Song · Wilco
“I'm The Man Who Loves You” by Wilco
From the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
“I'm The Man Who Loves You” by Wilco appears on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2002 and 2025. It was first released in 2002 on the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Its best result is #26 on the WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,526 alternative song of all time.
"I'm the Man Who Loves You" sits on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album, the one Reprise refused to release. The band bought the rights back, streamed the whole thing free on their website in September 2001, signed with Nonesuch that November and finally got it into stores in April 2002. Jeff Tweedy wrote the words and sings lead; the music is credited to Tweedy and Jay Bennett, and the album turned out to be Bennett's last with the band. Wilco produced it themselves, with Jim O'Rourke mixing.
The sessions, begun late in 2000 and filmed for I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, were fraught, with a change of drummers and arguments between band members and engineers over the songs, but the record that came out of them was more atmospheric and experimental than anything Wilco had tried before.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 26 | 93XRT Chicago, IL | WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2002 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 401 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) | 499 |
| 2009 | 850 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2022 | 248 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 1143 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 1008 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 900 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2025 | 234 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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