President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hot Dogs

“Two records now available as a single CD, these really show off Yo La Tengo's ability to create musical extremes. New Wave Hot Dogs has the firm pop sense and strong songwriting of the debut, but <.i>President Yo La Tengo offers up a little more free-form skronk in the ten-minute live version of “The Evil That Men Do”, a gloriously squalling, over-the-top crash-and-bash session which proves how liberating and fun sonic dissonance can be. Just in case you don't like that sort of thing, Evil also shows up as a straight-ahead folk-rock track. This is a great collection of material that, as well as anything else they have recorded, gets to the heart of what makes this band tick.” ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide