Miche's Indie 103 Top 103 (Week of Feb. 10-17, 2006)
Happy Valentine's Day, Everybody!!!
"You know who you are."
1. GIANT DRAG Wicked Game/ BIG BANG--Saturn Freeway
2. NEUROMANCE You're In My Veins
3. ELVIS COSTELLO Clubland/BRIGHT EYES Lover I Don't Have to Love/JANE'S ADDICTION Been Caught Stealing/ADAM & THE ANTS Ant Music/SUPERGRASS Caught By the Fuzz
4. THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Knock Me Down/OINGO BOINGO Wild Sex (in the Working Class)
5. SPOON The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine/INXS Don't Change
6. PEARL JAM Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in A Small Town/THE BREEDERS Cannonball/FRANK SINATRA All or Nothing At All
7. HAL What a Lovely Dance/DEVO Girl U Want
8. WEEZER Photograph/U2 The Unforgettable Fire
9. THE CURE Close to Me/THE ICICLE WORKS Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
10. PROTECTION I Don't Remember / THE ELECTED Not Going Home
11. THE RAMONES I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend/SOUNDGARDEN Rusty Cage
12. DEPECHE MODE Strange Love/HUMBLE PIE 30 Days in the Hole/THE KILLERS Mr. Brightside
13. U2 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
14. EASY STREET What Have I Become?/ FUGAZI Waiting Room
15. ELEFANT Uh Oh Hello/KASABIAN Club Foot
16. MEOW MEOW Most Alive
17. SECRETARY BIRD Corner Store
18. SNEAKER PIMPS 6 Underground
19. THE CLASH Clash City Rockers
20. MODEST MOUSE Float On
21. INTERPOL Obstacle 1/THE CRAMPS Goo Goo Muck
22. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Crackerman
23. X In This House That I Call Home/MORRISSEY You Have Killed Me
24. THE ENGLISH BEAT Tears of a Clown
25. U2 Pride (In the Name of Love)
26. DEEP DISH (with Stevie Nicks) Dreams
27. SCREAMING TREES Nearly Lost You
28. SECRETARY BIRD Somewhere Girls
29. BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS--I Shot the Sheriff
30. YEAH YEAH YEAHS Gold Lion
31. FRANK SINATRA Let's Fall In Love
32. BUZZCOCKS Ever Fallen In Love?
33. RADIOHEAD Creep / BECK Loser
34. OASIS Do You Know What I Mean?
35. STEREO MCs Connected
36. MAZZY STAR Fade Into You
37. KATIE THE PEST Sober
38. STEREOPHONICS Maybe Tomorrow
39. THE CULT Fire Woman
40. GOLDEN STATE This Time
41. NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN Gray Cell Green
42. EVERYBODY ELSE Meat Market
43. THE THREE O'CLOCK--With a Cantalope Girlfriend, You'll Go Everywhere
44. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN Head On
45. VACATION White Noise/THE FACES Love Lives Here
46. WOLFMOTHER Dimension
47. RAY DAVIS Things Are Gonna Change (The Morning After)
48. WONDERHORSE Long Tailed Pony
49. EDITORS Munich
50. THE POSTAL SERVICE Such Great Heights
51. SOCIAL DISTORTION Ball and Chain/THE ARCADE FIRE Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
52. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Zero
53. THE BEASTIE BOYS So What'Cha Want?/FRANK SINATRA All or Nothing At All
54. BON JOVI Stick to Your Guns
55. ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Telephone Line
56. SHOUT OUT LOUDS The Comeback
57. MORNINGWOOD Jetsetter
58. THE ELECTED Fireflies in the Steel Mill
59. THE RINGERS Backseat Lover
60. MY MORNING JACKET Off the Record
61. BEN KWELLER The Rules
62. LOUIS XIV Illegal Tender
63. BAD RELIGION Infected
64. ADAM ANT Wonderful
65. McALMONT & BUTLER Different Strokes
66. OINGO BOINGO Ain't This The Life?
67. BUCKCHERRY Crazy Bitch
68. PAVEMENT Cut Your Hair
69. X Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
70. NEW ORDER Love Vigilantes
71. JANE'S ADDICTION Stop
72. ROB ZOMBIE Foxy Foxy
73. PRODIGY Breathe
74. SERGE GAINSBOURG AND JANE BIRKIN Je t'aime
75. SHE WANTS REVENGE These Things
76. JEM They
77. HOT HOT HEAT Middle of Nowhere
78. HELMET Unsung
79. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS Radio, Radio
80. NINE INCH NAILS Hurt
81. THE NEW YORK DOLLS Personality Crisis
82. XTC Mayor of Simpleton
83. INXS Listen Like Thieves
84. THE PIXIES Gigantic/ ELVIS COSTELLO Pump It Up
85. JEFF BUCKLEY Hallelujah
86. CRACKER Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
87. J. GEILS BAND House Party
88. BOB DYLAN Sally Sue Brown
89. THE KILLERS Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
90. THE NEW YORK DOLLS Looking for a Kiss
91. JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS Handle with Care
92. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Ava Adore
93. IMA ROBOT Dynomite/SOCIAL DISTORTION When She Begins
94. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Lips Like Sugar
95. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Today
96. CORNERSHOP Brimful of Asha
97. RIDE THE BLINDS Too True
98. NEIL YOUNG After the Gold Rush
99. BIG CITY ROCK Sink /PEARL JAM Wishlist
100. GARY GLITTER I Love Me Love
101. ARCTIC MONKEYS I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
102. MAXI PRIEST Close to You/THE STOOGES I Wanna Be Your Dog
103. JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS You Are What You Love
Rising with a Bullet: "Oh there's more to me than you can see from here, my friends"; "Don't feel sad now, you are safe and sound"; "Girl, ya gotta love your man"; "If you close your eyes and just remember"; "We're after... the same rainbow's end "; "I don't wanna deal with reality, I just wanna feel with intensity"; "yum yum, gonna get me some"; THIS EPISODE The Movies; "burning with the hope of insight"; "love is all I bring..."; FRANK SINATRA How Little We Know; "through shadows of the night Let it ring for evermore"; CHEAP TRICK I Want You to Want Me; "I just wanna be close to you, show you the way I feel..."; "Hold me, darlin' come on, listen to me, I won't do you no harm"; "It takes a lover, a lover that'll love me like no other"; "I wish I was the full moon, shining off a Camaro's hood"; JOYA LANDIS Moonlight Lover; "I waited my whole life for just one ...k"; "nobody loves no one..."
CONGRATULATIONS ON TWO YEARS of mind-blowing music that changed radio forever--JONESY'S JUKEBOX!!!!
Jonesy Moments: Jonesy goes off on weddings (and what a sham they are, according to him); SOMETHING FOR ROCKETS That's a Lie; Jonesy and Shovel discuss the "Jonesy Bear"; ALTHEA AND DONNA Uptown Top Ranking; the Jonesy's Jukebox Valentine show proves why this show is the jewel in Indie's crown--truly inspired production work! (especially that random Rolf Harris dog panting throughout); PONY CLUB Single; McALMONT & BUTLER Different Strokes; WONDERHOVEN Wicked Lover, a Jukebox favorite; THE BRAKES I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You; THE DICTATORS The Next Big Thing; JOHNNY THUNDER You Can't Put Your Arm Around a Memory; NEUROTIC OUTSIDERS Nasty Ho, a song of which Jonesy is "particularly fond"; WONDERHORSE Long Tailed Pony
Jukebox Quotes of the Week: "Very Sad Music Number 2"; "Punk rock, what does that bleeding mean? It's just a word." (JONESY);
BOX Exchange of the Week: SHOVEL: "This is a mouth organ."
JONESY: "Hey, where was you hiding that?"
SHOVEL: "Right here in my lap, where I always keep my mouth organ."
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RUNNER-UP BOX Exchange of the Week 1: On the intricacies of melodica playing:
SHOVEL: "I learned my first lesson: You can't blow too hard..."
JONESY: "Only for melodicas, girls..."
SHOVEL: "Right."
RUNNER-UP BOX Exchange of the Week 2: JONESY: "I'm sure Beethoven was a punk rocker."
KIEFER SUTHERLAND: "Mozart definitely was."
TK Moments: TK's BIRTHDAY! (almost lost in the frenzy of Jonesy's Jukebox celebration! Happy Belated, TK!); FRANK SINATRA My Funny Valentine; special aside--TK, you rule!; UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GIANTS in studio
TK Quotes of the Week: "the wrist-slitting music from Morrissey"
Special Kleenex: To the Cock of Rock's mascot, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, with the "tear" on his leg...it's been that kinda week...
Best Found Audio: "Cheney's Got a Gun" (Great work, Chuck! Thank you for playing this!)
Honorable Music Mentions: SQUEEZE Up the Junction; LEMONHEADS It's a Shame About Ray; MORRISSEY First of the Gang To Die; NINE BLACK ALPS Cosmopolitan; DAVID BOWIE Young Americans; WEEZER We Are All on Drugs; GIANT DRAG This Isn't It; THE RAMONES Beat on the Brat; DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Crooked Teeth; GREEN DAY Holiday; SIA Breathe Me
Spookshow International Moments: And suddenly, it's the end of the Spookshow!
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Best of luck to you, Rob.
Harmony In My Head Moments: Happy Birthday, Henry!!! A pre-taped show, but he (and Engineer X!) will be back live next week. WKYS Roll Call! I mean, really, who else has the balls to play stuff from other radio stations? How cool is that?; oh, screw it. Rollins just plays the most amazing stuff. His show is a DON'T MISS. Every week.
The Red Zone Moments: Well, Cha Cha plays all this amazing music, but it zings by in Spanish, and it's not listed on Yes.com. So it was cool, but I couldn't tell ya what it was. Oh and she had a bunch of hot guys (also known as a band) in studio, playing and being interviewed. Cha Cha rules. Just listen.
Watusi Rodeo with Chris Morris Moments: Happy Birthday, Chris Morris! It's Over, I Can't Let It Go; Still I Long for Your Kiss
Dead Air Moments: Congrats, Chuck, on proposing to your girl. Best of luck to you both! Can Dead Air get any better? Try an in-studio performance from Dead Air favs Nous Non Plus, AND Arthur magazine's Jay Babcock detailing the festivities in the upcoming ArthurBall. (Buy tickets NOW at TicketWeb. It's gonna be a blast!) Oh yeah, AND: THE ELECTED It Was Love; ELECTRIC SIX Radio Ga Ga; NEKO CASE Hold On, Hold On; LAVENDER DIAMOND Rise in the Springtime! and for something completely different, and way cool: CITAY Shalom of Safed
Check One Two Moments: THE ORION EXPERIENCE There's No Love in February; THE BANGKOK FIVE Spread Eagle; SENIOR RECREATION Now That I Sleep Alone; NEUROMANCE Machine World; IRVING Jen, Nothing Matters To Me; COLORED SHADOWS Moscow; THE CHECKERS Pick a Prize
Best Commercials on Indie: Chuck for some financial company about buying a house. (No down payment!) RUNNER-UP: Cowboy Chuck for Carl's Jr.
Word of the Week: Mouth organ
New songs that I'm not sure about yet: ATHLETE Half Light; UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GIANTS Mama's Room
Hot Bands: BUCKCHERRY; THE ELECTED; ELECTRIC SIX; THE CHECKERS!!!!!!!!
Segues of the Week: BY FAR!!: the end of "Je T'Aime"-into-that Rolf Harris dog song (dog pants) hahahahahaha GREAT stuff;
RUNNER-UP: JEFF BUCKLEY Hallelujah-into-ELVIS COSTELLO My Funny Valentine
SECOND RUNNER-UP: ROCCO DELUCCA, and his band, BURDEN Gift (in studio)--into--HUMBLE PIE 30 Days in the Hole
THIRD RUNNER-UP: PEOPLE IN PLANES If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)-into-INXS Don't Change
Great, great, great new songs--Please PLAY MORE!: PEOPLE IN PLANES If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)
Songs I STILL can't get enough of: CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth; CATHERINE WHEEL Black Metallic; THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Suck My Kiss; THE DIVINYLS I Touch Myself; THE RAMONES My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down
Best Indie Show Promo: Passport Approved reminds us of how many bands they broke. Hard-Fi and Nine Black Alps anyone?; RUNNER-UP: Whoever thought of putting Walk on The Wild Side behind the Feel My Heat promo is a genius. That just MAKES it! "Wanna Feel My Heat?"
Show Promo that Needs to Die: The Suicide Girls. If I hear that "glub, glub--that's underwater for..." one more time, I'll shoot my radio.
Songs I just can't get out of my head lately: HARD-FI Tied Up Too Tight; ELEFANT Uh Oh Hello; NIGHTMARE OF YOU I Want To Be Buried in Your Backyard
MASHUP of the WEEK: "I Have No Sympathy for the Devil" from
http://www.partyparty.com RUNNER UP: WonderBot
Glorious Indie Moments: An inspired Check One Two night at the Viper Room. Four glorious bands, and a bunch o' blog wenches. Life is good.
Loving ALL of Indie's shows, especially the guys they've been having in the morning!