Wow & Flutter

AND AGAIN...

2012-01-08T08:19:00.000-08:00

A shorter, more recent excerpt this time, from W&F episode #000199, originally broadcast December 14, 2011:

Tips for broadcasters #912 by williamham

OKAY...

2012-01-08T02:47:00.000-08:00

...I haven't exactly been doing as promised here. But I don't want to deprive my loyal audience (bless you both) of the wonderment that is the Wow & Flutter program, so here's the first of several archival excerpts from the show. Here's Elvis Presley entourage member Red Bloostone, as interviewed by Robert "Robert" Ham, from episode #000006, August 16, 2006:

Red bloostone interview by williamham

I'M BACK!!!! (WHO CARES????)

2011-10-04T00:13:00.001-07:00

For whatever occult reason, I have hereby decided to put the ol' defibrillator onto this blog's long-dormant ticker - whether that'll mean full-on playlists or just links salted with sundry mumblings and blabblingages, I don't yet know. And perhaps only the people who have laden my previous entries with Chinese spam (mmm...) will be interested. But, heck, I need to do something with my time. Stay tuned, kiddies...

FOR THOSE FEW STILL LINGERING ON THE OUTER EDGE OF INTERESTED:

2010-02-22T14:40:00.001-08:00

...I've stopped bothering to import my playlists over here. Henceforth, you may find any and all relevant info thereof via this page here. Thanks for listening.

AND AGAIN...

2009-10-05T14:46:00.000-07:00

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)

BY NON-EXISTENT DEMAND...

2009-10-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

...here's the first of the playlists for my last several broadcasts (in reverse chronological order), as kiped from spinitron.com, the site all KMUN DJs are now required to use in order to be allowed to keep webstreaming. Maybe I'll plug in explanations/show anecdotes or whatever it is you call the typical mumblings I'm prone to one of these days, and maybe I'll do something with the formatting beyond removing the phrase "Buy It!" after each entry, and maybe neither you nor I give enough of a shit either way to do anything.

The DJ ¿Qué? iNo! Show - October 3, 2009:

8:00pm
Faust “Krautrock” from Faust IV (Virgin 1974)

8:12pm
Beatnik Filmstars “Hep Boys (Into Krautrock)” from In Hospitalable (Merge 1996)

8:14pm
Stereolab “We're Not Adult Orientated” from The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (Too Pure 1993)

8:20pm
Marmoset “Come With Me” from Tea Tornado (Joyful Noise 2009)

8:23pm
Colin Blunstone “Misty Roses” from One Year (Epic 1971)

8:28pm
Eric Matthews “Cardinal is More” from Six Kinds of Passion Looking For An Exit (Empyrean 2005)

8:34pm
The Three O'Clock “Underwater” from Arrive Without Travelling (I.R.S. 1985)

8:38pm
Some Esperantan Guy “Funga Kanto” from Ni Kantu En Esperanto (ESP-Disk 1963)

8:40pm
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice “Friend, That Just Isn't So” from Gipsy Freedom (5 Rue Christine 2006)

8:46pm
David Bowie “Moonage Daydream” from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (RCA 1972)

8:50pm
The Feelies “Moscow Nights” from Crazy Rhythms (Stiff 1980)

8:53pm
Scharpling & Wurster “Todd Palin Works On His Book Proposal (excerpt)” from Scharpling and Wurster at the Speed of Sound (self-released 2009)

8:59pm
Wall of Voodoo “Lost Weekend” from Call of the West (I.R.S. 1982)

9:04pm
Nobukazu Takemura “Wandering” from 10th (Thrill Jockey 2003)

9:12pm
The Coachmen “Radical Lifestyle” from Failure to Thrive (New Alliance 1988)

9:14pm
The Beach Boys “Warmth of the Sun” from Best of the Beach Boys (Capitol 1964)

9:17pm
Dumptruck “Repetition” from D is for Dumptruck (Incas 1983)

9:21pm
Peter Laughner “Baby's on Fire” from Take the Guitar Player for a Ride (Tim/Kerr 1995)

9:30pm
Tindersticks “Tie-Dye” from Tindersticks (This Way Up 1993)

9:34pm
Steely Dan “Your Gold Teeth II” from Katy Lied (ABC 1975)

9:38pm
Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band “I'm An Indian, Too” from !K7 Tapes (compiled by The Rapture) (!K7 2008)

9:41pm
Galaxie 500 “Decomposing Trees” from On Fire (Rough Trade 1989)

9:45pm
Bauhaus “Watch That Grandad Go” from The Sky's Gone Out (reissue) (Beggars Banquet 1982)

9:50pm
Pere Ubu “Pataphysical Mirror” from Long Live Pere Ubu (outtakes) (Ubu Editions 2009)

9:53pm
Love “Signed D.C. (alternate version)” from Love (reissue) (Elektra/Rhino 1966)

9:55pm
John Cale “Ghost Story” from Vintage Violence (Columbia 1969)

10:00pm
Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” from Innervisions (Tamla 1973)

10:08pm
National Lampoon “The Immigrants” from Gold Turkey (Epic 1975)

10:15pm
Van der Graaf Generator “Refugees” from The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (Charisma 1970)

10:21pm
X “Crystal Ship” from The X-Files: Fight the Future (something 1998)

10:23pm
Yummy Fur “Fiery Jack” from Kinky Cinema (Guided Missile 1997)

10:24pm
Y Pants “Favorite Sweater” from Y Pants (7" single) (99 1980)

10:27pm
Ben Watt “Long Time No Sea” from North Marine Drive (Cherry Red 1983)

10:32pm
Frank Zappa “Eat That Question” from The Grand Wazoo (Bizarre/Reprise 1972)

10:41pm
The Brian Jonestown Massacre “Monkey Powder” from My Bloody Underground (Cargo 2007)

10:48pm
Neil Hamburger “Hamburger Remembers Nixon (part one)” from Hamburger Remembes Nixon 7" (I Don't Feel A Thing 2002)

10:52pm
!!! “The Funky Branca” from 7" single (Hopscotch 1997)

10:59pm
Brian Eno “Third Uncle” from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Editions EG 1973)

11:04pm
Japan “Quiet Life” (Hansa 1979)

11:10pm
Radio Canada International “Wayne Gretsky Meets Andy Warhol” from English Topical Disc (12/27/83) (CBC 1983)

11:12pm
Kid 606 “Andy Warhol is Dead But We Still Have Hope” from Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (IPC-46 2003)

11:13pm
Bastro “Gold Fillings” from Rode Hard and Put Up Wet EP (Homestead 1988)

11:15pm
Let's Active “Prey” from Cypress (I.R.S. 1984)

11:19pm
Robert Wyatt “Out Of The Blue” from Comicopera (Domino 2007)

11:23pm
Scritti Politti “Here Come July” from Anomie and Bonhomie (EMI 1999)

11:27pm
Monks “Monk Jam (live)” from Let's Start a Beat!: Live From Cavestomp (Universal 2000)

11:32pm
Last Exit “Catch as Catch Can” from Last Exit (Enemy 1986)

11:35pm
The King of Luxembourg “A Picture of Dorian Gray” from Royal Bastard (el 1987)

11:38pm
Le Tigre “What's Yr Take on Cassavetes” from Le Tigre (Mr. Lady 1999)

11:41pm
The Smiths “Death of a Disco Dancer” from Strangeways, Here We Come (Sire 1987)

11:48pm
Elvis Costello “Man Out of Time” from Imperial Bedroom (Columbia 1982)

11:53pm
Squarepusher “Quadrature” from Just a Souvenir (Warp 2008)

11:57pm
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience “All the Way Down” from Love Songs (Flying Nun 1989)

HERE'S YOUR DAMN PLAYLIST. I'M TOO FRIGGIN' TIRED TO MAKE PITHY COMMENTS, SO PITH OFF:

2009-07-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS?:

2009-07-16T01:04:00.000-07:00

Or, to put it in a less overtly hey-I've-read-a-book manner, the return to the air (and this coast) of my dear boy, Liam, for whom I bifurcated this fortnight's program - one hour his, one hour mine. I'll happily excuse the Black Eyed Peas track, because of his absolute insistence that we give Philly Boy Roy Ziegler his fair share of airtime. *sniff* Excuse me, I think it's getting a little dusty in here...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000090 (JULY 15, 2009):

LIAM'S SET:
1. Day 'n' Nite | Kid Cudi | A Kid Named Cudi (2008)
2. Run to the Hills | Iron Maiden | The Number of the Beast (1982)
3. I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas | The E.N.D. (2009)
4. Helicopter | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm (2005)
5. Impulse | An Endless Sporadic | Ameliorate EP (2008)
6. Toys in the Attic | Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic (1975)
7. All the Small Things (live) | Blink-182 | The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (2000)
8. I'm in the Band | Hellacopters | Rock & Roll Is Dead (2005)
9. Success, Philly Style (part one) | Jon Wurster | The Best You Can Do Is Be Worse Than The Best Show (2007)
10. Killer Queen | Queen | Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
11. Mr. Crowley | Ozzy Osbourne | Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
12. Success, Philly Style (part two) | Jon Wurster | The Best You Can Do Is Be Worse Than The Best Show (2007)
13. Ziggy Stardust | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
14. Sabotage | Beastie Boys | Ill Communication (1994)

LIAM'S DAD'S SET:
15. Right Side Up With The World | Bertrand Burgalat | Chéri B.B. (2007)
16. A Cause Des Garçons | Yelle | Pop-Up (2007)
17. New Lace Sleeves | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Trust (1981)
18. No Feelings | Bananarama | Party Party soundtrack (1982)
19. Everybody is a Star | the Pastels | You Don't Need Darkness To Do What You Think Is Right (2002)
20. Classics of the Contemporary Drama: "The Idiot" | National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray) | Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (1996; rec. 1974)
21. You're So Good To Me | Velocity Girl | 7" single (1994)
22. Non-Alignment Pact | Julian Cope | Julian Cope EP (1986)
23. The Booker Tease | the Residents | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)
24. I Can't Stop Thinking About You | Linda Kaye | Dream Babes Volume One: Am I Dreaming? (1994; rec. 1966)
25. Taxidermy Blues in Reverse | Red Red Meat | Bunny Gets Paid (1995)
26. Free Fall | Cornelius | Fantasma (1997)
27. Misty Took a Holiday | the Rock*A*Teens | Golden Time (1999)
28. She | Suede | Coming Up (1997)
29. Home of the Brave | Spiritualized | Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space (1997)
30. Walk on the Water | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
31. The Melody | The Mae Shi | HLLLYH (2008)
32. See Through Nature | Yeah Yeah Noh | Cutting The Heavenly Lawn Of Greatness...Last Rites For The God Of Love (1985)
33. Dance of the Morlocks | DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid | Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1996)
34. Dream Time in Lake Jackson | the KLF | Chill Out (1990)

CANADIANS, DEAD PEOPLE, LESLEY GORE, AND THE MUTHAFUGGIN' PRIEST!!! WHAT THE HELL ELSE DO YOU NEED?

2009-07-02T01:03:00.000-07:00

WELL, SINCE NONE OF YOU BASTIDS BOTHERED TO REQUEST ANYTHING, I PLAYED MORE OF THE SAME DAMN SHIT AS USUAL. HOPE YOU'RE PLEASED WITH YOURSELVES:

2009-06-18T01:06:00.000-07:00

A SEMI-AUSPICIOUS OCCASION...

2009-06-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

...celebrated in what felt to me like a highly inauspicious manner. This was the third-anniversary edition of W&F, which gave me a fine excuse just to play the first ten minutes of my very first show while I attempted to slap myself into sensibility. This has been a very long day for me, and it's not over yet as I write this. I still have to make the twenty-minute drive home, and hey! I just noticed that, in addition to all the mishaps and misadventures that transpired throughout this very long day (slashed finger, aching ankles, bad mustache I'm stuck with all summer due to a theatrical obligation, technology failing me in myriad ways, lots of frenetic activity and barely-suppressed rage at my overall circumstances), I appear to have left my wallet somewhere. Hopefully at home. So, if you don't hear from me again after this post, assume the heat nabbed me. Or that I'm still asleep. Or that I tracked down whoever's responsible for automatically layering in those links in blogspot posts on words like "flowers," "movies" or "singles," there was a death struggle, and I lost (though not, hopefully, before I hotlinked his ass with a hot-plate coil). Yet, somehow, in spite of it all, the show came out pretty damned good! Go; then figure.

(ex-post facto notes: 1) Yes, I know I played Josef K twice. Another fatigue-inspired programming hiccup, though the two tracks sound like very different bands anyway. b) Apparently, those hyperlinks on words like "flowers," "movies" and "singles" only show up on certain browsers/computers, and not all of them show up on those, either, so some of you may have no idea what I'm talking about up there. Fuggin' annoying either way. e) I want to set up a system whereby I can take requests [I can rarely fulfill them while I'm in the studio, due to the limitations of both my portable music collection - I don't own an iPod, people! I have to bring a big ol' garment bag full up of CDs and vinyl every time I do a show! Gaze upon my freakishness! - and that of the station's itself, though if you're ever looking for an England Dan and John Ford Coley track or a deep cut from Doug & the Slugs, we'll have you covered], in part to help break myself out of certain musical ruts I frequently find myself in and in part to establish that people actually read this blog/listen to this show. So here's the deal: use the comments link at the bottom of the post and hit me with a request, and unless it's egregiously bad or ridiculously out of sync with the kind of stuff I usually play, bearing in mind that I at least theoretically have pretty wide-ranging tastes, I'll play it on my next show. π) Thanks as usual to my bro, Bob, for his suggestions and guidance, and in this case, his .zip file of worthy playlistable candidates. Three of the songs below come via his wise nudging.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000087 (JUNE 3, 2009):

1. Islamic Klezmer Intro/The Story So Far (rebroadcast from W&F #1, 6/7/06)
2. You Made Me Realise | My Bloody Valentine | You Made Me Realise EP (1988)
3. French Film (Blurred) | Wire | Chairs Missing (1978)
4. Talking Drum | Japan | Tin Drum (1982)
5. Isolation | Joy Division | Closer (1980)
6. Learn to Live | Flipper | Love (2009)
7. Love Will Destroy Us in the End | Hefner | Breaking God's Heart (1998)
8. It's Kinda Funny | Josef K | Entomology (2006; rec. 1980)
9. Choci Loni | Young Marble Giants | Colossal Youth (1979)
10. Heads Watch (taken from the aborted album "Sorry for Laughing") | Josef K | Entomology (2006; rec. 1980)
11. Should've Done Drugs | Overlord | Ticker Symbols (2006)
12. Reservoir Park | Duchess & The Duke | She's the Duchess, He's the Duke (2009)
13. Pink Frost | the Chills | Kaleidoscope World (1987)
14. Deputy Dan Has No Friends | the Firesign Theatre | Dear Friends (1972)
15. Northern Something | Tortoise | Beacons of Ancestorship (2009)
16. Self Portrait With "Electric Brain" | Stereolab | Chemical Chords (2008)
17. The City is Here for You to Use | the Futureheads | The Futureheads (2004)
18. Jism | Tindersticks | Tindersticks (1993)
19. Curse of the Frontierland | Game Theory | Real Nighttime (1985)
20. Beechwood Park | the Zombies | Odessey and Oracle (1968)
21. Penelope Tree | Felt | Gold Mine Trash (1987)
22. Angela | Jarvis Cocker | Further Complications (2009)
23. Suicide Kiss | A.R. Kane | 69 (1988)
24. Down at the Rock and Roll Club (original) | Richard Hell & the Voidoids | Blank Generation (1977)
25. Dropout Boogie | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Safe as Milk (1967)
26. Like a Dolphin | 14 Iced Bears | 7" single (1987)
27. Like Dylan in the Movies | Belle & Sebastian | If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
28. Outlaw Blues | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
29. One Line | PJ Harvey | Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
30. Zeidler & Zeidler Commercials (excerpt) | Lenny Bruce | Let the Buyer Beware (2004; recording date unknown)
31. The Completist's Library | Sarandon | Kill Twee Pop! (2008)
32. Cheerleader | Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest (2009)
33. Tainted Love | Gloria Jones | 7" single (1964)
34. Phenomenal Trousers | Blairmailer | Australian Pop Series Vol. II 7" (1995)
35. Slo Drone | Lee Ranaldo | From Here to Infinity (1987)

ONE DAY, I MAY TELL THE STORY OF THE COMPLAINING LISTENER I MANAGED TO CHARM/SHAME INTO LOVING MY SHOW. ACTUALLY, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE STORY.

2009-05-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

A RATHER SAFE SHOW, ALL IN ALL...

2009-05-07T01:03:00.000-07:00

YES, I PLAYED BOZ SCAGGS TONIGHT. ALL I CAN SAY IS, I HAD MY REASONS:

2009-05-02T23:50:00.000-07:00

AS IT IS EARTH DAY, THE ARTISTS ON TONIGHT'S SHOW WERE ALL BORN ON THE PLANET OF THAT NAME. SUCK IT, SUN RA:

2009-04-23T01:15:00.000-07:00

EHHHHHH....

2009-04-09T00:58:00.000-07:00

MY UNFORTUNATE ERROR KEPT ME FROM PLAYING "AMOEBA" BY JOHN HEGLEY AND THE POPTICIANS. MY SHAME WILL SHADOW ME FOR SOME TIME TO COME...

2009-03-26T01:04:00.001-07:00

SONGS GOOD, SURPRISES FEW:

2009-03-12T01:11:00.000-07:00

THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEST SHOW I'VE DONE IN, HELL, A COUPLE WEEKS:

2009-02-26T01:00:00.000-08:00

SOMEHOW, WE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF THE GUY AS DEAD TO BEGIN WITH, DIDN'T WE?:

2009-02-12T01:12:00.000-08:00

UNFUCK, UNFUCK, UNFUCK...

2009-01-29T01:32:00.000-08:00

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK...

2009-01-15T00:56:00.000-08:00

...Ron Asheton's dead. So's Patrick McGoohan. And Ray Dennis Steckler. I paid tribute to all three tonight, and paid proper homage to our soon-to-be-ex-commander-in-chief. Too bad nobody will ever hear the show, since I neglected to hit the "record" button on the station's CD burner. And that knowledge caused me to royally fuck up the back end of the show. This had better not augur badly for the new year. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Whatever.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000077 (JANUARY 14, 2009):

1. I Dubya
2. "Cracking Up" - Nick Lowe
3. "Joed Out" - the Verlaines
4. "Shelley's Blues, Pt. 2" - Steve Wynn
5. "Pilgrimage" - R.E.M.
6. "Ohne Titel" - Huah!
7. "Submarines of Stockholm" - A.C. Newman
8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog (original John Cale mix)" - the Stooges
9. "Take LSD" - Wylde Ratttz
10. "T.V. Eye" - the Stooges
11. "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" - the Times
12. "Hombre Secreto" - the Plugz
13. "Call Link Wray" - Deja Voodoo
14. "Reward" - The Teardrop Explodes
15. "The Doctor" - from I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (John Cleese, Bill Oddie)
16. "Hit It and Quit It" - Funkadelic
17. "Your Head is So Small It's Like a Little Light" - Jessamine
18. "Need Ur Lovin'" - Zomby
19. "Congratulations, You're Under Sedation" - Acid Ranch
20. "L.A." - Globo
21. "Methodist Church" - the Girls
22. Wild Guitar trailer
23. "He Was Really Saying Something" - the Velvelettes
24. "Bleachy And The .99 Cent Big Bufords" - Earles and Jensen
25. "Covert" - Lush
26. "Ingenting Är Sig Likt" - Dungen
27. "Danielle Steel" - the Lucksmiths
28. "Boxing Day Special fragment" - Chris Morris
29. "Coney Island Steeplechase" - the Velvet Underground
30. "Fishing Bird (Empty Jutted In The Evening Breeze)" - Grouper
31. "St. Leonard's Song (Leonard Cohen Parody)" - National Lampoon (Tony Scheuren)
32. "On, On, On, On..." - Tom Tom Club
33. "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" - Flipper

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

2008-12-18T00:53:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-12-03T23:29:00.000-08:00

...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:

2008-11-20T01:00:00.000-08:00

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?:

2008-11-06T00:28:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-11-03T10:41:00.000-08:00

...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?:

2008-10-23T00:33:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-10-09T00:46:00.000-07:00

...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...

2008-09-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

...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...

2008-09-11T00:10:00.000-07:00

...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...

2008-08-27T23:03:00.000-07:00

...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:

2008-08-13T23:16:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-07-31T00:32:00.000-07:00

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?:

2008-07-16T22:36:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-07-10T00:37:00.000-07:00

...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:

2008-07-03T01:09:00.001-07:00

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.

2008-06-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

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:

2008-06-05T00:26:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-05-22T01:02:00.000-07:00

...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:

2008-05-10T23:17:00.000-07:00

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:

2008-05-08T00:46:00.000-07:00

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:

2008-04-24T01:01:00.000-07:00

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):

2008-04-09T23:48:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-03-27T00:55:00.000-07:00

...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?:

2008-03-13T00:26:00.000-07:00

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:

2008-02-28T01:00:00.000-08:00

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:

2008-02-16T22:04:00.000-08:00

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:

2008-02-13T23:54:00.000-08:00

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?:

2008-01-31T00:19:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-01-17T01:15:00.000-08:00

...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:

2008-01-03T00:28:00.000-08:00

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

GOOD KING BISCUITLAS LOOKED DOWN, UPON THE FLOWER HOUR...

2007-12-20T01:05:00.000-08:00

Behold, the playlist for the 2nd Annual Wow & Flutter Christmas Disrespectacular! (And I'm proud to say, a show which carries on the holiday tradition of getting a single, offended call - not that I'm so bothered, particularly as it was one from a fellow programmer, a woman who seems to think of herself as Coast Community Radio's fucking den mother or something and really should mind her own goddamned fucking business about what's appropriate late-night radio fare and what's not, especially since she used more profanity in her phone call than the track in question, and if it's the political incorrectness factor you're worried about, cookie, bear in mind that sarcastic commentary about Chanukah could be construed as anti-Semitic from a WASP or someone similar but is perfectly fine coming from a member of the Chosen People, not to mention a guy deeply beloved of our oh-so-liberal listenership, y'dig? Ah, yes, all I want for Christmas is some thicker skin...)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000051 (DECEMBER 19, 2007):

1. "Little Mary Christmas" - Roger Christian
2. "Christmas With Satan" - James White and the Blacks
3. "One Christmas Catalogue" - Captain Sensible One Christmas
4. "Christmas Isn't Safe For Animals" - Of Montreal
5. "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" - the Goons
6. "Christmas Time is Here" - Belle & Sebastian
7. "White Christmas" - Melt-Banana
8. "Message From a Jew" - Jon Stewart
9. "Christmas Time" - Chris Stamey
10. "Santa Came on a Nuclear Missile" - Heather Noel
11. "No Xmas for John Key (Peel Session)" - the Fall
12. "Jingle Bell Rock" - the Fall
13. "I Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah!" - Elastica
14. "Everywhere It's Christmas (1966 Christmas Fan-Club Record)" - the Beatles
15. "Santa Claus" - the Sonics
16. "Hey Lord" - Suicide
17. "Kung Fu Christmas" - National Lampoon
18. "Don't Fear the Reindeer" - the Ramblin' Ambassadors
19. "It Just Wouldn't Be Christmas" - the Loud Family
20. "Queen's Message/Christmas With Conviction" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber, Steve Coogan, Queen Elizabeth II)
21. "Little Drummer Boy" - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong
22. "Parade of Wooden Soldiers" - Esquivel
23. "Jingle Bells" - Christmas at the Devil's House
24. "Batman: The Lost Christmas Episode" - Kevin & Bean (featuring Adam West)
25. "I Wish You a Merry Christmas" - Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva
26. "All I Wanted for Christmas Was My Braces Off" - Kid606
27. "Your Christmas Whiskey" - the Minus 5
28. "A Christmas Carol" - Tom Lehrer
29. "Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better" - Young and Sexy
30. "Father Christmas" - the Kinks
31. "Trim Your Tree" - Asylum Street Spankers
32. "Evil Santa" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray, Gilda Radner)
33. "Blue Christmas" - Low
34. "First Snowfall" - Coctails
35. "Holiday Mood" - the Apples in Stereo
36. "Oh Holy Night" - John Fahey
37. "Deck the Halls" - Bermuda Tree Frogs

A VERY SPECIAL PROGRAM...

2007-12-18T00:18:00.000-08:00

...in that, as fill-in host for this week's "Short Attention Span Radio," I opted to take the show's name literally; there are no songs that exceed three minutes below. (Well, okay, #12 and 23 [ooooh] pass that mark by a few seconds each, but that's only because I was actually fulfilling listener requests. Listener requests other than "get the fuck off the air, you stuttering mugwump," even.)

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN RADIO (DECEMBER 17, 2007):

1. "Break My Body" - the Pixies
2. "What Do I Get?" - the Buzzcocks
3. "Poupèe De Cire, Poupèe De Son" - France Gall
4. "William, It Was Really Nothing" - the Smiths
5. "America the Beautiful" - D.O.A.
6. "Struktur II" - Karlheinz Stockhausen
7. "Aerosol Burns" - Essential Logic
8. "Is This the Dream" - the Zombies
9. "Games" - the Minutemen
10. "Mansard Roof" - Vampire Weekend
11. "Paper" - Talking Heads
12. "(I'm) Stranded" - the Saints
13. "Deputy Dan Has No Friends" - the Firesign Theatre
14. "Odorono" - the Who
15. "No-Input Mixing Board #6" - Toshinaru Nakamura
16. "Rambler Song" - Shellac
17. "The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory" - Guided by Voices
18. "It's Looking Good" - the Rutles
19. "Ghetto Soul" - Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm
20. "City Hobgoblins" - the Fall
21. "Harlem Nocturne" - Flat Duo Jets
22. "Noisy Summer" - the Raveonettes
23. "There is an End" - the Greenhornes w/ Holly Golightly
24. "Post-Ivy League Depression" - Hella
25. "Jabberwocky" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
26. "Ham & Eggs 99c" - Death of Samantha
27. "At the Lost & Found" - Marine Research
28. "Living in a Jungle" - the Chills
29. "Wild Honey Pie" - Das Damen
30. "Shortnin' Bread" - the Hellcows
31. "How Do I Know" - Akron/Family
32. "Struktur VI" - Karlheinz Stockhausen
33. "Junior Partners" - Sloan
34. "Getting Ahead in the Lucrative Field of Artist Management" - U.N.K.L.E.
35. "The Day the Rain Came Down" - Felt
36. "Grace" - Look Blue Go Purple
37. "The Inmost Light" - Current 93
38. "Rocket 88" - Jackie Brentson with Ike Turner
39. "Public Service Announcement" - the Credibility Gap
40. "Who Says (It's Good to Be Alive)?" - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
41. "I Kicked a Boy" - the Sundays
42. "The Napkin Song" - Thin White Rope
43. "Exactly What We Don't Want to Hear" - Game Theory
44. "Slushy" - the Vaselines
45. "Rilkean Heart" - Cocteau Twins
46. "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" - John Cooper Clarke
47. "From a Window to a Screen" - the dB's
48. "Beaten to the Punch" - Elvis Costello
49. "Charlie Freak" - Steely Dan
50. "So Hot (Wash Away All My Tears)" - Spacemen 3
51. "Hail Our Web" - Saccharine Trust
52. "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" - Mission of Burma

OH, STORMY...

2007-12-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

And here's the show I did in the aftermath of the worst storm the northern Oregon/southern Washington coast has seen for some time. Nothing out of the ordinary, other than having to do it with a single, generator-run light for illumination, which was fine because it kept me from seeing the giant elm that had fallen mere inches from the KMUN air room and loomed ominously outside the window as I broadcast. And after driving through downtown Astoria late that night, I regretted not having a copy of the Specials' "Ghost Town" with me, though #23 (ooooh) below seemed appropriate on both sides of the em dash. An auspicious way to celebrate my 50th show, eh wot?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000050 (DECEMBER 5, 2007):

1. "Toad Away" - the Firesign Theatre
2. "Wey Wey Hep a Hole" - the Soft Boys
3. "Tally Ho!" - the Clean
4. "What in the World" - David Bowie
5. "I Just Sing" - the Troggs
6. "Calvary Cross" - Richard Thompson
7. "Loved Ones" - Christmas
8. "Waving My Arms in the Air" - Syd Barrett
9. "New Face in Hell" - the Fall
10. "Sailing to Byzantium" - Liars
11. "Death of Mary, Queen of Scots" - Monty Python
12. "Citadel" - Redd Kross
13. "No Warning Given" - Wire
14. "Dreamscape" - Head & Leg
15. "Pump It Up" - Mudhoney
16. "Dr. Luther's Assistant" - Elvis Costello
17. "Scatterbrain" - the Birthday Party
18. "Crabwalk" - Everything But the Girl
19. "Dolphins" - Fred Neil
20. "The Sign" - Mountain Goats
21. "Phone Calls From Americans (1)" - Albert Brooks
22. "Black Diamond" - the Replacements
23. "Cold Rain" - Screaming Trees
24. "Phone Calls From Americans (2)" - Albert Brooks
25. "Can't Stop the Show" - Stan Ridgway
26. "Revolution Blues" - Neil Young
27. "Lettuce" - That Petrol Emotion
28. "The Lost Glider" - National Lampoon (Bob Dryden, Ed Subitsky)
29. "The Pleasant Kind" - Eric Matthews
30. "Telstar" - Portsmouth Sinfonia
31. "Can't Get Enough of You Baby" - ? and the Mysterians
32. "Two Dozen Lousy Hours" - Tall Dwarfs
33. "Delia's Psychedelian Waltz" - Delia Darbyshire
34. "23rd Dub" - Lee "Scratch" Perry
35. "Speedway" - Alan Vega
36. "Bananafishbones" - the Cure
37. "Vaseline" - Elastica

SCHNUCK ON THIS, SCHNEEP:

2007-12-17T19:42:00.000-08:00

Time to catch up once again on some missed playlist uploads, especially since there's two new shows from me this week... First, my Thanksgiving-eve broadcast, featuring the talents of my brudda Bob (who I'd have co-host every show if I could), and also either the last weekly W&F or the first bi-weekly W&F, depending on your point of view. Shame, too, that the show was shortened to seven minutes this week, but some of the stuff that followed was pretty good, too...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000049 (NOVEMBER 21, 2007):
1. "Field Day for the Sundays" - Wire
2. "Roses" - the Magnetic Fields
3. "In Orbit" - Komeda
4. "I Like Food" - the Descendents
5. "Canon" - Otomo Yoshilde
6. "Shard" - Game Theory
7. "Hot Poop" - the Mothers of Invention
8. "You Suffer" - Napalm Death
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9. coming up later on Coast Community Radio...
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FOLKWIT, WITH JIMMY MAGRUDER:
10. Terrence Rodd intro
11. "Apocalypse Express" - Judee Sill
12. "The Magpie's Nest" - Alasdair Roberts
13. "Who By Fire" - Leonard Cohen
14. Terrence Rodd interview
15. "Chorus of the Lowland Burrowing Treefrog (Pternohyla Fodiens)" - North American Frogs
16. Terrence Rodd punch-up
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17. Community Clipboard
18. "Jazz" - Paul F. Tompkins
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I'M OK, YOU'RE UK, WITH CLIVE CHIVELY AND BRUCE WING-D'ANGDOO:
19. "Mind Your Own Business" - the Delta 5
20. "Truth to Tell" - Some Now Are
21. "That Fink, Jazz - Me - Blues - Boys" - Marine Girls
22. "Control Addict" - Cabaret Voltaire
23. "Here It Comes" - Meat Whiplash
24. "Inconsequential Thought" - Keith John Adams
25. "Steam Fist Futurist" - Andy Partridge
26. "For All We Know" - Grab Grab The Haddock
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27. SBAMA PSA (incorporating "A Taste of Honey" - Martin Denny)
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NEON MEATE DREAM OF AN OCTAFISH, WITH TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD PREFER NOT TO GIVE THEIR NAMES, BECAUSE IF YOU WERE TRULY HIP AND TUNED-IN, YOU'D KNOW ALREADY:
28. "Lake of Fire (Memories)" - Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano
29. "Your Other Man (Secret Frequency Crew Remix)" - Jandek
30. "Suffer Bomb Damage" - The Dead C
31. "Mind Yer Altar"/"Another Movement" - Truman's Water
33. "Well-Oiled, Track 2" - Hash Jar Tempo
34. "Black Sambo Pancakes" - Murray Roman
35. "Mr. Whipple Commercial Goes Wrong" - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue etc.) 36. "Machines" - Lothar and the Hand People
37. "Left Out" - Grimble Grumble
38. "Fracas on West St." - Cleaners From Venus
39. "+/-" - Ryoji Ikeda
40. "Invisible Touch" (excerpt) - Genesis

AS GREAT AS ONLY A SHOW BEGINNING WITH A SYNCOPATED NEAL HEFTI COVER CAN BE:

2007-11-15T00:58:00.000-08:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000048 (NOVEMBER 14, 2007):

1. "Batman" - the Disko Kids
2. "The Hungry Wolf" - X
3. "Stool Pigeon" - Vic Godard & the Subway Sect
4. "Watch the Tapes" - LCD Soundsystem
5. "Dumbells" - Mission of Burma
6. "Poptones" - Public Image Ltd.
7. "No Reply" - the Buzzcocks
8. "The Last Supper" - John Cleese & Jonathan Lynn
9. "Living Through Another Cuba" - XTC
10. "So Tough" - Mother and the Addicts
11. "Betrayal Takes Two" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
12. "¡Que Vida!" - Love
13. "Into the Gumbo" - Deja Voodoo
14. "Necrologue (The Lament of Darth Vader)" - Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid)
15. "The Didn't Song" - Dolly Mixture
16. "Staring at the Sun" - TV on the Radio
17. "Killing" - the Rapture
18. "Princess Diana and JFK (Part 1)" - Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) and Chris Morris (Chris Morris)
19. "Temptation Inside Your Heart" - the Velvet Underground
20. "All Tomorrow's Parties" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
21. "Princess Diana and JFK (Part 2)" - Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) and Chris Morris (Chris Morris)
22. "Whoa!" - Soul Asylum
23. "Sombre Reptiles" - Brian Eno
24. "None But Shining Hours" - the Books
25. "Shale Bed" - Nels Cline
26. "Zampano E La Vedova" - Nino Rota
27. "Chapter 8 - Seashore And Horizon - " - Cornelius
28. "Sonic Attack" - Hawkwind
29. "Prong and Toots Go Steady" - Vivian Stanshall
30. "I'm Not Satisfied" - the Mothers of Invention
31. "Presto" - John Zorn
32. "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" - Sally Timms & Jon Langford
33. "How Do I Know" - Akron/Family
34. "What It Is" - Lydia Lunch/Clint Ruin
35. "A Side Wins" - Sloan
36. "The Can Opener" - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
37. "Telephone and Rubber Band" - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

BLOOD, DEVASTATION, DEATH, WAR & HORROR (OR, AS I LIKE TO THINK OF IT, GOOD CLEAN AMERICAN FUN):

2007-11-08T00:29:00.000-08:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000047 (NOVEMBER 7, 2007):

1. "Earth Died Screaming" - Tom Waits
2. "Everything is Right" - Velvet Monkeys
3. "Holocaust Parade" R. Stevie Moore
4. "The Blood" - the Cure
5. "Folklore" - Hüsker Dü
6. "Favorite Sweater" - Y Pants
7. "Wet Blanket" - the Chills
8. "8.5 Minutes" - the Dismemberment Plan
9. "Only the Stones Remain" - the Soft Boys
10. "Five Words" - the Go-Betweens
11. "Ledge Psychology" - Bob Newhart
12. "We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love" - Pep Lester
13. "Everybody's Dead" - the Bureau de Change
14. "Chicken Little Baby" - Little Richard
15. "Sons of the Silent Age" - David Bowie
16. "Second Length (Our Swimmer)" - Wire
17. "4 Sticks" - Bongwater
18. "Whoops Apocalypse" - John Otway
19. "Away" - Meat Puppets
20. "La Bomba Shelter" - the Firesign Theatre
21. "The Red and the Black" - Blue Öyster Cult
22. "10 Years After World War 4" - Man or Astroman?
23. "100 Million People Dead" - Butthole Surfers
24. "Come On Apocalypse" - Patton Oswalt
25. "Armagideon Time" - the Clash
26. "Repressor" - the Bevis Frond
27. "Say the Words Impossible" - Cardinal
28. "5D (Fifth Dimension)" - the Byrds
29. "Psiship" - Cosmic Rock Show
30. "Just as Soon" - Purple Ivy Shadows
31. "Revolve (The Complete New Testament in the Form of a Teen Magazine)" - Eugene Mirman
32. "Final Day" - Young Marble Giants
33. "Waiting for the End of the World" - Elvis Costello
34. "King of the World" - Steely Dan
35. "Exquisite Corpse" - Bauhaus
36. "L.A. Blues" - the Stooges

I EAT YOUR FLESH AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD, BUT ONLY AFTER INQUIRING ABOUT THE TRANS FAT CONTENT THEREIN:

2007-11-01T00:54:00.000-07:00

My latest holiday-theme show (watch out for my National Fig Week special next week. It's gonna be crazy). [Confidential to P.F.: didn't think I'd play #36, didja?]

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000046 (OCTOBER 31, 2007):

1. "It's Halloween" - the Shaggs
2. "Casting the Runes" - Legendary Pink Dots
3. "F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers)" - Bad Brains
4. "I Walked with a Zombie" - Alice Donut
5. "Creature with the Atom Brain" - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
6. "She Died in Flames" - Edward D. Wood, Jr.
7. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" - the Cramps
8. "Frankenstein" - New York Dolls
9. "Halloween" - the Misfits
10. "Halloween" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
11. "How Do You Tell a Witch" - Monty Python
12. "Cut-Out Witch" - Guided by Voices
13. "Halloween" - Die Kreuzen
14. "Halloween Candy" - the Spinanes
15. "March of the Sinister Ducks" - the Sinister Ducks
16. Brain Eaters trailer
17. "Look Out, There's a Monster Coming" - Bonzo Dog Band
18. "Nasty" - the Damned
19. "How to Write Good: 'Halloween'" - Blag Dahlia
20. "Release the Bats" - the Birthday Party
21. "Puerto Rican Ghost" - Mars
22. "Not of This Earth" - Angry Samoans
23. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - the Who
24. "Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde" - Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot
25. "Halloween" - Sonic Youth
26. Graveyard Tramps ad
27. "Psycho" - Eddie Noack
28. "The Corpse Rises" - Scientist
29. "Dracula Frizzi (Cricket version)" - Alvarius B.
30. "I'm in the Ground for Good" - the Newports
31. "Dracula Killed Frankenstein" - Lake of Dracula
32. Virgin Witch ad
33. "Spooky" - Lydia Lunch
34. "Little Demon" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
35. "Angels and Demons at Play" - Sun Ra
36. "Martin (the Vampire)" - Mortician
37. "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee" - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
38. "Spectre vs. Rector" - the Fall

FEAR NOT, FELLOW HIPSTER-DOOFI:

2007-10-25T19:10:00.001-07:00

...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...

2007-10-18T01:02:00.000-07:00

...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 cowsht! Someone Moloch the ccks*cking door!:

2007-10-11T00:57:00.000-07:00

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:

2007-10-04T01:02:00.000-07:00

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

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD. PROBABLY.:

2007-09-27T01:03:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000041 (SEPTEMBER 26, 2007):

1. "Track 1 (Brother Love opening)" - Genesis P-Orridge & Eddie Thrasher
2. "On My Radio" - the Selecter
3. "Oscillations" - Silver Apples
4. "Directly From My Heart To You" - the Mothers of Invention
5. "Tape Rewinding" - some sound effects guy
6. "It's Hard to Believe I'm Not" - Captain Sensible
7. "Keys to Your Heart" - the 101'ers
8. "14 Days" - Life Without Buildings
9. "I Prefer 'Nitwit'" - Shorty
10. "What Happened to You Eh?" - Cassetteboy
11. "Touch the Water" - Lilys
12. "Code Breaker" - Tunng
13. "Green Isaac" - Prefab Sprout
14. "Seattle/Washington/Prague 00/68/Chicago/Nixon/Reagan Circle-Fighting Machine" - 1-Speed Bike
15. "Keith Richards Manifesto: The Homeless" - Chris Morris
16. "You Got the Silver" - the Rolling Stones
17. "Track 17" - Genesis P-Orridge & Eddie Thrasher
18. "Hey" - the Butthole Surfers
19. "Trouble With Kay" - Sneaky Feelings
20. "Before the Moon Falls" - the Fall
21. "New Language" - (The Sounds of) Kaleidoscope
22. "Art Decade" - David Bowie
23. "Broken Bottles" - Salem 66
24. "Acting Class" - Woody Allen
25. "Evil (is Going On)" - Howlin' Wolf
26. "Track 19" - Genesis P-Orridge & Eddie Thrasher
27. "Just Out of Reach" - the Zombies
28. "Lions Writing the Bible" - Third Eye Foundation
29. "Vulcanized Sneakers Intro" - National Lampoon
30. "Astrionics Pt. 1" - Expo '70
31. "Grant Hart" - the Posies
32. "What's Going On (Inside My Head)" - Hüsker Dü
33. "Three Imaginary Boys" - the Cure
34. "Everybody's Gone" - the Clientele
35. "Hooligans" - Bill Hicks
36. "Bama Lama Bama Loo" - Little Richard
37. "Sympathetic Anaesthetic" - the Fire Engines
38. "Track 74" - Genesis P-Orridge & Eddie Thrasher
39. "Flavour of Night" - Robyn Hitchcock
40. "Tears" - the Chameleons U.K.
41. "Plain Sailing" - Tracey Thorn
42. "Der Sterbende Auf Der Brücke (The Dying Man on the Bridge)" - Jürgen Knieper
43. "The Ballad of Bjorn Borg (4-Track Demo)" - Pernice Brothers
44. "Expensive Shoes Bought Cheap Worn Once" - Cassetteboy
45. "Symmetry" - Xinlisupreme

HEPPY BIDET TOMB E:

2007-09-20T01:02:00.000-07:00

My birthday show. No better way to turn 38 than to feign extreme drunkenness over the public airwaves, I always (read: never) say...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000040 (SEPTEMBER 19, 2007):

1. Naughty Stewardesses trailer
2. "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" - the Velvet Underground
3. "Crazy Horses" - Revolution 409
4. "Video Eyes" - the Bongos
5. "The Equestrian" - Les Savy Fav
6. "Same Old Drag" - Apples in Stereo
7. "I'll Never Mind" - Liquor Giants
8. "Laughing with Minx" - Marmoset
9. "Birthday (Icelandic)" - the Sugarcubes
10. "From Nothing To Nowhere" - Pinback
11. "Brainduster Memory School" - Proctor & Bergman
12. "Academy Award" - the Dismemberment Plan
13. "Rattlesnake Kiss" - the Green Pajamas
14. "Pay to Cum" - Bad Brains
15. "Big Boys" - Elvis Costello
16. "Stovetop" - Universal Congress Of
17. "Three Stars" - Ultra Vivid Scene
18. "Charley's Girl" - A Drag City Supersession
19. "Our Love" - Bruce McCulloch
20. "Daddy's Song" - the Monkees
21. "Shipwreck" - Tiny Vipers
22. "Some Other Time" - X
23. "Shoo Be Doo" - the Cars
24. "Colony" - Joy Division
25. "In the Evening" - Nina Nastasia/Jim White
26. "C Visar Vägen" - Dungen
27. "Rocket Plane (Music on the Moon)" - Komeda
28. "Little Honda" - Yo La Tengo
29. "Rock Notes" - Monty Python
30. "Sunflower's Here to Stay" - Angels of Light
31. "Cloud Chamber" - David Byrne
32. "Brushfire in Hoboken" - Chris Stamey
33. "Well Well Well" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
34. "GG Allin Ad" - unknown
35. "Mercenaries (Ready for War)" - Barkmarket
36. "Spoken Word Piece" - Minutemen
37. "Spanish Bastard" - Sir Richard Bishop
38. "AP1105" - Funkstörung

IN HONOR OF JOE ZAWINUL'S PASSING, I'VE REFUSED TO PLAY ANY WEATHER REPORT RECORDS ONCE AGAIN THIS WEEK. IT WAS THE RESPECTFUL THING TO DO.:

2007-09-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000039 (SEPTEMBER 12, 2007):

1. "And then..." - Mission of Burma
2. "Ether" - Gang of Four
3. "We Were Happy There" - the dB's
4. "Your Imagination" - All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors
5. "Cactus Cat" - Look Blue Go Purple
6. "8:05" - Moby Grape
7. "Pumping Ugly Muscle" - Primitive Calculators
8. "The Faust Tapes (excerpt)" - Faust
9. "Ever Fallen in Love?" - Buzzcocks
10. "My Flash on You" - Love
11. "Everybody's Doing It Now" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
12. "Bill Drummond Said" - Julian Cope
13. "6.4=Make Out" - Gary Wilson
14. "Study No. 1" - Maurice Deebank
15. "Pulling Our Weight" - The Radio Dept.
16. "Flee Past's Ape Elf" - Orchid Spangiafora
17. "Cindy Tells Me" - Brian Eno
18. "Some Days It's Dark" - Death Lurks
19. "Baby Don't You Worry (California Lullabye)" - Spectrum
20. "Ode to Booker T." - Young Marble Giants
21. "The Spotnicks' Theme" - the Spotnicks
22. "Witch Hazel" - Monade
23. "Mathilde" - Scott Walker
24. "Leaves Me Cold" - Lush
25. "The Graveyard Shift" - Swell Maps
26. "The Green Nun" - William S. Burroughs
27. "Already in Black" - the Moles
28. "Edith Massey" - Lung Leg
29. "Jazz the Glass" - Cabaret Voltaire
30. "No More Hot Dogs" - Hasil Adkins
31. "Judas Suicide" - Belt Buckle
32. "Mile End" - Pulp
33. "Oregon" - Neil Hamburger
34. "Tea Stain" - Tindersticks
35. "Sgt. Rock (is Going to Help Me)" - XTC
36. "Tim Butler, Old Flatmate of David J's" - Jeff Jensen & Andrew S. Earle
37. "Roulette" - David J
38. "Cemetery Party" - Air

HEY KIDS! COUNT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LAWSUITS BROUGHT ON BY THE SONGS ON THIS PLAYLIST!!!:

2007-09-06T00:56:00.000-07:00

(For extra credit, calculate to the nearest hundred the number of "fuck"s I slipped into the show and the exact amount of the FCC fines that would result if anyone were actually paying attention enough to be offended. Show your work.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000038 (SEPTEMBER 5, 2007):

1. Intercepted & Decoded Messages of the Day (incorporating "Excerpt from soundtrack to Hurlements en faveur de Sade" - Guy Debord
2. "Penpals" - Sloan
3. "Another Song About Motorbikes" - Marc Riley & the Creepers
4. "Solid Gold Tooth" - Royal Trux
5. "All Going Out Together" - Big Dipper
6. "Cheat" - the Clash
7. "Jacques Derrida" - Scritti Politti
8. "Dress" - PJ Harvey
9. "Don't It Make You Feel" - the Bambi Slam
10. "Elephantoplasty" - Monty Python
11. "I Wish You Would" - the Ugly Ducklings
12. "Beatrix" - Cocteau Twins
13. "Gold on Black" - Deerhoof
14. "New Values" - Iggy Pop
15. "Again & Again" - the Iguanas
16. "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" - Camera Obscura
17. "In a Hole" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
18. "Under the Influence of the Jesus & Mary Chain: Ticket to Ride/Master-Dik (version)/Introducing the Stars" - Sonic Youth
19. "Flowers Laugh" - Sonny Sharrock
20. "Californium" - Magnetophone
21. "The Three Shadows (Part I)" - Bauhaus
22. "Oh, the Guilt" - Nirvana
23. "Whale Market Targeted with New Plankton-Flavored Peanut Butter" - Onion Radio News
24. "One More Trip" - Dark Meat
25. "Negresco #4" - Motherhood
26. "Ghost Story" - John Cale
27. "Angels & Devils" - Echo and the Bunnymen
28. "The Empress and the Ukraine King" - Can
29. "The L.S. Bumble Bee" - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
30. "Fire Engine" - the 13th Floor Elevators
31. "Crumbling Down" - Polvo
32. "Asleep and Awake on the Man's Highway" - the Loud Family
33. "Fabulous" - John Oswald
34. "Muscoviet Mosquito" - Clan of Xymox
35. "Hammond Song" - the Colour Field
36. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Special Edit Radio Mix)" - Negativland

PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT. ASIDE FROM THIS ONE.:

2007-08-30T00:25:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000037 (AUGUST 29, 2007):

1. "Two-Headed Baby Pitch" - Ward Hall
2. "Tied to the Tracks" - Soul Asylum
3. "Thursday" - Squirrel Bait
4. "This Year's Girl" - Elvis Costello
5. "Chartered Trips" - Hüsker Dü
6. "Ovarian Angel Architect" - Robert Pollard
7. "Cruisers Creek" - the Fall
8. "X Offender" - Blondie
9. "Till Victory" - the Patti Smith Group
10. "Ain't That Nothin'" - Television
11. "Chinese Rocks" - the Heartbreakers
12. "The Homosexual" - Momus
13. "The Golden Gas Mask Church of Faith" - the Firesign Theatre
14. "Johny Hit and Run Paulene" - X
15. "Meanwhile, At the Bar, A Drunkard Muses" - Arab Strap
16. "Processes of the Silverness" - Plasticland
17. "Guest Room" - the National
18. "Rain" - Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos
19. "You Got That Thing" - Billy Childish & Holly Golightly
20. "Love Bomb" - Grinderman
21. "I'm a Believer" - Anita Lane
22. "Requiem for a C..." - Mick Harvey
23. "After the Fireworks" - the Tuff Monks (the Birthday Party & the Go-Betweens)
24. "Love is a Sign" - the Go-Betweens
25. "Splat" - Bailter Space
26. "The Fish Needs a Bike" - Blurt
27. "Violent Capture of No. 6 in Rover Cave" - Ron Grainer
28. "San Diego Zoo" - the 6ths (Barbara Manning - vocals)
29. "Medicine" - Eric Bogosian
30. "Don't Tell Your Mother" - the Sundays
31. "Life on Deck" - Colin Newman
32. "Cork Farm" - Nels Cline
33. "Things Behind the Sun" - Nick Drake
34. "Children of God" - the Swans

NOT BAD FOR A JET-LAGGED, DEPRESSED, NIHILISTIC MOFO, I DARESAY:

2007-08-22T22:55:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000036 (AUGUST 22, 2007):

1. "The Day I Had Some Fun" - Kustomized
2. "Big Plans" - Christmas
3. "Spacemoth" - Stereolab
4. "Time Warp 1991" - the Membranes
5. "We'll Let You Know" - Morrissey
6. "Zeroes and Ones" - the Mekons
7. "Balalaika Gap" - Camper van Beethoven
8. "Cath Carroll" - Unrest
9. "Happy, Darling?" - Eleanor Bron & John Fortune
10. "86 TVs" - I Am Kloot
11. "Neighbourhoods" - Matthew Dear
12. "Let Me Put It Next to You" - the Soft Boys
13. "She Came Through The Chimney" - Amon Düül II
14. "The Knack" - John Barry & His Orchestra
15. "Burrit Bradley" - the Pulse
16. "Felo De Se" - Bedhead
17. "Soul of Japan" - Breaking Circus
18. "Onomatopoeia" - Max Roach
19. "'Til the Stars in His Eyes Are Dead" - Shelley Devoto
20. "Corrections and Clarifications" - Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
21. "At the Bottom (live)" - the Clean
22. "Simon in the Park (with Tentacles" - the Three O'Clock
23. "Procession" - New Order
24. "Start to Melt" - Peter Bjorn and John
25. "TV Lizard" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, Amelia Bullmore)
26. "Noise" - M83
27. "Non-Alignment Pact" - Julian Cope
28. "A New Day" - Olivia Tremor Control
29. "The Casual Assassin" - Magic Fist
30. "Cornwall Stone" - Dali's Car
31. "North Marine Drive" - Ben Watt
32. "T for Texas" - 1/2 Japanese
33. "Bored Teenagers (Peel Session)" - the Adverts

DON'T BE ALARMED, ALL NONE OF YOU WHO READ THIS BLOG...

2007-08-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

...several of the tracks listed below may seem a touch out of character and/or redundant in light of what has come before on this program, but that's mainly because I turned over the first half hour of the show (and a bit of the rest) to my new "youth consultant" and temp co-host, Liam (my soon-to-be-nine-year-old son). And I do believe he's got his diminuitive finger on the pulse of the radio listening audience. That Evolution Control Committee track's gonna be huge.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000035 (AUGUST 15, 2007):

1. "Like This" - MIMS
2. "Thnks fr th Mmrs" - Fall Out Boy
3. "TV Party" - Black Flag
4. "Help!" - the Beatles
5. "Break on Through (to the Other Side)" - the Doors
6. "E Generation" - Zebrahead
7. "Breakfast" - Evolution Control Committee
8. "24 Hour Party People" - Happy Mondays
9. "Watching the Hydroplanes" - Tunnelvision
10. "When It All Comes Down" - Miaow
11. "Ophelia's Drinking Song / Cathy Clown" - Kevin Hewick
12. "Art on 45" - The Royal Family and the Poor
13. "Tony Wilson Talks to God" - Steve Coogan (from the film 24 Hour Party People
14. "Collette" - the Durutti Column
15. "Mickey Way (the Candy Bar)" - A Certain Ratio
16. "My Kingdom" - Echo and the Bunnymen
17. "Chatterbox" - New York Dolls
18. "We Do Things a Little Differently Around Here" - Maria Bamford
19. "Was" - Live Skull
20. "The Devil's Own" - David Sylvian
21. "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America (excerpt)" - Kidz Bop
22. "Electric Guitar" - Talking Heads
23. "Son of a Gun" - the Vaselines
24. "Another Satellite" - XTC
25. "Wish I Could Stand or Have" - Game Theory
26. "The City" - The Dismemberment Plan
27. "Movement of Fear" - Tones on Tail
28. "Don't Slip Up" - Meat Whiplash

THIS PLAYLIST, I THINK, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. AND I WISH IT WOULD STOP ASKING ME TO RUB ITS FEET:

2007-08-09T01:02:00.000-07:00

(Thanks to brother Bob for his invaluable consultation on tonight's episizzode.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000034 (AUGUST 8, 2007):

1. "Intro (Sexual Adventures in Marriage)" - unknown
2. "Tortura #10"/"Various Military Sound Effects" - unknown
3. "Deteriorata" - National Lampoon
4. "City of No Sun" - John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey
5. "Are Everything" - Buzzcocks
6. "Ambivalence" - the Pin Group
7. "Arnold Layne" - Pink Floyd
8. "Alabama Sunshine" - the Rapture
9. "Seeing Other People" - Belle & Sebastian
10. "Jak" - Volcano Suns
11. "Stromboli" - Paul F. Tompkins
12. "Heads of Dead Surfers" - Long Fin Killie
13. "Kate" - Sambassadeur
14. "But I'm Different Now" - the Jam
15. "S.O.S." - Able Tasmans
16. "Some Velvet Morning" - Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra
17. "Crazed Palestinian Gunman Angered By Stereotypes" - Onion Radio News
18. "Slow" - My Bloody Valentine
19. "What's Up Freaks" - Fog
20. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Syphilis" - the Four Skins
21. "R.A.F." - Brian Eno/Snatch
22. "Class War" - Mission of Burma
23. "Curve 1" - Squarepusher
24. "Sunshine Superman" - Hüsker Dü
25. "Clue Number One" - National Lampoon
26. "Peace Frog" - the Doors
27. "The Cat. Cracker" - Saccharine Trust
28. "Nick Nolte" - Patton Oswalt
29. "Scared to Dance" - the Skids
30. "Young Stud" - Klaus & Uschi
31. "A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17 - 24)" - Momus
32. "C.P." - Section 25
33. "Sound on Sound" - Big Boys
34. "Boil the Kettle Mother" - the Id
35. "Ovo" - To Rococo Rot
36. "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" - Steely Dan
37. "Theme From 'To Kill a Dead Man'" - Portishead
38. "Cosmos" - Glide

AND NOW, BACK TO A WEEK WITH ABSOLUTELY NO CALLS OR FEEDBACK OF ANY KIND. AH, LISTENER APATHY, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING:

2007-08-02T01:04:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER EPISODE #000033 (AUGUST 1, 2007):

1. "Headlines etc." - Chris Morris (from On the Hour episode 103)
2. "The Point of Collapse" - Wire
3. "Do the Dog" - the Specials
4. "Little Fury Things" - Dinosaur Jr.
5. "XPQWRTZ" - Big Flame
6. "See You in the Boneyard" - the Flesh Eaters
7. "Coconut Hotel" - the Red Krayola
8. "Des Etoiles Electroniques" - Stereolab
9. "Boycott" - Shellac
10. "A Million Tears" - the Pastels
11. "Mod Lang" - Big Star
12. "Listener-Supported Radio #1" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray)
13. "Don't Jump Me Mother" - DMZ
14. "Solar System" - the Beach Boys
15. "Pure Love" - Bad Brains
16. "Blutvergiftung" Einstürzende Neubauten
17. "Zor and Zam (TV version)" - the Monkees
18. "Block of Wood" - Vomit Launch
19. "Anthem" - Cannanes
20. "Methamphetamine Blues" - Mark Lanegan
21. "S'il Vous Plait" - the Sneakers
22. "Two Yous" - Let's Active
23. "The Phantoms of Ephemera" - Mitch Easter
24. "Listener-Supported Radio #2" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray)
25. "Penelope Tree" - Felt
26. "Out of the Blue" - Roxy Music
27. "Junk Shop Clothes" - the Auteurs
28. "Just Me" - Angst
29. "Laugh You Out the House" - Everything But The Girl
30. "Soon to Forget You" - Julian Cope
31. "Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On" - Leonard Cohen
32. "Stop Before You Say It" - the Go-Betweens
33. "Listener-Supported Radio #3" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray)
34. "Shadowplay" - Joy Division
35. "Johnny Didn't Come Marching Home" - Mofungo
36. "Machadaynu" - Tony Rudd vs. The Freelance Hairdresser Featuring Asthma TK
37. "We Are All Prostitutes" - the Pop Group
38. "Flower Punk" - the Mothers of Invention
39. "Listener-Supported Radio #4" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray)
40. "Spot the Setup" - the Loud Family
41. "Kid About It" - Elvis Costello
42. "Zombie Compromise" - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
43. "Listener-Supported Radio #5" - National Lampoon (Bill Murray)
44. "More Time" - Blind Idiot God
45. "Arc" - Matthew Shipp

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

2007-07-26T00:55:00.000-07:00

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

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

2007-07-19T01:03:00.000-07:00

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

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

2007-07-05T01:02:00.000-07:00

"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

HEY, I GOT THROUGH A WHOLE ALL-COVERS SHOW WITHOUT ONCE PLAYING THE FALL, YO LA TENGO OR SONIC YOUTH. WHERE'S MY DAMN PRIZE?:

2007-06-28T00:17:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000029 (JUNE 27, 2007):

1. "Cheese & Onions" (the Rutles) - Galaxie 500
2. "The Model" (Kraftwerk) - Big Black
3. "The Return of Jackie and Judy" (the Ramones) - Tom Waits
4. "Jeepster" (T. Rex) - the Polecats
5. "The Unheard Music" (X) - Elastica w/ Steven Malkmus
6. "Here" (Pavement) - Tindersticks
7. "Joed Out" (the Verlaines) - Barbara Manning
8. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (the Four Seasons) - Edith Massey
9. "What Do I Get?" (the Buzzcocks) - Coffin Break
10. "I Don't Mind" (the Buzzcocks) - Big Drill Car
11. "Fragile" (Wire) - Salem 66
12. "Not Me" (Colin Newman) - This Mortal Coil
13. "Goin' Out Of My Head" (Little Anthony & the Imperials) - the Zombies
14. "Care of Cell 44 (live)" (the Zombies) - Elliott Smith
15. "Needle in the Hay" (Elliott Smith) - Eric Matthews
16. "Willow Willow" (Love) - Cardinal
17. "1970" (the Stooges) - Mission of Burma
18. "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett) - the Jam
19. "That's Entertainment!" (the Jam) - Morrissey
20. "Every Day is Like Sunday" (Morrissey) - Colin Meloy
21. "Help!" (the Beatles) - the Damned
22. "Neat Neat Neat (live)" (the Damned) - Elvis Costello
23. "Shipbuilding" (Elvis Costello) - Robert Wyatt
24. "Last Caress" (the Misfits) - Papa M
25. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath) - the Cardigans
26. "Jump" (Van Halen) - Aztec Camera
27. "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (live)" (Van Halen) - Minutemen
28. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Bob Dylan) - PJ Harvey
29. "My Mummy's Dead" (John Lennon) - The Minus 5
30. "Mushroom (live)" (Can) - the Jesus & Mary Chain
31. "Head On" (the Jesus & Mary Chain) - the Pixies
32. "Cactus" (the Pixies) - David Bowie
33. "Boys Keep Swinging" (David Bowie) - the Liquor Giants
34. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (Johnny Thunders) - the Loud Family
35. "Sickles and Hammers" (Minutemen) - Sebadoh
36. "Johnny B. Goode/Roadrunner" (Chuck Berry/Jonathan Richman) - the Sex Pistols

A FINE FETTLE OF KITSCH:

2007-06-21T01:10:00.000-07:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000028 (JUNE 20, 2007):

1. "The End of Radio" - Shellac
2. "Fanfare - Fire Poem" - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
3. "Agitated" - the Electric Eels
4. "Do the Du" - A Certain Ratio
5. "Hey Joe" - Patti Smith
6. "High Atop the Silver Branches" - Elf Power
7. "Some Weird Sin" - Iggy Pop
8. "My T.V. Is Broke" - B.A.L.L.
9. "Cop Gets Philosophical" - Edward D. Wood, Jr. (from Glen or Glenda?)
10. "Tearjerkin'" - the dB's
11. "Horror Asparagus Stories" - Driving Stupid
12. "Tram 21" - Electrelane
13. "N.Y.U." - Woody Allen
14. "(I Wanna Live on an) Abstract Plain" - Frank Black
15. "Andorra" - Colin Blunstone
16. "Outdoor Miner" - Lush
17. "Be Bop Kid" - Suicide
18. "White & Lazy" - the Replacements
19. "Lady Scarface" - Lydia Lunch
20. "Milk It" - Nirvana
21. "Advertising" - David Cross
22. "Come Again" - the Au Pairs
23. "Sketch for 'Face of Helen'" - Arthur Russell
24. "Revolution 9" - Anton Barbeau/Scott Miller
25. "Cuts for Commercials on 45!!!" - DeWolfe
26. "I Idolize You" - Boss Hog
27. "The Drag" - Ike Turner
28. "Bad Morning Girl" - the Pooh Sticks
29. "We Do Wei Du" - Fehlfarben
30. "The Chinchilla Show" - the Firesign Theatre
31. "The Beautician" - Jonathan Fire*Eater
32. "Go Go Go (live)" - the Blasters
33. "One More Shot" - the Offs
34. "All Day Long" - Shop Assistants
35. "Charity Begins at Home" - Chris Knox
36. "No Next Time" - the New Christs
37. "Midget Submarines" - Swell Maps
38. "Bridge Head (Pt. 9)" - Swell Maps

ONE YEAR AND COUNTING, BUT WHO'S COUNTING?:

2007-06-17T10:16:00.000-07:00

And now, the playlist for W&F's Six-Month Anniversary of Its Six-Month Anniversary Special Edition. Which, naturally, was hardly special by any accepted definition, other than the fact that the first set of the evening featured the same three artists who comprised the first set of my first evening and that I did the whole thing in the voice of a Walter Cronkite impersonator. Wearing only a [CENSORED BY YOUR INTERNET FILTER]. Which I'm told he does anyway. That's why he was crying when Kennedy died. It was a little snug that day.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000027 (JUNE 6, 2007):

1. First Anniversary Show Intro (inc. "American Dream (excerpt)" - the U.S. Coast Guard Band)
2. "Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
3. "2 People in a Room" - Wire
4. "Every Colour You Are" - Rain Tree Crow (aka Japan)
5. "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You" - Felt
6. "Reeling" - PJ Harvey
7. "Let's Talk About Girls" - the Undertones
8. "Unit 6" - Six Finger Satellite
9. "Stay Where You Are" - Ambulance LTD
10. "Wax and Wane (BBC Session)" - Cocteau Twins
11. "Thank You Very Much" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
12. "Warmth of the Sun" - the Beach Boys
13. "He is God" - Big Dipper
14. "Sacrifice" - Flipper
15. "Sons of Temperance" - the Fall
16. "Kobaia Is De Hundin" - Magma
17. "Well-Intentioned Blues" - National Lampoon
18. "A Day in Erotica" - the Three O'Clock
19. "On the Road Again/Transona Five" - Sloan
20. "Old Lady Sloan" - William S. Burroughs with the Eudoras
21. "We Are the Dead" - David Bowie
22. "March of the Ciccone Robots" - Ciccone Youth
23. "Cuts for Commercials B4-8" - DeWolfe
24. "Villiers Terrace" - Echo and the Bunnymen
25. "Lips Like Sugar" - Ether Net
26. "Gör Det Nu" - Dungen
27. "In Someone's Sneakers" - The Credibility Gap
28. "Life in Laralay" - Love & Rockets
29. "River Euphrates" - the Pixies
30. "Stadt" - Pole
31. "Jazz Police" - Leonard Cohen
32. "With Goth On Our Side" - Half Man Half Biscuit
33. "I Can't Believe" - Big Black
34. "Dayton, Ohio - 1903" - Randy Newman
35. "Sleep" - This Heat

...'...:

2007-06-04T18:01:00.000-07:00

...bringing us up to date. This show, I think, sounds as good as it reads - bouncing 'twixt genres and styles like a mo-fo (and if you've ever seen a mo-fo bounce, you know exactly what I'm talking about), with some sly (to me, at least) juxtapositions: any music-geek hepcat worth his saline knows why I put #25 and #26 next to each other, and the bizarritude of #34 and #35 is doubled by the fact that they came from the same record. Wow, right?...

Right?...

Goddamn, I'm one boring motherfucker. Oh, well, onward...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000026 (MAY 23, 2007):

1. Obscure Jazz Nicknames Intro
2. "Rocks Off" - Pussy Galore
3. "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" - Hüsker Dü
4. "Aerodeliria" - the Loud Family
5. "Suicide" - Royal Flairs
6. "The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count" - The Divine Comedy
7. "Fuschia" - Ken Nordine
8. "Stupid Songs" - the Hamsters
9. "Pale Gallery" - Amon Düül II
10. "Cracks in the Causeway" - Oxford Collapse
11. "Tobor Radar Robot" - Proctor & Bergman
12. "You Tear Me Up" - the Buzzcocks
13. "Bell Head" - Liquid Liquid
14. "Black and White" - the Raincoats
15. "Section 25" - Iannis Xenakis & DJ Spooky
16. "Indiscipline" - King Crimson
17. "Crumble" - Dinosaur Jr.
18. "The Mattachine Society" - the Aluminum Group
19. "Satellite" - the Sex Pistols
20. "Socialist" - Public Image Ltd.
21. "Fratricide Pastorale" - Foetus Interruptus
22. "Shatner" - the Wedding Present
23. "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side" - the Smiths
24. "The Week on 4" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris/Partick Marber/Doon Mackichan/Steve Coogan/Rebecca Front/David Schneider)
25. "There She Goes Again" - the Velvet Underground
26. "Hitch-Hike" - Marvin Gaye
27. "Puce" - Ken Nordine
28. "Cuts for Commercials B18-19" - DeWolfe
29. "Dear Eloise" - the Hollies
30. "The Book Lovers" - Broadcast
31. "The Tax Expert" - Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner
32. "Let There Be Angels (Just Like You)" - Bad Brains
33. "Clapper" - Ikue Mori
34. "It's Too Soon To Know" - the Orioles
35. "phoneme bbbb" - Raoul Hausmann
36. "Outline of a Hairdo" - Steve Nieve
37. "Mauve" - Ken Nordine
38. "Cheapskate" - That Petrol Emotion
39. "The Medium Was Tedium" - Desperate Bicycles
40. "Electricity" - Spiritualized
41. "Virgins & Philistines" - the Colour Field
42. "Number Three" - the Flying Luttenbachers

P...4:

2007-06-04T17:21:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here's what happened here: this was my second four-hour shift in two weeks. I was a little tired. Slightly uninspired. Not quite up to my usual manic cueing and juggling, especially over such a long air-shift. So I found some of the longest songs I could stomach playing (#30 runs over twenty-five minutes; #8 pushes twenty in toto; a couple of over-10:00 tracks more or less bookend the show; a few running over seven sprinkled throughout; etc.), and even went so far as to cannibalize a few of my earliest shows straight offa my air-check discs. Thus did I manage to make it through another Saturday night with a minimum of stress and strain, with no one the wiser, as no one was listening anyway. Yeah. Decent show, though, really.

THE DJ K-NULL SHOW (MAY 12, 2007):

1. Psych-Out trailer
2. "I Wanna Destroy You" - the Soft Boys
3. "Metronomic Underground (Radio 1 Session)" - Stereolab
4. "Silver Rocket" - Sonic Youth
5. "The National Anthem" - Radiohead
6. Angel, Angel, Down We Go trailer
7. "Tokyo Storm Warning" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
8. "The Arsonist Story: Fireman/Evil Plays Piano/Evil Craves Attention/Our Son/10 x 10/Trapped and Drowning" - Barbara Manning
9. "Various Times" - the Fall
___
ARCHIVAL RECORDING - Radio Free Huey, September 19, 1969:*
10. "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" (excerpt) - Iron Butterfly*
11. Moonchild Berkowitz mic break #1/apology*
12. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" - the Doors*
13. Max's Shrunken Head Shop underwriter I.D.*
14. "Omaha" - Moby Grape*
15. M.B. m.b. #2/coming up later tonight...*
16. "Ella Guru" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band*
17. M.B. m.b. #3/trivia contest results*
18. "Not Right" - the Stooges*
19. M.B. m.b. #4/special scheduling announcement*
20. "Adiv-da-Addag-a-Ni" (tprecxe) - Nori Ylfrettub*
____
21. "Rocket U.S.A." - Suicide**
22. "Mica" - Mission of Burma**
23. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads**
24. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer
25. "What's New, Pussycat?" - Liquor Giants
26. "Bankrobber" - the Clash
27. "A History of Neil Young" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
28. "Old Maid (Southern California Brings Me Down)" - National Lampoon (Tony Scheuren etc.)
29. "Cortez the Killer" - Neil Young
30. "Spillane" - John Zorn
31. "Cloud 149" - Pere Ubu
32. "Kiss Me Black" - the Birthday Party***
33. "Dance Charts" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris/Michael Alexander St. John) ***
34. "Something Wicked This Way Comes (edit)" - Barry Adamson***
35. "You Want a Danish" - Van Morrison***
36. "Ford Mustang" - Serge Gainsbourg***
37. "Goin' Down" - the Monkees***
38. The Cool Ones trailer
39. "Never Stop" - Echo & the Bunnymen
40. "Your Gold Teeth" - Steely Dan
41. "Equinox" - John Coltrane
42. "The T.V. Glide" - the Firesign Theatre
43. "How Does It Feel?" - Spacemen 3
44. "Tarantula" - This Mortal Coil
45. "The Dog Breath Variations" - the Mothers of Invention****
46. "She Comes in Colors" - Love
47. "A Means to an End" - Joy Division
48. Bummer! trailer
49. "Conduct" - the Durutti Column
50. "Sons of Pioneers" - Japan
51. "Tusk" - Camper van Beethoven

* Originally broadcast on W&F #000003, July 5, 2006.
** Originally broadcast on The DJ K-No(t) Show, June 10, 2006.
*** Originally broadcast on W&F #000001, June 7, 2006.
**** Originally broadcast on W&F #000023, April 11, 2007, and rebroadcast because I didn't get to the CD player in time.

P2C3:

2007-06-04T17:06:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is a little bit better, variety-wise - a nice handful or two of artists never before heard on the show (though some of them, like the Knitters, Sproton Layer/M-3, and Ruben & the Jets, either consist largely of members of typical W&F bands or basically are those bands in pseudonymous disguise). Wha'ev'r.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000025 (MAY 9, 2007):

1. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - Portsmouth Sinfonia
2. "Preamble/Great Divine Rector's Call/Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction Of Rock Music" - The Church Universal and Triumphant
3. "Caught By the Fuzz (acoustic)" - Supergrass
4. "All My Witches Come True" - Dim Stars
5. "Trail of Time" - the Knitters
6. "Whenever You're Ready" - Young Fresh Fellows
7. "Swallow" - Ut
8. "Christine" - The House of Love
9. "Up in Flames" - Koko Taylor
10. "UNKLE Main Title Theme" - UNKLE
11. "Aquamaniac" - Coyle & Sharpe
12. "Raised Eyebrows" - the Feelies
13. "Malibu 69" - Grant McLennan
14. "Second-Hand Furniture" - the Go-Betweens
15. "Casanova's Last Words (demo)" - the Go-Betweens
16. "Testing" - Neil Innes
17. "The Curse of Millhaven" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
18. "Foggy Eyes" - Beat Happening
19. "Jelly Roll Gum Drop" - Ruben & the Jets
20. "Crash" - Ultra Vivid Scene
21. "Bedazzled" - Peter Cook/Dudley Moore
22. "Coming Down the Hill" - El Perro del Mar
23. "Up in My Mind" - Spontaneous Generation
24. "The Lengthy Pause" - L. Voag
25. "Marc Antony's Funeral Oration" - Lord Buckley
26. "Space Red" - Sproton Layer
27. "Out of Breath" - M-3
28. "KKKFC serves sparkily squirl meat" - Experimental Dental School
29. "Demonstration of the Non-Medical Use of Microphones" - The Hafler Trio
30. "It's Kinda Funny" - Josef K
31. "Muscle in Plastic" - Bauhaus
32. "O.K. This is the Pops" - Tones on Tail
33. "Psychedelic Venture" - the Ventures
34. "I'm Not There (1956)" - Bob Dylan/the Band

PAST TO CATCH-UP #2:

2007-06-04T16:40:00.000-07:00

Another Saturday night K-No fill-in stint. And other than the two conceptually-threaded sets (6-11 and 45-49, maybe 50 if you want to stretch it), typing this out is really starting to lay bare my utter predictability. This isn't even the first time I've played Yma Sumac, for feck's sake. Nothing much wrong with anything here, but man, expanding my parameters might do me some good...

THE DJ CAIN O. SHOW (APRIL 28, 2007):

1. "Oh God! - !!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Copernicus
2. "Love Comes in Spurts" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
3. "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" - X-Ray Spex
4. "Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls
5. "Don't Cry for Me" - the Zombies
6. "Tell Me" - the Rolling Stones
7. "Godstar" - Psychic TV
8. "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" - the Brian Jonestown Massacre
9. "Cool as Kim Deal" - the Dandy Warhols
10. "When I Was a Painter" - the Breeders
11. "Fish" - Throwing Muses
12. "Letter from an Occupant" - the New Pornographers
13. "Lowdown" - Wire
14. "Catch It and You Keep It" - National Lampoon
15. "Moonage Daydream" - David Bowie
16. "American Woman" - Butthole Surfers
17. "The Lights, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise" - Flipper
18. "Flipping Channels Frag 3" - Osymyso
19. "To Hell With Poverty!" - Gang of Four
20. "The Fat Lady of Limbourg (live)" - Brian Eno
21. "Yegelle Tezeta" - Mulatu Astatke
22. "Cuts for Commercials A36-38" - DeWolfe
23. "Jam Intro #1"- Chris Morris
24. "Friction" - Television
25. "Gratitude" - Beastie Boys
26. "Back Breaker" - Black Uhuru
27. "Conet Project Remix Session #4" - IDX1244
28. "A Quick One (While He's Away)" - the Who
29. "Everything's Coming Up Roses (disco)" - Ethel Merman
30. "Sugar" - Ladytron
31. "Spark Plug " - Stereolab
32. "Chest Fever" - The Band
33. "Car Cleaning Ad/Ersatz Bros. Coffee" - the Firesign Theatre
34. "Where Youth and Laughter Go" - Broadcast
35. "Province" - TV on the Radio
36. "Sounds Great When You're Dead" - Robyn Hitchcock
37. "Old Fart at Play" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
38. "Happy House" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
39. "Witalliai (Fire in the Andes)" - Yma Sumac
40. "This Machine" - Mecca Normal
41. "It's Alright" - Spacemen 3
42. "Blimps Go 90" - Guided by Voices
43. "Cuts for Commercials A38-40" - DeWolfe
44. "Bugged" - Head of David
45. "Gun" - John Cale
46. "The Gun" - Lou Reed
47. "Lawns of Dawns" - Nico
48. "I'll Keep It With Mine" - Susanna Hoffs
49. "Positively 4th Street" - Bob Dylan
50. "Exile on My Street" - the Ponys
51. "Kasimir S. Pulaski Day" - Big Black
52. "Meet Me in the Dollar Bin" - Les Savy Fav
53. "It's Who You Know" - X
54. "Christian Says" - Tones on Tail
55. "Not Waving But Drowning" - Julian Cope
56. "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men" - Tortoise
57. "Eiffel Tower High" - Hüsker Dü
58. "Einstein's Day" - Mission of Burma
59. "Oh Yeah" - Can
60. "I Am Damo Suzuki" - the Fall

PAST TO CATCH-UP, PLEASE:

2007-06-02T13:35:00.000-07:00

The first in a series of playlists from shows I did (and forgot about) weeks ago. Few surprises with this one, I see - many of the non-unusual suspects lined up throughout, often right next to one another, with only the most minor of variations (ooh, solo Iggy as opposed to the Stooges! Mark E. Smith and Nick Cave side projects! A Minutemen song running over three minutes! An Elvis Costello number recorded after 1980!), so feel free to yawn. That said, I do get into a pleasingly oddball-eclectic zone 'round about track 34, the Legendary Pink Dots repeat from the previous show was either part of an abortive attempt to come up with a closing theme song (see: the Plugz, "Reel Ten," back in the archives somewhere) or just me forgetting I closed the show with it last time, and the second Naked Raygun song was the purely coincidental result of my commonplace grab-any-CD-and-play-a-random-track-and-quick-'cause-there's-only- seven-seconds-left-in-the-song-playing-right-now panic, which occurs at least twice a broadcast, rather than an intentional asymmetrical callback. Whatever that means.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000024 (APRIL 25, 2007):

1. "Here Comes Everybody" - Game Theory
2. "24" - Game Theory
3. "Memories" - Public Image Ltd.
4. "We Found Sound" - The Remote Viewer
5. "Nine People" - Dumptruck
6. "This Perfect Day" - the Saints
7. "49 Guitars and One Girl" - Pere Ubu
8. "Knocking 'Em Down in the City" - Iggy Pop
9. "Lust for Life" - Bad Livers
10. "Can You Dig It?" - the Monkees
11. "You Know I Hate Stupid Phones" - Liars
12. "Ice" - Steven Wright
13. "Dog on Wheels" - Belle & Sebastian
14. "Walk in Cold" - Naked Raygun
15. "All the Photos" - The Sea and Cake
16. "I Remember" - Naked Raygun
17. "Ain't We Got Fun" - Jack Kerouac
18. "Ecstasy Symphony" - Spacemen 3
19. "When I Was Cruel No. 2" - Elvis Costello
20. "Deanshanger" - Prolapse
21. "My Own Face Inside the Trees" - the Clientele
22. "Duckrog" - Von Südenfed
23. "Go Tell the Women" - Grinderman
24. "Bob's Brazerko Lounge" - Firesign Theatre
25. "Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn" - the Chills
26. "My Roots are Strong and Deep" - the Microphones
27. "Gum" - Cornelius
28. "Karl French Interview" - Monty Python
29. "Tune for Wind God" - Minutemen
30. "Space Shipp" - Matthew Shipp
31. "Water (excerpt)" - Steven Wright
32. "We Meet Under Tables" - Wire
33. "Sleep Over It" - controller.controller
34. "Is That All There Is?" - Peggy Lee
35. "Scotch Hausen" - DJ Scotch Egg
36. "How Long Blues" - Jimmy Yancey
37. "Caliper Remote" - Autechre
38. "Zapped" - Bailter Space
39. "And Even the Vegetables Screamed" - Legendary Pink Dots

FROM THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT YOU EVERY OTHER POST ON THIS BLOG...

2007-04-12T08:19:00.001-07:00

My least insincere thanks to my guest host this evening, Dale Ptarmigan, for so graciously stepping into the breach caused by my temporary suspension from the air. (As you've probably read, I was booted from the program following a public outcry surrounding comments made during my Christmas show, where I allegedly used the word "ho" three times in quick succession. As penance, I've hired Al Sharpton to write mean things on me with a charcoal briquette and stuff me into a bag.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000023 (APRIL 11, 2007):

1. "Forming" - the Germs
2. "Straight Street" - the Fiery Furnaces
3. "I Got By in Time" - the Jam
4. "Vacuum Cleaner" - Tintern Abbey
5. "Billy Two" - the Clean
6. "Five" - the Loud Family
7. "Time's Up" - the Buzzcocks
8. "The End of Medicine" - the New Pornographers
9. "At Dave's" - King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
10. "Empire of the Senseless" - the Mekons
11. "Night Watchman" - the Goons
12. "The Trembler" - Duane Eddy
13. "Wang Dang Doodle" - PJ Harvey
14. "T.V.O.D." - the Normal
15. "Some Kinda Love" - the Velvet Underground
16. "Morning Lobotomy" - Conveniens
17. "Black Train" - the Gun Club
18. "We've Been Talked Down" - the Joggers
19. "The Dog Breath Variations" - the Mothers of Invention
20. "Ballad of the Band" - Felt
21. "Rock 'n' Roll Toilet" - the Soft Boys
22. "Through With Buzz" - Steely Dan
23. "R.G. Dunn Cigar Commercial" - unknown
24. "Elizabeth Montgomery's Face" - the Embarrassment
25. "Hessel, Raymond K." - the Dust Brothers
26. "Uranium Rock" - the Cramps
27. "Red Balloon" - from Mr. Show (Bob Odenkirk, Eban Schletter, et al.)
28. "TV as Eyes" - Chrome
29. "The Yo Yo Man" - Echo & the Bunnymen
30. "Catface" - SF
31. "Classics of the Contemporary Drama: The Idiot" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Bill Murray)
32. "Love Lies Limp" - Alternative TV
33. "ABC" - the Tiger Lillies/Kronos Quartet
34. "Bat Macumba" - Os Mutantes
35. "Space Diary 1" - Brian Eno/Jah Wobble
36. "Maggot Incident" - Cassetteboy
37. "Celia Inside" - the Cardigans
38. "The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office" - the Locust
39. "Outside World" - XTC
40. "Ineffable" - Paddy McAloon
41. "Merle (Die Elektrik)" - Einstürzende Neubauten
42. "And Even the Vegetables Screamed" - Legendary Pink Dots

TWO POSTS FOR THE PRICE OF, I DUNNO, TWO:

2007-03-29T01:03:00.000-07:00

The last two W&F shows, in full:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000021 (MARCH 14, 2007):

1. "Introduction" - Negativland
2. "Tunnel" - Mars
3. "Run" - the Windbreakers
4. "No Love Lost" - Joy Division
5. "Do the Pop" - Radio Birdman
6. "Fields of Fire" - Lydia Lunch/Honeymoon in Red
7. "It's Time For Toast" - Head & Leg
8. "Blue" - Rain Parade
9. "Someone Else's Wife" - the Go-Betweens
10. "I Want You" - Inspiral Carpets/Mark E. Smith
11. "Transference" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
12. "Buffalo Bill Haircut" - Beatnik Filmstars
13. "Who's Landing in My Hangar?" - Human Switchboard
14. "Sun God" - Squirrel Bait
15. "When I See Scissors" - Windsor for the Derby
16. "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" - Can
17. "Shiner" - Rodan
18. "Teenyrap/It's Obvious" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Naomi R. Page, Melissa Manchester, Tony Hendra)
19. "I Am Your Flag" - the (English) Beat
20. "The Big Dive" - Tall Dwarfs
21. "Drift" - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
22. "Belly Full of Lead" - Volcano Suns
23. "Call It L__" - Consonant
24. "Smoldering Fuselage" - Mission of Burma
25. "Lines" - Signal
26. "Cancel Your Order" - Dome
27. "A 24-25" - DeWolfe
28. "Who'll Be the Next in Line?" - the Kinks
29. "Emperor of the Bathroom" - the Minus 5
30. "Equustentialism" - Emo Philips
31. "1966 and All That" - Half Man Half Biscuit
32. "Cornad Adrift Toward Mars" - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
33. "Alistair Cooke Being Attacked By a Duck" - Monty Python
34. "Straight Ahead" - Greg Sage
35. "Grown-Up Baby" - the Chevrolet Singers
36. "The Singing Bridge of Memphis, Brooklyn Bridge Version: The Coelcanth" - Lee Ranaldo
37. "Ambition" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
38. "Twilight's Last Gleamings"- William S. Burroughs
39. "Joe McCarthy's Ghost" - Minutemen
40. "Late Night Shopping" - David Sylvian
41. "Untitled" - Bauhaus
42. "From Here We Go Sublime" - the Field

* * * *
WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000022 (MARCH 28, 2007):

1. Sloth #14 (incorporating "The Children" - John Barry)
2. "Borateen" - Self
3. "The Ledge" - Fleetwood Mac
4. "Kimble" - Lee "Scratch" Perry
5. "Eye of the Chicken" - Butthole Surfers
6. "Augmented/Demented" - Amps for Christ
7. "The Way It's Meant to Be" - the Greenhornes
8. "Too Many Creeps" - Bush Tetras
9. "Clear Spot" - Pernice Brothers
10. "Head of Steam" - Black Helicopters
11. "Underdog" - Sly & the Family Stone
12. "Phone Call to Americans" - Albert Brooks
13. "Concrete and Clay" - Unit 4 + 2
14. "The Marble" - Salem 66
15. "Walking on Thin Ice" - Yoko Ono w/ Spiritualized
16. obscure Ayn Rand/fast food riff that I wouldn't blame anybody for not getting
17. "Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
18. "Comic Strip" - Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot
19. "Sue Egypt" - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
20. "Rock & Roll Dreams'll Come Through" - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
21. "Tubas in the Moonlight" - the Bonzo Dog Band
22. "Crackin' Up" - Bo Diddley
23. "Can I Touch You" - My Bloody Valentine
24. "Memo From Turner" - Mick Jagger/Ry Cooder
25. "Rowche Rumble (live)" - the Fall
26. "Hang on to Your Ego" - Beach Boys
27. "Word Association" - Monty Python
28. "2" - Borbetomagus
29. "The World's Easiest Job" - Game Theory
30. "Six Six Sixties" - Throbbing Gristle
31. "What She Said" - the Smiths
32. "Desafinado" - Quincy Jones
33. "Lassitude" - Beyond the Implode
34. "Tonight's Star Prize" - Chris Morris
35. "A Survey" - Tortoise
36. "The Pontiac" - Tom Waits
37. "Lately I've Been Thinking" - Eleventh Dream Day
38. "Trippin' on Krupa" - Sun City Girls
39. "Bad Houses" - Big Black

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT IF YOU LIKE ANSWERING PHONES:

2007-03-04T11:32:00.000-08:00

So, got pulled in, for the second fortnight in a row, as the handpicked replacement for DJ K-No (whose true identity is kind of an open secret around the station, but I guess I can reveal here that said gentleman was a key member of one of the greatest bands of the 1990's. That's right, Sweet 75.) "Interesting" "tidbits" about the show: 1) almost immediately after it began, I got my first irate phone call from what sounded like an older gentleman, deeply offended by the (v. short) Copernicus track early in the set, though I never quite caught whether he was bugged by the track's incorporation of the National Anthem because he thought it was unpatriotic or too patriotic. Or maybe he was a touch too literal-minded, in which case, you may rest easy, sir - I just checked with Wikipedia and the United States does, in fact, exist; 2) I accidentally played a song (#22 below) that let slip the dreaded "f" word over the public airwaves before the FCC's declared post-10 pm "Safe Harbor" time period. Oops. If Coast Community Radio is shortly forced off the air by irate fundamentalists, you know who to blame, baby; 3) DJ K-No had pre-recorded the 10 pm -12 am portion of the show and loaded it onto the KMUN automated system, which was all well and good, except that, somehow, the BBC News feed that usually runs (unheard) on the system at that time was still there too, with the result that both wound up running simultaneously for a full two hours and there was nothing anybody could do about it. I got one more phone call before I fled the station saying, in essence, "Wow - that's one crazy mashup." Anyway:

THE DJ K-NULL SHOW (MARCH 3, 2007):

1. "Armenia City in the Sky" - the Who
2. "The U.S. Does Not Exist" - Copernicus
3. "Upside Down" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
4. "Bluegrass Breakdown" - Shockabilly
5. "Party House Part III in 3-D" - Shockabilly
6. "Unhappy Days" - 14 Iced Bears
7. "Angel, Won'ty You Call Me?" - the Decemberists
8. "Yesterday is Here" - Tom Waits
9. "Blindness" - the Fall
10. "Easy Snappin'" - Theo Beckford
11. "Joe the Lion" - David Bowie
12. "Depot (1957)" - Tom Verlaine
13. "Ciao! Allston" - Ellie Marshall w/ Christmas
14. "The Republican Guard" - Bill Hicks
15. "Whizz Kid" - Mott the Hoople
16. "The Faust Tapes (excerpt)" - Faust
17. "Ping Pong" - Stereolab
18. "Alright Yeah! (in Swedish)" - Robyn Hitchcock
19. "Blood of Feeling" - Barbara Manning
20. "Eye" - Thin White Rope
21. "Prison Farm" - National Lampoon
22. "Chinatown Samba" - Roger Miller
23. "(And) Then He Kissed Me" - Moe Tucker
24. "Ring Worm" - Van Morrison
25. "Heartbeat" - Big Black
26. "Descending" - Meredith Monk
27. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" - Bob Dylan
28. "Adult Books" - X
29. "Your Monkey is My Master" - the Heads
30. "Angus Dei Aus Licht" - Brise-Glace
31. "The Fight" - Ryuichi Sakamoto
32. "Both Ends Burning" - Roxy Music
33. "Daphne" - Django Reinhart
34. "16 Heart Throbs" - the Chills
35. "Variations on a Thumb" - Mark Fossun
36. "Spastica" - Elastica
37. "I'm So Free" - Lou Reed
38. "The Waist and the Knees" - Game Theory

THE JOKE I WAS TRYING TO MAKE, IF MY TONGUE AND PALATE WERE IN PROPER COLLUSION WITH ONE ANOTHER...

2007-03-04T11:21:00.000-08:00

...was "...and March 7, I believe, was the 25th anniversary of the first time someone said, 'Why couldn't it have been Jim instead?'" Diction lessons are in order. (Check out the playlist below and you can probably figure out the setup. Don't ever say this blog ain't men'ally stim'latin'.)

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000020 (FEBRUARY 28, 2007):

1. "Zoo-Music Girl" - Birthday Party
2. "Not Behind the Fighter Jet" - Guided by Voices
3. "I Should Have Known Better" - Wire
4. "I Hate My Generation" - Sloan
5. "Radar Eyes" - the Godz
6. "September Lady" - Felt
7. "Guru Craig Baker, the Perfect Master (part one)" - National Lampoon (John Belushi, Christopher Guest)
8. "Rema-Rema" - Rema-Rema
9. "Please Return It" - the Posies
10. "Lately I've Been Thinking" - Eleventh Dream Day
11. "Can't See For Looking" - the Bobcats
12. "Guru Craig Baker, the Perfect Master (part two)" - National Lampoon (John Belushi, Christopher Guest)
13. "Untitled" - Oxbow
14. "Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More" - Steely Dan
15. "Clear Spot" (at least until the CD fucks up) - Pernice Brothers
16. "Hazel St." - Deerhunter
17. "Weatherman" - from Saturday Night Live (John Belushi, Chevy Chase)
18. "Calling All Enthusiasts" - Radio 4
19. "Little Johnny Jewel" - Television
20. "All-Star Dead Band" - National Lampoon (John Belushi)
21. "Can't Get Enough" - Von Südenfed
22. "Einstein" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
23. "Temporal" - Secret Shine
24. "Cuts for Commercials A14-A16" - DeWolfe
25. "Clock on the Wall" - Alva Snelling
26. "Dueling Brandos" - from Saturday Night Live(John Belushi, Peter Boyle, Don Pardo)
27. "The Teardrop Explodes" - the Negro Problem
28. "Read It in Books" - the Teardrop Explodes
29. "Guilty" - the Blues Brothers
30. "Blues No. 1: Garden of Medals" - Swell Maps
31. "Radio One" - Jimi Hendrix Experience
32. "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" - the Jam
33. "The Cannon Song" - Stan Ridgway/the Fowler Brothers
34. "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" - the Zombies
35. "Hommage" - Bruce Gilbert
36. "Building Tall Buildings" - Satisfact
37. "Lonely at the Bottom" - National Lampoon (John Belushi et al.)
38. "As John Belushi Said" - Television Personalities

WOW! UN-WOW!:

2007-02-26T13:58:00.000-08:00

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

BETTER BELATED THAN BENEVERED:

2007-02-26T13:16:00.000-08:00

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

EINE KLEINE (NOTE TO SELF: FIND THE GERMAN WORD FOR "POST"):

2007-02-01T01:03:00.000-08:00

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)

(POST TITLE REDACTED):

2007-01-18T01:09:00.000-08:00

Pretty damn solid installment, if I say so my damn self. Repeated "Kingpin" from my DJ No-K stint, but I think you'll agree, the solemnity of MLK Day deserves proper and timely tribute. Not finding anything that fit that description, I played that again instead.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000017 (JANUARY 17, 2007):

1. "Kingpin" - the Credibility Gap
2. "Down on the Street (45 version)" - the Stooges
3. "Ghosts" - the Jam
4. "Color Me Impressed" - the Replacements
5. "Elevator is Temporary" - the Lilys
6. "The Cleaning" - Arab Strap
7. "Theme From Sparta FC #2" - the Fall
8. "Puzzled Into Pieces" - All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors
9. "North San Bruno Dishonor Trip" - the Loud Family
10. "Hopeless" - Future Bible Heroes
11. "The Loose Wig" - Del Close/John Brent
12. "The Ink in the Well" - David Sylvian
13. "Is Vic There?" - Department S
14. "Testcard Girl" - Talulah Gosh
15. "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" - Neko Case
16. "Before the End of the Race" - Sloan
17. "Afi-Tione" - Dub Narcotic Sound System
18. "Football" - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
19. "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" - Death Cab for Cutie
20. "I Don't Understand" - Wire
21. "Embryonic Lizard" - the Heads
22. "Tales of Brave Aphrodite" - Beat Happening/Screaming Trees
23. "4-Star Restaurants" - Patton Oswalt
24. "Think for Yourself" - the Beatles
25. "Inside My Brain" - Angry Samoans
26. "Cockney Memories" - DeWolfe
27. "In the Core of a Flame" - the Go-Betweens
28. "Telephone" - Carney, Hild, Kramer
29. "Countdown" - John Coltrane
30. "Suck on the Honey of Love" - Barry Adamson
31. "American Safety Institute: Mad Dogs" - National Lampoon (Chevy Chase)
32. "Guess I'm Falling in Love (instrumental)" - the Velvet Underground
33. "Answer to Rainbow at Midnight" - His Name is Alive
34. "Mad Fans' Square Dance" - Bernie Green/Henry Morgan
35. "Jukebox Capriccio" - Christian Marclay
36. W&F Newsbreak
37. "Trashman in Furs" - the Geraldine Fibbers
38. "Unsatisfied" - Andrew Berry
39. "Violent Death of Dutch Schultz" - John Zorn
40. "The Specialist" - Eric Bogosian
41. "E Poi" - Nino Rota
42. "Into the Night" - Julee Cruise
43. "Bun" - the Deviants
44. "Magic Nights (My Bloody Valentine remix)" - the Pastels

GET ON THE CLUB FOOT (AND PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE CAST ME AS TARZAN), PTS. 1 & 2:

2007-01-04T01:06:00.000-08:00

Heppy gnu yr., Fluttarians (all 1 1/2 of you).

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000016 (JANUARY 3, 2007):

1. "Gerald Ford" - Saturday Night Live (Don Pardo, Chevy Chase)
2. "Cossacks Are" - Scott Walker
3. "Go For Gold" - Girls at Our Best!
4. "Thoughtless Kind" - John Cale
5. "Glue Factory" - Flop
6. "Lot's Seed" - Saccharine Trust
7. "Fairy Tales" - Stockholm Monsters
8. "End of the Rainbow" - Barbara Manning
9. "One Leg Too Few" - Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore)
10. "It's Not My Fault" - MX-80
11. "Pop" - the Aluminum Group
12. "Uncorrected Personality Traits" - Robyn Hitchcock
13. "She Said Go Go Go" - Minny Pops
14. "Radical Lifestyle" - the Coachmen
15. "Test: Balance" - National Lampoon (Stan Sawyer, Ed Subitzsky, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Emily Prager)
16. "Erase You" - ESG
17. "Dots 1-2-3" - the Apples (in Stereo)
18. "Leaving Here" - Motorhead
19. "TV" - Maria Bamford
20. "Perfume-V" - Pavement
21. "Too Experienced" - the Bodysnatchers
22. "We've Got Time" - Broadcast
23. "Test: Separation" - National Lampoon (Stan Sawyer, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Emily Prager)
24. "In Shreds" - the Chameleons
25. "So Soon" - A.C. Marias
26. "Saddam and Osama" - Paul Krassner
27. "Agitato Tragico" - DeWolfe
28. "Take" - the Colour Field
29. "The Bad Review" - Bongwater
30. "Fohlenfurz" - Pole
31. "Balliol Bros." - the Firesign Theatre
32. "When Lightning Starts" - the Three O'Clock
33. "We Are Not the Ones" - the White Birch
34. "Test: Realism" - National Lampoon (Stan Sawyer)
35. "Flesh-Colored House" - Bastro
36. "Germs Burn for Darby Crash" - Matmos
37. "You Think You Really Know Me" - Gary Wilson
38. "The Boss" - James Brown
39. Drug-Soaked James Brown Sonya Live Interview/"Black" - John Oswald
40. "The Big Payback" - Big Black

DEEP AND CRISP AND SOMEWHAT UNEVEN:

2006-12-21T01:01:00.000-08:00

There's a thematic thread running through the songs in this edition of W&F. Can you guess what it is?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000015 (DECEMBER 20, 2006):

1. "Happy Birthday Jesus" - Little Cindy
2. "If You Believe in Christmas Trees" - Cardinal
3. "A Child's Christmas in Wales" - John Cale
4. "Sleigh Ride" - Mistletoe Disco Band
5. "Santa Claus" - Throwing Muses
6. "What You Need" - the Fall
7. "Christmas Day" - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
8. "Christmas Vacation" - the Descendents
9. "RSPCA Interview" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris)
10. "Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto" - Belle & Sebastian
11. "Christmas Time is Here Again (Fan Club Recording, 1967)" - the Beatles
12. "Jesus Christ" - Big Star
13. "The Rocking Disco Santa Claus" - the Sisterhood
14. "Santa Cupcakes" - National Lampoon (Gilda Radner)
15. "Christmas at the Zoo" - the Flaming Lips
16. "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis" - Tom Waits
17. "My Christmas Wish" - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
18. "Christmas with the Devil" - Spinal Tap
19. "Mambo Santa Mambo" - the Enchanters
20. "Uncle Bernie's Farm" - the Mothers of Invention
21. "Santa Claus Skips Cudahy" - Couch Flambeau
22. "My Christmas Memory" - Patton Oswalt
23. "Merry Christmas Baby" - Otis Redding
24. "Cha-Cha All the Way" - Capitol Studio Orchestra
25. Christmas Wish Line
26. "A Child's Christmas Saving the Whales" - Game Theory
27. "Linus and Lucy" - Game Theory
28. "Rod Serling Explains the First Christmas" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
29. "It's Christmas Time" - Yo La Tengo
30. "Christmas with William S." - Olivia Tremor Control
31. "Christmas at K-Mart" - Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band
32. "A Very Hanson Christmas" - Jon Stewart
33. "Frosty the Snowman" - Cocteau Twins
34. "Deck the Halls" - Jingle Bermuda Tree Frogs
35. "Exotic Night" - Martin Denny
36. "Santa Claus is a Black Man" - AKIM & the Teddy Vann Production Company
37. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy" - John Fahey
38. Special Christmas Benefit Song!!

That's right - every single artist mentioned above walks with a limp. Congratulations.

SPECIAL BONUS POST FOR ORDERING BEFORE MIDNIGHT:

2006-12-09T22:34:00.000-08:00

Just finished another guest spot on the DJ K-No program. A little, tiny bit wider-ranging than usual, maybe, but mostly just longer.

THE DJ NO-K SHOW (DECEMBER 9, 2006):

1. "Are You Hung Up?" - the Mothers of Invention
2. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" - the Mothers of Invention
3. "Station to Station" - David Bowie
4. "Death and the Maiden" - the Verlaines
5. "Help You Ann" - the Lyres
6. "Pigeons" (1) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue)
7. "Mobilization" - Savage Republic
8. "Voodoo Voodoo" - LaVern Baker
9. "The Blues Are Still Blue" - Belle and Sebastian
10. "Run Paint Run Run" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
11. "Search and Destroy" - Iggy and the Stooges
12. "Car Song" - Elastica
13. "I Felt Like a Gringo" - Minutemen
14. "Trem Two" - Mission of Burma
15. "Dylan at the Met/Art Warehouse" - Firesign Theatre
16. "We Are All Prostitutes" - the Pop Group
17. "The Model" - Big Black
18. "Ana (BBC Session)" - the Pixies
19. "Send Me a Postcard" - the Shocking Blue
20. "The Light Pours Out of Me" - Magazine
21. "You're Lost Little Girl" - the Doors
22. "Smothered in Hugs" - Guided by Voices
23. "July, July!" - the Decemberists
24. "Pigeons" (2) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue, Naomi R. Page)
25. "Nothin' to Do" - the Dandy Warhols
26. "Up the Neck" - Pretenders
27. "I Never Play Basketball Now" - Prefab Sprout
28. "Theme From Pigdom Come" - Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
29. "Solid Gold Easy Action" - T. Rex
30. "Strychnine" - the Sonics
31. "Qu'ran" - David Byrne/Brian Eno
32. "Political Science" - Randy Newman
33. "Sweet and Tender Hooligan" - the Smiths
34. "Fears of Gun" - the Birthday Party
35. "Get Hip and Go!" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider)
36. "The Pleasant Kind" - Eric Matthews
37. "Room With a View" - Let's Active
38. "Alright" - Supergrass
39. "Everything About You" - the Field Mice
40. "Chopin" - Mike Nichols and Elaine May
41. "50 Ft. Queenie" - PJ Harvey
42. "I Am the Fly" - Wire
43. "Poise" - the Ornette Coleman Quartet
44. "Pigeons" (3) - National Lampoon (Michael O'Donoghue, Naomi R. Page)
45. "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" - Pere Ubu
46. "Eight Miles High" - Hüsker Dü
47. "Mr. Spaceman" - the Byrds
48. "Same Old Scene" - Roxy Music
49. "Consolation Prize" - Orange Juice
50. "Don't Cry for Me" - the Zombies
51. "Frost and Fire" - Everything But the Girl
52. "Break" - the Cure
53. "In the Kingdom #19" - Sonic Youth
54. "Flight Reaction" - Calico Wall
55. "Kingpin" - the Credibility Gap
56. "Monkey Hustle" - Jack Conrad
57. "Harlem" - Suicide
58. "Let's Dance" - the Futureheads
59. "The Unheard Music" - X
60. "Charlie's Medicine" - Warren Zevon
61. "Frosch" - Mouse on Mars
62. "Daily Nightly" - the Monkees
63. "Lady With a Torch" - Proctor & Bergman
64. "Paint Work" - the Fall
65. "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" - Tortoise
66. "Helen Fordsdale" - Mars
67. "Out There a Minute" - Sun Ra
68. "Story of Isaac" - Leonard Cohen
69. "Primitive Painters" - Felt

WELL, UM, THIS IS A POST.

2006-12-07T01:02:00.000-08:00

Well, um, that was a show.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000014 (DECEMBER 6, 2006):

1. "Do the Mussolini" - Cabaret Voltaire
2. "Banned in D.C." - Bad Brains
3. "Moses? I Amn't" - Mogwai
4. "Queen/Mother" - Julian Cope
5. "You Showed Me" - the Lightning Seeds
6. "Lost Weekend" - Wall of Voodoo
7. "Pulp" - S.F. Seals
8. "Gray Turns White" - Ultra Vivid Scene
9. "Mr. Rodent" - Coyle & Sharpe
10. "Loose Nuts on the Veladrome" - Liars
11. "Save Your Money" - the Loud Family
12. "Children's Stories" - Monty Python
13. "World Painted" - Screaming Trees
14. "How Does It Feel To Feel (US Version)" - the Creation
15. "Why is This Commercial?" - Negativland
16. "I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms" - the Modern Lovers
17. "Dog Door" - Tom Waits
18. "Flitcraft" - the Mekons
19. "1-2-5" - the Haunted
20. "Read About Seymour" - Swell Maps
21. "The Indianapolis Academy of the French Accent" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, Emily Prager, Alice Playten)
22. "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" - the Clean
23. "Fairytale in the Supermarket" - the Raincoats
24. "Six Six Sixties" - Throbbing Gristle
25. "Slippi" - Animal Collective
26. "Rain" - the Beatles
27. "Wave a White Flag" - Elvis Costello
28. "Sixteen" - the Buzzcocks
29. "The Shrouded Stranger" - Allen Ginsberg
30. "Andy Warhol is Dead But We Still Have Hope" - Kid 606
31. "Moon Mission" - Kai Rautenberg and Orchester Juergen Ehlers
32. "Let's Pretend" - Tindersticks
33. "Kids" - Richard Pryor
34. "Word Association" - from Saturday Night Live (Richard Pryor, Chevy Chase)
35. "Our Text for Today" - Richard Pryor
36. "Unkind and Unwise (instrumental)" - the Go-Betweens

ANOTHER, UH, HOW YOU SAY?, POST:

2006-11-23T01:13:00.000-08:00

Another conceptual show. And a pretty successful one, I think, despite the fact that I committed the broadcast heresy of not back-announcing my playlist (hence the shoutout to this blog). And I'm still not quite sure I played those Last Exit tracks at the correct speed. Hey, sounded good either way.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000013 (NOVEMBER 22, 2006):

1. show intro/rant #1
2. "Warsaw" - Joy Division
3. "Asylums in Jerusalem" - Scritti Politti
4. "Rain" - the Chills
5. "Loomer" - My Bloody Valentine
6. "Picnic on a Frozen River" - Faust
7. rant #1A
8. "Tunnel of Love" - Fun Boy Three
9. "Come On, Let's Go" - Broadcast
10. "Marked For Death" - Last Exit
11. "The Fire Drum" - Last Exit
12. "Airplane Glue" - Lenny Bruce
13. "The Other Window (Peel Session)" - Wire
14. KRAMP Pledge Drive
15. "St. Elmo's Fire" - Brian Eno
16. "We're Coming Out" - the Replacements
17. "Walk Out to Winter" - Aztec Camera
18. "The Old Dope Peddler" - Tom Lehrer
19. "Super Crush" - Tiger Trap
20. "That Empty Space" - the Searchers
21. "Tragedy" - the Bats
22. "The Other Side (excerpt)" - the Firesign Theatre
23. "The Final Chapter" - Squirrel Bait
24. "Everybody's Been Burned" - the Byrds
25. rant #1A(i)/lost kitty intro
26. "No Pussy Blues" - Grinderman
27. "Karawane" - Marie Osmond
28. "The Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers
29. "There is a Boy That Never Goes Out" - the Lucksmiths
30. "Wayne Carr on the Radio (excerpt)" - Chris Morris
31. "Urban Field Holler" - Mecolodiacs
32. "Heinz Baked Beans" - the Who
33. KASH segue
34. "16 Golden Bits" - the Credibility Gap
35. rant #1A(i)[a]/community calendar segue
36. "Richie Dagger's Crime" - the Posies
37. "Dirty Net" - Ut
38. "It's Looking Good" - the Rutles
39. "Just Step S'ways" - the Fall
40. "Movie, Deep-Fried Stuffed Cheeseburger, What Kind of Animal?, Red Tide, Abortion" - Eugene Mirman
41. "Billy's Third" - the Undertones
42. Air Onthesideofcaution segue
43. "Love Song for the Dead Che" - United States of America
44. "Che" - Spacemen 3
45. "Orbit 3" - Matthew Shipp
46. "Sylvia Plath" - Peter Laughner
47. Thanxploitation segue
48. "Coconut Hotel" - the Red Krayola
49. "Surgery" - Robyn Hitchcock
50. "Split Red" - Minutemen
51. rant #1A(i)[a]{I}
52. "Count" - JFA

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (AND RARELY CHANGES THE SHEETS):

2006-11-09T01:16:00.000-08:00

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000012 (NOVEMBER 8, 2006):

1. Post-Election Special introduction
2. "Ether" - Gang of Four
3. "Love Canal" - Flipper
4. "Wolf Like Me" - TV on the Radio
5. "You Can't Have Me" - Big Star
6. "Another Bridge" - Everything but the Girl
7. Post-Election Special post-introduction
8. "Prop Cars" - Oxford Collapse
9. "Own Two Feet" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
10. "Ilha Urbana" - Muzak
11. "Please Patronize Are Sponsers" - Jim O'Rourke
12. "Cruel Shoes" - Steve Martin
13. "Yeah Yeah" - Blackrock
14. Post-Election Special interregnum
15. "The Boy in the Paisley Shirt" - Television Personalities
16. "UMA" - OOIOO
17. "Skipjack" - Heavenly
18. "I Hate You" - the Monks
19. Post-Election Special pre-emptive neo-retro-intercession
20. "Motherbanger" - Chris Morris
21. "Orgy" - the Glove
22. "Open Book" - Tahiti 80
23. "March of the Kraftwerk Replicants" - the Elevator Drops
24. "M.D. 20/20" - Halo of Flies
25. "Merge" - Grizzly Bear
26. "How Men Die in Their Sleep" - Lydia Lunch/Lucy Hamilton
27. "No Reason to Complain" - Lyres
28. "Sycamore" - Negativland
29. "Stop It" - NoMeansNo
30. Post-Election Special post-pre-conclusion wrap-up
31. "Dropping Names" - the Church
32. "Aloysius" - Cocteau Twins
33. "The Picture of Agreeability" - Game Theory
34. "Winter" - the Loft
35. "Game" - Michael Gira
36. "5 to 5" - Martin Rev
37. "Ups and Downs" - the dB's
38. "Deportation Ritual" - Chevy Heston
39. "After All #2" - Cecil Taylor
40. "Steppin' on a Spaniel" - National Lampoon
41. Post-Election Special post-post-pre-conclusion wrap-up/lock-down/shut-out

A POST, A POST, I DO CONFESS'T.

2006-10-26T01:12:00.000-07:00

Perhaps my favorite episode yet, back to front. Pity I wasn't there to enjoy it.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000011, WITH GUEST HOST THOMAS JELLY-STRAINER (OCTOBER 25, 2006):

1. "Sex Bomb" - Flipper
2. "Lunchmeataphobia (Think, It Ain't Illegal Yet!)" - Funkadelic
3. "Our Trinitone Blast" - Stereolab
4. "Taste the Floor" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
5. "Boy Soprano" - Xiu Xiu
6. "Spreadin' the Malice" - Universal Congress Of
7. "Shimmer" - Saturday Night Live (Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase)
8. "Wawa" - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
9. "Christine" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
10. "Weird on the Avenue" - the Frogs
11. "Do Policemen Sing?" - Robyn Hitchcock
12. "Red Locust Frenzy" - Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3
13. "Who Are the Brain Police?" - Mothers of Invention
14. "Shot by Both Sides" - Magazine
15. "Kidnapped" - Woody Allen
16. "Egomaniac's Kiss" - DNA
17. "The Intro and the Outro" - Bonzo Dog Band
18. "Supernova" - Opal
19. "Caroline No" - the Beach Boys
20. "Perry" - Butthole Surfers
21. "The Ballad of Johnny Burma" - Mission of Burma
22. "In and Out in Paris and London" - the Divine Comedy
23. "The Mountain" - Professor Murder
24. "Surround Your Hover" - Niobe
25. "Club News" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, Michael Alexander St. John)
26. "Sour Times" - Portishead
27. "Between Us" - Unrest
28. "I'm in Heaven Now" - American Music Club
29. "Outdoor Miner" - Wire
30. "Mulatu's Hideaway" - Mulatu Astatke
31. "New Amsterdam" - Elvis Costello
32. "Promotional Gimmick" - Albert Brooks
33. "Calling Over Time" - Edith Frost
34. "Concret P-H II"/"Diamorphoses II (excerpt)" - Iannis Xenakis
35. "To Day Retrieval" - Tortoise/Autechre
36. "White Hats" - Niobe
(note: 34-36 were played simultaneously. Far out. Man.)

THIS IS NOT A BLOG POST.

2006-10-12T01:35:00.000-07:00

Well, now - kind of a manic performance on-air this e'en. Overcompensado! And perhaps the playlist (the Marley song aside, which was a request) reflects a little of that self-same mania. Or just scattershot, yet somehow predictable, taste in tunes. Ewe bee d'judge.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000010 (OCTOBER 11, 2006):

1. "Armenia City in the Sky" - Petra Haden
2. "Needles in the Camel's Eye" - Brian Eno
3. "Postcard" - Salem 66
4. "Call Me Up" - Gang of Four
5. "Safety in Crosswords" - Look Blue Go Purple
6. "It's Up To You" - the Specials
7. "Fire Brigade" - Liquor Giants
8. "Machine Gun Ibiza" - Prefab Sprout
9. "I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama!" - the Firesign Theatre
10. "The Freed Pig" - Sebadoh
11. "Just in Case You Wonder" - Ugly Ducklings
12. "Apple Orchard" - Beach House
13. "Uranium" - Kraftwerk
14. "He's a Whore" - Big Black
15. "Classics of the Contemporary Drama - 'Waiting for Godot'" - from The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Christopher Guest, John Belushi, Sean Kelly, Brian McConnachie)
16. "No Woman No Cry (live)" - Bob Marley & the Wailers
17. "Into the Groove(y)" - Ciccone Youth
18. "The Big Lounge Scene" - Minutemen
19. "The First Half Second" - the Lilys
20. "New Mind (acoustic)" - Swans
21. "D-7" - the Wipers
22. "Eisiger Wind" - Kleenex
23. Ask the Producer with E. Robert D'Oleo
24. "The Fly" - Eric Matthews
25. "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - Pine Valley Cosmonauts
26. "One Chord Wonders" - the Adverts
27. "I Remember Canters" - Mecolodiacs
28. "Hum" - Bardo Pond
29. "Idiot Bastard Son" (at least until the idiot bastard record starts skipping) - the Mothers of Invention
30. "Marlon Brando" - Black Randy and the Metrosquad
31. "Gob on You" - from Not the Nine O'Clock News (Mel Smith, Pamela Stevenson, Rowan Atkinson, Chris Langham)
32. "Everywhere with Helicopter" - Guided by Voices
33. "Stop, Stop, Stop" - the Hollies
34. "You Gotta Lose" - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
35. "My Girlfriend Lives Like a Redneck" - Pep Lester
36. "The Gallery" - Legendary Pink Dots
37. "How to Skin a Cat" - Hüsker Dü
38. "One Forty Three" - Philip Johnson
39. "V-2 Schneider" - David Bowie

TITULARLY DEPRIVED YET AGAIN...

2006-09-27T22:53:00.000-07:00

The challenge: do an entire show using only artists I've never played before on my or anyone else's program. Slightly harder than I thought, at least at first, and I guess that playing solo tracks from artists I usually play could be construed as cheating (I mean, Colin Newman's first solo album has more personnel in common with Wire than, say, a contemporary Fall track does with, well, just about any previous Fall track, but such are the conundrums and puzzlements that make life one long squirt of anxious bile), but ah did it. See:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000009 (SEPTEMBER 27, 2006):

1. "Recalling All Active Agents" - Brion Gysin
2. "Back Where I Belong" - Dumptruck
3. "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" - X-Ray Spex
4. "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" - the Hives
5. "Blood and Shaving Cream" - Death of Samantha
6. "Therese" - the Bodines
7. "It's a Dog's Life" - Plasticland
8. "The Laws Have Changed" - the New Pornographers
9. "Louise Louise" - Orange Juice
10. "Olio" - the Rapture
11. "Invisible Man" - the Breeders
12. "How Low Can a Punk Get?" - Bad Brains
13. "Over Under Sideways Down" - the Yardbirds
14. "The Number Song" - DJ Shadow
15. "The Health Inspector (excerpt)" - from Fawlty Towers (John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts)
16. "Complete Control" - the Clash
17. "Bionic Rat Dub" - Lee "Scratch" Perry
18. "Phenomenal Trousers" - Blairmailer
19. "I'm in Love with a German Film Star" - the Passions
20. "Alone" - Colin Newman
21. "Sister I'm a Poet" - Colin Meloy
22. "Misty Roses" - Colin Blunstone
23. "Yoga" - the Pastels
24. "Suicidal flowers" - Crystal Chandelier
25. "Leper in a Tumbledryer" - Ashfordaisyak
26. "Indian Summer" - Dean Wareham
27. "N.I.B." - A Drag City Supersession
28. "The Seed" - Big Boys
29. "In a Coffeehouse: the Artist" - Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
30. "Plate Glass w/Tornado" - the Binary System
31. "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Stevie Wonder
32. "Xerox Docucolor 12" - Xerophonics
33. "All That Jazz" - Echo & the Bunnymen
34. "In 'D'" - the Durutti Column

Wow & Flutter

AND AGAIN...

OKAY...

I'M BACK!!!! (WHO CARES????)

FOR THOSE FEW STILL LINGERING ON THE OUTER EDGE OF INTERESTED:

AND AGAIN...

BY NON-EXISTENT DEMAND...

HERE'S YOUR DAMN PLAYLIST. I'M TOO FRIGGIN' TIRED TO MAKE PITHY COMMENTS, SO PITH OFF:

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS?:

CANADIANS, DEAD PEOPLE, LESLEY GORE, AND THE MUTHAFUGGIN' PRIEST!!! WHAT THE HELL ELSE DO YOU NEED?

WELL, SINCE NONE OF YOU BASTIDS BOTHERED TO REQUEST ANYTHING, I PLAYED MORE OF THE SAME DAMN SHIT AS USUAL. HOPE YOU'RE PLEASED WITH YOURSELVES:

A SEMI-AUSPICIOUS OCCASION...

ONE DAY, I MAY TELL THE STORY OF THE COMPLAINING LISTENER I MANAGED TO CHARM/SHAME INTO LOVING MY SHOW. ACTUALLY, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE STORY.

A RATHER SAFE SHOW, ALL IN ALL...

YES, I PLAYED BOZ SCAGGS TONIGHT. ALL I CAN SAY IS, I HAD MY REASONS:

AS IT IS EARTH DAY, THE ARTISTS ON TONIGHT'S SHOW WERE ALL BORN ON THE PLANET OF THAT NAME. SUCK IT, SUN RA:

EHHHHHH....

MY UNFORTUNATE ERROR KEPT ME FROM PLAYING "AMOEBA" BY JOHN HEGLEY AND THE POPTICIANS. MY SHAME WILL SHADOW ME FOR SOME TIME TO COME...

SONGS GOOD, SURPRISES FEW:

THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEST SHOW I'VE DONE IN, HELL, A COUPLE WEEKS:

SOMEHOW, WE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF THE GUY AS DEAD TO BEGIN WITH, DIDN'T WE?:

UNFUCK, UNFUCK, UNFUCK...

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK...

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

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

NOW THAT ONE WAS FUN, GODDAMMIT:

AM I GETTING TIRED OF DOING THIS SHOW?:

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

SCARY, HUH, KEEDS?:

BACK TO NORMAL THIS WEEK...

THIS IS NOT YOUR ORDINARY W&F...

I ISSUED MYSELF A CHALLENGE...

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

INANITY, THY NAME IS ME:

I AM JOE'S BLOG POST TITLE.

IS THERE A HAM EQUIVALENT OF VEAL?:

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

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

GOOD SHOW. DIVERSE, A-FLOWING, INTERESTING.

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE BIG STORY THIS WEEK...

WHATTAYA WANT FOR NOTHIN'? COHESION?:

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:

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

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

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH TREAT?:

IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION...

JET LAGNIAPPE:

GOOD KING BISCUITLAS LOOKED DOWN, UPON THE FLOWER HOUR...

A VERY SPECIAL PROGRAM...

OH, STORMY...

SCHNUCK ON THIS, SCHNEEP:

AS GREAT AS ONLY A SHOW BEGINNING WITH A SYNCOPATED NEAL HEFTI COVER CAN BE:

BLOOD, DEVASTATION, DEATH, WAR & HORROR (OR, AS I LIKE TO THINK OF IT, GOOD CLEAN AMERICAN FUN):

I EAT YOUR FLESH AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD, BUT ONLY AFTER INQUIRING ABOUT THE TRANS FAT CONTENT THEREIN:

FEAR NOT, FELLOW HIPSTER-DOOFI:

IN LIGHT OF RECENT CONTROVERSIES...

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!:

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

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD. PROBABLY.:

HEPPY BIDET TOMB E:

IN HONOR OF JOE ZAWINUL'S PASSING, I'VE REFUSED TO PLAY ANY WEATHER REPORT RECORDS ONCE AGAIN THIS WEEK. IT WAS THE RESPECTFUL THING TO DO.:

HEY KIDS! COUNT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LAWSUITS BROUGHT ON BY THE SONGS ON THIS PLAYLIST!!!:

PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT. ASIDE FROM THIS ONE.:

NOT BAD FOR A JET-LAGGED, DEPRESSED, NIHILISTIC MOFO, I DARESAY:

DON'T BE ALARMED, ALL NONE OF YOU WHO READ THIS BLOG...

THIS PLAYLIST, I THINK, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. AND I WISH IT WOULD STOP ASKING ME TO RUB ITS FEET:

AND NOW, BACK TO A WEEK WITH ABSOLUTELY NO CALLS OR FEEDBACK OF ANY KIND. AH, LISTENER APATHY, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING:

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

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

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

HEY, I GOT THROUGH A WHOLE ALL-COVERS SHOW WITHOUT ONCE PLAYING THE FALL, YO LA TENGO OR SONIC YOUTH. WHERE'S MY DAMN PRIZE?:

A FINE FETTLE OF KITSCH:

ONE YEAR AND COUNTING, BUT WHO'S COUNTING?:

...'...:

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy cowsht! Someone Moloch the ccks*cking door!: