YO LA TENGO Ride The Tiger Orig US LP Coyote R.E.M.
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Up For Bids ... Is A Very Good Condition Copy Of Yo La Tengo's Classic 1st Album / 12 Inch Black Vinyl : RIDE THE TIGER - I Am Certain This Is A 1st Pressing Copy And A Rare Promotional Copy As Well!
YO LA TENGO
Ride The Tiger
Original US LP released on Coyote / Twin Tone Records in 1986.
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The progress of Hoboken's Yo La Tengo from one end of the Velvet Underground (preternaturally calm pop) to the other (guitar-noise world domination) is a curvy creative arc that goes off in various digressive directions and defies connect-the-dots simplicity. Beginning in earnest with the group's third album, onetime rock critic Ira Kaplan's introverted singing and demonstrative guitar work, held in gravitational orbit by Georgia Hubley's straightforward drumming and the married couple's fannish enthusiasms, have led Yo La Tengo (named for the cry of the Spanish-speaking outfielder) to nose around many fascinating corners of the noise-pop universe. Keeping cool heads even when rising distortion levels threaten the established order of things, Kaplan and Hubley (joined by a series of friends over the years until settling on James McNew as the crucial third member of the ensemble) make increasingly ambitious records that invariably deliver textural thrills, entertaining reference points and occasional blasts of wholly original invention.
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Ride the Tiger, produced by ex-Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley, benefits from Dave Schramm's sterling guitarings which, like Kaplan's reedy (as in Lou) vocals, underline Yo La Tengo's early vintage-Velvets connection. The band also covers Ray Davies' "Big Sky," but it's originals like "The Cone of Silence" and "The Forest Green" that make Ride the Tiger such a pleasure.
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Anyone who encountered Yo La Tengo's first album, Ride the Tiger, upon its original release in 1986 can be forgiven if they didn't immediately recognize that the band would become one of the most consistently interesting American acts of the next 15 years. Yo La Tengo's debut is a modest affair, and Ira Kaplan often sounds as if he's still finding his feet as a singer and guitarist, though Dave Schramm does more than his share to take up the slack (in his liner essay for the 1993 reissue of Ride the Tiger, Kaplan went so far as to write that "Dave's guitar playing is inarguably the best thing about the record"). However, Kaplan already knew where he was going as a songwriter, as "The Cone of Silence," "The Forest Green," and "The Pain of Pain" make clear, and if the group's bracing blend of tuneful eclecticism and creatively applied noise was still gestating, Kaplan's lovely melodic sense and the haunting blend of his reedy tenor and Georgia Hubley's slightly fragile soprano marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential. Clint Conley made a rare post-Mission of Burma appearance on Ride the Tiger as producer (he also takes over from bassist Mike Lewis for three cuts), making the most of the band's roomy jangle and giving the sound plenty of body when it needs it.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
The Cone Of Silence
Big Sky
The Evil That Men Do
The Forest Green
The Pain Of Pain
Side Two
The Way Some People Die
The Empty Pool
Alrock's Bells
Five Years
Screaming Dead Balloons
Living In The Country
Released on 'Coyote / Twin Tone Records' in 1986
Catalogue No. TTC 8676
Disc is in EX- condition
Sleeve is in EX+ condition (small promo / corner cut)
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