Pitchfork: Yo La Tengo to Release 3xCD Career Retrospective

Yo La Tengo to Release 3xCD Career Retrospective

Nick Patch and Chris Rediske report:
As bizarre as this may sound, Yo La Tengo has been together nearly 20 years. Related fact #1: You're old. Related Fact #2: We are too. However, as forward-looking as the Hoboken natives have been on their albums for the past 20 years, they've decided to celebrate their platinum anniversary in style, with an all-new career-spanning retrospective, Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs, 1984-2003, due out March 22nd on longtime label Matador Records.

The album is being released as both a double CD and a limited edition triple disc-- the first two discs will collect highlights from Yo La Tengo's entire career, dating back to the band's first self-released 7", and also including relative rarities like "Shaker" and "By the Time it Gets Dark". Meanwhile, the third disc will feature official "rarities" not gathered on the group's previous b-side comp, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo. The tracks on disc three of Prisoners of Love run the gamut from previously released b-sides, soundtrack offerings, and remixes, to several truly unreleased tracks. Tracklists:

>> Disc One:
01 Shaker
02 Sugarcube
03 Barnaby, Hardly Working
04 Little Eyes
05 Stockholm Syndrome
06 Our Way to Fall
07 From a Motel 6
08 Swing for Life
09 Tom Courtenay
10 I Heard You Looking
11 You Can Have it All
12 Did I Tell You

>> Disc Two:
01 The River of Water
02 Autumn Sweater
03 Big Day Coming
04 Pablo and Andrea
05 Drug Test
06 Season of the Shark
07 Upside-Down
08 The Summer
09 Tears Get in Your Eyes
10 Blue Line Swinger
11 The Story of Jazz
12 Nuclear War (version 1)
13 By the Time It Gets Dark

>> Disc Three:
01 Stay Away From Heaven (from the film Invisible Circus)
02 Pencil Test *
03 Almost True *
04 Tom Courtenay (Acoustic)
05 Big Day Coming (Demo) *
06 Dreaming (from the film Ode) *
07 Bad Politics
08 Blue-Green Arrow
09 Decora (acoustic) *
10 Out the Window (original version)
11 Weather Shy (from the film Invisible Circus)
12 Dreams
13 Autumn Sweater (remixed By Kevin Shields)
14 Ashes on the Ground
15 Mr. Ameche Plays the Stranger
16 Magnet

*previously unreleased

The Hoboken trio also has a DVD compilation scheduled for release in 2005, but it's not necessarily related to the CD compilations and it probably won't be released concurrently. Which is a pretty way of saying we don't know anything about it. The band is not currently on tour, but they're playing one show, and even though it's only one show, we're gonna write it out all nicelike because that's just how we roll. Check it:

01-26 Park City, UT - Sundance Cafe