Saturday, January 30, 2010

QCS aired 01/30/2010 (w/ Bryce)

Concluding set for 2000-9 retrospective:

No Age "Ripped Knees" from "Nouns" (2008)
Fleet Foxes "Drops in the River" from "Sun Giant" EP (2008)
The XX "Crystalised" from "XX" (2009)
Dirty Projectors "Cannibal Resource" from "Bitte Orca" (2009)
Grizzly Bear "Dory" from "Veckatimest" (2009)
Bat For Lashes "Siren Song" from "Two Suns" (2009)
The Decemberists "O New England" b-side to "Valerie Blame" (2008)

QCS "Best of 2009" (selections from QCS hosts & listeners based
on material heard on QCS and in WRAS' regular rotation):

Conor Oberst "Difference is Time" from "Outer South" (2009)
Cursive "I Couldn't Love You" from "Mama, I'm Swollen" (2009)
Morrissey "I'm Throwing My Arms Around
Paris" from "Years of Refusal" (2009)
In Cadeo "Communist Lecture" from "Making Our Graves" (2009)
Xu Xu Fang "Your Way" from "Seven Days Now" (2009)

I Was a King "Norman Bleik" b-side to "It's All You" (2009)
Grand Duchy "Fort Wayne" from "Petits Four" (2009)
The Clues "Ledmonton" from "Clues" (2009)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson "The
Sound" from "Summer of Fear" (2009)

Sean Walsh and the National Reserve
"You Know" from "Homesick" (2009)
The Mumlers "99 Years Ago" from "Don't Throw Me Away" (2009)
Strange Boys "This Girl Taught Me a
Dance" from "And Girls Club" (2009)
Junior Thomas "Miles of Misdirection" from "Goodbye Daylight" (2008/9)
Future Future "Teeth" from "Future Future" EP (2009)

Sonic Youth "Sacred Trickster" from "The Eternal" (2009)
Spiral Stairs "True Love" from "The Real Feel" (2009)
Condo Fucks "What'cha Gonna Do About It" from "Fuckbook" (2009)
Fischerspooner "Door Train Home" from "Entertainment" (2009)

Fictionist "Uptight" from "Invisible Hand" (2009)
Wild Beasts "All the King's Men" from "Two Dancers" (2009)
Art Brut "The Passenger" from "Art Brut vs. Satan" (2009)
Peter Bjorn and John "Just the Past" from "Living Thing" (2009)
Malajube "Luna" from "Labyrinthes" (2009)

O+S "Permanent Scar" from "O+S" (2009)
Radical Face "Wandering" from "Not Given Lightly: A
Tribute to the Giant Golden Book of New Zealand's
Alternative Music Scene" compilation (2009)
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down "Know Better
Learn Faster" from "Know Better Learn Faster" (2009)
Zen Boy & Karma Girl "Fight For Your Right (to Party)"
from "Earth vs. Zen Boy & Karma Girl" (2009)

Cymbals Eat Guitars "...and the Hazy Sea"
from "Why They Are Mountains" (2009)
Iran "I Can See the Future" from "Dissolver" (2009)
This Town Needs Guns "Panda" from "Animals" (2008/9)
Superdrag "Everything Will Be Made
Right" from "Industry Giants" (2009)
So Many Dynamos "Artifacts of
Sound" from "The Loud Wars" (2009)

Gildon Works "Arcadium Ghost" from "Artful Rifle" (2009)
Matt & Kim "Daylight" from "Grand" (2009)
Eels "Fresh Blood" from "Hombre Lobo" (2009)
Electric Owls "Halloween Mask" from "Ain't Too Bright" (2009)
Feist & Ben Gibbard "Train Song" from
"Dark Was the Night" compilation (2009)
Iron & Wine "Carried Home" from "Around the Well" (2009)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

QCS aired 01/23/2010 (w/ Bryce)

Part 2 of a three part retrospective on the decade in college radio:

The Fiery Furnaces "Birdie Brain" from "Blueberry Boat" (2004)
Deerhoof "Spirit Ditties of No
Tone" from "The Runners Four" (2005)
Wolf Parade "Grounds For Divorce"
from "Apologies to the Queen Mary" (2005)
New Pornographers "Sing Me Spanish
Techno" from "Twin Cinema" (2005)
Art Brut "Formed a Band" from "Bang Bang Rock & Roll" (2005)

Boris "Pink" from "Pink" (2005)
TV on the Radio "Hours" from "Return to Cookie Mountain" (2006)
Liars "The Other Side of Mt. Heart
Attack" from "Drum's Not Dead" (2006)
Joanna Newsom "Cosmia" from "Ys" (2006)

Spoon "The Ghost of You Lingers" from "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" (2007)
The Shins "Phantom Limb" from "Wincing the Night Away" (2007)
Of Montreal "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethan Curse"
from "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" (2007)
No Age "I Wanna Sleep" from "Weirdo Rippers" (2007)

Panda Bear "Take Pills" from "Person Pitch" (2007)
Portishead "The Rip" from "Third" (2008)
Deerhunter "Nothing Ever Happened" from "Microcastle" (2008)

Saturday, January 16, 2010

QCS aired 01/16/2010 (Hosted by Bryce)

Part 1 of a three part retrospective on the decade in college radio:

Yo La Tengo "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House" from
"And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" (2000)
Modest Mouse "Tiny Cities Are Made of Ashes"
from "The Moon and Antartica" (2000)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-way"
from "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" (2000)

The Avalanches "Radio" from "Since I Left You" (2000)
The Microphones "The Moon" from "The Glow, Pt. 2" (2001)
Unwound "Demons Sing Love Songs"
from "Leaves Turn Inside You" (2001)
Circulatory System "The Lovely Universe"
from "Circulatory System" (2001)

Wilco "War on War" from "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (2002)
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead
"How Near How Far" from "Source Tags & Codes" (2002)
Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2"
from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (2002)
Interpol "Obstacle 2" from "Turn on the Bright Lights" (2002)

Sufjan Stevens "They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black
(For the Homeless in Muskegon)" from "Greetings From
Michigan: The Great Lake State" (2003)
The Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers" from "Echoes" (2003)
Radiohead "2+2=5" from "Hail to the Thief" (2003)

The Arcade Fire "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" from "Funeral" (2004)
Animal Collective "Leaf House" from "Sung Tongs" (2004)

Friday, January 15, 2010

QCS Retrospective Episodes Upcoming

The Quintessential College Show has returned for 2010 and will be taking a look back in the next few episodes. We'll be navigating around broadcasts of Georgia State basketball so here is the schedule:

Tomorrow from 4-5:30pm: We'll be playing tracks from some of the notable albums of the first half of the last decade (2000-4)

January 23, 2010, after the game (between 6-6:30)- 8pm: We'll look back at the second half of the decade (2005-9).

January 30, 2010, 4-7:30pm: QCS Best of 2009 featuring selections from the hosts and listeners, as well some widely celebrated critics' picks.

Join us on 88.5 FM every Saturday!

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Set List for 1/9/2009

Host: Aaron

Dinosaur Jr. - "Kracked" from You're Living All Over Me
Sonic Youth - "Hey Joni" from Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - "Loomer" from Loveless
Pavement - "Here [#]" from Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe Disc 1
The Swirlies - "Sarah Sitting" from What To Do About Them
Built to Spill - "3 Years Ago Today" from Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Blonde Redhead - "Violent Life" from La Mia Vita Violenta
Frank Black - "Men in Black" from The Cult of Ray
Quickspace - "If I Were a Carpenter" from Peel Sessions

Carissa's Weird - "To Be There Now" from Ugly But Honest
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - "Church on White" from Live at London University
The Joggers - "Back to the Future" from Birds EP
Broken Social Scene - "Canada Vs. America" from To Be You and Me EP
Augie March - "Tasman Awakens" from Sunset Studies
Helvetia - "Gladness (Is in the Heart)" from The Clever North Wind

The War on Drugs - "Buenos Aires Beach" from Barrels of Batteries EP
Handsome Furs - "All We Want Baby, Is Everything" from Face Control
Deerhunter - "Disappearing Ink" from Rainwater Casette Exchange
John Vanderslice - "Sunken Union Boat" from Romanian Names
Circulatory System - "This Morning (We Remembered Everything)" from Signal Morning
Odawas - "Swan Song of the Humpback Angler" from The Blue Depths

Timber Timbre - "Lay Down In the Tall Grass" from Timber Timbre
Dr. Dog - "Goner" from Takers and Leavers
Grandaddy - "Geez Louise" from Just Like the Fambly Cat
Kurt Vile - "Don't Get Cute" from Constant Hitmaker