If music is the victim then so am I (Open Radio RP)

[caycep]

[Evening, a little after sundown. "Redwing" by Hem comes up on the speakers.]

Hi everyone. Cayce Pollard here for a spur-of-the-moment radio show. I'll be cueing up a few songs, and if you want to hear something, call me up and let me know.

[Anyone who knows Cayce well and has spoken to her within the last couple of months may notice that she sounds genuinely happy for the first time in a long while, her cheerfulness unforced.]

I'm thinking we need some dance music, but since there's not currently a dance party on the books, I'll just play the music and wherever you are, get down with your bad self. [Pause. Snicker.] Did I just say that?

So let's get started with some old-school rocking-out glam stuff. Here's "Jeepster" by T. Rex.

And ... hey, this is me, you knew this was coming, right? Some David Bowie, of course. This is "Jean Genie".

It's not a dance party without ABBA, right? One of my friends once told me that all you need for a party is ABBA and Queen. In deference of the sensibilities of a friend, there will be no Queen, but here's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".

Just for fun, here's Adam Ant's "Stand and Deliver".

Hm. I seem to be creeping forward in time more or less chronologically here. Not intentional, but what the hell. Let's leave the 1980s and jump forward to the 1990s with the Pet Shop Boys' "Paninaro '95". Which is notable for being the only PSB song with silent partner Chris Lowe on lead vocals.

Onward. Here's "The School Song" by Black Box Recorder. If any of you went to a British public school ... sorry. I'm sure that brings back the memories.

Let's have some more glam-tastic-ness. Here's "Beautiful" by Goldfrapp. You know, I swear, one of these days I am going to figure out how some of this music that post-dates me has made it onto my laptop. Part of it, I know, is people's iPods, but ... anyway. Not that I mind. It's nice to know that music didn't die after 2004, despite some people's suggestions that it was on its way out.

Which makes me think of ... ah, here we go: the Scissor Sisters' "Music is the Victim".

So one more dance number before I close out the set: "You Know Me Better" by Roísín Murphy. For everyone who's here with an old friend, or who misses an old friend.

So that's all I had lined up. You want to hear something, call me up on extension 420 from any park land-line. If you haven't found one yet, check the shops and back rooms. And remember: piss off the DJ and you get to hear Blur's "Song #2"*.

[And of course, Cayce cues up what's rapidly becoming her signature song: David Bowie's "Life on Mars".]


*((Also known as "that really annoying 'Woo-hoo!' song". Features prominently in Torchwood 2.01., "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".))

((ETA: Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of Pulp, in case anyone is wondering what he looks like. Cayce may have gotten stuck on the rail-thinness and the suit, but Ten does look like he should be the lead singer in a Britpop band.))

Comments

[philosopher-rex.livejournal.com]

HEY! I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY REQUESTS, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, THAT GLAME ROCK BAND HAS THE BEST NAME IN THE HISTORY OF NAMES!

SO BEST IT REQUIRES YELLING.

AND THAT'S REALLY BEST!

[caycep]

Ow.

Heh. Glad you liked it, Mr, uh...

[philosopher-rex.livejournal.com]

T-Rex!

Mr. T to the Rex!

[caycep]

[A moment of dead air, during which Cayce wonders how the hell T-Rex manages to pick up a phone, and then decides not to think about it anymore.]

Ah ha. Oh, right, I remember you. Want to hear some more T. Rex? Got plenty.

((Once I get home from work and the gym, anyway...))

[bloodandchips.livejournal.com]

A British male calls in. "Got any Ramones?" he asks.

[caycep]

There's a brief pause while Cayce determines that the caller, though British, is neither the Doctor nor the Master. "Looks like it. What do you want to hear?"

[bloodandchips.livejournal.com]

"Beat on the Brat if you've got it."

[caycep]

Here you go—enjoy!

Have we met?

((Alas, I haven't an mp3...))

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Oh, look. Or rather, listen. Another British male voice. One hopefully more familiar.

"Cayce. Don't suppose you know where I can hear ATB (http://www.lyrics007.com/ATB%20Lyrics/We%20Belong%20Lyrics.html)'s We Belong (http://download.yousendit.com/AFDFF6D342659EB5) and Paul Simon (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paul+simon/further+to+fly_20105916.html)'s Further to Fly (http://download.yousendit.com/93CB62160EB0BA22)? I think a friend of mine would like them..."

[caycep]

"Crowley, hey. Let me see ... ah, here we go."

"Those were really great."

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

"... Had you, ah, ever heard those before?"

[caycep]

"The Paul Simon song, yeah. But not the ATB song."

[irrepressible-c.livejournal.com]

"Hi Cayce! It's Calvin! Hobbes wants to request a song, but...hang on..." Noises of a small child and a stuffed tiger ducking under a table; hushed voice: "Do you have any experience with broccoli coming to life?"

[caycep]

"Hi Calvin. Hi Hobbes. Broccoli ... well, only if it's been left in the fridge too long, and that sort of doesn't count. Why, something up?"

[irrepressible-c.livejournal.com]

"So, no...shh! Pipe down! They'll find us!...no little spears held in their leaves, no chanting?"

[caycep]

"Uh, wow. That's a new one by me. Does Susan know about this?"

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

You have brilliant taste in music, you know.

[caycep]

[A breath's worth of dead air: Oh fuck, it's him.]

Um. Thanks.

[hear-the-drums.livejournal.com]

[He's clearly been counting on that reaction, evident from the smile in his voice.]

Do me a favour, darling?

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“Question!”

[caycep]

[Oh boy.]

"I'll answer if I can."

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

“How does one piss off the DJ?”

[una-harlequin.livejournal.com]

Hello, Cayce. I don't suppose I could trouble you for a couple of songs?

[caycep]

That's what I'm here for.

[una-harlequin.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'd love to hear ... oh, I don't suppose you've got Chet Baker (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858595257)'s version of "Someone to Watch Over Me (http://download.yousendit.com/6F1D5FED68EF75C4)"? Or any Chet Baker, for that matter.

And also, if you don't mind some more David Bowie (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858489103), can you play "Beauty and the Beast (http://download.yousendit.com/F70AB6E37F666E71)"?