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Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is an experience. It is a beautifully messy, heart-wrenching, experimental masterpiece that somehow feels even more relevant twenty-plus years later. I have recently found that Radiohead fans tend to enjoy this album thoroughly, and adding Wilco to your arsenal of Spotify playlists is always a good move.
Rejected by their label, self-released online, and now considered one of the greatest albums of all time—talk about a comeback story. If you haven’t given this one a deep listen (or if it’s been a while), now’s the time.
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reservations is one of my favorite closing tracks ever. so deceptively simple and a really beautiful sentiment.
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wilco’s music literally always sounds so jubilant to me idk, especially the orchestral part at the end of this song.
yankee hotel foxtrot is also one of the greatest albums ever.
Jul 31, 2024
this album is doing wonders for my depression—instead of beating it down with a stick, wilco does a fantastic job of making art that acknowledges it for what it is without enabling. lovelovelove!
Dec 18, 2024
This band means so much to me. Evan Weiss is somehow always genuine but never precious, always smart but never pretentious. I have come back to his catalogue so much over the last decade plus. I remember staring into space on the second story balcony of my first apartment listening to Standards. My now 11 yo was 2 and asleep in the other room. I was a newish dad which isn't really important to loving into it over it but at that time I daydreamed a lot and this band makes me feel like I am going to learn from every mistake. So drink responsibly.
Dec 30, 2024
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Idk, I want to see more expression on the street
Feb 11, 2025
Magnolia Electric Co. - Jason Molina & Songs: Ohia
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It was produced by Steve Albini (R.I.P) and was at the height of Jason Molina's career. A few songs legitimately floor me every time I hear them. Farewell Transmission is at the very top of that list. Everything about it hits me viscerally, from the gorgeous lyrics ("Mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws"), to that goddamn perfect ending cutting out at just the right moment. "Listen!"
The rest of the album carries on from there, sprawling farther and farther with each song after the opener, and god if Hold On Magnolia isn't a hell of a bookend. The sheer pathos and emotion of this album is incredible. But fuck me if Farewell Transmission isn't just one of the greatest songs of all time.
Anywho, definitely give it a listen!
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