"She comes running down like water/ To splash around with the ones that taught her"

If you missed last week's show, you missed out on a treat! PLAYBACK:stl editors-in-chief Laura Hamlett and Jim Dunn co-hosted the show with me and played a plethora of great music. Unfortunately, posting the playlist slipped my mind at the time, so you'll have to wait a bit to see it (my apologies), but trust me....'twas a good 'un.

Tonight's episode of FU:EL is a no-go, as I will be out in Columbia, MO, screaming my head off at the three nice boys from Guster. Don't worry, though....File Under:EasyListening will return on November 7th with my special guest co-host Kaylen Hoffman, also of Playback. Kaylen maintains after looking over a few playlists here that she and I have near identical taste. This can only bode well for you, dear listener.

Show of the week this week would be Guster, obviously, with a spoken word performance by Henry Rollins at the Pageant a close second. See you at one or the other!

"In God We Trust": Setlist 10-17-2005

Here it is, ladies and gents, the setlist for this week, October 17th. My guest host this week, "Jazzy" Jim Campbell, was a gas and a half, and brought along all kinds of fun stuff. I mean...STRYPER?!?! Holy crap!

There's all kinds of silly covers mixed in here, and if you didn't tune in, you missed all kinds of cooky cover songs. You also missed songs by Augustana and Our Lady Peace (playing the Pageant tomorrow night) and Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails (who just played the Savvis Center on Friday).

Tune in next week when my guest will be....Tyson Blanquart? Laura Hamlett and Jim Dunn? I have no idea, but with File Under: Easy Listening, you know it'll be good!

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Luna "Bonnie & Clyde" 3 Stories
Liz Phair "6'1" "Exile In Guyville
Dressy Bessy "Electrified" Electrified
Bran Van 3000 "Drinking in LA" Glee
Caribou "Barnowl"The Milk of Human Kindness
So They Say "Forever Young" (yes, the Rod Stewart song) Punk Goes 80s
Alkaline Trio "The Poison" Crimson
Queens of the Stone Age "Little Sister" Lullabies To Paralyze
Nine Inch Nails "Getting Smaller" With Teeth
Gang of Four "Ether" Return the Gift
Front 242 "Headhunter" Front By Front
KMFDM "These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Candy Remix)" (yes, the Nancy Sinatra song) Boots
Augustana "Boston" All the Stars and Boulevards
Our Lady Peace "Picture" Healthy in Paranoid Times
Fiona Apple "Get Him Back" Extraordinary Machine
Sia "Breathe Me" Six Feet Under: Everything Ends
Rogue Wave "10:01" Descended
30 Seconds to Mars "The Kill" A Beautiful Lie
Thrice "Image of the Invisible" single
Faith No More "Easy" (yes, the Commodores song) Songs to Make Love To
Leatherface "True Colors" (yes, the Phil Collins song) Horsebox
Ministry "Halloween" Everyday is Halloween
The Cult "Rise" Beyond Good and Evil
Stryper "In God We Trust" Reborn
Jimmy Eat World "No Sensitivity" split EP (w/Jebediah)

"Old poets studied rules of verse and those ladies, they rolled their eyes": Setlist 10/10/05

This week's guest on FU:EL was PlaybackSTL's own music reviewer Mary Beth Hascall. The theme of the week (not that most week's have themes, but this one did) was bands from the British Isles, i.e. England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. (How little my Irish countrymen appreciate being lumped in with Britain geographically is another matter entirely...) Be that as it may, we played all kinds of great British and Irish bands, which I think featured a pretty nice blend of the mainstream (U2, The Cure, Rolling Stones) and the not-so-mainstream (Supergrass, Gomez, the Beta Band).

Anyone who looks at the setlist and gets confused, a couple notes...
- BRMC isn't "technically" a British band, as 2/3 of the band is from San Francisco. But drummer Nick Jago is British. Also, the Little Barrie song Mary Beth picked out put me in the mood to hear the new BRMC which, oddly enough, has already disappeared from the new release stacks. Rats....

- The love for Britain wrapped up after the Rolling Stones, since I needed to get some new releases on the air. We had a few British new releases (Franz Ferdinand, for example), but not enough to fulfill the 6 NR's I needed to play.

- I'm personally a big fan of the way we wrapped the show: with one great British band (Leatherface) covering another great British band (The Police). Good stuff!

And don't forget to tune in next week, when Jim Campbell will rock yer effin' face off!

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U2 “I Will Follow” Boy
Stereophonics “A Thousand Trees” Word Gets Around
Supergrass “Pumping On Your Stereo” Supergrass
The Clash “Lost in the Supermarket” London Calling
Gang of Four “Sweet Jane (live)” Entertainment! (remastered)
Gang of Four “Natural’s Not In It” Return the Gift
The Yardbirds “You’re a Better Man Than I” Heart Full of Soul & Other Hits
Little Barrie “Long Hair” We Are Little Barrie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Whatever Happened To My Rock n’ Roll?” BRMC
Gomez “Bring It On” Liquid Skin
The Beta Band “Dry the Rain” The Three EPs
Travis “…Baby One More Time (live from VH1’s Storytellers” Turn single
James “Laid” Laid
Belle & Sebastian “The Boy With the Arab Strap” The Boy With the Arab Strap
Radiohead “Palo Alto” Airbag/How Am I Driving?
U2 “Staring at the Sun” Pop
The Cure “A Letter To Elise”
U2 “Bad (live)” Wide Awake In America
Ride “Twisterella” Going Blank Again
Badly Drawn Boy “Something To Talk About” About A Boy
Franz Ferdinand “This Boy” You Could Have It So Much Better
Rolling Stones “Under My Thumb” Aftermath
The Stooges “No Fun” The Stooges
Big Star “Lady Sweet” In Space
Teenage Fanclub “Time Stops” Man-made
Fiona Apple “O’ Sailor” Extraordinary Machine
Leatherface “Message in a Bottle” Mush

"Listening too long to one song, sing me Spanish Techno"

Tune in to FU:EL next Monday, when my special guest will be PlaybackSTL's own Mary Beth Hascall. Mary Beth informed me at this week's Doves concert (which was alright, but sandwiched as it was between concerts by Franz Ferdinand, Bob Mould, and the New Pornographers, suffers by comparison) that she is totally stoked for this show, so it should be a good time.

The following week, my co-host will be PlaybackSTL's Jim Campbell. He promises to bring 30 Seconds To Mars. Tune in and get your Jordan Catalano on.

Hopeless case of a kid in denial: setlist 10/03/2005

Here's the setlist from Monday, 10/03, featuring special guest host Kevin Renick (of PlaybackSTL, natch). Kevin is an afficionado of any and all music from the Great White North of Scandinavia, which means that plenty of the stuff he brought along with him has, in all likelihood, NEVER been played on US radio before. Impressive, no?

See how many bands you recognize. Then assume I picked those.

It was a harrowing week this week, especially when the fire alarm started going off in the building about an hour in. Pretty crazy. Good setlist though, full of music that's new to me, and probably to you, too.

Moonbabies "Arnold Layne" War On Sound mini album
The Morells "Ups & Downs" Think About It
New Pornographers "Sing Me Spanish Techno" Twin Cinema
Celestine "Sunflower" Between Bedtime and Sunrise
Hanne Hukkelberg "Little Girl" Little Things
John Vanderslice "Exodus Damage" Pixel Revolt
The Like "June Gloom" Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking
The Stuff "Your Libido" Pick It Up, Pig Boy
The Sun "Waiting On High" Blame It On Y outh
Luke Temple "Get Deep, Get Close" Hold a Match for a Gasoline World
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Ain't No Easy Way" Howl
The Eels "Going Fetal" Blinking Lights
Dressy Bessy "Side 2" Electrified
Aluminum Babe "Ca Plane Pour Moi" Vitrified
The Hellacopters "Carry Me Home" By the Grace of God
The Real Tuesday Weld "L'amour et la Mort" The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
Autumn's Gray Solace "Cloudburst" Riverine
Doves "There Goes the Fear" The Last Broadcast
Maria Taylor "Song Beneath the Song" 11:11
Broken Spindles "Painted Boy Face" Inside/Absent
Brian Eno "Bone Bomb" Another Day on Earth
Sleater-Kinney "The Fox" The Woods
Sleater-Kinney "You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" All Hands on the Bad One
Larsen and Furious Jane "Unsuccessful is the New Successful" Tourist with a Typewriter
Eberg "Plastic Lions" Plastic Lions
The Hang Ups "It's All True" The Hang Ups
The Jessica Fletchers "Magic Bar" Less Sophistication
The State of Floral Beings "The Elephant Machine" We Know You Love Us, That's Why We Do This
Spoon "I Turn My Camera On" Gimme Fiction
T. Raumschmiere w/ Sandra Nasic "A Very Loud Lullaby" Blitzkrieg Pop

"This just in, where to begin? Grin and bear it, it's bare and grim"

Another Monday, another show! Tune in tonight (Oct. 3rd) for another fine edition of FU:EL featuring co-host and PlaybackSTL writer Kevin Renick. Kevin's "Norse Code" is invaluable to anyone who wants to hear all things Scandinavian. He'll be bringing some Scandi stuff, to be sure, but also a smattering of other fine, super-rare recordings. And of course, I'll be pimping the many great shows coming through town this week, including Doves (Oct. 4th - Pageant), the New Pornographers (Oct. 6th - Mississippi Nights), and Sleater-Kinney (Oct. 8th - Mississippi Nights).

Tune in, won't you? www.kwur.com or 90.3 FM tonight, 6-8 pm, and be sure to check back for tonight's playlist!