Everything Old, New Again: Yo La Tengo v. Van Halen

While the Fiery Furnaces are turning into Kiss, we are finding more returns to the Golden Age of Everything. Check the video for "Here To Fall," the new single from Hoboken living-room tunesmiths Yo La Tengo: beautiful, mesmerizing, deeply artistic in the way that the slow-motion footage of skywriters and kaleidoscopic editing capture the poignancy in Ira Kaplan's lyrics about the great leap of faith that is love. Yeah, well….

…. too bad the whole thing is a total rip-off (!!!) of Van Hagar's Top Gun-inspired, military-worshiping, Reagan-era hard-on of a treatment for "Dreams"!

(There's zebra-striped spandex showing through that hole in your corduroys, Ira.)