Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is a compilation album by the band Yo La Tengo, released in 2006.
Yo La Tengo supported the fundraising efforts of New Jersey'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.
Track listing
- "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)
Personnel
References
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r837095
- ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23369/Yo_La_Tengo_Yo_La_Tengo_Is_Murdering_the_Classics
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Studio Albums |
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EPs |
That Is Yo La Tengo • Upside-Down • Shaker • From a Motel 6 • Camp Yo La Tengo • Tom Courtenay • Little Honda • Autumn Sweater • Danelectro • Nuclear War • Merry Christmas from Yo La Tengo • Today Is the Day! • Here to Fall Remixes
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7" Singles |
"The River of Water"/"A House Is Not a Motel" • "The Asparagus Song"/"For the Turnstiles" • "Speeding Motorcycle" (with Daniel Johnston) • "Walking Away from You"/"Cast a Shadow" • "Shaker"/"For Shame of Doing Wrong" • "Big Day Coming"/"Double Dare (Somniextraction)" • "Tom Courtenay"/"The Bisexual Boogie" • "Camp Yo La Tengo" • "Blue/Green Arrow"/"Watching the Sun Rise or Johnny Carson" • "Rocket #9"/"Wig Out with Charly Dapper" • "Sugarcube"/"Busy with Me Thoughts" • "Little Honda" • "Mr. Tough"/"I'm Your Puppet"
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