New Yo La Tengo

ha yeah. maybe someday when i am flush with cash. this "disguises" is pretty rad.

Wait, does the band have a second guitarist again?

It looks like they have a whole gang of helpers.

Bruce Bennett is the 2nd guitarist

yeah he's usually on these fmu things, right? did he fly out to berlin for it?

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

Sounding so good this year. Is it the air in Berlin?

Yoo Doo Right, indeed.

this is the leftover hash medley finale

haha, ira's mom is donating.

she sometimes sings the last encore at the hanukkah shows.

My fantasy song for this kinda thing would be:

Lilys - Radiotricity

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."

Fade is still my favorite YLT record since ATNTIIO

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.

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.

this leaked about a year ago!

it sure did!

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.

"Cornelia and Jane" is on my personal tracks list this year.

yeahhh, that is probably the best georgia showcase since ... "tears are in your eyes" or "today is the day"?

Yeah, for sure.

after track 2, album really gets going.

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.

give us a geheimtip, then, from the depths of their oeuvre :)

hey there is actually some new yo la tengo -- part II of Murdering The Classics

http://yolatengo.com/wp-content/uploads/YLT2-high-res-for-SD-300.jpg

First volume was really fun. Also lol at the Tomine cover art on this one

They are certainly some sort of mid-Atlantic indie apotheosis.

new one out in march
http://store.matadorrecords.com/there-s-a-riot-going-on

what are the post-2006 highlights? my favorite YLT album is I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, by a long shot.

Flappy I would put Fade up with any of their best work.

that batch of new songs is pretty snoozy

xp those 2 are my favourite yeah

i've heard the whole new one and i was kind of surprised at the tracks they chose to preview ... there's definitely more immediate / catchy material on there. it's a great album.

but it is pretty close in tone to Summer Sun, so make what you will of that ...

Flappy I would put Fade up with any of their best work.

― campreverb, Thursday, January 18, 2018 2:16 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

sweet, i'll check that one out

i wouldn't put Fade quite up with their best but it's solid and definitely better than Popular Songs

yeah i was not into Popular Songs at all, listened to it maybe once, there was a 3 year break between IANAOYAIWBYA and that, I haven't listened to anything new since. still, love them. saw them in early 2007 and they were fucking awesome, I lucked out because they m/l played the entirety of IANAOYAIWBYA. vividly remember Pass the Hatchet, The Story Of, and I Feel Like Going Home.

You cannot skip Stuff Like That There, which is one of their very best.

is that the rarities/b-sides/re-recorded comp? sounds good

Stuff Like That There is the Fakebook sequel

like most sequels it's not as good but it is still a good record

the acoustic tour was as good a show as I've seen them do however.

yeah, it's really good (and that tour was great, too). think the acoustic/electric split they did live after Fade came out was a good approach. will be interesting to see how they attack these new songs live.

There are honestly only three or four Yo La Tengo albums I return to regularly, and the last couple times I have seen them I was totally bored by them seeming totally bored, which was a turn off. it got to the point in the last, Jesus, 15 years or so? that I was more interested in the songs they chose to cover than in their originals.

fwiw for the longest time my favorite show of all time was seeing eleventh dream day with Ira as a second guitarist sometime around 1994 or 5 or so.

Wow, it seems I'll Be Around is their most played song on Spotify, and it's not close.

at this point YLT seems more like family. I'll always buy and listen to their records, even if I only ever return to Painful & Fakebook.

xp looks like it's on the "Productive Morning" Spotify playlist. Welcome to the new music industry!

Fade, yes. They're here in a few weeks...I've seen them twice, very different shows; that was enough for me.