"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" found a place on many lists of the greatest albums of the 2000s. "Rolling Stone" ranked the album at number three on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade. "Pitchfork" put the album at number four on the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. The alternative music website also named "Poor Places" and "Jesus, Etc." as the 147th and 61st best songs of the decade, respectively. "Paste" named the album the second-best album of the decade. Some music outlets have ranked "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2006, readers of "Q Magazine" voted it the 100th "Greatest Album Ever". In 2012, "Rolling Stone" ranked it #493 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, saying, "Wilco's great leap forward was a mix of rock tradition, electronics, oddball rhythms and experimental gestures." In 2020, "Rolling Stone" ranked it #225 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.