Yo La Tengo - Ride the Tiger

Anyone who encountered Yo La Tengo's first album, Ride The Tiger, upon its original release in 1986 can be forgiven if they didn't immediately recognize that the band would become one of the most consistently interesting American acts of the next 15 years. Yo La Tengo's debut is a decidedly modest affair, and Ira Kaplan often sounds as if he's still finding his feet as a singer and guitarist, though Dave Schramm does more than his share to take up the slack (in his liner essay for the 1993 reissue of Ride The Tiger, Kaplan went so far as to write that "Dave's guitar playing is inarguably the best thing about the record"). Read More