Re: Setlist from last night (15 May)

Last night's show included a two-block birthday tribute to Brian Eno.

"Modern Times" - Code Blue
"Attitude" [live] - The Kinks
"Let Down" - Radiohead (by request)
"Gepetto" - Belly (by request)

"Alice's House" - The Psychedelic Furs
"Selling the Drama" - Live (by request)
"Unlearn This Hatred" - New Order (for bassist Tom Chapman's birthday)

"Switchboard Susan" - Nick Lowe (by request)
"Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" - Gorillaz (by request)
"Don't Take My Car Out Tonight" - The Hooters

"Virginia Plain" - Roxy Music
"The Three Sunrises" - U2
"The Heart's Filthy Lesson" - David Bowie
"Sat'day Night in the City of the Dead" - Ultravox

"Third Uncle" - Bauhaus
"America Is Waiting" - Brian Eno and David Byrne
"Space Junk" - Devo
"King's Lead Hat" - Brian Eno (by request)

"Words Fail Me" - The Sound
"Knife in the Marathon" - Breaking Circus
"Seeing Red" - Linda from Work (by request)
"Return the Gift" - Gang of Four

"Sweet Bird of Truth" - The The (by request)
"Good Intentions" - Toad the Wet Sprocket (by request)
"Stone Cold Sober" - Rod Stewart

"All I Did Was Dream of You" - Beabadoobee (by request)
"Wouldn't It Be Good" - Nik Kershaw (by request)
"Soho" - Brand X
"Tomorrow Never Knows" - Monsoon (by request)

Wow, so many requests! A record perhaps?

It might be a record, at least from the listening public at large. I've done at least one show for each of my siblings, where I invited them to pick the setlist.

The DJs at KSER have generally been getting more requests, thanks to a new system installed by the station. Our request line now works for texts as well as voice.

Do you ever get requests you turn down?

If I get a request for something I simply don't want to play, I tell the caller, "If I can find it, I'll play it." (This may be mealy-mouthed, but it's not a lie; I never say anything about actually looking for it.)

The only request I ever turned down flat was one for Warrant's "Ode to Tipper Gore." I knew that track from my friends who were, as Mr Toland said in another thread here, "veterans of the spandex wars." I told the caller, "Come on, I can't play that! It's just a bunch of dirty words strung together. The FCC will come down on this station like the wrath of God if I play it. And for what? Jeez, it doesn't even qualify as a song." The caller tried to goad me: "Come on, don't you want to just stick it to The Man?" I tried to tell him that "The Man" would be the one sticking the radio station for a hefty fine. But he just taunted me with, "So you're just too afraid to play it, huh?" I knew there was no point in arguing with this overgrown teenager, so I hung up.