Mon 15 Oct 2007 @22:10
One of my favorite [but now defunct] local radio stations used to have a contest they called My Three Songs. The DJ would play three songs with something in common. Listeners called in to guess the theme and win some kind of crap. [I really don't remember what the prizes were but the odds are it was some kind of crap....]
Another of my favorite local radio stations used to feature what they called Select-a-Sets. Listeners could request three songs to be played back-to-back. The songs could just be three favorites, but they encouraged you to come up with a theme of some sort. I always liked that and I often jotted down set ideas even though I rarely requested them.
And I’ve been thinking about listing some of them here [because, really, my life is not interesting enough to write about...] but I didn’t like either of those names enough to want to steal them and didn’t like any of the names I came up with on my own. And then a couple weeks ago Meg Fowler, in one of her Love lists wrote that she loves 3-song playlists. And I thought, “Now there’s a name I could steal!”
Now I wish I had a 3-song playlist ready with the theme of stealing or taking, but I don’t. So here are three “walking” songs. The song titles link to YouTube videos and the artist names link to their official web sites.
Wanna play?
October 16th, 2007 at 14:09
i like the My Three Songs idea. i’ll haveto put my thinking cap and come up with something…
how about “Monday” for this one:
Blue Monday - New Order
I Don’t Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Monday, Monday - The Mamas and the Papas
I had to look up Blue Monday. I don’t remember that one, but it works! ~Tim
October 16th, 2007 at 17:28
When I was a dj, we used to do themed sets. My favorite was always “Under the Covers” followed closely by “Female Empowerment”–the first being cover songs, of course, and the second music by only female artist. Sometimes I’d try to connect things more esoterically–the same producer/rhythm hook (like connecting Chapterhouse, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and PiL) or days of the week (Monday, Monday, followed by Voices Carry by ‘Til Tuesday, followed by the indie band Wednesday’s Child, followed by 3rd of July, which that year was a Thursday, followed by Friday I’m in Love)etc.
Good times. Good times, indeed.
That’s pretty elaborate on that days of the week set. I like it. ~Tim
October 16th, 2007 at 17:42
Tim, I want to play. I will think on it and be back right after these important messages…
–snow
I’ll be waiting for you! ~Tim
October 19th, 2007 at 17:42
I’m not great with music, but let me know when you do a movie-themed one:)
I have plans for a couple movie themes! ~Tim
October 23rd, 2007 at 14:06
We’ve got a local radio station that does the My Three Songs and callers have to figure out what they have in common. I won some flowers once.
Here’s a stealing theme:
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Thief Of Hearts - Madonna
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional
Nice! I knew you would come up with one [or more]. Sorry I can’t send you flowers. ~Tim
October 25th, 2007 at 13:49
Haha, I’m good at themes–I do them on the radio sometimes.
I bet you come up with some great themes. ~Tim