The Beat Frequency's Last Show (for a while) - January 19th

Hello there. Today was sadly The Beat Frequency's last show (for at least 5 months). As sad as this makes me, I'm leaving WMUC to go to Australia, so it can't all be bad. I'm writing a different blog while I'm over there, and it's so cool, Google's search bots haven't even found it yet. It's here in case you're ever interested in seeing what I'm up to while I'm gone.

Anyway, this show was bittersweet, but a ton of fun to do. My roommate even visited and we had a ton of listeners. (Thanks!)

This show had many little themes, including but not limited to: The Inauguration (tomorrow), Going to Australia, Leaving (in general), Australia based artists, etc.

The first song is from Jaren's (the DJ after me) band, The Lampshades. They're pretty good. The station manager put them on while I was waiting to get started, and it was fun to listen to. The "One Month Off" is for my upcoming birthday in approximately a month, which ought to be fun. "The Chinatown Bus" is in memoriam of the trip my roommate and I were supposed to take this weekend to New York City. Then a batch of presidential (ish) songs and a batch of songs about leaving. Next up was a cover of Phantom Planet's "California" done by Mates of State since I will be taking my first ever trip to California on the way to Australia. Oh, and then I guess you know why I played "Australia" by now.

Also in there were "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke and "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers. Both were performed by different artists at the We Are One: Obama Inaugural Celebration at Lincoln Memorial (which I attended). Both are very excellent songs.

Many of the others were Australian related bands, requests, and just general fun. The show is available for your listening pleasure right here until next Sunday, January 25th: http://wmucradio.com/stream_ripper/mon/The_Beat_Frequency_1800_2000.mp3

Playlist is below:

1	The Lampshades	My Boyfriend's Band	The Lampshades Are Alright
2	Bloc Party	One Month Off	Intimacy
3	Bishop Allen	The Chinatown Bus	The Broken String
4	Sam & Dave	Hold On, I'm Coming	Hold On, I'm Comin'
5	Jonathan Coulton	The Presidents	Thing a Week Three
6	Why?	These Few Presidents	Alopecia
7	A Change Is Gonna Come	Sam Cooke	Ain't That Good News
8	David Bowie	Changes	Hunky Dory
9	Chantal Kreviasuk	Leaving On A Jet Plane	(John Denver cover)
10	The Weakerthans	Left and Leaving	Left and Leaving
11	The Beatles	She's Leaving Home	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
12	Regina Spektor	Flyin	11:11
13	Mates of State	California	(Phantom Planet cover)
14	The Shins	Australia	Wincing The Night Away
15	Jet	Are You Gonna Be My Girl?	Get Born
16	Cut Copy	Lights and Music	In Ghost Colours
17	The Vines	Get Free	Highly Evolved
18	Colin Hay	Beautiful World	Man @ Work
19	Ben Lee	Catch My Disease	Awake Is The New Sleep
20	AC/DC	You Shook Me All Night Long	Back in Black
21	Tilly and the Wall	Falling Without Knowing	o
22	Inara George	Duet	An Invitation
23	Port O'Brien	Close The Lid	All We Could Do Was Sing
24	Santogold	Lights Out	(Bud Light Lime Remix)
25	Eric Clapton	Layla	Chronicles
26	Eddy Grant	Electric Avenue	Killer on the Rampage
27	Kings of Leon	Sex on Fire	Only By The Night
28	Creep	Karen Souza	(Radiohead cover)
29	R.E.M.	It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)	Document
30	Ra Ra Riot	Ghost Under Rocks	The Rhumb Line
31	Death Cab for Cutie	Photobooth	Forbidden Love [EP]
32	Sigur Rós	Gobbledigook	Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
33	The Zutons	Pressure Point	Who Killed...... The Zutons?
34	Bill Withers	Lean On Me	Still Bill
35	Youth Group	Skeleton Jar

Thanks for listening and supporting the show. I've had a blast doing it. Hopefully I'll be coming back when I get back to the states in July, but it's hard to say. Thanks WMUC for the great times.

January 17th mini show

I should start by saying that I did not intend to do a show today. That's why it was five songs and a PSA long. Regardless, they were five pretty great songs.

I came in to help paint the radio station, which was a ton of fun, and I realized there was no music playing before Dominick's show, so I popped in my iPod and played what came out while I was waiting for the rest of the painting crew. It looks awesome and I had a lot of fun doing it too.

1	Eels	Fresh Feeling	Souljacker
2	Foo Fighters	Everlong	The Colour and the Shape
3	Doves	Sky Starts Falling	Some Cities
4	Spoon	Anything You Want	Girls Can Tell
5	Arcade Fire	Rebellion (Lies)	Funeral

January 12th Show

Greetings!

Here's the playlist from our January 12th show. Good times.

It was pretty much just a "hey, this song is cool. I should play it!" themed show, as many of our shows are. Enjoy.

Note: The song "Haiku" by Tally Hall is awesome because it's verses are all haiku.

1	Goldspot	Float On	(Modest Mouse cover)
2	Billy Joel	We Didn't Start The Fire	Storm Front
3	The National	Start a War	Boxer
4	The Thrills	Big Sur	So Much for the City
5	Athlete	God Only Knows	(Beach Boys cover)
6	The Stills	Oh Shoplifter	Without Feathers
7	Jack Johnson	Banana Pancakes	In Between Dreams
8	Tokyo Police Club	Citizens of Tomorrow	A Lesson In Crime
9	Franz Ferdinand	I'm Your Villain	You Could Have It So Much Better
10	Los Campesinos!	We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (clean edit)	We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
11	Barenaked Ladies	If I Had $1000000	Gordon
12	Elliott Smith	Angeles	Either/Or
13	The Pipettes	Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me	We Are the Pipettes
14	Broken Social Scene	Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl	You Forgot It in People
15	Port O'Brien	Alive for Nothing	All We Could Do Was Sing
16	Say Hi To Your Mom	Let's Talk About Spaceships	Numbers & Mumbles
17	Loney, Dear	I Am John	Loney, Noir
18	The Blues Brothers	Everybody Needs Somebody to Love	The Blues Brothers Soundtrack
19	Spoon	Lines in the Suit	Girls Can Tell
20	Dr. Dog	The Girl	We All Belong
21	Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin	Glue Girls	Pershing
22	David Bowie	Oh! You Pretty Things	Hunky Dory
23	The Cars	Moving in Stereo	The Cars
24	Radiohead	Reckoner	In Rainbows
25	Alphabeat	Go Go	This Is Alphabeat
26	Tally Hall	Haiku	Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
27	The Postal Service	Brand New Colony	Give Up
28	The Killers	On Top	Hot Fuss
29	Rilo Kiley	Science vs. Romance	Take Offs and Landings
30	Of Montreal	Gronlandic Edit	Hissing Fauna

The Beat Frequency January 5th show

Hey reader(s),

Sorry I haven't been writing this as much as I planned, but here's the playlist from the January 5th show.

This show was our first of the new year and several are "year" and "start" themed. A new Walkmen song, an old Death Cab for Cutie song, and one of my new favorites, "5 Years Time" by Noah and the Whale. (It's not quite a "new" year song, but it's a great song.)

Also, my cousins were listening, which accounts for the My Chemical Romance and Sing It Loud songs. I also really liked the "Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks" song from Say Hi To Your Mom.

"Fiery Crash" was on the list because we had a fire alarm that kept incessantly going off for several hours in my apartment complex, so I left in my car and played the only iPod in it (my sister's mini) and it played in alphabetical order and I really liked it. "Grounds For Divorce" has been playing a lot in a Burn After Reading trailer. My dad actually likes it too.

Anyway, the belated playlist is below. Enjoy.

1	Andrew Bird	Fiery Crash	Armchair Apocrypha
2	Maximo Park	Like I Love You	Justin Timberlake Cover
3	Elbow	Grounds for Divorce	The Seldom Seen Kid
4	The Go! Team	Grip Like A Vice	Proof of Youth
5	Ra Ra Riot	Each Year	The Rhumb Line
6	The Weepies	Not Your Year	Say I Am You
7	Noah and the Whale	5 Years Time	Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
8	The Walkmen	In The New Year	You & Me
9	Death Cab for Cutie	The New Year	Transaltanticism
10	The Eames Era	Year of the Waitress	Double Dutch
11	Sing It Loud	Mpls	Come Around
12	Frank Sinatra	It Was A Very Good Year	The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
13	My Chemical Romance	The Sharpest Lives	The Black Parade
14	Los Campesinos!	My Year In Lists	Hold On Now, Youngster
15	The Postal Service	Sleeping In	Give Up
16	Pixies	Where Is My Mind?	Surfer Rosa
17	The Shins	Gone for Good	Chutes Too Narrow
18	Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin	Dead Right	Pershing
19	Stars	The Night Starts Here	In Our Bedroom After The War
20	Ingrid Michaelson	Starting Now	Girls and Boys
21	Maria Taylor	A Good Start	Lynn Teeter Flower
22	Loney, Dear	The City, The Airport	Sologne
23	Say Hi To Your Mom	Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks	Numbers & Mumbles
24	Gomez	See The World	How We Operate
25	Alphabeat	What is Happening	This is Alphabeat
26	Editors	An End Has A Start	An End Has A Start
27	Cloud Cult	No One Said It Would Be Easy	Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
28	The Rolling Stones	Start Me Up	Tattoo You
29	Sufjan Stevens	Decatur	Illinoise
30	Voxtrot	The Start of Something	Raised by Wolves
31	Shiny Toy Guns	Starts With One	We Are Pilots

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