C or D : Yo La Tengo

Not precisely.

We saw them when they played the RFH a couple of years back with Neil Innes and Robyn Hitchcock added to the line-up. Magic.

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good article:
http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/tapeop/roger/roger.php

Yes. And Then Nothing... comes in a digipak which looks pretty bad after a couple years of wear and tear. That's a pretty big flaw.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, THEY NAMED A SONG AFTER A TROY MCCLURE TV SPECIAL! CLASSIC X 1000!

Anyway, I was listening to this song today and looked up the lyrics. I never heard Paul Le Mat or KAte Moss when listening casually.

Everyday (Yo La Tengo)

I want summer's sad songs behind me.
I want a laugh a minute, without fail
Want to be Paul Le Mat in 1980
Looking to forget tomorrow, looking everyday.

I want to see you put your hands together.
I want to cross my heart
I want to hope to die
I hear Kate Moss talk, she talks to me
She's looking for a new beginning everyday.

When Monday comes I want nothing
Come Tuesday morning I want the same
The days and nights fly by
Looking to embrace the nothing, of the everyday

"And then Nothing..." and "I Can Hear the Heart..." were both in the NME's top 20 albums of the year. Hardly a diss. I have those two recs, plus Electropura, which is good, sloppy fuzz-pop. "And then Nothing.." is gloopy, washy, forgettable ambience. "I Can Hear the heart..." is simply one of the best records of the 90's. Lovely, sweet, touching melodies everywhere. Frequently slathered in beautiful noise. Who could want for more?

However I really like The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science - one of my fave releases of the year.

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?

setlists are really all over the place

makes sense, 40 years as a band, around 20 albums ...

and on those extended Hanukkah runs they don't repeat any songs (or at least they don't repeat any arrangements, they might do like the slow "Big Day Coming" one night and the fast one on another) — their repertoire is impressively deep. i saw them looking at lyric sheets in the yo la wilco encore, but i think that's a rarity.

Ira seems to be wearing the same striped shirt in every photo or video I've seen, he must have a suitcase full of them.

hahaha my friend and I were joking about that at the show

seems like alan was mostly just doing the organ drone on "i heard you looking"

Drone Not Drones lives on. feel like I can hear it better in that clip than in person -- mostly came through at a few shocking moments, and in the single note candlelight flicker he ended with, very beautiful.

Also (and I know it's kind of his deal) when the guests come out it's often the only time Ira smiles and seems to be enjoying himself.

Now that you mention it, he usually seems really serious or focused on the task at hand whenever I saw him perform.

FWIW, the only time I've ever heard him say anything humorous was at a Hanukkah show (from the first run at the Bowery Ballroom), and given the way it came off, I just got the impression he was generally a shy person. Jeff Tweedy was the guest - he did his set and stayed on stage to play with Yo La Tengo. Eventually Ira pointed out that "when Jeff sang 'New York,' I noticed you all clapped, and then when I sang it on that last number, you didn't do anything, so...just thought I'd point that out..." Then after they performed a few more songs, someone in the audience yelled out "New York!" which got some tepid applause. Tweedy responded with "TOO LATE!" So then someone yelled out "Hoboken!" and almost everyone booed, and Ira just grinned and said "I should've kept my mouth shut."

feel like we've been in the same room tons of times probably

bet I could find plenty of evidence on ILM confirming this!

I can't remember exactly what he said, but Ira actually had a few moments of playful banter with the crowd at the Chicago show.

The first was a jokey acknowledgment that he didn't say "hello" to the crowd until four or five songs in and the other was in response to some overzealous "woo"ing when they announced they were going to play a song not from the new album. He seemed in good spirits all night.

Yeah at the show I saw they did 3-4 songs from the new album and Ira made a low-key joke about "For those keeping score — and I know some of you are — those were all from the new record." Kind of a nod to their obsessive-geek fans, also implicitly acknowledging that he's an obsessive-geek music guy himself. Or that's how I took it.

At the DC show he stopped "Periodically Double or Triple" before doing the 2nd verse and humorously explained he regretted writing that part because it was too brash, and didn't want to contribute to today's thoughtless climate.

8 minutes of Time Fades Away with Mark Freeman of NNB

Holy shit, I haven't seen him on a stage since early 80s. NNB and YLT kindred guitar drone/noise spirits for sure.

oh wow you saw NNB?

Yes, Red House moreso. I'm old.

how was NNB live? I don't know Red House, was that a later project?

Great dance and trance band with clashing guitars, like Television. By the time I saw NNB Cindy was already playing drums, so they were halfway to the Red House lineup. There is/was a live Red House song on youtube but I'm not finding it at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnSNEymcd_8

Oh they were still NNB at the time, here it is! I know we've had this convo on another thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUSTH7qMwb4

"Slack" rules so hard, yeah we've talked abt this on other threadz

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

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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!