Been intending to do this thread for awhile. Metric show some impeccable taste in the music they choose after the opening act and before they hit the stage. Let's try to collect a list, find titles of some stumpers and add youtube links. Scnadams helped me with these 2 for me back in April:
I'm almost 100% certain that the first one is "Jumbo" by Underworld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56xzNLvQDQ
The second is Caribou's "Niobe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEBCq64ecTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGS7vNLhxNA
Bear in Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHuSPwTPxs
Brian Eno - Here come the Warm Jets(used as the Metric exist song for severla years)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw
Iggy Pop - Passenger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28egemBx9Ag
Lou Reed - Good Time Together. Right song/performer but wrong version. Might be a Velvet Underground version from 1969 I can't find on YT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgXrVDUpGG0
Black Mountain - No Hits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgFJH0Auak
Black Mountain - Wucan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftZ3UCdTuWQ
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8
Jay-Z/Alicia - Empire State of Mind.
There was a couple more from the show I saw this month I couldn't catch, not even catching 4-5 lyrics to google search later. There was an Elliott SMith one with "disappoint me" in the lyrics, couple instrumental things, something with go-oo-oo-oo-on in the chorus that stumped my search engines. Vocalist that sounded like Nico with a violin drone in the background. Late 70's Fleetwood Mac song I forget. Either Hero or Hallogallo from Neu!. Emily has talked up Tago Mago from CAN in the past. Some new song that sounded a bit like Duran Duran's Planet Earth. Commodore and the current tour had somethign that was just a programmed beat with little else for 5 minutes soon before they hit the stage. Anyone find the band's slacker radio playlist online?
My personal favourite is Emily choosing to play these 2 songs right before hitting the stage on the Knives tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9NQg9Lhygo
Golden Hair - Syd Barrett(ex Pink Floyd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KXSb6wuJg
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd