Tell Yo La Tengo to Fuck Off - (ILM artist poll #61). Voting open until Monday May 18, 2015

I included a bunch of covers. this is one of the only bands where I bought *everything* they put out in the mid 90s, singles, eps, etc, and I got a lot of covers that way. in particular "Somebody's Baby" gets a lotta love around here.

that being said: 25 songs was hard for me! I didn't just want to vote for songs from/around the two big albums, even though in retrospect that's mostly what I liked from this band (though my #1 isn't from those two albums). but I don't love enough originals on their other albums. later songs I like, like "Today Is The Day" on the EP, sound very similar to better songs on the earlier albums. so covers it was.

"Somebody's Baby" is great and will probably make my ballot

Pretty sure this was the first poll I ever posted here:

The Bert Blyleven Poll

I know people hate talking about the HOF, but in my world, 10 or 15 years down the road, they're in. Their body of work is very large now, and a pretty sizable part of it I consider good-to-great.

I keep 36 songs in a folder on my hard-drive, which is more than anyone except Neil Young--another five by Dump, too. Just have to spend a little time clicking through to see where things fall.

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass #1 without hesitation. Every song on there is classic. No other album comes close.

Trying to narrow to 25. This is hard.

As with all other records, i haven't played these in YEARS. And I own no pods.

I really can't vote unless I cram my ears all weekend. I don't even remember what song "Blue Line Swinger" is.

Then you're in for a treat because Blue Line Swinger is a doozy. Last song on Electro-Pura. I've been having a blast revisiting YLT. Their 90s stuff has aged fantastically well. New records are great too.

Electro-Pura is my least favorite of the classics. Meanwhile I like Summer Bunch. "Little Eyes" is my favorite YLT second song.

how do people rate fakebook? my favorite ylt album by far, but it seems to have not been mentioned anywhere except in the one post listing all their covers, and none of the originals from it have been mentioned anywhere either.

xp The Summer almost cracked my top 10 and their Flamin Groovies take was my top cover. one of my favorites of theirs.

fakebook is perfecto, probably their first great record.

not voting 'cause i stopped paying attention after i can heart the heart beating as one, but "can't forget" would have been top 2 or 3 for me, if not my #1.

i stopped paying attention after i can heart the heart beating as one

Vote anyway.

For a long time, Facebook was my favorite YLT album, and it's probably still my #2.

they never recorded their version of "Love Power" from The Producers, right?

I wanna give a shoutout to the instrumental disc of Genius+Love, some great stuff on there - "Nutricia", "Enough", "Sunsquashed", etc.

I was late to Fakebook but it is great and I may vote for "Griselda"

agreed-'Nutricia' was one of my last cuts.

Gee I forgot I have to do my own ballot.

was really hoping to find Oneida's live cover of "The Room Got Heavy" they did back in maybe 07-08 at a show I saw in Boston. so great.

there is another great cover missing in the list upthread. yoko ono's "don't worry, kyoko (mommy's only looking for her hand in the snow" on "yo la tengo is murdering the classics".

Need to revisit the last few albums before I submit my ballot, I'm a casual YLT fan compared to most people here I'm sure but they have a lot of songs I love.

VHS: I'll get my list to you today. I have 25 images ready to go--I assume you'll need more than that (40?). It's pretty easy to get another 15 ready.

yeah, i can't do this. usta know the catalog really well, but... i threw it all away.

got my ballot in. top 10 or so was very easy to figure out but then the rest took forever to narrow down

I will send mine tomorrow

Ballot sent.

yeah, i can't do this. usta know the catalog really well, but... i threw it all away.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius)

Just go on instinct dude. I didn't have time to relisten to stuff either.

Clem: I think 40 is a good number for now.

Voted!

Voted. I wish the covers portion could have been 10 spots instead of 5.

It's not too late to submit a ballot, is it?

No it isn't

Submitting today!

VHS, are you sending out confirmations?

I think so as I got a confirmation shortly after I submitted my ballot.

I didn't get a confirmation?

i can't really listen to this band but i wouldn't tell them to fuck off cuz they look like people who would buy records from me.

Yes, just a couple confirmations!

I'm extending the deadline to Wednesday, 12pm, eastern time.

good man

hooray

Just voted!

I'll send mine in soon, def including this in covers list:

https://youtu.be/EqM86E962w4

How many ballots do we have so far, approximately?

around 17

...voted!

Thanks for the deadline extension.

I have my ballot but will not be able to send it until tonight, thanks

No rush sleeve :)

There will be a surge of votes for "Ohm" after last night.

Why so?