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Your Saturday Night Open Thread...

Port O'Brien in-studio, plus new music from Archeology, The Shout Out Louds, The Bird & the Bee, David Vandervelde, AND your chance to win a pair of tickets to Metric this Monday night at the Roseland Theater.

Comments? Questions? Requests? Right about here....or email opbmusic@opb.org.

Comments

March 20, 2010 at 9:00pm by Robyn

Clearly, this is the best radio show on any bandwidth :)

Can I request some old school Detroit punk (MC5, Stooges, Death, etc.?)

XOXOXOX

March 20, 2010 at 9:12pm by Jeremy Petersen

Well sure, Robyn. I'll see what I can do-- anything specific?

March 20, 2010 at 9:38pm by Robyn

I'd love to hear "Let the World Turn," from Death -- if you have it :)

March 20, 2010 at 9:38pm by gunky

"Masters"? Hall and Oats? Oh, puhleez. Brings to mind thoughts of lipstick and pigs. No more of that, I beg you.

March 20, 2010 at 9:43pm by Robyn

@Gunky: LOL

March 20, 2010 at 9:47pm by gunky

I haven't heard the Avett's attempt to "master" H&O, but I have to assume they did it as a challenge. Maybe they lost a game of truth or dare?

March 20, 2010 at 9:51pm by Jeremy Petersen

@Robyn: So, no Death in the house (unfortunate in this contextm anyway), but some Stooges lined up for you...

@Gunky: You will never hear any actual Hall & Oates here (I don't think), but after an ironic appreciation on my own part for a few years, I have to admit that Hall & Oates knew how to write a pop song. Even The Avett Brothers love them-- they didn't cover them that I know of, but expressed great love for their music when I interviewed them a couple of years back.

March 20, 2010 at 9:53pm by gunky

Hey, I love a good cover as much as the next guy. Terry Gross once had a singer-songwriter "redeem a song" and he made Abba's "Dancing Queen" seem poignant. But you're going to need to find something better than the Bird and Bee version of Private Eye to convince me. Wait, on second thought, don't!

@Robyn -- Thanks. Help?

March 20, 2010 at 9:53pm by Robyn

Stooges! Sweet!

March 20, 2010 at 9:55pm by Robyn

I'm literally dancing :)

March 20, 2010 at 9:56pm by gunky

Miles Kurosky: Great antidote. I'm figuratively dancing. ;-)

March 20, 2010 at 9:58pm by Jeremy Petersen

It's a dance party then!

March 20, 2010 at 9:59pm by Robyn

@ gunky I wish I could help you on this Hall & Oates thing, but I've been enjoying my ass off!

March 20, 2010 at 10:05pm by gunky

Sigh. Revisionist history. Here I am, alone in the wilderness. Next thing you know, Michael Jackson will have been a blues singer. But let's not go there. Cheers.

March 20, 2010 at 10:07pm by Jeremy Petersen

They may be the first such announcement here, Robyn. At your service.

March 20, 2010 at 10:22pm by Robyn

Ok, this might be diving too deep into obscuria, but do you have the garage album "Just Colour" by the Weeds / the Lollipop Shoppe, or anything else by PDX legend Fred Cole (Dead Moon, etc.?)

I would poop myself with joy ^_^

March 20, 2010 at 10:26pm by Sharon

So delicious! I keep trying to switch over to watch the latest Caprica, but your show has been mesmerizing!

The Ted Leo was awesome...I should be at that show.
Also, this 'Lindstrom & Christabelle' is super wild 80's zebra-stripes fun ala Chromeo. Rad!

March 20, 2010 at 10:32pm by Jeremy Petersen

@Robyn- Hmm, that's a tough one. I can play new Pierced Arrows for your Cole fix.

@Sharon- Yeah! Can't put it down radio! Is that what you're saying here? You cannot leave it? Can I quote you?

March 20, 2010 at 10:35pm by Robyn

Yes!

And that "September Gurls" really healed me. Thank you.

March 20, 2010 at 10:38pm by Sharon

In The Street covered by Cheap Trick?
Great song....

This Replacements song is one of my own personal faves, also. Thanks.

March 20, 2010 at 10:45pm by Jeremy Petersen

Ah, you've stumped us, Sharon. Our Cheap Trick cupboard is empty. The shame.

March 20, 2010 at 10:51pm by Robyn

We're gonna have to start emailing you mp3s :P

March 20, 2010 at 11:01pm by Robyn

Thanks! The Alex Chilton tribute definitely made my evening :)

March 20, 2010 at 11:02pm by Jeremy Petersen

My pleasure, thanks for hanging out!

March 20, 2010 at 11:06pm by Sharon

Yeah...that's super shameful! Oy vaysmeer. I'm keeping track and making a list, you know. And instead of tossing the stuff you get that isn't quite the same OPB Music fit and genre, you keep and sell it to Everyday Music and buy some used must-have classics. Like Cheap Trick. Such a great, classic American band. General Manager 101, as we learned in college radio. Le sigh. :)

March 20, 2010 at 11:07pm by Sharon

Anyways, great show tonight!!!
Thanks, Jeremy!

March 20, 2010 at 11:09pm by Jeremy Petersen

Eh, Cheap Trick. Meh. I like their songs when Built to Spill covers them ("Dream Police"). Otherwise, it's kind of hard to shake my childhood memory of the band: "The Flame." Forgive me, first impressions are hard to shake.

And thanks for listening.

March 21, 2010 at 9:07pm by gunky

Ahh, JP, I hope you see the irony. You've come full circle with your last comment re: Cheaptrick (which I echo BTW) and which applies equally to the object of my previous scorn. I.e. the masters-wannabes, ... those who should not be named... H&O. I cannot shake my high school memories of them or Cheaptrick for that matter. It was a musical wasteland...

March 21, 2010 at 9:46pm by Ranjit

Sacrilege. Cheap Trick was the first band I saw in high school. And irony of ironies, a new-found friend's brother was the drummer kicked out of the band just before they made it big ... makes for a nice story - in kind of a sad way.


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