FEAR NOT, FELLOW HIPSTER-DOOFI:

...once again, the only reason for the appearance of several uncharacteristically, um, uncharacteristic titles in the list below (t'wit, tracks #25-29) is that another person was in the studio with me (an apprentice programmer, obtained through the auspices of Big Brothers/Big Boppers, Inc. for only pennies of payola a day), and I let him program his own set. Not that I really have a problem with any of those songs (in fact, I played the very same Animal Collective number a few months ago), but really, if it were up to me, I'd have played one of Lauryn Hill's psychotic rambleogues from Unplugged 2.0 instead of her hit single. But no worries - I've covered most of the standard stuck-up, insufferable, clogged-nostrilled indie-dork bases elsewhere as per usual...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000045 (OCTOBER 26, 2007):

1. "Breadcrumb Trail" - Slint
2. "Walkin' with Jesus" - Spacemen 3
3. "Colours Fly Away" - The Teardrop Explodes
4. "Murder" - Turbo Fruits
5. "Don't Ask" - Grizzly Bear
6. "Mold" - Bewitched
7. "Freedom's Smashed" - Alan Vega
8. "Speed" - from Saturday Night Live (Anne Beatts, Robert King)
9. "The Prisoner" - D.O.A.
10. "Don't Give It Up Now" - the Lyres
11. "Alien" - Bill Direen & the Bilders
12. "Splinter Test Number Four: The Human Voice - Track 15" - Genesis P-Orridge/Eddie Thrasher
13. "What Is That?" - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
14. "Chemical Wire" - fIREHOSE
15. "I Die: You Die" - Gary Numan
16. "Mistaken for Strangers" - The National
17. "Spitzenqualität" - Neu!
18. "News" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase)
19. "Fortunately Gone" - the Breeders
20. "Boom Boom" - Sakura & the Quests
21. "Flugadi (Volare)" - Alberta Casey
22. "Splinter Test Number Four: The Human Voice - Track 25" - Genesis P-Orridge/Eddie Thrasher
23. "Culture Vultures" - Wire
24. "Barrytown" - Steely Dan
25. "Gypsy Woman" - the Impressions
26. "Venus as a Boy" - Björk
27. "Slippi" - Animal Collective
28. "So Fresh, So Clean" - OutKast
29. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" - Lauryn Hill
30. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" - Algebra Suicide
31. "Womban" - the Godz
32. "Courting Blues" - Bert Jansch
33. "Working with the Popular Forces" - William S. Burroughs
34. "Crashing Through" - Beat Happening
35. "7 Years" - Tuxedomoon
36. "You Are Dreaming" - Shout Out Louds
37. "Blind" - Peter Cook
38. "Girl with the Guitar (Says Oh Yeah)" - the Three O'Clock

IN LIGHT OF RECENT CONTROVERSIES...

...regarding people complaining pre-emptively and point-missingly about broadcasting "pornography" on this station, is it mere coincidence that I played a track tonight which sampled pre-orgasmic moans from actual porn? I'll never tell. (No, it's not.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000044 (OCTOBER 17, 2007):

1. "Wake Up" - Shocking Pinks
2. "Monk Time" - the Monks
3. "Redondo Beach" - Patti Smith
4. "The Light Pours Out Of Me" - Peter Murphy
5. "What Happened to Me" - David Thomas and the Wooden Birds
6. "Fairytale in the Supermarket" - the Raincoats
7. "Faith to Clay" - Eric Matthews
8. "Fastbuck" - feedtime.
9. "Carumba" - Proctor & Bergman
10. "Long Time Woman" - Pam Grier
11. "Contort Yourself" - the Contortions
12. "You're No Fun" - the Scruffs
13. "Know Your Product" - the Saints
14. "O Adonis" - Savage Republic
15. "Typical Girls" - the Slits
16. "Jump Boys" - the Undertones
17. "Theoretical Girls" - Theoretical Girls
18. "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - the Adverts
19. "Iggy Pop's Jacket" - Those Naughty Lumps
20. "Planetarium" - Steven Wright
21. "Until the Fools Get Wise" - Felt
22. "Second-Hand Girl" - Shocking Pinks
23. "D.C.B.A.-25" - Jefferson Airplane
24. "The Playboy Channel" - Negativland
25. "Oops Oh My" - Ladytron
26. "Pillar to Post" - Aztec Camera
27. "Six Pack" - the Dirty Projectors
28. "Wasted" - Camper Van Beethoven
29. "Police Story" - Los Campesinos!
30. "Merciful Mother" - Saccharine Trust
31. "Red" - Mission of Burma
32. "My New Career" - Japan
33. "Bulldog Skin" - Guided by Voices
34. "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" - Tom Lehrer
35. "When I Write the Book" - Rockpile
36. "Flowers of the Sea" - Dead Can Dance
37. "Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye" - Gastr del Sol
38. "Glider" - My Bloody Valentine
39. "Exit From Vince Lombardi High School" - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
40. "The Date-Reduced Loaf" - Jim Sauter/Don Dietrich/Thurston Moore
41. "Funeral Pyre" - the Jam
42. "Wind on Water" - Robert Fripp & Brian Eno

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy cowsh*t! Someone Moloch the c*cks*cking door!:

Okay, y'know, I'm really starting to get pissed off at a certain other programmer at this station who has made it his mission to upbraid as many of his fellow programmers for letting obscenities past the mic as possible, chiding those of us who play stuff that, admittedly, has the occasional adult content (albeit always - in my case, at least - well within the FCC-designated 10 pm - 6 am "safe harbor" period). This latest finger-wag came after another programmer forwarded a New York Times editorial concerning WBAI's decision not to play a recording of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on the occasion of its 50th anniversary (which was actually a couple of years ago, but never mind that) for fear that the FCC would wind up levying one of its ridiculous "obscenity" fines on the station - all for one of the key works of American art of the last half-century, one which has been famously and definitively judged not obscene by the Supreme Court. Of course, Señor Bluenose took that as his cue to scowl (and obliquely threaten) at length at those of us who are (in his words) "addicted to expletives." Well, I thought, fuck you, pal. I'm playing "Howl" tonight - just try and stop me. Only, um, I didn't, exactly. I played the Fugs' "cover" of it instead, wherein the words flash so quickly (and low-fidelitily) by that any "offensive" language in the song is all but inaudible. Chickening out? Not exactly. The recording of "Howl" that I have runs over twenty-one fucking minutes! Hell, that's over a sixth of my show! Freedom of speech is one thing, freedom to keep me from serving up my standard brew of edgy, up-to-the-minute fare and Jesus & Mary Chain b-sides is quite another! But, hey, at least I got the word "cowshit" through a couple of times. Gotta feed my fuckin' Jones somehow.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000043 (OCTOBER 10, 2007):

1. "Hang On St. Christopher" - Tom Waits
2. "2x4" - the Fall
3. "Have a Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof)" - the Soft Boys
4. "No Reason to Complain" - the Alarm Clocks
5. "Chinatown" - Tahiti 80
6. "Hold Tight" - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
7. "Tango Whiskeyman" - Can
8. "The Coffee and Tea Wrecks" - the Dandy Warhols
9. "Bodysnatchers" - Radiohead
10. "Restorative Beer" - the Fiery Furnaces
11. "The Opposite of Hallelujah" - Jens Lekman
12. "Dayroom at Narita Int'l" - Kinski
13. "Hostile Mascot" - the Mekons
14. "Positively Wall Street" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, et al.)
15. "Birdies" - Pere Ubu
16. "The Breaking Hands" - the Gun Club
17. "So Long" - the Chills
18. "Slipping (Into Something)" - the Feelies
19. "Let, Let Me In" - De La Soul
20. "World War I Noises in 4" - Monty Python
21. "Standing at the Crosswords" - Great Plains
22. "I Felt Like a Gringo" - Minutemen
23. "Pride" - Echo and the Bunnymen
24. "It'5!" - Architecture in Helsinki
25. "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rot (or Rock, depending on what you read)" - the Fugs
26. "Sunset" - Allen Ginsberg
27. "Slow Slow Music" - the Go-Betweens
28. "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby" - Jimmy Reed
29. "Lolitapop Dollhouse" - Kahimi Karie
30. "Oh Little Seeds" - Steve Fisk
31. "Here She Comes Now" - the Velvet Underground
32. "The Army Training Film" - the Firesign Theatre
33. "Fantastic Morgue" - Oneida
34. "When Under Ether" - PJ Harvey
35. "Boyfriend's Dead" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
36. "Introspection" - Thelonious Monk

LOOKS LIKE A PUMP, FEELS LIKE A SNEAKER, SOUNDS LIKE THE SAME OLD CRAP I USUALLY PLAY:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000042 (OCTOBER 3, 2007):

1. "I Am Criswell" - from Orgy of the Dead
2. "Let's Build a Car" - Swell Maps
3. "Generator" - Elastica
4. "52 Girls" - the B-52s
5. "Ground Zero" - Hair & Skin Trading Co.
6. "A Message to Pretty" - David Kilgour & Martin Phillips
7. "Rhthm and Soul" - Spoon
8. "Myth Takes" - !!!
9. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Thank God)" - Talulah Gosh
10. "Crawfish Boat Shirt" - Coyle & Sharpe
11. "Writing the Book of Last Pages" - Let's Active
12. "Box: Tallow, Felt And Ice" - Poem Rocket
13. "I Saw It" - Lubricated Goat
14. "The Girl Who Would Be King" - Congo Norvell
15. "I Want Oblivion" - Heavy Trash
16. "Idiot Son" - The Loud Family
17. "Zip Gun Woman" - Hackamore Brick
18. "An End in Sight/Love Song" - Albert Brooks
19. "(I'm Not Afraid of) Electricity" - Jessamine
20. "Concerned Citizen" - 45 Grave
21. "Well You Needn't" - the Lounge Lizards
22. "Penetration" - Iggy & the Stooges
23. "New News" - George Carlin
24. "The Wrong Girl" - Belle & Sebastian
25. "George Fell Into His French Horn" - the Beach Boys
26. "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (vocals only)" - the Beach Boys
27. "Have You Ever Loved Someone" - the Hollies
28. "Slow Things Down" - Soup Dragons
29. "Touch Me I'm Sick" - Sonic Youth
30. "Too Nice to Talk To" - the (English) Beat
31. "Working Too Hard" - the (American) Beat
32. "Straight Man Auditions" - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest)
33. "Stratford-on-Guy" - Liz Phair
34. "Pseudo Drama Time" - The Next Step
35. "Dancing Flowers" - Albert Ayler
36. "Sunrise" - Mark Lanegan
37. "Dutch Courage" - Rapeman
38. "Pala" - Pan Sonic