Setlist from last night (07/08 March)

Title tracks in disguise! A theme explored on this board. Big thanks to all of you for your input.

"Uncomplicated" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (Blood & Chocolate)
"Pop in G" - Heatmiser (Mic City Sons)
"E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" - Blue Öyster Cult (Agents of Fortune)
"When Irish Eyes Are Burning" - The Ike Reilly Assassination (We Belong to the Staggering Evening)

"Jack-o'-Lantern Man" - The Bravery (Spill the Blood)
"IOU" - Metric (Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?)
"Taper Jean Girl" - Kings of Leon (Aha Shake Heartbreak)
"All My Life" - Foo Fighters (One By One)

"Pop Muzik" - M (New York-London-Paris-Munich)
"Mirror in the Bathroom" - The English Beat (I Just Can't Stop It)
"She's So Modern" - The Boomtown Rats (A Tonic for the Troops)
"Jocko Homo" - Devo (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)

"Junkie Man" - Rancid (And Out Come the Wolves)
"Definitive Gaze" - Magazine (Real Life)
"2 + 2 = 5" - Radiohead (Hail to the Thief)
"Warakurna" - Midnight Oil (Diesel and Dust)

"Like It Too Much" - Kaiser Chiefs (Off With Their Heads)
"Artificial Sweetener" - No Doubt (Return of Saturn)
"The 6-Teens" - Sweet (Desolation Boulevard)
"Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" - R.E.M. (Chronic Town)

"Sister Midnight" - Iggy Pop (The Idiot)
"Get Started, Start a Fire" - Graham Parker (The Mona Lisa's Sister)
"Street Life" - Roxy Music (Stranded)

"Crank" - The Catherine Wheel (Chrome)
"Levitate Me" - Pixies (Come On Pilgrim)
"Endless Yesterday" - Mudhoney (Under a Billion Suns)
"To Be Where There's Life" - Oasis (Dig Out Your Soul)

"Summerland" - Everclear (Sparkle and Fade)
"Dusty" - Soundgarden (Down on the Upside)
"Organic Anti-Beatbox Band" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)

BIg, big special thanks to Lon Palmer for his research on these songs, and numerous others. He covered this theme last week on "Poptopia Parkway," and left me plenty of good selections for my show. Without his help, I would've struggled to pull together a worthwhile show this week. (Last week was really, really rough.)

Not to pick nits, but isn't there a song called "Chrome" on Catherine Wheel's Chrome?

Though why complain as long as the band is still being played on the radio?

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Though why complain as long as the band is still being played on the radio?

Lithium, the 90s alternative station on Sirius, plays the heck out of "Black Metallic." To my knowledge, it's the only shoegaze-affiliated song that station ever plays, which sticks in my craw.

It's okay if you pick nits. If I'm pursuing a theme, I should be measured by how I catch it.

Using "Sister Midnight" was as close as I could get to a Bowie track for this one, BTW. (I could've used "Sunday," from which the recent Bowie comp Nothing Has Changed gets its title. But that song doesn't appear on that comp, so I decided to go the Iggy route.)