Comments on: Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo, Barrymore Theater, Madison, 1/23/10) http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803 The daily organ of the Northeast Corridor Social Club Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rachel http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803#comment-63353 Rachel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:03:10 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=8803#comment-63353 "We" being you and I, Farrell. Dang this English syntax! “We” being you and I, Farrell. Dang this English syntax!

]]> By: Rachel http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803#comment-63352 Rachel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:15:40 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=8803#comment-63352 Glad to know that I'm not the only one whop gets a little bit misty when it comes to YLT. My sentimental streak runs wide and deep. It's also nice to know that the band consists of truly nice people--something that's shouldn't really matter when it comes to great art, but often does (at least for me). You can tell a lot about a person from how he/she treats service workers! Take it from someone who paid her way through grad school as a valet/bellman. By the way, Ira works the merch table and James chats with fans in the Barrymore foyer. Every time I've seen them so far. Farrell, I was thinking about my old friend Yvette (like you and Jeremy, we bonded over an album--Throwing Muses' The Real Ramona). She had the reigning music taste in my 1992 world...we've actually known each other longer than that, if you can believe it. Long live Yo La Tengo! Glad to know that I’m not the only one whop gets a little bit misty when it comes to YLT. My sentimental streak runs wide and deep. It’s also nice to know that the band consists of truly nice people–something that’s shouldn’t really matter when it comes to great art, but often does (at least for me). You can tell a lot about a person from how he/she treats service workers! Take it from someone who paid her way through grad school as a valet/bellman.

By the way, Ira works the merch table and James chats with fans in the Barrymore foyer. Every time I’ve seen them so far.

Farrell, I was thinking about my old friend Yvette (like you and Jeremy, we bonded over an album–Throwing Muses’ The Real Ramona). She had the reigning music taste in my 1992 world…we’ve actually known each other longer than that, if you can believe it.

Long live Yo La Tengo!

]]> By: swells http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803#comment-63350 swells Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:41:56 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=8803#comment-63350 I can hear the heart beating as one! I can hear the heart beating as one!

]]> By: Farrell Fawcett http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803#comment-63349 Farrell Fawcett Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:18:08 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=8803#comment-63349 Rachel, was I perchance the 1992 returning London-study abroad friend you referenced? I can only dream. Although, truth be told, I didn't own a sonic youth album until 1993. Could it have been the MBV shoe-gazers I turned you on to? Have we really know each other that long? Jesus! And yes, Jeremy is correct, Electropura was the album that I leant to a cool but strange skater grad school classmate 15 years ago and . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .............God, bless Yo La Tengo for bringing us all together. Rachel, was I perchance the 1992 returning London-study abroad friend you referenced? I can only dream. Although, truth be told, I didn’t own a sonic youth album until 1993. Could it have been the MBV shoe-gazers I turned you on to? Have we really know each other that long? Jesus! And yes, Jeremy is correct, Electropura was the album that I leant to a cool but strange skater grad school classmate 15 years ago and . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . ………….God, bless Yo La Tengo for bringing us all together.

]]> By: jeremy http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/8803#comment-63348 jeremy Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:53:33 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/?p=8803#comment-63348 Oh, Rachel, you make me smile... Yo La Tengo is (partly, if not wholly) responsible for my initial bonding with another Whatsiter, Farrell. Ergo, YLT is responsible for my knowing all of (or many of) you wonderful people... Oh, Rachel, you make me smile… Yo La Tengo is (partly, if not wholly) responsible for my initial bonding with another Whatsiter, Farrell. Ergo, YLT is responsible for my knowing all of (or many of) you wonderful people…

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