Memphis Mystery Train Set List: June 7, 2012

Here's what I played on this week's Mystery Train, with the local tracks marked with an asterisk and my notes in italics:

Tough and Lovely – More, More, More
The Egyptians – Party Stomp
Belle and Sebastian – You're Just a Baby
Gino Washington – Out of This World
King Khan and BBQ Show – Waddlin' Around
Andrew Bird – Skin Is, My
They Might Be Giants – Yeh Yeh
Army Navy – Last Legs
Bikini Kill – I Wish I Was Him
XTC – Life Begins at the Hop
Billy Bragg – Help Save the Youth of America
New Pornographers – Silver Jenny Dollar
Elvis Costello – Veronica
Ben Folds Five – Kate (ed. – taking it all the way back to eighth grade this morning.)
Langley Schools Music Project – Sweet Caroline (ed. – I can't tell you how much I love the fact that this record of creepy children singing pop songs is called "Lonliness and Despair.)
Detroit Cobras – Right Around the Corner
Ramones – Rockaway Beach
Little Eva – The Trouble with Boys
Magnetic Fields – Underwear
Prince – Crimson and Clover (ed. – Happy birthday to Minneapolis' finest.)

Jens Lekman – A Higher Power
The Darkness – I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Little Eva – Tell Him
Devotchka – Venus in Furs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin
Pavement – Stereo
Eileen – Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher
Wanda Jackson – My Big Iron Skillet
*Harlan T. Bobo – Crazy With Loneliness
*Otis Redding – You Don't Miss Your Water
Best Coast – Happy
Generationals – Goose and Gander
*Subteens – Madison Avalon (ed. – The Antenna? Murphy's? Pho Hoa Binh?)
Velvet Underground – Run Run Run
The Four Preps – 26 Miles
Modest Mouse – Polar Opposites
Thao – Swimming Pools
Okkervil River – No Key, No Plan (ed. – for everyone who's doing what they really like and getting paid for it.)

You can catch the Memphis Mystery Train live every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. and on Monday from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 FM in Memphis or online at wevl.org.