Sonntag, 4. Jan 2009, 23:21
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In Akron, Ohio there is a little bar on Exchange street that happens to make me dance like a loon. A number of my friends can attest to this but also not enough of my friends know of this place. It isn't pretty, it isn't glamorous, it's not going to draw huge crowds (well actually it kind of does) and most importantly it's not LUX (which is an overrated 'new' club in Akron that is never devoid of its share of immature 18 year old girls and 50 year old douchebags wearing alligator skinned suits.
So sure, it's a place not out to win any awards (although it deserves a few). But the DJ has the uncanny ability to choose the best music at the best time and it's chalk full of 80s classics, new-wave, lo-fi, post-punk, and plenty of other danceables. Thursday's is the place to be on a Thursday night. The people that congregate here are of all kinds and no one gives a damn about anything. Everybody just dances. That combined with the consumption of alcohol makes for a wonderful night; one I wouldn't spend at any other bar than this. And its also introduced me to a lot of music I wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
Anyways, I figured I should introduce the musically inclined to the Thursday's Lounge and the music played there. Below is a list of the music I remember being played at Thursday's over the past year or so.
Animal Collective - My Girls
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Belle and Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
The Breeders - Cannonball
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
The Clash - London Calling
Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
Crystal Castles - Vanished
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen Death From Above
The Cure - Close to Me
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Cure - The Lovecats
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
Cut Copy - Far Away
Cut Copy - Lights & Music
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Daft Punk - Digital Love
David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
Deerhunter - Never Stops
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
The Dismemberment Plan - The City
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor
Dramarama - Anything, Anything
Every Move a Picture - Signs of Life
The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual
The Faint - Paranoiattack
The Faint - Glass Danse
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Girls - Lust for Life
Gorillaz - Dare
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Interpol - Slow Hands
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Joy Division - Transmission
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
JUNIOR SENIOR - Move Your Feet
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Justice - One Minute To Midnight
Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less and Less
***The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
The Knife - Heartbeats
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Matt & Kim - Daylight
M.I.A. - Come Around
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
MGMT - Electric Feel
MGMT - Kids
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Modest Mouse - Doin' The Cockroach
Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Mount Sims - How We Do
***Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
***New Order - Blue Monday '88
New Order - True Faith
New Order - Who's Joe?
Passion Pit - The Reeling
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Peaches - Rock the Shocker
Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Peter Bjorn and John - Amsterdam
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Phoenix - 1901
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
The Postal Service - Nothing Better
The Postal Service - Clark Gable
Psyche - Goodbye Horses
Radiohead - Idioteque
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
The Rapture - Whoo! Alright, Yeah… Uh Huh
Ratatat - Loud Pipes
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart
Shiny Toy Guns - Don't Cry Out
Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
The Smiths - This Charming Man
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths - Panic
The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
The Smiths - A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
The Sounds - Hurt You
The Sounds - Rock 'n' Roll
Spoon - The Way We Get By
The Strokes - Someday
The Ting Tings - Great DJ
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
***A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
***A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me