Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
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EXPECTED RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 12TH MARCH 2021
Fakebook is the fourth studio album by Yo La Tengo, originally released in 1990 by Bar None Records.
A collection of mainly cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (such as Peter Stampfel, Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair), Fakebook is warm, low-key, and lovely, with heartfelt singing and playing that never flags after hundreds of replays - after three decades! It's impossible to imagine playing this record and not smiling and singing along. A big bonus is a great version of the Flamin' Groovies' 'You Tore Me Down.'
When Hoboken, NY's Yo La Tengo released Fakebook in 1990, the band was only a twosome (Ira Kaplan on guitar and vocals, with Georgia Hubley on drums and vocals), as future bassist James McNew was presumably still playing in various other bands and moonlighting as a parking lot attendant. According to Ira Kaplan, the record itself was mostly an excuse to screw around in the studio with guitarist, and on-going contributor, Dave Schramm.
While Fakebook is primarily a compilation of covers, it also includes five originals. Setting aside their noisier proclivities and the rawer elements of their former work in favour of a more stripped-down, breezily folkish approach, the album was, in its time, a novel approach for the band. Today, more than 20 years on, Fakebook remains a testament to Yo La Tengo’s versatility and early promise, as well as being the first full glimpse into the group’s almost frightfully encyclopedic familiarity with radio hits.
TRACKLIST:
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Can't Forget
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Griselda
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Here Comes My Baby
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Barnaby, Hardly Working
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Yellow Sarong
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You Tore Me Down
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Emulsified
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Speeding Motorcycle
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Tried So Hard
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The Summer
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Oklahoma, U.S.A.
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What Comes Next
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The One To Cry
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Andalucia
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Did I Tell You
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What Can I Say
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