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!


March 24, 2000

This show was a lot of fun, we were able to get through the whole show
sticking with the theme of songs about people. Making it better was a
last minute visit by the Ambassador (otherwise know as Peter Brown)
who has recently switched allegiances and came to tell us about it.
In talks with the Ambassador, I realized that "songs about people" has
a very broad definition, so the final criteria was that the song had
to be about someone who is known outside of that song and could be a
real person or fictional character, here are some examples to make it
clearer:

Bad Bad Leroy Brown - No, because the character only exits in the song
Bobby Peru - Yes, a fictional movie character known outside of the song

We might have to revist this theme as there were still songs we hadn't
played after the 2 hours was up. See if you know who all the songs are
about.

For this week's show (April 7) I'm doing something that helped me stay
awake back in "the day" when I was on late Friday nights: Kicking Songs,
ie. songs that make you feel like turning up the stereo and dance around.
Although, I generally don't have a problem staying up till 8:00 pm
these days, I've had a long week recovering from a volleyball tournament
last week and having a project due tomorrow.

Send along any suggestions you might have.


Fireball XL5 Setlist March 24, 2000

TALK-Theme
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Ingrid Bergman
Grievous Angels - Bill Birilko Song
Stomin' Tom - Lady, KD Lang
Swinghammer - Karen Magnussen Song
Arrogant Worms - Celine Dion
TALK
Dik Van Dykes - Klaus Barbie (a band and a song with a
They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk person in the title)
The Frantics - Miss G (about Risa Gorbechev)
The Blackhands - Louis Riel
Jonathan Richman - Vincent Van Gough
Jonathan Richman - Walter Johnson
TALK
The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Luna - Bobby Peru
Stump - Charlton Heston
TALK
Tony Bennett - Nancy (according to the Ambassador it's
Cake - Frank Sinatra about Nancy Sinatra)
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Starbeam - Gary Numan
Weedy Pigeons - Harrison Jones ** see Note 1
TALK
Momus - Walter Carlos
Momus - Stephen Zeeland
Beastie Boys - Tuff Guy (about Bill Lambeer)
TALK
Cub - Nicolas Bragg ** see Note 2
The Smugglers - Alan Thicke
Show Business Giants - I've got a Crush on Wendy Mesley
Unrest - Isabel
Boo Radleys - Rodney King
TALK
Finnigan's Tongue - Abigail Becker


Note 1: From Trevor:

Harrison Jones is "a true story song dedicated to this kid who's parents
loved the Indiana Jones movies so much they named their first born
Harrison. These are sad times."

Note 2:

According to the liner notes Nicolas Bragg was a journalist who invented
the term "cuddlecore" to describe Cub's music.

March 10, 2000

We made good on the new music theme as apart from the leap year set every
album we played (except for 2) was from the recent release section of the
music library (this section contains albums that have come to the station
in the last 90 days). Can you pick the two albums that weren't - answers
at the bottom).

After the show on March 9 Michelle and I are heading down to the Boathouse
Tearoom at Victoria Park to hear Pat Skinner and Friends play, I recommend
that everyone who can make to come on down.

For this week's show, March 9 is being recognized as the 300th anniversary
of the invention of the piano and so far nobody has used it to make a
decent song, just kidding, but if you want to prove me wrong send me you
favourite song that prominently features this ubiquitous instrument.


Fireball XL5 Setlist March 10, 2000

TALK-Theme
The New Pornographers & Neko - Letter From Occupant
Riff Randells - Somebody's Mom
Whole Lotta Milka - Hardly Enough
Piggy - She's Stepping Out
The Honeymans - Depopulation Dance
TALK
Christopher Just - I'm a Disco Dancer (Fatboy Slim Remix)
Air - The Word "Hurricane"
South Pacific - Analogue 9
Kid Koala - Music for Morning People
TALK
Tom Waits - The Piano has been drinking
Rufus Wainwright - Beauty Mark
The The - Uncertain Smile
Ben Folds 5 - Jane
Warren Zevon - Warewolves of London
Art Tatum - Nice Work if you can get it
Oscar Peterson - Cubano Chant
TALK
The Obvious - Only in a Dream
Carolyn Mark - Edmonton
The Gospel Miracles - We're Gonna Have a Time
The Ambassadors of Style - Prime Minister
Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6
TALK
Dik Van Dykes - Curling

February 25, 2000

We made good on the new music theme as apart from the leap year set every
album we played (except for 2) was from the recent release section of the
music library (this section contains albums that have come to the station
in the last 90 days). Can you pick the two albums that weren't - answers
at the bottom).

After the show on March 9 Michelle and I are heading down to the Boathouse
Tearoom at Victoria Park to hear Pat Skinner and Friends play, I recommend
that everyone who can make to come on down.

For this week's show, March 9 is being recognized as the 300th anniversary
of the invention of the piano and so far nobody has used it to make a
decent song, just kidding, but if you want to prove me wrong send me you
favourite song that prominently features this ubiquitous instrument.


Fireball XL5 Setlist Feb 25, 2000

TALK-Theme
Guard - My eyes were welling with tears
The Smugglers - Danko Jones' Pants
Trigger Happy - No Luxury
Tegan & Sarah - Proud
The Sadies - Only Good One
TALK
John Southworth - Veto Valvolene
B'Ehl - Pink Star
Bob Stark - Snow (From the album Love Songs for Bueracrats)
Tanya Donnelley - Pretty Deep (From the album Love Songs for
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone underdogs)
Fembots - Spy Theme
TALK (electronica set bookended by Kid Koala)
Kid Koala - Barhopper I
South Pacific - Stay Ahead, Far Behind
Takoelectric - Ten Thousand Miles
DJ Spooky Vs Scanner - Channelfloat
Divinestyles - Contact 2
Project - All Souls
Deep Plus Thoughts - The World's made up of this & that ** Note 1
Kid Koala - Barhopper II
TALK (Leap year set)
Billy Bragg - Waiting for the great leap forward (suggested by Trevor)
Aztec Camera - Jump (I had heard the Van Halen version that day)
Emm Gryner - Hello Aquarius (from the album The original leap year)
Ray Condo & his hard rock Goners - Jumps, jiggles & shouts
Standing Waves - Reverberation (from the album Giant Leap of Faith 3)
TALK
Peter Murphy - Final Solution
Colour Me Psycho - Black Corvair (just because is was on the same
It came from Canada Compilation as Ray Condo, in fact the whole
It came from Canada was probably the best series of compilations
of Canadian Music)

Note 1: This is from a new album called Fatboy Slim's greatest
re-mixes, I heard a few more selections on CKMS, went out and
bought it last weekend, I love it, it's Norman Cook (aka Fatboy
Slim) remixing some great songs. The packaging is wierd as some
remixes are credited to Norman Cook and others to Fatboy Slim?

Songs not from the new release section:














Tanya Donnelley - Pretty Deep
Colour Me Psycho - Black Corvair
(The Violent Femmes and Peter Murphy were from Greatest Hits albums)

February 11, 2000

It was a crazy day this radio show in a nutshell: I had everything
planned out to do the Valentine's day show. I was snow surveying
about 50 km north of Waterloo all day, but I was done at 5:00 pm
so I figured I could make it to the station by 5:40 pm, however
about half way to Waterloo the Civil Engineering van kept going
slower and slower and eventually stopped and wouldn't go no
more. I decide to ditch the van and hitch hike (something
I've never done before), after about 15 cars passed by a van stops
from the University of Waterlo Earch Science department. It turns
out to be the Waterloo Alpine Ski team coming back from a meet.
They start driving me home and at 6:00 I tell them to turn on the
radio because I was supposed to be on, we hear Michelle start
the show (which she has never done before) and the driver says
"Man, we have to get you to that radio station". So not only do
they drive me to the University they bring me right to the station,
I also made the observation that with the 9 people in the van
listening it was the most people to ever hear the show and I
wasn't even on it. Overall, I was very very lucky.

Well both Michelle and I were too wired to really care about the
show after that so we did our best to finish the show with the
Valentine's day theme. To add to the confusion we got about 6 or
7 phone calls during the show, many more than usual.

I'm going to try and concentrate on music from the new release
section of library this week because I feel that I have been
looking in the past too much these last few shows. However I
am trying to put together any songs related to February 29
(leap day), any ideas?

I also am ready to start shipping the Best of 1999 CD, so if you
are outside of K-W and I don't have your address please send
it along to me.

(This is way off topic, but I have come across this free tax
preparation program called cooltax. I have used it the last
three years and have been quite impressed by it, you can
download it at www.cooltax.com)


Fireball XL5 Setlist Feb 11, 2000

TALK-Theme
B'Ehl - Geography
Andy Stochonsky - Fly
Cub - Way to Go
Mugshot - I believe in Steven Evan (request)
TALK
Pennywise - My own country (request)
Julie Doiron & the Wooden Stars - The longest Winter
Smugglers - Booze Can
Lowest of the Low - Henry needs a new pair of shoes
Neko Case & her boyfriends - Whip the Blanket
TALK (Start of Valentine's Day set)
Dimitri From Paris - Love Love Mode
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Johnathan Richman - Love me like I love
Grievous Angels - When Love Came Around
Hawksley Workman - Tarantulove
TALK
Pansy Division - Valentine's Day
Chet Baker - My funny valentine
Billy Bragg - Valentine's day is over
Burt Bacharach & the Posies - What the World Need Now
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
TALK
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song (request - Karen)
Lucinda Williams - Right in Time (request - Kenton)
New Order - Bizzare love triangle
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
(Michelle wanted to follow this with the Captain and Tenille's
Love will keep us together but we couldn't find it)
Barry White - I'm gonna love you just a little more baby
Future Bible Heros - Memories of Love
TALK
Lloyd Cole - Are you ready to be heartbroken

January 28, 2000

We could have phoned in this show, not only did we know what
we were going to play but we had all the albums as it was our
best of the 1990s show. Once again you can see all the picks on
the webpage:

http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/best_of_1990s.htm


For the people who have asked, yes I'm working on the year end
CD, hopefully it will be going out sometime next week.

The next show is this Friday February 11, as it is as
close to Valentine's Day as I'm going to get the theme will
be love in three parts: Love Good, Love Bad, Love Sad. So you
can send me your favourite love songs.

Fireball XL5 Setlist Jan 28, 2000

TALK-Theme (almost on the top ten)
Hard Rock Miners - Seeing Double and Feeling Single
Sarah McLachlan - Drawn to the Rhythm
Ron Sexsmith - Strawberry Blonde
Lowest of the Low - Eternal Fatalist
Rawlins Cross - Colleen
Rankin Family - Tripper's Jig
TALK
Moby - Porcelain
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Spirit of the West - Water in the Well
TALK
Lemonheads - Rockin Stroll
Lemonheads - Bit Part in your Life
Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream
Belle and Sebastian - The boy with the Arab Strap
TALK
Jerry Jerry and the sons of Rhythm Orchestra - She'll get it right
Grievous Angels - When Love Came Around
Beastie Boys - So Whatcha' Want
TALK
Sloan - Take it in
Lloyd Cole - Sentimental Fool
TALK
Luna - Sideshowe by the seashore
Sugar - If I can't Change your Mind
TALK
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
Belly - Slow Dog
Magnetic Fields - I don't want to get over you
TALK
Electronic - How Long
Liz Phair - 6'1"


Your Best of the 90s Lists:

Dave C.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sarah McLachlan - Solace

Trevor D.
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Spice Girls - Spice

Atillio C.
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Various Artists - Buena Vista Social Club
Ani Di Franco - Out of Range

Steven F.
Delerium - Semantic Spaces
Miles Davis - DooBop
Motoerhead - Sacrifice

Wayne J.
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

Mary F.
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
Various Artists - RENT (soundtrack)

Sari M.
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me/4 track demos
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Jeff Buckley - Grace

Mark S.
Various Artists - Buena Vista Social Club
I Mother Earth - Dig
Natalie Merchant - Tiger Lilly

Cath S.
Dave Matthers Band - Crash
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Phish - The Story of the Ghost

James M.
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Best of 1999

Dave C.
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Various Artists - The Matrix Soundtrack
Chemical Brothers - Surrender

Trevor D.
The New Deal - This is Live
Chicklet - Wonderlust
Various Artists - Code 416

Wayne J.
Moby - Play
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Chemical Brothers - Surrender

Stephen P.
Wilco - Summerteeth
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Joe Henry - Fuse

Mary F.
Prince - Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic
TLC - Fanmail
Mercury Rev - Derserter's Songs

Sari M.
Various Artists - Run Lola Run Soundtrack
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
Calexico - 98-9 Road Map

Mark S.
Santana - Supernatural
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Rheostatics - The Story of Harmelodia

James M.
Paul Westerberg - Suicaine Gratifaction
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Luscious Jackson - Electric Honey

Derek W. (more than 3)
TLC - No scrubs
Holy Modal Rounders - Too Much Fun
Os Mutantes - Everything is Possible
Moby - Play
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Abunai - The mystic River Sound
Godspeed you Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

January 14, 2000

It was a cold day on January 14th, and almost as cold in the station
as the furnace wasn't working, there were a couple of space heaters
around but they just took the edge off. We played a selection of songs
from both of our best of 1999 singles and album lists, if you want
to see our lists you can check them out at the Fireball XL5 homepage
at: www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/best_of_1999.htm

Also, since the last mailout we have had a winner in the Y2K Hype
contest: Although Cath had a strong start in the first half of the
contest (she got 4 points for being one day away from December 10)
Steven correctly guessed that January 12 would be the first
day that Y2K would not be mentioned in the National Post gaining
5 points and the victory (By the way January 12 is still the only
day without a mention so far in January).

This week's show is the best of the 1990s hopefully there will be
heat at the station.

Fireball XL5 Setlist Jan 14, 2000

TALK-Theme
Rational Youth - Pink Pills, Orange Pills ** I saw their show in
Len - Feelin' Alright Kitchener last week
Chicklet - Superficial
Blurtonia - Pick up the Pieces
Planet Smashers - Super Orgy Porno Party
TALK
Blur - Coffee and TV
Kahimi Karie - What are you Wearing?
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Os Mutantes - Cantor De Mambo
TALK
Filter - Take a Picture
The New Deal - Mind Melt
Black Male - Don Ray
Lucious Jackson - Lady Fingers
Beth Orton - Stolen Car
TALK
Wilco - Via Chicago
Ron Sexsmith - Feel for You
Tom Waits - Come on up to the House
Looper - Up a Tree Again
Luna - La Poupee Que Fait Non (From the Pop Romantique album)
TALK
Magnetic Fields - Acoustic Guitar
Magnetic Fields - Yeah, Oh Yeah
Magnetic Fields - Paper was a Rodeo