Yes, I Was Always Cool

My college radio station, WWVU-FM (AKA U-92), turns 25 this year and this weekend I'm back in Morgantown, WV for a big celebration/reunion.

I was Music Director there a long time ago, back when I wore a lot of turtlenecks.* When exactly? Well I think the posters may give it away a bit -- we can see Let's Active, The Smiths' Rank (Plus the Beatles, and, um the Eurythmics for some reason)... and I think I spy a Some Kind of Wonderful poster there on the door to the Control Room.

I'm going to be in that Control Room this morning from 10AM - Noon EST. And you can listen in to hear me screw up segues and misuse equipment in general. If you want. Just go to the U-92 website and click on the "Listen Live" link in the upper left corner. Or just click here if you have Windows Media. What will I play? Tune in and find out. And if you want to hear something, you can make a request in the comments section... though chances are I'm not going to play it. I only got two hours!

UPDATE: I almost didn't screw up at all. Here's what I played:

The Clash - Straight to Hell
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
The Darkness - Friday Night
Caribou - Eli
The Left Banke - She May Call You Up Tonight
Belle & Sebastian - Waking Up to Us
Spoon - Fitted Shirt
New Pornographers - From Blown Speakers
Built to Spill - Big Dipper
The Flaming Lips - Turn it On
Hot Chip - Over and Over
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
Super Furry Animals - Herman Loves Pauline
David Bowie - Queen Bitch
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue
The Smiths - What Difference Does it Make?
Jacques du Tronc - Le Responsible
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
XTC - Life Begins at the Hop
The Shortwave Set - Casual Use
The Pastels - Coming Through
The Royal We - All the Rage
Pulp - Monday Morning
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
Luna - This Time Around
Pavement - Summer Babe
Electrelane - The Greater Times
The Jazz Butcher - Southern Mark Smith
The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines

 

*I have no idea why I'm holding all those plastic mugs.

Comments

[steve]

dammit, I knew I should have checked your blog earlier today. will we get to see a playlist?

[d]

Nevermind the turtleneck, is that a Cosby sweater?!?

[Heather]

I listened to your set. It sounded excellent.

[bill p]

D,

It's not a sweater, it was this JCrew reversible sweatshirt/longsleeve t thing I used to wear alot.

[Kevin]

Bill that is the gayest outfit in the history of shirts. Sorry to have missed you.

[Erich S]

Bill, you look like a toy in this picture. Did you get that outfit at Oak Tree?

[SoundBitesNYC]

Kevin, let's see how you dressed in... whatever year this was.