liars & magicians “#3″ demo (s/r)
low skies “palmyra” the bed (flameshovel)
minus the bear “women we havent met yet” highly reformed pirates (suicide squeeze)
we ragazzi “i want u 2 love me so much i cant stand up” the ache (self-starter foundation)
suicide “ghost rider” s/t (red star)
dump “when u were mine” that skinny motherfucker with the high voice? (shrimper)
spinanes “hawaiian baby” imp years (merge)
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panthers “its not the heat its the humility” lets get serious (dim mak)
constantines “night time anytime (its alright)” nighttime ep (sub pop)
husker du “reoccurring dreams” zen arcade (sst)
the proletariat “hollow victory” soma holiday (non-u)
REQ - mission of burma “this is not a photograph” signals, calls and marches (ryko)
swirlies “upstairs” what to do about them (taang!)
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severin “catholic girl” acid to ashes, rust to dust (dischord)
the embarrasment “dont stop ’til you get enough” heyday (bar none)
18th dye “easy (& how we got there fast)” tribute to a bus (matador)
medium medium “mice or monsters” the glitterhouse (cherry red)
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friends of dean martinez “summertime” a place in the sun (knitting factory)
fruit bats “union blanket” mouthfuls (sub pop)
smog “ex-con” red apple falls (drag city)
slumber party “soldier” psychedelicate (krs)
the adult net “incense & peppermints” 45 (beggars banquet)
the styrenes “drano in your veins” its artastic! (lsr)
kinks “a well respected man” lola (pickwick)
enon “natural disasters” high society (touch & go)
medicine “aruca” shot forth self living (def american)
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manitoba “hendrix w/ ko” up in flames (domino)
tussle “version” eye contact (troubleman unlimited)
madonna “hollywood (jacques lu cont remix)”
ui “back up” answers (southern)
miracle chosuke “francine” 7/8 wonders of the world (dim mak)
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helium “baby’s going underground” the dirt of luck (matador)

programming notes
not a bad show today. actually, i enjoyed doing this one very much. i think there was a good structure and flow to this stuff. no obvious dj mistakes and from what ive got on minidisc [my battery died!] i didnt sound idiotic.

got lots of kind calls for most of the show [see below]; many were thankful for hearing husker du. learned about the proletariat last night at the khyber from chaz – early 80’s hardcore with communist tendencies.

im not sure what possessed me to play madonna, but i sure felt like it. i do love anything jacques lu cont gets his paws on, and hell, the single was free when i picked up new jeans this week. [yeah, i buy jeans from the gap. they’re the only ones that seem to fit right on me.] and dont deny how much you like the new commercial starring her and missy. i love it because that song, is probably the only mash-up existing in mainstream culture [as opposed to the thousand white labels that clog up the playlist of all hipster djs] at this moment.

moving on.

i received a call at the end from a very grumpy person, who asked “why dont you tell people to ‘fuck off’ instead of saying ‘ill try to fit it in’?”

i suppose its a good question that lacked tact in asking it. some djs have a “no request” policy [which i can respect] and others handle it on a case-by-case basis, like myself.

ill be the first one to say that sometimes callers have absolutely lousy requests — songs we cant play because of swears, stuff that doesnt jive with the interests of the dj, obvious indie rock bullshit, we cant find it in the station and so on. believe it or not, but a lot of us DO spend our weeks planning out this stuff [and if youve seen my playlists, you know what happens when some advance planning is not in order] and trying to walk the fine line between self-absorption and trying to play what we think would really interest our listening community.

there’s a lot more to djing than one would think, shit, im actually working when im there — dealing with logs and emph requirements and whatnot — we do our best to fit them in, if we can.

sometimes, our callers best us. and thats awesome, when someone requests a record that you’ve never heard and it blows your mind. we’re here because we’re music lovers and believe that our education is not finite. there’s been quite a few bands i now love thanks to someone calling in, or dropping an email.

so thats that, whiners. if you really need to hear the song THAT BAD, buy the record so that you can play it whenever you want, and spare yourself the phone call.

ahem.

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 10th, 2003 at 5:58 pm and is filed under wprb 2003.