Thursday, January 31, 2008

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH TREAT?:

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

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

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

Thursday, January 17, 2008

IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION...

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

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

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

Thursday, January 03, 2008

JET LAGNIAPPE:

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

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

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