Yo La Tengo - WFMU all-request session - 109 min.
Recorded live in Hoboken, NJ, 03/18/00
Setlist information courtesy of Rob
- Roadrunner (Modern Lovers)
- Return Of The Grevious Angel (Gram Parsons)
- Take Me Down to the Hospital (Replacements)
- Sweet Lady Genevieve (Kinks)
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Eurythmics)
- American Pie intro. (Don McLean) /
- Color Me Impressed (Replacements)
- ?A Place Called Altamont (?The Nightmares / Ned Hayden)
- Rock The Boat (Hues Corporation)
- 19th Nervous Breakdown (Rolling Stones)
- Too Many Creeps (Bush Tetras)
- Don't You Want Me (Human League)
- Nothing (The Fugs)
- Watching The Detectives (Elvis Costello)
- I've Got A Feeling (Beatles)
- Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson)
- Top Of The Pops (Kinks)
- Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Ramones)
- Needle Of Death (Bert Jansch)
- Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash)
- Panic In Detroit (David Bowie)
- Roundabout (Yes)
- Mendocino (Sir Douglas Quintet)
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Burt Bacharach)
- Raw Power (Stooges)
- ?
- King Kong (Kinks)
- Welcome Back, Kotter theme (John Sebastian)
- Balancing Act (Volcano Suns)
- T.V. Party (Black Flag)
Notes
FM->DAT (thanks Rich!). A particularly fun session. Georgia sings
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", strangely compelling. Really funny
"take it down" quiet section during "Rock the Boat". Several fine
takes on cheesy '80s standards ("Sweet Dreams...", "Don't You Want
Me"). Many really goofy/hair-raising numbers: "Roundabout", "Raindrops Keep
Fallin' On My Head", "TV Party" ("Alf!"..."That's Incredible!")...
Ira stops during "King Kong", excusing himself by saying he can't
play the song without wearing a gorilla head (a reference to the New
Year's 1999->2000 show at Maxwell's wherein the band took the stage in
full gorilla costume, to the theme from "2001").
The "Welcome Back, Kotter" theme is authentic, even down to the
anecdote: "Say, Ira..." "Yes, Bruce?" "Did I ever tell you about my
uncle Norman?" (snickers)
Rock version of "Balancing Act" [!].
James sings:
- Take Me Down to the Hospital
- Color Me Impressed
- Don't You Want Me
- Watching the Detectives
Michael Edmonson (edmonson@sdf.lonestar.org)