The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Painful

These are the albums most often named alongside Yo La Tengo - Painful by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Yo La Tengo, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Galaxie 500 - Today
2. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
3. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
4. Lou Reed - Between Thought & Expression
5. Palace Songs - Hope
6. Scrawl - Smallmouth
7. Toadies - Hell Below/Stars Above
8. Crystalized Movements - Revelations From Pandemonium
9. Cul de Sac - I Don’t Want to Go to Bed
10. John Coltrane - Lush Life
11. Lois - Shytown
12. Thinking Fellers Union Local 2 - Mother of All Saints
13. 18th Dye - Tribute to a Bus
14. Autolux - Future Perfect
15. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
16. X - Wild Gift
17. The Boo Radleys - Everything’s Alright Forever
18. Luna - Lunapark
19. Bad Company - Bad Company
20. Robyn Hitchcock - You & Oblivion
21. The Grifters - Crappin' You Negative
22. Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
23. Dinosaur Jr. - You Are Living All Over Me
24. Combustible Edison - I, Swinger
25. Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret
26. Unrest - Perfect Teeth
27. Spiritualized - Pure Phase
28. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
29. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
30. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

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