April 21, 2006

Theme: Playing Catch Up On Air: Frank

On this show I managed to take care of a lot of songs that I had been bringing to the station for a few months but never playing, that might be why some of the sets are a bit disjointed. I also found some various CDs in the CKMS delete pile that brought back some memories (and made me feel old) so I had to play them: Ian Knope - Solar, Man of the Atom (from an Edmonton compilation that I remember from way back) Altogether Morris - Eaten Alive (I remember that when Dave and I first played this song many years ago, he guessed that the band name came from an episode of Tales of the Riverbank (starring Hammy Hamster), but this has never been confirmed, unfortunately the CD is showing its age and didn't play very well in the CKMS CD players) The Vinaigrettes - PS I Hate You (I never played this album when it first came out, but this was Carolyn Mark's first band) Maxine Brown - Oh No Not My Baby The Shangri-las - Out In The Streets Massive Attack - Live With Me Ivy - Four In The Morning The Clientele - I Can't Seem To Make You Mine TALK Tiga - You Gonna Want Me Prodigy - Voodoo People Russian Futurists - Still Life (C) Hot Chip - Over and Over Scarboro Aquarium Club - Black Swan Days (C) TALK The Clash - City Of The Dead NOFX - The Man I Killed The Sainte Catherines - Burn Guelph Burn (C) Stolen Minks - Boys On The Floor (C) Hawksley Workman - No Sissies (C) TALK James Kirk - Felicity The Concretes - On The Radio Jens Leckman - A Man Walks Into A Bar Sondre Lerche - The Curse Of Being In Love Final Fantasy - Arctic Circle (C) TALK The Diskettes - 1 2 3 4 5 (C) The Diskettes - Jump Up (C) The Doers - Step To The Left, Step To The Right (C) The Doers - Moment Noticed (C) Ian Knope - Solar, Man Of The Atom (C) Altogether Morris - Eaten Alive (C) The Vinaigrettes - PS I Hate You (C) TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Rent A Wreck Shapes And Sizes - Wilderness (C) TALK The Lovely Feathers - In The Valley (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content

April 14, 2006

Theme: New CDs On Air: Frank

This past week I got to play songs from the six new CDs that I had received in the mail before the last show, in fact I got them the day before the last show so some of them I didn't even get to listen to before I played them on the air. The rest of the sets were a mis-mash of new stuff and the usual upcoming shows at the Starlight set. TALK-Theme Knock, Knock, Ginger - Virginia Black (C) The D'Ubervilles - War on the Poor (C) The Doers - Wicked World (C) Daniel Johnson - Crazy Love The Miniatures - Any Day Now (C) The Stolen Minks - Chug A Lug (C) TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Parakit The Honest Johns - Judas In Me Singing Lovejoy - Everybody Hates Us And We Don't Care James Kirk - Rehab The Silent Boys - Wishing Well Eyes TALK Of Montreal - Requim for O.M.M. Acid House Kings - 7 Days S'Ambassadeur - Between The Lines Morrissey - You Have Killed Me The Charade - Monday Morning TALK Carolyn Mark - 2 Days Smug and Sober (C) Luther Wright and Wrongs - Celia (C) Oh Susanna - King's Road (C) Young and Sexy - Conventional Lullabies (C) Gentleman Reg - Plan On Including Me (C) TALK Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner #1 **Digital Vinyl Pretty Girls Make Graves - Parade We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Fancy TALK Look People - Stop Making Cheese (C) **Digital Vinyl Scarbora Aquarium Club - Queen of the Beach (C) TALK Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got (C) Denotes Canadian Content

March 31, 2006

Theme: 80s music On Air: Frank and bit of Barry

The first half of the show was the usual mix while the last half melded into Barry's all 80s show that followed mine. In the second set I played a song by Meryn Cadell, most people remember her song "The Sweater" from the mid 1990s, well in a strange turn Meryn came out as transgendered in 2004 (on the CBC) and he is now a professor at UBC. The reason I know this is that Karen mentioned that he pitched a song on the former CBC show The National Playlist and his voice is as deep as mine. And speaking of The National Playlist, does anybody know why the CBC took it off the air? It seemed like a very popular show that was aimed at the demographic the CBC is looking for. By the way you can read about Cadell here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryn_Cadell TALK-Theme James Kirk - Get On Board Belle and Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard Baskervilles - It Can Happen To You Lovedance - You Should Know Where I'm Standing The Doers - No Right Now (C) The Doers - Everyman (C) TALK Meryn Cadell - The Sweather (C) P:ano - When You Garden In Your Garden (C) Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (C) Silverhearts - New Pilgrim (C) Buttless Chaps - Migratory Birds (C) TALK Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena The Creeping Nobody's - 2nd Occupation (C) Barmitzvah Brothers - Somewhat Conceivable's Evil Twin (C) TALK Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - It's You Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Grace Spirit of the West - John Goodman (C) The Go-Betweens - Bye Bye Pride They Might Be Giants - Don't Lets Start TALK Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon The Cure - Close To Me Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This? Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies! The The - Infected TALK The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Kon Kan - Harry Houdini (C) TALK New Order - Age of Consent (C) Denotes Canadian Content

March 17, 2006

Theme: Short songs and a bit o' green On Air: Frank

As my top song this week was only one minute and 3 seconds long, I decided to play an entire set of short songs, this resulted in 14 songs in 24 minutes, perhaps the most I have every played in a row without talking. I had to follow this fast set with a mellow one to recuperate. The show also featured the return of Digital Vinyl, because of some rearranging of my office at home it has been difficult for the past few months to do it, but now that I have a new laptop I am back in the digitizing business. TALK-Theme The Pipettes - It Hurst Me To See You Dance So Well -1:03- Air Miami - You Sweet Little Heartbreaker -1:48- Electric 6 - Nuclear War On The Dance Floor -1:16- Swearing at Motorists - Slave To The Kettle -1:48- Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens -1:47- Young And Sexy - The Night Wears A Sombrero (C) -1:58- Pipas - Wells Street -1:53- Adventures in Stereo - Down In The Traffic -1:28- Le Mans - Astronauts A.S. -1:27- DD/MM/YYYY - So Cold (C) -1:02- The Gruesomes - Wish You Were Her (C) -1:34- Les Sequelles - La Machine (C) -1:50- Les Breastfeeders - Mini Jupe Et Watusi (C) -1:57- Deja Voodoo - Bound For Glory (C) -1:16- TALK Finnigan's Tongue - Abilgail Becker (C) Honest Johns - Hollywood Affair Sondre Lerche - Minor Details Ben & Nathan - Geeky But Hot (C) Jens Lekman - Cold Sweedish Winter TALK The Concretes - Choosen One Essex Green - Don't Know Why You Stay Acid House Kings - That's Because You Drive Me I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness - The Ghost Math and Physics Club - You're So Good To Me TALK Magneta Lane - Wild Gardens (C) Ashley MacIssac - Bitch (C) Editors - All Sparks Interpol - Slow Hands MC 900 Ft Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain TALK Dik Van Dykes - Curling (C) Supreme Bagg Team - 20th Century Dog Faced Boy (C) Robocop Kraus - I Picture You Hot Chip - The Beach Party The Smitherines - Only A Memory TALK The Pogues - London Girl (C) Denotes Canadian Content

March 10, 2006

Theme: Nothing On Air: Frank and Wayne

It was great to have Deep Space Wayne on the show last week, even though the theme to his set was "CDs from Wayne's car". As we had to play some music during the show, we weren't able to have all the conversations we wanted, but we did our best to keep up with the "more talk, less rock" credo of the station. He was also gracious enough to offer to share his "roll up the rim to win" cup with a caller which he opened live on air at the end of the show, unfortunately it didn't win. Of course if it did win we might have had a court case like those two little girls in Quebec. TALK-Theme Essex Green - This Isn't Farm Life Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone Papermoon - Better Days (C) Mike Erb Band - Tracked Me Down (C) TALK Issac Hayes - Theme From Shaft Mundo Livre - Meu Esquema Bombay Dub Orchestra - Compassion Astrid - Running Home (C) Richard Underhill - 3 AM (C) TALK The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit Young and Sexy - The Curious Organ (C) Pink Mountaintops - Plastic Man, You're The Devil The Robocops Kraus - After Laughter come Tears White Stripes - My Doorbell TALK Elliot Brood - Only At Home (C) Buttless Chaps - Migratory Birds (C) Leeroy Stagger - Let Her Down (C) Ben & Nathan - When Water Chokes (C) TALK Red Snapper - 3 Strikes You're Out Beta Band - Liquid Bird The Organ - Memorize The City (C) New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (C) The Fembots - So Long (C) TALK Powderfinger - These Days (C) Denotes Canadian Content

March 3, 2006

Theme: Nothing On Air: Frank

Yes, it was only last week that I was on, but I'm filling for Charlene this week so it will be three weeks in a row for Fireball XL5 (Lord help us all). If you want to play a game with set number 2 on the podcast try and guess the second song in each of the 3 sets of songs: In each case the first song has been compared to a well known act, the second song was by the well known act. For those you that don't want to play along, the full listing of the second set is at the very bottom of the mailout. TALK-Theme Acid House Kings - Do What You Want My Morning Jacket - Off The Record Calvin Johnson - Your Eyes Barmitzvah Brothers - Hollow Time Of Night (C) Belle and Sebastian - The Wrong Girl TALK The Radio Department - Deliverance Jesus & Mary Chain - Between Us The Robocop Kraus - You Don't Have To Shout The Fall - Couldn't Get Ahead Egger - Pixels (C) The Inbreds - Matterhorn (C) TALK Elliot Brood - Oh, Alberta (C) Clothes Make The Man - Singles Only (C) DD/MM/YYYY - Death & Taxes (C) DD/MM/YYYY - Culture Industry (C) Final Fantasy - This Is The Dream Of Win & Regine (C) Boy - French Diplomacy (C) TALK Skye - Love Show Morcheeba - Otherwise Astrid - Turn Me Loose (C) Ivanna Santilli - Breath Inn (Moonstar Remix) (C) Dois Irmaos f/ Mariana De Moraes - Como Vou Fazer Ladies & Gentlemen - STAY (C) I Am The World Trade Centre - Soiree Cibo Matto - Sugar Water TALK They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (Live) (C) Denotes Canadian Content

February 17, 2006

Theme: Newer music On Air: Frank

I had to start out with the Belle and Sebastian spotlight as of course the first single from their latest albums was the best song I had heard in the previous four weeks (Coupled with the fact that I was going to see them the next week in Toronto). Unfortunately, the venue for the Belle and Sebastian show was the Docks, and it sucks royally. Never ever see a band there, I command you. First off, parking is $15 and you still have to walk a good piece, then for a large place not many people have a good sight lines to the stage, I got a bit closer for B&S, but once I moved up I couldn't move again and although I could see the band, anybody under 6 foot 5 would have had trouble. However, the band itself was actually quite good, apart from the obligatory healthy number of songs from the new release, the rest of the setlist went really far back into their 10 year history, and unfortunately for me only one song from their previous release "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". See another review of the concert (by listmember Derek) here: http://www.burymenot.com/2006/02/final-date.html The Juno award set went well (congrats to Joel Plaskett for picking up the songwriter award at the East Coast Music Awards) as did the set of songs from the Poppolar podcast (available at www.poppolar.com). And if you like the last song by Jens Lekman, you can download it and many others at: www.jenslekman.com/presents.htm TALK-Theme Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue Belle and Sebastian - Stay Lose Belle and Sebastian - I'm Waking Up To Us Belle and Sebastian - Dirty Dream No. 2 Belle and Sebastian - The Fox In The Snow Isobel Campbell - Johnny Come Home TALK (Juno awards set) Joel Plaskett - Happen Now (C) Feist - Inside and Out (C) New Pornographers - Broken Breads (C) Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (C) Metric - Patriarch On A Vespa (C) **See Note 1 TALK (Songs from poppolar podcast) The Primary 5 - Mail Man Math and Physics Club - Move Ending Romance Instant Cafe Records - Call My Name Nice Man - Cayo Ashby - Getting Started TALK Pinstripe Mystery - NOTLD (C) **Telephone Request DD/MM/YYYY - Blue Screen of Death (C) Young and Sexy - Your Enemy is Asleep (C) Barmitzvah Brothers - Little Jack (C) TALK The Buttless Chaps - Caboose (C) Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van Smokekiller - Standing In Line (C) Burnt Oak - Oh Kiki (C) Swearing at Motorcyclists - Still Life With Bottle Rockets TALK Jens Lekman - I Don't Know If She Is Worth 900 Kr. Note 1: Dedicated to Mary and Chris, as when I was visiting them in Regina I picked up a cool red Vespa T-shirt (C) Denotes Canadian Content