Michele K-tel celebrates 30 YEARS of Hoboken, NJ threesome Yo La Tengo –> who way back in 1984 began as a duo named after a baseball exclamation used to avoid outfield collisions. Part 1: music from nearly every one of their #lucky 13 studio releases along with extra outakes, live versions, holiday songs, plenty of #feedback and covers, lots and lots of covers. mmmm, covers. Thank you Georgia, Ira + James.

Playlist 12.18.14

Yo La Tengo “Ohm (Live 1 acoustic)” Fade Deluxe (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Fog Over Frisco” That Is Yo La Tengo (City Slang)
Yo La Tengo “You Look Like a Jew” (Pussy Galore) Hanukkah 2001 Live @ Maxwells
Yo La Tengo w/ Eugene Mirman + Ira Glass “Toymageddon” (Happy Joel the Company)

Yo La Tengo “The Cone Of Silence” Ride The Tiger (Coyote)
Yo La Tengo “Alyda” President Yo La Tengo (Coyote)
Yo La Tengo “Barnaby, Hardly Working” President Yo La Tengo (Coyote)
Yo La Tengo + Daniel Johnston “Speeding Motorcycle” 7″ (SOL)

Yo La Tengo “Rock N Roll Santa” Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo (Egon)
Yo La Tengo “From A Motel 6, Pt. 2” Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “The Summer” Fakebook (Bar/None)
Yo La Tengo For Shame Of Doing Wrong (Slide Version) (House Of Music, West Orange) Extra Painful
Yo La Tengo “False Alarm” Electr-o-pura (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Big Day Coming (Live Acoustic)” Extra Painful (Matador)

Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies” I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador)
Yo La Tengo Center Of Gravity I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Our Way To Fall” (Live Intro @ Aquarius + Live Song in Dallas)
Yo La Tengo “You Can Have It All” And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador)

Yo La Tengo “Season Of The Shark” Summer Sun (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Coloured” Stroke – Songs For Chris Knox (Merge)
Yo La Tengo “Be Thankful For What You Got” Little Honda EP (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Mr. Tough” I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics (Egon)

Yo La Tengo “Here to Fall” Popular Songs (Matador)
Yo La Tengo “Mama Told Me Not To Come” Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics (Egon)
Yo La Tengo “Nuclear War [Version 2]” Nuclear War (Matador)