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04/01/12
HoliBlog #3: Horses For Courses
I was in DJing in Lavery’s on Boxing Night, and I decided to open the set with a track I’d been trying to track down for ages. Do you ever get a song stuck in your head, but you just can’t pinpoint what it is? You try humming it to people, but they just look at you as if you are mental. This was one of those songs, and I actually worked out what it was from a clip in a Family Guy episode where Chris is imitating the infamous scene from Silence Of The Lambs. I immediately tracked down the name of the song in the background. It was Q Lazarus ‘Goodbye Horses’. I even had the song in my collection already, just didn’t know the name of it!
Well, I opened the set with that tune, and thought that Seelenluft’s cover of ‘Horse With No Name’ would go quite well after it. I figured “I’m on a roll here, why not play Miike Snow’s ‘A Horse Is Not A Home’ to keep the theme going. For the next bunch of songs I decided I would try to link them all together by name or artist in some way. It was great fun! I’ve pasted that section of the set below for you to have a look at, and I’ve fired up the Q Lazarus and Seeleluft tunes for you to enjoy.
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Horse For Courses Set List
Q. Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Seelenluft – Horse With No Name
Miike Snow – A Horse Is Not a Home
Patti Smith – Horses
Foals – Spanish Sahara
Desert Hearts – Gravitas
Jetplane Landing – Brave Gravity
Mystery Jets – Show Me the Light
B-Movie Lightning – Triple Trouble
Wire – Three Girl Rhumba
Girls – Lust For Life
Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Native Melody)
Delorean – Warmer Places
Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Lounger
Ladytron – Runaway (Stray Dogs In Paris Remix)
Friendly Fires – Paris (ft. Au Revoir Simone) (Aeroplane Remix)
Cut Copy – Hearts On Fire
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Q Lazarus – Goodbye Horses (Krikor Edit) (right click to download)
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Seelenluft – Horse With No Name (right click to download)
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