Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics

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Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
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Compilation album by
Yo La Tengo
Released2006
RecordedWFMU studios
GenreIndie rock
Length66:53
LabelEgon Records
Yo La Tengo chronology
Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985-2003
(2005) 		Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
(2006) 		I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[1]
Pitchfork4.1/10[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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Tighten Up"Archie Bell and the Drells2:00
2."The Night Chicago Died"Paper Lace2:04
3."Raw Power"The Stooges3:21
4."Sea Cruise"Huey "Piano" Smith1:46
5."Favorite Thing"The Replacements1:40
6."Baseball Altamont"The Nightmares1:31
7."Meet the Mets"Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts1:47
8."Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"X-Ray Spex1:35
9."Ding Dang/Interplanetary Music"Brian Wilson, Roger McGuinn / Sun Ra2:35
10."Captain Lou"NRBQ2:18
11."Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"The Velvet Underground1:38
12."Route 66"Bobby Troup2:18
13."Roadrunner"Jonathan Richman2:34
14."Tijuana Taxi"Ervan Coleman0:46
15."Mendocino/Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"Doug Sahm, Burt Bacharach, Hal David4:13
16."Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"Eurythmics1:33
17."Baby's on Fire"Brian Eno2:30
18."Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand"The Who2:15
19."The Hokey Pokey"Larry Laprise, Taftt Baker, Charles Macak1:40
20."You May Be Right"Billy Joel1:49
21."Mama Told Me Not to Come"Randy Newman2:14
22."Roundabout"Yes2:06
23."You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"Bachman-Turner Overdrive1:51
24."Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"Yoko Ono3:20
25."Downtown"Petula Clark1:50
26."Let the Good Times Roll"Shirley Goodman, Leonard Lee1:52
27."Never on Sunday"Manos Hadjidakis-Billy Towne1:12
28."20th Century Boy"T. Rex3:19
29."Rock the Boat"The Hues Corporation1:23
30."Shotgun + Medley  5:53
Total length:66:53

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r837095
  2. ^ "Yo La Tengo: Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics". Pitchfork.


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