Party Like It's 1999 5/17/13

I'm sort of surprised I survived this night, considering how my bum left knee was acting up Friday night. Hopefully it'll feel better by the next edition on June 14th.

Depeche Mode - “I Feel You”

Beck - “The New Pollution”

Garbage - “Only Happy When It Rains”

U2 - “Mysterious Ways”

Nine Inch Nails - “Closer”

Smashing Pumpkins - “1979”

Blur - “Girls and Boys”

Pulp - “Common People”

Republica - “Ready to Go”

Divinyls - “I Touch Myself”

James - “Laid”

Tom Cochrane - “Life Is a Highway”

The Cure - “Friday I’m In Love”

Natalie Imbruglia - “Torn”

The Cardigans - “Lovefool”

Jamiroquai - “Virtual Insanity”

The Proclaimers - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”

Alanis Morissette - “You Oughta Know”

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “The Impression That I Get”

No Doubt - “Just a Girl”

Fatboy Slim - “Rockafeller Skank”

2Pac and Dr. Dre - “California Love”

Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre - “No Diggity”

Next - “Too Close”

Salt-N-Pepa - “Shoop”

TLC - “Waterfalls”

Ginuwine - “Pony”

Skee-Lo - “I Wish”

Will Smith - “Getting’ Jiggy Wit It”

Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase - “Mo Money Mo Problems”

Bell Biv Devoe - “Poison”

Boyz II Men - “Motownphilly”

Kris Kross - “Jump”

Michael Jackson - “Black and White”

Madonna - “Deeper and Deeper”

Tony Toni Tone - “If I Had No Loot”

Montell Jordan - “This Is How We Do It”

Mary J. Blige - “Real Love”

Janet Jackson - “That’s the Way Love Goes”

Mariah Carey - “Fantasy”

Ace of Base - “The Sign”

Britney Spears - “…Baby One More Time”

Christina Aguilera - “Genie in a Bottle”

Backstreet Boys - “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”

NSync - “Tearing Up My Heart”

Spice Girls - “Wannabe”

Hanson - “MMMbop”

Third Eye Blind - “Semi-Charmed Life”

Nirvana - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Blink 182 - “All the Small Things”

Green Day - “Basket Case”

Everclear - “Santa Monica”

Foo Fighters - “Big Me”

Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”

Barenaked Ladies - “One Week”

George Michael - “Freedom”

Haddaway - “What Is Love”

Eiffel 65 - “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”
Beastie Boys - “Intergalactic”

Arrested Development - “Mr. Wendell”

Warren G and Nate Dogg - “Regulate”

SMV - “Human Nature/Right Here”

Lisa Loeb - “Stay”

Extreme - More Than Words”

Col. Boyd's Derby Day Party 5/4/13

To mark the 40th anniversary of Secretariat winning the Kentucky Derby (and setting a pace that has yet to be topped), I decided to play songs on release in years that ended in 3 since then. Here's how it went

(1973)
Bob Dorough - "3 is a Magic Number"
Beach Boys - "Sail On, Sailor"
Gladys Knight and The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"
The Isley Brothers - "Summer Breeze"
Hall and Oates - "She's Gone"
The Four Tops - "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)"
Paul Simon - "Loves Me Like a Rock"
Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"
Stories - "Brother Louie"
Sweet - "Little Willy"
Led Zeppelin - "Dancing Days"
Rolling Stones - "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"
(1983)
Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
The Romantics - "Talking In Your Sleep"
Lindsey Buckingham - "Holiday Road"
Huey Lewis and The News - "If This Is It'
Men at Work - "Overkill"
Duran Duran - "New Moon On Monday"
Eurythmics - "Love Is a Stranger"
Cyndi Lauper - "All Through the Night"
Madonna - "Borderline"
Madness - "Our House"
The Kinks - "Come Dancing"
David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - "Everyday I Write the Book"
Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
(break)
(2013)
Phoenix - "Entertainment"
Justin Timberlake - "Mirrors"
(2003)
No Doubt - "It's My Life"
(1993)
Ace of Base - "All That She Wants"
(2003)
The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?"

Party Like It's 1999 4/5/13

Another great night at The Bell House on Friday. I don't think I've ever had so many famous people hear me DJ...although they might not have been paying attention while partying backstage. Anyways, here's the playlist:

Jellyfish - “The King Is Half Undressed”

The Flaming Lips - “She Don’t Use Jelly”

Soul Coughing - “Circles”

The Breeders - “Cannonball”

Nirvana - “Come as You Are”

Soundgarden - “Spoonman”

Stone Temple Pilots - “Interstate Love Song”

The Smashing Pumpkins - “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

The Presidents of the United States of America - “Lump”

Beck - “Devil’s Haircut”

Oasis - “Supersonic”

Fastball - “The Way”

Sublime - “What I Got”

Sugar Ray - “Fly”

Sixpence None the Richer - “Kiss Me”

Meredith Brooks - “Bitch”

Natalie Imbruglia - “Torn”

The Cardigans - “Lovefool”

New Radicals - “You Get What You Give”

Len - “Steal My Sunshine”

Spice Girls - “Wannabe”

Backstreet Boys - “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”

Hanson - “MMMBop”

Christina Aguilera - “Come on Over (All I Want is You)”

Brandy and Monica - “The Boy Is Mine”

Coolio featuring L.V. - “Gangsta’s Paradise”

Destiny’s Child - “Say My Name”

TLC - “Waterfalls”

Big Pun featuring Joe - “Still Not a Player”

Ginuwine - “Pony”

Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre - “No Diggity”

Next - “Too Close”

Salt-N-Pepa - “Shoop”

Skee-Lo - “I Wish”

Bell Biv Devoe - “Poison”

Montell Jordan - “This Is How We Do It”

Mariah Carey - “Fantasy”

Warren G and Nate Dogg - “Regulate”

Notorious B.I.G. - “Juicy”

Jay-Z - “Can I Get A….?”

Dr. Dre - “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang”

House of Pain - “Jump Around”

Chumbawamba - “Tubthumping”

Third Eye Blind - “Semi-Charmed Life”

Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”

Lit - “My Own Worst Enemy”

Beastie Boys - “Sabotage”

Nirvana - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “The Impression That I Get”

Weezer - “Buddy Holly”

James - “Laid”

No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”

Spice Girls - “Say You’ll Be There”

Ace of Base - “The Sign”

LFO - “Summer Girls”

Britney Spears - “…Baby One More Time”

N’Sync - “Tearing Up My Heart”

Robyn - “Show Me Love”

Cher - “Believe”

Dee-Lite - “Groove Is in the Heart”

Naughty by Nature - “O.P.P.”

Will Smith - “Getting Jiggy Wit It”

Six Mix-A-Lot - “Baby Got back”

Ol’ Dirty Bastard - “Got Your Money”

Mariah Carey - “Heartbreaker”

Backstreet Boys - “I Want It That Way”

Goo Goo Dolls - “Iris”

Ben Folds Five - “Brick”

Sinead O’Connor - “Nothing Compares 2 U”

Green Day - “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”

Song of the Week 3/22/13

Justin Timberlake - "Mirrors"



Yes, I was one of the close to a million people that bought The 20/20 Experience last week. I thought "Mirrors" sounded great on SNL and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and I dug Futuresex/Lovesounds, so this wasn't a guilty pleasure purchase. I finally was able to give it a spin on Friday, and while much of the album could have used a sturdy editor, it's still pretty good. And "Mirrors" is by far the best track.

What I didn't expect out of my early Friday evening at the office was to hear Rita Houston spin "Mirrors" as the opening track of her WFUV show The Whole Wide World. That was shocking, to say the least. But good music is good music and her show is pretty diverse -- and it sounded great going into Phoenix's "Entertainment."

Modern Needs 3/15/13

I had the awesome pleasure of guest DJing at Lee Greenfeld's Modern Needs Friday night at Last Exit on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. It's an all-vinyl event, which means I got to dig out some gems from the home catalog. Thanks so much to Lee for having me along for the ride and to the old Magnetic Field crew (and other friends) that spent their evening with us. Check out the playlist below.

(Please note: The two gaps below mark when Lee took over spinning tunes.)

T. Rex - “Jeepster”

Thin Lizzy - “Jailbreak”

Graham Parker and The Rumour - “Discovering Japan”

The Replacements - “Can’t Hardly Wait (Single Mix)”

Big Star - “Back of a Car”

Buffalo Tom - “Sodajerk”

Sugar - “Gee Angel”

The Godfathers - “Birth, School, Work, Death”

Nada Surf - “Blankest Year”

The Raspberries - “Go All the Way”

The Monkees - “Last Train to Clarksville”

Young Fresh Fellows - “Taco Wagon/Picture Book”

The Beach Boys - “Sail on Sailor”

World Party - “Ship of Fools”

The Motels - “Only the Lonely”

The Zombies - “This Will be Our Year”

Marshall Crenshaw - “Someday, Someway”

Billy Bragg - “Greetings From the New Brunette”

Big Country - “In a Big Country”

The Cars - “Magic”

Crowded House - “Something So Strong”

Duran Duran - “New Moon on Monday”

The Go-Gos - “This Town”

The Pretenders - “Back on the Chain Gang”

The Waitresses - “I Know What Boys Like”

The Tubes - “She’s a Beauty”

Talk Talk - “It’s My Life”

The Thompson Twins - “Hold Me Now”

Missing Persons - “Destination Unknown”

Social Distortion - “Ball and Chain”

Ramones - “I Just Want to Have Something to Do”

Black Flag - “TV Party”

Cheap Trick - “Dream Police”

The Smithereens - “Behind the Wall of Sleep”

The Knack - “My Sharona”

Billy Squier - “My Kinda Lover”

Men at Work - “Overkill”

The Replacements - “I’ll Be You”

Superchunk - “Learned to Surf”

The Figgs - “Ginger”

Elvis Costello and The Attractions - “I Hope You’re Happy Now”

Hoodoo Gurus - “Death Defying”

Madness - “It Must Be Love”

Haircut One Hundred - “Love Plus One”

Joe Jackson - “Fools In Love”

Split Enz - “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”

Blondie - “Rapture”

Talking Heads - “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)

The Cure - “Why Can’t I Be You”

The Buggles - “Video Killed the Radio Star”

Urge Overkill - “Sister Havana”

Wilco - “ELT”

Pixies - “Here Comes Your Man”

The Soft Boys - “The Queen of Eyes”

Public Image Limited - “Seattle”

Squeeze - “Black Coffee in Bed”

The English Beat - “Janette”

Scruffy the Cat - “My Baby, She’s Alright”

Party Like It's 1999 3/9/13

I expected a big crowd, but never the biggest in Party Like It's 1999's history. I'm still amazed by it three days later. Here's the playlist from that fateful night:

Bad Religion – “A Walk”
Blink 182 – “Dammit”
Sugar – “A Good Idea”
Alice in Chains – “Them Bones”
Foo Fighters – “My Hero”
Metallica – “Enter Sandman”
Pearl Jam – “Daughter”
Oasis – “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
Dandy Warhols – “Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth”
Spacehog – “In the Meantime”
Edwyn Collins – “A Girl Like You”
Garbage – “Stupid Girl”
Jesus Jones – “Right Here, Right Now”
White Town – “Your Woman”
A3 – “Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)”
Moby featuring Gwen Stefani – “Southside”
Depeche Mode – “Personal Jesus”
Beck – “Loser”
Letters to Cleo – “Here and Now”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
Spin Doctors – “Two Princes”
No Doubt – “Just a Girl”
Alanis Morissette – “Ironic”
LFO – “Summer Girls”
Len – “Steal My Sunshine”
Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre – “No Diggity”
Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy”
2Pac and Dr. Dre – “California Love”
Ginuwine – “Pony”
Destiny’s Child – “Bills, Bills, Bills”
TLC – “No Scrubs”
Ace of Base – “The Sign”
CeCe Peniston – “Finally”
Janet Jackson – “Go Deep”
Color Me Badd – “I Wanna Sex You Up”
Mariah Carey – “Fantasy”
Montell Jordan – “This Is How We Do It”
Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison”
Kris Kross – “Jump”En Vogue – “Free Your Mind”
C and C Music Factory – “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
Quad City DJ’s – “C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)”
La Bouche – “Be My Lover”
Culture Beat – “Mr. Vain”
Aqua – “Barbie Girl”
Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
Britney Spears – “…Baby One More Time”
N’Sync – “I Want You Back”
Backstreet Boys – “I Want It That Way”
Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping”
The Proclaimers – “I Wanna Be (500 Miles)”
Barenaked Ladies – “One Week”
Third Eye Blind – “Semi-Charmed Life”
Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Green Day – “Basket Case”
Ricky Martin – “Living La Vida Loca”
Sir Mix A Lot – “Baby Got Back”
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”
Onyx – “Slam”
Coolio featuring L.V. – “Gangsta’s Paradise”
Snoop Dogg – “Gin and Juice”
Skee-Lo – “I Wish”
Jay-Z – “Can I Get A…”
Eiffel 65 – “Blue (Da Be Dee)”
Robyn – “Show Me Love”
Jennifer Lopez – “If You Had My Love”
Janet Jackson – “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”
Warren G. and Nate Dogg – “Regulate”
En Vogue – “Don’t Let Go (Love)”
Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men – “One Sweet Day”
Duran Duran – “Ordinary World”
Seal – “Kiss From a Rose”

Song of the Week 3/8/13

Duran Duran - "Save a Prayer"

On Thursday I was searching through Amazon's MP3 store for bargains. I came across the expanded edition of Rio for 5.99 and knew I had to buy it because it had the U.S. remixes of the title track and "Hungry Like the Wolf." I listened to the 29 tracks in the collection over the past two days and found myself comparing the album version of "Save a Prayer" and the Arena version that was a U.S. single (and the version I liked best as a teenager). This morning I put VH1 Classic on and wouldn't you know that they played the studio "Save a Prayer" video.

(They followed it up with the the's "This is the Day," which was *awesome*. I had no idea that Wix from Paul McCartney's band plays in the the. But there he is, jamming on the accordion.)

Here's the studio version:

Here's the live version that was a single in 1984: