This is what is spinning my shorts right now.

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I wasn’t planning on seeing Stone Temple Pilots on their reunion tour. I saw the Smashing Pumpkins last September, Meat Puppets & Built to Spill in March, and my roomate just saw the Breeders a couple weeks ago, so I figured we had our reunions shows taken care of. I mean, I love STP, they were my first proper alt rock band, I own all their albums (though Core was just taped from my friend’s copy, I’m fine with that, though), but I’ve never considered them a live band. Still, when I was presented with a chance to buy tickets for $10 a piece, I couldn’t pass that up at all.

And then it hit me that I never really thought about STP in a live setting. I know they’ve been on the Family Values Tour (though I always cringe a bit when I’m reminded of Scott Weiland’s brief association with Fred Durst). I’ve seen pictures of Scott Weiland dressed flamboyantly and brandishing a megaphone on stage. I just never stopped and pondered how great “Interstate Love Song” must be live. It hit me today that I don’t know what song to expect, or even what I really want to hear. The radio spot promoting the show uses “Dead & Bloated”, “Wicked Garden”, “Creep”, “Sex Type Thing”, “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart”, “Vaseline”, and “Interstate Love Song” but I can’t imagine the show being so Core-centric. What with the band growing and maturing beyond their pretty straighforward and oft-bland first album. I see STP as having peaked at Tiny Music… and the slumped until the break up, but still ending as a much better band than they started as. Still, the only post-Purple song on the ad is the STP song from Guitar Hero II. But then you really shouldn’t take those spots too seriously.

So I decided to put my mind to it and present you with a bunch of songs I want to hear at Tuesday’s show. I wanted to do this with the Pumpkins show, but those would have been total longshots given the depth of the Pumpkins’ catalog. STP only had five albums, and they aren’t promoting new material and they aren’t known for prolific B-sides, so I feel good about this. My biggest trial coming up with this list is trying not to simply put up all thirteen tracks from Tiny Music… I mean all of ‘em, too, even the simple instrumental segues “Press Play” and “Daisy.”

Anyhow, here are some STP songs I’d love to hear (except “Christmas Time is Here”, but it was too cool to pass up). But doing a little research before the show, looks like I’m in to be disappointed. But hey! Artie Fufkin promised that if (when) Weiland gets put back into rehab and has to cancel the concert, then we’re having a Stone Temple Pilots Singalong at his house.

 Stone Temple Pilots - Adhesive [5:35m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Art School Girlfriend [3:35m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Christmas Time is Here (live) [3:33m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Ride the Cliché: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Too Cool Queenie [2:48m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Kitchenware & Candybars/The Second Album [8:06m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Pop's Love Suicide: Play in Popup | Download
 Stone Temple Pilots - Meat Plow [3:37m]: Play in Popup | Download

The weekly mix is up. Check it. Or get it right here.

Oh yeah, heres whats on it.

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Sorry for the delay.

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 The Kids Will Grow Up to be Assholes - The Paper Chase [5:01m]: Play in Popup | Download
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All this jazz about Radiohead being opposed (and rightly so) to the release of a Greatest Hits comp has gotten me to thinkin’. Actually it was one of the comments on the NME article, but I would’ve come up with it eventually. If EMI wanted to do something that would sell, and be less blatantly offensive, they ought to have released a B-Sides & Rarities instead. Y’know, like Amnesiac. Anyone who likes Radiohead enough to be interested in this Hits disc is likely to have those songs already because, well, they are good songs. So it’s a rarities night tonight: the sexiest song ever written (according to Thom), the sexiest song ever written (according to me), a corrected version of an old song done live on French TV, an old song done for the radio with members of the Posies (not Pixies, I can’t stress this enough), a “No Surprises” b-side, a string quartet rendition of an OK Computer track, one of my favourite early songs live, and an acoustic version of Kid A’s closer. I think it’s a pretty balanced selection. And, because I like you, I’m throwing in a video of “Karma Police” live on Le Reservoir. That whole set is floating around YouTube, I recommend you seek ‘em out. [youtube onw96jFCHb4]

 Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better (live) [3:35m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - Talk Show Host [4:14m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - Fog (again) [live] [2:17m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - Blow Out (acoustic) [3:23m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - How I Made My Millions [3:08m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Section - Electioneering [3:15m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - Killer Cars (live) [2:17m]: Play in Popup | Download
 Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack (acoustic) [3:16m]: Play in Popup | Download

Jen’s at work, so I was put in charge of and I wasn’t told that she’d already done the Friday Mix. This means that, instead of in addition to learning about new hip sounds that are happening now, you get to bear the brunt of my David Bowie Friday. See, I woke up this morning with a hankerin’ for some Bowie, and I didn’t want to over do Outside because it’s too choice to get sick of, so I grabbed Earthling, Heathen, Hurling Disdain and Xen’s Magic Bowie Mix and enjoyed those at work. And I pass the savings on to you!! So here are some Bowie songs you need to hear:

We’ll start off with a mash-up, a classic, three modern ones, and lastly doing “Hurt” with Trent Reznor in 1995 while touring together. It’s from the bootleg Hurling Disdain. Enjoy some Bowie, ya’ll!!

 50 Cent vs. David Bowie - 21 Questions of Fame [4:25m]: Play in Popup | Download
 David Bowie - Life On Mars [3:52m]: Play in Popup | Download
 David Bowie - Seven Years in Tibet [6:22m]: Play in Popup | Download
 David Bowie - Everyone Says Hi [3:58m]: Play in Popup | Download
 David Bowie - The Pretty Things are Going to Hell [4:41m]: Play in Popup | Download
 David Bowie and Trent Reznor - Hurt (live) [6:11m]: Play in Popup | Download