Instrumental Show - 3/30/09

Instrumental Songs are kind of like the scary skeletons. Everybody has one but we rarely think about them. Tonight I played only mainly instrumental tracks of post-punk and a few scary skeletons. Download the madness at:

LINK TO INSTRUMENTAL SHOW OF POST-PUNK FOR POST-PUNKS

Playlist:

1.) Gary Numan - Airlane - The Pleasure Principal
2.) Pixies - Something Against You - Surfer Rosa
3.) The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly - Louder Than Bombs
4.) This Ascension - Intro - Tears In Rain
5.) The Cure - Another Journey By Train - Standing By the Beach B-Sides
6.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Quarterdrawing of the Dog - Tinderbox
7.) Visage - Moon Over Moscow - Visage
8.) The Pogues - Wild Cats of Kilkenny - Rum, Sodomy, and Lash
9.) Alien Sex Fiend - Seconds To Nowhere - Maximum Security
10.) Public Image Ltd. - Socialist - Metal Box
11.) Pigbag - Sunny Day - Post Punk CD 1-Rough Trade Shops
12.) Bauhaus - The Three Shadows Part I - The Sky's Gone Out
13.) Tones on Tail - You, the Night and the Music - Everything
14.) Love and Rockets - Saudade - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
15.) The Chameleons - Silence, Sea, and Sky - What Does Anything Mean Basically?
16.) The Tornados - Telstar - Greatest Ever! 60s!
17.) Devo - Booji Boy's Funeral - Hardcore 2 (1974-1977)
18.) Bow Wow Wow - Orang-Outang - See Jungle! See Jungle!
19.) The Clean - At the Bottom - Anthology
20.) The Replacements - Seen Your Video - Let it Be
21.) Heavens to Betsy - Intermission 247 - Calculated
22.) Depeche Mode - Big Muff - Speak and Spell
23.) Depeche Mode - Nothing To Fear - A Broken Frame
24.) The Buzzcocks - Walking Distance - Love Bites
25.) Orange Juice - Moscow - The Glasgow School
26.) The Pretenders - Space Invader - The Pretenders
27.) The Plugz - Reel Ten - Repo Man Soundtrack
28.) David Bowie - Weeping Wall - Low

Big Songs Show - 3/16/09

Big songs are simply songs that just feel big. And not even just big, larger than life sometimes. They can be symphonic, soaring, surging, dramatic, powerful, important and evoke a sense of fantasy that is generally missing from adult life. For more on these topics, click on the link below and download away.

LINK TO BIG SONGS SHOW

1.) Big Country - Tall Ships Go - Steeltown
2.) The Alarm - The Stand - The Alarm
3.) The Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator - Script of the Bridge
4.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle - Hyena
5.) New Order - Perfect Kiss - Substance
6.) Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music For the Masses
7.) Tears For Fears - Shout - Songs From the Big Chair
8.) Ultravox - Hymn - Quartet
9.) Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf - Rio
10.) Mew - Snow Brigade - Fringers
11.) Editors - All Sparks - The Back Room
12.) Sisters of Mercy - Dominion - Floodland
13.) Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart - Diesel and Dust
14.) Skids - Masquerade - Days in Europa
15.) A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV - Hunting High and Low
16.) Slade - Run Runaway - Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
17.) Cheap Trick - Dream Police - Dream Police
18.) Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache - Swing the Heartache BBC Sessions
19.) Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express - Trans Europe Express
20.) Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Down in the Park - Replicas
21.) Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights - Once Upon A Time in the West
22.) U2 - New Year's Day - War

Golden Throats of Post-Punk Show - 3/9/09

The singers of post-punk are the best singers in the world, bar none. Don't believe that good singing has to be a certain way, hitting certain notes, and caterwauling with certain divas on VH1. Singing is about creating a character to your music, something completely unique and distinct but still something people can relate to. That's what post-punk and new wave bands did so well. They'll never get the credit they deserve but they did get a show dedicated to them. Download it yourself from:

LINK TO GOLDEN THROATS OF POST-PUNK SHOW


Playlist:

1.) The Pretenders - Talk of the Town - Pretenders II
2.) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna - Tender Prey
3.) Oingo Boingo - Private Life - Nothing To Fear
4.) Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa - The Dreaming
5.) Soft Cell - Entertain Me - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
6.) Gang of 4 - I Love A Man in Uniform - Songs of the Free
7.) English Beat - End of the Party - Special Beat Service
8.) Duran Duran - Rio - Rio
9.) Shellyan Orphan - A Silent Day - Century Flower
10.) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - Please
11.) The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) -Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
12.) Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan - Urgh! A Music War
13.) XTC - Respectable Street - Urgh! A Music War
14.) The Jam - Town Called Malice - The Gift
15.) The Rubinoos - Hard to Get - The Rubinoos
16.) Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope - Emission
17.) Ultravox - Vienna - Vienna
18.) Joe Jackson - One More Time - Look Sharp
19.) Blondie - Fade Away and Radiate - Parallel Lines
20.) The Stranglers - Nice N' Sleazy - No More Heroes
21.) The Stranglers - Golden Brown - Feline
22.) The Cure - Lovecats - Japanese Whispers
23.) Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk - Heaven or Las Vegas
24.) The Smiths - Frankly Mr. Shankly - The Queen is Dead


***New Stuff Off Of New Music Playlist***

(N) Blitzen Trapper - Furr - Furr
(N) The Electric Lives - We Should Be Believing - The Electric Lives

Shoegaze Show - 3/2/09

Descending from C-86 and bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and Cocteau Twins, Shoegaze took noise and psychedelia to beautiful new places. Last night I visited some of those places and played all shoegaze music, both from the original scene (late 80s/early 90s) and the more modern day. As the rhyme goes, download the show by following the link below:

SHOEGAZE SHOW LINK


Playlist:

1.) Catherine Wheel - I Want To Touch You - Ferment
2.) My Bloody Valentine - Suesfine - Isn't Anything
3.) Ride - Polar Bear - Nowhere
4.) Chapterhouse - Pearl - Pearl EP
5.) Pale Saints - Babymaker - In Ribbons
6.) The Daysleepers - Big Sleep - Hide Your Eyes EP
7.) Airiel - Sharron Apple - Winks & Kisses: Melted EP
8.) Lush - Scarlet - Gala
9.) Swervedriver - Duel - Mezcal Head
10.) Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon - Crystal Stilts
11.) The Boo Radleys - Lazy Day - Adrenalin EP
12.) Bailterspace - The "W" Song - Tanker
13.) Lilys - Claire Hates Me - In the Presence of Nothing
14.) Black Tambourine - For Ex-Lovers Only - Complete Recordings
15.) Slowdive - She Calls - Morningrise EP
16.) B.R.M.C. - Too Real - B.R.M.C.
17.) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Crushed - Methodrone
18.) The Swirlies - Sleepytime - Cats of the Wild, Vol 2
19.) Galaxie 500 - Leave the Planet - On Fire
20.) Serena Maneesh - Hear Bleed Philharmonic - Fixxations EP
21.) M83 - Don't Save Us From the Flames - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
22.) Moose - Can't Get Enough of You - High Ball Me
23.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
24.) Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Longplaya - Metal Box - 3/1/09

Last night it was my pleasure to be a guest on the PCR show, Longplaya, along with Mike from Neat Neat Noise. We featured that classic Public Image Ltd. album, Metal Box. Listen to the podcast by following the link below:

METAL BOX PODCAST