Happy (College Radio) Daze

Since I didn't get to play this set for the NAMI Benefit, I've taken it to its psycho extreme. Here for your delectation or avoidance is a set that is sort of a tribute to WOBC-FM (Oberlin College Radio) as it was from 1977 to 1979. Except possibly a little stranger. And since the benefit is over, I decided not to stick entirely to a playlist that could have been heard in '79. Contrary to my usual practice of posting playlists days after the fact, if at all, this is being posted pre-show. My show for tonight may start a little late, but should start shortly after 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific time at the Velvet in Second Life, or on Shoutcast for those who don't do avatars.

In scoping things out I also just discovered that someone considers WOBC the 6th best college radio station in the country. Go figure. Check them out sometime (during the academic year may be better?)

Looking at their current playlists, surprisingly little has changed. Don't worry... it won't be painful much. A preview of the playlist is provided after the jump. It might be altered by your requests or my strange whims.

Playlist:

(Don't mind the lapses in numbering, I'm hiding some of the tracks I may or may not actually play.)

1. The Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues Again (WOBC 91.5 Webcast)
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3. Ladytron - I'm Not Scared (3:58)
4. Weather Report - Birdland (5:59)
5. Brave Combo - Waltz in C Minor (2:14)
6. Lou Reed - Perfect Day (3:48)
7. Frank Zappa - You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (3:41)
8. Priscilla Lopez;Don Pippin - What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line (Album Version) (3:45)
9. Frédéric Chopin - Prelude for piano No. 4 in E minor ('Suffocation') Op. 28/4, B. 123/2 (2:29)
10. Brian Eno - The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch (3:05)
11. Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones, Kurt Ollmann - London Symphony Orchestra e Chorus - Leonard Bernstein - We Are Women (3:34)
12. Gerard Schwarz, New York Chamber Symphony & Teresa Stratas - Ausfstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Havanna - Lied (1:55)
13. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult - Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma'), Op.36: XIII: Romanza: *** (2:33)
14. Anna Prucnal - I ragazzi giu nel campo (lyrics by Pier Paolo Pasolini) (3:23)
15. Willie Nelson & Calexico - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (Album Version) (5:19)
16. Harald Paulsen - Moritat (2:20)
17. Susan Sarandon - Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me (2:31)
18. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire (5:19)
19. Mediaeval Baebes - Umlahi (2:14)
20. Wiener Philharmoniker - Khovanshchina - Prelude (Dawn on the Moscow River) (5:59)
21. Hungry Lucy - Ode (3:07)
22. Neil Young - Vampire Blues (Remastered Album Version) (4:11)
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27. Pink Floyd - Bring The Boys Back Home (1:26)
28. Little Feat - Teenage Nervous Breakdown (2:13)
29. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer ( LP Version ) (4:20)
30. RZA - Ode To Oren Ishii (2:05)
31. Björk - Overture (3:38)
32. The Supersonics/Tommy McCook - Ode to Billy Joe (3:56)
33. Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning (5:16)
34. The Bastard Fairies - Ode To The Prostitute (3:23)
35. Theo Bleckmann & Fumio Yasuda - Ostersonntag (Brecht) (1:52)
36. The Orb/The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Pandaharmonium (5:28)
37. David Bromberg Band - Summer Wages (3:54)
38. Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas [From Paris, Texas] (2:54)
39. Happy Rhodes - Phobos (5:13)
40. Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (3:40)
41. Frank Zappa - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (5:42)
42. Wiener Philharmoniker - Pictures at an Exhibition - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) (3:03)
43. Leszek Mozdzer - Piesn o Milosci (fragment) (1:32)
44. Justin Brown, Michaela Fukacova & Odense Symphony Orchestra - The Six Realm: III. The Hungry Ghost Realm (6:11)

46. Depeche Mode - Tora! Tora! Tora! (Album Version) (4:28)
47. Azasaurus Regina - Various Modems (1:09)
48. Nellie McKay - Yodel (1:36)
49. Elvis Costello - You Belong To Me (2:25)
50. Dreigroschonoper Band - Zuhälterballade (3:01)
51. Joy Division - Shadowplay (3:51)
52. Das Palast Orchester & Max Raabe;HK Gruber - What Good Would the Moon Be? aus "Street Scene" (An American Opera von Elmer Rice nach seinem gleichnamigen Bühnenstück), 1946 (4:32)
53. Franz Schubert - Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Im Dorfe ("Es bellen die Hunde, es rasseln die Ketten") (2:42)
54. Dead Kennedys - When Ya Get Drafted (1:22)
55. The B-52's - Party Out Of Bounds (Album Version) (3:21)
56. The Patti Smith Group - Pissing In A River (Digitally Remastered 1996) (4:52)
57. Mediaeval Baebes - This World Fareth As A Fantasye (4:07)
58. Hélène Grimaud - Après une lecture de Dante, Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage, 2e année " I'Italie " S.161I, Italy (15:22)
59. Leonard Slatkin - Carmina burana/O Fortuna (2:43)
60. Three Songs After Poets By Arthur Rimbaud (1:40)
61. Three Songs After Poets By Arthur Rimbaud (2:00)
62. Three Songs After Poets By Arthur Rimbaud (1:26)
63. Mediaeval Baebes - Temptasyon (3:19)
64. Joshua Bell;Esa-Pekka Salonen;The Philharmonia Orchestra - Anna's Theme (Instrumental) (2:52)
65. Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing (Part One) (1:25)
66. Leo Kottke - The Last Of The Arkansas Greyhounds (3:17)
67. Genesis - For Absent Friends (1:42)
68. Yvonne S. Moriarty - Am I Not Merciful? (6:33)
69. Talking Heads - Don't Worry About The Government (Album Version) (3:00)
70. Manos Hadjidakis - The Urchins Down in the Meadow (2:30)
71. Luis Rossi - éxtasis tanguero (3:05)
72. Rainer Maria - The Awful Truth Of Loving (LP Version) (4:57)
73. Glenn Gould - Variations Chromatiques (14:10)
74. Berceuse, Op. 57 (4:11)
75. The Clash - Hateful (2:44)
76. Flobots - Stand Up (4:39)
77. June Tabor - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (6:24)
78. Vangelis - Sword Of Orion (1:55)
79. Brian Eno & Laraaji - The Dance #3 (3:21)
80. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff [12" Version] (6:43)
81. Brian Eno - Put A Straw Under Baby (2004 Digital Remaster) (3:25)
82. Talking Heads - Buildings On Fire (3:38)
83. Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side (4:17)
84. Grateful Dead - Good Lovin' (5:59)
85. New Riders of the Purple Sage - California Day (2:37)
86. Little Feat - Mercenary Territory (LP Version) (4:26)
87. Joe Strummer/Mescaleros - Redemption Song (3:27)
88. David Bowie - Cracked Actor (3:01)
89. Tom Waits - Nobody (2:50)
90. Keith Jarrett - Köln, January 24, 1975, Part IIC (6:56)
91. Randy Newman - Short People (LP Version) (2:51)
92. Tim Curry - Sweet Transvestite (3:23)
93. Fela Kuti - Zombie (12:24)
94. Randy Newman - Jolly Coppers On Parade (LP Version) (3:49)
95. Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane (4:45)
96. David Grisman - Blue Midnite (LP Version) (3:40)
97. Warren Zevon - Play It All Night Long (LP Version) (2:52)
98. Ani DiFranco - Manhole (3:44)
99. Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces (3:11)
100. Goxnadly - Werewolves of Acid Planet (3:24)
101. Panic! At the Disco - Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off (3:21)
102. Al Franken - Senator Wolfman (11:18)
103. The Dresden Dolls - The Jeep Song (4:50)
104. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The New Stone Age (3:41)
105. Louis XIV - Paper Doll (Album Version) (3:25)
106. Jacques Brel - Les Bourgeois (2:53)