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A Yankee Hotel Foxtrot companion box-set compiled by David Sadowski in an attempt to trace the creative evolution of Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, and their music from the release of Summerteeth to the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Source: various
Extracted and converted using EAC (secure) and FLAC Frontend
Disc 1:
01 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot transmission*
02 Can't Stand It (Wilco, NYC - 4/21/1999)
04 Cars Can't Escape (Tweedy & Bennett, KCRW - 5/23/1999)
06 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Tweedy & JP, Chicago - 6/15/1999)
07 Good Chinese Apple (Tweedy, Chicago - 6/15/1999)
09 Kamera (K-Settes, Chicago - 9/11/1999)
11 That Wind That Blows (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
13 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
15 Ashes Of American Flags (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
16 Heavy Metal Drummer (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
18 Bob Dylan's 49th Beard (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
20 Pecan Pie (Tweedy, Chicago - 1/4/2000)
22 No Church Tonight (Wilco, Chicago - 1/9/2000)
24 Not For The Season (Tweedy & O'Rourke, Chicago - 5/14/2000)
26 Good Chinese Apple (Tweedy & O'Rourke, Chicago - 5/14/2000)
*Plus audio samples from clandestine "Numbers" Radio Stations
Disc 2:
02 Rock Salt And Nails (Tweedy & O'Rourke, Chicago - 5/14/2000)
04 Organ Song (T-Rex) (Tweedy & O'Rourke, Chicago - 5/14/2000)
06 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Camden - 7/3/2000)
08 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Columbia - 7/23/2000)
09 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Columbia - 7/23/2000)
11 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, San Francisco 7/31/2000)
13 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Chicago - 8/12/2000)
15 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Tweedy, Chicago - 9/12/2000)
16 Alone (Tweedy, Chicago - 9/12/2000)
18 Lost Love (Tweedy, Chicago - 9/12/2000)
20 This Ain't No Lounge Ax (Tweedy, Chicago - 9/13/2000)
22 Magazine (Tweedy, Chicago - 9/13/2000)
24 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, NYC - 9/19/2000)
25 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, NYC - 9/19/2000)
27 Reservations (Wilco, Chicago - 11/22/2000)
29 War On War (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
*Plus audio samples from clandestine "Numbers" Radio Stations
Disc 3:
02 Heavy Metal Drummer (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
04 Cars Can't Escape (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
06 Not For The Season (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
08 Ashes Of American Flags (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
10 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 12/17/2000)
12-49 clips from the film "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" (filming began 1/19/2001)
51 Not For The Season (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
53 War On War (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
55 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
57 Heavy Metal Drummer (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
59 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
*Plus audio samples from clandestine "Numbers" Radio Stations
Disc 4:
02 Ashes Of American Flags (Tweedy, NYC - 2/26/2001)
04 Monkey Mess (Tweedy, Seattle - 3/4/2001)
05 Pecan Pie (Tweedy, Seattle - 3/4/2001)
07 Kamera (Tweedy, Portland - 3/5/2001)
09 Not For The Season (Wilco, Chicago - 5/2/2001)
11 Reservations (Tweedy, Chicago - 5/4/2001)
13 Heavy Metal Drummer (Tweedy, Chicago - 5/4/2001)
15 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Chicago - 5/4/2001)
16 War On War (Wilco, Chicago - 5/4/2001)
18 Kamera (Wilco, Chicago - 5/4/2001)
20 War On War (Wilco, Milwaukee - 7/2/2001)
22 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Milwaukee - 7/2/2001)
24 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Wilco, Chicago - 7/4/2001)
25 War On War (Wilco, Chicago - 7/4/2001)
27 Kamera (Wilco, Chicago - 7/4/2001)
28 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Chicago - 7/4/2001)
30 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Chicago - 7/4/2001)
*Filled out with samples from "numbers" spy radio stations
Disc 5:
02 Retrieval Of You (The Minus 5, Chicago - 9/15/2001)
04 War On War (Wilco, Chicago - 9/15/2001)
06 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Chicago - 9/15/2001)
07 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Chicago - 9/15/2001)
09 I Wish I Was Your Mother (The Minus 5, Chicago - 9/15/2001)
11 War On War (Wilco, Chicago - 9/18/2001)
13 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, Chicago - 9/18/2001)
15 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, Chicago - 9/18/2001)
17 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
19 War On War (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
21 Ashes Of American Flags (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
22 Kamera (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
24 I'm The Man Who Loves You (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
26 Reservations (Wilco, NYC - 9/27/2001)
28 On A Private Beach In Michigan (Tweedy, Chicago - 11/18/2001)
29 Be Not So Fearful (Tweedy, Chicago - 11/18/2001)
Plus audio samples from clandestine "Numbers" Radio Stations
Disc 6:
01 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sample 1 (NATO Phonetic Alphabet)
02-11 More Wilcofilm Audio Clips
12 NNN (English)
13 Improv (Tweedy & Kotche, Chicago - 10/26/2001)
14 NATO Phonetic Alphabet
15 Radio Cure (Wilco, Chicago - 11/24/2001)
16 Letter NU
17 Pot Kettle Black (Wilco, Chicago - 11/24/2001)
18 German Lady
19 Jesus, etc. (Wilco, Chicago - 11/24/2001)
20 NATO Phonetic Alphabet
21 Venus Stopped The Train (Bennett/Burch 1/31/2002)
22 Frank Young Peter
23 On A Private Beach In Michigan (Wilco, Boulder - 3/19/2002)
24 High Pitch Polytone
25 Not For The Season (Wilco, Boulder - 3/19/2002)
26 High Pitch Polytone
27 Be Not So Fearful (Wilco, Boulder - 3/19/2002)
28 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sample 2 (NATO Phonetic Alphabet)
GENERAL NOTES:
"Explain the Alfa Romeo Tango Discs"
They are a do-it-yourself Yankee Hotel Foxtrot companion box set, really. I've attempted to trace, through currently available sources, the creative evolution of Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, and their new music from the time Summerteeth was released until the time YHF comes out.
This includes a variety of live versions of the new songs, but also ones that are as of yet unreleased or destined for other projects. For example, at one of his solo shows Jeff opined that "Pecan Pie" might be the best song he's ever written. It's not on YHF or any other record... for all we know it may not ever see an official release. [NOTE "Pecan Pie" actually appears on the Golden Smog release Down by the Old Mainstream.]
Same would be true of other songs, like "Bob Dylan's 49th Beard." Jeff seems to think of this as a solo song and not a Wilco song.
Then there are songs like "Not for the Season" (aka "Unified Theory of Everything") that would make great additions to Wilco's live act but are destined for other projects, like the completed-but-unreleased Tweedy-O'Rourke record "Nuts."
It's interesting to hear the evolution of the YHF songs. "I'm the Man Who Loves You" and "Kamera" were first played live in 1999, in versions that are very much different than on YHF.
"Good Chinese Apple" is another unreleased tune that has been played live a few times, but the middle section of the lyric got transferred over to "Heavy Metal Drummer," so we may not hear it again.
"Cars Can't Escape" has been played a couple of times, including a poignant version done by Jeff and Jay at KCRW in 1999. Jeff played it at one of the solo shows, and you can hear about a minute of a studio version on one of the documentary film clips. But it didn't
make the cut for YHF and remains an unreleased outtake.
It's interesting, to me at least, to hear live versions of YHF songs featuring Ken Coomer and Jay Bennett, especially in light of some recent discussions about the band's current lineup.
There are also some curios like "Monkey Mess," a song Jeff wrote with his son Spencer, and "This Ain't No Lounge Ax," which Jeff played at two solo shows and may never play again... a song called "Organ Blues" (aka "Feasties of the Beasties") which turns out to be an old T-Rex number.