With promo help from the paper, I've started a new night @ a pub downtown called UB the DJ, where people can bring in their MP3 players or a burned mix and sign up to get 20 minutes to play whatever they want - only rule is you can't play the same artist twice.

It's like open-mic DJ. Last night was the first night and the turnout was OK, especially since we're soft launching it.

Anyway, here's the playlist.

Feel free to praise and pillory as you see fit.

UB the DJ - Feb. 8
Can't Explain - The Who
Jerk It Out - Caesars
Connection - Elastica
You're The Reason I'm Leaving - Franz Ferdinand
Rocks - Primal Scream
Reverend Black Grape - Black Grape

Robots - Kraftwerk
Shit Scheisse Merde, Pt. 1 - !!!
If I Recover - Basement Jaxx
Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000
Time Stands Still - Cut Copy

Definition - Black Star
Jack's Back/Appreciate - Plant Life
Cut Chemist Suite - Ozomatli
Bitch - Rolling Stones
Soul Meeting - Solomon Burke

Bubble Metropolis - Drexciya
E = Mc2 - Giorgio Moroder
Slow Country - Gorillaz
Miles To The Sun - Hieroglyphics
Take You On A Cruise - Interpol
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

The Fever - VonBondies
The Denial Twist - White Stripes
When I'm Gone - The Paybacks
Share Your Vanity - The Hard Lessons
Whatever She's Doin; - Moods For Moders
Improper Dancing - Electric Six

A Better Version of Me - Fiona Apple
Where I'm From (remix) - Digable Planets
Elephant Talk - King Crimson
Freak Flag - Laura Love
Vanity Fair - Mr. Bungle
Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas

Nothing Better - Postal Service
Buffalo Sever - Swayzak
Missy Queen Is Gonna Die - Toktok Vs. Softy O
Fade To Grey - Visage

Bottle Rocket - The Go! Team
Step On - Happy Mondays
Frontier Psychiatrist - Avalanches
Only You - Yaz
Root Down - Beastie Boys
Ghetto Musick - Big Boi

Time To Confess - Gov't. Mule
Nickels and Dimes - Social Distortion
1969 - Iggy and The Stooges
Ganja Babe - Michael Franti
Cracka Break - Mofro
Fuck Authority - Pennywise

White Riot - The Clash
Murder The Government - NoFX
American Idiot - Green Day
Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction

Gone Fishin' - Taj Mahal
Brandy - Looking Glass
Over My Head - Martin Sexton
Theme From The Bottom - Phish
You Look Like Rain - Morphine
Naked In The Rain - Red Hot Chili Peppers

D'Yer Maker - Led Zeppelin
Three Days - Jane's Addiction
Then She Did - Elvis Costello
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Blackwater - Mofro
Total Eclipse of the Heart - The Dan Band

Daft Punk Is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem
Welcome To Jamrock - Damien Marley
Smoothness - Black Rob
Positive Contact - Deltron 3030
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Lapdance - NERD
Laid - James

It looks like it was going really well until this:

Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Lapdance - NERD
Laid - James

This looks great swiateck. Big ups.

I applaud this inclusion.

I'm almost completely illiterate when it comes to King Crimson, so I was a little worried about this one when the guy told me what was on his playlist, but it worked really well.

Moments like that are what I think will make this pretty cool.

I see a few artists up there more than once.

Cool idea. Does the person get to wear one of those big sets of earphones over one ear only? and act like they are scratching records?

Hah hah! Not yet, but that's something we may have to work in as we evolve - kinda like the birthday crown @ Chuck E. Cheese.

As to the repeats, those were different people playing different sets. Since there's no way for everyone to know what everyone else is planning to play when they pre-make their playlist, it's OK if the same artist shows up in different sets throughout the night. But one person can't repeat the same artist in their own set.

This was established so obnoxious Sublime, Phish or Doors fans (for example) don't turn their 20 mins into a de facto greatest hits set and bore everyone else to tears.