- alternative rock, indie rock
- 49 min
- 11 tracks
- Matador
Painful is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released in 1993 by record label Matador, their first for the label.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Big Day Coming7:05
- 2From a Motel 64:09
- 3Double Dare3:28
- 4Superstar-Watcher1:45
- 5Nowhere Near6:03
- 6Sudden Organ4:46
- 7A Worrying Thing2:54
- 8I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long5:07
- 9The Whole of the Law2:20
- 10Big Day Coming (Second Version)4:15
- 11I Heard You Looking7:01
11 tracks, 49 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- Label
- Matador
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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