Wilco-- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Excellent 89%

Actually I don't feel much like doing a review today, as I need my analytical prowess for paper writing. But I am going to a Wilco concert tonight, so I thought I should put up something about them. Very well-know, and deservedly so-- Wilco is both innovative and well-rooted in the musical tradition. The recent sequence of albums stretching including Summer Teeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrol, and A Ghost is Born are all excellent and I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite. They would all be around 88 or 89, although A Ghost is Born gets a bit 'phishy' at parts. I chose this one because I wanted to do "I am trying to break your heart" which is some wonderful gibberish.

It's hard for me to imagine anyone not liking Wilco, so if you haven't give them a try. I'm excited for the concert. I saw them once before and it was real good, but feature the award winner for worse opening band ever... if I remember correctly it was some Gen-X girl in Mary Jane loafers playing electric renditions of songs by the guy who sang "and the cat's in the cradle..." I forget that guy's name.