Memphis Mystery Train Set List: Oct. 27, 2011

Memphis Mystery Train Set List: Oct. 27, 2011

Here's what I played on this week's Memphis Mystery Train, with the local tracks marked with an asterisk and my notes in italics: 15 Days Til Pledge Drive, WEVL, Memphis, Tenn. Belle and Sebastian - You're Just a Baby The Egyptians - Party Stomp Billy Bragg - Help Save the Youth of America Dum Dum Girls - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Beiruit - East Harlem Ghost World soundtrack - Jaan Pechehan Ho (If you'd like to flash mob this dance, please let me know. I'd love to.) *Jack O. and the Tennessee Tearjerkers - Chills and Fever New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You Camera Obscura - Knee Deep at the NPL Buddy Holly - Words of Love Detroit Cobras - The Real Thing (I wanna hear you say YEAH!) Wilco - When You Wake Up Feeling Old Rilo Kiley - The Frug Sondre Lerche - She's Fantastic *Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Black Sheep Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me (Another great song about love and personal injury.) The Clash - Know Your Rights (All three of them!) James - Laid Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing The Ikettes - Trouble on My Mind The Ramones - I Can't Make It on Time Thao - The Clap Clem Snide - Something Beautiful (You make me want to fold the map improperly.) Dolly Parton - Jolene Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Orange Colored Sky (This song is about the shock of love. Only Screamin' Jay makes it sound like love fell from the sky and seriously injured him.) Why - Rubber Traits (Productive, fully charged, cocked and pointed.) Old 97s - The Villain Magnetic Fields - Meaningless Those Darlins - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Imperial Teen - Sweet Potato Lovelites - How Can I Tell My Mom and Dad (the only Teenage Pregnancy slow jam, by request for E.J.) Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michele Foucalt, 1963) Wanda Jackson - My Big Iron Skillet Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve *Reigning Sound - I'm Holding Out David Bowie - Suffragette City If you missed today's show, you can listen when it re-airs tomorrow (Friday) afternoon from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., or every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. on 89.9 FM in Memphis or at WEVL.org.

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vic
Good show. I was brewing my morning coffee when Your Arms Around Me started playing. Is there a better way to start the day! I ended up being late for work because I can't listen to WEVL there.
October 28, 2011 10:43am