{"id":807,"date":"2014-05-09T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:20:03","slug":"song-of-the-week-ohm-by-yo-la-tengo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Ohm&#8221; by Yo La Tengo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Ohm&#8221; by Yo La Tengo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Py2KOyrtq6o\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I listened to Yo La Tengo&#8217;s 2013 album <em>Fade<\/em> for the first time in a while this week, and more or less immediately realized I hadn&#8217;t listened to it nearly enough. I remember liking it quite a lot when I first got it (it came out at the beginning of last year) and thinking, yep, it sounds like a pretty good Yo La Tengo album.\u00a0 But actually I was wrong: it is an excellent Yo La Tengo album. It does all the things Yo La Tengo has been doing since before you were born, and it balances them in a way that sounds at once invulnerable as a fortress and delicate as thinly-blown glass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ohm&#8221; is the opening track of <em>Fade.<\/em> This video explains the complicated mathematics and surreal dream you need to master to create Yo La Tengo. It&#8217;s like a Schoolhouse Rock episode about rock. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs\" target=\"_blank\">Because knowledge is power<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvhZXkpwsJQ\" target=\"_blank\">I got it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Ohm%22%20by%20Yo%20La%20Tengo\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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