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The recordings have been sampled in various artistic projects, most famously in the 2001 film Vanilla Sky and Wilco’s 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In keeping with its “free music” policy, the label made the entire collection available for free to download as a collection of MP3 files (along with a PDF version of the included booklet). [3]
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Wilco, released on April 23, 2002.Recording sessions for the album began in late 2000. These sessions, which were documented for the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, were marred by conflicts including a switch in drummers and disagreements among the band members and engineers about songs.
American band Wilco named its 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after a segment of a recorded numbers station transmission. Samples from E10, an Israeli numbers station, appear in the album's song "Poor Places". [58]
When it was released, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200, Wilco's highest chart position to that date. [61] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sold over 590,000 copies, and to date remains Wilco's best-selling album. [62]
During recording for the band's fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Reprise dropped the band from the label, causing outcry from media outlets such as the Chicago Tribune. [1] The band signed with fellow Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Nonesuch Records in 2002, where the band has released all of its material since.
Kicking Television debuted on the Billboard 200 at number forty-seven, and has since sold over 114,000 copies. Critical reception to the album was generally positive. Publications such as The A.V. Club and Pitchfork lauded the band's performance of material from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Wilco: 2002 Brent S. Sirota — [19] 9 May 2002 This Year's Model: Elvis Costello & The Attractions: 2002 Matt LeMay — [20] 9 July 2002 English Settlement: XTC: 1982 Chris Dahlen — [21] 19 June 2003 The Ascension: Glenn Branca: 1981 Andy Beta — [22] 9 December 2003 Marquee Moon: Television: 1977 Chris Dahlen — [23 ...
Over 70 minutes of extra footage, featuring 17 additional Wilco songs, alternate versions of songs from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, live concert performances and new unreleased songs; I Am Trying To Make A Film making-of featurette; Plus: Deluxe 40-page booklet with filmmaker's diary, exclusive photos and liner notes from Rolling Stone's David Fricke