Monday's Long Song

 

Yo La Tengo formed in 1984 as another band from Hoboken, New Jersey, playing their own sound based on feedback and whispered vocals influenced by Love, The Soft Boys and Mission Of Burma. During the last decades they released a lot of albums (and sometimes with their own interpretation of other artists songs). In 2015 they returned surprisingly with Fade and brought us back their true sound with a superb album. I saw them live in 1991 supporting Eleventh Dream Day in a small club in Stuttgart and was fascinated how good they are on stage. A few weeks ago they released a special edition of Fade and their version of Stupid Things is what you can expect live.

Yo La Tengo - Stupid Things (Instrumental)

That's When I Reach For My Revolver

 

I can't forget the pictures I saw a couple of days ago when a right-wing mob stormed the Capitol in Washington. I am far away to blame all Americans but you can see what a so called leader is able to to. Drilling hatred in every speech he did, insulting everyone who don't agree to his words and ignoring every other opinion. He will leave in a few days but I fear he's not gone. If his aim is true to form up in a few year for another election his seed will rise. All those nationalists are going to tear democracy down. I saw pictures like these a few months ago when a similar mob stormed German Bundestag. And you can see in social medias that fools denying Covid 19 and comparing the lockdown rules with a concentration camp having thousands of followers. These scenes and the hatred I hear reminds me on the darkest German days when the Weimar republic died and a big leader took over the control. It may be a dark vision but thinking of this all makes me angry and I remembered a song by Mission of Burma from long times ago (of course not really want to use).

Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver