The Zen Arcade

Zen Arcade 9/29/09: The Playlist!

Fool's Gold - "Surprise Hotel"
Hallelujah the Hills - "Blank Passports"
Hallelujah the Hills - "Classic Tapes"
Beaujolais - "All My Exorcisms"
Beat Circus - "The February Train"
Beat Circus - "Boy from Black Mountain"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Higher than the Stars"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "103"
Princeton - "Calypso Gold"
Panther - "Love is Sold"
Will Hoge - "Even If It Breaks Your Heart"
The Decemberists (excerpt from The Hazards of Love):
  "The Abduction of Margaret" -> "The Queen's Rebuke" -> "The Crossing" -> "Annan Water" -> "Margaret in Captivity"
Big Star - "Thirteen"
Big Star - "The India Song"
Big Star - "Try Again"
Steve Wynn - "Sustain"
Steve Wynn - "Shades of Blue"
The Minus 5 - "With a Gun"
The Minus 5 - "Hotel Senator"
Girls - "Laura"
Girls - "Hellhole Ratface"
T.H. White - "The Darkest Horse"
The xx - "VCR"
The xx - "Crystallized"
Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes"
Neko Case - "People Got a Lotta Nerve"
Neko Case - "Middle Cyclone"
Fruit Bats - "Singing Joy to the World"
The Decemberists - "Eli, the Barrow Boy"
Colin Meloy - "We Both Go Down Together"
Colin Meloy - "Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect -> Dreams"
Patterson Hood - "Murdering Oscar"
Patterson Hood - "Pollyanna"
Phoenix - "1901"

Zen Arcade! 9/29/09

Coming up on the next Zen Arcade (9/29/09): I'll preview next week's show by the Decemberists at the Singletary Center. Also new stuff from the Avett Brothers, Girls, 7 Worlds Collide, and more! Don't miss it!

Tuesday, 9/29/09
7-10 PM
88.7 WMMT-FM
http://www.wmmtfm.org

Don't miss it!  And thanks to everybody who donated to the pledge drive! If you haven't yet, there's still time: just visit http://www.wmmtfm.org and make your pledge today!

Zen Arcade 9/15/09: The Playlist!

Congratulations to everybody who endured last night's Crapfest!  Thanks to everybody who donated!  If you didn't, it's not too late--go to http://www.wmmtfm.org to fork over some cash and support independent radio!

New Kids on the Block - "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
Captain and Tennille - "Muskrat Love"
A Taste of Honey - "Boogie Oogie Oogie"
Charlene - "I've Never Been to Me"
Starland Vocal Band - "Afternoon Delight"
Starship - "We Built This City"
Dionne Warwick, et. al. - "That's What Friends are For"
Paul Anka - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Richard Harris - "MacArthur Park"
Paper Lace - "The Night Chicago Died"
Musical Youth - "Pass the Dutchie"
Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
Falco - "Rock Me Amadeus"
Michael Bolton - "Can I Touch You...There?"
Kidz Bop Kids - "All the Small Things"
William Shatner - "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds"
Leonard Nimoy - "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)"
Leonard Nimoy - "Both Sides Now"
Paul Anka - "Wonderwall"
Dan Fogelberg - "Longer"
Kevin Federline - "Popozao"
Crazy Frog - "Popcorn"
Bryan Adams - "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me is You"

(here ended the crapfest! Thanks to everybody who donated!)

Beatles - "Dig a Pony"
Beatles - "Day Tripper"
Beatles - "Hey Bulldog"
Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Girls - "Laura"
Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"
The Cave Singers - "At the Cut"
The Cave Singers - "Beach House"
Yo La Tengo - "Nothing to Hide"
These United States - "Everything Touches Everything"
Fruit Bats - "Singing Joy to the World"
Magnolia Electric Company - "Josephine"
Wye Oak - "Take It In"
My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday" (live)

Zen Arcade 9/8/09: The Playlist!

Don't forget next week's Pledge Drive Show!  You should get the paperwork started on that home equity line now.

 Yo La Tengo "Here to Fall"
 Yo La Tengo "Nothing to Hide"
 The Clean "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"
 The Clean "Tensile"
 Polvo "Beggar's Bowl"
 Brown Recluse Sings "Contour and Context"
 Phish "Backwards Down the Number Line"
 Phish "Kill Devil Falls"
 Vivian Girls "The End"
 Vivian Girls "Can't Get Over You"
 The Beatles "Hey Bulldog"
 Beatles "Dig a Pony"
 The Beatles "Across the Universe"
 Choo Choo La Rouge "Here Come the Guns"
 These United States "Everything Touches Everything"
 Drive-By Truckers "Rebels"
 Drive-By Truckers "Uncle Frank"
 Wye Oak "Take It In"
 Bowerbirds "Northern Lights"
 Bowerbirds "Teeth"
 Blur "She's So High"
 Fruit Bats "Singing Joy To The World"
 The Rural Alberta Advantage "Edmonton"
 The Rural Alberta Advantage "In the Summertime"
 Magnolia Electric Company "Josephine"
 Jenny Lewis "Acid Tongue"
 Jenny Lewis "The Charging Sky"
 Bibio "Ambivalence Avenue"
 The Xx "VCR"
 The Xx "Crystalised"
 Blitzen Trapper "Black River Killer"
 Wilco "Bull Black Nova"
 My Morning Jacket "Anytime"
 The Smiths "How Soon is Now"
 Stooges "Loose"
 Stooges "T.V. Eye"
 Bob Dylan "One Too Many Mornings"
 Bob Dylan "I Shall Be Free"

Zen Arcade 9/1/09: The Setlist!

Sorry this took a while, but it's been pleasantly busy these last few weeks.  My laptop wasn't working for this show, so it was a mix of on-the-fly playlists from the iPod and vinyl cuts.  Tonight it's back to the Giant Hard Drive of Love!

The Xx "VCR"
 The Xx "Islands"
 Lightning Dust "I Knew"
 Lightning Dust "The Times"
 These United States "I Want You To Keep Everything"
 These United States "Everything Touches Everything"
 Drive-By Truckers "Uncle Frank"
 Drive-By Truckers "TVA"
 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band "The River"
 The Hold Steady "First Night"
 The Apples in Stereo "Signal in the Sky"
 The Apples in Stereo "Ruby"
 Vandaveer "Turpentine"
 Blur "Parklife"
 Blur "Advert"
 Fruit Bats "My Unusual Friend"
 Fruit Bats "Singing Joy to the World"
 Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
 Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
 Harlem Shakes "Nothing But Change Part II"
 Elvis Perkins in Dearland "Shampoo"
 The Cloud Hymn "Wide"
 Bonnie "Prince" Billy "I Am Goodbye"
 Arbouretum "False Spring"
 Golden Boots "Love Is In the Air"
 Strand of Oaks "End in Flames"
 Ryan Adams "My Winding Wheel"
 Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
 Yo La Tengo "Stockholm Syndrome"
 Camera Obscura "French Navy"
 The Decemberists "16 Military Wives"
 The Who "My Generation"
 The Who "The Magic Bus"
 Spinal Tap "Rock and Roll Creation"
 Spinal Tap "Hell Hole"

Zen Arcade 9/8: Money Can't Buy Me Love

Tonight on the Zen Arcade: new stuff from Vivian Girls, Phish, Polvo, Taken By Trees, and more!

I'll also be talking about the new Beatles reissues, and getting you ready to kick some ass at the new Beatles edition of Rock Band.

Tonight! 7-10PM, 88.7 WMMT-FM. Don't miss it!