Welcome to the third pilot episode of The Theme Show.
The original setlist for the episode, entitled “Birds,” aired on Winamp on December 16, 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
- Cuckoo Bird – Trenton James
- Fly, Robin, Fly – The Silver Connection
- Kill That Bird: Vocal Edit – DJ Porno
- Goofy Bird – DJ Kingpin
- Polly – Nirvana
THEME GUESS WINNERS: gonkdroid (through Yahoo IM) and osserman on IRC
Standard Playlist
- Doin’ the Pigeon – Bert (Sesame Street)
- Chickery Chick – Sammy Kaye, Billy Williams & Nancy Normal
- Lesbian Seagull – Engelbert Humperdinck
- Farley Rips Big Bird a New One – Edsel III & the Schematics
- Disco Duck – Rick Dees
- Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Tom Lehrer
- Surfin’ Bird – The Trashmen
- Woody Woodpecker Theme – George Tibbles & Randy Idriss
- Rubber Duckie – Ernie (Sesame Street)
- The Bird – Danny & His Dirty Birds
- Bird – Dead Can Dance
- Caged Birds – ELpH vs. Coil
- Ibis – Cirque du Soleil
- The Bird: 2.0 Update – Krizo
- Caged Bird – The Shroud
- A Flock of Birds – Chako
- Raven’s Land – Aurelio Voltaire
- The Birds of Rhiannon – Faith & the Muse
- Birdhouse – The Blessing
- Bluebird – Daniel Ash
- Blackbird – The Beatles
- Year of the Parrot – Primus
- Seagulls Screaming, Kiss Her Kiss Her – XTC
- Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) – The Icicle Works
- Mexican Blackbird – ZZ Top
- Rainbird – Love & Rockets
- Blue Jay Way – The Beatles
Obligatory Polka
- The Birdie Song -The Tweets