Icon The band Yo La Tengo.....just started paying attention to them more
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Over the past few days I have been checking out the band Yo La Tengo and it has been a real pleasant find.  I have heard of them in the past but really didn't pay a lot of attention to their music.  It is some nice, easy listening stuff with a larger variety of styles.

Here is the hilairious meaning behind their name from Wikipedia....

 

The name came from a baseball anecdote that occurred during the 1962 season, when New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into Chacón, a Venezuelan who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón 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 outfield collisions.[5] After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the hell is a Yellow Tango?".[6]

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