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1986 Ride the Tiger SR	1987 New Wave Hot Dogs SR	1990 Fakebook SR	1992 May I Sing With Me SR
1993 President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs SR	1993 Painful SR	1995 Electr‐O‐Pura SR	$[ 8 / 24 ] 1996 Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo Making their debut in 1985 with a 45 that paired the groups own "The River of Water" with a take on Loves "A House Is Not a Motel," Yo La Tengo established their love of both the single format and the eclectic cover version from the get-go. Subsequent years produced a steady stream of between-album releases, tour-only singles, compilation appearances, and, of course, more memorable covers. Beginning in 1988, with the group on the cusp of unleashing their President Yo La Tengo album, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo gathers 30 rarities, selected and annotated by the band itself, and divided into vocal and instrumental discs. John Cales "Hanky Panky Nohow," the Velvet Undergrounds "Im Set Free," and Beat Happenings "Cast a Shadow" are all spared by fairly faithful renditions. Elsewhere the group infuse Jackson Brownes "Somebodys Baby" with new, anthemic life, play the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a surf instrumental, find themselves joined by a phoned-in Daniel Johnston for a radio performance of the singers "Speeding Motorcycle," and nearly lose the reigns on a blistering live-in-studio version of Wires "Too Late." Housed on the vocal disc are a handful of originals that rival the bands official output. "Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop" rides a motorik drum beat and organ drone, fractured by Ira Kaplans splintering guitar. Georgia Hubley takes the lead on the dreamy "Demons" (whose working title, the band admits, was "White Rabbit") and the trio sets its sound adrift on the languid "Up to You," a song that would have fit comfortably on the stunning And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out six years later. Though the instrumental disc isnt nearly as impressive (comprised largely of failed experiments and song sketches), its still well worth looking beyond YLTs studio albums for the hidden gems packaged here.$ 1996 Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo SR
1997 I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One SR	1998 Strange but True R	2000 Mishmoshi-Moshi	2000 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out SR
2003 Summer Sun SR	2005 V.O.T.E. R	2005 Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 R	2006 Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics SR
2006 I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass SR	2008 They Shoot, We Score S	2009 Popular Songs SR	2013 Fade SR
$[ 21 / 24 ] 2015 Stuff Like That There These days, every band seems eager to honor the anniversary of one of its landmark albums, usually in the form of a concert tour or an expanded reissue, and even Yo La Tengo have gotten into the act -- a quarter century after they released their endlessly charming 1990 LP Fakebook, in which they covered a handful of their favorite songs and reworked a few of their own numbers in semi-acoustic fashion, YLT have recorded what amounts to a sequel, 2015s Stuff Like That There. Just like a sequel to a 1980s horror movie, Stuff Like That There follows the template of the original as closely as possible -- there are two new songs, three remakes from the YLT back catalog, and nine covers, which range from the instantly recognizable (Hank Williams "Im So Lonesome I Could Cry," inspired by Al Greens version) to the thoroughly obscure (unless youre a Hoboken pop obsessive or a James McNew completist, "Automatic Doom" by the Special Pillows is probably not on your hit parade). Just as importantly, original Yo La Tengo guitarist Dave Schramm, who appeared on Fakebook, returned for the Stuff Like That There sessions, and while his style would have been a poor fit beside Ira Kaplans clouds of six-string skronk that became a highlight of YLTs work from President Yo La Tengo onward, for stuff like this, Schramms graceful sound, full of echo and clean single-note leads, meshes gloriously with Kaplans implacable strum and the steady shuffle of bassist James McNew and drummer and vocalist Georgia Hubley. As "quiet" Yo La Tengo goes, like Fakebook this is top shelf, beautiful, and subtly joyous, and while the songs are well chosen and the performances are warm and passionate despite the low decibel level, the real secret weapon here is Georgia Hubleys vocals. Like Maureen Tucker singing "After Hours," what Hubley lacks in range she more than makes up for in her ability to infuse a song with feeling, and from the heartache of "My Hearts Not in It" and the lovers kiss-off of "Butchies Tune" to the sweetly fractured romanticism of "Friday Im in Love," Hubleys work beautifully demonstrates how much more less can be. If Stuff Like That There isnt as revelatory as Fakebook, its a splendid, beguiling album thats perfectly suited for late nights and rainy afternoons, and a welcome reminder of one of the many, many things Yo La Tengo do so well.$ 2015 Stuff Like That There SR	2015 Parallelogram S	2016 Murder in the Second Degree	$[ 24 / 24 ] 2018 There’s a Riot Going On When Yo La Tengo revealed that the title of their 15th album would be Theres a Riot Going On, speculation ran wild among their online fan base. What did the title mean? Was the album going to be a broadside about the state of America in the Trump era? Was it going to be some sort of homage to Sly & the Family Stones troubled 1971 masterpiece Theres a Riot Goin On? Or were these die-hard record collectors simply tipping their caps to the Robins 1954 hit "Riot in Cell Block #9"? What no one seemed to guess was a band thats made a habit out of inscrutable album and song titles would simply be continuing in that great tradition. As it is, theres precious little thats riotous about 2018s Theres a Riot Going On -- quite the opposite, its one of the most languid and inward-looking albums Yo La Tengo have released to date. YLT made the album without a formal producer, simply recording themselves in their practice space (with bassist James McNew serving as engineer) and having John McEntire (who worked with the band on 2013s Fade) mix the tracks. The results find the band deep in atmospheric mode, with washes of loops and noise hovering in the background on most tunes while Ira Kaplan generates spare, ringing guitar figures, Georgia Hubley lays out her typically warm and implacable groove on drums, and all three members daub the surroundings with keyboards and percussion. Many of the selections on Theres a Riot Going On are instrumental, and when the numbers do feature vocals, McEntire and YLT have pushed most of the singing deep into the mix, so if you were expecting this album to mount a soapbox, youll be very disappointed. This LP is also short on Yo La Tengos fractured pop sensibilities and Kaplans volleys of noise guitar; instead, Theres a Riot Going On is deeply introspective, 63 minutes of dreamy late-night musings and drifting soundscapes thats often very beautiful but demands to be met on the artists own terms. Theres a Riot Going On is, in its own subtle way, Yo La Tengo at their most uncompromised; its an album thats likely to separate their most hardcore fans from more casual admirers, though if you loved "Night Falls on Hoboken" from And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, youll likely savor it.$ 2018 There’s a Riot Going On SR