Robot Rockers

Five Songs continued this week, with the theme ‘songs you’d play if you found out your loved one is a robot’. We worked through the theme in the 5 stages of grief. They were:

• Denial, I Am Not A Robot by Marina and the Diamonds
• Anger, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
• Bargaining, I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor by The Arctic Monkeys
• Depression, Paranoid Android by Radiohead
• Acceptance, Sex Machine by James Brown

Charlie joined us in the studio for a chat and a guest request, and we all threw some robot boogie shapes…

Ben, Charlie and Dave throwing robot shapes around the place.

You can listen back to the show by clicking here and replaying it at your leisure. Join us again next week, as we make the movie soundtracks to each other’s lives!

Debut Show: Top songs of 2010!

 

Hello world! This is Ben and Dave, coming at ya from the world wide interweb. On our first show – live on air at 10AM UK time, every Friday, and replaying at the ICradio web site at your demand – we revealed our favourite 5 tracks of 2010, along with some honourable and guilty mentions.

In no particular order, we chose:

• Holiday – Vampire Weekend
• American Slang – The Gaslight Anthem
• Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz
• Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
• Fuck You – Cee-Lo Green

An Honourable Mention for Best Party Tune went to Yolanda Be Cool’s runaway anthem, “We No Speak Americano”, introduced by the lovely Polly, our first guest (and radio-guide).

We then shared our Guilty Pleasures… Dave chose Drunk Girls, by LCD Soundsystem, while Ben got truly guilty with Pass Out by Tinie Tempah. And the show was closed out with a teaser of next week’s program: 5 songs to play when you find out your girlfriend (or other romantic partner) is a robot!

Do you agree or disagree with our choices? What were your top tunes of 2010? And if you found out your partner was a robot, what songs would you play?