Hey guys! I’m still trying to pick out the ultimate College Radio 200—the 200 essential albums of college radio history. Eventually, it’ll be it’s own blog and list and essay collection, but right now it’s just two hours a week right here on Thursdays.
Here’s what I played today:
“She’s Thunderstorms” by The Arctic Monkeys (Suck it and See, 2011, Domino)
“Little Room” by The White Stripes (White Blood Cells, 2001, Sympathy for the Record Industry)
“Stay Don’t Go” by Spoon (Kill the Moonlight, 2002, Merge Records)
“Roadrunner” by The Modern Lovers (The Modern Lovers, 1976, Beserkley)
“The Pledge” by Brendan Benson (The Alternative to Love, 2005, V2)
“Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens (Come on Feel the Illinoise!, 2005, Asthmatic Kitty)
“You Said That Last Night” by Apples in Stereo (Tone Soul Evolution, 1997, Sire Records)
“Carry the Zero” by Built to Spill (Keep it Like a Secret, 1999, Up Records)
“Lost Coastlines” by Okkervil River (The Stand-Ins, 2008, Jagjaguwar)
“True Believer” by Superdrag (In the Valley of Dying Stars, 2000, Arena Rock Recording Co.)
“King of Carrot Flowers Part 1” by Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 1998, Merge/Domino)
“King of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3” by Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 1998, Merge/Domino)
“Postcards from Italy” by Beirut (Gulag Orkestar, 2006, Ba Da Bing!)
“Stranded” by The Walkmen (Lisbon, 2010, Fat Possum/Bella Union)
“Lemonworld” by The National (High Violet, 2010, 4AD)
“Random Rules” by Silver Jews (American Water, 1998, Drag City)
“Is This It?” by The Strokes (Is This It?, 2001, RCA/Rough Trade)
“Waiting” by The Rentals (Return of the Rentals, 1995, Maverick/Reprise)
“Gold Soundz” by Pavement (Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, 1994, Matador)
“Maps” by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Fever to Tell, 2003, Interscope/Fiction)
“The Book of Love” by The Magnetic Fields (69 Love Songs, 1999, Merge Records)
“Transatlanticism” by Death Cab for Cutie (Transatlanticism, 2003, Barsuk)
“You Wanted a Hit” by LCD Soundsystem (This is Happening, 2010, DFA)
“I’m the Man Who Loves You” by Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002, Nonesuch)
“Stuck Between Stations” by The Hold Steady (Boys and Girls in America, 2006, French Kiss Records)
“Gigantic” by Pixies (Surfer Rosa, 1988, 4AD)
“Can’t Hardly Wait” by The Replacements (Pleased to Meet Me, 1987, Sire Records)