I am a pirate
I took an online quiz thing.
My pirate name is:
Captain Tom Bonney
Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.
posted by Tony at 10:15 PM
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Always used to wonder who I'd take to a desert island
I subbed this morning for another DJ, and the much more reasonable hour of 6AM-10AM. 9-10 is community programming (played off the Internet), so I only played music for 3 hours, but still that's twice as long as I do on Saturdays. I'm getting better at this; it's much easier now. I got to the station 15 minutes before the show, only having chosen my first two songs, plus one 3-song set to be inserted later in the show. The show went well, and there was no stress. There were also no requests... I thought drive-time shows had lots of requests... well, I did get one call, and it was a compliment, so that's always really nice.
So here's the playlist:
Sufjan Stevens - Marching Band
Laurie Anderson - Blue Lagoon
Fazzini* - Dell
Konrad* - Canyon Blue
Cesaria Evora / remix by Pepe Bradock - Angola (Get Down Dub)
Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso - Baby
Matmos* - Steam & Sequins for Larry Levan
Har Mar Superstar - Sugar Pie
The Boy Least Likely To* - Fur Soft As Fur
Les Innocents - Le Cygne
M+M - Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing
Ella Fitzgerald - Sunny
Tom Waits - Mr. Siegal
Fiery Furnaces* - Nevers
The M's - Future Women
Starlight Mints* - Pumpkin
Peeping Tom (with Bebel Gilberto)* - Caipirinha
Jamie Liddell* - Game for Fools (Mara Carlyle Ukulady Mix)
Juana Molina* - Desordenado
Edith Piaf - La Vie L'Amour
The Streets - Too Much Brandy
Deee-Lite - Who Was That?
Brazilian Girls - Sirenes de la Fête
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft
The B-52's - Hero Worship
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Interesting Results
Camera Obscura* - Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
Las Malas Amistades - Hay Zombies en la Playa
Rufus Wainwright - Foolish Love
Manhattens* - The Feeling Is Mutual
Troubled Hubble - I Love My Canoe
Cougars* - There's No "High" in Team
Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores* - Litany
That Dog - Minneapolis
Samira Sa'id with Cheb Mami - Youm Wara Youm
Amadou & Miriam (with Manu Chao) - Sénégal Fast Food
Controller Controller* - Poison/Safe
Mission of Burma* - Donna Sumeria
Puffy Ami Yumi - Wild Girls on Circuit (the Ready Made JBL Mix '99)
Speedies - You Need Pop
P:ano - T. Hatch Says "Round Ev'ry Corner"* from our new releases listThe title of this post is taken from the second song, Laurie Anderson's "Blue Lagoon".
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posted by Tony at 9:25 AM
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Memorial day weekend tribute show...
Tonight I decided to do a tribute show to people who had passed on, in honor of Memorial Day, and in particular Desmond Dekker, who died yesterday at 64. I got more requests than I usual. It was a nice show.
I did play new songs as well, and those were not really tribute songs... no one had died (except that Built to Spill's former dummer Andy Capps died Friday as well -- but he didn't play on the track I played.)
Built to Spill* - Conventional Wisdom (for Andy Capps)
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Nina Simone - You Better Know It
Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
Fazzini* - 06
The Marlboro Chorus* - I'm So Bored
Pretty Girls Make Graves* - Parade
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores* - Valse II
Chin Up Chin Up - We Should Never Have Lived Like Skyscrapers (for Chris Saathoff)
Stereolab - The Sound of Carpet (for Mary Hansen)
B-52's - Song for a Future Generation (for Ricky Wilson)
Shonen Knife - Burning Farm (for Mana "China" Nishiura)
Material Issue** - Renee Remains the Same (for Jim Ellison)
Morphine** - Honey White (for Mark Sandman)
Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris
Warrren Zevon - Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)
Silkworm** - LR72 (for Michael Dahlquist)
Kirsty MacColl - They Don't KNow
Demolition Doll Rods* - Amazing Grace* From our new release list
** RequestsLabels: playlists
posted by Tony at 7:39 PM
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Charlie has a plan...
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posted by Tony at 12:37 PM
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They condescend to fix on me a frown...
Tonight's show was pretty good, though I was sick yesterday and still don't feel tip-tip. (Spring cold, don't ya know.)
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
Ben Folds - Dog
Fazzini* - Glare
Juana Molina* - Micael
Las Malas Amistades - Por Todos Lados
P:ano - When You Garden in Your Garden
São Paulo Underground* - Olhossss...
Billy Bragg** - Greetings to the New Brunette
Cesaria Evora (remix by Kerri Chandler) - Nho Antone Escaderode (album remix)
The Office - If You Don't Know by Now
Fiery Furnaces* - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
The Starlight Mints* - Drowaton
Streets* - Prangin Out
Laurie Anderson - Language is a Virus
The Marlboro Chorus* - I'm So Bored
Mia Doi Todd* - Deep at Sea (Dntel remix)
Quasar Wut-Wut - Thankful Hank and the Guzzard
Hank Williams - Move In On Over
Nina Simone - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
The Ukranians - Batyar (Bigmouth Strikes Again)* Songs on the new-release playlist
**Requests
(The title of today's blog posting is a line from the first song I played.)Labels: playlists
posted by Tony at 6:57 PM
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Finn and Charlie at the Beach
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posted by Tony at 10:35 PM
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A Substitute for Your Regular Guy
There's a new DJ named Billy who has covered for me on my show a few times, and so when he said he needed a sub to cover his 4-6am Monday morning shift, I said, oh
hell, I really ought to volunteer for that. And so here I am.
In order to cope with a 4am start time, I prepped virtually all my sets at home yesterday afternoon, and I think the results were quite good:
Sufjan Stevens - Wolverine
Nina Simone - Lilac Wine
Cesaria Evora - Flôr Di Nha Esperança
Rufus Wainwright - Movies of Myself
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My
The Cells - They Don't Know
Jon Auer* - Sundown
Mia Doi Todd* - Norwegian Wood
Fazzini* - Dell
Hardscrabble* - Jerry the Junker
The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
Danielson* - Did I Step on Your Trumpet
Pinback - Offcell (Request)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Laurie Anderson - Kokoku
The Tom Tom Club - Lorelei
(This 20-minute 3-song set was on the whole a pretty surreal thing to play at 5am for people waking up to the radio.)
Konrad* - Canyon Blue
Fiery Furnaces* - Oh Sweet Woods
Camera Obscura* - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
Luciana Souza - Bahião Medley
Sophia Loren - Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo
Meryn Cadell - Why Do I Do
Streets* - Two Nations
Drive-By Truckers* - Feb 14
Les Innocents - Le Cygne* from our new releases listThen Mary came in to take over, and I got to see a little of her technique, which is that she chooses everything pretty much on the fly. The results are good.
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posted by Tony at 6:33 AM
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Prom show
I've run out of songs with the word "radio" in them to use as titles in my blog...
Anyway, my prom show went well, especially the first hour.
Here's my playlist:
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Babes in Toyland - More More More
Controller Controller* - Poison / Safe
Danielson* - Ship the Majestic Suffix
Toms - (I Wanna Be A) Teen Again
Jon Auer* - You Used to Drive Me Around
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir** - She Just Wants to Move (Live)
The National Trust** - Neverstop
Zen for Primates - Funkytown
Vitalic* - No Fun
LCD Soundsystem - Too Much Love
Streets* - When You Wasn't Famous
Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
Goldfrapp* - Ride a White Horse
MADLIB* - The Rock (Hump)
Fiery Furnaces* - Nevers!
Masters of the Obvious - Dancing in the Moonlight*from our new music playlist
**bands playing the indie rock prom"Heart of Glass" was in honor of Sarah (née Tulman) Jesudason's prom, which I went to, and in which that song was the only good one played.
I was going to make a whole "Carrie" joke about how friends and I were rigging the indie rock prom elections so this girl no one liked could be prom queen, and then we would dump pig's blood on her, and then she would, in a fit of telekinetic rage, kill everyone. But I forgot.
There were two disco covers in the show -- Babes in Toyland's "More More More" and Zen for Primates' "Funkytown". I particularly like this cover of Funkytown, which is a sort of chamber-folk version, kitschy and fun. I got the Funkytown cover from an mp3 blog I discovered called
Copy, Right?, in which a local Chicago woman posts all kind of covers, both go and bad. I've picked up some pretty wild stuff there.
I played one other cover, Masters of the Obvious' "Dancing in the Moonlight", which wasn't disco, but it was from the 70's.
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posted by Tony at 8:11 AM
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Finn and Charlie discuss the finer points of coffee
More Finn and Charlie Madness!
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posted by Tony at 10:58 PM
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OMG the prom is totally coming !!:)!
Yeah... so
WLUW is having a benefit the week after next (specifically, 5/13/06), called the
WLUW Indie Rock Prom. It promises to be good fun. I will be there selling carnations and swag.
Meanwhile, my show is the same night — I'll be leaving the show and heading straight to the the prom — and in honor of the prom I'll be doing a special prom-themed show. I plan to play a chamber-folk cover of Funky Town that is brilliant, plus a whole mess of other fun songs.
Any requests/suggestions?
No, I will not play Rick Astley. (My prom theme way back in '89 was Astley's "Together Forever")
posted by Tony at 10:52 PM
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