AND AGAIN...

More retro-rockism. Crawling backwards through the wreckage. Call it what you will. Including late for dinner.

This one was the first show I did using my 40th birthday present, a brand-new laptop. As indefatigably old-school as I tend to be when doing these shows, I must say that having a fresh source (in addition to the usual turntables, CD players, cassette decks and live in-studio yodellers) to add to the on-air mix has proven quite exciting. Not in this particular episode so much - no, as with any attempt to grapple with new technology in real time, I spent an ungodly portion of it growling, shaking my fist at phantom antagonists, and using words that, if uttered on-mic and toted up correctly, would translate into about $2.6 million in FCC fines. Don't get me wrong, the old technology failed me just as much as the new stuff - y'know, you get a record, it says "33 1/3 RPM" on the sleeve, you don't imagine they just put it there because that was their best guess, do you? Yeah, neither did I. One doesn't get to hear the sounds of a record being played at 2/3rds speed, stopped, run backwards in panic, followed by the needle being angrily ripped from it and very audibly relowered onto the start of the tune, on the radio quite enough these days. An increasing plurality of American radio stations have gone largely if not wholly automated, which is why commercial radio is full of things like two commercials playing at once, songs beginning and ending at odd times, the phrase "ANOTHER ROCK BLOCK-OCK-OCK..." looping endlessly through the middles of songs, and pre-recorded DJs back-announcing songs they last played three days before. All offputting, bizarre, cold, sterile. Not this show, though - I promise you that, no matter what machinery is being used, all the massive fuckups you hear on my program are the result of 100% human error. That's my pledge to you, the listener.

Wow & Flutter Episode #000095 - September 23, 2009:

11:00pm
Spacemen 3 “Honey” from Playing With Fire (Fire 1988)

11:04pm
Essential Logic “Quality Crayon Wax O.K.” from Fanfare in the Garden (Kill Rock Stars 2003)

11:07pm
Flaming Lips “Kundalini Express” from New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love & Rockets (Justice/Arsenal 2009)

11:10pm
Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt “Whistle for Will” from Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese (EMI 2008)

11:12pm
Pere Ubu “Song of the Grocery Police” from Long Live Pere Ubu! (Cooking Vinyl 2009)

11:15pm
The Clean “In the Dream Life U Need A Rubber Soul” from Mister Pop (Merge 2009)

11:19pm
Hüsker Dü “It's Not Funny Anymore” from Metal Circus (SST 1983)

11:21pm
Jay Reatard “It Ain't Gonna Save Me” from Watch Me Fall (Matador 2009)

11:23pm
Public Image Ltd. “Poptones” from Second Edition (Warner Brothers 1979)

11:31pm
Jj “Ecstasy” from jj n° 2 (Sincerely Yours 2009)

11:35pm
Iggy Pop “Je Sais Que Tu Sais” from Preliminaires (Astralwerks 2009)

11:38pm
The Firesign Theatre “The Mantras and the Shakras” from Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (reissue) (Columbia 1968)

11:42pm
Dr. John “Croker Courtbullion” from Gris-Gris (Atco 1968)

11:48pm
The Velvet Underground “Hey Mr. Rain (Version 1)” from Another View (Verve 1986)

11:53pm
Thin White Rope “The Lady Vanishes” from The Ruby Sea (Frontier 1991)

11:55pm
Vivian Girls “The Desert” from Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red 2009)

11:58pm
Dali's Car “Dali's Car” from The Waking Hour (Beggars Banquet 1984)

12:03am
Love “Live and Let Live” from Forever Changes (Elektra 1967)

12:08am
The Minus 5 “Scott Walker's Fault” from Killingsworth (Yep Roc 2009)

12:11am
Scott Walker “It's Raining Today” from Scott 3 (Philips 1969)

12:15am
The Soft Boys “Old Pervert” from Underwater Moonlight (Armageddon 1980)

12:19am
Lilys “Who Is Moving” from Better Can't Make Your Life Better (Che 1995)

12:22am
Radio 4 “Certain Tragedy” from Gotham! (Gern Blandsten 2002)

12:26am
Peter Cook and Chris Morris “Drugs Etc. (excerpt)” from Why Bother? (BBC Radio 1993)

12:31am
The Shamen “Christopher Mayhew Says” from Sniffin' Rock Free Disc (Sniffin' Rock 1990)

12:36am
Not the Nine O'Clock News “I'd Like To Buy a Gramophone” from Not the Nine O'Clock News (BBC Recordings 1980)

12:38am
Eric Matthews “Poisons Will Pass Me” from It's Heavy in Here (Sub Pop 1995)

12:40am
Randy Newman “Guilty” from Good Old Boys (Reprise 1974)

12:43am
The Psychedelic Furs “Alice's House” from Mirror Moves (Columbia 1984)

12:47am
Githead “Lifeloops” from Art Pop (swim~ 2007)

12:50am
Game Theory “Last Day That We're Young” from Lolita Nation (Enigma 1987)

12:55am
Chris Stamey “Face of the Crowd” from It's a Wonderful Life (DB Recs 1982)

BY NON-EXISTENT DEMAND...

...here's the first of the playlists for my last several broadcasts (in reverse chronological order), as kiped from spinitron.com, the site all KMUN DJs are now required to use in order to be allowed to keep webstreaming. Maybe I'll plug in explanations/show anecdotes or whatever it is you call the typical mumblings I'm prone to one of these days, and maybe I'll do something with the formatting beyond removing the phrase "Buy It!" after each entry, and maybe neither you nor I give enough of a shit either way to do anything.

The DJ ¿Qué? iNo! Show - October 3, 2009:

8:00pm
Faust “Krautrock” from Faust IV (Virgin 1974)

8:12pm
Beatnik Filmstars “Hep Boys (Into Krautrock)” from In Hospitalable (Merge 1996)

8:14pm
Stereolab “We're Not Adult Orientated” from The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (Too Pure 1993)

8:20pm
Marmoset “Come With Me” from Tea Tornado (Joyful Noise 2009)

8:23pm
Colin Blunstone “Misty Roses” from One Year (Epic 1971)

8:28pm
Eric Matthews “Cardinal is More” from Six Kinds of Passion Looking For An Exit (Empyrean 2005)

8:34pm
The Three O'Clock “Underwater” from Arrive Without Travelling (I.R.S. 1985)

8:38pm
Some Esperantan Guy “Funga Kanto” from Ni Kantu En Esperanto (ESP-Disk 1963)

8:40pm
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice “Friend, That Just Isn't So” from Gipsy Freedom (5 Rue Christine 2006)

8:46pm
David Bowie “Moonage Daydream” from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (RCA 1972)

8:50pm
The Feelies “Moscow Nights” from Crazy Rhythms (Stiff 1980)

8:53pm
Scharpling & Wurster “Todd Palin Works On His Book Proposal (excerpt)” from Scharpling and Wurster at the Speed of Sound (self-released 2009)

8:59pm
Wall of Voodoo “Lost Weekend” from Call of the West (I.R.S. 1982)

9:04pm
Nobukazu Takemura “Wandering” from 10th (Thrill Jockey 2003)

9:12pm
The Coachmen “Radical Lifestyle” from Failure to Thrive (New Alliance 1988)

9:14pm
The Beach Boys “Warmth of the Sun” from Best of the Beach Boys (Capitol 1964)

9:17pm
Dumptruck “Repetition” from D is for Dumptruck (Incas 1983)

9:21pm
Peter Laughner “Baby's on Fire” from Take the Guitar Player for a Ride (Tim/Kerr 1995)

9:30pm
Tindersticks “Tie-Dye” from Tindersticks (This Way Up 1993)

9:34pm
Steely Dan “Your Gold Teeth II” from Katy Lied (ABC 1975)

9:38pm
Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band “I'm An Indian, Too” from !K7 Tapes (compiled by The Rapture) (!K7 2008)

9:41pm
Galaxie 500 “Decomposing Trees” from On Fire (Rough Trade 1989)

9:45pm
Bauhaus “Watch That Grandad Go” from The Sky's Gone Out (reissue) (Beggars Banquet 1982)

9:50pm
Pere Ubu “Pataphysical Mirror” from Long Live Pere Ubu (outtakes) (Ubu Editions 2009)

9:53pm
Love “Signed D.C. (alternate version)” from Love (reissue) (Elektra/Rhino 1966)

9:55pm
John Cale “Ghost Story” from Vintage Violence (Columbia 1969)

10:00pm
Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” from Innervisions (Tamla 1973)

10:08pm
National Lampoon “The Immigrants” from Gold Turkey (Epic 1975)

10:15pm
Van der Graaf Generator “Refugees” from The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (Charisma 1970)

10:21pm
X “Crystal Ship” from The X-Files: Fight the Future (something 1998)

10:23pm
Yummy Fur “Fiery Jack” from Kinky Cinema (Guided Missile 1997)

10:24pm
Y Pants “Favorite Sweater” from Y Pants (7" single) (99 1980)

10:27pm
Ben Watt “Long Time No Sea” from North Marine Drive (Cherry Red 1983)

10:32pm
Frank Zappa “Eat That Question” from The Grand Wazoo (Bizarre/Reprise 1972)

10:41pm
The Brian Jonestown Massacre “Monkey Powder” from My Bloody Underground (Cargo 2007)

10:48pm
Neil Hamburger “Hamburger Remembers Nixon (part one)” from Hamburger Remembes Nixon 7" (I Don't Feel A Thing 2002)

10:52pm
!!! “The Funky Branca” from 7" single (Hopscotch 1997)

10:59pm
Brian Eno “Third Uncle” from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Editions EG 1973)

11:04pm
Japan “Quiet Life” (Hansa 1979)

11:10pm
Radio Canada International “Wayne Gretsky Meets Andy Warhol” from English Topical Disc (12/27/83) (CBC 1983)

11:12pm
Kid 606 “Andy Warhol is Dead But We Still Have Hope” from Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (IPC-46 2003)

11:13pm
Bastro “Gold Fillings” from Rode Hard and Put Up Wet EP (Homestead 1988)

11:15pm
Let's Active “Prey” from Cypress (I.R.S. 1984)

11:19pm
Robert Wyatt “Out Of The Blue” from Comicopera (Domino 2007)

11:23pm
Scritti Politti “Here Come July” from Anomie and Bonhomie (EMI 1999)

11:27pm
Monks “Monk Jam (live)” from Let's Start a Beat!: Live From Cavestomp (Universal 2000)

11:32pm
Last Exit “Catch as Catch Can” from Last Exit (Enemy 1986)

11:35pm
The King of Luxembourg “A Picture of Dorian Gray” from Royal Bastard (el 1987)

11:38pm
Le Tigre “What's Yr Take on Cassavetes” from Le Tigre (Mr. Lady 1999)

11:41pm
The Smiths “Death of a Disco Dancer” from Strangeways, Here We Come (Sire 1987)

11:48pm
Elvis Costello “Man Out of Time” from Imperial Bedroom (Columbia 1982)

11:53pm
Squarepusher “Quadrature” from Just a Souvenir (Warp 2008)

11:57pm
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience “All the Way Down” from Love Songs (Flying Nun 1989)

HERE'S YOUR DAMN PLAYLIST. I'M TOO FRIGGIN' TIRED TO MAKE PITHY COMMENTS, SO PITH OFF:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000091 (JULY 29, 2009):

1. Even Flow | Pearl Jam | Ten (1992)
2. Gunpowder | Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears | Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (2009)
3. Bonjour Tristesse | Komeda | Pop På Svenska (1993)
4. Hearing Voices | Slipstream | Trancendental (2003)
5. Marathon Shirt | Self | Subliminal Plastic Motives (1995)
6. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey | Dump (featuring Zachary Brimstead, Esq.) | Dog: A Best Show on WFMU Tribute to Ram (2009)
7. Monkberry Moon Delight | Paul & Linda McCartney | Ram (1971)
8. Hot Fun in the Summertime | Sly & the Family Stone | The Essential Sly & the Family Stone (2003; rec. 1969)
9. Seven & Seven Is | Love | Da Capo (1966)
10. Celebrated Summer | Hüsker Dü | New Day Rising (1985)
11. Legal Man | Belle & Sebastian | 7" single (2000)
12. Indian Summer | Beat Happening | Jamboree (1988)
13. Dixie Peach Promenade | Alexander "Skip" Spence | Oar (1969)
14. Diana Ross | the Concretes | The Concretes (2004)
15. Aspiration | Yung Wu | Shore Leave (1987)
16. Fast Money Music | Suicide | Alan Vega/Martin Rev/Suicide (aka The Second Album) (1980)
17. Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven | Love & Rockets | Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (1985)
18. The Very Thought of You | Etta James | Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (1994)
19. Easy as Sin | Everything But the Girl | Everything But the Girl (1984)
20. The Whole of the Law | the Only Ones | Special View (1979)
21. Cake Flotilla | World of Pooh | Land of Thirst (1989)
22. Transparent | the Servants | Reserved (2006; rec. 1986)
23. The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy | John Cale | Fear (1974)
24. Walk on By | Dionne Warwick | Walk on By (1964)
25. Amoeba | John Hegley and the Popticians | I Saw My Dinner on TV EP (1986)
26. La Familia | Mirah | You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This (2000)
27. FM | the Slits | Cut (1979)
28. Ambassadors of Love | Milkshakes | Ambassadors of Love EP (1984)
29. Telephone Call From Istanbul | Tom Waits | Franks Wild Years (1987)
30. Fuzzy Reactor | Boris With Michio Kurihara | The Limits Of Control (2009)
31. Misery Is | Original Cast | The MAD Show (1966)
32. Doing All the Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (2009)
33. Rolls Royce and Acid | Jack Nitzsche | Performance soundtrack (1970)

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS?:

Or, to put it in a less overtly hey-I've-read-a-book manner, the return to the air (and this coast) of my dear boy, Liam, for whom I bifurcated this fortnight's program - one hour his, one hour mine. I'll happily excuse the Black Eyed Peas track, because of his absolute insistence that we give Philly Boy Roy Ziegler his fair share of airtime. *sniff* Excuse me, I think it's getting a little dusty in here...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000090 (JULY 15, 2009):

LIAM'S SET:
1. Day 'n' Nite | Kid Cudi | A Kid Named Cudi (2008)
2. Run to the Hills | Iron Maiden | The Number of the Beast (1982)
3. I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas | The E.N.D. (2009)
4. Helicopter | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm (2005)
5. Impulse | An Endless Sporadic | Ameliorate EP (2008)
6. Toys in the Attic | Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic (1975)
7. All the Small Things (live) | Blink-182 | The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (2000)
8. I'm in the Band | Hellacopters | Rock & Roll Is Dead (2005)
9. Success, Philly Style (part one) | Jon Wurster | The Best You Can Do Is Be Worse Than The Best Show (2007)
10. Killer Queen | Queen | Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
11. Mr. Crowley | Ozzy Osbourne | Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
12. Success, Philly Style (part two) | Jon Wurster | The Best You Can Do Is Be Worse Than The Best Show (2007)
13. Ziggy Stardust | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
14. Sabotage | Beastie Boys | Ill Communication (1994)

LIAM'S DAD'S SET:
15. Right Side Up With The World | Bertrand Burgalat | Chéri B.B. (2007)
16. A Cause Des Garçons | Yelle | Pop-Up (2007)
17. New Lace Sleeves | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Trust (1981)
18. No Feelings | Bananarama | Party Party soundtrack (1982)
19. Everybody is a Star | the Pastels | You Don't Need Darkness To Do What You Think Is Right (2002)
20. Classics of the Contemporary Drama: "The Idiot" | National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray) | Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (1996; rec. 1974)
21. You're So Good To Me | Velocity Girl | 7" single (1994)
22. Non-Alignment Pact | Julian Cope | Julian Cope EP (1986)
23. The Booker Tease | the Residents | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)
24. I Can't Stop Thinking About You | Linda Kaye | Dream Babes Volume One: Am I Dreaming? (1994; rec. 1966)
25. Taxidermy Blues in Reverse | Red Red Meat | Bunny Gets Paid (1995)
26. Free Fall | Cornelius | Fantasma (1997)
27. Misty Took a Holiday | the Rock*A*Teens | Golden Time (1999)
28. She | Suede | Coming Up (1997)
29. Home of the Brave | Spiritualized | Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space (1997)
30. Walk on the Water | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
31. The Melody | The Mae Shi | HLLLYH (2008)
32. See Through Nature | Yeah Yeah Noh | Cutting The Heavenly Lawn Of Greatness...Last Rites For The God Of Love (1985)
33. Dance of the Morlocks | DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid | Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1996)
34. Dream Time in Lake Jackson | the KLF | Chill Out (1990)

CANADIANS, DEAD PEOPLE, LESLEY GORE, AND THE MUTHAFUGGIN' PRIEST!!! WHAT THE HELL ELSE DO YOU NEED?

A lot, I know. You'll just have to live with what you get...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000089 (JULY 1, 2009):

1. Vanishing Girl | the Dukes of Stratosphear | Psonic Psunspot (1987)
2. Natural's Not in It | Gang of Four | Entertainment! (1979)
3. Captain's Dead | Guided by Voices | Devil Between My Toes (1987)
4. Over It | Dinsoaur Jr. | Tree (2009)
5. Tattoo | the Who | The Who Sell Out (1967)
6. Nightshift | the Names | 7" single (1981)
7. Beat It | Supergrass | live on XFM Radio, Jan. 2008
8. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing | Minutemen | Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
9. Tripmaker | Sky Saxon and the Seeds | The Seeds (1966)
10. The Day Farrah Fawcett Died | the Vandals | Fear of a Punk Planet (2000)
11. Michael Jackson | Negativland | Escape From Noise (1986)
12. Dab | John Oswald | Plunderphonics 69/96 (2001)
13. Variations on a Theme by Michael Jackson | Eldridge Skell's The Rude Suitcase | Sookie Jump (2007)
14. Knights of the Baskervilles | Thee Headcoatees | Knights of the Baskervilles (1996)
15. "E" is for Evil | the Knights of the New Crusade | My God is Alive! Sorry About Yours! (2004)
16. Cocaine Blues | Hank Thompson | Rebels & Outlaws: Music From the Wild Side of Life (1999)
17. Tombstone Twist | Big John Bates | Big John Bates (2005)
18. Wonder Boy | Lesley Gore | Girl Talk (1965)
19. Where the Wild Roses Grow | Nick Cave (with Kylie Minogue) | Murder Ballads (1996)
20. Milk and Scissors | the Sadies | Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records (2000)
21. Freewheel Burning | Judas Priest | Defenders of the Faith (1984)
22. Where's Johnny? (excerpt) | the Credibility Gap | A Great Gift Idea (1974)
23. I'm in Heaven Now | American Music Club | Human Music (1988)
24. Title Music From Satyajit Ray's "The Householder" | Jyotitindra Moitra & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan | The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack (2007)
25. Neverland | the dB's | Repercussion (1982)
26. Do It! | Death From Above 1979 | Head's Up (2002)
27. Daddy Drank | the Kids in the Hall (Kevin McDonald, David Foley) | The Kids in the Hall (1990)
28. 5 American 6 Canadian | Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet | Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham (1991)
29. Echo Beach | Martha and the Muffins | Metro Music (1980)
30. Dodge Veg-O-Matic | Deja Voodoo | Big Pile of Mud (1988)
31. Canadian Megaphone Newsreel | National Lampoon (Bob Perry, Bruce McCall) | Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (1996; rec. 1974)
32. A Side Wins | Sloan | One Chord to Another (1997)
33. Diamonds in the Mine | Leonard Cohen | Songs of Love & Hate (1971)
34. There is No Dance in Frequency and Balance | Set Fire to Flames | Sings Reign Rebuilder (2001)
35. Sunshine and Gasoline (excerpt) | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | aMAZEzine! #4: Lost in the House (1998)
36. Never Can Say Goodbye | the Jackson Five | 7" single (1971)

WELL, SINCE NONE OF YOU BASTIDS BOTHERED TO REQUEST ANYTHING, I PLAYED MORE OF THE SAME DAMN SHIT AS USUAL. HOPE YOU'RE PLEASED WITH YOURSELVES:

(It should be noted for the record that I spent this evening training a promising new late-shift broadcaster, and that tracks 14-22 on the list below were chosen by her. So I suppose there were requests of a sort this week. But again, if there's anything anybody wants to hear on my next show, make it known in the comments thread below...)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000088 (JUNE 17, 2009):

1. Speed of Life | David Bowie | Low (1977)
2. Between the Lines | Pink Fairies | Hits Greatest Stiffs (1978)
3. The Prisoner | D.O.A. | Let Them Eat Jellybeans! (1981)
4. Alone | Colin Newman | A-Z (1980)
5. Sweet Baby James | the Pooh Sticks | The Great White Wonder (1991)
6. Moods for Moderns | Satisfact | Satisfact (1997)
7. Showstopper | Iron Knowledge | Chains and Black Exhaust (2002; rec. date unknown)
8. Jockey Full of Bourbon | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs (1985)
9. Wawa | Lizzy Mercier Descloux | Press Color (1979)
10. Every Night I'm Mentally Crucified (7000 Times) | Prolapse | backsaturday (1996)
11. Financial Declaration | Union Carbide Productions | In the Air Tonight (1989)
12. The Other Side (excerpt) | Robert Popper & Peter Serafinowicz | Radio Spiritworld (2009)
13. Deadlock (titelmusik) | Can | Soundtracks (1970)
14. Table 4 3 | Throw Rag | "Tee-Tot" (2001)
15. Get Off the Floor | the Murder City Devils | The Murder City Devils (1997)
16. Grudge Run | Dick Dale and his Del-Tones | Checkered Flag (1963)
17. Death of an Angel | the Kingsmen | Volume 2 (1964)
18. Song to the Siren | This Mortal Coil | It'll End in Tears (1984)
19. Only Shallow | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless (1991)
20. Fever | the Cramps | Off the Bone (1987)
21. Christian Says | Tones on Tail | Everything! (1998)
22. Deep in the Woods | the Birthday Party | The Bad Seed EP (1982)
23. Taste of Cindy | the Jesus & Mary Chain | Psychocandy (1985)
24. Under the House | Public Image Ltd. | The Flowers of Romance (1981)
25. Bomb | Gregory Corso | Sounds of the Beat Generation (1960)
26. Aloha Steve & Danno | Radio Birdman | Radios Appear (1977)
27. Guitar Psychedelics | the Ventures | Super Psychedelics (1967)
28. Five Years Ahead of My Time | the Third Bardo | Pebbles Vol. 3: The Acid Gallery (1992; rec. mid-1960s)
29. Voices Green and Purple | Bees | Pebbles Vol. 3: The Acid Gallery (1992; rec. mid-1960s)
30. #56: Hippies | Bob Odenkirk | Comedy by the Numbers audiobook (2009)
31. Pefection as a Hipster | Stuart Murdoch, Neil Hannon and Catherine Ireton | God Help the Girl (2009)
32. Overgrown | CarCrashLander | Mountains on Our Backs (2009)
33. How Did You Die? | Robert Popper & Peter Serafinowicz | Radio Spiritworld (2009)
34. Harmony in My Head | Buzzcocks | Singles Going Steady (1979)
35. Ain't It Funny | Tall Dwarfs | 3 EPs (1994)
36. Start a Life | the Posies | Success (1998)
37. Fanfare (reprise) | Eric Matthews | It's Heavy in Here (1995)
38. Hudson River Wind (Blend the Ambiance) | Lou Reed | Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007)

A SEMI-AUSPICIOUS OCCASION...

...celebrated in what felt to me like a highly inauspicious manner. This was the third-anniversary edition of W&F, which gave me a fine excuse just to play the first ten minutes of my very first show while I attempted to slap myself into sensibility. This has been a very long day for me, and it's not over yet as I write this. I still have to make the twenty-minute drive home, and hey! I just noticed that, in addition to all the mishaps and misadventures that transpired throughout this very long day (slashed finger, aching ankles, bad mustache I'm stuck with all summer due to a theatrical obligation, technology failing me in myriad ways, lots of frenetic activity and barely-suppressed rage at my overall circumstances), I appear to have left my wallet somewhere. Hopefully at home. So, if you don't hear from me again after this post, assume the heat nabbed me. Or that I'm still asleep. Or that I tracked down whoever's responsible for automatically layering in those links in blogspot posts on words like "flowers," "movies" or "singles," there was a death struggle, and I lost (though not, hopefully, before I hotlinked his ass with a hot-plate coil). Yet, somehow, in spite of it all, the show came out pretty damned good! Go; then figure.

(ex-post facto notes: 1) Yes, I know I played Josef K twice. Another fatigue-inspired programming hiccup, though the two tracks sound like very different bands anyway. b) Apparently, those hyperlinks on words like "flowers," "movies" and "singles" only show up on certain browsers/computers, and not all of them show up on those, either, so some of you may have no idea what I'm talking about up there. Fuggin' annoying either way. e) I want to set up a system whereby I can take requests [I can rarely fulfill them while I'm in the studio, due to the limitations of both my portable music collection - I don't own an iPod, people! I have to bring a big ol' garment bag full up of CDs and vinyl every time I do a show! Gaze upon my freakishness! - and that of the station's itself, though if you're ever looking for an England Dan and John Ford Coley track or a deep cut from Doug & the Slugs, we'll have you covered], in part to help break myself out of certain musical ruts I frequently find myself in and in part to establish that people actually read this blog/listen to this show. So here's the deal: use the comments link at the bottom of the post and hit me with a request, and unless it's egregiously bad or ridiculously out of sync with the kind of stuff I usually play, bearing in mind that I at least theoretically have pretty wide-ranging tastes, I'll play it on my next show. π) Thanks as usual to my bro, Bob, for his suggestions and guidance, and in this case, his .zip file of worthy playlistable candidates. Three of the songs below come via his wise nudging.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000087 (JUNE 3, 2009):

1. Islamic Klezmer Intro/The Story So Far (rebroadcast from W&F #1, 6/7/06)
2. You Made Me Realise | My Bloody Valentine | You Made Me Realise EP (1988)
3. French Film (Blurred) | Wire | Chairs Missing (1978)
4. Talking Drum | Japan | Tin Drum (1982)
5. Isolation | Joy Division | Closer (1980)
6. Learn to Live | Flipper | Love (2009)
7. Love Will Destroy Us in the End | Hefner | Breaking God's Heart (1998)
8. It's Kinda Funny | Josef K | Entomology (2006; rec. 1980)
9. Choci Loni | Young Marble Giants | Colossal Youth (1979)
10. Heads Watch (taken from the aborted album "Sorry for Laughing") | Josef K | Entomology (2006; rec. 1980)
11. Should've Done Drugs | Overlord | Ticker Symbols (2006)
12. Reservoir Park | Duchess & The Duke | She's the Duchess, He's the Duke (2009)
13. Pink Frost | the Chills | Kaleidoscope World (1987)
14. Deputy Dan Has No Friends | the Firesign Theatre | Dear Friends (1972)
15. Northern Something | Tortoise | Beacons of Ancestorship (2009)
16. Self Portrait With "Electric Brain" | Stereolab | Chemical Chords (2008)
17. The City is Here for You to Use | the Futureheads | The Futureheads (2004)
18. Jism | Tindersticks | Tindersticks (1993)
19. Curse of the Frontierland | Game Theory | Real Nighttime (1985)
20. Beechwood Park | the Zombies | Odessey and Oracle (1968)
21. Penelope Tree | Felt | Gold Mine Trash (1987)
22. Angela | Jarvis Cocker | Further Complications (2009)
23. Suicide Kiss | A.R. Kane | 69 (1988)
24. Down at the Rock and Roll Club (original) | Richard Hell & the Voidoids | Blank Generation (1977)
25. Dropout Boogie | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Safe as Milk (1967)
26. Like a Dolphin | 14 Iced Bears | 7" single (1987)
27. Like Dylan in the Movies | Belle & Sebastian | If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
28. Outlaw Blues | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
29. One Line | PJ Harvey | Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
30. Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials (excerpt) | Lenny Bruce | Let the Buyer Beware (2004; recording date unknown)
31. The Completist's Library | Sarandon | Kill Twee Pop! (2008)
32. Cheerleader | Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest (2009)
33. Tainted Love | Gloria Jones | 7" single (1964)
34. Phenomenal Trousers | Blairmailer | Australian Pop Series Vol. II 7" (1995)
35. Slo Drone | Lee Ranaldo | From Here to Infinity (1987)

ONE DAY, I MAY TELL THE STORY OF THE COMPLAINING LISTENER I MANAGED TO CHARM/SHAME INTO LOVING MY SHOW. ACTUALLY, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE STORY.

But I'll use a funny voice when I tell it.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000086 (MAY 20, 2009):

1. Boredom | the Buzzcocks | Spiral Scratch EP (1977)
2. Marry Me (Lie! Lie!) | These Immortal Souls | Get Lost Don't Lie! (1987)
3. Bottled Violence | Minor Threat | Minor Threat EP (1981)
4. The Small Song | the Geraldine Fibbers | Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home (1995)
5. Buckethead | Meat Puppets | Up on the Sun (1985)
6. Being Boiled | the Human League | 7" single (1978)
7. Creatures | Akron/Family | Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (2009)
8. Accepting Applications at University | Lilys | The 3-Way (1999)
9. Dancing Barefoot | Patti Smith | Wave (1979)
10. September Girls | Big Star | Radio City (1974)
11. Bloodstain | U.N.K.L.E. | Psyence Fiction (1998)
12. How Come? | All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors | All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors (1996)
13. When It Falls | Aspera | Oh Fantastica (2003)
14. Psychotic Break | Super XX Man | Volume XII - There'll Be Diamonds (2008)
15. Thunderclap (for Bobby Pyn) | Sonic Youth | The Eternal (2009)
16. Goin' Down | Soul Asylum | Time's Incinerator cassette (1986)
17. I'm Straight | Modern Lovers | Troublemakers (1980; rec. 1973)
18. Dum Dum Dum | Dum Dum Dum | Messthetics' Greatest Hits - Messthetics Greatest Hits - The Sounds Of D.I.Y. 1977-1980 (2007)
19. Get Sorted | Zomby | Where Were You in '92? (2008)
20. Goodbye Pork Pie Cravat | Richard Meltzer | English as a Second Language (1980)
21. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds | Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
22. Inside My Brain | Angry Samoans | Inside My Brain (1980)
23. Ku Mi Da Hankan | the Elcados | Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-rock & Fuzz Funk In 1970s Nigeria (2008)
24. Lexicon Devil | the Germs | (GI) (1979)
25. Love Song for the Dead Ché | the United States of America | The United States of America (1968)
26. Pencils in the Wind | Flight of the Conchords | 7" single (2009)
27. Psycho Cupid (Danceband on the Edge of Time) | the Mekons | Fear and Whiskey (1985)
28. Reel | Throwing Muses | Chains Changed EP (1987)
29. 24 Hours in Tunbridge Wells | Eric Idle & Neil Innes | The Rutland Weekend Songbook (1976)
30. Struggle | Radio 4 | Gotham! (2002)
31. Slippin' Into Darkness | War | All Day Music (1971)
32. Signed D.C. | Love | Love (1965)
33. Sylvia Plath | Death of Samantha | Where the Women Wear the Glory and the Men Wear the Pants (1988)
34. X Side (12XU) | Wire | Twelve Times You 7" (2001)
35. You Lose | Cause Co-Motion! | Because, Because, Because EP (2009)