THE PLAYLIST BELOW SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. FEEL FREE TO NOD OCCASIONALLY AND MAKE BELIEVE YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT IT'S SAYING:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000076 (DECEMBER 17, 2008):

1. "#15 Canon 3/4" - Conlon Nancarrow
2. "No Sheep" - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
3. "Frustration" - Rocket from the Tombs
4. "Mosquito Boticelli" - Ut
5. "Nylon Smile" - Portishead
6. "Talking to Myself" - Let's Active
7. "Paid Vacation" - Circle Jerks
8. "Bring the Noise" - Public Enemy
9. "Alternative Pets" - Paul F. Tompkins
10. "Console Me" - We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It
11. "The Sideways Man" - Digital Dinosaurs
12. "Boxing Day Special (Alan Rickman in a Wheelbarrow)" - Chris Morris
13. "Saviour Machine" - Redd Kross
14. 1966 Plymouth Barracuda Spot - from Psychedelic Promos & Radio Spots Vol. 1
15. "Blue Jeans 2.0" - Ladytron
16. "Funnelvision" - Erik Lindgren/Lauri des Marais
17. "Viperland" - Joe Strummer
18. "Thief of Fire" - the Pop Group
19. "Freud & Kafka (Act 1)" - Terry Southern
20. "Shiftless When Idle" - the Replacements
21. "Mutual Slump" - DJ Shadow
22. "Goodbye Girls" - Broadcast
23. "Tse Tse Fly" - Wall of Voodoo
24. "Escalator" - Sam Gopal
25. "Boxing Day Special (Whoring for Charity)" - Chris Morris
26. "Crash (12" version)" - Ultra Vivid Scene
27. "I'm the Greatest (demo)" - John Lennon
28. "Wild Boars Having Tea" - BBC Radiophonic Workshop
29. "Muddy Water" - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
30. "Whiz Bang/Bong Doying" - BBC Radiophonic Workshop
31. "The Big Hurt" - Scott Walker
32. "Smokescreen" - Shocking Pinks
33. "The Boy From..." - The Mad Show (original cast)
34. "Patricia" - Perez Prado
35. "Ludd Gang" - the Fall
36. "Heavy Metal News" - from Fast Forward cassette magazine issue #9
37. "Druscilla Penny" - World of Pooh
38. "Departure" - Bauhaus
39. "I Must Confess" - Everything But The Girl
40. "Chat-Up Lines" - Steve Coogan
41. "Fern on the Slope" - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
42. "Driving Me Backwards" - Brian Eno
43. "Hit Me With Your Hairbrush" - the Bambi Slam
44. "Pressing the Point" - 100 Flowers
45. "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" - the Soft Boys
46. "St. Elmo's Fire (Red Corona)" - Uilab
47. "Fuzz/Locusts" - Lee Ranaldo

REALLY GETTING INTO THE GROOVE, AS IT WERE...

...as the mixing, overlapping, flowing and dredging that went into this show are starting to come across as something faintly resembling inspired. Pretty good, I daresay.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000075 (DECEMBER 3, 2008):

1. Rite of First Refusal (inc. Coil, Big Black and Bill Hicks)
2. "Tomorrow Radio" (excerpt) - Tomorrow Radio
3. "Rat Race" - the Specials
4. "New Paltz Waltz" - New Radiant Storm King
5. "Leaders of Men" - Joy Division
6. "Akavishim" - Old Time Relijun
7. "Martin Scorsese" - King Missile
8. "We could certainly use some mescaline..." - Hunter S. Thompson
9. "Waltz the Halls Always" - Game Theory
10. "Viewmaster" - the Embarrassment
11. "Sailin' On" - Bad Brains
12. "The Good Thing" - Talking Heads
13. "The Light Pours Out Of Me" - Peter Murphy
14. "Shot By Both Sides" - Magazine
15. "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - the Kinks
16. "Geneva" - Morgan-Fisher
17. "Still Life #3" - Chris Stamey
18. "Cat With Hiccoughs/Comic Old Banger/Horror Toilet/Neurotic Duck/UFO Colliding with Church Spire" - BBC Radiophonic Workshop
19. "Astral Plane" - Modern Lovers
20. "Fireball" - Alan Vega
21. "Disco Circus" - Martin Circus
22. "Hymn in the Style of The Marble Index" - WEWN, Irondale, AL
23. "Eva Can I Stab Bats in a Cave" - Gregory Whitehead
24. "Highway Memorial Shrine" - NODZZZ
25. "Michael Alexander St. John's List of Cool" - from Blue Jam
26. "Coming Down" - the United States of America
27. "B-Movie Bedtime" - Doctors of Madness
28. "Final Solution" - Pere Ubu
29. "Drone Zone" - Psychic TV
30. untitled segment from The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest - Pacific Northwest Bell
31. "Little Lighthouse" - the Dukes of Stratosphear
32. "Delta-V" - Squarepusher
33. "Stage Announcements/Papa Was a Running-Dog Lackey of the Bourgoisie" - National Lampoon
34. "Generator" - Elastica
35. "Both Ends Burning" - Roxy Music
36. "Sexual Adventures in Marriage (Reel 3)" (excerpt) - Pent-R-Books
37. "Untitled Instrumental" - Television
38. "Dream Time" - the Jam
39. "Bathman" - Sic Alps
40. "David Bowie's Romantic Dinners" - from Blue Jam
41. "Queen Bitch" - David Bowie
42. "Moonman's Bop" - Clear Spot
43. "A Minute Passed" - Monty Python
44. "In Spain" - the dB's
45. "Escalator" - Sam Gopal
46. "Dance of the Dead Children" - Lydia Lunch
47. "Lock Grooves" - from RRR500

NOW THAT ONE WAS FUN, GODDAMMIT:

Breaking out of whatever ruts I've self-imposed, I went heavy on the live audio collagisizing this week, utilizing a couple of Negativland's (actually, Neagtivland member Don Joyce's) Over the Edge radio programs, a bunch of sound effects records, random superimpositions and a six-second-long Paul Westerberg song. Whereas the last show wound up sounding a lot better than it felt programming it, I have the feeling this one is a friggin' mess to hear. But the most fun I've had in quite a while doing this thing nonetheless. So I'll take it. (R.I.P. Mitch Mitchell.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000074 (NOVEMBER 19, 2008):

1. Over the Edge intro
2. "EXP" - the Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. "Great Radio" - Bongwater
4. Over the Edge segue #1
5. "You Can Never Tell" - All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
6. Over the Edge Segue #2 (w/ Phil Proctor, Das Damen)
7. "(I Got a) Catholic Block" - Sonic Youth
8. "Up From the Skies" - Jimi Hendrix Experience
9. "Discharge" - Last Exit
10. "I Don't Mind" - the Buzzcocks
11. "Fields of Fire" - Lydia Lunch/Honeymoon in Red
12. "You Won't See Me" - the Beatles
13. "Hellbound" - the Breeders
14. "Turn to You" - the Go-Gos
15. Over the Edge segue #3
16. "VHS Dream" - Deerhunter
17. "Funky President (People It's Bad)" - James Brown
18. Over the Edge segue #4 (w/Bob and Ray)
19. "4 Ft. Car" - from Blue Jam (Kevin Eldon)
20. "White Elephant" - Volcano Suns
21. "Warsaw" - Trent Reznor/Peter Murphy
22. "Waiting for Jimmy to Kick" - Butthole Surfers
23. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" - Gang of Four
24. "The SinKing" - Crystal Stilts
25. "The Final Sound" - the Cure
26. "Me Singing" - Julian Cope
27. Over the Edge segue #5 (w/ Roger Miller)
28. "No" - Vivian Girls
29. "Kill Your Sons" - Lou Reed
30. "Betrayal Takes Two" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
31. Not Quite an Over the Edge Segue (w/Ciccone Youth and Mark E. Smith)
32. "A Girl Like Me" - Beatrice
33. "Paranoia Claustrophobia" - Basement 5
34. Over the Edge segue #6 (w/Butthole Surfers)
35. "Pictures on My Wall" - Echo & the Bunnymen
36. Not at All an Over the Edge segue (w/Mogwai, Philip Johnson, Rudolph Grey and me)
37. "Glycerine" - Chicklet
38. "Go" - the Replacements
39. "Copper" - Tones on Tail
40. This Isn't an Over the Edge Segue Either (w/ Sonic Youth and Circus Calliope Music)
41. "Blown a Wish" - My Bloody Valentine
42. "Brown Sugar" - Armitage Shanks
43. "Guess I'll Be Going Then" - Paul Westerberg
44. "This Love is Fucking Right!" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
45. The End of the Show (w/Public Image Ltd., Sonic Youth, Circus Calliope Music, and Hüsker Dü)

AM I GETTING TIRED OF DOING THIS SHOW?:

Man, I'm feelin' mighty uninspired tonight. Or maybe I need sleep. Or shouldn't have eaten just before the show. That would account for the sloppiness, the repeats of previously-played songs, and the who the fuck cares you self-consciously self-aggrandizing walking whitehead nobody's reading this blog much less listening to your fucking show and putting up with your weak-ass musical taste anyway. Or maybe I'm just bummed that Jimmy Carl Black is dead. Eh.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000073 (NOVEMBER 5, 2008):

1. "Throwing the Election" - Game Theory
2. "Necessary Spinning" - Translator
3. "Don't Give Up" - the Noisettes
4. "Season of Illusions" - Ladytron
5. "The Rhinohead" - Von Südenfed
6. "Nub" - the Jesus Lizard
7. "You Gotta Live" - Eric Bogosian
8. "Photo Jenny" - Belle & Sebastian
9. "Go Ahead" (live) - Wire
10. "Wet Blanket" - the Chills
11. "Stork and Owl" - TV on the Radio
12. "Freezing Mr. Foster" - the Firesign Theatre
13. "You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette" - Robert Fripp (w/ Daryl Hall)
14. "Giraffe Trapping Music" - Sapan-Jagmohan
15. "X" - Bailter Space
16. "Call Any Vegetable" - the Mothers of Invention
17. "Drop-Out Boogie" - Jimmy Carl Black & Eugene Chadbourne
18. "Life is Cheap" - Flipper
19. "Red Light" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
20. "Trinklied" - Einstürzende Neubauten
21. "Ivanhoe I Brodbyerne" - Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
22. "I'm So Green" - Can
23. "Suspiria (narration)" - Goblin
24. "Cards" - Plastics
25. "Dead Pool" - Mission of Burma
26. "A Certain Someone" - the Sundays
27. "Sort of Famous" - John Waters
28. "Rock and Roll Friend" - the Go-Betweens
29. "Rock'n'Roll Dreams'll Come Through" - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
30. "Too Nice to Talk To" - the (English) Beat
31. "You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth" - the Temptations
32. "Poor Old Heartsick Me" - the Knitters
33. "Zero Leg" - Liquid Liquid
34. "All Things Dull and Ugly" - Monty Python

I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING FUNNY TO PUT HERE...

...which is more or less keeping in line with the show I, and my friends Slab and Don, just did. Oh, we had a hell of a lot of fun, no question, and we're all three reasonably talented performers when the tides are right, but once again I/we made the error of thinking that coming up with funny stuff off the top of my/our heads without any preparation whatsoever is a lot easier than it actually is. At one point, we rambled aimlessly enough that we got a call - on air - from our program director telling us to play some damn music already. Great guys, though. We'll nail it next time.

THE SLAB O' HAM WITH A SIDE OF DON SHOW (OCTOBER 31, 2008):

1. "President Gas" - the Psychedelic Furs
2. "Teddy Bear" - Eilert Pilarm
3. "Turkish Song of the Damned" - the Pogues
4. "Buick McKane" - T. Rex
5. "In the Street" - Big Star
6. "20 Golden Bits" - the Credibility Gap
7. "Rock and Roll Creation" - Spinal Tap
8. "Whatever You Are" - Young Fresh Fellows
9. "Mr. Pharmacist" - the Fall
10. "The Mechanical Man" - Bent Bolt and the Nuts
11. "Bad Penny" - Big Black
12. "I Love a Magician" - the Dismemberment Plan
13. "Funga Kanto" - from Nu Kanto en Esperanto
14. "New Broom" - Minisnap
15. "The Revenge Song" - Sean Morey
16. "Left of the Dial" - the Replacements
17. "Bulldog Skin" - Guided by Voices
18. "La Bomba Shelter" - the Firesign Theatre
19. "King's Lead Hat" - Brian Eno
20. "Chihuahua Choo Choo" - Ricardo Montalban
21. "Oldest Story in the World" - the Plimsouls
22. "G Turns to D" - Sloan
23. "Don't Touch Me There" - the Tubes
24. "On a Carousel" - the Hollies
25. "Eli the Barrow Boy" - the Decemberists
26. "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss" - X
27. "Town Called Malice" - the Jam
28. "These Boots Were Made for Walking" (until the glitches on the mp3 become unbearable) - Crispin Hellion Glover
29. "Executioner" - Robyn Hitchcock
30. "O.K. This is the Pops" - Tones on Tail
31. "Bruces' Philosophy Song" - Monty Python
32. "Inventory" - Colin Newman
33. "Asking Me Lies" - the Replacements
34. "Noshville Katz" - the Cohens
35. "Canton" - Japan

SCARY, HUH, KEEDS?:

Another collaboration 'twixt me and my good friend Slab. In pre-honor of Halloween, it's filled with some seriously frightening music. And by that, I am indeed referring to the gay country song we played.

THE SLAB O' HAM SHOW #2 (OCTOBER 22, 2008):

1. "Halloween Safety (remix)" - Listener Al
2. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" - Bauhaus
3. "Transylvanian Concubine" - Rasputina
4. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" - the Cramps
5. "Monsters" - Scratch Acid
6. "And the Winner is..." - National Lampoon (John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Emily Prager)
7. "Evil" - Howlin' Wolf
8. "Phantoms" - 45 Grave
9. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" - Warren Zevon
10. "Meet Ze Monsta" - PJ Harvey
11. "Put the Bone In" - Terry Jacks
12. "Timber" - the Bee Gees
13. "I Need Your Head" - Hasil Adkins
14. "Gravedigger Rock" - the Polecats
15. "Please Mr. Gravedigger" - David Bowie
16. "The Night Things Are All About Me" - Edward D. Wood, Jr.
17. "It Don't Hurt to Flirt" - Steve Lynn
18. "Telephone Man" - Meri Wilson
19. "Goo Goo Muck" - Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads
20. "Up in Them Guts" - Zach Galifianakis
21. "Pretty Vacant" - Shellac w/ David Yow
22. "Teenage Werewolf" - Rabid Rat Fondue
23. "Words" - the Monkees
24. "Treat Her Like a Lady" - Count Floyd
25. "Another Dead Girl" - Changelings
26. "Smash It Up (Part 2)" - the Damned
27. "Science Fiction Film" - Woody Allen
28. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - the Cardigans
29. "Strobe Light" - the B-52s
30. "Impression of J. Temperance" - the Fall
31. the scariest song ever recorded (sorry, I'm far too embarrassed to say what it is)

BACK TO NORMAL THIS WEEK...

...pure aging music-nerd hipsterrorism with only the slightest nod to music recorded since my twenty-first birthday. I don't know about you, but I feel comforted.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000072 (OCTOBER 8, 2008):

1. That's When I Reach For My Revolver" - Mission of Burma
2. "A Strychnine Kiss" - Legendary Pink Dots
3. "Love Jumped Through My Window" - Arthur Lee
4. "Border Country" - Swell Maps
5. "You Must Be a Witch" - Lollipop Shoppe
6. "Lovers Walk" - Elvis Costello
7. "Donna Summer" - Prefab Sprout
8. "Strange Overtones" - David Byrne & Brian Eno
9. "Test: Phasing" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase, Emily Prager)
10. "Run Paint Run Run" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
11. "Stop It" - Pylon
12. "The Hardest Part" - Blondie
13. "Japanese Song Too" - Club Foot Orchestra
14. "Candy and a Currant Bun" - Pink Floyd
15. "Marooned" - Wire
16. "Suck" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
17. "I Found Out" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
18. "Ralph/Transplants" - Murray Roman
19. "No Love Like That" - Jonathan Fire*Eater
20. "Satia" - Keith Hudson Meets King Tubby
21. "Conquistador" - Killdozer
22. "Lenox Avenue Blues" - Fats Waller/David Lynch/Alan J. Splet
23. "X-Machine" - Moving Parts
24. "Double Decker Bus" - Count Five
25. "Taping My Friends" - Steve Martin
26. "Enigma of the Absolute" - Dead Can Dance
27. "Launderette" - Vivienne Goldman
28. "The Freelance Pallbearers" - Ishmael Reed
29. "Cliche" - Sebadoh
30. "Bee to Honey" - Tall Dwarfs
31. "Thirsty Dog" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
32. "Sadness" - Ornette Coleman
33. "Almost Always is Nearly Enough" - Tortoise
34. "Humor Me" - Pere Ubu
35. "Sound Poem" - Brion Gysin
36. "Chant" - Public Image Ltd.

THIS IS NOT YOUR ORDINARY W&F...

...as I have been joined this evening by my good friend "Slab" Slabinsky, leading to a lot of anarchic wackiness. Yeah. Woo. (And we even superseded the station's usual post 1 AM programming for a while, because we're just that dangerous.)

THE SLAB O' HAM SHOW (SEPTEMBER 24, 2008):

1. "Breakdown" - the Buzzcocks
2. "Dancing Choose" - TV on the Radio
3. B-52s-style Stairway to Heaven - unknown
4. "Yodelling Overtures" - Mary Schneider
5. "Samtigdit 1" - Dungen
6. "Summer '68" - Pink Floyd
7. "Hot Rock Radio/Carumba" - Proctor & Bergman
8. "Water Curses" - Animal Collective
9. "I Rub My Roast" - Vincent Price
10. "You're Driving Me Insane" - the Roughnecks
11. "I'm Unkind" - Thee Headcoats
12. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - the Residents
13. "Green Eggs and Ham" - unknown (from Dylan Hears a Who)
14. "Ban Roll-On Ad" - Iron Butterfly
15. "Slow" - My Bloody Valentine
16. "Song For Lon Mabon" - Crackerbash
17. "Gedenkminute" - NEU!
18. "Starboy" - the Frogs
19. "Into the Groove(y)" - Ciccone Youth
20. "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written" - from SCTV (Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis)
21. "What's New, Pussycat?" - Liquor Giants
22. "David Foster Wallace" - Tsunami
23. "Slow Talkers of America" - Bob & Ray
24. "Vox Apostolica" - Steinski
25. "Pig Ankle Strut" - the Red Krayola
26. "Swonk Reven Worromot" - Seltaeb
27. "I Get a Kick Out of You (disco version)" - Ethel Merman
28. "Common People" - William Shatner
29. "Just Like Laila Khaled Said" - The Teardrop Explodes
30. "Victorian Squid" - Robyn Hitchcock
31. "Turkish Song of the Damned" - the Pogues
32. "Party of the First Part" - Bauhaus
33. "The Chamber" - the Last Shadow Puppets
34. Bull of the Woods ad - the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
35. "Exquisite Dead Guy" - They Might Be Giants
36. "Spoilt Victorian Child" - the Fall
37. "The Faust Tapes (excerpt)" - Faust
38. "Boss Hoss" - the Melvins
39. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" - the Andrews Sisters
40. "Descent" - the Cure
41. "Time Out of Joint" - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
42. "Towers Open Fire" - William S. Burroughs
43. "National Anthem by Mel Torme" - from SCTV (Rick Moranis)

I ISSUED MYSELF A CHALLENGE...

...to get through a whole show without a single song from the 1980s. It took me seven whole songs to fail utterly.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000071 (SEPTEMBER 10, 2008):

1. "It's Gonna Come Out Johnson" - the Corespondents
2. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" - Barry Adamson (w/Jarvis Cocker)
3. "Rocket Number 9" - NRBQ
4. "Kate Cleaver's House" - Hefner
5. "Infinity ytinifnI" - These New Puritans
6. "Bang Bang Rock & Roll" - Art Brut
7. "Sex Dwarf" - Soft Cell
8. "Judith Beasley (Consumer Tips)" - Lily Tomlin
9. "Damaged Goods" - Gang of Four
10. "A Year With No Head" - Blue Orchids
11. "Younger Bums" - Big Dipper
12. "The Prisoner" - the Clash
13. "Girl in the Shoes" - Dengue Fever
14. "I'm Going to Spain" - the Fall
15. "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" - the Birthday Party
16. "St. Vitus Dance" - Bauhaus
17. "The Abyss" - Your Funeral
18. "Out of the Picture" - Robyn Hitchcock
19. "There Will Be Blood" - Patton Oswalt
20. "Organ Donor" - DJ Shadow
21. "Guitarman" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
22. "Dr. Seuss" - Autoclave
23. "Other Animals are No. 1" - Erase Errata
24. "Psycho's Blues" - Clear Spot
25. "Swingline" - Adrian Belew
26. "Sunday Morning" - the Aluminum Group
27. "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" - the Specials
28. "Mr. Bentham: Directory Enquiries" - from Blue Jam (Julia Davis, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, David Cann)
29. "Violent Playground" - Broadcast
30. "Twisted Nerve" - Bernard Herrmann
31. "I Need Somebody" - Nebula
32. "The Worst Job I Ever Had" - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
33. "Damaged" - Vivian Girls
34. "Not Nice to Be Nice" - Sentridoh
35. "Nevertheless" - the Rutles
36. "Tropic of Nipples" - Richard Meltzer
37. "I Am Superwoman!" - Stu Phillips

JETLAGGED, SUFFERING FROM A MASSIVE COLD, AND SOMEWHAT DOWNHEARTED...

...but still I come out with a pretty decent show! Now that's professionalism. Apart from the whole getting-paid-to-do-this part.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000070 (AUGUST 27, 2008):

1. "Sketch for Summer" - the Durutti Column
2. "Mr. Jones" - the Psychedelic Furs
3. "What It Is We Fear" - Get Smart!
4. "Big Kick, Plain Scrap" - Nick Lowe
5. "What Difference Does It Make? (Peel Session)" - the Smiths
6. "Dig Down Deeper" - Old Time Relijun
7. "A Message to Pretty" - Love
8. "Dead Girls of London" - L. Shankar
9. "One True Radio: The Dangers of Music" - Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
10. "Someone Wants You Dead" - World of Pooh
11. "Yes, Everyone" - Eric Matthews
12. "Nice When I Want Something" - the Loud Family
13. "Alright" - Supergrass
14. "The Coming of Spring" - the Rapture
15. "Table Top Joe (original version)" - Tom Waits
16. "Dazed & Chinese" - Bongwater
17. "Mysteries of the Holiday Camp" - Consonant
18. "Socialist" - Public Image Ltd.
19. "Tell You Why Tomorrow" - Hüsker Dü
20. "I Am Mike Hammer" - Terry Southern
21. "Shuffle Boil" - John Zorn
22. "Johnny Thunder" - the Kinks
23. "Fancy" - Hugo Largo
24. "Don't Worry About the Government" - Talking Heads
25. "My Friends Call Me Ditchweed. Don't Ask. Ok, Go Ahead And Ask." - Earles and Jensen
26. "Disengaged From the World" - Plasticland
27. "Hitler With Mascara" - Permanent Green Light
28. "Something Big" - Jim O'Rourke
29. "Autonomy" - the Buzzcocks
30. "The Week Never Starts Round Here" - Arab Strap
31. "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" - Hank Williams
32. "Bowie" - Flight of the Conchords
33. "Be My Wife" - David Bowie
34. "Things Behind the Sun" - Nick Drake
35. "QKThr" - Aphex Twin

INANITY, THY NAME IS ME:

Liam's back, for the second and (sadly) final time this summer. The first five songs (which, including all the wacky interstitial banter, took up the full first half-hour) were his choice. The rest were hurriedly hashed together by me in the rather crazed atmosphere of the studio, being further visited by a friend from the theatre and by a stray black cat, which accounts for the rather high number of songs that had been played in earlier shows, not that anyone notices nor cares. (Any significance to the fact that the temperature was exactly 66.6 degrees through most of the show? No, of course not, you nit.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000069 (AUGUST 13, 2008):

1. "Shake It" - Metro Station
2. "The Pretender" - Foo Fighters
3. "Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana
4. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
5. "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" - Spinal Tap
6. "Athlete Cured" - the Fall
7. "Christine" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
8. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Lush
9. "Real by Reel" - XTC
10. "The Mouse Problem" - Monty Python
11. "Devil in His Heart" - the Donays
12. "Fighteous" - Steroid Maximus
13. "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)" - David Byrne
14. "Jordan: the Comeback" - Prefab Sprout
15. "Elvis Ate America" - the Passengers
16. "King Rocker" - Generation X
17. "Back 2 the Base" - X
18. "Mystery Train" - Elvis Presley
19. "Canyons of Your Mind" - Bonzo Dog Band
20. "Editions of You" - Roxy Music
21. "Ersatz Bros. Coffee" - the Firesign Theatre
22. "The Trip" - Naz Nomad and the Nightmares
23. "Manic Depression" - Nomeansno
24. "Listening to the Higsons" - Robyn Hitchcock
25. "Come Back in Two Halves" - Wire
26. "Win! Instantly!" - No Man
27. "Spirit of a Vampyre" - the Go-Betweens
28. "Walk on By" - Isaac Hayes

I AM JOE'S BLOG POST TITLE.

The only thing of any interest in this bi-week's episode is the utter and conspicuous lack of the usual inter-song comedy bits. But then, who needs intentional comedy when you have the Jefferson Airplane pshilling psychedelically for Levi's, the utter unique in(s)anity of John the Postman, and me attempting to pronounce "Gbeti Madjro"?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000068 (JULY 30, 2008):

1. RRR 500 Lock Grooves (1-15) - Punk Sheep On Drugs/ST37/Moray Eels/ Aube/Sian/Loop Circuit/Hyper Ventilation/Akifumi Nakajima/Toy Bizarre/Bruno Moreigne/Lichatz/Foom/Radboud Mens/Shifts/Goem
2. "C-30 C-60 C-90 Go!" - Pretty Girls Make Graves
3. "Hitsville U.K." - the Clash
4. "My Mind's Capsized" - the Holy Modal Rounders
5. "Road" - the House of Love
6. "Up!" - M83
7. "Goose Step Mama" - Shonen Knife
8. Family Dog - Concert Promo Spot
9. Levis Spot # 4 (Jack Casady - I am a Duck) - Jefferson Airplane
10. "Failures" - Joy Division
11. "Reader Meet Author" - Morrissey
12. "Two Librans" - the Fall
13. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises" - The Teardrop Explodes
14. "Crystal Days" - Echo & the Bunnymen
15. "Domestic Departure" - Au Pairs
16. "Pulling 3 G's" - He Said
17. "Apples and Oranges" - Pink Floyd
18. "Gbeti Madjro" - Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
19. "There's No Tomorrow" - Squeeze
20. "Mr. Sheep" - Randy Newman
21. "Mr. Clean" - the Jam
22. "Mr. Suit" - Wire
23. "All Fur Coat and No Knickers" - Chumbawamba
24. "Rip It Up" - the Cramps
25. "Vaseline & Sound" - Sukia
26. Levis Spot # 2 (Spencer Dryden - Twig City) - Jefferson Airplane
27. "Come to the Sabbat" - John the Postman & the Legendary Lost
28. "There is No Floor" - the Telescopes
29. "Head On" - Loop
30. "Walk Away" - Meat Whiplash
31. "Dear Eloise" - the Hollies
32. "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - the Shangri-Las
33. Levis Spot # 1 (Grace Slick - White Levis) - Jefferson Airplane
34. "Criminal Child" - Uzi
35. "Fractal Dream of a Thing" - Stereolab
36. "Two Fine Days (and a Thunderstorm) " - Dif Juz
37. "Emotions" - Love
38. "Descent" - the Cure
39. "Don't Leave the Light On, Baby" - Belle & Sebastian
40. RRR 500 Lock Grooves (251-266)- RZ/Sudden Infant/Bertoia/Terry Riley/Derek Bailey/Gary Todd/Red Krayola/Mike Kelley/Jon Appleton/Wende Bartley/Jean-François Denis/Martin Gotfrit/Don Lander/Philippe Le Goff/John Oswald

IS THERE A HAM EQUIVALENT OF VEAL?:

I am overjoyed this evening to be once again joined by my wonderful lad, Liam, for the first hour of the show. What, you thought I suddenly acquired an affinity for Fall Out Boy? Oh you kid...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000067 (JULY 16, 2008):

1. "Garoux des Larmes" - Throwing Muses
2. "How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" - the Fall
3. "Soul on Fire" - Spiritualized
4. "24 Hour Party People" - Happy Mondays
5. "Grand Theft Autumn" - Fall Out Boy
6. "Strange Days" - the Doors
7. "Spider Pig" - Hans Zimmer
8. "Spiderman" - They Might Be Giants
9. "Batman Theme" - the Jam
10. "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
11. "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" - Negativland
12. "Mickey's Monkey" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
13. "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio" - Monty Python
14. "I Think I Smell a Rat" - the White Stripes
15. "Monkey in a Sack" - Lil Buck and The Top Cats
16. "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" - Steely Dan
17. "Fortune" - Felt
18. "My Lighthouse" - Pulp
19. "You're My Drug" - the Dukes of Stratosphear
20. "No Peace for the Wicked (Peel Session)" - The Only Ones
21. "In the Echo Chamber" - Hoodoo Gurus
22. "Colorado" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase et al)
23. "Richie Havens" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
24. "Oh No" - the Mothers of Invention
25. "Dust Pan" - Camper Van Beethoven
26. "House With 100 Rooms" - the Chills
27. "Harry" - Bauhaus
28. "Down in the Valley" - Otis Redding
29. "It Ain't Gonna Be That Way" - Charlie Rich
30. "Mannequin" - Wire
31. "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" - Tortoise
32. "The Drum" - Slapp Happy
33. "Eight Wheels" - Tiger Trap
34. "Colors" - Angst
35. "Liam" - Colin Reid

FUN SHOW. BUT NOT QUITE AS FUN AS...

...providing unsolicited, rhythmic Bronx cheers throughout the Mark Knopfler song that played on "World Cafe" immediately afterwards. Really fits, I daresay.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000066 (JULY 9, 2008):

1. "Antiworld" - Nina Hagen
2. "I Hope You're Happy Now" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
3. "With Candy" - Lilys
4. "Do the Oz" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
5. "All I Am Is All You're Not" - Sloan
6. "She Cracked" - the Modern Lovers
7. "Blues is King" - Marshall Crenshaw
8. "Gamma Ray" - Beck
9. "What the Tune Is" - Bob & Ray
10. "I Ran" - Love Is All
11. "Love & Happiness" - Al Green
12. "The Battle for Straight Time" - A.C. Newman
13. "Look at Their Way" - Wall of Voodoo
14. "Lady Godiva's Operation" - the Velvet Underground
15. "Downer" - Lush
16. "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" - the Small Faces
17. "How He Wrote Elastica Man" - Elastica (feat. Mark E. Smith)
18. "Walking on a Wire" - Richard & Linda Thompson
19. "Know Thyself" - Jandek
20. "Doors" - Bruce McCulloch
21. "Build Me a Woman" - the Doors
22. "Popcorn" - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
23. "It Only Hurts When I Smile" - Liquor Giants
24. "Circus of Death (Fast Product version)" - the Human League
25. "Where Were You?" - the Mekons
26. "A Life in the Day" (part 3) - the Firesign Theatre
27. "I'm the One" - Black Flag
28. "It's Up to You (Television Mix)" - Steinski
29. "Exotica" - Throbbing Gristle
30. "Eclipse" - Charles Mingus
31. "Where Do You Run To" - Vivian Girls
32. "Feet-Like Fins" - Cocteau Twins
33. "The Devil's Eye (acoustic demo)" - the Go-Betweens
34. "Hudson River Wind (Blend the Ambiance)" - Lou Reed

POOP, PEE-PEE, INTERCOURSE, HOO-HAH, ROOSTER EXTRACTOR, FEMALE PARENT COPULATOR, AND HOOTERS:

Dedicated, of course, to the late great Mr. Carlin. Thanks for everything, sir.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000065 (JULY 2, 2008):

1. "Printing Press/Liquid Looks (accidental inner-groove excerpt)/B-Beat Classic (Airwave Interlude)" - Sound Effects/Steve Nieve/Steinski
2. "A Modern Man" - George Carlin
3. "Planet of Sound" - the Pixies
4. "Southern Mark Smith" - the Jazz Butcher
5. "I Like the Name Alice" - Eleventh Dream Day
6. "Roman P." - Psychic TV
7. "I Don't Want to Work for British Airways" - Scissor Fits
8. "Paris Maquis" - Metal Urbain
9. "Wonderful WINO (Top-40 Disc Jockey)" - George Carlin
10. "Wet Job" - Fingerprintz
11. "Subspace Biographies" - Robert Pollard
12. "I Love You" - the Zombies
13. "Grease 2" - Thee Oh Sees
14. "(How to Keep Your Husband) Happy" - the Cosmopolitans
15. "It's My Party" - Bryan Ferry
16. "Cellulose Sunshine" - Stereolab
17. "Soldier Blue" - Julian Cope
18. "Occupation: Foole" - George Carlin
19. "Never Stops" - Deerhunter
20. "Wart Hog" - the Ramones
21. "Hear My Brane" - the Soft Boys
22. "Something's Got to Give" - Beastie Boys
23. "Car Bomb" - Negativland
24. "The Kill" - Joy Division
25. "Fourth of July" - Galaxie 500
26. "Life in July" - Game Theory
27. "America the Beautiful" - George Carlin
28. "Dreamhome in NZ" - the (English) Beat
29. "Satta Dub" - Augustus Pablo
30. "Glueman (Peel Session, 1988)" - Fugazi
31. "Perspex Icon" - Wire
32. "Join the Book Club" - George Carlin
33. "Jack the Ripper" - Link Wray
34. "If You Believe In" - Bryan Maclean
35. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - (World of) Skin
36. "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" (brief, teasing excerpt) - George Carlin
37. "Test Pattern #0010" (excerpt) - Ryoji Ikeda

GOOD SHOW. DIVERSE, A-FLOWING, INTERESTING.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll try to make it to may car without running into the rather, um, unhinged sounding gentleman who kept calling tonight and praising my show in spite of the fact that his radio doesn't work and somebody's been interfering with his own personal reception. I'm ducking to the ground at the first sight of a tinfoil Stetson.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000064 (JUNE 18, 2008):

1. "Jordan, Minnesota" - Big Black
2. "Brand New Cadillac" - the Clash
3. "Clap Hands" - Tom Waits
4. "Andmoreagain" - Love
5. "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" - Brian Eno
6. "South Central Bell Jingle #6" - The South Central Bell Telephone Singers
7. "Smokerings" - Screaming Trees
8. "The Bloody Assizes" - Julian Cope
9. "Hold On I'm Comin'" - Sam & Dave
10. "Here Comes the Summer" - the Undertones
11. "On Nautilus" - Radar Bros.
12. "The Coming Depression" (Peel Session, 8/17/83) - Eric Bogosian
13. "Can't Go Back" - Soul Asylum
14. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" - the Mothers of Invention
15. "Mark E. Smith & Brix" - Barbara Manning
16. "Rollin' Dany" - the Fall
17. "A Bad Wind" - Pissed Jeans
18. "Space Clothes" - Wooden Shjips
19. "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge" - Black Tambourine
20. "The Saddest Place In The World" - Maria Bamford
21. "Residential Green Cell" - Martin Phillips
22. "Here I Sit" - the Ronettes
23. "We Call Upon the Author" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
24. "(I'm a) Don Juan" - the Embarrassment
25. "Tapioca Tundra" - the Monkees
26. "Take" - the Colour Field
27. "When Will I Be Loved" - Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds
28. "My Hands Are Yellow (From The Job That I Do)" - the Del-Byzantines with Jim Jarmusch
29. "Television Television" - the Ripchords
30. "Protest Song" - Neil Innes
31. "Take the Pollution Out Your Throat" - Wilson Pickett
32. "Work Away Tokyo Day" - Mr. Partridge
33. "Jean's Not Happening" - the Pale Fountains
34. "Immigrant Song" - Led Zeppelin
35. "Naked, If I Want To" - Moby Grape
36. "M" - the Cure
37. "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros [feat. Rhymenocerous and the Hiphopopotamus]" - Flight of the Conchords
38. "She's in a Trance" - the Heart Throbs
39. "Let There Be More Darkness" - Robyn Hitchcock
40. "The Wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy and Russell Mael" - Sparks
41. "At First, and Then" - This Mortal Coil
42. "Mellow Down Easy" - Universal Congress Of

ONE YEAR FROM TONIGHT - NOTHING BUT SONGS UNDER THREE SECONDS LONG:

In honor of Wow & Flutter's second anniversary, this week's show is comprised solely of songs two minutes and less in length. (The full tally would have been even more impressive had I not had to sublet 35 minutes of my airtime to one of the new DJs; though his eight-song set was technically part of the program, I will spare you the embarrassment of having to read it. You're a nice kid and all, Josh, but... Hinder? Really?)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000063 (JUNE 4, 2008):

1. "All" - the Descendents
2. "Black Kites" - Smart Went Crazy
3. "Breaking Glass" - David Bowie
4. "Girls Talk" - Elvis Costello
5. "Living With the Masses" - Sloan
6. "Hot Cars" - Angry Samoans
7. "Mercy: The Laundromat" - Pavement
8. "Something Wrong Somewhere" - McCarthy
9. "Jealous Again" - Black Flag
10. "Beatnik" - the Clean
11. "I Hate Hate" - Cornelius
12. "Bronchitis" - Lenny Bruce
13. "Pressure" - Negative Approach
14. "Weird on the Avenue" - Elf Power
15. "Hotel California" - John Press
16. "Allison" - the Pixies
17. "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" - Billy Bragg
18. "Girl Boy" - Blonde Redhead
19. "Ill Fated Lovers Go Time Tripping" - Bongwater
20. "Payed Vacation: Greece" - Camper Van Beethoven
21. "Through With Buzz" - Steely Dan
22. "Medac" - the Who
23. "Flower" - Deerhoof
24. "Satellite Blip Flip" - Lord Buckley
25. "Pnoom" - Can
26. "Go Fun, Burn Man" - Mission of Burma
27. "D'Ya Think I'm Sexy" - Morgan-Fisher
28. "We Don't Need Freedom" - Saccharine Trust
29. "Just Got Back From the City" - Captain Beefheart
30. "106 Beats That" - Wire
31. "Gun Slinger" - Bo Diddley
32. "Cheesecake Truck" - King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
33. "Cha Cha Cha Du Loup" - Serge Gainsbourg
34. "Glacier: The Movie" - the Firesign Theatre
35. "Oh Shit!" - the Buzzcocks
36. "I Hope It Lands" - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
37. "Good Times" - the Rolling Stones
38. "New Song" - the Godz
39. "Queen of Cans and Jars" - Guided by Voices
40. "ST 100/6" - Big Star
41. "New York Telephone Conversation" - Lou Reed
42. "Scopes" - Bauhaus
43. "The Fool" - Neutral Milk Hotel
44. "Abigail, Belle of Kilronan" - the Magnetic Fields
45. "Where They Sell Antique Food" - the Loud Family
46. "Pasketti/Do It Again" - R. Stevie Moore
47. "Platform 3" - Spizzenergi
48. "Indian Scriptures" - Felt
49. "Puerto Rican Ghost" - Mars
50. "Carnival" - Sparrow
51. "Fake Contest" - Minutemen
52. "Moods for Moderns" - Satisfact
53. "The Workers Are Punished" - Tsunami
54. "Excerpt from soundtrack to Hurlements en faveur de Sade" - Guy Debord
55. "Red Alert" - Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
56. "All? No, All!" - the Descendents

THIS BI-WEEK'S SHOW IS SOMEWHAT REMINISCENT OF MY EARLY DAYS...

...that is to say, it's kinda sloppy, amateurish-sounding, and not particularly inspired. Actually, come to think of it, that's somewhat reminiscent of pretty much every show I've done to date. Consistency's my kind of hobgoblin.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000062 (MAY 21, 2008):

1. "She's Hit" - the Birthday Party
2. "Main Offender" - the Hives
3. "Make It Precious" - Jonathan Fire*Eater
4. "Delimiting" - Turn On
5. "Here Comes the Serious Bit" - the Long Blondes
6. ??? - the Flying Luttenbachers (if anyone can find the tracklisting for Retrospektiw III, let me know)
7. "My Pagan Ass" - Brain Donor
8. "Wax & Wane" - Cocteau Twins
9. "Doves" - the Black Angels
10. "When I Came Home from the Party" - the Clientele
11. "You Say Potato" - John Bird & John Fortune
12. "Tenancy 'Hustle' Blues" - Beatnik Filmstars
13. "Pictures on My Wall" (original) - Echo & the Bunnymen
14. "Living Room" - Broadcast
15. "Ghosts" - Japan
16. "Vitamin C" - Can
17. "Delial" - Isis & Aereogramme
18. "Opening Ceremony/Porpoise Song" - the Monkees
19. "High Noon" - Juno
20. "Dave Sportz for Electro-Clip" - the Credibility Gap
21. "Human Being Lawnmower" - the MC5
22. "Courage" (WREK Radio, Atlanta, GA, 11/30/85) - the Minutemen
23. "Theme From Sisters" - MX-80 Sound
24. "The Magic Touch" - The Negro Problem
25. "Mad Cow @ Lakeside" (live at the Knitting Room, L.A.) - Mark E. Smith
26. "Serious Brainskin" - Von Südenfed
27. "Roos-An" - Dome
28. "Newest Fastest" - DNA
29. "To Be King" - Suckle
30. "Walk Into Mirrors" - Dumptruck
31. "Glass" - Gang of Four
32. "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" - X
33. "Three Minute Hero" - the Selecter
34. "Destroy" - Chevy Heston
35. "Wawa" - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
36. "Theme For Kinetic Ritual" - Klark Kent

SAY THE NAME OF THIS SHOW FAST AND YOU'VE PRETTY WELL NAILED MY ESSENCE:

A quickly hashed-together show to fill in for DJ K-No on another rainy Saturday evening. Ehh, n'bad.

THE DJ B-YES SHOW (MAY 10, 2008):

1. "Introduction & Impeachment Day Parade" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase, Rhonda Coullet)
2. "I Can't Turn You Loose" - Otis Redding
3. "Love is For Lovers" - the dB's
4. "Something Against You" - the Pixies
5. "Grooveallegiance" - Funkadelic
6. "Flip Your Face" - James Chance & the Contortions
7. "Socs Hip" - the Lilys
8. "Wonderful Witches" - Thurston Moore
9. "September Lady" - Felt
10. "My Insatiable One" - Suede
11. "To The Birds" - Suede
12. "Risingson" - Massive Attack
13. "Black Country Rock" - David Bowie
14. "C Visar Vägen" - Dungen
15. "Monsoon of Perfume" - Dengue Fever
16. "Master Song" - Leonard Cohen
17. "Mysterioso" - Mike Nichols and Elaine May
18. "Sacramento" - Heavenly
19. "Smoking Her Wings" - Barbara Manning
20. "Made Up in Blue" - the Bats
21. "S.O.F.T." - Elastica
22. "Standing at the Crosswords" - Great Plains
23. "I Scare Myself" - Thomas Dolby
24. "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" - Prefab Sprout
25. "Drill" - Wire
26. "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" - My Bloody Valentine
27. "Mission to Mars" - Seinking Ships
28. "Yes, Everyone" - Eric Matthews
29. Introduction by "serious" musician, Hans Keller
30. "Interstellar Overdrive" (UFO-Club, London, 20 January 1967) - Pink Floyd
31. "My Love Explodes" - the Dukes of Stratosphear
32. "Driving for Dopers" - the Firesign Theatre
33. "Psychedelic Trip" - the Chocolate Watchband
34. "Epistle to Dippy" - Hypnolovewheel
35. "My Love For You Never Died Away" - Spectrum
36. "Short Circuit" - The Id
37. "Glamour Profession" - Steely Dan
38. "Dream Baby Dream" - Suicide
39. "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" - Stereolab
40. "Farewell to John Denver" - Monty Python
41. "Sounds Like Thunder" - God
42. "Books About UFOs" - Hüsker Dü
43. "The Animal Speaks" - the Golden Palominos (featuring John Lydon)
44. "Unsolved Child Murder" - the Auteurs
45. "Yuri-G" - PJ Harvey
46. "How Can I Still Be Patriotic (When They've Taken Away My Right To Cry)" - Neil Hamburger
47. "Rollers Show" - Nick Lowe
48. "Do You Think It's an Accident" - the Tape-beatles
49. "This Will Be Our Year" - the Zombies
50. "Walter and John" - Ben Watt and Robert Wyatt
51. "Suicide Kiss" - A.R. Kane
52. "Berlin on the Plains" - Get Smart!
53. "Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo" - Little Richard
54. "Come Over" - Built to Spill
55. "Sanity Assassin" - Bauhaus
56. "Who's Been Sleeping in My Head?" - Electrafixion
57. "Expo 68" - Glide
58. "Hitler's Liver" - John Dowie
59. "Backwaters" - David Sylvian
60. "It Was a Pleasure Then" - Nico

I DON'T WANT TO BE NEGATIVE, BUT NO:

No real innovations this week. No mashups. No self-penned "comedy" "bits." No compliments. No complaints. No listeners. No Yes. No Nomeansno. No point to continuing this preamble.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000061 (MAY 7, 2008):

1. "Planet Telex" - Radiohead
2. "Still Burning" - Honeymoon in Red
3. "Free-Form Freak Out" - the Red Krayola
4. "Underwater" - the Three O'Clock
5. "Sitting Round at Home" - the Buzzcocks
6. "Murder Me Rachael" - the National
7. "I Couldn't Pay For What I Got Last Night" - Swamp Dogg
8. "Identity" - X-Ray Spex
9. "Zu Zu Man (Version 1)" - Dr. John
10. "Straighten Out" - the Stranglers
11. "Dark Leaves Form A Thread" - Destroyer
12. "Dr. X" - Proctor & Bergman
13. "New Scene" - the Fleshtones
14. "I've Seen Too Much" - MX-80
15. "Jennifer Eccles" - the Hollies
16. "I Know How It Feels...Bad" - 1/2 Japanese
17. "The Past is Tense" - Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black
18. "Shadow Of Death Hotel" - Barry Adamson
19. "Decadent Iranian Country Club" - Bongwater
20. "What She Said" - Youth Brigade
21. "Ain't That So" - Roxy Music
22. "Drum & Bone" - Elvis Costello and the Imposters
23. "Passionate Friend" - The Teardrop Explodes
24. "She's Fetching" - Big Dipper
25. "The Gleam Pt. 2" - the Microphones
26. "End of the Night" - the Doors
27. "I've Got a Ferret Sticking Up My Nose" At Last the 1948 Show (John Cleese etc.)
28. "The Idea of North" - Shellac
29. "Room 13" - Black Flag
30. "Night Tide" - Gallon Drunk
31. "Demon Days" - Robert Forster
32. "Reunion Dinner" - the Go-Betweens
33. "Call of the Wighat" - the Cramps
34. "Suicide Prevention Hotline" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase)
35. "Wilderness" - Joy Division
36. "You Know Where It's At" - Screaming Trees
37. "Dear Grandma and Grandpa" - Tortoise
38. "The Morricone Themes (live)" - Wall of Voodoo

CONTROLLED CHAOS ON A STICK, MINUS THE CONTROL AND PART OF THE STICK:

Wow, this was a fun one, albeit one fringed with an unsurprising sprig of pre-game stress. Nothing major, just the usual home software failures that kept several fine tracks (including a number of excellent suggestions from mon frere jambon, who has become rather a full-fledged consultant in recent weeks) from being saved to disc and thus transferred to air, blah blah blurg. But no matter - between the homemade mashups and comedy bits and my newfound ability to really bring the flow, real live DJ-style, the show's getting pretty entertaining and slightly nuts. Which makes me increasingly peeved at having perhaps the worst timeslot on the station, precluding most folks from, y'know, listening and all, but nahh, it doesn't matter. I will someday be recognized as the aural pioneer that I always wanted to be, then luxuriate in the joyous cries of "oh, never mind. I thought you were someone else. Anybody ever tell you you looked like an aural pioneer?" (Sorry, I'm tired. One AM is babblematic time.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000060 (APRIL 23, 2008):

1. Bleak Hausfrau (mashup of "Molloy Dies" by Samuel Beckett, "Secrets" by Mission of Burma, "French Film (Blurred)" by Wire, "Atrocity Exhibition" by Joy Division and "Skank Bloc Bologna" by Scritti Politti)
2. "Secrets" - Mission of Burma
3. "The Giver Takes" - Saccharine Trust
4. "A Small Package of Value Will Come To You, Shortly" - Jefferson Airplane
5. "Ando Meio Desligado" - Os Mutantes
6. "Frosch" - Mouse on Mars
7. "A Most Successful Formula (accidental excerpt)" - Negativland
8. "The Greatest Taste Around" - Negativland
9. "Loving Grapevine" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
10. "What Were the Reasons" - Mother and the Addicts
11. 25 Years of Coast Community Radio: The Whole Community Thing
12. "I've Been Duped" - the Fall
13. "Pablo Picasso" - John Cale
14. "I Dig You" - Boss Hog
15. "Yltrohs, Uoy Ot Emoc Lliw Eulav fo Egakcap Llams A" (tprecxe) - Enalpria Nosreffej
16. "Child Had to Catch a Train" - Kinski
17. "Ease Your Feet in the Sea" - Belle and Sebastian
18. "With My" - Uncle Wiggly
19. "Get a Job/Tobacco Road" - Chris Stamey
20. "The Butterfly Collector" - the Jam
21. "Vitamin C" - Can
22. "Living Room" - Broadcast
23. "I, Othello" - the Credibility Gap
24. "We're the Replacements" - They Might Be Giants
25. "20th Century Boy" - the Replacements
26. "Messages of Dark (live)" - Colin Meloy
27. "If I Could Look" - Robyn Hitchcock
28. Ut Tu, Brut? (mashup of "Kcahsmahs (Spare Coconut)" by Ut and the backwards version of same)
29. "Plastic" - Portishead
30. "Bells" - Albert Ayler
31. "Instrumental" - Tones on Tail
32. "Tic-Tac-Toe" - Booker T. and the MGs
33. "Nasal-Retentive Calliope Music" - the Mothers of Invention
34. "Paper Man" - Jade
35. "Theme From Space Island" - !!!
36. "Another Day" - This Mortal Coil
37. "Lost Sky Daffodil" - Antediluvian Rocking Horse
38. "7 Ghosts 1" - Nine Inch Nails
39. "Time Has Come Today" - the Ramones
40. "Auf Der Maur" - Cul De Sac
41. "Ballad of How You Can All Shut Up" - the Loud Family
42. Red Midnight (mashup of "Sister Midnight" by Iggy Pop and "Red Money" by David Bowie)
43. End of Geneva, Impromptu (live mashup of "Geneva" by Morgan-Fisher and "End of an Era" by Steve Nieve)

AT LAST THE 1983 SHOW (ETHEL MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE):

In commemoration of KMUN's 25 years on the air, I have decided to pay tribute to the musical year 1983. Which, to be brutally frank, is about the only reason anybody'd want to pay tribute to the musical year 1983. Not that a fairly kick-ass two hour show couldn't be hashed together consisting solely of records issued that annum, but let's be straight - very few bands were operating at their peak that year. 1982? Sure. 1984? Most def. But c'mon and c'moff it, almost everybody who was somebody sometime was either in the process of becoming great but not quite there yet (the Fall, the Dü, the Youth, the 'men, G. Theory), starting their long journey downward (the Heads, the Pretenders, Elvis the C.), or on their way to quick oblivion (the Birthday Party, the Plimsouls, Minor Threat, and what a weird procession that makes, eh?). Nonetheless, I'm rather proud of what I pulled out of that year that was. Pity I didn't have time for "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000059 (APRIL 9, 2008):

1. "Eat Y'self Fitter" - the Fall
2. "Every Word Means No" - Let's Active
3. "Making Flippy Floppy" - Talking Heads
4. "Don't Talk to Me About Work" - Lou Reed
5. "The Back of Love" - Echo & The Bunnymen
6. "Age of Consent" - New Order
7. 25 Years of Coast Community Radio #1: The Early Years
8. "Cut" - the Minutemen
9. "Long White Cadillac" - the Blasters
10. "Metal and Glass Exact" - Game Theory
11. "Here Today" - the Chameleons
12. "Hazel (Peel Session)" - Cocteau Twins
13. "I Want You Back" - Hoodoo Gurus
14. "That Summer Feeling" - Jonathan Richman
15. "Purple Haze" - Shockabilly
16. "Pigeon Kill" - Big Black
17. "Over the Edge" - the Wipers
18. "By Chance" - the Go-Betweens
19. "The Invisible Man" - Elvis Costello
20. "Ugly" - Violent Femmes
21. "It Follows" - Minor Threat
22. "Lifeline" - Hüsker Dü
23. 25 Years of Coast Community Radio #2: What I Just Now Thought of Calling 'Bloopers'
24. "Catapult" - R.E.M.
25. "Watching the Clothes" - the Pretenders
26. "Down, Down, Down" - Tom Waits
27. "The Walk" - the Cure
28. "Transformation of Oz" - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
29. "Lou Reed Part 2 (Where Are You?)" - Public Image Ltd.
30. "Bar-B-Q Pope" - Butthole Surfers
31. "Turning the Town Blue" - X
32. "Oldest Story in the World" - the Plimsouls
33. "Release" - Aztec Camera
34. "Making the Nature Scene" - Sonic Youth
35. "Swampland" - the Birthday Party

THE BIG STORY THIS WEEK...

...is the debut of the first of my homemade mash-ups (only, oh, five years after that whole phenomenon peaked and slowly slid away) at the top and tail of the program. The second one (#40) was comprised of the first four minutes of the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls score, Orchid Spangiafora and Lord Buckley. The first (#1) was made up of no fewer than eleven different edited, mutated and mutilated recordings, from Butthole Surfers and Big Black to Public Enemy and Michael O'Donoghue beating the shit out of Mr. Whipple. Fairly impressive, and it would be even more so if you were listening to hear it. But you weren't, and you didn't. So nertz to you, jib-jab.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000058 (MARCH 26, 2008):

1. Violence, Pt. 1
2. "Casting the Runes" - Legendary Pink Dots
3. "Orange Airplane" - Screaming Trees
4. "Numerology AKA Numbers" - These New Puritans
5. "Iron Path" - Last Exit
6. "Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris With ESG" - Liars
7. "Who Could Win a Rabbit" - Animal Collective
8. "Someone Else's Heart" - Squeeze
9. "Red Guitar" - David Sylvian
10. "Deuce" - Redd Kross
11. "Video Review" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Schneider)
12. "Lament of the Gastropod" - Chris Knox
13. "Nite Klub" - the Specials featuring Rico
14. "Raise Buildings" - Les Savy Fav
15. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" - United States of America
16. "Run into Flowers" - M83
17. "Back in Flesh" - Wall of Voodoo
18. "Ashtray Heart" - the White Stripes
19. "I Love You, Big Dummy" - the Buzzcocks
20. "Zoo Rape" - Onion Radio News
21. "I'm Sad the Goat Died Today" - the Frogs
22. "Craft is Dead" - Githead
23. "Raymond, Did You See the Red Queen?" - the Moles
24. "Demise (studio demo)" - the Cure
25. "Fallslake" - Tortoise
26. "A Great Actor" - Monty Python
27. "Beautiful One" - the Cardigans
28. "Long Arm of the Social Sciences" - 100 Flowers
29. "Chinese Logo" - The History of Unheard Music
30. "Lying in State" - the Verlaines
31. "Partytime" - the Jazz Butcher
32. "Hidden Charms" - Link Wray
33. "Israel" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
34. "Red Indians" - Felt
35. "I Am Right (short version)" - Sonic Youth
36. "Midnight Bicycle Mystery" - Deerhoof
37. "Andy Warhol Talks to Chelsea Girls, 1970" - Andy Warhol/Viva
38. "Good Old Days" - John Zorn
39. "Brainwash (live)" - Flipper
40. Mondo Valley Train Song

WHATTAYA WANT FOR NOTHIN'? COHESION?:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000057 (MARCH 12, 2008):

1. "Joujouka" - The Master Musicians of Joujouka (recorded by William S. Burroughs)
2. "Teenie Weenie Boppie" - Free Kitten
3. "Tiger Phone Card" - Dengue Fever
4. "Price Yeah!" - Pavement
5. "Small Talk" - Scritti Politti
6. "Anarchitect" - Susu
7. "Nocturnal Me" - Echo & the Bunnymen
8. "I Sent Away" - Black Francis
9. "Uvula" - Saturday Night Live (Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Don Pardo)
10. "Burnsite" - 28th Day
11. "Astral Glamour" - the Homosexuals
12. "And One (On One)" - the Lilys
13. "Jane Suck Died in '77" - Denim
14. "Thoughtforms" - Lush
15. "Delinquent Cause" - X (Australia)
16. "Gonna Rob the Spermbank" - The Ex
17. "Real Child Of Hell" - X (U.S.)
18. "Insanely Jealous" - the Soft Boys
19. "A Pox on You" - Spectrum & Jessamine
20. "Let's Take a Trip" - Godfrey
21. "Flaming" - Pink Floyd
22. "The Colour Supplement/Rambling Syd Rumpo" - Round the Horne (Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, etc.)
23. "Beercan" - Beck
24. "Way Down in the Hole" - Tom Waits
25. "The Girl With Pelican Hair" - Dogbowl
26. "In My Own Time" - the Three O'Clock
27. "Leopardman at C&A" - the Dirtbombs
28. "Volgarity" - Steroid Maximus
29. "The Great Escape" - the Chills
30. "Return to Sorrento (3rd Class)" - Spike Milligan
31. "The Ordinary Boys" - Morrissey
32. "Hair Like Brian May Blues" - Half Man Half Biscuit
33. "The Tain Pt. V" - the Decemberists
34. "2,015 Year Old Man" - National Lampoon (Richard Belzer)
35. "Big Ben" - Roddy Frame
36. "The Chord" - Crawling With Tarts
37. "The Great Event" - Leonard Cohen

IF IT TOOK WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.'S DEATH TO REMIND ME THAT ROBIN WILLIAMS USED TO BE FUNNY AND NOT MERELY A HIRSUTE IRRITANT, THEN IT WAS WORTH IT:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000056 (FEBRUARY 27, 2008):

1. "All In It" - British Sea Power
2. "Ha Ha Ha" - Flipper
3. "This Year's Girl" - Elvis Costello
4. "Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)" - Fun Boy Three (feat. Bananarama)
5. "Speedqueen" - Suicide
6. "Looking Lost" - the Posies
7. "Breaking the Rules" - Ludus
8. "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
9. "Who's on First" - the Credibility Gap
10. "Melancholia" - the Who
11. "Twist & Crawl" - the (English) Beat
12. "Light Rail Coyote" - Sleater-Kinney
13. "Bugged (Original 'Saveana' Mix) - Head of David
14. "That's All For Everyone" - Fleetwood Mac
15. "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" - Cinerama
16. "The Age of Self" - Robert Wyatt
17. "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore" - the Velvet Underground
18. "Leave Her For Me" - the Jades
19. "Do the Wrong Thing" - the Lounge Lizards
20. "Constable Savage" - Not the Nine O'Clock News (Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys-Jones)
21. "(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass" - Nick Lowe
22. "Neverland" - the dB's
23. "Alright" - Pussy Galore
24. "Black Satin" - Miles Davis
25. "Pop Goes the Weasel (excerpt)" - Robin Williams
26. "Move on Up" - Curtis Mayfield
27. "Moulty" - the Barbarians
28. "Ja Ja Ja" - Trio
29. "I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go" - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
30. untitled - Mr. Couple'a Drinks
31. "Sound on Sound" - Big Boys
32. "International Bullet Proof Talent" - Bauhaus
33. "Ship of Fools" - David J
34. "Improvisation #1" - Sir Richard Bishop
35. "La Dolce Vita (finale)" - Nino Rota

EVEN MORE TIRED. DON'T EVEN ASK FOR A TITLE TO THIS DAMNED POST:

THE DJ NO-K SHOW (FEBRUARY 16, 2008):

1. "On Your Radio" - Joe Jackson
2. "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Students" - Morrissey
3. "Tropical Hot Dog Night" - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
4. "Regrets" - Eurythmics
5. "Come With the Gentle People (First Version)" - the Carrie Nations
6. "New Nails" - Mission of Burma
7. "Cruisers Creek" - the Fall
8. "Procession" - New Order
9. "Mr. Soul" - Buffalo Springfield
10. "Weekend" - Ladytron
11. "I Ain't No Miracle Worker" - the Brogues
12. "Falling in Love with Love" - the Goons
13. "Orange Skies" - Love
14. "Rain" - the Chills
15. "Born in Late '58" - Mott the Hoople
16. "Arrythmia's gonna Get You" - the Evolution Control Committee
17. "Jimmy Still Comes Around" - the Loud Family
18. "Those Fabulous Sixties" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
19. "Man in the Long Black Coat" - Mark Lanegan
20. "All Right Peace" - Rings
21. "Stranded in the Jungle" - New York Dolls
22. "Space Invader" - the Pretenders
23. "Safesurfer" - Julian Cope
24. "The Stars of Track and Field" - Belle & Sebastian
25. "Beginning to See the Light" - the Velvet Underground
26. "Call This Cut Three, Side Two" - Albert Brooks
27. "The Englishman-German-Jew Blues" - Albert Brooks/Albert King
28. "Cruel" - Prefab Sprout
29. "Jump Into the Fire" - Harry Nilsson
30. "He Lives My Life" - the Go-Betweens
31. "Mark Time!" - the Firesign Theatre
32. "Walking on the Moon" - Lucia Pamela
33. "International Colouring Contest" - Stereolab
34. "Wayne Carr Does Medium Wave" - Chris Morris
35. "1984/Dodo" - David Bowie
36. "DJ Rupture vs. Badawi - Ipanema Under Fire" - Raz Messina's Badawi
37. "Sex Machine" - the Flying Lizards
38. "Crackerbox Palace" - George Harrison
39. "My Passion" - Home
40. "The True Wheel" - Brian Eno
41. "Fictionromance" - Buzzcocks
42. "Mary Anne" - Spacemen 3
43. "The Bottom Line" - Negativland
44. "Your Gold Teeth" - Steely Dan
45. "Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey)" - the Feelies
46. "I'll Be Your Mirror" - Rainy Day (feat. Susanna Hoffs)
47. "Somebody's Baby" - Yo La Tengo
48. "Thief of Fire" - the Pop Group
49. "Tarrilup Bridge" - the Triffids
50. "rejoyce" - Jefferson Airplane
51. "Morning Bell" - Radiohead
52. "I Enjoyed the Laughter" - Philip Glass/Leonard Cohen
53. "The Last Temptation of Susan" - Band of Susans
54. "Dark End of the Street" - Diamanda Galas/John Paul Jones
55. "Organ Solo" - Neil Young
56. "The Air is on Fire, Track 3" - David Lynch

NOTHING TO SAY HERE. LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M FRICKIN' EXHAUSTED:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000055 (FEBRUARY 13, 2008):

1. "Rule Number One" - Barry McGovern/Klaus Buhlert (words: Samuel Beckett)
2. "Prole Art Threat" - the Fall
3. "Freak Scene" - Dinosaur Jr.
4. "Sex Beat" - the Gun Club
5. "A Perfectly Natural Expectation" - Nurse With Wound
6. "With a Hip" - Echo & the Bunnymen
7. "Touched" - My Bloody Valentine
8. "Picking Up After You" - Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle
9. "Laughing" - Pere Ubu
10. "Maharishi Song" - John Lennon/Yoko Ono
11. "Sexy Sadie" - the Beatles
12. "Maharishi Dug the Scene" - Teenage Fanclub
13. "The Official Ironmen Rally Song" - Guided by Voices
14. "Death Cab for Cutie" - the Bonzo Dog Band
15. "Willpower" - the Replacements
16. "Grunezella Daze" - Salem 66
17. "This is Hardcore" - Pulp
18. "'Til the Following Night" - Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages
19. "The Cheese Shop" - Monty Python
20. "The Imagination Stage" - Eric Matthews
21. "You Got It All...Wrong" - the Hives
22. "Trash" - Robyn Hitchcock
23. "Live" - Lester Bangs
24. "Moody" - ESG
25. "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" - Die Haut w/Nick Cave
26. "Love Missile F1-11" - David Bowie
27. "Quisquose" - Cocteau Twins
28. "Trapeze Boy" - Jack Frost
29. "La mort (A Bout de Souffle)" - Martial Solal
30. "Beri-Beri" - Kleenex
31. "Circus" - the Jam
32. "First Aspect of the Same Thing" - the Durutti Column
33. "Splinter Test (#10, 12, 16)" - Genesis P-Orridge/Eddie Thrasher (played simultaneously with #32)
34. "This Room Is My Castle of Quiet" - Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
35. "Organ Solo" - Neil Young
36. "Sycamore Trees" - Little Jimmy Scott

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH TREAT?:

For feck's sake, people - CD players have not been good to me of late. The one in my truck shuts off every time I try to take the disc that's now stuck in there in perpetuity out, the one in my mother's car refuses to play any of the CD-Rs I make in preparation for the show, and now, the CD burner at the station is broken, meaning that my standard archival recording of this week's show has had to be done on... cassette. Cassette!? What am I, Amish?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000054 (JANUARY 30, 2008):

1. "Atrocity Exhibition" - Joy Division
2. "Ghost Rider" - Suicide
3. "Life is Cheap" - Flipper
4. "War" - Tones on Tail
5. "Passing Complexion" - Big Black
6. "Warm Leatherette" - the Normal
7. "Waters Part" - Let's Active
8. "Calling Dr. Marx" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
9. "Prisoners" - Rain Parade
10. "La La La Lies" - the Who
11. "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness" - Sandie Shaw
12. "DDL" - Broadcast
13. Box in a Bottle in a Can segue
14. "Can't Make Love" - Wall of Voodoo
15. "(My Head)" - Times New Viking
16. "Find a Finger" - the Minus 5
17. "Mr. Roberts #1" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray)
18. "Change" - Killing Joke
19. "Heatherwood" - Deerhunter
20. "Fascist" - the Minutemen
21. "My 1st Gun" - Barbara Manning
22. "Whatever Happened to...?" - the Buzzcocks
23. "Easier to Smile" - Airport Girl
24. "Bad Language" - Not the Nine O'Clock News (Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys-Jones)
25. "Lost World" - Green on Red
26. "Bo's Guitar" - Bo Diddley
27. "Fossil" - His Name is Alive
28. "Suki" - Unrest
29. "Petrococadollar" - Scritti Politti
30. "Outside the Pier Prowled Like Electric Turtles" - William S. Burroughs
31. "Truckin'" - the Pop-O-Pies
32. "Feed Me With Your Kiss" - My Bloody Valentine
33. "Nimrod's Son" - the Pixies
34. "All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal a Dull Metal Humbert - In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants To Be So Full Of Sting - Paul Simon in the Park With Canticle - But You Can't Pick Your Friends - Vacuum Genesis - DEFMACROS - HOWSOMETH - INGDOTIME - SALENGTHS - OMETHINGL - ETBFOLLOW - AAFTERNOO - NGETPRESE - NTMOMENTI - FTHINGSWO - NTALWAYSB - ETHISWAYT - BCACAUSEA - BWASTEAFT - ERNOONWHE - NEQBMERET - URNFROMSH - OWLITTLEG - REENPLACE - 27" - Game Theory
35. "You Can't Buy a Gun" - Holly Golightly & the Brokeoff
36. "L'Amour Perdu Cha Cha Cha/Goodafternoon" - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
37. "Shrink Wrap" - This Heat
38. "Back to the Old House (Peel Session)" - the Smiths
39. "Our Prayer" - the Beach Boys
40. "Arabian Knights" - Siouxsie and the Banshees

IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION...

...you can usually pick out the various obsessions and pop-cultural tripwires that inspire my bi-weekly playlist. A Freaks and Geeks watching binge, leading to both an XTC tune and a gen-ewww-ine disco number? You bet. Overhearing the phrase "bottle of smoke" on The Wire, reigniting memories of a wonderfully obscene Pogues reel (in both form and function)? Yeah, man. Watching a neighbor's eyes get packed out by my trained pet crows, reminding me of... ah, but maybe I've said too much.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000053 (JANUARY 16, 2008):

1. "Herter's Crow Calling Record, Part One" - Herter
2. "Fanfare" - Eric Matthews
3. "La La La La" - Blendells
4. "Greatest Gift" - Scratch Acid
5. "Funtime" - Iggy Pop
6. "Confessions" - Peter Murphy
7. "Sporting Life" - Young Marble Giants
8. "California Girls" - the Magnetic Fields
9. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" - Hüsker Dü
10. "Ralph Spoilsport's Going Out Of Body Sale" - the Firesign Theatre
11. "Makaram Sari Bagl" - Cahit Oben
12. "Bottle of Smoke" - the Pogues
13. "The Wrong Road" - the Go-Betweens
14. "Garden of Pomegranates" - Old Time Relijun
15. "The Bullfighter" - Ken Nordine
16. "Losin' Time" - Wooden Shjips
17. "Another Girl, Another Planet" - the Only Ones
18. "Class War" - the Dils
19. "Headphones" - the Aluminum Group
20. "Nope Fun" - PRE
21. "No Language in Our Lungs" - XTC
22. "Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy" - the Monks
23. "I'm a Mummy" - the Fall
24. "What I Believe" - Steve Martin
25. "My Little Underground" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
26. "Coach Station Reunion" - the Field Mice
27. "Repulsion" - the Tiger Lilies
28. "Qua Kue Shut" - the Creations
29. "Happy Nightmare Baby" - Opal
30. What's on TV Right Now (inc. "Time is Tight" - Booker T. and the MGs)
31. "Listening In" - Protex
32. "Axis Sally" - the Lamps
33. "I Am a Rock" - the Church
34. "When I Fall" - Squirrel Bait
35. "The Groove Line" - Heatwave
36. "This May Sound Kind Of Weird" - Wammo
37. "Repetition" - David Bowie
38. "I Am the Best Lovemaker in This World" - Elton & Betty White
39. "Signed D.C." - Love
40. untitled (The Clapping Song) - Dairy Queen Empire
41. "Glangorous" - Turn On
42. "Just You and Me" the Birthday Party

JET LAGNIAPPE:

I'm very, very tired. Stressed from a bad travel experience and slightly disoriented and confused. Which accounts for the number of repeats from previous shows, when I usually prefer never to play the same song twice. Not that anyone except me pays attention to such things. Anyway, not a bad show under the circumstances. Happy new year. And Delta Airlines can suck it.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000052 (JANUARY 2, 2008):

1. "Hold Everything" - Orchid Spangiafora
2. "I Can't Stand It" - the Velvet Underground
3. "She Screamed" - Ultra Vivid Scene
4. "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" - Spinal Tap
5. "Hey! Little Child" - These Immortal Souls
6. "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism" - the New Pornographers
7. "Dusted" - the Geraldine Fibbers
8. "Second-Hand Girl" - Shocking Pinks
9. "I'm Not Crying" - Flight of the Conchords
10. "Never Enters My Mind" - Chris Stamey
11. "Screaming Skull" - Sonic Youth
12. "I'm a Greedy Man, Pt. 1" - James Brown
13. "This Wondrous Day" - Thee Headcoats
14. "Marooned" - Wire
15. "Mambo Sun" - T. Rex
16. "Our Time Has Passed" - Pernice Brothers
17. "Test: Unmodulated Grooves" - National Lampoon
18. "Haile Unlikely" - The Steel Leg vs. the Electric Dread
19. "Blue Mambo" - Sun City Girls
20. "Il Duce" - Big Black
21. "Martyrdom of St. Victor" - Monty Python
22. "Circles of Mania" - Coil
23. "Inner Temple" - Gong
24. "Charley's Girl" - A Drag City Supersession
25. "Movie Ads" - Proctor & Bergman
26. "Visions of China" - Japan
27. "Contract" - Gang of Four
28. "I Am Mike Hammer" - Terry Southern
29. "Swallow" - Ut
30. "Dead Souls" - Joy Division
31. "I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" - Howlin' Wolf
32. "Doledrums" - the Chills
33. "The Range War" - Todd Rundgren
34. "Wanting Things" - Dionne Warwick
35. "Up 'Gainst the Wall" - John Coltrane
36. "Blueberry Pies" - Prefab Sprout
37. "Lucky One" - Ben Watt