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Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 [3 disc] Audio CD

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Title: Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 [3 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 26: Stay Away From Heaven 27: Pencil Test - (previously unreleased) 28: Almost True - (previously unreleased) 29: Tom Courtenay - (acoustic) 30: Big Day Coming - (previously unreleased, demo) 31: Dreaming 32: Bad Politics 33: Blue-Green Arrow 34: Decora - (previously unreleased, acoustic) 35: Out The Window - (original version) 36: Weather Shy 37: Dreams 38: Autumn Sweater - (Kevin Shields remix) 39: Ashes On The Ground 40: Mr. Ameche Plays The Stranger 41: Magnet

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.

This reissue adds a disc's worth of rarities-- 16 total tracks, mostly b-sides with five that were completely previously unreleased. Paired with Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo, you get pretty much the complete Yo La Tengo rarities, a nice feature for collectors. The material is of mixed value to a more casual fan, but does Yo La Tengo have many of those?

Bottom line, this is a fantastic set, well worth the investment. Highly recommended.

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One song is worth the price . . .
Ameche Plays the Stranger", is alone enough reason to shell out for this 3 disc set. I agree with all the people that contend that the third disc of rarities is worth the price of the whole collection - but I'll go even further and say that the song "Mr. I might also suggest playing it back to back with Sonic Youth's "Hits of Sunshine" for twenty minutes of sonic bliss. .


A great collection!!
I was very impressed to witness the many transitions this band has made over the years, yet they continue to kick a$$. A great collection of some their best tracks.


Could be better.
I am a fan of YLT's faster, more repetative, darker, more chaotic tracks. This is really 3 1/2 stars. "I heard you looking" and "Sugarcube" made it. . . but where is Alyda, Double Dare, Decora (studio version), and Flying Lesson ??? !!! On a 2 disc set I would expect at least a couple of these. I realize this review is biased. Fans that appreciate Yo La Tengo accross the board will of course put this at 4 or 5.


cool, weird stuff
If not, but are into different music and would like to discover what this band's all about, get it. If you like YLT, get it. If you like pop-py kinda stuff, don't. This would gracefully fall under the esoteric branding, for those of you determined to label everything out there. I love it. .


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