worth a second play. Where has music gone? Where the Jim Morrison, the Joni Mitchell, the Jimi Hendrix, the Janis Joplin, of the new millenium? Not here. Keep looking. Love those Counting Crows, though. Craig Customer Rating: Summary: A Slow-Burn Classic Comment: I must admit that when I first heard YHF back in '02 or '03, I thought it was interesting but not quite on par with Being There or SummerTeeth. I actually felt disappointed by it in a way that now seems inexplicable to me, especially since it has become my favorite Wilco CD over time. Sometimes first impressions aren't the best, and, sorry Ginsberg, first impulses aren't always right. In pulling together the songs that would ultimately boil down to make YHF, Tweedy and company left a lot of castaways behind, including several band members and the 6 song "More Like The Moon" EP which can now be downloaded for free from their web site in 192kbs MP3 form with artwork. Working with new collaborators Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche (Tweedy's Loose Fur pals), the band began honing the sonic experiments and melodic songwriting to their purest, often disquieting form. A wealthy of unreleased material exists from these sessions, and songs like "Cars Can't Escape," "Venus Stop The Train," and "Let Me Come Home" would have fit in nicely with YHF's overall vibe. Hopefully those songs and others from these sessions will get official releases in the future. From here on out, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT will be regarded as a beautiful, haunting classic, and one that seems to deal with issues of communication, or the lack thereof. Now it's hard not to hear this album as a looming soundtrack for the post-911 world. This is essential listening! Customer Rating: Summary: I can't dance to it Comment: But if you ever saw me dance you'd be very relieved. I used to do the Elaine back in the day. YHF is a great album start to finish. For a 49yo guy like me its not easy finding good music these days. More young musicians could learn a lot from Jeff Tweedy, don't be classified, do your own thing and pour yourself into your music. My 15yo kid loves WILCO too thanks to me playing them all the time. Customer Rating: Summary: simply amazing Comment: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was my first experience with Wilco, after much advisement from a friend. I have to say, I was not disappointed. My expectations were not only met, but far surpassed. This is a truly amazing album. Right from the first two songs, I was hooked and the rest of the album was just as entertaining. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot really flows in a way few albums do. Wilco managed to put together a dozen songs that, while all maintaining a similar feel, are entirely unique to each other and enjoyable for completely different reasons. Every song by itself is a reason to own this album, luckily for us they're all on one CD. Customer Rating: Summary: Best of Wilco Comment: This is Wilco at its most creative and inspired. Not for the faint of heart. There are swings, so be ready. "Jesus Etc" shines as an easy-going, pretty song. On the other hand, you'll find the haunting dissonance of "Ashes of American Flags". In the same way "Kamera" and "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" are opposites but engaging in their own way. Love the bouncey mood of "Pot Kettle Black". I like the fact that I can't figure out most of the lyrics. That pairs well with the music and deepens the accessible mysteriousness of this album. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Named in honor of the three-word codes used by short-wave radio operators, Wilco's fourth album sounds like a late-night broadcast of some weirdly wonderful pop station punctuated by static and the sonic bleed of competing signals. Songs that begin with simple, elegiac grace--"Ashes of American Flags" and "Poor Places"--end in a cathartic squall of distortion. The results can be initially jarring, but it's these tracks more than the sturdy jangle pop of "Kamera" or "Heavy Metal Drummer" that demand, and reward, repeated listens. Mixed by studio experimentalist Jim O'Rourke and produced by the band, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot harkens back to a time when the words "pop" and "sonic adventurism" weren't mutually exclusive. The Beatles and Kurt Cobain knew this, and clearly so do Jeff Tweedy and company. --Keith Moerer