Last Episode of Fanfare For The Playing Man Ever: This Week's Theme is Closers

That's right!  Today is my last show at the 6-10am slot.  As such, I am retiring the title "Fanfare For The Playing Man", which I hadn't really been using for a while anyway.  Without explanation, the title sounds cheesy and with explanation (it is a cross between Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man and the Situationist International ideal.  The Situationist International was an art movement in France that believed urban centers were designed around the "working man".  Buildings were made to hold workers, proximity to their jobs was the point.  Infrastructure was created to get them to and keep them at work.  The Situationist International believed that this was akin to slavery and created urban designs for the playing man.  Buildings and cityscapes designed for interaction and play. Hence, Fanfare for the Playing Man...a celebration of the everyday human who escapes the mundanity of the city life as imposed by "the man") simply sounds overly pretentious.

My show is now moving to 12-2am Sundays/Mondays.  Please listen in.  I will continue doing theme shows.  The new title of my show is Mass Production.  Mass Production is the final (and my favorite) track on my favorite album of all time, Iggy Pop's "The Idiot".  You will hear Mass Production on today's show, because the theme is Closers.  All songs played today will be perfect ends to great albums.

Also, please come and celebrate on Friday.  Jason Smith and I will be DJing at Dinner House M all night.  The flyer is below.  Feel free to comment on the blog if you want your name on the list or you can find me on facebook and tell me there.  I would love to see everyone!

Here's ar the Closers:

The Psychedelic Furs - Flowers
The Gun Club - Goodbye Johnny
Portishead - Threads
Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Beach House - Home Again
Lou Reed - Sad Song
Eels - P.S. You Rock My World
Pulp - Razzmatazz
Destroyer  - Sick Priest Learns To Last Forever
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Straight Up And Down
The Velvet Underground - Oh Sweet Nuthin'
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night - Part II
Captain Beefheart - Veteran's Day Poppy
Man Man - Whalebones
Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Faust - It's A Bit Of A Pain
Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
The Veils - The House Where We All Live
Suckers - It Gets Your Body Movin'
Spiritualized - Lord Can You Hear Me?
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Pt. Two
Lavender Diamond - When You Wake For Certain
Pavement - ...And Carrot Rope (Last Pavement Song Ever (maybe))
Built To Spill - Broken Chairs
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
LCD Soundsystem - Great Release
Liars - The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack
Ultravox - I Want To Be A Machine +
Request By Peter Choyce
Boris - Skims No Uta 
Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boots - It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
Animal Collective - Brothersport
Neu! - After Eight
The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25
Spacemen 3 - May The Circle Be Unbroken
Iggy Pop - Mass Production
The Modern Lovers - Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste

Comments

[betty kim]

i really enjoy your show, even the short amount that i catch it while driving in to work