10 Best Wilco Songs

10. You Satellite

As this post is inspired by Star Wars’ surprise release, it seems apt to start there. While tracks such as Random Name Generator, Where Do I Begin and The Joke Explained are some of Wilco’s best songs in years, its standout is You Satellite.

Lots of the album is upbeat, fuzzy and - whisper it - fun, but this is a slow burner, and could easily drop onto one of their classic albums. Pitched somewhere between Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s sparsity and A Ghost Is Born’s experimentalism, it features a repeating two chord guitar pattern that underpins everything, while eerie background noises give it depth.

Its most fascinating aspect is its descending guitar line, that seems to never pick one time-signature and stick with it, which gives an ever-changing feel to things despite the simplicity of it all.