The Zen Arcade

Zen Arcade 10/13/09: The Playlist!

Thanks to everybody who called in with the birthday greetings! I was really proud of this show--I played almost two hours of music released in the past two weeks.

Mission of Burma - "1,2,3, Partyy!"
Flaming Lips - "Convinced of the Hex"
Flaming Lips - "The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine"
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Know Better Learn Faster"
Vampire Weekend - "Horchata"
Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill"
The Clientele - "I Wonder Who We Are"
The Clientele - "Harvest Time"
Exene Cervenka - "Trojan Horse"
Exeme Cervenka - "Surface of the Sun"
The Happy Hollows - "Faces"
The Happy Hollows - "Monster Room"
Glorytellers - "Concaves"
Erin McKeown - "Santa Cruz"
Erin Mckeown - "The Foxes"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Done All Wrong"
Bon Iver & St. Vincent - "Roslyn"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Meet Me On the Equinox"
Built to Spill - "Aisle 13"
Built to Spill - "Nowhere Lullabye"
Built to Spill - "You Were Right"
Vic Chesnutt - "Society Sue"
Vic Chesnutt - "Dick Cheney"
The Wheat Pool - "This Is It"
The Dutchess and the Duke - "Living This Life"
Big Spider's Back - "Perfect Machine"
Har Mar Superstar - "Tall Boy"
Decemberists - "The Tain"
Fruit Bats - "Singing Joy to the World"
The Pogues - "Sally Maclennane"
Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"
Drive-By Truckers - "Rebels"
Pavement - "Elevate Me Later"
Pavement - "Cut Your Hair"
Yo La Tengo - "Sugarcube"
Yo La Tengo - "From a Motel 6"

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 9/15/09: 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 8/25/09: The Setlist!

The Bottle Rockets "Hard Times"
The Bottle Rockets "Get On The Bus"
The Dead Weather "I Cut Like a Buffalo"
Blitzen Trapper "Black River Killer"
Vandaveer "Turpentine"
Young Galaxy "Long Live the Fallen World"
North Mississippi Allstars "Drop Down Mama"
North Mississippi Allstars "Po Black Maddie"
North Mississippi Allstars "Skinny Woman"
Rodrigo y Gabriela "Tamacun"
Ellery "Anna"
Ellery "Inside My Head"
Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch "lua"
Wye Oak "Take It In"
Joni Mitchell "Carey"
Gram Parsons "Streets Of Baltimore"
DEVO "Uncontrollable Urge"
Be Your Own Pet "The Kelly Affair"
The B-52's "Rock Lobster"
Ben Kweller "The Rules"
Bob Dylan "If You See Her, Say Hello"
Bob Dylan "Buckets Of Rain"
Magnetic Fields "All My Little Words"
Magnetic Fields "The Book of Love"
New Pornographers "The End Of Medicine"
New Pornographers "All For Swinging You Around"
Neil Young "Unknown Legend"
Neil Young "Cortez The Killer"
Patterson Hood "Murdering Oscar"
Patterson Hood "Pollyanna"
Violent Femmes "Kiss Off"
Daft Punk "Da Funk / Daftendirekt"
Daft Punk "Digital Love (Boris Dlugosh Remix)"
Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner"
Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"
Warren Zevon "Keep Me in Your Heart"

Zen Arcade 7/21/09: The Playlist!

The Steps	Cold Floors
Drive-By Truckers	A Ghost to Most
Drive-By Truckers	Space City
Son Volt	Down to the Wire
Magnolia Electric Company	Josephine
Bibio	Ambivalence Avenue
Bibio	Lover's Carvings
Starlight Mints	Paralyzed
Lights	Heavy Drops
Bowerbirds	Northern Lights
Bowerbirds	Teeth
Wye Oak	Take It In
Wheat	HOTT
Wheat	Changes Is
The Skygreen Leopards	Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass
Oneida	I Will Haunt You
The Silent Years	Taking Drugs At The Amusement Park
Patterson Hood	Murdering Oscar
Patterson Hood	Pollyanna
Neko Case	People Got A Lotta Nerve
Neko Case	Middle Cyclone
Animal Collective	My Girls
Animal Collective	Summertime Clothes
Decemberists	The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
Beastie Boys ft. Nas	Too Many Rappers
Moby	Shot in the Back of the Head
Moby	Study War
Tortoise	High Class Slim Came Floatin' In
Tortoise	Gigantes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Everything With You
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Come Saturday
Grizzly Bear	Two Weeks
Wilco	Bull Black Nova
Phoenix	Lisztomania
Phoenix	1901
The Rural Alberta Advantage	In The Summertime

ZA 5/26/09: The Playlist

Sorry this took a while to get posted. Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" Grizzly Bear - "All We Ask" Wilco - "Deeper Down" Wilco - "One Wing" Camera Obscura - "French Navy" We Were Promised Jetpacks - "Quiet Little Voices" Iron and Wine - "Dearest Forsaken" Iron and Wine - "Waitin' For a Superman" 1990s - "The Box" Great Northern - "Houses" Say Hi - "November Was White, December Was Grey" Radio Moscow - "Broke Down" Harlem Shakes - "Nothing But Change Part II" (The second hour was a tribute to the music of Portland, Oregon.) The Decemberists - "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" The Decemberists - "The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing" The Shins - "New Slang" The Shins - "Red Rabbits" Sleater-Kinney - "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" Sleater-Kinney - "Jumpers" Stephen Malkmus - "Jenny and the Ess-Dog" Laura Veirs - "Cast a Hook In Me" The Thermals - "Now We Can See" The Thermals - "We Were Sick" The Prids - "The Glow" The Prids - "Forever Again" Blitzen Trapper - "Furr" Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer" Gorillaz - "Feel Good, Inc." Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk" Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "I Am Goodbye" The Knux - "The List" Morrissey - "First of the Gang to Die" The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - "Everything With You" Tom Waits - "How's It Gonna End" Radiohead - "True Love Waits" Radiohead - "The National Anthem" Warren Zevon - "The French Inhaler" Warren Zevon - "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" Uncle Tupelo - "Still Be Around" Uncle Tupelo - "I Got Drunk" Old 97s - "Rollerskate Skinny"

Zen Arcade 4/28/09: The Playlist!

Pretty good show tonight, despite not being able to talk for more than a few seconds without a coughing fit.

Zen Arcade 4/14/09: The Playlist

Sorry to get the playlist out so late.  It's been a busy week.

Zen Arcade 3/31/09: The Playlist!

Thanks so much to Franz Nicolay for a great interview!  If you want to know more about his various bands, check out his web site.

Lots of new stuff, this week, too.