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Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Audio CD

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Yo La Tengo Band: Yo La Tengo
Title: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
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Release Date: 1997-04-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Return to Hot Chicken 2: Moby Octopad 3: Sugarcube 4: Damage 5: Deeper into Movies 6: Shadows 7: Stockholm Syndrome 8: Autumn Sweater 9: Little Honda 10: Green Arrow 11: One PM Again 12: Lie and How We Told It 13: Center of Gravity 14: Spec Bebop 15: We're an American Band 16: My Little Corner of the World

Amazing, moving piece of indie pop
Over the years I've come back to it, revisiting the subtleties of the songs and memories they conjure and it always delivers and feels authentic, fresh. I bought this album in 1997 and it became an instant favorite. This brilliant band has put out a great deal of grade A work but they've never been able to capture it over the course of a full album as well as they do on I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. The songwriting is top notch, the production is right, and the pace of record (68 minutes- I typically can't deal with an album being this long- over 50 minutes is too much) is very balanced.

This is my favorite record of theirs and also probably one of my favorites of the 90s period. If you like this and want to hear more, I suggest checking out Painful and And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. Both excellent as well.


The record where it all comes together.
com, I did it because I was tired of seeing hyperbolic praise doled out for albums by everyone's favorite bands-- no one's catalog is perfect, and all of my favorites have some duds in them. When I first started writing reviews on Amazon. Heck, many of my favorite albums have duds on them. My desire to present balanced viewpoints leads me to a tendency to be fairly critical, even of albums I give positive reviews for. But every so often, there's a record like Yo La Tengo's "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One" which is, quite frankly, pretty much flawless.

On this record, Yo La Tengo manages to seamlessly integrate the entirity of their sound, be it riff based rockers (Beach Boys cover "Little Honda", featuring perhaps the most laid-back and confident vocal ever delivered by guitarist Ira Kaplan, "Deeper into Movies"), gentle, ambientish pop songs ("Autumn Sweater"), folk cuts (the superb "Stockholm Syndome", featuing bassist James McNew's finest vocal in the band's catalog), gentle instrumental interludes ("Green Arrow", with a stunning, cleantone electric guitar lead that could knock you over) and utterly fantastic noisy pop songs in the tradition of "Tom Courtenay" (the utterly fantastic "Sugarcube"). And it's filled throughout with the stuff that makes Yo La Tengo great-- noisy, feedback driven guitars, great pop hooks and consistent surprises.

For anyone interested in Yo La Tengo, "I Can Hear the Herat Beating as One" is absolutely essential listening. Highly recommended.


4.5 Stars- A highlight of American indie pop
"Moby Octopad" happens to be my favorite. There are a lot of nearly flawless songs on I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Its truncated Velvet Underground bassline and drifting vocals spark with subconscious tension, and the drumming is cool and sensuous and hypnotic. The song rings with the sort of droning nocturne ambiance that always pushes all of my favorite buttons. Other people prefer "Sugarcube," and that's also fine. It's a marvelous pop song curried under an avalanche of dissonant feedback. Very much like Sonic Youth, especially when the discordant but somehow right guitar solo comes ripping out of the mix. "Little Honda" is the single, and it's also excellent. The indie-pop point of reference here is the Jesus And Mary Chain, what with its Beach-Boys-melody-meets-droning-guitars formula. "Autumn Sweater" and "Green Arrow" are beautiful, and "Stockholm Syndrome" is unimpeachable pop.

Okay, so maybe there's a bit of a drop in quality towards the end. Nothing terrible, but I really don't need "One PM Again" or "Center Of Gravity. " And maybe there are a couple of underwhelming tracks in the middle, too. Again, nothing awful, but. . . well, let's just say that this album really doesn't need to be over an hour long. Pared down to forty minutes of its best material, it would have been godlike.


Yo La Tengo's masterpiece.
They have released a few albums since then, various singles and EPs too BUT 'I can Hear. YLT's 'I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One' was released 11 years ago. . . ' stands as their most eclectic yet tightest and most focused album of their 20-plus year existence. From Moby Octopad's bass led groove and dreamy vocals to the minimal cinematic atmospherics of the instrumental Green Arrow and the lengthy psych freak-out of Spec BeBop and all the pop tunes in between, however rocking or quiet, abrasive or smooth, YLT provided us with a gem they've yet to beat with their post-2000 output. Highly recommended. .


What a Band!!!
I got this amazing cd from emule but I like it so much that I decided to buy the album. This is a typical case that demonstrates that mp3's sharing is not against the music industry. Yo La Tengo is amazing and this is the CD that you should buy if you want to discover the amazing world of this New Jersey band.


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