Yo La Tengo 2019 WFMU All-Request Marathon TODAY
March 9, 2019 7:30 AM Subscribe
Yo La Tengo are once again playing requests for pledges beginning at 3pm US EDT TODAY (Sat March 9) on WFMU. Every year, Yo La Tengo perform requests live on-air in exchange for pledges, to help keep freeform noncommercial radio station WFMU (91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ) on the air. This year is no exception. They will begin playing at 3pm US EDT today, and will be playing listener requests for several more hours.
In the slight chance there is any confusion the Yo La Tengo performance will start at 3p.m. EST today, not EDT.
posted by plastic_animals at 8:51 AM on March 9, 2019
posted by plastic_animals at 8:51 AM on March 9, 2019
This is their 21th consecutive year doing this for the benefit of WFMU, and Metafilter has been covering this off and on for 17 years. For those who don't know, trashflow is actually Ken Katkin. of Trashflow Radio (link goes to his Blogspot, last updated December 2015). He appears annually on Metafilter, just like Punxsutawney Phil. but with more accurate information. with constant playlist updates in this thread throughout the three hour show. Ken may or may not have taken the day off from his own show this year, we will see :)
Previous Years on MeFi:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002, BONUS: Station Manager Ken goes for a balloon ride!
The WFMU community is still reeling from the loss of long time DJ, X. Ray Burns. One half of the Glen Jones Radio Programme. RIP Burns!
I am a huge WFMU fan who calls into their shows sometimes as Aaron in Minneapolis using text to speech, so I look forward to this thread every year.
(Yes I know I posted the same comment last year, but nothing has changed about it, except the numbers, and i edited bits of it, so why not?)
posted by wheelieman at 9:17 AM on March 9, 2019 [7 favorites]
Previous Years on MeFi:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002, BONUS: Station Manager Ken goes for a balloon ride!
The WFMU community is still reeling from the loss of long time DJ, X. Ray Burns. One half of the Glen Jones Radio Programme. RIP Burns!
I am a huge WFMU fan who calls into their shows sometimes as Aaron in Minneapolis using text to speech, so I look forward to this thread every year.
(Yes I know I posted the same comment last year, but nothing has changed about it, except the numbers, and i edited bits of it, so why not?)
posted by wheelieman at 9:17 AM on March 9, 2019 [7 favorites]
Thanks for posting! I totally forgot.
posted by roll truck roll at 10:38 AM on March 9, 2019
posted by roll truck roll at 10:38 AM on March 9, 2019
Is there a video stream this year? It doesn't seem to be on the WFMU homepage yet.
Edit: Found it!
posted by roll truck roll at 12:01 PM on March 9, 2019
Edit: Found it!
posted by roll truck roll at 12:01 PM on March 9, 2019
yessssss thank you for the reminder I ALMOST MISSED IT
posted by halation at 12:34 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by halation at 12:34 PM on March 9, 2019
Have they ever played "Under Pressure?" That would be a good one -- too bad I already re-upped my pledge this year.
posted by nixxon at 12:36 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by nixxon at 12:36 PM on March 9, 2019
nixxon, I'm almost certain I remember hearing it some year. They all sort of run together in my memory.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:39 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by roll truck roll at 12:39 PM on March 9, 2019
This makes me so damn happy. Thanks for all the posting and none of the fish, trashflow.
posted by maudlin at 12:43 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by maudlin at 12:43 PM on March 9, 2019
I'm watching the video stream. Looks like Ira on keys, so who's on guitar?
posted by ardgedee at 12:51 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by ardgedee at 12:51 PM on March 9, 2019
Woah. I was thinking earlier that it'd be fun to hear them do TV Party and I guess the universe heard me?
posted by wordless reply at 1:38 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by wordless reply at 1:38 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
lol at the MASH theme
posted by roll truck roll at 2:27 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by roll truck roll at 2:27 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Oh dang, figures I'd be out to fix dinner when they played "Theme from MASH" and "Unsatisfied".
posted by ardgedee at 3:09 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by ardgedee at 3:09 PM on March 9, 2019
It's funny how they seem to cram more stuff into the final medley every year.
posted by roll truck roll at 3:10 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by roll truck roll at 3:10 PM on March 9, 2019
Somebody should count how many times over the years YLT has refused to do something by Insane Clown Posse.
posted by ardgedee at 3:16 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by ardgedee at 3:16 PM on March 9, 2019
That was a lot of fun.
My favorites were "Daydream Believer" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." My favorites are always the ones where you get to see them engineering harmonies in real time.
Thanks for reminding us, trashflow!
posted by roll truck roll at 3:17 PM on March 9, 2019
My favorites were "Daydream Believer" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." My favorites are always the ones where you get to see them engineering harmonies in real time.
Thanks for reminding us, trashflow!
posted by roll truck roll at 3:17 PM on March 9, 2019
I love these guys. They are the best shitty band after Half Japanese, I think. (I mean this as high praise.)
It seems to me they have a complicated relationship with their "almost iconic" status. Some 8 years ago, I was at a low-key event they were hired for. Turnout was disappointing and Ira made a bitter, under the breath, comment about playing a "street fair." Which, well, fair enough! They insisted, for reasons it would be fascinating to know about, on a 6 foot security cordon between the stage and the audience, which seemed strange and unexpected and there must be a backstory.
Despite all that they put on a really great show for the maybe 50 true fans there and the rest of the mostly befuddled crowd.
I think that show contributed to my tinnitus but no regrets at all.
posted by sjswitzer at 3:55 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
It seems to me they have a complicated relationship with their "almost iconic" status. Some 8 years ago, I was at a low-key event they were hired for. Turnout was disappointing and Ira made a bitter, under the breath, comment about playing a "street fair." Which, well, fair enough! They insisted, for reasons it would be fascinating to know about, on a 6 foot security cordon between the stage and the audience, which seemed strange and unexpected and there must be a backstory.
Despite all that they put on a really great show for the maybe 50 true fans there and the rest of the mostly befuddled crowd.
I think that show contributed to my tinnitus but no regrets at all.
posted by sjswitzer at 3:55 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Please note that there is no, and has never been, an archive of this annual event. You have to be on your toes and listen live. So thank you trashflow for the annual reminder!
Despite coming into the thread and seeing this up top, I have to ask: Is there an archive?
posted by LSK at 1:09 AM on March 10, 2019
Despite coming into the thread and seeing this up top, I have to ask: Is there an archive?
posted by LSK at 1:09 AM on March 10, 2019
I recorded it. Me-mail me if you want a link, and please donate if you can. In an increasingly bleak world, WFMU is a small beacon of hope...
posted by nixxon at 5:17 PM on March 10, 2019
posted by nixxon at 5:17 PM on March 10, 2019
I've yet to catch this. So I created a cal entry for next year. Second Saturday of March every year?
posted by morspin at 2:10 PM on March 11, 2019
posted by morspin at 2:10 PM on March 11, 2019
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Here is last year's playlist, to whet your appetite.
posted by intermod at 8:36 AM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]