we usually only do this once a year but the demand was so high after our annual karaoke show at the abbaye in january we decided to do it again a month later at the ruba. this was a karaoke style show where the audience could select from our book of 219 songs and come up and sing. all songs were sung by audience members except for “14 cheerleader coldfront” which was sung by becker & ward.

here comes your man (pixies)
web in front (archers of loaf)
under pressure (david bowie & queen)
murray (pete yorn)
surf wax america (weezer)
big me (foo fighters)
last caress (misfits)
sabotage (beastie boys)
headache (frank black)
eight days a week (beatles)
basket case (green day)
twist & shout (beatles)
there she goes again (velvet underground)
unfair (pavement)
seether (veruca salt)
we gotta get out of this place (animals)
father christmas (kinks)
be my baby (ronettes)
peephole (guided by voices)
psycho killer (talking heads)
girlfriend in a coma (smiths)
i want to hold your hand (beatles)
buddy holly (weezer)
the waiting (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
echos myron (guided by voices)

jumping jack flash (rolling stones)
hey hey, my my (neil young & crazy horse)
seether (veruca salt)
on a plain (nirvana)
that’s how i escaped my certain fate (mission of burma)
no matter what (badfinger)
fuck & run (liz phair)
(what’s so funny ‘bout) peace, love & understanding (elvis costello)
she don’t use jelly (flaming lips)
my valuable hunting knife (guided by voices)
the gold heart mountaintop queen directory (guided by voices)
mary jane’s last dance (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
just what i needed (cars)
our lips are sealed (go-go’s)
song 2 (blur)
range life (pavement)
fell in love with a girl (white stripes)
14 cheerleader coldfront (guided by voices)
anarchy in the u.k. (sex pistols)
dreaming (blondie)
i am a scientist (guided by voices)
just like heaven (cure)
i got you (at the end of the century) (wilco)
glad girls (guided by voices)
game of pricks (guided by voices)
surrender (cheap trick)
baba o’riley (who)
all day and all of the night (kinks)

snowy show at ortlieb’s lounge with st. james & the apostles and knife show.

good intentions
chelsea
afternoon is better
humpty
spotlight
slow down
starting now
infinite space
nutso
skin i’m in
geometric mean
butterfly
stock

this year our friends at the abbaye celebrated their 10^th year in business and once again invited us to take part in the festivities. this was our 7th year (6th in a row) performing as the backing band for live karaoke and as always it was a ton of fun. the party attendees were able to choose from this year’s list of 219 songs and come up and sing with us. everyone that came up did a fantastic job including both owners of the abbaye. marc started off the second set behind the kit as the only person to come up and play an instrument. he played drums on ac/dc’s “highway to hell” leaving ward to come up front take lead vocal duties. then, towards the end of the night, meghan sang her perennial favorite guided by voices’ “glad girls” and then a couple songs later closed out the festivities with superchunk’s “driveway to driveway”. it was another awesome year celebrating our favorite place to eat, drink and just generally hang out in the city of philadelphia. below is the list of everything that was performed in two sets. we started the evening off with one of our own songs before we turned the evening over to the crowd. all the cover songs for karaoke have the original band’s name in parenthesis following the song title.

good intentions
jumping jack flash (rolling stones)
gigantic (pixies)
girlfriend in a coma (smiths)
everybody knows this is nowhere (neil young)
all day and all of the night (kinks)
twist & shout (beatles)
should I stay or should I go (clash)
fell in love with a girl (white stripes)
psycho killer (talking heads)
tired of sex (weezer)
the bends (radiohead)
just what i needed (cars)
be my baby (ronettes)
wrong (archers of loaf)
queen bitch (david bowie)
one after 909 (beatles)
song 2 (blur)
low (cracker)
our lips are sealed (go-go’s)
(you gotta) fight for your right (to party!) (beastie boys)
blitzkrieg bop (ramones)
eight days a week (beatles)
drain you (nirvana)

highway to hell (ac/dc)
today (smashing pumpkins)
rockin’ in the free world (neil young)
last caress (misfits)
rock & roll (led zeppelin)
buddy holly (weezer)
someday (cracker)
(love is like a) heat wave (martha reeves & the vandellas)
rock & roll (led zeppelin)
a salty salute (guided by voices)
gold star for robot boy (guided by voices)
paranoid (black sabbath)
roots radicals (rancid)
head on (pixies)
no matter what (badfinger)
cut your hair (pavement)
seether (veruca salt)
basket case (green day)
our lips are sealed (go-go’s)
surf wax america (weezer)
under pressure (david bowie & queen)
baba o’riley (who)
janie jones (clash)
happiness is a warm gun (beatles)
buddy holly (weezer)
debaser (pixies)
bikeage (descendents)
glad girls (guided by voices)
i’m allowed (buffalo tom)
she don’t use jelly (flaming lips)
anarchy in the uk (sex pistols)
have you ever seen the rain (creedence clearwater revival)
academy fight song (mission of burma)
driveway to driveway (superchunk)

awesome night playing with howling fantods and metroplex with jay brown djing between and after the bands. we played about an hour long set debuting two brand new songs (summer sunday & none of them).

monsters of rock
geometric mean
finders
summer sunday
spotlight
rotten life
good intentions
starting now
nutso
none of them
weekend politics
skin i’m in
sabotage (beastie boys)
baba o’riley (who)
butterfly
stock