Yo La Tengo 2018 WFMU All-Request Marathon TODAY

March 10, 2018 8:59 AM

Yo La Tengo are once again playing requests for pledges beginning at 3pm US EDT TODAY (Sat March 18) on WFMU. Every year, Yo La Tengo perform requests live on-air in exchange for pledges, to help keep freeform noncommercial radio station WFMU (91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ) on the air. This year is no exception. They will begin playing at 3pm US EDT today, and will be playing listener requests for several more hours.
posted by trashflow (22 comments total)

HOORAY
posted by halation at 9:04 AM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

For those who don't live in the broadcast area, WFMU is available to stream on their site, and also via TuneIn and radio.net.
posted by halation at 9:12 AM on March 10, 2018

Previously:

2002 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
posted by roll truck roll at 9:33 AM on March 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

For those who don't live in the broadcast area, WFMU is available to stream on their site, and also via TuneIn and radio.net.

In the past few years, they've also done the Yo La Tengo show (and some other Marathon stuff) on live video streaming. I hope they do this year.
posted by roll truck roll at 9:34 AM on March 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

This is their 20th consecutive year doing this for the benefit of WFMU, and Metafilter has been covering this off and on for 16 years. For those who don't know, trashflow is actually Ken Katkin. of Trashflow radio. He appears annually on Metafilter, just like Punxsutawney Phil. but with more accurate information. with constant playlist updates in this thread throughout the three hour show. I take it Ken took the day off from his show for this. :)

roll truck roll: In the past few years, they've also done the Yo La Tengo show (and some other Marathon stuff) on live video streaming. I hope they do this year. WFMU will be streaming video on the WFMU website homepage as well as their ustream page.

I am a huge WFMU fan who calls into their shows sometimes as Aaron in Minneapolis using text to speech, so I look forward to this thread every year.
posted by wheelieman at 9:56 AM on March 10, 2018 [8 favorites]

I doubled my Swag for Life Pledge this year.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 10:12 AM on March 10, 2018

Also, this won't be archived, so catch it live if you can!
posted by wheelieman at 10:13 AM on March 10, 2018

Yikes. I'm not sure how anyone figured out about my own radio show, but sadly I don't have a sub for today so I will be on-air in Cincinnati during YLT's all-request marathon today and will not be able to post a playlist here in real time. I hope to listen to a recording afterwards, and will probably post a playlist here tomorrow if no one has already done so.
posted by trashflow at 10:16 AM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Ken Freedman linked a YLT Metafilter thread in a newsletter a few years back with your name attached. Apologies if you didn't wanna be featured in this thread
posted by wheelieman at 10:21 AM on March 10, 2018

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:23 AM on March 10, 2018

Lets all call and request Blue Line Swinger.

Sorry, trolling.
posted by BigBrooklyn at 10:33 AM on March 10, 2018

No worries about identifying me. It's not that I have any objection to it. It's just that I was surprised anyone would bother to do it!
posted by trashflow at 10:42 AM on March 10, 2018

I'm really impressed with the video stream this year. WFMU has really improved in its ability to do live events. Shame that these don't get archived.
posted by roll truck roll at 1:30 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

The lady who runs the video stream used to work at pbs
posted by wheelieman at 2:03 PM on March 10, 2018

That's a solid Spinal Tap cover, there.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:23 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I requested "Living Next Door to Alice." I'm starting to get nervous that it didn't make the cut.
posted by roll truck roll at 2:25 PM on March 10, 2018

Venus in Furs was brilliant.
posted by nixxon at 2:33 PM on March 10, 2018

Really happy that this is FINALLY happening on a saturday when i am sitting around doing nothing and can listen!
posted by Kwine at 2:36 PM on March 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

I’ve wanted to call and ask them to cover Sugar’s “The Act We Act” in a Georgia-sung whispery ambient folk arrangement for years, but I never seem to learn about this in time...
posted by mykescipark at 3:28 PM on March 10, 2018

I completely missed this - is there an archive of it or a song list?
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:20 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Set One
Iggy & the Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?
Nico - These Days (Jackson Browne)
Richard & Linda Thompson - Wall of Death
Hair OST - Let The Sunshine In

Set Two
DEVO - Whip It!
Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues
Flamin' Groovies - Yes, It's True
The Sonics - Cinderella
The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else

Set Three
Neil Young - Winterlong
Elvis Presley / Frank Sinatra / Ricky Nelson - Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) (Johnny Mercer & Rube Bloom)
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

Set Four
Shirley & Company – Shame Shame Shame
Monkees / Paul Revere & the Raiders - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark (w/ Pat Byrne on vox)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down by the River

Set Five
Tommy James & the Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now
Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
The Replacements - Bastards of Young

Set Six
Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman
Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group / Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line (traditional)
Mark Markham & His Jesters ‎– Goin' Back To Marlboro Country
T. Rex - Children of the Revolution
The Who - My Generation (w/ Evan Funk Davies) medley w/
INXS - Don't Change; Dead Moon - Dead Moon Night; REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine); Tom Petty - Free Fallin'; Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression; Flamin' Groovies - Second Cousin; Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind; Beatles - Helter Skelter; The Hollies - Look Through Any Window; Sweet - Fox On The Run; Lou Reed - Satellite of Love; Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action; Smash Mouth - All Star; Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - I Need To Know; Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device; Lyres- She Pays The Rent; The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her; Badfinger - Baby Blue; and Buffalo Springfield - Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It.


Highlights IMHO: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down by the River; The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else; Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money; Richard & Linda Thompson - Wall of Death; The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?.
posted by trashflow at 6:12 PM on March 11, 2018 [1 favorite]

I completely missed this - is there an archive of it or a song list?

There never has been an archive of it. You have to be on your toes and listen live. I just realized tonight that this year's should be airing soon aaaaand it was 28 hours ago. Doh.
posted by intermod at 8:31 PM on March 11, 2018 [1 favorite]