Yo La Tengo

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{{Infobox musical artist|Name = Yo La Tengo|Img = Yo La Tengo.jpg|Img_capt = Yo La Tengo performing in 2005|Background = group_or_band|Origin = Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States|Years_active = [1984–present], City Slang Records, Alias Records, Matador Records|URL = Official site|Current_members = Georgia Hubley
Ira Kaplan
[James McNew ]
Stephan Wichnewski
Mike Lewis |-->

Yo La Tengo (Spanish for "I've got it") is an United States indie rock band, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, New Jersey. With more than 15 albums released over a period of twenty years, they have demonstrated unusual longevity for the indie-rock scene. While they are a critical favorite with a devoted fan base they have achieved limited mainstream success.

Etymology , New York City.The band's name comes from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into the 160-pound Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" which is "I've got it" in Spanish. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by 200-pound left fielder Frank Thomas (NL baseball player), who understood no Spanish. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".Richie Ashburn Remembered by Fran Zimniuch, Sports Publishing LLC, 2005; pp. 41–42.

The band wanted a name that sounded foreign in order to avoid any connotations in English and Kaplan is a devoted baseball fan. However, it still irks them when they are asked the origin of the name. The band once performed a cover of the Mets theme song "Meet the Mets" during a benefit appearance on radio station WFMU's pledge drive. A track on I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is called "The Story of Yo La Tango" in apparent reference to an all-too-frequent misspelling of the band's name.

History Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984 in music. They went through several other band members before stabilizing with lead guitarist Dave Schramm and bass player Mike Lewis (founding bass player of Boston garage-punk mainstays DMZ (band) and Lyres (band), and a member of Brooklyn garage band The A-Bones throughout his tenure in Yo La Tengo) for their debut recording, "The River of Water". In 1986 in music, their first LP Ride the Tiger (album) was released.

Schramm and Lewis left the band, and Stephen Wichnewski joined, with Kaplan taking on the role of lead guitar. New Wave Hot Dogs (1987 in music) did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics, though it sold poorly. President Yo La Tengo (1989 in music) continued this trend, with rave reviews yet poor sales.

1990 saw the release of Fakebook (album), an album of mostly Acoustic music tunes, including cover version from Gene Clark, Cat Stevens, Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers, The Escorts, The Flamin' Groovies, The Scene Is Now, the Kinks, the Pastels, Daniel Johnston, and several songs by Yo La Tengo themselves. May I Sing with Me (1992 in music) included new bassist James McNew (of Christmas and Dump (band)), who has stayed with the band ever since. Painful (album) (1993 in music), Electr-O-Pura (1995 in music) and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997 in music) marked a steady progression towards a sprawling, multi-faceted style, which included such disparate elements as folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams and electronica oriented songs. Painful (album) was also the beginning of the band's fruitful creative relationship with producer Roger Moutenot, who has produced every subsequent Yo La Tengo album release. During these years their cult grew and, thanks to almost constant touring and unrelenting critical praise, they became one of the most prominent American indie rock bands. They released And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out in 2000 in music and Summer Sun in 2003 in music.

The band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs, and every year plays live on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU, as part of the station's annual fundraising marathon, performing (with guitarist Bruce Bennett of Norton Records The A-Bones, and occasional additional guests like Hamish Kilgour of New Zealand's The Clean and Pacific Northwest folk-punk chanteuse Lois Maffeo) impromptu cover-song requests from listeners who call in to pledge money to the station. In 2006 the band released an album compiling performances from the marathons between 1996 and 2003 titled Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics.

In 1996 Yo La Tengo appeared briefly (along with their friend Tara Key of the band Antietam) as the Velvet Underground in the film I Shot Andy Warhol. In 2001 they recorded an instrumental soundtrack for eight short undersea documentaries of Jean Painlevé, entitled The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. Yo La Tengo also provided the soundtracks for the films Junebug (film), Game 6 (film), Shortbus, as well as Kelly Reichardt's award-winning 2006 feature film Old Joy (film). Three songs from May I Sing With Me ("Always Something", "Sleeping Pill" and "Some Kinda Fatigue") were featured on the soundtrack to American independent film Hal Hartley's 1992 in film movie Simple Men. Their song "Tears Are In Your Eyes" was also in the Family (Buffy episode) episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The group collaborated with Yoko Ono as well on the 2003 album "Wig in a Box, Songs From and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch," made as a charity album to support the Harvey Milk High School.

March of 2005 saw the group release a 2-disc greatest hits package, entitled Prisoners of Love. A bonus edition included a 3rd disc of rarities and unreleased tracks.

The album "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" followed in September 2006.

Miscellany

The band was mentioned in a 2002 front-page headline for the satirical newspaper, The Onion ( "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster"). They were later asked by the newspaper to perform live at a staff party, and re-enacted the events of the article at the end of their set, complete with a staged roof collapse.
Cast members of the Upright Citizens Brigade often wore Yo La Tengo t-shirts during the second season of the television program, and the song "Moby Octopad" was featured in episode 208.
Their video for Sugarcube featured comedians David Cross and Bob Odenkirk.
They are big fans of The Simpsons and performed the psychedelic version of The Simpsons theme that appears at the end of the episode D'oh-in In the Wind. Actor Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer Simpson) was present during the recording of the theme.
Their song "Today Is the Day" is featured on the Major League Baseball 2k6 soundtrack.
Yo La Tengo is referenced in Hot Chip's song "Playboy" in the lyric "20 inch rims with the chrome now, blazin' out Yo La Tengo..."
The band makes a cameo appearance as troubadours in the 2006 season finale of the TV show Gilmore Girls, along with Sonic Youth, The Pernice Brothers, Sparks (band), Sam Phillips (singer), and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
In the video game Worms 3D, on campaign mission "Helter Skelter", the player must rescue a worm named Tom Courtenay from 3 enemy worms named Ira, Georgia and James.

Selected discography Studio Albums

Ride the Tiger (album) (Coyote, 1986)
New Wave Hot Dogs (Coyote/Twintone, 1987)
President Yo La Tengo (Coyote, 1989)
Fakebook (album) (Bar/None Records, 1990)
May I Sing with Me (Alias Records, 1992)
Painful (album) (Matador, 1993)
Electr-O-Pura (Matador, 1995)
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador, 1997)
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador, 2000); US #138
Summer Sun (Matador, 2003); US #115
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador, 2006); US #66

Compilations & other albums

Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (outtakes and rarities compilation) (Matador, 1996)
Strange But True (with Jad Fair) (Matador, 1998)
The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (Egon, 2002)
Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985-2003 (Best of compilation) (Matador, 2004)
Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics (Egon, 2006) - a compilation of cover songs recorded during the last eight annual WFMU telethons

Singles and EPs

The River of Water/A House Is Not A Motel (Egon Records, 1985)
The Asparagus Song/For the Turnstiles (Coyote Records, 1987)
That Is Yo La Tengo (City Slang, 1991)
Upside Down (Alias, 1992)
Shaker (Matador, 1993)
From A Motel 6 (Matador, 1994)
Tom Courtenay (Matador, 1995)
Camp Yo La Tengo (Matador, 1995)
Autumn Sweater (Matador, 1997)
Blue-Green Arrow (Earworm, 1997)
Little Honda (Matador, 1997)
Rocket #9 (Planet, 1997)
Sugarcube (Matador, 1997)
You Can Have It All (Matador, 1999)
Saturday (Matador, 2000)
Danelectro (Matador, 2000)
Nuclear War (Matador, 2002)
Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo (Egon, 2002)
Today Is the Day (EP) (Matador, 2003)
Mr. Tough (Matador, 2006)

Matador Records reissued New Wave Hot Dogs, President Yo La Tengo and The Asparagus Song on a single CD in 1996.

DVDs In 2007, the British Film Institute released a two DVD set of Jean Painlevé films, "Science is Fiction/The Sounds of Science". http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Fiction-Sounds-Jean-Painleve/dp/B000MGAW78/ref=sr_1_1/026-3557563-8272458?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1186467664&sr=8-1The disc "The Sounds of Science" contains Yo La Tengo's performance of The Sounds of Science, 8 of Painleve's films with original scores written by the band.

External links

Official Band site
Matador Records' Official site
Interview with Ira Kaplan on The Sound of Young America: MP3 Link
Yo La Tengo interviewed by Tom Scharpling on their "fake" radio station (a Podcast), Radio Free Yo La Tengo : MP3 Link
Old Joy (film)

Interview
A Q&A with Yo La Tengo, by Jordan Zivitz, Montreal Gazette, September 26, 2006
Audio interview recorded September 2006
Concert review - 2007 gig in Brighton

References

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