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- Artist: Yo La Tengo
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- Release Date: 1990
- Total Time: 39:30
- Genre: Rock
Review
Recommending Fakebook as the best place to begin a relationship with Yo La Tengo is slightly disingenuous, mainly because Yo La Tengo has never made another record like it, and perhaps never will. So, as completely wonderful as this record is, it's an accurate representation of one side of Yo La Tengo, and assuming that everything sounds like Fakebook might be disappointing. A collection of cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (e.g., Peter Stampfel, Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair), Fakebook is warm, low-key, and lovely, with heartfelt singing and playing that never flags after hundreds of replays. It's impossible to imagine playing this record and not smiling and singing along. A big bonus is a great version of the Flamin' Groovies' "You Tore Me Down." ~ John Dougan, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Can't Forget | Ira Kaplan | Yo La Tengo | (2:13) |
| Griselda | Yo La Tengo | (1:54) | |
| Here Comes My Baby (Lyrics) | Cat Stevens | Yo La Tengo | (2:26) |
| Barnaby, Hardly Working | Ira Kaplan, |
Yo La Tengo | (4:12) |
| Yellow Sarong | The Scene Is Now | Yo La Tengo | (1:37) |
| You Tore Me Down | The Flamin' Groovies | Yo La Tengo | (2:54) |
| Emulsified | Yo La Tengo | (2:46) | |
| Speeding Motorcycle | Daniel Johnston | Yo La Tengo | (3:16) |
| Tried So Hard (Lyrics) | Gene Clark | Yo La Tengo | (2:13) |
| The Summer | Yo La Tengo | (2:40) | |
| Oklahoma, U.S.A. (Lyrics) | Ray Davies | Yo La Tengo | (2:18) |
| What Comes Next | Ira Kaplan | Yo La Tengo | (3:11) |
| The One to Cry | Yo La Tengo | (1:47) | |
| Andalucia | John Cale | Yo La Tengo | (3:33) |
| Did I Tell You | Ira Kaplan | Yo La Tengo | (3:21) |
| What Can I Say | Yo La Tengo | (2:03) |
