Playlist 2/28/03 (Spotlight: Kraftwerk)

This week I did a Kraftwerk Spotlight followed by a half hour block of new artists who show a definite influence of Kraftwerk in their songs.  Oh... also, I started the show w/ the Mister Rogers Neighborhood theme since he'd died earlier that day. He was someone I grew up with, and someone who lived their entire life for helping children.  Sure, he was corny, but the man only retired for one year from his career in children's television before he died.

Mister Roger's Neigborhood Opening Theme
Get Some Sleep - Bic Runga
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
Down With U - John Taylor
All I Want - Lightening Seeds
Stars of Warburton - Midnight Oil
Be Near Me - ABC
Planet Claire - B-52s
No Cheap Thrill - Suzanne Vega
True Mathematics - LadyTron
Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun - Julie Brown
Eurasian Eyes - Corey Hart
Dr. Who TV Theme (70s)
Weak Become Heroes - The Streets
White Light/White Heat (Velvet Underground cover) - David Bowie

Kraftwerk Spotlight
Pocket Calculator
Beethoven's 9th Symphony 2nd Movement
The Robots
Metropolis
Showroom Dummies
Tour De France (1985)
The Model

Kraftwerk Influenced Artists
Black Sunglasses - Mount Sims
Autobahn 66 - Primal Scream*
Fire - LadyTron
Sweetness - Fischerspooner
Electrocution of Fire Ants - Stereolab

Sublime - Supreme Beings of Leisure
Always the Sun - The Stranglers (R)
Change - Tears For Fears
So Mislead - Duran Duran
Taste It - INXS
Never Let Me Down (aggro mix) - Depeche Mode
Sugar Water - Cibo Matto
Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus (R)
Chant No 1 - Spandau Ballet
Step On - Happy Mondays
Closedown - The Cure
Ant Music - Adam Ant
Zombie - The Cranberries (R)

(R) - Requests
*- New Stuff