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Fakebook

Yo La Tengo

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Album Review

Recommending Fakebook as the best place to begin a relationship with Yo La Tengo is slightly disingenuous, mainly because Yo La Tengo has never made another record like it, and perhaps never will. So, as completely wonderful as this record is, it's an accurate representation of one side of Yo La Tengo, and assuming that everything sounds like Fakebook might be disappointing. A collection of cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (e.g., Peter Stampfel, Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair), Fakebook is warm, low-key, and lovely, with heartfelt singing and playing that never flags after hundreds of replays. It's impossible to imagine playing this record and not smiling and singing along. A big bonus is a great version of the Flamin' Groovies' "You Tore Me Down."

Customer Reviews

OVERLOOKED

My favorite YLT record. Laidback and breezy - perfect for a hot summer night. "What Comes Next", "Did I Tell You", "The Summer", "Can't Forget" are all outstanding tracks. The best song though, and worth the full price of the album (and then some) is "Barnaby, Hardly Working." …DO IT.

Best Summer Album Ever

If you don't like this then your not human. Go away space people, back to your own planet!!

Come on People!

I really can't believe the popularity of this album is so low on iTunes. This record is great, "Here Comes My Baby," "Barnaby," "The Summer" and especially "TRIED SO HARD" are all exceptional songs. Not trying to be a pusher but "Tried So Hard" is really one of my favorite songs ever and I can't understand why its one of the lowest purchased of all Yo La Tengo's material... Get Fakebook now!

Biography

Formed: 1984 in Hoboken, NJ

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Yo La Tengo are in many respects the quintessential critics' band: in addition to their adventurous eclecticism, defiant independence, and restless creative ambition — three qualities that virtually guarantee music press acclaim — the group's frontman, Ira Kaplan, even tenured as a rock scribe prior to finding success as a performer. So frequently compared to the Velvet Underground that they even portrayed the legendary group in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, the Hoboken, NJ-based...
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