Believe me I know what your thinking, “man this guy really cant fit the stereotypical music snob more then this choice, I mean come on man, Wilco is the band that every music magazine creams their pants over. Cant you pick something a little more original?” I know that Wilco is talked about way to much in the indie music world and writers for publications such as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Music cant seem to get enough of them, but there’s a reason for it, they are an amazing band, they have a sound that is so unique and yet sounds so strangely familiar, its like The Beatles, The Grateful Dead and Steely Dan had a baby and that baby grew up to become a horn rimmed glasses wearing hipster spewing out thought provoking and relatable goo goo’s and ga ga’s.
Wilco, formed in 1994 born from the ashes of alt-rock band Uncle Tupelo, the band’s mastermind Jeff Tweedy has been able to write some of the best sounding music released in the last 10 years. But perhaps Wilco’s best album to date is the seminal 2001 release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, originally an album that was never supposed to be released due to contract controversies the album tales tells of love lost to heavy metal drummers and the never ending search for a radio cure.
The album starts off with song I Am Trying to Break Your Heart which starts off with the line “Im an American aquarium drinker” if that’s not one of the most interesting lines written in music I don’t know what is. The song evenutlay explodes into a chaotic mess of feedback and random noise and then beautifully segues into the acoustic pop-rock sounding Kamera.
This album is full of beautiful gems, but perhaps my favorite song on the entire album is the tune Heavy Metal Drummer a fast paced rocker with a Aphex Twin sounding intro that shouldn’t fit into the song but fits so incredibly well. The song tells the heartbreaking tale of a man who loses his girlfriend to the drummer of a heavy metal band. This album is what I would delightfully call a modern rock epic album, perhaps even the Sgt. Peppers of the 2000’s its beauty and poeiantcy is something to truly behold. Saying you don’t enjoy this album is like saying you don’t enjoy breathing or eating food, its something you just have to do.
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