Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Album by Wilco
Released	April 23, 2002
Recorded	Autumn 2000 Chicago (The Loft)
Genre	Indie rock
Length	51:51
Label	Nonesuch
Producer(s)	Jim O'Rourke, Wilco
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link BBC (Positive) April 2002 The Onion (Positive) link Pitchfork (10/10) April 2002 PopMatters (Positive) 04/26/2004
Wilco chronology
Summerteeth (1999)	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)	More Like the Moon (2003)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a 2002 album by Wilco. Cover art of Wilcos Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (fair use; image owned by AOL/Time Warner) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Wilco is an American contemporary rock band. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Fall redirects here. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nonesuch Records is currently a Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... ORourke in Stockholm 2005 Jim ORourke (born 1969) is an American musician and producer. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Description: Rating stars. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ... The Onion is a parody newspaper published weekly in print and on the Internet. ... Pitchfork logo Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a U.S.-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. ... Wilco is an American contemporary rock band. ... Summerteeth is an album by the band Wilco. ... More Like the Moon EP (also called Bridge and Australian EP) was originally released a bonus disc to the Australian version of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Wilco is an American contemporary rock band. ...

After the album was completed, it was rejected by Reprise Records, then Wilco's record label; they judged it too strange and uncommercial. The band responded by making the album's tracks available on the Internet. Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. ...

Following protracted contractual and legal wrangling (Wilco purchased the master tapes for $50,000), the album was finally commercially released by Nonesuch Records on April 23, 2002 (ironically, Reprise and Nonesuch are both Time Warner companies.) The album hit the charts at an all-time high for Wilco at #13 (topped by A Ghost is Born two years later). It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Nonesuch Records is currently a Warner Bros. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Time Warner Inc. ... A Ghost Is Born is an album by the band Wilco. ... The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... The Pazz & Jop critics poll is a highly influential poll of music critics run by The Village Voice newspaper. ...

Some of the making of the album was chronicled in Sam Jones's documentary film, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. Samuel Jones is a filmmaker. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco is a documentary film by Sam Jones which follows the American Alterna-country rock band Wilco through the creation and distribution of their fourth studio album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. ...

Though "Jesus, Etc." and elements of other songs (in addition to the album cover itself) are sometimes thought to have been created in memory of the September 11th attacks, the entire album was completed before the attacks; September 11, 2001 was in fact the original intended release date for the album. The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ...

The More Like the Moon EP (also called Bridge and Australian EP) was originally released a bonus disc to the Australian version of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The band ended up releasing the EP to all their fans via the band's website in late 2004, but not before they had released it for about two years exclusively to all buyers of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. More Like the Moon EP (also called Bridge and Australian EP) was originally released a bonus disc to the Australian version of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. ...

Trivia

The building on the cover is Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City, in Chicago near the Loop. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Marina City from across the river. ... The Loop is what locals call the historical center of downtown Chicago. ...

The album features recordings from numbers stations, mysterious shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with spies "in the field", and is named after one of them; a looped recording at the end of "Poor Places" consists of a mechanized female voice reciting "yankee hotel foxtrot" repeatedly. Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. ... A Grundig shortwave receiver Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly in use at... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ...

These samples put the band in some legal troubles; they were taken from The Conet Project, a four-CD collection of numbers station recordings. The collection's record label, Irdial, sued Wilco for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court with Irdial receiving some undisclosed royalties for the song [1]. The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four-CD set of recordings of numbers stations, mysterious shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with spies in the field. The collection was released by Englands Irdial-Discs record label... Copyright infringement (also known as piracy) is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owners exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. ...

In 2006 the album was voted the 100th Greatest Album of All Time in Q Magazine's top 100 poll of the same title. Q Magazine is seen as the more respected high-selling music publication in the UK, compared to the tabloid style of the NME. Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ...

Track listing

(All songs written by Wilco)

1. "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" – 6:57
2. "Kamera" – 3:29
3. "Radio Cure" – 5:08
4. "War on War" – 3:47
5. "Jesus Etc." – 3:50
6. "Ashes of American Flags" – 4:43
7. "Heavy Metal Drummer" – 3:08
8. "I'm the Man Who Loves You" – 3:55
9. "Pot Kettle Black" – 4:00
10. "Poor Places" – 5:15
11. "Reservations" – 7:22

I Am trying To Break you Heart: A Film About Wilco is a documentary film by Sam Jones which follows the American Alterna-country rock band Wilco through the creation and distribution of their fourth studio album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. ... RESERVATIONS is a provision in India through which certain sections of the population are granted special benefits such as fee concessions, priority of jobs etc. ...

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