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Post subject: Re: Detouring America With Horns - The Yo La Tengo Thread
Posted: Fri September 28, 2018 1:58 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Tue February 12, 2013 5:03 pm Posts: 2402
Today is the first day of sweater season. Upon coming downstairs and entering the kitchen to begin the breakfast ritual, I of course chose as today's soundtrack:
Post subject: Re: Detouring America With Horns - The Yo La Tengo Thread
Posted: Fri September 28, 2018 4:52 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
Very fitting that this thread was bumped for that particular song. I was looking for Christgau's review of a different album when I just happened upon his review of ICHTHBAO in the same issue. thodoks, did you actually write this?
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YO LA TENGO: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador) No one has made more of bohemian easy-listening--cocktail samba, trance-skronk, good old-fashioned slow ones--than our finest cultural miniaturists. They've domesticated garage-alt without taming it, and if the price is 10 minutes of organ drone to prove they're not commercial, which they wouldn't be anyway, what the hell--punch a few buttons and put the dreamy stuff and rockers and raveups and Beatlemaniac oldies on a C-60. Modest rather than narrow, their joy and sadness are no less sweet or intense for the larger life they know nothing of. A
Post subject: Re: Detouring America With Horns - The Yo La Tengo Thread
Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 12:13 am
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
I was listening to Moby Octopad today and it struck me how much I like the following lines:
Eight o'clock The lights are on at Shea Phone turned down We've nothing much to say Dozing off the TV drones House key makes them turn and glance for home
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Post subject: Re: Detouring America With Horns - The Yo La Tengo Thread
Posted: Thu January 16, 2020 3:42 am
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47177 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Listened to Fade today on Verb's recommendation -- awesome album! Thanks verb.
Team could you rank the YLT albums? I've got like 4-5 I know very well but haven't gone beyond those...
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out There's a Riot Going On Summer Sun I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
And then I'm not ranking Fade because I've only hear it once
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