On Bubble Wrap this week, we realized once again why sets of one person’s musical selections alternating with another person’s selections leads to chaos, both aurally and emotionally. Just when you’re ready to get out the bourbon, a comedy number comes on. Next we’re making you get your dancing shoes on, then we’re telling you to take them off and put on your slippers. Does it work? I don’t know. Call me a soothsayer but I suspect that 7 days from this day, there will be an experimental adjustment in format.
As for the music, there were highlights. I liked the Shy Kids’ “Terminally In Love With You” for its wide-ranging critique of this age-old plight. Jamila Woods’ “Way Up” is beautiful and affecting, for those of us who aren’t sure we’re from this world. I found a little more of the meditative folk pop I’ve been into lately in Pale Blue’s “The Past We Leave Behind.”
Here then is the patchwork playlist of the show:
September 7, 2016
An Unintegrated Setlist
Preshow:
Steely Dan – Doctor Wu
Delakota – C’mon Cinncinnati
Junie Morrison – Rappin’ Bout Rappin’ (Uh Uh Uh)
Bootsy Collins – Body Slam
Stevie Wonder and Prince – So What The Fuss
The Show:
Vetiver – Current Carry
Shy Kids – Terminally In Love With You
Pale Blue – The Past We Leave Behind
Go Betweens – The House That Jack Kerouac Built
Shy Kids – Rockets (accidental remix)
Ian Schoales – Cold War
Salt n Pepa – I’ll Take Your Man
Salt n Pepa – My Mic Sounds Nice
Jamila Woods – Way Up
Death Cab For Cutie – No Room In Frame
And The Kids – Friends Share Lovers
Of Montreal – Gratuitous Abysses
Xavier Rudd – Come People
George Clinton – Way Up
George Clinton – Loopzilla
Palace – Gulf Shores
Parsonfield – Stronger
Go Betweens – Streets of Your Town
Style Council – Paris Match
Winterpills – Wanderer White