Set List for Tuesday 5/22 and Monday 5/28

Side A

Elvis Costello-Imagination (is a powerful deceiver)
Built to Spill-The Plan
Semisonic-Sculpture Garden
Silver Jews-I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You
Arcade Fire-(Antichrist Television Blues)
Spoon-The Underdog
Neutral Milk Hotel-A Baby for Pree/Marching Theme/Where You'll Find Me Know
Velvet Crush-Melody #1
Vermont-Ballad of Larry Bird
Superchunk-Detroit Has a Skyline
Yo La Tengo-Deeper Into Movies
Blake Babies-Better 'n You
The Brother Kite-The Coat of Arms

Side B

Voxtrot-Blood Red Blood
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Not What You Wanted
The Minders-Build
All Girl Summer Fun Band-Later Operator
Built to Spill-You Were Right/Temporarily Blind
The Postal Service-Be Still My Heart
Superchunk-Hyper Enough
Pavement-Cut Your Hair
Neutral Milk Hotel-Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
Flaming Lips-Buggin'
They Might be Giants-We're the Replacements
Bob Mould-Reflecting Pool
Magnetic Fields-The Saddest Story Ever Told
The Go! Team-Everyone's a VIP to Someone

OK so another stale feeling show for me. I gotta make a wholesale change out of cds in my case. Managed to make it through with some cds i grabbed before the show and some new stuff i found at the station (Spoon, Voxtrot, BRMC).
Right after i say that i don't have a plan for the show, i announce my first song, Built to Spill's "The Plan". This was completely unconscious, i'm not that clever in real life.
Liked the new Spoon. The album doesn't come out til July.
The Postal Service song is on the B Side of the "We Will Become Silhouettes" single.
Here is the 42 minute discussion of Superchunk's "Hyper Enough" from WXYC's "In the Groove" show.

"Batteries just don't last as long as they used to"--overheard at work

Set List for Tuesday 5/15 & Monday 5/21

Ok so i'm going to try something a little different on the blog. Instead of just listing my set list i'm gonna try to post a few thoughts on the show, about the music, what my thought process was etc. so here goes..

Another week another show. I haven't rotated out enough cds in my carrying case and backpack so things were looking a little stale. But lo and behold inspiration was waiting for me in the air room. For some reason 4 of the stations Liz Phair cds were sitting in the air room: 2 albums, 1 ep, and 1 cd single. I hadn't played any of these recently (or in the past couple of years) so i thought i'd put them to use. So the first track of Liz Phair's i decided to play was Polyester Bride off Whitechocolatespaceegg . I called it "her last musically relevant album". As soon as i said this i realized many rock critics would disagree and say that Exile in Guyville was her last "musically relevant" album, although i'd disagree. I really like Whipsmart (and played a couple of songs off it). But back to the point i wanted to make (there was one you just didn't realize it). The song "Polyester Bride", does not hold up well. I remember liking it when it came out (1998). But today.. meh.

So i played a song by Rastro, "Kiss Me" (not the Sixpence None the Richer song). And when i said the band's name over the air i realized (after saying the band's name several times on previous shows) that "Rastro" sounds like "Astro" saying his name on the Jetsons ("Rawarge, Rudy"). And i paused for a second and thought that a similar belated realization happened recently (and not to me for a change). I was sitting at the bar with a friend and discussing Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight". I sang the line: "Just like Ronnie said... be my little baby". And in that moment my friend realized the line that he has heard a million times refers to the Ronettes song "Be My Baby", which Ronnie Spector sang.

"Karn Evil 9, carnival 9.. it's about a carnival. i get it now" --myself 10 years ago

Enough ramblings.. on with the show:

Side A

Elvis Costello-Watching the Detectives
Peter, Bjorn and John-Objects of My Affection
Guided by Voices-Teenage FBI
The Coach and Four-Tiger High '85
Liz Phair-Polyester Bride
Sufjan Stevens-Adlai Stevenson
Red House Painters-Byrd Joel
Beulah-Silver Lining
Voxtrot-Trouble
Ladybug Transistor-Today Knows
Mendoza Line-On Stage Dying
Get Up Kids-Regret
Cherry Twister-Leila

Side B

Liz Phair-May Queen
Guided by Voices-Surgical Focus
The Coach and Four-Sleep Skirt
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin-Pangea
Veronica Lake-Saints Above
My Dad is Dead-Where is Our Reason
Rastro-Kiss Me
Nothing Painted Blue-Another Child Bride
Lois-Indie
Liz Phair-Go West
Spent-Umbrella Wars
Soft Blue Lights-Rodney
Sleater-Kinney-Leave You Behind
Of Montreal-Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl
Belle & Sebastian-Stay Loose

Setlist for Tuesday 5/8 and 5/14

Side A

Elvis Costello-Waiting for the End of the World
The Hold Steady-Chips Ahoy!
The Flaming Lips-Race for the Prize
Interpol-The Heinrich Maneuver
The Get Up Kids-Impossible Outcomes
The Rentals-Please Let That Be You
Call and Response-The Fool/Map
Elliot Smith-New Monkey
Sufjan Stevens-Free Man in Paris
Modest Mouse-Trailer Trash
Bettie Severeet-Palomine
Rilo Kiley-The Execution of All Things

Side B

The Blondes-Vesna Velovic
The Get Up Kids-I'm a Loner Dottie.. a Rebel
Elliot Smith-Thirteen
Cherry Twister-Black Summer/Kinda Like a Star
Poole-miss america
Neutral Milk Hotel-King of Carrot Flowers
Call and Respone-Colors/Stars Have Eyes
Matthew Sweet-Through Your Eyes
Modest Mouse-Polar Opposites
Superchunk-Pulled Muscle
Death Cab for Cutie-A Movie Script Ending

Setlist for Tuesday 5/1 and Monday 5/7

Side A

Elvis Costello-Less Than Zero
Get Up Kids-Coming Clean
Bob Mould-Reflecting Pool
Orange Peels-So Far
Cat Stevens-Here Comes My Wife
Teenage Fanclub-Start Again/I Don't Want Control of You
Bettie Serveert-Entire Races
Built to Spill-In the Morning
Fountains of Wayne-Maureen
Oh No! Oh My!-I Have no Sister
Voxtrot-The Start of Something
Get Up Kids-Stay Gold, Ponyboy
Ulysses-Push You Away
Matthew Sweet-Evangaline

Side B

Mineral-Five, Eight and Ten
Comet Gain-Movies
Dear Nora-Rollercoaster
Belle and Sebastian-I'm Waking Up to Us
Blake Babies-Out There/Train
Rodan-Darjeeling
Bob Mould-Classifieds
They Might be Giants-Dr. Worm
that dog-Never Say Never
Built to Spill-Big Dipper
Get Up Kids-Michelle with One "L"
Magnetic Fields-Papa was a Rodeo