KWVA Playlist for Friday, Jan 20, 2006

What a dislexic morning it was today. There wasn't a ton of problems per se, but a malfunction on two different players, and my reflexes were quite slow, due to a lack of sleep. Let's get to that playlist:


My Morning Jacket - What A Wonderful Man
MIA - URAQT
Animal Collective - Did You See The Words
The Subays - I Want To Hear What You Have To Say
Hot Chip - Crap Kraft Dinner
Vox Trot - Wrecking Force
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Country Teeth
The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
Of Montreal - Forcast Facsist Future
Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Broken Social Scene - Anthem For a 17 Year Old Girl
Cat Power - The Moon
Edith Frost - What's The Use
Bonnie Prince Billie - Pushkin (Live)
The Czars - Goodbye
The Flaming Lips - Bohemian Rhapsody
Petra Haden - Mary Ann With The Shakey Hands
The White Stripes - St. James Informary
Lucika - Smallman
Guitar Wolf - Can-nana Fever
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of
The Evans - Sara Lee
Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left (Live)
P:ano - T. Hatch Says (Round Every Corner)
Feist - Gatekeeper

The Highlights: There was a handful of great music this morning, and a few special tracks. I'd like to put up the new Cat Power song, but since it's not out yet I'm a little nervous doing that, so let's save that for next week. There's some new music to me worth nothing this week.

The Boy Least Likely To is adorable beyond believe. Spin posted this music video of "Be Gentle With Me" and be prepared for cuteness personified. Prepare to pucker that lower lip and go "awwwwwwwww!" Or just listen to the song:

The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me

The Flaming Lips made a bold move covering Queen's monumental opus "Bohemian Rhapsody." The fact is I was quite wary of this track at first, but then I cast aside any intellectual doubts and remembered how much fun it was headbanging to that song back when Wayne and Garth brough the song back to infamy. The Lips do the song justice. I take exception with only a few moments, but on the whole it's quite entertaining:

The Flaming Lips - Bohemian Rhapsody

The Duds: Honestly, there was very little to complain about this morning. Nothing that I disliked, and nothing worth the disrespect of a dud crown. We'll let this one slide today.

Requests: I received two requests today! Yay! The first came from Tava, who celebrated her birthday last night. We celebrated Tava's birthday by playing some Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah and some Of Montreal. Our other request came from a regular listener who wanted to hear local metal band Lucika. I always want to grant requests, and I mean no disrespect, but I was tempted to ask Mr. Local Metal Fan if he'd been paying attention to the rest of the show. Does it sound like metal is my format? It made me wonder, local metal, requests Lucika twice... I figure if you're a metal fan there's got to be other bands out there that you like. You know, some Nordic metal group that makes music videos about creeping rusty meat or something like that. Why the Lucika obsession? Which made me wonder, is Mr. Local Metal Fan a member of Lucika trying to sneak airplay on be a cleverly disguised call in request? Only time will tell. We'll see if this continues to pop up. If Mr. Local Metal Fan merely has a jones for some Eugene metal, don't let me stop you man. If you want it, you got it. But it does give me pause when after I crank out the most stereotypical indie music in the world someone calls in asking for the type of music that just plain gives me tummy rumblins.

Next Show: This afternoon! One Band / One Hour featuring Iron & Wine. 4 p.m. Stop on by and listen!