TS: Yo La Tengo's "I Heard You Looking" vs Yo La Tengo's "Blue Line Swinger"

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...because I just don't know.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

blue line swinger!

also: the version/edit from camp yo la tengo is great.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Blue Line Swinger." In part because it makes Georgia Hubley scatting sound intense. Both are glorious.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Line Swinger -vs- any other song in the world. It's just about perfect. Great for any occasion too. Use it while driving, exercising, working, cleaning, drinking, practicing guitar ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i heard you looking. by a long way too. looks like i'll have to play blue line swinger to see why you are all picking that one

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the answer is "detouring america with horns" vs "paul is dead"

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually think Blue Line Swinger, but then again...

They played I Heard You Looking at Maxwell's last week, and though Ira's feedback freakouts might go on just a tiny bit too long, every time he comes back to the melody I feel something akin to orgasm.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

well for jody's question I'd pick "Paul Is Dead." Though if it was up against "Satellite" it'd be more of a debate for me.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

They played I Heard You Looking at Maxwell's last week
Shit, I wasn't even thinking of all the live performances I've seen.. Now I'm not sure.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sticking with Blue Line Swinger... 1995, San Diego... Ira, Georgia, James, Chris Knox and Barbara Manning going wild in the third encore.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

IHYL by a wide margin, as Gareth sez. It has a more organic and natural majesty. BLS is epic, too, but it feels a bit too studied.

― Aaron A., Friday, 9 January 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I Heard You Looking

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yow. I think early exposure to Electr-O-Pura during my guitar eudcation is one of the main reasons I have a hard time playing solos "right." After being knocked out of my brain by the ones on "Flying Lesson," "My Heart's Reflection" and esp. "Blue Line Swinger" I can't help but try to go all Voidoid-freakout in the middle of a melodic line.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 January 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my wife walked down the aisle to "i heard you looking". it was sweet.

― beaty (beaty), Sunday, 11 January 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

blue line swinger by miles. it's so much more hypnotic. what about painful vs. electropura?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

sudden organ!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

this is one of those questions you're not supposed to know the answer to.

― Kareem Estefan (Kareem Estefan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

s1ocki is wrong :(

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

1. We're An American Band
2. I Heard You Looking
3. Blue Line Swinger

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

omg :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

A battle between two heavyweights. I'll have to go with Blue Line Swinger because it has vocals, but I Heard You Looking is just about perfect, too.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

I Heard You Looking. And Paul is Dead. I love that song.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Saturday, 12 August 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I Heard You Looking

― starke (starke), Saturday, 12 August 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Blue Line Swinger. It's perfect.

― verhexen, Friday, 14 September 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

agreed. tho i love 'we're an american band' just a smidgeon more.

― stevie, Saturday, 15 September 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

both of these songs would be in my top 10 ylt songs

― stephen, Monday, 17 September 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

well duh

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

God, IHYL. When the melody is about to go over in pure noise, but then reclaims the territory, and the battle continues back and forth for the rest of the song until the melody finally conquers the feedback as the song fades out is one of my favourite stretches of music.

― Mule, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:15 (twelve years ago)

Except that the best Yo La Tengo song is "Drug Test".

― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 02:07 (twelve years ago)

Blue Line Swinger is my favorite song of all time.

― chicken (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 10:59 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

walk for miles, on your own loose ends, I'll find you there

― mookieproof, Monday, 20 March 2023 05:28 (three years ago)

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