Yo La Tengo

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2012

First Recording: 1986

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Yo La Tengo
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One4232020

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
New Wave Hot Dogs (1987)
Painful (1993)
Electr-O-Pura (1995)
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (1997)
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Sugarcube (1997)

Yo La Tengo @ Wikipedia

Will Yo La Tengo be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Saw this band at Bunbury. Very interesting set. 3 piece band that puts out a great amount of music. Lead guitarist can really play. Other 2 musicians play a variety of instruments as well.

Their music sorta reminded me of Phish. Maybe with a bit harder edge to it.

Posted by Paul in KY on Wednesday, 07/17/2013 @ 07:34am


Essence of rock n roll.

Posted by Chalkie on Saturday, 09/7/2013 @ 12:46pm


This band is one of the classiest, most versatile acts in music. Best band not to be discovered. Insane they are not in the hall...

Posted by BriBri on Thursday, 10/14/2021 @ 22:54pm


"Best band not to be discovered"

I mean, plenty of people know who they are. They've headlined a lot of festivals and even have an album in the Rolling Stone 500. Not sure how mainstream success could have ever found them as they're just a little too left-of-center, even for the 90s.

They're undoubtedly the best live act I have ever seen and one of the greatest in rock history. Not only do their setlists vary wildly from night-to-night (and they don't play the same songs during multi-night stands in the same place), but the songs themselves are reinterpreted all sorts of ways from one night to the next, giving every show it's own unique feel along with the band's always there jamming and Ira's guitar heroics. Then there's the fact that every gig has like 3-4 random covers, played phenomenally well, which in turn has led them to play more unique songs live than pretty much any notable act in rock history.

Posted by Casper on Friday, 10/15/2021 @ 06:39am


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