"Scissors" is very nice. Nifty guitar solo in "Don't Worry Kyoko".
I requested "Hold Your Head Up", which they played a pretty hair-raising version of (James emits a seasick-sounding "ooh" near the end). As it turned out, I was also one of two people who requested "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" by Hall & Oates, a fact mentioned repeatedly and with great consternation by James in his spoken-word "Nuclear War" commentary. This was probably my favorite part of the whole set: it's the end of the show, the band is exhausted, and where they usually do a final medley of snippets of the songs people asked for but they didn't get around to they now only seem to have the strength to play a subdued version of "Nuclear War" while James thumbs through the requests and comments on them. The call-and-response style of the song is preserved -- Ira and Georgia wearily repeat after James, sometimes with great reactive emphasis (James was apparently making this up as he went).
Below are excerpts from James' narration. Not the same without the music, but hey (imagine a subdued "Nuclear War" in the background). Many laughs from the assembled throughout, particularly at the "paragraph" breaks:
i don't know
this song by the breeders
i don't know
this song by the breeders
it's not the one that goes "awooo"
so i don't know it
"walk away renee"
you got too many chords
you got too many chords
you don't need those chords
there's like 900 chords
that's 895 too many
"any song
by the flaming lips"
got too many chords
got too many chords
nice production
good words
not loud any more
nice and quiet
won a grammy
got a beard
snappy dresser
too many chords
pet sounds
pet sounds
pet sounds
man doesn't wanna hear
"sloop john b"
you crazy
best song on the record
what's wrong?
with "sloop john b"?
what's your problem?
with "sloop john b"?
don't you wanna go home?
I wanna go home
I feel so broke up
and I wanna go home
but I can't go home
there's like 5 more minutes left
5 more minutes left
"let's go away for awhile"
doesn't have any words
lotta chords
did we already do
"ducks on the wall"?
did we already do
"ducks on the wall"?
did we?
the perfect request
perfectly worded
"sex pistols...
whatever."
the sex pistols
invented punk rock
in the year 1981
true story!
(georgia: apparently this was a request)
ruffles have ridges
ruffles have ridges
ruffles have ridges
ruffles have ridges
(back to james)
two separate people
requested hall and oates
ira: requested hall and oates?!
georgia: hall and oates.
two separate people
requested hall and oates!
i'll say it again
georgia: hall and oates.
_two separate people_
_requested hall and oates_
the same song!
georgia: no...no!
ain't that a bitch?
ira: which song?
your kiss is on my list (ira)
yeah your kiss is on my list (james)
your kiss
is on my list
and i can't go for that
ira: no can do!
and i can't go for that
ira: no can do!
no...
ira: no can do.
bruce: must be SCTV fans.
ira: Chariots of Eggs, Chariots of Eggs.
we don't know any songs by king kong
king kong didn't know any songs by king kong
that guy was funny though
much as we like the babylon dance band
we don't know any of their songs either
georgia: not one!