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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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The Burning Spear Is a Nice Song

When I first heard this album, I was really surprised that the album kept going after this song It sounds like such a closer Yeah, yeah And what I've come to realize about it, you mentioned it being like sort of a pace car I'm seeing it now as this sort of like a Zamboni machine Smoothing out the eyes for the rest of the album to consume you Oh, that's better You're right, it's like the break between the second and third periods Yeah, and it makes a lot more sense that way. If there's anything I would change about this album,  I feel like this song could have ended around four minutes in But I don't mind

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