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The most consistently accessible of Yo La Tengo's releases, FAKEBOOK is a decidedly user-friendly set of mostly cover songs, but since the songs are well off the beaten track, they will likely be unfamiliar to people without voluminous record ... Full Descriptioncollections. While the band is all about extremes--alternating between gentle strumming and folksy harmonies to all-out squalling feedback jams--FAKEBOOK showcases their quiet side. It is a soothing, pretty record, yet with a loose, pleasing raggedness that is one of the band's strong suits.
Guitarist Ira Kaplan was a rock critic before forming Yo La, and he clearly has an encyclopedic knowledge of rock music. The group has its way with such marvelous obscurities as the semi-legendary Flamin' Groovies' "You Tore Me Down," a not-well-known Kinks song ("Oklahoma"), John Cale's tender "Andalucia" (cleverly rhyming "cia" with "see ya") and other even less-well known ditties. Among the many highlights is their lilting take on the early-Cat Stevens chestnut "Here Comes My Baby," repopularized in 1999 on the soundtrack to the movie "Rushmore," and the haunting "Yellow Sarong." They even cover themselves on gentle remakes of "Barnaby Hardly Working" and "Did I Tell You?" and serve up another stirring original, "The Summer."
Recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Yo La Tengo: Ira Kaplan (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Georgia Hubley (vocals, guitar, organ, drums); Dave Schramm (electric & steel guitars, organ); Al Greller (acoustic bass).
Additional personnel: Peter Stampfel (vocals, fiddle); The Pussywillows (vocals); Gene Holder (bass).
Spin (11/90) - "...documents the pleasures of staying at home, pulling out that trusty acoustic guitar, and singing pretty....Very lovely..."
Melody Maker (5/16/00, p.46) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...FAKEBOOK is Lou Reed fronting Belle And Sebastian. Quietly lovely." Hide Description Fakebook Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $2.73) | | Category | Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | Bar None | | Orig Year | 1990 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16674  | | CD Universe Part number | 1179722 | | Catalog number | 20 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 13, 1994 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Gene Holder | | Engineer | John Siket | | Recording Time | 44 minutes | | Personnel | Georgia Hubley - vocals, guitar, organ, drums
Ira Kaplan - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
Dave Schramm - electric & steel guitars, organ
Al Greller - acoustic bass
Also: Peter Stampfel, Gene Holder, Pussywillows |
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With this 1992 release, Yo La Tengo took a bit of a leap forward. Production-wise, the sound is fuller and more reflective of the passion and fury of their intense live performances than ever before. Additionally, the core group solidified with the addition of bassist James McNew, who has remained with the group ever since. Despite these changes, the group still tends to operate in about three gears: the gentle, the harsh and the hypnotic.
The record begins with drummer Hubley's "Detouring America With Horns"--featuring lovely guitar strumming and campfire harmonies--and ends with the similarly low-key "Satellite," a haunting number that showcases Hubley's ...
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What's also notable here is that Yo La Tengo, who have always acknowledged the influence of both the old and the new, have begun to sound more and more like their influences. "From a Motel 6" with its soft, trance-like vocals and monolithic guitar attack eerily evokes the twisted '90s psychedelia of seminal British shoe-gazers My Bloody Valentine. Throughout, the record brims with rich guitar textures, from the shimmery instrumental "Superstar Watcher" and the burnished ripple of "A Worrying Thing" to the metallic whomp of version 2 of "Big ...
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Listeners may look back on ELECTR-0-PURA someday and say that this 1995 release ushered in the golden age of Yo La Tengo. Countless bands of the mid-'80s didn't last a decade, but these guys just kept getting better in terms of singing, writing, playing, and production. Gorgeous electric guitar permeates this record, especially on the shimmering, smoky opener, "Decora," and the seductive love song "Pablo & Andrea," which is pure guitar heaven, featuring lambent strumming, some nifty slide work, and a full-on ...
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This disc contains both the NEW WAVE HOT DOGS and PRESIDENT YO LA TENGO albums as well as the ASPARAGUS SONG single.
Yo La Tengo truly hit their stride on their third album, 1989's PRESIDENT YO LA TENGO. Though a mere seven tracks, the album is relentlessly eclectic, and bursting ...
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Yo La Tengo began life as one among hundreds of Velvet Underground-inspired bands, banging out dark, skittish tunes that displayed YLT guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan's affection for Uncle Lou as well as Yo La Tengo's commitment to creating a gently subversive groove. Over the years, the band, which also features Kaplan's wife Georgia Hubley on drums and vocals, has gone through more identity changes than David Bowie, from acoustic folk-rock to wailing, Sonic Youth-like guitarchitecture.
On this album, the band consolidates their sound as they expand it, incorporating bossa nova, electronica ...
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering rendition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine."
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This is the CD companion to the PBS documentary GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT: THE LEGACY OF SUN RECORDS.
Based on the PBS documentary "Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records," this compendium features mostly baby boomer acts paying tribute to the legendary Memphis recording studio widely credited as being the cradle of rock & roll. Appropriately produced by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, this stellar collection is rife with '60s and '70s rockers, kicking off with Paul McCartney ripping into Arthur Crudup's pioneering "That's All Right" with help from former Elvis sidemen Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana. Jeff Beck ratchets up the reverb as Chrissie Hynde belts out "Mystery Train," Bryan Ferry croons his way through "Don't Be Cruel," and Bob Dylan delivers a light-swinging interpretation of the nugget "Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache."
Other notable veteran performances include Elton John's pounding cover of The Killer's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant kicking back for a loose-limbed reading of "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It." The younger set also impresses, whether it's Kid Rock (!) and The Howling Diablos juicing up "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" or the hidden Mandy Barnett track that finds her collaborating with the Jordanaires and making like Patsy Cline on Charlie Rich's classic "You Win Again".
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