Yo La Tengo - WFMU

(sorry, I can resist everything but a cheap dig)

I'ma gwon attempt to tape it this year...

I'm your captain - Grand funk
Gigantic - pixies
barstool blues - neil young
next big thing - dictators
(lost signal .. don't know how much I missed)
build me up buttercup - foundations
jesus - velvet underground
surfin' bird - trashmen
psychotic reaction - count five
?
cars - gary numan
the lion sleeps tonight - tokens
hold on I'm coming - sam & Dave
tonight's the night - Neil Young
tonight's the night - rod stewart
monk time - the monks
she cracked - modern lovers
this boy - beatles
?square one?
white light white heat - vu
hey ya - outcast
close to me - the cure
taxman - beatles
?i know the flower girl?
london calling - clash
Medley:
-we didn't start the fire - bily joel
-there is a light that never goes out - smiths
-cortez the killer - neil young
-I found a reason - vu
-powderfinger - neil young
-I see a darkness - johhny cash
-walk away renee - left banke
-black betty - ramjam
-rock & roll - vu
-hoboken girls - beach boys

And what would be the James Bond/Pussy Galore analogue?

I have it taped, I think. I haven't gotten a chance to play it back yet to see if it came out. I hope to get it into wav files this week. I can post mp3s of the most entertaining bits. (or maybe the whole thing, if I can find the space..)

they didn't actually play "walk away renee." the last song they did, after announcing "a lot of requests tonight for the velvet underground, a lot of requests for neil young, a lot of requests for billy joel," was just them going round and round for about eight minutes on the "we didn't start the fire" chords while shouting out the names of requests that they hadn't been able to get to. occcasionally they'd also chant a verse worth of said song's lyrics, to no particular tune. "walk away renee" was one of those, lyrics intoned by ira. it was all quite amusing. best moment of this was georgia calling out, "his name is alive ... who knows any songs by them?!"

highlights of the set for me were "next big thing" and the grand funk song. they peaked early.

p.s. i requested billy joel.

After two years spent getting clearances, Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics has finally escaped. Got mine in the mail yesterday (as you will if you pledged for it in 2004); otherwise you can order it from YLT:

http://www.yolatengo.com/forsale/

I've only played the first ten tracks, which include my tough but fair 2000 request of the Nightmares' "Baseball Altamont." It's likely the only album you'll ever own that follows "Meet the Mets" with X-Ray Spex.

How many tracks? (care to list them?) How many minutes?

They did a raveup at the end with Ira going "You've got to shake some action down on me" It was great.

I saw Ira Kaplan at Maxwells a couple years later and asked if he remembered playing it. I was pleased that he did. He said that lots of bands have versions of that song worked out.

tighten up
the night chicago died
raw power
sea cruise
favorite thing
baseball altamont
meet the mets
oh bondage, up yours!
ding dang/interplanetary music
captain lou
oh! sweet nuthin'
route 66
roadrunner
tijuana taxi
mendocino / raindrops keep fallin' on my head
sweet dreams (are made of this)
baby's on fire
mary anne with the shaky hand
the hokey pokey
you may be right
mama told me not to come
roundabout
you ain't seen nothing yet
don't worry, kyoko (mummy's only looking for her hand in the snow)
downtown
let the good times roll
never on sunday
20th century boy
rock the boat
medley: shotgun / my sharona / mr. apollo / sonic reducer / god only knows / if and when / the summer sun / schizophrenia / another girl, another planet / bedazzled

with Little Orphan Annie eyes!

Wednesday, January 17th, 11pm - 2am ET

on Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains with Noah

Everyone knows that James plays bass in Yo La Tengo but did you know that he's a huge hip-hop fan and has actually worked on some hip-hop records? Tune in to hear James spin some of his favorites and do the chit-chat thing with host Noah Zark.

http://wfmu.org/

Ira has been doing fill-ins, another tonight at 2a.m. ET:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/IK

Cool, thanks for the heads-up. I set it up to record.

again from Ira:

Do you have a computer? If not, are you in listening range of 91.1 FM in Jersey City, New Jersey or 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley of New York State? If you can answer yes to either of these questions, then you are in luck or out of luck, depending on how you define the term. On Tuesday, November 27, from 11 pm-2 am, Eastern Standard Time, I will be on the air, in theair slot usually occupied by Small Change, playing records and chatting about this and that. You can listen live either on your radio or by going to wfmu.org.

Yo La Tengo comes back to murder more classics! This Sunday, March 2, from 5-8pm, Gaylord Fields and Bob Brainen mark the halfway point of the WFMU fundraising Marathon by once again enlisting Yo La Tengo to take your calls, pledges and most importantly cover song requests, which will then be brought to life over the air!

The band's long history with the WFMU Marathon has proven that Yo La Tengo is unstoppable, and tonight's show is a special longer 3-hour broadcast just in case that extended version of "Hocus Pocus" comes up. Gaylord co-hosts the rest of Bob's show from 8-9pm after the band packs up as well.

OK, I got my request ready.

I sure hope they play it soon. (Fingerz crossed)

Oh no. I hope it's not absorbed into this "Chantilly Lace" uber-medley.

Mine got in the medley... I think.

How many other songs are about getting pneumonia when you fall in love though.

Tra-la-la, baby.

Why'n't you just split away?

Sorry, just thinking about how Lou Reed would have played my request.

setlist taken from the mefi thread and the wfmu blog:

01. Roky Erickson - Starry Eyes
02. Bruce Springsteen - Badlands
03. Velvet Underground - She's My Best Friend
04. Velvet Underground - Run Run Run

05. The Who - I Can't Explain
06. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
07. Feelies - Slow Down
08. Big Star - I'm In Love With A Girl
09. Fleshtones - Critical List
10. Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf

11. Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses
12. Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady
13. The Sonics - Shot Down
14. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

15. Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
16. Wild Angels/Bonnie St. Claire ??? - "Clap Your Hands, Stamp your feet, abba dabba dabba do" ???
17. ??? "It'll be / It'll be our world" song ???
18. Nick Lowe / Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

19. Hypnolovewheel - Bridget Because
20. Chumbawumba - Mannequin
21. Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas
22. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

23. The Feelies - It's Only Life
24. Iggy Pop - The Passenger
25. The Troggs - With A Girl Like You
26. Ron Davis - It's a Mystery Called Love
27. The Kinks - See My Friends

28. Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
29. Johnny Cash - If I Were A Carpenter
30. The Rivieras - California Sun
31. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
32. Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum

33. Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy
34. Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
35. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
36. The Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace (Medley)

apparently there were some more:

37. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
38. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
39. "At last I'm free I can hardly see in front of me"
40. Frogs - Now You Know You're Black
41. "My litte girl, I bet you went out every night" (?)
42. Burt Bacharach / Carpenters - "What Do You get When You Fall in Love
43. Bob Dylan - I'll keep it with mine
44. Modern Lovers - A Plea For Tenderness
45. Poppa Pass The Biscuits
46. Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
47. Richard Harris - Macarthur Park (Someone Left A Cake Out In The Rain)
48. Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
49. Banana Splits Theme Song
50. Earth Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland
"Ain't Got Nothing" (?)
51. Francis Scott Key - Star Spangled Banner

Yeah, those were in the medley.

Missed the whole thing. wow, no Kinks til #27.

Richard Harris - Macarthur Park (Someone Left A Cake Out In The Rain)

why o why did I go to bed.

Because you didn't want to wait around to hear two lines of your song interpolated into "Chantilly Lace"?

8-11 EDT tonight

doing it again, w/ live video here

http://wfmu.org/

bumped for NOW

Yo La Tengo - WFMU All Request Marathon
March 4, 2011

Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (George Harrison) (dedicated to people in Wisconsin)
Al Green - Love & Happiness (inaudible vocals by Georgia)
Friend and Lover - Reach Out In The Darkness
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - A Plea For Tenderness (my request)
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home

The Band - The Weight
Alex Chilton - Hey, Little Child
Yo La Tengo - Decora
Patti Smith/Bruce Springsteen - Because The Night
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/Like A Rolling Stone (medley)
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Astral Plane
The Twinkeyz - Aliens In Our Midst
The Clean - Drawing to a Whole
Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie
Velvet Underground - I'm Sticking With You

Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
Unholy Modal Rounders (Michael Hurley) - The Slurf Song
Rolling Stones - The Spider and the Fly
Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
The Fall - Totally Wired

The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (Gaylord Fields on vocals)
Lou Reed - Vicious
Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me
Beatles - We Can Work It Out
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
MSFB (William DeVaughn) / Arthur Lee & Love - Be Thankful For What You Got

Cheap Trick - He's A Whore
Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Dictators - Stay With Me
The Who - Happy Jack

The Association - Never My Love
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talking At Me (Midnight Cowboy)
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Government Center

Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (medley)
Vibrolux?
Lou Christie - Lightning Strikes
Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand
Roberta Flack (Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel) - Killing Me Softly With His Song
Neil Young - Powderfinger
Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
????
Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
Yo La Tengo - Magnet
Heart - Magic Man
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
Television - Venus de Milo
Fugs (Tuli Kupferberg) - Nothing (WFMU Version)
Velvet Underground - The Gift
Kinks - When I Turn Off The Living Room Light

c&p-ed from wfmu fyi ...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (Gaylord Fields on vocals)

awesome!

fierce verz of "He's a Whore"

Where can I listen to this one? The tracklist looks amazing.

"archive unavailable"

I listened to a couple of songs early, but their "covers for pledges" shows have never been very good imho.

i recorded it, but haven't split up the tracks yet

ooh would love to hear it once you have!
the covers for pledges thing is fun! the murdering the classics CD is hilarious.

i have realized that i am never actually going to get around to cutting this into tracks, so here's a 128kbps web rip of the whole show. if *you* feel like cutting it up, do let me know.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yz7850

doin' it live in 15 mins, til midnight ET

video feed too it seems

wow, an Elaine Stritch cover

via Ken K on Fbook:

Bent Fabric - Alley Cat

Every Mother's Son - Come On Down To My Boat

Flying Machine - Smile A Little Smile For Me

James & Bobby Purify - I'm Your Puppet

Tall Dwarfs - Crush

Bent Fabric - Alley Cat (reprise)

Bob Hilliard & Carl Sigman - Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo (I Don't Want to Leave the Congo) (from the Broadway musical "Angel in the Wings," originally sung by Elaine Stritch)

NRBQ - I Want You Bad

Bonzo Dog Band - I Want to Be With You

Monkees - I Wanna Be Free

Monkees - Daydream Believer

Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows

The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman

Shangri-Las - Leader of The Pack

Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me

Misfits - Hybrid Moments

Kinks - King Kong

Kinks - Apeman

Byrds - Goin' Back

Talking Heads - Pulled Up

Rutles - Cheese and Onions

Big Star - Blue Moon

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

The Clean - Tally Ho

Troggs (and Condo Fucks) - With A Girl Like You

Monkees (and Minor Threat) - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

Devo - Uncontrollable Urge

Neil Young - Powderfinger

Richard and Linda Thompson - Wall of Death

Derek and the Dominoes - Layla (instrumental)

Neil Hefti - Batman TV Show Theme

A-Bones - A-Bomb Bomp

Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

Sparks - Angst In My Pants

Searchers ( and Neil Young) - Farmer John (w/ Ramones - Gabba Gabba Hey intercut)

Children In Adult Jails - Crispin Glover (Pseu Braun on vocals)

Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band - Born To Run

Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

Nick Lowe - Marie Provost (Gaylord Fields on vocals)

Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

Replacements - Lovelines (medley) included: Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon; Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You; Bruce Springsteen - Bobby Jean; Dillard & Clark - Why Not Your Baby; George Jones - The King Is Gone (So Are You); Moody Blues/Peter Gabriel/Pink Floyd; Tim Dog - Fuck Compton (Gerard C's request); Neil Young - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Vicky W's request); The Sweet - Little Willy; Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes; Michael Bolton; Fleshtones - Please Mr. Custer; Verlaines - Death and the Maiden (Steven B's request); Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual To Be Loved By Anyone; Taylor Swift - Safe and Sound; Unrest - I Do Believe You Are Blushing; Hee Haw Song; Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday; Haircut 100 - Love Plus One; Break Even - Falling To Pieces; Rocky Horror Show - Dammit Janet; Big Star - Back Of A Car; Big Star - For You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2YKqEkhijU

Ira Kaplan is DJing on WFMU right now. It is totally great, all minimal weird stuff so far. Michael Morley!

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/56505

This show rules.

this year's edition of the fundraiser is on now

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59830

aww they're opening with 'love train'

dug that beatles cover

I listen to the Murdering the Classics CD from time to time and enjoy it

Ira the K is DJing for the next 3 hours

wfmu.org

This would be a great Yo La Tengo cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j29WmdSkE1w

careful of that dead air, ira the k

he has my respect for occasionally playing a Jerry Lewis crank phone call

he sits in regularly for other presenters. here's a list of all his appearances for afterwards on demand listening, https://wfmu.org/playlists/IK

He's DJing again till midnight, loose theme seems to be a tribute to Hal Willner.