Track Relay

Music Night – ‘Baby, baby, baby’ edition
May 8th, 2010
Chris and Steph’s place
6:00 pm – 11 pm
Cast : Sarah, Chris H (arrived at 8.30), Chris F, Steph, Raewyn

 * OPEN ROUND *

1. Primary 1 – The Blues (feat. Nina Persson) (Sarah)
2. Underground Lovers – Cold Feeling (Chris F)
3. Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck – Heaven Can Wait (Steph)
4. The New Pornographers – Sing Me Spanish Techno (Raewyn)
5. Sally Seltmann – On the Borderline
6. The High Llamas – Checking In and Checking Out
7. Jolie Holland – Old-Fashioned Morphine (inadvertent repeat)
8. The New Pornographers – The Crash Years
9. Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar
10. The Black Keys – 10-Cent Pistol
11. The Rolling Stones – Cocksucker Blues
12. The Rolling Stones – Sister Morphine

* COVERS ROUND *

13. Pavement – Killing Moon
14. Katzenjammers – Cars
15. Sinead O’Connor – All Apologies
16. Johnny Cash – I See a Darkness
17. Throwing Muses – Amazing Grace
18. Nick Cave & Shane McGowan – What a Wonderful World (YouTube clip)
19. Shane McGowan & Sinead O’Connor – Haunted by the Ghost (YouTube clip) *
20. Hindu Love Gods – Raspberry Beret

Chris H. arrives

* END COVERS ROUND, BEGIN DUETS ROUND *

21. Tarheel Slim and Little Ann – Can’t Stay Away from You
22. Jesus & Mary Chain and Hope Sandoval – Sometimes Always
23. David Byrne and The Dirty Projectors – Knotty Pine
24. Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes – Second Chance (YouTube clip)
25. Temple of the Dog – Hunger Strike (accompanied by the vocal equivalent of air guitar)
26. Prince and Sheena Easton – U Got the Look **

* END DUETS ROUND, BEGIN GUITAR ROUND *

27. Modest Mouse – Doin’ the Cockroach
28. Tom Verlaine – Pillow
29. Allman Brothers Band – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
30. Wilco – Impossible Germany
31. Prince with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, Steve Winwood & Others – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (YouTube clip)

* END GUITAR ROUND, BEGIN RECENTLY DECEASED ROUND *

32. Sparklehorse – Happy Man (Mark Linkous: September 9, 1962–March 6, 2010)
33. Big Star – Big Black Heart (Alex Chilton: December 28, 1950–March 17, 2010)
34. Rowland S. Howard – (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny (Rowland S. Howard: 24 October 1959–30 December 2009)
35. Michael Jackson – Billy Jean, Motown 25^th Anniversary (YouTube clip) (Michael Jackson: August 29, 1958–June 25, 2009)
36. Sid Vicious – My Way, The Great Rock’n'Roll Swindle (YouTube clip) (Malcolm McLaren: 22 January 1946–8 April 2010)

* END RECENTLY DECEASED ROUND, BEGIN SONGS FOR BABIES ROUND *

37. Talking Heads – Stay Up Late
38. The Veils – Advice for Young Mothers To Be (YouTube clip)
39. Elmo & Ricky Gervais – Lullaby (YouTube clip)
40. Kermit the Frog and Debbie Harry – The Rainbow Connection (YouTube clip)

* END SONGS FOR BABIES ROUND, BEGIN OPEN ROUND *

41. King Curly – My Looks Have Gone, But You’re Still Here
42. R.E.M. – Crazy(Pylon cover)
43. Malcolm Middleton – Devil & the Angel
44. Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet
45. Jimi Hendrix – Angel

* FADE OUT*

(*) – Bonus teaser for Duets round
(**) – Bonus track, due to failure to mute iTunes

Quotes Of The Night:

“I’m afraid the guacamole may be a little too tangy” (Chris F.)
“I like the tang … but not the poontang … no, wait, what?” (Sarah) 

“I think they hit the brown note.” (Steph’s response to Modest Mouse’s ‘Doin’ the Cockroach’ played very loud)
Scientific Disclaimer: According to Wikipedia, the “brown note” is a theoretical infrasound frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that a brown note (transmitted through sound waves in air) exists.

“This could have been played in the ‘Songs for Babies’ round.” (Chris F, on ‘My Looks Have Gone, But You’re Still Here’)

Fantasy song we’d like to hear: Edith Piaf’s cover of ‘Light My Fire’ (suggested by Sarah, during a name-check of the many cover versions of that song)

Sarah: “Who’s the other lead guitarist in this clip, the one that isn’t Prince?”
Raewyn: “Cannon fodder.”

Music Night – ‘Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to love sea shanties’ edition
March 7th, 2010
Chris and Steph’s place
8:00 PM – Midnight
Cast : Sarah, Raewyn, Chris, Steph

1. Jacques Renault – Piano’s on the Beach (Sarah)
2. Small Faces – Watcha  Gonna Do About It? (Raewyn)
3. Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (Chris)
4. John Spencer Blues Explosion – Do You Wanna Get Heavy? (Steph)
5. Fela Kuti – Fefe Naa Efe
6. Letta Mbulu – Mahlahlela (Lazy Bones)
7. Gil Scott Heron – New York is Killing Me
8. Cat Power – New York

* YOUTUBE ROUND *

9. Adam Arcuragi – Bottom of the River
10. Julie London – Cry Me a River
11. Sonic Youth – Superstar
12. The Carpenters – We’ve Only Just Begun

* END YOUTUBE ROUND, BEGIN SOUNDTRACKS ROUND*

13. Geto Boys – Good to Be a Gangster (Office Space)
14. Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
15. Neil Young – Guitar Solo, Number 1 (Dead Man)
16. Madonna – Crazy For You (Vision Quest)

* SOUNDTRACKS, ROUND 2 *

17. Jimmy Scott – Sycamore Tree (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me)
18. Glenn Danzig & the Power and Fury Orchestra – You and Me (Less Than Zero) (Less Than Zero)
19. Bill Murray – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Where the Buffalo Roam)
20. Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – The Long Road (Dead Man Walking)

* END SOUNDTRACKS ROUND *

21. Butthole Surfers – Kuntz
22. Butthole Surfers – Pepper
23. Daniel Johnson – Without You
24. Jolie Holland – Old-Fashioned Morphine

* JESUS ROUND *

25. The Vaselines – Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
26. Darcy Clay – Jesus I was Evil
27. The Veils – Jesus for the Jugular
28. Patti Smith – Gloria

* END JESUS ROUND, BEGIN DEVIL’S ROUND *

29. D’Angelo – Devil’s Pie
30. Gun Club – A Devil in the Woods
31. Magnolia Electric Company – Talk to Me Devil, Again
32. Beck – Devil’s Haircut (YouTube clip)

* FLYING NUN ROUND *

33. Look Blue Go Purple – Hiawatha
34. Look Blue Go Purple – I Don’t Want You Anyway
35. Marie and the Atom – Isol
36. Chug – Flowers
37. 3Ds, Spooky

* FLYING NUN ROUND ENDS *

38. Wolf Parade –  I’ll believe in anything
39. Minutemen – Political Song for Michael Jackson
40. Devendra Banhardt – 16^th and Valencia
41. Bon Iver – Bloodbank

* LAST TRACK SIDE TWO ROUND *

42. Modest Mouse – What People Are Made Of
43. David Bowie – Rock’n Roll Suicide
45. Pete and the Pirates – Bright Lights, Little Death
46. Ryan Adams – You Were Always on My Mind
47. Richard Hawley – The Light at the End of the Tunnel (was a train coming the other way)

* LAST TRACK SIDE TWO ROUND ENDS *

48. Mark Lanegan – Constant Waiting *

(*) – Bonus final song, in tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Quotes Of The Night:

Sarah: “Julie London sounds a little like Karen Carpenter.”
Raewyn:“If Karen Carpenter had smoked a lot of Camels.”

 Sarah: “He looks like a Teamster Sonny Bono.” (about Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley in the Superstar video).”

 Steph, eating cheese: “I love cheese.”

 Steph: “The best band the world has never heard of.” (about Look Blue Go Purple)

 Chris: “The best 4 track single ever released.” (about Darcy Clay’s ‘Jesus I Was Evil’)

Everyone, to Raewyn: “Stop putting a disclaimer before every song.”
Raewyn: “This is not a disclaimer, but … “