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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Yo La Tengo |
| Record Label: |
Matador (record label) |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
January 22, 2002 |
| Album Duration: |
49m:00s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Big Day Coming
2. From a Motel 6
3. Double Dare
4. Superstar Watcher
5. Nowhere Near
6. Sudden Organ
7. Worrying Thing, A
8. I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long
9. Whole of the Law
10. Big Day Coming
11. I Heard You Looking |
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Yo La Tengo: Ira Kaplan (guitar); Georgia Hubley (keyboards, bass); James McNew (drums). The musical evolution of Yo La Tengo continued on 1993's PAINFUL. The group's tendency to veer between soft-and-slow and hard-and-fast remains--as demonstrated in the two wildly different versions of "Big Day Coming"--but as whole, the record shows increasingly nuanced songwriting by Kaplan and Hubley and greater variety in their overall sound. The addition of organ provides another sonic dimension, evoking a mood of tender fragility on the love song "Nowhere Near" and adding a caustic urgency to "Sudden Organ." What's also notable here is that Yo La Tengo, who have always acknowledged the influence of both the old and the new, have begun to sound more and more like their influences. "From a Motel 6" with its soft, trance-like vocals and monolithic guitar attack eerily evokes the twisted '90s psychedelia of seminal British shoe-gazers My Bloody Valentine. Throughout, the record brims with rich guitar textures, from t... |
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