10-18-2011 Show

This week's show has new stuff from the best guitar band going, Dead Guitars, an exclusive John Foxx and The Maths tracks, more side projects from Ian Masters, and a salute to the World Series!

Some notes:
The new Dead Guitars album, _Stranger_, is one of the best things I've heard all year. Moody synths wash over captivating guitar backing Carlo Van Putten's introspective lyrics. They named themselves after an amazing Adrian Borland song (presented here in demo form) that later came out on a White Rose Transmission album.

The John Foxx song here is actually the finished version which was mistakenly left off the Mojo CD it came from!

The Terry Edwards song has to be heard to be believed - a ska version of the Fall classic!

Ian Masters has been working under numerous guises over the years. I've picked 4 favorites here, two of which were buried on Myspace sites.

I had intended to do an entire baseball-themed show but I just didn't have that much quality material (and John Fogerty's "Centerfield" was NOT going to make an appearance).

Dock Ellis was major league pitcher who allegedly threw a no-hitter on LSD.

Paul Kelly is one of Australia's premier singer-songwriter's. I'm particularly fond of his 86-96 period. "Bradman" is about the Babe Ruth of cricket!


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Playlist:
Adrian Borland - Dead Guitars (The Last Days Of The Rain Machine, 2000)
Dead Guitars - Love Goddess & The Love Ghost (Stranger, 2011)
John Foxx And The Maths - Have A Cigar (V/A - Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon, 2011)
Astrid Williamson - Shhh (radio session) (Rabid In The Kennel, 2010)
The Yesterday Sky - A Winter's Dawn (A Winter's Dawn 7", 1992)
Cargill's Raconteurs - Better Days (V/A - Avon Scrawling, 2000)
Eliza Carthy - Rolling Sea (V/A - Rogue's Gallery, 2006)
Richmond Fontaine - The Gits (V/A - Graciously, 2006)
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna (Early, 2005 - originally released in 1978)
Graduate - Elvis Should Play Ska (Acting My Age, 1980)
Terry Edwards Ska All-Stars - Totally Wired (V/A - Readymade, 2007)
To Heaven A Jet - Airfields (V/A - Cocteau Signature Tunes, 1986 - originally released in 1981)
Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis (An Ordinary Life, 1986)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Monkeys On Juice (Monkeys On Juice 7", 1984)
ESP Summer - Volume (The Complete Recordings, 2009)
Oneironaut - City (City 7", 1996)
Wingdisk - The Pink Snow Is On The Trees (Myspace site, 2008)
Ashioto - Where Do You Keep My Heart (Myspace site, 2009)
China Drum - Baseball In The Dark (Wipeout EP, 1996)
SF Seals - Dock Ellis (Baseball Trilogy EP, 1993)
Echo & The Bunnymen - Baseball Bill (Evergreen, 1997)
Whiskeytown - Empty Baseball Park (Faithless Street, 1998)
Pernice Brothers - Moonshot Manny (Digital download, 2004)
Ipanema - Je Suis Un Baseball Bat (Je Suis Un Baseball Bat Vs. Skull single, 2003
The Baseball Project - Gratitude (For Curt Flood) (Volume 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails, 2008)
The Black Watch - The Tennis-Playing Poet Roethke Said (Jiggery Pokery, 2002)
Billy Bragg - God's Footballer (Don't Try This At Home, 1991)
Paul Kelly - Bradman (Hidden Things, 1992 - originally released in 1987)

10-11-2011 Show

This week's show has new stuff from Magazine, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, a noise-rock set, bits and bobs from Ian Masters projects, and a set of classic rockabilly!

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If you've got any requests or suggestions for themes, please leave a comment!

Playlist:
Magazine - Hello Mister Curtis (With Apologies) (No Thyself, 2011)
Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto (new version) (New Blood, 2011)
Kate Bush - Wildman (50 Words For Snow, 2011)
Don McGlashan - A Thing Well Made (radio session) (Rabid In The Kennel, 2011)
Blips - Blip^/Blip~ (V/A - Spooky Sounds Of Now, 1997)
A Frames - Ionic (A Frames 2, 2003)
Six Finger Satellite - Simian Fever (Severe Exposure, 1995)
The In Out - Deutschland (Living Memorial In Deutschland, 2000)
Dive Index - Hoko Onchi (Mid/Air, 2007)
Friendly Science Orchestra - Sutekina Sora O (Minature Album, 1998)
Luminous Orange - Silver Kiss (Sakura Swirl, 2007)
The Friendly Hopefuls - The Friendly Hopefuls Salute The Punks Of 1976 (V/A - Obey The New Wave, 2006)
The Diodes - Tired Of Waking Up Tired (Released, 1979)
Pere Ubu - Ubu Dance Party (Dub Housing, 1978)
Nyam Nyam - Knowledge (Chapter II) (When We Can't Make Laughter Stay 7", 1981)
Trip Shakespeare - Today You Move (Lulu, 1991)
The Reindeer Section - Nytol (Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!, 2001)
Sky Cries Mary - Elephant Song (Exit At The Axis EP, 1991)
British Sea Power - Lucky Bicycle (Valhalla V.I.P. EP, 2011)
Fixed Stars - Here Comes The Music (Here Comes The Music single, 1999)
Hug - Walk On Fire (Firebrands single, 1993)
Andy Yorke - Ode To A Friend (Simple, 2008)
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A Rollin' (Johnny Burnette And The Rock 'N Roll Trio, 1956)
Gene Vincent - Cat Man (Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps, 1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Boogie Woogie Country Man (Boogie Woogie Country Man, 1975)
Carl Perkins - The E.P. Express (The E.P. Express, 1975)
Soft Machine - The Moon In June (BBC session) (The Peel Sessions, 1990 - originally released in 1969)

10-4-2011 Show

This week's show starts off with new stuff from old pros Thomas Dolby, Peter Blegvad, and Exene Cervenka as well younger artists Lydia Loveless, Cut Off Your Hands and Wild Beasts. It ends with spoken-word pieces from Gerard Langley, Tom Waits and a cautionary tale about petting the wrong dog from Arthur Bradford. In between we'll hit some punk, new wave and alt-country highlights - 2 hours of the best underground rock!

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Playlist:
Lydia Loveless - Can't Change Me (Indestructible Machine, 2011)
Exene Cervenka - Alone In Arizona (The Excitement Of Maybe, 2011)
Maggie Bjorklund - Summer Romance (Coming Home, 2010)
Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge - Sacred Objects (Digital download, 2011)
Stephen Fellows - Heaven Is Here (Digital download, 2011)
Throwing Muses - Hillbilly (Anthology, 2011)
Cut Off Your Hands - Nausea (Hollow, 2011)
Wild Beasts - Thankless Thing (Reach A Bit Further EP, 2011)
Stereolab - Explosante Fixe (Explosante Fixe, 2008)
Thomas Dolby - Spice Train (The Map Of The Floating City, 2011)
Richard Lloyd - Fire Engine (live) (Real Time, 1987)
Tom Verlaine - A Town Called Walker (Flash Light, 1987)
Television - 1880 Or So (Television, 1992)
Iggy And The Stooges - Gimme Danger (Raw Power, 1973)
The Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Can't Stand The Rezillos, 1978)
The Clash - White Riot (The Clash, 1977)
The Mekons - Never Been In A Riot (Never Been In A Riot 7", 1978)
The B-52's - Rock Lobster (The B-52's, 1980)
Berlin - The Metro (Pleasure Victim, 1982)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien (single version) (Homosapien 7", 1981)
The Judybats - Native Son (Native Son, 1991)
Statuesque - Ton Of Feathers, Ton Of Steel (Angleterre EP, 1996)
Prolapse - Fob.com (Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes, 1999)
Uncle Tupelo - Punch Drunk (Still Feel Gone, 1991)
Whiskeytown - Turn Around (Stranger's Almanac, 1997)
Jesse Malin - Wendy (The Fine Art Of Self Destruction, 2002)
Lucero - Tears Don't Matter Much (That Much Further West, 2003)
Tom Waits - Nirvana (Orphans, 2006)
Gerard Langley - Near The Ocean (backing by Big Star) (Lit., 2003)
Arthur Bradford - Roslyn's Dog (V/A - McSweeney's #6, 2001)

Punk & Post-Punk Nuggets III

For this week's show I've dug back into my favorite period in music, punk and post-punk, looking for nuggets from bands that released only one single, hard-to-find gems from established bands and other earworthy tracks! As a bonus, the high-quality stream was back up so the show is complete and sounds great!

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And if you like this show, check out the first two shows with the same theme:
Punk & Post-Punk Nuggets
Punk & Post-Punk Nuggets II

Playlist:
Riff Raff - Romford Girls (I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut 7", 1978)
The Nips - All The Time In The World (All The Time In The World 7", 1978)
Johnny And The Self Abusers - Saints And Sinners (Saints And Sinners 7", 1977)
Dave Goodman & Friends - Justifiable Homicide (Justifiable Homicide 7", 1978)
The Table - Do The Standing Still (Do The Standing Still 7", 1977)
Vice Squad - Last Rockers (Last Rockers 7", 1980)
Notsensibles - (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher (I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher 7", 1979)
The Prefects - Things In General (Peel session) (Going Through The Motions 7", 1979)
The Dils - I Hate The Rich (I Hate The Rich 7", 1977)
The Embarrassment - Careen (Death Travels West, 1983)
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps (Too Many Creeps 7", 1980)
Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (We Are Frank Chickens, 1984)
Fallout Club - Pedestrian Walkway (Dream Soldiers 7", 1981)
The Blue Nile - I Love This Life (I Love This Life 7", 1981)
Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 7", 1986)
Die Doraus & Die Marinas - Fred Vom Jupiter (Fred Vom Jupiter 7", 1982)
C Cat Trance - Shake The Mind (Shake The Mind 12", 1986)
The Unknown Cases - Masimba Bele (Masimba Bele 12", 1983)
Blue Orchids - Work (Work 7", 1981)
Blurt - The Fish Needs A Bike (The Fish Needs A Bike 7", 1981)
Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream (Big Gold Dream 12", 1981)
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing (single version) (Sorry For Laughing 7", 1981)
The Armoury Show - Castles In Spain (Castles In Spain 7", 1984)
Easterhouse - Out On Your Own (Contenders, 1986)
The Room - Things Have Learnt To Walk That Ought To Crawl (Indoor Fireworks, 1982)
The Cleaners From Venus - Marilyn On A Train (new version) (In The Golden Autumn cassette, 1983)
Rodney Allen - Happysad (Happysad, 1987)
Buba & The Shop Assistants - Something To Do (Something To Do 7", 1984)
The Valves - It Don't Mean Nothing At All (It Don't Mean Nothing At All 7", 1979)
Grow-Up - Joanne (Joanne 7", 1980)
Airkraft - Move In Rhythm (Move In Rhythm 7", 1980)
Dave Ball - Strict Tempo (featuring Gavin Friday) (In Strict Tempo, 1983)
Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go (C30 C60 C90 Go 7", 1980)
Delmontes - Ga-Ga (Tous Les Soirs 7", 1980)

Bands Named After Songs show

This week's show is "Bands Named After Songs", so you'll hear The Fall followed by Dresden Dolls, Talking Heads followed by Radiohead, and many more that I bet you never knew were connected!

Sadly, once again the station transmission had issues - the webstream was badly distorted. Here's the music, though.

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Playlist:
Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More (Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974)
Burning Airlines - Carnival (Mission: Control!, 1999)
John Cale - Ski Patrol (Slow Dazzle, 1975)
Ski Patrol - Agent Orange (Agent Orange 7", 1980)
Can - Moonshake (Future Days, 1973)
Moonshake - Sweetheart (Eva Luna, 1992)
Leonard Cohen - Sisters Of Mercy (Songs Of Leonard Cohen, 1967)
The Sisters Of Mercy - Marian (version) (First And Last And Always, 1985)
The Fall - Dresden Dolls (demo) (Backdrop 1994 - recorded in 1977)
The Dresden Dolls - Coin-Operated Boy (The Dresden Dolls, 2004)
Public Image Ltd - Radio 4 (Metal Box, 1979)
Radio 4 - How The Stars Got Crossed (New Song And Dance, 2000)
Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip (Daydream Nation, 1988)
Eric's Trip - Laying Blame (Split 7" with Sloan, 1994)
DNA - Blonde Red Head (A Taste Of DNA EP, 1981)
Blonde Redhead - Messenger (featuring David Sylvian) (Equus EP, 2004)
Roxy Music - Ladytron (Roxy Music, 1972)
Ladytron - Blue Jeans 2.0 (Softcore Jukebox, 2003)
Japan - Life Without Buildings (The Art Of Parties 7", 1981)
Life Without Buildings - Young Offenders (Any Other City, 2000)
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl (Crystal Crescent 7", 1986)
Velocity Girl - I Can't Stop Smiling (Simpatico!, 1994)
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves (The Smiths, 1984)
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Number (Elan Vital, 2006)
The Ramones - Bad Brain (Road To Ruin, 1978)
Bad Brains - I Against I (I Against I, 1986)
The Vibrators - Stiff Little Fingers (Pure Mania, 1977)
Stiff Little Fingers - Fly The Flag (Peel session) (The Complete John Peel Sessions, 2002 - recorded in 1980)
Talking Heads - Radio Head (True Stories, 1986)
Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words (Digital download, 2009)
XTC - Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her (The Big Express, 1984)
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - No Telephone (No! No! No!, 2000)

9-13-2011 Show

This week's show has new stuff from HTRK, Punches, and Bat For Lashes and old stuff from pre-punk Illuminati Scott Walker, Kevin Ayers, and David Bowie and everything in between! Unfortunately, the station's streaming didn't come online until halfway through the show so you're bereft of my commentary for the first hour. Weep for your lost knowledge! OK, the highlights were:

- HTRK is a young band from Australia, formerly known as Hate Rock Trio.
- S.T.U.N. stands for Scream Towards the Uprising of Non-Conformity. That track is a leftover from my Wire covers show.
- The Summer Hits song is an ode to Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier.
- I've recently succumbed to the charms of Kevin Ayers. It took a couple of years and revisitations but his baritone and odd prop/pop vibe has won me over. The track here is a collaboration with Nico. I've long neglected the pre-punk first half of the 70s and I'm looking forward to digging in deeper to that era.
- Punches is a collaboration between an instrumentalist in New Zealand and a vocalist in Tennessee.
- I cannot tell you how much I love Scott Walker these days. He's been a revelation of the highest order, and no one else has had the career he's had - from teen idol as big as the Beatles in the 60s UK to a complete outsider making albums unlike anyone else.
- I saw The English Beat at Johnny D's the other night (well, half as Dave Wakeling heads it up sans Ranking Roger) and they were fantastic, playing all their best material.

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Playlist:
HTRK - Slo Glo (Work Work Work, 2011)
S.T.U.N. - Reuters (Evolution Of Energy, 2003)
The Summer Hits - Laetitia (Beaches And Canyons, 1996)
Elf Power - Needles In The Camel's Eye (When The Red King Comes, 1997)
Godley & Creme - I Pity Inanimate Objects (Freeze Frame, 1979)
Kevin Ayers - Irreversible Neural Damage / Invitation (The Confessions Of Dr. Dream And Others Stories, 1974)
David Bowie - Moss Garden (Heroes, 1977)
Punches - Tools Of The Trade (Etheria, 2011)
Bat For Lashes - The Big Sleep (with Scott Walker) (Two Suns, 2009)
Scott Walker - Cossacks Are (The Drift, 2006)
The English Beat - Save It For Later (Peel session) (Digital distribution, 1982)
Shack - Pull Together (H.M.S. Fable, 1999)
Joe Hisaishi - Hope (with Bill Nelson) (Chizyou No Rakuen [Paradise On Earth], 1994)
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors - Catcher (Straight Blue Line, 2000)
Envy - Bloodboy (Distorted Greetings, 1995)
Alec Bathgate - Pet Hates (Gold Lame, 1996)
hollAnd - Sparks (Drums EP, 2001)
Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right! (People Are People, 1984)
Cast - Finetime (All Change, 1995)
Immaculate Fools - Immaculate Fools (extended version) (Immaculate Fools 12", 1984)
The Creatures - Gecko (The Feast, 1983)
Red Guitars - Marimba Jive (Slow To Fade, 1984)
Neil Finn - Log Drums (Try Whistling This bonus disc, 1998)
La Peste - Better Off Dead (La Peste, 1996 - originally released in 1978)
Pharmacy - Shine (Pharmacy EP, 1998)
The San Francisco Seals - Nowherica (Nowherica 7", 1993)
Peter Murphy - Warm Leatherette (featuring Jeordie White & Atticus Ross) (radio session) (Digital distribution, 2006)
Japan - Ghosts (Tin Drum, 1981)
Talk Talk - John Cope (I Believe In You single, 1988)
Ken Nordine - Hunger Is From (Word Jazz, 1957)

Hurricane show

This week's show is dedicated to hurricanes and storms, given our recent weather. Given the time of year I'm sure this theme will pop up again!

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Playlist:
Mark Bingham - Hurricane Introduction (V/A - Lost In The Stars, 1985)
Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms & Neon Signs (live) (V/A - Bloodied But Unbowed, 2006)
Dollar Store - Hurricane Charley (Money Music, 2007)
Johnny Dangerously - Storm Warning (acoustic) (unknown source, late 1980s)
The Fall - Hurricane Edward (Levitate, 1997)
Kim Salmon - Lightning Scary (Essence, 1991)
Ed Kuepper - Electrical Storm (Electrical Storm, 1985)
The Pin Group - Hurricane Fighter Plane (The Pin Group, 1997)
The Mutton Birds - Rainstorm (Envy Of Angels, 1997)
Maryrose Crook - Storm From The East (live) (V/A - Flying Way Too High, 2000)
Martin Newell - Before The Hurricane (The Greatest Living Englishman, 1993)
The Go-Betweens - Twin Layers Of Lightning (radio session 1987) (Live On Snap, 1999)
The Raincoats - Rainstorm (Moving, 1983)
The Lilac Time - Hurricaned Rice (The Laundry EP, 1990)
Dif Juz - Two Fine Days (And A Thunderstorm) (Extractions, 1985)
The dB's - Storm Warning (Repercussion, 1981)
The Blue Aeroplanes - My Hurricane (Beatsongs, 1991)
The Popguns - Lightning (Snog, 1991)
Tanya Donelly - The Storm (Beautysleep, 2002)
Grant-Lee Phillips - Chain Lightning (Strangelet, 2007)
Warm Jets - Hurricane (Future Signs, 1997)
Honolulu Mountain Daffodils - Hurricane Marilyn (Aloha Sayonara, 1991)
Polak - Storm Coming (Swansongs, 2000)
Tiger - Storm Injector (We Are Puppets, 1996)
Rob Dickinson - The Storm (Fresh Wine For The Horses, 2005)
Hurricane Bells - Monsters (V/A - The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack, 2009)
The Ocean Blue - Hurricane Amore (Cerulean, 1991)
Danny Elfman - Lightning (So-Lo, 1984)
Missing Persons - Electrical Storm (V/A - We Couldn't Agree On A Title, 1981)
Syd Straw - Storm Warning (Pink Velour, 2008)
Stan Ridgway - Stormy Side Of Town (Comouflage EP, 1986)