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Title: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Matt on August 10, 2008, 05:10:09 PM
Inspired by this thread: http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,3489.msg64927.html#msg64927 (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,3489.msg64927.html#msg64927)

I'm taking care of all the 2005 shows. If anyone has a playlist they want to contribute to the project, post it here!

NOTE: I had to take my best guess as to what album some of these songs were played from.

JANUARY 25, 2005

1) Roky Erikson, "You Don't Love Me Yet" All That May Do My Rhyme (Trance Syndicate)
2) AC Newman, "On the Table" The Slow Wonder (Matador)
3) Game Theory, "Erica's Word" Big Shot Chronicles (Alias)
4) Roger McGuinn, "Rock and Roll Time" Cardiff Rose (Columbia)
5) Guided By Voices, "Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox" Propeller (Scat)

6) The Groundhogs, "Cherry Red" Split (EMI)
7) Sodsai Chaengkij, "The Boat That I Row" Thai Beat a-Go-Go (Subliminal Sounds)
8) Wellwater Conspiracy, "Nati Bati Yi" Declaration of Conformity (Third Gear)
9) Petra Haden, "Our Love Was" Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar/None)
10) AC Newman, "Miracle Drug" The Slow Wonder (Matador)

11) Guerre Froide, "Demain Berlin" Guerre Froide (Genetic)


FEBRUARY 1, 2005

1) Pere Ubu, "Final Solution" 7" (Hearpen/Rough Trade)
2) The Unrest, "Disko Magic" Malcolm X Park (Caroline)
3) Petra Haden, "I Can't Reach You" Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar/None)
4) Guided By Voices, "The Closets of Henry" Half Smiles of the Decomposed (Matador)
5) Volcano Suns, "White Elephant" All Night Lotus Party (Homestead)

Petey Guest DJ Set:
6) Elizabeth Cotten, "Wilson Rag" Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs & Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways)
7) Instrumental (Maybe Petey could help identify this one)

Terre T Guest DJ Set:
8) Mud, "L'L'Lucy" Use Your Imagination (Private Stock)
9) The Gizmos, "Intensified" Rock & Roll Don't Come From New York (Gulcher)
10) Armitage Shanks, "Hold On, I'm Coming" Urinal Heap (Damaged Goods)
11) The Fiery Furnaces, "Single Again" EP (Rough Trade)
12) Willie 'Loco' Alexander, "Dirty Eddie" Hyped 2 Death Vol. 5 (Hyped 2 Death)
13) Gang Of Four, "Anthrax" Entertainment! (EMI)


MARCH 1, 2005

1) The A-Sides, "Sidewalk Chalk" Hello, Hello (Prison Jazz)
2) Liars, "There's Always Room on the Broom" They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
3) Guided By Voices, "The Hard Way" Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (Rocket)
4) A Frames, "Galena" Black Forest (Sub Pop)
5) Les Thugs, "August" As Happy As Possible (Sub Pop)

6) The Howling Hex, "Now We're Gonna Sing" All-Night Fox (Drag City)
7) T. Rex, "Rip Off" Electric Warrior (Reprise)
8) AC Newman, "Miracle Drug" The Slow Wonder (Matador)
9) Guided By Voices, "Visit This Place" The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (Fading Captain)
10) Clouds Forming Crowns, "Accidents of Air" Clouds Forming Crowns (Morphius)

11) The Dirtbombs, "Underdog" Ultraglide in Black (In the Red)


MARCH 8, 2005

1) Volcano Suns, "Testify" Bumper Crop (Homestead)
2) Neutral Milk Hotel, "Holland 1945" In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
3) Redd Kross, "Neurotica" Neurotica (Oglio)
4) Mission of Burma, "The Enthusiast" ONoffON (Matador)
5) Guided By Voices, "Motor Away" Alien Lanes (Matador)
6) The Paybacks, "Scotch Love" Harder and Harder (Get Hip)
7) Unidentified Jeffrey Novak song (Anyone?)
8) Robbie Montgomery and the Ikettes, "Crazy in Love" Ike Turner: The Bad Man (Night Train)
9) Eagles of Death Metal, "Bad Dream Mama" Peace Love Death Metal (Ant Acid Audio)
10) Eagles of Death Metal, "I Only Want You" Peace Love Death Metal (Ant Acid Audio)
11) Patton Oswalt, "My Christmas Memory" Feelin' Kinda Patton (United Musicians)
12) Roky Erikson, "You Don't Love Me Yet" I Have Always Been Here Before (Shout Factory)
13) AC Newman, "Miracle Drug" The Slow Wonder (Matador)
14) The Cure, "Object" Three Imaginary Boys (Rhino)
15) Leisure Class, "Weekend Punk" Leisure Class Recordings 1979-1994 (Leisureco)


MARCH 22, 2005

1) Masonics, "The Mighty Ship" Outside Looking In (Vinyl Japan)
2) Robert Pollard, "Zoom (It Happens All Over the World)" Zoom (Fading Captain)
3) The A-Sides, "Sidewalk Chalk" Hello, Hello (Prison Jazz)
4) Yo La Tengo, "Styles of the Times" Today is the Day! (Matador)
5) Yo La Tengo, "The Story of Jazz" Prisoners of Love (Matador)
6) Morgen, "Of Dreams" Morgen (Radioactive)

7) The Howling Hex, "Now We're Gonna Sing" All-Night Fox (Drag City)

8) T. Rex, "Mambo Sun" Electric Warrior (Reprise)
9) Roky Erikson, "Starry Eyes" I Have Always Been Here Before (Shout Factory)
10) The Ramones, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement" Ramones (Sire)
11) The Blisters, "Fast Food" Hyped 2 Death Vol. 5 (Hyped 2 Death)
12) The Cure, "10:15 Saturday Night" Three Imaginary Boys (Rhino)
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Jouster on August 10, 2008, 05:27:20 PM
I like this.  HOWEVER, I think posting them willy-nilly in a thread is not the best idea.  Perhaps a wiki or blog should be set up, and users could submit through an email account or PM?  I can contribute.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Matt on August 10, 2008, 05:40:10 PM
HOWEVER, I think posting them willy-nilly in a thread is not the best idea.

Agreed. I started this thread just to get the ball rolling.

Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant when it comes to computer stuff, so the wiki/blog idea (which I think is great) is up to people who are more knowledgeable than I am.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: yesno on August 10, 2008, 05:45:06 PM
Put it on the wiki. (http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/866473022)

Also, revive the Wiki.  Actually, no, these Buffcoat (http://buffcoat.blogspot.com/) (and now Matt!)-type projects seem more useful.

Another crazy FOT project would be to import the old YABB message boards (/board and /newboard) into the current SMF board.  There are scripts to do this.  There's some good FOT trivia in there.  With the three different message boards, the Omar recaps, as well as the random stuff that's on the wiki, on friendsoftom.com, and on and on, there's like this huge mass of Best Show secondary material.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: yesno on August 10, 2008, 05:48:41 PM
Also, I'm starting a project to transcribe each Best Show, court reporter style.

I am also tracking down every caller ever, to do a "Where are they now?" interview.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Jouster on August 10, 2008, 05:50:17 PM
The current wiki seems to be beyond redemption.  I say burn it down and start anew if it can't be brought back to life.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Martin on August 10, 2008, 05:51:16 PM
I agree with Jouster!
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: yesno on August 10, 2008, 05:59:36 PM
I think that the Wiki format makes a lot of sense in that it allows collaborative editing, but it would be a lot more realistic and useful to only have a few different pages with lists of characters, trivia, playlists, and that sort of thing, instead of trying to make an "encyclopedia of the Best Show."  The Fotpedia was a great idea, and there's a lot of great stuff in there, though, but it just required too much upkeep.

Such a wiki would also be a good home for a lot of the artwork entries or winners, and the sorts of things that need to be somewhere other than just buried in some thread.  The Buffcoat, Martin and Omar material could be crossposted.

I had to totally rearrange someone's wiki they were trying to get going, because they had just made it way, way too complicated, when there really only needed to be a couple of different main pages.  You can put more than one thing on one page, is what I'm saying.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Omar on August 11, 2008, 07:31:21 AM
I plan to do the 2006 playlists since I already have a lot of them documented in my notes for the recaps.  The same is true of 2007-present, but I'll start with 2006 for now. 

I support the full return of the FOTpedia as a collaborative wiki.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on August 11, 2008, 08:56:07 AM
I plan to do the 2006 playlists since I already have a lot of them documented in my notes for the recaps.  The same is true of 2007-present, but I'll start with 2006 for now. 

I support the full return of the FOTpedia as a collaborative wiki.

Omar, what do you do for a living?  Besides rock harder than all mankind, of course?
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 11, 2008, 09:19:34 AM
I plan to do the 2006 playlists since I already have a lot of them documented in my notes for the recaps.  The same is true of 2007-present, but I'll start with 2006 for now. 

I support the full return of the FOTpedia as a collaborative wiki.

Omar, what do you do for a living?  Besides rock harder than all mankind, of course?

Scharplologist
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Regular Joe on August 11, 2008, 08:58:05 PM
I plan to do the 2006 playlists since I already have a lot of them documented in my notes for the recaps.  The same is true of 2007-present, but I'll start with 2006 for now. 

I support the full return of the FOTpedia as a collaborative wiki.

Omar, what do you do for a living?  Besides rock harder than all mankind, of course?

Scharplologist

Scharplinguist?
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Omar on August 12, 2008, 03:06:35 PM
I am Tom's pastor, and I am really annoyed that he saw Hellboy II against my wishes.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Chris L on August 12, 2008, 03:17:59 PM
I am Tom's pastor, and I am really annoyed that he saw H-Boy II against my wishes.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Jouster on August 17, 2008, 09:20:48 PM
I did 2000!  However, I have four tracks that are a mystery (and which Tom never back-announced):

From November 21, 2000
This track is by the King Brothers, but I don't have a song title or album (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=592&archive=497&starttime=1:34:18&endtime=1:37:36)
This one is a mystery (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=592&archive=497&starttime=1:37:37&endtime=1:39:20)
As is this (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=592&archive=497&starttime=1:42:07&endtime=1:43:44)

From December 5, 2000
The first song played (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=594&archive=499&starttime=0:03:25&endtime=0:08:51)

Can anyone help?
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Tom Scharpling on August 18, 2008, 11:54:07 AM
Your song from December 5th 2000 is most likely "Stumbling Block" by Love Child, from their second album WITCHCRAFT.

I cannot place the other two right now. I will think.

Tom.

Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: kevin_ on April 20, 2009, 06:43:20 AM
Is this still going on? Is there a new iteration or metamorphosis of FOTpedia?

I enjoy Tom's selecta skills and since I switched from live to podcast I haven't been able to hear all the music. I don't know how reading the song names will help, but I feel like it would.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on April 20, 2009, 01:47:39 PM
im more interested in this playlist project.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: kevin_ on April 22, 2009, 10:33:56 PM
I can keep track of the songs starting yesterday, if that helps. Just fill in the last 9 years for me.
Title: Re: The Best Show Playlist Project
Post by: Matthew_S on August 25, 2009, 10:51:11 AM
I think this thread should be revived.