 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) [ larger cover art ] |
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It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
It's a war on war
There's a war on
You're gonna lose
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
Just watching the miles flying by
Just watching the miles flying by
You are not my typewriter
But you could be my demon
Moving forward through the flaming doors
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
If you want to, want to be alive
Okay
You have to lose
You have to lose
You have to learn how to die
If you want to, want to be alive
You have to die
You have to die
You have to learn how to die
If you want to, want to be alive
Okay
| calypsus_1 | Posted: May 16, 2010 - 20:44 Wilco - "War On War" Live: |
| andrewmi (capitoltown) | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 09:49 vivakitty wrote: I've listened to this album so much it was jarring not to hear the opening of Jesus Etc after this one ended. Whoa, ditto that... |
| ThePoose | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 09:45 They are channelling the Moody Blues. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 16:07 melissab wrote: Still an absolute favorite cut. Mmmmmm!!!  One of my favorite Wilco songs too! |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 10, 2009 - 08:29  |
| a_genuine_find (Nieuw Amsterdam) | Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 12:45 Mr El Kabong - * 9 swooping down on a rope with the onomatopoeiac war cry "KABOOOOOONG!",  in charcter Mr Quik Draw McDraw Hanna Barbera =>*7* |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Jan 09, 2009 - 16:41 rajron wrote: Indian Corn You know it as maize. |
| a_genuine_find (Nieuw Amsterdam) | Posted: Jan 09, 2009 - 16:41  ? |
| vivakitty (The Girl Who Wrecks Your Dreams) | Posted: Nov 07, 2008 - 13:21 I've listened to this album so much it was jarring not to hear the opening of Jesus Etc after this one ended. |
| HarrO (Florida) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 19:07 Big Wilco fan. This one doesn't do it for me. 6 |
| Excelsior | Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 10:02 Danimal174 wrote: Hmmm...no sir, I didn't like it.
 Ditto. |
| Gednabb (New York City) | Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 10:01 Random question--is it ever possible to play non-singles from albums? Any legal issues there? or just that radio stations believe people won't be interested? I've always wondered. Thanks |
| Danimal174 | Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 11:58 Hmmm...no sir, I didn't like it. |
| melissab (Green Country) | Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 11:47 Still an absolute favorite cut. Mmmmmm!!! |
| Wisecrowe (York, PA) | Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 11:46 This song is the truth...T-R-U-T-H, truth! |
| Dotman | Posted: Mar 16, 2008 - 00:02 here's a thought. fire the best musician in the band. looks at steve. what? dot. |
| meddle | Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 07:50 Great song for radio. |
| hedgie (Pleasantville) | Posted: Feb 13, 2008 - 12:44 jstevep00 wrote: I love this song. I was excited to come across those apartment buildings on the cover of YHF my last time through Chicago (I'd been there plenty, just never noticed them/been in the right part of town I guess). I took a pic with my camera phone, which is good for pretty much nothing.
AKA Marina Towers. There is a great stunt in "The Hunter" where Steve McQueen is a bounty hunter and his prey drives off the upper level parking into the Chicago river. |
| Canoe52 (Normal, IL) | Posted: Feb 13, 2008 - 12:41 I remember when they were built, they were the ultimate in modern design and urban living at the time... xkolibuul wrote: Of course its a couple of buildings. What else would it be?
Didn't know where it was, though. My vote was for some woebegotten corner of Seattle. Kinda Space Needle-ish in vintage. |
| ThePoose | Posted: Feb 13, 2008 - 12:39 Very Moody Bluesy |
| jstevep00 (left of center) | Posted: Jan 28, 2008 - 18:34 I love this song. I was excited to come across those apartment buildings on the cover of YHF my last time through Chicago (I'd been there plenty, just never noticed them/been in the right part of town I guess). I took a pic with my camera phone, which is good for pretty much nothing. |
| rajron (Albuquerque) | Posted: Jan 28, 2008 - 18:34 corndog4000 wrote: probably those that haven't seen those apartments might not even know that it's a picture of buildings Indian Corn |
| madra | Posted: Dec 12, 2007 - 16:05 xkolibuul wrote: Of course its a couple of buildings. What else would it be?
Now, yes, it does look obviously like buildings, but it also reminds me of bacterial flagellin:  |
| lmic (Uniondale, NY) | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 20:44 xkolibuul wrote: Of course its a couple of buildings. What else would it be?
Wiki has an entry devoted to this business/residential complex in Chicago called Marina City. I thought I'd recognized it in that Allstate commercial homaging Steve McQueen! (click here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City Marina City was the first urban post-war high-rise residential complex in the United States and is widely credited with beginning the residential renaissance of American inner cities. Its model of mixed residential and office uses and high-rise towers with a base of parking has become a primary model for urban development in the United States, and has been widely copied throughout downtown Chicago. |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 19:56 Of course its a couple of buildings. What else would it be? Didn't know where it was, though. My vote was for some woebegotten corner of Seattle. Kinda Space Needle-ish in vintage. corndog4000 wrote: probably those that haven't seen those apartments might not even know that it's a picture of buildings |
| HazzeSwede (Stockholm) | Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 04:09 Like what I heared from Wilco thus far,this NO! #3 |
| corndog4000 (Sacramento, CA) | Posted: May 22, 2007 - 11:14 Duffalo wrote: Great stuff. Anyone know why those two downtown Chicago apartment buildings/parking garages are on the cover?
probably those that haven't seen those apartments might not even know that it's a picture of buildings |
| quesarah (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: May 22, 2007 - 11:13 ktnsb wrote: I like these guys-thanks for the intro, Bill!.
So, Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot... I think that's like military radio-speak for the letters Y, H, and F. What the hell's that got to do with anything? Wikipedia is your friend. YHF is a relatively famous "number station". Tag line is a voice repeating "yankee... hotel... foxtrot..." I guess they thought it was mysterious & cool, which I do too. http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=570 Some samples of recordings from numbers stations and shortwave radio stations that appear on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot put the band in legal troubles. A sample that can be heard at the end of the song "Poor places" was 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 <5>. |
| Wizzuvvoz (middle of the road in the groin of America) | Posted: May 22, 2007 - 11:08 ktnsb wrote: I like these guys-thanks for the intro, Bill!.
Roger Wilco. (received and will comply). OMG I sound like Ultra Nerd :-)
So, Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot... I think that's like military radio-speak for the letters Y, H, and F. What the hell's that got to do with anything? Over and out. |
| hizzoner (Chicago) | Posted: May 22, 2007 - 11:06 Perhaps it has to do with the band's name which is radio shorthand for "Will Comply." Usually also preceeded by "Roger." Or it could be completely unrelated. ktnsb wrote: I like these guys-thanks for the intro, Bill!.
So, Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot... I think that's like military radio-speak for the letters Y, H, and F. What the hell's that got to do with anything? |
| ktnsb (Kinsey's Colgate) | Posted: May 06, 2007 - 16:59 I like these guys-thanks for the intro, Bill!. So, Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot... I think that's like military radio-speak for the letters Y, H, and F. What the hell's that got to do with anything? |
| zaknafein (Kansas City, MO) | Posted: Apr 20, 2007 - 23:11 This is an album that took me four years to appreciate. I don't know why, but after that long of not really feeling it, it just clicked on day, and now I can honestly say it's one of the best albums of the last 20 years. |
| Amazon (Big Bend, TX) | Posted: Mar 20, 2007 - 14:41 Duffalo wrote: Great stuff. Anyone know why those two downtown Chicago apartment buildings/parking garages are on the cover? Just a flying guess, but perhaps they're the Yankee Hotel, same as the album title? |
| greg6494 (St. Louis) | Posted: Feb 02, 2007 - 06:07 i can...if you like fleetwood mac's "go your own way" from which the much of the guitar and bass line are directly lifted. not that that's a bad thing. gandalfbmg wrote: You know, there's a really nothing that immediately grabs me about song as being particularly brilliant or catchy, in fact, there are some things that normally I would find annoying in a song... but for some reason as the song progresses I mind my foot tapping MORE insistently and myself turning up the volume just one more notch. I can't explain it... |
| azdcryan (Sunny Arizona) | Posted: Jan 18, 2007 - 15:13 3:08 pm - Wilco - War On War 3:04 pm - Iron & Wine - Free Until They Cut Me Down 3:00 pm - Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit 2:53 pm - Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 2:50 pm - Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence great set...thanks RP! |
| mamashannon (madison wisconsin) | Posted: Dec 20, 2006 - 12:33 Oh  I love J Tweedy! |
| Stingray | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 08:51 BORING! This song - not WILCO in general! Stingray! |
| kevin36 | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 08:47 window wrote: Yes, yes, yes!!! My favorite Wilco song.
Ditto! |
| junkmonkey (Deep South) | Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 08:46 i absolutely adore wilco... |
| window (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Aug 25, 2006 - 13:26 Yes, yes, yes!!! My favorite Wilco song. Propulsive from the get go, and the insightful lyrics take it to the next level. Hedwig, I totally agree -- Jeff Tweedy is on to something. |
| hippiechick | Posted: Aug 25, 2006 - 13:19 Duffalo wrote: Great stuff. Anyone know why those two downtown Chicago apartment buildings/parking garages are on the cover?
I don't know for sure, but Chicago is their town. |
| Duffalo (Aisle 2) | Posted: Jul 27, 2006 - 07:03 Great stuff. Anyone know why those two downtown Chicago apartment buildings/parking garages are on the cover? |
| ploba (the other coast and hang a left) | Posted: Jul 27, 2006 - 07:02 awww - they sang this one at the concert on the 13th in dartmouth - I'm happy to report a great time was had by all - never saw so many smiling happy people in one spot in my life...such a great band! |
| Hedwig (Somewhere between Portland, OR and NYC) | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 15:07 This is awesome. To me this is an artist speaking the gospel. |
| ploba | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 09:13 wbmarco2 wrote: The Greek June 14th. I can't wait.
alderney landing - July 13th!!!! hee haw |
| ArmchairMusician (Rochester, NY) | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 08:33 The next album is supposed to sound a lot like "Being There." What next album? Not sure about the next album, but Kicking Television - Live in Chicago ROCKS. |
| horstman | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 08:27 xkolibuul wrote: Nice tune. And I like most of their stuff. But I never understood why they were labelled "alt-country".
Listen to A.M. and you'll see why. Nice album, has some good cuts, and some songs that make me want to buy a gun rack for my Subaru? Ended up burning a disc without these songs in to keep from skipping them everytime I listened to it. Still worth the money as is all things Wilco. |
| miahfost (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 08:24 grant wrote: Brilliant tune!!
The next album is supposed to sound a lot like "Being There." What next album? |
| loud_family_fan | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 08:24 Best band in America today. |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting...now go home!) | Posted: May 29, 2006 - 18:21 Coppertop wrote: These guys are awsome...
I haven't seen them live but I did see them on, "Austin City Limits" ... Poor substitute yes... but better than nothing. Funny you should mention Austin...I saw them last year at the ACL Music Fest and they were phenomenal. The entire crowd sang along to more than half the songs, except ones like this where it's a lot more fun to hear them. My perception of them skyrocketed. I just pulled this album back out this weekend while cleaning the garage...I'd forgotten just how great a disc it is. If you don't own it, and you like this song, you owe it to yourself to click on that purchase link above. Excellent tune from a band for whom I've developed an immense respect. |