Sunday, March 30, 2008

Season 4, Episode 6: The Mash-Up Mike Radio Show

Intro:
Don't Hold Back (Sweet Jane) -Go Home Productions (Chemical Brothers vs. Velvet Underground)

1st Set:
Crazy as She Goes -Legion of Doom (Raconteurs vs. Gnarls Barkley vs. Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five)
Tender Umbrella -Party Ben (General Public vs. Rhianna)
Jimmy Mack's Sweet Escape -Pheugoo (Martha and the Vandellas vs. Gwen Steffani)
Always With You -Divide & Kreate (Willie Nelson vs. U2)

2nd Set:
Bounce That -Girl Talk
Passenger Fever -Go Home Productions (Iggy Pop vs. Peggy Lee)
Sympathy For Teen Spirit -DJ Moule (Rolling Stones vs. Queen vs. Nirvana)
Tequilla Lip Gloss -DJ Paul V (Lil Mama vs. The Champs)
Sgt. Pepper's Paradise -Jimmi Jammes (Beatles vs. Guns and Roses)

3rd Set:
Boulevard of Broken Songs -Party Ben (Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Aerosmith)
La La Her Madly -Ruff Muff (The Doors vs. Goldfrapp)
Rapture Riders -Go Home Productions (Blondie vs. the Doors)
I'm The Man in Black -Voicedude (Johnny Cash vs. Will Smith)
Harder, Better, Faster, Controversy -DJ Scenius (Daft Punk vs. Prince)

Rapture Riders:

Season 4, Episode 6: Live Without a Net

What happens when one DJ spins tracks with no clear plan going in to the booth?

Intro:
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself -The White Strpies (Burt Bacharat cover)

1st Set:
Sweet Soul Dream -World Party
My Blue Heaven -Fats Domino
Starry Eyed Surprise - Paul Oakenfold f/Shifty Shellshock
Saturday Night Style -Mikey Dread

2nd Set:
Try a Little Tenderness -Jack Webb
Mass Destruction -Faithless
Rehab (I Can't Help Myself) -Amy Winehouse vs. the Temptations
Tive Razão -Seu Jorge
Bonafide Lovin' -Chromeo

3rd Set:
Big Shot Pimpin' -Billy Joel vs. Jay-Z (BRAT mash-up)
Helden -David Bowie (German version of "Heroes")
Heartbeats -Jose Gonzales (The Knife cover)
Ode to L. A. -The Raveonettes featuring Ronnie Spector

Mass Destruction:

You ain't going to nirvana or farvana, you're coming right back here.

Season 4, Episode 4: Road Trip

Intro:
On the Road Again -Willie Nelson

1st Set:
Marching Bands of Manhattan -Death Cab For Cutie
Dirty Water -The Standells (Boston)
Panic in Detroit (alternate version) -David Bowie
Johnsburgh, Illinois -Tom Waits

2nd Set:
Sweet Home Chicago -Robert Johnson
Kansas City -The Beatles
Memphis -Chuck Berry with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Jackson -Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
Basin Street Blues -Louis Armstrong (New Orleans)

3rd Set:
New San Antonio Rose -Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Viva Las Vegas -ZZ Top
Portland, Oregon -Loretta Lynne with Jack White
L. A. Woman -The Doors

Chuck Berry with John and Yoko:

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Season 4, Episode 3: How Much is the Fish?

Intro:
There's a Story in Your Voice =Elvis Costello and the Imposters with Lucinda Williams

1st Set:
Music is My Hot Hot Sex -CSS
Shipping Up to Boston -Dropkick Murphys
Let the Four Winds Blow -Toots and the Maytals (Fats Domino cover)
The Stroll -The Diamonds

2nd Set (Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2008)
Walk, Don't Run -The Ventures
Glad All Over -Dave Clark Five
Authority Song -John Mellencamp
Vogue -Madonna
I'm Your Man -Leonard Cohen

3rd Set:
How Much is the Fish? -Scooter (Bad Music Spotlight)
This -Brian Eno
Flashing Lights -Kanye West
Chelsea Rodgers -Prince
Save Room -John Legend

Here's John Legend:

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Way You Look Tonight

Here's one of fildom's greatest songs, "The Way You Look Tonight", taken from Swing Time. This song won the third Best Original Song Oscar. The scene could not be any better. Fred Astaire is sitting at the piano and Ginger Rodgers is in the bathroom with shampoo in her hair. She couldn't feel any less beautiful and then Fred does this:



As a bonus, here's the band James with a song called "Just Like Fred Astaire".

Monday, February 25, 2008

Season 4, Episode 2: Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture!

Intro:
Orson Welles Paul Mason wines ad
Act Naturally -The Beatles (from Help!)

1st Set:
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite -Eddie Izzard (from Across the Universe)
A Little Priest -Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter (from Sweeney Todd)
Idlewild Blues -Outkast (from Idlewild)
Rock Around the Clock -Bill Haley and His Comets (from Blackboard Jungle)
Excerpt from The Orson Welles "Frozen Peas" outtakes.

2nd Set (all fictional band):
Big Bottom -Spinal Tap (from This is Spinal Tap)
That Thing You Do -The Wonders (from That Thing You Do)
Shape of Things to Come -Max Frost and the Troopers (from Wild in the Streets)
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow -The Soggy Bottom Boys (from O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow -Mitch and Mickey (from A Mighty Wind)
Another Frozen Peas excerpt

3rd Set:
The Way You Look Tonight -Fred Astaire (from Swing Time)
Ruby Tuesday -Franco Batiatto (from Children of Men)
Let's Misbehave -Irving Aaronson & His Commanders (from Pennies From Heaven)
Star Wars -Bill Murray
Moon River -Audrey Hepburn (from Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Going to Acapulco -Calexico and Jim James (from I'm Not There)
One last Frozen Peas excerpt

And by popular request, here's Christopher Walken tap dancing in Pennies From Heaven:

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Getting Down to Business

I felt the need to post this sweet, funky, little romantic number from Flight of the Conchords. It's called Business Time.