Painful, by Yo La Tengo

Painful

by Yo La Tengo

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Thomas Raven I can't put into words just what this album means to me. It represents an era in my life unlike any other music from that time. It's a part of me now. Thank you YLT!

(Aaron) too many favorites to select. distant wailing and emotional screeching of guitars dig into your soul; gripping melodies accompanied with soothing harmony clean your soul like stream water pouring over a rock. Favorite track: Nowhere Near.

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1.	Big Day Coming 07:05	info	buy track
2.	From a Motel 6 04:09	info	buy track
3.	Double Dare 03:28	info	buy track
4.	Superstar-Watcher 01:45	info	buy track
5.	Nowhere Near 06:03	info	buy track
6.	Sudden Organ 04:46	info	buy track
7.	A Worrying Thing 02:54	info	buy track
8.	I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long 05:07	info	buy track
9.	The Whole of the Law 02:20	info	buy track
10.	Big Day Coming (Second Version) 04:15	info	buy track
11.	I Heard You Looking 07:01	info	buy track

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1994 marked a number of huge world events ; OJ Simpson emerged from football retirement to claim the headlines in a most unfortunate manner. John Starks missed somewhere in the range of 300 shots en route to the Houston Rockets defeating the New York Knicks in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. CIA officer Aldrich Ames was charged with spying for the Russians, and figure skating’s Tonya Harding put her own special spin on the phrase “lead pipe cinch”. Still, all of the above incidents are mostly forgotten in history, completely overshadowed by the prior year’s release of Yo La Tengo‘s first album for the Matador label, ‘Painful’, a record Spin’s Rob Sheffield called, “the album that keeps every promise Yo La Tengo ever made, full of ravishing, wraithlink melodies around scruffy guitars that clang around your head like sneakers in the dryer…when a bunch of weird sounds add up to a masterpiece as casually majestic as Painful, well, ‘genius’ isn’t even the word, is it?”

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released October 5, 1993

1993, Matador Records

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