Show #274--3/20/11

The Golden Age—The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Official Secrets—M

Burn the City—Little Insects

Them That Do Nothing—Field Music

Whirring—The Joy Formidable

Peace One—Mahavishnu John McLaughlin

Carry—Ryan Montbleau Band

Carrying the Wet Wood—Maps & Atlases

Lock and Key—The Whispertown 2000

16 Days—Whiskeytown

Man of Devotion—Fools Garden

Conceived—Beth Orton

Hour 2—Parlor Game:   "The ____________s"

“Parlor Game” is a term I use when I come upon an idea for a theme that goes beyond simple explanation and into realms of obscurity that generally pleases the host most of all (only more so than usual this week).

So, as explanations go: In recent weeks, I’ve listened to enough music from groups that have one-word plurals as their names that it kind of stuck out to me, and I wondered if I would be able to assemble an hour’s worth of these groups. Not groups that follow the template “The _______s,” as there are millions of those, but just that one-word plural. 

Turns out…I was able to. It seems a more modern phenomenon, though there are a small number of older, familiar groups on tap tonight as well.

It’s probably best seen (heard) as just another mix, but there’s your explanation. These are the groups that made tonight’s mix (there are, of course, more; perhaps you know some yourself):  

Stay with Me—Faces

Put Us Back Together Right—Headlights

Too Late—Shoes

Arrow Through Me—Wings

Instant Weight Loss—Sparks

Just Got Lucky—JoBoxers

The Sugar Society—Cinwaves

Leyendecker—Battles

I am Trying—Greenskeepers

I See it Coming—Guards

Glow—Callers

King of the Beach—WAVVES

Bizness—tUnE-yArDs

What Remains—Foals