"Beautiful boys and a beautiful dancefloor, Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance-whore"

This is my third try to post the setlist....let's hope it works!

Summarizing....
1. Franz Ferdinand last week kicked ass.
2. Bob Mould this week will kick ass.
3. The New Pornographers next week! Kick ass!

Minus Five "I'm Not Bitter" Down With Wilco
Bob Mould "Missing You" Body of Song
Bob Mould "Gauze of Friendship" Body of Song
Bob Mould "Days of Rain" Body of Song
Franz Ferdinand "Michael" Franz Ferdinand
The Bravery "An Honest Mistake" The Bravery
Ivy "Thinking About You" In the Clear
Death Cab For Cutie "This Charming Man" You Can Play These
Songs With Chords
Dressy Bessy "California" The California EP
Apples in Stereo "I Can't Believe" The Discovery of a World
 Inside the Moone
The Pillows "Terminal Heaven's Rock" Penalty Life
The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema" Twin Cinema
The New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed" Electric Version
The New Pornographers "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras" Twin Cinema
Doves "Sky Starts Falling" Some Cities
Built To Spill "Big Dipper" There's Nothing Wrong With Love <-- Request!

Doves "Almost Forgot Myself" Some Cities <-- 'Nother request! 

Spoon "My Mathematical Mind" Gimme Fiction 

White Stripes "My Doorbell" Get Behind Me, Satan 

Son Volt "Jet Pilot" Okemah and the Melody of Riot 

Lucero "Anjalee" Nobody's Darlings 

Mike Park "Blue Marble" North Hangook Falling 

Sufjan Stevens "Jacksonville" Illinois 

Nouvelle Vague "A Forest" Nouvelle Vague 

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Love Burns" BRMC 

Sparta "Cut Your Ribbon" Wiretap Scars 

The Mercy Kiss "Lonely at the Top" EP 003 

Sugar "Hoover Dam (live)" IICCYM single  

"I am vision, I am sound"

Well, Lauren will NOT be my guest tonight, but I may still very well have a co-host...that is "to be determined" at this point.

What I will very definitely have, however, is a smattering of Bob Mould tracks to get you excited for his show at Mississippi Nights tomorrow (the show of the week, without a doubt), plus a smattering of tracks from the New Pornographers, who'll be in town on October 6th. Be there, won't you?

Special announcement, btw: this happened back in February and I'm a little late finding it, but so what? Now-defunct St. Louis rockers Stir have put their entire un-released final album up for download on their website, www.stirband.com. I always thought Stir got the short end of the stick (their 2nd record, "Holy Dogs", has at least five great songs on it), so it's nice to at least be able to hear this stuff. Also, see if you can find the mp3 of them doing "Crazy Train"....definitely worth the hunt.

"This fire is outta control, we're gonna burn this city, BURN this city"

Hey all, be sure to tune in to the show on Monday, September 26th, where my guest once again will be Lauren Beckerle of PlaybackSTL. Lauren is a repeat guest since the online streaming was down on her first visit (it's back up now), but starting next week we'll have a new and exciting guest host each and every week. I could post the entire schedule now, but then you'd have fewer reasons to be checking back, now wouldn't you?

Those of you wishing to do something fun tonight and hang out with some kool kats, I highly recommend heading down to the Pageant to catch Ye Olde Franz Ferdinand. Damn near the entire PlaybackSTL staff'll be there (by the bar, naturally)...it should be a good ol' time.

(FU:EL contest: first person to post a comment on here with where the name Franz Ferdinand comes from gets 10 coolness points, and a song of their choice played on Monday's show. I know there's no way to actually police this, but it really is cheating to look it up. You should know this stuff.)

Set List for 9/19/2005

Flying solo this week, here's the setlist for the first OFFICIAL installment of FU:EL for the year.

As I reiterated several times during the show, there's a number of great concerts to check out this week, including FOUR on Thursday alone: Alkaline Trio at the Pageant, Tristan Prettyman at the Gargoyle, Dressy Bessy at the Way Out Club, and Sufjan Stevens at Mississippi Nights. And don't forget Franz Ferdinand on Friday, k?

This week's show didn't flow as well from song to song as they often do, due mostly to the fact that the CD stacks are only organized up through "F" so I was stuck with that, and stuff I brought with for the most part. Eh...maybe next week....

Phantom Planet "1st Things 1st" Phantom Planet
Koufax "Social Life" Social Life
Kings of Leon "King of the Rodeo" A-ha Shake Heartbreak
Brendan Benson "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" The Alternative To Love
Verbow "New History" White Out
Rockets Over Sweden "So In Love With You and Me" Penny Coliseum
Death Cab For Cutie "Soul Meets Body" Plans
Ivy "Thinking About You" In the Clear
Doves"Some Cities" Some Cities
Sufjan Stevens "Come On Feel the Illinoise!" Illinois
Flaming LipsYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1" Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Green Day "Give Me Novocaine'" American Idiot
The Smithereens "A Girl Like You"11
The Fags "Truly Truly" The Fags EP
Spitalfield "Van Buren" Stop Doing Bad Things
Stabbing Westward "Perfect" Stabbing Westward
Soul Asylum "Somebody to Shove" Grave Dancers Union
Supergrass "Rush Hour Soul" Life on Other Planets
The Gentleman Callers "Hey Little Girl" Don't Say What It Is
Clinic "The Equaliser" Walking With Thee
Luna "Speedbumps" Rendezvous
Guster "Amsterdam" Keep It Together
Sugar "If I Can't Change Your Mind" Copper Blue
The Killers "Indie Rock n' Roll" Hot Fuss (UK import)
Pernice Brothers "Dumb It Down" Discover a Lovelier You
Jonathan Edwards "Sunshine" Jonathan Edwards

Set List for 9/12/2005

Here is the setlist for the September 12th edition of File Under: Easy Listening. My special guest this particular week was Lauren Beckerle (of PlaybackSTL, natch). The online stream was not working this particular week, unfortunately, so we'll have Ms. Beckerle back again soon to make up for it.

See if you can guess which songs I picked and which ones Lauren picked. You don't even have to know either of us very well to do it...

Bob Mould "Circles" Body of Song
Nine Inch Nails "The Line Begins to Blur" With Teeth
MDFMK "Get Out Of My Head" MDFMK
Dresden Dolls "Gravity" Dresden Dolls
The Frames "Fake" Burn the Maps
Dinosaur Jr. "Feel the Pain" Without a Sound
Sons and Daughters "Monsters" Repulsion Box
The Zutons "Pressure Point" Who Killed...The Zutons?
Caribou "Yeti" Yeti single
Gang of Four "Natural's Not In It" Return the Gift
Hard Fi "Cash Machine" Stars of CCTV
Gorillaz "Dirty Harry" Demon Days
Weezer "This is Such a Pity" Make Believe
Spoon "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine" Gimme Fiction
Year of the Rabbit "Last Defense" Year of the Rabbit
Tori Amos "Siren" Great Expectations Soundtrack
Belle and Sebastian"Seeing Other People" If You're Feeling Sinister
The Smiths "Ask" Singles
Radiohead "The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold)" Hail to the Thief
Snow Patrol "Wow" Final Straw
The Gentleman Callers "You Oughta Know By Now" Don't Say What It Is
Thee Lordly Serpents"Gonna Get You" Thee Lordly Serpents
The Hold Steady "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" Separation Sunday
Vast "Somewhere else to be" Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Riddle of Steel "The Lovers of Nothing" Got This Feelin'
Cave In "Inspire" Antenna
!!! "Take Ecstasy With Me" Take Ecstasy With Me

Welcome to FU:EL!

Hey all! Welcome to the website for "File Under: Easy Listening", the long-running, much-loved (or at least, I like to think so) power pop radio show! FU:EL airs Monday nights from 6-8pm on KWUR-FM (90.3 FM in St. Louis, MO) and is also available online at www.kwur.com.

Many long-time listeners of the show will remember the days when I had a co-host, one Brad Terebelo. Well, Brad has gone to Philadelphia, but I've gotten ever-so-lonely in the studio of late, so get ready for a plethora of co-hosts. I'm using my connections at local magazine PlaybackSTL to bring some of the brightest local music journalists onto the St. Louis airwaves. Tune in next Monday, September 12th, for the first show of the semester, where I'll be joined by Playback music reviewer Lauren Beckerle.

Be sure to stay tuned to this very site for setlists, concert announcements, and other show updates. See y'all on Monday!