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September 11, 2006: Tribute in Lights


Thanks to Tamar, Charlie, Stork, and Scott for helping to brainstorm the setlist.

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Mercury Rev	Empire State	See You on the Other Side
Interpol	NYC	Turn on the Bright Lights		0:07:24 Pop-up)
Joe Bataan	Subway Joe	Latin Funk Brother		0:11:35 Pop-up)
Jonathan Richman	Springtime in New York	Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow		0:14:20 Pop-up)
T. Rex	New York City	MP3		0:17:13 Pop-up)
Sex Pistols	New York	Never Mind the Bollocks		0:20:41 Pop-up)
MC Shan	The Bridge	Kurtis Blow's History of Rap Vol. 3		0:23:43 Pop-up)
David Peel & the Lower East Side	Lower East Side	MP3		0:29:14 Pop-up)
The Dictators	Avenue A	MP3		0:32:20 Pop-up)
Laura Cantrell	14th Street	Humming by the Flowered Vine		0:35:56 Pop-up)
Voices of East Harlem	New York Lightning	Soul Gospel		0:39:06 Pop-up)
Al Kooper	New York's My Home	Rare & Well Done		0:41:56 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd.	New York		0:44:27 Pop-up)
Daddy Warbucks & Friends	NYC	"Annie"		0:47:49 Pop-up)
Archie & Edith Bunker	Those Were the Days	"All in the Family"		0:52:36 Pop-up)
The Sweet	New York Connection	Hellraisers!		1:03:06 Pop-up)
King Kong	Kingdom of Kong	Kingdom of Kong		1:06:32 Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side	69 Love Songs		1:09:56 Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	Autumn in New York	MP3		1:13:42 Pop-up)
Beverly Kenney	Brooklyn Love Song	MP3		1:16:45 Pop-up)
Elsa Lanchester	New York Slip	MP3		1:19:37 Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	The Empty Page	Murray Street		1:21:49 Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	The Only Living Boy in New York	Bridge Over Troubled Water		1:26:07 Pop-up)
John Carpenter	The 69th Street Bridge	"Escape from New York"		1:29:56 Pop-up)
Moondog	New York	Rare Material 2xCD		1:32:39 Pop-up)
Hounds	Old Man in New York	Stora Popboxen Vol. 3 1967-1069		1:36:03 Pop-up)
New York Dolls	Subway Train	New York Dolls		1:38:33 Pop-up)
Chandra	Subway	Transportation		1:42:48 Pop-up)
James Brown	Down and Out in NYC	MP3		1:45:33 Pop-up)
Suicide	Frankie Teardrop	Suicide		1:50:18 Pop-up)
Run DMC	Here we Go (Live at the Funhouse)	Greatest Hits		2:11:26 Pop-up)
Kiss	Back in the New York Groove	Kiss		2:15:29 Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	I Guess the Lord Must be In NYC	Nilsson Anthology		2:18:17 Pop-up)
Pedestal	On the Subway	MP3		2:20:56 Pop-up)
Petula Clark	Don't Sleep in the Subway	Petula Clark Collection		2:23:15 Pop-up)
Wendy Mae Chambers	New York, New York	Gravikords, Whirlies, & Pyrophones		2:26:10 Pop-up)
Ramones	53rd and 3rd	Ramones
Nikki Sudden	New York	Waiting on Egypt		2:30:39 Pop-up)
Peter Sellers	New York Girls	A Celebration of Sellers		2:33:47 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Romeo Had Juliette	New York		2:36:46 Pop-up)
Nico	Chelsea Girls	Chelsea Girl		2:39:51 Pop-up)
Duke Ellington	New York City Blues	The Carnegie Hall Concerts: 1947		2:47:21 Pop-up)
Joey Ramone	What a Wonderful World			2:52:25 Pop-up)
A few listener emails in response to the question: What first made you want to move to New York?
From Listener Maria: I've got no songs to suggest, but I thought I'd share that I have often thought that I moved to New York because of the years of Sesame Street as a kid.
From Listener Wendy: I started coming to NYC as a child during the late-1970s, when I was a wee girl. My Mom brought me to Chinatown on a regular basis, usually at night. It was a particularly scummy time for NYC, and in Chinatown, it often smelled terrible. I loved it. I liked the variety of darkness endemic to NYC - dark in a way the suburbs weren't, darker it seemed, but with lots of twinkling, buzzing, flashing lights. But no sky. All the scenes in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle is driving in his cab at night - that kind of night. I moved to Vermont when I was 17. I liked it there. But as I navigated my way through my 20s, every time I read anything about NYC, especially anything food-related - like Russ & Daughters, Chinatown, Murray's Cheese, The 2nd Avenue Deli (RIP), I got very nostalgic. I moved here for a lot of reasons. The final reason that sent me and the U-Haul here was the knowledge that something bigger than myself, bigger than Vermont, was waiting for me here. And now I'm the Cheese Snob, taking over the world of cheese, in Manhattan and beyond. I moved here because it was the right thing to do. But that Channel 9 Million Dollar Movie thing is pretty awesome, now that you mention it.
From Listener Jason: Another thing that attracted me to NYC was News 4 New York, especially their coverage of the West Village Halloween Parade at the end of the usual 11 o'clock broadcast on Halloween. It was the creepiest thing I had ever seen, especially being from the suburbs, but it was incredibly attractive as being the place where people were having fun and could do anything they want - bigger, rougher, and scarier than ever - and all at the same time being in as rough and scaray a city as it was in the early 80s.
From Listener Johnny: I think of it often, it has a yellow banana on the cover: The Velvet Underground's first album was a great advertisment for me to move to NYC back in 1984. I wanted Femme Fatale to break my heart. I wanted to actually SEE what the poor girl would wear [to] all tomorrows parties. I wanted to wear tight black jeans and pointy boots and be an artist. Just like that. Simple. As far as entering the city if you come down the major degan (95?) and you see the confluence of bridges, five or seven, the harlem river parkway connnecting later to the GW bridge, there is what looks like a Roman aquaduct, even.. Where do all those bridges lead, no one knows for sure.. but I never get tired of that feeling of passing under them on the way to the island of Manhattan...
From Listener Rebecca: Why did I move to New York? Because it was a groovy option, sort of like the Oz thing and the Million Dollar Movie thing, I guess we get to know cities through the sweet lens of the movies; all of it presented to you exactly as someone else sees New York full of music and particular lead charcters that best exemplify New York and of course, street scenes where lots is bound to be seen even by everyday folk-- though this isn't the reason I moved, it was one of the reasons that deep down made it better to move here than to stay in buffalo: the last scene of Arthur where trashy Liza Minelli walked a very pathetic and drunk [Dudley Moore] down the steps of a church and they're laughing and not looking all that together (like how other movies tried to make you think of New Yorkers as fashionable and quickwitted) then everything looked wider the way movies used to do at the end and they drive away to the song "When you get lost between the moon and New York City" a song that always used to scare me because where the hell was between the moon and New York City? And also make me sad because it was obviously a love song but it was in a minor key? Maybe. Not sure. Either way, I liked that a lot, even as a little girl.
From Listener Steve: Movies [like] West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, James Bond too, for some reason, probably the glam factor. Music [like] Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery and jazz in general, music recorded at Cafe a Go Go like Blues Project w/ Al Kooper, Lovin Spoonful w/ John Sebastian.
From Listener Andy: Spike Lee movies.
From Listener Jacob: I'd wanted to move to the city all my life, but I realized exactly why while listening to a late night radio show one night back in Maryland when I was in high school. The now defunct WDCU played a song which I have never heard since and which I've been unable to find despite having looked extensively, entitled "When You Leave New York You're Going Nowhere." Any chance you've heard of it? The singer sounded a bit like Joe Williams.