Wilco-Alpha_Mike_Foxtrot_(Rare_Tracks_1994-2014)-4CD-2014-404

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Artist: Wilco
Album: Alpha Mike Foxtrot (Rare Tracks 1994-2014)
Bitrate: 241kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Indie
Size: 510.39 megs
PlayTime: 4h 40min 08sec total
Rip Date: 2014-12-05
Store Date: 2014-12-05

Track List: Disc #1/4
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01. Childlike and Evergreen          3:06
02. Someone Else's Song (Demo)       2:50
03. Passenger Side (Demo)            3:30
04. Promising                        3:02
05. The T.B. Is Whipping Me û With   3:41
    Syd Straw
06. I Must Be High (Live)            3:01
07. Casino Queen (Live)              2:54
08. Who Were You Thinking Of (Live)  2:37
09. I Am Not Willing                 3:54
10. Burned                           2:35
11. Blasting Fonda                   4:16
12. Thirteen                         3:25
13. Don't You Honey Me               3:18
14. The Lonely 1 (White Hen          4:20
    Version)
15. No More Poetry                   3:32
16. Box Full of Letters (Live)       4:21
17. Red-Eyed and Blue (Live)         2:40
18. Forget the Flowers (Live)        3:12
19. Sunken Treasure (Live)           7:18
20. Monday (Demo)                    3:22

Track List: Disc #2/4
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01. Passenger Side (Live)            1:54
02. Outtasite (Outta Mind) (Live)    2:41
03. I Got You at the End of the      3:04
    Century (Live)
04. Outta Mind (Outta Site) (Live)   3:50
05. James Alley Blues (with Roger    3:22
    McGuinn) (Live)
06. At My Window Sad and Lonely      2:46
    (Jeff Tweedy Solo)
07. California Stars                 3:47
08. One Hundred Years from Now       2:52
09. A Shot in the Arm (Remix)        3:57
10. ELT (King Size Demo)             3:39
11. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway   3:20
    (Again) (David Kahne Remix)
12. She's a Jar (Austin Demo)        4:39
13. Tried and True                   2:48
14. Student Loan Stereo              1:47
15. True Love Will Find You in the   3:53
    End
16. I'm Always in Love (Solo Live)   3:34
17. Via Chicago (Demo)               5:27
18. Can't Stand It (Live)            3:58
19. Airline to Heaven (Alternate)    3:22
20. Any Major Dude Will Tell You     3:08

Track List: Disc #3/4
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01. I'm the Man Who Loves You        3:39
    (Live)
02. The Good Part                    2:47
03. Cars Can't Escape                3:25
04. Camera                           3:43
05. Handshake Drugs (First Version)  5:09
06. A Magazine Called Sunset         2:37
07. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard           2:21
08. Woodgrain                        1:43
09. More Like the Moon               6:05
10. Let Me Come Home                 2:32
11. Old Maid                         2:46
12. Hummingbird (Alternate)          3:57
13. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (Live)       10:01
14. Hell is Chrome (Live)            4:28
15. At Least That's What You Said    5:55
    (Live)
16. The Late Greats (Live)           2:40
17. Just a Kid                       2:51
18. Kicking Television               2:49

Track List: Disc #4/4
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01. Panthers                         3:51
02. Theologians (Live)               3:33
03. Another Man's Done Gone (Live)   1:44
04. I'm a Wheel (Live)               2:41
05. How to Fight Loneliess (Live)    4:40
06. One True Vine                    2:11
07. The Thanks I Get                 3:33
08. Let's Not Get Carried Away       4:11
09. Hate It Here (Live)              4:32
10. Impossible Germany (Live)        6:07
11. I Shall Be Released (Live)       3:34
12. What Light                       3:07
13. Jesus, etc. (Live/Soundtrack)    4:02
14. Glad It's Over                   4:18
15. Dark Neon                        4:25
16. The Jolly Banker                 3:28
17. Unlikely Japan                   5:15
18. You and I (with Feist)           3:18
19. I Love My Label                  3:28

Release Notes:
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After seven studio albums, various collaborations and countless days on the road
over the past 15 years, Wilco tried something new before starting work on its
eighth record, The Whole Love, due Sept. 27 on dBpm Records: The Chicago band
took a vacation. Staying off stage for most of the latter half of 2010 was the
longest break from touring that bandleader Jeff Tweedy has had in a career
stretching back more than 20 years.

ôIt was a real breath of fresh air,ö says Tweedy, the singer, songwriter and
guitarist who founded the group in the mid-Æ90s. ôWilco has pretty much been
recording in between scheduled tours for 15 years or more, so it was really
great to have a chance to recharge and forget how to play all the old songs.ö

Or, more specifically, to put the old songs out of mind long enough to write
some new ones. Although he wasnÆt out on the road much, Tweedy was working,
writing so many songs that the musicians initially thought they had enough
material for two new records when Wilco reconvened last fall in the Loft, the
groupÆs Chicago recording studio.

ôWe entertained the idea of finishing both of those records independently of
each other, and then at some point, the lines started getting blurrier and
blurrier and they kind of grew together,ö Tweedy says.

The result is 12 stunning songs that showcase Wilco in a new light, on bold
rockers, somber acoustic ballads and punchy pop songs, bookended by the
propulsive 7-minute opener ôArt of Almost,ö and a meditative 12-minute closing
track, ôOne Sunday Morning (song for Jane SmileyÆs boyfriend).ö

The Whole Love is the third album by WilcoÆs present lineup, which solidified in
2004 when avant-garde guitarist Nels Cline and guitarist/keyboardist Patrick
Sansone joined Tweedy, founding bassist John Stirratt, drummer Glenn Kotche and
keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen. Together, they released the acclaimed Sky Blue Sky
in 2007 and the Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) in 2009. The Whole Love,
though, captures the vibrant energy the band brings to its live performances.

ôThis record happened because weÆve been together longer,ö Tweedy says. ôBecause
weÆve played more shows together, because we have a lot more faith and trust in
each other, and it sounds more natural than the last two. You just canÆt fake
that, you canÆt make that happen, itÆs experience.ö

Experience also pushed Tweedy further as a lyricist, something he credits to
letting his mind wander away from the bandÆs extensive back catalog while
writing new songs.

ôI feel really good about the way the songs have all come together, and the
lyrics especially,ö he says. ôI donÆt feel like IÆm repeating myself, which is
the best I think you can hope for after writing, I donÆt know, a couple thousand
songs.ö

Tweedy produced The Whole Love with Sansone and Tom Schick (Rufus Wainwright,
Norah Jones, Ryan Adams). The singer describes a deeply collaborative process as
the musicians worked together to shape TweedyÆs songs into reflections of their
considerable talents.
ôThereÆs just a lot of patience involved in how weÆre able to work together as a
band of guys who have been in bands for a long time and have made a lot of
records,ö Tweedy says. ôI think weÆre very fortunate to be relatively mature as
a rock band in our ability to be patient with each other and with the songs
themselves.ö

Patient, but not too patient.

ôThe environment of the band is as much conducive to people feeling invested and
having their ideas entertained as you can have in a band without just spending
the rest of your life micromanaging every little decision by committee,ö Tweedy
says. ôWeÆd still be working on A.M. if that was the way it worked. WeÆre
talking about a fucking three-chord pop song: Just finish it, you asshole.
Christ.ö
The Whole Love is the first album Wilco is releasing on its own dBpm Records,
which the band founded earlier this year with headquarters in Easthampton, MA.
Anti- distributes dBpm, which debuted the first single from the album, ôI
Might,ö b/w a droll cover of Nick LoweÆs ôI Love My Label,ö in June at the
second-annual Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art) in western Massachusetts.

The new album is the latest step in the ongoing evolution of Wilco, which Tweedy
founded in 1994 after the dissolution of his previous group, alt-country
standard- bearers Uncle Tupelo. From its raucous roots-rock origins, Wilco over
the years has expanded its sound to encompass classic pop and genre-spanning
experimentalism. Wilco also teamed with English singer Billy Bragg in the late
Æ90s at the invitation of Woody GuthrieÆs daughter, who invited them to
collaborate on setting to music some of the folk iconÆs previously unrecorded
lyrics, resulting in a pair of highly regarded Mermaid Avenue albums.

Although Wilco has accrued critical acclaim from the start, the band in the Æ90s
increasingly found itself at odds with its record company, Reprise. Wilco proved
willing to compromise on 1999Æs Summerteeth, but the relationship fell apart in
2001, when the label declined to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and dropped the
band. Nonesuch stepped in to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot the following year,
and the album has since become WilcoÆs top-selling effort so far. (The making of
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the subject of Sam JonesÆ 2002 film I Am Trying to Break
Your Heart.) Wilco recorded three subsequent albums for Nonesuch, including
2005Æs Grammy-winning A Ghost is Born, before the band decided to start its own
record company.

Though dBpm (which stands for ôdecibels per minuteö) has changed the business
end of the bandÆs operation, the creative end remains largely untouched.

Since Summerteeth, ôWeÆve gone back and gone about things almost exactly the
same way every time, and that is, at the end of the day, we want a record weÆre
really proud to put on our shelves and know that we did the best that we could
do,ö Tweedy says. He laughs and adds, ôAnd fuck Æem. Now itÆs the same thing,
except thereÆs really no one to say æfuck ÆemÆ to. Just ourselves.ö
In addition to launching Solid Sound and dBpm with Wilco, Tweedy also produced
Mavis StaplesÆ Grammy-winning 2010 album You Are Not Alone. Outside Wilco,
Stirratt and Sansone lead folk-pop group The Autumn Defense, Cline fronts the
free-jazz instrumental group The Nels Cline Singers, Jorgensen helms pop-rock
band Pronto and Kotche performs solo, in the duo On Fillmore, and has
collaborated with Tweedy in Loose Fur.

Wilco will spend most of the autumn on tour, and audiences will get to fall in
love with songs from The Whole Love starting Sept. 13 in Indianapolis and
continuing with a European jaunt that begins Oct. 24 in Glasgow.

ôWeÆre all really excited and really proud of it and really happy with the way
it came together,ö Tweedy says. ôI think everybody in the band feels like they
were given more free rein to do what they want to do. I think everybody enjoyed
the process of making this record.ö

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