Biography

Yo La Tengo started out in the mid-1980s and became perhaps the ultimate critics' band. Led by former NYC rock journalist Ira Kaplan, they combined numerous, often esoteric influences to eventually create a distinctive sound. They started out in heavy debt to the Velvet Underground, but by the late '90s, they were incorporating ambient electronic textures and more experimental song structures for a transcendent, dream-pop sound that brought them a whole new audience.

Top Tracks

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• Autumn Sweater

• Avalon Or Someone Very Similar

• Barnaby, Hardly Working

• Be Thankful For What You Got

• Beach Party Tonight

• Beanbag Chair

• Big Day Coming

• Blue Line Swinger

• By The Time It Gets Dark

• Cherry Chapstick

• Did I Tell You

• Drug Test

• From A Motel 6

• Griselda

• Here Comes My Baby

• Here To Fall [album Version]

• If It's True

• Let's Save Tony Orlando's House

• Little Eyes

• Little Honda

• Mr. Tough

• Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss

• Nothing To Hide

• Nowhere Near

• Pablo And Andrea

• Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind

• Sea Urchins

• Season Of The Shark

• Shaker

• Some Kinda Fatigue

• Sometimes I Don't Get You

• Speeding Motorcycle

• Stockholm Syndrome

• Styles Of The Times

• Sugarcube

• The Cone Of Silence

• The Evil That Men Do

• The Forest Green

• The Love Life Of The Octopus

• The Sea Horse

• The Way Some People Die

• Today Is The Day

• Tom Courtenay

• Upside-down

• You Can Have It All

Discography

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• Popular Songs

  Matador

  2009

• I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

  Matador

  2006

• Summer Sun

  Matador

  2003

• I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

  Matador

  1997

• Electr-O-Pura

  Matador

  1995

• Painful

  Matador

  1993

• May I Sing with Me

  Alias Records

  1992

• Fakebook

  Bar/None

  1990

• New Wave Hot Dogs

  Coyote/Twintone

  1987

• Ride the Tiger

  Matador

  1986