Ride the Tiger (album)

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Name = Ride The Tiger
Type = Album
Artist = Yo La Tengo


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Released = 1986
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Genre = Rock
Length = 50:18
Label = Coyote
Producer = Clint Conley
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:blf5zfaheh5k link]
* Q Magazine Rating|4|5 (9/94, p. 131)
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This album = "Ride the Tiger"
(1986)
Next album = "New Wave Hot Dogs"
(1987)
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"Ride The Tiger", released in 1986 (see 1986 in music), was the debut album of the Hoboken-based alternative rock band Yo La Tengo.

Track listing

# The Cone of Silence – 2:49
# Big Sky – 2:46
# The Evil That Men Do – 4:11
# The Forest Green – 3:23
# The Pain of Pain – 5:35
# The Way Some People Die – 3:37
# The Empty Pool – 2:21
# Alrock's Bells – 4:08
# Five Years – 3:45
# Screaming Dead Balloons – 3:17
# Living In The Country – 2:14

A more recent CD reissue included four bonus tracks, including both sides of the band's preceding single as well as two live tracks recorded in the mid-'90s.

12. The River Of Water – 2:30
13. A House Is Not A Motel – 3:43
14. Crispy Duck – 3:04
15. Closing Time – 3:45

Personnel

*Ira Kaplan, Dave Schramm (vocals, guitar)
*Mike Lewis (bass)
*Georgia Hubley (drums)

*Additional personnel: David Bither, Mike Tchang (saxophone); Chris Nelson (trombone); Clint Conley, Dave Rick (bass).
*Engineers: Ken French, Rober Miller.