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Great adventures in musical segues part one….

Those of you that appreciate the art of the musical segue will dig this.

We're doing a 90s weekend at the radio station, and I had a couple of great ones.....

The first one - got a call from someone requesting "American Music" (video) by Violent Femmes which I threw in before "Trigger Happy Jack" (video) by Poe - one of those "let's see how this works" kind of segues.

As it happens, "American Music" into "Trigger Happy Jack" works brilliantly.

The second one was a bit more calculated - "Somebody to Shove" by Soul Asylum into "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet.

It was one of those segues where you can't wait for the song to end, to hear if it's going to be cool, or a trainwreck.

In this case, cool.

90s weekends are fun!

In the 90s, we were definitely musical nerds of the highest variety. Our music director (who was also on the air) would think of a great segue that he thought would be great, yet hadn't tried. Often, I'd get a phone call - "turn on your radio now, and listen to this!"

You were happy when you pulled off a great segue, and pissed if it wasn't great, or if you messed it up. My comrade Chris loved to poke fun at how upset I would get, and would make note - "you do realize that you're the only one that noticed that that was off by a millisecond, don't you?"

These days, I still have fun recapping "great segues" with my friend Pat, via a phone call, text message, and sometimes a day later, making note of that "killer segue you pulled off with Suede Brothers into Alice in Chains yesterday."

So the next time that you hear a good one and wonder if they planned that....well yeah, "they" might have......

A few tunes from today that were fun to hear.....

Letters to Cleo - Here and Now

Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes

Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

One that woulda been fun, but I didn't have it handy (and still don't):

God Lives Underwater - "No More Love" (video)

Relevant Links:

An explanation of the term "segue."

Purchase Tonic's Lemon Parade from Amazon - CD

Purchase Letters To Cleo's Aurora Gory Alice - CD

Purchase Pearl Jam's Ten - CD or MP3

Purchase - God Lives Underwater's Empty from Amazon - CD or MP3