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12th Jun '13 9:25:25 AM Angeldeb82

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* ExecutiveMeddling: The story behind ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot''. The band was signed to Creator/RepriseRecords, and upon the final master of ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'' being played to the suits, they claimed that they heard no single on the album and asked the band to record the album again. They refused. After a bit of wrangling, the band was able to leave Reprise with the masters to their album. They put the album's tracks up for streaming on their website while the band looked to find a new label. They chose Nonesuch Records, a much more artist-friendly label with a roster full of similar artists. However, Nonesuch was owned by Warner Music, who ''also'' owned Reprise. Jeff Tweedy loves to point out that basically, Warner paid for an album they initially did not want ''twice''.
** There's a bit of a happy ending to this story: The suits at Warner Music and Reprise felt really ashamed after the album's release about how they treated Wilco [[hottip:*: Yes, their feelings ''did'' partially have to do with the fact that the album that they dismissed as "uncommercial" wound up selling more than any other Wilco or Nonesuch Records album up to that point, in addition to being a critical smash]], and they later decreed that other acclaimed but uncommercial alternative bands on their roster, such as The Music/FlamingLips, would never again feel like they were being unappreciated by Warner.

20th May '13 6:24:27 AM Mdumas43073

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6th May '13 12:57:37 PM Mdumas43073

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3rd May '13 4:31:07 AM TrueBlue170

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