Painful (album)

Painful
Studio album by Yo La Tengo
Released October 5, 1993
Genre
Length 48:36
Label Matador
Producer
  • Fred Brockman
  • Roger Moutenot
Yo La Tengo chronology
May I Sing with Me
(1992)May I Sing with Me1992		 Painful
(1993)		 Electr-O-Pura
(1995)Electr-O-Pura1995
Singles from Painful
  1. "Big Day Coming"
    Released: 30 September 1993
  2. "From a Motel 6"
    Released: 7 January 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA−[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[6]
Mojo[7]
NME8/10[8]
Pitchfork9.6/10[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[10]
Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10[11]

Painful is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released in 1993 by record label Matador, their first for the label.

Content

The album marked a creative shift from Yo La Tengo's previous work, blending atmospheric and ambient sounds with their famous noise jams. Painful features a much more melody-driven Yo La Tengo in its hazy, dream-like songwriting.

Two versions of the track "Big Day Coming" are present on the album and display the range of musical stylings Yo La Tengo works with; the first version features a simple organ melody accompanied by a soft bass counterpoint and Kaplan's guitar feedback echoing in the background, while the second version is a much more straightforward, shoegaze style with an accompanying organ solo towards the latter part of the song.

Release

On 2 December 2014, the album was reissued with bonus material as Extra Painful, available on double CD, double vinyl and as a digital download.[12]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)VocalsLength
1."Big Day Coming"
  • Ira Kaplan
Kaplan7:04
2."From a Motel 6"
  • Ira Kaplan
  • Georgia Hubley
Hubley4:08
3."Double Dare"
  • Ira Kaplan
Kaplan3:28
4."Superstar-Watcher"
  • Yo La Tengo
 1:42
5."Nowhere Near"
  • Georgia Hubley
Hubley6:01
6."Sudden Organ"
  • Ira Kaplan
Kaplan4:42
7."A Worrying Thing"
  • Ira Kaplan
Kaplan2:53
8."I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long"
  • Yo La Tengo
Kaplan5:04
9."The Whole of the Law"
  • Hubley
  • Kaplan
2:19
10."Big Day Coming"
  • Ira Kaplan
Kaplan4:14
11."I Heard You Looking"
  • Yo La Tengo
 7:01
Notes
  • An exact reproduction of the original single Shaker 7" came with the vinyl edition.
  • 15 additional bonus tracks were available for download

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Yo La Tengo – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Painful – Yo La Tengo". AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kot, Greg (November 11, 1993). "Melody Lingers On". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Yo La Tengo: Painful". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  6. ↑ "Yo La Tengo: Painful". Entertainment Weekly: 54. October 8, 1993.
  7. ↑ Chick, Stevie (February 2015). "Yo La Tengo: Extra Painful". Mojo (255): 102.
  8. ↑ "Yo La Tengo: Painful". NME: 29. November 6, 1993.
  9. ↑ Berman, Stuart (December 2, 2014). "Yo La Tengo: Extra Painful". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  10. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Yo La Tengo". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 896–97. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  11. ↑ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  12. ↑ Cosloy, Gerard. "Yo La Tengo > Coming December 2 : Yo La Tengo's 'Extra Painful' 2XLP / 2XCD". Matador Records. Retrieved December 9, 2014.


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