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Detailed playlist.
1. “Kolyada #2” – The Music Tapes (from Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes)
2. “Behind That Locked Door” – George Harrison (from All Things Must Pass)
3. “Round-Up Time In Texas” – Girls of the Golden West (from Flowers in the Wildwood: Women In Early Country Music, 1923-1939 compilation)
4. “Long Walk To D.C. ” – Staple Singers (from Soul-Folk In Action)
5. “Void” – Julius Hemphill Sextet (from At Dr. King’s Table)
6. “Power Source MQ LP39” – John Baker (from The John Baker Tapes, v. 2: Soundtracks, Library, Home Recordings, Electro Ads, Rare and Unreleased, 1954-1985 anthology)
7. “Rain of Earth” – Bruce Haack (from Together)
8. “D.E.S.” – Gilius van Bergeijk (from Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music, v. 2: 1966-1967 anthology)
9. excerpts from The Lonesome Executive’s Fantastic Tape Recorder)
10. “Timesteps” – Walter Carlos (from Clockwork Orange OST)
11. “Dream” – Dom (from Edge of Time)
12. “Church of Anthrax” – Church of Anthrax (from Church of Anthrax)
13. “Ride into the Sun” – Velvet Underground (from Fully Loaded)
14. “Shoo Be Doo Be” – The Clarendonians (from Shoo Be Doo Be)
15. “Knotty Pine” – Dirty Projectors feat. David Byrne (from Dark Was the Night compilation)
16. “South Indian Line” – Jan Jankeje (from B-Music: Drive In, Turn On, Freak Out compilation)
17. “Empire of Light” – Friendsound (from Joyride)
18. “O Amor e Feio” – Tribalistas (from Tribalistas)
19. “The Starry Wisdom” – Telecult Powers (from The Amazing Laws of…)
20. “Gyorgy Ligeti: Cordes a vide” – Pierre-Laurent Aimard (from At Carnegie Hall)
21. “Periwinkle” – Big City Orchestra (from Reach For The Moon)
22. “Rap” – Grateful Dead feat. Neal Cassady (from The Social History of the Grateful Dead flexidisc)
23. “Listen, the Snow Is Falling” – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet (from The Breadwinner)
24. “At the Foot of Nameless Roads” – Enemble Economique (from At the Foot of Nameless Roads)
25. “Angels and Insects” – David Newlyn (from A Nervous State of Mind cassette)
26. “Seemingly Stranded” – Lambchop (from Rainer On My Parade CD-R)
27. “Mom” – Brian Woodbury (from Variety Orchestra)
28. “Conference of the Birds” – Dave Holland Quartet (from Conference of the Birds)
29. “The River of 3 Crossings” – Miho Hatori (from Ecdysis)
30. “Father Winter” – Antique Brothers (from Sons of Music)
31. “Witchi Tai To” – Harper’s Bizarre (from 4)
32. “Winterlude” – Bob Dylan (from New Morning)
33. “Obama Is Beautiful World” – Everyone Brothers Band
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Detailed playlist.
1. “Andalucia” – John Cale (from Paris 1919)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “It Sucks To Lose” – GreenSleep (from Half and Half 7-inch)
4. “Butterfly” – Screaming Trees (from Sweet Oblivion)
5. “The Valley” – Young People (from War Prayers)
6. “My Girls” – Animal Collective (from Merriweather Post Pavilion)
7. “A Final Paddle” – Lextrical (from Lextrical)
8. “Slow Breath, Silent Mind” – Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (from Slow Breath, Silent Mind)
9. “Don’t” – Seu Jorge (from Cru)
10. “Here Comes The Sun” – Eric Idle (from Saturday Night Live, 10/2/76)
11. “Little Honda” – Yo La Tengo feat. Janet Weiss (from 21 December 2008 Maxwell’s)
12. “Termite Prayer” – Wasteland Jazz Unit (from Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12-inch)
13. “The Wild Bull (Part B)” – Morton Subotnick (from Silver Apples of the Moon/The Wild Bull)
14. “Background Story” – Tetsu Inoue (from World Receiver)
15. “Then The Letting Go” – Bonnie Prince Billy (from The Letting Go)
16. “Stradbroke Verse” – Joel Stern (from Objects. Masks. Props.)
17. “Second Movement” – Glenn Branca (from Symphony No. 6: Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)
18. “Little Honda” (reprise) – Yo La Tengo feat. Janet Weiss (from 21 December 2008 Maxwell’s)
19. “Sag Harbor Bridge” – Women (from Women)
20. “Private Idaho” – The B-52s (from Wild Planet)
21. “Black River Song” – Angels of Light (from We Are Him)
22. split LP with the Jealous Party – Talibam!
23. “From the Moon” – The News (from Waking Up Scheherazade: Arabian Pysch Nuggets compilaton)
24. “Skylight” – Jackie O Motherfucker (form The Cryin’ Sea 12-inch)
25. “Basically Frightened” – Col. Bruce Hampton (from Arkansas)
26. “As Tears Roll By” – Daniel Lanois (from Shine)
27. “Our Changing Skins” – Musee Mechanique (from Hold This Ghost)
28. “One Way Swimming” – Doug Randle (from Songs for the New Industrial State)
29. “Swim” – The Glands (from The Glands)
30. “Sonhando (Dream)” – Elis Regina (from Viva A Brotlandia)
31. “Lonesome Town” (78 acetate demo take 1A) – Ricky Nelson
32. “Georgia On My Mind” – Richard Manuel (from Whispering Pines: Live at the Getaway)
33. “Sing It Again” – Beck (from Mutations)
34. “Suzanne” – Pearls Before Swine (from Balaklava)
35. “Twilight Time” – John Fahey (from Return of the Repressed anthology)
36. “Box of Rain” – Robert Hunter (from Jack O Roses)
The hippie punx continue to roam Bourgwick. Maybe more MC5/fucking-in-the-streets style than (re)united Dead Freaks, they’ve nonetheless colonized a shredded subway ad at my stop with their manifesto-like graffiti.
(I wasn’t at this show, but I’ve gotten a few requests to post the setlist. Here ’tis, via Choccosalo/Boomy. Feel free to comment with corrections, if you’ve got any.)
Yo La Tengo at Wellmont Theater
Montclair, NJ
31 December 2008
The Vivian Girls and the Feelies opened.
It’s Almost Like Being In Love (Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner) (karaoke version)
Emulsified (Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
Madeleine
Stockholm Syndrome
Beanbag Chair
The Weakest Part
Mr. Tough
Our Way to Fall
Nowhere Near
Cast A Shadow (Beat Happening)
From A Motel 6
(midnight)
Big Day Coming (fast)
Tom Courtenay
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie
The Story of Yo La Tango
*(encore)*
Autumn Sweater
Red, Red Rose (David Mallett)
What Goes On (Velvet Underground) (with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million of the Feelies)
Roadrunner (Modern Lovers) (with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million of the Feelies)
Hey everybody!
Happy New Year! I hope you’re doing awesome!
At least for a second, at some point in 2008, each of these 83 tracks was my favorite thing in the entire known universe. Some still are.
Click here & download (no rigmarole this year!): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M62XEW3K
Make a playlist! Shuffle it!
Welcome to the other side.
Love,
Jesse.
Listen here.
Detailed playlist.
1. “Before and Again” – Akron/Family (from Akron/Family)
2. “Minority” – Bill Evans (from Everybody Digs Bill Evans)
3. “Frow Show Theme” = MVB
4. “New Year” – The Breeders (from Last Splash)
5. “We Deflate” – Surrender to the Air (from Surrender to the Air)
6. “Punkte” – Ursula Bogner (from Recordings, 1969-1988 anthology)
7. “Maybe In Another Year” – Jennie Pearl (from Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon compilation)
8. “Sanctus” – Harry Partch (from Made to Order: Bethany Ryker’s 2008 WFMU Marathon Premium compilation)
9. “B3” – Avarus (from III)
10. “Mother and the Bird Machine” – Dixie Blood Moustache (from Sounds to Sooth a Nervous Robot compilation)
11. “Echolalia” – David Gans (from The Ones That Look Weirdest Taste the Best)
12. “Summer Daydream” – Ralph White (from Navasota River Devil Squirrel)
13. “Maine” – Homegas (from Homegas)
14. “I Believe” – Lambchop (from OH (ohio))
15. “Every Year Carries A Number” – Mighty Voices of Wonder (from Local Custom: Downriver Revival anthology)
16. “Ob Ish” – Why? (from Miss Ohio’s Nameless)
17. “To The Love Within” – Megapuss (from Surfing)
18. “Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told” – Six Organs of Admittance (from RTX)
19. “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” – Trad, Gras, och Stenar (from Trad, Gras, och Stenar)
20. “Cricket Music 1964” – Walter DeMaria (from Drums and Nature)
21. 1971 in Review: The news, the events, the personalities as they happened as you lived them
22. “Concession Speech” – Richard Nixon (from Great Speeches of the 20th Century, v. 4 compilation)
23. “Solo” – Henry Grimes (from Solo)
24. “Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond” – David Dunn (from Angels and Insects)
25. “Stridulations (miniatures for temple block ensemble” – Billy Martin (from Black Elk Speaks)
26. “New Year’s Eve” – Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers (from Heroin)
27. “Sasong” (un-backwards) – Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan (from Pullhair Rubeye)
28. “Voaltz (U-Bus Remix by Altz Kabamix)” – The Boredoms (from Voaltz/Rereler 12-inch)
29. “Don’t Say A Word” – Yo La Tengo feat. Smokey Hormel (23 December 2008, Maxwell’s)
30. “Accidentally Like A Martyr” – Jerry Garcia (from All Good Things box set)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
28 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 8)*
Metal Mountains and Todd Barry opened.
Mix disc by Zooey Deschanel.
Not A Second Time (The Beatles) (sung as “Not A Ninth Time”)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Mr. Tough
The Room Got Heavy (with Samara Lubelski on violin)
Swing For Life (with SL, Pat Gubler on guitar, and Helen Rush on keyboards)
4th Time Around (Bob Dylan) (with SL, PG, and HR)
Group Grope (The Fugs) (with SL, PG, and HR)
Saturday (with SL, PG, and HR)
The Way Some People Die (with PG)
Stockholm Syndrome
The Story of Jazz
Tom Courtenay
I Heard You Looking (with Joe Puleo on organ)
Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)
*(encore)*
Autumn Sweater
This Ain’t The Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult) (with Todd Barry on drums)
You Can Have It All (George McCrea)
You’ve Got A Friend (Carole King)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
27 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 7)*
Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band and David Cross (as Rabbi Alan Sugarman) opened.
Mix disc by Ira.
Benefit for Community Partnership School.
(whole show, minus “Sugarcube,” with David Mansfield on violin, pedal steel, and electric guitar.)
Sugarcube
Let’s Be Still
She May Call You Up Tonight (The Left Banke)
Cone of Silence
One PM Again
Pablo and Andrea
Griselda (Peter Stampfel)
The Crying of Lot G
I Feel Like Going Home
Nowhere Near
Off and Running (Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders)
Barnaby, Hardly Working
Big Day Coming (fast) >
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie >
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
*(encore)*
Long Gone (Customs/Lyres)
Walk Away, Rene (The Left Banke) (with DM and Willie Alexander)
Maybe More Than You (The Lost) (with DM and WA)
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling (Willie Alexander arrangement, Phil Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) (with DM and WA)
To Sir, With Love (Don Black/Mark London) (with David Cross)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
26 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 6)*
Lambchop and Jon Wurster (as Marky Ramone) opened.
Mix disc by James.
Benefit for Zumix.
(set through “Moby Octopad” with William Tyler of Lambchop on guitar.)
Jesus Christ (Big Star)
My Heart’s Reflection
Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop
Tears Are Your Eyes
Song for Mahlia
Did I Tell You
The Weakest Part
Moby Octopad
Babysitter (The Ramones) (with “Marky Ramone” on drums)
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell) (with “Marky Ramone” on drums)
Cherry Chapstick
Tom Courtenay
Heroin (Velvet Underground, Roky Erickson arrangement)
*(encore)* with Cyril Jordan of the Flamin’ Groovies on guitar/vocals
You Tore Me Down (Flamin’ Groovies)
Absolutely Sweet Marie (Bob Dylan)
Dog Meat (Flamin’ Groovies)
Second Cousin (Flamin’ Groovies)
Shake Some Action (Flamin’ Groovies)
