Beatnik Affectations - Faves
Beatnik Affectations - Faves| Volume 1 , Number 2 | Yo La Digest | Feb 23, 1994 |
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Wait, do you smell that? She left her fragrance here. Surviving Desire A Film By Hal Hartley
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Hi All , I was lucky enough to find a copy of <<Surviving Desire>> at The Naked Eye this week. <<Drug Test>> is used as background music in one bar scene. Ylt fans will enjoy the Ned Rifle (a.k.a. Hal Hartley) score. For that matter, Ylt fan's will enjoy the entire Hartley Film Library. - Another Cd single was released last week. The snowmobiling cover has deja-vu written all over it. Was this taken from my third grade science book? The second track, a cover of jad fair's <<Ashes on the Ground>> is absolutely gorgeous and worth the price of admission. my shop didn't have a vinyl copy, so i was unable to check for different tracks (a la shaker). - Thanks go out to everyone who contributed to this issue. tim tim@vestek.com p.s. circulation 40
from: moebius@netcom.com Like a long stretch of background static that slowly is revealed to be a compelling signal as one's attention is paid to it, the band Yo La Tengo was a present and nearly inescapable part of my collegiate life for several months before i finally settled down to listen to it and take it to heart. When I returned to the University of California at Santa Cruz for my junior year (1989) there i discovered that my close friend Jonathan had become obsessed with a song over the summer, and he played it damn near incessantly on his acoustic guitar. Often I would enter his dorm room to hang out and chat, only to end up sitting quietly on his bed while he sang his song to me from his chair on the other side of the room. The song in question was, of course, "Speeding Motorcycle." unlike many of the things John crooned to me over the years (almost always unbidden) it really caught on with me; the song fit my state of mind in those times very well. after getting that song down cold, Johnathan began playing other songs from the _Fakebook_ album, and before long I developed a vague interest in the record, which was by this strange band that was called "Yo La Tengo," even though none of the members seemed to have Hispanic names. at the time one of Jon's big things was pointing out how one of the members of the backup chorus on "Emulsified" dissented with the others...every time they said "Alright!" one supposedly says "No!" To this day he swears he's right about this, and maybe so, but i remain somewhat unconvinced. anyway, the more i listened, the more i was convinced that _Fakebook_ was a damn good album...i recorded it from Jon, along w/his CD of _President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hot Dogs_, which he'd aquired since we'd returned to school. And that's how it started, in a nutshell...not too exceptional, but if Jon hadn't discovered them through an obscure review somewhere and decided to get the album on a whim somewhere (he bought it used, actually), i'd probably be discovering the group as a result of all the _Painful!_ hype and would probably relate to them in a much different way than I do now. as it stands, my strong attachment to the band is about 60% because of my admiration of their music and technical skills and 40% because of the connection they have to my college days and my strong friendship with Jonathan, who i'm still close to to this day. sadly, i've seen YLT live three times now, and Jonathan hasn't managed to see them once... ah well, such is life... moe.
from: olivier@everest.ee.umn.edu Hi whoever, I thought I might write a coupe of things about the Yo La Tengo / TFC concert we saw yesterday. First, Teenage Fan Club are really bad,so do not expect to go and see an excellent double bill, it's not. Well. At least yesterday, it was not. Or maybe It's just Yo La Tengo played much louder than TFC did...TFC really looked like a bunch of college kid trying to play Big star/Beatles song.Pretty sad. Georgia Seems to have a slightly bad day yesterday, she looked pretty much exhausted and was obviously too nervous ( "nowhere near" was not so great ). Most of the Hour and 15 minutes long set was based on "painful" , except for the opening song ( Barnaby ), one song from "Shaker" , and a nice surprise - as it's my fav yo la tengo - "Drug Test". Nothing from "May I sing with me". "I heard you looking" closed the set, and was Yo La tengo at full speed. James switched to guitar on "From a Motel 6" while Ira was on the new-wave-organ. Ah. Enough of the technical stuff. I am just wondering why YLT even bother to open for Teenage Fan Club, as I think the response from the crowd was probably better for them than it was for TFC...beats me.. I think they deserve better than that. They were much more relaxed when I last saw them on their own...and I think they know they deserve more than that too. No "crispy duck" tho. Sorry. Did not Cry this time.
from: dxweiler@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Here's a set list for the show in Toronto on the 13th (I'm pretty sure I remember everything): Bad Politics (??) Big Day Coming (fast version) From a Motel 6 Drug Test Did I Tell You Nowhere Near Shaker Double Dare Sudden Organ I Heard You Looking "Sudden Organ" was a long rockout, seemed to go on forever at the end with this repetitive guitar riff but I thought it was really cool. "Did I Tell You" was a slow organ version (Georgia on organ). "Bad Politics" (don't recognize the song) had James on lead vox and bass, Georgia on geetar and Ira on drums (!!). Overall a pretty loud and rocking set, "Did I Tell You" and "Nowhere Near" being the only quiet tunes. I thought they kicked (again, altho they didn't quite freak out as much as when I saw them a couple years ago) and the crowd (most of whom, let's face it, were there to see Teenage Fanclub) seemed to really dig them as well, so that was cool. Was talking to Ira after the show and he said they have a new single out on Matador: two versions of "From a Motel 6," an unreleased instrumental, and a Jad Fair cover. Supposedly it's out already. He also has a Toronto hot dog fetish and was asking for directions to a vendor. Anyway, I will keep in touch with more tidbits as I dig them up (I have a bunch of articles on Yo La buried somewhere). Like you, I was converted after picking up Fakebook on a whim and I've been a diehard ever since. Just a couple brief addenda to your discography... On the Freedom of Choice comp (1992) Yo La cover Blondie's "Dreaming." On a 1989 Homestead sampler called Human Music they cover Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby." There was an early early single which featured a cover of Love's "A House is not a Motel" on the B-side; it has just been tacked onto a CitySlaang reissue of Ride the Tiger (four bonus tracks). There are also some comp. appearances which I have never seen but only heard about from Ira: "Artificial Heart" on Delicacy and Nourishment (East Side Digital, 1992) -a song on Ernest Noyes Brookings volume 3 (ESD 1992; one of a series of albums in which bands set music to poems by an old-folk's home resident who was featured in Duplex Planet magazine). -live acoustic version of "Lewis" on Best of Mountain Stage vol. 3 Cheers, Derek Weiler Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Tour Dates The tour continues. Wed Feb 23 Shreveport Thu Feb 24 Dallas # Fri Feb 25 Houston # Sat Feb 26 Liberty Lunch Austin # Sun Feb 27 Tipitina's New Orleans # Mon Feb 28 Memphis # They'll be in Florida and elsewhere on the East Coast in early March. # with Juliana Hatfield
DISCOGRAPHY Yo La Tengo Discography Version 1.1 Updated February 14, 1994 Maintained by: Tim McGinnis tim@vestek.com 1640 Golden Gate #4 SFCA, CA 94115 If you spot mistakes or omissions, please send any available information. Brief Discography 1986 Album Ride The Tiger 1987 7" Asparagus Song 1987 Album New Wave Hot Dogs 1989 Album President Yo La Tengo 1989 Comp Human Music 19XX Comp Luxory Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood 1990 Album Fakebook 1990 7" Speeding Motorcycle 1991 Album That is Yo La Tengo 1991 7" Walking Away From You 1991 Soundtrack Matter of Degrees 1992 Album May I Sing With Me 199X Comp Mountain Stage Vol 3 1992 EP Upside-Down 199X Comp Freedom of Choice 1992 Comp Delicacy and Nourishment 1992 Comp Ernest Noyes Brookings Vol 3 1993 Soundtrack Simple Men (may be called The Music of Hal Hartley) 1993 EP Shaker 1993 7" Shaker (diff version) 1993 Album Painful 1993 7" Big Day Coming 1994 CD Single From A Motel 6 Bootography 6/24/90 WXRK NYC 45 min 8/16/90 Negativ Frankfurt Germany 135 8/26/90 Slim's San Francisco 45 9/10/90 Liberty Lunch Austin 45 10/1/90 Decade Club Pittsburg Pa 55 1/27/91 Mountain Stage West Virginia 6/29/91 Summer Stage NYC 55 7/14/91 Knitting Factory NYC 45 4/18/92 Cattle Club Sacto Ca 90 5/21/92 Democracy Gent, Belgium 90 6/16/92 Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany 90 7/3/92 Warfield Theater San Francisco 45 9/20/93 Slim's San Francisco 50 12/93 Ralph's Moorhead, Mn 67 2/6/94 Trocadero San Francisco Videography 19XX Mouthful of Sweat 1/28/94 Conan O'Brien NYC Full Discography 1985 Ride The Tiger The Cone of Silence Big Sky The Evil That Men Do The Green Forest The Pain of Pain The Way Some People Die The Empty Pool Alrock's Bells Five Years Screaming Dead Balloons Living in the Country Coyote Records 1987 Asparagus Song Asparagus Song For the Turnstiles 1987 New Wave Hot Dogs I Threw It All Away Clunk Did I Tell You House Fall Down Lewis Lost in Bessimer It's Alright (The Way That You Live) 3 Blocks From Groove Street Let's Compromise Serpentine 2 Shy Dog No Water The Story of Jazz Coyote Records 1989 President Yo La Tengo Barnaby, Hardly Working Drug Test The Evil That Men Do (Craig's Version) Orange Song Alyda The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version) Coyote Records 1989 Human Music Somebody's Baby Homestead 19XX Luxory Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Private Doberman 1990 Fakebook Can't Forget Griselda Here Comes My Baby Barnaby, Hardly Working Yellow Sarong You Tore Me Down Emulsified Speeding Motorcycle Tried So Hard The Summer Oklahoma, USA What Comes Next The One To Cry Andalucia Did I Tell You What Can I Say Restless/Bar None 1990 Speeding Motorcycle Speeding Motorcycle w/ Daniel Johnston Do You Really Love Me Singles Only Label 1991 That is Yo La Tengo Out The Window Swing For Life Walking Away From You Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Fog Over Frisco 1991 Walking Away From You Walking Away From You Cast a Shadow Bar None Records 1991 Matter of Degrees Something To Do 1992 May I Sing With Me Detouring America With Horns Upside-Down Mushroom Cloud of Hiss Swing for Life Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Some Kinda Fatigue Always Something 86 Second Blowout Out the Window Sleeping Pill Satallite Alias Records 1992 Upside-Down Upside-Down (The) Farmer's Daughter Out of Control Upside-Down (One More Time) Sunsquashed Alias Records 199X Mountain Stage Vol. 3 Lewis 1992 Freedom of Choice Dreaming 1992 Deliacay and Nourishment Artificial Heart East Side Digital 1993 Shaker Shaker For Shame of Doing Wrong What She Wants Matador 1993 Painful Big Day Coming From a Motel 6 Double Dare Superstar-Watcher Nowhere Near Sudden Organ A Worrying Thing I Was The Fool Beside You For Too Long The Whole of the Law Big Day Coming I Heard You Looking Matador 1993 Big Day Coming Big Day Coming Double Dare Matador 1994 From A Motel 6 From A Motel 6 Ashes on the Ground Nutricia Matador Full Videography 19XX Mouthful of Sweat Teenager in Love Everyday 1994 Conan O'Brien From a Motel 6
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