Electr-O-Pura

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Electr-O-Pura
Studio album by Yo La Tengo
Released May 2, 1995
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Indie rock, noise pop
Length 58:23
Label Matador Records ole-132
Producer Roger Moutenot
Yo La Tengo chronology

Painful
(1993)		 Electr-O-Pura
(1995)		 Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau A[2]
Piero Scaruffi 6.5/10[3]
Spin 9/10[4]

Electr-O-Pura is the seventh album by Hoboken, New Jersey indie rock group Yo La Tengo, released in 1995. The back of the CD case gives intentionally wrong running times leading many to think the running time is around 45 minutes, when in fact it is just shy of one hour. Also, it gives seemingly random alternate titles, listed in parentheses next to the primary titles, in the style of records released on the International Artists label; they are actually lifted from a book on the Blues Project.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Decora" - 3:27
  2. "Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)" - 6:42
  3. "The Hour Grows Late" - 3:06
  4. "Tom Courtenay" - 3:30
  5. "False Ending" - :56
  6. "Pablo and Andrea" - 4:16
  7. "Paul Is Dead" - 2:26
  8. "False Alarm" - 5:28
  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" - 3:59
  12. "My Heart's Reflection" - 6:02
  13. "Attack on Love" - 1:52
  14. "Blue Line Swinger" - 9:19

Alternate Titles

  1. "A Rehearsal"
  2. "Sound Is Music And Quick Lights And The People Who Make Our Sound Their Own. That's When We're Really Turned On."
  3. "It's The Start Of A Musical Dialogue"
  4. "A Group Is Like A Jig-Saw Puzzle-Everything Must Fit Into The Groove"
  5. "A Few More Beats-And Maybe, A New Sound"
  6. "The Music Can Really Drag It Out Of You-If It Says Something"
  7. "Waiting For A Break"
  8. "Sometimes, Not Often, You Start A Number And Something Miraculous Happens, And Then The Scene Is Beautiful."
  9. "The Sound Of A Guitar Is With Me All The Time-Or Am I With It?"
  10. "A Break Like This Is Worth Its Weight In Publicity"
  11. "By Now The Music Becomes A Little Like A Perpetual Diary"
  12. "Play It Soft And Easy, Play It Hard-The Beat Still Comes Through"
  13. "One Of My Favorite Instruments-The Electronic Flute"
  14. "Patterns Of Sound Are My Bag Right Now"

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Deming, Mark. Electr-O-Pura at AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2006.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Yo La Tengo > Consumer Guide Reviews". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 9 January 2008. 
  3. ↑ Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "Yo La Tengo". pieroscaruffi.com. Retrieved January 17, 2014. 
  4. ↑ Terri Sutton (June 1995). "Electr-O-Pura". Spin 11 (3): 100. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-09. 
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