Memphis Mystery Train Set List: August 30, 2012

Memphis Mystery Train Set List: August 30, 2012

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

Death Ray Music, WEVL, Memphis, Tenn.

*Viva L'American Death Ray Music - Miss America (What Goes On)
The Egyptians - The Party Stomp
Allo Darlin - Polaroid Song
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar
*Al Green - I Want to Hold Your Hand
*Alex Chilton - Boogie Shoes (ed. - This "Boogie Shoes" > original "Boogie Shoes".)
Silver Jews - Let's Not and Say We Did
Belle and Sebastian - You're Just a Baby
Pavement - Two States (ed. - Two skates! Two plates! Make up your own words.)
*Jack Oblivian - Ain't Got No Money
Bobby Bare, Jr. - Dropkick Me, Jesus (ed. - because the football starts today.)
Magnetic Fields - Meaningless
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
Jookabox - You Cried Me
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summers Night on Hammer Hill
Four Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
Arrah and the Ferns - Problems
Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette

David Bowie - Suffragette City (ed. - The start of the holy and rare city trifecta.)
Black Joe Lewis - Booty City
Loretta Lynn - Fist City
Rosemary Clooney - Botch-a-Me
*Cory Branan- Karen's Song
*Snowglobe - Regine
Old 97s - Roller Skate Skinny
REM - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Ramones - Jackie is a Punk
Patty and the Emblems - Mixed Up Shook Up Girl
They Might Be Giants - Lucky Ball and Chain (ed. - Look out for five-foot-tall women.)
New York Dolls - I'm So Fabulous
Buddy Holly - Rave On
Those Darlins - Drivin' Nails in My Coffin
Yo La Tengo - Little Honda
The Raveonettes - My Boyfriend's Back
Thao - Swimming Pools
Elvis Costello - Wave a White Flag
Why - Fatalist Palmistry
*Big Star - Thank You Friends
Decemberists - Sons and Daughters

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

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