Yo La Tengo / Electr-O-Pura
Artist Yo La Tengo
Album Title: Electr-O-Pura
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 05/02/1995
Label Matador Records
Catalog No OLE 132-2
Bar Code No 7 44861 01322 8
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Decora (3:26)
2. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) (6:41)
3. The Hour Grows Late (3:06)
4. Tom Courtnenay (3:29)
5. False Ending (0:56)
6. Pablo and Andrea (4:16)
7. Paul is Dead (2:26)
8. False Alarm (5:27)
9. The Ballad of Red Buckets (4:00)
10. Don't Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2) (3:28)
11. (Straight Down to The) Bitter End (3:58)
12. My Heart's Reflection (6:01)
13. Attack on Love (1:51)
14. Blue Line Swinger (9:18)
Date Acquired 03/11/2010
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 11.98

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Notes

Recorded at Alex The Great in Nashville (USA).
Mixed at Sound On Sound in New York City (USA).
Mastered at Masterdisk.
Tracks 6 & 8 are based on improvised backing tracks for Jad Fair that were recorded at Snack Time North.
"Thanks to Steve for the drums and Danny for the bed."
©℗ 1995 Matador Records.
Manufactured by WEA Mfg.
Design [Album Design] – Georgia
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By [Assisted] – Devin Emke, Ed Raso
Producer – Roger Moutenot
Recorded By [Assisted] – Brad Jones
Sequenced By – Scott Ansell
Written-By – Yo La Tengo
Copyright © – Matador Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Matador Records
Manufactured By – WEA Manufacturing
Pressed By – WEA Mfg. Olyphant – Y9629
Recorded At – Alex The Great
Mixed At – Sound On Sound, New York
Mastered At – Masterdisk
Recorded At – Snack Time North
Barcode: 7 44861 01322 8
Matrix / Runout: wea mfg. OLYPHANT Y9629 LN OLE 132-2 01 M2S2
Mastering SID Code: ifpi L903
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U8B
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9        -0.00 dB   -10.82 dB      3:27 01/14 - Decora
DR8        -0.00 dB   -10.71 dB      6:42 02/14 - Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
DR12      -2.65 dB   -17.60 dB      3:06 03/14 - The Hour Grows Late
DR9        -0.00 dB   -10.08 dB      3:30 04/14 - Tom Courtenay
DR10      -0.00 dB   -11.76 dB      0:56 05/14 - False Ending
DR10      -0.62 dB   -12.56 dB      4:16 06/14 - Pablo and Andrea
DR10      -1.71 dB   -13.53 dB      2:26 07/14 - Paul Is Dead
DR9        -0.00 dB   -11.52 dB      5:28 08/14 - False Alarm
DR10      -0.56 dB   -12.38 dB      4:00 09/14 - The Ballad of Red Buckets
DR9        -3.39 dB   -16.03 dB      3:28 10/14 - Don't Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2)
DR9        -0.00 dB   -10.08 dB      3:59 11/14 - (Straight Down to the) Bitter End
DR10      -0.46 dB   -13.29 dB      6:02 12/14 - My Heart's Reflection
DR9        -0.00 dB   -10.96 dB      1:52 13/14 - Attack on Love
DR8        -0.00 dB     -9.23 dB      9:18 14/14 - Blue Line Swinger
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Number of tracks:  14
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate:44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 897 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Mark Deming
After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover — they're deliberately inaccurate.)
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