May 11, 2007

Theme: Arrivals and Departures On Air: Frank

My favourite album for the year so far is one that came as a direct result of the show I did a few weeks back on commercial music, when I got reacquainted with The Icicles and ordered their new album called "Arrivals and Departures". I also went to see them in concert the week before the show and keeping with the title of their album, the women in the band dressed like stewardesses and the male member was a pilot, they also covered the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane". Needless to say I loved it. Thanks to everybody who sent in suggestions for the "Arrivals and Departures" set, even if for some of them I only sort of got the request correct. Doing research for the set I found out that there are tons of covers of "Getting on Jet Plane", in fact even the most famous version by Peter, Paul, and Mary is a cover of the original by Bob Denver. I ended up playing a version by Lisa Loeb. There were four songs that could have been by top song for this show, in the end I made it two weeks in a row for a Canadian artist with the band Young Galaxy. Another side project by a member of the Stars, is also makes for a lot of story about the band with headlines that are a variation of "Young Galaxy made of Stars". And I know I'm late on the bus, but I finally saw the movie "The Forty Year Old Virgin" the week before the show. Apart from being scared of the number of parallels between myself and the Steve Carrel character, the movie also featured some great musical moments. Playing the Asia song "Heat of the Moment" when he was going after the girl at the end of the movie was a brilliant reference to the Asia poster in his apartment. (Of course you had to be of a certain age to recognize the joke) The song "Got Lucky Last Night" that was played over the ending credits is also a great song that I knew I had to play on the show the moment I heard it. TALK - Theme Young Galaxy - Outside The City (C) The Cinematics - Keep Forgetting Ghost Story - The Upper Ten/The Lower Five The Two Koreas - Cloth Coat Revolution (C) The Golden Dogs - Yeah! (C) TALK (Poppolar.com set) **See Note 1 Annemarie - Bubble Gum I See Cats On Fire - End Of Straight Street Lovedance - It Sometime Brings Me Down ++The Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean You're Moving On Monster Baby - The Burning Ambition Of Early Diuretics TALK ++Lucky Soul - Add Your Light To Mine, Baby Tracey Thorn - Its All True **See Note 2 Everything But The Girl - Wrong Run DMC - RockBox Wally Jericho - Fleamarket (C) TALK (Airplane Set) The Icicles - Regret The Archers of Loaf - All The Nations Airports (Suggested by Garth) Robert Pollard - Supernatural Car Lover (Suggested by Peter) Paul Weller - Arrival Time (Kind of suggested by Stephen P) Bob Wiseman - Airplane On The Highway (C) (Suggested by Derek) Lisa Loeb - Leaving On A Jet Plane TALK Rock Plaza Central - When We Go How We Go (C) The Wooden Stars - Orphans (C) Local Rabbits - Play On (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - Wonder Worry Wart (C) Bellevue - Smile (C) TALK (40 year old version ending set) ++Joboxers - Lucky Last Night **Special Bonus** Asia - Heat Of The Moment ++ song competing for best song of the week Note 1: The first three songs her are from my latest purchases from www.poppolar.com Note 2: Tracy Thorn is the lead singer from Everything But The Girl, I also found out that the name Everything But The Girl comes from a slogan used by a small furniture company where they used that slogan to say that everything was on sale in the store but the sales girls. (C) Denotes Canadian Content