It's a double-sized show 100, chuck full of all the stuff I love to listen to, from today all the way back to the 60s. There won't be a show this weekend, but hopefully the larger show makes up for it.

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Setlist:

• "Hundred Mile High City" - Ocean Colour Scene
• "Sodajerk" - Buffalo Tom
• "We Looked Like Giants" - Death Cab For Cutie
• "Polaroid Picture" - Frank Turner
• "Congratulations" - Fury In The Slaughterhouse
• "Mountains" - Biffy Clyro
• "The Hollow" - A Perfect Circle
• "I'm A Soldier" - The Afghan Whigs
• "Some Days Are Better Than Others" - U2
• "Heroes" - David Bowie
• "Navigating By The Stars At Night" - Mike Doughty
• "Tomorrow Never Knows" - The Beatles
• "Love Is Hell" - Ryan Adams
• "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure
• "Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)" - Pixies
• "朝凪Revival" - Dragon Ash
• "Strangers" - Tomoyasu Hotei
• "Manic Depression" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• "I Still Remember" - Bloc Party
• "Fall On Tears" - Love Spit Love
• "Love Steals Us From Loneliness" - Idlewild
• "Elephant Stone" - The Stone Roses
• "Faster" - Third Eye Blind
• "Starry Eyes" - Too Much Joy
• "Timberwolves At New Jersey" - Taking Back Sunday
• "Don't Hate Me" - The Get Up Kids
• "Here It Comes" - Emeli Sandé & Rick Smith

It's chilly in San Jose right now, far colder than I like a California winter to be. Hopefully you have someone to hold close right now and keep you warm. If not, the music'll have to do. Hang in there. I'm trying to.

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Setlist:

• "Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
• "A Life Less Ordinary" - Ash
• "A Lifeless Ordinary (Need A Little Help)" - Motion City Soundtrack
• "Divorce Song" - Liz Phair
• "Song Of Love And Hope" - Driftland
• "Mayonaise" - Smashing Pumpkins
• "Exile Vilify" - The National
• "A Letter To Elise (Unplugged)" - The Cure
• "Yesterday" - The Beatles
• "F.E.A.R." - Ian Brown
• "Hold On Me" - SPC ECO
• "Faith" - George Michael
• "When I Grow Up" - Garbage
• "Fall Down (Unplugged)" - Toad The Wet Sprocket

Mostly just some music for you to listen to.

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Setlist:

• "Blue Train" - John Coltrane
• "Mr. Writer" - Stereophonics
• "Ocean" - Velvet Underground
• "Still Fighting It" - Ben Folds
• "The Queen Of Lower Chelsea" - The Gaslight Anthem
• "Deep Inside Of You" - Third Eye Blind
• "Wrong Alley Street, Pt. 1" - Chris Joss
• "Bird's Lament" - Moondog
• "Supermoon" - Satchel Grande
• "Fortunate Friends" - Into It. Over It.
• "Last Goodbye" - Jeff Buckley
• "Get Miles" - Gomez

Well, this is it folks, the last mix of 2016. The year is finally drawing to a close, and while there were a ton of horrible things that happened, there were a few rays of personal sunshine that I'm going to hold onto dearly into 2017 and hope that I can make it through another go around of the sun.

If you're one of those people who enjoys when I make weird left turns in the show, and delights in being surprised, don't read the setlist until you've listened to this episode once...

Sorry about no show earlier in the week, but the Year End Concert Review had gotten lost in the holidays, so I wanted to let it have more time for people to listen to it. Hopefully this extra long show makes up for it, and hopefully you people are actually listening to these things. Some days I feel very much like the lone person standing on the edge of the world, shouting into the abyss.

But I hope we'll get through things together.

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Setlist:

• "A Long December" - Counting Crows
• "It's A Motherfucker" - Eels
• "Misery" - Soul Asylum
• "You With Me" - Jimmy Eat World
• "With Or Without You" - U2
• "Crying Blue Rain" - Jimi Hendrix
• "Arashigaoka" - Tomoyasu Hotei
• "Alone" - Dinosaur Jr.
• "Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab For Cutie
• "Sometimes Always (ft. Hope Sandoval)" - The Jesus & Mary Chain
• "Words You Said... I'll Never Forget You Now" - Hammock
• "Move" - Miles Davis
• "Flash And Shadow" - Wanderlust
• "Hot Thursday" - Bei Bei & Shawn Lee
• "You" - Candlebox
• "When You Were Young" - The Killers
• "Wild, Wild West" - The Escape Club
• "stir" - Dragon Ash
• "Hot Traveler" - Failure
• "Never Tear Us Apart" - INXS
• "Crazy For You" - Adele
• "Many Of Horror (When We Collide)" - Biffy Clyro
• "Don't I Hold You" - Wheat
• "Goodbyes" - JamisonParker
• "Livin' On The Edge" - Aerosmith
• "Highway To Hell" - AC/DC
• "Together We'll Ring In The New Year" - Motion City Soundtrack
• "In Love With A Clown" - Fury In The Slaughterhouse
• "The Astronaut (New Album Mix)" - Something Corporate
• "Together (ft. Lemon Jelly)" - William Shatner
• "With A Little Help From My Friends" - The Beatles
• "Colors Pt. I & II" - Halsey
• "It's Just A Ride" - Bill Hicks

Here's everybody I saw live this year, and what I thought about the shows. I talk a bit about each show and sort of frame where I was in the year with it, and why some shows are more important than others. It's a good year end revue of why live music is important to me, who I'll see more than once, and what it takes for me to walk out of a concert I've paid for.

All of this, of course, means this show is more grab bag than normal, and that's saying something. You'll get prog victory metal, neo country, stand up comedy, electro swing and a whole lot more in a little more than two hours. It's all presented in chronological order, starting from last December and up through today, although the last show I saw was a bit back. What can I say, December's been busy.

I do this every December as the scene show, a reminder of how live music plays such an important part in my life. Take a trip down my memory lane, won't you?

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Setlist:

• "Symphony of the Night" - Dragonforce
• "Farewell" - Kamelot
• "Euro-Trash Girl" - Cracker
• "Northern California Girls" - Camper Van Beethoven
• "I Need L.O.V.E." - Parov Stelar
• "I Can Feel You" - Motion City Soundtrack
• "I Don't Know You Anymore" - Bob Mould
• "End" - The Cure
• "Mighty (ft. JFTH)" - Caravan Palace
• "Blood Pressure" - The Jaguar Club
• "El Capitan" - Idlewild
• "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2" - They Might Be Giants
• "West End Riot" - The Living End
• "Helios Erebus" - God Is An Astronaut
• "The Party's Over" - Prophets Of Rage
• "Nobody's Hero" - The Heavy
• "Pitter Patter (ft. G Jones & Bleep Bloop)" - DJ Shadow
• "Black Widow Woman" - Gallows Bound
• "I Am Still The King" - The Goddamn Gallows
• "Brick O Dildos" - Christopher Titus
• "Autotheology" - You Blew It!
• "Homecoming" - Taking Back Sunday
• "North Star Ordination" - The Appleseed Cast
• "Sad Heart Of Mine" - Caspian
• "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" - Monty Python
• "So Bright" - Pretty Lights

Happy holidays from all of us here at Starlight Society Productions (which is to say, me and my producer/cat Maverick) and I wanted to bring you a show full of a lot of holiday music, but not exclusively holiday music. And I wanted to avoid that sort of stuff you get on the oldies station, or things your parents play to make the family die on saccharine overdose.

So enjoy this one from me to you. Consider it your aural stocking stuffer.

(Which is a nice way of me saying to shove it into your earholes and savor it.)

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Setlist:

• "Fairytale of New York" - The Pogues
• "Christmas Lights" - Coldplay
• "Dance Of the Sugar Plum Fairy" - Akira The Don
• "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" - U2
• "The Lights and Buzz" - Jack's Mannequin
• "Christmas Song" - Mogwai
• "Christmas Will Break Your Heart" - LCD Soundsystem
• "Last Christmas" - Jimmy Eat World
• "Boots" - The Killers
• "Good Man" - Josh Ritter
• "The New Year" - Death Cab for Cutie
• "Let's Spend The Night Together" - The Rolling Stones
• "Why Don't I" - Sonny Rollins
• "La Cienega Just Smiled" - Ryan Adams
• "California (There Is No End To Love)" - U2

Good music, perhaps a bit more melancholy of Cliff than we need, but the holiday season always tends to darken my clouds a little bit. But there's still plenty of great music for you to enjoy.

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Setlist:

• "Something Good" - Utah Saints
• "The Kids Don't Stand A Chance (Chromeo Remix)" - Vampire Weekend
• "Incite A Riot" - David Holmes
• "The Mother We Share" - CHVRCHES
• "Papillon" - The Twilight Singers
• "The Asian Detective" - Badmarsh & Sri
• "Jones' Disco" - Los Porcos
• "Satisfaction" - The Rolling Stones
• "Brand New Day" - Neil Patrick Harris
• "Mittens" - Frank Turner
• "Burst" - Shellyan Orphan
• "I've Got The Strangest Thoughts" - Ghost Trucker
• "Henry Don't Got Love" - Le Butcherettes
• "The Night Before" - Hooverphonic

http://www.starlightsociety.com/ - That's me. I've got this little podcast I'm pretty proud of, where I spin records that I think people will love, and sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. Give it a listen.

This particular show dabbles all across things to listen to. You'll find something you love here. At least I hope. That's all I'm trying to do with each and every show...

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Setlist:

• "Fall" - Something Corporate
• "Best Imitation Of Myself" - Ben Folds Five
• "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" - Billy Joel
• "Right Hand Man" - Broadway Cast Of Hamilton
• "Maddest Kind Of Love" - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• "Wonder Word" - Supercar
• "Particle Charge" - Bit Shifter
• "Simple Forms" - The Appleseed Cast
• "The Road" - Frank Turner
• "FMera / Signal To Noise / FMera (reprise)" - Cats Laughing
• "You Are One" - South
• "Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over" - The Charlatans
• "Orange Sky" - Alexi Murdoch

I can't remember how many people read these liners notes or not, so I'll keep it light for this one, and if you read it, you can scold me for making it so short. I'd love the attention. Heh.

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Setlist:

• "Do You Still Love Me?" - Ryan Adams
• "A Movie Script Ending" - Death Cab For Cutie
• "Carnival" - Natalie Merchant
• "Fire On The Mountain" - Grateful Dead
• "When It's Raining" - The Samples
• "Romeo Had Juliette" - Lou Reed
• "Phantasm (ft. Laura Darlington)" - Flying Lotus
• "Time To Pretend" - MGMT
• "Punching In A Dream" - The Naked And Famous
• "Here And Now" - Letters To Cleo
• "Jingo" - Santana
• "Real Real" - Fiction Plane
• "Twenty Four Hours" - Joy Division
• "A Thousand Trees" - Stereophonics

The days are getting shorter, less sunlight to keep us up and running. But I'm still here. And I still love you.

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Setlist:

• "Right Here, Right Now" - Jesus Jones
• "Twenty Years" - Placebo
• "Even If It Kills Me" - Motion City Soundtrack
• "Cells" - The Servant
• "Wrong Impression" - Natalie Imbruglia
• "High Lonesome" - The Gaslight Anthem
• "Perfect Day" - supercell
• "Night Drive" - Jimmy Eat World
• "Little High Sky Show" - The Drovers
• "The House Where We Grew Up" - Hammock
• "Sunflower" - Paul Weller
• "Call Me In The Afternoon" - Half Moon Run
• "So Combustible" - Satchel Grande