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 |
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