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

Madchester Show - 2/16/09

A fusion of late 60s psychedelic pop and late 80s acid house dance rhythms, Madchester was the dominant musical force in Great Britain for a fine couple of years. I tried to boil those years down to a fine couple of hours on tonight's show. Download below:

MADCHESTER SHOW LINK

Playlist:

1.) The Stone Roses - Fools Gold - The Stone Roses
2.) Northside - Take 5 - Chicken Rhythms
3.) James - Come Home - James
4.) Charlatans - The Only One I Know - Some Friendly
5.) Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever- Madchester
6.) The Farm - Groovy Train - Spartacus
7.) Inspiral Carpets - She Comes in the Fall - Life
8.) The House of Love - You Don't Understand - The Best of the House of Love
9.) Primal Scream - Slip Inside this House - Screamadelica
10.) Soup Dragons - Mother Universe - Lovegod
11.) The Heart Throbs - Turn Away - Total Abandon EP
12.) Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
13.) Happy Mondays - Hallelujah -Hallelujah Single
14.) Renegade Soundwave - Murder Music - RSW 1987-1985
15.) Blur - There's No Other Way - Leisure
16.) Xymox - Phoenix of My Heart - Phoenix
17.) My Bloody Valentine - Soon - Glider EP
18.) The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? - Best of
19.) Kasabian - Processed Beats - Kasabian
20.) Ocean Colour Scene - Do Yourself a Favour
21.) Intastella and the Family of People - Bendy - Intastella and the Family of People
22.) The Wonder Stuff - Can't Shape Up - Hup
23.) The Stone Roses - Love Spreads - Second Coming

American Early 60s Influence Show - 2/9/09

Motown, Northern Soul, Girl Group, Doo Wop, Baroque Pop, and Brill Building Pop all had their influence on the sound of punk, post-punk, new wave, and their descendants. Another wonderful case of music making for strange bedfellows and that was the theme of tonight's show. Click on the link to download and its yours for the listening.

American Early 60s Influence Show


Playlist:

1.) The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? - End of the Century
2.) Teardrop Explodes - Reward - Wilder
3.) The Jam - Heat Wave - Setting Sons
4.) Soft Cell - Tainted Love - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
5.) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long - Searching For the Young Soul Rebels
6.) The Redskins - Keep On Keeping On - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
7.) The Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up - Psychocandy
8.) The Raveonettes - Ode To L.A. - Pretty In Black
9.) Elvis Costello - Love For Tender - Get Happy!!
10.) Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Grett Big Kiss - Born Too Loose - The Best of Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
11.) The Clash - I'm Not Down - London Calling
12.) Jo Boxers - Just Got Lucky
13.) The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down - Internationalists
14.) Hal - Play the Hits - Hal
15.) The Wild Swans - Young Manhood - Magnitude (The Sire Years)
16.) Blondie - Denis (Alternate Version) - Plastic Letters
17.) The Fleshtones - I Was A Teenage Zombie
18.) The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again - Someone to Drive You Home
19.) Be Your Own Pet - Becky - Get Damaged EP
20.) Tracy Ullman - Breakaway - You Broke My Heart In 17 Places
21.) Silicon Teens - Let's Dance - Music For Parties
22.) The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me EP
23.) Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind - Colour By Numbers
24.) Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop - Forging Ahead
25.) The Untouchables - Free Yourself - Wild Child
26.) The Undertones - Got To Have You Back - Sin of Pride
27.) Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave - Boingo Alive
28.) The Ramones - Yea Yea (Demo) - Road To Ruin CD

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

(N) Bloody Snowman - Laughing - Bloodbubbles
(N) The Beige Channel - Wash, Rinse, and Repeat - Auricular Audio Magazine #13
(N) Cecil Otter - 1999 - Rebel Yellow

Ohs, Whoas, and Oohs Show - 2/2/09

The second best 3 words in the English language and some of the greatest utensils in rock 'n' roll's awesome set of tools. Ohs, whoas, and oohs are like putting bacon on a song and if it's already got bacon on it, like Applewood-smoked cocaine bacon. Have a listen to what I believe are the finest songs ever to "Oh" by following this link below, which in this case is almost like a sausage link:

The Oh Show

Playlist

1.) The Misfits - I Turned Into A Martian - Walk Among Us
2.) The Police - Truth Hits Everybody - Outlandos D'Amour
3.) XTC - Chain of Command - Drums and Wires (cd bonus track version)
4.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Clockface - Kaleidoscope
5.) U2 - The Sweetest Thing - Streets Have No Name Single
6.) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Need Some Air - Baby 81
7.) The Fratellis - Stacie Ann - Flathead EP
8.) Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations - Shaky Hands EP
9.) The Futureheads - The Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
10.) Ash - Kung Fu - 1977
11.) The Ramones - Oh, Oh, I Love Her So - Leave Home
12.) Buzzcocks - Promises - Singles Going Steady
13.) Kim Wilde - Kids in America - Kids in America
14.) Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
15.) Baltimora - Tarzan Boy - Living in Oblivion
16.) New Order - Temptation - Substance
17.) Erasure - Ship of Fools - The Innocents
18.) Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better - Dream Into Action
19.) Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad - Only A Lad
20.) Graduate - Sick and Tired - Acting My Age
21.) Chelsea - Evacuate - Evacuate
22.) Skids - Melancholy Soliders - Scared To Dance
23.) Fashion - Silver Blades - Silver Blades single
24.) Snowden - Anti Anti - Anti Anti
25.) The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You - The Fine Art of Surfacing
26.) Nothington - Where I Stand - All In
27.) The Cars - Touch and Go - Panorama
28.) Naked Raygun - I Remember - All Rise