Setlist from last night (13/14 February)

"Love Battery" - Buzzcocks
"Love at the Pier" - Blondie
"Love at First Sight" [live] - XTC
"Love Vigilantes" - New Order (for Peter Hook's birthday)
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division (ditto)

"Love in Flames" - Be Bop Deluxe
"Love —> Building on Fire" [live] - Talking Heads
"Love Like a Bomb" - Oasis
"Love Explosion" - Weezer

"Love Is Noise" - The Verve
"Love Is Swift Arrows" - Be Bop Deluxe
"Love Is All Around" - Sloan
"Love Is Lost" - David Bowie
"Love Is the Drug" [live] - Roxy Music

"Love Is the Law" - Seahorses
"Love Spreads" - The Stone Roses

"Love and Anger" - Nada Surf
"Love and Loneliness" - The Motors
"Love and Death" - The Stills

"Love in a Trashcan" - The Raveonettes
"Love in Plaster" - The Hives
"Love in the Year 3000" - The B-52's
"Love in Action" - Utopia

"Love Comes a-Tumblin' Down" - Cheap Trick
"Love Comes in Spurts" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
"Love of My Life" - Cowboy Mouth
"Love Steals Us from Loneliness" - Idlewild

"Love for Tender" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
"Love or Confusion" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Love Without Anger" - Devo
"Love Theme from TPOH" - The Pursuit of Happiness
"Love You Madly" - Cake

A set I think would've flowed well, but my execution was off -- a few sloppy cues, and most embarrassing of all, I played one vinyl track without making sure the turntable was set to the right speed. I corrected it before it got into the helium voice, but still ...

Two Be-Bop Deluxe songs! Are you singlehandedly trying to bring them back into the music nerd public eye?

I would have preferred "Love With the Madman" to either of those BBD songs, but that's just me.

I think I'll include that one next week, Zoo, thanks!

You could also start doing an Oasis Song of The Week. Is that 2-for-2 now? Every time I hear Oasis, I am reminded of how underwhelmed I have been with both Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

> You could also start doing an Oasis Song of The Week.

One could say I already do that with Bowie.

> Every time I hear Oasis, I am reminded of how underwhelmed I have been with both Beady Eye
> and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

So far, Beady Eye sounds to me like Oasis Lite. It's got the sound, the voice, the attitude ... all of which, of course, only makes sense. It's got everything Oasis had, except the passion. As for HFB, well, maybe Noel is a little too determined not to sound like his former band ... or maybe it's just that his songs, at their best, are made to be supersized.

I see an Oasis reunion as being darn near inevitable. Artistically, the Gallagher brothers need each other too much. When their financial needs catch up to those artistic ones, they'll bury the hatchet -- or possibly just forget what the hatchet had been in the first place.

Anyway! As it happens, I'm trying to fill in a few gaps in next week's setlist. Ya want something by Oasis? Any other requests from this board, for next Monday night?



Post Edited (02-15-17 10:19)

I'm definitely ok with a Bowie Song of The Week. I'm just making a more concerted effort to listen to more online radio.

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> I'm definitely ok with a Bowie Song of The Week.

Glad to hear it! It's been my on-air policy for over six years now.