C or D : Yo La Tengo

but what i really want to say is that their cover of neil young's "barstool blues" has been kicking my ass around for about almost 2 weeks now.

1990, "Here Comes My Baby" PROMO-ONLY CDEP (Bar None Records)
Here Comes My Baby (from Fakebook)
The Story of Jazz (live)
Barstool Blues (live)
Let's Compromise (live, w/Chris Nelson singing)
At The River's Edge (live)
Ecstasy Blues (live)
Speeding Motorcycle (w/Daniel Johnston singing via telephone)

The live songs were recorded at our first-ever Berlin date on a not-especially-pleasant European tour. Chris Nelson, formerly of Information ("Let's Compromise" was one of their songs), later of Mofungo and The Scene Is Now, accompanied us. His occasional lead vocals provided us with many of the tour's memorable moments, particularly a frenzied performance of "1969" at our first-ever Madrid data. It was a free show and therefore packed a fairly large rock club (named The Rock Club), through it turned out there was still sufficient space for the crowd to get out of Chris' wasy when he decided to stage diver from the too-high-to-land-back-first stage. He limped for the rest of the tour, which didn't keep him from playing a stellar short solo set in Nijmegen, where we heard him debut "Gone For A Long Time" if memory serves.
--Ira Kaplan

(if so plz lemme know asap thx)

I love this band. They make me smile. THERE IS SO MUCH LOVE.

Painful has been my favourite of late, esp. Sudden Organ.

i like quite a bit of painful, too, but it seems to me that the more and more they've gone into sonic fuckery, the less and less attention they've paid to the songs. i liked them best when they had that balance.

(And why don't HTML tags work for me fcc - how you doin' 'em?)

"Painful" is wonderful, it's an album that I can hear two or three times in a day without getting tired of it. "Nowhere Near" was in the top 10 on my ballot for the 90's poll.

As others have mentioned, YLT really should keep their albums under 50 minutes or so, although when they go totally bonkers with their eclecticism ("I Can Hear the Heart ...") they can be excused for stretching things out another ten minutes.

However, I sure wish they'd take the mic away from Ira. God, I hate his voice. Sometimes, I don't think he's even trying.

Also the Today is the Day , EP version, is pretty fantastic ..

Electropura is my favorite. All the "rockists" HATED Summer Sun when it came out.

Great taste in covers too. And they named themselves after a Richie Ashburn tall tale, how Classic can you get?

They were pretty awful live.

Some of their songs are good, but I can never really make up my mind about them.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 17th, 2004.

WOW! i'm breaking out in hives of envy right now.

Loving YLT is like loving your disfunctional relationship with your friend/partner/parents/children. Flawed but cherished.

Uh, no it wasn't! Sorry, I really didn't like YLT and they've barely registered with me since, and I absolutely hate Buffalo Tom. This was a bill of suffering through the openers to get to the headliner.

nice summer sun write up alex.

classic or dud album title? (will be out soon).

Well, I just learned the bass line for "25 Reasons" this afternoon, so thanks thread!

and here they are, more North American tour dates!

06-09 Jersey City, New Jersey - White Eagle Hall
06-10 Washington, D.C. - The Atlantis
06-13 Portland, ME - State Theatre
06-14 South Deerfield, MA - Tree House Brewing Company (Outdoors)
06-15 Montreal, Quebec - Corona Theatre
06-16 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre
06-18 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
06-19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
06-21 Homer, NY - Center For the Arts
06-22 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
06-23 Kalamazoo, MI - Bell’s Beer Garden
06-24 Chicago, IL -Metro
06-26 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
06-27 Birmingham, AL - Saturn
06-28 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse

i've never seen em before, def gonna try to go to that jersey city show

man I really blew it not seeing them in the PNW this time, it was right at the start of the tour and I wasn't paying as much attention

omg, I would love to go to that Tree House Brewing Company show.

yesssssssss i couldn't get tickets to the last chicago show but snagged two for this one

Ha, you know a band understands it's hit the sweet spot when it extends the tour.

I guess I'm going to finally visit Bell's beer garden

Phew, I'm glad I went to the Asheville show because I'm going to be out of town for the Knoxville show.

finally got the vinyl. brain capers ends with a lock groove and there's a secret bonus instrumental track on side 4 (though it's kind of annoying)

great acoustic set last night at a benefit. 2 highlights from James, Sun Ra's Nuclear War and Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown.

I put together this little YLT deep cuts mix ... a good listen, I think!

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/05/22/yo-la-tengo-deeper-into-deep-cuts/

Ira throws out the first pitch at a Mets game!

ole pal @noah_s just texted this in from the first base line pic.twitter.com/0DNv21coiy

— joel berk (@pfcidb) June 1, 2023

pretty good!

pretty good pitch too! Ira must have loved that.

(lol xpost)

Matador has tweeted video of Ira's honorary first pitch too.

I need to dig into Tyler's deep cuts mix soon

I just played it, very worthwhile. But not downloadable (didn't they used to be?).

it's just one big mp3 file but if you right click / save as you should be able to download it.

aw yeah "Nutricia" is one of my very faves

that's a song I could just play on a loop forever I think

xp
OK, I got it, thanks. My PC said "save link as" and I thought that would just copy the link, not the file linked to.

been on a big ylt kick, i'm familiar with the core four (painful -> and then nothing) but little outside of it. and then nothing is one of my favorite records of all time so it's been wonderful to discover that they made a few more slow motion nighttime insomniac records just like it (summer sun and there's a riot going on) and i adore them as well!!!

don't sleep on the new one either, fantastic stuff

i'm gonna listen to it today!!! :)

fade and i am not afraid of you... are both very good too

but this stupid world is a top 3 ylt album

hard agree

Their sea creature documentary soundtrack is great too

yes!