Even on the gloriously upbeat pop

These are excellent pop songs.

There's no need for Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett to write such pretentious dreck as Ashes of American Flags just for pointy-headed critics, especially in light of the five seemingly effortless pop gems that grace this CD.

Comparing the album to "some wonderful pop station punctuated by static and sonic bleed" is very thoughtful and true.

It is simply a great, SMART pop record with more hooks than their previous effort.

They made a pretty pop record (Summerteeth)

Producer Jim O'Rourke took a good pop album and turned it into a masterpiece

It has all the elements of a good pop song: catchy lyrics, a nice consistent beat, and well-played instruments.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has some of the catchier pop songs I've heard in quite some time.

This is simply a great pop album

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

This is a wonderful alternative pop album with folk and country tinges

I thought that in the 21st century it was impossible to make a good pop record that means

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

The songs flow quite seamlessly into one another, even though there are several changes of tone, from the quiet drift of "Radio Cure" to the upbeat pop-rock of "Heavy Metal Drummer" to the soaring journey of "Poor Places

Wilco has definitely expanded on their earlier work on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, marrying catchy pop melodies with experiments in noise and distortion

Every song is a winner, whether it be the straight up catchy pop sound of "Kamera" or "Heavy Metal Drummer" to the more subdued meandering melodic "Jesus, etc" to the somewhere inbetween but equally

why.their 1999 record "summerteeth" was the last perfect pop record i heard, and this one seems to take off where that left off

Great simple pop songs like "Kamera," "War on War" and "Heavy Metal Drummer" are gracefully interspersed with sparse compositions like "Radio Cure," where singer Tweedy croons, "there is something wrong with me," as if he were terminally pensive

& "Ashes of American Flags" others are great pop pieces.

" sounds like a pop hit and its a shame that radio (except college radio) ignored it

(I mean for good).All and all, a nice little pop record.

Its songs are original, varied, genuine, emotional, fun, elegent, prolific and they prove that you can be all these things without loosing your pop sensibility.

Buy this record and remind yourself how great Pop can be.

Not odd musically--the whole thing is soft guitar pop, and I'm not sure what Wilco's label thought was "too out there" for mainstream consumption.

Give it a few listens, and somehow the superficial ordinary pop will simply melt into something truly powerful and moving.

", is a pure Pop gem

While YHF is a gorgeous and imaginative pop album and quite possibly the best album released this

Lots of good catchy pop-hooks interwoven with sonic weirdness.

Turning a pretty pop song into a wall of noise is an age-old trick, and one that's been done far better and more daringly by the likes of the Pixies, Nirvana, the Olivia Tremor Control, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, and many others.

Though the lethargic pace of some of the material may put off some listeners at first, it's the album's strong pop base and the continued discovery of unique, idiosyncratic sonic sounds and overall production "effects" liberally dispersed throughout the record that makes Foxtrot such a successful and compelling listen

Here Jeff Tweedy and company paint over fine pop songs (see a Tweedy solo show to hear these songs at their most bare, awesome pop level) with a masterpiece of sound

An enjoyable pop number, much in the vein of "Heavy Metal Drummer"

Deep, soaring with good pop sensibilities

Who Loves you are absolutely perfect pop gems

The shiny power-pop of "Summerteeth", in particular, really took a long time for me to warm to because there was a part of me that still wanted Jeff to start banging out punk rock again.

Judging from the other reviews here, it may not be enough experimentation for those listeners who want something really avant garde, and it's too much for people who want radio-friendly pop songs that don't require anything from the listener

Without a doubt, Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is the best pop/rock album I've heard all year

A cute pop tune, "Heavy Metal Drummer" is a fun return to a happier day from the melancholy of its predecessors.

Ashes of American Flags" and "poor Places" are also emotional standouts, alongwith the upbeat pop of "Kamera" and "Heavy Metal Drummer

YHF could have easily been a safe collection of conventionally recorded, well crafted folk-pop songs like Mermaid Avenue Vol

Wilco had made the tansition from alt country to fun dark pop to their folky-pop-electronica tinged sound with ease

Following up the lush pop of "Summerteeth" seems a daunting task to put it mildly, yet this CD is easily the band's best.

An enjoyable pop number, much in the vein of "Heavy Metal Drummer"

It's not your average shallow pop music, so those who just want to listen to whining should probably skip it.

Not a single track is a dud, from the mid-Western love ballad 'Jesus etc' to the downbeat dark builder 'Radio Cure', the sparse 'Ashes of American Flags' and the more straightforward pop of 'War on War' and 'Heavy Metal Drummer'

Kamera" is one of the most clever pop songs that never hit mainstream radio