Wouldn't You Like To Know - 11/27/04

Hi all. So, today I was joined in the studio by my buddy Rick Haney and that sweet girl Ebony Nicolas (all the way from the big city). Rick tried to run me over in the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot and Ebony showed up some time around Urge Overkill (give or take a song).

I went to see O.A.R. at the State Theater this past week and while the show was not as great as I thought it might be (I attribute this mostly to the fact that I thought I knew way more of their songs than I actually do), seeing "Crazy Game of Poker" live was totally awesome. Karen Zeigler (I am so never sure if I'm spelling her last name right, sorry K), Jen MacBride, Jenn Adams and Tom Houghton were in tow and were a fun crowd to see the show with. Thanks to all of you guys. And to the handful of other folks who rolled into the Free Street Taverna for pre-show beers.

The whole point of that ramble was to say that I had a little plan to play a bunch of O.A.R. and other bands that came up in conversation while drinking before the show (everything from Green Day to John Mayer and from The Jackson 5 to The Violent Femmes) but alas this was not to be as I knew Ebony would be there and that would throw the plan off. Not that that's bad. In fact, and I don't mean to sound surprised, today's show was pretty good. Ebony's few choices (she could have put on more stuff but she just didn't for whatever reason) were things I'd never heard (The Futureheads, The Unicorns), things I'd heard of but never heard (The Pixies, The Shins) and things I've heard a lot (Queen with David Bowie). Rick burned several cds for himself and picked no songs to play on the air. Boooo.

There are no CDs for today as the one I did burn wouldn't finalize and is therefor useless and even so it stopped somewhere around Van Morrison or so anyway. I'll be making a dreaded trip to the place I hate the most - yes, that's right, Wal-Mart - in pursuit of some Maxell Audio CD-Rs (since they seem to be the ones that work most consistently in our rack-component burner, according to my informal polling of other WRBC DJs). This is going to be a torturous experience for me but I'm getting really fed up with not being able to burn my shows consistently. I almost switched back to tapes today.

Anyway, Happy "after" Thanksgiving and enjoy.

Marcy Playground - Poppies
The Dollyrots - Fight Like Jackie Chan
The Go-Go's - This Town
Green Day - Warning
Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Urge Overkill - Erica Kane
Bif Naked - I Died
David Gray - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
The Furies - Fun Around the World
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself for Loving You
The Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights
Joeski Love - Pee-Wee's Dance
*Talk & PSA - read by Ebony*
Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer?
Sparks - Eaten By the Monster of Love
The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes (The Postal Service)
The Pixies - La La Love You (Live - April 13, 2004)
The Rugburns - Suburbia (Bio-Dome soundtrack)
Van Morrison - T.B. Sheets
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
The Unicorns - Sea Ghost
Foo Fighters w/ Chick Corea - Times Like These (Live - 2004 Grammys)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Babylon System (Bob Marley)
De La Soul - This Is A Recording 4 Living In a Full-Time Era (L.I.F.E.)
The Dead Milkmen - The Guitar Song
The Donnas - Living After Midnihgt (Judas Priest)
Queen w/ David Bowie - Under Pressure
Mel C f/ Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez - Never Be the Same Again

Working Together - 11/20/04

Okay, so the CD burner thing didn't take CD number 2 today so there's only one. Only one person so far has asked for CDs and I'm a slacker so he hasn't even gotten them yet. I'm working on it though - between going to classes, going to work, writing papers and studying for tests for my two ridiculously work-heavy classes and trying to squeeze in reasonable amounts of sleep - but it's not going to quickly.

Today's show was kind of a mess. I wrote in the list that Roxy Music - Amazona skipped but I don't think it really did. On the turntables, there's this little arm that lifts the needle up by pushing the tone arm up with this little ramp-like thing and for some reason, even when you put the little arm down (which I hardly even look at since I don't usually use it, even though I should) the little ramp doesn't go all the way down and I think that was what was making the record skip. Arrghhh.

Anyway, other than that and aside from the fact that I only played CDs and albums I brought from home, I thought the show went pretty well. I finally played something from the B-52's - B-52's album I got about two months ago. And I squeezed in some Magnapop and some Television - two albums (Rubbing Doesn't Help and Marquee Moon, respectively) that I own and hardly ever listen to. I played Ain't That Pretty At All by Warren Zevon because I've read a couple of things recently that talk about a great recent cover of that song but I can't remember who does it or what album it would be on.

So here's the list.

CD1
Blues Traveler - Gina (Live)
(missed the first 20 seconds or so since I forgot to push record)
Blind Melon - Changed (alternate version of Change)
*Talk*
Generation X - One Hundred Punks
B-52's - Party Out of Bounds
B-52's - Planet Claire
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Roxy Music - Amazona
(skipped so I had to stop it)
Shonen Knife - Johnny Johnny Johnny
The Clash - Koka Kola
Mandy Moore - Quit Breaking My Heart
The Ramones - I Want You Around (Ed Stasium version)
The Go-Go's - This Town
Britney Spears - I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
(Bringing Out The Dead soundtrack)
Warren Zevon - Ain't That Pretty At All


Not on a CD

*Talk - PSA - Showers*
John Mayer - Come Back to Bed
Fine Young Cannibals - Not the Same Man I Used to Be
Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Simply Red - Love Fire
Huey Lewis & The News - Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)
Talking Heads - Swamp
Magnapop - Down on Me
Dire Straits - Angel of Mercy
Suzanne Vega - No Cheap Thrill
New York Dolls - Frankenstein (Orig.)
Television - Elevation
*Talk*
Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River (Live)
Rod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing You
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Cars - Just What I Needed

A Little Mess - 11/13/04

Okay. Today's show title is because I got up this morning and really couldn't decide what to play. I'd thought about doing a show of only bands I've seen in concert. That show would have been very heavy on The Dead and Phish but it also would have included Green Day, The B-52's, David Gray, David Bowie, The Allmans, The Spin Doctors, The Strokes, Bob Dylan, Tori Amos, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Rusted Root, Blind Melon, Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Buffett, AC/DC, Kiss, Black Sabbath, maybe even a little Dave Matthews Band. Actually that might have been a pretty good show. Maybe next time. I was also thinking of doing an all Old School rap show but I didn't have the time to dig through the records to find a bunch of stuff I really would have liked to play (MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Redhead Kingpin and F.B.I., Heavy D. & The Boyz, Slick Rick, Kwame - The Boy Genius, Def Jef, Digital Underground) so this fell by the wayside as well. I just wasn't into doing an all slow jams R&B and Soul show but I can definitely feel one of those coming on pretty soon but I tend to save those for rainy days.

So what I decided to do was do one of the all-from-the-new-racks-stuff shows. And I have to think that it turned out pretty good. I picked 90 percent of the stuff from the bottom shelf of the new rack - hate to see all that stuff move away before I get to listen to it - and I'm glad I did because some of it was really good.

The good:
The Dollyrots, the second Elliott Smith song, Mates of State, Gibby Haynes (actually this was really good), the Isley Brothers cover, Unbunny, Concrete Blonde (of course we've all heard of this band and while I'm not always a fan, this song was definitely good), Talib Kweli, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes (this is my absolute favorite band name) and Libbie Schrader

The in-between:
Elvis Costello, the first Elliott Smith song, The Neville Brothers, Karen Ann, Copeland, Rilo Kiley, D-Super, Roy Ashen, Rosemary Clooney, Gravenhurst, Nina Nastasia and The Safes

The bad (stuff I won't be playing again):
Virginia Coalition, The Rogers Sisters, Dollhouse, Halo Star (none of this stuff was REALLY horrible - although I really wasn't into the Halo Star thing - but it wasn't too good either)

The Isley Brothers stuff came from a compilation disc called The Isley Brothers: Taken to the Next Level (Reconstructions). This was really good. A tribute disc. The two songs I heard from it were really great. The other one was by Questlove from The Roots. If you can get your hands on this, I recommend doing just that.


Bob Dylan - Dignity

CD1

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Monkey to Man
(missed a little at the beginning)
Elliott Smith - A Passing Feeling
The Dollyrots - Skinny
Virginia Coalition - Walk to Work
Elliott Smith - The Last Hour
*Talk - PSA - He's So Hot*
Mates of State - Starman (David Bowie)
Gibby Haynes & His Problem - 15,000
D-Nat & Onda f/ De La Soul - It's a New Thing (It's Your Thing) (Isley Brothers)
The Neville Brothers - Kingdom Come
Karen Ann - Right Here & Right Now
(cut off a little and it played through the beginning of the next song for a second)
The Rogers Sisters - 45 Prayers
Copeland - Another Day in Paradise (Phil Collins)
Rilo Kiley - accidntel deth

- End of CD1

*Talk*

CD2

D-Super - Water
Roy Ashen - It's Not Too Late
Rosemary Clooney - Limehouse Blues
Unbunny - Pink Lemonade
Dollhouse - I'm a Man on the Move
Concrete Blonde - Because I Can
*Talk*
Karen Ann - End of May
Talib Kweli f/ John Legend - Around My Way
Halo Star - Indefinable, yet
Gravenhurst - ...the diver...
Nina Nastasia - Johnny's Rose Tatoo
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - For the Longest Time (Billy Joel)
The Safes - Mind Meltdown
Libbie Schrader - Come When I Call

Working Together - 11/06/04

Not much to say about today. And I'm sick so even if there was I'm not sure how coherent it would be. Rick Haney came up - with his "lady friend," Denise, from Biddeford - and I always think it's kind of funny when people come to the radio station. I'm not sure what people expect but I'm pretty sure their imaginations make it seem a lot more interesting than reality.

I played some stuff I hadn't really heard in a while (Mother Love Bone, Shonen Knife and Pat Benatar) and I played some stuff from that disc I put together for Tom (and then made a copy of for myself) of stuff from the 2004 Grammy Award ceremony and Toots on SNL.

Rick's Picks: AIR, Wilco, Sting
Denise's Picks: U2, The Wallflowers

and Punk Rock Girl was by request because some guy called and asked if I wouldn't mind playing it even though it came right after (nearly) Born to Love Volcanos. I said "No, I don't mind at all."

There are no CDs of today's show because the stupid player/recorder thing-y sucks.

Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Toots & The Maytals w/ The Roots f/ Bootsie Collins - Funky Kingston
(Live - SNL - intro Donald Trump)
The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
*talk*
Faster Pussycat - You're So Vain
Eric Clapton - After Midnight
(Rainbow Concert - Live - f/ P. Townsend, R. Wood, S. Winwood)
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
AIR - J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau
Foo Fighters w/ Chick Corea - Times Like These
(Live - 2004 Grammy Awards - intro Snoop Dogg)
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
Frotus Caper - Hello Out There
O.A.R. - Hey Girl
*Talk - PSA - Math*
Shonen Knife - Little Tree
Pat Benatar - All Fired Up
New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
(Live - 2004 Grammy Awards)
U2 - If God Will Send His Angels
The Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache
Tom Petty f/ Stevie Nicks - The Insider
Wilco - Kamera
The Dead Milkmen - Born to Love Volcanos
Talking Heads - I Get Wild/Wild Gravity
The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
*Talk*
Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart