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What's your favourite Yo La Tengo song?

DarwinDude [Edit] [Delete] 77 replies 18:06 April 29th, 2012

Right now mine is Deeper Into Movies.

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Autumn Sweater

fuckyeahdubstep | 29 Apr '12, 18:20 | X | ^ This | Reply

man_possessed and JaguarPirate this'd this
- oh god, turns out this is the mainstreamers' pick
  
  only one i know sorry
  
  fuckyeahdubstep @fuckyeahdubstep | 29 Apr '12, 18:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - :O
    
    you need to listen to yo la tengo
    
    DarwinDude @fuckyeahdubstep | 29 Apr '12, 18:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    guntrip, automatik, and oldshitnewshit this'd this
  - it is their best one to know
    
    ThingsThatFly @fuckyeahdubstep | 29 Apr '12, 19:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
My Heart's Reflection

Fairly minimalist but great bass and stabs of guitar in the coda. Gorgeous.

funkycow | 29 Apr '12, 18:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Wonderful song
  
  My Heart's Reflection -> Attack on Love -> Blue Line Swinger is one of my favourite stretches of music
  
  against_the_80s @funkycow | 29 Apr '12, 22:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - That's a whole new question
    
    which run of three YLT tracks is your favourite...?
    
    funkycow @against_the_80s | 30 Apr '12, 11:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I'm On My Way -> When It's Dark -> All Your Secrets
      
      OR
      
      I Feel Like Going Home -> Mr Tough -> Black Flowers
      
      OR
      
      Sugarcube -> Damage -> Deeper Into Movies
      
      automatik @funkycow | 19 Jun '12, 02:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
Tony Orlando

wecancreate | 29 Apr '12, 18:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Nothing To Hide

or maybe And The Glitter Is Gone

Icarus-Smicarus | 29 Apr '12, 18:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Damage or Tom Courtenay.

BMS1 | 29 Apr '12, 18:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Drugs Test

shrinebabe | 29 Apr '12, 18:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
Our Little Corner of the World

<3 Gilmore Girls

hip_young_gunslinger | 29 Apr '12, 18:46 | X | ^ This | Reply

man_possessed this'd this
Everyday

lemonbrickcombo | 29 Apr '12, 18:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Dunno. It might be one of

Moby Octopad
Pass the Hatchet...
Season of the Shark
Our Way To Fall
The Whole Of The Law
Black Flowers
Sugarcube
Stockholm Syndrome
Last Days of Disco
I Heard You Looking

or, then again, it might not. In all honesty, it's probably whatever Yo La Tengo song I happen to be listening to.

-dan- | 29 Apr '12, 18:47 | X | ^ This | Reply

Le-Roy this'd this
- Or it could be pretty much any of the ones other people have mentioned so far
  
  Except Autumn Sweater. That's straight-up mainstreamer fodder.
  
  -dan- @-dan- | 29 Apr '12, 18:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
At the moment Pablo and Andrea

need to listen to more, only really know the songs on Prisoners of Love.

j0hn | 29 Apr '12, 18:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Our Way To Fall

.

KillingMoon | 29 Apr '12, 18:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

man_possessed, ChintzyLacroix, TheBeautifulOnes_, and mug_mug_mug this'd this
- there's a mint live version on the first or maybe second ATP comp
  
  It's mint.
  
  mug_mug_mug @KillingMoon | 30 Apr '12, 18:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
good choices

DarwinDude @poosie | 29 Apr '12, 19:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
Our Way to Fall

also like Black Flowers

Wasted_Opportunity | 29 Apr '12, 18:59 | X | ^ This | Reply

this'd this
Crying Lot Of G

thekidswhopoptoday | 29 Apr '12, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

berksy this'd this
Let's Save Tony Orlando's House

or Tom Courtenay
or Sugarcube
or Our Way to Fall
or Deeper into Movies

Sibley | 29 Apr '12, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
Nowhere Near

jack_on_fire | 29 Apr '12, 19:29 | X | ^ This | Reply

underwhelmed this'd this
- Yeah
  
  a lot of the songs mentioned are great, but Nowhere Near is my favorite.
  
  underwhelmed @jack_on_fire | 30 Apr '12, 10:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind

Great title as well.

charliepanayi | 29 Apr '12, 19:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
Julie Christie

or Autumn Sweater

bornin69 | 29 Apr '12, 19:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
Season Of The Shark

Shoebox1976uk | 29 Apr '12, 19:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
or Black Flowers

or Cherry Chapstick
or The Story Of

Shoebox1976uk | 29 Apr '12, 19:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
I SPENT SO MUCH TIME DREAMING ABOUT ELEANOR BRON

IN MY ROOM WITH THE CURTAINS DRAWN
<33333333

guntrip | 29 Apr '12, 19:48 | X | ^ This | Reply

Sibley, anal_schwarzenegger, DarwinDude, Zapsta, and JaguarPirate this'd this
Damage

I don't know much more than one YLT album, but even if I knew them all intimately, I imagine it'd be Damage

DanielKelly | 29 Apr '12, 20:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
nobody will ever write a better song than Tom Courtenay

except maybe Sugarcube

also a big fan of:
The Story of Yo La Tango
Autumn Sweater
Blue Line Swinger
Black Flowers
Drug Test
Barnaby, Hardly Working
Here to Fall

fuck I love Yo La Tengo and I'm gonna listen to them right now

anal_schwarzenegger | 29 Apr '12, 20:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

oldshitnewshit this'd this
I Heard You Looking

is what I'd say right now, though there's a whole bunch just behind it.

Eugene_14 | 29 Apr '12, 20:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Little Eyes

Severed799 | 29 Apr '12, 21:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

brusma this'd this
- with Moby Octopad a close second
  
  brusma @Severed799 | 30 Apr '12, 11:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
impossible to choose one

totally agree with last days of disco, our way to fall and tony orlando.

would add let's be still, by the time it gets dark and styles of the times.

god, what a wonderful band they are.

aeth | 29 Apr '12, 21:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
it's actually Sugarcube

Severed799 | 29 Apr '12, 21:24 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate, proleartthreat, LordLuciusBanter, and SurfsUp this'd this
All of the rock ones

None of the not-rock ones.

Zapsta | 29 Apr '12, 21:25 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
tony orlando

Cherry chapstick
Stockholm syndrome
Sometimes I don't get you
Gentle hours (off dark was the night)

rich-t | 29 Apr '12, 21:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
- big ^this for Gentle Hours
  
  JaguarPirate @rich-t | 29 Apr '12, 23:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  automatik this'd this
  - Gentle Hour
    
    no s!
    Somehow this slipped my mind, this is actually my favourite. I'm lame so this was the first YLT I actually heard properly an I could not stop playing it. Dark Was the Night came out like a week after I'd experienced a rejection that hit me so hard I could barely function, when I went out to buy it it was the first time I'd left my flat in days and then listening to it most just passed me by, I couldn't really latch on to any of it (other than that awesome Yeasayer track), and then Gentle Hour came on and it grabbed me instantly and completely tore me up and made me cry and all I could do was listen to it again and again... all the longing and benign and tender sweetness... still floors me...
    
    Eugene_14 @JaguarPirate | 30 Apr '12, 20:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
most of my favourites

have been mentioned but the song they did for the red hot compilation a few years back was great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6TzdUDwsf0

man_possessed | 29 Apr '12, 22:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pablo and Andrea

some of Georgia's best singing and Ira's best guitar ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxq3GD93GS0

against_the_80s | 29 Apr '12, 22:15 | X | ^ This | Reply

oldshitnewshit this'd this
I Heard You Looking

pichaelmarker | 29 Apr '12, 22:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
Green Arrow

Severed799 | 29 Apr '12, 23:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
possibly Decora

the bit where the guitar busts out those massive bends for the chorus ... it's up there with Pueblo and Grounded

JaguarPirate | 29 Apr '12, 23:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
- that said I only listened to it for the first time today
  
  so for ones I've liked for a decent period of time it's probably ...
  
  Black Flowers
  Gentle Hours
  Autumn Sweater (sweet bass breakdowns never fail)
  Deeper Into Movies
  
  JaguarPirate @JaguarPirate | 29 Apr '12, 23:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
weaTher shy

.. we're an american band
.. the story of yo la tango

one of those maybe.

barnaby, hardly working as well (THe electric version)

no-class | 30 Apr '12, 09:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
Big Day Coming

(fast version)

obviously

aboynamedgoo | 30 Apr '12, 10:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
I Heard You Looking

We're An American Band
Double Dare

Also, <3 their Little Honda cover.

deadwrong | 30 Apr '12, 10:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
If It's True

also their cover of My Little Corner of the World.

orangejuice | 30 Apr '12, 10:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Paul Is Dead

has always given me goosebumps

blisters | 30 Apr '12, 11:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oh god, probably my favourite band. So hard to choose.

1. All Your Secrets
2. We're An American Band
3. Tom Courtenay
4. Mr Tough
5. Saturday

Current top five. Maybe.

automatik | 30 Apr '12, 11:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
no from a motel 6?

Whuh?!?

shrinebabe | 30 Apr '12, 13:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

DarwinDude and oceanRain this'd this
Green Arrow

yuggy | 30 Apr '12, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- blissful to listen to while out walking in the evening.
  
  yuggy @yuggy | 30 Apr '12, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4338859#r6727355
    
    Severed799 @yuggy | 30 Apr '12, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
i want to this almost every post in this thread

apart from whichever mental said Mr Tough.

Probably Damage and Deeper Into Movies for me, though.

OceanStorm | 30 Apr '12, 16:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Mr Tough is amazing you joyless human
  
  automatik @OceanStorm | 30 Apr '12, 18:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
Nuclear War Version 2 is the best cover they did

with the kids going YEAHHHHH and the ace drums.

mug_mug_mug | 30 Apr '12, 18:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
people who said We're An American Band are my kind of people

but Sudden Organ just pips it for me.

joeymahone | 30 Apr '12, 20:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- The guitar solo in 'We're An American Band' is just about the pinnacle of recorded rock music for me.
  
  Used to listen to that album every week on my Transpeak bus journey from Manchester to Matlock, gazing out of the window, watching the countryside turn from late afternoon to dusk to evening to night. Yo La Tengo are the ultimate band for evening/nighttime travel I think. It must have got to about 20 full listens of ...And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out before I ever heard the last track properly, because I always fell asleep to that one.
  
  automatik @joeymahone | 1 May '12, 12:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - *The guitar solo in 'We're An American Band' is just about the pinnacle of recorded rock music for me.*
    
    Same here. Hold me, brother.
    
    joeymahone @automatik | 1 May '12, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    no-class this'd this
  - shit man.
    
    i remember coming back from Primavera one year, on my lonesome on a deserted cross-country bus at 4 in the morning, listening to And Nothing Turned... (which was still kind of new to me) and the album suddenly just clicking magically. one of those perfect combinations of mood, time, music etc. great memory, remains a really meaningful album for me
    
    no-class @automatik | 1 May '12, 16:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - It is a true driver's album that one.
      
      funkycow @no-class | 2 May '12, 12:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just like to add I'm currently listening to The Sounds of the Sounds of Science for the first time

And really enjoying it. It should be boring (should it? maybe I shouldn't say such things) but it manages to be quite soothing background music and simultaneously really interesting. Check it out on Spotify if you haven't already.

automatik | 1 May '12, 13:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
- It's not boring at all and has some quality tunes (I think the Octopus one is especially good)
  
  I think I may listen to it next. Thanks for the reminder!
  
  funkycow @automatik | 2 May '12, 12:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
the whole of the law (probably)

cant really choose though.

prof-kitsch | 1 May '12, 13:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
Too many to choose from

as everyone has said. But from the top of my head: Tom Courtenay (just makes you glad to be alive, doesn't it?) Avalon, Sugarcube, Pablo & Andrea, Cherry Chapstick, Our Way to Fall and (the wildcard) Night Falls on Hoboken

oldshitnewshit | 1 May '12, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Night falls on Hoboken
  
  has just the best groove to it, awesome.
  
  funkycow @oldshitnewshit | 2 May '12, 12:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  oldshitnewshit this'd this
Barnaby, Hardly Working

oft overlooked...fantastic

watsona7 | 1 May '12, 17:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
the condo fucks lp

or the wfmu fundraiser lp

theintl | 2 May '12, 11:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
Upside Down

or We're an American band or Blue Line Swinger.

Of course there are far too many great ones to chose just one.

fellover | 2 May '12, 12:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Crabheart Reticence

Or basically anything from "Animals that fuck themselves with their Own Tail"

The post-ATFTWTOT stuff's been consistently disappointing for me.

ehwhat | 2 May '12, 13:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Um,
  
  Their post ATFTWTOT stuff is their best. Amateur.
  
  fartsandwich @ehwhat | 19 Jun '12, 01:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just one? Pffft! 8====D

All of Fakebook especially Speeding Motorcycle, Emulsified (fuck yea!), and The One to Cry (cry cry cry cry)

Pablo and Andrea

We're An American Band

Moby Octopad

Their cover of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" from one of their wfmu sessions. Really funny! It's on youtube.

Gentle Hour

Night Falls on Hoboken

Big Day Coming (slow as fuck version)

Point and Shoot

Let's Save Tony Orlando's House

Tom Courtenay - (acoustic as fuck version)

Here to Fall

The Cone of Silence

The Love Life of the Octopus

Today is the Day (live as fuck version from the John Mcenroe show.). Ira rocks the jew-fro off his head with that solo.

My favorite songs that i've seen them play live are Nowhere Near and the Story of Yo La Tango.

fartsandwich | 19 Jun '12, 01:17 | X | ^ This | Reply

fartsandwich this'd this

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