Yo La Tengo, Ride the Tiger - 51m 17s

Tracks & Durations

1. Cone of Silence	2:49
2. Big Sky	2:46
3. Evil That Men Do	4:11
4. Forest Green	3:23
5. Pain of Pain	5:35
6. Way Some People Die	3:37
7. Empty Pool	2:21
8. Alrock's Bells	4:08
9. Five Years	3:45
10. Screaming Dead Balloons	3:17
11. Living in the Country	2:14
12. River of Water	2:30
13. House Is Not a Motel	3:43
14. Crispy Duck	3:04
15. Closing Time	3:45

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Review

In the liner notes for Matador's rerelease of Yo La Tengo's first album, YLT singer and then-rhythm guitarist Ira Kaplan writes, "To me, [Ride the Tiger] sounds like a Dave Schramm album." He's not completely off; back in those days, Schramm's guitar work (which can be heard, to better effect, in the Schramms) easily dominated the sound of the then-folky YLT. But it's not entirely a bad thing, either, since Schramm's guitar invigorated Kaplan's songs just as easily as it dominated them. Without his influence (see "The Forest Green"), there's no telling whether Kaplan would have developed into the guitar player evident on YLT's later works. There's also some ace taste in covers, including Arthur Lee & Love, the Kinks, and Pete Seeger. --Randy Silver

Other Versions

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Ride the Tiger

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 17s

Ride the Tiger

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 18s (+0m 1s)

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