Yo La Tengo take your requests

March 16, 2002 2:34 PM

Yo La Tengo take your requests right now live on WFMU (various streams are here). Best pledge drive gimmick going: right now they're doing some T-Rex. A $60 pledge gets the band to play your selection.
posted by BT (9 comments total)

thanks for the link, BT. this is pretty cool. (i like Yo La Tengo but i've been bad about buying their albums -- i've only got i can hear the heart beating as one.)
posted by moz at 2:39 PM on March 16, 2002

Yo La is cool, but these DJs suck. Figures, one is named Gaylord.
posted by catatonic at 2:59 PM on March 16, 2002

That's nice, catatonic. Thanks a bunch.
posted by BT at 3:12 PM on March 16, 2002

Too bad I'm at work, Bill, otherwise I'd request something appropriately odd like a cover of Donna Summer's "On The Radio."
Yo La do rock though, as does WFMU.Enjoy and pledge, folks.
posted by jonmc at 3:46 PM on March 16, 2002

By the way catatonic the name "Gaylord" is plenty manly. Remember this guy?
posted by jonmc at 4:00 PM on March 16, 2002

Did anyone see any of those Yo La Tengo shows over Hannukah, at Maxwell's? Mmmmmmmm... Yo La Tengo.
posted by josh at 6:53 PM on March 16, 2002

I caught the last half hour.. to my delight, they played one of my favorite forgotten oldies: Build Me Up, Buttercup (The Foundations, 1969).
posted by Rebis at 9:38 PM on March 16, 2002

Rebis-pop-punksters The Goops do a terrific cover of "...Buttercup" on the soundtrack to Mallrats.
posted by jonmc at 11:07 AM on March 17, 2002

Forgotten? Hardly.
posted by rodii at 12:21 PM on March 17, 2002