DEEP AND CRISP AND SOMEWHAT UNEVEN:

There's a thematic thread running through the songs in this edition of W&F. Can you guess what it is?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000015 (DECEMBER 20, 2006):

1. "Happy Birthday Jesus" - Little Cindy
2. "If You Believe in Christmas Trees" - Cardinal
3. "A Child's Christmas in Wales" - John Cale
4. "Sleigh Ride" - Mistletoe Disco Band
5. "Santa Claus" - Throwing Muses
6. "What You Need" - the Fall
7. "Christmas Day" - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
8. "Christmas Vacation" - the Descendents
9. "RSPCA Interview" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris)
10. "Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto" - Belle & Sebastian
11. "Christmas Time is Here Again (Fan Club Recording, 1967)" - the Beatles
12. "Jesus Christ" - Big Star
13. "The Rocking Disco Santa Claus" - the Sisterhood
14. "Santa Cupcakes" - National Lampoon (Gilda Radner)
15. "Christmas at the Zoo" - the Flaming Lips
16. "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis" - Tom Waits
17. "My Christmas Wish" - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
18. "Christmas with the Devil" - Spinal Tap
19. "Mambo Santa Mambo" - the Enchanters
20. "Uncle Bernie's Farm" - the Mothers of Invention
21. "Santa Claus Skips Cudahy" - Couch Flambeau
22. "My Christmas Memory" - Patton Oswalt
23. "Merry Christmas Baby" - Otis Redding
24. "Cha-Cha All the Way" - Capitol Studio Orchestra
25. Christmas Wish Line
26. "A Child's Christmas Saving the Whales" - Game Theory
27. "Linus and Lucy" - Game Theory
28. "Rod Serling Explains the First Christmas" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
29. "It's Christmas Time" - Yo La Tengo
30. "Christmas with William S." - Olivia Tremor Control
31. "Christmas at K-Mart" - Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band
32. "A Very Hanson Christmas" - Jon Stewart
33. "Frosty the Snowman" - Cocteau Twins
34. "Deck the Halls" - Jingle Bermuda Tree Frogs
35. "Exotic Night" - Martin Denny
36. "Santa Claus is a Black Man" - AKIM & the Teddy Vann Production Company
37. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy" - John Fahey
38. Special Christmas Benefit Song!!

That's right - every single artist mentioned above walks with a limp. Congratulations.

SPECIAL BONUS POST FOR ORDERING BEFORE MIDNIGHT:

Just finished another guest spot on the DJ K-No program. A little, tiny bit wider-ranging than usual, maybe, but mostly just longer.

THE DJ NO-K SHOW (DECEMBER 9, 2006):

1. "Are You Hung Up?" - the Mothers of Invention
2. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" - the Mothers of Invention
3. "Station to Station" - David Bowie
4. "Death and the Maiden" - the Verlaines
5. "Help You Ann" - the Lyres
6. "Pigeons" (1) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue)
7. "Mobilization" - Savage Republic
8. "Voodoo Voodoo" - LaVern Baker
9. "The Blues Are Still Blue" - Belle and Sebastian
10. "Run Paint Run Run" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
11. "Search and Destroy" - Iggy and the Stooges
12. "Car Song" - Elastica
13. "I Felt Like a Gringo" - Minutemen
14. "Trem Two" - Mission of Burma
15. "Dylan at the Met/Art Warehouse" - Firesign Theatre
16. "We Are All Prostitutes" - the Pop Group
17. "The Model" - Big Black
18. "Ana (BBC Session)" - the Pixies
19. "Send Me a Postcard" - the Shocking Blue
20. "The Light Pours Out of Me" - Magazine
21. "You're Lost Little Girl" - the Doors
22. "Smothered in Hugs" - Guided by Voices
23. "July, July!" - the Decemberists
24. "Pigeons" (2) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue, Naomi R. Page)
25. "Nothin' to Do" - the Dandy Warhols
26. "Up the Neck" - Pretenders
27. "I Never Play Basketball Now" - Prefab Sprout
28. "Theme From Pigdom Come" - Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
29. "Solid Gold Easy Action" - T. Rex
30. "Strychnine" - the Sonics
31. "Qu'ran" - David Byrne/Brian Eno
32. "Political Science" - Randy Newman
33. "Sweet and Tender Hooligan" - the Smiths
34. "Fears of Gun" - the Birthday Party
35. "Get Hip and Go!" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider)
36. "The Pleasant Kind" - Eric Matthews
37. "Room With a View" - Let's Active
38. "Alright" - Supergrass
39. "Everything About You" - the Field Mice
40. "Chopin" - Mike Nichols and Elaine May
41. "50 Ft. Queenie" - PJ Harvey
42. "I Am the Fly" - Wire
43. "Poise" - the Ornette Coleman Quartet
44. "Pigeons" (3) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue, Naomi R. Page)
45. "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" - Pere Ubu
46. "Eight Miles High" - Hüsker Dü
47. "Mr. Spaceman" - the Byrds
48. "Same Old Scene" - Roxy Music
49. "Consolation Prize" - Orange Juice
50. "Don't Cry for Me" - the Zombies
51. "Frost and Fire" - Everything But the Girl
52. "Break" - the Cure
53. "In the Kingdom #19" - Sonic Youth
54. "Flight Reaction" - Calico Wall
55. "Kingpin" - the Credibility Gap
56. "Monkey Hustle" - Jack Conrad
57. "Harlem" - Suicide
58. "Let's Dance" - the Futureheads
59. "The Unheard Music" - X
60. "Charlie's Medicine" - Warren Zevon
61. "Frosch" - Mouse on Mars
62. "Daily Nightly" - the Monkees
63. "Lady With a Torch" - Proctor & Bergman
64. "Paint Work" - the Fall
65. "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" - Tortoise
66. "Helen Fordsdale" - Mars
67. "Out There a Minute" - Sun Ra
68. "Story of Isaac" - Leonard Cohen
69. "Primitive Painters" - Felt

WELL, UM, THIS IS A POST.

Well, um, that was a show.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000014 (DECEMBER 6, 2006):

1. "Do the Mussolini" - Cabaret Voltaire
2. "Banned in D.C." - Bad Brains
3. "Moses? I Amn't" - Mogwai
4. "Queen/Mother" - Julian Cope
5. "You Showed Me" - the Lightning Seeds
6. "Lost Weekend" - Wall of Voodoo
7. "Pulp" - S.F. Seals
8. "Gray Turns White" - Ultra Vivid Scene
9. "Mr. Rodent" - Coyle & Sharpe
10. "Loose Nuts on the Veladrome" - Liars
11. "Save Your Money" - the Loud Family
12. "Children's Stories" - Monty Python
13. "World Painted" - Screaming Trees
14. "How Does It Feel To Feel (US Version)" - the Creation
15. "Why is This Commercial?" - Negativland
16. "I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms" - the Modern Lovers
17. "Dog Door" - Tom Waits
18. "Flitcraft" - the Mekons
19. "1-2-5" - the Haunted
20. "Read About Seymour" - Swell Maps
21. "The Indianapolis Academy of the French Accent" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, Emily Prager, Alice Playten)
22. "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" - the Clean
23. "Fairytale in the Supermarket" - the Raincoats
24. "Six Six Sixties" - Throbbing Gristle
25. "Slippi" - Animal Collective
26. "Rain" - the Beatles
27. "Wave a White Flag" - Elvis Costello
28. "Sixteen" - the Buzzcocks
29. "The Shrouded Stranger" - Allen Ginsberg
30. "Andy Warhol is Dead But We Still Have Hope" - Kid 606
31. "Moon Mission" - Kai Rautenberg and Orchester Juergen Ehlers
32. "Let's Pretend" - Tindersticks
33. "Kids" - Richard Pryor
34. "Word Association" - from Saturday Night Live (Richard Pryor, Chevy Chase)
35. "Our Text for Today" - Richard Pryor
36. "Unkind and Unwise (instrumental)" - the Go-Betweens

ANOTHER, UH, HOW YOU SAY?, POST:

Another conceptual show. And a pretty successful one, I think, despite the fact that I committed the broadcast heresy of not back-announcing my playlist (hence the shoutout to this blog). And I'm still not quite sure I played those Last Exit tracks at the correct speed. Hey, sounded good either way.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000013 (NOVEMBER 22, 2006):

1. show intro/rant #1
2. "Warsaw" - Joy Division
3. "Asylums in Jerusalem" - Scritti Politti
4. "Rain" - the Chills
5. "Loomer" - My Bloody Valentine
6. "Picnic on a Frozen River" - Faust
7. rant #1A
8. "Tunnel of Love" - Fun Boy Three
9. "Come On, Let's Go" - Broadcast
10. "Marked For Death" - Last Exit
11. "The Fire Drum" - Last Exit
12. "Airplane Glue" - Lenny Bruce
13. "The Other Window (Peel Session)" - Wire
14. KRAMP Pledge Drive
15. "St. Elmo's Fire" - Brian Eno
16. "We're Coming Out" - the Replacements
17. "Walk Out to Winter" - Aztec Camera
18. "The Old Dope Peddler" - Tom Lehrer
19. "Super Crush" - Tiger Trap
20. "That Empty Space" - the Searchers
21. "Tragedy" - the Bats
22. "The Other Side (excerpt)" - the Firesign Theatre
23. "The Final Chapter" - Squirrel Bait
24. "Everybody's Been Burned" - the Byrds
25. rant #1A(i)/lost kitty intro
26. "No Pussy Blues" - Grinderman
27. "Karawane" - Marie Osmond
28. "The Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers
29. "There is a Boy That Never Goes Out" - the Lucksmiths
30. "Wayne Carr on the Radio (excerpt)" - Chris Morris
31. "Urban Field Holler" - Mecolodiacs
32. "Heinz Baked Beans" - the Who
33. KASH segue
34. "16 Golden Bits" - the Credibility Gap
35. rant #1A(i)[a]/community calendar segue
36. "Richie Dagger's Crime" - the Posies
37. "Dirty Net" - Ut
38. "It's Looking Good" - the Rutles
39. "Just Step S'ways" - the Fall
40. "Movie, Deep-Fried Stuffed Cheeseburger, What Kind of Animal?, Red Tide, Abortion" - Eugene Mirman
41. "Billy's Third" - the Undertones
42. Air Onthesideofcaution segue
43. "Love Song for the Dead Che" - United States of America
44. "Che" - Spacemen 3
45. "Orbit 3" - Matthew Shipp
46. "Sylvia Plath" - Peter Laughner
47. Thanxploitation segue
48. "Coconut Hotel" - the Red Krayola
49. "Surgery" - Robyn Hitchcock
50. "Split Red" - Minutemen
51. rant #1A(i)[a]{I}
52. "Count" - JFA

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (AND RARELY CHANGES THE SHEETS):

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000012 (NOVEMBER 8, 2006):

1. Post-Election Special introduction
2. "Ether" - Gang of Four
3. "Love Canal" - Flipper
4. "Wolf Like Me" - TV on the Radio
5. "You Can't Have Me" - Big Star
6. "Another Bridge" - Everything but the Girl
7. Post-Election Special post-introduction
8. "Prop Cars" - Oxford Collapse
9. "Own Two Feet" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
10. "Ilha Urbana" - Muzak
11. "Please Patronize Are Sponsers" - Jim O'Rourke
12. "Cruel Shoes" - Steve Martin
13. "Yeah Yeah" - Blackrock
14. Post-Election Special interregnum
15. "The Boy in the Paisley Shirt" - Television Personalities
16. "UMA" - OOIOO
17. "Skipjack" - Heavenly
18. "I Hate You" - the Monks
19. Post-Election Special pre-emptive neo-retro-intercession
20. "Motherbanger" - Chris Morris
21. "Orgy" - the Glove
22. "Open Book" - Tahiti 80
23. "March of the Kraftwerk Replicants" - the Elevator Drops
24. "M.D. 20/20" - Halo of Flies
25. "Merge" - Grizzly Bear
26. "How Men Die in Their Sleep" - Lydia Lunch/Lucy Hamilton
27. "No Reason to Complain" - Lyres
28. "Sycamore" - Negativland
29. "Stop It" - NoMeansNo
30. Post-Election Special post-pre-conclusion wrap-up
31. "Dropping Names" - the Church
32. "Aloysius" - Cocteau Twins
33. "The Picture of Agreeability" - Game Theory
34. "Winter" - the Loft
35. "Game" - Michael Gira
36. "5 to 5" - Martin Rev
37. "Ups and Downs" - the dB's
38. "Deportation Ritual" - Chevy Heston
39. "After All #2" - Cecil Taylor
40. "Steppin' on a Spaniel" - National Lampoon
41. Post-Election Special post-post-pre-conclusion wrap-up/lock-down/shut-out

A POST, A POST, I DO CONFESS'T.

Perhaps my favorite episode yet, back to front. Pity I wasn't there to enjoy it.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000011, WITH GUEST HOST THOMAS JELLY-STRAINER (OCTOBER 25, 2006):

1. "Sex Bomb" - Flipper
2. "Lunchmeataphobia (Think, It Ain't Illegal Yet!)" - Funkadelic
3. "Our Trinitone Blast" - Stereolab
4. "Taste the Floor" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
5. "Boy Soprano" - Xiu Xiu
6. "Spreadin' the Malice" - Universal Congress Of
7. "Shimmer" - Saturday Night Live (Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase)
8. "Wawa" - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
9. "Christine" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
10. "Weird on the Avenue" - the Frogs
11. "Do Policemen Sing?" - Robyn Hitchcock
12. "Red Locust Frenzy" - Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3
13. "Who Are the Brain Police?" - Mothers of Invention
14. "Shot by Both Sides" - Magazine
15. "Kidnapped" - Woody Allen
16. "Egomaniac's Kiss" - DNA
17. "The Intro and the Outro" - Bonzo Dog Band
18. "Supernova" - Opal
19. "Caroline No" - the Beach Boys
20. "Perry" - Butthole Surfers
21. "The Ballad of Johnny Burma" - Mission of Burma
22. "In and Out in Paris and London" - the Divine Comedy
23. "The Mountain" - Professor Murder
24. "Surround Your Hover" - Niobe
25. "Club News" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, Michael Alexander St. John)
26. "Sour Times" - Portishead
27. "Between Us" - Unrest
28. "I'm in Heaven Now" - American Music Club
29. "Outdoor Miner" - Wire
30. "Mulatu's Hideaway" - Mulatu Astatke
31. "New Amsterdam" - Elvis Costello
32. "Promotional Gimmick" - Albert Brooks
33. "Calling Over Time" - Edith Frost
34. "Concret P-H II"/"Diamorphoses II (excerpt)" - Iannis Xenakis
35. "To Day Retrieval" - Tortoise/Autechre
36. "White Hats" - Niobe
(note: 34-36 were played simultaneously. Far out. Man.)

THIS IS NOT A BLOG POST.

Well, now - kind of a manic performance on-air this e'en. Overcompensado! And perhaps the playlist (the Marley song aside, which was a request) reflects a little of that self-same mania. Or just scattershot, yet somehow predictable, taste in tunes. Ewe bee d'judge.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000010 (OCTOBER 11, 2006):

1. "Armenia City in the Sky" - Petra Haden
2. "Needles in the Camel's Eye" - Brian Eno
3. "Postcard" - Salem 66
4. "Call Me Up" - Gang of Four
5. "Safety in Crosswords" - Look Blue Go Purple
6. "It's Up To You" - the Specials
7. "Fire Brigade" - Liquor Giants
8. "Machine Gun Ibiza" - Prefab Sprout
9. "I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama!" - the Firesign Theatre
10. "The Freed Pig" - Sebadoh
11. "Just in Case You Wonder" - Ugly Ducklings
12. "Apple Orchard" - Beach House
13. "Uranium" - Kraftwerk
14. "He's a Whore" - Big Black
15. "Classics of the Contemporary Drama - 'Waiting for Godot'" - from The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Christopher Guest, John Belushi, Sean Kelly, Brian McConnachie)
16. "No Woman No Cry (live)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers
17. "Into the Groove(y)" - Ciccone Youth
18. "The Big Lounge Scene" - Minutemen
19. "The First Half Second" - the Lilys
20. "New Mind (acoustic)" - Swans
21. "D-7" - the Wipers
22. "Eisiger Wind" - Kleenex
23. Ask the Producer with E. Robert D'Oleo
24. "The Fly" - Eric Matthews
25. "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - Pine Valley Cosmonauts
26. "One Chord Wonders" - the Adverts
27. "I Remember Canters" - Mecolodiacs
28. "Hum" - Bardo Pond
29. "Idiot Bastard Son" (at least until the idiot bastard record starts skipping) - the Mothers of Invention
30. "Marlon Brando" - Black Randy and the Metrosquad
31. "Gob on You" - from Not the Nine O'Clock News (Mel Smith, Pamela Stevenson, Rowan Atkinson, Chris Langham)
32. "Everywhere with Helicopter" - Guided by Voices
33. "Stop, Stop, Stop" - the Hollies
34. "You Gotta Lose" - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
35. "My Girlfriend Lives Like a Redneck" - Pep Lester
36. "The Gallery" - Legendary Pink Dots
37. "How to Skin a Cat" - Hüsker Dü
38. "One Forty Three" - Philip Johnson
39. "V-2 Schneider" - David Bowie

TITULARLY DEPRIVED YET AGAIN...

The challenge: do an entire show using only artists I've never played before on my or anyone else's program. Slightly harder than I thought, at least at first, and I guess that playing solo tracks from artists I usually play could be construed as cheating (I mean, Colin Newman's first solo album has more personnel in common with Wire than, say, a contemporary Fall track does with, well, just about any previous Fall track, but such are the conundrums and puzzlements that make life one long squirt of anxious bile), but ah did it. See:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000009 (SEPTEMBER 27, 2006):

1. "Recalling All Active Agents" - Brion Gysin
2. "Back Where I Belong" - Dumptruck
3. "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" - X-Ray Spex
4. "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" - the Hives
5. "Blood and Shaving Cream" - Death of Samantha
6. "Therese" - the Bodines
7. "It's a Dog's Life" - Plasticland
8. "The Laws Have Changed" - the New Pornographers
9. "Louise Louise" - Orange Juice
10. "Olio" - the Rapture
11. "Invisible Man" - the Breeders
12. "How Low Can a Punk Get?" - Bad Brains
13. "Over Under Sideways Down" - the Yardbirds
14. "The Number Song" - DJ Shadow
15. "The Health Inspector (excerpt)" - from Fawlty Towers (John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts)
16. "Complete Control" - the Clash
17. "Bionic Rat Dub" - Lee "Scratch" Perry
18. "Phenomenal Trousers" - Blairmailer
19. "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" - the Passions
20. "Alone" - Colin Newman
21. "Sister I'm a Poet" - Colin Meloy
22. "Misty Roses" - Colin Blunstone
23. "Yoga" - the Pastels
24. "Suicidal flowers" - Crystal Chandelier
25. "Leper in a Tumbledryer" - Ashfordaisyak
26. "Indian Summer" - Dean Wareham
27. "N.I.B." - A Drag City Supersession
28. "The Seed" - Big Boys
29. "In a Coffeehouse: the Artist" - Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
30. "Plate Glass w/Tornado" - the Binary System
31. "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Stevie Wonder
32. "Xerox Docucolor 12" - Xerophonics
33. "All That Jazz" - Echo & the Bunnymen
34. "In 'D'" - the Durutti Column

NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT.

Much better show, much better flow, much better what-rhymes-with-that-I-do-not-know. Check it out:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000008 (SEPTEMBER 13, 2006):
1. "Lay of the Land" - the Fall
2. "Born Out of Time" - the New Christs
3. "Never Talking to You Again" - Hüsker Dü
4. "Circle Sky" - the Monkees
5. "(I Won't) Pay Your Price" - Motörhead
6. "I'm Coming Home" - the Deviants
7. "On My Mind" - Marine Girls
8. "Gibberish" - Eric Idle
9. "Spastica" - Elastica
10. "Rena & Ami" - Tsundoda Tsuguto
11. "Sylvia" - the Lowthers
12. "Harlem Nocturne" - the Lounge Lizards
13. "Dance Like a Monkey" - New York Dolls
14. "Don't Mess With Cupid" - New York Dolls
15. "Living a Lie" - the dB's
16. "Obsessed with the Excess" - Les Savy Fav (w/David Cross)
17. "Music for Someone" - the Names
18. "N.I.T.A." - Young Marble Giants
19. "From a Whisper to a Scream" - Elvis Costello
20. "Mel Brewer's Insomniac Time" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray, Christopher Guest)
21. "Sand" - Einstürzende Neubauten
22. "Black and Blue" - the Selecter
23. "Miss Amanda Jones" - the Rolling Stones
24. "Tales From the Riverbank" - the Jam
25. "Three-Cornered Moon" - Eric Matthews
26. "Horizon" - Chris Knox
27. "Peter O'Hanrahanrahan 9/11 Interview" - Chris Morris/Patrick Marber
28. "Nothing to Do With Me" - Stereolab
29. "Cigarette in Your Bed" - My Bloody Valentine
30. "Noise in This World" - the (English) Beat
31. "Quicksand" - Bobby Womack
32. "Pablo Cruise Fan Club" - Neil Hamburger
33. "Peanut Duck" - Martha Gee
34. "Pure Joy" - the Teardrop Explodes
35. "Lipstick" - the Buzzcocks
36. "Musette and Drums (BBC Session)" - Cocteau Twins

ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH....

Okay, gotta say, not my best show. All manner of distractions and mixing disasters to be had. Three months into my run and I sound more like a fucking amateur than ever. Fun. Still, a cursory glance at the playlist may give one the idea that it could have been a worthy broadcast...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000007 (AUGUST 30, 2006):
1. "The Diamond Mine" - Higher Elevation
2. "Rid of Me" - PJ Harvey
3. "Peking Spring" - Mission of Burma
4. "Dead Joe" - the Birthday Party
5. "Ole Spain" - the Hamsters
6. "Total Mass Destruction" - the Loud Family/Anton Barbeau
7. "My Infatuation" - the Contortions
8. "The Rhythm of Love" - the Pooh Sticks
9. "The Ledge" - Camper Van Beethoven
10. "Great Shakes Ad" - the Who
11. "Why Are We Sleeping?" - Bongwater
12. "Look For the Good in Others and They'll See the Good in You" - the Chills
13. "Truth in Advertising" - Negativland
14. "Go Home, Get Down" - Death From Above 1979
15. "General Synod's Life of Python" - Not the Nine O'Clock News (Pamela Stevenson, Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson)
16. "Accidents of God" - Lester Bangs and the Delinquents
17. "Kung Foo Cowboy" - Alan Vega
18. "Dismantled King is Off the Throne" - Felt
19. "Jailbreak '95" - Shellac
20. "Leo Ryan (Our Pharoah's Slave)" - the Lilys
21. "Astonishing Sod Ape Intro" - Chris Morris
22. "Cavity" - Live Skull
23. "Mechanism of Occupant Ejection" - Howard Shore
24. "Mop Dub" - 100 Flowers
25. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" - Sly and the Family Stone
26. "Ceremony" - Galaxie 500
27. "Megaphone Newsreel" - National Lampoon (Bob Perry)
28. "With a Gun" - Steely Dan
29. "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
30. "Velocity Girl" - Primal Scream
31. "Midget Submarines"/"Bridge Head, Part 9" - Swell Maps
32. "Eclipse" - Eric Dolphy

(SIGH)

And so we come back to our original point of departure. Gosh, look at that playlist. Was I ever that young?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000001 (JUNE 7, 2006):

1. Islamic klezmer intro
2. As you will recall from last week... (incorporating music from the film Blow Out by Pino Donaggio and "You Suffer" - Napalm Death)
3. "You Made Me Realise" - My Bloody Valentine
4. "French Film (Blurred)" - Wire
5. "Talking Drum" - Japan
6. "Station Break" - the Firesign Theatre
7. "TV Eye" - the Stooges
8. "English Scheme" - the Fall
9. "Captain Easychord" - Stereolab
10. "Shovel Into Spade Kit" - the Lilys
11. "I Apologize" - Hüsker Dü
12. "Can't Stop" - That Petrol Emotion
13. "Whenever You're Ready" - the Zombies
14. "Seven & Seven Is" - the Ramones
15. "I Love My Leather Jacket" - the Chills
16. "Bad News" - Salem 66
17. "Cattle and Cane" - the Go-Betweens
18. "Shoot the Sexual Athlete" - Belle & Sebastian
19. "Newton Told Me" - the Go-Betweens
20. "Streets of Your Town" - Ivy
21. Trichinosis Blues promo
22. "Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)" - the Go-Betweens
23. discussion of FCC rules (incorporating "Metal Machine Music: side C" - Lou Reed)
24. "Ring Worm" - Van Morrison
25. "You Say France and I Whistle" - Van Morrison
26. "You Want a Danish" - Van Morrison
27. "Ford Mustang" - Serge Gainsbourg
28. "Goin' Down" - the Monkees
29. Kouhotex segue
30. "Little Umbrellas" - Frank Zappa
31. "Kiss Me Black" - the Birthday Party
32. "Dance Charts" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, Michael Alexander St. John)
33. "Something Wicked This Way Comes (edit)" - Barry Adamson
34. "All Kidding Aside" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
35. he's right, you know segue
36. "The Cowboy Song" - Public Image Ltd.
37. "Lions" - Tones on Tail
38. "All the Way Down" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
39. "Disguise" - Squirrel Bait
40. "Like a Girl Jesus"- Game Theory

I SUPPOSE I DON'T REALLY NEED TO TITLE THESE THINGS, BUT, Y'KNOW...

A little something different (but not really, really) here: the playlist for my fill-in slot for Coast Community Radio's alternating-Saturday-nights programmer, DJ K-No (who, incidentally, happens to be a Northwest music icon of some minor repute, having played bass for a band from the area who had some marginal success in the early 1990s). I had four hours to fill, which was nice, as it gave me license to play some much longer songs than the restrictive two-hour W&F format tends to allow. Anyway:

THE DJ K-NO(T) SHOW (JUNE 10, 2006):

1. "Sweat Loaf" - Butthole Surfers
2. "The Caves of Altamira" - Steely Dan
3. "Flip Your Face" - James Chance & the Contortions
4. "Yu-Gung (Futter Mein Ego)" - Einstürzende Neubauten
5. "White Elephant" - Volcano Suns
6. "Model Worker" - Magazine
7. "Cue Fanfare" - Prefab Sprout
8. "Overcome by Happiness" - Pernice Brothers
9. Fetlock: Equine Attorney promo
10. "Thumbs Off" - the Clean
11. "Citadel" - the Rolling Stones
12. "Nosferatu Man" - Slint
13. "Duke of Prunes"/"Amnesia Vivace"/"The Duke Regains His Chops" - the Mothers of Invention
14. "Hightime" - Universal Congress Of
15. "Johnny Carson" - the Beach Boys
16. "Lawrence of Euphoria" - Alexander "Skip" Spence
17. "I Met Roky Erickson" - Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair
18. "Bloody Hammer" - Roky Erickson and the Aliens
19. "See Emily Play" - Pink Floyd
20. "Nightime" - Big Star
21. "Pinch" - Can
22. "Rocket U.S.A." - Suicide
23. "Mica" - Mission of Burma
24. "Man in Decline" - Mission of Burma
25. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads (minus the first :02)
26. "Evangelist" - Ut
27. "Doc Phone" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, David Cann, Mark Heap)
28. "Nausea" - X
29. "People Are Strange" - Shockabilly
30. "Cut" - Minutemen
31. "Five Years Ahead of My Time" - the Third Bardo
32. "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
33. "If There is Something" - Roxy Music
34. "History of the Beatles" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
35. "I Found Out" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
36. "And Your Bird Can Sing" - the Beatles
37. "Blue Jeans" - Ladytron
38. "Attack" - Public Image Ltd.
39. "Sleep!" - Big Black
40. "Less Than One in Ten" - Beatnik Filmstars
41. "Give It Up or Turn It Loose" - James Brown
42. "Hip Priest" - the Fall
43. "Run Run Run" - the Velvet Underground
44. "Family Trip" - Bill Hicks
45. "Get High" - Grand Am
46. "There She Walks" - the Monks (the Five Torquays)
47. "Baby's on Fire" - Brian Eno
48. "Canyons of Your Mind" - the Bonzo Dog Band
49. "Eating Noddemix" - Young Marble Giants
50. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" - David Bowie
51. "The Noise of Carpet" - Stereolab
52. "I Can't Control Myself" - the Troggs
53. "NYC: 1999!" - Pussy Galore
54. "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" - the Buzzcocks
55. "The Loved One" - Terry Southern
56. "Heeby Jeebies" - Little Richard
57. "Your Mind and We Belong Together" - Love
58. "On the Phrase 'Ass Backwards'" - Thurston Moore/Don Dietrich/Jim Sauter
59. "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls" - Tortoise
60. "Call the Doctor" - Spacemen 3
61. "Cobwebs and Strange" - the Who

PROVISIONALLY ENTITLED "UNTITLED"

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000002 (JUNE 21, 2006):

1. "Me! I Disconnect From You" - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
2. "The Sad Skinhead" - Faust
3. "Watch Me Jumpstart" - Guided by Voices
4. "Dynamite" - the dB's
5. "Get Away" - Flipper
6. "Natural's Not in It" - Gang of Four
7. "Pendulum" - Broadcast
8. "Fluckers" - from Saturday Night Live (Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris)
9. "Three Faint Calls" - the Greenhornes
10. "Digital" - Joy Division
11. "Do You Believe in Rapture?" - Sonic Youth
12. "Maple Leaves (7" version)" - Jens Lekman
13. "Near the Beginning"/"Party From Outer Space" - Albert Brooks
14. "Sugar and Promises" - the Aluminum Group
15. "The Vengeance of Galaxy 5" - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
16. "My White Bicycle" - Tomorrow
17. "Connection" - Elastica
18. "Rise of the Chokehold Princess" - the Loud Family
19. "Junkie Chase" - Curtis Mayfield
20. "O'Malley, Former Underdog" - Deerhoof
21. "These Days" - Barbara Manning
22. "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes" - the Freshies
23. "Bouncing Babies" - the Teardrop Explodes
24. Concert Cancellation Report (sponsored by SassMart) (incorporating "The Pink Room" - David Lynch)
25. "Don't Look Down" - Screaming Trees
26. "Snack of Toes" - Wingtip Sloat
27. "Head" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
28. "Dress Rehearsal Rag" - Leonard Cohen
29. "John Coltrane's 'My Favorite Things'" - Consonant
30. "Meltdown Man" - Roger Miller
31. "Oscar Wilde and Friends" - Monty Python
32. "Glow Girl" - the Who
33. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads (accidental two-second excerpt)
34. "Whales' Tails" - Cocteau Twins
35. "Past Meets Present " - Weekend
36. "Danceband on the Edge of Time" - the Mekons

FEAR OF CRUNKWUSSIES

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000003 (JULY 5, 2006):

1. Bickle-icious intro (incorporating "Taxi Driver: Main Theme" - Bernard Herrmann)
2. "Heart of Darkness" - Pere Ubu
3. "Kingdom of Love" - the Soft Boys
4. "Wow and Flutter" - Stereolab
5. "The Good in Everyone" - Sloan
6. Codependence Day segue
7. "Confidence" - Scritti Politti
8. "Snow in Sun" - Scritti Politti
9. Necronomicon on Ice promo
10. "New Music Machine" - Cornelius
11. "Ghosts (first movement)" - the Albert Ayler Trio
12. "Satellite" - TV on the Radio
13. "De-Luxe" - Lush
14. "(I'm) Stranded" - the Saints
15. "The Day the Rain Came Down" - Felt
16. Insurance for the dead segue
17. "You'll Never Do It, Baby" - Thee Headcoatees
18. "Try Dis... " - Hella
19. "Tango" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
20. "Stuck in the Middle" - the Replacements
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ARCHIVAL RECORDING - Radio Free Huey, September 19, 1969:
21. "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" (excerpt) - Iron Butterfly
22. Moonchild Berkowitz mic break #1/apology
23. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" - the Doors
24. Max's Shrunken Head Shop underwriter I.D.
25. "Omaha" - Moby Grape
26. M.B. m.b. #2/coming up later tonight...
27. "Ella Guru" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
28. M.B. m.b. #3/trivia contest results
29. "Not Right" - the Stooges
30. M.B. m.b. #4/special scheduling announcement
31. "Adiv-da-Addag-a-Ni" (tprecxe) - Nori Ylfrettub
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32. "Stereotype" - the Specials
33. "Shoulder Length" - the Sea and Cake
34. "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" - Negativland
35. "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" - My Bloody Valentine
36. "In Limbo" - Radiohead
37. "Nag Nag Nag" - Cabaret Voltaire
38. "Alone" - Robert Forster
39. "Fake Contest" - Overpass
40. "Wings" - the Fall

X'D POST FACTOID

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000004 (JULY 19, 2006):

Perhaps one of my six or seven greatest shows to date - good music mix, a strong comedic wraparound concept, and one of the better on-air performances of yours regretfully. But then, I have no proof of that, as the only copy of said program in the world presently resides in the workspace of my no-account, worthless slacker - sorry, slip of the keyboard there, I meant beloved - brother Bob. And I ain't got it back yet. Of course, I still have his copy of the Pink Lady and Jeff boxed set, so perhaps that's an equal exchange, overall-artistic-potency-wise.

AND THE POSTS JUST KEEP ON BEING POSTED...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000005 (AUGUST 2, 2006):

1. future nostalgia intro (incorporating "La Passarella de Otto e Mezzo" - Nino Rota)
2. "Twist" - Tones on Tail
3. "Lust for Death" - Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
4. "Stupid Einstein" - the Three O'Clock
5. "TCR" - Prolapse
6. "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" - the Byrds
7. "Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" - Be Your Own Pet
8. "Sunspots" - Julian Cope
9. "Moody" - ESG
10. "The Giant Toad" - the Firesign Theatre
11. "When Things Come Falling" - All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
12. "Youth" - Soft Cell
13. "The 15th" - Wire
14. "Cassetto" - Neu!
15. "Pipe Bomb" - Joe Pernice
16. "Rope" - the Jesus Lizard
17. "The Tab" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan)
18. "Gravity" - the Tall Dwarfs
19. "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek" - Matmos
20. "Trouser Press" - the Bonzo Dog Band
21. "Walking on the Water" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
22. "Nine of Disks" - Camper Van Beethoven
23. "Man in Decline" - Mission of Burma
24. "Swordfishtrombone" - Tom Waits
25. "I Am Right" - Saccharine Trust
26. "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" - the Jazz Butcher
27. "Black" - John Oswald
28. "Open the Door, Richard" - Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five
29. Community Clipboard
30. "Nude on the Moon" - Tipsy
31. "Splash #1 (Now I'm Home)" - the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
32. "Two-Week Vacation" - the Embarrassment
33. "London" - the Smiths
34. "As Long as That" - the Go-Betweens
35. "Jenny" - American Music Club
36. "Request Time - 'Gigi'!" - from The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Michael O'Donoghue, John Belushi, Emily Prager)
37. "Lonely Sea" - Eric Matthews

Italicized items indicate original material (i.e., by me). Not much else to say about this one, except that a friend listened to it and informed me that it wasn't one of my best. Why? "The songs all sounded the same."

!!!

AND HERE'S MY SECOND ONE.

A good and fine halloo to those interested in my fortnightly report to the nation via the wireless. The main purpose for the present blog at the present moment is to disseminate playlist info, as the Coast Community Radio website appears to be in the middle of a long, costly and painful reconstruction (optional Joan Rivers joke available by return of post) and no such intelligence can be uploaded there at the moment. Brutally candid and shocking backstage drama sure to follow. Anyway, playlists, working backwards, most recent first:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000006 (AUGUST 16, 2006)
(featuring special guest co-host Robert "Bob" Ham)

1. "Take Me to the Other Side" - Spacemen 3
2. "Druganaut" - Black Mountain
3. "Mama Roux" - Dr. John the Night Tripper
4. "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me" - the Pipettes
5. "Who Are Parents" - the Shaggs
6. "Daddy Never Understood" - Deluxe Folk Implosion
7. "Borstal Breakout" - Sham 69
8. "Do the Standing Still" - the Dismemberment Plan
9. "TV Party" - Black Flag
10. "A Rose for Emily" - the Zombies
11. "Since K Got Over Me" - the Clientele
12. "Dandy" - the Kinks
13. "C 'n' C Hassle Schmuk" - the Fall
14. "The Fuzz" - Link Wray and the Raymen
15. "Teenie Weenie Boppie" - France Gall
16. "Yoga is as Yoga Does" - Elvis Presley
17. Having Fun With Elvis on Stage (excerpt) - Elvis Presley
18. "Do the Clam(bake)" - Elvis Presley
19. "Ain't That Loving You" - Alton Ellis
20. "Johnny in the Boudoir" - Congo Norvell
21. "Luci Baines" - the American Four
22. "Free Arthur Lee" - the Make-Up
23. "The Red Telephone" - Love
24. "Surf's Up (Instrumental)" - the Beach Boys

The fewest songs ever on one W&F, but that was mostly due to the lengthy discussions my fraternal co-host had during my brief hour and a half absence from the program with probationary Brit, A&R rep and sac-dweller Frank Ahaa (aka Chive Glith) and former scarf confiscator for Elvis (though we're not sure which Elvis) Red Bloostone. My thanks to all concerned. More later.

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