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Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs Audio CD

A fair review of the Yo La Tengo "Popular Songs" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Yo La Tengo reviews here, or go back to the Yo La Tengo tabs.

Yo La Tengo Band: Yo La Tengo
Title: Popular Songs
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Release Date: 2009-09-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Here To Fall 2: Avalon Or Someone Very Similar 3: By Two s 4: Nothing To Hide 5: Periodically Double Or Triple 6: If It s True 7: I m On My Way 8: When It s Dark 9: All Your Secrets 10: More Stars Than There Are In Heaven 11: The Fireside 12: And The Glitter Is Gone

Unique and airy
If you want something that facinates and stimulates minor thrills in your soul, this collection is something extraordinary especially for a non-fan- "If it's True" brings it all together. What a ride, such a admixture of unique sound approaches.


sounds forced ;-(
If it doesn't come to you don't record it, that's my opinion!. This is exactly what it sounds like when you are in a room trying to find the tune you are looking for.


One of the better albums I've heard this year
This is a solid album, front to back. Yo La Tengo hits the nail on the head with this one. It hits on many different genres of music, as Yo La Tengo shows their diversity in songwriting. The last three tracks provide the listener with insight into a true jam session, wrapping up the album beautifully. Very well executed album.


THEY GOT A LITTLE BIT OF THE LOVE BACK
You know those songs that are genuine and touching? Like a little bit of real life? Not a story, or a movie about real life, not a stylized fiction of real life, but a real genuine piece of real life. No offense to my favorite band of all time, and I might be in the minority, but they lost the "love" on the previous album and they got most of it back with 'Popular Songs'. That is where GENIUS+LOVE = YO LA TENGO comes from.

Listening to YO LA TENGO is like watching scratchy 20 year old 8mm home movies of the love of your life while she sits with you laughing.

YO LA TENGO is pure awesome.

If you went back to your old Yo La Tengo CD's after a week with "I am not afraid. . . " then this is the album you were waiting for. Consistently better craftsmanship than the last album.



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Another good YLT album
Most of their albums fall into one of two categories: cohesive or eclectic. I've been listening to YLT since 1995.

Their great "cohesive" albums are Painful and Electr-o-pura. Fakebook and May I Sing With Me also deserve high honors. Many would add And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out to this category--for me, it's just medium strength--the first half is great while the second half loses focus. Summer Sun is the somewhat weaker entry in their cohesive collection.

Their great "eclectic" album is undoubtedly I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One while I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your [. . . ] is too scatter shot. Their collection of b-sides and outtakes, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo, gets more love from me than I Am Not Afraid of You. . .

Which leads us to Popular Songs, which is a little from column A, a little from column B. Tracks 2-9 is a nice little cohesive run that any YLT fan would enjoy. The album is book-ended by more experimental tracks--"Here to Fall" features a string arrangement while the final three are variations on drone and noise. "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven" doesn't quite sound like anything they've done before. "The Fireside" fits in the "Green Arrow" and "Night Falls on Hoboken" genre. "And the Glitter is Gone" is familiar waves of Ira's guitar noise.

Popular Songs is probably their best album since And Then Nothing. . . While most of the bands strengths are represented here, the neat division between cohesive and eclectic can make it a lopsided listening experience.


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