Setlist from last night (13/14 July)

A full rich installment of Twenty Flight Rock, centered around a two-block commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Live Aid, as well as a remembrance of Bastille Day (1789). All that, plus a few birthday tributes, and a few really super blocks.

"Sun Hits the Sky" - Supergrass
"Mr. Underground" - Superdrag
"Crossed Wires" - Superchunk
"Creepy Jackalope Eye" - Supersuckers

"Super-Fire" - Girls Against Boys
"Supercharged" - Skeemin' NoGoods
"The Super Thing" (live) - Devo
"Supergun" - Mary Lou Lord

"Raining" - The Bears
"Fire in the Rain" - Agent Orange
"English Summer Rain" - Placebo
"After the Rain" - Angel City

"Time the Avenger" - The Pretenders
"Promised You a Miracle" - Simple Minds
"The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown" - Judas Priest
"Paranoid" - Black Sabbath

"Rockin' All Over the World" - Status Quo
"Heroes" - David Bowie
"Hammer to Fall" - Queen
"Rat Trap" - The Boomtown Rats

"Relative Ways" - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (for drummer Jason Reece's birthday)
"Eight Miles High" - The Byrds (for Roger McGuinn's birthday)
"Gidget Goes to Hell" - Suburban Lawns
"Science Gone Too Far!" - The Dictators (for bassist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza's birthday)

"Bastille Day" - Rush
"The Angry Mob" - Kaiser Chiefs
"The Walls Came Down" - The Call

"Supersonic" - Cowboy Mouth
"Supermodel" - Jill Sobule
"Superman" - Stereophonics
"Supercollider" - Fountains of Wayne

"The Walls Came Down" - The Call

Hell yeah...yes, yes, yes.

You know, with the help of the TP crew, I probably could make an entire "super" show. Any suggestions?

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commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Live Aid

the 30th anniversary of Bob Geldof giving a brutal dictator millions that he
then used to buy planes and weapons in his war against the Eritrean rebels.
Not for food. Even tho the arrogant St. Bob was repeatedly warned by relief
agencies. One of the more disastrous, shameful episodes of music history if
ya ax me (which, I know you didn't).

Clearly Fab is looking at a much bigger picture than I am . . . I'm just stuck here wondering if putting Chrissy Hynde and Jim Kerr back to back was intentional. (Forest for the trees--hats off to Fab.)



Post Edited (07-14-15 16:28)

Re: "super" suggestions:

Magic Kids - "Superball"
Neu! - "Super"
Sonic Youth's cover of Delaney & Bonnie via the Carpenters' - "Superstar"
Oasis - "Supersonic"
David Bowie -"Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks)"
James Brown - "Super Bad"
Upsetters - "Super Ape"
Lupe Fiasco - "Super Star"
Kinks - "Superman"
Stereolab - "Super Falling Star"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"
XTC - "That's Really Super, Supergirl"
Grinderman - "Super Heathen Child" (with Robert Fripp)
Flaming Lips - "I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow"
Man Or Astroman? - "Super Rocket Rumble"
Wavves - "Super Soaker"
Black Sabbath (or 1000 Homo DJs' cover) - "Supernaut"
Donovan (or Husker Du's cover) - "Sunshine Superman"
The Clique (or R.E.M.'s cover) - "Superman"
Morphine - "Super Sex"
Cosmic Psychos - "Super Vixen"
Garbage - "Supervixen"
ABBA - "Super Trouper"
Rick James - "Super Freak"
Any version of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

No, putting Simple Minds after the Pretenders had nothing to do with Chrissie and Jim.

No, absolutely nothing against you and all your good work, D-man, sorry if it came off that way. I think I'm most upset at the realization that it's been - crickey!- 30 years?!

I did feel roundly chastised as I read that post, but I got over it reasonably quickly. I know you didn't mean it personally, Fab.

I'm just relieved last night's setlist didn't elicit criticism for commemorating Bastille Day, too. Depending on one's viewpoint, that event could be seen as ushering in an awfully dark period in French history.

Think nothing of it, Fab. Lord knows I've taken plenty of criticism on the phone during radio shows ... And trust me, those callers genuinely were assholes.

I once knew an MC called D-Man. He used to do the shopping mall circuit.