No Time to Think about What She's Done - 4/18 show

There was an earthquake today! This is exciting news in Illinois, where this sort of thing never happens — especially since no one was hurt. It woke me up about 7 minutes before my alarm was to go off, though I didn't know what had happened. It wasn't till I heard the news later and found out the exact time it happened that I realized why I'd woken up to early.

One called made a request in honor of the event: "Of Pressure" by Mirah, which is a song about an earthquake. (Mirah's last album, last year, was a concept piece in which each song was about a different kind of insect.) During the song another caller called to ask if I was playing the song because of the earthquake. Yes. Yes I am.

Not that I would have had any better ideas without the call... "I Feel the Earth Move" by Carole King? Boy, I bet that got a lot of play on other stations today...

EMI did not apparently send a copy of the new B-52's album, Funplex, to the station, but they did send an album of remixes (which are still being reviewed). So I bought my own copy — of course, how could I not — and today I played my favorite song from the album, "Eyes Wide Open". Now, any time a DJ plays their favorite song from an album, they hope to get a good response (and to be fair, when I got to the office, Julio commented that he'd heard it and liked it). But this time a caller (actually the same caller who requested Mirah) said she though the song was too much like Madonna... or at least she found the lyrics too much like Madonna, though she liked the music. I dunno. I still like the song.

Meanwhile, DeVotchKa's A Mad & Faithful Telling is officially my favorite album of the year so far.

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Talking Heads	And She Was	Once in a Lifetime Boxed Set
Bobby Conn	Punch the Sky/Anybody	King for a Day	Thrill Jockey
*Goldfrapp	Happiness	Seventh Tree	Mute
*REM	Hollow Man	Accelerate	Warner Brothers
Jacques Brel	Les Bourgeois	Ne Me Quitte Pas
Kate Bush	All We Ever Look For	Never Forever	EMI-Manhattan
*Herman Dune	I Wish I Had Someone That I Loved Well	I Wish That I Could See You Soon EP	Everloving
Phillips & Driver	Oh Starsky	Togetherness	Bar None Records
*Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks	We Can't Help You	Real Emotional Trash	Matador
Amy Winehouse	Some Unholy War	Back to Black	Island
Mavis Staples	99½	We'll Never Turn Back	Anti-
Grace Jones	I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)	Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions	Island
*Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Crystal Castles	Last Gang
Deee-Lite	What Is Love?	World Clique	Elektra
Happy Mondays	Dennis and Lois	Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches	Elektra
*The B-52's	Eyes Wide Open	Funplex	EMI
Les Négresses Vertes	Les Mégots	Trabendo	Virgin France
(r)Hot Chip	Baby Said	Coming On Strong	Astralwerks
*Elf Power	Fried Out	In a Cave	Ryko
*DeVotchKa	Transliterator	A Mad & Faithful Telling	Anti-
Chin Up Chin Up	I Hope for Tumbleweeds	We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers	Flameshovel
*Haale	Ay Dar Shekasteh	No Ceiling	Channel A
The Fiery Furnaces	My Egyptian Grammar	Widow City	Thrill Jockey
*The Heavy	Set Me Free	Great Vengeance and Furious Five	Counter
Frank Zappa	Uncle Remus	Apostrophe'	Rykodisc
(r)Mirah	Of Pressure	You Think It's Like This but It's Really Like This	K
Antietam	The Hold	Victory Park	Carrot Top
Man Man	Mister Jung Stuffed	Rabbit Habits	Anti-

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 10:49 PM