Maybe the record won't be as interesting to people after they hear it. "But I also know that it won't be that interesting in a couple of months. "I know the story told about this record, and I understand how compelling that story is," he said at the time. The music is the real story, which is what Wilco's Jeff Tweedy was hoping for back in April. So while Exclaim! critics thought it was the best album of 2002 (many even voted for it in 2001, when it was available only as a download on Wilco's website), what truly matters is that old fans and new fans voted for the album with their dollars and their hearts. Of course rock critics many of whom fell into a passionate love affair with Wilco after 1996's Being There will automatically love a brave, anti-commercial album by their favourite band with a David and Goliath story behind it.īut Yankee Hotel Foxtrot also became the best- and fastest-selling album of Wilco's career, even debuting on Billboard at #13. After losing key band members and their record label while making Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, it was finally released in April, and Jones concludes by noting that it was an instant critic's favourite. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)ĭocumentary director Sam Jones closes his Wilco film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart with a coda that betrays the album's true success.
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