We Found You Lying - 12/21 show

Happy Winter Solstice! In honor of the solstice I played "Solstice" by Pit Er Pat, which is a local Chicago band. The song has nice off-kilter rhythms, and if probably my favorite off that album (which was I think from last year).

In honor of Christmas I played a Christmas tune — I meant to play more, but sort of forgot. The song I played was Sufjan Stevens' "Get Behind Me Santa", which is a fun and silly song he wrote for his 2006 Christmas Album (he has produced a short Christmas album every year for the past five).

(A little secret: whenever I begin a show with a Siouxsie and the Banshees remix, it means I was running a little late, and wanted an extra-long first song so I could get settled. I'm never late, but I like to get there 15 minutes early; if I only have 5 I feel a little stressed.)

I also played set of some of my absolute favorite tracks from 2006:
"Coffee" by Aesop Rock featuring John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats; "Someone Great" by LCD Soundsystem; and "Heart It Races" by Architecture in Helsinki. All three are uptempo and danceable; "Coffee" and "Heart It Races" have quirky rhythms, while "Someone Great" is more standard electro. Interestingly, "Someone Great" rather faded between the two other songs, which I did not expect, since it really is a stand-out track.

Three more stand-out tracks next week!

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Cities in Dust (Eruption Mix)	The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees	Polydor UK
Pit Er Pat	Solstice	Pyramids	Thrill Jockey
*White Williams	New Violence	Smoke	Tigerbeat6
*The Dragons	Your Way Too	BFI	Ninja Tune
The Judybats	Pain Makes You Beautiful	Pain Makes You Beautiful	Sire
Jamie Lidell	Multiply	Multiply	WARP
*Ween	Blue Balloon	La Cucaracha	Rounder
Quasar Wut Wut	Thankful Hank and the Guzzard	Taro Sound	Glorious Noise
The Shangri-La's	Give Him a Great Big Kiss	The Myrmidons of Melodrama	RPM
*Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti	Are You Gonna Look After My Boys	Scared Famous	Human Ear Music
*Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	Am I Demon	Ask Forgiveness EP	Drag City
Woody Guthrie	Pretty Boy Floyd	Worried Man Blues	Special Music
Luciana Souza	Corcovado	North and South	Sunnyside
Sufjan Stevens	Get Behind Me Santa	Songs for Christmas Vol V: Peace	Asthmatic Kitty
Adam and the Ants	The Magnificent Five	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Columbia
*Moving Units	Crash 'N' Burn Victims	Hexes for Exes	Metropolis
Office	Big Bang Jump!	A Night at the Ritz	Scratch/New Line
*Daft Punk	Around the World/Harder Faster Stronger	Alive 2007	Virgin
*Wire	Our Time	Read & Burn 03	Pink Flag
*Antony and the Johnsons	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	I'm Not There OST	Columbia/Sony
(r)Mahjongg	THE rRABBITT	Raydoncong	Cold Crush
(r)Alkaline Trio	Metro	Singles	Asian Man Records
Aesop Rock	Coffee	None Shall Pass	Definitive Jux
LCD Soundsystem	Someone Great	Sound of Silver	DFA/Capitol
Architecture in Helsinki	Heart It Races	Places Like This	Polyvinyl

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 6:07 PM