"I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" ~ pick your favorite from Yo La Tengo's best

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their white album, at least their most beagles-esque…god i love this album. one of the epics will win but everything in between is so wonderful…today i'll say "Sometimes I Don't Get You," but how can I neglect "The Weakest Part"?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind	9
Black Flowers	6
The Race is On Again	3
The Story of Yo La Tango	2
Mr. Tough	1
I Should Have Known Better	1
The Room Got Heavy	1
I Feel Like Going Home	1
Sometimes I Don't Get You	1
Beanbag Chair	0
Daphnia	0
Watch Out For Me Ronnie	0
The Weakest Part	0
Song for Mahila	0
Point and Shoot	0

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link

"The Race Is on Again."

― clemenza, Friday, 7 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link

beagles-esque? think that's a basset hound on the back cover...
but kidding aside, hmm, their best album? dunno about that.
would probably go with "hatchet"

― tylerw, Friday, 7 February 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link

obv race is on again

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 7 February 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

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― System, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

Pass the Hatchet is a killer, but I voted Black Flowers. I just love that song.
Other days it could be the Race is on Again or The room got heavy. Basically the first LP, which is the one I end up playing the most...

― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link

reviewed this long ago...the last album of theirs I liked.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link

Voted Room Got Heavy based on nothing more than instinct. Not listened in a while. Always thought it was about three songs too long and that those songs were all in a row during the second half. First 8 or 9 are faultless though.

― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link

Voted Yo La Tango but it could have been The Weakest Part on a different day.

Still bummed that I didn't see them live when they toured this album.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link

A fabulous show, almost three hours.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link

Best song on here is Black Flowers-but best Yo La Tengo song is Pass The Hatchet. if that makes sense.
I went Black Flowers in any case.

― campreverb, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link

yo la tengo's best? you must be joking. electropura beats the ass out of this shit. i'd say it's the last album by them which was listenable/worth buying. best song is obviously "black flowers". songs with james as lead singer are by default great.

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link

this album is "pass the hatchet..." with a load of b-sides, it looms over the thing like Christ the Redeemer

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link

At a concert, a strong, tall, bearded dude with a leather jacket pushed everyone to get to the front ang gave a piece of paper to Ira. Ira read 'I'm on a honeymoon with my wife, she would love to hear Mr Tough'. They played Mr Tough.

Mr Tough it is.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link

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

― System, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

Nothing surprising really.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link

how tf did beanbag chair and weakest part get 0 votes
we need to do a redo immediately

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link

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