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.