Song · Wilco
“Hate It Here” by Wilco
From the album Sky Blue Sky (2007)
“Hate It Here” by Wilco appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 2007 on the album Sky Blue Sky. Its best result is #223 on the WYEP 913 Countdown 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,139 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Hate It Here" lives on Sky Blue Sky, Wilco's sixth album, which Nonesuch released in May 2007, the first they cut with Nels Cline on guitar and Pat Sansone as the band's multi-instrumentalist. Jeff Tweedy wrote the words and sings them, while the music is split six ways, among Tweedy, Cline, Sansone, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche and Mikael Jorgensen.
On the track, Tweedy and Cline both play electric guitar, Jorgensen piano and Sansone Wurlitzer, with Stirratt on bass, Kotche on drums and Jim O'Rourke on percussion. T.J. Doherty recorded it and Jim Scott mixed. The album grew out of the road, with new songs tried out on stage while the band were still touring A Ghost Is Born, and its title came from something Tweedy remembered from childhood, a Memorial Day parade he saw in Belleville, Illinois.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 664 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2016 | 223 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 771 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 771 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2024 | 847 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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