You Have To Throw The Stone To Get The Pool To Ripple

My DJ set @ Skinny 8/17/2006
Harry Nilsson “Jump Into The Fire” / Sonic Youth “Jams Run Free” / Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks” / Squeeze “Squabs on Forty Fab” / Stevie Wonder “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” / Phoenix “Long Distance Call” / Electric Six “Infected Girls” / Maxi Geil & Playcolt “Makin’ Love in the Sunshine” / The Make Up “Born on the Floor” / Elvis Costello “You Belong To Me” / Erasure “Chains of Love” / Wide Boy Awake “Slang Teacher” / New Young Pony Club “Get Dancey” / Of Montreal “The Party’s Crashing Us (I Am The World Trade Center mix)” / Bonde do Role “Ma’quina de Ricota” / CSS “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” / Death From Above 1979 “Blood On Our Hands (Justice mix)” / Muscles “One Inch Badge Pin” / MSTRKRFT “She’s Good For Business” / Andrew WK “Don’t Call Me Andy” / Led Zeppelin “The Ocean” / Zalatnay Sarolta “Hadd Mondjam El” / Can “Mushroom” / The Rolling Stones “Monkey Man” / The Rogers Sisters “Money Matters” / Art Brut “Modern Art” / Space Cowboy “I Know What Girls Like”

This was easily the weirdest, least cohesive DJ set that I’ve ever done, largely because I was pretty much just playing songs in a bar and improvising most of it off the top of my head. Honestly, the dancey part of this set was an uninspired indulgence; it worked much better when it was in a mid-tempo rock zone. Big thanks to the lovely Lady Byrd from Who Needs Radio for setting this all up.

Squeeze “Squabs On Forty Fab” – When you don’t know which Squeeze song to play, you always have the option of putting on this fantastic medley containing many of their finest compositions. In order: “Take Me I’m Yours,” “Cool For Cats,” “Up The Junction,” “Is That Love?,” “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell),” “Separate Beds,” “Another Nail In My Heart,” “Slap & Tickle,” “Goodbye Girl,” and “Someone Else’s Heart.” (Out of print, but click here to buy it from Amazon Marketplace.)

Zalatnay Sarolta “Hadd Mondjam El” – This works very well coming after Led Zeppelin, mostly because it sounds so much like their riff-rock style taken in a more deliberately funky R&B-centric direction without losing the heaviness, lithe rhythm section, or emotive wailing. It’s really a shame Zalatnay’s music is so incredibly obscure, I can imagine that quite a few people would love this stuff, regardless of the Hungarian lyrics. (Out of print.)