Yo La Tengo

Do they have anything that feels similar to Everyday?🙂

Arthur Barnes said:Do they have anything that feels similar to Everyday? 🙂

Hmm... honestly, there are quite a few out there. 😁

boldscout72 said:Hmm. There are tons of them. 😁

I mean more like that slow, deep, repetitive kind of vibe... really hypnotic, with those "muted" vocals... 🙂

Just baciti a few suggestions if you have any 😉

Green Arrow, Night Falls on Hoboken, Big Day Coming, Superstar-Watcher, Nowhere Near, don't have to be sol sad i cijel Sounds of The Sounds of science. There—that should get us started...

Just like boldscout72 mentioned, there's a Big Day Coming ahead, and honestly, the first track from Painful is super similar and just as awesome—plus, two more of those ones above are actually from that same album. You really ought to dig into their older records; you know, i Can hear The Heart beating as One reći.

And I'm pretty sure my post was the very first one on this thread, which is wild when you think about how much stuff people can dig up from the depths of these old forum archives... 😁

Sean Wilson53 said:Give the older records a spin—take I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, for instance.

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is an "old" album? ...Good grief, that came out eight years ago... I’m starting to feel my age. 😢

Hmm, I guess they feel old to me because I didn't actually catch them until the *And the Nothing* era... Just realized now that one came out three years after the one we were talking about...

I don't know, maybe that's a pretty dumb thing to say, but I did a little digging and saw they actually have seven more albums before that, stretching all the way back to '86...

Man, I've officially lost my indie cred. Total crap. 😢

Not sure, maybe a stupid thing to say, but I looked it up and they actually have seven more albums before everything changed in '86

I lost my indie cred, what a joke

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Look, just relax...😉 the early Yo La Tengo stuff is just some wannabe Lou Reed garbage. It doesn't deserve much attention; they were just another "indie" outfit from the late 80s until🙏 🙏 🙏
It’s a massive shame I never saw them live
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Quote: There is Office Music, there is elevator music and then there is Yo La Tengo.

Like someone already pointed out somewhere else...
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In my own Parallel Musical Cosmos, Yo La Tengo is one of the biggest, best, and most vital bands ever made
Too much effort to write out my "Personal Top 7 reasons why YLT rules"

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Just checking in to see if anyone’s actually awake in this thread.
The title says it all, pretty much 😉
I figured I'd drop one of their more "appropriate" tracks here...

Autumn Sweater

Resurrecting this dead thread

No real reason for doing this—other than just needing to state for the record that this is easily one of the most layered bands out there. Honestly, how many groups can actually compete with the sheer depth of their instrumentation? Not many, I'll tell you that much.

And because of that, they’re obviously way more underrated than they have any right to be.

Kudos for bringing this thread back to life.👍
Ever since The Velvet Underground, they've been my absolute favorite NY band; I still remember those two incredible shows they played in the NYC area...

They’ve got that whole The Velvet Underground aesthetic going on—it’s such a killer connection, honestly.

What I love most about them is how they fuse that raw, gritty noise with these dreamy, psychedelic layers... it’s exactly what The Velvets used to pull off.

Beyond just the music itself, there’s something about their vocal delivery that really reminds me of Nica. I honestly don't think that's just some coincidence...

rustypanther13 said:Props for bringing this up👍
after The Velvet Underground, they're my absolute favorite NY band—saw them play two killer shows in Chicago

I almost made it to that second show, but I was dealing with some legal headache over unpaid dues for a political group—but honestly, seeing as they didn't even touch Season of the Shark, I can't say I'm too bummed about missing out.

I was spinning through I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) yesterday... really solid stuff.

Mark Cruz15 said:I was spinning I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One (1997) yesterday. Solid stuff.

Everything from Painful to Fade is basically top-tier—it's rare, maybe even unique, to find a band from the late 60s or early 70s that didn't mess around for five+ albums straight. Maybe R.E.M. or The Attractions could compete with that.