Yo La Tengo - Live at Maxwell's - 132 min.
Recorded live in Hoboken, NJ, 12/31/96
Setlist information courtesy of Rob
- American Pie (Don McLean) / The Last Time (Rolling Stones)
- Decora
- Sugarcube
- (Todd's Speech)
- Abba Zabba (Captain Beefheart)
- Next Big Thing (Dictators)
- Love Comes In Spurts (Richard Hell)
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Big Sky
- What I Like About You (Romantics)
- Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
- Drug Test
- Sudden Organ -b
- Nowhere Near
- From A Motel 6 [short dropout near beginning]
- Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
- On The Roof(Feelies)
- Mannequin (Wire)
- Shadows
- Autumn Sweater
- False Alarm -c
- Deeper Into Movies
- ?all I want to do is look at your face
- I Heard You Looking
- Fa-Ce-La (Feelies)
- Emulsified
- You're Gonna Miss Me (Roky Erickson)
- Borstal Breakout (Sham 69)
- The Whole Of The Law
- Did I Tell You -d
Notes
Many goofy, rarely-played covers in the early part of the show: "Abba
Zabba", "What I Like About You", "American Pie", etc etc. This
section feels much like a WFMU request show (right down to WFMU DJ
Gaylord Fields singing "Next Big Thing"), if ever-so-slightly more rehearsed.
Many guest performances; "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is hilarious and
sounds as if it were sung by a male version of The Chicken Lady.
Really cool guitar sound to "Motel 6" (extra guitarist?), though sadly
there's a 10-20 second gap near the beginning of the song (tape
break?). Particularly yowly "False Alarm". Excellent "Emulsified".
Michael Edmonson (edmonson@sdf.lonestar.org)