Popular Songs is the twelfth full-length album

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 by Hoboken

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-based rock

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 band Yo La Tengo

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, released digitally, on CD, and double LP

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 on September 8, 2009. It is their 7th album released on Matador

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 and the eighth album to be given Matador's Buy Early Get Now treatment. It comes along with a vinyl LP featuring Yo La Tengo’s Original Score from the Motion Picture Adventureland

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.

Five videos were made by director John McSwain to accompany one song from the album each. In the weeks leading up to the release of the album, a new video was posted on Matador's various "partner sites" and collected on Matador's own website.http://www.matadorrecords.com/yo_la_tengo/just_listen/ The first video, for "Here to Fall," was posted on Matador's own "Matablog" on July 28, 2009.

The album leaked onto the Internet on July 26; in response, Matador began streaming the album to Buy Early Get Now customers on July 28, more than a week before the stream was originally advertised to begin.

Track listing

1. "Here to Fall" - 5:45
2. "Avalon or Someone Very Similar" - 3:17
3. "By Two's" - 4:29
4. "Nothing to Hide" - 2:46
5. "Periodically Double or Triple" - 3:53
6. "If It's True" - 2:39
7. "I'm on My Way" - 4:35
8. "When It's Dark" - 3:54
9. "All Your Secrets" - 4:26
10. "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" - 9:39
11. "The Fireside" - 11:25
12. "And the Glitter Is Gone" - 15:54
13. "You've Got a Friend
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