Tell Yo La Tengo to Fuck Off - (ILM artist poll #61). Voting open until Monday May 18, 2015

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Welcome to the big big Yo La Tengo poll. This is going to be fun.

First part: Tracks! List your top 25 Yo La Tengo tracks. Lists can be unranked. I need a minimum of 5. Same as usual: #1 is your top, #25 the bottom of your list.

If there is two tracks with the same name please give me the # of the track. Example: Big Day Coming #1 and Big Day Coming #2.
If there is two tracks with the same name but they are on different albums just the state the album in parenthesis. Example: Today is The Day (Todays is the Day EP) and Today is The Day (Summer Sun)

Second part: ALBUMS AND EPs! List your 5 favorites albums and/or EPs. Lists can be unranked. Same as usual.

Third and fourth part: As per Yo La Tengo tradition, I will take request from the public for other types of poll and I will see as we go along.

Ballots to be sent to: maxime.seguela at gmail dot com

Voting ends Monday May 18 2015, when it strikes midnight in your country.

PS: Thanks Bee OK, you fellow Giants fan that I adore, I took all the queues from your Boo Radleys poll.

There was a Boo Radleys poll?!?

ballot sent

I was actually kidding about the title...but I like it!

PS: Thanks Bee OK, you fellow Giants fan that I adore, I took all the queues from your Boo Radleys poll.

nice, thought this looked familiar. good luck with your poll VHS!

There was a Boo Radleys poll?!?

i think you are being sarcastic but just in case:

Just a simple song but God I love it Embedded in me, so bittersweet I’m addicted, I’m a melancholic Sing it again, I’ll be your Poll forever: THE BOO RADLEYS - ILM artist poll #60 or new numbering #65

i fogot, GO Giants!

as in San Francisco

also VHS, i think this is your first poll, so if you have any questions regarding points ect, don't hesitate to email me. i will help any way i can...

I'm blanking on ideas for the third and fourth polls. Cover versions? Favourite bits from the video for "Sugarcube"?

Covers is good fit because YLT have done so many outstanding covers of other people's songs, especially with the WFMU fundraisers.

I originally suggested opening the poll up to side projects (Dumptruck especially). I'll include a couple of their songs in any event, even if they don't count.

Dump, I mean--Dumptruck was a whole other crew.

Best pre-McNew track.

Submitted for your consideration: the glorious Detouring America with Horns from May I Sing With Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2crST10hP-s

I'll definitely vote in this one. If there must be a part 3, I vote for best cover versions.

I sh(c)ould vote, but I didn't bother with the last 2 albums...

You shouldn't let that stop you. Judging by the activity of this thread, we're going to need all the votes we can get.

I didn't bother with the last 4, and I voted. Because that run of MISWM-Shaker-Painful-EOP is as strong as any artist's, ever.

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What is "Shaker"?

3-song EP released a few months before Painful, included "Shaker," "For Shame of Doing Wrong" (Richard & Linda Thompson cover), and "What She Wants."

If there is two tracks with the same name but they are on different albums

haha, like in my dotage i would remember

One of the famous examples if both Tom Courtenays (I'm partial to the acoustic one on Camp Yo La Tengo).

hmmmph, the original is my likely #1 track

also iLX triviots know which track on Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics was a request from me.

Go ahead and slap up a ballot based on current favorites, Morbs, don't worry about recent albums. My ballot won't have anything after 2000.

If you had to check one out, I'd go for Popular Songs...though I think they're both worth a spin.

I'll vote! Going to be tough.

"Detouring America with Horns" will definitely be on my list--I'd have to check, but I think it's the earliest song of theirs I really love.

Fade has some jams

this is gonna be fun

I seriously doubt I'll vote for anything post-2000 other than "Nuclear War"

all the recent ones are good, just not as good as the 90s run ... Fade is probably the best, Popular Songs is the most skippable imo.

Yes. Popular Songs is probably my least favorite.

I Am Not Afraid Of You is really good.

I Am Not Afraid of You... is better than And Then Nothing...

And Then Nothing... is a bit sleepy for me

Yeah, it's slow but it's high quality. I'm just relistning to the newest one, and it's better than I remembered.

The problem with this poll is the winner basically set in stone, though I'm hesitant to say what it is.

I Am Not Afraid of Challoping This Thread.

I don't think cutting to 25 will be a problem, but ranking is going to be tough. I can think of 4 or 5 songs that might be my #1.

the winner basically set in stone

Opposite for me--I never thought they were strongly identified with one or two songs.

And Then Nothing... is my fave. I heart sleepy YLT.

yeah me too. i love the sleepy summer sun tracks.

I've never thought of I Am Not Afraid of You ... as sleepy. It's got two 10+ minute jams plus "I Should Have Known Better" and "Watch Out For Me Ronnie" ... I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One has about the same ratio of uptempo jams to ballads/slower songs.

We should probably do covers-I went through my YLT collection last night and saw a few that I would hate to leave off a top 25.

I have no idea what will win...it looks like You Can Have It All is pretty high overall on last.fm, but I'd predict From a Motel 6.

might vote in this if i only need to vote for 5 songs.

The problem with this poll is the winner basically set in stone, though I'm hesitant to say what it is.

come on, everybody loves "Green Arrow"

just admit it

I've never thought of I Am Not Afraid of You ... as sleepy.
think they were referring to And Nothing as sleepy. Which it is, except that Cherry Chapstick is right there in the middle of it...

Yeah, I misread that.

I love the sequencing of I Am Not Afraid of You ... two epic jams bookending a bunch of (mostly) short songs.

The only album of theirs I never revisit is Summer Sun.

but i think summer sun is their last great album. it's light and breezy, slightly sleepy. perfect music to listen to when driving with an open car in the south of france in summer just after the siesta when you are still a little in your dreams and the unbearable heat is turning into cosy late afternoon warmth.

I can't seem to find a link to The Onion's famous "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster" piece. Thing I still remember: the phrase "the great Sebadoh Fire of '93."

elsewhere i have described my first sighting of YLT live (opening for Jonathan Richman circa 1987): "Oh, it's the sound guy from Maxwells."

Thanks for the deadline extension.

I have my ballot but will not be able to send it until tonight, thanks

No rush sleeve :)

There will be a surge of votes for "Ohm" after last night.

Why so?

Going back and listening to this band deeply for the first time in over a decade, what's really struck me is Ira Kaplan is pretty much a guitar God.

(xpost) Mad Men...in the last scene, Don Draper invents electricity.

Also because Ohm is an incredible song

Fade is one of my favorites post-2000, I had 2 tracks make my top 25. Actually, when people say post-2000 I don't know if that means they dislike And Then Nothing, or the stuff after.

In my case, it's the stuff after.

among the early albums i probly favor May I Sing with Me

may i ask when the roll-out is going to take place?

I was targeting Wednesday 27th

You guys better vote for "You Can Have It All."

oh hell yeah I will

only cover that cracked my top 25.

man, mine is like half covers

Just sent

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reconstructed from memory and sent, what a fuckin week

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#lazyweb: What are the 3rd and 4th parts of the poll?

Covers is the 3rd part, we did not do a 4th part.

Until midnight tonight!!

Give me a few! I'm in the #tengozone.

Ballot submitted... thanks again, that was pretty exhausting!

I'm probably the only one who voted for "A Shy Dog"... love those new wave hotdog jammers from 87!

A Shy Dog is my favourite from New Wave Hotdogs but I couldn't find space for it

last minute voted!

Poll is closed! Thanks everyone for participating. I'll come with results as soon as possible.

Oh man. I'd love to see this. (from the Village Voice)
<i>Friday, 5/22 Condo Fucks Cake Shop 8 p.m., $12
Cake Shop — the venerable concert venue/record store/coffee joint that has persevered in the face of the LES's high-brow overhaul — is celebrating its tenth birthday with a slew of shows, and the seventh show of its 10 Days for 10 Years bacchanal promises to be a helluva shredder. This stellar lineup is a groovy one that harkens back to Maxwell's classic days of yore. Indie rock institution and the pride of Hoboken Yo La Tengo will slip into their gloriously shit-fi garage cover alter-ego Condo Fucks, ripping into covers galore. (Expect a hodgepodge of cuts from the Troggs, Slade, the Kinks, Richard Hell and other luminaries explored on 2009's hilariously-titled Fuckbook, a hilarious play on YLT's own Fakebook from 1990). Longtime buds Antietam — led by guitar goddess Tara Key — and another Jerz mainstay, Speed the Plough, set the stage for the bat-shit festivities. The presence of WFMU DJ and music journo Gaylord Fields is sure to make this one raucous event. -- Brad Cohan </i>

VHS -- I've got 40 images ready for text; send me the results when you can.

(Click on my username and you'll find your way to my regular e-mail address.)

anticipating

I can hear the crickets chirping as one.

relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYPkODdxI4

maybe this was all an elaborate scheme to pretend poll YLT, thus the thread title.

Ha, on it, results rolling next monday.

I read that as next MONTH... which happens to be true too.

It's Florida 2000 all over again.

I Can See The Chad Hanging As One

Blue Line Linger

Our Way to Stall

Mushroom Cloud of Zzzzzzz

Picture guy is ready. I believe VHS may have absconded to Russia with the ballots.

Detouring America with Polls

VHS has sent me the results; I'll finalize the images, and he'll start the countdown on Monday.

are the rumors true?

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We'll do covers and albums today, as soon as I get back from work.

when night falls on Hoboken...

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