Theme: 80s music |
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
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Friday, March 31, 2006
March 31, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
March 17, 2006
Theme: Short songs and a bit o' green |
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 |
Friday, March 10, 2006
March 10, 2006
Theme: Nothing |
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 |
Friday, March 3, 2006
March 3, 2006
Theme: Nothing |
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 |
Friday, February 17, 2006
February 17, 2006
Theme: Newer music |
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
Note 1: Dedicated to Mary and Chris, as when I was visiting them in Regina I picked up a cool red Vespa T-shirt
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Friday, January 20, 2006
January 20, 2006
Theme: Newer music |
I was planning on doing a show with lots of new releases, but in looking at the new release section at the station there wasn't a whole lot of CDs that caught me eye. Good thing I brought a lot of new music myself. At the end of the first set I played a song by local band the Haunches. On their website they invite you to remix their songs and send them your results. See details here: www.dadmobile.com/haunches/remix/ I ended with a song by the Stars whom I saw with Mary and Chris in Regina a couple of Fridays ago (that is why I missed the last radio show in case anybody noticed or cared).
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Friday, January 6, 2006
January 6, 2006
Theme: Best of 2005 |
I didn't really have an overall strategy on how I played the songs on the Best of 2005 show, however I did leave my picks for the top 3 albums of the year until close to the end. I had a tough time picking the top album from my top three. But in the end, I chose the CD that I most consistently wanted to be in my player, New Order's "Waiting For The Siren's Call". I know it is old school but even after all these years they still managed to put out a solid album. I put the Diskettes down as number two with their album "Weeknights at Island View Beach", their low-fi sound is about as far from New Order's as you can get. The Magic Numbers self-titled CD was number three, the album is filled with lots of incredibly catchy songs. You can see all my picks for the best of 2005 here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/2005/best_of_2005.htm One of the hardest things I had to do was to make sure that the albums and singles were actually released in 2005. I was good with most of the albums, but I was surprised at how many of my picks for singles were actually from 2004. Then there is also the difficulty in deciding what to do about albums that were released in their native countries in 2004 but not in Canada till 2005. That is why my number one single is "Heartbeat" by Annie, although it was released in Europe in 2004, it only came out here in 2005.
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