I’m not one for nostalgia, but ‘00s Nite at Club Underground on May 31 did make me feel a bit wistful for the final decade of life untethered to phones and social media and streaming platforms. I wouldn’t say the ‘00s were a particularly great decade (like I’ve written before, it wasn’t), but it was nice to not be connected to everyone, everywhere, all the time.
In keeping with this week’s theme at Underground, I busted out one of my favorite mashups, which I had downloaded and burned to a CD for gigs back in the ‘00s, and ended the night with the song that was my closer in the earliest years of that decade. Keep reading for the set list.
Kate Nash – Foundations
Lily Allen – Smile
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
Depeche Mode – Precious
Royksopp – Eple
Glass Candy – Beatific
Ladytron – He Took Her to a Movie
Holy Ghost – I Wanted to Tell Her
Blur – Music Is My Radar
Golden Boy, Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin
Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful
Hot Hot Heat – No Not Now
Interpol – PDA
The Strokes – The End Has No End
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date with the Night
Gravy Train! – Hella Nervous
Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
Editors – Munich
Bloc Party – Banquet
Metric – Dead Disco
Ladytron – Playgirl
Gorillaz – Dare (DFA mix)
Daft Punk – Technologic
Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At
Simian Mobile Disco -Hustler
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder on the Dancefloor (request)
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
Le Tigre – Deceptacon (DFA Mix)
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Mylo vs. Scissor Sisters – Drop the Numb
Madonna – Hung Up (SDP Extended Mix)
Miss Kittin and the Hacker – Frank Sinatra
Peaches- Fuck the Pain Away
Radiohead – Idioteque
Interpol – Slow Hands
The Strokes – Juiceboxx
Bloc Party – Two More Years
Modest Mouse – Dashboard
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger
Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
Phoenix – 1901 (Mike Balance Rerub)
The Killers – Mr Brightside (Thin White Duke Remix)
Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folks
CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (request)
Crystal Castles – Vanished
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Knife – Heartbeats (Rex the Dog remix)
Justice vs. Simian – Never Be Alone
M.I.A. – Jimmy
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (request)
Postal Service – Such Great Heights
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads will Roll (A Track remix) (request)
The Killers – Somebody Told Me
Crystal Castles, Robert Smith- Not in Love
MGMT – Time to Pretend
M83- Midnight City
Robyn – Dancing on My Own
DJ Spiller, Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Groovejet
Daft Punk – Digital Love
Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
Pulp – Bad Cover Version
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
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Liz O. is an L.A.-based writer and DJ. Read her recently published work and check out her upcoming gigs.