Monday, December 22, 2008

Playlist 12.20.08

Such a valley girl.


Pantha du Prince- Asha

Santogold- Starstruck (Diplo Remix)

Health- Triceratops (Acid Girls Remix)

BWH- Livin’ Up (Putsch ’79 Mix)

Presets- My People (Mouse on Mars Acid Pretzels Mix)

Yazoo- Situation (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)

Human League- Mirror Man

Mr. Fingers- I’m Strong

Simian Mobile Disco- I Believe

Arthur Russell- That’s us/ Wild Combination

Daft Punk- Around the World

Breathless- Count on Angels

Siouxsie and the Banshees- Cannons

Brian Eno- Driving me Backwards

Liquid Liquid- Groupmegroup

Wire- One of us

Talking Heads- Moon Rocks

Mission of Burma- Fame and Fortune

Junior Boys- Birthday (Manitoba Remix)

Tortoise- Autumn Sweater

Pet Shop Boys- Always on my Mind

New Order- Blue Monday (808 State So-Hot Mix)

Prince and the New Power Generation- The Max

Buzzcocks- Promises

Beta Band- Push it Out

Cocteau Twins- Bluebeard

Mouse on Mars- Mine is in yours

Brassica- Welcome (A Piss in the River)

Soulwax- E-Talking

The ELF- Rave Cave

Orchestre Poly Rhythmo de Cotonou Dahomey- Minsanto le mi Dayihome

Nightmares on Wax- Deepdown

Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band- Feqer Aydelem Wey

Afrika Bambaataa- Planet Rock

Loose Joints- Is it all over my Face? (Larry Levan Remix)

Joy Division- These Days

This Heat- SPQR (Live)

Kraftwerk- Showroom Dummies

Gang Gang Dance- Princes (f. Tinchy Stryder)

Carl Craig- Future Days (Blade Runner Mix)

Matmos- Roses + Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Raincoats- Lola

Pere Ubu- Breath

His Name is Alive- Come to me

Battles- Atlas

Frank Zappa- Valley Girl

Monday, December 15, 2008

Playlist 12.13.08

Sparks- Rock n’ Roll People in a Disco World

Depeche Mode- Get the Balance Right

TV on the Radio- Crying (Telepathe Remix)

Jimmy Edgar- Turn You Inside Out

The Tough Alliance- A New Chance

Disco Digitale- Taken (to the Stars)

Gang Gang Dance- House Jam

The Juan McLean- Find a Way

Cocteau Twins- Five Ten Fiftyfold

Ladytron- Runaway

Egyptian Lover- I Need a Freak

Arabian Prince- Take You Home Girl

Fire Engines- Everything’s Roses

MIA- Birdflu

James White & the Blacks- (Tropical) Heat Wave

Altered Images- Happy Birthday

Cerberus Shoal- Pie for the President

Boards of Canada- Seeya Later

A.R. Kane- Lollita

Fujiya + Miyagi- Rook to Queen’s Pawn Six

MGMT- Time to Pretend

Beach House- Heart of Chambers

Cabaret Voltaire- Inside the Electronic Revolution

Happy Mondays- WFL (Think About the Future Mix)

The Cuzz Band- I Just Wanna Dance

Stereolab- Three Women

(Ok, Somehow I lost the third hour of the playlist- mea culpa.)

The Passions- I’m in Love with a German Film Star

Essential Logic- Wake Up

Einsturzende Neubaten- Weil, Weil, Weil

A Certain Ratio- Rub Down

Prince- Dirty Mind

The Fall- Couldn’t Get Ahead

Nation of Ulysses- Perpetual Motion Machine

Lush- Sweetness & Light

Pet Shop Boys- It’s a Sin

Thomas Leer- Private Plane

Go-Betweens- Bachelor Kisses

Simple Minds- Theme for Great Cities

Chic- Good Times

Monday, December 8, 2008

Playlist 12.6.08



Tortoise- Peering

Cocteau Twins- Persephone

The Clash- I’m so Bored with the USA

Eleanor Jackson- Fascination

Mr. Oizo- Two Takes it (Feat. Carmen Castro)

Depeche Mode- Master and Servant

M83- Teen Angst

White Williams- Going Down

Health- Glitter Pills

Neu!- Seeland

Grace Jones- Williams Blood (Cosmic Jam Remix)

Laurie Anderson- O Superman

Modern Lovers- Modern World

The Breeders- I Just Wanna Get Along

Guided by Voices- I’ll Replace You with Machines

Soft Cell- Seedy Films

Throbbing Gristle- Hamburger Lady

GVSB- (I) Don’t Got a Place

Nathan Fake- You Are Here (Fourtet Remix)

New Order- Age of Consent

Devo- Praying Hands

The Buggles- Elstree

FM Belfast- Par Avion

Studio- No Comply

Hercules and Love Affair- Blind

My Bloody Valentine- Loomer

The Cure- Kyoto Song

The Rosebuds- Blue Bird

Air France- Collapsing at Your Doorstep

Stereolab- Cybele’s Reverie

The Meters- Chicken Strut

Prince- Kiss (Daft Punk Remix)

Gang of Four- To Hell with Poverty

The Jam- That’s Entertainment

XTC- The Loving

Ice-T- What Ya Wanna Do?

Ilya Santana- From Uranus to Mercurius

Der Plan- Alle Sieben Jahre

Oneida- $50 Tea

Iggy & the Stooges- Gimme Danger

Raveonettes- Dead Sound

Sparks- When I’m with You

The Feelies- Fa-Ce-La

Bob Mould- Shelter Me

Husker Du- Friend, You’ve Got to Fall

The Verlaines- Pyromaniac

Split Enz- Six Months in a Leaky Boat

Suicide- 96 Tears (Live)

Kraftwerk- The Man- Machine (Live)

Erasure- Hideaway (Remix)

The Pet Shop Boys- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)

Monday, November 24, 2008

11.22.08

Shriekback- Nemesis

Chromatics- Healer

Wire- The 15th

Swayzak- Smile and Receive

Plaid- Get What You Gave

Ladytron- Deep Blue

Mazzy Star- Bells Ring

Breathless- Better Late than Never

LCD Soundsystem- North American Scum

Sounds from the Ground- Sweet Confusion

Tubeway Army- Down in the Park

Mogwai- Superheroes of BMX

MGMT- Electric Feel

Lindstrøm- The Long Way Home (Prins Thomas Edit)

Stereolab- Bop Scotch

Leonard Cohen- The Partisan

Sonic Youth- Tom Violence

Blonde Redhead- Maddening Cloud

December Sound- Truth Hurts

Tortoise- Six Pack

The Replacements- Within Your Reach

Simon Baker- Plastik (Todd Terje Turkatech Remix)

Charizma + Peanut Butter Wolf- Tell You Something

Chameleons- Mad Jack

Acid Mothers Temple- Universe of Romance

Heaven 17- Let me go

The Cure- Primary

Ian McCullough- Magical World

Seona Dancing- You’re on my Side

Arthur Russell- Get Around to it

Caribou- Yeti

Fujiya + Miyagi- Ankle Injuries

Robyn- Cobrastyle

Sebastian Leger- Talisman

Morgan Geist- Detroit

Hemingway- Machine

Television Personalities- Part-Time Punks

Radiohead- The National Anthem

Beach House- Auburn & Ivory

Birthday Party- Release the Bats

Xeno & Oaklander- Blue Flower

Roxy Music- Grey Lagoons

Orange Juice- Blue Boy

The B52s- Dance this Mess Around

Grant Mclennan- Dark Side of Town

Depeche Mode- Blasphemous Rumours

Yazoo- Bring Your Love Down

Mtume- Hips

Monday, November 17, 2008

Playlist 11.15.08

Junior Boys- Bellona

Jamie Lidell- The City

Jean-Jacques Perrey- Minuet of the Robots

Depeche Mode- New Life

Cabaret Voltaire- Split Second Feeling

OMD- Electricity

Hercules & Love Affair- Athene

Bush Tetras- Too Many Creeps

The Fall- Hit the North

Comix- Touche Pas Mon Sexe

Happy Mondays- Wrote for Luck

M83- Kim & Jessie

Kelley Polar- Entropy Reigns

Bow Wow Wow- C30 C60 C90 Go!

Breakout- Listen to the Rhythm

Jah Wobble- Becoming More Like God

Adam & the Ants- Antmusic

Wire- A Mutual Friend

Durutti Column- Drinking Song

The Smiths- Panic

Björk- Oceania

Apparat- Arcadia

Jose Gonzalez- Fold

Sugarcubes- Birthday

Giorgio Moroder- First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love

Sparks- Dance Goddammit

Band of Susans- Paint it Black

Talk Talk- Myrrhman

Kraftwerk- Computer Love

Fire Engines- Big Gold Dream

Ladytron- He Took her to a Movie

Comsat Angels- I’m Falling

Cocteau Twins- Blue Bell Knoll

This Mortal Coil- Strength of Strings

Tuxedomoon- No Tears

Pet Shop Boys- Being Boring

Arthur Russell- Being It

Röyksopp- Someone Like Me

ABC- Look of Love

Malcolm McLaren- Buffalo Gals

Public Image Ltd.- Poptones

Love- Andmoreagain

The Bats- Daddy’s Highway

Yellow Magic Orchestra- Kang Tong Boy

New York Dolls- Vietnamese Baby

The dB’s- Amplifier

Pulp- The Fear

Sonic Youth- The Empty Page

Chameleons- Tears

REM- 7 Chinese Brothers

Split Enz- One Step Ahead

Flamin’ Groovies- You Tore me down

Primal Scream- Come Together

Daft Punk- Digital Love

Monday, November 10, 2008

Playlist 11.8.08

Back.

Echo and the Bunnymen- Back of Love

Juana Molina- Un Dia

Wild Swans- Young Manhood

BWH- Livin’ Up (Putsch ’79 mix)

Newcleus- Teknology

Yazoo- Only You

Depeche Mode- Everything Counts (live)

Human League- I Love You Too Much

The ELF- Rave Cave

The Normal- Warm Leatherette

The KLF- What Time is Love?

David Bowie- John I’m Only Dancing

Bauhaus- Bela Lugosi’s Dead

His Name is Alive- *C*A*T*S*

The Fall- Printhead

Love & Rockets- No New Tale to Tell

Jesus & Mary Chain- Blues from a Gun

Sonic Youth- Bull in the Heather

Blondie- X-Offender

Associates- Helicopter Helicopter (BBC Session)

Gang of Four- Natural’s not in it

Colourbox- Edit the Dragon

Gang Gang Dance- Princes (f. Tinchy Stryder)

Nightmares on Wax- Hear in Colour

Mono Band- Ghost Town

Art of Noise- Legacy (12” Version)

Kleerup- Until We Bleed (w/ Lykke Li)

Siouxsie & the Banshees- The Sweetest Chill

Joy Division- New Dawn Fades

Ultravox- Vienna

Ramones- 53rd and 3rd

Mission of Burma- Spider’s Web

Nomeansno- Dad

Devo- Gates of Steel (live)

The Radio Dept.- What Will Give

Stereolab- Three Women

Cut Copy- Future

Sparks- I Predict

Spiritualized- All of My Thoughts

Field Mice- Triangle

The Delgados- Blackpool (BBC Session)

Tobin Sprout- Beast of Souls

T. Rex- Mambo Sun

Television- Friction

Wire- One of Us

Simple Minds- Glittering Prize

The The- Angels of Deception

Arabian Prince- Simple Planet

Orange Juice- Falling & Laughing

Young Marble Giants- Eating Noddemix

The Smiths- Cemetry Gates

Belle & Sebastian- White Collar Boy

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Vacation Time.

I have been out of the country touring the great fjords of Scandinavia for the past two weeks, but do expect a new show coming this Saturday!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Playlist- 10.11.08

XTC- Senses Working Overtime

Sugarcubes- Motorcrash

Verlaines- Doomsday

Daedelus- Fairweather Friend

Arthur Russell- Arm Around You

Orbital- PETROL

Stone Roses- I Wanna be Adored

Cocteau Twins- Essence

The Field- Little Heart Break so Fast

Erland Øye- A While Ago and Recently

Lindstrøm- Grand Ideas

Max Berlin- Elle & Moi (Joakim Remix)

Tom Waits- Shake It

Pattern is Movement f. Scott Solter- Witkin Dub

Sonic Youth- Schizophrenia

My Bloody Valentine- Cigarette in Your Bed

Hüsker Dü- Celebrated Summer

Wipers- Up Front

Deerhoof- The Tears and Music of Love

TV on the Radio- Crying (Telepathe Remix)

The Chromatics- Mask

Soulwax- Krack

Throbbing Gristle- United

This Mortal Coil- Tarantula

G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y- Computer Love

Raveonettes- You Want the Candy

The Damned- Noise, Noise, Noise

Squeeze- Cool for Cats

Mighty Lemon Drops- Out of Hand

The Associates- Party Fears Two

Moderne- Vers L’est

Sparks- My Other Voice

Acid Mothers Temple- Mellow Hollow Love

Bjork- Oceania

Folk Implosion- Nothing Gonna Stop

Blur- Killer for Your Love

Prince- Dirty Mind

Malcolm McLaren- Hey DJ

OMD- Enola Gay

Yaz- Too Pieces

The The- Infected

Brian Eno- Driving Me Backwards

Talking Heads- Listening Wind

Leonard Cohen- Everybody Knows

Pulp- Lipgloss

Teenage Fanclub- Fallen Leaves

Pixies- All Over the World

Shudder to Think- Shake Your Halo Down

The Chills- I Love my Leather Jacket

Mew- Louise Louisa

Pet Shop Boys- What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Monday, October 6, 2008

Playlist 10.4.08

Giorgio Moroder- From Here to Eternity

Hercules & Love Affair- Blind

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark- Electricity

Echo & the Bunnymen- Over You

Wire- Practice Makes Perfect

Blondie- Hangin’ on the Telephone

Brazilian Girls- Nouveau Americain

Studio- Self- Service

Crystal Castles- Magic Spells

Erasure- Who Needs Love Like That

Happy Mondays- Mad Cyril

Joy Division- Isolation

Ratatat- El Pico

Simple Minds- Promised You a Miracle

M83- Noise

Cocteau Twins- Blue Bell Knoll

Slowdive- Allison

Galaxie 500- Decomposing Trees

December Sound- Truth Hurts

Field Mice- White

Spacemen 3- The Sound of Confusion

Liquid Liquid- Cavern

Digitalism- Zdarlight

David Bowie- Sound + Vision

Magazine- Shot by Both Sides

The Smiths- The Queen is Dead

Big Black- Bad Houses

Lee “Scratch” Perry- Fire

Truckasaurus- Super Copter

Kelley Polar- Entropy Reigns

Sparks- Waterproof

Pylon- Cool

Fire Engines- Everything’s Roses

Altered Images- Happy Birthday

Josef K- Sorry for Laughing

Go-Betweens- Head Full of Steam

Television Personalities- Silly Girl

Beat Happening- Noise

Junior Boys- Count Souvenirs

Heaven 17- Penthouse & Pavement

Scott Walker- Cossacks Are

Mogwai- The Sun Smells too Loud

John Zorn- Yellow

Mekons- Sleepless Nights

The Embarrassment- Berliner’s Night Out

Flipper- Life

Quintron- Witch in the Club

Jonathan Richman- Salvador Dali

Cabaret Voltaire- Twanky Party

Beta Band- Push it Out

British Sea Power- It Ended on an Oily Stage

Leonard Cohen- Tower of Song

Kings of Convenience- Love is no Big Truth

Ganymed- Dancing in a Disco

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

My Bloody Valentine at Roseland Ballroom 9.23.08



Earplugs.

Seldom does the thought of gauzing my ears at a concert make an appeal for attention the morning of a highly anticipated show. Checking Facebook before a long-planned trip to see a reunited My Bloody Valentine in New York City, a friend posted that he went to their performance on the previous night, and may have suffered hearing loss from the waves of noise and distortion played at levels approaching the threshold of pain. Before I hopped on the bus to New York, I made sure to discuss a plan with my travel comrade, John, to stop at a Duane Reade pharmacy and pick up enough earplugs to shield the ears of all in our party. Surely I was not being overly cautious. I was correct in that assumption. John mentioned that free earplugs are supplied at all My Bloody Valentine shows.

Ear protection was available for all concertgoers at the Roseland Ballroom. You could pick up your pair at the security checkpoint, the merchandise table, the bar. The plugs were soft and pulp-like, not to mention quite slippery. I was not the only person who nearly lost one of the plugs in my ear canal. They stayed wrapped in cellophane through the opening act, the Lilys, who weaved through material old and new, indebted to MBV-ish shoegaze and Kinks-style pop, respectively. I kept the earplugs in my shirt pocket until Colm O'Ciosoig stepped up to his drum set and tested the bass drum pedal. They then went immediately in my ears.

My Bloody Valentine live is nothing more than a fantastic spectacle of light and sound. Opener "I Only Said," from their undeniable masterpiece, Loveless, charged forth with the fuzzed-out dueling guitar explosions of Kevin Shields and Belinda Butcher and the pulsing thump of O' Ciosoig's bass pedal. Though it was the synchronized strobe lights that made me reconsider the meaning of shoegaze; a few songs had passed before I felt fully comfortable staring straight at the stage. Shields led the band into a false start or two, though most of the show was a perfected stream of shimmering guitar noise, vocals buried deep in the mix. What MBV perfected in the studio, they honed on stage. The guitars were as complex as they were loud, with low-end hums matching the screeches of feedback. Of course, I tried to adjust my reception of the performance between the aural comfort and discomfort supplied by the earplugs and the band.

John suggested I keep in only the plug in my right ear to mix the treble-muted filter of the earplug with the raw feedback coming from the speakers. I then tried switching the earplug to the left ear. As we were standing on the right side of the stage below the speaker column, only a split second was needed to deem this a very bad idea. I settled on keeping the spongy blue cylinders docked in my ear cavity, with the occasional removal from my left ear to better hear the vocals and guitar squeals.

MBV worked through most of Loveless along with a few tracks from their 1988 LP Isn't Anything and EP You Made Me Realise. They had flown through their set in about an hour when Shields mumbled a quick "thanks for coming" into the microphone and led the band into "You Made Me Realise." A regular set closer in their heyday, the song was interrupted by a twenty-minute jam...of noise. Shields and Butcher's "swirling" guitars blanketed the ballroom with near-infinite distortion and feedback as bassist Debbie Gouge and O' Ciosoig provided the rhythmic thuds. Crowd reaction changed from amazement to intrigue to confusion. Most fans succumbed to the unrelenting attack of noise and slowly raised their arms over their heads in religious submission to the power of the sound. They were being blown away by My Bloody Valentine. The vibrating waves of shoegaze were strong enough to shake the ground and raise the hair on your head. I kept myself busy for most of the interlude by fiddling with my left earplug, creating a pleasant whooshing sound as I filtered the feedback in and out of my ear. After the euphoria passed, confusion once again set in until MBV finished their long winded sentence and jumped back into the final phrases of "Realise."

Right before their final song, I was milling over the MBV performance trying to reconcile a mesmerizing hour of music that simultaneously felt underwhelming, given the immeasurable hype of the show. The 20 minutes of noise, not unique for an MBV set, changed my opinion of what I just witnessed as I left the Roseland. You can't really clamor for more when you were holding your ears closed for the several previous minutes. At the same time, I felt satisfied after watching a band pound my senses yet do it with precision and craft. My ears survived as well, thanks to the security checkpoint.


















Monday, September 29, 2008

Playlist 9.27.08

Orange Juice- Poor Old Soul (Part One)

Klaus Nomi- Nomi Song

Wire- Reuters

The Juan MacLean- Find a Way

Passion Pit- Sleepyhead (Landau “Wake Up” Remix)

Vaselines- Molly’s Lips

The Radio Dept.- Every Time

Happy Mondays- Kinky Afro

Mantronix- Needle to the Groove

Nightmares on Wax- Hear in Colour

Juana Molina- Un Dia

Cabaret Voltaire- Just Fascination

Suicide- Mr. Ray

Bark Psychosis- Big Shot

Lush- Downer

Chameleons- Up the Down Escalator

Her Space Holiday- Perfection Paper

Associates- Boys Keep Swinging

John Cale- Helen of Troy

Roxy Music- Editions of You

Captain Beefheart- My Human Gets Me Blues

The Books- Tokyo

Gang Gang Dance- House Jam

New Order- Senses

M83- Graveyard Girl

Jesus & Mary Chain- April Skies

The Tough Alliance- Neo Violence (Woolfy Remix)

Sarah Dash- Lucky Tonight

The Jam- Absolute Beginners

Eltro- No One

The Sundays- Can’t be Sure

Stereolab- Three Women

Kelley Polar- Black Hole

Space- Magic Fly

Carl Bean- I was Born this Way

Bembeya Jazz National- Repulique Guinee

Soul Drifters- Funky Soul Brother

Bad Brains- House of Suffering

Buzzcocks- Nostalgia

Prince- Hot Thing

Kraftwerk- Neon Lights (Live)

Volcano Suns- White Elephant

The La’s- Can’t Sleep

The JPS Experience- Breathe

Brian Jonestown Massacre- Evergreen

The Feelies- Fa-Ce-La

The Go- Betweens- House Jack Kerouac Built

Pink Floyd- Lucifer Sam

Wedding Present- Interstate 5

Nikki Sudden- Don’t Break My Soul

Super Furry Animals- Suckers

Neu! - Hero

Ladytron- Runaway

Gang of Four- To Hell with Poverty!

Electrelane- Gone Under Sea

Monday, September 22, 2008

9.20.08

Clinic- Walking with Thee

Aztec Camera- Oblivious

Caribou- Yeti

YACHT- See a Penny

Health- Glitter Pills

Aphex Twin- Where’s Your Girlfriend

Soft Cell- Entertain Me

Burial- Archangel (Boy 8-Bit Simple Remix)

White Williams- Going Down

Broadcast- Microtronics 06

Weird War- Store Bought Pot

Cocteau Twins- Shallow then Halo

The Bug- Poison Dart (Skream Remix)

Crime- Frustration

The Germs- Lexicon Devil

Robert Forster- Demon Days

The Feelies- It’s Only Life

Suede- Animal Lover

Metro Area- Atmosphrique

Hrvatski- Marbles

Lucky Dragons- Open Family

Múm- Please Sing my Spring Reverb

Television Personalities- World of Pauline Lewis

The Soup Dragons- Slow Things Down

Twilight Sad- Cold Days in the Birdhouse

Field Mice- Emma’s House

Rhythim is Rhythim- Strings of Life

Cybotron- Cosmic Cars

Elvis Costello- Accidents Will Happen

Split Enz- Give it a Whirl

The Go! Team- Huddle Formation

Prefuse 73- We Get Our Own Way

Dungen- Lipsill

Aa- Uracle

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- The Kitchen Club

A Certain Ratio- Water Line

Love Tractor- Llama

James Chance & the Contortions0 Contort Yourself

Polysics- Black Out Fall Out

Air- Dirty Trip

Massive Attack- Small Time Shot Away

Jesus & Mary Chain- Taste of Cindy

Kinks- Victoria

Gang of Four- I Found That Essence Rare

Stone Roses- She Bangs the Drums

New Order-Confusion

English Beat- Mirror in the Bathroom

Rf- Down

Happy Mondays- Dennis & Lois

Kitchens of Distinction- On Tooting Broadway Station

Swans- Breathing Water

Tubeway Army- Replicas

Love- The Red Telephone

Primal Scream- Come Together

Roxy Music- More Than This

Monday, September 15, 2008

9.13.08

Cocteau Twins- Sugar Hiccup

My Bloody Valentine- Only Shallow

Arthur Russell- Get Around to it

Telefon Tel Aviv- My Week Beats Your Year

Stereolab- OLV 26

Prince- When You Were Mine

Datarock- I Used to Dance with my Daddy

Mr. Fingers- Can You Feel it?

The Orb- U.F.Orb

Ladytron- Deep Blue

Alan Braxe- Addicted

The Field- A Paw in my Face

The Church- Almost with You

Clientele- Winter on Victoria Street

REM- 7 Chinese Brothers

Art Brut- Modern Art

Split Enz- One Step Ahead

Kings of Convenience- Love is no Big Truth

Scott Walker- World’s Strongest Man

King Khan & the Shrines- Outta Harm’s Way

Naked Raygun- Soldier’s Requiem

Hasil Adkins- No More Hot Dogs

Faraquet- Carefully Planned

Brian Eno + David Byrne- Mea Culpa

Ciccone Youth- Into the Groove(y)

Soft Cell- Bedsitter

Breathless- Better Late than Never

Nice Nice- Fight the Face

Silver Apples- Lovefingers

The Residents- Kaw-Liga

Pere Ubu- Real World

James Brown- Night Train (Live)

Slick Rick- Hey Young World

Egyptian Lover- Egypt Egypt

Air- You Make it Easy

Future Sound of London- Dead Skin Cells

Erasure- Heavenly Action

Junior Boys- Bellona

The Fall- CREEP

Parliament- Mothership Connection

Mission of Burma- Fame and Fortune

Throwing Muses- Ruthie’s Knocking

Inspiral Carpets- Generations

Heavenly- Starshy

Meat Puppets- Plateau

Nick Cave- Tower of Song

Robyn Hitchcock- We’re Gonna Live in the Trees

Television- Venus

Concretes- Chosen One

Robert Pollard- Right Thing

Low- Sunflower

Talk Talk- After the Flood

Pantha du Prince- Saturn Strobe

Monday, September 8, 2008

9.6.08

Playlist 9.6.08

  1. stiff little fingers- alternative ulster
  2. mc5- call me animal
  3. the shaggs- philosophy of the world
  4. sparks- dance godammit
  5. simple minds- theme for great cities
  6. royksopp- someone like me
  7. hercules & love affair- someone like me
  8. mission of burma- new nails
  9. tortoise- six pack
  10. food for animals w/ faust- planet say
  11. the fall- lie dream of a casino soul
  12. ricardo villalobos- you won’t tell me
  13. esem- spider boat fisherman loudspeaker flash
  14. emperor x- exterminata beat
  15. truckasauras- super copter
  16. faust- picnic on a frozen river
  17. kraftwerk- the model
  18. felt- primitive painter
  19. luna- astronaut
  20. echo & the bunnymen- read it in books
  21. teenage fanclub- don’t look back
  22. the go-betweens- before hollywood
  23. spiritualized- soul on fire
  24. associates- a matter of gender (bbc session)
  25. 13th floor elevators- reverberation
  26. fever- standing in the shadows of love
  27. malcolm mclaren- buffalo gals
  28. adverts- no time to be 21
  29. raveonettes- aly, walk with me
  30. straitjacket fits- such a daze
  31. john cale- paris 1919
  32. lcd soundsystem- north american scum
  33. giorgio moroder- e=mc2
  34. art of noise- yebo! (underground mix)
  35. eric b. and rakim- musical massacre
  36. xtc- generals and majors
  37. soul impossibles- soul power no. 1
  38. james brown- super bad (live)

mm. femi kuti- beng beng beng

nn. alan vega & oneida- rocket usa (live)

oo. joy division- she’s lost control (live)

pp. slowdive- machine gun

qq. minus story- misery is a ship

rr. the clash- straight to hell

ss. tuxedomoon- no tears

tt. fairport convention- fatheringay

uu. modern lovers- roadrunner

vv. patti smith- Kimberly

ww. replacements- little mascara

xx. x- the world’s a mess, it’s in my kiss

yy. van morrison- cyprus avenue

zz. talking heads- crosseyed and painless


Im still waiting...

Monday, August 25, 2008

Playlist 8.23

Aztec camera- Oblivious

Robyn Hitchcock- Cynthia Mask

Electrelane- Take the Bit Between Your Teeth

Wedding Present- Davni Chasy

Chameleons- Tears

Deerhoof- Town

Comsat Angels- I’m Falling

Yazoo- Situation (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)

Languis- Never Now

Alfie Khan Sound Orchestra- Illegal Toys

Duran Duran- Is There Something I Should Know (Live)

M83- Kim & Jessie

This Mortal Coil- A Heart of Glass

Wire- Mr. Marx’s Table

Birthday Party- Release the Bats (Live)

Sex Pistols- Holidays in the Sun

Blur- M.O.R.

Cribs- Man’s Needs

Tenement Halls- Starless Night

Ladybug Transistor- Song for the Ending Day

Von Sudenfed- Fledermaus Can’t Get It

MIA- Jimmy

Cabaret Voltaire- Split Second Feeling

Black Flag- Modern Man

Kraftwerk- Computer Love

Goldie- A Sense of Rage (Sensual VIP Mix)

Gravenhurst- She Dances

Magnetic Fields- California Girls

Dinosaur Jr.- Tarpit

Nation of Ulysses- Shakedown

Cocteau Twins- Essence

Max Berlin- Elle & Moi (Joakim Remix)

Mr. Q- DJ Style

The Notwist- Off the Rails

Frank Black- Horrible Day

Pinback- Byzantine

Luke Temple- Private Shipwreck

Dirty Projectors- Warholian Wigs

The Clientele- Since K Got Over Me

Animal Collective- The Purple Bottle

Orange Juice- Consolation Prize

Supergrass- Rush Hour Soul

Sloan- Underwhelmed

Holy Rollers- Perfect Sleeper

My Bloody Valentine- Soft as Snow

Sea & Cake- Four Corners

Jens Lekman- A Sweet Summer Night on Hammerhill

Come On- Bad Luck with Parents

Jesus & Mary Chain- Upside Down

Castanets- Sway

Leonard Cohen- The Partisan

Verlaines- Heavy 33

The Bats- Daddy’s Highway

The Fall- Hit the North (Part 2)

Fire Engines- Big Gold Dream

Happy Mondays- Hallelujah

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Playlist 8.16.08

ABC- Look of Love

Josef K- Sorry for Laughing

Human League- I Love You Too Much

Royksopp- So Easy

Kleerup- Until We Bleed (w/ Lykke Li)

Apparat- Arcadia

Liquid Liquid- Optimo

Donna Summer- I Feel Love

Heaven 17- Penthouse and Pavement

Hercules & Love Affair- Athene

Crystal Castles- Magic Spells

Kelley Polar- Entropy Reigns

Mr. Fingers- I’m Strong

Papas Fritas- Hey Hey You Say

Go-Betweens- Head Full of Steam

Lush- Sweetness & Light

Game Theory- 24

Verlaines- Death and the Maiden

Brassica- Welcome (A Piss in the River)

Velvet Underground- I Found a Reason

Brazilian Girls- Nouveau Americain

Prefuse 73- Pastel Assassins

The Beakers- Red Towel

Clinic- Mr. Moonlight

Lee “Scratch” Perry- Fire

MGMT- Kids (EP Version)

The Smiths- Cemetry Gates

Buzzcocks- Sixteen Again

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- Doing All the Things that Wouldn’t Make Your Parents Proud

The Alarm- Absolute Reality

Simple Minds- Someone, Somewhere in Summertime

Spacemen 3- Come Down Softly to my Soul

This Heat- SPQR (live)

Joy Division- New Dawn Fades

Broadcast- Man is not a Bird

Orbital- Lush 3.1

808 State- Cubik

Simian Mobile Disco- Love

Pulp- Weeds

British Sea Power- Mother

Sonic Youth- Candle

Belly- Dusted

Helium- Lady of the Fire

Iggy and the Stooges- Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

Pylon- Stop It

The Clean- Billy Two

Fire Engines- Everything’s Roses

Wire- Too Late

The Church- Reptile

Th’ Faith Healers- Reptile Smile

Yo La Tengo- Sugarcube

Ramones- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Califone- Pink & Sour

Mogwai- The Sun Smells Loud

Junior Boys- Count Souvenirs

ESG- My Love for You

Monday, August 11, 2008

Playlist 8.9.08

Feelies- It’s Only Life

A Certain Ratio- Water Line

G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y- Miss Broadway

Burial- Archangel (Boy 8-bit Simple Remix)

The Bug- Poison Dart (Skream Remix)

Daedelus- Fair Weather Friends

El Perro Del Mar- God Knows

Au Pairs- We’re so Cool

Girls Against Boys- (I) Don’t Got a Place

Elodie Lauten- Vision

Arthur Russell- Arm Around You

Echo & the Bunnymen- White Devil

Secos e Molhados- Amor

Prefab Sprout- Goodbye Lucille #1

Radio Dept.- Everytime

Wild Swans- Young Manhood

Erland Øye- Sheltered Life

Lindstrøm- The Long Way Home (Prins Thomas Edit)

Swell Maps- International Rescue

The Fall- Couldn’t Get Ahead

The Damned- New Rose

Daniel Johnston- Casper the Friendly Ghost

Scott Walker- Hand Me Ups

Sparks- Angst in My Pants

Ladytron- Runaway

M83- Colours

Bratmobile- Cherry Bomb

Pulp- Disco 2000

James Chance- Don’t Want to be Happy

The Forgemasters- Track With No Name (Communique Mix)

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke- Palladium

Studio- Self Service

Wallias Band- Muziqawi Silt

Metro Area- Atmosphrique

Pere Ubu- Breath

Skygreen Leopards- Belle of the Woodman’s Autumn

For Against- Sabres

Siouxsie and the Banshees- Cities in Dust

Tangerine Dream- Astral Voyager

Ramones- I Don’t Care

Tubeway Army- Are Friend Electric?

Model 500- The Chase

Elizabeth Fraser- At Last I am Free

Kinks- Afternoon Tea

Sugar- Changes

The Breeders- I Just Wanna Get Along

Favourite Sons- No One Ever Dies

Versus- Bright Light

David Bowie- Ashes to Ashes

PragVEC- Nervous

Sonic Youth- Death Valley ‘69

Sylvester- Do You Wanna Funk?

Pantha du Prince- Asha

Friday, August 8, 2008

Playlist 7.26.08

The Fugs- Kill for Peace

Boris with Michio Kurihara- Rainbow

Blonde Redhead- Silently

Ganymed- Dancing in a Disco

Santogold- Starstruck (Diplo Remix)

Looper- Burning Flies

Junior Boys- Birthday (Manitoba Remix)

New Order- Senses

Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dewdrops' Drops

Sparks- My Other Voice

Malcolm McLaren w/ the World's Famous Supreme Team- Hey DJ

The Sugarcubes- Birthday

The Smiths- Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

Echo & the Bunnymen- Rescue

Love & Rockets- No New Tale to Tell

The Fall- Printhead

Ricardo Villalobos & Fumiya Tanaka- Fumianric2

ESG- My Love for You

Nightmares on Wax- Deepdown

Soulwax- Krack

Flipper- Life

Lenola- Sids

Morton Feldman- Suite for Toy Piano (III)

King Khan & the Shrines- Outta Harm's Way

Ratatat- El Pico

Gotan Project- Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)

Bush Tetras- Too Many Creeps

OMD- Enola Gay

XTC- The Meeting Place

Belle & Sebastian- Jonathan David

Os Mutantes- O Relogio

Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band- Feqer Aydelem Wey

Mantronix- Ladies

The Minutemen- I Felt Like a Gringo

His Name is Alive- Come to Me

Durutti Column- Drinking Song

Harry Nilsson- Open Your Window

This Heat- Paper Hats

PiL- Poptones

Adam & the Ants- Antmusic

Throbbing Gristle- United

Soft Cell- Forever the Same

The Jesus & Mary Chain- Darklands

Pet Shop Boys- Being Boring

Black Flag- TV Party

The Sound- Skeletons

Sonic Youth- Wish Fulfillment

Ramones- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

The Soup Dragons- Slow Things Down

Blondie- Hangin' on the Telephone

The dB's- Amplifier

Delgados- Everybody Come Down

Brian Eno & David Byrne- Mea Culpa

Catherine Wheel- Black Metallic

Randy Newman- He Gives Us All His Love

My Bloody Valentine- Only Shallow

Playlist 7.12.08

Playlist 7.12.08

Dead Boys- Sonic Reducer

James Chance + the Contortions- Flip Your Face

The Jesus and Mary Chain- Her Way of Praying

Arthur Russell- That's us/Wild Combination

Kleerup- Until We Bleed (w/ Lykke Li)

Yazoo- Situation (Hercules + Love Affair Remix)

Television Personalities- World of Pauline Lewis

The Clean- Billy Two

Jens Lekman- Into Eternity

Soft Cell- Chips on my Shoulder

Crystal Castles- Crimewave

Egyptian Lover- Egypt Egypt

Love- Seven & Seven Is

Husker Du- The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill

Blake Babies- Look Away

Verlaines- Death and the Maiden

Mogwai- The Sun Smells Too Loud

Carl Craig- Future Days (Blade Runner Mix)

LFO- Freeze

Human League- Being Boiled

Alan Braxe + Fred Falke- Palladium

Blake Babies- Look Away

Verlaines- Death and the Maiden

Mogwai- The Sun Smells Too Loud

Carl Craig- Future Days (Blade Runner Mix)

Delta 5- Mind Your Own Business

LFO- Freeze

Human League- Being Boiled

Alan Braxe + Fred Falke- Palladium

Cabaret Voltaire- Twanky Party

Throbbing Gristle- Hot on the Heels of Love

Mountain Goats- Slow West Vultures

Super Furry Animals- Suckers

This Mortal Coil- The Jeweller

Go-Betweens- Head Full of Steam

Siouxsie & the Banshees- Christine

Apparat- Arcadia

Telefon Tel Aviv- My Week Beats Your Year

El Perro Del Mar- From the Valley to the Stars

Fire Engines- Candyskin

Associates- Affectionate Punch

Liquid Liquid- Groupmegroup

Yellow Magic Orchestra- Kang Tong Boy

Echo & the Bunnymen- Show of Strength

Pulp- The Fear

Wire- Strange

The Vaselines- Teenage Superstars

Erland Oye- Sheltered Life

Looper- Ballad of Ray Suzuki

M83- Kim & Jessie

Bow Wow Wow- C30 C60 C90 Go!

Lush- Downer

Shiva Burlesque- Do the Pony

PJ Harvey- Legs

Clinic- Mr. Moonlight

Asobi Seksu- Thursday

Spacemen 3- Revolution

Magnetic Fields- I Dream Alone

A Certain Ratio- Rub Down

Super 3- Standing on the Top

Boyracer- They're Making Money Off You

Playlist 7.5.08

  1. Elvis Costello- Accidents Will Happen
  2. Dave Edmunds- Crawling From the Wreckage
  3. REM- Talk About the Passion
  4. Galaxie 500- Fourth of July
  5. Television Personalities- World of Pauline Lewis
  6. Yaz- Only You
  7. Datarock- I Used to Dance with my Daddy
  8. English Beat- Mirror in the Bathroom
  9. Art Brut- Modern Art
  10. Stereolab- Bop Scotch
  11. Fujiya + Miyagi- Collarbone
  12. Shriekback- All Lined Up
  13. The Soul Drifters- Funky Soul Brother
  14. Slowdive- Souvlaki Space Station
  15. The Clean- Big Soft Punch
  16. Robert Forster- Demon Days
  17. Essex Green- Don't Know Why
  18. Wedding Present- Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
  19. Love Tractor- Llama
  20. Low- Candy Girl
  21. Eleventh Dream Day- I Could be Lost
  22. Cocteau Twins- Shallow then Halo
  23. Derrick May- Strings of Life
  24. Future Sound of London- Lifeforms
  25. Junior Boys- So this is Goodbye
  26. The Feelies- Slipping into Something
  27. Richard Lloyd- Field of Fire
  28. Echo & the Bunnymen- Nocturnal Me
  29. Suicide- Mr. Ray
  30. The Chills- Pink Frost
  31. Camper van Beethoven- Take the Skinheads Bowling
  32. Kings of Convenience- Envoy
  33. Velvet Underground- What Goes On
  34. The Bats- Trouble in this Town
  35. Pattern is Movement- Right Away
  36. Eltro- Motorboat
  37. Les Savy Fav- Pots and Pans
  38. Blonde Redhead- Spring and by Summer Fall
  39. The Concretes- Fiction
  40. Violent Femmes- Country Death Song
  41. Boyracer- Billy Three
  42. Theoretical Girls- No More Sex
  43. Sugar- Mind is an ..Island..
  44. Café Tacuba- Reves
  45. Heavenly- Boyfriend Stays the Same
  46. Air- You Make it Easy
  47. M83- Graveyard Girl
  48. The Smiths- Sheila Take a Bow
  49. Swell Maps- Read About ....Seymour....
  50. The Cramps- The Natives are Restless
  51. Bad Brains- Banned in DC
  52. New Bomb Turks- Snap Decision
  53. Bardo Pond- Endurance
  54. The Fall- Fortress/Deer Park
  55. Sly & the Family Stone- I Want to Take You Higher
  56. Simian Mobile Disco- I Believe

Playlist 6.28.08

1. Polysics- Blackout Fallout
2. Leonard Cohen- Bird on a Wire
3. Silver Apples- Lovefingers
4. Spiritualized- Soul on Fire
5. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- Universe of Romance
6. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3- Ole Tarantula
7. Helium- Silver Strings
8. New York Dolls- Jet Boy
9. Guided by Voices- My Valuable Hunting Knife
10. The Smiths- Hand in Glove
11. Scott Walker- The Old Man's Back Again
12. Sonic Youth- Tunic
13. Bark Psychosis- Eyes and Smiles
14. Jimmie Rodgers- Jimmie's Mean Mamma Blues
15. Brian Eno- I'll Come Running
16. Chameleons- Mad Jack
17. G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y- Computer Love
18. Hercules & Love Affair- You Belong
19. Plaid- Get What You Gave
20. The Radio Dept.- It's Personal
21. Pink Floyd- Flaming
22. DNA- Egomaniac's Kiss
23. Prince- When You Were Mine
24. Robyn- Cobrastyle
25. Orbital- Times Fly (Fast)
26. Suicide- 96 Tears
27. Teenage Fanclub- Sparky's Dream
28. Devo- Gates of Steel (Live)
29. OMD- Souvenir
30. Primal Scream- Movin' on up
31. The Kinks- Johnny Thunder
32. Cerberus Shoal- Pie for the President
33. Jonathan Richman- Salvador Dali
34. The Hidden Cameras- I Believe in the Good Life
35. The Feelies- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and my Monkey
36. The Replacements- The Ledge
37. Husker Du- Friend, You've Got to Fall
38. Luna- Buffalo Boots
39. James Brown- Super Bad (Live)
40. Parliament- Mothership Connection
41. Soft Cell- Bedsitter
42. Happy Mondays- Kinky Afro
43. Come On- Don't Walk on the Kitchen Floor
44. Bryan Ferry- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
45. Red House Painters- Have You Forgotten
46. Big Black- The Model
47. ESG- My Love for You
48. Mr. Fingers- I'm Strong
49. Cybotron- Alleys of Your Mind
50. Comet Gain- Just One More Summer Before I Go
51. The Jam- Going Underground
52. Red Krayola/ Art & Language- The Fairest of All
53. Mission of Burma- Wounded World
54. Windsor for the Derby- The Melody of the Fallen Tree
55. The Wrens- Built-In Girls
56. Magnetic Fields- Old Fools
57. Field Mice- Emma's House