Welcome to the sith, and final pilot episode of The Theme Show.
The original setlist for the episode, entitled “Colors,” aired on Winamp on January 6, 2000.
I do believe there were other episodes after this, and this one itself is only a partial episode. Unfortunately I have moved several times and had many new computers since 2000, and somewhere along the way some of the setlists went missing.
If someone else for some reason would have this information, please let me know.
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
- Yellow Submarine – The Beatles
- The Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
- The Green Door – Jim Lowe
- Blue Moon – Sha-Na-Na
- The Spectrum Song – Paul Frees
Standard Playlist (Partial)
- Violet – Hole
- Red Rain – Peter Gabriel
- Baby Blue Eyes – Stray Cats
- Homo Rainbow – Ween
- Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini – Brian Hyland
- Green Acres – Vic Mizzy