Thursday, July 26, 2007

THE ONLY CALL I GOT THIS WEEK PRAISED ME FOR A CHANGE. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000032 (JULY 25, 2007):

1. "The Kid With the Replaceable Head " - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
2. "Man Should Surrender" - Pailhead
3. "Two Minutes to Lunch" - Wall of Voodoo
4. "The Way I Walk" - the Cramps
5. "Goodbye Lucille #1 (acoustic)" - Prefab Sprout
6. "Myriad Harbour" - the New Pornographers
7. "I Love a Man in Uniform" - Gang of Four
8. "Ying Tong Song" - the Goons
9. "I'm a Cult Hero" - Cult Hero (aka the Cure)
10. "Black Belt Jones" - Lee "Scratch" Perry
11. "Reward" - The Teardrop Explodes
12. "Paris 1919 (live)" - John Cale
13. "Dancing" - Bauhaus
14. "I Don't Mind" - Toy Love
15. "The Enthusiast" - Mission of Burma
16. "Matt Neffer, Boy Spot-Welding King of the World" - Bob & Ray
17. "Schizophrenic Moon" - Katie Lee
18. "Biff Bang Pow!" - the Creation
19. "Automatic Husband" - the Fiery Furnaces
20. "Green Eggs and Ham" - from Dylan Hears a Who
21. "Turn It On" - Sleater-Kinney
22. "Lover to Fall" - Scritti Politti
23. "Sputnik" - Japancakes
24. "Stalking Mark E. Smith Around NYC" - Necropolis
25. "Number Nine" - Oneida
26. "Handsome Devil" - the Smiths
27. "Highway Toes" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest et al.)
28. "Andy's Chest" - the Velvet Underground
29. "Scab" - A.R. Kane
30. "Good Times" - Love
31. "Arrhythmia's Gonna Get You" - Evolution Control Committee
32. "Australian Table Wines" - Monty Python
33. "The Sicilian Clan" - John Zorn
34. "Margaret/Tiger-Rug" - Alexander "Skip" Spence
35. "Part II" - Jandek
36. "Drei Zinnen" - Niobe
37. "Love in a Void" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
38. "Nick Cave Dolls" - Bongwater
39. "Eva & Willie's Room (Beer For Boys - Eva Packing)" - John Lurie

Thursday, July 19, 2007

MR. CONTROVERSY STRIKES AGAIN (So I'm Told, Anyway. I Was Busy Doing My Show While It Happened):

Yawn, another complaining phone call, from a "fellow programmer" deeply offended by my choice of a stand-up comedy segment. Just because Patton compared a 63-year-old giving birth to an uncooked game hen being pushed through grey drapes. All I can say is, my man, you should have heard the Oswalt bit I wanted to play...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000031 (JULY 18, 2007):

1. Orgy of the Living Dead trailer
2. "I'm in Love With My Walls" - Lester Bangs and the Delinquents
3. "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" - Pernice Brothers
4. "Neighbourhood of Infinity" - the Fall
5. "Pills" - Bo Diddley
6. "Vietnam" - the Minutemen
7. "A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons" - A Sunny Day In Glasgow
8. "Father's Name Was Dad" - Fire
9. "The Miracle of Childbirth" - Patton Oswalt
10. "We Will Rock You" - Melt-Banana
11. "Figure of Fun" - the Birthday Party
12. "The Great Leveller" - the Wolfgang Press
13. "Seven Deadly Finns" - Brian Eno
14. "Icarus Smicarus" - McLusky
15. "She Loves You (Teutonic)" - Peter Sellers
16. "That's What You Always Say" - the Dream Syndicate
17. "People Express" - Salem 66
18. "We Gotta Get You a Woman" - Todd Rundgren
19. "Ru Tenone" - Turn On
20. "Collideascope" - the Dukes of Stratosphear
21. "Swamp" - 8-Eyed Spy
22. "Run Through the Jungle" - 8-Eyed Spy
23. "Think About It" - Flight of the Conchords
24. "Koko B. Ware" - Hella
25. "I'm Having a Musical Breakdown" - R. Stevie Moore
26. "Absolute Beginners Again" - My Favorite
27. "Taxman" - Steve Fisk
28. "You're Sleeping" - Tiger Trap
29. "Psychopathia Sexualis" - Lenny Bruce
30. "Baby Stones" - Robert Forster
31. "On the Swings" - the For Carnation
32. "Darlene" - Slint
33. "After Midnight" - Wire
34. "Flash Bazbo in a Restaurant" - National Lampoon (Gilda Radner, Christopher Guest)
35. "Gyrasthetics No. 1" - the Flying Lizards
36. "Johnsburg, Illinois" - Tom Waits
37. "Hang Cool, Teddybear!" - Stu Phillips/Dolly Read (from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)
38. "Dwarf Succulents" - Viv Stanshall
39. "Freak Out" - Liars
40. "You Thrill Me" - Patty Waters
41. "Valvoline" - Scout Niblett
42. "True Love Will Find You In The End" - Spectrum
43. "Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II)" - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

Thursday, July 05, 2007

U to the S to the A (or up the A as some might have it):

"We just cancelled our membership to your station," the smugly irate caller stated. "Way, way too liberal." This while that known pinko prevert subversive Albert Brooks was playing. Hmf. It almost feels good to be controversial. Then again, I'm in no mood to be the Alan Berg of the oughts. Or the Barry Champlain, for that matter. Much as I'd like to imagine myself as a wild-eyed, stiff-backed crusader for free speech, I must admit the motherfucker scared me off of playing Allen Ginsberg telling America "go fuck yourself with your atom bomb." Yep, Mr. Bravery, that's me. Anyway, here's my July 4th special in summary...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000030 (JULY 4, 2007):

1. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" - the Mothers of Invention
2. "America is Waiting" - David Byrne/Brian Eno
3. "The American Metaphysical Circus" - the United States of America
4. "U.S. 80s-90s" - the Fall
5. "I'm So Bored With the U.S.A." - the Clash
6. "Rocket U.S.A." - the Fleshtones w/ Alan Vega
7. "God Bless America" - Joan of Arc
8. "That's America" - Bruce McCulloch
9. "American Flag" - Cat Power
10. "Surfin' U.S.A." - French, Frith, Thompson and Kaiser
11. "Back in the U.S.A." - New York Dolls
12. "LA, CA, USA" - Stereo Total
13. "The American Pageant" (excerpt) - the Firesign Theatre
14. "The Ugly American" - Big Black
15. "Shop for America" - Bratmobile
16. "American Squirm" - Nick Lowe
17. "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" - Bob Dylan
18. "U.S.S.A." - Butthole Surfers
19. "America" - Robyn Hitchcock
20. "Rewriting the National Anthem" - Albert Brooks
21. "White House" - the American Analog Set
22. "The Body of an American" - the Pogues
23. "The American in Me" - the Avengers
24. "Stone Deaf in the USA" - Motörhead
25. "U.S. Knitting" - Momus
26. "Cheeseburger" - Gang of Four
27. "A Spoken-Word Poem for America" - Neal Pollack and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
28. "Crawling to the U.S.A." - Elvis Costello
29. "Stars and Stripes Forever" - Matmos
30. "L'America" - the Doors
31. "Help Save The Youth Of America" - Billy Bragg
32. "America" - John Fahey