Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics

Infobox Album | Name = Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Yo La Tengo


Released = 2006
Recorded = WFMU studios
Genre = Indie rock
Length =
Label = Factory Records
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jzfoxqydld6e link]
*Pitchfork Media (4.1/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23369/Yo_La_Tengo_Yo_La_Tengo_Is_Murdering_the_Classics link] | Last album = "" (2005)
This album = "Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics" (2006)
Next album = "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" (2006)

"Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics" is a compilation album by the band Yo La Tengo, released in 2006.

Yo La Tengo supported the fundraising efforts of New York's world-renowned independent radio outlet WFMU with annual studio visits. All listeners who pledged money during the band's appearances were offered the chance to request a favorite song that the band would then attempt to perform. This album compiles more than two dozen WFMU highlights first broadcast between 1996 and 2003.

Track listing

# "Tighten Up" (Archie Bell and the Drells)
# "The Night Chicago Died" (Paper Lace)
# "Raw Power" (The Stooges)
# "Sea Cruise" (Huey “Piano” Smith)
# "Favorite Thing" (The Replacements)
# "Baseball Altamont" (Ned Hayden-Philip Shelley)
# "Meet the Mets" (Bill Katz-Ruth Roberts)
# "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" (X-Ray Spex)
# "Ding Dang/Interplanetary Music" (Brian Wilson-Roger McGuinn / Sun Ra)
# "Captain Lou" (NRBQ)
# "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (The Velvet Underground)
# "Route 66″ (Bobby Troup)
# "Roadrunner" (Jonathan Richman)
# "Tijuana Taxi"(Ervan Coleman)
# "Mendocino/Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head" (Doug Sahm / Burt Bacharach)
# "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (Eurythmics)
# "Baby’s on Fire" (Brian Eno)
# "Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand" (The Who)
# "The Hokey Pokey" (Larry Laprise-Taftt Baker-Charles Macak)
# "You May Be Right" (Billy Joel)
# "Mama Told Me" (Not to Come) (Randy Newman)
# "Roundabout" (Yes)
# "You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet" (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
# "Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (Yoko Ono)
# "Downtown" (Petula Clark)
# "Let the Good Times Roll" (Shirley Goodman-Leonard Lee)
# "Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis-Billy Towne)
# "20th Century Boy" (T.Rex)
# "Rock the Boat" (Hues Corporation)
# "Shotgun" (Junior Walker and the All-Stars)
# Medley: "My Sharona" (The Knack), "Mr. Apollo" (Bonzo Dog Band), "Sonic Reducer" (Dead Boys), "God Only Knows" (The Beach Boys), "If and When/The Summer Sun" (Chris Stamey), "Schizophrenia" (Sonic Youth), "Another Girl, Another Planet" (The Only Ones), "Bedazzled" (Peter Cook-Dudley Moore)

Personnel

*Georgia Hubley - vocals, drums, keyboards
*Ira Kaplan - vocals, guitar, keyboards
*James McNew - vocals, bass
*Bruce Bennett - guitar, vocals