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Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating [2 disc] Audio CD

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Yo La Tengo Band: Yo La Tengo
Title: Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating [2 disc]
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Release Date: 2005-03-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shaker 2: Sugarcube 3: Barnaby, Hardly Working 4: Little Eyes 5: Stockholm Syndrome 6: Our way To Fall 7: From A Motel 6 8: Swing For Life 9: Tom Courtenay 10: I Heard You Looking 11: You Can Have It All 12: Did I Tell You 13: River Of Water, The 14: Autumn Sweater 15: Big Day Coming 16: Pablo And Andrea 17: Drug Test 18: Season Of The Shark 19: Upside-Down 20: Summer, The 21: Tears Are In Your Eyes 22: Blue Line Swinger 23: Story Of Jazz, The 24: Nuclear War (version 1) 25: By The Time It Gets Dark

A fantastic overview of the seminal alt-rock band.
Thankfully, they've put out "Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintilating Senescent Songs 1985-2003", perhaps as good an overview as anyone could hope to put together of the band. Yo La Tengo has reached the point in their career where it's hard to figure out where to start with their catalog.

Presenting over two hours of music-- the collection's pretty much got all the aspects of the band's sound-- grumbling, down alt-rockers ("Shaker"), fantastic, noisy pop songs ("Sugarcube", "Tom Courtenay"), bright, modern, edgy pop explorations ("Autumn Sweater"), folk excursions ("Stockholm Syndrome"), gentle ballads ("Little Eyes") and the truly bizarre ("Blue Line Swinger", "Nuclear War"). If you don't know what you'll think about the band, this is the place to start. It's where I started after half a decade of not knowing where.

A quick note-- if you're the type that gets obsessive over bands, you might want to spend the couple bucks and get Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 [3 disc] with a bonus disc of rarities instead. You'll be happy for them later.


Love it!
I especially like the song "little eyes". This album is way better than I ever expected! It's my first Yo La Tengo album, and I highly recommend it for people who are new to them also. The base guitar is so rad!.


For fans, newcomers and above................
Maybe they will not sell a lot, but nowdays, in times when the record industry is going nuts, is better to be faithful to your grounds, than just another pimp sound band. Why there aren't more bands like YLT? After 19 years of given this
rustic garage rock mixed with low tunes and folk, they haven't been tempted to rearrenge their basic sound to the masses. A great collection, inspiring, and basically all what I need to cover my hears with sounds of pure old rock and roll.
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