Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
2006 compilation album by Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics | ||||
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Compilation album by Yo La Tengo | ||||
Released | 2006 | |||
Recorded | WFMU studios | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 66:53 | |||
Label | Egon Records | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Pitchfork | 4.1/10[2] |
Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is an album by the band Yo La Tengo, released in 2006, consisting solely of covers.
Yo La Tengo supported the fundraising efforts of independent radio channel 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.
The album cover was created by cartoonist Adrian Tomine.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Tighten Up" | Archie Bell, Billy Buttler | 2:00 |
2. | "The Night Chicago Died" | Peter Callander, Mitch Murray | 2:04 |
3. | "Raw Power" | Iggy Pop, James Williamson | 3:21 |
4. | "Sea Cruise" | Huey "Piano" Smith | 1:46 |
5. | "Favorite Thing" | Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars | 1:40 |
6. | "Baseball Altamont" | The Nightmares | 1:31 |
7. | "Meet the Mets" | Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts | 1:47 |
8. | "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" | Poly Styrene | 1:35 |
9. | "Ding Dang/Interplanetary Music" | Brian Wilson, Roger McGuinn / Sun Ra | 2:35 |
10. | "Captain Lou" | NRBQ | 2:18 |
11. | "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" | Lou Reed | 1:38 |
12. | "Route 66" | Bobby Troup | 2:18 |
13. | "Roadrunner" | Jonathan Richman | 2:34 |
14. | "Tijuana Taxi" | Ervan Coleman | 0:46 |
15. | "Mendocino/Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" | Doug Sahm / Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 4:13 |
16. | "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" | Annie Lennox, David A. Stewart | 1:33 |
17. | "Baby's on Fire" | Brian Eno | 2:30 |
18. | "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" | Pete Townshend | 2:15 |
19. | "The Hokey Pokey" | Larry Laprise, Taftt Baker, Charles Macak | 1:40 |
20. | "You May Be Right" | Billy Joel | 1:49 |
21. | "Mama Told Me Not to Come" | Randy Newman | 2:14 |
22. | "Roundabout" | Jon Anderson, Steve Howe | 2:06 |
23. | "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" | Randy Bachman | 1:51 |
24. | "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" | Yoko Ono | 3:20 |
25. | "Downtown" | Tony Hatch | 1:50 |
26. | "Let the Good Times Roll" | Shirley Goodman, Leonard Lee | 1:52 |
27. | "Never on Sunday" | Manos Hatzidakis | 1:12 |
28. | "20th Century Boy" | Marc Bolan | 3:19 |
29. | "Rock the Boat" | Wally Holmes | 1:23 |
30. | "Shotgun + Medley
| 5:53 | |
Total length: | 66:53 |
Personnel
- Georgia Hubley – vocals, drums, keyboards
- Ira Kaplan – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- James McNew – vocals, bass
- Bruce Bennett – guitar, vocals
References
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- Dave Schramm
- Dave Rick
- Ride the Tiger
- New Wave Hot Dogs
- President Yo La Tengo
- Fakebook
- May I Sing with Me
- Painful
- Electr-O-Pura
- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
- And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
- Summer Sun
- I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
- Popular Songs
- Fade
- Stuff Like That There
- There's a Riot Going On
- We Have Amnesia Sometimes
- This Stupid World
- Today Is the Day!
- Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
- Prisoners of Love
- Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
- They Shoot, We Score
- Murder in the Second Degree
- Strange but True (with Jad Fair)
- The Sounds of the Sounds of Science
- Fuckbook
- "You Can Have It All"
- "Saturday"
- "Periodically Double or Triple"
- "Stupid Things"
- Discography
- This Stupid World tour
- Dump
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