Eric is currently taking your top five requests from any official Common Rotation release or any Union Maid Recording to be played at his show on Monday June 20th at the Broadway Beanery. Everyone has one vote for their top five. Please spread the word that this is the place to post your requests. Eric will only be counting posts made before Saturday June 18th so get yours up soon... and remember the best way to hear the songs you've chosen is to actually attend the show. Don't miss this one because... well, just because.

Hehehehehe The wheels are turning!

Since we get only one vote for top five, I need to seriously contemplate my choices and not waste my vote.

Peace Love and Cheese

I'll go first then-

1. Dancer
2. The Crowd and I
3. Burgandy
4. Karma Chameleon
5. Answering Machine

Hey! No fair anonymous!

Peace Love and Cheese

Sorry that was me :0)

1. One Big Fan
2. Sam Hall
3. She Belongs to Me
4. Payback
5. Did a Verse End?

Five? I can only vote for 5? In the thread about this show, I have 18 requests! You can make a whole show with just the songs I want. And those were just off the top of my head. I hadn't even gone back to the UM list to make even more requests. Ah, well. I'll just have to really listen to them again and whittle it down.

You know, you could interpret this as just a request for songs. Then Eric would pick the top 5 vote getters.

But, I won't be greedy. Only five...

Even if people post as anon the guys can check the IP addresses to make sure people don't vote more than once.

Man, only 5? That's hard. I guess I'll just go with whatever comes to me first. Here goes...

1 Dancer
2 Another Day Older
3 Lonesome Traveler
4 Means of Survival
5 Given Signs

and so many more... LOL

1. Near Miss
2. Payback
3. Given Signs
4. Saddest Situation
5. UM JUST NEAR MISS

SRSLY NEAR MISS PLZ!!! :D

1. Try Too Hard (I love this song so much)
2. Definitive Biography
3. Union Dues
4. Clear Channel
5. Dancer

Unfortunately, I'm going to be stuck on the wrong end of the North American continent for the actual concert, but I will be there in spirit

Shapenew

Only 5 how easy is that gonna be. I like so many I can't choose just 5 but here goes my try.

1.Given Signs
2.Karma Chameleon
3.Answering Machine
4.Clear Channel
5.Definative Biography

Ther I hope they play atleast One of mine. I tried to get all my favs on there but with only 5 it was hard to pick through it.

1. Master of Your Domain

2. Princess of Venice

3. Jesus

4. The Way Home (UM 24Oct04)

5. Attention (UM 19Mar05)

Peace Love and Cheese

Despite the fact I'll be spending the weekend before this show being somewhat closer to Long Island than I usually am, I won't be able to go. But! I felt like giving my vote for some songs anyway.

Normal Sea
Near Miss
Given Signs
Folsom Prison Blues
Captain's Arrival

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that's hard lol they are all brill!!!!

1. Belfast
2. True Hollywood Romance
3. Oklahoma
4. Burgandy
5. More Complex Than It Sounds

Sigh, I'm still thinking!

Some of the songs I really love are because I love how Adam and Eric harmonize. I'm trying to think which ones I want just Eric to sing. Not that he can't sing them all, of course. Just which ones I think are best with just his voice.

1. Given Signs
2. Lena
3. All The Things You ALready Have
4. Carnival Song
5. Indie Rockin' .. (UM 2Jun04 )

wow hey this was tough

1. broken arrows
2. afterthought
3. cowboy
4. if i fell
5. no one like you

1. Dancer
2. Ice Cream
3. No One Like You
4. Lena
5. One Big Fan

Fortunate
The Crowd and I
Everything Under the Sun
God Does
Burgandy

1. The Way To Go Home
2. Princess of Venice
3. Dancer
4. Master of my Domain
5. Don't Stand a Chance

It has been a difficult choice, even though I won't be at the gig, what with living in the UK and and all that: )

1. Near Miss
2. It’ll be alright
3. One big fan
4. captains arrival
5. No one like you

Hi, here are my five songs:

1. The Crowd and I
2. Burgandy
3. No One Like You
4. Near Miss
5. True Hollywood Romance

Ok. I’ve finally made my choices. It was pretty hard, too. I could have gone with my head, picking some of the ones that already have votes like Given Sings or Normal Sea/Lesson Learned. Or the song I keep nagging them to play, Near Miss. But I’ve heard a lot of these at live performances and on their CDs. Or like in the case of Near Miss, I love the Adam/Eric version. I went with my heart instead. They won’t win, but maybe Eric will revisit them and rotate them into the lineup.

And you know I have to talk about them...

1. Master of My Domain (05.15.2003 UM). A story told in song. Lovely guitar work. And they say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
2. Still (03.25.2005 UM). I don’t know all the words to this song. But I love the poetry of what I do know. One of those songs where you’re first swept up in the rhythm of the music. Then you hear the words and realize it’s so much more than the music. But it always is.
3. Let Me Come Home (05.20.2005 UM). I love the visual imagery and the quiet longing.
4. Hell (Help?) is on the Way (12.12.2004 UM). So I can find out if the word is Hell or Help. Just kidding. Actually, it’s another story telling song with great music.
5. House in Order / That’s an Order (05.29.2005 UM). Very pretty musically. Complicated words. Eric could go on all night with this.

Close runner ups
~ Uncle Saroyan’s Time of Your Life. I like the Adam/Eric version.
~ Gone Away (01.11.2005 UM). Wonderful words.
~ Absolutely Rough / Way Too Much. Eric played around with this song a lot last year. I liked the 5.14.2004 one musically.
~ Clear Skies / Baby Don’t Worry. (04.14.2005 UM). But I want a piano for this.
~ I’m Back. (05.11.2005 UM). It just sounds good.


I may have thought too much about this.

Bumping this up for naggz and anyone else who wants to throw in the pot.

Peace Love and Cheese

Just in case I get to go, here's my requests:

* Dancer
* Clear Channel
* Let Me Come Home (I'm with Watcher....this is still one of my favorite recent ones)
* Question and Answer (UM 4/20/03)
* Adeline/My Dear Old Friend

I've been thinking a lot about this, so here it is:

1. Need not Know
2. Master of My Domain
3. Devil's Bargain
4. Live in Five (if possible solo)
5. Auctioneer

I love everyone else's choices too, so can't wait to hear what Eric plays!

So many good songs. I wish I could hear what Eric plays. LOL

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The Boy
Untold
Simple
Common Rotation
Cartoon

Um, well matt said before the 18th, so this is probably too late BUT here's what we want anyway:

heather
1. One Checks Out (UM 5/3/04)
2. Oklahoma
3. Clear Channel
4. Burgandy
5. Everything Under the Sun

allison
1. Punchline Delivery (UM 3/19/03)
2. The Crowd and I
3. One Checks Out
4. Fatal Flaw
5. The Way to Go Home (UM 10/25/04)

racheL
1. The Crowd and I
2. Did a Verse End?
3. Burgandy
4. Pretty Lights
5. The First Time (with the woo)

steevo (not a girl but not enough of a man to write his own post)
1. Condi (UM 8/27/04)
2. Lena
3. Rosa Parks
4. Boy in the Bubble
5. Some Frikkin Floyd

so yeah... that's how we be do

Interesting votes for Oklahoma. I think of Oklahoma as an Adam song. Might be interesting to hear just Eric sing it. Slow or fast version?

first time i ever heard it was the slow version but i have heard the fast one and i'm kinda liking the fast version

Some Frikkin Floyd

LOL! You know, I'm going to have to second him on that!

Peace Love and Cheese

1) Pretty Lights
2) Princess of Venice
3) Oklahoma (the old version)
4) Burgundy
5) Dancer

Slightly drunk, I write this to complain. Where was Some Frikkin Floyd? Next Beanery show i expect Some Frikkin Floyd. I think we need to cement this with some kind of contract, sign here if you agree.

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As extra incentive, a $5 signing bonus will be added to your tip cup upon reciept of said 'Some Frikkin Floyd'.

This is,
Steevo

PS. Rachel's a biotch. Quit that bullplop secret handshake.
PPS. Just kidding Rachel's not a biotch. But that secret handshake is still bullplop.

I was gonna say bullshit where i said bullplop in that last message but i was afraid it might be deleted.

This is still,
Steevo