Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

This is my favourite YLT LP. While I like their noisier stuff, I love the sustained quiet & reflective (& romantic) mood of this album, and the many, many great guitar sounds.

"Everyday" is my track pick. "Summer's sad songs" seems an appropriate description of the whole LP - made for listening on warm summer nights with a light breeze coming through the open window. I've fallen asleep to this album a lot.

So interesting to hear what people's prime stretch of YLT is. I always related with the 1,2,3 of Electro-Pura, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One and And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. I was always so conflicted with this one since it felt so mature and mannered (all descriptors of music that I never really appreciated, at least at the time) but I ADORED this album. Whoever upthread mentioned that it was such a perfect late-night album, is so right. I still can't find too many albums that can compete with this one in that respect, it feels like it was made for it. I listened to this album in college during innumerable all-nighters, always playing album after album looking for that right sound and this one never failed to hit me in the right places. Especially during "Night Falls On Hoboken" where it would just stretch out and disappear for stretches of time and I loved it for that.

I can't say enough wonderful things about this record. That cover is so appropriate and perfect.

Not sure what I would pick as a stand out. "Everyday" is so great. It starts off in the most simple and beautiful way. So sleepy. "Tears Are In Your Eyes" is so heartbreaking it veers on parody, but holy shit is it great. "Cherry Chapstick" is classic YLT in the best way. I'll probably pick "Night Falls..." just cuz I'm a sucker for their late-in-the-album long jams.

...and yeah, totally lost interest in YLT after this one. I thought the Nuclear War this was cool but, you know...

Initially, I had zero interest at post-And Nothing YLT but Fade easily won me over. Right away, I revisited the output from Summer Sun to today and to me they settled for quite good (instead perhaps Beat Your Ass, which is all I want after the sustained greatness of 1993-2001. By the way, The Today is The Day EP is the best thing from that period, the slow version of Cherry Chapstick is formidable.

debated between "our way to fall" and "saturday," wound up going with "fall"

wish the last three songs were cut off

Everyday, everyday

Saturday was always my favourite back in the day. i'll go with that.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I think Cherry Chapstick is a terrific song but there are probably 6 or 8 songs is choose before that one--a testament to the quality of the album.

this is my favorite album

it's utterly perfect

The run from Painful to Sounds of Sounds of Science is still my favorite by any artist ever.

great album. weird poll results though! cherry chapstick always felt like a 'sugarcube' rehash to me, and my favorite tracks ('lot g', 'saturday') are toward the bottom!

great album. somehow i associate it with summer nights maybe due to the cover. when this came out we had just moved to our house on the countryside. on the tour this did not work as well as on cd. i almost fell asleep iirc. i think it is more of an atmospheric background album. not a lot happening really but that is fine. very nice music to fall asleep to.

q: is there a better bridge than the one in 'crying of lot g'?
a: no

(or would you call it the chorus, or coda, or what? the 'the way that i feel when you laugh is like laughing' part)

it would be a bridge if there was something that it connected to another verse or chorus, but as is, it's more of a coda, or perhaps an alternate chorus. but yeah, it's so good.

but to your question - "is there a better bridge than the one in 'crying of lot g'?" - there aren't many, but one example is on the same album (the "please tell me how you know tomorrow / staring at your shoes" section of "tears are in your eyes"), which without checking i know i've probably talked about in this thread multiple times. it always sticks with me

er d'oh, i meant the "Although you don't believe me, you are strong / Darkness always turns into the dawn / And you won't even remember this for long / When it ends alright" section from the same song, just before

I figured you meant that and yeah it's sublime too

I don't really like this band but "let's save tony orlando's house" is amazing

Liner notes: "When in Nashville, visit Prince's Hot Chicken Shack."

I personally prefer Hattie B's, better sides imho.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, May 9, 2014 9:21 AM (four years ago)

Man, I must have really got burned by Prince's around this time, because this is entirely shitty advice. They're both great (and yes Hattie B's sides are better), but Prince's is a fucking institution.

(my vote for "Last Days Of Disco" still stands, one of my top 5 YLT songs)

the crying of lot g is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard

my CD of this is lost, doubled up in some other CD case

I still keep the digipak in the hope that it will someday turn up when I play one of the thousand CDs it could be hidden in

20 years old.