''Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo'' is a 2-disc album by

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, consisting of rarities, alternate versions, and out-takes, spanning 1988 to 1995. The album was released on

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in 1996; a Japanese version with two extra tracks appeared in 1998. The title is a pun on the 1960

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album, '' Genius+Soul=Jazz''. ("The Genius" was Charles' nickname.) The first disc contains songs with vocals. There are several cover songs, such as John Cale's "Hanky Panky Nohow,"

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's "I'm Set Free," Beat Happening's "Cast A Shadow," and

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's "Too Late." The cover of

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's "Speeding Motorcycle" features Johnston calling in his vocals to the song via telephone. "Demons" originally appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film ''

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'' (in which YLT appeared as a Velvet Underground-esque band). The second disc consists entirely of instrumental pieces. Included are songs previously recorded by the group (such as an 8-second drum solo), and covers, such as The Urinals' "Surfin' With The Shah," and a wedding-band-like rendition of the Ramones' "

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." "Sunsquashed" is a 26-minute psychedelic jam, from which one of the band's main fansites took its name.

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Evanescent Psychic

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Drop" – 2:48 #"Demons" – 3:18 #"Fog Over Frisco" – 3:47 #"Too Late" (

) – 5:57 #"Hanky Panky Nohow" ( John Cale) – 2:58 #"Something To Do" – 2:11 #"Ultra-Powerful

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Picks Up Music From Venus" (feat.

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- written by David Fair and Yo La Tengo) – 1:31 #"Up To You" – 4:03 #"Somebody's Baby" (Jackson Browne, Danny Kortchmar) – 3:38 #"Walking Away From You" – 5:58 #"Artificial Heart" (Ernest Noyes Brookings, Kaplan) – 3:00 #"Cast A Shadow" ( Beat Happening) – 2:24 #"I'm Set Free" (The Velvet Underground cover) – 4:10 #"Barnaby, Hardly Working" – 3:54 #"Some Kinda Fatigue" – 7:38 #"Speeding Motorcycle" (feat. and written by

) – 3:33

Disc 2

#"Nutricia" – 5:01 #"Her Grandmother's Gift" – 2:39 #"From A Motel 6, Pt. 2" – 4:29 #"Gooseneck Problem" – 0:04 #"Surfin' With The Shah" (

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) – 2:07 #"Ecstasy Blues" – 2:47 #"Too Much, Pt. 1" – 1:18 #"Blitzkrieg Bop" ( Ramones)– 2:18 #"One Self: Fish Girl" – 5:31 #"Enough" – 5:25 #"Drum Solo" – 0:08 #"From A Motel 6, Pt. 1" – 3:35 #"Too Much, Pt. 2" – 0:21 #"Sunsquashed" – 26:22

References

External links

Album details at Sunsquashed.com

Yo La Tengo band site

Matador Records' official YLT page
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