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