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Average: 4.5 (103 ratings)
- Date Released: May 2, 1995
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Matador
The best way to experience the range of what this power trio puts out there
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We Say...
The name was puzzling, and I didn't want to listen to world music from Hoboken in 1987, but when President came out I heard "Barnaby, Hardly Working" and "Drug Test" in a row and realized that this band could make perfect records. When I'm making my own music and get to a point where an aesthetic decision needs to be made, I often wonder "WWYLTD?" and I go with that, as Georgia, Ira and James really don't know how to put a foot wrong in the rock & roll arena. I could really put my finger down on the discography and go with wherever it landed, there's a deep body of work under the YLT banner, but I went with this one because there's no better place to experience the range of what this power trio puts out there. Sometimes during "Blue Line Swinger" I faint and then wake up again and it's still going on and getting to the part where Georgia starts singing over the guitar solo and then I faint again. Awesome!
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They Say...
After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover -- they're deliberately inaccurate.)
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| 01. |  |
Decora |
3:26 |  |
| 02. | |
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) |
6:41 | |
| 03. | |
The Hour Grows Late |
3:06 | |
| 04. | |
Tom Courtenay |
3:29 | |
| 05. | |
False Ending |
0:56 | |
| 06. | |
Pablo And Andrea |
4:16 | |
| 07. | |
Paul Is Dead |
2:26 | |
| 08. | |
False Alarm |
5:27 | |
| 09. | |
The Ballad Of Red Buckets |
4:00 | |
| 10. | |
Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2) |
3:28 | |
| 11. | |
(Straight Down To The) Bitter End |
3:58 | |
| 12. | |
My Heart's Reflection |
6:01 | |
| 13. | |
Attack On Love |
1:51 | |
| 14. | |
Blue Line Swinger |
9:18 | |
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Credits
- Yo La Tengo - Main Performer // Scott Ansell - Sequencing // Greg Calbi - Mastering // Devin Emke - Mixing Assistant // Roger Moutenot - Producer // Roger Moutenot - Engineer // Roger Moutenot - Mixing // Ed Raso - Mixing Assistant // Brad Jones - Assistant Engineer
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