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    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    • Combined with the slow and gentle rhythm and perfect lyrics
    • The experimentation on YHF is refreshing, the lyrics are sometimes unintelligible yet unforgettable and the music is passionate, intelligent and unlike anything else you'll hear out there
    • The lyrics, especially, are pretty good
    • The lyrics are, in many cases, meaningless
    • Tweedy's voice is irritating, and the honest yet depressingly formulaic lyrics don't help.
    • The rhythms are great, the lyrics are great (for the most part), and I only really have one gripe: the random, loud, radio static-like sounds that seem to find their way into just about every song
    • Diffuse, meaningless lyrics, borrowed gimmicks (if you are 13...you would never know this)...enough to satisfy any teenager's angst quotient
    • Sadly those lyrics still stick out as bad but, I'm willing to over look them considering the strength of the album as a whole
    • War on War' has some cheesy lyrics and is probly a political song and same with 'Ashes of American Flags.
    • The real brilliance of the CD comes mainly from the amazing lyrics.
    • With every album they never cease to amaze my ears with intelligent, thoughtful lyrics and unusual melodies
    • It has all the elements of a good pop song: catchy lyrics, a nice consistent beat, and well-played instruments.
    • A pop song write out of the Lennon/ McCartney song book, a head bopping beat, and a feel good lyric, "Heavy Metal Drummer" is the best pure pop song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.8
    • I've never been a fan of the vague lyrics of the so-called poets of today.
    • the lyrics are also incredible in their own right, poetry for the let down soul
    • This goes along with what I think are the best singing I've heard from Jeff and some fantastic lyrics.
    • It's an exhibit of great song writing, and beautiful lyrics, along with controlled yet unpredictable noises and drones throughout the song.
    • His lyrics are deeply poetic at times, although there are still awkward points, and his voice is perfect the Wilco's style of music
    • Take a lead singer with a deep, monotonous voice, some accoustic guitar, and combine them with meaningless lyrics and some sound effects that could have come from an early 1970's Pink Floyd album, and this is the result
    • I want to hear Jeff sing, I want to hear harmonies, I want to hear great musicianship and brilliant lyrics.
    • Jeff Tweedy's lyrics are unmatched by his contemporaries and the band's ear for the eclectic is unprecedented in this era of popular music.
    • most of the songs have already grabbed me with great understated melodies and excellent lyrics...distortion and effects but they do not take away from the vocals and traditional instruments...different than Summerteeth, different than A.M., different than Being
    • Ashes of American Flags is a haunting lyric and melody in the spirit of Woody Guthrie.
    • The best songs on the CD, however, are "Radio Cure" and "Ashes of American Flags" with amazing lyrics, and slow but mesmorizing melodies.
    • ", it deserves to be recognized in its own right as a good, catchy tune with wonderful lyrics.
    • The lyrics are strong and the vocal-stylings of Jeff Tweedy are great and original
    • Their messages are straight-forward, allowing you to appreciate the lyrics and the music, instead of trying to delinate some meaning about mind-control or overpopulation that really seperates the mind from the music
    • Tweedy remains a midwestern, soulful voice, spouting Stipe-like, obscure lyrics that are at times poetic, at times oblique and oddly simplistic
    • They also give you a chance to think about Jeff Tweedy's often poetic lyrics, like these from "Jesus, Etc.": "tall buildings shake/ voices escape singing sad sad songs/ tuned to chords strung down your cheeks/ bitter melodies turning your orbit around
    • "Reservations," perhaps the plushest song on the album, uses a haunting piano part to conjure up the heaviness that compliments the lyrics.
    • most of the songs have already grabbed me with great understated melodies and excellent lyrics...distortion and effects but they do not take away from the vocals and traditional instruments...different than Summerteeth, different than A.M., different than Being
    • However, after the first couple listens you come to realize it's not really about the literal meaning of the lyrics, it's more about cool turns of phrase, the vague feeling the odd lyrics can give you, and it's more about how the lyrics are sung that give them meaning.
    • The poetic lyrics such as "Disposable Dixie Cup Drinker" and "Bible black pre-dawn" show us that Jeff Tweedy (and Jay Bennett?) are not only effective songwriters, but talented lyricists.
    • Seriously funky tunes (I can't stand it, Nothingsevergoingtostandinmyway) , seriously dark lyrics (Via Chicago, She's a Jar) and seriously serious arrangements (Pieholden Suite) point the way
    • The lyrics are largely meaningless and, to be frank, pretentious, save for the straightforward "Heavy Metal Drummer
    • For instance the chorus to "Jesus Etc.""Tall buildings shake voices escape singing sad sad songs tuned to chords strummed down your cheeks bitter melodies, turning your orbit around" makes little sense taken literally but is so catchy and the lyrics are amazing when you hear them sung
    • Combined with the slow and gentle rhythm and perfect lyrics
    • The lyrics are amazing and the music itself incredible.
    • The experimentation on YHF is refreshing, the lyrics are sometimes unintelligible yet unforgettable and the music is passionate, intelligent and unlike anything else you'll hear out there
    • The violin effect, Tweedy's pained, cracking voice, and beautiful lyrics come together to form the perfect amalgam needed for a brilliant song
    • The melodies are catchy enough that it's perfect for driving around in the summer, but the lyrics are profound enough to listen to while chilling in your room
    • There's no intricate sounds, amazing lyrics, etc
    • The lyrics are great when they're on (on "Jesus Etc."--"Our love is all of God's money / Everyone is a burning sun."--and the chorus of "Reservations" especially) and enjoyable when they don't seem to make sense
    • Such lyrics as these and others in Yankee Hotel Foxtrot out-shine ninety-nine percent of the stuff produced today
    • However, the production is excellent, lyrics are thoughtful, and it certainly ranks in the top half of Wilco releases to date.
    • It has a simple melody and chord structure, but the sharp lyrics and wild sounds come together for something really interesting, really moving
    • I sincerely DO love everything about this album; the lyrics, the music, the packaging, everything
    • The combination of brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, and off-the-wall ambient noise make this something NEW
    • The sound often as harrowing as the lyrics, with each the effects being used sparsely, often only with a single acoustic holding the structure of the song in one piece.
    • While Radiohead's technical wizardy and Yorke's brilliant lyrics will always stand for themselves, Wilco does not have, say the same pretension and haughtness as Radiohead
    • The violin effect, Tweedy's pained, cracking voice, and beautiful lyrics come together to form the perfect amalgam needed for a brilliant song
    • The lyrics are good.
    • The lyrics are very thought provoking.
    • Opening with the strange yet beautiful "I