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A Bald Head?!?!

There's nothing but trouble and desire. 
-Hal Hartley's Simple Men.

 

 Got the word on the new album from Mr. Matador, Gerald Cosloy:

 It's called "Electro-pura", it will be out on Matador in April. 
 Pre LP 7" / CD5 is "Tom Courteny". 

 Wow, you gotta like that! 

 Elsewhere, ylt songs will be included on the soundtracks
 for Emily Hubley's Enough and Hal Hartley's Amateur
 (thanks Bilner).

 cheers,
 
 tim
 tim@vestek.com



 from Roky <RokyManson@aol.com> 

 Thanks for the discography. I found some things that I need to track down.
 I did notice that one thing missing. Yo La Tengo has a track on a compilation
 entitled "They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway." It is a 
 double CD comp of tracks recorded live at WFMU that the station put 
 together. It was made available for subscribers in a 1993 (maybe early '94)
 fund drive. I don't have a copy, but I'm pretty sure their cut is a 
 re-worked version of "Barnaby Hardly Working." It was never available 
 in stores, but WFMU may have it in a catalog of groovy stuff that they sell. 

 I used to work at KUCI at UC Irvine. In the spring of 1992, I interviewed
 Georgia & Ira with another station staff member. During the interview, they
 called up a guy called the Great Gaylord, who had a 7" out at the time on
 Norton Records, and proceeded to perform a song with him (sorry, I can't
 remeber what tune, must have been an obscure cover or one of his songs) on
 the speakerphone, ala the Speeding Motocycle/WFMU performance. I never got a
 cassette copy of the interview/performance.


 Roky 



 from <bobm@acs.bu.edu> 

 Some questions...

 Hi - 

 I've been subscribing since issue #1, and I love the digest, but this is 
 the first time I've written - hope this is the right address to write to.

 Just got President Yo La Tengo/Neew Wave Hot Dogs (finally), and it's great.
 Can anyone remind me who Gene Holder and John Baumgartner are?  The names
 sound familiar, but I can't remember why.

 [Holder has produced and played on multiple ylt albums-tim] 

 [Just figured out the answer, or at least part of the answer, to one of my
 questions.  John Baumgartner, who plays on President Yo La Tengo, also
 played in Yung Wu, which was the feelies with percussionist Dave Weckerman
 singing (and writing songs) and Baumgartner on keyboards. - bob]

 Also, I just saw the "Human Music" compilation, which I thought was out of
 print.  It's got a YLT song on it, called "Somebody's Baby", I think.  Can
 anyone tell me anything about the song?  Is it worth buying the comp. for?
 Also, does anyone know if the comp. is particularly difficult to find?

 I just got Christmas' vortex, and in the liner notes it lists "James McNew
 (ex-Tubeway Army)".  Assuming that this is the same James, which seems
 reasonable, is it true that he was in Tubeway army?  I'd never heard that, 
 and it seems rather strange...

 Thanks a lot,
	Bob



 from: Josh <jklein@midway.uchicago.edu> 

 I got this from a friend:

 >One bit of Merge info, though, which Spott said was ok to post (lord knows I 
 >don't want to be seen as someone who'll talk to you only to relay everything 
 >you say to the "net" without telling you I get enough of that doing the 
 >talk show) is this:
 >
 >The new Portastatic ep, due in March, has Georgia and Ira from Yo La on a 
 >cover of Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire", and the packaging looked very suave in 
 >a Tortoise/Shellac/cardboard kind of way.

 Cool. Great song. Hope this is news to you,
 
 Josh



 From Marc <desslok@u.washington.edu>

 >  11/5 Seattle - Kicking Giant open the show and are great. Rachel drums
 >  with the skill of a surgeon (although i'm worried her technique could
 >  lead to serious back trouble). In his farewell appearance on our tour
 >  with us, Knox delivers the best of the whole trip. How will we ever
 >  get along without him? We play and it's fun. Knox comes back out for 
 >  our encore ("The Brain That Wouldn't Die," me on organ) with a bottle
 >  of champagne. In a rock'n'roll first, the majority of the champaigne
 >  was poured into the people onstage, rather than spraying it all over.
 >  That stuff's expensive. 

 Hey, I went to that show.  Chris passed the champagne bottle around the 
 audience for everyone to have a drink and I caught a cold after drinking 
 from it.  Damn germs.  Other than that, it was a great show.


 I'm also writing to tell you about this Yo La Tengo 7" I picked up 
 today.  I'm not sure if it's on the discography or not.  If not, then 
 here's the info-

	"Dreams", _Happiness_Is_Dry_Pants_ 7"

 I'm sorry I don't have any more info on it, but it didn't come with a 
 sleeve, and the label doesn't say a whole lot.  It doesn't even say what 
 label it is on.  Anyway, they share the 7" with Big Black, Kilslug, and 
 Moving Targets.  It's a UK import, and the serial number is CI 002B (if 
 that's any help...)


 Marc
 desslok@u.washington.edu



 The Badge Means You Suck 

 James McNew's Tour Diary [part 2 of 2]

 11/8/93 Bozeman, MT - Here comes the snow! Terry [Pearson YLT sound
 engineer] spends hours constructing a PA by himself, out of a ransistor
 radio, stryrofoam cups, paper clips and duct tape. Sounds pretty good, 
 too. He's amazing. There are people in Montana who A) know who we are,
 and B) like us. we play and it's fun, kids frenzied and sweaty as we pull
 out a few chestnuts and burn off tonight's fabulous meal (cooked by 
 tonight's fabulous promoter).  Before the day is out, we all contemplate
 moving to Montana.  In bed in Livingston after the show, watching TV
 and pondering how Cloris Leachman used to be funny and a real knockout
 but now just seems like a crazy old lady.

 11/10/93 Moorehead, MT - Moorehead is the sister city to Fargo, North 
 Dakota, and it's just as cold in either place. We look for a place to 
 eat, so we go into a health food store to ask (there's a good hint for 
 all you travelers out there), and the woman working recommends *Denny's*!
 The club is a storefront and we ser up right there on the floor. The 
 kids all seem sort of intimidated by us, which feels very weird. We
 play and it's fun until the PA blows up four songs into our set. We 
 scramble and play acoustic for a while, and people come up closer and
 warm up to us. eventually, Terry fixes the PA with some chewing gum
 and white-out. I think we met every person in the room and then 
 loaded-out in sub-zero black-ice night. In the van, I wonder if Mark 
 Arm's last name is short for "Armowitz." This keep me up half the night. 

 11/12/93 Milwaukee, WI - Torrential rains, gusting winds, lousy drive,
 splitting headache; soundcheck, call home, eat food, walk across the 
 street to supermarket to try to regain sense of domesticity and sanity,
 but it doesn't work. Back at the club, some pals from Madison showed, so
 we played lots of pinball and pool.  Opening bands #1)"Hey Bulldog": the 
 funkier the better I alkways say, #2) Guy yells at us not to put any of 
 our stuff onstage until he's done moving his. We laugh. Joe kills him
 later. It's Neil Young's birthday, so we open with four of his songs,
 eventually lapse into our material. somewhere in there I got all cheered 
 up, too, how about that.

 11/13 & 14/93 Chicago, Il - the evening begins with the suave sounds of 
 local group The Sea & Cake. Versus follows with a totally great set, even
 better than in minneapolis a few nights back. for some reason, it's always
 better to see fellow NYC bands in the Midwest. Richard [baluyut, of Versus]
 tells us how their van was attacked by buffalo. Rick Rizzo [of Eleventh
 Day Dream] joins us for a song and wipes the place up with us. the next 
 night, Freakwater opens with a heartbreaking, blood-curdling set. We play
 and it's fun, better tonight than last night. and hey, it's Terry's 
 birthday, so he leaves his post behind the soundboard and sings two Gram
 Parsons songs with us. Bottles of champagne were produced, and again
 not a drop was spilled. We brought out a piece of cake with candle on it.
 Terry really killed, too. 
 
 11/20/93 en route to Atlanta, GA - At the Dillard House restaurant (in 
 mountainous Dillard, GA), Joe is mistaken for Kurt Cobain. In Atlanta,
 best BBQ of the tour: Aleck's B-B-Q Heaven. another show at the
 horrible Masquerade, where the atomic-powered disco downstairs pounds 
 up under the stage at such a volume "Nowhere Near" sounded like a 
 Stock/Atkien/Waterman remix. the score so far: Masquerade 2 , YLT 0.
 We vow to rematch.

 11/27/93 New York City - Kustomized applies piledriver to CBGB. Schramms
 never fail to amaze, and Dave's guitar playing makes my eyes cross [Dave
 schramm was in the first lineup of Yo La Tengo--ed]. We play and it's 
 really really fun, friends and family in attendance, and we leave the 
 stage minus seven strings, exhausted and happy. Load out in puring rain, 
 Mannix-like cab ride home. Part one of U.S. tour officially over. We 
 leave for six-week tour of Europe in 36 hours.
 


 Yo La Tengo Discography  Version 1.25 (*additions and changes)
 Updated Jan 12, 1995
 
 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
 
 Albums
 1986          Ride The Tiger
 1987          New Wave Hot Dogs
 1989          President Yo La Tengo
 1990          Fakebook
 1991          That is Yo La Tengo
 1992          May I Sing With Me
 1993          Painful

 EP/CD Singles
 1990          Here Comes My Baby
 1992          Upside-Down
 1993          Shaker
 1994          From A Motel 6

 7"
 1985          The River of Water
 1987          Asparagus Song
 1990          Speeding Motorcycle 
 1991          Walking Away From You 
 1992          Artifical Heart (Duplex Planet Illustrated #1 (flexi)
 199X          Dreams (Chemical Imbalance Magazine Vol. 1) 
 199X         *Dreams (Happiness Is Dry Pants) 
 1993          Shaker
 1993          Big Day Coming
 1994          This is Art

 Sound Tracks
 1991          Matter of Degrees 
 1993          True Fiction Pictures 
 199X         *Enough (Emily Hubley Film)
 199X         *Amateur (Upcoming Hal Hartley Film)

 Compilations
 1986          Luxory Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon 
 1989          Human Music         
 1991          Smell The Luv 
 199X          Slanged
 199X          Love Is Like A Poke In The Eye With A Stick
 1992          Mountain Stage Vol 3
 199X          Ruta 66
 1992          Freedom of Choice
 1992          Delicacy and Nourishment - Ernest Noyes Brookings Vol 3    
 1993         *They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway
 1994         *Howl Magazine (German)

 

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