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Coming January 17, 2025: A 2xLP / 2xCD repress of ‘Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo.’ Back in print for the first time in over 20 years, the compilation assembles more than two hours of hard to find and unreleased Yo La Tengo music from 1988 – 1995.
Some reflections on the material, excerpted from Ira Kaplan’s original ‘Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo’ liner notes:
”FOG OVER FRISCO” - Oct ‘89
Georgia and I started playing this in 1989 on our acoustic duo tour (oh, how the Timbuk 3 crowd in KC loved us). Gene Holder played bass and produced the rock version at Water Music, which was then shelved until we completed it in 1991 for That Is Yo La Tengo.
”TOO LATE” - Dec ‘94
This Wire song was recorded by Roger Moutenot live at Alex the Great during Electro-pura. Mixed May 1995 by Peter Walsh at Tin Pan Alley. Listen for James’s scream.
“HANKY PANKY NOHOW” - Sep ‘89
Tara helped us with this one, I no longer remember how. Recorded in the basement of our old house, featuring our microphone-shy cat on backing. vocals. Originally on the 1991 Spanish comp The Ruta 66 Album.
“SURFIN’ WITH THE SHAH” - Feb ‘93
This Urinals cover is the first song we ever played live. This version recorded on the Dump Mobile Unit in the south of France where Matador sent us to write songs for a proposed musical based on the popular television program Small Wonder. “
"BLITZKREIG BOP” - Feb ‘93
We gave this to a Japanese fanzine, but I have no memory which one. The arrangement dates back to our brief incarnation as a wedding band—we were much better at performing music for dining pleasure than for dancing pleasure.
Disc 1:
1 Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop
2 Demons
3 Fog Over Frisco
4 Too Late
5 Hanky Panky Nohow
6 Something To Do
7 Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio Picks Up Music From Venus
8 Up to You
9 Somebody’s Baby
10 Walking Away From You
11 Artificial Heart
12 Cast A Shadow
13 I’m Set Free
14 Barnaby, Hardly Working
15 Some Kinda Fatigue
16 Speeding Motorcycle
Disc 2:
1 Nutricia
2 Her Grandmother’s Gift
3 From A Motel 6 # 2
4 Gooseneck Problem
5 Surfin’ With The Shah
6 Ecstasy Blues
7 Too Much, Part 1
8 Blitzkrieg Bop
9 One Self: Fish Girl