Welcome to the second pilot episode of The Theme Show.
The original setlist for the episode, entitled “Bugs,” aired on Winamp on December 9, 1999.
The original demos comprised of three main components:
- **Theme Show Warm-Up**: At the start of each show, I played five songs with an upbeat tempo. After the fourth song, I would check my Yahoo! Messenger, and the first person to guess the theme correctly won a prize, usually a Pez dispenser.
- **Requests**: I made most of the playlists ahead of time, but I liked to hear suggestions from listeners. If someone had a fun idea for the theme, they could share it with me via messenger and I would insert it into the live stream.
- **Obligatory Polka**: I think Polka music is fun, and I’m a fan of “Weird Al” Yankovic. So each show ended with a Polka song. Sometimes, it didn’t match the theme, but that was fine.
Most of these concepts were dropped to simplify the process for podcast pre-recording. Ocassionally you will still hear the “warm-up” concept in the newer Spotify & YT Music playlists, as I typically do some organization by BPM/Energy.
Setlist
Theme Show Workout
- Butterfly Wings – Machines of Loving Grace
- Lullaby – Leæther Strip
- Spiderman – The Ramones
- Crab Louse – Lords of Acid
- Heartworms – Coil
THEME GUESS WINNER: gonkdroid (through Yahoo IM)
Standard Playlist
- Butterfly Potion – Foetus
- Five Fleas – Rasputina
- Cyberspider – The Tear Garden
- Butterfly (Paul Oakenfold mix) – Tilt
- I, Virus – Death Ride 69
- Infested – Course of Empire
- Bad Bug – Zorak feat. Brak & Space Ghost
- Eric the Half a Bee – Monty Python
- Spiders & Snakes – Jim Stafford
- The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati – Rose & The Arrangement
- Ugly Bug Ball – Burl Ives
- There’s a New Sound – Tony Burrello
- Zingor – Zorak
- Germs – “Weird Al” Yankovic
- Hungry Ants – Barry Adamson
- The Fly – Howard Shore
- Hypnotic Web – Vidna Obmana
- Muscoviet Mosquito – Clan of Xymox
- Cocoon – Switchblade Symphony
- The Fly – U2
- Parasites – Skatenigs
- Wormboy – Marilyn Manson
- Virus – KMFDM
- The Caterpillar (Flicker Mix) – The Cure
- Food for Worms – wAx
Obligatory Polka
- Honey Polka – Whoopee John