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My entry point to Wilco was back in 2002/2003 when my best friend (also a big music fan) gifted me the I Am Trying to Break Your Heart DVD; from there I got into Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. Around that time I was playing covers in a local pub and another friend who wanted to play with me gave my 3 mix CDs (which was briefly a thing back then) that included some Uncle Tupelo. Steve Earle and a who's who of alt. country artists. I've since read Tweedy's book (a great read by the way), have accumulated several Wilco and Tweedy solo records. My favorite recent release is Cruel Country; most bands should boil there double-album down to one solid album) but Cruel Country is strong throughout and flows very well. I also picked up RSD The Whole Love RSD box set; I didn't not yet own this album...which I find underrated. Today I finally got a hold of Where Are You, Jay Bennett (2021) to consume during the holidays :)

does anyone know where the footage at the end (Queen Jane Approximately live) is from?

I simply don't like the tone of this video essay. It comes off as a sort of reality TV show where someone is a big winner and someone is a big loser. If you are going to make an "essay," be more professional and less provocative in your comments and conclusions.

Loved A.M. and Being There. Liked Summer Teeth quite a bit, did not care much for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and haven’t bought a Wilco album since.

I enjoyed this as a counterpoint to the film, which I own on DVD, and have watched and rewatched numerous times, especially since Jay's sudden passing. I have enjoyed some of the Wilco output with the new lineup, especially Nels Cline who I was already a fan of (I dig all the freaky free stuff), but for me Wilco's most crucial work was with Jay. Every album had its own thing, its own personality, but the one-two punch of Summerteeth and YHF, to my ears that was their peak. And sometimes the best work a band does is during these moments of struggle and conflict. The ones they make right before they break up. Plenty of examples. The early Dinosaur Jr stuff for instance. Arguing can be a useful exercise, but it wears on you, and I've been in those rehearsal and recording sessions where the "discussion" gets heated and non-productive, because of competing visions, or auditory ideas of what is coming together. I remain a Jay Bennett fan, and as much as I admire Nels Cline's playing, he's at heart a jazzer. Jay was a rocker through and through, and they did their best work when he was in the group. Now they play their festivals and release the occasional album with far less fanfare. It's an entirely different band. I miss this one.

9:03 Jay’s last name is spelled with two t’s. Bennett.

After Jay Bennett was fired, Wilco lost that special quality that had me listening to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot over and over. Jeff Tweedy may have won control of the band, but he lost his place in musical history. Me, I listen to all the Jay Bennett Wilco albums and ignore the later bland stuff

Damn son where did you find this

Damn son where did you find this

Really feeling this r n, right before i have to work, on a day i normally have off

Jeff was jealous of Farrar and of Bennett. He ran on fumes for GIB & SBS, but they’ve never come close to what they were in the years approaching and including YHF. Too bad.

Maybe the best one yet!

Saw them a couple of times with Jay. The Troubadour 1996 show was phenomenal, my friends and I left the club feeling like we witnessed greatness.

I’m not there is like Dylan’s music in that it’s tough to get without some explanation but is worth putting the work in

This movie is so comforting in this light. It makes me wonder about my relationship with Frances Ha. Great video!

yes, exactly

This album is one of the most boring and bland and lame and vanilla that I’ve ever heard. It’s as beige as its album cover. Jeff Tweedy can’t sing for shit, and it all most variates from alt-country softness to sometimes rocking out (very briefly), and then some radio static noises. I’m sorry, I do not this album at all, nor most of this band’s shit. I don’t get why anybody cares.

Did they tour as a quartet after this and around "A Ghost Is Born?" I saw them live around this time and loved them. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is absolutely one of my favorite records of the last 25 years. Oddly enough, I haven't really loved much of their work past "A Ghost Is Born."

I've been a Wilco fan for 25+ years. The quality of music since YHF and Bennett leaving the band has steadily declined to the point that their last 4-5 albums are absolute trash. Tweedy's ego has made them irrelevant for the last 15 years. You only have to hear his ultra- liberal rants onstage to know he ran out of good ideas a long time ago. When 1/3 of the concert is his political views, there must not be much musically-interesting ideas left, and he just enjoys hearing himself drone on about anything. Too bad. They were once a great rock 'n roll band. Now they're just coasting on previous glory until retirement.

wow. you completely missed the mark.

It such a shame that so much time and effort is spent on such mediocre music

I had Being There and 8am for a few years....then in 2024 I watched The Doc, and then I watched the Doc about Jay, then I read Tweedy's book....and now today I find your amazing essay....My year of learning a lot about Wilco continues...Thank you for making this video

Honestly that's amazing!!!!

❤❤

please put this on sc bro

cool!

If you are going to worry about me, worry whilst I’m still here.

Amazing!...

Never again after Yankee were they so beloved by critics and fans?? really? Just cheakin'

wow.

Hell yeah

Coke you are so talented

I actually like the YHF demos and outtakes better. Leaving Not For the Season, Nothing Up My Sleeve, Venus Stop the Train, Rhythm, and Magazine Called Sunset off of the album was a criminal act.

Gosh I miss Jay

this is crazy holy shit

Who’s this kid? Somebody loves guided by voices

This rocks

Im sad for the past with all due respect but I cannot imagine an end to a story as its being so brilliantly told.

Dude nice, saving this

Jay experimented. A genius. He was the powerhouse of music revolution in Wilco.

Just understand this, chances are that Wilco would have been just an alt country band if it wasn’t for Jay Bennett. Jeff writes the songs but it is Jay that layers the magic we hear on YHF. He got kicked out of the band but without him what material would they have to mix ? This documentary fucked up Wilco forever in my opinion.

What a fine piece of music

YHF is easily one of the most unknown and underrated albums of all time. 2002 was loaded with good albums. Interpol, Turn On the Bright Lights. Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Also YHF is a hard listen in some ways.

It’s very much a shame that this video isn’t more popular (presumably because of the movie’s title?). Thank you for making it!

cate blanchett GOAT

Keep your day job.

Maybe not good to have film crews in while still trying to do real recordings!!

There better than ever post Jay.Awards and all

Just watched IATTBYH for the first time after being a fan of Wilco since 2006? Great film. The first album I got into from Wilco was Sky Blue Sky. Still my fav album.