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Yo La Tengo — Our Way to Fall
Album: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Avg rating:
6.9

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Total ratings: 988









Released: 2000
Length: 4:14
Plays (last 30 days): 2
I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you
I remember my face turned red
And I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
And I remember pretending I wasn't looking

So we'll try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Cause we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love

I remember your old guitar
I remember I Can't Explain
I remember the way it looked around your neck
And I remember the day it broke
I remember song you sang
I remember the way you looked tonight
And I remember the way it made me feel

So we try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Because we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love
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 teadye wrote:

I have to say I didn't hear this as a whole. Given the other comments it must be pretty good. I was in the bedroom and could only hear the bass line. That has to be the single most boring and uninspired bass riff I have ever heard. 4 notes played exactly the same over and over the full length of the song, and never varied.


It isn't a giddy-up tune or a rock-your-socks-off tune, so the bass is intentionally -- and deeply -- moved into the background. 
Always cracks me up that a Hoboken band is named Yo La Tengo.
Soundwise, oddly reminiscent of Ultravox's Vienna, I think - but maybe that's just me... 
Nice and calming
Can't have  too much Yo La Tengo!!
I was introduced Yo La Tengo by someone I love. This is one of the reasons I love them.
 Emmettf wrote:

Please, please play any and everything from the greatest band ever from New Jersey, Yo La Tengo.  Always underappreciated, yet fantastic!




I Agree!! ...I never heard of them before. ...Thanx RP!
Please, please play any and everything from the greatest band ever from New Jersey, Yo La Tengo.  Always underappreciated, yet fantastic!
Dare I say my favorite YLT album, among a few...
Just one of the best things in music.  This is why I listen here instead of terrestrial radio.  Thank you.
Excellent drum room! I love this sound!
I thought this was Lloyd Cole.
At our wedding my wife and I first danced to a Yo La Tengo song, "Center of Gravity."  Unfortunately it's not on the RP playlist.  
Reminds me of Tom Verlaine...
Subliminal singing?!
 xkolibuul wrote:
Gonna get flamed for this, but I'd much rather listen to YLT than Lou Reed.

Alright, have it folks.   
 
No flames from me -- musical tastes, like fingerprints, are unique. 
 Rockit9 wrote:
OK,  I am going to bed now.
 
Good night, sleep tight :)
"WAKE UP; WE'RE RECORDING!"
OK,  I am going to bed now.
 old_shep wrote:
This is for folks who never hear Lou Reed.  Just one rung below lame.

 
Gonna get flamed for this, but I'd much rather listen to YLT than Lou Reed.

Alright, have it folks.   
I like this tune. Between the war on drugs and futur islands ! Thank you RP for this moment
 jhorton wrote:
Seriously, if Lou Reed had just buckled down and learned that THIRD chord, he could have done this song....
 
He pretty much did this song and many like it long before this band was formed.  Nice tune.
 Desimia wrote:
Aw. This is a great tune. 

Cuz we're on our way, on our way, to fall in love.  
 
Yes, indeed.  Let the haters hate, and waste their lives ignoring beauty.
Seriously, if Lou Reed had just buckled down and learned that THIRD chord, he could have done this song....
{#Tongue}{#Hungry}This song is the BLT of the awesome YLT song collection! {#Chef}
A fave - nearly as good as their You Can Have It All.  Excellent live.
 
This is for folks who never hear Lou Reed.  Just one rung below lame.
Great song, and a better album overall.  Probably my favorite YLT album.  Highly recommended to any fan that does not yet have it!
Channelling Lou Reed and Leonard
If folk are going to record songs, I do expect that they'll at least feckin' sing, rather than croak voiceovers. Even Tom "Ol' Gravel Voice" Waits makes an effort to be tuneful.
Aw. This is a great tune. 

Cuz we're on our way, on our way, to fall in love.  
Best ylt song. Yo
ZZzzzzzzzzzz.

Ya'll enjoy. Someone wake me when it is over.
more yo lo tengo
Is it meant to sound like this?
 rdo wrote:
OMG!  I've never heard this on RP before.  My favorite Yo La Tengo song.  This is such a great song.  10!  {#Angel}
 
Agree. Have enjoyed this song for years. Though I can't quite push to 10.
 ziakut wrote:
This gets a good rating just because it took over from the Grateful Dead. Whew!
 
I concur!
 

Yep, ideal segue from Grateful Dead - from mute-inducing agony to sleep-inducing tedium {#Sleep}. Here's hoping for at least a 5 in a song or two's time.
This gets a good rating just because it took over from the Grateful Dead. Whew!
From Rudyard Kipling's "The Elephant Child"

One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this 'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, 'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?' Then everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.

By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!'

Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'

 Limpopoking wrote:
Verrrrry mellow... me likey {#Sunny}
 


I have to say I didn't hear this as a whole. Given the other comments it must be pretty good. I was in the bedroom and could only hear the bass line. That has to be the single most boring and uninspired bass riff I have ever heard. 4 notes played exactly the same over and over the full length of the song, and never varied.

Verrrrry mellow... me likey {#Sunny}
OMG!  I've never heard this on RP before.  My favorite Yo La Tengo song.  This is such a great song.  10!  {#Angel}
Love this album.  Yo La Tengo put it all together for this one.
I don't know how it's possible that I've never heard of this band. I checked AMG and almost all of their albums are rated at 4 or better. And their first album was in 1986!!! This one definitely slipped under the radar!
{#Yawn}
I agree! Its exquisite

 
david1045 wrote:

This song is perfect. Unusual, warm, tense, anticipatory and a wonderful vibe. 


 


This song is perfect. Unusual, warm, tense, anticipatory and a wonderful vibe. 


What a fantastic band. {#Daisy}
Plus they have the best album title of all time- I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass LOL!
Saw these headline one night at the end of the road festival recenly. They rock live, best band i saw.They are so diverse, love em. 8/10
I have no idea why people like this band. I\'ve tried to like them, but they seem so boring.
Reminds me of Dire Straits. Cool.
lovin' this .....
Jerry_Scott wrote:
Sounds like John Tesch or some such stuff.
Ya mean this guy?
moody, haunting. Like fog. I like fog.
'Cos we're on our way...we're on our way to fall in love. TP's DH
Sounds like Lou Reed. This is a good thing.
Kind of repetitive..
The lyrics may be interesting, but I couldn't get past the very boring music. Sounds like John Tesch or some such stuff.
One of my favorite songs of all time! YLT played outdoors at Rutgers one year and it rained so only about 50 of us showed up. We were drenched but it was great to see them. I could listen to this song on repeat all afternoon long.
I worked with them on some tracks for the Painful CD as an assistant engineer - impossible to get Ira's voice onto tape without Dobly SR . makes me laugh now . can you imagine ? Seemed like it was impossibly hard -- tape hiss (noisefloor) just below his barely audible voice - we were banging our heads on the table. trying to be nice "stay close to the mic? ok? sounds great !"
What a wonderful, beautiful little song. I'd like to hear more from them if this is any indication of what they're like.
I listen to this and think :sunny.gif: :meditate.gif: That's what I look for in good music.
RichardPrins wrote:
(great album)
Has a mesmerizing quality to it. Unique; nice.
(great album)
llazare wrote:
More YLT
What he said.
MaxEmerika wrote:
No. Painful is another YLT album, released several years before this one.
ROTFL!
I saw them on a bill with Big Star, Superdrag and Perfect up in NYC a few years ago. I thought they were kind of out of place, though in all it was an awesome show. YLT not my cup of tea.
Highly original and just plain wonderful in my book, like all of YLT's works.
rockasaurus wrote:
Wow. This is painful.
No. Painful is another YLT album, released several years before this one.
Wow. This is painful.
Bob_Abooey wrote:
I hope this ends soon. I'm losing the will to live...
I am not fairing that poorly. But I am having trouble keeping my eyes open...
Whew. I wasn't even paying attention for so long that I didn't recognize any of the previous three songs on the little playlist widget. Then I hit reFresh about several times, thinking, "This is cool, way cool, now who is it?" Well, I'll be--it is Yo La Tengo. My world is strangely new and cool.
karen wrote:
If anyone likes Yo La Tengo, check out FAKEBOOK. It was a favourite album on a nine month roadtrip, It never lost popularity. Every one should have this album. It isn't as mellow as some of their other stuff, it just sounds fantastic!!!!! Every song is perfect I can't say enough about this album!!
I DID check it out. And you are right. Every song IS perfect. I like the acoustic non/electronic setting on this CD. Very different from their new one. I really like "The Summer".
Why does YLT get so little airplay here despite the high ratings? More YLT
Originally Posted by Bob_Abooey: I hope this ends soon. I'm losing the will to live...
really! mass suicide theme song
More, please!! For example, from \"I can hear the heart beating as one,\" or any other. It would make my day to hear YLT on RP. Thank you! :D
If anyone likes Yo La Tengo, check out FAKEBOOK. It was a favourite album on a nine month roadtrip, It never lost popularity. Every one should have this album. It isn't as mellow as some of their other stuff, it just sounds fantastic!!!!! Every song is perfect I can't say enough about this album!!
Don\'t know if anyone has noticed, but I believe the instrumental portion of this tune is looped and used by PBS as background during their (quite compelling) promos. Sounds great.
The story of Ira meeting Georgia. A wonderful love song. Can\'t ever get too much Yo La Tengo. How about playing Tom Courtney some time?
Ah Bill, you\'ve just made my morning! I relocated a month ago, and had to leave behind my incredible MP3 collection on my old work computer. Some of my BEST songs were YLT, and I miss them terribly... this was one of them! My long-ago friend David Harrell in Chicago introduced me to YLT, and once I heard them I couldn\'t get enough. More, more, more!
wow This is fantastic. First time I've heard it...or them.
Elevator music on thorazine. ZZZZZZZzzzzzz Ratings system does go low enough for me to rate this tune.