Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics

Yo La Tengo supported the fundraising efforts of New York's world-renowned independent radio outlet WFMU with annual studio visits. All listeners who pledged money during the band's appearances were offered the chance to request a favorite song that the band would then attempt to perform. This album compiles more than two dozen WFMU highlights first broadcast between 1996 and 2003.

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"Tighten Up" (Archie Bell and the Drells)
"The Night Chicago Died" (Paper Lace)
"Raw Power" (The Stooges)
"Sea Cruise" (Huey “Piano” Smith)
"Favorite Thing" (The Replacements)
"Baseball Altamont" (Ned Hayden-Philip Shelley)
"Meet the Mets" (Bill Katz-Ruth Roberts)
"Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" (X-Ray Spex)
"Ding Dang/Interplanetary Music" (Brian Wilson-Roger McGuinn / Sun Ra)
"Captain Lou" (NRBQ)
"Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (The Velvet Underground)
"Route 66″ (Bobby Troup)
"Roadrunner" (Jonathan Richman)
"Tijuana Taxi"(Ervan Coleman)
"Mendocino/Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head" (Doug Sahm / Burt Bacharach)
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (Eurythmics)
"Baby’s on Fire" (Brian Eno)
"Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand" (The Who)
"The Hokey Pokey" (Larry Laprise-Taftt Baker-Charles Macak)
"You May Be Right" (Billy Joel)
"Mama Told Me" (Not to Come) (Randy Newman)
"Roundabout" (Yes)
"You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet" (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
"Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (Yoko Ono)
"Downtown" (Petula Clark)
"Let the Good Times Roll" (Shirley Goodman-Leonard Lee)
"Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis-Billy Towne)
"20th Century Boy" (T.Rex)
"Rock the Boat" (Hues Corporation)
"Shotgun" (Junior Walker and the All-Stars)
Medley: "My Sharona" (The Knack), "Mr. Apollo" (Bonzo Dog Band), "Sonic Reducer" (Dead Boys), "God Only Knows" (The Beach Boys), "If and When/The Summer Sun" (Chris Stamey), "Schizophrenia" (Sonic Youth), "Another Girl, Another Planet" (The Only Ones), "Bedazzled" (Peter Cook-Dudley Moore)