Album Rating: 3.0
Boney takes here > Ars takes sorry
Shadows/Movies/Damage are the easy highlights here (add We're An American Band and ig Autumn Sweater and you're done). Moby is an adequate tone-setter but massively outgunned by the 4 songs after
would agree that Kick Your Ass and Nothing are much better overall though
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Album Rating: 3.5
I understand the people who love wanking off anything shoegaze are gonna say Deeper into Movies is a highlight
TBH picking that and Sugarcube (and honestly even We’re an American Band) as highlights shows such a shoegaze bias for what's a very genre diverse indie album, as I say that as someone who likes We're An American band quite a lot
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Album Rating: 3.0
yh well picking Moby Octopad just says ur boring sorry i don't make the rules here
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Album Rating: 3.5
Moby's one of the most ambitious songs on here
Abrasive guitar, catchy bass groove, great harmonies, weird late-game piano... if the guitar was mixed way higher than everything else on it like it is on Deeper I bet you'd all be jizzing to it
Autumn Sweater's my fave though
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Album Rating: 3.0
i also listen to fuzzy comfortindie for ""ambitious"" songwriting
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Album Rating: 3.5
I wouldn't call Moby Octopad fuzzy or comforting???? Did you forget what it sounds like?
Am I arguing with someone who doesn't even remember what the song he's criticizing sounds like
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Album Rating: 3.0
relistened just now and it sounds: boring
so it can borrow the rest of the album's vibes, as it well should as a sequencing-only cut that's kinda useless on its own
make yr own bass loops and fart over them in listless harmony if that's all you wanna hear
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Album Rating: 3.5
tbh bass loops > guitar thats mixed WAY too high that drowns out everything else
I like guitar as much as the next guy, but god damn let me hear the bass and drums too thanks
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Album Rating: 3.0
is that a comment on Yo La Tengo or a generalisation on Music as per the 1009 albums of it you have heard
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Album Rating: 3.5
It was a shot at Deeper into the Movies specifically, I thought this was obvious since I already said that I think it sucks
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Album Rating: 3.0
scathing scenes
tbqh, relistening through the rest of this and I'm increasingly uninvested in slamming Moby (though still not fantastic) with a positive skew on the rest. Sugarcube is v middle of the road noise pop and Movies, while solid enough, doesn't have all that much character. Damage and Shadows are the only two great songs so far (with American Band the third overall), would maybe bump Little Honda and Green Arrow up for cuteness. Snooze album
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Album Rating: 3.5
So you're saying you don't love Autumn Sweater?
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Album Rating: 3.0
Autumn Sweater is a nice mood piece
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Album Rating: 3.5
Moby's great, just give into the repetition of the bass
Fuck maybe I should get into house music...
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Album Rating: 4.0
Moby is a good song, it’s just a little goofy for me, and I don’t like the vocal Melodie’s much.
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Album Rating: 4.2
Damage, Shadows, and One PM Again are probably my top three tunes on here
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Album Rating: 4.5
moby is top 3 on the album tbqh
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Fuck maybe I should get into house music..."
yes
i think moby is my favorite honestly
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Album Rating: 4.0
At a very basic level, there essentially three kinds of Yo La Tengo songs: There’s most of their songs, which are relatively conventional “songs” covering the broad range of typical 90s/00s indie styles, there’s the still fairly conventional songs in kind of random genres outside their norm (on this album, Center of Gravity/Little Honda/My Little Corner of the World/Stockholm Syndrome (sort of)), and there’s what I will just call the “oddities” (for better or worse), the slightly more abrasive, kind of goofy, often repetitive studio experiments (Spec Bebop and, I would argue, Moby Octopad, though that one is certainly less out there than many in this category and isn’t too far from their main style). Typically I like/love the first category, like the second category, and am ambivalent toward or mildly dislike the third category, unless I’m in the right mood.
Is this a gross over-generalization ? Probably. But it mostly works for me.
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Album Rating: 3.5
TBH I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass destroys this album and everyone should go jam that and agree with me that Sometimes I Don't Get You is the most comforting song of all time
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