Alienation and Despair - Faves
Alienation and Despair - Faves| Volume 1 , Number 3 | Yo La Digest | Mar 5, 1994 |
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That's how we spend our time. Practicing ways of entertaining you, the audience. ...Ira Kaplan
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ah, readers: here we are in into the 3rd issue already. circulation has passed the half century mark and winter's back has been broken. i'd like to thanks everyone who wrote in to contribute to the bootography, and those who plan on actively extending this list. elsewhere, michael pemberton picked up the yo la tengo gazette at his local record store. it's my hope to write and get permission to reproduce portions of their publication here (and vice versa). finally, i was wondering if anyone knew the source/artist of the vid that played behind the band on the conan appearance? georgia, maybe? certainly not someone on o'brien's staff. as ever, tim tim@vestek.com p.s. greg howard, we're being watched.
from: glenns@panix.com Based on an interview I read with Ira and Georgia, I picked up Tara Key's new release, Bourbon County. The guest musicians on the album read like an indie who's who, and includes Tara's friends, Ira and Georgia. Tara and husband Tim Harris used to be with Babylon Dance Band, and are currently part of Antietam, which they helped form around '85 I think. I enjoyed Bourbon County so much that I scooped up all the Antietam albums I could find. My level of enthusiasm about my "new discovery" is similiar to when I first heard Yo La Tengo. Antietam is pure energy, with Tara @ the helm on guitar. She's gotta be one of the most innovative guitarists around. Georgia and Ira produced what I consider Antietam's best album, Burgoo. Ira also plays an outrageous organ on a couple of cuts. Similarly to Yo La, they're a different band in concert. Better! They'll be playing in the NE and midwest in the spring and summer, and I highly recommend them. glenn Thanks for the tape. Teenager in Love was great, not to mention Andalucia. Barbara Manning was a great surprise. [glenn is looking for people holding yo la tengo bootlegs]
from: teddie_james@csicqm.sps.mot.com >From A Motel 6 single I finally listened to my copy of the From A Motel 6 single. The two b-sides are not bad. But what about the unlisted fourth track? It's a cool, driving, melodic number with Georgia on vocals. I like it a lot better than any of the songs on Painful. Funny how a b-side can be better than the whole album. Actually, I found Painful to be rather boring. Any clues about this song? Also, what's the deal with putting an unlisted track at the end of an album? Why not list it? I guess it's the current fad. In the last few years, I've seen it with Nirvana, No Alternative, the new Bodeans album, and now with this single. It's kind of stupid and pointless to me. [esp. since i couldn't find it]
from: coi0555@dcsc.dla.mil What's the deal with reissuing "Ride The Tiger" on CD in the US? If it's not in the next year or so, do you know of any mail order sources to order the German Import CD? Patrick B. Leek [Pier Platter's in Hoboken is an excellent place to start (201)-795-4785]
from wer@library.att.com > from: moebius@netcom.com > > 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. > > moe Moe wrote in the last YLT Digest that he remains unconvinced that someone is singing "NO" in Emulsified (Fakebook) while everyone else is singing "All Right!". Sorry Moe, but your friend Jon is right. The Pussy Willows' Eleanor Blake was the dissenting voice on that track. Besides the Pussy Wilows, Peter Stampfel sings on that track. I recomend YLT fans to check out anything Stampfel and his Bottlecaps have done. Don't know what the Pussy Willows are up to, but I don't think they are still together. Will
from: economy@mcs.com (Jeff Economy) "Bad Politics" is a song by New Zealand band The Dead C, and was the momentous first release on the legendary Xpressway label. The original is currently available on the compilation CD MAKING LOSERS HAPPY (Drag City) which collects all the Xway 45s in one neat package. Highly recommended! -Jeff
From: LePageL/MF@hermes.bc.edu (LePageL) [lifted from indie list Volume 3, Number 15] Yo La Tengo:_From a Motel 6_ (Matador) For YLT fans who must have it all, this cd4 is plenty worthwhile. Along with the single from _Painful_, you get two new tunes and an unreleased demo version of "Motel 6." "Ashes on the Ground" is a cover, and I'm guessing from the writing credit to Fair/Jickling that Jad Fair had something to do with it. It's one of those slow pretty ballads that Ira and Georgia croon so well. [Ira gives credit to Ned Fair/Jad Fair/Mr. Daniel Johnston] The instrumental "Nutricia" is a slow building anthem with a spiraling melody that hooks painlessly but irrevocably. Finally, after 59 seconds (or so)of silence, the demo version of "Motel 6" kicks in, a dreamier, weirder version with more overtly strange guitar and a gentler vocal. Finally, if you buy this disk, you'll be able to puzzle for yourself whether that really is the band snowmobiling through the wilderness in the cover photo. --Lise LePage in Boston
from: EMARTZ@A1.PSUPEN.PSU.EDU (Eston Martz) Tim-- Please add me to the Yo La Tengo list, which I just saw posted on rec.music.info. My band opened for them here in State College, PA under a short weekend jaunt in support of _Fakebook_, and they were great musicians and (surprise!) great people, too. Great band. Well, thanks for your help and for running the list. Yours, Eston Martz
Tour Dates ========== The tour rages on but exactly where? Last official word was that they'll be in florida in early march and a few dates up the east coast on the way home.
DISCOGRAPHY Yo La Tengo Discography Version 1.15 Updated March 1, 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 7" River of Water 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 3/3/89 WRSU (int/perf) New Brunswick NJ 20 min 6/24/90 WXRK NYC 45 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 4/26/91 WPRB (int/perf) Princeton NJ 20 6/29/91 Summer Stage NYC 55 7/14/91 Knitting Factory NYC 45 2/18/92 WFMU (dj/perf) East Orange NJ 270 4/10/92 K-ROCK (int/perf) NYC 65 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 X/XX/93 Richmond Va 9/20/93 Slim's San Francisco 50 11/10/93 Ralph's Moorhead, Mn 67 2/6/94 Trocadero San Francisco 2/19/94 Cat's Cradle Chapel Hill 95 2/26/94 Liberty Lunch Austin Videography 19XX Mouthful of Sweat 1/28/94 Conan O'Brien NYC Detailed Discography (* additions and changes only) 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 *[4 Bonus Tracks on Rerelease, as yet unknown] Coyote Records 19XX *River of Water River of Water A House is Not a Motel 1994 From A Motel 6 From A Motel 6 Ashes on the Ground Nutricia *From A Motel 6 (Melodic Version, Unlisted Track) Matador
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