| Artist |
Yo La Tengo |
| Album Title: |
Electr-O-Pura |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
Vinyl |
| Released |
05/02/1995 |
| Label |
Matador Records |
| Catalog No |
OLE 132-1 |
| Bar Code No |
none |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| A1.
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Decora (3:29)
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| A2.
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Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) (6:44)
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| A3.
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The Hour Grows Late (3:08)
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| A4.
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Tom Courtenay (3:32)
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| A5.
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False Ending (0:58)
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| A6.
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Pablo And Andrea (4:18)
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| A7.
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Paul Is Dead (2:28)
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| A8.
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False Alarm (5:30)
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| B1.
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The Ballad Of Red Buckets (4:02)
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| B2.
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Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2) (3:30)
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| B3.
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(Straight Down To The) Bitter End (4:01)
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| B4.
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My Heart's Reflection (6:04)
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| B5.
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Attack On Love (1:54)
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| B6.
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Blue Line Swinger (9:18)
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| Date Acquired |
12/03/2011 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Record Show (Mpls) |
| Purchase Price |
10.00 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Photos, etc. are printed on inner sleeve.
©+℗ 1995 Matador Records. Recorded at Alex The Great in Nashville.
Mixed at Sound On Sound in NYC.
Mastered at Masterdisk.
Tracks A6 & A8 are based on improvised backing tracks for Jad Fair that were recorded with Fred Brockman at Snack Time North (RIP).
Thanks to Steve for the drums and Danny for the bed.
Design [Album] – Georgia
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By [Assistant] – Devin Emke, Ed Raso
Producer – Roger Moutenot
Recorded By [Assistant] – Brad Jones
Sequenced By – Scott Ansell
Written-By – Yo La Tengo
Copyright © – Matador Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Matador Records
Recorded At – Alex The Great
Mixed At – Sound On Sound, New York
Mastered At – Masterdisk
Recorded At – Snack Time
Matrix / Runout (Side A run out, etched (Variant 1)): OLE-I-A MASTERDISK
Matrix / Runout (Side B run out, etched (Variant 1)): OLE-I-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A run out, etched (Variant 2)): OLE-132-1-A DMM SP 1-1 MASTERDISK
Matrix / Runout (Side B run out, etched (Variant 2)): OLE-132-1-B DMM SP 1-1 MASTERDISK
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Mark Deming
After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover -- they're deliberately inaccurate.)
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