Memphis Mystery Train Set List: January 12, 2012 (High School Edition)

Memphis Mystery Train Set List: January 12, 2012 (High School Edition)

Today's Memphis Mystery Train was all about high school - what I was listening to and what I should have been listening to.

And in keeping with the theme, here's picture of me in high school:

Kerry Crawford with Tuba

Here's what I played today, with the local tracks marked with an asterisk and my notes in italics, like always:

Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl
The Egyptians - Party Stomp
April Young - Steady Boyfriend
Yo La Tengo - Tried So Hard
Dolly Parton - Dumb Blonde (ed. - Favorite Dolly Parton quote: "I don't care when people call me a dumb blonde, because I know I'm not dumb. Or blonde.")
Dead Man's Bones - My Body's a Zombie For You
Arrah and the Ferns - Solider Ghost
Beach Boys - I'm Waiting for the Day
Detroit Cobras - Out of This World
*Jack O. and the Tennessee Tearjerkers - Ain't Got No Money
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Memphis Shakedown
Sundown Pete and Margie Lane - When I'm Gone You'll Soon Forget
Camera Obscura - Knee Deep at the NPL
*Harlan T. Bobo - I'm Your Man
Ramones - Don't Come Close
Billy Bragg - A New England
Mayer Hawthorne - Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
Rilo Kiley - 15
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Hello Saferide - High School Stalker

Automusik - Beach Party (ed. - "We will feast on the flesh of dead animals, and Konrad will bang on ze drum!")
Belle and Sebastian - The Model (ed. - My first favorite Belle and Sebastian song.)
*Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need a New Heart
Clem Snide - Weird
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Salt-n-Pepa - Shoop (ed. - All girls everywhere know the words to this song.)
Elvis Costello - Wave a White Flag
Sondre Lerche - Modern Nature
They Might Be Giants - Dead
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home (RAC Remix)
Pistol Annies - Bad Example
The Oblivians - Locomotion (ed. - This sounds exactly like you'd think it sounds.)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti-war Demonstration
Those Darlins - 222
Jump Little Children - Pink Lemonade

Listen to the Memphis Mystery Train every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. on 89.9 FM in Memphis or on wevl.org.

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