Posted by jason on March 27, 2009
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Mystery Theme on Friday Theme Day today…. Haven’t done one in awhile… At stake is everything in the Prize Kitchen, including Buzz Under the Stars tix and Prom tix…
I will post the playlist in-progress throughout the hour for you to look at… Seeing all the songs together can help… Good luck!
1. TV ON THE RADIO – WOLF LIKE ME
2. URGE OVERKILL – GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON
3. NIN – DOWN IN IT
4. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – ISTANBUL
5. RADIOHEAD – LET DOWN
6. TOOL – 46 & 2
7. LOU REED – WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
8. PEARL JAM – GIVEN TO FLY
9. DEFTONES – CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES)
10. KEANE – EVERYBODY’S CHANGING
11. THE CRAMPS – GOO GOO MUCK
12. TALKING HEADS – NOTHING BUT FLOWERS
Is it about changing into something else?
Comment by Josh — March 27, 2009 @ 11:48 am
Good closing song today….was happy to just get my name on a list…
Comment by Jenny — March 27, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
its about changing (negatively)
Comment by Tom Zart — March 27, 2009 @ 7:52 pm
Wow I missed this. You found a way to get Let Down in the radio!
Comment by steve — March 30, 2009 @ 8:04 pm
Steve – “one day…. i am going to grow wings….” I have played Let Down on a couple of other occasions… One I clearly remember, years ago… I was doing a Friday Theme Day on best lyrics of the 90s… Lots of people had wildly varying responses to that topic, of course… But I remember finishing up the hour that day with my own pick, which was Let Down… Maybe not technically the best lyrics, in terms of wordplay, narrative, sheer poetic force, etc…. BUT….. There are few other songs where the words actually heighten the music, which in turn heightens those words, which in turn heighten the music even more, etc…
I also played it recently on the 2pm txt siesta… As a Radiohead geek, I recognize that that song is not only phenomenal, but also that it holds a special significance for other Radiohead fans that only a handful of their songs do… And the fans all seem to converge on these few songs, the songs that are SO masterful in evoking a very authentic set of complex and real emotions, in just a matter of minutes… They are already set apart from all other bands, these songs are almost somehow set apart from Radiohead themselves, who may just have been messengers in these cases….
Comment by jason — March 30, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
jason jason… what an interesting list of songs…. the common thread that i can pick out seems to be a transcendence of some kind…. either to a lighter or darker side…. also a kind of subordination to each desperate feeling of the song… on their knees, crawling, slithering on a belly…..
Wish I coulda caught this in real time….
Comment by leese — March 31, 2009 @ 9:41 am