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“Wilco (The Song)” by Wilco
From the album Wilco (The Album) (2009)
“Wilco (The Song)” by Wilco appears on 6 radio countdowns from 6 stations in 2009. It was first released in 2009 on the album Wilco (The Album). Its best result is #9 on the WRNR Top 104 Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #69 indie & aaa song of 2009 and #147 of the '00s.
"Wilco (The Song)" shares its cheerfully self-referential title with Wilco (The Album), the band's seventh studio record, which Nonesuch released at the end of June 2009 after Wilco had already let fans stream it on their website. Jeff Tweedy wrote it, words and music, and there's a real wink in a band this deep into its run naming both a song and an album after itself.
The record took shape far from Chicago, at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland, New Zealand, where the members of Wilco had gone to cut material for a 7 Worlds Collide compilation raising money for Oxfam. Jim Scott, who had engineered Being There, Summerteeth and Sky Blue Sky, produced it with the band and recorded it, then mixed it with Kevin Dean; the band joined him in Valencia, California, for the album's mixing sessions.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 74 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 9 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 104 Songs of 2009 | 104 |
| 2009 | 86 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2009 | 93 |
| 2009 | 37 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 80 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 689 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
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