Last for the year

Off to Melbourne for Christmas next week so I guess this is pretty well it. I'll spare you the obligatory best of 2006 list (well, this time at least) and hope you enjoy my selection of winding down tunes.

Trip To Kalu-Ki-Bar Louis Tillett & Charlie Owen 3:45 The Ugly Truth
These walls have ears Snowbug 2:06 Inextricably intertwined
Tambourine Bay Trouser Trouser 3:04 I'm Too Busy (Baby)
Troubled in mind Konrad Lenz (w/Genevieve Elmes) 2:21 One of the missing
Dirty Dancehall The Zutons 4:09 Who Killed The...
look after me Hot Chip 4:47 The Warning
Lies The Rolling Stones 2:46 Some Girls
Little Drop Of Poison Tom Waits 3:09 Orphans: Bawlers
Ballad Of A Yobbo Soursob Bob 2:00 Living In The Long Grass
Ghost Town Figurines 2:56 Skeleton
Mr. Tough Yo La Tengo 4:05 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Dead City Patti Smith 4:13 Peace And Noise
Left Side Clouded The Sea And Cake 3:15 One Bedroom
Spinner Soma Rasa 4:28 Soma Rasa
The Metal Tenacious D 2:45 The Pick Of Destiny
Cash Cow We Are Scientists 2:35 With Love And Squalor
pace of the patience love of diagrams 3:12 e.p.
Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
Cay's Crays Fat Freddys Drop 7:07 Based on a True Story
Don't Worry About It N*E*R*D 3:41 Fly Or Die

Black Bird The Beautiful Girls 3:55 Learn Yourself
King Of New York Fun Lovin' Criminals 3:44 Q Mmmmm
Red Light The Strokes 3:11 First Impressions Of Earth
Feltham Is Singing Out Hard-Fi 4:36 Stars Of CCTV
Wild Flower Soul Sonic Youth 9:04 A Thousand Leaves
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
So La Bailterspace 3:31 Capsul
Nothing Much Bidston Moss 2:42 Ep03 Bang
Smokescreen Amusement Parks On Fire 4:11 Amusement Parks On Fire
Supermoves Overseer 4:18 Animatrix
Krack Soulwax 2:32 Any Minute Now
What It Means Barry Adamson 3:59 As Above So Below
Cold Sweat The Grand Wazoo 4:04 At Crossroads of Collingwood and Fitzroy
Special K Placebo 3:52 Black Market Music
What's eating you? Deadstar 3:01 Deadstar
Now Or Ever Again Even 3:30 Free Kicks
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:07 In Space There Is No Sound
Better Then You The Hellacopters 2:44 New Blood Vol 3
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow
Metal and Hair Mess Hall 2:35 Notes From A Ceiling

Tunes

Muphin Smart Risk Big Benifit 4:12 Diggin Deep
London In Love I Heart Hiroshima 3:00 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Westgate Bridge Sleepy Township 2:11 Set Sail
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague 3:19 Bande À Part
The Weakest Part Yo La Tengo 3:04 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Vending machine Snowbug 6:38 Inextricably intertwined
Caught Out In The Rain Tom Woodward 3:23 32-20 Blues
Target's Air Conditioner Baterz 3:48 Out of Hell
Come on home Franz Ferdinand 3:46 Franz Ferdinand
Popcorn Hot Butter 2:33 Single
Dory Previn Camera Obscura 4:16 Let's Get Out Of This Country
Shazam Spiderbait 2:07 Greatest Hits
Spooky 3DS 4:55 The Venus Trail
Alone With You (Orig) Sunny Boys 3:13 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 5:09 The Singles 81-85
Remember Figurines 2:38 Skeleton
Raskolnikov Soursob Bob 2:57 Living In The Long Grass
Pale My Disco 3:33 Cancer
Why Won't She Marry Me? Digger And The Pussycats 3:56 Watch Yr Back
Blue Poles Patti Smith 5:19 Peace And Noise
Young At Heart Tom Waits 3:41 Orphans: Bawlers

News Update (neh, just kidding)

I've got a new apartment baby, interior colour of red
(Ok - it's actually a room in a house and it's not red but it's still worth singing about anyway).

Lots of new treats for you this week - still enjoying the tracks from local outfit Snowbug as well as (finally) getting my hands on the new(ish) Yo La Tengo album "I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass". Huzzah.

There's also the Tenacious D movie ("The Pick of Destiny") soundtrack, new stuff from Jarvis Cocker and particularly exciting is the new Tom Waits 3 disc collection of oddities (does the guy do anything else?) called Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.

Throw in some CW Stoneking, some Ground Components and a rediscovering of a band called the Sea and Cake and I think we have the fixings of a pretty cool show.

(Of course, you could swap over to JJJ if you prefer - or should I say if you are the kind of person who would vote for Dark Side of the Moon as favourite album of all time - or Anthony Callea & Delta Goodrem over the Stones in the top 100. Says it all really)

Apartment Custard 2:26 Goodbye Cruel World (The Best Of Custard)
Point And Shoot Yo La Tengo 4:18 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Electioneering Radiohead 3:50 Ok Computer
Electioneering Easy Star All Stars 4:34 Radiodread
The dead step out Konrad Lenz 2:12 Film Music
Vending machine Snowbug 6:38 Inextricably intertwined
Why Won't She Marry Me? Digger And The Pussycats 3:56 Watch Yr Back
Don't Say Nothing Patti Smith 5:52 Peace And Noise
Another Episode Sleepy Township 1:29 Set Sail
Four Corners The Sea And Cake 5:44 One Bedroom
Fish In The Jailhouse Tom Waits 4:22 Orphans: Brawlers
Black Magic Jarvis Cocker 4:21 Jarvis
The Metal Tenacious D 2:45 The Pick Of Destiny
The Salty Knowledge Of Tears Soulwax 2:42 Much Against Everyone's Advice
Bad boy for love Ian Rilen 6:14 Love In Murder (Bonus)
Sister Morphine The Rolling Stones 5:34 Sticky Fingers
She's A Bread Baker C.W. Stoneking 3:17 King Hokum
Fistful Of Dallas Ground Components 5:37 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Candidate David Bowie 2:40 Diamond Dogs

Monday music

For your pleasure (and by the way, if you're out there and listening, please leave a comment - it's an odd experience sitting in the studio talking to a microphone - it would be great to think I'm talking to people)

Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Sparrow Love Outside Andromeda 2:48 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Half Way Round The World X 3:08 Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Australian underground Vol.2 1977-1990
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Superman's Black In The Building (Mauly T Remix) Public Enemy 4:09 Bring That Beat Back - The Public Enemy Remix Project
Valder Fields Tamas Wells 2:39 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
If I Had My Way Four Hours Sleep 4:29 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
The Black Sea Waltz Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen 3:24 Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
I Am Not Approachable The Fauves 3:27 Nervous Flashlights
No Complaints Beck 3:00 The Information
No Backbone The Lemonheads 3:07 The Lemonheads
Muddy Water Dallas Crane 4:07 Factory Girls
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
You Did It! You Say Party! We Say Die! 2:25 Hit The Floor!
Glider Smoosh 2:19 Free To Stay
revision love of diagrams 4:23 e.p.

The future of Rock (RAWWWWK) is in safe hands

I caught Airbourne at the Green Room in Phillip last night - for those who don't know, Airbourne is an AC/DCesque 4 piece from Warrnambool who released an EP in 2004 and were picked up by Capitol records for a 5 album deal in 2005 - and rawwwk they did.

They play simple rock - very loud, driving, sweaty and flailing around in a way that makes Iggy Pop look comatose. I don't think I've ever seen a band work that hard and at the same time they keep an incredibly tight sound. Everyone there absolutely loves being up on stage in a rock band and while they know they are good (in the way that only a bunch of 18-22 guys can) they aren't arrogant about it, they're just having a ball.

I'd say I only heard the singer say half a dozen words (and only between songs) that weren't screeched out in a very rock'n'roll Bon Scott style - even the between song banter was screamed at the crowd (the first time I've ever heard the word Canberra sound rocklike - I loved it) and it was nice to see that they had customised the banter to bring some local relevance.

Even the song intros were classic dumb rock (dumb in the best way, don't get me wrong) - "This one's for all the heartbreakers out there - It's called Heartbreaker" "This one's for the girls in black out there - it's called Girls in black" (and so on)

As the singer walked past me (literally, within a metre or so) in the middle of a song doing a rock thing where he leaves the stage and goes behind the bar to pour himself a beer and brings it back onstage, I remember thinking to myself, this is a special moment. (And yes, I tried to get the cameraphone working but it was too dark)

Great band, great show. Keep an eye on them.

(As for their recorded stuff - have only heard the one track on their myspace page - here and it's well put together, heavily ACDC inspired rock. Nothing mindblowing but fortunately that's where the live shows come in.

The desk

The desk, originally uploaded by Colism.

Old as the station but still kicking

Back on track - tunes for today

Got a few new treats for your listening pleasure today (and I would have had some Snowbug but - well, um - lent that cd to a friend - next week for sure. In the interests of disclosure, my new housemate is in the band but what I've heard so far I actually do quite like, which helps).

Anyways, we have some delta blues style offerings from CW Stoneking, Ground Components, Love outside Andromeda and a tune from the new album from those sadly underrated workhorses The Fauves.

As ever, if you liked something or didn't like something or have a request (that's anatomically possible), leave us a comment.

cheers - oh, by the way, the Movember thing is still in full swing, check out the full story (with day by day progress pictures - here)

Cold Blooded Old Times (Smog) 4:12 High Fidelity
Jets Decoder Ring 5:00 Fractions
Bad boy for love Ian Rilen 6:14 Love In Murder (Bonus)
Cathedral Bells Justin Grounds 4:36 Cathedral Bells
Conversation Intercom Soulwax 3:06 Much Against Everyone's Advice
Overkill Colin Hay 3:46 Going Somewhere
Salvation Jane Hugo Race & True Spirit 3:38 Valley of Light
Miss Fortune Sixfthick 4:49 Traincrash - live
Stockholm Syndrome Yo La Tengo 2:53 Prisoners Of Love [Disc 1]
She's A Bread Baker C.W. Stoneking 3:17 King Hokum
Keep looking at the sky Love Outside Andromeda 4:17 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Thin Eyebrows Suzie Higgie 3:25 Songs Of Habit
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Im Too Busy (Baby) Trouser Trouser 3:04 I'm Too Busy (Baby)
Daniel Morgan Konrad Lenz 3:26 One of the missing
I'll Work When I'm Dead The Fauves 3:32 Nervous Flashlights
This Room Fat Freddys Drop 5:00 Based on a True Story
Karma Police Easy Star All Stars 4:48 Radiodread

Music for a rainy day

Wow, quite tempestuous outside - kind of wish I'd brought my brolly. (Ok, I kind of wish I owned one)

Anyways, here are the songs du jour.

Don't forget, I'm still doing the Movember thing, check out my mo-blog here

For A Short Time Weddings Parties Anything 5:11 Riveresque
Words Fail Me Tex, Don Charlie 5:01 All Is Forgiven
I love my leather jacket The Chills 2:54 Topless women
This Charming Man The Smiths 2:43 The Best Of The Smiths
Sailor The Brian Jonestown Massacre 3:43 Bravery, Repetition and Noise
Vaporizer Lupine Howl 5:20 The Carnivorous Lunar activities of Lupine Howl
Walking Through Babylon Thievery Corporation 4:26 Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi
Jacob's ladder Chumbawumba 2:53 Peace Not War
Hey Nonny Nonny Violent Femmes 4:34 Why Do Birds Sing?
Atmosphere Joy Division 4:10 Substance 1977-1980
I see a darkness Bonny Prince Billy 4:49 I see a darkness
Everything Reminds Me of Her Elliott Smith 2:37 Figure 8
A Clean Slate Sealifepark 3:55 We Get What You Deserve
Drive Blu Mar Ten 3:52 The Six Million Names Of God
Whats A Place Like That Doing In A Girl Like You Devastations 4:57 Coal
Everything breaks the heart The Beautiful Few 3:06 Metal for Melbourne
Godless The Dandy Warhols 5:20 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Caribou Frank Black Francis 3:01 Frank Black Francis (Demos)
Take A Run At The Sun Dinosaur Jr 3:28 Ear-Bleeding Country

Greater Head Crime And The City Solution 4:22 The Brideship
Buy me a pony Spiderbait 1:43 Garage Days
Not That Social The Von Bondies 3:01 Pawn Shoppe Heart
Arse Grabbin' 2UP 3:42 Player's Club
Dope fiend beat Chaos Maths 3:49 Dope meaning good
Growing on me The Darkness 3:31 Permission to land
Batman Neal Hefty 1:11 Single
Paper Doll Louis XIV 3:25 The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Total Trash Sonic Youth 7:33 Daydream Nation
La Di Doh Ed Kuepper 6:34 With A Knapsack On My Back
Sides Full Fathom Five 3:39 Sides
Venus In Cancer Amusement Parks On Fire 3:37 Amusement Parks On Fire
Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 3:57 Rage II
Lick The Bacon Osterberg 2:08 Osterberg
Immigrant Song Led Zeppelin 2:23 School of Rock
Rock'n'Roll worm Hoss 3:34 You get nothing
Bizarre love triangle New Order 6:43 International
Kill All Hippies Primal Scream 4:57 Xtrmntr
Best Of Both Worlds Midnight Oil 4:05 20,000 Watts R.S.L.
Descent Into The Maelstrom Radio Birdman 4:24 Essential Radio Birdman

Mo-nday Sunset

Sorry - just trying to maintain the string of Mo based puns I've committed to for Movember. (Pun or wordplay?)

Anyways, as I mentioned before, couple of tracks from the new Ground Components cd for your listening pleasure and the usual grab bag of odds and ends that hopefully you haven't heard too much of. (I'm a big fan of the kind of radio that makes you go - cool, what was that song?)

There's also a small tribute to a man some have dubbed the cross between Iggy Pop and Dorian Gray of Australian Rock, Ian Rilen. Ian Rilen died last week of bladder cancer after having been diagnosed earlier in the year. He played bass in Rose Tattoo (and co-wrote their biggest hit Bad Boy for Love) and went on to play in seminal outfit X as well as Sardine v and a bunch of others. Rest in peace.

Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Sparrow Love Outside Andromeda 2:48 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Half Way Round The World X 3:08 Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Australian underground Vol.2 1977-1990
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Superman's Black In The Building (Mauly T Remix) Public Enemy 4:09 Bring That Beat Back - The Public Enemy Remix Project
Valder Fields Tamas Wells 2:39 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
If I Had My Way Four Hours Sleep 4:29 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
The Black Sea Waltz Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen 3:24 Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
I Am Not Approachable The Fauves 3:27 Nervous Flashlights
No Complaints Beck 3:00 The Information
No Backbone The Lemonheads 3:07 The Lemonheads
Muddy Water Dallas Crane 4:07 Factory Girls
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
You Did It! You Say Party! We Say Die! 2:25 Hit The Floor!
Glider Smoosh 2:19 Free To Stay
revision love of diagrams 4:23 e.p.

Late Breaking News: I'm growing a Mo

I'm going to paste this blurb in directly from the Movember people because they explain it better than me, but essentially, I'm going to grow a Mo during November to raise money for Men's health. (The health, not the magazine)

Hi all,

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growin a moustache. That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about changing the state of men’s health.

Male health is a major issue, did you know:

Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 6 years less than females.
Every year in Australia 2,700 men die of prostate cancer – more than the number of women who die from breast cancer.
Depression affects 1 in 6 men…Most don’t seek help. Untreated depression is a leading risk factor for suicide. Rates of suicide are more than double the national road toll.
Help me change the face of men’s health by sponsoring my mo.

Please go to http://www.movember.com.au/au/sponsor, enter my Rego number which is 25953 and your credit card details. All donations of $2 and over are tax deductible.

The money raised by Movember will be used to change the face of men's health by creating awareness and funding research into prostate cancer and male depression.

Movember culminates at the end of the month at the Gala Partè where I’ll be parading my Mo on the cat walk for a chance to be crowned the Man of Movember. If you want to be part of this great night you’ll have to purchase a Gala Parte ticket for $33.00 (inc GST).

Cheers

Colin

More info is available at www.movember.com.au

I'm also running (yet another) blog, this one focussing on my mo progress which you can check out here

Expect regular postings (better than here,hey) and pics and at least one bad mo pun each day.


In unrelated news, just picked up the new Ground Components (Melb) album and it's a cracker - lots of rock weirdness and a ripper cover of the Paul Kelly song Our Sunshine (about Ned Kelly). Tune in on Monday to hear a little.

Try these on for size

I'm falling Halfday 3:50 Now We're Happy
Nature Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:54 Abattoir Blues (Disc 1)
Ten Little Pills Slumber Party 4:11 Slumber Party
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Gutter for two The Tremors 3:03 Cash up front, no kissing
Would You Love A Monsterman Lordi 3:02 The Monster Show
Devil Is A Loser Lordi 3:29 Get Heavy
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
Quiet Room Meatbee 3:46 Caught In The ACT 2001
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Bubblegum Gun I Heart Hiroshima 3:26 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Shock And Awe Neil Young 4:52 Living With War
Let's Impeach the President Neil Young 5:10 Living With War
Midweek morning The Lucksmiths 3:05 Naturaliste
The Ballad Of Lachlan And Sarah Ripe 3:50 Galaxies And Stars
Sharkfin Blues The Drones 4:32 Single
Cinnamon girl Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:44 Under The Covers
Secret Track The Drugs 0:41 The Very Next Of
Nightmares By The Sea Jeff Buckley 3:49 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk [Disc 2]
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Hott Date The Gossip 2:17 That's Not What I Heard

Cameo or Guest Host - you be the judge

Ok, so filling in for Friday Sunset today (the second hottest spot in the Sunset calender - can you guess which is number 1? :) )

So here are the tracks I'll be selecting from today, hope you enjoy them.

Is there something you liked/hated? Let me know, I'm flying blind here people.
Requests, feedback on my ranting and raving, cries of "My 4 year old could do better" - it's all welcome.

cheers then

Col

Don't Worry About It N*E*R*D 3:41 Fly Or Die
Pila Pila Not Drowning, Waving 2:20 Follow the geography
Exit Music (For A Film) Easy Star All Stars 4:23 Radiodread
Karma Police Easy Star All Stars 4:48 Radiodread
I Don't Ever Want To Change The Drones 3:59 Gala Mill
The Future Leonard Cohen 6:41 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 2)
Heroes [Live] Blondie 6:20 UNCUT - Starman: A Tribute To David Bowie
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
A Midlife's Tale My Friend The Chocolate Cake 3:26 Parade
Kiss of Fire (Allen/Hill) Monsieur Camembert 5:43 Absynthe
Dugdig YT Cracker 2:44 Nerd Rap
Previous Crimes Devastations 4:58 Devastations
Disco 2000 Pulp 4:33 Different Class
Sabotage The Beastie Boys 2:58 Ill Communication
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Sufjan Stevens 3:19 Illinois
Adelaide Paul Kelly 3:37 Post
The Stone Roses (Grooverider's Mix) Stone Roses Vs. Grooverider 4:30 Old School Vs. New School
1980 the Inches 3:44 Trust me

Bing Bang Bang Bong Kong Messer Chups 2:52 Crazy Price
What is lost Konrad Lenz 4:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Red Sally Tom Woodward 4:21 32-20 Blues
Make Me Your Picture Huski 3:34 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Come With Me Grandadbob 3:43 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Shining Path Decoder Ring 5:18 Fractions
The trumpet song The Particles 4:47 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Severed Heads Dead Eyes opened 3:21 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Arawan Tinariwen 4:06 Amassakoul
Two Can Play At This Game Dallas Crane 2:49 Factory Girls
Yakuza's Girls Don Walker 2:19 Cutting Back
I'm Jim Fix And I'm Dead Now The Fauves 4:26 Nervous Flashlights
Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town The Panda Band 3:07 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Cay's Crays Fat Freddys Drop 7:07 Based on a True Story
Devil Went Down On Betty Autopilot 4:14 Bride Of Monster Mashup
In Passing The Lemonheads 2:50 The Lemonheads
BoyTown '89 BoyTown 2:35 BoyTown
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits 4:50 Heartattack And Vine
Double Dare Adalita 3:06 Suburban Mayhem OST (ep)

So did you miss me?

Took a week at the coast last week - many thanks to the incomparable Sylvie for filling in for me - but back now and with a swag of musical goodies for your aural pleasuring.

(And I turned 35 yesterday - yikes - but fear not, no sign of growing up just yet - no wife, no kids and no mortgage on no house in the burbs - (after all, what else defines being a grown up?)

Small change Gersey 5:23 Eyes Are Wide Tonight
Intersect Glorybox 4:34 This Is The Glory Box Compilation
Mote Sonic Youth 7:37 Goo
Fingerpops Garageland 2:50 Feel Alright
The Haunting The Golden Palominos 5:32 Drunk With Passion
In Places, Empty Spaces The Most Serene Republic 4:50 Underwater Cinematographer
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Best intentions Mid-State Orange 3:38 Odds
Dancing Shoes Arctic Monkeys 2:21 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Dory Previn Camera Obscura 4:16 Let's get out of this country
Acid Food Mogwai 3:40 Mr. Beast
When The Bomb Drops Primal Scream 4:36 Riot City Blues
Que N'ai-Je Keren Ann 3:26 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
The Clock Thom Yorke 4:16 The Eraser
Strange Days The Doors 4:23 Versions
No Wonder Neil Young 5:45 Prairie Wind
The Fox In The Snow Belle & Sebastian 4:23 If You're Feeling Sinister Live

No No Never Weddings Parties Anything 5:20 They Were Better Live (Disc 2)
Radio #1 Air 4:22 10,000 Hz Legend
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead Justin Heazlewood 2:07 The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Spidermother Baterz 2:21 Out of Hell
Point that thing somewhere else The Clean 5:27 Topless women talk about their lives
Did You See Me? Ween 5:11 Shinola (Vol. 1)
You Never Give Me Your Money The Beatles 4:02 Abbey Road
Everything in it's right place Radiohead 4:11 Kid A
Heaps Essendon Airport 3:57 Melbourne Water 2
Easy Money Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 6:43 The Lyre Of Orpheus
Airwaves Kraftwerk 4:40 Radioactivity
Shake Your Mood Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males 4:08 Pirate Radio EP
Mexican Radio Wall of Voodo 3:57 Rage - More Of The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers (Disc 2)
On the radio The Killjoys 3:21 Stealing Horses
A.M. Radio Hugo Race & True Spirit 5:55 The Goldstreet Sessions
Tessalit Tinariwen 3:58 The Radio Tisdas Sessions
Give Me Tonight Art Of Fighting 4:38 Wires
Surfing Magazines The Go-Betweens 4:33 The Friends Of Rachel Worth

Tunes just for you - enjoy

Bits and pieces from all over the shop - including new stuff from Jet (sadly pretty well the only half decent track on the album), Beck (pretty well back in form), Boytown (yeah, it's probably all over commercial radio but, well, I like Mick Molloy), The Lemonheads (same as their old stuff but still good) and Dallas Crane (good rockin'). You say party! We say die! are still kicking goals as well.

eleanor Jet 3:34 Shine On
We Dance Alone Beck 3:56 The Information
Elevator Music Beck 3:38 The Information
Love handles Boytown 1:59 Boytown Soundtrack
Special time (of the month) Boytown 1:07 Boytown Soundtrack
Magdeline Konrad Lenz 2:53 Living with the spirits of the dead
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
'Til The Money Runs Out Tom Waits 4:25 Heartattack And Vine
Double Dare Adalita 3:06 Suburban Mayhem (ep)
Pittsburgh The Lemonheads 2:55 The Lemonheads
Colour The Black Of My Heart Dallas Crane 2:54 Factory Girls
Bring that beat back Public Enemy 5:17 Single
She Wants To Move N*E*R*D 3:33 Fly Or Die
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
Vicious Girl The White Room 3:08 Single
Stockholm Syndrome Part Two You Say Party! We Say Die! 1:55 Hit The Floor!
Back On The Booze Again Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males 4:05 Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth
theme love of diagrams 2:33 e.p.
Young folks Peter Bjorn And John 4:39 Writers block
Down South Tom Petty 3:27 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Old Friends Wild Pumpkins At Midnight 7:46 Sending A Vampire
On The Waterfront Saints, The 3:16 Scarce Saints: Hymns Of Oblivion 1977-1984

New stuff for a lazy long weekend

So lazy in fact I can not think of anything to say here - hope you enjoy it all nonetheless.


pace of the patience love of diagrams 3:12 e.p.
My Brains Are On Fire! Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males 4:12 Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth
Rock Song Smoosh 2:03 Free To Stay
Cold Hands! Hot Bodies You Say Party! We Say Die! 2:56 Hit The Floor!
The Illustrated man Konrad Lenz 3:57 Living with the spirits of the dead
Questions...No Answer The Reserves 3:22 Waiting For No One
Bring that beat back Public Enemy 5:17 Single
Express Yourself N.W.A. 4:25 Straight Outta Compton
Rock The Nation Michael Franti & Spearhead 4:26 Stay Human
Don't Worry About It N*E*R*D 3:41 Fly Or Die
Young folks Peter Bjorn And John 4:39 Writers block
Who Killed Big Bird? Barry Adamson 4:17 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Adrift The Guttersnipes 2:49 Totally Wireless The Triple J Acoustic Sessions
Tin Pan Valley Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation 3:48 Uncut 2005
Wave Of Mutilation Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
Frisco Disco Not From There 3:26 Latvian Lovers
Jazz In The Ravine Mick Harvey 2:00 Intoxicated Man
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Sufjan Stevens 3:19 Illinois
Marble Arch Minimum Chips 3:04 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Rowboat Johnny Cash 3:44 Unchained
Cinnamon girl Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:44 Under The Covers
Tonight Dallas Crane 2:46 Factory Girls

Hits and memories

Hmm, been living the good life down in Melbourne town for the last week so today's show is going to be a little bit of a trip down memory lane - still, it's all good stuff so I hope you enjoy.

(And in brief - more to come later I hope - definitely check out Macbeth and Wind that shakes the barley is worthy but kind of plain)

Chicken? Happyland 2:56 Soundscape 02
Hazy Jane II Nick Drake 3:46 Bryter Layter
Razor Jayne Konrad Lenz 2:41 Living with the spirits of the dead
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
The Ghost That Feeds (Ray Parker Jr. vs NIN) Ray Parker Jr. vs Nine Inch Nails 3:20 mashed up by nathanchase.com
Exit Music (For A Film) Easy Star All Stars 4:23 Radiodread
No Surprises Easy Star All Stars 4:02 Radiodread
The Ballad Of Melody Nelson Placebo 3:58 Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
Everybody, Don't Tell Her The Moodists 3:44 Two Fisted Art
Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol) Monsieur Camembert 5:28 Absynthe
Jezebel Machine Translations 4:08 Abstract Poverty
A Midlife's Tale My Friend The Chocolate Cake 3:26 Parade
The Future Leonard Cohen 6:41 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 2)
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Self evident Ani Di Franco 9:14 Peace Not War
'Til the End The Living End 4:26 State Of Emergency
Yellow Sun The Raconteurs 3:20 Broken Boy Soldiers
Take You Home The Devastations 3:53 Coal

Back in the olllllllden days...

A group of friends and I worked on a show for Channel 31 in Melbourne called Brown Couch - I've started digitising the old VHS and SVHS tapes before they crumble to dust and this is one of my favourite bits so far.

New tunes (and old)

I thought I'd keep working through the Radiodread album a little this week as I'm still listening to it and loving it. Aside from that, possibly taking a little bit of a nostalgia trip but hopefully there's some stuff in here that'll make you think - cool, I'd forgotten about that one.

hope you like em

Three Dead Passengers In A Stolen Secondhand Ford Stephen Cummings & Dave Graney 3:57 Totally Wireless
Blind Willie McTel Charlie Owen, Don Walker & Tex Perkins 5:48 Totally Wireless
Willow tree Not Drowning, Waving 4:07 Follow the geography
So Entertaining Gus & Frank 3:46 Confession of a Roooftop Killer
Blade-running Elf 4:12 Preview
The Illustrated man Konrad Lenz 3:57 Living with the spirits of the dead
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Live) Nitocris 4:00 Epic Voyage
Kiss of Fire (Allen/Hill) Monsieur Camembert 5:43 Absynthe
You're Too Kind Machine Translations 3:17 Abstract Poverty
Karma Police Easy Star All Stars 4:48 Radiodread
The Tourist Easy Star All Stars 4:07 Radiodread
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen 5:37 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 1)
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Breakthrough Modest Mouse 4:06 This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
D.C. Semifinalists 2:59 Semifinalists
Misspelt Youth The Swedish Magazines 2:09 Eat More Baby
Cheyenne Guided By Voices 2:59 Universal Truths And Cycles [Bonus Track]
Elevate Myself Grandaddy 3:43 Just Like The Fambly Cat
If you could read my mind Johnny Cash 4:30 American V: A Hundred Highways

Black Bird The Beautiful Girls 3:55 Learn Yourself
King Of New York Fun Lovin' Criminals 3:44 Q Mmmmm
Red Light The Strokes 3:11 First Impressions Of Earth
Feltham Is Singing Out Hard-Fi 4:36 Stars Of CCTV
Wild Flower Soul Sonic Youth 9:04 A Thousand Leaves
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
So La Bailterspace 3:31 Capsul
Nothing Much Bidston Moss 2:42 Ep03 Bang
Smokescreen Amusement Parks On Fire 4:11 Amusement Parks On Fire
Supermoves Overseer 4:18 Animatrix
Krack Soulwax 2:32 Any Minute Now
What It Means Barry Adamson 3:59 As Above So Below
Cold Sweat The Grand Wazoo 4:04 At Crossroads of Collingwood and Fitzroy
Special K Placebo 3:52 Black Market Music
What's eating you? Deadstar 3:01 Deadstar
Now Or Ever Again Even 3:30 Free Kicks
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:07 In Space There Is No Sound
Better Then You The Hellacopters 2:44 New Blood Vol 3
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow
Metal and Hair Mess Hall 2:35 Notes From A Ceiling

Murdoch is a moron "says" Andrew Bolt

Every other person I've spoken to in the last day or so keeps asking me if I caught Al Gore's interview on Denton on Monday night. Umm, no. Oops. By all accounts it was fantastic - while the transcript is good, (here), I'm sure it doesn't quite do it justice.

Anyways, I was lucky enough to see the movie - An Inconvenient Truth - and would urge everyone to check it out. Fortunately the murky pool of in-denial corporate hold-outs is getting smaller by the day - even Rupert Murdoch jumped on the bandwagon and his papers are even starting to fall into line. Well, except for the Australian ones anyways.

I mean, seriously, what is it going to take for the Australian and it's stablemates to pull their heads out of the collective arses of John Howard, Ian Campbell (Minister for the Environment and Heritage) and the Coal and Oil industries?

Even massive corporations like BP, Origin Energy, Visy and Westpac Bank agree that we need radical change to save the planet. (Of course, on the other side is the somewhat more sinister Australian Industry Greenhouse Network - coal producers and big industry - who pull the Government's strings)

Andrew Bolt has reserved his own special place deep inside Howard's colon with this rant today - I just hope someone sends it off to Rupert. Actually, what's his email address?

I'd like to take the time to go through and dissect his lunatic (but no doubt well financed) ravings piece by piece, but fortunately I know that the good folks at Boltwatch are already on the case. It's not up yet, but check back soon, I'm sure it'll be well worth the price of admission.

What I don't get is that anyone claims that any of this stuff is actually seriously contentious - after all, is it a debate when 9999 out of 10000 people in a room think the same thing? Yet because the media like nothing better than conflict, the views of the 1 in 10000 are reported as the other, equal, side of the debate.

gaaaaaahhhhh.

In PR circles, it's known as FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt. It doesn't matter how accurate your claims are, all you need to do is claim to be able to poke holes in an argument and a lot of people turn away, thinking "well, if they aren't even sure, what hope do I have".

Boytown

This is the cover of the first single from Mick Molloy's Boytown movie - the story of a boy band come back. Can't wait to see it. (Mick is the guy in shades).

The song itself is more ballad than anything - it has the overproduced boyband sound but I was hoping for the bodgy dance sound more. Maybe next time.

My songs

Bit of an eclectic mix today for you - sprinkled with the covers that I seem to love so much.
A couple from the previously mentioned Radiodread album as well as a mashup of the Ghostbusters theme with Nine Inch Nails "The Hand that feeds" and Placebo's cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song The Ballad of Melody Nelson (taken from the otherwise Very disappointing Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited album that I actually shelled money out for recently).

If you want to hear some good English language versions of Serge Gainsbourg songs (which are crackers in their own right), better off chasing up the two albums that Bad Seed Mick Harvey has released - Pink Elephants and Intoxicated Man. He at least has the decency to keep them kind of sleazy cool. (I'm looking at you Cat Power, you sellout - Greatest my arse.)

By means of explanation - one of Gainsbourg's most well known songs - "I love you...nor do I" - has a chorus which (basically) goes - I go, I go and I come, between your kidneys (literal translation - rhymes in French at least) - Mick Harvey tweaked it to I go, I go and I come, inside you my love - which keeps the rhythm but Cat Power wusses out with I go, I go and I come, between you - which doesn't even maintain the tune, let alone suggest anything. Maybe there's a reason or a really crap translator involved but I kind of doubt it

Chicken? Happyland 2:56 Soundscape 02
Hazy Jane II Nick Drake 3:46 Bryter Layter
Razor Jayne Konrad Lenz 2:41 Living with the spirits of the dead
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
The Ghost That Feeds (Ray Parker Jr. vs NIN) Ray Parker Jr. vs Nine Inch Nails 3:20 mashed up by nathanchase.com
Exit Music (For A Film) Easy Star All Stars 4:23 Radiodread
No Surprises Easy Star All Stars 4:02 Radiodread
The Ballad Of Melody Nelson Placebo 3:58 Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
Everybody, Don't Tell Her The Moodists 3:44 Two Fisted Art
Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol) Monsieur Camembert 5:28 Absynthe
Jezebel Machine Translations 4:08 Abstract Poverty
A Midlife's Tale My Friend The Chocolate Cake 3:26 Parade
The Future Leonard Cohen 6:41 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 2)
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Self evident Ani Di Franco 9:14 Peace Not War
'Til the End The Living End 4:26 State Of Emergency
Yellow Sun The Raconteurs 3:20 Broken Boy Soldiers
Take You Home The Devastations 3:53 Coal

The Red Flag Billy Bragg 3:13 The Internationale
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
(Nice Dream) Radiohead 3:53 The Bends
I See A Darkness Johnny Cash 3:42 American III
Danielle Tex, Don & Charlie 3:18 Sad But True
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
The Other Side Bit By Bats 6:12 Bit By Bats
What Else Could It Be Mercury Rev 5:13 All Is Dream
You Can Have It All Yo La Tengo 4:36 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Under The Milky Way The Church 4:57 Rage 1
Los Angeles Frank Black 4:07 Rage 1
Shivers - 1 Nick Cave and the Dirty 3 5:11 Single
Fitzroy Strongman Sodastream 4:10 Single
The Clock The Go-Betweens 4:06 The Friends Of Rachel Worth
The Mule The Magic Numbers 5:11 The Magic Numbers
This Is Not The Way Home The Cruel Sea 4:06 This Is Not The Way Home
Bananas And Blow Ween 3:34 White Pepper
I Love Work Butterfingers 4:13 Breakfast At Fatboys

OK Computer - Reggae style

I've just been listening to some tracks by the Easy Star All Stars - a reggae outfit who are release a reggae version of the classic Radiohead album OK Computer.

These are the same guys who put out Dub Side of the Moon a few years ago - rasta'ing up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

From what I've heard so far, this actually kind of works.

check it out here http://www.hyfntrak.com/radiodread/fromafriend/

I just read that Thom Yorke praised the album onstage at a gig as well - so it's kosher - uhh so to speak :)

zenburger | where nothing adds up » Blog Archive » top 5 things that amount to nothing

This post tickles me particularly because it drops a beautifully well deserved dump on one of my least favourite bands of all time - U2. (There are a few other overrated artists sledged - Tarantino perhaps a little harshly - but U2 I reserve a special place in the bottom level of hell for)

2. Most overrated rock band: U2. U2 are like INXS with religion. The shallow masquerading as the deep. You can’t even say they’re style without substance. There’s neither style nor substance, just empty bombast. Make that bombs. They’re like the musical equivalent of a Gulf War campaign. Shock and Awe. Their well-oiled war machine rolls into town and wins hearts and minds but takes no prisoners. On stage, they look like company directors who were asked to be good sports and dress up as rock stars for the school play. Bono – chairman of the board – prowls around wailing about peace, love and freedom, but his body language says ‘control’. All their (interchangeable) songs tell us U2 are our spiritual teachers. They know something and they’re going to keep singing it, to a relentless 4/4 beat, until we finally get it.

Tuesday sunset treats

Yeah, it somewhat runs contrary to the title of the blog, but duty (well, work at least) called so I'm filling in Tuesday sunset instead this week. Here are some of the tracks that I hope will tantalize you.


Caught Out In The Rain Tom Woodward 3:23 32-20 Blues
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Novocain Stain Modest Mouse 3:42 This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Death Letter The White Stripes 4:29 De Stijl
You Been My Baby Blues Explosion 3:22 Damage
Mother Greer Augie March 3:46 Moo, You Bloody Choir
The casualties of casual ties Mid-State Orange 5:42 Odds
Into my arms Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 4:16 The boatmans call
Too Late Larry Williams and Johnny Guitar 2:21 Under the Influence (Ian Brown)
Mother Pinball The BellRays 2:16 Raw Collection
Hotel California Gipsy Kings 5:47 The Big Lebowski
Koolism Is Koolism 3:58 Part 3 - Random Thoughts
Future Cut Copy 5:08 Kill Your Idols
Heaps Essendon Airport 3:57 Melbourne Water 2
Flyswatter Eels 3:20 Daisies Of The Galaxy
Sister Morphine The Rolling Stones 5:34 Sticky Fingers
Bananas And Blow Ween 3:34 White Pepper
Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock MC Lars 2:15 The Graduate
No One Knows Queens Of The Stone Age 4:38 Songs For The Deaf
God Lead Your Soul The Sleepy Jackson 3:29 Personality

Get Up Outta The Dirt ButterFinger 4:13 The Deeper You Dig...
Turn Up Your Radio The FBI Idols 4:06 Kill Your Idols
Kool thing Sonic Youth 4:06 Goo
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio Ramones 3:52 Anthology
New Race (Orig) Radio Birdman 4:27 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Radio Teenage Fanclub 2:55 Four thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-six seconds
Golden Radio Bit By Bats 6:08 Let's Go Romeo
Get up The Smallgoods 4:23 Listen to the radio 10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Radio The Avalanches 4:52 Since I Left You
God Is On The Radio Queens Of The Stone Age 6:04 Songs For The Deaf
Radio Jordan Josh Abrahams 6:39 Sweet Distorted Holiday
Give Me Something Back Skulker 2:33 Coming Home Single
Money (That's what I want) Flying Lizards 2:32 J Files - Best covers of all time
Got No Money theredsunband 2:43 Peapod 10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Warm Milk With Honey Legends Of Motorsport 2:44 Warm Milk With Honey
Rocket Ride Felix Da Housecat 2:37 Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
Pinball City The BellRays 2:35 Raw Collection
This train will be taking no passengers Augie March 4:30 Strange bird
19-2000 [SOULCHILD REMIX] Gorillaz 3:30 G Sides
Lick The Bacon Osterberg 2:08 Osterberg

Monday music

Get Up Outta The Dirt ButterFinger 4:13 The Deeper You Dig...
Turn Up Your Radio The FBI Idols 4:06 Kill Your Idols
Kool thing Sonic Youth 4:06 Goo
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio Ramones 3:52 Anthology
New Race (Orig) Radio Birdman 4:27 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Radio Teenage Fanclub 2:55 Four thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-six seconds
Golden Radio Bit By Bats 6:08 Let's Go Romeo
Get up The Smallgoods 4:23 Listen to the radio 10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Radio The Avalanches 4:52 Since I Left You
God Is On The Radio Queens Of The Stone Age 6:04 Songs For The Deaf
Radio Jordan Josh Abrahams 6:39 Sweet Distorted Holiday
Give Me Something Back Skulker 2:33 Coming Home Single
Money (That's what I want) Flying Lizards 2:32 J Files - Best covers of all time
Got No Money theredsunband 2:43 Peapod 10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Warm Milk With Honey Legends Of Motorsport 2:44 Warm Milk With Honey
Rocket Ride Felix Da Housecat 2:37 Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
Pinball City The BellRays 2:35 Raw Collection
This train will be taking no passengers Augie March 4:30 Strange bird
19-2000 [SOULCHILD REMIX] Gorillaz 3:30 G Sides
Lick The Bacon Osterberg 2:08 Osterberg

Small change Gersey 5:23 Eyes Are Wide Tonight
Intersect Glorybox 4:34 This Is The Glory Box Compilation
Mote Sonic Youth 7:37 Goo
Fingerpops Garageland 2:50 Feel Alright
The Haunting The Golden Palominos 5:32 Drunk With Passion
In Places, Empty Spaces The Most Serene Republic 4:50 Underwater Cinematographer
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Best intentions Mid-State Orange 3:38 Odds
Dancing Shoes Arctic Monkeys 2:21 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Dory Previn Camera Obscura 4:16 Let's get out of this country
Acid Food Mogwai 3:40 Mr. Beast
When The Bomb Drops Primal Scream 4:36 Riot City Blues
Que N'ai-Je Keren Ann 3:26 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
The Clock Thom Yorke 4:16 The Eraser
Strange Days The Doors 4:23 Versions
No Wonder Neil Young 5:45 Prairie Wind
The Fox In The Snow Belle & Sebastian 4:23 If You're Feeling Sinister Live

Monday music

Got some interesting new stuff and also some stuff that I'm not entirely sure about - but figure it's interesting enough to give it a burl.

Even had a request through - and feel free to send yours in as well - for Mote by Sonic Youth in honour of Thurston Moore's 48th birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday old man. :)

Small change    Gersey    5:23    Eyes Are Wide Tonight
Intersect    Glorybox    4:34    This Is The Glory Box Compilation
Mote    Sonic Youth    7:37    Goo
Fingerpops    Garageland    2:50    Feel Alright
The Haunting    The Golden Palominos    5:32    Drunk With Passion
In Places, Empty Spaces    The Most Serene Republic    4:50    Underwater Cinematographer
Pop Star Girl    Tom Woodward    3:53    32-20 Blues
Black sheep    Konrad Lenz    3:05    Living With the spirits of the dead
Best intentions    Mid-State Orange    3:38    Odds
Dancing Shoes    Arctic Monkeys    2:21    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Dory Previn    Camera Obscura    4:16    Let's get out of this country
Acid Food    Mogwai    3:40    Mr. Beast
When The Bomb Drops    Primal Scream    4:36    Riot City Blues
Que N'ai-Je    Keren Ann    3:26    So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
The Clock    Thom Yorke    4:16    The Eraser
Strange Days    The Doors    4:23    Versions
No Wonder    Neil Young    5:45    Prairie Wind
The Fox In The Snow    Belle & Sebastian    4:23    If You're Feeling Sinister Live

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New stuff played today

Further On Up The Road    Johnny Cash    3:25    American V: A Hundred Highways
The illustrated man    Konrad Lenz    3:57    Living With the spirits of the dead
Wonder Riff    Baterz    3:03    Out of Hell
The Old Man Can Talk    Bit By Bats    3:30    Bit By Bats
A Divine Kiss (Original Version)    The Golden Palominos    3:17    A Divine Kiss
Seconds    Grant Lee Buffalo    4:21    Jubilee
Broken Boy Soldier    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah    3:09    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Store Bought Bones    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah    3:13    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
This Perfect Day    The Saints    2:09    Tales From The Aus Underground Vol 1
My Pal    God    3:21    Tales From The Aus Underground Vol 1
You Snooze You Lose    Gonzales    3:08    Presidential Suite
Jeez Louise    Grandaddy    3:43    Just Like The Fambly Cat
Bring It On    The Gossip    2:27    That's Not What I Heard
How we operate    Gomez    3:59    How we operate
So Entertaining    Gus & Frank    3:46    Confession of a Roooftop Killer
Hotel California    Gipsy Kings    5:47    The Big Lebowski
Freedom    J. Mascis And The Fog    4:19    Free So Free

TED: Sir Ken Robinson     TED/WNYC, 17:35    TEDTalks: Ideas Worth Spreading

The Sir Ken Robinson TEDTalk is particularly worth checking out - it's available here -

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/index.cfm?flashEnabled=1

- the audio file is about 7mb, the video one is a fair bit bigger.

Thanks to Sir Ken for his permission to play this.

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Monday music

Roaring Days    Weddings Parties Anything    2:43    They Were Better Live (Disc 2)
Slink    Glide    4:07    Last
Fuzzy    Grant Lee Buffalo    4:59    Fuzzy
Glory box    Portishead    5:37    Roseland NYC - Portishead live
Elevate Myself    Grandaddy    3:43    Just Like The Fambly Cat
Please Keep A Bottle Handy    Ashtray Boy    3:28    Melbourne Water 2
Wave of Mutilation - Bee Gee's Style    Matthew Taylor    2:56    http://pottymouth.org/mcpt/
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me    Violent Femmes    4:50    Why Do Birds Sing?
Beauty in this town    Danny George Wilson    3:26    The Famous Mad Mile
Miles Away    The Sleepy Jackson    2:36    Personality
Not Even Stevie Nicks...    Calexico    2:43    Feast Of Wire
Karma Police    Radiohead    4:21    Ok Computer
Indecise    Coralie Clement    2:35    So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
In The Pines    The Blackeyed Susans    3:44    Welcome Stranger
There Is No Such Place    Augie March    3:17    Sunset Studies
Greetings In Braille    The Elected    3:58    Me First
Armagideon Time    The Clash    3:53    Grosse Pointe Blank
Please Break Me Gently    Tex Perkins    2:52    Dark Horses
Riga Girls    The Weepies    2:36    Say I Am You
Kardinya Lights    The Air Ensemble    4:15    Kardinya Lights
Always See Your Face    Love    3:21    High Fidelity

Cheyenne    Guided By Voices    2:59    Universal Truths And Cycles
Intimate Secretary    The Raconteurs    3:30    Broken Boy Soldiers
Ventilator Blues    The Rolling Stones    3:24    Exile On Main Street
Dolls (Sweet Rock 'n' Roll)    Primal Scream    4:00    Riot City Blues
Ten Fifteen    Colourfast    3:33    Walk 
If looks could kill    Camera Obscura    3:29    Let's get out of this country
Wired For Sound    B(if)tek    3:51    2020
Zombie Girl    Baterz    2:50    Out of Hell
No Way Out    Love Of Diagrams    4:05    We Got Communication
Money Green    Bit By Bats    3:11    Let's Go Romeo
Locked Up    Radio Birdman    3:48    Zeno Beach
I Believe    Drones    6:58    The Miller's Daughter
Don't Need Love    Legends Of Motorsport    2:28    Warm Milk With Honey
Let Your Mind Be Your Bed    Felix Da Housecat    3:31    Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
Shock And Awe    Neil Young    4:52    Living With War
Sex call    Rocket Science    3:05    Eternal holiday
Slowdance    Soulwax    4:23    Any Minute Now
Break My Body    Pixies    2:05    Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
Voodoo Lady    Ween    3:48    Chocolate And Cheese
Devil Behind That Bush    Cramps    3:33    Big Beat From Badsville
Brother My Cup Is Empty    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds    3:13    Live Seeds

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Music for Monday

Heaps of new tunes today - been buying up on the new stuff a bit and also fossicking through the cds that have come into the station in the last week. Might even get up off my arse and put a review or two together - we'll see. (Or you could just listen to them and make up your own mind :)

Steady, As She Goes    The Raconteurs    3:36    Broken Boy Soldiers
Broken Boy Soldier    The Raconteurs    3:02    Broken Boy Soldiers
Sweet Virginia    The Rolling Stones    4:26    Exile On Main Street
That's entertainment    Paul Weller    4:11    Catch Flame
Broken stones    Paul Weller    4:37    Catch Flame
You now    Colourfast    2:52    Walk 
Supernaturally    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    4:37    The Lyre Of Orpheus
Ballistic    Grimwah    3:01    Ballistic
Country Girl    Primal Scream    4:33    Riot City Blues
Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar    Primal Scream    3:16    Riot City Blues
The Brotherhood Of Al Wazah    Radio Birdman    5:30    Zeno Beach
We've Come So Far (To Be Here Today)    Radio Birdman    3:45    Zeno Beach
The Scrap Iron Sky    The Drones    4:47    Here Come The Lies
Thunder All The Time    The BellRays    2:54    Australiapithicus EP
Turkey Jerky    ButterFingers    2:16    The Deeper You Dig...
Neon Flux    Bit By Bats    4:29    Let's Go Romeo
Masterplan    My Morning Jacket    5:05    It Still Moves
funny little frog    belle and sebastian    3:08    the life pursuit
Freak Scene    Dinosaur Jr    3:36    Bug
Jump N' Shout    Basement Jaxx    4:42    Remedy

Beauty in this town    Danny George Wilson    3:26    The Famous Mad Mile
Miles Away    The Sleepy Jackson    2:36    Personality
Don't Say    The Sleepy Jackson    3:06    Personality
Partie De Golf    Ridan    4:53    So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
Who Wrote this? Babra Streisand    Baterz    3:47    Out of Hell
World Divided    The View From Here    3:15    Songs Of Protest
So says I    The Shins    2:48    Chutes too narrow
Drinkin' in the day    The Light Brigade    3:54    Extended Player
Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken    Camera Obscura    3:49    Let's get out of this country
What A Waste    Sonic Youth    3:33    Rather Ripped
The Upper Peninsula    Sufjan Stevens    3:23    Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Backslash Paradigm (Thanks)    Kes    3:56    Melbourne Water 2
The Jean Genie    The Dandy Warhols    2:14    Plan A
Untitled 6    Sigur Rós    8:48    ( )
Don't Dream It's Over    Sarah Blasko    4:42    She Will Have Her Way
Apple Tree    Erykah Badu    4:25    Baduizm
Jacob's ladder    Chumbawumba    2:53    Peace Not War
Oh! Sweet Nothin'    The Velvet Underground    7:27    High Fidelity
Anniversary    Sodastream    4:11    Reservations

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The things people say.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com

Came across this site the other day - pages and pages of funny and weird things overheard in New York. Very easy to waste hours here but very entertaining.

Personal highlight -

Mom: ...and you have to hold my hand before we go out into the street.
Little girl: Best fucking advice ever.

--106th & Broadway

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Monday - ooops Wednesday sunset tracks

Had a bit of a shift swap this week while off doing some (very useful and exciting) work training. Thanks to the Great Fintain for filling in.

This is what I played on Wednesday.
I Was Made For Loving You    Queen Of Japan    2:01    2 Many DJs
Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFingers    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...
Our Way Of Life    EYE Vs Comm. Govt  1:17    Songs Of Protest
Wonder Riff    Baterz    3:03    Out of Hell
Take You Home    The Devastations    3:53    Coal
Electricityscape The Strokes    3:33    First Impressions Of Earth
Not So Tough    Love Cuts Kill    4:08    Melbourne Water 2
Summer Wino    Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males    4:54    The Tabloid Blues
Unmade Love    The Triffids    4:02    Australian Melodrama
I-94    Radio Birdman    3:36    The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)
Hash Pipe    Weezer    3:06    Weezer (Green Album)
Paranoid    Black Sabbath    2:49    Paranoid
Black Country Rock    David Bowie    3:36    The Man Who Sold The World
Love Me Like You    The Magic Numbers    4:50    The Magic Numbers
Comet    Wire    3:18    Send
Meganerd    YT Cracker    3:02    Nerd Rap
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?    Matthew Sweet    3:13    Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits
Peaches & Cream    Beck    4:54    Midnite Vultures
Bullet    Frank Black & The Catholics    3:53    Dog In The Sand
I got your number    Deadstar    3:12    Deadstar
Suicide Baby    The BellRays    2:11    Raw Collection
Well That Was Easy    Franz Ferdinand    3:02    You Could Have It So Much Better


Everything Reminds Me of Her    Elliott Smith    2:37    Figure 8
Twin Lakes    Sodastream    2:12    Reservations
The stories you tell    Jim Dead    3:39    13 Songs by Jim Dead
Rowboat    Johnny Cash    3:44    Unchained
Guns Of Brixton    Nouvelle Vague    4:06    Nouvelle Vague
Falling Out    Ween    2:28    White Pepper
Make it Count    Barb Waters & Kim Salmon    3:35    Rosa Duets
Aeroplanes    Paradise Motel    4:52    Flight Paths
Take It From Me    The Weepies    3:52    Say I Am You
Greetings In Braille    The Elected    3:58    Me First
Whitey Trickstar    GBVG    6:04    Whitey Trickstar
Pissing in the wind    Badly Drawn Boy    4:19    The hour of the bewilderbeast
Under The Milky Way    The Church    4:58    Under The Milky Way
7 Sisters    Wild Pumpkins At Midnight    3:04    The Secret Of The Sad Tree
Heart Of Gold    Neil Young With The Stray Gators    3:09    Greatest Hits
A punchup at a wedding    Radiohead    4:57    Hail to the thief
If You're Feeling Sinister    Belle & Sebastian    5:21    If You're Feeling Sinister
World Looking In    Morcheeba    3:20    The Chillout Session 2 (Disc 2)
Slience    Delirium    3:55    The Chillout Session 2 (Disc 2)
How Would You Plead?    Ed Kuepper    3:21    This Is The Magic Mile

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And the beg-athon continues

Last day of Radiothon (thank God) - while it's nice to have something to break up the routine, it kind of gets a little painful when you pitch pitch pitch for people to support the station and consistently get very little. (Big thanks to the people who did subscribe during Monday and Tuesday Sunsets last week, by the way)

Anyways, it is a worthy cause and it is important to do your bit, so onwards and upwards I guess.

Here are some tracks for the show today.

So Now You're Paul Simon's Producer 2:18 Full Fathom Five 07 Seven
Got No Money 2:43 theredsunband Peapod
Grace 5:34 King Creosote Dream Brother: The Songs Of Tim & Jeff Buckley
Mornings Eleven 5:34 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
Constant Ships 5:05 Sodastream A Minor Revival
Oh, Madalene 2:44 The Oranges Band All Around
Swimmers 2:55 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
Solar Flare 3:52 Endorphin Embrace
Black Heart 4:48 Calexico Feast Of Wire
Everything Reminds Me of Her 2:37 Elliott Smith Figure 8
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 3:19 Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Music 3:31 The Beautiful Girls Learn Yourself
Outer Accelerator 5:21 Stereolab Mars Audiac Quartet
Run Baby Run 7:23 Alex Cortiz Mesmerising
It's A Dream 6:32 Neil Young Prairie Wind
This Modern Love 4:25 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Silver Bird 3:18 Collard Greens And Gravy Silver Bird
Blackjack 4:07 Tortoise Standards

Anita's Miracle Suntan Lotion Magic Dirt 2:34 Tough Love
Breakdown Electronic 5:52 Twisted Tenderness
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani/Snoop Dogg/ZZ Top) Torero 4:28 Best of Bootie 2005
Am I ever gonna see your face again Mach Pelican 2:24 Bigger than Tina

Tuesday tracks

Mr Cheapskate    Cosmic Egg    4:39    Cosmic Egg
Give Me Tonight    Art Of Fighting    4:38    Wires
Sweetheart    Goldentone    4:21    Blood Red Earth
Fruite De Passion    The El Caminos    3:55    ...Away
She bangs the drums    The Stone Roses    3:50    Very Best of
Inner Meet Me    The Beta Band    6:19    3 E.P.'s
Hallelujah    Custard    4:58    Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
World Divided    The View From Here    3:15    Songs Of Protest
Fifteen    Baterz    2:05    Out of Hell
Across 110th Street    Bobby Womack    3:50    The Best Of Blaxploitation (Disc 2)
Le Chant De l'Helium    Marie-Jo Therio    4:53    So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
What a wonderful world    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    3:03    B-Sides And Rarities II
Hurt    Johnny Cash    3:38    American IV - The man comes around
Final Straw    R.E.M.    4:07    Future Soundtrack for America
The Staunton Lick    Lemon Jelly    5:22    Lemonjelly.ky
Love Will Tear Us Apart    Nouvelle Vague    3:18    Nouvelle Vague
Throw your arms around me    Hunters and Collectors    4:45    Live in large rooms and lounges

Requiem for the Punters Club    The Lucksmiths    5:19    Midweek Morning

Ready Light    Full Fathom Five    4:54    07 Seven
Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFingers    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...
Girl and the Sea    Presets    4:46    Beams
In Front of Me    Tzu    3:37    Smiling At Strangers
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange
(Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top)    Torero    4:28    Best of Bootie 2005
My Other Car Is A Beatle
(L'Trimm vs. Armand Van Helden vs. Beatles vs. Gary Numan)    Jay-R    4:52    Best of Bootie 2005
Passenger    Powderfinger    4:21    Internationalist
Ever Fallen In Love    The Buzzcocks    2:55    The Archive Series - BBC Sessions
Simple Love (Orig)    Saints, The    3:40    Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Thornbury    Ruck Rover    3:10    Before we lost it
Seven Nation Army    The White Stripes    3:52    Elephant
for the price of a cup of tea    belle and sebastian    3:19    the life pursuit
Blister In The Sun    Violent Femmes    2:32    Viva Wisconsin [Live]
Man Overboard    Deborah Conway & Wicked Beat Sound System    6:11    He died with a felafel in his hand - Soundtrack
Last nite (The Strokes)    The Detroit Cobras    2:35    Stop me if you think you've heard this one before
Gabrielle    Ween    3:29    Shinola (Vol. 1)
Prisoner Of Society    The Living End    3:52    The Living End
Mornings Eleven    The Magic Numbers    5:34    The Magic Numbers
Supernatural    Ripe    4:09    The Plastic Hassle

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Todays tunes - a special radiothon editiion (now with bonus i's)

Get Up Outta The Dirt    ButterFinger    4:13    The Deeper You Dig...   
Turn Up Your Radio    The FBI Idols    4:06    Kill Your Idols   
Kool thing    Sonic Youth    4:06    Goo   
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio    Ramones    3:52    Anthology   
New Race (Orig)    Radio Birdman    4:27    Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87   
Radio    Teenage Fanclub    2:55    Four thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-six seconds   
Golden Radio    Bit By Bats    6:08    Let's Go Romeo   
Get up    The Smallgoods    4:23    Listen to the radio    10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Radio    The Avalanches    4:52    Since I Left You   
God Is On The Radio    Queens Of The Stone Age    6:04    Songs For The Deaf    
Radio Jordan    Josh Abrahams    6:39    Sweet Distorted Holiday   
Give Me Something Back    Skulker    2:33    Coming Home Single   
Money (That's what I want)    Flying Lizards    2:32    J Files - Best covers of all time   
Got No Money    theredsunband    2:43    Peapod    10/02/2006 9:15 PM
Warm Milk With Honey    Legends Of Motorsport    2:44    Warm Milk With Honey   
Rocket Ride    Felix Da Housecat    2:37    Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever   
Pinball City    The BellRays    2:35    Raw Collection   
This train will be taking no passengers    Augie March    4:30    Strange bird   
19-2000 [SOULCHILD REMIX]    Gorillaz    3:30    G Sides   
Lick The Bacon    Osterberg    2:08    Osterberg   


No No Never    Weddings Parties Anything    5:20    They Were Better Live (Disc 2)   
Radio #1    Air    4:22    10,000 Hz Legend   
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead    Justin Heazlewood    2:07    The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed   
Spidermother    Baterz    2:21    Out of Hell   
Point that thing somewhere else    The Clean    5:27    Topless women talk about their lives    
Did You See Me?    Ween    5:11    Shinola (Vol. 1)   
You Never Give Me Your Money    The Beatles    4:02    Abbey Road   
Everything in it's right place    Radiohead    4:11    Kid A   
Heaps    Essendon Airport    3:57    Melbourne Water 2   
Easy Money    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    6:43    The Lyre Of Orpheus   
Airwaves    Kraftwerk    4:40    Radioactivity   
Shake Your Mood    Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males    4:08    Pirate Radio EP   
Mexican Radio    Wall of Voodo    3:57    Rage - More Of The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers (Disc 2)   
On the radio    The Killjoys    3:21    Stealing Horses   
A.M. Radio    Hugo Race & True Spirit    5:55    The Goldstreet Sessions   
Tessalit    Tinariwen    3:58    The Radio Tisdas Sessions   
Give Me Tonight    Art Of Fighting    4:38    Wires   
Surfing Magazines    The Go-Betweens    4:33    The Friends Of Rachel Worth   

Nifty Flash animation

If you have ever used Flash (or even a computer I guess), you should find this Flash centred cartoon pretty funny. It is all about the battle between a Flash animator and his creation. Kudos to Alan Becker for this one.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/34244097/

Nifty Pixies covers

http://pottymouth.org/mcpt/

This guy has covered a bunch of Pixies songs in the style of other famous (and generally far less cool) artists - check it out.

These are the songs :

Hey as performed by Prince

No. 13 Baby as performed by Elvis

Vamos as performed by Jimi Hendrix

Mr. Grieves as performed by Bob Marley

River Euphrates as performed by Tina Turner

Levitate Me as performed by The Beach Boys

Wave Of Mutilation as performed by The Bee Gees

Monkey Gone to Heaven as performed by Frank Sinatra

Songs of joy

Ok, so maybe this whole exercise is on the futile side, what with the lack of comments/feedback/reasons-to-live but what the hey, I might as well add my bunch of 1s and 0s to this great big blogosphere thing, right?

Anyways, it would be nice to know someone is out there paying attention - maybe I'm optimistic to think that people are listening to their radios at the same time that they are online, in fairness, can't say I ever do but it would be nice to think someone was prepared to stop by and say hi once in a while anyways.

So please, if you're here, would it kill you to leave a comment. See the bit at the bottom of the post where it says 0 comments? Just click on that and say something. I'd do it for your blog (if I knew about it) - honest

Anyways, this is what I played yesterday. (Actually, that's not entirely true, I think I got up to Your Missing - Cowboy Junkies on the soft cd and Chase the Dragon - Beasts of Bourbon on the loud one.

Firelines Sodastream 3:07 Reservations
Georgina Richard Easton 3:16 Boganvillea
Thirteen Wilco 3:25 Big Star Small World
Wonder Riff Baterz 3:03 Out of Hell
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
After the Garden Neil Young 3:23 Living With War
Riga Girls The Weepies 2:36 Say I Am You
Originality Thievery Corporation feat. Sister Nancy 4:08 Versions
Khalghi Stomp Transglobal Underground 3:54 Versions
Haven’t Got A Clue The Flaming Lips 3:25 At War With The Mystics
I Won't Back Down Johnny Cash 2:09 American III: Solitary Man
Made of stone The Stone Roses 4:16 Very Best of
Shake Your Mood Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males 4:08 Pirate Radio EP
Love Will Tear Us Apart Nouvelle Vague 3:18 Nouvelle Vague
You're Missing Cowboy Junkies 4:09 Early 21st Century Blues
Valentine & Garuda Frank Black & The Catholics 3:13 Black Letter Days
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
Marble Arch Minimum Chips 3:04 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Rain Falls For Wind The Sleepy Jackson 4:03 Lovers
It's Gonna Be (Alright) Ween 3:18 The Mollusk
Blue Spanish Sky Chris Isaak 3:58 Wicked Game

Fruite De Passion The El Caminos 3:55 ...Away
Revolution Get Down The BellRays 2:41 The Red White & Black
Cry for love Iggy Pop 4:28 Nude and Rude - the best of Iggy Pop
This Time Drones 5:35 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
The Best You Can Believe In Drones 7:35 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
Glasgow Mega-Snake Mogwai 3:35 Mr. Beast
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Dazzled Kids Voicst 2:42 11:11
Picture From A Sound Ripe 4:52 Galaxies And Stars
I Hate Shopping The Drugs 3:15 The Very Next Of
Chase The Dragon Beasts Of Bourbon 3:37 From The Belly Of The Beast Live
Echo and Bounce The Propellerheads 5:26 Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Disco 1 Mess Hall 3:59 Notes From A Ceiling
Six Months In a Leaky Boat Little Birdy 3:53 She Will Have Her Way
sukie in the graveyard belle and sebastian 3:00 the life pursuit
Love Me Like You The Magic Numbers 4:50 The Magic Numbers
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better
Sabotage The Beastie Boys 2:58 Ill Communication
See the sun Rocket Science 4:15 Eternal holiday

tracks

I'm falling Halfday 3:50 Now We're Happy
Nature Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:54 Abattoir Blues (Disc 1)
Ten Little Pills Slumber Party 4:11 Slumber Party
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Gutter for two The Tremors 3:03 Cash up front, no kissing
Would You Love A Monsterman Lordi 3:02 The Monster Show
Devil Is A Loser Lordi 3:29 Get Heavy
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
Quiet Room Meatbee 3:46 Caught In The ACT 2001
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Bubblegum Gun I Heart Hiroshima 3:26 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Shock And Awe Neil Young 4:52 Living With War
Let's Impeach the President Neil Young 5:10 Living With War
Midweek morning The Lucksmiths 3:05 Naturaliste
The Ballad Of Lachlan And Sarah Ripe 3:50 Galaxies And Stars
Sharkfin Blues The Drones 4:32 Single
Cinnamon girl Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:44 Under The Covers
Secret Track The Drugs 0:41 The Very Next Of
Nightmares By The Sea Jeff Buckley 3:49 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk [Disc 2]
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Hott Date The Gossip 2:17 That's Not What I Heard

Take me home Kirsty Stegwazi 5:04 Jailbirds
Kid Fears Indigo Girls 4:34 Indigo Girls
Madeline Yo La Tengo 3:37 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Sweetheart Goldentone 4:21 Blood Red Earth
Lonely Stretch The Triffids 5:02 Born Sandy Devotional
Pancho Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 3:13 The Brave And The Bold
Stars The Weepies 3:02 Say I Am You
Snow Peas Minimum Chips 3:33 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Your Neighborhood Spaceman (featuring Jel and Odd Nosdam) Peeping Tom 5:45 Peeping Tom
Acid Food Mogwai 3:40 Mr. Beast
We're No Here Mogwai 5:36 Mr. Beast
This is Not a Love Song Nouvelle Vague 4:33 Versions
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) The Flaming Lips 4:51 At War With The Mystics
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
I Wish You Were Here Ed Kuepper 3:03 This Is The Magic Mile
The Nature vs. Effect Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Lichen And Bees Tamas Wells 3:05 A Plea En Vendredi
Lived In Bars Cat Power 3:43 The Greatest
Start Again Sounds Like Sunset 3:24 Saturdays

Oh Lordi - Eurovision goes Metal

Well, far be it from me to blow my own horn (though like all guys, you know I would if I could :) but take a look back through the archives of this blog to the entry from the 27th of March where you'll notice I got perhaps a little excited about the Finnish entry in Eurovision this year.

That's right, it was Lordi, the monster themed metal band who last night took out Finland's first ever Eurovision victory and also did a great interview in their press conference afterwards

"“Think about it, a rock band just won a pop song contest. This is weird, strange, interesting. This is for all rock fans, hard rock fans, metal fans and Kiss fans. And we didn’t just win – we won it for Finland.”

He then sang the chorus of Lithuania entry, ‘We Are The Winners’." And that Lithuanian entry is a whole other thing again

Evidently the band has been embroiled in a little controversy at home, with the Finnish leader expressing concern that they might give Finland a bad name overseas (be interesting to see the backpedal now) and claims elsewhere that the band are satanic. Lordi addressed this pretty well in his press conference as well though

“For the millionth time, we’re not Satanists or devil worshippers,” he said. “This is entertainment. The masks are like our calling card and we’ll never perform without them. It would be like Santa Claus handing a child his gifts and Christmas time and then pulling off his beard and saying, ‘By the way, I’m your father…’”

Read all about it on the Eurovision website - http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm

Last weeks tracks

Yeah, umm, kind of forgot to do that one I know - sorry if you were wondering - got a bunch of new music this week though and will also highlight a bit of Lordi, so I hope you enjoy

Today's tracks

Robert Onion Frank Black & The Catholics 4:00 Dog In The Sand
Electrical Storm (Live) Ed Kuepper 6:37 This Is The Magic Mile
Retro Bailterspace 4:29 Wammo
Supernatural Ripe 4:09 The Plastic Hassle
I-94 Radio Birdman 3:36 The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)
Rex Kramer Gomez 4:30 In our gun
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely Hüsker Dü 3:31 Candy Apple Grey
Pyramid Wolfmother 4:28 Wolfmother
No One Knows Queens Of The Stone Age 4:38 Songs For The Deaf
Open air channel Rocket Science 7:13 Contact High
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:05 We Got Communication
Sir! Beat Sir Bit By Bats 2:33 Bit By Bats
Hazy Shade of Winter Bodyjar 2:11 Ten Years Of The Meredith Music Festival
Fighting in a sack The Shins 2:26 Chutes too narrow
Contact Frausdots 4:26 Couture, Couture, Couture
Daddy's Home Sixfthick 2:30 Daddy's Home
Can't work you out Dallas Crane 3:05 Dallas Crane
Mirror Blues Pt.1 Died Pretty 4:32 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Are you gonna be my girl Jet 3:33 Get Born
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow

Love Will Tear Us Apart Nouvelle Vague 3:18 Nouvelle Vague
The Clock The Go-Betweens 4:06 The Friends Of Rachel Worth
Boundary Rider The Go-Betweens 2:45 Oceans Apart
Streets of Your Town The Go-Betweens 3:33 16 Lovers Lane
Butterfly Baterz 3:45 Out of Hell
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead Justin Heazlewood 2:07 The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
December Skies Cowboy Junkies 5:18 Early 21st Century Blues
Sing Me A Song Charlie Marshall 5:05 Charlie Marshall And The Body Electric
Submarine Bells The Chills 3:41 Submarine Bells
Empty Shell Cat Power 3:03 The Greatest
Thunder Road Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 6:28 The Brave And The Bold
Danko/Manuel Drive-By Truckers 5:43 Across The Great Divide
Incident on South Dowling Paul Kelly 2:50 Post
Marble Arch Minimum Chips 3:04 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Spacewalk Lemon Jelly 7:02 Lost Horizons
The passenger Iggy Pop 4:43 Nude and Rude - the best of Iggy Pop
Jack-Ass Beck 4:11 Odelay
Road To Nowhere Talking Heads 4:20 Once In A Lifetime

Bush cops a comedy beating at major dinner

Democracy Now! | Stephen Colbert's Blistering Performance Mocking Bush and the Press Goes Ignored by the Media

Maybe you're already across this, but if you aren't, Daily Show performer Stephen Colbert was guest speaker at the annual White House Press Corp dinner the other week. Standing about 5 feet about from George W and in full character doing his conservative commentator bit, he proceeded to sledge Bush for the better part of 20 minutes, while the President just looked more and more annoyed.

He also had a thing or two to say to the assembled journalists in the room about how slack they'd been in keeping the government accountable, which is probably why his speech got almost no coverage in the mainstream media in the US until it had swept the web, getting more than 500,000 viewings on YouTube (a popular web video site).

It's largely been removed from the web by now (apparently due to Copyright issues) but can still be found here and there - here for now ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/03/145234 )

Here are a couple of excerpts to give you some idea.

Mark Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps, Madame First Lady, Mr. President, my name is Stephen Colbert, and tonight it is my privilege to celebrate this president, ‘cause we're not so different, he and I. We both get it. Guys like us, we're not some brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut. Right, sir?

That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.

And as excited as I am to be here with the President, I am appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying America, with the exception of FOX News. FOX News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side.

But the rest of you, what are you thinking? Reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in Eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished.

Monday tracks

The Red Flag Billy Bragg 3:13 The Internationale
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
(Nice Dream) Radiohead 3:53 The Bends
I See A Darkness Johnny Cash 3:42 American III
Danielle Tex, Don & Charlie 3:18 Sad But True
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
The Other Side Bit By Bats 6:12 Bit By Bats
What Else Could It Be Mercury Rev 5:13 All Is Dream
You Can Have It All Yo La Tengo 4:36 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Under The Milky Way The Church 4:57 Rage 1
Los Angeles Frank Black 4:07 Rage 1
Shivers - 1 Nick Cave and the Dirty 3 5:11 Single
Fitzroy Strongman Sodastream 4:10 Single
The Clock The Go-Betweens 4:06 The Friends Of Rachel Worth
The Mule The Magic Numbers 5:11 The Magic Numbers
This Is Not The Way Home The Cruel Sea 4:06 This Is Not The Way Home
Bananas And Blow Ween 3:34 White Pepper
I Love Work Butterfingers 4:13 Breakfast At Fatboys

Anita's Miracle Suntan Lotion Magic Dirt 2:34 Tough Love
Breakdown Electronic 5:52 Twisted Tenderness
Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani/Snoop Dogg/ZZ Top) Torero 4:28 Best of Bootie 2005
Am I ever gonna see your face again Mach Pelican 2:24 Bigger than Tina
Calm Down Riff Random 3:05 In Space There Is No Sound
Sidewalking The Jesus and Mary Chain 3:34 Rage 2
The Message Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five 7:20 Rage 1
Popcorn Hot Butter 2:33 Single
Beverly & Honeymoon DeepSeaPlaza 4:06 Songs Of Protest
the blues are still blue belle and sebastian 4:08 the life pursuit
In The Red Love Of Diagrams 3:36 We Got Communication
Check Level The Rogers Sisters 3:20 The Rogers Sisters
Cool Scene The Dandy Warhols 4:07 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
I Think I Smell A Rat The White Stripes 2:04 White Blood Cells
common_people William Shatner 2:19 Has-been
Girl Beck 3:29 Guero
Stop thinking about it Joey Ramone 2:56 Garage Days
Fortress Europe Asian Dub Foundation 3:53 Enemy Of The Enemy
Bang On! The Propellerheads 5:44 Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Ladybird Dallas Crane 2:34 Dallas Crane
Agent Tremolo Messerchups 4:01 Black Black Magick

Tunes

The Man Who Sold The World David Bowie 4:00 The Man Who Sold The World
Without You Ed Kuepper 4:47 This Is The Magic Mile
Eternal Struggle Full Fathom Five 4:00 07 Seven
The Telemarketer Resignation Tamas Wells 2:21 A Plea En Vendredi
December Skies Cowboy Junkies 5:18 Early 21st Century Blues
Give Me Tonight Art Of Fighting 4:38 Wires
Previous Crimes Devastations 4:58 Devastations
Nic Nax Minimum Chips 3:44 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Final Straw R.E.M. 4:07 Future Soundtrack for America
The Sandringham line The lucksmiths 5:26 Naturaliste
Chicago Sufjan Stevens 6:04 Illinois
Dark Days theredsunband 2:58 Peapod
Summer 78 (With Claire Pichet) Yann Tiersen 3:54 Good Bye Lenin!
Live Bed Show (Extended) Pulp 4:10 Second Class
Is this it (The Strokes) Royal City 3:01 Stop me if you think...
Empty Shell Cat Power 3:03 The Greatest
Hollywood Landmines Blu Mar Ten 3:51 The Six Million Names Of God
Waves Superette 3:18 Topless women talk about their lives
Yoshimi battles the pink robots The Flaming Lips 4:45 Yoshimi battles the pink robots

I Go Hard, I Go Home Presets 5:04 Beams
Paris Brooklyn Dimitri From Paris 7:37 Cruising Attitude
Maria Peripatetica Ed Kuepper 3:36 This Is The Magic Mile
Sing Me A Song Charlie Marshall 5:05 Charlie Marshall
Bokura No Mazinger Dimitri From Paris 5:14 Cruising Attitude
The Suburban Ballet Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Music Is Crap Custard 3:03 Goodbye Cruel World
Simple Love Hoss 4:02 Idiot Box
My Pal Magic Dirt 3:53 Idiot Box
Sleeps With Angels Neil Young&Crazy Horse 2:46 Sleeps With Angels
Like A Hurricane Jay Farrar 7:08 Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
September 13th Deodato 5:17 Best Of Blaxploitation
Love Me Like You The Magic Numbers 4:50 The Magic Numbers
The Dead Heart Frenzal Rhomb 3:46 The Power & The Passion
Igloo The Screaming Tribesmen 4:01 Savage Beat Of The Screaming Tribesmen
Miles Away Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2:19 UNCUT - Neat Neat Neat
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:05 We Got Communication
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better

10-04 Tunes

Just Dropped In Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 3:20 The Big Lebowski
Blue Orchid The White Stripes 2:38 Get Behind Me Satan
The dark of the matinee Franz Ferdinand 4:03 Franz Ferdinand
Supernaturally Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:37 The Lyre Of Orpheus
The Man Who Sold The World Nirvana 4:20 MTV Unplugged in New York
Final Straw R.E.M. 4:07 Future Soundtrack for America
Off With Your Head Sleater-Kinney 2:26 Future Soundtrack for America
sukie in the graveyard belle and sebastian 3:00 the life pursuit
The Legend YT Cracker 3:01 Nerd Rap
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Lateral Jump Bergerac 5:47 Voice Of Translator
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Billy Bragg 4:34 Workers Playtime
Dead In A Ditch Cosmic Psychos 3:56 Off Ya Cruet!
Joker And The Thief Wolfmother 4:39 Wolfmother
Ashes To Ashes Faith No More 3:36 Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits
Let's Take A Trip Together Morphine 3:00 Cure For Pain
Heroes [Live] Blondie 6:20 UNCUT - Starman: A Tribute To David Bowie
The pledge to resist Saul Williams (Coldcut remix) 5:36 Peace Not War
Forsaken Fashion Dolls Lordi 3:45 The Monster Show

Ocean Of You The Blackeyed Susans 3:33 Welcome Stranger
Don't Dream It's Over Sarah Blasko 4:42 She Will Have Her Way
Lay Of The Sunflower Gov't Mule 6:58 The Deep End Vol. 2
A Few More Miles Karl Broadie 2:47 Nowhere Now Here
Unfair Sounds Like Sunset 4:05 Saturdays
Some Say (I Got Devil) Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 3:33 The Brave And The Bold
No Woman, No Cry Renegades Steel Band 6:02 Sounds Of The Planet, Womadelaide 2006
Love And Communication Cat Power 4:33 The Greatest
Labour Of Love Frente! 3:10 Whirled
Summer Heat The Crustaceans 3:04 I'm Happy If You're Happy
Alaska Minimum Chips 4:28 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
Love Theme Moby 4:36 I Like To Score
Midnight Bird Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set 4:24 Autumn Bone
Hole In The Bucket Spearhead 5:46 Home
Made of stone The Stone Roses 4:16 Very Best of
Burma Shave Tom Waits 6:33 Used Songs 73-80
I Feel Just Like a Child Devendra Banhart 4:47 Uncut 2005

Belated tunes

Wayward.....Vashti Bunyan.....3:06.....Lookaftering
Six Months In a Leaky Boat.....Little Birdy.....3:53.....She Will Have Her Way
Fall At Your Feet.....Clare Bowditch.....3:50.....She Will Have Her Way
Sex & Mayhem.....The Devastations.....4:22.....Coal
Louise.....Tex, Don & Charlie.....4:48.....Sad But True
It Looks Like You.....Evan Dando.....3:15.....Baby I'm Bored
Sun King.....The Beatles.....2:26.....Abbey Road
Blasphemous Rumours.....Depeche Mode.....5:09.....Singles 81-85
Sunday Session.....Weekender Ft Zoe Johnston.....4:38.....The
Chillout Session 2
X-Ray Eyes.....Randy.....3:23.....Welfare Problems
I Know.....The Beta Band.....3:59.....3 E.P.'s
Charity Board.....Sodastream.....4:33.....Take Me With You When You Go
Let It All Turn Black.....Sodastream.....3:57.....Take Me With You When You Go
The beautiful look city today.....Gersey.....9:05.....Hope springs
Summer of love.....Black Cab.....4:51.....Altamont Diary
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole.....Martha Wainwright.....3:14.....Martha
Wainwright
Serac.....Decoder Ring.....5:24.....Fractions
The Rift.....Ween.....5:41.....Shinola (Vol. 1)

another sunny day... 4:04... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
sukie in the graveyard... 3:00... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
for the price of a cup of tea... 3:19... belle and sebastian... the life pursuit
Mornings Eleven... 5:34... The Magic Numbers... The Magic Numbers
Love Me Like You... 4:50... The Magic Numbers... The Magic Numbers
YYY/NNN... 4:00... Soulwax... Any Minute Now
Miserable Girl... 3:41... Soulwax... Any Minute Now
The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying... 4:58... The Devastations... Coal
There She Goes, My Beautiful World... 5:17... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds... Abattoir Blues
The Mercy Seat... 4:35... Johnny Cash... American III: Solitary Man
Devil Behind That Bush... 3:33... Cramps... Big Beat From Badsville
Execution day... 4:46... Beasts of Bourbon... Black Milk
The Death of an Idiot... 2:31... Charles Bukowski... Charles Bukowski Reads His Poetry
Gold Soundz... 2:40... Pavement... Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
A Fond Farewell... 3:58... Elliott Smith... From A Basement On The Hill
Where Is My Mind?... 3:41... Frank Black Francis... Frank Black Francis
This Charming Man... 2:43... The Smiths... Hatful Of Hollow
Perfect Day... 3:44... Lou Reed... Legendary Lou Reed (Disc 1)
Chinese Rocks... 2:53... Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers... Mojo: I Love NY Punk
Black shuck... 3:22... The Darkness... Permission to land

This years Finnish entry in Eurovision

A Finnish friend of mine put me on to these guys - a very cheesy and entirely entertaining metal outfit called Lordi.

Lordi will be the official Finnish act in the Eurovision song contest this year and have a very 80's metal / cockrock kind of sound, with lyrics all in English. There's a kind of The Darkness feel about them but heavier and without the o.t.t falsetto.

According to their bio

Lordi is a self-taught professional FX-make-up artist. Each costume and make-up has been designed, sculpted and detail painted by himself. It takes up to five hours to get the whole band applied in make-up and dressed in the multi-part rubber suits.

The stage set, which contains two stone towers with gargoyles on top, a wide stone logo and a whole lot of horrific props, were also done by the band from the scratch.

Lordi also drew a 12-page Lordi comic book, which was given to consumers as a bonus gift when they purchased the first single "Would You Love A Monsterman?". The single went gold and reached #1 in the Finnish single charts.

Lordi entered the studio to record their debut album "Get Heavy" with producer T.T. Oksala in early 2002.

Musically Lordi is strongly inspired by 80's heavy metal melodies, with a twist of modern day programming. Simple, striking, ass-kicking heavy rock!

The album was finally mixed in London at SARM STUDIOS by Kevin Shirley, who?s previous work includes names like IRON MAIDEN, AEROSMITH and THE BLACK CROWES among others.

Being a strongly visual band, Lordi shot their first video, "Would You Love A Monsterman?", in a staged horror forest. It was designed by the professionals that were behind OZZY OSBOURNE's image.

The video was also co-scripted by Lordi, who drew the storyboards. The "Would You Love A Monsterman?" video gives a glimpse of what to expect from the up-coming Lordi stage shows: pyros, special effects and monsters.

Lots more information to be found on their official website - http://www.lordi.org