Alpha Mike Foxtrot

[rockinrob]

November 18!!!

 

D1

Childlike And Evergreen (Demo)

Someone Else's Song (Demo)

Passenger Side (Demo)

Promising

The T.B. Is Whipping Me (with Syd Straw)

I Must Be High (Live)

Casino Queen (Live)

Who Were You Thinking Of (Live)

I Am Not Willing (with Syd Straw)

Burned

Blasting Fonda

Thirteen

Don't You Honey Me

The Lonely 1 (White Hen Version)

No More Poetry

Box Full Of Letters (Live)

Red-Eyed And Blue (Live)

Forget The Flowers (Live)

Sunken Treasure (Live)

Monday (Demo)

 

D2

Passenger Side (Live)

Outtasite (Outta Mind) [Live]

I Got You At The End Of The Century (Live)

Outta Mind (Outta Site) [Live]

James Alley Blues (with Roger McGuinn) [Live]

At My Window Sad And Lonely (Jeff Tweedy Solo Version)

California Stars (Live)

One Hundred Years From Now

A Shot In The Arm (Remix)

ELT (King Size Demo Version)

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (again) [David Kahne Remix]

She's A Jar (Austin Demo Version)

Tried And True

Student Loan Stereo

True Love Will Find You In The End

I'm Always In Love (Live)

Via Chicago (Austin Demo Version)

Can't Stand It (Live)

Airline To Heaven (Alternate Version)

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

 

D3

I'm The Man Who Loves You (Live)

The Good Part

Cars Can't Escape

Camera

Handshake Drugs (First Version)

A Magazine Called Sunset

Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

Woodgrain

More Like The Moon

Let Me Come Home

Old Maid

Hummingbird (Alternate Version)

Spiders (Kidsmoke) [Live]

Hell Is Chrome (Live)

At Least That's What You Said (Live)

The Late Greats (Live)

Just A Kid (with The Blisters)

Kicking Television

 

D4

Panthers

Theologians (Live)

Another Man's Done Gone (Live)

I'm A Wheel (Live)

How To Fight Loneliness (Live)

One True Vine

The Thanks I Get

Let's Not Get Carried Away

Hate It Here

Impossible Germany (Live)

I Shall Be Released (with Fleet Foxes) [Live]

What LIght

Jesus, Etc. (with ANdrew Bird) [Live]

Glad It's Over

Dark Neon

The Jolly Banker

Unlikely Japan

You And I (Live)

I Love My Label

[RainDogToo]

YES!!! 

[bleedorange]

Why is this so under the radar? Where's the big announcement?

[ThisIsNowhere]

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alpha-mike-foxtrot-rare-tracks/id925193124

[The Inside of Outside]

This is such good news.

[SarahC]

It kinda bugs me the amount of live tracks that are on this thing.

I'm still gonna buy it, and I know they'll be great versions, but with the wealth of material they have that has not been heard outside the loft, you'd think there would be a few less songs that we know already

[rockinrob]

The tracks are all from cd singles, eps, downloads, promo discs, etc. so the live tracks are there because they were on the original releases.

 

For example, this release includes the entire super rare 10 inch All Over the Place EP

 

I'm choosing to see this as the beginning of wilco archival releases rather than a "that's all folks" open/shut vault.

 

It is a great release, and will be nice to get all of these in one convenient place.

 

I'm hoping for live career spanning anthology at some point, and album specific outtakes collections as well.

 

Also, it would be really cool to open up the road case to include less "listenable" studio material, like the agib experiments/jams

[SarahC]

Oh! See I didn't look at it like they added the EPs and stuff- I see that now I can split it up. That makes more sense.

 

I do hope you are right and more true "unreleased" stuff gets out- even if in road case form. Though, truth be told I feel like a bad wilco fan cos I have yet to buy a single road case release. I said I wouldn't until it was a show I was actually at.

[lost highway]

Alpha mike foxtrot, code for adios motherfucker. This bodes ill.

[nalafej]

Not a single song I haven't heard. That sucks.

[SarahC]

Alpha mike foxtrot, code for adios motherfucker. This bodes ill.

I think you are reading a bit much into the title.

 

I was disappointed too that the majority of the tunes we have heard before. At least they won't be kinda crappy bootlegs? Plus, as rabid as we are on here it's not super suprising.

[shakes]

i notice this is a nonesuch release, which would explain why it doesnt have anything previously unreleased. that and the simultaneous "hits" comp reminds me of emi releasing a few radiohead compilations after the band left the label. if this gets a cd release (amazon only lists it as mp3 so far) for a reasonable price id pick it up to have all this stuff in one package, but it strikes me more as the label trying to cash in one last time, and thats probably why it comes out in a month and the band has hardly promoted it at all.

 

it might also explain the title

[LouieB]

Competing with the Basement Tapes. How is this not good news?

 

LouieB

[rockinrob]

The cd is 30ish and the vinyl box is $80

[dagwave]

LouieB: Agreed - this looks pretty fantastic.

[shakes]

The cd is 30ish and the vinyl box is $80

where are you seeing this?

[Gornok]

I hope for many bananas.

Right now I am using Herb Alpert as a human footstool. He is a little wobbly. I need to do something about that.

[lost highway]

i notice this is a nonesuch release, which would explain why it doesnt have anything previously unreleased. that and the simultaneous "hits" comp reminds me of emi releasing a few radiohead compilations after the band left the label.

 

it might also explain the title

Yeah I started to think that has more to do with the title. The rumored legal issues surrounding recordings of songs off of WTA indicate some label drama. I can see Wilco using a kiss off title directed at them, while it would seem too flippant a way for them to retire. That and Jeff already mentioned anticipating getting back into album recording with the boys. Sorry to be such an alarmist.

[rockinrob]

where are you seeing this?

Lmgtfy.com/?q=Wilco+alpha+mike+foxtrot

 

[knotgreen]

There goes $85. 

I do kind of hate when live tracks are mixed in with studio stuff. Never flows nicely. That said, I'm still excited for the release.

[LouieB]

Kissing off their old record label is fine.  What the hell.  Makes money for everyone and makes the fans happy..  Wilco is not going away.  It may not be as intense as it was for a few years there, but this is now a mature band, with a mature following. No one is kissing that off.  

 

Meanwhile the other day I was thinking how a Wilco version of Summer Noon might sound pretty great.

 

LouieB

[linclink]

I hope for many bananas.

Right now I am using Herb Alpert as a human footstool. He is a little wobbly. I need to do something about that.

Gornok you are now rivaling Lotti here as my most anticipated poster.

And regarding Herb Alpert...simply put the mute for his trumpet under the offending off balance appendage/region...

 

Glad to see this all released in one place, but being that I've got it all... I'm in no big hurry to get this...but... I do hope it means that we might see some more archival releases like this at some point.

 

Obviously having all the extra tracks in place for what could have been the double album version of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" seems like the obvious place to kick off a "Deluxe Edition" series, & a deluxe edition series for all the previous releases would be a great place to start...one regular CD, & one of extra tracks/outtakes/alternate versions/ other mixes/unreleased songs, demos, etc.. I think they've done pretty much every song in their catalog live as band (with the exception of "Sunloathe" I think...which Jeff's done solo at least), so they could also do something with having a fully live version of each album out there somehow too- maybe a Roadcase series of the future with live versions of the studio tracks in the same order as the album track lists. Still hoping for older era Roadcase releases someday too...

[lost highway]

I still want to hear all of the excessive amount of songs they mention working on every time they put out an album. This is clearly a label raiding the vaults, otherwise they would have put "Message From Mid-bar" on there. The way I see it, they mostly put stuff that Warner Bros touched on there.

 

It's still some great stuff. I almost wish I hadn't already heard it all so it would be new to me. I suppose I don't remember "Old Maid", is that one a winner?

[TCP]

Not a half bad track listing, looks I'll be putting down the money for the vinyl edition. I was going to start tracking down some of the 45s from recent years that I've missed like What Light and You Never Know but I guess there's no point now. I was hoping we'd get some of The Wilco Book songs on this, just because I'd like to hear some of that on vinyl, maybe I can hope for a vinyl pressing at some point though.

$85 is a lot especially since Kicking Television, which was also 4x LPs, was only 70... maybe it's colour vinyl? I wouldn't be opposed to that especially after how beautiful Sukierae looked.

 

i notice this is a nonesuch release, which would explain why it doesnt have anything previously unreleased. that and the simultaneous "hits" comp reminds me of emi releasing a few radiohead compilations after the band left the label. if this gets a cd release (amazon only lists it as mp3 so far) for a reasonable price id pick it up to have all this stuff in one package, but it strikes me more as the label trying to cash in one last time, and thats probably why it comes out in a month and the band has hardly promoted it at all.

 

it might also explain the title

I Love My Label is included, and that was a dBpm release, so Wilco is probably involved to some extent.

[Robby]

I hope the "Cars Can't Escape" version here is the slower demo version that only had Jay on the piano. That version was beautiful, but always was cut off at the end as someone said "Beautiful" before the final note finished. I'll pay the 30 bucks for that song alone if they have cleaned it up. I think I have most, if not all of these tracks from the archives, but I really hope they have improved on the sound. I think most hardcore Wilco fans would expect that to be done before they shell out money for tracks that had for years and that were free.