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Etymology

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, who understood no Spanish.^[1] A view of the playing field at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. ... Major league affiliations National League (1962–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 14, 37, 41, 42 Name New York Mets (1962–present) Ballpark Shea Stadium (1964–present) Polo Grounds (1962–1963) Major league titles World Series titles (2) 1969 â€¢ 1986 NL Pennants (4) 1969 â€¢ 1973 â€¢ 1986 â€¢ 2000... Don Richard Richie Ashburn (March 19, 1927 - September 9, 1997) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball. ... Elio Chacón Rodríguez (October 26, 1936 - April 24, 1992) was a Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop who played in the National League between 1960-64. ... Frank Joseph Thomas (born June 11, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1951-58), Cincinnati Reds (1959), Chicago Cubs (1960-61), Milwaukee Braves (1961), New York Mets (1962-64), Philadelphia Phillies (1964-65), Houston Astros (1965), Montreal...

The band wanted a name that sounded foreign in order to avoid any connotations 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. Meet the Mets is the fight song of the New York Mets of the National League. ... WFMU-FM is a listener supported, noncommercial radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting at 91. ...

History

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984. They went through several other bandmembers before stabilizing with lead guitarist Dave Schramm and bass player Mike Lewis (founding bass player of Boston garage-punk mainstays DMZ and Lyres, 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, their first LP Ride the Tiger was released. Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo playing in Battery Park, New York City. ... Georgia Hubley is one of the founding members of the rock group Yo La Tengo. ... See also: 1980s in music. ... Dave Schramm, born and raised on Long Island, New York, is an American musician best known for his stint as the lead guitarist for Yo La Tengo during the bands early years. ... DMZ was a first-wave punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, strongly influenced by 1960s garage rock. ... Lyres (often referred to as The Lyres) are a Boston-area alternative rock musical group led by Jeff Mono Man Connolly. ... See also: Musical groups established in 1986 Record labels established in 1986 1980s in music // January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) February 11 - Culture Club... Ride The Tiger was the first album of Yo La Tengo (Ive got it in Spanish). ...

Schramm and Lewis left the band, and Stephen Wichnewski joined, with Kaplan taking on the role of lead guitar. New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics, though it sold poorly. President Yo La Tengo (1989) continued this trend, with rave reviews yet poor sales. New Wave Hot Dogs is the second album released, in 1987, by indie rock band Yo La Tengo. ... See also: 1986 in music, other events of 1987, 1988 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... President Yo La Tengo (1989) was the third album of the Hoboken-based alternative rock band Yo La Tengo. ... See also: 1989 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1989 Record labels established in 1989 other events of 1989 list of years in music 1980s in music // January 7 - Genesis 88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London January 14 - Paul...

1990 saw the release of Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers 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) included new bassist James McNew (of Christmas and Dump), who has stayed with the band ever since. Painful (1993), Electr-O-Pura (1995) and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) 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. thier song "Tears Are In Your Eyes" was also in "buffy the vamire slayer" Episode 84: Family Painful 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. 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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 its 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 chantuese 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 pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. ... WFMU-FM is a listener supported, noncommercial radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting at 91. ... Norton Records, an independent New York City record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller in 1986, maintains a focus on retro rock, rockabilly, punk, garage rock, lounge music and R&B. Linna and Miller have successfully reissued many obscurities and classics from the 1950s and 1960s, and... The Clean were an influential first-wave punk band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. ... Lois Maffeo (professionally known as Lois) is an American musician and writer who lives in Olympia, Washington. ... Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is a compilation album by the band Yo La Tengo, released in 2006. ...

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, Game 6, Shortbus, as well as Kelly Reichardt's award-winning 2006 feature film Old Joy. Three songs from May I Sing With Me ("Always Something", "Sleeping Pill" and "Some Kinda Fatigue") were also featured on the soundtrack to American indie filmmaker Hal Hartley's 1992 movie Simple Men. The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... I Shot Andy Warhol is a 1996 movie about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with Andy Warhol. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was the director of more than two hundred science and nature films and an early champion of the genre. ... The Sounds of the Sounds of Science is a score written by Yo La Tengo for filmmaker Jean Painlevé. It contains 78 minutes of instrumental music to accompany his eight short documentary-style films shot underwater. ... Junebug is a 2005 comedy and drama film directed by Phil Morrison. ... Game 6 is a film first presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and released in the United States in 2006. ... Shortbus is a 2006 film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, writer/director/star of the play and film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Two friends reunite for a camping trip in Oregons Cascade Mountains. ... An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio. ... Hal Hartley (b. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1992. ... The film Simple Men is written and directed by Hal Hartley, starring Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas and Martin Donovan. ...

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. Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese musician and artist. ... Hedwig and the Angry Inch is an off-Broadway musical theater play (1998) and film (2001) about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by a transsexual singer. ... Harvey Milk High School is a high school designed to be a safe space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) students located in the East Village of New York City, and named after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California, who was assassinated...

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. This will be Hoboken based indie rock band Yo La Tengos upcoming album to be released on September 12, 2006. ...

Trivia

• 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.
• 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, Joe Pernice, Sparks, Sam Phillips, and Mary Lynn Rajskub.

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Selected discography

Albums

• Ride the Tiger (Coyote, 1986)
• New Wave Hot Dogs (Coyote/Twintone, 1987)
• President Yo La Tengo (Coyote, 1989)
• Fakebook (Bar/None Records, 1990)
• May I Sing with Me (Alias Records, 1992)
• Painful (Matador, 1993)
• Electr-O-Pura (Matador, 1995)
• Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (outtakes and rarities compilation) (Matador, 1996)
• I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador, 1997)
• Strange But True (with Jad Fair) (Matador, 1998)
• And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador, 2000); US #138
• The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (Egon, 2002)
• Summer Sun (Matador, 2003); US #115
• 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
• I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador, 2006); US #66

Ride The Tiger was the first album of Yo La Tengo (Ive got it in Spanish). ... New Wave Hot Dogs is the second album released, in 1987, by indie rock band Yo La Tengo. ... President Yo La Tengo (1989) was the third album of the Hoboken-based alternative rock band Yo La Tengo. ... Fakebook is the third official, full-length album released, in 1990, by indie rock band Yo La Tengo. ... Bar/None Records is a independent record label based out of Hoboken, New Jersey. ... May I Sing With Me is the fourth album released, in 1992, by indie rock band Yo La Tengo. ... Painful is a 1993 album from Hoboken, New Jersey rockers Yo La Tengo. ... Seventh album by Hoboken, New Jersey indie rock group Yo La Tengo, released in 1995. ... Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo is a 2-discs compilation album by Yo La Tengo. ... I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is an album by Yo La Tengo. ... Strange But True is a collaborative album between the band Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair. ... Jad Fair is a member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese. ... And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out is a 2000 album by Yo La Tengo, an indie rock music group from Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. [edit] Track listing Everyday - 6:31 Our Way To Fall - 4:18 Saturday - 4:18 Lets Save Tony Orlandos House - 4:59... The Sounds of the Sounds of Science is a score written by Yo La Tengo for filmmaker Jean Painlevé. It contains 78 minutes of instrumental music to accompany his eight short documentary-style films shot underwater. ... 2003 release by Hoboken, New Jersey rockers Yo La Tengo Tracklisting Beach Party Tonight Little Eyes Nothing But You And Me Season Of The Shark Today Is The Day Tiny Birds How To Make A Baby Elephant Float Georgia Vs. ... Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is a compilation album by the band Yo La Tengo, released in 2006. ... WFMU-FM is a listener supported, noncommercial radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting at 91. ... This will be Hoboken based indie rock band Yo La Tengos upcoming album to be released on September 12, 2006. ...

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 (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. Little Honda is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American pop band The Beach Boys. ... Today is the Day is an EP by Yo La Tengo, released in 2003 on Matador Records. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

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

• Interview
• Assorted Yo La Tengo reviews
• A Q&A with Yo La Tengo, by Jordan Zivitz, Montreal Gazette, September 26, 2006
• Audio interview recorded September 2006

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References