December 17, 2007

Theme: Christmas Time On Air: Frank

I played a few new Christmas songs and a few old Fireball XL5 standards, but when all is said and done the best holiday song is still Elisa Gabbai's Winter In Kanada. Not much else to say about the show, but I just wanted to mention that most of the new songs I played I stole from this podcast: http://notquiterocketscience.com/2007/12/pop-christmas.html TALK-Theme Lucky Lucky Pigeons - Red Santa Amelia Fletcher and Hit Parade - Christmas Tears The Fireflys - Xmas Song Shumai - California Christmas David Carswell and Megan Barnes - I Wanna Kiss You This Christmas (C) TALK Irene - Christmas On The Beach Shadetree - Christmas Peace Hello Saferide - Ipod Xmas Higher Elevations - All These Summer Nights Buck - Christmas In My Heart (C) TALK Belle and Sebastian - Santa, Bring My Baby Back Dada - My Baby Fell For Ol' St Nick Louis Armstrong - Zat You, Santa Claus? New Birth Brass Band - Santa's Second Line Jaymz Bee And The Royal Jelly Orchestra - Jingle Bells (C) TALK The Gems - Love For Christmas The Diskettes - Noel (C) Young and Sexy - Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better (C) Bobby Baby - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Montt Mardie - I Wish Everyday Could Be Christmas Rose Melberg and Gregory Webs - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) TALK Lucky Soul - Lonely This Christmas Eux Autres - Another Christmas At Home Oh! Sweet Music - Oh! Sweet Christmas Parker Lewis - Xmas Carols NYC Stars - Fairytale Of New York (C) TALK Carolyn Mark - The Christmas Song (C) Relient K - I Ain't Getting Nuttin For Christmas Yo La Tengo - Rock'N'Roll Santa Arcade Fire - Jingle Bell Rock (C) The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk Tonight) El Perro Del Mar - Oh What A Christmas Darryl Reimer - Merry Big Ole Christmas (C) Elisa Gabbai - Winter In Kanada TALK The Knife - Christmas Reindeer (C) Denotes Canadian Content

December 7, 2007

Theme: Spotlight on HHBTM On Air: Frank

I got through a lot of great music this show that I had stored up the weeks and months before. I also did two sets highlighting a great record label with a great name: Happy Happy Birthday to Me. I came upon them reading a blog that described bands as having that "HHBTM" sound, I like the band so I did some research and found out what HHBTM stood for and found the record label's website. Most of the bands have the Indie-Twee sound that I'm into so it was a fortuitous find. You can find out more about the label and listen to many of bands here: http://www.hhbtm.com Just one other note that the song my Murray Dear sounded to me so much like the Magnetic Fields that I had to play them immediately after. In other Magnetic Fields news their new album is due out in January something that I'm very much looking forward to hearing. TALK-Theme Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining The Sadies - Higher Power (C) Bughouse 5 - Ten Lost Years (C) Hot Kid - Ties That Bind (C) Andrew Vincent and the Pirates - Martha (C) TALK The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight (C) The Evaporators - Grassy Jack (C) Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations The Purrs - She's Got Chemicals TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Is Trying To Outfox Us All TALK Murray Dear - Deserter The Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend Tellus About The Moon - Hate Postal Blue - Weather Sensitive The Assistants - Stop Dead (C) TALK (HHBTM Set 1) Keith John Adams - Never Look Down Patience Please - I'll Have What She's Having The Smittens - Stop The Bombs Casper and the Cookies - Eux Autres TALK (HHBTM Set 1) James Ausfahrt - Lucy Ferocious Slumber Party - Sooner Or Later Spring Factory - Get Out Of Bed The Dreamers - A Place I Know TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit B'Ehl - Jammers Like Me (C) Paint By Numbers - Deep In The Snow The Lovely Feathers - The Only Appalachian Cornfield (C) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - I Never Thought I Could Feel That Way For A Boy TALK DJ Champion - No Heaven (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content