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Chicken Dance > Electric Slide >= YMCA > Macarena

I tried to tell the DJ that before my wedding and he just looked at me like I was insane. I didn't have the energy to plan out the entire playlist, and its probably for the best because if left to my own devices the dancefloor would have been empty all night.(except for me!) My wife and I each gave a handful of "must play" songs and left it up to him after that. Sometimes its best to go with the flow and let the DJ play stuff that people actually recognize. This would be awesome.

Wow, Analogman, you were right--Marilyn Manson did finally show up in all of this. (first I'd heard of it, tho I've admittedly been ignoring much of the coverage of this)

Indeed a fantastic site. I've been going there a lot for the last several months. Good stuff. Between this and archive.org, there is a ton of good streaming music out there.

Wow, here's one I never really bothered to think about before. Transmissions Soft Bulletin Clouds Hit to Death Yoshimi At War Zaireeka (fantastic concept, pain in the butt to listen to) ..the early ones I haven't spent enough time with to have a solid opinion. And, really, any of those aside from Transmissions could swap places on any given day. And Transmissions is #1 probably for sentimental reasons since it was my first.

Well, there goes one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs...

Its the no-beer policy, isn't it? I'm waiting for Columbus, too. Don't really have a preference where they play, as long as they come. Southern/Ohio Theaters would be ok, I guess, but seated theater shows kinda make me claustrophobic. Has Wilco gotten too big for Newport/Lifestyles? I need to re-familiarize myself with venue capacities around here. An outdoor show at the amphitheater wouldn't normally be ideal except for the fact that it is 5 min from my house--but then my wife would argue that I should save my money and just set up a lawn chair in the back yard and listen real hard.

Tasty.

I applaud the effort, but unfortunately much of the country thinks Vermont is part of Canada. Vermont: Mad with power and running out of members of Phish to arrest. (I kid because I love)

With a new baby in the house and all, I'm not sure I can be trekking to Cinci--particularly on a weeknight. Maybe its a typo and they really mean they're playing in Columbus. Ya know, those "C" cities in Ohio can get mixed up so easily. No? Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens later down the line...

As I hear it, he was also a vocal proponent of frequent enemas. Too much of that doesn't sound appealing, either.

I dunno, I found at least 10 bands here.

Glad this is bringing out the best in us.

Can't watch the video at work. Anyone care to give a summary? Can it possibly be worse than the "Did the Devil Make Him Do It?" article about the VT shooter? Have they officially moved into self-parody now in order to give The Onion a run for its money??

Ludlows - Columbus, OH - '97ish, I think Strange venue in the sense that Wilco is one of the only bands I ever saw play there--normally I thought of that place as just another big warehouse type bar in the brewery district that occasionally had usually-not-great music. This was an exception. I was way too drunk for the show (damn you, college) and wish I remembered more clearly, because it was easily the most fun Wilco show I've ever seen. Had a great time and was already a big fan at that point, although for whatever reason I didn't see them again in concert until '04.

Wow, is Wilco really so predictable in their setlists that we can confidently pronounce songs dead? (wait, lets not start that discussion again)

He doesn't really have the star-power anymore to really scare people. He's about a season or two away from appearing on Dancing With the Stars...

Having been to a couple weddings recently, I vote for the Electric Slide.

I wince a little every time I see these "scary" profile pieces that are coming out about the guy saying stuff like "He was kind of a loner, a strange guy who sometimes wrote bizarre and disturbing things in his creative writing class." Well shit, you just described me in college. Not to say there weren't plenty of warning signs that the guy had issues, but can we give the scary-announcer-guy-voice a rest? The overall effect of this type of reporting--much like what happened in the wake of Columbine--is that, intentional or not, it ends up shifting the attention away from the actual perpet

I like to blast GWAR in the parking lot, no matter whom I am going to see. (got me some strange looks at that James Taylor concert)

This comment reminds me a bit of living in the NYC area immediately after 911. After a while, paranoia-fatigue settled in. Because after a while you just couldn't freak out every time you stepped on a train or entered an office building. You'd be looking over your shoulder all the damned time for something that probably wasn't going to happen. After a while there was a grave awareness that something could happen anywhere, at any time, but all the color-coded terror level warnings really became something of a joke. You could draw a correlation here. You can argue about the best way to

Not sure if "commuter campus" is the right word--the majority of off-campus students are probably in apartments or whatever in the immediate vicinity of the campus, but yeah, same difference I guess as far as trying to notify them. Email seems a lousy way of doing it, but I'm not sure how else you go about notifying tens of thousands of people to stay away.

An interesting possibility. Could possibly be true, though you may be stretching a bit here trying to make connections. I think everyone wants to try to make sense of this--to find some order, some reason why it happened. I think right now its still so early that I think I'm trying not to speculate until we know more.

When I saw Wilco in one of their opening shows of the AGIB tour, before the album officially came out, I had played the leaked songs to death for months already and I listened to the whole album on the drive to the show--and then during the show they of course played 90% of the songs from AGIB and pretty quickly I found myself thinking "Man, I'd kill for some Being There right about now." So there is such a thing as overkill. Be careful with it, boys and girls.