The Beat Frequency - February 26, 2010

Hello there!

Welcome back to another edition of The Beat Frequency, College Park's own wild tribute to the phantasmagorical.  That word just makes me think of the circus. 

Anyway, we started off the show with some new Joanna Newsom from her recently released Have One on Me, along with some new music from She & Him, The Swell Season and Alphabeat.  We threw in "Particle Man" for fun.

The Thievery Corporation track was a gorgeous song that has fantastic lyrics.  Look it up.

My favorite song of the week was rediscovering "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" from Talking Heads.  I forgot how much I love this song.

"The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the sky
It's okay. I know nothing's wrong"

I'm actually just going to post lyrics from some of the remaining tracks instead of talking about them:

"I'm a loser and I'm not what I appear to be"
"Arrest this man, he talks in maths"
"For a little while you'll be here, the only good part of me"
"He's not perfect. He's my hero. Smashing the piano"

Ok, but I have to talk about this one.  "Make You Feel My Love" by Adele is what we played on the show today, but it's a Bob Dylan cover.   When I was younger, I knew the Garth Brooks cover really well and it was one of my favorite songs.  It's beautiful.  It's the one song that I play on guitar really well.  It's also the song I was attempting to play when I broke a guitar string today.  And so it goes.

Playlist for February 26, 2010:

1	Joanna Newsom	Good Intentions Paving Company
2	She & Him	Thieves
3	The Swell Season	In These Arms
4	They Might Be Giants	Particle Man
5	Alphabeat	Hole In My Heart
6	Thievery Corporation	The Time We Lost Our Way
7	The Beatles	I'm A Loser
8	Radiohead	Karma Police
9	The Mountain Goats	Autoclave
10	Talking Heads	This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
11	The xx	Islands
12	The New Pornographers	Your Hands (Together)
13	The National	Lit Up
14	The Boy Least Likely To	The Boy With Two Hearts
15	Mono	Hello Cleveland
16	Dean Martin	That's Amore
17	Santigold	Creator
18	Adele	Make You Feel My Love	(Bob Dylan cover)
19	Switchfoot	Always
20	Metric	Front Row
21	Electric President	Safe and Sound
22	Bat for Lashes	Travelling Woman
23	Iggy Pop	Search and Destroy
24	Sun Kil Moon	Carry Me Ohio
25	Arctic Monkeys	Brianstorm
26	Sharon Van Etten	Consolation Prize
27	Wye Oak	Warning
28	Wilco	Jesus, Etc.

The Beat Frequency - February 19, 2010

The Beat Frequency's BIRTHDAY EDITION.

haha, no, but it was my birthday on the 18th and we had a decent amount of celebratory music. Starting with "Birthday" by The Beatles.  Of course.  Kate Nash's "Skeleton Song" was also played because of the line "now I'm twenty-two." (which strangely, Kate Nash wasn't when I first heard her sing that song.)  Another birthday track was "Older" from They Might Be Giants, played a bit later.

A friend posted some lyrics to "Fool in the Rain" on Facebook and I remembered how much I love that song.  My dad loves Led Zeppelin, so we used to listen to a lot of them when I was younger.  Thanks family for liking good music. :)

Yeasayer's "Sunrise" was used in a rap track by Childish Gambino, also known as Don Glover of 30 Rock writing and Community fame (he plays Troy).  He's hysterical.  After listening to his rap over the track (which I'm fairly positive can't be played on the radio, pesky FCC) I fell in love with the Yeasayer original.

One of my favorite tracks which I had the chance to share this week was the mashup of The Killers' "Smile Like You Mean It" and La Roux's "Bulletproof" ("Smile Like You're Bullet Proof").  Great songs, great mashup.  Fanfarlo's "Harold T. Wilkens or How To Wait For A Very Long Time" is also an incredibly catchy new tune.


We also played  "Land Down Under" by Men At Work in remembrance of me being in Australia around this time last year, and also hearing it on the way to Cornerstone on my birthday.  Also, "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac made an appearance on my shuffle on my birthday and then made its way onto today's playlist. Enjoy.

Playlist for February 19, 2010

1	The Beatles	Birthday
2	Kings of Leon	Notion
3	Kate Nash	Skeleton Song
4	Billy Joel	Piano Man
5	Led Zeppelin	Fool in the Rain
6	Yeasayer	Sunrise
7	a-ha	Take On Me
8	Cobra Starship	Kiss My Sass
9	Cake	Short Skirt/Long Jacket
10	The Cribs	Men's Needs (CSS Remix)
11	Alphabeat	What Is Happening?
12	The Darkness	I Believe In A Thing Called Love
13	They Might Be Giants	Older
14	Sleigh Bells	Crown on the Ground
15	Oasis	The Shock of the Lightning
16	Cage The Elephant	Free Love
17	Devo	Whip It
18	The Killers vs. La Roux	Smile Like You're Bulletproof
19	Jefferson Airplane	Somebody to Love
20	Fleet Foxes	White Winter Hymnal
21	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk
22	Fanfarlo	Harold T. Wilkens or How To Wait For A Very Long Time
23	Morning Benders	Excuses
24	Minus The Bear	The Pig War
25	Paul Simon	You Can Call Me Al
26	Lenka	We Will Not Grow Old
27	Men At Work	Land Down Under
28	Field Music	The Rest Is Noise

The Beat Frequency - February 12, 2010

Hello, hello! Today was our first show back after the blizzard which canceled February 4th's show. Everyone in College Park was getting some serious cabin fever. We played some Leonard Nimoy (yes, that's Spock) and a few awesome songs my sister told me about (Gold Motel's "Perfect in my Mind" is fantastic.) Frightened Rabbit's "Nothing Like You" was also on the list. You can check out the video here.

Steve Perry's "Strung Out" was featured in a recent Psych episode and Datarock's "Amarillion" was played in Chuck. Why yes, if you've figured nothing out from any of these blog entries, I get a lot of my new music from television shows.

We also had a cabin fever section of the show featuring the Muppets, R.E.M. and Bon Jovi. My own personal snowed-in song was "Aside" by The Weakerthans. The line "and I'm losing all these stupid games that I swore I'd never play" was stuck in my head all week. TV on the Radio's cover of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Modern Romance" was new to me and I really enjoyed it.

Oh yeah, and it was two days before Anna Howard Shaw Day so we played a few songs for all the lovers out there. Ok, so maybe they were just songs that mentioned love of various varieties. The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" off of their 69 Love Songs and Bloc Party's "This Modern Love" are fairly old favorites for me, and added with the newer "Cosmic Love" from Florence + the Machine started off the bit, with the classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division and then the epic "Elephant Love Medley" from Moulin Rouge.

Oh, and then Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" because I was heading out to New Jersey after the show. I should've played "Atlantic City" but I like "Born to Run" better.

Playlist for February 12, 2010:

1	Friday Mile	Lives of Strangers
2	Eisley	Silver Springs
3	Gold Motel	Perfect In My Mind
4	Leonard Nimoy	Highly Illogical
5	Patrick Watson	Overture
6	Frightened Rabbit	Nothing Like You
7	Steve Perry	Strung Out
8	The Weakerthans	Aside
9	Datarock	Amarillion
10	R.E.M.	It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
11	Muppets	Cabin Fever
12	Bon Jovi	Livin' on a Prayer
13	Spoon	Written In Reverse
14	Buddy Holly	Everyday
15	TV On The Radio	Modern Romance (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
16	Fleetwood Mac	Go Your Own Way
17	Phoenix	If I Ever Feel Better
18	Flight of the Conchords	I'm Not Crying
19	John Mayer	Love Song For No One
20	Elliott Smith	Clementine
21	Death Cab for Cutie	I Was A Kaleidoscope
22	The Strokes	What Ever Happened?
23	of Montreal	Gronlandic Edit
24	Architecture in Helsinki	Like It or Not
25	Loney, Dear	I Was Only Going Out
26	Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin	Modern Mystery
27	The Magnetic Fields	The Book of Love
28	Bloc Party	This Modern Love
29	Florence + The Machine	Cosmic Love
30	Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart
31	Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman	Elephant Love Medley
32	Bruce Springsteen	Born To Run