― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 16 January 2003 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
(if so plz lemme know asap thx)
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
I love this band. They make me smile. THERE IS SO MUCH LOVE.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 28 March 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 28 March 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago) link
Painful has been my favourite of late, esp. Sudden Organ.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 28 March 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Piers (piers), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
i like quite a bit of painful, too, but it seems to me that the more and more they've gone into sonic fuckery, the less and less attention they've paid to the songs. i liked them best when they had that balance.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
(And why don't HTML tags work for me fcc - how you doin' 'em?)
― Piers (piers), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
"Painful" is wonderful, it's an album that I can hear two or three times in a day without getting tired of it. "Nowhere Near" was in the top 10 on my ballot for the 90's poll.
As others have mentioned, YLT really should keep their albums under 50 minutes or so, although when they go totally bonkers with their eclecticism ("I Can Hear the Heart ...") they can be excused for stretching things out another ten minutes.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
However, I sure wish they'd take the mic away from Ira. God, I hate his voice. Sometimes, I don't think he's even trying.
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Also the Today is the Day , EP version, is pretty fantastic ..
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Electropura is my favorite. All the "rockists" HATED Summer Sun when it came out.
Great taste in covers too. And they named themselves after a Richie Ashburn tall tale, how Classic can you get?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dark Horse, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
They were pretty awful live.
Some of their songs are good, but I can never really make up my mind about them.
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 17th, 2004.
WOW! i'm breaking out in hives of envy right now.
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Loving YLT is like loving your disfunctional relationship with your friend/partner/parents/children. Flawed but cherished.
― Piers (piers), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, no it wasn't! Sorry, I really didn't like YLT and they've barely registered with me since, and I absolutely hate Buffalo Tom. This was a bill of suffering through the openers to get to the headliner.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
nice summer sun write up alex.
― Piers (piers), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
classic or dud album title? (will be out soon).
― coco the kid, Sunday, 28 May 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Sunday, 28 May 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Their summer concert in NYC last summer was fun.
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Does Louis Jagger like Yo La Tengo?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
who cares? great band.
― stephen, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Painful, still in my top 10 albums of the '90s. gorgeous, unforgettable album.
― stephen, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM! Yes! Painful is all killer, no filler. I mean, "Nowhere Near," "Big Day Coming," and just when you think they couldn't possibly top themselves, they go and throw "I Heard You Looking" at you. Though it is equally as great, I never understood why ICHTHBAO was the indie-rock du jour of the time, while Painful slid by relatively unnoticed.
Does anyone remember their "guitar tech" touring buddy (small skinny dude with bug-eyes and toussled hair - appeared to be perpetually in the throws of a meth binge) who was constantly by their side, running around and either tuning and prepping equipment or holding down organ "drone" keys for them during tours for Painful and Electro-pura?
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
finally got the vinyl. brain capers ends with a lock groove and there's a secret bonus instrumental track on side 4 (though it's kind of annoying)
― na (NA), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
great acoustic set last night at a benefit. 2 highlights from James, Sun Ra's Nuclear War and Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown.
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
I put together this little YLT deep cuts mix ... a good listen, I think!
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/05/22/yo-la-tengo-deeper-into-deep-cuts/
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Ira throws out the first pitch at a Mets game!
ole pal @noah_s just texted this in from the first base line pic.twitter.com/0DNv21coiy— joel berk (@pfcidb) June 1, 2023
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
pretty good!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
pretty good pitch too! Ira must have loved that.
(lol xpost)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Matador has tweeted video of Ira's honorary first pitch too.
I need to dig into Tyler's deep cuts mix soon
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
I just played it, very worthwhile. But not downloadable (didn't they used to be?).
― nickn, Friday, 2 June 2023 06:48 (one year ago) link
it's just one big mp3 file but if you right click / save as you should be able to download it.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
aw yeah "Nutricia" is one of my very faves
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Friday, 2 June 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
that's a song I could just play on a loop forever I think
― tylerw, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
xpOK, I got it, thanks. My PC said "save link as" and I thought that would just copy the link, not the file linked to.
― nickn, Friday, 2 June 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
been on a big ylt kick, i'm familiar with the core four (painful -> and then nothing) but little outside of it. and then nothing is one of my favorite records of all time so it's been wonderful to discover that they made a few more slow motion nighttime insomniac records just like it (summer sun and there's a riot going on) and i adore them as well!!!
― ivy., Thursday, 27 July 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
don't sleep on the new one either, fantastic stuff
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 27 July 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
i'm gonna listen to it today!!! :)
― ivy., Thursday, 27 July 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
fade and i am not afraid of you... are both very good too
but this stupid world is a top 3 ylt album
― ufo, Thursday, 27 July 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
hard agree
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 27 July 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Their sea creature documentary soundtrack is great too
― hrep (H.P), Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
yes!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Not bad
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-p5edCOy4d/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
controversial for some
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/yo-la-tengo-want-to-play-a-fundraiser-for-kamala-harris-and-tim-walz/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 August 2024 10:13 (one month ago) link
I just realized that I’m seeing them in Baltimore in a little over a month!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 August 2024 10:14 (one month ago) link