Time for the debut episode of my new show, Nowhere Near. Nothing's changed at all from the Pure Easy Listening days besides the name. Otherwise, it'll be the same old mediocre crap that reminds you you're still at least 48 hours away from the weekend.
Being the hyper-obvious doofus that I am, I started the show off with a version of the title track. It happens to be a personal favorite of mine among the Yo La Tengo repertoire. Beyond that we covered some very familiar ground and then played some Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I decided to kick it old school and only play CDs — I left the laptop at home this time.
Oh yeah — this fall I'm celebrating 5 or 6 years in the Rob Sheffield timeslot (Wednesday 2-4), and 10 consecutive years on the air at WTJU overall. Take that, terrorists!
Yo La Tengo - "Nowhere Near" Painful (Matador)
Robyn Hitchcock - "Trams Of Old London" I Wanna Go Backwards (Yep Roc)
Big Star - "Hung Up With Summer" In Space (Rykodisc)
Lambchop - "Betweemus" I Hope You're Sitting Down (Merge)
Betty Harris - "Cry To Me"
The Thermals - "Ballad Of Big Nothing" To Elliott From Portland comp. (Expunged)
My Brightest Diamond - "Disappear (Stakka mix)" Tear It Down (Asthmatic Kitty)
Chad VanGaalen - "Inside The Molecues" Soft Airplane (Sub Pop)
Straight Punch To The Crotch - "Through The Night" We Are Star Children
The Gerbils - "Crayon Box" Are You Sleepy (Hidden Agenda)
Calexico - "Wave" Por Vida comp. (Or)
National Skyline - "Some Will Say" This=Everything (File 13)
A Small Good Thing - "El Mariachi Loco (The Siesta)" Check The Water comp. (Leaf)
Supercar - "White Surf Style 5" Japan For Sale comp. (Sony Japan)
Tricolor - "Airport Jail" Mirth & Feckless (Atavistic)
Placebo - "Slave To The Wage" Once More With Feeling (Astralwerks)
Rumah Sakit - "Sausage Full Of Secrets (Live)" Obscured By Clowns (Temporary Residence)
Stereolab - "Strobo Acceleration" Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (Elektra)
Blitzen Trapper - "Not Your Lover" Furr (Sub Pop)
Nitty Gritty Dirty Band - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Capitol)
Caleb Stine & The Brakemen - "Come Back Home" Come Back Home
David Vandervelde - "Lyin' In Bed" Waitin For The Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Those Bastard Souls - "Telegram" Debt & Departure (V2)
Parenthetical Girls - "Windmills Of Your Mind" Entanglements (Tomlab)
Young Widows - "Lucky And Hardheaded" Old Wounds (Temporary Residence)
2 comments:
i like the old show with the new name!
huzzah to the "same mindnumbing backannouncing" :)
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