Thursday, August 31, 2006

ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH....

Okay, gotta say, not my best show. All manner of distractions and mixing disasters to be had. Three months into my run and I sound more like a fucking amateur than ever. Fun. Still, a cursory glance at the playlist may give one the idea that it could have been a worthy broadcast...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000007 (AUGUST 30, 2006):
1. "The Diamond Mine" - Higher Elevation
2. "Rid of Me" - PJ Harvey
3. "Peking Spring" - Mission of Burma
4. "Dead Joe" - the Birthday Party
5. "Ole Spain" - the Hamsters
6. "Total Mass Destruction" - the Loud Family/Anton Barbeau
7. "My Infatuation" - the Contortions
8. "The Rhythm of Love" - the Pooh Sticks
9. "The Ledge" - Camper Van Beethoven
10. "Great Shakes Ad" - the Who
11. "Why Are We Sleeping?" - Bongwater
12. "Look For the Good in Others and They'll See the Good in You" - the Chills
13. "Truth in Advertising" - Negativland
14. "Go Home, Get Down" - Death From Above 1979
15. "General Synod's Life of Python" - Not the Nine O'Clock News (Pamela Stevenson, Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson)
16. "Accidents of God" - Lester Bangs and the Delinquents
17. "Kung Foo Cowboy" - Alan Vega
18. "Dismantled King is Off the Throne" - Felt
19. "Jailbreak '95" - Shellac
20. "Leo Ryan (Our Pharoah's Slave)" - the Lilys
21. "Astonishing Sod Ape Intro" - Chris Morris
22. "Cavity" - Live Skull
23. "Mechanism of Occupant Ejection" - Howard Shore
24. "Mop Dub" - 100 Flowers
25. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" - Sly and the Family Stone
26. "Ceremony" - Galaxie 500
27. "Megaphone Newsreel" - National Lampoon (Bob Perry)
28. "With a Gun" - Steely Dan
29. "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
30. "Velocity Girl" - Primal Scream
31. "Midget Submarines"/"Bridge Head, Part 9" - Swell Maps
32. "Eclipse" - Eric Dolphy

Monday, August 28, 2006

(SIGH)

And so we come back to our original point of departure. Gosh, look at that playlist. Was I ever that young?

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000001 (JUNE 7, 2006):

1. Islamic klezmer intro
2. As you will recall from last week... (incorporating music from the film Blow Out by Pino Donaggio and "You Suffer" - Napalm Death)
3. "You Made Me Realise" - My Bloody Valentine
4. "French Film (Blurred)" - Wire
5. "Talking Drum" - Japan
6. "Station Break" - the Firesign Theatre
7. "TV Eye" - the Stooges
8. "English Scheme" - the Fall
9. "Captain Easychord" - Stereolab
10. "Shovel Into Spade Kit" - the Lilys
11. "I Apologize" - Hüsker Dü
12. "Can't Stop" - That Petrol Emotion
13. "Whenever You're Ready" - the Zombies
14. "Seven & Seven Is" - the Ramones
15. "I Love My Leather Jacket" - the Chills
16. "Bad News" - Salem 66
17. "Cattle and Cane" - the Go-Betweens
18. "Shoot the Sexual Athlete" - Belle & Sebastian
19. "Newton Told Me" -
the Go-Betweens
20. "Streets of Your Town" - Ivy
21. Trichinosis Blues promo
22. "Palm Sunday (On Board the S.S. Within)" -
the Go-Betweens
23. discussion of FCC rules (incorporating "Metal Machine Music: side C" - Lou Reed)
24. "Ring Worm" - Van Morrison
25. "You Say France and I Whistle" - Van Morrison
26. "You Want a Danish" - Van Morrison
27. "Ford Mustang" - Serge Gainsbourg
28. "Goin' Down" - the Monkees
29. Kouhotex segue
30. "Little Umbrellas" - Frank Zappa
31. "Kiss Me Black" - the Birthday Party
32. "Dance Charts" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, Michael Alexander St. John)
33. "Something Wicked This Way Comes (edit)" - Barry Adamson
34. "All Kidding Aside" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
35. he's right, you know segue
36. "The Cowboy Song" - Public Image Ltd.
37. "Lions" - Tones on Tail
38. "All the Way Down" - the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
39. "Disguise" - Squirrel Bait
40. "Like a Girl Jesus"- Game Theory

I SUPPOSE I DON'T REALLY NEED TO TITLE THESE THINGS, BUT, Y'KNOW...

A little something different (but not really, really) here: the playlist for my fill-in slot for Coast Community Radio's alternating-Saturday-nights programmer, DJ K-No (who, incidentally, happens to be a Northwest music icon of some minor repute, having played bass for a band from the area who had some marginal success in the early 1990s). I had four hours to fill, which was nice, as it gave me license to play some much longer songs than the restrictive two-hour W&F format tends to allow. Anyway:

THE DJ K-NO(T) SHOW (JUNE 10, 2006):

1. "Sweat Loaf" - Butthole Surfers
2. "The Caves of Altamira" - Steely Dan
3. "Flip Your Face" - James Chance & the Contortions
4. "Yu-Gung (Futter Mein Ego)" - Einstürzende Neubauten
5. "White Elephant" - Volcano Suns
6. "Model Worker" - Magazine
7. "Cue Fanfare" - Prefab Sprout
8. "Overcome by Happiness" - Pernice Brothers
9. Fetlock: Equine Attorney promo
10. "Thumbs Off" - the Clean
11. "Citadel" - the Rolling Stones
12. "Nosferatu Man" - Slint
13. "Duke of Prunes"/"Amnesia Vivace"/"The Duke Regains His Chops" - the Mothers of Invention
14. "Hightime" - Universal Congress Of
15. "Johnny Carson" - the Beach Boys
16. "Lawrence of Euphoria" - Alexander "Skip" Spence
17. "I Met Roky Erickson" - Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair
18. "Bloody Hammer" - Roky Erickson and the Aliens
19. "See Emily Play" - Pink Floyd
20. "Nightime" - Big Star
21. "Pinch" - Can
22. "Rocket U.S.A." - Suicide
23. "Mica" - Mission of Burma
24. "Man in Decline" - Mission of Burma
25. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads (minus the first :02)
26. "Evangelist" - Ut
27. "Doc Phone" - from Blue Jam (Chris Morris, David Cann, Mark Heap)
28. "Nausea" - X
29. "People Are Strange" - Shockabilly
30. "Cut" - Minutemen
31. "Five Years Ahead of My Time" - the Third Bardo
32. "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
33. "If There is Something" - Roxy Music
34. "History of the Beatles" - National Lampoon (Christopher Guest)
35. "I Found Out" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
36. "And Your Bird Can Sing" - the Beatles
37. "Blue Jeans" - Ladytron
38. "Attack" - Public Image Ltd.
39. "Sleep!" - Big Black
40. "Less Than One in Ten" - Beatnik Filmstars
41. "Give It Up or Turn It Loose" - James Brown
42. "Hip Priest" - the Fall
43. "Run Run Run" - the Velvet Underground
44. "Family Trip" - Bill Hicks
45. "Get High" - Grand Am
46. "There She Walks" - the Monks (the Five Torquays)
47. "Baby's on Fire" - Brian Eno
48. "Canyons of Your Mind" - the Bonzo Dog Band
49. "Eating Noddemix" - Young Marble Giants
50. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" - David Bowie
51. "The Noise of Carpet" - Stereolab
52. "I Can't Control Myself" - the Troggs
53. "NYC: 1999!" - Pussy Galore
54. "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" - the Buzzcocks
55. "The Loved One" - Terry Southern
56. "Heeby Jeebies" - Little Richard
57. "Your Mind and We Belong Together" - Love
58. "On the Phrase 'Ass Backwards'" - Thurston Moore/Don Dietrich/Jim Sauter
59. "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls" - Tortoise
60. "Call the Doctor" - Spacemen 3
61. "Cobwebs and Strange" - the Who

PROVISIONALLY ENTITLED "UNTITLED"

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000002 (JUNE 21, 2006):

1. "Me! I Disconnect From You" - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
2. "The Sad Skinhead" - Faust
3. "Watch Me Jumpstart" - Guided by Voices
4. "Dynamite" - the dB's
5. "Get Away" - Flipper
6. "Natural's Not in It" - Gang of Four
7. "Pendulum" - Broadcast
8. "Fluckers" - from Saturday Night Live (Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris)
9. "Three Faint Calls" - the Greenhornes
10. "Digital" - Joy Division
11. "Do You Believe in Rapture?" - Sonic Youth
12. "Maple Leaves (7" version)" - Jens Lekman
13. "Near the Beginning"/"Party From Outer Space" - Albert Brooks
14. "Sugar and Promises" - the Aluminum Group
15. "The Vengeance of Galaxy 5" - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
16. "My White Bicycle" - Tomorrow
17. "Connection" - Elastica
18. "Rise of the Chokehold Princess" - the Loud Family
19. "Junkie Chase" - Curtis Mayfield
20. "O'Malley, Former Underdog" - Deerhoof
21. "These Days" - Barbara Manning
22. "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes" - the Freshies
23. "Bouncing Babies" - the Teardrop Explodes
24. Concert Cancellation Report (sponsored by SassMart) (incorporating "The Pink Room" - David Lynch)
25. "Don't Look Down" - Screaming Trees
26. "Snack of Toes" - Wingtip Sloat
27. "Head" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
28. "Dress Rehearsal Rag" - Leonard Cohen
29. "John Coltrane's 'My Favorite Things'" - Consonant
30. "Meltdown Man" - Roger Miller
31. "Oscar Wilde and Friends" - Monty Python
32. "Glow Girl" - the Who
33. "Artists Only" - Talking Heads (accidental two-second excerpt)
34. "Whales' Tails" - Cocteau Twins
35. "Past Meets Present " - Weekend
36. "Danceband on the Edge of Time" - the Mekons

FEAR OF CRUNKWUSSIES

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000003 (JULY 5, 2006):

1. Bickle-icious intro (incorporating "Taxi Driver: Main Theme" - Bernard Herrmann)
2. "Heart of Darkness" - Pere Ubu
3. "Kingdom of Love" - the Soft Boys
4. "Wow and Flutter" - Stereolab
5. "The Good in Everyone" - Sloan
6. Codependence Day segue
7. "Confidence" - Scritti Politti
8. "Snow in Sun" - Scritti Politti
9. Necronomicon on Ice promo
10. "New Music Machine" - Cornelius
11. "Ghosts (first movement)" - the Albert Ayler Trio
12. "Satellite" - TV on the Radio
13. "De-Luxe" - Lush
14. "(I'm) Stranded" - the Saints
15. "The Day the Rain Came Down" - Felt
16. Insurance for the dead segue
17. "You'll Never Do It, Baby" - Thee Headcoatees
18. "Try Dis... " - Hella
19. "Tango" - Mike Nichols & Elaine May
20. "Stuck in the Middle" - the Replacements
___
ARCHIVAL RECORDING - Radio Free Huey, September 19, 1969:
21. "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" (excerpt) - Iron Butterfly
22. Moonchild Berkowitz mic break #1/apology
23. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" - the Doors
24. Max's Shrunken Head Shop underwriter I.D.
25. "Omaha" - Moby Grape
26. M.B. m.b. #2/coming up later tonight...
27. "Ella Guru" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
28. M.B. m.b. #3/trivia contest results
29. "Not Right" - the Stooges
30. M.B. m.b. #4/special scheduling announcement
31. "Adiv-da-Addag-a-Ni" (tprecxe) - Nori Ylfrettub
___

32. "Stereotype" - the Specials
33. "Shoulder Length" - the Sea and Cake
34. "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" - Negativland
35. "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" - My Bloody Valentine
36. "In Limbo" - Radiohead
37. "Nag Nag Nag" - Cabaret Voltaire
38. "Alone" - Robert Forster
39. "Fake Contest" - Overpass
40. "Wings" - the Fall

X'D POST FACTOID

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000004 (JULY 19, 2006):

Perhaps one of my six or seven greatest shows to date - good music mix, a strong comedic wraparound concept, and one of the better on-air performances of yours regretfully. But then, I have no proof of that, as the only copy of said program in the world presently resides in the workspace of my no-account, worthless slacker - sorry, slip of the keyboard there, I meant beloved - brother Bob. And I ain't got it back yet. Of course, I still have his copy of the Pink Lady and Jeff boxed set, so perhaps that's an equal exchange, overall-artistic-potency-wise.

AND THE POSTS JUST KEEP ON BEING POSTED...

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000005 (AUGUST 2, 2006):

1. future nostalgia intro (incorporating "La Passarella de Otto e Mezzo" - Nino Rota)
2. "Twist" - Tones on Tail
3. "Lust for Death" - Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
4. "Stupid Einstein" - the Three O'Clock
5. "TCR" - Prolapse
6. "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" - the Byrds
7. "Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" - Be Your Own Pet
8. "Sunspots" - Julian Cope
9. "Moody" - ESG
10. "The Giant Toad" - the Firesign Theatre
11. "When Things Come Falling" - All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
12. "Youth" - Soft Cell
13. "The 15th" - Wire
14. "Cassetto" - Neu!
15. "Pipe Bomb" - Joe Pernice
16. "Rope" - the Jesus Lizard
17. "The Tab" - from On the Hour (Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan)
18. "Gravity" - the Tall Dwarfs
19. "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek" - Matmos
20. "Trouser Press" - the Bonzo Dog Band
21. "Walking on the Water" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
22. "Nine of Disks" - Camper Van Beethoven
23. "Man in Decline" - Mission of Burma
24. "Swordfishtrombone" - Tom Waits
25. "I Am Right" - Saccharine Trust
26. "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" - the Jazz Butcher
27. "Black" - John Oswald
28. "Open the Door, Richard" - Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five
29. Community Clipboard
30. "Nude on the Moon" - Tipsy
31. "Splash #1 (Now I'm Home)" - the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
32. "Two-Week Vacation" - the Embarrassment
33. "London" - the Smiths
34. "As Long as That" - the Go-Betweens
35. "Jenny" - American Music Club
36. "Request Time - 'Gigi'!" - from The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Michael O'Donoghue, John Belushi, Emily Prager)
37. "Lonely Sea" - Eric Matthews

Italicized items indicate original material (i.e., by me). Not much else to say about this one, except that a friend listened to it and informed me that it wasn't one of my best. Why? "The songs all sounded the same."

!!!

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

AND HERE'S MY SECOND ONE.

A good and fine halloo to those interested in my fortnightly report to the nation via the wireless. The main purpose for the present blog at the present moment is to disseminate playlist info, as the Coast Community Radio website appears to be in the middle of a long, costly and painful reconstruction (optional Joan Rivers joke available by return of post) and no such intelligence can be uploaded there at the moment. Brutally candid and shocking backstage drama sure to follow. Anyway, playlists, working backwards, most recent first:

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000006 (AUGUST 16, 2006)
(featuring special guest co-host Robert "Bob" Ham)

1. "Take Me to the Other Side" - Spacemen 3
2. "Druganaut" - Black Mountain
3. "Mama Roux" - Dr. John the Night Tripper
4. "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me" - the Pipettes
5. "Who Are Parents" - the Shaggs
6. "Daddy Never Understood" - Deluxe Folk Implosion
7. "Borstal Breakout" - Sham 69
8. "Do the Standing Still" - the Dismemberment Plan
9. "TV Party" - Black Flag
10. "A Rose for Emily" - the Zombies
11. "Since K Got Over Me" - the Clientele
12. "Dandy" - the Kinks
13. "C 'n' C Hassle Schmuk" - the Fall
14. "The Fuzz" - Link Wray and the Raymen
15. "Teenie Weenie Boppie" - France Gall
16. "Yoga is as Yoga Does" - Elvis Presley
17. Having Fun With Elvis on Stage (excerpt) - Elvis Presley
18. "Do the Clam(bake)" - Elvis Presley
19. "Ain't That Loving You" - Alton Ellis
20. "Johnny in the Boudoir" - Congo Norvell
21. "Luci Baines" - the American Four
22. "Free Arthur Lee" - the Make-Up
23. "The Red Telephone" - Love
24. "Surf's Up (Instrumental)" - the Beach Boys

The fewest songs ever on one W&F, but that was mostly due to the lengthy discussions my fraternal co-host had during my brief hour and a half absence from the program with probationary Brit, A&R rep and sac-dweller Frank Ahaa (aka Chive Glith) and former scarf confiscator for Elvis (though we're not sure which Elvis) Red Bloostone. My thanks to all concerned. More later.