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Yo La Tengo — Our Way to Fall
Album: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
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6.9

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Total ratings: 1027









Released: 2000
Length: 4:13
Plays (last 30 days): 1
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I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you
I remember my face turned red
And I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
And I remember pretending I wasn't looking

So we'll try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Cause we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love

I remember your old guitar
I remember I Can't Explain
I remember the way it looked around your neck
And I remember the day it broke
I remember song you sang
I remember the way you looked tonight
And I remember the way it made me feel

So we try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Because we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love
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 rgio wrote:

I thought this was Lloyd Cole.



Speaking of which we could really use some Lloyd Cole on RP; definitely a big missing.
Posted 3 months ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 teadye wrote:

I have to say I didn't hear this as a whole. Given the other comments it must be pretty good. I was in the bedroom and could only hear the bass line. That has to be the single most boring and uninspired bass riff I have ever heard. 4 notes played exactly the same over and over the full length of the song, and never varied.


It isn't a giddy-up tune or a rock-your-socks-off tune, so the bass is intentionally -- and deeply -- moved into the background. 
Posted 9 months ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Always cracks me up that a Hoboken band is named Yo La Tengo.
Posted 9 months ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Soundwise, oddly reminiscent of Ultravox's Vienna, I think - but maybe that's just me... 
Posted 1 year ago by Chewie    [ Reply ]
Nice and calming
Posted 1 year ago by Sofa_King    [ Reply ]
Can't have  too much Yo La Tengo!!
Posted 1 year ago by luxumbar1    [ Reply ]
I was introduced Yo La Tengo by someone I love. This is one of the reasons I love them.
Posted 2 years ago by itsme_bygolly    [ Reply ]
 Emmettf wrote:

Please, please play any and everything from the greatest band ever from New Jersey, Yo La Tengo.  Always underappreciated, yet fantastic!




I Agree!! ...I never heard of them before. ...Thanx RP!
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Please, please play any and everything from the greatest band ever from New Jersey, Yo La Tengo.  Always underappreciated, yet fantastic!
Posted 3 years ago by Emmettf    [ Reply ]
Dare I say my favorite YLT album, among a few...
Posted 3 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Just one of the best things in music.  This is why I listen here instead of terrestrial radio.  Thank you.
Posted 4 years ago by zinzarin    [ Reply ]
Excellent drum room! I love this sound!
Posted 4 years ago by ugowsky    [ Reply ]
I thought this was Lloyd Cole.
Posted 4 years ago by rgio    [ Reply ]
At our wedding my wife and I first danced to a Yo La Tengo song, "Center of Gravity."  Unfortunately it's not on the RP playlist.  
Posted 4 years ago by jrozzelle    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Tom Verlaine...
Posted 4 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
Subliminal singing?!
Posted 5 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
 xkolibuul wrote:
Gonna get flamed for this, but I'd much rather listen to YLT than Lou Reed.

Alright, have it folks.   
 
No flames from me -- musical tastes, like fingerprints, are unique. 
Posted 5 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Rockit9 wrote:
OK,  I am going to bed now.
 
Good night, sleep tight :)
Posted 5 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
"WAKE UP; WE'RE RECORDING!"
Posted 5 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
OK,  I am going to bed now.
Posted 6 years ago by Rockit9    [ Reply ]
 old_shep wrote:
This is for folks who never hear Lou Reed.  Just one rung below lame.

 
Gonna get flamed for this, but I'd much rather listen to YLT than Lou Reed.

Alright, have it folks.   
Posted 6 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
I like this tune. Between the war on drugs and futur islands ! Thank you RP for this moment
Posted 6 years ago by noe.architecte169    [ Reply ]
 jhorton wrote:
Seriously, if Lou Reed had just buckled down and learned that THIRD chord, he could have done this song....
 
He pretty much did this song and many like it long before this band was formed.  Nice tune.
Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 Desimia wrote:
Aw. This is a great tune. 

Cuz we're on our way, on our way, to fall in love.  
 
Yes, indeed.  Let the haters hate, and waste their lives ignoring beauty.
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Seriously, if Lou Reed had just buckled down and learned that THIRD chord, he could have done this song....
Posted 8 years ago by jhorton    [ Reply ]
{#Tongue}{#Hungry}This song is the BLT of the awesome YLT song collection! {#Chef}
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
A fave - nearly as good as their You Can Have It All.  Excellent live.
 
Posted 10 years ago by RoaringGirl    [ Reply ]
This is for folks who never hear Lou Reed.  Just one rung below lame.
Posted 10 years ago by old_shep    [ Reply ]
Great song, and a better album overall.  Probably my favorite YLT album.  Highly recommended to any fan that does not yet have it!
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Channelling Lou Reed and Leonard
Posted 11 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
If folk are going to record songs, I do expect that they'll at least feckin' sing, rather than croak voiceovers. Even Tom "Ol' Gravel Voice" Waits makes an effort to be tuneful.
Posted 11 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Aw. This is a great tune. 

Cuz we're on our way, on our way, to fall in love.  
Posted 11 years ago by Desimia    [ Reply ]
Best ylt song. Yo
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
ZZzzzzzzzzzz.

Ya'll enjoy. Someone wake me when it is over.
Posted 12 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester    [ Reply ]
more yo lo tengo
Posted 12 years ago by leafmold    [ Reply ]
Is it meant to sound like this?
Posted 12 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
 rdo wrote:
OMG!  I've never heard this on RP before.  My favorite Yo La Tengo song.  This is such a great song.  10!  {#Angel}
 
Agree. Have enjoyed this song for years. Though I can't quite push to 10.
Posted 12 years ago by gemtag    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:
This gets a good rating just because it took over from the Grateful Dead. Whew!
 
I concur!
 

Posted 13 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Yep, ideal segue from Grateful Dead - from mute-inducing agony to sleep-inducing tedium {#Sleep}. Here's hoping for at least a 5 in a song or two's time.
Posted 14 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
This gets a good rating just because it took over from the Grateful Dead. Whew!
Posted 14 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
From Rudyard Kipling's "The Elephant Child"

One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this 'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, 'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?' Then everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.

By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!'

Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'

 Limpopoking wrote:
Verrrrry mellow... me likey {#Sunny}
 


Posted 14 years ago by FrankMc    [ Reply ]
I have to say I didn't hear this as a whole. Given the other comments it must be pretty good. I was in the bedroom and could only hear the bass line. That has to be the single most boring and uninspired bass riff I have ever heard. 4 notes played exactly the same over and over the full length of the song, and never varied.

Posted 14 years ago by teadye    [ Reply ]
Verrrrry mellow... me likey {#Sunny}
Posted 14 years ago by Limpopoking    [ Reply ]
OMG!  I've never heard this on RP before.  My favorite Yo La Tengo song.  This is such a great song.  10!  {#Angel}
Posted 14 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
Love this album.  Yo La Tengo put it all together for this one.
Posted 14 years ago by Jeff09    [ Reply ]
I don't know how it's possible that I've never heard of this band. I checked AMG and almost all of their albums are rated at 4 or better. And their first album was in 1986!!! This one definitely slipped under the radar!
Posted 15 years ago by Droidac    [ Reply ]
{#Yawn}
Posted 15 years ago by JoBo    [ Reply ]
I agree! Its exquisite

 david1045 wrote:

This song is perfect. Unusual, warm, tense, anticipatory and a wonderful vibe. 


 


Posted 15 years ago by myrabrrz    [ Reply ]

This song is perfect. Unusual, warm, tense, anticipatory and a wonderful vibe. 


Posted 15 years ago by david1045    [ Reply ]
What a fantastic band. {#Daisy}
Posted 16 years ago by laroue    [ Reply ]
Plus they have the best album title of all time- I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass LOL!
Posted 16 years ago by Deadwing    [ Reply ]
Saw these headline one night at the end of the road festival recenly. They rock live, best band i saw.They are so diverse, love em. 8/10
Posted 17 years ago by geordiezimmerman    [ Reply ]
I have no idea why people like this band. I\'ve tried to like them, but they seem so boring.
Posted 17 years ago by teapot    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Dire Straits. Cool.
Posted 17 years ago by heberman    [ Reply ]
lovin' this .....
Posted 17 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
Jerry_Scott wrote:
Sounds like John Tesch or some such stuff.
Ya mean this guy?
Posted 17 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
moody, haunting. Like fog. I like fog.
Posted 17 years ago by Boodah    [ Reply ]
'Cos we're on our way...we're on our way to fall in love. TP's DH
Posted 18 years ago by torturedpotato    [ Reply ]
Sounds like Lou Reed. This is a good thing.
Posted 18 years ago by Gryn    [ Reply ]
Kind of repetitive..
Posted 18 years ago by Pantagruel    [ Reply ]
The lyrics may be interesting, but I couldn't get past the very boring music. Sounds like John Tesch or some such stuff.
Posted 18 years ago by Jerry_Scott    [ Reply ]
One of my favorite songs of all time! YLT played outdoors at Rutgers one year and it rained so only about 50 of us showed up. We were drenched but it was great to see them. I could listen to this song on repeat all afternoon long.
Posted 18 years ago by mettle    [ Reply ]
I worked with them on some tracks for the Painful CD as an assistant engineer - impossible to get Ira's voice onto tape without Dobly SR . makes me laugh now . can you imagine ? Seemed like it was impossibly hard -- tape hiss (noisefloor) just below his barely audible voice - we were banging our heads on the table. trying to be nice "stay close to the mic? ok? sounds great !"
Posted 19 years ago by pope183    [ Reply ]
Posted 19 years ago by strick    [ Reply ]
What a wonderful, beautiful little song. I'd like to hear more from them if this is any indication of what they're like.
Posted 19 years ago by dolfan    [ Reply ]
I listen to this and think :sunny.gif: :meditate.gif: That's what I look for in good music.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
RichardPrins wrote:
(great album)
Has a mesmerizing quality to it. Unique; nice.
Posted 19 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
(great album)
Posted 19 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
llazare wrote:
More YLT
What he said.
Posted 19 years ago by Skeletor    [ Reply ]
MaxEmerika wrote:
No. Painful is another YLT album, released several years before this one.
ROTFL!
Posted 19 years ago by Skeletor    [ Reply ]
I saw them on a bill with Big Star, Superdrag and Perfect up in NYC a few years ago. I thought they were kind of out of place, though in all it was an awesome show. YLT not my cup of tea.
Posted 19 years ago by stevebeaver    [ Reply ]
Highly original and just plain wonderful in my book, like all of YLT's works.
Posted 20 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
rockasaurus wrote:
Wow. This is painful.
No. Painful is another YLT album, released several years before this one.
Posted 20 years ago by MaxEmerika    [ Reply ]
Wow. This is painful.
Posted 20 years ago by rockasaurus    [ Reply ]
Bob_Abooey wrote:
I hope this ends soon. I'm losing the will to live...
I am not fairing that poorly. But I am having trouble keeping my eyes open...
Posted 20 years ago by gypsy222    [ Reply ]
Whew. I wasn't even paying attention for so long that I didn't recognize any of the previous three songs on the little playlist widget. Then I hit reFresh about several times, thinking, "This is cool, way cool, now who is it?" Well, I'll be--it is Yo La Tengo. My world is strangely new and cool.
Posted 20 years ago by Brad_Eleven    [ Reply ]
karen wrote:
If anyone likes Yo La Tengo, check out FAKEBOOK. It was a favourite album on a nine month roadtrip, It never lost popularity. Every one should have this album. It isn't as mellow as some of their other stuff, it just sounds fantastic!!!!! Every song is perfect I can't say enough about this album!!
I DID check it out. And you are right. Every song IS perfect. I like the acoustic non/electronic setting on this CD. Very different from their new one. I really like "The Summer".
Posted 21 years ago by veegez    [ Reply ]
Why does YLT get so little airplay here despite the high ratings? More YLT
Posted 21 years ago by llazare    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by Bob_Abooey: I hope this ends soon. I'm losing the will to live...
really! mass suicide theme song
Posted 21 years ago by vozdic    [ Reply ]
Posted 21 years ago by Skyhawk    [ Reply ]
More, please!! For example, from \"I can hear the heart beating as one,\" or any other. It would make my day to hear YLT on RP. Thank you! :D
Posted 21 years ago by meadowwoods    [ Reply ]
If anyone likes Yo La Tengo, check out FAKEBOOK. It was a favourite album on a nine month roadtrip, It never lost popularity. Every one should have this album. It isn't as mellow as some of their other stuff, it just sounds fantastic!!!!! Every song is perfect I can't say enough about this album!!
Posted 21 years ago by karen    [ Reply ]
Don\'t know if anyone has noticed, but I believe the instrumental portion of this tune is looped and used by PBS as background during their (quite compelling) promos. Sounds great.
Posted 22 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
The story of Ira meeting Georgia. A wonderful love song. Can\'t ever get too much Yo La Tengo. How about playing Tom Courtney some time?
Posted 22 years ago by llazare    [ Reply ]
Ah Bill, you\'ve just made my morning! I relocated a month ago, and had to leave behind my incredible MP3 collection on my old work computer. Some of my BEST songs were YLT, and I miss them terribly... this was one of them! My long-ago friend David Harrell in Chicago introduced me to YLT, and once I heard them I couldn\'t get enough. More, more, more!
Posted 22 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
wow This is fantastic. First time I've heard it...or them.
Posted 22 years ago by soulspin    [ Reply ]
Elevator music on thorazine. ZZZZZZZzzzzzz Ratings system does go low enough for me to rate this tune.
Posted 22 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]