Second Shift

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - Music For the Undead

[Disclaimer: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLUES.]

As you may know, the shift after ours is what we call the "graveyard shift": four hours (2-6 AM) of regular rotation music manned by one of the newbies at the stations (who we have very cleverly dubbed "graveyarders"). Long story short, the graveyarder after us was going out of town and no one could cover for him, so I offered to stay, the reason being this: any veteran (i.e. non-graveyarder) DJ who covers a graveyard shift can use it as an opportunity to "free-form;" that is, play whatever he or she wants, more or less. So, armed to the teeth with vinyl and my iPod, I did just that. For those of you who stayed with me midnight to six, I truly appreciate it. Driving home as the sun came up was quite an experience. Here's the set:

2-3 AM:
Queens of the Stone Age - God Is In the Radio / Songs For the Deaf
The Mars Volta - Cygnus ... Vismund Cygnus / Frances the Mute
Magnetic Fields - Old Fools / Distortion [for Uncle Milo]
Augustus Pablo - Braces Tower Dub / King Tubbys Meets the Rockers Uptown
Isis - Backlit / Panopticon
Minus the Bear - White Mystery / Planet of Ice
mewithoutYou - Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt / [A->B] Life
Dungen - Familj / Tio Bitar
Be Your Own Pet - Super Soaked / Get Awkward
Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend / Growers of Mushroom
Pentagram - When the Screams Come / First Daze Here Too

3-4 AM:
Torche - Tarpit Carnivore / In Return
Black Sabbath - Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots / Paranoid
The Swans - Failure / White Light In the Mouth of Infinity [for Uncle Milo]
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs / Bridge of Sighs
Poison the Well - Letter Thing / Versions
OutKast - Slum Beautiful / Stankonia
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion / Show Your Bones
Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well: IV - The Final Cut / Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
He Is Legend - The Widow of Magnolia / Suck Out the Poison [cc <3]
Jay Reatard - Fluorescent Grey / Jay Reatard/Deerhunter Split 7" [by request]
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges / Evil Urges
Corrosion of Conformity - Dirty Hands Empty Pockets/Already Gone / In the Arms of God
Say Anything - The Writhing South / ... Is a Real Boy

4-5 AM:
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake / Ashes of the Wake
The Ocean - The City In the Sea / Aeolian
Every Time I Die - Off Broadway / Hot Damn!
Protest the Hero - Bone Marrow / Fortress
Norma Jean - Death of the Anti-Mother / The Anti-Mother
Between the Buried and Me - Ants of the Sky / Colors
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Destro's Secret / Calculating Infinity [by request]
The Showdown - From the Mouth of Gath Comes Terror / A Chorus of Obliteration
A Life Once Lost - A Rush and Siege / Hunter
The Handshake Murders - New Enemy / Usurper

5-6 AM:
Mastodon - Circle of Cysquatch / Blood Mountain
Every Time I Die - Rendez-Voodoo / The Big Dirty
Black Label Society - Suffering Overdue / The Blessed Hellride
Down - Bury Me In Smoke / NOLA
Queens of the Stone Age - Walkin' On the Sidewalks / Queens of the Stone Age
The Black Crowes - Sometimes Salvation / The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Masters of Reality - Rabbit One / Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline of Lights / I'll Take Care of You
The Allman Brothers Band - Stormy Monday / At Fillmore East
Frank Sinatra - That's Life / That's Life
Patsy Cline - Does Your Heart Beat For Me / The Patsy Cline Collection
Portishead - Glory Box / Dummy

If you dug what I was playing, then you should check out some of the other great shows on WRAS:

Under a Rock (all things riffy) - Saturdays, 3-5 PM [website]
We're Not Gonna Take It (METAL) - Mondays, 10 PM - 12 midnight [website]

Good times, good tunes, good people ... one love.

Shoeless