Yo La Tengo - "We Didn't Start the Fire" (medley)

From the 2004 WFMU on-air fundraiser show (with additional guitarist/singer Bruce Bennett). If you haven't listened to one of those, you're missing out (the albums Yo La Tengo Murders the Classics and Murder in the Second Degree consist of selections from those). People pay to request songs for them to perform live on the air, without the band knowing in advance what's going to be requested. A little rough around the edges, but most entertaining. For their last number, they always do a medley of songs they didn't have time to play in their entirety.

[@MissThreadgoode]

nothing will ever surpass this

[@Maxcom12]

this cheers me up

[@RickLewis-z4n]

honestly who can even name a His Name is Alive song

[@micahnewman]

I can name quite a few because I actually listen to them. I'm quite impressed that Georgia had even heard of them.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

Is there a list of songs performed? I can’t figure out which ones I know

[@micahnewman]

I don't know of one.

[@peteblack3323]

songs which actually had more than a line or two include
Griselda * Holy Modal Rounders (which Yo La Tengo recorded on Fakebook)
There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out * The Smiths
Cortez The Killer * Neil Young
Powderfinger * Neil Young
I See A Darkness * Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham, his real name is mentioned as is Johhny Cash since he covered it
Rock & Roll * Velvet Underground
California (Hoboken) Girls * Beach Boys
some songs which only the title or a short reference include
Rock The Casbah * The Clash
Summer Babe * Pavement
Black Betty * Ram Jam
I only listened to it once but that's what I got

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

@@peteblack3323 i don't recall ever leaving that comment but mad respect for this