Setlist from last night (16 January)

A hastily put-together set.

"Pump" – The B-52's
"Baby It's Cold Outside" – Pezband
"Suburban Homesick Blues" – Mustard Plug
"Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down" – The Toasters

"TMI" – Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
"Waiting Room" – Fugazi
"Work-a-Day World" – Paul Collins' Beat
"Are You Satisfied?" – Jesus Jones

"Blue Orpheus" – Todd Rundgren
"Hero Takes a Fall" – The Bangles
"Electricityscape" – The Strokes (for guitarist Nick Valensi's birthday)
"Star" – David Bowie

"All Kindsa Girls" – The Real Kids
"I Do the Rock" – Tim Curry
"The Light Pours Out of Me" – Magazine (by request)

"Generals and Majors" – XTC (by request)
"Terror Couple Kill Colonel" – Bauhaus (by request)
"When the Generals Talk" – Midnight Oil (by request)

"Don't Touch Me" – Linda from Work
"Spanish Stroll" – Mink DeVille
"Scared to Dance" – The Skids
"All the Girls Love Alice" – Elton John

"Know Your Product" – The Saints
"My Little Red Book" [live] – The Last Shadow Puppets
"Mirage" – Siouxsie & the Banshees (R.I. P. Kenny Morris)
"Stay in Time" – Off Broadway (by request)
"The Back of Love" – Echo & the Bunnymen

"He Could Be the One" – Josie Cotton
"The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" – X-Ray Spex
"Blank Generation" – Richard Hell & the Voidoids
"Your Generation" – Generation X



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2026 09:17AM by Delvin.

Had never heard Linda from Work but liked the band’s name enough to jump down the rabbit hole. Rockin’ unit they are.

Hasn’t everyone known a Linda from work?

Glad you dig the band, Bip. My favorite current Seattle band. I saw them open for Everclear, and grabbed their music at the swag booth (and gave them my card from KSER).

> Hasn’t everyone known a Linda from work?

Probably. Just so it's stated, though, nobody in the band has the name Linda.

Maybe they should do a bill with The Linda Lindas! I'd jump at that.

BTW, I included The Toasters and Mustard Plug back to back because I saw both bands together Thursday night at El Corazón.

It had been a while since I'd seen a ska show, and I guess I'd forgotten that tendency for ska audiences to move in a circle on the floor — forming a "skanking swirl" more than a mosh pit.

Question for our antipodean brethren here: when a ska band plays for an audience south of the equator, does the swirl of bodies on the floor move clockwise? (They move counter-clockwise in North America.)

I love Jesus Jones and glad to hear something that ISN'T "Right Here, Right Now."

Also, FYI: FCC slip in the first set (at least on the Spinitron.)

Yeah, Jesus Jones has been a favorite of ours since Doubt was released. We saw them in Denver, on the Perverse Tour, with the Stereo M.C.'s opening. Talk about a kickass show.