The Coolest Thing About Love

Of course I named the show after the great album by the Smittens and I pay homage to the band by using a clip of their song 11:11 for my theme. I hope the band doesn't mind, but when I have talked to various members of the band after shows they seem like nice people whom I think would be good with it.

I also use this name for my DJ night happening occasionally at the Jane Bond in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Note that the links to shows older than 6 months might not be working, if you really want those shows please send me an email and I can get them to you. (Note that prior to 2018 I called my podcast FireballXL5, so don't be confused if you look at an old setlist)

Special thanks to Jeff Woods for finding my a place to host my mp3s!

Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 25, 2013

Not much to say about this show, just my favourite singles of 2012 played in order from 1 to 15, plus a bonus.

Best song I heard since the last best of singles show - Haim - Forever - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwM6ERq0gc

You can download the latest show directly here:
http://76.163.12.179/2013-01-25_final.mp3

You can get links to all of the songs from here: http://fireballxl5podcast.blogspot.ca/2012/12/best-singles-of-2012.html

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 25, 2013
TALK - Theme
Haim - Forever
Hospitality - Betty Wang
TOPS - Diamond LookThe Smittens - Burning Streets Of Rome
Chromatics - Kill For Love
TALK
Yuna - Live Your Life
Lee Fields And The Expressions - You're The Kind Of Girl
The Magic - Magic Love
Jens Lekman - The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love
The Hive Dwellers - A Woman Named Trudy
TALK
Frankie Rose - Know Me
Jessie Ware - 110%
La Sera - Break My Heart
Standard Fare - Crystal Palatial
Eternal Summers -Millions
TALK (random ending)
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia

(C) - Canadian Content

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Best Albums of 2012

Fireball XL5 Best albums of 2012

1. Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional (Buy the album here)

2. The Magic - Ragged Glory (Stream and buy the album here)

3. Hospitality - Hospitality (Buy the album here)

4. Chairlift - Something (Buy the album here)

5. The Smittens - Believe Me (Stream and buy the album here)

6. Dent May - Do Things (Buy the album here)

7. Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair (Buy the album here)

8. The School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything (Stream and buy the new album here)

9. The Hive dwellers - Hewn from the Wilderness (Buy the album here)

10. TOPS - Tender Opposites (Stream the album and buy the digital album for only $5 here)

11. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Stream and buy the album here)

12. Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom of the Sea (Stream and buy the album here)

November 23, 2012

I had some really good songs left over for this the last new music show of the year, so I blew threw them all in the first two sets. Also had a great time with the last funky set of music that went from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo to Lulu.

Best song I heard since the last show - Haim - Forever - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwM6ERq0gc

Websites I mentioned during the show:

Trailer for Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O36cQ4scvM

Great Video for Lulu's The Boat That I Row:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5usk2yrw0E

Information about Stephin Merrit's Showtunes project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showtunes

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http://76.163.12.179/2012-11-23_final.mp3

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - November 23, 2012
TALK - Theme
Haim - Forever
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
The Magic - Mr. Hollywood
TOPS - Diamond Look
io echo - Doorway
TALK
Hospitality - Friends of Friends
This Many Boyfriends - You Don't Need To Worry
Surfer Blood - Miranda
Courtney Jaye - Queen of Sabotage
Levy - Rotten Love
TALK
George Kranz - Din Daa Daa
Jessie Ware - 110%
Vaughn Mason featuring Butch Dayo - Feel My Love
Etta James - Seven Day Fool
Lulu - The Boat That I Row
TALK (random ending)
Stephin Merrit - Auntie Toothache

(C) - Canadian Content

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October 20, 2012

Live DJ show Jane Bond.
Setlist for Coolest Thing About Love 15 - Your All New Order Station Edition

Looper - Mondo '77 (a Belle and Sebastian offshoot, I saw them at the El Mo a long time ago)
I am the World Trade Center - Future Sightings
Eternal Summers - Millions
The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
Hey Ocean! - Make A New Dance Up! (Playing the Starlight on Tuesday - The Starlight is the sister club to the Jane Bond)
Library Voices - Kundera on the Dance Floor (Double shot of CanCon)
Sambassadeur - Days
The Jordans - Mystified
The Holiday Crowd - Never Speak Of It Again (wow it is crazy busy in here so far tonight)
The Wise Acres - One Day
Bye Bye Bicycle - Eastside
Those Darlins - Be Your Bro
Milk'n'Cookies - (Dee, Dee You're) Stuck on a Star
Barnaby Bye - Can't Live This Way
Brazilian Girls - Don't Stop
New Order - Love Vigilantes (The first of the New Order related songs tonight, the first of many)
Electronic - Dark Angel (side project of NO with Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr, from Feel the Pressure my top album of the 90s)
Groove Armada - Paper Romance
Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonna Let
Dr. Togo - Be Free
James Taylor - This Girl
Lee Fields and the Expressions - Ladies (this CD has the best album cover ever, check it out if you can)
Bobby Marchan with the Tick Tocks - Snoopin' and Accusin'
Epitome of Sound - You Don't Love Me
Frankie Rose - Know Me
New Order - Regret (from Republic - this song has a great video, at least it has a cool effect they use over and over again)
Monaco - What Do You Want from Me (the best single from a Peter Hook side project in my opinon)
Sleater Kinney - You're No Rockn'nRoll Fun
Those Dancing Days - Fuckarias
Veronica Falls - Beachy Head
Yellow Ostrich - Hate Me Soon (I'm going to see them in mid-November)
Elefant - Misfit
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Say No To Love (Continuing my streak of playing them every time I'm here)
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (I have to say I'm pretty happy with how the sets have been coming together tonight)
New Order - 60 Miles And Hour (From Get Ready, there was a spontaneous dancer for the last song)
Revenge - Big Bang (one of the other Peter Hook side projects)
Royksopp - Remind Me
Telepopmusik - Breathe (I apologize for missing the accents in the names of the last 2 bands, but I don't know how to puth them in)
Dent May - Don't Wait Too Long (More spontaneous dancing for the last song)
Chalres Bradley - The World (is going up in flames) (kind of a request from the floor)
Sister Sledge - Thinking of You (Dimitri From Paris remix) (some good audience reaction to the Charles Bradley)
Lenon Honor Jr. - Dancin' Mood
The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down (this song has the most energy of any song ever)
The Butlers featuring Frankie Beverly - Because of my Heart (perhaps not the only time we will hear from Frankie Beverly tonight...)
The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me (finally starting to thin out a bit in here)
Happy Monday - 24 Hour Party People (bandmates of New Order on Factory Records)
The Wake - Pale Spectre (also labelmates of NO, I had the pleasure of seeing them live in NYC a few years back)
Craft Spells - Talk About The Past (not really that NO related, but it is a cover of a song by the Wake and it is just so damn good)
New Order - Age of Consent (from Power, Corruption, and Lies)
Electronic - Getting Away With It (this song features Niel Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, so I'll follow it with ..)
Pet Shop Boys - Young Offender
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari (I love the line from this song 'I can drive a car faster than a man can run')
Gold Motel - Slow Emergency (this song is up there on my singles of the year, at least I think it is from this year)
io echo - Doorway (playing io echo, what is this Sirius XMU?)
Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill (the last few songs were just a brdge so I could play the next song)
Hospitality - Betty Wang (I had to lead up to a pure indie pop song)
Koko Beware - I Just Wanna Dance (not to be confused with the proffesional wrestler Koko B. Ware)
Hooded Fang - Land of Giants (and while we are in this short indie pop set)
Army Navy - Dark as Days
Lykke Li - Little Bit (this is the perfect brdige between indie and electro pop)
New Order - Krafty (I would say this is their best post-Republic song, also a video with a neat video effect)
Electronic - Late at Night (the last NO song was from Waiting for the Siren's call by the way)
Kon Kan - Harry Houdini (will this song work here, I really don't know, this is part of the final climb up the mountain)
Yuma - Live Your Life (like Kon Kan said 'I wanna be where loving is easy and if I go it wouldn't be a dare)
Diamond Rings - On Our Own (he will playing the Starlight at the end of November)
Bad Lieutenant - Sink Or Swim (Latest side project from Bernard Sumner, after this I am going with the rest of the NO songs I have)
New Order - Run (from Technique)
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (from Brotherhood, with that I think I have played a song from all of thier albums except Movement)
Junior Boys - In The Morning (a band I always thought were greatly influenced by New Order)
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Back In Stride(I told you he would be back!)
Blue Magic - Just Don't want to be lonely (saw this during a really bad movie about a tire that kills people)
Hall and Oates - One On One (actually had a request for another song by them tonight)
Nancy Sinatra - Kinky Love
Sakert! - Can I (this song might not fit, but I have wanted to play it for a while during the cool down)
The Flying Pickets - Only You (this has to be the last song before the them, it is just brings it down so much)
The Smittens - 11:11

October 19, 2012

Started out with a great song from Gold Motel that turns out be a song from a few years ago, I'm sad to have missed it when it first came out. The set also featured a song by the Housemartins a band from a while ago that I should probably listen to more. This was followed by a bit of stripped down set that all happened to feature female lead vocals.

Got a bit funky in the last set, started with a great group from Toronto who I was introduced to by seeing them perform outside of the Younge-Bloor subway station. The last song of the set was close to my top song and I only found out about it randomly with someone I know watching a bad movie on Netflix, it was a bad movie, but it featured this great song so I guess that is something.

Best song I heard since the last show - Gold Motel - Slow Emergency - Listen to the song here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4rjbj24R8c

Websites I mentioned during the show:

About The Housemartins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housemartins

See Turbo Street Funk in action:
http://turbostreetfunk.com/

See the great video for the song "Back in Stride" by MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waSM0rXDLys

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http://76.163.12.179/2012-10-19_final.mp3

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - October 19, 2012
TALK - Theme
Gold Motel - Slow Emergency
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
The Housemartins - I Smell Winter
Tyson And His Game Boy - The Only One (C)
The Ice Choir - I Want You Now And Always
TALK
The XX - Angels
Esther Grey - A Gift (C)
The Do - Travel Light
TOPS - Diamond Look (C)
Thee Headcoatees - First Plane Home
TALK
Turbo Street Funk - Ghostbusters (C)
Lee Fields And The Expressions - Ladies
Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Love Land
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Back In Stride Again
Blue Magic - Just Don't Want To Be Lonely
TALK (random ending)
The Drums - Blue Stripes

(C) - Canadian Content

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September 21, 2012

I went old school on the first set including my top song of week Teena Marie's "Lovergirl", although I really need to listen to some more current music, that doesn't take away from the fact that it is a great song. The next set shifted to electro-pop but I finally brought it back to indie pop for the ending set.

Best song I heard since the last show - Teena Marie - Lovergirl - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZ7MV8bXYE

Websites I mentioned during the show:

About The Pepper Pots:
http://www.thepepperpots.com/lover/home.php

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http://76.163.12.179/2012-09-21_final.mp3

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 21, 2012
TALK - Theme
Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Cameo - She's Strange
Atlantic Starr - When Love Calls
The Pepper Pots - Time And Place
Nancy Sinatra - Kinky Love
TALK
Rich Aucoin - Brian Wilson Is A.L.I.V.E. (C)
Silver Swans - On The Quiet
Icky Blossoms - Babes
Rae Spoon - I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets
Nite Jewel - In The Dark
TALK
Eternal Summers - Millions
Ambassador - Valediction
The Holiday Crowd - Never Speak Of It Again
Purdey - Mirrors
Hipflasks - Jellyfish
TALK (random ending)
Voldis - Flashlight (C)

(C) - Canadian Content

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