Tell Yo La Tengo to Fuck Off - (ILM artist poll #61). Voting open until Monday May 18, 2015

Yeah, I misread that.

I love the sequencing of I Am Not Afraid of You ... two epic jams bookending a bunch of (mostly) short songs.

The only album of theirs I never revisit is Summer Sun.

but i think summer sun is their last great album. it's light and breezy, slightly sleepy. perfect music to listen to when driving with an open car in the south of france in summer just after the siesta when you are still a little in your dreams and the unbearable heat is turning into cosy late afternoon warmth.

I can't seem to find a link to The Onion's famous "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster" piece. Thing I still remember: the phrase "the great Sebadoh Fire of '93."

elsewhere i have described my first sighting of YLT live (opening for Jonathan Richman circa 1987): "Oh, it's the sound guy from Maxwells."

we are allowed to cite covers in the track list, right? is there a separate covers category, say of 5?

there should be!

is there a list of covers? i don't have a ton of YLT's stuff but i love what i have, might vote just because i love those songs so much
also because i love georgia

I'm adding the covers poll and will do a list of covers during the weekend for reference. I'll officiate things a little more when I'm done with this &?#$%?& verbatim.

whoa boy

here is a (probably incomplete/mislabeled) list of 'officially' released covers i'm aware of

smh if anyone votes for something off 'murdering the classics' tho

Anita Bryant - My Little Corner of the World (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Antietam - Orange Song (President Yo La Tengo)
Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Beach Boys - (The) Farmer's Daughter (Upside-Down)
Beach Boys - A Day in the Life of a Tree (Fade)
Beach Boys - Little Honda (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
Beat Happening - Cast a Shadow (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Bert Jansch - Needle of Death (Today Is the Day)
Big Star - Take Care (Summer Sun)
Bill Katz & Ruth Roberts - Meet the Mets (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Billy Joel - You May Be Right (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (President Yo La Tengo)
Bonzo Dog Band - Ready-Mades (You Can Have It All)
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Brian Wilson & Roger McGuinn - Ding Dang (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Burt Bacharach - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Carole King - You've Got a Friend (Popular Songs)
Cat Stevens - Here Comes My Baby (Fakebook)
Channel 3 - Out of Control (Upside-Down)
Clamtones - Griselda (Fakebook)
Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle (Fakebook)
Dead C - Bad Politics (Tom Courtenay)
Eddie Cantor - Looney Toons (Sugarcube)
Eric Burdon/Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Ervan Coleman - Tijuana Taxi (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Escorts - The One to Cry (Fakebook)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Flamin' Groovies - You Tore Me Down (Fakebook)
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Prisoners of Love A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs)
Flying Burrito Brothers - Tried So Hard (Fakebook)
George McCrae - You Can Have It All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
Half Japanese - Ashes on the Ground (From a Motel 6)
Hokey Pokey (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
[b]Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Huey 'Piano' Smith - Sea Cruise (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Information - Let's Compromise (New Wave Hot Dogs)
Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Jan Terri - Rock N Roll Santa (Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo)
John Cale - Andalucia (Fakebook)
John Cale - Hanky Panky Nohow (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Kinks - Big Sky (Ride the Tiger)
Kinks - No Return (Little Honda)
Kinks - Oklahoma, U.S.A. (Fakebook)
Love - A House is Not a Motel (Ride the Tiger)
Manos Hadjidakis - Never on Sunday (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Mighty Cravers - Emulsified (Fakebook)
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
NRBQ - Captain Lou (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
NRBQ - Magnet (Prisoners of Love A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs)
NRBQ - What Can I Say (Fakebook)
Nat King Cole - Route 66 (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Neil Young - Barstool Blues (Here Comes My Baby EP)
Nightmares - Baseball Altamont (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Only Ones - The Whole of the Law (Painful)
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Pete Seeger - Living in the Country (Ride the Tiger)
Petula Clark - Downtown (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Queen - We Are the Champions (Little Honda)
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Replacements - Favorite Thing (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Richard Thompson - For Shame of Doing Wrong (Shaker)
Sammy Walker - Closing Time (Ride the Tiger)
Sandy Denny - By the Time It Gets Dark (Little Honda)
Scene is Now - Yellow Sarong (Fakebook)
Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine (Camp Yo La Tengo)
Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Stooges - Raw Power (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Sun Ra - Dreaming (Prisoners of Love A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs)
Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Sun Ra - It's Christmas Time (Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo)
Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Nuclear War)
Sun Ra - Rocket #9 (Rocket #9)
Sven Swanson - Santa Claus Goes Modern (Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo)
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Times New Viking - Move to California (Fade)
Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light (Fade)
Urinals - Black Hole (Little Honda)
Urinals - Surfin' With the Shah (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
Velvet Underground - It's Alright (The Way That You Live) (New Wave Hot Dogs)
Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Who - Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got (Little Honda)
Wire - Too Late (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours! (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Yes - Roundabout (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics)
Yung Wu - The Empty Pool (Ride the Tiger)
ZZ Top - La Grange (Fade)

well, if only Bruce Bennett had remembered all the lyrics to "Baseball Altamont"

otm

but he was the only one who knew it at all -- Ira said so.

I'm bitter that they didn't put my WFMU Yo La Tengo request on the Murdering The Classics album. Back in 1998 I paid my $50 to hear them play Shake Some Action, and it was sublime.

There were two covers on the I'm Not There album, I Wanna Be Your Lover and Fourth Time Around

also iLX triviots know which track on Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics was a request from me.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius)

I'm going to assume the obvious and guess "Meet the Mets"?

no, too easy. it was "Baseball Altamont."

the original btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-401129SA

Little Eyes is a fantastic song.

It truly is.

Yo La Tengo seems like a band that never would have stopped releasing vinyl, so the review copy I still have of New Wave Hot Dogs probably isn't anything special. I did review it at the time, and promptly forgot about them for the next seven or eight years, until a friend got me onto I Can Hear The Heart...; never remotely suspected they'd one day be among my very favourite bands.

This is yet another band I owe to Christgau. My brother bought Electr-o-Pura based on his review and fifteen seconds into Decora I was hooked. They are astoundingly good.

Covers will work like albums, please vote for your favorite covers. A little list of 5 covers is all I need. :)

My #1 song choice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7coYKrt_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZh451ppoM

rep for this slow-burner, which would make for a great wedding-day aisle walkdown number.

Voted! Ended up voting Fuckbook my #5 album because I couldn't decided between I Am Not Afraid Of You...and Fade.

Probably too late, but just thought of a side-poll: the fake albums in the ICHTHBAO liner notes!

so we will tend not to include covers in the tracks ranking bcz there is a covers category?

11th hour lobby for this overlooked early jammer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJqrglXJgXw

https://youtu.be/UpnBQD_-n0s

^wasnt in the covers list but can I vote for this? I think this video was recorded the night Arthur Lee died

I included a bunch of covers. this is one of the only bands where I bought *everything* they put out in the mid 90s, singles, eps, etc, and I got a lot of covers that way. in particular "Somebody's Baby" gets a lotta love around here.

that being said: 25 songs was hard for me! I didn't just want to vote for songs from/around the two big albums, even though in retrospect that's mostly what I liked from this band (though my #1 isn't from those two albums). but I don't love enough originals on their other albums. later songs I like, like "Today Is The Day" on the EP, sound very similar to better songs on the earlier albums. so covers it was.

"Somebody's Baby" is great and will probably make my ballot

Pretty sure this was the first poll I ever posted here:

The Bert Blyleven Poll

I know people hate talking about the HOF, but in my world, 10 or 15 years down the road, they're in. Their body of work is very large now, and a pretty sizable part of it I consider good-to-great.

I keep 36 songs in a folder on my hard-drive, which is more than anyone except Neil Young--another five by Dump, too. Just have to spend a little time clicking through to see where things fall.

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass #1 without hesitation. Every song on there is classic. No other album comes close.

Trying to narrow to 25. This is hard.

As with all other records, i haven't played these in YEARS. And I own no pods.

I really can't vote unless I cram my ears all weekend. I don't even remember what song "Blue Line Swinger" is.

Then you're in for a treat because Blue Line Swinger is a doozy. Last song on Electro-Pura. I've been having a blast revisiting YLT. Their 90s stuff has aged fantastically well. New records are great too.

Electro-Pura is my least favorite of the classics. Meanwhile I like Summer Bunch. "Little Eyes" is my favorite YLT second song.

how do people rate fakebook? my favorite ylt album by far, but it seems to have not been mentioned anywhere except in the one post listing all their covers, and none of the originals from it have been mentioned anywhere either.

xp The Summer almost cracked my top 10 and their Flamin Groovies take was my top cover. one of my favorites of theirs.

fakebook is perfecto, probably their first great record.

not voting 'cause i stopped paying attention after i can heart the heart beating as one, but "can't forget" would have been top 2 or 3 for me, if not my #1.

i stopped paying attention after i can heart the heart beating as one

Vote anyway.

For a long time, Facebook was my favorite YLT album, and it's probably still my #2.

they never recorded their version of "Love Power" from The Producers, right?

I wanna give a shoutout to the instrumental disc of Genius+Love, some great stuff on there - "Nutricia", "Enough", "Sunsquashed", etc.

I was late to Fakebook but it is great and I may vote for "Griselda"

agreed-'Nutricia' was one of my last cuts.

Gee I forgot I have to do my own ballot.

was really hoping to find Oneida's live cover of "The Room Got Heavy" they did back in maybe 07-08 at a show I saw in Boston. so great.

there is another great cover missing in the list upthread. yoko ono's "don't worry, kyoko (mommy's only looking for her hand in the snow" on "yo la tengo is murdering the classics".

are the rumors true?

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2214/2165441249_2bf4e1e514.jpg

We'll do covers and albums today, as soon as I get back from work.

when night falls on Hoboken...

I Heard You Polling - The Yo La Tengo Poll Results Thread. (ILM Poll #61)