August 18, 2006

Theme: Advertising Music On Air: Frank

The advertising music set didn't go that well, of course I should realize by now that if I want to make sure that I will be able to play a song I have to bring it myself. I wanted to play some more songs in the set but I didn't have them. I also should have remembered that the song by Joel Plaskett I was looking for is only available as a mini-CD included in his DVD. I did manage to find a good website that lists music used in commercials (adtunes.com). The best part of the site is the searchable forum section, so you can look up a song, artist, or product you want to know about and usually somebody has started a thread about it. As I missed doing the previous show, there were 4 weeks of songs vying for the top song of the week, you can see the winner and other contenders in the setlist below. A few songs from the first set (and the top song) came from a great new podcast I found this week called indiepopradio ( http://indiepopradio.blogspot.com/ ), there are only 5 of them on the site but they are all very good. He also has a live365 site that plays a new set of 50 songs every week. And I swear I had not heard of Corinne Bailey Rae before I played the song during the show, but a few days after the show, I was driving to Montreal and flipping around stations when I heard the song on America's Top 20 with Kasey Kasem (yes he is still doing the show and it is 20 now instead of 40). I have also seen stories on Bailey Rae in various newspapers and on-line. That is the danger of not listening to commercial radio, I can hear a song on somebody's podcast and I think that nobody else knows about it but it turns out to be a popular song. There was also the "bands that sound like Franz Ferdinand" set, especially the song by Cribs which could have been a Franz Ferdinand cover, some people don't agree with me about the concept of the set, but listen to it and decide for yourself. Speaking of sound-a-like songs, I ended with a song by the band "Boys" that sounds exactly like Morrissey, check below to see to whom the song was dedicated. TALK - Theme The Mayfields - Deeper Than The Ocean Hidden Cameras - Awoo (C) Little Name - You Tear My Love Apart The Bicycles - I Know We Have To Part (C) Smoosh - Find A Way TALK (bands that sound like Franz Ferdinand) Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat **Also a strong contender for top song HelloGoodbye - All Of Your Love Cribs - Martell Controller, Controller - PF (C) Shout Out Out Out Out - Self Loathing Rulz (C) TALK Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On **Also a strong contender for top song Nouvelle Vague - Blue Monday The Souljazz Orchestra - The Blind Leading The Blind (C) Someday Baby - Running To The Judgment TALK (Advertising Music Set) Telepopmusik - Breathe - Mitsuibishi Deeds Plus Thoughts - The World's Made Up Of This And That (Fatboy Slim Remix) - Toyota I Am The World Trade Center - Me To Be - Five Alive The Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need A New Heart - Ceasar's Dog Food TALK Geoff Berner - The Way That Girl Drinks Beer (C) **Appearing at the Ebar Aug 24 The Barmitzvah Brothers - Hollow Time Of The Night (C) **Appearing at the Ebar Aug 24 Andre Ether - The Best We Ever Had (C) The Diskettes - Museum (C) Wood Pigeon - Hymn For Two Walks (C) TALK The Firey Funaces - Waiting The Marble Index - All That I Know (C) The Anit-Qs - Little Jesus Spencer Dickinson - The Man Who Lives For Love Matt Pond PA - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea TALK Boys - A New Girl Born **Dedicated to Keira Innes who turned 1 year old the day after the show (C) Denotes Canadian Content