• Reviews around heart (1.11 of 5)

    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    • Check out the documentary film about the making of YHF, "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    • I tended to skip over "I am trying to break your heart", "Ashes of American Flags", and "Poor Places"
    • Experimental opener I am trying to break your heart sets the scene
    • From its stunning arrhythmic opener "I've Been Trying to Break Your Heart" to the final sounds of dissonance that ends the album this is a jaw dropper
    • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot kicks off with "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", a brutally honest song amazing in its beauty
    • This approach only works well on the openingtrack(I am trying to break your heart)
    • I am trying to break your heart," Tweedy almost whispers as the simple, beautiful bass line ripples under his voice
    • I am trying to break your heart" is a song filled with drunken swagart and love from an alchohalic
    • named after the opening track on YHF, "i am trying to break your heart" is a full-length documentary on two years in the life of wilco
    • I Am Tring to Break Your Heart.
    • "I am Trying to Break Your Heart," a documentary on the making of YHF, which is very well done)
    • was the strange free-form intro to "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart," even though it's not too much stranger than the intro to 1996's "Miunderstood."Even through these slower-moving, beautiful tracks, there are several songs just begging to be hits: "Heavy Metal Drummer
    • I am trying to break your heart (5/5)2
    • "I am trying to break your heart" but Wilco really only presents what's absolutely necessary to a good song.
    • From "I'm Am Trying to Break Your Heart""I
    • An example, from "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart": "I am an American aquarium drinker / I assassin down the avenue
    • Of course, I was intrigued, so I downloaded "I am trying to break your heart
    • While the album opener "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" starts off with a humming synth part, it eventually transitions to a strummed acoustic guitar before Tweedy's weary vocals enter the song backed by some abrasive percussion.
    • The cd starts out with I am Trying to Break your heart
    • After a powerful first half of the song, it breaks into a beautiful tapestry of distortion, one that I wish went on longer (there's a distortion track called Less than You Think on the follow up to this, but I Am Trying to Break Your Heart is better).
    • "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
    • From the opening percussion of "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" to the final chords of "Reservations" this album grabs your attention and doesn't let go.
    • No one with a pulse and a brain stem could deny that "I am trying to break your heart" and "I'm the man who loves you" aren't wonderful and
    • I am trying to break your heart;" "Heavy metal drummer;" "Radio cure;" "Kamera;" oh sure one or two others.
    • The only song that's remotely interesting is the first one "I'm trying to break your heart"
    • From the cerebral audio brilliance of the opening track "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart", Wilco turns in perhaps their most radio friendly, yet artistically rewarding album to date
    • From the first moment of "I am trying to break your heart", when Jeff Tweedy sings "I'm an american aquarium drinker...", you realize you are about to "experience" an album as opposed to listening to a catchy song.
    • That was confirmed when I saw "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" and his solo acoustic outings in that film.
    • I Am Trying to Break Your Heart', this CD clanks and rings, romps and weeps, a self-examination of the human spirit
    • Its experimentation (expanses of white noise acting as segues, bleepy synths) is coated with pop sensibility without sounding like a compromise, and the more adventurous tracks like Trying To Break Your Heart and Poor Places are balanced by top-drawer pop on the order of Pot Kettle Black, War On War, and Kamera
    • albums like that aren't really all that easy to come by, but rolling stone really liked this one and i figured i should at least try it, so i listened to a minute of i am trying to break your heart and figured that it was enough for me
    • Tracks like "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" and "Ashes of American Flags" are not likely to be squeezed in-between the Goo Goo Dolls and Dave Matthews even on the hippest of rock
    • "I'm Trying to Break Your Heart" and "Jesus, etc," while
    • "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"
    • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is extremely radio-friendly, well maybe with the exception of "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", a almost 7-minute opus
    • Check out the film "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" to see what went into this record.
    • " "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart."
    • This notion of "dirtying up" the fidelity is certainly not unique---E.S.T do the same thing on their latest release---but what is gained by the lame synthesizers and keyboards that drone on long after some of the songs have clearly expired?If sonic and emotional bleakness are in order, then there is more than enough here, especially on the long tracks I'm Trying to Break Your Heart and Reservations
    • The album leads off with "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart."
    • The album opens with "I am trying to break your heart", a left-field folk song that seems to meander drunkenly down a city street
    • The album starts with " I am trying to Break your heart", a six minute confession at a bar perhaps
    • The best songs are "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," "Jesus Etc.," "Radio Cure," "Ashes of American Flags" and "Reservations
    • Not originally a fan of Wilco, I am Trying to Break Your Heart (1st track
    • I'd also suggest watching the documentary "I am Trying to Break Your Heart," which chronicles to making of the album and the troubles that went along with it.
    • "I am an American aquarium drinker" from "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" add to the starkness of the cd.
    • The first track, "I am trying to Break Your Heart" is a slow-but-complex song about love, loss, and regret
    • Songs fall apart ("I Am Trying To Break Your Heart," "Ashes Of American Flags")
    • You could say that Wilco is the alt-folk version of Radiohead, since their blend of acoustic guitar, pop sensibility, periodical electronic blips, and abstract lyrics is completely noticeable within the first song, "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," but they're their own band
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    • "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," the opener and possibly the finest song of the last ten years
    • The album opens with the brilliant "I am trying to break your heart", a 7 minute epic song
    • The documentary "I am trying to break your heart" shows the emotional and physical depths to which their relationship had sunk
    • The album is rather soft throughout...it starts out rather minimalistic in instrumentation with the background noise driven "I am trying to break your heart"
    • I am trying to break your heart" sways with delightful wooziness, the instrumentation floating in and out as Tweedy rasps out an attempt to recapture a lover, his drunken bravado doing little to cover up his desperation and insecurity.
    • From the beginning of "I am trying to break your heart", Jeff Tweedy (Wilco's principal songwriter) takes us on a journey of America, and American music at its best
    • These are mostly pop songs, although in cases like "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," the electronics of the track come in, kind of like a new element to their song
    • Am Trying to Break Your Heart," the album takes off into a wierd blend of pop, electronica and country.
    • I am Trying to Break Your Heart" is the clearest example of this theme, as the narrator is not even clear himself what he is trying to tell his significant other ("I am trying to break your heart" and "I am the man who loves you" are completely inconsistent statements)
    • The songs I particularly liked alot were "Kamera", "I am trying to break your heart", and "War on war".
    • It's a real shame because the YHF demos (available online) and the soundtrack to "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" have shown that the band isn't playing nonsense over nonsense - they're ruining perfectly good songs that might make this one of Wilco's best releases had some less self-indulgent minds been guiding the proceedings
    • Documented in the new indie movie "I am Trying to Break Your Heart".
    • The beautiful noise that introduces "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" clearly has Jim O'Rourke's fingerprints all over it, and the album is better for O'Rourke's influence
    • This is the greatest CD ever made in my opinion from the dream-like opening of "I'm Trying To Break Your Heart" to the extremely depressing end in "Reservations".
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    • The opening track, "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," flaunts its sounds overmuch during a rather slight song that goes on too long, instead of concisely and seamlessly integrating them the way the Beatles used to do
    • The first track, "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" picks up where "She's a Jar" left off, wistfully abusing a pop melody
    • I cannot listen to "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" enough
    • From the first song "I am trying to break your heart" thru "Reservations"
    • The first thing one will notice upon pressing play is the noisy intro with acoustic guitar strumming and a marching drum beat into the album's first track "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"
    • When the piano rolls in "I am Trying to Break Your Heart," there is a bit of an explosion in my consciousness, and the feeling that the lock bar just came down and the roller coaster is lurching forward
    • The album over all is very diversified from psychadelic echoe type music (like "I am Trying to Break Your Heart") to jingly catchy tunes (like "I'm the man Who Loves You")
    • I am trying to break your heart" is one of the best written songs I have ever heard.
    • Iam trying to break your heart' works well with its enriched sounds that are very 'Enoish', 'Kamera' is more upbeat Wilco, 'War on War' continues with the poppiness,'Heavy metal drummer' is really a dancy beat/rootsy song, etc
    • Then, upon talking to a friend whose favorite cut was the slow, somber "Radio Cure," I decided to go back and give a new try to the tracks I didn't normally listen to, particularly "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart," "Radio Cure," "Poor Places," and "Reservations."
    • Tracks like "I am trying to break your heart", "Kamera" and "Radio Cure" provide a nice cross-section of what you can expect.
    • I'm trying to break your heart" is the best example.
    • I am trying to break your heart make the album really interesting
    • check out the documentary i am trying to break your heart while you're at it.
    • "I'm Trying to Break Your Heart" sets the mood with a bluesy, soulful take on Radiohead, while "Reservations" wraps things up with an achingly beautiful love song."Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" updates the best of progressive rock, power pop, and American roots-rock, and raises the bar for a new millenium of music.
    • The album over all is very diversified from psychadelic echoe type music (like "I am Trying to Break Your Heart") to jingly catchy tunes (like "I'm the man Who Loves You")
    • In their stead, we find a narrator than can, alternately, drink you under the table ("I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"), celebrate Rock 'N Roll without sounding trite ("Heavy Metal Drummer"), and be patriotic without being obtuse or jingoistic ("Ashes of American Flags")
    • I am Trying to Break Your Heart which sets the same kind of atmosphere that characterized Grandaddy's awesome debut Under the Western Freeway
    • When the instrumetal breakdown 4 minutes into "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" comes cascading down, as if the song was just given birth to and became fully fleshed out, and it just sends tingles down my spine.
    • But they have that aggressive, avant garde style too, which really comes to the fore with the beginning track, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.
    • They complement the framework of the album held down by "I am trying to break your heart", "ashes of american flags" and the final song "reservations"."Reservations" starts as a soft melody and gradually deteriorates into a noise filled coda which lasts for over 5 minutes
    • I find the opener "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" to be rather annoying
    • (Poor Places, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart)
    • I saw the movie I Am Trying to Break Your Heart and that gave me an idea of how much time the band spent in the studio making this album.
    • Am Trying To Break Your Heart" isn't as personally gripping as some first tracks on my favorite albums, but it does show you what Wilco is about these days, with an eclectic mix of sounds that come together and form the backing for a nice song.
    • Tweedy is an accomplished songwriter with a distinctive voice, but he is not a visionary, and his material is nowhere near as strong as that belonging to songwriters such as Will Oldham, Mark Everett, or even to Radiohead, the band to which Wilco is so often compared
    • Put it all together seamlessly, as pure as