Freestailo #31 - 4/18/12

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I feel like a horrible, horrible friend for having waited so long to post this for you. I really do. But I have a few good excuses:

1. My senior recital
2. Graduation
3. 40-hour a week job
4. Catching up on a year's worth of sleep

Maybe only a couple of those are valid, but either way, I'm finally able to update this bad-boy.

By Ray Young Chu

Dinosaurs were a big part of the set today, and I want to explain something to all of you in regards to this request: I want more. I want more requests like this. I love specific song requests, that's great, artist requests too, but my favorite game to play in the WCBN library is, "Find the Theme." Even if you don't hear the theme viscerally in the music, it helps me to link my entire set together, and give it an extra punch. You know how you can request themes, my friends? In order of certainty:

1. Call the station: (734) 763-3500
2. Post on my Facebook page
3. E-mail me

And if I don't get it, then you've given me a new theme for next week! 

[Artist: Song - Album]

1. Xiu Xiu: Boy Soprano - The Air Force
2. Pyramaze: A Beautiful Death - Immortal
3. Secret Twins: Dead Heart - Ill Fit
4. Xeno & Oaklander: Ransack - Vigils
5. TypeQueen: Charlie the Unicorn - Newgrounds
6. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: The Beat of the Mesozoic - The iridium Controversy
7. King Crimson: Dinosaur - Thrak
8. Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla - Extraterrestrial Live
9. Alexander Zonjic: Romance With You - Romance With You
10. Shilpa Ray And Her Happy Hookers: Liquidation Sale - Teenage Torture
11. Aretha Franklin: Gimme Your Love - Through The Storm
12. Busdriver: Swandive into a Drinking Glass - Beaus $ Eros
13. Count Basie & Sarah Vaughn: You Go To My Head - Count Basie & Sarah Vaughn
14. Gary Graffman: Schumann: Romance in F-Sharp, Op. 28, No. 2 - Graffman Plays Schumann
15. Yppah: Golden Braid - Eighty One
16. Johnny Cash: Dinosaur Song - The Johnny Cash Children's Album
17. DJ Me DJ You: Zodiac Ape - Can You See The Music
18. Rancid: Lulu - Let The Dominoes Fall
19. Was Not Was: Walk The Dinosaur - What Up Dog
20. Lost Cat: Lip Lover - Lost Cat
21. Xiu Xiu: No friend oh! - Women As Lovers
22. Bar-Kays: Woman Of The Night - Flying High On Your Love
23. Nintendo: Dinosaur Fossil Display Room - Animal Crossing
24. Machetazo: Muerte Helada - Mundo Cripta
25. Antony And The Johnsons: Daylight And The Sun - The Crying Light

Oh friend oh!:

1. Xiu Xiu: I need to listen to more Xiu Xiu for xiure, but "Boy Soprano" in particular will always be stuck in my head. The kinds of instrumental layering that Xiu Xiu does is just insane, and I feel like I'm listening to a Salvador Dali painting.
2. Dinosaurs!: Thank you, listener, for requesting songs about dinosaurs. I had a lot of fun finding songs, and I got a couple of good requests from other DJs and listeners for songs to play. It's like a game for me, so thanks for playing along. Charlie the Unicorn in particular was a lot of fun to listen back to.
3. Schumann: That Romance in F-Sharp was definitely one of my favorite moments on the entire set, and it truthfully made me stop what I was doing and listen.

No friend no!:

1. Romance With You: Perhaps this was so bad it was good, but I really feel it was just baaaad.
2. Johnny Cash: I can only say I liked it because it was Johnny Cash. Nothing else. 
3. Too Two Xiu Xiu: I hadn't forgotten that I had played Xiu Xiu at the beginning of the set, but for some reason I felt compelled to play another Xiu Xiu song.

See you next time!