10 Best Wilco Songs

3. Venus Stop The Train

This slight yet achingly gorgeous track has never been officially released, though can easily be found online as part of the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos.

Those demos provide a fascinating glimpse into the genesis and growth of what would become Wilco’s most revered and beloved record. And unlike A Magazine Called Sunset, you can easily envisage how Venus Stop The Train could have fitted onto Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had the band included it.

Late multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett provides the song’s only musical accompaniment, a mournful piano, as well sharing lead vocal duties with Jeff Tweedy. It’s a poignant reminder that, despite Bennett and Tweedy’s very public falling out and the former’s acrimonious sacking, when working together they could produce music of a rare, timeless beauty.