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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Christgau's Consumer Guide
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Entertainment Weekly	B−
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	5/10

May I Sing with Me is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released in February 1992 by record label Alias. This album is the first with their now-permanent bassist James McNew. The song "Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)" is a remake of the song "Crispy Duck" with different lyrics.

Style

The album's sound has been described as an algamation of the "jangle-storm" of The Feelies and the sounds of noise pop.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Detouring America with Horns"	Hubley	4:03
2.	"Upside-Down"	Kaplan	2:38
3.	"Mushroom Cloud of Hiss"	Hubley, Kaplan	9:25
4.	"Swing for Life"	Hubley, Kaplan	5:06
5.	"Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)"	Hubley, Kaplan	6:20
6.	"Some Kinda Fatigue"	Kaplan	4:34
7.	"Always Something"	Hubley, Kaplan	4:38
8.	"86-Second Blowout"	Kaplan	1:32
9.	"Out the Window"	Kaplan	4:00
10.	"Sleeping Pill"	Hubley, Kaplan, McNew	9:44
11.	"Satellite"	Kaplan	2:17

Personnel

Ira Kaplan – guitar, vocals
James McNew – bass, occasional vocals, occasional guitar
Georgia Hubley – drums, vocals, some feedback, cover art

Additional personnel

Gene Holder – producer; bass (tracks 4, 5)
Lou Giordano – engineer
Carl Plaster – assistant engineer
John Siket – engineer (tracks 4, 5); mixing engineer
Greg Calbi – mastering
John Halpern – front and back cover photos

References

Pan, Arnold (January 16, 2013). "Popular Songs: 15 (Or So) Essential Yo La Tengo Tracks". PopMatters. Retrieved May 11, 2016. it was after that fork in the road that Yo La Tengo took on the noise pop identity that has been its profile ever since...
Dougan, John. "May I Sing with Me – Yo La Tengo". AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
Kot, Greg (March 19, 1992). "Yo La Tengo: May I Sing With Me (Alias)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
Christgau, Robert (2000). "Yo La Tengo: May I Sing With Me". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
Browne, David (March 6, 1992). "May I Sing With Me". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Yo La Tengo". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 896–97. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
Earles, Andrew. Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 361.

External links

May I Sing with Me at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e Yo La Tengo
Georgia Hubley Ira Kaplan James McNew Dave Schramm Dave Rick
Studio albums	Ride the Tiger New Wave Hot Dogs President Yo La Tengo Fakebook May I Sing with Me Painful Electr-O-Pura I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out Summer Sun I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Popular Songs Fade Stuff Like That There There's a Riot Going On We Have Amnesia Sometimes This Stupid World
EPs	Today Is the Day!
Compilation albums	Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo Prisoners of Love Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics They Shoot, We Score Murder in the Second Degree
Other albums	Strange but True (with Jad Fair) The Sounds of the Sounds of Science Fuckbook
Singles	"You Can Have It All" "Saturday" "Periodically Double or Triple" "Stupid Things"
Related articles	Discography This Stupid World tour Dump

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