Monday, February 26, 2007

WOW! UN-WOW!:

Bonus post: my latest fill-in Saturday night show playlist. Just two hours, not four, but I think it'd be no exaggeration to say that the John Coltrane/Neil Hamburger spur-of-the-moment mash-up is one of the signal achievements in all of broadcast history.

THE SATURDAY NIGHT WILD, UNRESTRAINED, KEVLAR-COATED, TANGELLO-COLORED TOP-DOWN NAUGAHYDE STREAMLINE BOSSA NOVA NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST BABY PROGRAM (FORMERLY "PERISTALSIS BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT"), WITH YOUR HOST, LORD RODERICK SPORKINGHAM AND HIS SORGHUM-FILLED JOWLS (FEBRUARY 17, 2007):

1. "Non-Alignment Pact" - Pere Ubu
2. "Dark Night" - the Blasters
3. "Mt. Olympus" - the Flower Power
4. "Tiger Roach" - Frank Zappa/Don van Vliet
5. "10:15 Saturday Night" - the Cure
6. "Escaping from the Declining Fall of the Roaming Umpire, Episode XIII" - Proctor & Bergman
7. "The Cheerleaders" - the Minutemen
8. "Dot Dash" - Wire
9. "Been a Son" - Nirvana
10. "4'33" (excerpt)" - John Cage
11. "Wak'ai (Cry)" - Yma Sumac
12. "Dear Eloise" - the Hollies
13. "'For $25,000...'" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray)
14. "Cyrano de Berger's Back" - the Flesh Eaters
15. "Embrace the Herd" - the Gist
16. "Girls Talk" - Elvis Costello
17. "Dinner for Two" - Deerhoof
18. "Decoration Day" - Grinderman
19. "What Miriam Likes" - Miriam Halstead
20. "Cooking" - Scritti Politti
21. "Seeing is Believing" - Screaming Trees
22. "Bearings" - Scharpling & Wurster
23. "Big in Japan" - Big in Japan
24. "The Rising of the Moon" - the Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem
25. "Isolation" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
26. "Mars Bars" - the Undertones
27. "Cuts for Commercials B17-19" - DeWolfe
28. "Don't Box Me In" - Stan Ridgway/Stewart Copeland
29. "Naima" John Coltrane
30. "Great Moments at DePresa's Pizza House track 11" - Neil Hamburger (played simultaneously with #29)
31. "Superman" - the Clique
32. "Final Day" - Galaxie 500
33. "Lonely Weekends" - Charlie Rich
34. "C.B. Terms (Part II)" (excerpt) - from How to C.B.
35. "I'm Into C.B.!" - the Fall
36. "'For $15,000...'" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray)
37. "Fun World" - Mission of Burma
38. "Chelsea Hotel #2"- Leonard Cohen
39. "Under a Pale Light" - Felt
40. "Love" - Skinny Puppy
41. "Reel Ten" - the Plugz

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