October 26, 2007

Theme: Party rock to Twee On Air: Frank

Once again I had to make a comparison between Jens Lekman and Jonathan Richman (and I know I promised that this would be the last time during the show but I might have to do it just one more time). In both of these songs they narrate a little story about their past that goes along with the song, they even have some of the same articulation. In the case of Lekman, this version of the song is 7 minutes long from the digital-only EP that was released before the album and it gives a lot more background on the story than the 4 minute version that is on the CD. Not much else to say about the rest of the show: a set about upcoming shows, a party rock set, and a few random sets of great songs. A few notes about a few of the songs are shown below. TALK-Theme The Brunettes - Baby Strawberry Whiplash - Falling Through Heavenly - Three Star Component The San Marinos - Guess How Much I Love You TALK (Upcoming show set) Bella - None Will Ever Know (C) Knock, Knock Ginger - Syllables (C) Square Root of Margaret - Time Bomb (C) The Pipettes - Dance & Boogie **See Note 1 TALK (very Twee) Jens Lekman - Postcard For Nina Jonathan Richman - Monologue About Bermuda Oh! Sweet Music - Four Long Years Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs TALK (party rock) Shout Out Out Out Out - Chicken Soup For The F*** You (C) **See Note 2 The Russian Futurists - These Seven Notes (C) Bocce - Again Again Again Again (C) The Go! Team - Doing It Right TALK Tokyo Police Squad - Box (C) The Sequins - Lost Art Of Friendship Chuck Prophet - Doubter Out Of Jesus Simply Saucer - Bullet Proof Nothing (C) Small Sins - On The Line (C) TALK Juni Jarvi - Asleep Note 1: I don't like that the Pipettes put a couple of extra songs on the US release of album after I bought the import version last year. Note 2: Saw them at the Starlight the night before the show, crazy crowd, great show. (C) Denotes Canadian Content

October 12, 2007

Theme: Some old time garage rock On Air: Frank

I've been listening to the first set of this show over and over again, it was just a really, really good set. Anchored by the incredible new release by Swedish pop sensation Jens Lekman (he actually did have the number 1 album in Sweden for a week). The album is called "Night Falls Over Kortedala" and it reminds me a lot of the great songs that Jonathan Richman was recording in his prime, so of course I had to play Richman in the set. Interestingly, Lekman's sound is not for everybody and I can see how he might not be eveybody's cup of tea, but for those who are into him they are usually really into him and so you should give him a shot as he might just become one of your favourite artists. The second set ended with Shout Out Out Out Out. Interesting fact I found out about the band while I was listening to a session they did on CBC radio was that their lead singer is the son of a guy who used to be in band called Wilfrid N and the Grown Men. I might be wrong on this but I think that I used to listen the them back in the day. In this case "the day" was back in the late 1980s when I used to listen to a bunch of "garage" bands and I think they were one of them. Not only was it kind of cool that he was able to cover a song by his dad it also gave me a great idea for set of music by garage bands (with the added bonus of making me feel old). Many of the songs I played are available as free downloads from the London music archive provided by CHRW, the UWO campus radio station where I used to be a DJ. Many of the songs from the set I played were from cassette compilations that came as part of homemade music "zine" called What Wave. You can see the archive that contains the What Wave compilations here: http://chrwradio.com/lma/LMA1990.htm TALK-Theme Jens Lekman - Friday Night At The Drive-in Bingo Jonathan Richman - Our Swingin' Pad Juni Jarvi - If We Just Want To Irene - End Of The Line Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said TALK Small Sins - Drunk e-mails (C) Stars - Midnight Coward (C) The Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice You Say Party! We Say Die! - What's The Hold Up? Where's The Fire? (C) Shout Out Out Out Out - For Ever Indebted (C) TALK Wilfrid N And The Grown Men - Sad New Day (C) Misc S - Real World (C) Colour Me Psycho - October God (C) The Gruesomes - You're Not The Boss Of Me (C) The Empty Hours - Same Time, Same Place (C) TALK Those Dancing Days - Hitten **See Note 1 Novillero - Lost Possibilities (C) Stuffy And The Fuses - Joe C (is an idiot) Sun Parlour Players - The Detroit River Is Alive (C) The Zoobombs - Highway A Go-Go **See Note 2 TALK Sunny Intervals - Sixty Seconds To Fall In Love Everyday Sensations - Things We Never Had Little Name - Picked Out The Line Amida - Virtue Was Your Downfall The Saturday People - Man Without Qualities Pipas - Sorry Love The Doers - Just Saying (C) TALK Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver **See Note 3 Note 1: I really got excited when I first heard about this all girl band from Sweden Note 2: I saw the Zoobombs at the Starlight the week before the show Note 3: There was a description of the recent UN humanitarian envoy to Mynamar (formerly Burma) as a "Mission from Burma", so of course I had to play this song (C) Denotes Canadian Content