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
Monday, February 26, 2007
BETTER BELATED THAN BENEVERED:
The long-rumored, little-believed, pointlessly-hyphenated Valentine's Day As-Few-Love-Songs-As-Humanly-Possible-Unless-
They're-Really-Fucked-Up-Either-Chemically-Or-Attitudinally playlist follows:
WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000019 (FEBRUARY 14, 2007):
1. "Respectable Street" - XTC
2. "Shadow of a Doubt" - Sonic Youth
3. "Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)" - Prefab Sprout
4. "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)" - Beck
5. "Accepting Applications at University" - the Lilys
6. "Life On Mars?" - David Bowie
7. "Marie Provost" - Nick Lowe
8. "Obscene Phone Call" - Lily Tomlin
9. "Lucifer Sam" - Pink Floyd
10. "Performance" - Jack Nitzsche
11. "Smokescreen" - Desperate Bicycles
12. "Bossa Nova 101" - Money Mark
13. "Delilah Sands" - Brilliant Corners
14. "Strip Club" - World of Pooh
15. "Public Safety" - Fat Worm of Error
16. "If I Told You" - Husker Du
17. "Crazy" - Pylon
18. "The Perfect Cut (White Rabbit and a Dog Named Gidget)" - Negativland
19. "Martha" - Jefferson Airplane
20. "Poodles in Practice Dress at the Battersea Dogs Opera" - Contrastate
21. "Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle & Sebastian
22. "Walk on the Wild Side" (Dictionarioke version) - David Minuk
23. "Man at C&A" - the Specials
24. "Putting Your Budgie Down" - Monty Python
25. "Molly's Lips" - the Vaselines
26. "Debris Slide" - Pavement
27. Valentine's stalker dedications
28. "I Can't Stop Smiling" - Velocity Girl
29. "LSD and the Screaming Hot Dog" - 60's Educational Film
30. "Vyrna Knowl is a Headbanger" - the Soft Boys
31. "First Computer Piece" - Lee Ranaldo
32. "A Blind Man's Penis (Peace & Love)" - John Trubee/Ramsey Kearney
33. "First Computer Piece (backwards)" - Lee Ranaldo
34. "40 Great Unclaimed Melodies!" - Firesign Theatre
35. "Venus Lost Her Shirt" - Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers
36. "Blues de Jour (A Minor)" - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
37. "Moonshake" - Can
38. "I'm Like You" - Urinals
39. "Start Me Up" - the Folksmen
40. "Poodles in Practice Dress at the Battersea Dogs Opera (backwards)" - Contrastate
41. "Turn Me On Dead Man" - Game Theory
42. "Three" - the Cure
43. "None But First Rate Workmen Will Meet With Encouragement" - Idea Fire Company
44. "None But First Rate Workmen Will Meet With Encouragement (backwards)" - Idea Fire Company
45. "A Different Kind of Tension" - Buzzcocks
46. "Road" - Nick Drake
47. "(Love Like) Anthrax" - Gang of Four
48. "Reel Ten" - the Plugz
They're-Really-Fucked-Up-Either-Chemically-Or-Attitudinally playlist follows:
WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000019 (FEBRUARY 14, 2007):
1. "Respectable Street" - XTC
2. "Shadow of a Doubt" - Sonic Youth
3. "Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)" - Prefab Sprout
4. "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)" - Beck
5. "Accepting Applications at University" - the Lilys
6. "Life On Mars?" - David Bowie
7. "Marie Provost" - Nick Lowe
8. "Obscene Phone Call" - Lily Tomlin
9. "Lucifer Sam" - Pink Floyd
10. "Performance" - Jack Nitzsche
11. "Smokescreen" - Desperate Bicycles
12. "Bossa Nova 101" - Money Mark
13. "Delilah Sands" - Brilliant Corners
14. "Strip Club" - World of Pooh
15. "Public Safety" - Fat Worm of Error
16. "If I Told You" - Husker Du
17. "Crazy" - Pylon
18. "The Perfect Cut (White Rabbit and a Dog Named Gidget)" - Negativland
19. "Martha" - Jefferson Airplane
20. "Poodles in Practice Dress at the Battersea Dogs Opera" - Contrastate
21. "Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle & Sebastian
22. "Walk on the Wild Side" (Dictionarioke version) - David Minuk
23. "Man at C&A" - the Specials
24. "Putting Your Budgie Down" - Monty Python
25. "Molly's Lips" - the Vaselines
26. "Debris Slide" - Pavement
27. Valentine's stalker dedications
28. "I Can't Stop Smiling" - Velocity Girl
29. "LSD and the Screaming Hot Dog" - 60's Educational Film
30. "Vyrna Knowl is a Headbanger" - the Soft Boys
31. "First Computer Piece" - Lee Ranaldo
32. "A Blind Man's Penis (Peace & Love)" - John Trubee/Ramsey Kearney
33. "First Computer Piece (backwards)" - Lee Ranaldo
34. "40 Great Unclaimed Melodies!" - Firesign Theatre
35. "Venus Lost Her Shirt" - Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers
36. "Blues de Jour (A Minor)" - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
37. "Moonshake" - Can
38. "I'm Like You" - Urinals
39. "Start Me Up" - the Folksmen
40. "Poodles in Practice Dress at the Battersea Dogs Opera (backwards)" - Contrastate
41. "Turn Me On Dead Man" - Game Theory
42. "Three" - the Cure
43. "None But First Rate Workmen Will Meet With Encouragement" - Idea Fire Company
44. "None But First Rate Workmen Will Meet With Encouragement (backwards)" - Idea Fire Company
45. "A Different Kind of Tension" - Buzzcocks
46. "Road" - Nick Drake
47. "(Love Like) Anthrax" - Gang of Four
48. "Reel Ten" - the Plugz
Thursday, February 01, 2007
EINE KLEINE (NOTE TO SELF: FIND THE GERMAN WORD FOR "POST"):
Not the best show ever, not the worst. Maybe more than two hours' prep for one of my semi-ambitious radio dial-flipping concept shows would help...
WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000018 (JANUARY 31, 2007):
1. "Third Uncle" - Bauhaus
2. "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman" - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
3. "Up From the Sea" - Swervedriver
4. "Hunt Again" - Mission of Burma
5. "The Flowers of Romance" - Public Image Ltd.
6. "Count Five or Six" - Cornelius
7. "The Daily Planet" - Love
8. "Let It Blurt" - Lester Bangs
9. "Give All to Love" - Niobe
10. "Senior Service" - Elvis Costello
11. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 1" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Christopher Guest, Doug Kenney)
12. "Marmoset" - Rapeman
13. "With a Girl Like You" - the Troggs
14. "Back Downtown" - Certain General
15. "Mastermen" - Home
16. "We Are Normal" - the Reducers
17. "Son of WINO (excerpt)" - George Carlin
18. "Glitter" - Erase Errata
19. "The Bad Stuff" - the Fall
20. "Death is Not Your Friend" - Wooden Shjips
21. "What's My Name" - the Clash
22. "Cherry Flowers" - Mecca Normal
23. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 2" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Christopher Guest, Doug Kenney)
24. "When Tomorrow Hits" - Spacemen 3
25. "Agitato Tragico" - DeWolfe
26. "Odd" - Nurse With Wound
27. "Repressed Hostility Blues" - Katie Lee
28. "Seen and Not Seen" - Talking Heads
29. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 3" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Doug Kenney)
30. "Ha Ha Ha" (live at KALX, 1981) - Flipper
31. "1,000 Luminous Flowers" - Rudolph Grey
32. Celebrity Prejudice Today (inc. "Hip Hug-Her" - Booker T. and the MGs)
33. "Elephant Monologue" - Chris Morris (inc. "Surf's Up" - the Beach Boys)
34. "The Flower Called Nowhere" - Stereolab
35. "Trinite Orphique" - Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO
36. "Home at Last" - Steely Dan
37. "The Mustard Battle" - Dion McGregor
38. "Final Count of the Collision Between Us and the Damned" - Public Enemy
39. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 4" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Doug Kenney)
WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000018 (JANUARY 31, 2007):
1. "Third Uncle" - Bauhaus
2. "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman" - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
3. "Up From the Sea" - Swervedriver
4. "Hunt Again" - Mission of Burma
5. "The Flowers of Romance" - Public Image Ltd.
6. "Count Five or Six" - Cornelius
7. "The Daily Planet" - Love
8. "Let It Blurt" - Lester Bangs
9. "Give All to Love" - Niobe
10. "Senior Service" - Elvis Costello
11. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 1" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Christopher Guest, Doug Kenney)
12. "Marmoset" - Rapeman
13. "With a Girl Like You" - the Troggs
14. "Back Downtown" - Certain General
15. "Mastermen" - Home
16. "We Are Normal" - the Reducers
17. "Son of WINO (excerpt)" - George Carlin
18. "Glitter" - Erase Errata
19. "The Bad Stuff" - the Fall
20. "Death is Not Your Friend" - Wooden Shjips
21. "What's My Name" - the Clash
22. "Cherry Flowers" - Mecca Normal
23. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 2" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Christopher Guest, Doug Kenney)
24. "When Tomorrow Hits" - Spacemen 3
25. "Agitato Tragico" - DeWolfe
26. "Odd" - Nurse With Wound
27. "Repressed Hostility Blues" - Katie Lee
28. "Seen and Not Seen" - Talking Heads
29. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 3" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Doug Kenney)
30. "Ha Ha Ha" (live at KALX, 1981) - Flipper
31. "1,000 Luminous Flowers" - Rudolph Grey
32. Celebrity Prejudice Today (inc. "Hip Hug-Her" - Booker T. and the MGs)
33. "Elephant Monologue" - Chris Morris (inc. "Surf's Up" - the Beach Boys)
34. "The Flower Called Nowhere" - Stereolab
35. "Trinite Orphique" - Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO
36. "Home at Last" - Steely Dan
37. "The Mustard Battle" - Dion McGregor
38. "Final Count of the Collision Between Us and the Damned" - Public Enemy
39. "National Lampoon's Call-In, Part 4" - National Lampoon (Garry Goodrow, Doug Kenney)
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