Playlist for Tuesday, November 29, 2005

I'm too lazy to format my playlist this week; but you can check out a pretty version here. Heavy on the '60s and '70s this time, it seems. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The Seven O'Clock Special was a double header: Johnny Cash with "Straight A's in Love" and the Carpenters with "Sing"--two artists who rub shoulders on my CD shelf.

Playlist for Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Talk Talk "Such a Shame" Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk

Depeche Mode "Precious" Playing the Angel

Brian Eno "On Some Faraway Beach" Here Come the Warm Jets

Suzanne Vega "Machine Ballerina" Songs in Red and Gray

Bread "Baby I'm a Want You" Best of Bread

John Vanderslice "Time Travel Is Lonely" Time Travel Is Lonely

Moody Blues "Fly Me High" The Singles+

Danielson Famile "Cutest Lil Dragon" online download

Radiohead "Where I End and You Begin" Hail to the Thief

The Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight" Underwater Moonlight

The Cure "Let's Go to Bed" Japanese Whispers

Holla Copter "St. Paul, Minnesota" online download

The Foreign Press "Tuscaloosa" online download

The Silver Jews "The Poor, the Fair, and the Good" Tanglewood Numbers

Stephen Malkmus "It Kills" Face the Truth

7 O'CLOCK SPECIAL: Led Zeppelin "Achilles' Last Stand" Presence

Metric "Handshakes" Live It Out

Supergrass "St. Petersburg" Road to Rouen

The Korgis "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" Dumb Waiters

The Beatles "Every Little Thing" Beatles VI

Sufjan Stevens "What Goes On" This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul

Grayson Wray "A Chalice Inn My Hand" Medieval Skyscraper

Neutral Milk Hotel "Communist Daughter" In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

The Subways "No Goodbyes" Young for Eternity

Tom Vek "CC (You Set the Fire in Me)" We Have Sound

The Flaming Lips "All We Have Is Now" Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Neil Diamond "What's It Gonna Be" 12 Songs

Pixies "Velouria" Sell Out 2004

John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band "Give Peace a Chance/Cold Turkey" Shaved Fish

Jeffrey Lewis "The East River" The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites

Iron and Wine "Love and Some Verses" Our Endless Numbered Days

The Eighth Grade "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" The Eighth Grade

Neil Diamond Doesn't Bring Me Flowers Anymore

Instead, he's hurt me, he's hurt me bad: http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/

I trusted his honest expression and heartfelt words...when will I learn?

Playlist for Friday's Fill-In

I subbed for an hour today, and here's what I played. It was all about the rock, with a little roll for good measure.

Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Music from the 60s Generation

White Rose Movement "Alsatian" online download

Alice Cooper "Is It My Body" Love It to Death

Tom Vek "CC (You Set the Fire in Me)" We Have Sound

Hard Fi "Cash Machine" Stars of CCTV

Heart "Crazy on You" Dreamboat Annie

Pixies "No. 13 Baby" Doolittle

The Subways "With You" Young for Eternity

David Bowie "Hang on to Yourself" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

William Shatner "Common People" Has Been

Maximo Park "Limassol" A Certain Trigger

Silver Jews "Punks in the Beerlight" Tanglewood Numbers

Grayson Wray "Tell Me Your Secret" Medieval Skyscraper

Vanilla Fudge "You Keep Me Hangin' On" Music from the 60s Generation

Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight" Greatest Hits

Blogs in the Beerlight

Poetry, music, art, and liberal politics—what's not to love? The Dust Congress

Radio Show Friday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

I'm picking up an hour this Friday. We're gonna rock!

Thanksgiving is approaching, and if it weren't for Hal the insane music-playing computer (and the occasional shift picker-upper), the WRVU airwaves would be mostly empty over the next week and a half.

Disclaimer

Sometimes when I play primary rotation songs, it's great, and I feel like some kind of random-song-choosing genius. But today, MAN! I played some stuff I really, really don't like. I'm not gonna say which ones. But they stink. I just thought you should know.

Playlist for Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Vashti Bunyan “Hidden” Lookaftering
Animal Collective “Turn Into Something” Feels

Tom Vek “I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes” We Have Sound

Sound Directions “Dice Games” The Funky Side of Life

Thievery Corporation “Pela Janela” The Cosmic Game

Greg Davis and Sebastian Roux “To See the Wonderful World” Paquet Surprise

Grayson Wray “Flying Over” Medieval Skyscraper

Plate Six “Losed” Battle Hymns for a New Republic

The Suns of Norway “The Lines of Tall Buildings” The Suns of Norway

Tom Stewart “1955” Tom Stewart

Silver Jews “How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down” Tanglewood Numbers

Dr. Dog “Oh No” Easy Beat

Metric “Glass Ceiling” Live It Out

Maximo Park” Isolation” Q's John Lennon Covered #2

7 O’CLOCK SPECIAL: Neil Diamond “Delirious Love” 12 Songs

7 O’CLOCK SPECIAL PART 2: Neil Diamond “I'm On To You” 12 Songs

The Magic Numbers “This Love” The Magic Numbers

Beulah “A Good Man Is Easy to Kill” The Coast Is Never Clear

Coconut “Harry Nilsson” Greatest Hits

Dead Kennedys “Viva Las Vegas” Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack

David Bowie “Black Country Rock” The Man Who Sold the World

Northern State “Girl for All Seasons” All City

George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” All Things Must Pass

Kate Bush “Somewhere in Between” Aerials

Mouth and McNeal “How Do You Do” Dutch Treats

Love “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale” Forever Changes

Deee Lite “Groove is in the Heart” CD Single

The Flying Lizards “Money” The Flying Lizards

Just Kidding About That Interview

Well, it turns out Tom Kimmel is recovering from an illness and since his show is Tuesday night, getting up early that morning is not gonna work for him. Maybe next time...

Live On-Air Interview and Performance This Tuesday, Maybe

I MIGHT be interviewing singer songwriter Tom Kimmel on my show this Tuesday. I'll keep you posted. Either way, if you're in Nashville you should definitely check out his performance Tuesday night, November 15, 9 p.m. at the Bluebird Cafe, 4104 Hillsboro Road. Tickets are $10; for reservations, call 615-383-1461. The concert is a benefit for the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing.

I forgot to play this song

I've been listening to this song repeatedly for days, but then forgot to play it on my show today. There's always next week...

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime by the Korgis

Playlist for November 8, 2005

Hi, y'all--Here's what I played today. If you can tell that I've just made up an album title out of the blue, please feel free to correct me.

• Suzanne Vega "Harbor Song" Songs in Red and Gray
  
• Elbow "My Very Best" Leaders of the Free World
  
• The Magic Numbers "Forever Lost" The Magic Numbers
  
• George McCrae "Rock Your Baby" KTEL Dynamite 1974
  
• Guided by Voices "Chasing Heather Crazy" Isolation Drills
  
• Broken Social Scene "Our Faces Split the Coast in Half" Broken Social Scene
  
• Grayson Wray "A Chalice Inn My Hand" Medieval Skyscraper
  
• Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice "I Am the One I Am & He is the Caretaker of My Heart" Buck Dharma
  
• Silver Jews "Punks in the Beerlight" Tanglewood Numbers
  
• Big Star "Turn My Back on the Sun" In Space
  
• Against Me! "Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners" Searching for a Former Clarity
  
• Moonbabies "War on Sound" War on Sound
  
• VHS or Beta "Disco Paradise" Le Funk
  
• THE 7 O'CLOCK SPECIAL: Focus "Hocus Pocus" Dutch Treats
  
• Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better" You Could Have It So Much Better with Franz Ferdinand
  
• Supergrass "St. Petersburg" Road to Rouen
  
• Stephen Malkmus "Trojan Curfew" Stephen Malkmus
  
• David Bowie "Five Years" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
  
• Belle and Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  
• Tee Set "Ma Belle Ami" Dutch Treats
  
• Metric "Monster Hospital" Live It Out
  
• Tom Vek "CC (You Set the Fire in Me)" We Have Sound
  
• Pavement "Here" Slanted and Enchanted
  
• The Rakes "Strasbourg" Retreat
  
• The Cure "The Perfect Girl" Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
  
• Louis XIV "God Killed the Queen" The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
  
• Gang of Four "At Home He's a Tourist" Return the Gift
  
• The Beatles "All You Need Is Love" Magical Mystery Tour
  
• Joseph Arthur "Look at Me" Q’s Lennon Covered #2
  

Lucky Number 7

I've been thinking that I need to have some kind of special thing happen on my show at 7 a.m.

I mean, the Friday Morning Drive has the essential track of the week at 7 a.m., and 7 o'clock is Costello'clock on College Music 101: Now and Then, and of course Liberadio begins at 7...so I guess Father Parthenios (of Wednesday's Sacred Hymns show) and I are the only ones without a special to-do.

Actually, Father Parthenios might have something going on then, too, I'll have to listen more thoroughly to his show.

Okay, so, tune in tomorrow at 7 a.m.

That About Covers It

Thanks to Walt of College Music 101: Now and Then for covering my show last Tuesday. With cover songs. Check out the playlist at collegemusic101.blogspot.com, and research cover songs to your heart's content at the way-too-absorbing secondhandsongs.com.