HEY, I GOT THROUGH A WHOLE ALL-COVERS SHOW WITHOUT ONCE PLAYING THE FALL, YO LA TENGO OR SONIC YOUTH. WHERE'S MY DAMN PRIZE?:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000029 (JUNE 27, 2007):

1. "Cheese & Onions" (the Rutles) - Galaxie 500
2. "The Model" (Kraftwerk) - Big Black
3. "The Return of Jackie and Judy" (the Ramones) - Tom Waits
4. "Jeepster" (T. Rex) - the Polecats
5. "The Unheard Music" (X) - Elastica w/ Steven Malkmus
6. "Here" (Pavement) - Tindersticks
7. "Joed Out" (the Verlaines) - Barbara Manning
8. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (the Four Seasons) - Edith Massey
9. "What Do I Get?" (the Buzzcocks) - Coffin Break
10. "I Don't Mind" (the Buzzcocks) - Big Drill Car
11. "Fragile" (Wire) - Salem 66
12. "Not Me" (Colin Newman) - This Mortal Coil
13. "Goin' Out Of My Head" (Little Anthony & the Imperials) - the Zombies
14. "Care of Cell 44 (live)" (the Zombies) - Elliott Smith
15. "Needle in the Hay" (Elliott Smith) - Eric Matthews
16. "Willow Willow" (Love) - Cardinal
17. "1970" (the Stooges) - Mission of Burma
18. "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett) - the Jam
19. "That's Entertainment!" (the Jam) - Morrissey
20. "Every Day is Like Sunday" (Morrissey) - Colin Meloy
21. "Help!" (the Beatles) - the Damned
22. "Neat Neat Neat (live)" (the Damned) - Elvis Costello
23. "Shipbuilding" (Elvis Costello) - Robert Wyatt
24. "Last Caress" (the Misfits) - Papa M
25. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath) - the Cardigans
26. "Jump" (Van Halen) - Aztec Camera
27. "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (live)" (Van Halen) - Minutemen
28. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Bob Dylan) - PJ Harvey
29. "My Mummy's Dead" (John Lennon) - The Minus 5
30. "Mushroom (live)" (Can) - the Jesus & Mary Chain
31. "Head On" (the Jesus & Mary Chain) - the Pixies
32. "Cactus" (the Pixies) - David Bowie
33. "Boys Keep Swinging" (David Bowie) - the Liquor Giants
34. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (Johnny Thunders) - the Loud Family
35. "Sickles and Hammers" (Minutemen) - Sebadoh
36. "Johnny B. Goode/Roadrunner" (Chuck Berry/Jonathan Richman) - the Sex Pistols

A FINE FETTLE OF KITSCH:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000028 (JUNE 20, 2007):

1. "The End of Radio" - Shellac
2. "Fanfare - Fire Poem" - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
3. "Agitated" - the Electric Eels
4. "Do the Du" - A Certain Ratio
5. "Hey Joe" - Patti Smith
6. "High Atop the Silver Branches" - Elf Power
7. "Some Weird Sin" - Iggy Pop
8. "My T.V. Is Broke" - B.A.L.L.
9. "Cop Gets Philosophical" - Edward D. Wood, Jr. (from Glen or Glenda?)
10. "Tearjerkin'" - the dB's
11. "Horror Asparagus Stories" - Driving Stupid
12. "Tram 21" - Electrelane
13. "N.Y.U." - Woody Allen
14. "(I Wanna Live on an) Abstract Plain" - Frank Black
15. "Andorra" - Colin Blunstone
16. "Outdoor Miner" - Lush
17. "Be Bop Kid" - Suicide
18. "White & Lazy" - the Replacements
19. "Lady Scarface" - Lydia Lunch
20. "Milk It" - Nirvana
21. "Advertising" - David Cross
22. "Come Again" - the Au Pairs
23. "Sketch for 'Face of Helen'" - Arthur Russell
24. "Revolution 9" - Anton Barbeau/Scott Miller
25. "Cuts for Commercials on 45!!!" - DeWolfe
26. "I Idolize You" - Boss Hog
27. "The Drag" - Ike Turner
28. "Bad Morning Girl" - the Pooh Sticks
29. "We Do Wei Du" - Fehlfarben
30. "The Chinchilla Show" - the Firesign Theatre
31. "The Beautician" - Jonathan Fire*Eater
32. "Go Go Go (live)" - the Blasters
33. "One More Shot" - the Offs
34. "All Day Long" - Shop Assistants
35. "Charity Begins at Home" - Chris Knox
36. "No Next Time" - the New Christs
37. "Midget Submarines" - Swell Maps
38. "Bridge Head (Pt. 9)" - Swell Maps

ONE YEAR AND COUNTING, BUT WHO'S COUNTING?:

And now, the playlist for W&F's Six-Month Anniversary of Its Six-Month Anniversary Special Edition. Which, naturally, was hardly special by any accepted definition, other than the fact that the first set of the evening featured the same three artists who comprised the first set of my first evening and that I did the whole thing in the voice of a Walter Cronkite impersonator. Wearing only a [CENSORED BY YOUR INTERNET FILTER]. Which I'm told he does anyway. That's why he was crying when Kennedy died. It was a little snug that day.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000027 (JUNE 6, 2007):

1. First Anniversary Show Intro (inc. "American Dream (excerpt)" - the U.S. Coast Guard Band)
2. "Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
3. "2 People in a Room" - Wire
4. "Every Colour You Are" - Rain Tree Crow (aka Japan)
5. "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You" - Felt
6. "Reeling" - PJ Harvey
7. "Let's Talk About Girls" - the Undertones
8. "Unit 6" - Six Finger Satellite
9. "Stay Where You Are" - Ambulance LTD
10. "Wax and Wane (BBC Session)" - Cocteau Twins
11. "Thank You Very Much" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
12. "Warmth of the Sun" - the Beach Boys
13. "He is God" - Big Dipper
14. "Sacrifice" - Flipper
15. "Sons of Temperance" - the Fall
16. "Kobaia Is De Hundin" - Magma
17. "Well-Intentioned Blues" - National Lampoon
18. "A Day in Erotica" - the Three O'Clock
19. "On the Road Again/Transona Five" - Sloan
20. "Old Lady Sloan" - William S. Burroughs with the Eudoras
21. "We Are the Dead" - David Bowie
22. "March of the Ciccone Robots" - Ciccone Youth
23. "Cuts for Commercials B4-8" - DeWolfe
24. "Villiers Terrace" - Echo and the Bunnymen
25. "Lips Like Sugar" - Ether Net
26. "Gör Det Nu" - Dungen
27. "In Someone's Sneakers" - The Credibility Gap
28. "Life in Laralay" - Love & Rockets
29. "River Euphrates" - the Pixies
30. "Stadt" - Pole
31. "Jazz Police" - Leonard Cohen
32. "With Goth On Our Side" - Half Man Half Biscuit
33. "I Can't Believe" - Big Black
34. "Dayton, Ohio - 1903" - Randy Newman
35. "Sleep" - This Heat

...'...:

...bringing us up to date. This show, I think, sounds as good as it reads - bouncing 'twixt genres and styles like a mo-fo (and if you've ever seen a mo-fo bounce, you know exactly what I'm talking about), with some sly (to me, at least) juxtapositions: any music-geek hepcat worth his saline knows why I put #25 and #26 next to each other, and the bizarritude of #34 and #35 is doubled by the fact that they came from the same record. Wow, right?...

Right?...

Goddamn, I'm one boring motherfucker. Oh, well, onward...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000026 (MAY 23, 2007):

1. Obscure Jazz Nicknames Intro
2. "Rocks Off" - Pussy Galore
3. "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" - Hüsker Dü
4. "Aerodeliria" - the Loud Family
5. "Suicide" - Royal Flairs
6. "The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count" - The Divine Comedy
7. "Fuschia" - Ken Nordine
8. "Stupid Songs" - the Hamsters
9. "Pale Gallery" - Amon Düül II
10. "Cracks in the Causeway" - Oxford Collapse
11. "Tobor Radar Robot" - Proctor & Bergman
12. "You Tear Me Up" - the Buzzcocks
13. "Bell Head" - Liquid Liquid
14. "Black and White" - the Raincoats
15. "Section 25" - Iannis Xenakis & DJ Spooky
16. "Indiscipline" - King Crimson
17. "Crumble" - Dinosaur Jr.
18. "The Mattachine Society" - the Aluminum Group
19. "Satellite" - the Sex Pistols
20. "Socialist" - Public Image Ltd.
21. "Fratricide Pastorale" - Foetus Interruptus
22. "Shatner" - the Wedding Present
23. "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side" - the Smiths
24. "The Week on 4" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris/Partick Marber/Doon Mackichan/Steve Coogan/Rebecca Front/David Schneider)
25. "There She Goes Again" - the Velvet Underground
26. "Hitch-Hike" - Marvin Gaye
27. "Puce" - Ken Nordine
28. "Cuts for Commercials B18-19" - DeWolfe
29. "Dear Eloise" - the Hollies
30. "The Book Lovers" - Broadcast
31. "The Tax Expert" - Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner
32. "Let There Be Angels (Just Like You)" - Bad Brains
33. "Clapper" - Ikue Mori
34. "It's Too Soon To Know" - the Orioles
35. "phoneme bbbb" - Raoul Hausmann
36. "Outline of a Hairdo" - Steve Nieve
37. "Mauve" - Ken Nordine
38. "Cheapskate" - That Petrol Emotion
39. "The Medium Was Tedium" - Desperate Bicycles
40. "Electricity" - Spiritualized
41. "Virgins & Philistines" - the Colour Field
42. "Number Three" - the Flying Luttenbachers

P...4:

Okay, so here's what happened here: this was my second four-hour shift in two weeks. I was a little tired. Slightly uninspired. Not quite up to my usual manic cueing and juggling, especially over such a long air-shift. So I found some of the longest songs I could stomach playing (#30 runs over twenty-five minutes; #8 pushes twenty in toto; a couple of over-10:00 tracks more or less bookend the show; a few running over seven sprinkled throughout; etc.), and even went so far as to cannibalize a few of my earliest shows straight offa my air-check discs. Thus did I manage to make it through another Saturday night with a minimum of stress and strain, with no one the wiser, as no one was listening anyway. Yeah. Decent show, though, really.

THE DJ K-NULL SHOW (MAY 12, 2007):

1. Psych-Out trailer
2. "I Wanna Destroy You" - the Soft Boys
3. "Metronomic Underground (Radio 1 Session)" - Stereolab
4. "Silver Rocket" - Sonic Youth
5. "The National Anthem" - Radiohead
6. Angel, Angel, Down We Go trailer
7. "Tokyo Storm Warning" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
8. "The Arsonist Story: Fireman/Evil Plays Piano/Evil Craves Attention/Our Son/10 x 10/Trapped and Drowning" - Barbara Manning
9. "Various Times" - the Fall
___
ARCHIVAL RECORDING - Radio Free Huey, September 19, 1969:*
10. "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" (excerpt) - Iron Butterfly*
11. Moonchild Berkowitz mic break #1/apology*
12. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" - the Doors*
13. Max's Shrunken Head Shop underwriter I.D.*
14. "Omaha" - Moby Grape*
15. M.B. m.b. #2/coming up later tonight...*
16. "Ella Guru" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band*
17. M.B. m.b. #3/trivia contest results*
18. "Not Right" - the Stooges*
19. M.B. m.b. #4/special scheduling announcement*
20. "Adiv-da-Addag-a-Ni" (tprecxe) - Nori Ylfrettub*
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21. "Rocket U.S.A." - Suicide**
22. "Mica" - Mission of Burma**
23. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads**
24. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer
25. "What's New, Pussycat?" - Liquor Giants
26. "Bankrobber" - the Clash
27. "A History of Neil Young" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
28. "Old Maid (Southern California Brings Me Down)" - National Lampoon (Tony Scheuren etc.)
29. "Cortez the Killer" - Neil Young
30. "Spillane" - John Zorn
31. "Cloud 149" - Pere Ubu
32. "Kiss Me Black" - the Birthday Party***
33. "Dance Charts" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris/Michael Alexander St. John) ***
34. "Something Wicked This Way Comes (edit)" - Barry Adamson***
35. "You Want a Danish" - Van Morrison***
36. "Ford Mustang" - Serge Gainsbourg***
37. "Goin' Down" - the Monkees***
38. The Cool Ones trailer
39. "Never Stop" - Echo & the Bunnymen
40. "Your Gold Teeth" - Steely Dan
41. "Equinox" - John Coltrane
42. "The T.V. Glide" - the Firesign Theatre
43. "How Does It Feel?" - Spacemen 3
44. "Tarantula" - This Mortal Coil
45. "The Dog Breath Variations" - the Mothers of Invention****
46. "She Comes in Colors" - Love
47. "A Means to an End" - Joy Division
48. Bummer! trailer
49. "Conduct" - the Durutti Column
50. "Sons of Pioneers" - Japan
51. "Tusk" - Camper van Beethoven

* Originally broadcast on W&F #000003, July 5, 2006.
** Originally broadcast on The DJ K-No(t) Show, June 10, 2006.
*** Originally broadcast on W&F #000001, June 7, 2006.
**** Originally broadcast on W&F #000023, April 11, 2007, and rebroadcast because I didn't get to the CD player in time.

P2C3:

Okay, this is a little bit better, variety-wise - a nice handful or two of artists never before heard on the show (though some of them, like the Knitters, Sproton Layer/M-3, and Ruben & the Jets, either consist largely of members of typical W&F bands or basically are those bands in pseudonymous disguise). Wha'ev'r.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000025 (MAY 9, 2007):

1. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - Portsmouth Sinfonia
2. "Preamble/Great Divine Rector's Call/Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction Of Rock Music" - The Church Universal and Triumphant
3. "Caught By the Fuzz (acoustic)" - Supergrass
4. "All My Witches Come True" - Dim Stars
5. "Trail of Time" - the Knitters
6. "Whenever You're Ready" - Young Fresh Fellows
7. "Swallow" - Ut
8. "Christine" - The House of Love
9. "Up in Flames" - Koko Taylor
10. "UNKLE Main Title Theme" - UNKLE
11. "Aquamaniac" - Coyle & Sharpe
12. "Raised Eyebrows" - the Feelies
13. "Malibu 69" - Grant McLennan
14. "Second-Hand Furniture" - the Go-Betweens
15. "Casanova's Last Words (demo)" - the Go-Betweens
16. "Testing" - Neil Innes
17. "The Curse of Millhaven" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
18. "Foggy Eyes" - Beat Happening
19. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" - Ruben & the Jets
20. "Crash" - Ultra Vivid Scene
21. "Bedazzled" - Peter Cook/Dudley Moore
22. "Coming Down the Hill" - El Perro del Mar
23. "Up in My Mind" - Spontaneous Generation
24. "The Lengthy Pause" - L. Voag
25. "Marc Antony's Funeral Oration" - Lord Buckley
26. "Space Red" - Sproton Layer
27. "Out of Breath" - M-3
28. "KKKFC serves sparkily squirl meat" - Experimental Dental School
29. "Demonstration of the Non-Medical Use of Microphones" - The Hafler Trio
30. "It's Kinda Funny" - Josef K
31. "Muscle in Plastic" - Bauhaus
32. "O.K. This is the Pops" - Tones on Tail
33. "Psychedelic Venture" - the Ventures
34. "I'm Not There (1956)" - Bob Dylan/the Band

PAST TO CATCH-UP #2:

Another Saturday night K-No fill-in stint. And other than the two conceptually-threaded sets (6-11 and 45-49, maybe 50 if you want to stretch it), typing this out is really starting to lay bare my utter predictability. This isn't even the first time I've played Yma Sumac, for feck's sake. Nothing much wrong with anything here, but man, expanding my parameters might do me some good...


THE DJ CAIN O. SHOW (APRIL 28, 2007):

1. "Oh God! - !!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Copernicus
2. "Love Comes in Spurts" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
3. "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" - X-Ray Spex
4. "Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls
5. "Don't Cry for Me" - the Zombies
6. "Tell Me" - the Rolling Stones
7. "Godstar" - Psychic TV
8. "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" - the Brian Jonestown Massacre
9. "Cool as Kim Deal" - the Dandy Warhols
10. "When I Was a Painter" - the Breeders
11. "Fish" - Throwing Muses
12. "Letter from an Occupant" - the New Pornographers
13. "Lowdown" - Wire
14. "Catch It and You Keep It" - National Lampoon
15. "Moonage Daydream" - David Bowie
16. "American Woman" - Butthole Surfers
17. "The Lights, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise" - Flipper
18. "Flipping Channels Frag 3" - Osymyso
19. "To Hell With Poverty!" - Gang of Four
20. "The Fat Lady of Limbourg (live)" - Brian Eno
21. "Yegelle Tezeta" - Mulatu Astatke
22. "Cuts for Commercials A36-38" - DeWolfe
23. "Jam Intro #1"- Chris Morris
24. "Friction" - Television
25. "Gratitude" - Beastie Boys
26. "Back Breaker" - Black Uhuru
27. "Conet Project Remix Session #4" - IDX1244
28. "A Quick One (While He's Away)" - the Who
29. "Everything's Coming Up Roses (disco)" - Ethel Merman
30. "Sugar" - Ladytron
31. "Spark Plug " - Stereolab
32. "Chest Fever" - The Band
33. "Car Cleaning Ad/Ersatz Bros. Coffee" - the Firesign Theatre
34. "Where Youth and Laughter Go" - Broadcast
35. "Province" - TV on the Radio
36. "Sounds Great When You're Dead" - Robyn Hitchcock
37. "Old Fart at Play" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
38. "Happy House" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
39. "Witalliai (Fire in the Andes)" - Yma Sumac
40. "This Machine" - Mecca Normal
41. "It's Alright" - Spacemen 3
42. "Blimps Go 90" - Guided by Voices
43. "Cuts for Commercials A38-40" - DeWolfe
44. "Bugged" - Head of David
45. "Gun" - John Cale
46. "The Gun" - Lou Reed
47. "Lawns of Dawns" - Nico
48. "I'll Keep It With Mine" - Susanna Hoffs
49. "Positively 4th Street" - Bob Dylan
50. "Exile on My Street" - the Ponys
51. "Kasimir S. Pulaski Day" - Big Black
52. "Meet Me in the Dollar Bin" - Les Savy Fav
53. "It's Who You Know" - X
54. "Christian Says" - Tones on Tail
55. "Not Waving But Drowning" - Julian Cope
56. "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men" - Tortoise
57. "Eiffel Tower High" - Hüsker Dü
58. "Einstein's Day" - Mission of Burma
59. "Oh Yeah" - Can
60. "I Am Damo Suzuki" - the Fall

PAST TO CATCH-UP, PLEASE:

The first in a series of playlists from shows I did (and forgot about) weeks ago. Few surprises with this one, I see - many of the non-unusual suspects lined up throughout, often right next to one another, with only the most minor of variations (ooh, solo Iggy as opposed to the Stooges! Mark E. Smith and Nick Cave side projects! A Minutemen song running over three minutes! An Elvis Costello number recorded after 1980!), so feel free to yawn. That said, I do get into a pleasingly oddball-eclectic zone 'round about track 34, the Legendary Pink Dots repeat from the previous show was either part of an abortive attempt to come up with a closing theme song (see: the Plugz, "Reel Ten," back in the archives somewhere) or just me forgetting I closed the show with it last time, and the second Naked Raygun song was the purely coincidental result of my commonplace grab-any-CD-and-play-a-random-track-and-quick-'cause-there's-only- seven-seconds-left-in-the-song-playing-right-now panic, which occurs at least twice a broadcast, rather than an intentional asymmetrical callback. Whatever that means.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000024 (APRIL 25, 2007):

1. "Here Comes Everybody" - Game Theory
2. "24" - Game Theory
3. "Memories" - Public Image Ltd.
4. "We Found Sound" - The Remote Viewer
5. "Nine People" - Dumptruck
6. "This Perfect Day" - the Saints
7. "49 Guitars and One Girl" - Pere Ubu
8. "Knocking 'Em Down in the City" - Iggy Pop
9. "Lust for Life" - Bad Livers
10. "Can You Dig It?" - the Monkees
11. "You Know I Hate Stupid Phones" - Liars
12. "Ice" - Steven Wright
13. "Dog on Wheels" - Belle & Sebastian
14. "Walk in Cold" - Naked Raygun
15. "All the Photos" - The Sea and Cake
16. "I Remember" - Naked Raygun
17. "Ain't We Got Fun" - Jack Kerouac
18. "Ecstasy Symphony" - Spacemen 3
19. "When I Was Cruel No. 2" - Elvis Costello
20. "Deanshanger" - Prolapse
21. "My Own Face Inside the Trees" - the Clientele
22. "Duckrog" - Von Südenfed
23. "Go Tell the Women" - Grinderman
24. "Bob's Brazerko Lounge" - Firesign Theatre
25. "Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn" - the Chills
26. "My Roots are Strong and Deep" - the Microphones
27. "Gum" - Cornelius
28. "Karl French Interview" - Monty Python
29. "Tune for Wind God" - Minutemen
30. "Space Shipp" - Matthew Shipp
31. "Water (excerpt)" - Steven Wright
32. "We Meet Under Tables" - Wire
33. "Sleep Over It" - controller.controller
34. "Is That All There Is?" - Peggy Lee
35. "Scotch Hausen" - DJ Scotch Egg
36. "How Long Blues" - Jimmy Yancey
37. "Caliper Remote" - Autechre
38. "Zapped" - Bailter Space
39. "And Even the Vegetables Screamed" - Legendary Pink Dots