Yo La Tengo - "Beanbag Chair"

Yo La Tengo - "Beanbag Chair"

I love these kids, Yo La Tengo. I still remember (seeing as I'm not quite old enough to be all senile and stuff) first discovering them opening up for Teenage Fanclub at NYC's Irving Plaza, on their 1994 Thirteen tour (the show, incidentally, now available on bootleg DVD, where you can see a young me bopping along in the front row).

Anyway, like the Fanclub (and me!), Yo La Tengo are still at it. And while I haven't been enjoyed any of their work quite as fully as that first taste (1993's Painful), this jaunty little number deserves to be part of the soundtrack of YOUR summer. It's already part of mine. Along with large helpings of, inexplicably, Wire. I am weird. Truly.

Oh, BTW, the name of the forthcoming Yo La Tengo CD, from which "Beanbag Chair" is taken, is I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass. No lie. Seriously. It comes out September 12, 2006.