1/22/2005 - Blizzard Of 2005 Show

An unwanted inauguration, a friend shipped off to Iraq, and a big ol' blizzard. Some week.

It was a good-natured, snow-covered crowd that got to see my first stab at playing music videos during a DJ set. Ended up playing 18 videos in all for the night. In the playlist, songs with videos are marked as such: *video*. Completist that I am, the night's background video—the visuals on the screen whenever a music video wasn't running—is also listed.

"American Music" goes out to my good friend M. Shultis, a National Guard officer who left for the Middle East on Friday night. This was a M. Shultis sanctioned event.

10:00
American Music - VIOLENT FEMMES
DJ - DAVID BOWIE *video*
Take Your Mama - SCISSOR SISTERS
Wasted & Ready - BEN KWELLER *video*
Decent Days And Nights - THE FUTUREHEADS
The Angels' Share - TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS
Irish Blood, English Heart - MORRISSEY *video*
Trouble Trouble - THE PONYS
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - GREEN DAY
Mr. Brightside - THE KILLERS
Shoot You Down - APB
Cannonball - THE BREEDERS

11:00
Inbetween Days - THE CURE *video*
Kiss Them For Me - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Shadowtime - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
(unintended two-fer due to technical issues, but it sounded pretty good)
That Great Love Sound - THE RAVEONETTES *video*
Radio - PITTY SING
The New Pollution - BECK
Pony Ride - BUMBLEBEEZ 81 *video*
Take It Easy (Love Nothing) - BRIGHT EYES
12:51 - THE STROKES *video*
E=MC^2 - BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE
The Pitterest Pill - THE JAM
Fools Gold - THE STONE ROSES *video*
Seventeen Years - RATATAT
Freetime - KENNA *video*
Night On Fire - VHS OR BETA
What You Waiting For? - GWEN STEFANI

12:00
The Greatest Hit - ANNIE
Body Request - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
Girls & Boys - BLUR *video*
Fit But You Know It - THE STREETS
Girl For All Seasons - NORTHERN STATE
Ms. Jackson - OUTKAST
Drop It Like It's Hot - SNOOP DOGG FEATURING PHARRELL
King Of Rock - RUN-DMC *video*
Somebody Told Me - THE KILLERS
This Fffire - FRANZ FERDINAND
Debaser - PIXIES
Hard To Explain - THE STROKES *video*
Love Will Tear Us Apart - JOY DIVISION
Atomic - BLONDIE
We Got The Beat - THE GO-GO'S
Freedom Of Choice - DEVO *video*

1:00
Goody Two Shoes - ADAM ANT
Comfortably Numb - SCISSOR SISTERS
They - JEM
A Girl Like You - EDWYN COLLINS
You Haven't Done Nothin' - STEVIE WONDER
Jungle Boogie - KOOL & THE GANG
Let's Groove - EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Rock With You - MICHAEL JACKSON *video*
Intergalactic - BEASTIE BOYS
Frontin' On Debra - BECK & PHARRELL MIXED BY DJ RESET
Party Crashers (Headman Vocal Remix) - RADIO 4
Rock The Casbah - THE CLASH *video*
Needles & Pins - RAMONES
The Passenger - IGGY POP
Unconditional - THE BRAVERY
The View - MODEST MOUSE

2:00
Once In A Lifetime - TALKING HEADS *video*
Evil - INTERPOL
Tainted Love - SOFT CELL
United States Of Whatever - LIAM LYNCH *video*
Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc
Enjoy Yourself - THE SPECIALS
Town Called Malice - THE JAM
Lola - THE KINKS
Ticket To Ride - THE BEATLES *video*
To Sir With Love (recorded live at the MTV Inaugural Ball, January 20, 1993) - 10,000 MANIACS FEATURING MICHAEL STIPE

encore:
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - MITCH MILLER & THE GANG

background video:
Help! (dir. Richard Lester, 1965)
Hairspray (dir. John Waters, 1988)
Sleeper (dir. Woody Allen, 1973)