I’m now officially finished chronicling the 2010s. Four mixes, 118 songs, 109 different artists. (And I still had a couple dozen songs that didn’t make the cut.) If I were…
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Where I put on bold display how completely out of step I am with everything around me, Part 1 (of 3)
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I love the smell of twentysomething drama in the morning.
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Basically, I made my own episode of the ’90s Time Machine.
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For the record no, it is not lost on me that my show about UK music opens with artists from Ireland and Germany.
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In which I play a bunch of Brit Pop, and then alienate nearly every fan of Brit Pop.
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In which we say farewell to summer – and title-themed shows, for now – with a title-themed show about summer.
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New World Man takes his New Girl Now, dolled up in a New Dress, for a ride in a Brand New Cadillac.
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Basically, it’s First Wave, Lithium, and Alt Nation in a blender, at a ratio of about 4:2:1.
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“Great song, Bob, but it suggests that you might be gay. Better change the words.” Jesus.
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Tears for Fears fans know where the next show is going.
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I’ve been sitting on this idea for about a year. It felt too obvious, but then I ran into a really busy stretch, and then suddenly obvious sounded AWESOME. So…
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If the first show was a Hormone Monster, this one’s the Depression Kitty.
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The idea came, as a lot of my ideas do, from a Duran Duran song. Do I have enough songs to do a full show about dreams? As I quickly…
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I thought there would be tons of songs about princesses. I had maybe four.
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Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It’s cool.
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Proof that there is always something good that can come from even the worst of things.
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There is an alternate universe version of this show with Spinal Tap and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Be thankful that we don’t live in that world.
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Man, why are all of these songs with “blue” in the title so melancholy? Oh, right.
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Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
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In which I execute a pivot so sharp that only John Cleese can effectively prepare the audience for what’s about to happen. And so he does. And a new Dizzy Heights tradition is born.