Deluxe Edition 7LP Box Set!
Remastered by Bob Ludwig!
Cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering!
Includes Alternate Version of the Album, Live Recording & Radio Appearance!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 225/500!
Wilco's legendary 4th studio album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was originally released on April 23, 2002. It delivered ten songs that have since become favorites among fans and critics alike. It scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as "complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene...simply a masterpiece." And as the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy's songs "unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements."
This 7LP Deluxe Edition of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot features the original eleven songs remastered, plus an alternate version of the album (titled The Unified Theory Of Everything). Additionally, the songs performed on the September 18, 2001 WXRT radio appearance are included, as is the entire July 23, 2002 show from The Pageant in St. Louis, MO. The vinyl is mastered by Bob Ludwig and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering on black vinyl. The package (designed by Lawrence Azerrad) includes a new essay by music journalist Bob Mehr featuring recent interviews with Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt and Glenn Kotche plus previously unseen live and studio photos.
When Reprise Records refused to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco posted it for free on the internet. Two-hundred-thousand downloads later, Nonesuch Records (owned by the same company as Reprise) released the album, and it became critical and commercial gold. Its pretty acoustic-guitar melodies battled noise, skidded into dissonance, or got chopped off abruptly. Its lyrics pitted hope against doubt, with all bets off. 'You have to learn how to die,' crooned Jeff Tweedy, 'if you wanna...be alive.'
Features
- Deluxe Edition
- 7LP Box Set
- Original Album Remastered by Bob Ludwig
- Cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
- Alternate Version of the Album: The Unified Theory of Everything
- 2001 WXRT Radio Appearance
- Entire 2002 Live Show from The Pageant in St. Louis, MO
- Package Designed by Lawrence Azerrad
- 60-Page Book
- New Essay by Music Journalist Bob Mehr
- Previously Unseen Live & Studio Photos
- 39 Previously Unreleased Tracks
- Slipcase
- Made in Germany
Selections
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
- Kamera
- Radio Cure
- War On War
- Jesus, Etc.
- Ashes Of American Flags
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- I'm The Man Who Loves You
- Pot Kettle Black
- Poor Places
- Reservations
The Unified Theory Of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- A Magazine Called Sunset
- Remember To Remember (Hummingbird)
- I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
- Kamera
- Radio Cure
- War On War
- Jesus, Etc.
- Ashes Of American Flags (Stravinsky Mix)
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- I'm The Man Who Loves You
- Pot Kettle Black
- Poor Places
- Reservations
The Unified Theory Of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Performances from Transmission: 9/18/01 Sound Opinions WXRT-Chicago, IL, with Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis
- War On War (Live In The Studio)
- I'm The Man Who Loves You (Live In The Studio)
- Should've Been In Love (Live In The Studio)
- She's A Jar (Live In The Studio)
- Ashes Of American Flags (Live In The Studio)
Snoozin' At The Pageant - 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
- I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
- I'm The Man Who Loves You
- War On War
- Kamera
- Radio Cure
- A Shot In The Arm
- She's A Jar
- I'm Always In Love
- Sunken Treasure
- Jesus, Etc.
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- Pot Kettle Black
- Ashes Of American Flags
- Not For The Season (Laminated Cat)
- Reservations
- California Stars
- Red-Eyed And Blue
- I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
- Misunderstood
- Far, Far Away
- Outtasite (Outta Mind)
- I'm A Wheel