June 24, 2011

Sorry, it has been a while since the last podcast, I've been relocating and finally have all of the necessary equipment in one place to do a recording. But the result is that this is an indie poptastic show with lots of the great music that I've been collecting over the last many weeks.

I'll say right now that I expect two of the songs in the first set to end up being on my top 10 singles of this year. The second set all came from a sampler from Brassland Records of New York that you can download for free here: http://brassland.bandcamp.com/album/brassland-sampler-for-2011-free , it features such artists as The National and Baby Dayliner.

I never know what to play for the last song of the show as it is usually orphaned away from the other sets, so I'm going to try something new and take a random song from my digital music collection and use that as my last song. We'll see how it goes, but I really liked and forgotten about this week's random ending.


Websites I mentioned during the show

See the interview with The Hobbes Fanclub:

http://indiemp3couk.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/interview-with-the-hobbes-fanclub/

Learn about Amanda Mair and download her song here:

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/04/labrador-announce-newest-signing-16-year-old-amanda-mair/



First song of the show (best song I heard since the last show):
Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten (Download the song here: http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/04/12/song-of-the-day-generationals-ten-twenty-ten/ )


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http://76.163.12.179/2011-06-24_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 24, 2011
TALK - Theme
Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
Phil Wilson - I Own It
The Hobbes Fanclub - Outside Myself
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Record Shop
Sloppy Joe - Sometimes
TALK
Baby Dayliner - The Way You Look Tonight
The National - Cold Girl Fever
Pela - Episodes
Buke & Gass - Your Face Before You Left
Clogs f/ Shara Worden - Cocodrillo
TALK
Pocket Satellite - Toy Train
Sweetest Ache - Tell Me How It Feels
Maren Parusel - Days In Universe
Amanda Mair - House
The Shapiros - Gone By Fall
TALK - Random Ending
Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings
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April 29, 2011

A lot of new material this show with the first set consisting entirely of albums released in 2011, many of which will probably end up in my top 10 for the year. These included songs by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Go! Team, Acid House Kings, Those Dancing Days, and Lykke Li. And I now know that I mis-interpreted the lyric in The Pains song, instead of "you look so hard in fishnets and leather" I thought it was "you look so hot ...", I like my version better.

After a set of some more rocking indie music I ended with a funky set, something I haven't done in a while. Sorry about the sound quality on the Archie Bell and the Drells song, but the I just loved the song too much not to play it.


Websites I mentioned during the show

Download the Those Darlins song:

http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/04/07/song-of-the-day-those-darlins-be-your-bro/

Learn about the Shop Assistants:

http://indiemp3couk.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/shop-assistants-safety-net/

See the Archie Bell & the Drells video:

http://didnotchart.blogspot.com/2011/04/soul-investigators-make-it-mellow.html


First song of the show (best song I heard since the last show):
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Body (Listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsntCSfn1c )


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http://76.163.12.179/2011-04-29_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - April 29, 2011
TALK - ThemeThe Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Body
The Go! Team - Ready To Go Steady
Acid House Kings - (I'm In) A Chorus Line
Those Dancing Days - Help Me Close My Eyes
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (Acoustic Version)
TALK
Orca Team - Vancouver, BC (C)
Casper & The Cookies - Jennifer's House
Those Darlins - Be Your Bro
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
TALK
Fitz And the Tantrums - Rich Girls
Mr President - The Best Is Yet To Come
Breakestra - Need A Little LoveArchie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up
The Equals - Mary Jane
TALK
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (C)
(C) - Canadian Content

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April 1, 2011

The show started with an album that has been a long time coming, the last Acid House Kings album was way back in 2006 and although the band members have done various other projects, this was the first proper Acid House Kings release since then. The album is called Music Sounds Better With You and is filled with all the happy feel good indie pop that you would expect from them.

The rest of the show was a random selection of great music that I've come across in the last little while as well as an indie pop classic from Guided By Voices.

**podcast bonus - can you find my big mistake in the first talking bit? **


Websites I mentioned during the show

Listen to the entire Red Shoe Diaries here:

http://redshoediaries.bandcamp.com/

Download the Young Galaxy song here:

http://www.listenbeforeyoubuy.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Young%20Galaxy/Young%20Galaxy%20-%20Peripheral%20Visionaries.mp3

Get the free Jonny EP here:

http://www.mergerecords.com/audio/jonny/Jonny_FreeEP.zip


First song of the show (best song I heard since the last show):
Acid House Kings - Would You Say Stop? (Download the song here: http://www.labrador.se/stop/ )


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http://76.163.12.179/2011-04-01_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - April 1, 2011
TALK - ThemeAcid House Kings - Would You Say Stop?
Pencil Tin - Poignant
The Friend - New Berlin Wall
Red Shoe Dairies - Underage Disco
Happy Dead Men - The Age Of ChivalryTALK
Jonny - I Want To Be Around You
The Year's Model - No Miracles
Phil Wilson - I Own It
Don Lennon - Rats!
Guided By Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
TALK
Young Galaxy - Peripheral Visionaries (C)
New Socks - Trampoine
Chad Valley - Up And Down
Wesafari - Matchbox
de Montevert - High On You
TALK
Stevie Wonder - That Girl

(C) - Canadian Content


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March 11, 2011

The entire first set came from a sampler that was put out before the New England Popfest last November, I finally got around to playing some of the great songs that were on it. In particular my top song was done by the Smittens (who of course do the theme to my DJ night at the Jane Bond) and is one of those songs that I had to listen to everyday for about 2 weeks.

And a note about the last song I played, the song "Love Bath" by Smokey Robinson is just as good as you might image a song like this might be. I was quite surprised to learn that the song comes from a release from last year.


Websites I mentioned during the show

Interview with Blue Summer, also where you can download their song:

http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=918

Interview with The Gits, also where you can download their song:

http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=994

Download the Naivepop or Petitfool song here and learn about the Japanese magazine it came from:

http://eardrumsmusic.com/2009/06/13/new-japanese-magazine-and-cd-about-diy-pop-culture-merci-magazine/

First song of the show (best song I heard since the last show):
The Smittens - Sapphire (Stock-Aitken-Waterman Mix by Nixon) (Download the song here: http://v.gd/uw3wDL )


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - March 11, 2011
TALK - Theme
The Smittens - Sapphire (Stock-Aitken-Waterman Mix by Nixon)
Strega - Too Hot Master
The Hush Now - The Other Ones
Bourgeois Heroes - I Wanna Be Nice To You
Onward Chariots - Seven Miles Away
TALK
Blue Summer - Listen To Me
The Gits (UK) - Two Many People
Smith Westerns - Weekend
The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
The Hotrats - Damaged Goods
TALK
Seapony - Dreaming
Naivepop or petitfool - Sunday Morning
Gold-Bears - Something To Think About
Bordeauxxx - Heartstrings
Burning Hearts - Iris
TALK
Smokey Robinson - Love Bath

(C) - Canadian Content


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February 18, 2011

Some great new indie pop, some free downloads, and a link to porn, all in a day's work at the Fireball XL5 podcast.

My top song of the week was a bonus song on a 7 inch single that came with the most recent Belle and Sebastian album when you bought it directly from Matodor Records (which I did not do). So I was surprised when I heard it and realized that it is as good or better then any song on the proper album. The name of the song is "Suicide Girl" and if you don't know what that refers to then I'll leave it to you to do an internet search or if you are not at work you can click on the second video for the song below and find out.

For the rest of the show I tried to get to the large amount of new music that I've accumulated since my last new show back in December. My highlight was the new song by Those Dancing Days who just seem to be getting better and better with each single, the real test will be their first album which comes out in March.


Websites I mentioned during the show

The video for Those Dancing Days I'll Be Yours:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuXl9XfUhE

Get the Les Breastfeeders song 400 Miles here:

http://lesbreastfeeders.ca/

Download the entire Between the Waves Volume A album here:

http://www.eardrumspop.com/2010/04/19/b2wvola/

First song of the show (best song I heard since the last show):
Belle and Sebastian - Suicide Girl (Stream the song here with no offensive video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibYWlIid47g )

(Stream a very naughty version of the song here NOTE: DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK : http://vimeo.com/17135848 )

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - February 18, 2011
TALK - Theme
Belle and Sebastian - Suicide Girl
Phil Wilson - Up To London
Those Dancing Days - I'll Be Yours
When Nalda Became Punk - Summer, You And Me
Allo, Darlin' - If Loneliness Was Art
TALK
Les Breastfeeders - 400 Miles
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
Beach Fossils - Daydream
Mystery Jets - Flash A Hungry Smile
Tender Trap - Do You Want A Boyfriend?
TALK
Jacob Borshard And Helena Sundin - Summer Will Have Its Way
Apple Orchard - The Great Dividing Range
Lemolo - Whale Song
Francis - I Was Never Bored At All
Ji Nilsson - Lalalovesick
TALK
The Radio Dept. - The New Improved Hypocrisy

(C) - Canadian Content


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January 21, 2011

The second part of my Best of 2010 series with my best albums of the year. Unlike the singles I did this show in order from number 10 to number 1.

You can see the full list of my top albums of 2010, along with where to buy the music and support the bands, at www.fireballxl5.ca


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http://71.18.55.208/2011-01-21_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 21, 2011
TALK - Theme
Lucky Soul - Woah Billy!
Bocce - Highlighter (Reverse Video) (C)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Know
Gigi - The Marquee (C)
Math and Physics Club - Jimmy Had A Polaroid
TALK
Library Voices - Insider Trading (On Outsider Art) (C)
Library Voices - Party Like It's 2012 (C)
The School - Is He Really Coming Home?
The School - Let It Slip
TALK
The Drums - Best Friend
The Drums - Me And The Moon
TALK
Antarctica Takes It! - C&F
Antarctica Takes It! - Straight To Your Heart
TALK
Belle And Sebastian - I Want The World To Stop
Belle And Sebastian - Write About Love

(C) - Canadian Content

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January 7, 2011

What else to say except that this show simply showcased all of my top singles from the year 2010. Apart from playing my number one single of the year at the beginning, for the rest of the show I put songs together that worked better musically.

You can see the actual order of my singles list at www.fireballxl5.ca


First song of the show (best song I heard since the last best of show):
The Divine Comedy - At The Indie Disco (Video of Neil Hannon talking about writing the song: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/may/20/neil-hannon-how-i-wrote )


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 7, 2011
TALK - Theme
The Divine Comedy - At The Indie Disco
Murder Mystery - I Am (If You Are)
Groove Armada - Paper Romance
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
TALK
Antarctica Takes It! - Try, Try, Try (Brixton Sessions)
Juni Jarvi f/ Annika Norlin - I Love It When You Call Me Baby
Gorrillaz - On Meloncholy Hill
Starlight Recorder - Girl From Outer Space
TALK
The Radio Dept. - Heaven's On Fire
S'ambassadeur - Days
Math And Physics Club - Love Or Loneliness
TALK
Best Coast - Boyfriend
Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
Young Rival - The Ocean (C)
Avi Buffalo - What's In It For?

(C) - Canadian Content

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