Yo La Tengo "Fakebook"

Artist: Yo La Tengo
Album: Fakebook
Label: Bar/None/City Slang
Release date: 1990
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock/Folk Rock/Country Rock

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Tracklisting:
01. Can't Forget
02. Griselda
03. Here Comes My Baby
04. Barnaby, Hardly Working
05. Yellow Sarong
06. You Tore Me Down
07. Emulsified
08. Speeding Motorcycle
09. Tried So Hard
10. The Summer
11. Oklahoma, U.S.A.
12. What Comes Next
13. The One To Cry
14. Andalucia
15. Did I Tell You
16. What Can I Say
Total running time: 44' 13"

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[Yo La Tengo - The Summer - Video Clip]

"Recommending Fakebook as the best place to begin a relationship with Yo La Tengo is slightly disingenuous, mainly because Yo La Tengo has never made another record like it, and perhaps never will. So, as completely wonderful as this record is, it's an accurate representation of one side of Yo La Tengo, and assuming that everything sounds like Fakebook might be disappointing. A collection of cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (e.g., 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. 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."" [source]

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Josh Rouse "Country Mouse, City House"

Artist: Josh Rouse
Album: Country Mouse, City House
Label: Nettwerk
Release date: 16 July 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock/Country Rock

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Tracklisting:
1. Sweetie
2. Italian Dry Ice
3. Hollywood Bass Player
4. God, Please Let Me Go Back
5. Nice To Fit In
6. Pilgrim
7. Domesticated Lovers
8. London Bridges
9. Snowy
Total running time: 38' 30"

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[Josh Rouse - Hollywood Bass Player - Video Clip]

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[Josh Rouse - Under Your Charm - Live @ Aula Magna, Lisbon]

"Few contemporary singer-songwriters are as beholden to the genre's original early-1970s stylings as Josh Rouse, whose 2003 album 1973 made explicit his affection for that era. Country Mouse, City House, like last year's Subtitulo, mines that vein with a soft-rock format that resembles the kind of thoughtful, easy-going country-rock sound arrived at by Rick Nelson.

Period influences seep through as Rouse reflects on his past in songs like "God, Please Let Me Go Back" – an apology dressed in wan threads of banjo and Harrison-ic slide guitar – and "Hollywood Bass Player", where the guitars and clavinet can't quite disguise the melodic echoes of "Big Yellow Taxi" lurking beneath. As with Subtitulo, Rouse's semi-expat lifestyle, between Nashville and Spain, brings a benign, worldly calm to his work that's noticeably at odds with the more aggressive tone with which most American songwriters would deal with the themes of isolation, separation and death in songs such as "Domesticated Lovers" and "Nice To Fit In"." [source]

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