AND AGAIN...

More retro-rockism. Crawling backwards through the wreckage. Call it what you will. Including late for dinner.

This one was the first show I did using my 40th birthday present, a brand-new laptop. As indefatigably old-school as I tend to be when doing these shows, I must say that having a fresh source (in addition to the usual turntables, CD players, cassette decks and live in-studio yodellers) to add to the on-air mix has proven quite exciting. Not in this particular episode so much - no, as with any attempt to grapple with new technology in real time, I spent an ungodly portion of it growling, shaking my fist at phantom antagonists, and using words that, if uttered on-mic and toted up correctly, would translate into about $2.6 million in FCC fines. Don't get me wrong, the old technology failed me just as much as the new stuff - y'know, you get a record, it says "33 1/3 RPM" on the sleeve, you don't imagine they just put it there because that was their best guess, do you? Yeah, neither did I. One doesn't get to hear the sounds of a record being played at 2/3rds speed, stopped, run backwards in panic, followed by the needle being angrily ripped from it and very audibly relowered onto the start of the tune, on the radio quite enough these days. An increasing plurality of American radio stations have gone largely if not wholly automated, which is why commercial radio is full of things like two commercials playing at once, songs beginning and ending at odd times, the phrase "ANOTHER ROCK BLOCK-OCK-OCK..." looping endlessly through the middles of songs, and pre-recorded DJs back-announcing songs they last played three days before. All offputting, bizarre, cold, sterile. Not this show, though - I promise you that, no matter what machinery is being used, all the massive fuckups you hear on my program are the result of 100% human error. That's my pledge to you, the listener.

Wow & Flutter Episode #000095 - September 23, 2009:

11:00pm
Spacemen 3 “Honey” from Playing With Fire (Fire 1988)

11:04pm
Essential Logic “Quality Crayon Wax O.K.” from Fanfare in the Garden (Kill Rock Stars 2003)

11:07pm
Flaming Lips “Kundalini Express” from New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love & Rockets (Justice/Arsenal 2009)

11:10pm
Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt “Whistle for Will” from Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese (EMI 2008)

11:12pm
Pere Ubu “Song of the Grocery Police” from Long Live Pere Ubu! (Cooking Vinyl 2009)

11:15pm
The Clean “In the Dream Life U Need A Rubber Soul” from Mister Pop (Merge 2009)

11:19pm
Hüsker Dü “It's Not Funny Anymore” from Metal Circus (SST 1983)

11:21pm
Jay Reatard “It Ain't Gonna Save Me” from Watch Me Fall (Matador 2009)

11:23pm
Public Image Ltd. “Poptones” from Second Edition (Warner Brothers 1979)

11:31pm
Jj “Ecstasy” from jj n° 2 (Sincerely Yours 2009)

11:35pm
Iggy Pop “Je Sais Que Tu Sais” from Preliminaires (Astralwerks 2009)

11:38pm
The Firesign Theatre “The Mantras and the Shakras” from Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (reissue) (Columbia 1968)

11:42pm
Dr. John “Croker Courtbullion” from Gris-Gris (Atco 1968)

11:48pm
The Velvet Underground “Hey Mr. Rain (Version 1)” from Another View (Verve 1986)

11:53pm
Thin White Rope “The Lady Vanishes” from The Ruby Sea (Frontier 1991)

11:55pm
Vivian Girls “The Desert” from Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red 2009)

11:58pm
Dali's Car “Dali's Car” from The Waking Hour (Beggars Banquet 1984)

12:03am
Love “Live and Let Live” from Forever Changes (Elektra 1967)

12:08am
The Minus 5 “Scott Walker's Fault” from Killingsworth (Yep Roc 2009)

12:11am
Scott Walker “It's Raining Today” from Scott 3 (Philips 1969)

12:15am
The Soft Boys “Old Pervert” from Underwater Moonlight (Armageddon 1980)

12:19am
Lilys “Who Is Moving” from Better Can't Make Your Life Better (Che 1995)

12:22am
Radio 4 “Certain Tragedy” from Gotham! (Gern Blandsten 2002)

12:26am
Peter Cook and Chris Morris “Drugs Etc. (excerpt)” from Why Bother? (BBC Radio 1993)

12:31am
The Shamen “Christopher Mayhew Says” from Sniffin' Rock Free Disc (Sniffin' Rock 1990)

12:36am
Not the Nine O'Clock News “I'd Like To Buy a Gramophone” from Not the Nine O'Clock News (BBC Recordings 1980)

12:38am
Eric Matthews “Poisons Will Pass Me” from It's Heavy in Here (Sub Pop 1995)

12:40am
Randy Newman “Guilty” from Good Old Boys (Reprise 1974)

12:43am
The Psychedelic Furs “Alice's House” from Mirror Moves (Columbia 1984)

12:47am
Githead “Lifeloops” from Art Pop (swim~ 2007)

12:50am
Game Theory “Last Day That We're Young” from Lolita Nation (Enigma 1987)

12:55am
Chris Stamey “Face of the Crowd” from It's a Wonderful Life (DB Recs 1982)