Yo La Tengo - Painful
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Artist: Yo La TengoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Big Day Coming - Yo La Tengo, Kaplan, Ira
- From a Motel 6 - Yo La Tengo, Hubley, Georgia
- Double Dare - Yo La Tengo, Kaplan, Ira
- Superstar-Watcher - Yo La Tengo, Hubley, Georgia
- Nowhere Near - Yo La Tengo, Hubley, Georgia
- Sudden Organ - Yo La Tengo, Kaplan, Ira
- A Worrying Thing - Yo La Tengo, Kaplan, Ira
- I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long - Yo La Tengo, Hubley, Georgia
- The Whole of the Law - Yo La Tengo, Perrett
- Big Day Coming - Yo La Tengo, Kaplan, Ira
- I Heard You Looking - Yo La Tengo, Hubley, Georgia
Free Music Notes for Painful
Free Music Review: Quietly powerful.
Hit: 5 Stars
Yo La Tengo's early records show a band that's looking for something-- they bounce between riff based rock adn folk songs, feedback and jangly guitars, seeking a balance. While it would end up being a lower-key affair than anyone would perhaps have expected, "Painful" is the first album where they seem to have struck that balance.
Opening with a gentle, circular organ motif, repetitive guitars, throbbing bass and a whispered vocal on the first version of "Big Day Coming", the piece is almost Eno meets Yo La Tengo, especialy when Ira Kaplan's feedback-drenched lead hits, managing to be both noisy and subdued at the same time. This ends up being the formula for the record-- striking that balance between noise and a swirling ambient stew, whether it's driven by a distorted bassline and a buzzsaw of a lead guitar (single "From a Motel 6") or a rising, circular organ and a subdued, gentle vocal ("Nowhere Near"). One thing it manages is to be is consistently fantastic, whether completely subdued ("A Worrying Thing") or more aggressive (riff-based second version of "Big Day Coming"). Start to finish, "Painful" proves to be a completely satisfying record. It's missing something that makes me think of it as a masterpiece, but it's incredibly good. Highly recommended.
Painful Poster
The long-running Hoboken, New Jersey, trio's favorite devices are neatly evidenced on this 1993 disc: barbed guitar freakouts by Ira Kaplan, breathily exquisite Georgia Hubley vocals ("Nowhere Near"), an obscure but excellent cover choice (the Only Ones' "The Whole Of The Law"), and a love for sonic texture that's backed up by first-rate songwriting. Subtle at its loudest and vital at its most subdued, Painful is built around a series of hovering, dreamy bass and organ drones matched by the singers' purr, but propelled by Hubley's insistent rhythms and Kaplan's prickly guitar leads. --Douglas WolkAlternative Rock Music CDs
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