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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:

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washing machine · **Posted:** Fri September 28, 2018 4:02 pm

A perennial favorite.

washing machine · **Posted:** Fri September 28, 2018 4:52 pm

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?

Quote:

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

From: http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv597-97.php

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i did

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washing machine wrote:

Modest rather than narrow, their joy and sadness are no less sweet or intense for the larger life they know nothing of.

what a great line

washing machine · **Posted:** Fri September 28, 2018 5:38 pm

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washing machine wrote:

Modest rather than narrow, their joy and sadness are no less sweet or intense for the larger life they know nothing of.

what a great line

Yes.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42071

man i love autumn sweater

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri September 28, 2018 11:59 pm

i love Christgau

washing machine · **Posted:** Sat September 29, 2018 1:28 am

tragabigzanda wrote:

i love Christgau

I knew I liked you, trag.

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there's a reverb and whisper drenched riot going on in my living room right now

washing machine · **Posted:** Thu April 18, 2019 2:33 am

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there's a reverb and whisper drenched riot going on in my living room right now

I wonder how many casual esportes fans stand in the shadow of this thread, watching the fire breathe?

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon May 06, 2019 12:13 am

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

washing machine · **Posted:** Tue December 10, 2019 5:14 pm

Been a while since I listened to Tortoise. This isn't a YLT song but it's got Georgia in it, so here ya go. Great music for a rainy Tuesday.

washing machine · **Posted:** Wed December 11, 2019 4:21 pm

Talking to myself about spec bebop.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed December 11, 2019 4:42 pm

Yeah that’s a great song! I didn’t love it when it first came out, but over time it became a highlight of The Catastrophist

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu January 16, 2020 3:42 am

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

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 35939

My favorite is Painful, i think it captures the escence of the band pretty well.

Also, They Shot, We Score...a comp of their scores for different films is fucking awesome...Their work in Old Joy is astonishing.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu January 16, 2020 3:50 am

oh i had no idea they did the score for Old Joy, I should watch that again

verb_to_trust · **Posted:** Thu January 16, 2020 3:55 am

I knew you'd love it trag!

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 35939

tragabigzanda wrote:

oh i had no idea they did the score for Old Joy, I should watch that again

Wonderful movie. And the score is beautiful.

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