Yo La Tengo Is “Cherry Chapstick” the funniest serious-sounding song ever? Or is it a song sadly bemoaning lack of skills in the dating department winding up in a cul-de-sac of isolation? It is both an odd tale of randomness and simultaneously of loneliness. What I love about the song is the contrast between the squealing feedback from Ira Kaplan’s Fender Stratocaster and the subject matter straight out of some Gen X version of Hitchcock’s