I've just been getting into Yo La Tengo (YLT). It's hard to understand how this band doesn't get more attention. Anyway I have been enjoying this one from 2013's Fade.
Also there is a good story on the name Yo La Tengo on Wikipedia...
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band as a couple in 1984. They chose the name "Yo La Tengo" (Spanish for "I have it", or referring to a female-gender object or person, also "I have her") in an effort to avoid any connotations in English. The name came form a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacon found themselves colliding the outfield. When Ashburn went to catch, he would scream "I got it! I got It!" only to run into Chacon who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell "Yo la tengo! Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacon backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the hell is a Yellow Tango?".
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