This playlist was played while people ate. It was a chance to play some cheeky tracks that wouldn’t have cut it on the dancefloor, but were favorites of ours which have been included on playlists when we held barbeques and parties in Los Angeles.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions : (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (from My Aim Is True )
Sam Cooke : A Change Is Gonna Come (from Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 )
Belle & Sebastian : A Summer Wasting (from The Boy With The Arab Strap )
Elvis Costello & The Attractions : Accidents Will Happen (from Armed Forces )
Calexico : Across The Wire (from Feast Of Wire )
Stars : Ageless Beauty (from Set Yourself On Fire )
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Ain’t No Easy Way (from Howl )
LCD Soundsystem : All I Want (from This Is Happening )
Calexico : Alone Again Or (from Convict Pool )
Bonnie Raitt : Angel From Montgomery (from Streetlights )
Pulp : Babies (from His ‘N’ Hers )
Elliott Smith : Baby Britain (from XO )
The Boy Least Likely To : Be Gentle With Me (from Best Party Ever )
Bill Fay : Be Not So Fearful (from Bill Fay )
Beck : Beautiful Way (from Midnite Vultures )
Calexico : Black Heart (Jazzanova Mix) (from Black Heart )
The Dining Rooms : Calexico (from Ink (French Edition) )
Blur : Coffee & TV (from 13 )
Calexico : Cristal Frontier (Buscemi Remix) (from Buscemi: Late Night Reworks, Vol. 1 )
The Decemberists : Down By The Water (from The King Is Dead )
Buena Vista Social Club : El Carretero (from Buena Vista Social Club )
Buena Vista Social Club : El Cuarto De Tula (from Buena Vista Social Club )
Blur : End Of A Century (from Parklife )
Grinderman : Go Tell The Woman (from Grinderman )
Calexico : Guero Canelo (Nortec Mix By Panoptica) (from Black Heart )
David Bowie : Heroes / Helden (from Christiane F. Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo: Original Soundtrack )
Zero 7 : Home (from The Guardian FCD 1 )
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Howl (from Howl )
Bjork : Hyper- Ballad (from Post )
The Stone Roses : I Am The Resurrection (from The Complete Stone Roses )
LCD Soundsystem : I Can Change (from This Is Happening )
Belle & Sebastian : If You Find Yourself Caught In Love (from Dear Catastrophe Waitress )
Neutral Milk Hotel : In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea )
Bjork : Isobel (from Post )
Bjork : It’s Not Up To You (from Vespertine )
Elliott Smith : Junk Bond Trader (from Figure 8 )
Richard Hawley : Just Like The Rain (from Coles Corner )
Queen : Killer Queen (from Greatest Hits )
The National : Lemonworld (from High Violet )
Radiohead : Little By Little (from The King Of Limbs )
Everything But The Girl : Low Tide Of The Night (from Temperamental )
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : Moonland (from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! )
The Walker Brothers : No Regrets (from No Regrets )
Radiohead : No Surprises (from OK Computer )
The Good, The Bad & The Queen : Northern Whale (from The Good, The Bad & The Queen )
David Bowie : Oh! You Pretty Things (from Hunky Dory )
Blur : On The Way To The Club (from Think Tank )
M. Ward : Outta My Head (from Transfiguration Of Vincent )
Buddy Holly : Peggy Sue (from )
The Decemberists : Rise To Me (from The King Is Dead )
Velvet Underground : Rock & Roll (from Loaded )
The Velvet Underground : Satellite Of Love (Alternate Demo) (from Loaded [Disc 2] )
Radiohead : Separator (from The King Of Limbs )
Arcade Fire : Suburban War (from The Suburbs )
Supertramp : Take the Long Way Home (from Breakfast in America )
Bob Dylan : Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On The Tracks )
Squeeze : Tempted (from East Side Story )
General Public : Tenderness (from Tenderness )
Calexico : The News About William (from Carried To Dust )
The Carpenters : Top Of The World (Remix) (from Carpenters – Their Greatest Hits )
The Brian Setzer Orchestra : Town Without Pity (from Guitar Slinger )
Guillemots : Trains to Brazil (from From the Cliffs )
The Beatles : Two Of Us (from Let It Be )
The Church : Under the Milky Way (from Starfish )
Stars : Wasted Daylight (from The Five Ghosts )
Arcade Fire : We Used To Wait (from The Suburbs )
Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers : Why Do Fools Fall In Love (from )
Radiohead : Worrywort (from Knives Out EP )
Sam Cooke : You Send Me (from Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 )
Make sure you tell your indoors-hatted cretin of a sound guy to check that the iPod is set to “shuffle”. Don’t believe him when he says it is. Tell him to take his goddamned shades off indoors as well.