The 20th anniversary edition of Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,' Julia Jacklin, more
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Wilco: "Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky mix)," from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)
2. Brian Eno: "We Let It In," from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
3. Luke Sital-Singh: "Blind Missiles," from Dressing Like a Stranger
4. JEAN DAWSON: "PIRATE RADIO*," from CHAOS NOW*
5. Julia Jacklin: "Moviegoer," from PRE PLEASURE
6. Steady Holiday & Bedouine: "People Take Pictures of Each Other" (Single)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For amp-yore music, you're connected to all songs, |
| 0:02.4 | consider I'm Bob Boylan with music made by Wilco II decades ago. |
| 0:07.1 | But never hurt, till now. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Jeff Tweedys here to tell the tale. |
| 0:11.9 | This is the original version of the newly remastered |
| 0:15.1 | Ashes of American Flags from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. |
| 0:19.1 | The cash machine was a little cream, 420 and a small sunspade. |
| 0:34.4 | I could spend three dollars, 63 cents, and die Coca-Cola, and bonnet cigarettes. |
| 0:47.6 | The story of Wilco's 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a thrilling and challenging album |
| 0:56.9 | for those not around back in 2001 is this. |
| 1:00.3 | Wilco's label reprise rejected the album. |
| 1:03.8 | Wilco then secured the rights and streamed it on their website for free. |
| 1:07.9 | It was a relatively new and brilliant thing to do all those years ago. |
| 1:12.8 | In April 2002, non-such records supported the album by releasing it officially. |
| 1:17.5 | Now all these years later, music from those original studio sessions never heard before |
| 1:23.3 | is part of a new collection. |
| 1:25.0 | The super deluxe version of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot comprises 11 final LPs and 1CD, including |
| 1:32.8 | demos, drafts, instrumentals, and much more. |
| 1:36.3 | I'm going to play a version of Ashes of American Flags known as the Stravinsky version. |
| 1:42.0 | And guess who's going to tell the tale. |
| 1:43.8 | Hey, this is Jeff Tweedy from Wilco here to talk about this version of Ashes of American |
| 1:49.2 | Flags you're about to hear, which includes a song-length Stravinsky sample from recording |
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