new yo la tengo

I don't think they intended it as funny!

I think it's about love being wildly powerful.

Did the video strike you as serious?

"Friday I'm In Love" was very divisive when it was originally released, with fandom splitting between "this is the platonic ideal of The Cure in pop-with-an-undercurrent mode" and "this is sellout post-'Lovesong' garbage"

yeah at the time i thought it was great that the cure could pull something like that song off, and it was definitely a nice counterpoint to the gloominess of most early 90s rock.
anyway, my main takeaway from YLT doing this song is that i still love georgia hubley's voice.

It's presented in a very light and playful way. I see two main aspects of the video, though, the stuff exploding and Hubley's obliviousness. Both suggest a theme about the power of love and, yeah, I think that's actually a serious topic! The emotive quality of the song, to me, demands a serious reading.

Alright I didn't find it as funny OR profound as they may have intended.

pretending a video where the bodiless bassist is interviewed by the media and Fridays are removed from the post apocalyptic calendar isn't meant to be funny actually makes your reading less serious

I think the bodiless bassist was probably meant to be silly, not necessarily funny. Same thing with the calendar.

And stop saying I'm pretending plz.

The silliness doesn't negate anything.

In fact, it creates a context that allows the theme to exist as suggestion.

I'd be more inclined to respect your analysis if you stopped making semantic distinctions to disqualify mine

To disagree with yours. And, yes, I think there is a significant distinction between silliness not intended as humor per se and silliness that is.

I think your being silly and funny.

That's too bad for you.

I think your being silly and funny.

― da croupier, Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:14 PM (15 minutes ago)

By the way, this is typical ILX bullying language that is tolerated but should probably, at some point, not be.

Certainly the silliness in the video is the humor-related version...

sorry, tim. While it's really frustrating to have someone act like you're missing a grander intent when you say you weren't amused by obviously comic moments in a video (and then quibbling over adjective choice), that's no excuse for namecalling. it was gratuitous and mean, and i apologize. i simply think that "amusing" and "deep" aren't at opposite ends of a spectrum, and this video is trying to make you laugh even if can also carry a more po-faced analysis.

ironically, i originally was going say i found the video "gross" but hedged my words because i've enjoyed plenty of wry apocalyptic imagery (i.e. Spoon's "Do You" video) and didn't want to get into a whole debate about that. it honestly didn't occur to me that someone would debate whether this video was trying to be amusing.

Thanks for that. I didn't laugh at the video and didn't think too much about the comic aspects of it. If I had originally posted a response saying that I didn't know HOW comic they intended it to be (my reading being not much), maybe there wouldn't have been the communication garble. I certainly didn't mean to be on any high horse about a grander intent that others were missing.

Streamable on NPR.

Stuff Like That There

Being interviewed on NPR Morning Edition Tuesday morning, plus they are playing live throughout Morning Edition this morning as the house band

Whoa, they do "I Can Feel the Ice Melting" on this.

A friend referred to this album as "somnambulant."

Oh man the new version of Deeper Into Movies is just perfect

x-post- I kinda found it too quiet song after song with the hinted pop melodies, and I was a fan of Fakebook. Maybe its not them, it's me...

just got this, totally love it. schramm really is a wonderful guitar player.

listened once, Wimmels' friend not far off

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2015/08/25/t-magazine/10-things-that-influence-ira-kaplan/s/25tmag-uti-slide-GJIK.html

it'll surely come, here it comes again

The Nursery Rhymes album that they're on with Bill Wells has a pretty interesting bunch of people on it (Annette Peacock, Karen Mantler, what's her name from Deerhoof, Norman Blake, Bridget St. John, etc.) and is very good. Strange and sinister jazzy readings of nursery rhymes, definitely one of the better "kids concept" albums I've come across.

Finally caught up with last year's covers album. (Bought a physical copy at a physical store--don't do that very often.) One listen in the car is probably premature for comment, but truthfully it went right past me. This is one time where I find their winsome hush-hush wearing. The only cover I liked other than "Friday" was the Antietam song. I vaguely recall them being a pigfuck band, so that one must have been radically transformed.

hmm, not sure i fully know what pigfuck means, but i don't think antietam were that?
while i don't think the new one is as good as fakebook, i think it might go a bit deeper than you think, i'd stick with it for at least a little longer.

here's the original -- not a radical remake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5S9tduu7E

it made more sense to me after seeing the acoustic live show.

Christgau's term for the Pussy Galores and Killdozers of the mid-'80s (bands deified by Forced Exposure). I'm probably misremembering. I've got one record of theirs I haven't played in 30 years.

Thanks for the link, will give it a listen.

antietam is more like yo la tengo, really -- equal parts loud/soft/grinding/jangly

Not radical at all! Very nice. This is the record I have (their first)--you've inspired me to take it off the shelf.

https://img.discogs.com/Fm8DXLwWLHn4ad-eJ_Qr5BpnNo0=/fit-in/600x585/filters:strip_icc%28%29:format%28jpeg%29:mode_rgb%28%29:quality%2896%29/discogs-images/R-2556237-1405864552-9873.jpeg.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nZxBvKfKBbQ/hqdefault.jpg

yeah that is good! i always wanted to like them a little more than i do, but they have plenty of good tunes.

Yeah Antietam isn't pigfuck, they were like tyler said pretty close to YLT in the first place. Early indie rock I guess.

YLT get bashed a lot on ILM but for me I like pretty much everything they've done to some extent. I wasn't keen on the stuff they did early 00's but since IANAOYAIWBYA they've settled into a pretty good run.

Loved the Parliaments and Darlene McCrae covers on this!

Listened to that Antietam album above. Nothing as good as "Naples," but half of it sounded pretty good. (The second side's a little dirgey.) I couldn't hear Yo La Tengo, but I can see them as a blueprint for Wussy (more even than X). One of the dirges reminded me of "The Murder Mystery."

I think this is the best Antietam song
the harmony and her low voice gives this a weird resemblance to Jefferson Airplane (maybe that's just me?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMylMwGleE

Yo La Tengo live are so fucking on point nowadays, that acoustic/electric set I just saw was like dayum

yeah i think the acoustic/electric split has really served them well -- still room for all kinds of stylistic shifts but a bit less whiplash when it comes to setlist flow.

I saw them in Jersey City last week. Fantastic show. Although Pass The Hatchet went on too long and is not in the same league as Blue Line Swinger in terms of a show closer.

Georgia Hubley is fantastically talented. She doesn't get the attention that Ira does, but in this show she really stood out.

Oh you were there? I was bar-back at that show. We ran out of beer and made everyone sad.