Popular Songs Yo La Tengo
Popular Songs OLE-856 2009-09-08
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About Buy Early Get Now #8, Popular Songs:

Order the BEGN version (dbl LP or CD) of Popular Songs through our Buy Early Get Now program and get more! Included in your purchase:

- CD or LP copy of Popular Songs, available for collection at a trusted physical retailer (easily found via the store finder on the front page) or via mail order on September 8.
- the full 128k album stream starting August 4, with exclusive bonus MP3s
- a vinyl LP featuring Yo La Tengo’s Orginal Score from the Motion Picture “Adventureland”
- a poster (design TBD, but trust us, you’ll be pleased).

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About Popular Songs:

Most of us fans have a silly tendency to look at our favorite musicians as being the smartest people in the world. Within their lyrics we know we’ll find the answers to everything, if we just look hard enough. In truth, most musicians are no smarter than any of us—often much less so. You can find many books on this subject.

Georgia, Ira and James of Yo La Tengo are exceptions to this rule, and Popular Songs, their 12th (or 14th, depending on what and how you count) album is the proof. Because when this new and dramatically unimproved world puts the hard questions to Yo La Tengo, they go Socratic as hell, swaggeringly, reassuringly, honestly telling us that all they know is they know nothing. They do not know why that sunbeam comes through the window when you are determined to sulk; they do not know just how are we going to make it, anyway?

Down to their fingernails, Yo La Tengo understand that the dichotomy has never been love & hate—this life is about love & fear. And fear makes you run and hide, sit on your ass, do nothing but be consumed by it. To restate the obvious, Yo La Tengo are not afraid. They walk bravely forward, into the unknown, hand in hand. And 12 (or 14) albums in, they may just be hitting their stride.

Tracklisting

preview track # song name mp3 $0.80 flac $0.99
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1. Here To Fall BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
2. Avalon or Someone Very Similar BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
3. By Two's BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
4. Nothing To Hide BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
5. Periodically Double or Triple BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
6. If It's True BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
7. I'm On My Way BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
8. When It's Dark BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
9. All Your Secrets BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
10. More Stars Than There Are In Heaven BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
11. The Fireside BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
12. And The Glitter Is Gone BUY MP3 BUY FLAC


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