Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
5 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 8)*
opening act: Eleventh Dream Day
comedian: Joe Pera
mix CD: Patty Schemel
benefiting: Letters To Santa & One Simple Wish
From Me To You (The Beatles, sung as “From Me to Jews”)
Today Is The Day (slow version) (with Janet Beveridge Bean/drums, Mark Greenberg/keyboards, James Elkington/guitar, Doug McCombs/bass)
Stockholm Sydrome (with Rick Rizzo/guitar, JBB, MG, DM)
The Crying of Lot G (with JE, DM, JBB, MG)
Avalon or Someone Similar (with RR, JBB, MG, DM)
Season of the Shark (with JE, JBB)
Two Trains (with JE, JBB, DM)
When It’s Dark (with JE, JBB, DM, MG)
Goin’ Back (Carole King & Gerry Goffin) (with JE, RR, JBB, MG)
Group Grope (The Fugs) (with JE, RR, JBB, MG, DM)
Some Kinda Fatigue (with RR, JBB)
Autumn Sweater
Deeper Into Movies (with JBB)
Sister Ray (Velvet Underground) (with MG, RR, JBB, DM)
Our Way To Fall
*(encore)*
The Whole of the Law (The Only Ones)
Dum Dum (Bush Tetras) (with Cynthia Sley and Pat Place)
Run Run Run (Velvet Underground) (with CS & PP)
Too Many Creeps (Bush Tetras) (with CS & PP)
Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens) (with Marilyn Kaplan/vocals & Mark Luecke/whistling)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard, Lee Pockriss) (with MK)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
4 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 7)*
opening act: Natural Information Society
comedian: Hari Kondabalu
mix CD: Georgia
benefiting: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Green Arrow (with Natural Information Society)
I Can’t Stand It (Velvet Underground)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Mr. Tough
Did I Tell You
Is That Enough
Swing For Life (with Natural Information Society)
The Last Days of Disco (with Natural Information Society)
The Room Got Heavy (with Natural Information Society)
False Alarm
Too Animalistic (Angry Samoans) (with Dutch Worthington)
Drug Test
Upside Down
We’re An American Band
Blue Ling Swinger
*(encore)*
I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan)
I Don’t Care (The Ramones) (with Jon Langford & Sally Timms)
Dan Dare – Out of Space (It’s A Really Nice Place) (The Mekons) (with JL & ST)
Keep on Hoppin’ (The Mekons) (with JL & ST)
Dan Dare – Out of Space (It’s A Really Nice Place) (The Mekons) [take 2] (with JL & ST)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
3 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 6)*
opening act: Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die
comedian: Dina Hashem
mix CD: Ira
benefiting: Abortion Access Front
whole set from “Tired Hippo” onwards with Chad Taylor on drums
Cherry Chapstick
Nothing To Hide
She May, She Might >
Ack Ack Ack Ack (The Urinals) >
She May, She Might
Pablo and Andrea
Have You Seen My Baby (Randy Newman)
Tired Hippo
I’m On My Way
I’ll Be Around
As the Hour Grows Late (with Jaimie Branch/trumpet, Jason Ajemian/bass, Lester St. Louis/cello)
Let’s Be Still (with JB/JA/LSL)
The Summer (with JB/JA/LSL)
Moby Octopad (with JB/JA/LSL)
Right Side of My Mind (Angry Samoans)
From A Motel 6
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
*(encore)* with the Dream Syndicate
Definitely Clean (Dream Syndicate)
Too Little, Too Late (Dream Syndicate) (without Ira & James)
Hero Takes A Fall (The Bangles)
Some Kinda Itch (Dream Syndicate)
Tell Me When It’s Over (Dream Syndicate)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
2 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 5)*
opening act: Low
comedian: Fred Armisen
mix CD: James
benefiting: Environmental Advocates NY
whole show minus 1st 3 songs with Fred Armisen on drums
Surfin’ With the Shah (The Urinals)
Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
Forever
Detouring America With Horns
Center of Gravity
Black Flowers
Fog Over Frisco
Don’t Have To Be So Sad
Nowhere Near
Baby Strange (T-Rex)
I Should Have Known Better
Big Day Coming (fast version)
Sugarcube
Ohm
The Story of Yo La Tango
*(encore)*
Sorrow (The McCoys)
Orange Song (Antietam) (with Tara Key on guitar/vocals)
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (The Clash) (FA on guitar/vocals, Joe Puleo on harmonica)
I Am, I Said (Neil Diamond) (with Alan Sparhawk & Mimi Parker of Low on guitar/vocals)
Keep It Warm (Flo & Eddie) (with AS & MP)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
1 December 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 4)*
opening act: Cup (Nels Cline & Yuka C. Honda)
comedian: Jo Firestone
mix CD: Blockhead
benefiting: NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
whole show with Nels Cline on guitar & Yuka C. Honda on electronics
Out of the Pool
Little Eyes
One PM Again (without YH)
Can’t Forget (without YH)
Lewis (without YH)
Tears Are In Your Eyes
The Race Is On Again (without YH)
Above the Sound
I Found A Reason (Velvet Underground) (with John Cameron Mitchell on vocals)
Waves of Fear (Lou Reed) (with JCM)
Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Desert By Mistake (Jad Fair)
Out the Window
Styles of the Times
Tom Courtenay
Little Honda (The Hondells)
*(encore)*
Wasn’t Born To Follow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Cool Metro (David Johanson/Syl Sylvain)
Hanky Panky Nohow (John Cale) (without YH & NC)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
30 November 2021
*(Hanukkah, night 3)*
opening act: Marisa Anderson & William Tyler
comedian: Roy Wood Jr.
mix CD: Jeff Parker
benefiting: Texas Civil Rights Project
Georgia, Ira, and James joined Marisa Anderson & William Tyler for “Something Will Come.”
whole show (minus encore) with Marisa Anderson & William Tyler on guitars/keyboards
You Are Here >
The Fireside >
Damage
The Point Of It
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bob Dylan)
The Ballad of Red Buckets
Shades of Blue (minus MA)
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Satellite
Tears Are In Your Eyes (instrumental) (minus MA)
Shaker
She Cracked (Jonathan Richman)
Double Dare
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind >
Blues Stay Away From Me (Delmore Bros.)
*(encore)* with Ivan Julian on guitar/vocals
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell)
Going, Going, Gone (Bob Dylan) (Richard Hell arrangement)
Blank Generation (Richard Hell)
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