Theme: The Gig Theatre, Au Revoir Simone, Best of 2007, and Juno
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There was a set of music that was bookended by a couple of bands that were playing The Gig Theatre that night and now that CKMS has wireless internet I was able to play songs directly from the Myspace pages of the local bands, that was pretty cool. There was a set of music inspired by the band "Au Revoir Simone" whom I saw the week before this show in Toronto (Do you know where that name came from? Answer is after the setlist). I started this set with a cover they did for their encore by David Bowie, with the average age of the audience I'm sure that only about 3 people there recognized the song. Luckily, I was standing beside one of them (Derek). After playing Au Revoir Simone the rest of the set was just kind of low-fi stuff that reminded me of the show. There was a set of music inspired by the movie Juno mostly stolen from this website: http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/01/07/songs-for-juno/ There was a set of music inspired by the Best of 2007 lists that I got from everybody, Thanks to Mary, Derek, and Michael T. TALK-Theme The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk To Dream Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days Plastic Operator - Folder Second Hand Furniture - Nice Try, Sunshine Sakert - Vikommer Att Posamtigt TALK (The Gig inspired set) Spy Machine 16 - Disappointed Tourist (C) The Assistants - Fiction (C) Gaye Rage - Nothin' (C) Pet Politics - Taken Away By Aliens Battlecreek - The Lion's Tale (C) TALK (Au Revoir Simone inspired set) David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song Remote Kid - Casual Day At The Carnegie Endowment (C) The Little Penguins - Say It Once The Consonant C - Distance (C) TALK (Juno inspired set) The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You Adam Green - Jessica The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (C) The Replacements - Bastards Of Young TALK (Other people's best of 2007 inspired set) Flight of the Chonchords - The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room Page France - Here's A Telephone Feist - I Feel It All LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great TALK Blood Music - Eagles In The Water Lolligags - Wired Up Stars - Bitches In Tokyo (C) Echo Beach Surf Club - Turf Dream (C) TALK The Go! Team - Keys To The City (C) Denotes Canadian Content The name Au Revoir Simone comes from the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRP42OS5mjo |
January 18, 2008
January 4, 2008
Theme: Best of 2007 |
| I was actually giddy with excitement as I was putting together the music for this show, I was excited about being able to play a selection of the great songs that I played over the year. The first part of the show featured my favourite singles of 2007 and the final 10 songs were from my top albums. You can see all of my picks here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/best_of_2007.htm I did my best to indicate on the setlist where I first heard about each song. TALK-Theme Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance **KEXP** Tim Armstrong - Into Action **KEXP** The Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean Your Moving On **KEXP** Sweet Homewreckers - Wild America (C) **The Wedge** Major Maker - Rollercoaster (C) **Maynard's commercial** TALK Dance Hall Free For All - Something Collective (C) **Hillside** Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know **Popcasting** The Flight Of The Chonchords - Business Time **Wayne** Small Sins - We Will Beak Our Own Hearts (C) **CKMS** TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit **Swedesplease** Juni Jarvi - If We Just Want To **Swedesplease** Young Galaxy - Outside The City (C) **The Wedge** Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down **Popcasting** TALK The Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts (C) **CKMS** The Superfantastics - Oh! How You Used To Know Me Well (Back Then) (C) **Halifax** The Doers - We're Open (C) **CKMS** Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said **Bury Me Not** Amida - Class of 2000 **Poppolar** Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It **KEXP** California Snow Story - Suddenly Everything Happens **Poppolar** TALK Los Campensinos - You Throw Parties, We Throw Knives **KEXP** Immaculate Machine - Jarhand (C) **CBC** Little Name - For The Attention Of **Indie Pop Radio** TALK Annemarie - The Living Model **Popcasting** Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile **Swedesplease** TALK Lucky Soul - Get Outta Town **Poppolar** The Icicles - Snowbird **Motorola commercial** TALK Irene - Always On My Mind **Poppolar** TALK I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona **Globe and Mail** TALK Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar **Me** KEXP - KEXP song of the day ( www.kexp.org ) Swedesplease - www.swedesplease.net Bury Me Not - www.burymenot.com Poppolar - www.poppolar.com Indie Pop Radio - www.indiepopradio.co.uk The Wedge - www.muchmusic.com/tv/thewedge/ (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
December 17, 2007
Theme: Christmas Time |
| I played a few new Christmas songs and a few old Fireball XL5 standards, but when all is said and done the best holiday song is still Elisa Gabbai's Winter In Kanada. Not much else to say about the show, but I just wanted to mention that most of the new songs I played I stole from this podcast: |
December 7, 2007
Theme: Spotlight on HHBTM |
| I got through a lot of great music this show that I had stored up the weeks and months before. I also did two sets highlighting a great record label with a great name: Happy Happy Birthday to Me. I came upon them reading a blog that described bands as having that "HHBTM" sound, I like the band so I did some research and found out what HHBTM stood for and found the record label's website. Most of the bands have the Indie-Twee sound that I'm into so it was a fortuitous find. You can find out more about the label and listen to many of bands here: http://www.hhbtm.com Just one other note that the song my Murray Dear sounded to me so much like the Magnetic Fields that I had to play them immediately after. In other Magnetic Fields news their new album is due out in January something that I'm very much looking forward to hearing. TALK-Theme Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining The Sadies - Higher Power (C) Bughouse 5 - Ten Lost Years (C) Hot Kid - Ties That Bind (C) Andrew Vincent and the Pirates - Martha (C) TALK The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight (C) The Evaporators - Grassy Jack (C) Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations The Purrs - She's Got Chemicals TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Is Trying To Outfox Us All TALK Murray Dear - Deserter The Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend Tellus About The Moon - Hate Postal Blue - Weather Sensitive The Assistants - Stop Dead (C) TALK (HHBTM Set 1) Keith John Adams - Never Look Down Patience Please - I'll Have What She's Having The Smittens - Stop The Bombs Casper and the Cookies - Eux Autres TALK (HHBTM Set 1) James Ausfahrt - Lucy Ferocious Slumber Party - Sooner Or Later Spring Factory - Get Out Of Bed The Dreamers - A Place I Know TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit B'Ehl - Jammers Like Me (C) Paint By Numbers - Deep In The Snow The Lovely Feathers - The Only Appalachian Cornfield (C) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - I Never Thought I Could Feel That Way For A Boy TALK DJ Champion - No Heaven (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
November 23, 2007
Theme: Fun with Bruce
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| My top song this week was by a band from Florida called the "Black Kids" and their great tune called "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance". As opposed to the Shout Out Louds songs (see the August 17 setlist) that sounded like it was a cover of a song by The Cure that I had not heard about before, this song sounds like a song the The Cure might write in the future. By the way it came from a great podcast that highly recommend, it is the KEXP song of the day ( http://kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp ) every weekday you get a new song, it is hit and miss but when I love a song I really love it like this one. Yes, I promise this was the last time I will do a direct comparison between Jens Lekman and Jonathan Richman, but if you listen to the two songs the "Bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum" part is identical. I'm not alone in thinking this as I managed to find 2 other references to this similarity: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviewcomment.php?ID=3596 http://users.livejournal.com/_shmoo/ Congratulations to Dave and Michael who won the tickets to "Control", the movie about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. TALK-Theme Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance All Girl Summer Fun Band - Girl #3 Postal Blue - Puzzle Edson - Sunday, Lovely Sunday TALK Masonic - Way Gone By **See Note 1 Neverending White Lights - Always (C) Shock Hop Arousal - Rhythm Thief (C) The Hives - Won't Be Long TALK Joy Division - Ice Age **Suggested by Dave F. Joy Division - Decades **Suggested by Michael T. New Order - Waiting For The Siren's Call Small Sins - It Keeps Me On My Toes (C) TALK Hidden Cameras - Smells Like Happiness (C) Ostrich - Ice Cold Killers TIAC - Catalogue of Failures The Evaporators - Do The Eggbeater (C) TALK Jonathan Richman - Walter Johnson Jens Lekman - Sweet Summers Night on Hammer Hill Jens Lekman - You Can Call Me Al The Pipettes - Judy TALK The Brunettes - If You Were Alien Basia Bulat - Before I Knew Chicklet - Whitewashed Lykke Li - Tonight **See Note 2 Belle and Sebastian - A Century of Fakers **Thanks to Karen TALK The Golden Dogs - 1985 Note 1: I got this song from Derek's Bury Me Not MP3 Blog - www.burymenot.com Note 2: She is supposed to be the next Robyn. (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
November 9, 2007
Theme: Fun with Bruce |
| I was lucky enough to have a guest on this week's show in the form of Bruce who came all the way from Saskatoon just to be there (well actually he might have had a meeting in town or something like that as well). As a result of having a guest you might notice from the length of the setlist that we talked a lot and didn't play nearly as many songs as a usual week. For the first time in a while I played a funky/jazzy/dancy kind of set, I know it has been a while as some of the songs came from the CDs I made a few months ago. The rest of the show was a mish-mash of whatever Bruce and I felt like playing, but overall we mixed up picking out most of the music so I didn't note who picked what on the list. One thing we didn't really talk much about till nearly the end of my show was recent trip to Chicago, but I did manage to get in my two stories that came from riding on the Chicago subway (you will have to listen to podcast to find out more). But I didn't have the time to properly talk about the main reason that I went to Chicago was to see Jens Lekman, so I'll try and do a better recap on the next show. TALK-Theme The Sonics - Stychnine Immaculate Machine - Broken Ship (C) Chuck Prophet - Doubter of Jesus (All Over You) The Fiery Furnaces - The Old Hag Is Sleeping The Voom Booms - Nine Ships TALK (funky/jazzy/dancy set 1) Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema The Trinidad Steel Band - Sissy Strut Ruby And The Romantics - Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore Time Box - Beggin' Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know **See Note 1 TALK (funky/jazzy/dancy set 2) Gorillaz - Rock The House Buck 65 - Dang (C) David Bowie with The Pet Shop Boys - Hallo Spaceboy Small Sins - I Need A Friend (C) Thievery Corporation - Vivid TALK Eugene Ripper - Banks Of Newfoundland (C) **See Notes 2 and 3 Dog Day - Oh Dead Life (C) Neverending White Lights - The World Is Darker (C) The Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty Room (C) Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar TALK Feist - I Feel It All (C) Note 1: Out of all the songs I played this week this is the one I have listened to the most since the show. Note 2: The last time Bruce and I had seen each other was at a conference in St. John's, Newfoundland at a conference, thus this song seemed appropriate. Note 3: Another note about this song was that it came from a CD that was sent to me by Eugene Ripper. (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
October 26, 2007
Theme: Party rock to Twee |
| Once again I had to make a comparison between Jens Lekman and Jonathan Richman (and I know I promised that this would be the last time during the show but I might have to do it just one more time). In both of these songs they narrate a little story about their past that goes along with the song, they even have some of the same articulation. In the case of Lekman, this version of the song is 7 minutes long from the digital-only EP that was released before the album and it gives a lot more background on the story than the 4 minute version that is on the CD. Not much else to say about the rest of the show: a set about upcoming shows, a party rock set, and a few random sets of great songs. A few notes about a few of the songs are shown below. TALK-Theme The Brunettes - Baby Strawberry Whiplash - Falling Through Heavenly - Three Star Component The San Marinos - Guess How Much I Love You TALK (Upcoming show set) Bella - None Will Ever Know (C) Knock, Knock Ginger - Syllables (C) Square Root of Margaret - Time Bomb (C) The Pipettes - Dance & Boogie **See Note 1 TALK (very Twee) Jens Lekman - Postcard For Nina Jonathan Richman - Monologue About Bermuda Oh! Sweet Music - Four Long Years Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs TALK (party rock) Shout Out Out Out Out - Chicken Soup For The F*** You (C) **See Note 2 The Russian Futurists - These Seven Notes (C) Bocce - Again Again Again Again (C) The Go! Team - Doing It Right TALK Tokyo Police Squad - Box (C) The Sequins - Lost Art Of Friendship Chuck Prophet - Doubter Out Of Jesus Simply Saucer - Bullet Proof Nothing (C) Small Sins - On The Line (C) TALK Juni Jarvi - Asleep Note 1: I don't like that the Pipettes put a couple of extra songs on the US release of album after I bought the import version last year. Note 2: Saw them at the Starlight the night before the show, crazy crowd, great show. (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
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