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President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs

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Combining the band’s second album and third EP in one noisy, feedback-laden, sweetly melodic package, this two-set reissue is unmistakably early Yo La Tengo, with all the nervy brilliance and exasperating rock-geek fiddlery that implies. New Wave Hot Dogs finds the band at their most neo-Velvet, with Ira Kaplan’s cool, abstracted voice a dead ringer for Lou Reed’s on a cover of the then-unreleased Velvet Underground track “It’s Alright (The Way That You Live).” “Lewis” amusingly quotes song titles from the soft-rock band America, “Clunk” is hard-driving and tuneful in the best 80s college-rock manner, and “Did I Tell You” is that endangered beast, a straight-faced love song. On President Yo La Tengo the band anticipates the leap forward they would take with albums like 1992’s Painful. Squalling guitar like a city siren announces “Barnaby, Hardly Working,” an innovatively structured piece of experimental drone that is (like the rest of President) anchored by a solid melody and Georgia Hubley’s ever-crisp, ever-intelligent drumming.

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Gotta love classic YLT

I recently found this album in a music store in Los Angeles, and purchased it because it was one of the only YLT albums I don't own the hard copy of. Honestly, the whole album isn't what you'd call "solid" like their later releases "Painful" or "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out". However there are some great songs on this album. My favorites are Barnaby Hardly Working, Drug Test, Alyda, and Asparagus Song. I wouldn't suggest buying the whole album though. Don't be fooled by the "Album Only" song 'The Evil That Men Do [Pablo's Version]'. The entire song is just a bunch of noise, and probably one of the worst things I've ever heard. If you're going to buy anything off this album, Barnaby Hardly Working is a MUST-BUY if you enjoy Lo-Fi and classic YLT distortion. One of my favorite songs of all time.

Hidden gem

Really? I'm surprised no one has reviewed this yet. This is a must have. One of those hidden gem albums.

Song 7 skips

This cover version of I threw it all away skips and iTunes should fix it..

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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