JAD FAIR & YO LA TENGO – STRANGE BUT TRUE [MINT GREEN LP] Vinyl LP Record

In the '90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. It's a good list, sure, but what's most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another. Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. He's been involved in several hundred titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the '90s_Strange But True, with Yo La Tengo_has been hard to find, despite its stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records. For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and Bar/None.By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-'90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritsts' uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as its makers wanted it to be.

TRACKLISTING:

• 1. HELPFULL MONKEY WALLPAPERS ENTIRE H    
  
• 2. TEXAS MAN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS FOR OU    
  
• 3. NATIONAL SPORTS ASSOCIATION HIRES R    
  
• 4. DEDICATED THESPIAN HAS TEETH PULLED    
  
• 5. THREE-YEAR-OLD GENIUS GRADUATES HIG    
  
• 6. EMBARRASSED TEEN ACCIDENTALLY USES    
  
• 7. PRINCIPAL PUNISHES STUDENTS WITH BA    
  
• 8. RETIRED GROCER CONSTRUCTS TINY MOUN    
  
• 9. X-RAY REVEALS DOCTOR LEFT WRISTWATC    
  
• 10. CLUMSY GRANDMOTHER SERVES DELICIOUS    
  
• 11. RETIRED WOMAN STARTS NEW CAREER IN    
  
• 12. CIRCUS STRONGMAN RUNS FOR PTA PRESI    
  
• 13. HIGH SCHOOL SHOP CLASS CONSTRUCTS B    
  
• 14. CLUMSY GRANDMOTHER SERVES DELICIOUS    
  
• 15. OHIO TOWN SAVED FROM KILLER BEES BY    
  
• 16. NEVADA MAN INVENTS PIANO WITH 21 EX    
  
• 17. CLEVER CHEMIST MAKES CHEWING GUM FR    
  
• 18. MINNESOTA MAN CLAIMS MONKEY BOWLED    
  
• 19. INGENIOUS SCIENTIST INVENTS CAR OF    
  
• 20. CAR GEARS STICK IN REVERSE, DARING    
  
• 21. SHOCKING FASHION STATEMENT TERRORIZ    
  
• 22. FEISTY MILLIONAIRE FILLS POTHOLES W