This is the playlist of songs I played while hosting trivia at Upslope Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado tonight.
ABBA “Mamma Mia”
The Stone Roses “She Bangs the Drums”
Annie Lennox “Walking on Broken Glass”
The House of Love “Shine on”
The Jam “Going Underground”
The Jesus and Mary Chain “April Skies”
X “Nausea”
Prince “Little Red Corvette”
Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Goldfrapp “Little Bird”
The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie”
Fræbbblarnir “Where Were You?”
The Simpsons “Talkin’ Softball”
AC/DC “Big Balls”
The Verve “Catching the Butterfly”
Jean Shepard “Two Whoops and a Holler”
Swans “Celebrity Lifestyle”
Mojo Nixon “Elvis Is Everywhere”
Paul Simon “Graceland”
Kent “Elvis”
Elvis Presley “Hound Dog”
dEUS “How to Replace It”
Belle and Sebastian “Seymour Stein”
The Darkness “Easter Is Cancelled”
Echo & the Bunnymen “Bring on the Dancing Horses”
The Walkabouts “Dead Man Rise”
Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”
Voyager “Promise”
The Busker “Dance (Our Own Party)”
Throwing Muses “Counting Backwards”
Swirlies “San Cristobal de las Casas”
Yo La Tengo “Tom Courtenay”
KUUMAA “Anna mulle mitä vaan”
Detour “Master Blaster”
We had a round loosely related to Easter, which was a great excuse to play The Walkabouts’ “Dead Man Rise”, not to mention The Darkness. Easter is also bunny-related, so I got the chance to play “White Rabbit” at the end of that round and told everything they had until that song peaked to submit their answers. Otherwise, I was going to throw the whole quiz into the bathtub.
There were also questions where the answers were the names of baseball teams, so I totally played that softball song from The Simpsons. I like to be tongue-in-cheek with my music when I can, and I had fun with that tonight.
Tribute was paid to Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records, who passed away over the weekend. Thank you, sir, for singing bands like Talking Heads and Pretenders and so many others that have enriched our lives for years now.
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