Playlist 11/10 (O Week!)

MGMT ... "Of Moons, Birds & Monsters"

Neil Young ... "Old Man"

Barenaked Ladies ... "ONE WEEK"

Dispatch ... "Open Up"

Jason Mraz ... "ONLY HUMAN"

Company of Thieves ... "Oscar Wilde"

Garbage ... "Only Happy When It Rains"

Yeasayer ... "ONE"

PJ Harvey ... "One Line"

Architecture In Helsinki ... "The Owls Go"

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton ... "Our Hell"

Dr. Dog ... "The Old Days"

Regina Spektor ... "Ode to Divorce"

Interpol ... "Obstacle 2"

Peter Bjorn and John ... "Objects of My Affection"

Tegan and Sara ... "THE OCEAN"

Anaïs Mitchell ... "Old Fashioned Hat"

Gregory and the Hawk ... "Olly Olly Oxen Free"

The Decemberists ... "O New England"

Ingrid Michaelson ... "Overboard"

Best Coast ... "Our Deal"

Bloc Party ... "One Month Off"

Chris Chavez ... "The Observer"

The Kooks ... "Ooh La"

Paramore ... "The Only Exception"

Billy Boy On Poison ... "ON MY WAY"

The Beatles ... "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da"

OH MY LORD!!

They make petite lap giraffes

http://www.petitelapgiraffe.com/

Playlist from 11/3 (F Week!)

Parenthetical Girls ... "Forward to Forget"

Tilly and the Wall ... "Fell Down the Stairs"

Broken Social Scene ... "Fire Eye'd Boy"

Blonde Redhead ... "Falling Man"

Magic Magic ... "French Song"

Modest Mouse ... "Float On"

Wolf Parade ... "Fancy Claps"

WHY? ... "Fatalist Palmistry"

Velvet Underground ... "FEMME FATALE"

Tegan and Sara ... "Fix You Up"

Frightened Rabbit ... "Fast Blood"

Iron & Wine ... "Fever Dream"

Kurt Vile ... "Freeway"

The Shins ... "Fighting In a Sack"

Charlie Mingus Sextet ... "Fifty-First Street Blues"

Brother Ali ... "Forest Whitaker"

The Beatles ... "FROM ME TO YOU"

The Gypsy Moths ... "The Funk"

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ... "Fault line"

The Maccabees ... "FIRST LOVE"

Grizzly Bear ... "Foreground"

Alicia Keys ... "Fallin'"

PHOENIX ... "Fences (Home Demo)"

Thao ... "Fixed It!"

Andrew Bird ... "Fake Palindromes"

Led Zeppelin ... "Fool In The Rain"

Band of Horses ... "The Funeral"

The Fratellis ... "For The Girl"

The Temper Trap ... "Fader"

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova ... "Falling Slowly"

Kate Nash ... "Foundations"

Fergie ... "Fergalicious"

Playlist from 10/27 (P Week!)

Portugal. The Man ... "People Say"

All-Time Quarterback ... "Plans Get Complex"

Elliott Smith ... "Pitseleh"

Rilo Kiley ... "Paint's Peeling"

Zoe ... "Poli (feat. Anni B Sweet)"

Clare and the Reasons ... "PLUTO"

Tune-Yards ... "Powa"

Feist ... "Past In Present"

The Smiths ... "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs ... "PIN"

Corinne Bailey Rae ... "Put Your Records On"

Middle Brother ... "Portland"

Neon Indian ... "Psychic Chasms"

Devendra Banhart ... "Pumpkin Seeds"

The Mountain Goats ... "Pale Green Things"

Damien Jurado ... "Pear"

Beirut ... "The Penalty"

The Bird and the Bee ... "Polite Dance Song"

Norah Jones ... "Painter Song"

Dead Man's Bones ... "Pa Pa Power"

Cake ... "Palm Of Your Hand"

Regina Spektor ... "Poor Little Rich Boy"

The Vaccines ... "Post Break-Up Sex"

The Dandy Warhols ... "Plan A"

The Beatles ... "Please PLease Me"

Talking Heads ... "Psycho Killer"

Tegan and Sara ... "Proud"

Playlist from October 20th

T For TIRED, TESTS, TRIUMPH

Norah Jones..... Turn me on
Maroon 5..........This Love
Ra Ra Riot ..........Too Dramatic
The Temptations..........Treat Her Like a Lady
The Beatles ...............Twist And Shout
Death Cab for Cutie ..........Title and Registration
Thao ...............Tallymarks
First Aid Kit ..........Tangerine
Cat Stevens ...............Tea for the Tillerman
Monsters of Folk ...............Temazcal
Bright Eyes ..........Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
Pariah Beat ..........Temporary Love
Regina Spektor ..........Two Birds
Andrew Bird ..........Tables and Chairs
Stars ..........Take Me To The Riot
Architecture In Helsinki ..........Tiny Paintings
CocoRosie ..........Tekno Love Song
The Hood Internet ..........two weeks of hip hop
FINAL FANTASY ..........This Is the Dream of Win and Regine
Tegan and Sara.....Take Me Anywhere
St. Vincent ..........These Days
Neko Case ..........This Tornado Loves You
Mates of State ..........Think Long
Johnny Flynn & Laura Marling ..........Travel Light
Dapo Torimiro ..........Text Book Stuff
Two Door Cinema Club ..........This Is The Life
Sondre Lerche ..........To Be Surprised
Lykke Li ..........Tonight

Playlist from October 13th

The letter of the week was G!!

Babyface.......... Grown & Sexy
Ray Charles .........Georgia on my Mind
Iron and Wine......... Glad Man Singing
Sun Kill Moon .........Glenn Tipton
Mountain Goats......... Going to Georgia
Of Montreal .........Gronlandic Edit
Lightning Love .........Girls Are Always Wrong
Pixies .........Gigantic
The New Pornographers......... Go Places
Tune-Yards .........Gangsta
Mirah .........The Garden
Bombay Bicycle Club .........Ghost
Heartless Bastards .........Gray
Kanye West .........Good Morning
The Faint .........Glass Danse
Modest Mouse .........Gravity Rides Everything
M83......... Graveyard Girl
Beck .........Girl
Beach Boys .........Good Vibrations
Flo Rida .........Good Feeling
Will Smith .........Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Mando Diao......... God Knows
Freelance Whales......... Generator (First Floor)

Playlist from October 6th

The letter of the Week was L!

Kanye West.....Lost In The World
Camera Obscura.....Let's Get Out of This Country
CocoRosie .....Lemonade
Lykke Li ..........Let It Fall
New Order .....Love Vigilantes
Belle and Sebastian.....Like Dylan In the Movies
Mirah.....Lone Star
St. Vincent .........Laughing With a Mouth of Blood
Tune-Yards ..........Lions
Talking Heads .........Love Goes To A Building On Fire
Backstreet Boys .....Larger Than Life
Barenaked Ladies .........Light Up My Room
Nina Simone .........Love Me or Leave me
Cat Stevens .........Longer Boats
Sun Kil Moon ..... .....Last Tide
Delta Spirit ..... .....Lover's Waltz
Coldplay ..... .....Lovers In Japan
Beck ..... .....Loser
Priscilla Ahn .........Leave the Light On
Fleet Foxes ........Lorelai
The Dodos .........Longform
The Head And The Heart .........Lost In My Mind
Citizen Cope ..........Let the Drummer Kick
Pete Townshend .........Let My Love Open the Door
Natasha Bedingfield ..........Little Too Much

Head and the Heart concert 9/30/11

Cats!

Check out this link to Cooper: Photographer Cat. To check out some sweet cat photography.

And you should probably check out the entire Chemistry Cat meme. But this is the best one:

Playlist 9/29 - Special Alphabet Themed Show!

Vitamin String Quartet ... "ABC"

Little Eva ... "The Loco Motion"

Nat "King" Cole ... "L-O-V-E"

Kid Cudi ... "Simple As..."

Kermit the Frog ... "African Alphabet"

Fergie ... "Glamorous (feat. Ludacris)"

Otis Redding ... "RESPECT"

Hall and Oates ... "Method of Modern Love"

Gwen Stefani ... "hollaback girl"

Village People ... "YMCA"

The Magnetic Fields ... "Washington, D.C."

Naughty By Nature ... "O.P.P"

Bay City Rollers ... "SATURDAY NIGHT"

The Kinks ... "Lola"

Kesha ... "Dinosaur"

Justice ... "D.A.N.C.E"

Ashlee Simpson ... "L.O.VE"

Lady GaGa ... "Born This Way"

Patti Smith ... "GLORIA"

The Guess Who ... "American Woman"

Noah and the Whale ... "LIFEGOESON"

Missy Elliot ... "spelling bee"

Paul Whiteman ... "constantinople"

MIA ... "uraqt"

OMD ... "abc auto industry"

The Jackson 5 ... "abc"

Watch This!!!

Playlist from 9/22 (C Week!)

Sparks ... "cool Places"

Foster the People ... "Call It What You Want"

Sufjan Stevens ... "CHICAGO"

The Postal Service ... "Clark Gable"

David Bowie ... "changes"

THE BEACH BOYS ... "Catch A Wave"

Patsy Cline ... "CRAZY"

The Gypsy Moths ... "Cats Game"

Donavan ... "CATCH THE WIND"

Elvis Presley ... "CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE"

Laura Stevenson and the Cans ... "Caretaker"

Death Cab for Cutie ... "Crooked Teeth"

First Aid Kit ... "Cross Oceans"

Beirut ... "The Canals of Our City"

Bjork ... "crystalline"

Natalia LaFourcade ... "Cursis Melodias"

Tegan and Sara ... "The Con"

Architecture In Helsinki ... "City Calm Down"

Pavement ... "Cut Your Hair"

Arcade Fire ... "cars and telephones"

Coldplay ... "Clocks"

Bombay Bicycle Club ... "Cancel On Me"

FINAL FANTASY ... "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead"

Interpol ... "C'Mere"

We Were Promised Jetpacks ... "Conductor"

Local Natives ... "Camera Talk"

Metric ... "Combat Baby"

Playlist from 9/15 (B Week!)

Of Montreal ... "Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider"

Michael Jackson ... "BILLIE JEAN"

The XX ... "Basic Space"

Tegan and Sara ... "Back In Your Head"

The Ataris ... "Boys Of Summer"

Emily Haines ... "Between the Bars"

Radiohead ... "The Bends"

Destiny's Child ... "Bills, Bills, Bills"

Feist ... "BRANDY ALEXANDER"

Lady GaGa ... "Boys Boys Boys"

Regina Spektor ... "Blue Lips"

The Dresden Dolls ... "BackStabber"

Fleetwood Mac ... "Big Love (Live)"

The Beatles ... "BIRTHDAY"

Blind Pilot ... "The Bitter End "

Arcade Fire ... "Black Mirror"

Leona Lewis ... "Bleeding Love (Album Version)"

Rilo Kiley ... "Breakin' Up"

Corinne Bailey Rae ... "BREATHLESS"

Talking Heads ... "Burning Down The House"

Monsters of Folk ... "Baby Boomer"

The Rural Alberta Advantage ... "The Ballad of the RAA"

Weezer ... "Buddy Holly"

Britney Spears ... "baby one more time"

*NSYNC ... "BYE BYE BYE"

Playlist from 9/8 (A Week!)

The National - Abel (Alligator)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This (I Had the Blues But I Shook them Loose)

Final Fantasy - Adventure.exe (Has a Good Home)

The New Pornographers - All for Swinging You Around (Electric Version)

Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)

Lady Gaga - Alejandro (The Fame Monster)

Regina Spektor - Ave Maria (Demo)

Blink 182 - All the Small Things (Enema of the State)
Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London (Get Lost)

Ben Folds - Annie Waits (Rockin' the Suburbs)

Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl (You Forgot it in People)

Dean Martin - That's Amore

Yeasayer - Ambling Alps (Odd Blood)

New Order - Age of Consent (Power Corruption and Lies)

Talking Heads - And She Was (Once in a Lifetime)

Chiddy Bang - All Things Go (The Preview)

Amadou & Mariam - Artistiya (Dimanche a Bamako)

Marvin Gaye - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Greatest Hits)

Local Natives - Airplanes (Gorilla Manor)

Devendra Banhart - At the Hop (Nino Rojo)

James Brown - Any Day Now (It's a Mother)

Damien Juradoa - Arkansas (Saint Bartlett)

Madeline Payroux - Always a Use (Dreamland)

Mountain Man - Animal Tracks (Made the Harbor)

Deer Tick - Ashamed (War Elephant)

Mike Noyce - Arrested (Fey 7" Series)

Frank Sinatra - As Time Goes By (Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Songs)

The Beatles - All You Need is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)

Karen O and the Kids - All Is Love (Where the Wild Things Are)

The Spinners - Ain't No Woman Like the One I've Got (100 Essential Funk and Soul Hits Live)

Alphabet Soup is BACK!!!

Kayleigh and Claire have returned from a year in Spain, and a Semester in Hawai'i to bring you fun and friendship this semester on Alphabet Soup!!

This week's letter is A. (But not for A+, because we're both a little rusty on the whole radio station thing) We got into the Building and we're playing Music. We're missing all of our Alphabet Soup Buddies but we're looking forward to having interns soon!

There were three whole Albums in the rotation binder that I wanted to take, and I'm pretty excited about it!

Oopsies

Hello friends, followers and lovers.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for not giving you the heads up that our show was TODAY (Monday) because BU does this funny little switcheroo sometimes where Tuesdays become Mondays (they also don't believe in snowdays).

So for those of you who didn't see any of our frantic tweets or Facebook posts, tonight's theme completed the trifecta of French/foreign words P for Parler/Parlare (translation: to speak)

Second, here is what we played!!!!!!!! Song-Artist(Album)

Twist and Shout- The Beatles (Please Please Me)
Shout- The Isley Brothers (The Essential Isley Brothers)
Say It Ain't So- Weezer (Blue Album)
How To Say Goodbye- Paul Tiernan (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist)
California English- Vampire Weekend (Contra)
The Dangling Conversation- Simon and Garfunkel (The Best of Simon and Garfunkel)
I Just Called to Say I love You- Stevie Wonder (The Definitive Collection)
Shut Up- Black Eyed Peas (Elephunk)
Girl Talk- TLC (Girl Talk)
Put It In a Love Song- Alicia Keys/Beyoncé (The Element of Freedom)
Heard 'Em Say- Kanye West (Late Registration)
Speak Now- Taylor Swift (Speak Now)
We Speak No Americano- Yolanda Be Cool (Ultra 2011)
Say My Name- Destiny's Child (The Writing's on the Wall)
Say Hello- Jay-Z (American Gangster)
Watcha Say- Jason Derulo (Jason Derulo)
Run My Mouth- Ra Ra Riot (The Rhumb Line)
Don't Speak- No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom)
Say it All- Sondre Lerche (SXSW Daytrotter Session)
Sing Teresa Says- Greg Laswell (Daytrotter Session)
You Talk Way Too Much- The Strokes (Room on Fire)
Napoleon Says- Phoenix (It's Never Been Like That)
Camera Talk- Local Natives (Gorilla Manor)
Screaming Infidelities- Dashboard Confessional (The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most)
Conversation 16- The National (High Violet)
Relator- Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson (Breakup)
Superstar- Lupe Fiasco (The Cool)
My Prerogative- Britney Spears (Greatest Hits)

G for Garçon

We know all the fellas felt left out last week...so this Tuesday, Let's Hear it For the Boy!

All boy names, for the whole show.

In case you want more information about the Backstreet Boys... click here

TUNE IN: TUESDAY 6-8 PM WWW.WTBURADIO.ORG

fun fact: no one on Alphabet Soup speaks French

F is for Femmes

Feminine, fille, girl, senorita.

All girly names tonight. So tell me whatcha want, what you really really want.

TONIGHT FROM 6-8 PM. WWW.WTBURADIO.ORG

J for:

What is on all of our minds right now JOBS!

And Jackson 5.

Topics: Our "You majored in WHAT??" stories, monster.com, and how to tailor "I am awesome" to a cover letter for any job listing.

Tune in this Tuesday from 6-8pm www.wtburadio.org

We Heart NY

It's the concrete jungle where dreams are made oh,

I want to be a part of it.

It's not as if it burned to the ground when you drove away.

Their cops ain't too smart.

I love it but it's bringing me down.

We're takin' a Greyhound on the Hudson river line.

Can you see where we're going with this?

This week's letter is N FOR NEW YORK. That magical city that never sleeps, so bring your Ambien (no MDMA pls.) and groove over the 59th st. bridge with us. TOMORROW NIGHT, 6-8 PM EST (for those of you in less frosty time zones) www.wtburadio.org . you know the drill.


And remember.


No sleep til Brooklyn.

WHO'S READY FOR SOME ALPHABET SOUP??

You are, you know you are.

We're back, but this is a post with mixed emotions. In Sad/We're Really Proud and Jealous of Her news our beloved DJ Claire is studying in Hawaii (yep) this semester. This is what it will be like:

(Chelsea and I creeping from afar while Claire is a cool cat as always, click to imbiggen)

Never fear! Ashley, newly minted DJ (note the promotion on the sidebar), will be joining AS again this semester!!

When is this all going down, you ask?

TUESDAY NIGHTS from 6-8 PM

Here's photo representations of what you can expect to hear:

Summa this


maybe this:



and definitely this:


SO TUNE (stream?) IN: TUESDAY NIGHTS 6-8. www.wtburadio.org