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The WFMU thing is tomorrow from 6-8... wfmu.org

Anyone planning on requesting anything?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

... that they split up?

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

jesus, that needs recording

― chris (chris), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

it should be archived on the wfmu website

― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

No, it won't be -- Yo La Tengo do this every year, and they always request that it not be archived.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

But you can probably get a copy from Ken at sunsquashed.com, if you have something to trade.

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

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

I've always wanted them to do the MST3K theme song. Kraftwerk's "Computer World" also comes to mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

What y'all really should do is pledge at least $60 during Gaylord Fields' show (Saturday 1800-2000 EST) and you'll get a cd of Yo La Tengo's personal slection of the last seven years of the band's Marathon appearances. If you listen to WFMU on line, it's the least you could do.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

Here's what they played:

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

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

I hope that somebody recorded this from the stream - I was busy all day and didn't get a chance to hear it as it happened.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ok, how did they do "Monk Time"? "Alright my names Ira, lets go its beat time its hot time its Yo La Tengo (?) time!" "We don't like the WMDs!" etc.

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

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

I really want to hear this, in particular - walk away renee, london calling and hey ya

― chris (chris), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

I want to hear "Close To Me" - I hope that Georgia sang it!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

James sang it. Georgia would have done it better, yer right.

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..)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

I really want to hear this, in particular - walk away renee, london calling and hey ya

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.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

you'll get a cd of Yo La Tengo's personal slection of the last seven years of the band's Marathon appearances.

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.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

In 1998, during the YLT WFMU thing, I called in and requested Shake Some Action. They played one of the best versions of it I've ever heard. Is that on the compilation? I can't find a track listing.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

Morbius, what years does the comp cover? I have the last 5-6 years I think -

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

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

the comp is all 2003 and earlier. the liner notes suggest they may one day do one to catch up with more recent broadcasts.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

I remember that "Shake Some Action"! I don't think it's on there tho. There are about 30 tracks plus an 8-song medley; Ira's back-cover notes are about why there's no track listing (there's one inside).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

I remember that "Shake Some Action"! I don't think it's on there tho.

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.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

Here's the tracklist, dunno the years.

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

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

It sounds really good I think, for those of you who tape these every year. They must have properly mastered the tracks and such.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

Georgia sez they are moving fast, so I wouldn't wait too long to buy yours from their site. Disappointed the kids singing Outkast didn't make it.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah that and 'we didn't start the fire' were particularly awesome

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

G@ylord Fields as drawn by Adrian Tomine on the cover!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 05:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

it's now on a record and a message about that was deleted.
(see Pfrk for more details)

― emekars (emekars), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

G@ylord Fields as drawn by Adrian Tomine on the cover!

with Little Orphan Annie eyes!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

I want to hear the segue fron sonic reducer into god only knows so fucking bad.

― Period period period (Period period period), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

James McNew of Yo La Tengo

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/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

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

http://wfmu.org/playlists/IK

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 19:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

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.

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 2 March 2008 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

OK, I got my request ready.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 2 March 2008 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Mine got in the medley... I think.

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

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Tra-la-la, baby.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Why'n't you just split away?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

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)

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 3 March 2008 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 3 March 2008 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, those were in the medley.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 3 March 2008 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

why o why did I go to bed.

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

8-11 EDT tonight

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 March 2009 17:08 (10 months ago) Permalink

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