Theme: I thought she talked about Mark E Smith |
| As this was my last new music show for a while (Christmas show next, then best of shows) I tried to get rid of a lot of leftover songs that I have collected over the last year. Some of them seem very old to me as I have been listening to them for a while on my MP3 player, but I was surprised when I checked my archive and had never played them on the show. Nobody should be shocked that most of the show was in the indie pop/twee side of the musical spectrum. The third set was loosly related to the Jens Lekman song "Maple Leaves" which came up during a shuffle play while a bunch of us were at Erik's place. The song is a story about a guy who misinterprets his girlfriend saying that thier love was "make believe" but he thinks they she said "Maple leaves". Similarly there is confusion between the fall of their relationship and the band with Mark E. Smith, so that's why I played the Fall and the other two songs are just related to people where were also there. Things I referenced on the show: Various blogs I read: http://happyhappybirthdaytome.blogspot.com/ http://alex-loves.blogspot.com/ http://cloudberryrecords.com/blog/ http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ http://indiemp3couk.wordpress.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - November 27, 2009 TALK Boa Constrictor - Out of Nothing Butcher Boy - Carve A Pattern Red Sleeping Beauty - Summer Tells Stories Cars Can Be Blue - Do You Remember? TALK The Servants - Present Northern Portrait - Crazy Laura Walting - Let's go The Hidden Cameras - In The NA (C) TALK (Jens and related set) Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves The Fall - Totally Wired Sambassadeur - Days Woods - Born To Lose TALK Summer Cats - Super Xylos - In The Bedroom Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - World Music The Micropops - Telephonebaby! TALK (female pop set) Leaving Mornington Crescent - Seventeen **See Note 1 Liechtenstein - This Must Be Heaven Hari And Aino - A Considerate Kind Of Home Sexy Kids - Sisters Are Forever TALK Fireflies - Winter Brown Recluse - Night Train The Late Call - Linnea The Blind King - Driving In America TALK David Cassidy - How Can I Be Sure Note 1: Dedicated to two of my nieces who are both seventeen (C) - Canadian Content |
Friday, November 27, 2009
November 27, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
October 29, 2009
Theme: What I stole from Cental Services |
| A lot of this show, especially the first set was stolen from the show Central Services, a great radio show that was formerly on CKMS but can now be found on CFRU (www.cfru.ca). Corey and I have very similar tastes in music as you can see from the description of his show: Host Corey W. Schmidt delves into his massive record collection and shares with you some independent pop music delights from around the globe. Side trips are also taken into the worlds of 60s sugar, 70s prog noodling, disco thunder and hot buttered soul, 80s synthesized glam, 90s shoegazing as well as other strangeness that lurks in thrift shop dollar bins. All in all, the best pop music you'll hear all week. You can download the last few Central Services shows from the CFRU website, I highly recommend them. Back to this current show which started out with a funky set that followed along from my top song and then an electro pop set because it seemed to fit there, it was only after these that I got back to my bread and butter indie pop sets. And my big ending that was over 10 years in the making didn't happen. Here is the story, back when I was doing my Masters I remember playing a song with the lyrics "going for my Masters, calling bullshit on my PhD". At the time I thought I would never do a PhD, but then I did do one and I thought that I should really play that song when I was done. Well fast forward to the present and a few weeks ago I had my convocation for my PhD so I thought I should play the song. I had it in my mind that it was by a guy named Wierd Paul (who was popular at CKMS as the time), I went so far as to borrow the album from a friend, but when I listened to the album I couldn't find the song. My search continues for that song I was looking for, but in the meantime I ended with a song by Wierd Paul song anyway. Things I referenced on the show: Weird Paul's website http://weirdpaul.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - October 29, 2009 TALK Pizzicato Five - Happy Sad (CS) Gila - Why Don't We Do It (CS) Gino Soccio - Turn It Around (CS) Brandi Disterheft - Twilight Curtain Sandy Edmonds - Daylight Saving Time **See Note 1 TALK Lioness - You're My Heart Fritz Helder and the Phantoms - Lagerfeld Lady Mr. Suitcase - You Don't Smile Anymore Nakatomi Towers - Cut Me Out Lusine - Two Dots TALK Afternoon Naps - Postcard (CS) Dylan Mondegreen - Girl In Grass The Gladeyes - Monika Wildwood lights - Town and Country Milky Way - In Love (CS) TALK Red Sleeping Beauty - Season's Change My Teenage Stride - We'll Meet At Emily's Marching Band - Make No Plans Hari and Aino - Maple Dent May And His Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force A Dance Party TALK (sort of kinda the British set) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - One Night Stand Town Bike - Hey Hey Ho The Apple Moths - Miserable Town Golden Glow - Streetligher ** See Note 2 Joy Division - Transmission TALK Wierd Paul - Whalin' the Shit Out Of Guys (CS) - Song stolen from Central Services Note 1: The show was recorded the weekend before the clocks changed for daylight saving time Note 2: This song sounded so much like Joy Division I had to play them after. |
Friday, September 25, 2009
September 25, 2009
Theme: I heart Cloudberry Records |
| This show started with two sets dedicated to the record label Cloudberry records ( www.cloudberryrecords.com ). Their website describes themselves as "an indiepop label purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in sunny Miami, Florida", how could I not love them. They look to specialize in shorter products such as 7 inch vinyl, split CD singles, and mini-CDs. The other cool think is that for pretty much all their releases they have at least one song that you can download for free. I also put in an ectro-pop and funky set, something I haven't done in a while, so that was nice. Things I referenced on the show: Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEnMc9xakeg link to soul sides blog: http://soul-sides.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 25, 2009 TALK (Cloudberry Records 1) The Parellelograms - Dream On Daisy The Shandy Express - Surfing On Love's Wave Girl Alliance - Frances And The Dancing Fairies Pale Man Made - In Your Bed Play People - Goes Out TALK (Cloudberry Records 2) Twig - Ciao Ciao Bomb Kevin McGrother - A Week Of Wednesdays The Tartans - My Baby Doesn't Care For You The Westfield Mining Disaster - Hank Williams Saved My Life The Cavalcade - Meet You In The Rain TALK So Many Dynamos - New Bones Golden Glow - Adore Me Voxtrot - Trepanation Party Astrid Swan - Unrelated Bad Hands featuring Nina Kinert - Badn Hands TALK Jenny Wilson - Only Here For The Fight The Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache Lydia Marcell - The Girl He Needs The Impossibles - Easy To Be Heard Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution TALK The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars Horse Shoes - The Imperial School Rubik - No Escape Afternoon Naps - Beach Bums Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way TALK Free Energy - Free Energy The singles - can you go out tonight (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
Saturday, September 5, 2009
September 5, 2009
Theme: I Wanna Go Surfin' |
| This was a 4 song set kind of show, just kind of worked out that way. My top song for the show was a song that I heard a while back at the NYC popfest this spring. But I was reminded of the great performance by Karim and his Brown Coach of Leisure podcast ( http://silenttalkie.com/ ). I just can't get the song out of my head. They are also releasing their first EP soon that I'm very much looking forward to. I tried not to talk a lot during this show as I felt there was a lot of talking during the Hillside review show. Keeping with the same sentiment I won't write a lot about the show except to say that I was happy with how it came together. Even got a slow set in which is relatively rare for me. And do listen to the end of the show as the last song by the band Death By Chocolate was fighting to be my top song, but I still can't describe it, you just have to listen. Things I referenced on the show: See video of the performance by The Drums at the NYC Popfest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4W5SEwdOk Download the Celestial song here: http://musicismygirlfriend.com/celestial/hop-you-know/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 5, 2009 TALK (Theme) The Drums - Let's Go Surfing Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well Girl Alliance - Straight To My Heart The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes TALK Papermoon - What are you going to do with me? (c) The San Marinos - On Our Way The School - And Suddenly The Darling Buds - Burst TALK Downdime - Lessons The Charade - A tough Decision Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be The Mugs - Could It Be TALK The Faintest Ideas - Procrastination Of Every Day Tasks Knight School - Pregnent Again Candy Panic Attack - Heartbreaker Casa Murilo - 19th Floor TALK Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Horse Shoes - Changing Winds Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return The Radio Dept. - David TALK Margo & The Nuclear So and So's - As Tall As Cliffs Landon Pigg - Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop Tiny Microphone - Home Celestial - Hope, You Know TALK Phantogram - When I'm Small Glass Cake - We'll Work It Out Jenny Wilson - Like A Fading Rainbow The Understudies - Flickknives TALK Death By Chocolate - Magpie (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
Sunday, August 9, 2009
August 9, 2009
Theme: Hillside review |
| A lot of this show was dedicated to my review of the Hillside Festival that took place in Guelph in late July. Apart from the artists that I previously knew about, it is always cool to find out about bands that I didn't know existed. My favourite find this year were the Library Voices, as I said in the show, if Los Campesinos! grew up in Regina instead of Wales, they would have been the Library Voices. Another band I quite enjoyed was FRED, apologies to Bernard for not seeing them at the Starlight for St. Patrick's Day. The first song of the show I first heard on a patio overlooking Niagara Falls, thanks to S for helping to find out the name of the song. The last song was from the movie "500 Days of Summer", a movie I liked on its own but the peppering of indie music throughout made it all the better, thanks to M for getting the song for me. The rest of the show was my usual indie mix. Things I referenced on the show: link to lightning strike at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQE_JbE2zRU link to Final Fantasy at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8 Acid House Kings twitter: http://twitter.com/acidhousekings
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Friday, July 10, 2009
July 10, 2009
Theme: Give me the green light |
| Uncharacteristically I started this show with a funky set as it went well with my pick for my top song of the week. A few of the songs in that set are a bit long so I hope you can make your way through them. The rest of the show was back to the indie pop sound. As well as a leftover set from last show's spotlight on the blog Heaven Is Above Your Head, I also played the song "Heaven Is Above My Head" by Louis Philippe that I assume the blog was named after. As coincidence would have it I heard the Philippe song on another podcast last week. I ended with the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants in honour of the Toronto Raptors signing free agent Hedo Turkoglu (I stole this idea from Peter). Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after the song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: The One and Other art project - http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - July 10, 2009 TALK (Theme) Johnny Legend - Green Light Cut Glass - Without Your Love All Because Of You - Dramatics Greyboy featuring Jeremy Ellis - Colour In Between The Lines Johnny Burnette Trio - Honey Hush TALK (leftover HIAYH set) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is Lois Lane - Turn Me Loose Jackie Deshannon - Find Me Love Bobble Smith And The Dreamgirls - Now He's Gone Patti And The Emblems - It's The Little Things TALK (Female indie pop) Pocketbooks - Fleeting Moments Comet Gain - A Kind Of Loving Steso Songs - The Worse The Popguns - Where Do You Go? God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl TALk My Teenage Stride - To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge The Mary Onettes - Dave Fireflies - Butterscotch Hotels - Kite Flight Louis Philippe - Heaven Is Above My Head TALK Little Big Adventure - Happiest Time The Paper Merchants - I Don't Care Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings Ketch Harbour Wolves - So Long To The Ground The Blind King - Driving In America TALK AA-Awesome - I Wish I Were A Belgium **From Karim Harlem Shakes - Sunlight **From Sari or Michelle Candy Panic Attack - What's He Got That I Haven't Love Is All - Wishing Well Project A-Ko - Molten Hearts TALK They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) **Stolen from an idea by Peter (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
Friday, June 26, 2009
June 26, 2009
Theme: Heaven is above your head |
| As often happens, as soon as I find a new source of music I go crazy and get obsessed about getting all the music from that source ignoring my regular go-to sources. For this show it was my discovery of the great MP3 blog/podcast called "Heaven is above your head", the blog is based in New Zealand but it appears that it started out in Sweden. The blog seems to have been going a few years and this past February they started a podcast that unfortunately seems to have ended this past week. Although the blog mostly plays the same sort of indie pop that I love, the podcast also has a heavy focus on 60s and 70s soul songs which is very cool. It just kind of worked out that about half of the songs from this show are from HIAYH as well as a set specifically focused on those cool soul songs. http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ Even with the focus on HIAYH the show was back to the normal sets divided by different musical types and of course I had to end off with a song by the recently departed Michael Jackson. I know that I haven't really been into anything he has put out in the past 20 years, but when I was growing up Thriller was certainly an album that I (like the rest of world) was in love with. I went with P.Y.T. (Pretty young thing) instead of one of the more famous songs as I remember particularly liking that song back in the day. Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after last show's top song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: Video for the Biker Boy songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBZUaFG7C8 video for Juni Jarvi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SaJr58qHw Video for Little Boots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUs9YzY7t-8 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 26, 2009 TALK (Theme) Sandstream - Teenage Love Biker Boy - Where Do You Go To? Juni Jarvi - Looking At You Is Like Looking At The Sun Baby Doll Lounge - Paisley Shirt (HIAYH) Bunnygrunt - We Suspect He Was Trying To Spell Monkey (HIAYH) TALK Baby Daylinger - You Push, I'll Go Little Big Adventure - The Hateful Eye Mike Snow - Animal Passion Pit - The Reeling Little Boots - New In Town TALK God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing Asobi Seksu - Transparence Helen Love - We Love You (HIAYH) Stolen Hearts - Fire (HIAYH) TALK Even As We Speak - I Won't Have To Think About You (HIAYH) Fireflies - Sledding Godsmania - All Gone Wrong Today The Seven Inches - Open-ness And Honesty (HIAYH) The New Breed - Summers Coming (HIAYH) TALK (HIAYH spotlight) Paul Sindab - You Dropped Your Candy In The Sand (HIAYH) Ty Karim - You Just Don't Know (HIAYH) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is (HIAYH) Mickey And Silvia - Love Is Strange (HIAYH) The Moments - You Said (HIAYH) TALK California Gold - Love Is All You Need (HIAYH) World Atlas - Inner city Kids (HIAYH) Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare Moustache Of Insanity - The Cat Chicken Song The Windmills - Beach Girls TALK Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (C) Denotes Canadian Content (HIAYH) Denotes song from Heaven is above your head |
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