The band will turn 30 next year.
The strings and horns on "Before We Run" makes me think they are slowly turning into Lambchop.
― Jah Creature (WilliamC), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:40 AM (1 week ago)
At the Maxwell's holiday party I said hi to Ira and in our conversation he mentioned Lambchop as the only current release he could say he's a big fan of. Feel free to make fun of me for assuming I cornered him to ask really boring questions.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Very interesting video (which stars Mac McCaughan as the singer/guitarist), seems at first to suggest that "I'll Be Around" is the third part of a trilogy ("Deeper Into Movies"->"I'm On My Way"->"I'll Be Around") but by the end it's essentially a visual text montage of many of their lyrics (and other texts?) superimposed over a nice home cooking session (which sounds ridiculous but it works):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?fv=KJyjzHIgqr4
Interview about new vid here on bonappetit.com!http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2013/01/yo-la-tengo.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJyjzHIgqr4
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCc561-KLQ
― dronestreet, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
really annoying to listen to this with the asshole and his expensive camera clicking away every 30 seconds. his flickr stream is going to be AWESOME though.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
thankfully it seems he gets all the shots he needs during the first 10mins. my blood pressure has leveled. carry on.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
Paddle Foward is so lovely.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
This finally showed up in my mailbox this morning--seemed to take forever. I've only played it once in the car so far (once through, and my two favourite songs a second time).
"Ohm"'s pretty good as an opener; I like the music, the vocal not as much. The next four songs more or less went right past me--one I disliked. Maybe they'll get better. The first really great song for me is "I'll Be Around," the beginning of which makes me think of CSNY's "4 + 20."(Speaking of whom, I think they've done that before--like Neil Young, they'll take a title from some other great song.) And from that point forward, I love everything. I think that last half, #6-10, is one of the most beautiful stretches on any of their albums. I don't like Yo La Tengo when they try to write overly cute pop songs, and I don't like them much when they try to sound noisy. (For anyone who despises Yo La Tengo and finds the last half of that sentence really funny, it's true--sometimes they try to sound noisy.) Really the one thing I love about them--and I think they consistently do this better than any band ever--is their gift for a kind of formless beauty that's like a guitar-based version of Another Green World or something, with words that just fill in the space between (for me; I know they write songs about marriage and domesticity and such).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this is really growing on me, especially the back half as clemeza points out. "Two Trains" really hits a sweet spot for me, I think it might secretly be the best song on here.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
eir gift for a kind of formless beauty that's like a guitar-based version of Another Green World or something
well said. This album doesn't quite hit the mark but certainly your observation is true of most of their other albums. I've kept "Ohm," "Paddle Forward," and that last lovely horn-anchored track.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
New Snore La Tengo
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
calsnores
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
"Paddle Forward" sounds like "Sugarcube," but that's a good one too. It's either the second or third song that to my ears doesn't seem to fit. Otherwise, I think this is a classic (within the narrow confines of the Yo La Tengo universe...if you hate them, this album would reinforce everything you hate about them). Love that video for "I'll Be Around"--the unexplained twist is a great joke, I think.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
still really enjoying this one -- i think "is that enough" is probably the weakest track, but it's pleasant enough. jon otm about "two trains" that one is fantastic. recent live show here: http://www.speakersincode.com/2013/02/download-yo-la-tengo-january-31-2013.html -- the more rocked out coda to "before we run" is great.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Electric in-store @ Easy Street: http://youtu.be/BH5I3gqkmV8
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Bleargh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5I3gqkmV8
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
hey, i was at that show. it was the final day of easy street before it was taken over by a Chase bank.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
ah so that's the reason for the stones cover...bummer.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
That's one of them, Tyler--"Is That Enough?" Don't care much for that or the next song. But I was wrong about "Paddle Forward" (great title), and the fifth song's really strong too. They're doing it the way all great albums were 40 years ago: 10 songs, 45 minutes, a couple of wayward tracks to mix things up. (I always say that Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is literally the only album ever where there isn't a track or two I like noticably less than everything else--Beatles, Dylan, Velvets, doesn't matter.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
"Two Trains" really hits a sweet spot for me, I think it might secretly be the best song on here.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 9:12 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
2 trains gives me heavy phish 'billy breathes' album vibes, which i heard playing before a movie @ a college theater like last wk for the 1st time prob since i was in lol college
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
also there shd be a two trains rmx f/ 2 chainz obv
Another live version
http://www.npr.org/event/music/171803705/yo-la-tengo-still-around-thank-god
― nickn, Thursday, 28 February 2013 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
WFMU Live Cover session so far: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49819
Almost forgot it was today! Glad I brought headphones.
― dronestreet, Thursday, 14 March 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder! Fun show so far.
― Evan, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
live from berlin! they just murdered "this time tomorrow"
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I have so many request ideas but don't necessarily have the guts to drop the $100 for it.
― Evan, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
ha yeah. maybe someday when i am flush with cash. this "disguises" is pretty rad.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, does the band have a second guitarist again?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
It looks like they have a whole gang of helpers.
― Evan, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Bruce Bennett is the 2nd guitarist
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he's usually on these fmu things, right? did he fly out to berlin for it?
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
he did! he's also the one who knew "Baseball Altamont" by the Nightmares the year i requested it.
i had to explain to my sister that old Neil Diamond is considered cool
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Sounding so good this year. Is it the air in Berlin?
― dronestreet, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yoo Doo Right, indeed.
― dronestreet, Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
this is the leftover hash medley finale
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
haha, ira's mom is donating.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
she sometimes sings the last encore at the hanukkah shows.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
My fantasy song for this kinda thing would be:
Lilys - Radiotricity
― Evan, Friday, 15 March 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
James McNew, rock critic:
http://www.adequacy.net/2013/04/artists-on-albums-aoa34-yo-la-tengos-james-mcnew-on-seizure/
Haven't read it, but I noticed the unusual adjective "Beatle-y," and the even more unusual "Eno-y."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Fade is still my favorite YLT record since ATNTIIO
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 7 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
It's really great, but seriously fuck a Matador for this bullshit deluxe reissue already. Unlike the Kurt Vile deluxe thing, you CAN'T get the bonus material separately in any form. Well, unless you want to buy each of the tracks separately for $1.29 each on iTunes, but even that still won't get you the 11-minute track, "Oriole 5". The Matador website doesn't offer a digital version either, only the full 2-disc package.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
Fade is going from "hey a good yo la tengo record" for me to a pretty much a great yo la tengo record. don't think there's a bad song on it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
this leaked about a year ago!
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
it sure did!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
I've been thinking this is a really solid, unspectacular album and will probably age well. Oddly, was reading this thread and comments about "Is That Enough" while listening to a great power pop song which, when I checked, turned out to be "Is That Enough" by The Shivvers. Shivvers track>YLT track.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
"Cornelia and Jane" is on my personal tracks list this year.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
yeahhh, that is probably the best georgia showcase since ... "tears are in your eyes" or "today is the day"?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, for sure.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
after track 2, album really gets going.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 10 February 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
I've always dipped in and out of Yo La Tengo. Always liked/loved the records I knew but was never a huge fanatic and in fact 100% missed the boat on them for the entirety of the 1990s. Still, in the last 15 years or so (since ATNTIIO), I've had three or four YLT albums I considered either great or classic. In the last few weeks I've made my way chronologically through all of their proper albums and I have now come to the conclusion that they are arguably the best band of the last 30 years. I actually really love the phase they've reached--the last four albums or so--where they have just settled into being effortlessly brilliant.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 18 September 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link