Monday, July 10, 2017

Party Like It's 1987 7/7/17

This was a whole lot of fun, and drew a decent crowd considering the torrential rains at the start. Of the 63 songs Brother Mike and I played Friday, 32 of them were from 1987. 

U2 – “With or Without You”
The Cure – “Why Can’t I be You”
Wang Chung – “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”
Prince – “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man”
INXS – “Need You Tonight”
Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again”
Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”
Echo and the Bunnymen – “Lips Like Sugar”
New Order – “True Faith”
Pet Shop Boys – “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”
Peter Gabriel – “Big Time”
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
After the Fire – “Der Kommissar”
Icicle Works – “Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)”
Adam Ant – “Goody Two Shoes”
Bow Wow Wow – “I Want Candy”
David Bowie – “Fashion”
Gary Numan – “Cars”
Soft Cell – “Tainted Love”
Men Without Hats – “The Safety Dance”
Modern English – “I Melt With You”
Duran Duran – “Rio”
Bananarama – “I Heard a Rumor”
ABC – “When Smokey Sings”
Belinda Carlisle – “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”
Madonna – “Open Your Heart”
Fine Young Cannibals – “She Drives Me Crazy”
George Michael – “Faith”
Janet Jackson – “Control”
Michael Jackson – “Bad”
Whitney Houston – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – “Head to Toe”
Hall and Oates – “Out of Touch”
The Bangles – “Hazy Shade of Winter”
Talking Heads – “Burning Down the House”
Depeche Mode – “People Are People”
Eurythmics – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
Prince and the Revolution – “Let’s Go Crazy”
Bon Jovi – “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Beastie Boys – “Fight for Your Right (To Party)”
Young MC – “Bust a Move”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Push It”
Jody Watley – “Looking for a New Love”
Eddy Grant – “Electric Avenue”
Musical Youth – “Pass the Dutchie”
Toto – “Africa”
Baltimora – “Tarzan Boy”
Laura Branigan – “Self Control”
A-ha – “Take on Me”
Madonna – “Into the Groove”
Taylor Dayne – “Tell It to My Heart”
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – “Relax”
Pat Benatar – “Love Is a Battlefield”
David Bowie – “Modern Love”
Michael Jackson – “PYT”
Corey Hart – “Sunglasses at Night”
Jesus and Mary Chain – “Happy When It Rains”
Violent Femmes – “Blister in the Sun”
Los Lobos – “La Bamba”
Crowded House – “Something So Strong”
Danny Wilson – “Mary’s Prayer”
Suzanne Vega – “Luka”
Heart – “Alone”
Foreigner – “I Want to Know What Love Is”

Monday, July 03, 2017

Party Like It's 1999 7/1/17

20 Years of OK Computer Edition 

Radiohead – “No Surprises”
Radiohead – “My Iron Lung”
Radiohead – “Stop Whispering”
Radiohead – “Subterranean Homesick Alien”
Radiohead – “Street Spirit”
Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
Radiohead – “The Bends”
Dandy Warhols – “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”
Belly – “Feed The Tree”
Pavement – “Gold Soundz”
King Missile – “Detachable Penis”
The Breeders – “Cannonball”
Elastica – “Connection”
Hole – “Celebrity Skin”
Veruca Salt – “Volcano Girls”
Republica – “Ready to Go”
Garbage – “Stupid Girl”
The Cranberries – “Dreams”
Letters to Cleo – “Cruel to Be Kind”
No Doubt – “Sunday Morning”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “Where’d You Go”
Reel Big Fish – “Sell Out”
Fastball – “The Way”
Radiohead – “Creep”
TLC – “Creep”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Shoop”
Destiny’s Child – “Say My Name”
Aaliyah – “Are You That Somebody”
Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z – “Heartbreaker”
Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri – “Money Ain’t a Thing”
Black Sheep – “The Choice is Yours (Revisited)”
A Tribe Called Quest – “Scenario”
Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”
Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee – “Wild Wild West”
Skee-Lo – “I Wish”
Bell Biv Devoe – “Do Me Baby”
Boyz II Men – “Thank U”
Color Me Badd – “I Wanna Sex You Up”
Hanson – “Mmmbop”
Blur – “Song 2”
Blink 182 – “What’s My Age Again
Radiohead – “Just”
Eve 6 – “Inside Out”
Beastie Boys – “The Biz vs. the Nuge”>”Sabotage”
House of Pain – “Jump Around”
Britney Spears – “…Baby One More Time”
Robyn – “Do You Know (What It Takes)”
Christina Aguilera – “Genie in a Bottle”
Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
Backstreet Boys – “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
N’Sync – “I Want You Back”
Dee-lite – “Groove Is in the Heart”
C+C Music Factory – “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
La Bouche – “Be My Lover”
Eiffel 65 – “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”
Quad City DJ’s – “Space Jam”
Lou Bega – “Mambo No. 5”
Shania Twain – “Man! I Feel Like a Woman”
Ricky Martin – “Living La Vida Loca”
Santana featuring Rob Thomas – “Smooth”
Michael Jackson – “Black or White”
Janet Jackson – “Escapade”
Mariah Carey – “Fantasy”
Aqua – “Barbie Girl”
KWS – “Please Don’t Go”
Paula Abdul – “The Promise of a New Day”
The KLF – "Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)”
Big Mountain – “Baby I Love Your Way”
Fugees – “Killing Me Softly”
Radiohead – “Let Down”