'Butchie’s Tune' Yo La Tengo [Stuff Like That There] Lovin Spoonful cover

Butchie’s Tune

Yo La Tengo

Stuff Like That There

Yo La Tengo - Butchie’s Tune (2015)

From Yo La Tengo’s second covers LP Stuff Like That There, with original YLT guitarist Dave Schramm joining in. Here’s a wonderful, warm version of the Lovin’ Spoonful song, with Georgia on vocals.

I’ll leave and close the door so you won’t see me go

GUESS I’M DUMB

Yo La Tengo ARE truly extraordinary and in choosing this filler track from the Spoonful - [The Lovin’ Spoonful - Butchie’s Tune 1966 from the Hums album - it was to pacify drummer Joe Butler who had aspirations to sing but the rather too sweet and cloying warmth meant that Sebastian and Yanovsky did almost all of the vocals throughout the rest of the bands output) so to cover this side number is truly eclectic and means they really know their early pop sources. 

Now I have mentioned that I was a massive schoolboy fan of the Spoonful and Butchie’s Tune meant a great deal to me way back then discussing as it did the breaking up with a girl and how to do it (sic) but here Yo La Tengo do their usual standard and play it absolutely straight and a fine job they do too!

Gloriously evocative and brings back sudden reminiscences of teenage angst and the first romances of early girlfriends 

It was clearly so affecting two of the daily blogs have posted it!

The Lovin Spoonful - Butchie’s Tune

Guess I’m Dumb! | YO LA TENGO : The Summer (2013)

Yo La Tengo - The Summer (2013)

Yo La Tengo recorded this wonderfully sparse version of The Summer for a Daytrotter session. I love the original but this has a different late night charm.

I just waste my time alone

Well as it reached 30 degrees today and I turned into a melt! Spare a thought for Kostas over at Urbanaspirines as he mentioned it was touching 40 t’other day in Athens!!!!!!

Some like it hot! Not me!  🔥☀️😎

One for the Solstice - [3.27am here!] - YO LA TENGO : Winter A Go-Go (2003) | Guess I’m Dumb (you know it!)

Yo La Tengo - Winter a Go-Go (2003)

"A song for the first day of winter - that keyboard reminds me of something off More Specials. “

On the beach overseas
Icy water slaps at our knees
And the buoy was signaling
As if it knew we were far from home
And you looked at me
And all I could see
Were the lights that were flickering
And suddenly we were all alone

Oh-oh-oh-oh
It's not an impossible thing to do
And I'm helpless to do anything for you
Can't keep from wondering

You were under a spell
Waiting for time to tell
If I could, if I could you know I would
Accept this moment and sympathize
Then you looked at me
And all I can see
Were the walls closing in again
And the desperation in your eyes

Oh-oh-oh-oh
It's not an impossible thing to do
I know there's a better life for you
I can't keep from wondering

Oh-oh-oh-oh
It's not an impossible thing to do
And I'm helpless to say anything to you
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I want to see a better life for you
But I can't keep from wondering

Songwriters: Georgia Mia Hubley / Ira David Kaplan / James George Mcnew

Band of The Day | Yo La Tengo : Autumn Sweater

O My Soul

autumn sweater - yo la tengo

thanks as ever to O My Soul for the reminder . . . . we love Yo La Tengo don’t we!?

you may need that Autumn Sweater!? Hey?

IDIOT’S DELIGHT :: YO LA TENGO - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

Yo La Tengo :: Idiot’s Delight with Vince Scelsa, WNEW, December 28, 1997

Posted on October 9, 2023

Yo La Tengo are one of our greatest bands — but they’re particularly great on the radio. Who else would be able to expertly accompany Daniel Johnston via a telephone call-in? Or take off-the-cuff requests from listeners every year during WFMU’s pledge drive? This vintage WNEW broadcast is terrific, too, coming at the end of 1997, when YLT were winning hearts worldwide with I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One.

To La Tengo - Idiot’s Delight 1997

Song of The Day : Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near

O My Soul

Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near

Playlist of The Week (sic) :: YO LA TENGO | AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

Yo La Tengo :: Deeper Into Deep Cuts

Posted on May 22, 2023

Yo La Tengo’s latest LP, This Stupid World, is another in a long line of masterpieces — this is a band that’s been so good for so long that it’s easy to take them for granted. But let’s not do that. As a little celebration of YLT, we’ve put together a mix of deep cuts stretching from the late 1980s to somewhere close to the present day. They’ve got a lot of this kind of thing. There are b-sides, bonus tracks, covers, instrumentals, guest appearances, remixes, live cuts, film scores … even the rejected jingle for a Coke commercial. A grab-bag of styles, not unlike some of the band’s albums, but it all hangs together wonderfully. Spend some time in this little corner of the world …

ADVERT:: New Album - THIS STUPID WORLD by Yo La Tengo - Aselestine (2023)

Yo La Tengo - Aselestine (2023)

"Yo La Tengo have been so consistent for so many years, and here’s a wonderful new song from their new LP This Stupid World."

Cue applause
I cry for us 

Go buy it now . . . . . . . . thanks to the brilliant Guess I’m Dumb

(Source: yolatengo.bandcamp.com)

Song for the Day - Yo La Tengo 'I Feel Like Going Home'

Yo La Tengo - “I Feel Like Going Home”

Great recording 2018 webcast of

  Yo La Tengo

this morning from Big O

for their 15th album (go ahead count 'em)

It's a peach!

Yo La Tengo - 2018