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029: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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Spec B-Bop - The Light Is a Guy Listening to Sympathy for the Devil

The basic rhythm of the song was intentionally lifted from the Rolling Stones yesterday's papers You won't just do this papers Which I think is intentional because each of their previous two albums had a Rolling Stones reference in them somewhere. It makes a sort of trilogy of Stones references on Yolotango albums and I like that And you guys mentioned Noi, but the Crouch Rock band and really the specific song that this reminds me of The song Crouch Rock by Faust which is about 11 minutes long But it's just this one long just squashing noise for the whole thing Yeah, this song could maybe be, you know, seven minutes long and it would make its point, five minutes long and

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