'Depressing nothingness' is a description I'm more than willing to unironically embrace tbf
Ditto.
but this album is not that
Ah, that's too bad.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 July 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
We'll find you one, no worries :)
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
bye bye yo la tengo. i will put on their last decent proper album "summer sun" again tonight i think.
like what you like i guess, but i gotta say its surprising to me that someone would have such a visceral reaction toward this stuff and then say the last decent thing was Summer Sun, an extremely slow, samey, quiet record with several formless jams.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Summer Sun is an album emanating love, warmth and emotion. You must be writing about something else. There is one ten minite jam Let's be Still and it is a late night beauty. That trumpet is bliss. There are definitely not enough instruments on these improvisational sketches.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
this is the most heated yo la tengo related discussion since that tragic concert fire
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
Which concert fire?
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
the chat room got heavy
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
A tragic day: 'I gave up my vintage Galaxie 500 shirt just to help some guy bandage his arm. It was horrible.'
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mmEpJrl.jpg
sincerely,
alex in mainhattan
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
sorry i can't decipher anything past the first sentence...
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
I didn't realize they had something new till seeing this thread a few days ago. Bought it and played it twice through in the car today. I can definitely understand thinking it's pointless, and I've reacted that way myself when they start noodling around. I'm in just the right frame of mind right now--whatever that might be--so it was perfect for aimless driving.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah I can see how this might futz with expectations and disappoint those who were hoping for more obvious threads being carried forward from their past few albums (although I'd argue that this does very much feel like one possible natural step removed from There's A Riot Going On) or hoping for a more straightforward "Yo La Tengo" album. But it's been much appreciated this week for getting through some work crunches.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 July 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
yeah this definitely feels like one thread among others in the YLT sound, so it's not weird or disarming for me to hear a release focusing on this aspect - just like it's not disarming when they put out, say, a record or EP full of covers.
Also I listen to music like this all the time--guitar-based ambient--and I'm enjoying this just as much, or maybe even more than, say, the new Windy & Carl album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 24 July 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
I met a friend in a venerable old Toronto record store today, and mostly as a token of support--it's not particularly anything I was after--I bought There's a Riot Going On.
I like about half of songs #4 through #15. There's some filler near the end, and "Out of the Pool" is the one song I definitely didn't like.
I think the first three songs--"You Are Here," "Shades of Blue," and "She May, She Might"--are masterpieces. Especially "She May, She Might." I may, I might be forgetting something, but I can't think of another Yo La Tengo song like it.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 March 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
I haven't got tired of the record, just like Fade actually. I think that somehow I prefer 2010s YLT to late 00s YLT.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 26 March 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
No doubt on that imo
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 March 2021 01:49 (three years ago) link
Went to YouTube and was hoping to find a video for "She May, She Might" as great as the one they made for "I'll Be Around," but there's just something generic and static.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 March 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
On WFmu they covered:
Yo La Tengo set #1Yo La Tengo live! Heroes (David Bowie) Options Yo La Tengo live! Don't You Just Know It (Huey "Piano" Smith Options Yo La Tengo live! A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins) Options Yo La Tengo live! Human Fly (The Cramps) Options Yo La Tengo live! Flying (The Beatles
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
Yo La Tengo live set #2Yo La Tengo live! That's Amore (Dean Martin) Yo La Tengo live! So Sad About Us (The Who) Yo La Tengo live! Wonderful World (Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits) Yo La Tengo live! Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus) Honky Tonk Radio Girl request! Yo La Tengo live! Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
Yo La Tengo live! Driver 8 (R.E.M.} Yo La Tengo live! Sugar Sugar (The Archies) Yo La Tengo live! Dear Betty Baby (Mayo Thompson) Yo La Tengo live! At The River's Edge (New Colony Six) Yo La Tengo live! We Got The Beat (The Go-Go's)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link
Yo La Tengo live! Street Waves (Pere Ubu) Yo La Tengo live! Gimme Some Money (Spinal Tap) Yo La Tengo live! Please Mr. Postman (The Marvelletes/Beatles) Yo La Tengo live! You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (Johnny Thunders) Yo La Tengo live! Touch Me I'm Sick (Mudhoney)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
Too many to cut and paste em all
From the March 13, 2021 Todd-aphonic show
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/102001
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
wow would love to hear the Huey "Piano" Smith or the Mayo Thompson - 2 fave songs!
― sean gramophone, Friday, 26 March 2021 04:34 (three years ago) link
Sadly not archived by WFMU
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
What's the reason they don't archive these specifically? For future release? Bums me out because I almost always have something conflicting with them doing this and I usually only get to hear bits and pieces, at best.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Yo la Tengo play the songs by request during fundraising that must come accompanied by large donations. WFMU & Yo La Tengo probably think making the renditions easily available after will discourage donations and the uniqueness of what they are doing once a year
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
i always assumed that plus maybe a bit of embarrassment, not wanting those sets hanging out there on the web with their name on them permanently
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Sunday, 28 March 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
also risk of lawsuit by music publishers
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 28 March 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
wow There's A Riot Going On is even better than I remembered, works really well as a whole album listening through.
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Saturday, 10 April 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link