The Beat Frequency - March 12, 2010

Cake's "Love You Madly" is in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I watched it again with my roommate before spring break happened.

Washington's "How To Tame Lions" is easily my favorite new track off of the SXSW torrents. You should listen to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSqgCZWavc. To get this, and a ton more songs from this year's SXSW festival, check out the following site here.

Band of Horses' "I Go To The Barn Because I Like The" gets the award for most incomplete song title and it was also on the season finale of Psych this past week. Broken Bell's "The High Road" is a new one from the collaboration between Danger Mouse and James Mercer from The Shins. We then played "Rules Don't Stop" by We Are Scientists, a new track from them, which is pretty catchy.

We also had a lot of fun with the record player playing "We've Got The Beat" by The Go-Go's for absolutely no other reason than playing with the record player.

PS22 doing "Lisztomania" was the best thing ever. Click here for the video. Be prepared to think it is the most adorable thing ever. I want the director's job. Continuing with our Phoenix theme we played "If I Ever Feel Better" which has some fantastic lyrics in it. Next we had Yael Naim (you might remember her from "New Soul" which was in a lot of Mac commercials) doing a cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic", which I guiltily love (both versions actually).

More music in there followed by the new song from OK Go, which has a sweet, sweet music video with a Rube Goldberg machine that took the team involved 4 months to make. It was worth it. Check out the video here. It's even cool to watch silently.

Also, I'd been on a binge of The Smiths this week, which was most of the reason for playing the She & Him cover of "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (featured in (500) Days of Summer) and "How Soon Is Now?" earlier.

1	MGMT	Flash Delirium
2	Cake	Love You Madly
3	Washington	How To Tame Lions
4	Family of the Year	Chugjug
5	Band of Horses	I Go To The Barn Because I Like The
6	Broken Bells	The High Road
7	We Are Scientists	Rules Don't Stop
8	Discovery	Slang Tang
9	The Smiths	How Soon Is Now?
10	Will Smith	Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
11	The Go-Go's	We've Got The Beat
12	Prince	Kiss
13	Of Montreal	We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leofling
14	Jarvis Cocker	Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
15	PS22 Chorus	Lisztomania (Phoenix cover)
16	Phoenix	If I Ever Feel Better
17	Yael Naim	Toxic (Britney Spears cover)
18	Fleet Foxes	Mykonos
19	TV on the Radio	DLZ
20	Madcon	Beggin'
21	Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton	Nothing and Nowhere
22	The Magnetic Fields	Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
23	Barenaked Ladies	I'll Be That Girl
24	Radiohead	High and Dry
25	Frou Frou	Psychobabble
26	No Doubt	Sunday Morning
27	OK Go	This Too Shall Pass
28	Bob Dylan	Mr. Tambourine Man
29	The Stone Roses	I Wanna Be Adored
30	She & Him	Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths cover)

The Beat Frequency - March 5, 2010

Hello readers! Another lovely post from your friend here at The Beat Frequency. Here's our playlist with explanations, if not vague ones, about why I played some of these songs on our radio show here at WMUC.

I was talking with a friend about staying hungry or ambitious, and "Hungry Like The Wolf" popped immediately into my mind. Also, this lovely Old Spice Commercial. No, not this one. (But it's good too.)

Also, another friend of mine requested "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" which is a ridiculous Beatles tune, along with "Strawberry Fields Forever."

We played The Kissaway Trail because they are opening for The Temper Trap and Florence + The Machine at their show that I'm seeing in April. (WHICH I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT)

The Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandes tunes were covered by Norah Jones on an album I owned a long time ago. I needed to hear the originals.

Bob Dylan is awesome. Enough said.

Bruce's "Dancing In The Dark" was related to the hungry theme. Lyrical quote: "They say you gotta stay hungry. Hey baby, I'm just about starving tonight."

"Debaser" is a great song. Shouting the lyrics makes my day.

The Blow's "Parentheses" goes out to my sister on her 20th birthday, which was later the next week, because she showed it to me and I love it.

Billy Joel's "Vienna" goes out to anyone who has ever been overwhelmed with trying too hard. "Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true." Kills me every time.

"Ambitions" by Donkeyboy was a special request from my good friend who now lives in Norway. It was a good song too.

Spoon's "Is Love Forever?" was part of Transference, the album of theirs that I was reviewing for the station (and finally finished.) The review is here at the WMUC music blog.

"Next Year" by the Foo Fighters was the theme song to the television show Ed (2000-2004), where I first started listening to music as an integral part of television. Unfortunately, due to outrageous royalties, Ed may never come out on DVD, which makes me terribly sad. Bowling alley lawyer? Come on, that's classic television. Also, it had the Mac guy in it, and Michael Ian Black. (If you don't know that I like cheesy television by now, you don't know me very well.)

"Abel" by The National was played for the line "my mind is not right" which I had the pleasure to see screamed by the lead singer back in August at the Virgin Free Fest in Columbia, MD.

Rogue Wave's "Good Morning" now has a special place in my brain after I heard it on the drive back from a roadtrip to Wisconsin at around 3am in North Eastern Ohio (on the radio! I know, I was excited too). The great folks at Ohio's Alternation played it, along with a few more tunes I'll share on the March 26th show. Anyway, I couldn't place the song until I got home, but it felt pretty cool to have played it earlier.

And we closed out with a remix of the remix of the cover of "You Got The Love." Yeah, try to wrap your head around that.

1	Duran Duran	Hungry Like The Wolf
2	Led Zeppelin	Misty Mountain Hop
3	The Beatles	You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
4	The Beatles	Strawberry Fields Forever
5	The Kissaway Trail	Beat Your Heartbeat
6	Thao Nyguen	Tallymarks
7	Tom Waits	The Long Way Home
8	Townes Van Zandt	Be Here To Love Me
9	Bob Dylan	Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
10	Bob Dylan	It Ain't Me
11	Massive Attack	Dissolved Girl
12	Air	Playground Love
13	Bruce Springsteen	Dancing In The Dark
14	David Bowie	Life on Mars?
15	Elliot Smith	Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover)
16	Pixies	Debaser
17	The Blow	Parentheses
18	Billy Joel	Vienna
19	The Proclaimers	Over and Done With
20	Built To Spill	Distopian Dream Girl
21	CSS	Cannonball (The Breeders cover)
22	Donkeyboy	Ambitions
23	Spoon	Is Love Forever?
24	Foo Fighters	Next Year
25	of Montreal	Cato As A Pun
26	Band of Horses	Our Swords
27	The National	Abel
28	Rogue Wave	Good Morning
29	Portishead	Sour Times
30	Florence + The Machine	You Got The Love (The Very Best Remix)

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

The Beat Frequency - January 29, 2010

Why hello there!

First show of the semester was fun. Favorite new song played?: Spoon's "Got Nuffin," one of my favorites off of their new album Transference. It was also showcased on TV's Chuck. Another great song was "Bulletproof" by La Roux, an excellent, danceable tune about not getting screwed over like you have in the past. An anthem for the ages, really. I fell in love with that song over winter break, but didn't get the chance to share it on the air.

Oh yes! And You've Got The Love (The xx remix). Phenomenal song. Talking about giving up, but then getting through it with the power of love. The song is a cover of a cover of a Candi Stanton disco tune. Florence + The Machine did the latest cover, and then The xx gave their own vibe to the song.

I'll add the playlist a bit later. Unfortunately the snowpocalypse has attacked the wmucradio.com server. Catch us this Friday (well maybe, if we're not snowed in) from noon - 2pm on http://wmucradio.com. Stay warm!

1	Arctic Monkeys	Fluorescent Adolescent
2	Spoon	Got Nuffin'	Transference
3	Yeasayer	Ambling Alp
4	The Temper Trap	Love Lost
5	Beach House	Norway
6	Barenaked Ladies	Falling For The First Time
7	Kings of Leon	The Bucket
8	The xx	VCR
9	Imogen Heap	Hide and Seek
10	La Roux	Bulletproof
11	Shout Out Out Out Out	Bad Choices
12	Beck	Profanity Prayers
13	Phoenix	Rome
14	The Pains of Being Pure At Heart	Young Adult Friction
15	Matt & Kim	Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare
16	Iron & Wine	Belated Promise Ring
17	Florence + The Machine	You've Got The Love (The xx Remix)
18	Jimmy Eat World	A Praise Chorus
19	Magnetic Field	I Don't Believe In The Sun
20	The Script	Breakeven
21	Owl City	Strawberry Avalanche
22	Grizzly Bear	Ready, Able
23	St. Vincent	Laughing With A Mouthful of Blood
24	The Cave Singers	Leap
25	Field Music	Let's Write A Book
26	Lee Fields & The Expressions	Love Comes and Goes

New Time! Last Semester!

Hello there! The Beat Frequency will be moving to Fridays from 12 noon - 2 pm!
Our first show is going on as we speak!
Listen in - Same crazy show, all new music, with a few old favorites.

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