Detouring America With Horns - The Yo La Tengo Thread

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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:

Spoiler: show

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A perennial favorite.

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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?

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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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

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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]

man i love autumn sweater

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

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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

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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?

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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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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.

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Talking to myself about spec bebop.

[tragabigzanda]

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[VinylGuy]

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]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[verb_to_trust]

I knew you'd love it trag!

[VinylGuy]

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

Wonderful movie. And the score is beautiful.