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President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs

Yo La Tengo (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Barnaby, Hardly Working
2	Drug Test
3	The Evil That Men Do
4	Orange Song
5	Alyda
6	The Evil That Men Do
7	I Threw It All Away
8	Clunk
9	Did I Tell You
10	House Fall Down
11	Lewis
12	Lost In Bessemer
13	It's Alright (The Way That You Live)
14	3 Blocks From Groove Street
15	Let's Comprimise
16	Serpentine
17	A Shy Dog
18	No Water
19	The Story Of Jazz
20	The Asparagus Song

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Indie darlings Yo La Tengo have enjoyed a long and esteemed career, and now sit atop a respectable discography. Among Yo La Tengo's past gems, 1989's President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hotdogs may rank among the best. Barely preceding Yo La Tengo's destined-to-be-a-classic cover collection Fakebook, President Yo La Tengo finds husband-and-wife duo Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan bounding from garage rock anthems like "Orange Song" to looping, sonic sculptures like "Barnaby, Hardly Working." This rare disc is often a proud feature of any true fan's Yo La Tengo library. --Nick Heil

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Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 12.55 x 1.14 cm; 80.32 Grams
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Matador Records
Label ‏ : ‎ Matador Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000036WH
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #81,596 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #1,030 in New Wave
- #2,251 in Indie Rock
- #9,710 in Alternative Rock Music

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Borkus

Yo La Tengo's Come a Long Way

Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2000

This is a very different Yo La Tengo (pre- James McNew) and has a very different sound. Ira and Georgia were still working with similar sounds to bands like the Feelies, Phantom Tollbooth and other Hoboken peers. However there are two Yo La Tengo universals here - great song writing and intelligent ecclectic tastes. Lewis and Shy Dog from "New Wave Hot Dogs" along with pretty much all of "President Yo La Tengo" have more than just glimpses of genius in them. I saw YLT when they toured in support of "New Wave Hot Dogs" and the live cuts on "President" definitely capture the energy and love of music possessed by the band. It's a great CD for rounding out your YLT collection, has a LOT of music for the money - of course, it was the first one I ever bought (I have the Coyote records). IMHO, "President Yo La Tengo" is where the light just starts to break through - and like the dawn, it can take your breathe away.

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Michael Stack

Reinvigoration through reinvention.

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2008

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After their debut recording, Yo La Tengo found themselves in an interesting situation-- half the band left, leaving Ira Kaplan (guitars and vocals) and Georgia Hubley (drums and vocals) on their own. The pair responded by largely reshaping the sound of the band away from the sounds of Ride the Tiger and towards where they'd end up. In a sense, their followup effort, "New Wave Hot Dogs" and its successor EP,"President Yo La Tengo" was a second debut, redefining the band. This CD combines these two along with an early single (although choose oddly to sequence them in inverse order to their release-- being somewhat of a purist, I'll review them chronologically).

As if to say we don't really need another lead guitarist, Kaplan wastes no time on "New Wave Hot Dogs" showing off his chops-- "Clunk" features a rolling rhythm and a highly effective yet somewhat shy vocal. But the killer is the lead guitar, interspersing blazing distorted riffs with the vocals before exploding into a fierce feedback workout. The remainder of the record trades gentler pop songs with noisy workouts, and it goes a long way to define a sound for the band. What's amazing is the consistently high quality of the record-- whether it's a jangly pop song ("Lewis"), a gentle interuluide ("Lost in Bessemer") or a Velvet Underground cover ("It's All Right (The Way That You Live)"). While the album tails off a bit towards the end in terms of maintaining its superb level of quality (the somewhat limp "3 Blocks From Groove St." and "A Shy Dog", somewhat grating "Serpentine"), the first half of the record is so consistently satisfying, it's hard to say anything bad about it.

"President Yo La Tengo" was a real statement for the band and finds them pretty much fully developed, embracing that delicate balance of melody and noise that the Velvet Underground perfected a generation earlier. Opener "Barnaby, Hardly Working" best illustrates this. One of the finest pieces in the band's catalog, it rides a wave of distorted guitars over a chugging, cleantone rhythm guitar part of a distinctly understated vocal from Kaplan. Lacking any of the tentativeness of Ride the Tiger , it's a statement on its own. The rest of the EP seems to be a reflection of bits and pieces of 'Barnaby', from a standout chugging Velvets-inspired rocker ("Drug Test") to delicate male/female harmony feature ("Alyda") and overt feedback workouts ("The Evil That Men Do [Pablo's Version]"). Pretty much start to finish, it's a fantastic record.

Separate, "New Wave Hot Dogs" and "President Yo La Tengo" are good records, well worth the time and investment. Together, they make a statement and find a band avoiding a sophomore slump by defining itself. Highly Recommended.

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Stephen O Allen

disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2023

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A bit too much atonal noise; not like other CDs of theirs I know and love.

C. Sacchi

President Yo La Tengo;New Wave Hot Dogs

Reviewed in France on August 7, 2018

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Les premiers singles et inédits réunis sur un album! Superbe!

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