From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V4 #98 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Thursday, April 12 2001 Volume 04 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: support-system-digest V4 #97 [Nick Nelson ] YO!!!!!!!! ["Chipko Arnold" ] Re: ylt [jeremy ] Rando-matic ["steve kisko" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:16:17 -0700 From: Nick Nelson Subject: Re: support-system-digest V4 #97 >From: Valerie Barry >... and now yo la tengo has piqued my curiosity. quite a >collection...can anyone suggest a starting point for the barely initiated? I think the "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One"album is most representative of their later work. The latest album has not quite clicked in with me (although a few song do). Also try Fakebook, a mostly acoustic collection of mostly cover songs, and "Painful" and "Electr-O-Pura," which are the classic YLT disks, I would say. Actually, you really can't go wrong with any of them. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:20:36 From: "Chipko Arnold" Subject: YO!!!!!!!! Spooky, someone asks about Yo La Tengo and my ears are stil ringing from their gig in London last night. As for a starting point.... 'Painful'. Not an obvous one, but it was the first one where they started to sound like they REALLY sound. The ones before are great, but rougher, less dynamic maybe. 'May I Sing With Me' is great, but isn't as extreme (don't be scared). So i'd start with Pinful and work your way around from there. 'I Can Hear The Heart...' is a good example as well, mixing slow fragile numbers with ear bleeding feedback thrashes, much like the gig last night. 'Electr-O-Pura' is fantastic too, especially the awesome closer 'Blue Line Swinger' ( stretched to 17 minutes last night, a full 10 minutes of which was intro). Confused... you will be. 'And The Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out' is a beautiful work, but doesn't represent their sound, so maybe you could ease into them with that... but i'd still go for 'Painful', especially for the crashing guitar line of 'Double Dare' and the Soft Boys-esque instrumental 'I Heard You Looking' that closes it. Add to that the tender 'Nowhere Near' and two versions of 'Big Day Coming' (a quiet one to warm you up before the loud on later) and then there's 'From A Motel 6' as well. You might have gathered i like them! Just remember, you can have it all... Chipko _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:21:40 -0500 From: jeremy Subject: Re: ylt I would start off with Electr-o-pura or I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. They really show the range of YLT. Also anything else they've ever recorded, except And Then Nothing Turned..., I wouldn't start there. By the by, YLT is playing May 9th at the metro in Chicago. jeremy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:54:19 From: "steve kisko" Subject: Rando-matic random responses... Sarah: <> Best show I'd ever been to, as well. Those are likely my pictures you saw on Ken's site. David Mead found them as well? FUCK! That was a wild show, and I did my best capturing the wildness, but I strongly regret including the "personal" photo of Liz & me. I look like a 12-year-old about to explode. Now I'm much more rugged & disheveled, really. Valerie wrote: <> Start with I can Hear the Heart...; it's their best. Then maybe go with the latest, And then Nothing... I imagine most other YLT fans would agree. Yes? I was at Barnes & Noble the other night reading all their magazines without paying, and I came across two Liz mentions in the new Alternative Press (Weezer cover): one as part of an article about Oberlin College and how many successful underground rockers got their start there; the other is in the very back of the mag and Exile in Guyville is listed as one of the top 10 break-up albums. There were a few other good albums chosen for that piece, too, but I don't quite like the way they generalized the thematic content of EIG (which I could debate forever). Anyone else going to see Badly Drawn Boy in D.C. on May 3? Probably not. I'm looking for a place to stay near the 9:30 club (preferably someplace cheap). Otherwise I'll have a 3-hour-plus drive home after what will likely be an epic-length show. Any suggestions? Any FANS here? Shout-out to Katie Brown & Jorge in Dallas. good to know you 2 are still breathing. Best, Steve Kisko _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V4 #98 ***********************************