New Yo La Tengo

sorry i can't decipher anything past the first sentence...

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.

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.

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.

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.

I haven't got tired of the record, just like Fade actually. I think that somehow I prefer 2010s YLT to late 00s YLT.

No doubt on that imo

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.

On WFmu they covered:

Yo La Tengo set #1
Yo 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

Yo La Tengo live set #2
Yo 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

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)

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)

Too many to cut and paste em all

From the March 13, 2021 Todd-aphonic show

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/102001

wow would love to hear the Huey "Piano" Smith or the Mayo Thompson - 2 fave songs!

Sadly not archived by WFMU

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.

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

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

also risk of lawsuit by music publishers

wow There's A Riot Going On is even better than I remembered, works really well as a whole album listening through.