Monday Sunset

TRacks

2008-10-08T14:44:00.000+11:00

Bird    The Knife    The Knife    4:34
Hot Chocolate    Shonen Knife    Happy Hour     3:11
Jacob's ladder    Chumbawumba    Peace Not War    2:54
When you're in love    Reno    Thinking about the good times    3:25
Bohemian Like You    The Dandy Warhols    Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia    3:32
Pop Star Girl    Tom Woodward    32-20 Blues    3:53
yes We Can Song    will i am and friends    Obama 08    4:20
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)    Kenny Rogers & The First Edition    The Big Lebowski    3:21
Computer Love    TZU    Computer Love    3:50
Walls    Beck    Modern Guilt    2:22
On My Way    Cocoon    So Frenchy So Chic: 2008    2:47
Cindy (with Nick Cave)    Johnny Cash    Unearthed - Redemption songs    2:54
Son of Sam    Elliott Smith    Figure 8    3:04
Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenoceros    Flight Of The Conchords    Flight Of The Conchords    2:09
We're Not Alone    Dinosaur Jr    Beyond    4:35
Yoshimi battles the pink robots pt.1    The Flaming Lips    Yoshimi battles the pink robots    4:46
Workit (Daft Punk, Cybotron, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan)    SMC    Best Of SMC Mashups    3:42
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)    Neil Young    Rust Never Sleeps (Live)    5:14
Loaded    Primal Scream    Screamadelica    7:03
One Six One    Bit By Bats    Go, Go, Go!    2:37
Chan chan    Buena Vista Social Club    Buena Vista Social Club    4:19
Life On Mars    David Bowie    Best Of David Bowie 69-74    3:52
Money    Gary "Nesta" Pine & Dollarman    Dub Side Of The Moon    6:26

tunes

2008-09-29T14:33:00.000+10:00

I Want To See You Go Wild    Andrew W. K.    Close Calls With Brick Walls    3:00
The Fruit Man    Ween    La Cucaracha    4:01
Zapata    The Knife    The Knife    4:11
New Day Of The Dead    Beasts Of Bourbon    Little Animals    5:18
Profanity Prayers    Beck    Modern Guilt    3:43
Like A Panther    Bit By Bats    Go, Go, Go!    3:47
The Poontango    Mojo Nixon    Gadzooks!!! The Homemade Bootleg    2:37
Human Fly    Nouvelle Vague    Bande À Part    2:49
My Pal    God    Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)    3:21
Still Alive    Portal    The Orange Box    2:56
Peppercorn Black    Randall Blair And The Wedded Bliss    Tattoos And Taillights    3:12
Perfectly Ordinary    Rastawookie    Perfectly Ordinary    4:01
Factory_Girl    The Rolling Stones    Flashpoint    2:48
Anarchy In The UK    Sex Pistols    Rage - The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers    3:32
Stranded In Your Love feat. Lee Fields    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings    Naturally    5:47
Computer Love    TZU    Computer Love    3:50
Icky Thump    The White Stripes    Icky Thump    4:14
Guilty    Youth Group    Urban & Eastern    2:53
Business Time    Flight Of The Conchords    Flight Of The Conchords    4:05
Im still Fresh    Elton John Featuring the Fresh prince    Best Of SMC Mashups    3:23
Those Little Things    Carla Bruni    Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited    2:09
'84 Pontiac Dream    Boards Of Canada    The Campfire Headphase    3:50
O Freedom    Billy Bragg    Mr. Love & Justice    4:05
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction    Devo    Nouvelle Vague Presents New Wave [Disc 1]    2:38
Home is Where The Hatred Is    Gil Scott-Heron    GTA IV IFF 99 Funk    3:24

Monday Sunset 220908

2008-09-18T20:58:00.001+10:00

public enemy - 911 is a joke - foggy mountain - bluegrass    Woodpecker        4:28
Bird    The Knife    The Knife    4:34
Mondays    TZU    Computer Love    4:33
Now You Love Me    The Dandy Warhols    Earth To The Dandy Warhols    3:09
Can't Go Back    Primal Scream    Beautiful Future    3:44
Dirty Water    Randall Blair And The Wedded Bliss    Tattoos And Taillights    4:46
Buy Me A Pony    Spiderbait    Ivy And The Big Apples    1:44
I Want You    Kiss    The Very Best Of Kiss    3:07
Junior Kickstart    The Go! Team    Thunder, Lightning, Strike    3:35
Feelin' Seedy    Los Capitanes    No Fun Intended    2:52
99 Luftballons    Nena    GTA VC Wave 103    3:51
The baby that was you    MC Honky    I am the messiah    3:44
Luno    Bloc Party    Silent Alarm [Japan Bonus Tracks]    3:57
Morrison Floorshow    Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes    The Soft 'N' Sexy Sound    6:24
Just Can't Get Enough [Schizo Mix]    Depeche Mode    The Singles 81-85    6:46
Your Party    Ween    La Cucaracha    4:08
Mis-Shapes    Pulp    Different Class    3:47
Black Steel    Tricky    J Files - Best covers of all time    3:43
Super Rifle    Gogol Bordello    Gogol Bordello vs. Tamir Muskat    5:03
Ever Fallen In Love    Nouvelle Vague    Bande À Part    3:20
Zombie Girl    Spazzys    Aloha! Go Bananas    3:39
Strangers    Portishead    Dummy    4:00
Fitter Happier    Easy Star All Stars    Radiodread    2:20
My New Anorak    Suzie Higgie    Songs Of Habit    4:19
Easy Money    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds    The Lyre Of Orpheus    6:43
2-1    Elastica    Trainspotting Soundtrack    2:32
Cat claw    The Kills    Keep on your mean side    3:33
Where Did You Sleep Last Night    Nirvana    MTV Unplugged in New York    5:07
Culture Move    Asian Dub Foundation    Rafi's Revenge    4:31
Teenage Kicks    Nouvelle Vague    Nouvelle Vague    2:14
God Of Miles    Frank Black & The Catholics    Black Letter Days    3:50
Not A Lot To Do    The Zutons    Who Killed The...    3:48
More Fun (Live)    Radio Birdman    The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)    1:59
My Pal    God    Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)    3:21

Selecting: songs for Breakfast

2008-09-14T23:18:00.000+10:00

Mis Amigos    The Dandy Warhols    Earth To The Dandy Warhols    4:31
Read About It    Area 7    The Power & The Passion - ...A Tribute To Midnight Oil    3:28
Give Me Some Mercy    Tom Woodward    32-20 Blues    5:58
Blue Orchid    The White Stripes    Get Behind Me Satan    2:38
Jacob's ladder    Chumbawumba    Peace Not War    2:54
The Ghost That Feeds (Ray Parker Jr. vs NIN)    Ray Parker Jr. vs Nine Inch Nails    mashed up by nathanchase.com    3:20
Blister In The Sun    Violent Femmes    Grosse Pointe Blank    2:09
Those Little Things    Carla Bruni    Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited    2:09
Fade To Pretty Vacant (Visage vs. Sex Pistols vs. The Charlatans vs. Fun Lovin' Criminals vs. Nouvelle Vague)    Copycat    Best of Bootie 2007    5:18
The songs that we sing    Charlotte Gainsbourg    So Frenchy So Chic: 2008    2:55
Cut Your Hair    Pavement    Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins    3:07
Mother Pinball    The BellRays    Raw Collection    2:17
Electioneering    Radiohead    Ok Computer    3:51
Sharkfin Blues    The Drones    Single    4:33
People    Alfie    LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips    4:10
Famous Blue Raincoat    Leonard Cohen    The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 1)    5:10
Where Is My Mind?    Frank Black Francis    Frank Black Francis    3:41
45 Prayers    The Rogers Sisters    The Rogers Sisters    2:16
Idea of Fun    The Stooges    The Weirdness    3:18
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)    Nancy Sinatra    Kill Bill, Vol. 1    2:41
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)    Kenny Rogers & The First Edition    The Big Lebowski    3:21
Fish In The Dish    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings    Naturally    3:18
Hot Chocolate    Shonen Knife    Happy Hour     3:11
My friend goo    Sonic Youth    Goo    2:20
Cash Cow    We Are Scientists    With Love And Squalor    2:36
Inner City Pressure    Flight Of The Conchords    Flight Of The Conchords    3:27

Is it just me or am I posting this later every week

2007-06-06T15:45:00.001+10:00

UPDATE - I have moved the playlists for Monday Sunset over to Couch Media, as mentioned below. For all future info about tracks played on Monday Sunset as well as Lost Highway and general stuff about things I've been doing, watching, listening to etc, check it out over there. cheers

I'm toying with the idea of moving this blog across to my main daily blog, http://couchmedia.blogspot.com (Loathe as I am to alienate the dozens of people who chance upon this site every year :)

Anyways, for now, here is the selection from Monday

9 To 5 Dolly Parton 3:00 The Very Best Of
Superfish Los Capitanes 2:14 No Butts!
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague 3:19 Bande À Part
Trash New York Dolls 3:07 Mojo: I Love NY Punk
Chinito Chinito Ry Cooder 4:52 Chavez Ravine
Phantom Land EZ3kiel 4:53 BARB4RY
Weeds The Negotiators 3:59 Apples and Oranges
Flame Trees Sarah Blasko 5:21 Standing On The Outside (The Songs Of Cold Chisel)
Finger Print (Ra Ra) Randall Blair And The Wedded Bliss 5:09 Tattoos And Taillights
Friday night The Darkness 2:55 Permission to land
1025 Sixteen Sisters.mp3 The Kleptones 2:50 24 Hours (Disc 1)
Come To This The Sleepy Jackson 3:28 Lovers
Going Going Gone Richard Hell & The Voidoids 2:31 Mojo: I Love NY Punk
One Six One Bit By Bats 2:37 Go, Go, Go!
She Was Venezuela Bit By Bats 3:27 Go, Go, Go!
Myth Takes (Acouth Take) !!! 2:14 Myth Takes (Bonus Disc)
What If Lucinda Williams 5:41 West
Carey Joni Mitchell 3:02 Hits
The Ghost That Feeds (Ray Parker Jr. vs NIN) Ray Parker Jr. vs Nine Inch Nails 3:20 mashed up by nathanchase.com
Ramblin' Man Hank Williams 3:04 CD 3, MGM studio sessions 10-01-1950 to 01-06-1951
Idea of Fun The Stooges 3:17 The Weirdness
Icky Thump (Album) White Stripes 4:17 Icky Thump
The Only Way Gotye 4:49 Like Drawing Blood
China girl Iggy Pop 5:08 Nude and Rude - the best of Iggy Pop
Opening Credits From Nevermind Don Meers 1:28 Music For Film : Cults Classics Curios
Here Comes Your Man Pixies 3:21 Doolittle
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Dramamine Modest Mouse 5:42 This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The child Alex Gopher 4:34 YouMyBaby&I
Asleep In Perfection Augie March 4:04 Sunset Studies
Intergalactic The Beastie Boys 3:51 Hello Nasty
Godless The Dandy Warhols 5:20 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Let's Stick Together Bryan Ferry 2:59 More Than This- The Best of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music
Take It To The Back Dubba Rukki 3:45 Island State

Off sick this week

2007-05-31T10:14:00.001+10:00

Thanks to the ever fantastic Sylvie for filling in.

Tracks of my tunes

2007-05-23T08:59:00.000+10:00

I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree The Sleepy Jackson 3:20 Personality
King Of New York Fun Lovin' Criminals 3:44 Q Mmmmm
Myth Takes (Acouth Take) !!! 2:14 Myth Takes (Bonus Disc)
Paranoid Android Radiohead 7:06 Young Parisians
Satellite Of Love Lou Reed 3:44 Transformer
Icky Thump (Album) White Stripes 4:17 Icky Thump
7 Sisters Wild Pumpkins At Midnight 3:04 The Secret Of The Sad Tree
Do The Door, Friend Moodists 2:52 Two Fisted Art
I'm A Cuckoo Belle & Sebastian 5:26 Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Crazy Cordrazine 4:37 From Here To Wherever
Chandliers Tamas Wells 3:37 A Mark On The Pane
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Labour Of Love Frente! 3:10 Whirled
1959 Patti Smith 3:58 Peace And Noise
Pablo Picasso The Modern Lovers 4:21 The Modern Lovers
A Forest The Cure 4:55 Staring At The Sea: The Singles 79-85
The Illustrated man Konrad Lenz 3:57 Living with the spirits of the dead
Poor Boy Blues Randall Blair And The Wedded Bliss 3:54 Tattoos And Taillights
Hourly Daily You Am I 4:23 Hourly Daily
Little_Red_Rooster The Rolling Stones 5:15 Flashpoint
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
The Future Teddy Thompson 6:51 Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
I'm Deranged (Reprise) Trent Reznor 3:47 Lost Highway
Wizard Flurry Home Mariee-Sioux 4:23 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
This train will be taking no passengers Augie March 4:30 Strange bird
Loser Beck 3:55 Mellow Gold
Black Steel Tricky 5:40 Maxinquaye
Postcard Karma County 3:42 Last Stop Heavenly Hieghts
Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr 3:36 Bug
Pink moon Nick Drake 2:06 Pink Moon
What Difference Does It Make? The Smiths 3:50 The Best Of The Smiths
C'mon C'mon The Von Bondies 2:15 Pawn Shoppe Heart
Radioactivity Kraftwerk 6:41 Radioactivity

Belated Monday tunes

2007-05-16T18:10:00.000+10:00

Hope you enjoyed the show

Chinito Chinito Ry Cooder 4:52 Chavez Ravine
Peppercorn Black Randall Blair And The Wedded Bliss 3:11 Tattoos And Taillights
Icky Thump (Album) White Stripes 4:17 Icky Thump
Four Photos Fire On The Hill 5:41 Endless Smiley Sunstar
Idea of Fun The Stooges 3:17 The Weirdness
Jolene Dolly Parton 2:41 The Very Best Of
Yankee Bayonet The Decemberists 4:20 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
What If Lucinda Williams 5:42 Uncut The Playlist - March 2007
When The War Is Over Something For Kate 5:19 Standing On The Outside (The Songs Of Cold Chisel)
Must Be The Moon !!! 5:56 Myth Takes
There She Goes, My Beautiful World Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 5:29 The Abattoir Blues Tour 2004 (Disc 2)
The Message-(Edit) Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five 3:14 The Message - Best Of
What's Going On Marvin Gaye 3:53 What's Going On (Extra Tracks) [Original Recording Remastered]
Blown A Wish My Bloody Valentine 3:36 Loveless
Lust For Life Iggy Pop 5:13 Lust For Life
Jealous Girls The Gossip 3:39 Standing In The Way Of Control
Ladykillers Lush 3:14 Lovelife
Orange Crush Editors 4:12 Q: Best Of 86/06
The Guns of Brixton The Clash 3:13 London Calling
Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 4:21 The Breakfast Club
0340 Crazy Tonight = Strong Teeth.mp3 The Kleptones 7:06 24 Hours (Disc 2)
Yo yo craze The Fauves 4:12 Footage Missing
Hallelujah Custard 4:58 Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
Soul Rebel Bob Marley 3:19 Reaction
Stars Of Track And Field Belle & Sebastian 5:04 If You're Feeling Sinister Live
Loser Beck 3:55 Mellow Gold

Monday mixtape (do people still make mixtapes?)

2007-05-07T14:51:00.000+10:00

Must Be The Moon !!! 5:56 Myth Takes
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Crazy Logic (Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell) Arty Fufkin 4:27 Best of Bootie 2006
Binary Love The Rakes 3:45 Capture/Release
Here Comes Your Man Pixies 3:21 Death To The Pixies
Disco 2000 (Nick Cave Pub Rock Version) Pulp 4:22 Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Under the Milky Way The Church 4:51 El Momento Descuidado
Four Photos Fire On The Hill 5:41 Endless Smiley Sunstar
Stutter Elastica 2:22 Elastica
Satisfaction_I_Can_t_Get_No The Rolling Stones 6:08 Flashpoint
The Walrus The Fuelers 3:53 Hot Dang
Fill Your Heart David Bowie 3:07 Hunky Dory
Star Hotel Cold Chisel 3:42 Last Stand
Thanks For Your Time Gotye 4:18 Like Drawing Blood
Kinky Afro Happy Mondays 4:17 Loads
Some Nights Are Long Holly Throsby 3:02 On Night
Uncertain Times The Raveonettes 3:58 Pretty In Black
Ace Of Spades Motorhead 2:51 The Best Of Motorhead D1
Can't Get You Out Of My Head The Flaming Lips 4:05 Q: Best Of 86/06
Dream Montage Gary Chang 2:38 The Breakfast Club
funny little frog belle and sebastian 3:08 the life pursuit
Made Of Stone The Stone Roses 4:15 The Stone Roses [UK]
over and over Hot Chip 5:45 The Warning
Idea of Fun The Stooges 3:17 The Weirdness
Inaction We Are Scientists 2:32 With Love And Squalor
Coat Of Many Colors Dolly Parton 3:05 The Very Best Of
Thirsty Suzie Higgie 3:22 Songs Of Habit
Nano nano Darth Vegas 3:23 Darth Vegas
Descent Into The Maelstrom Radio Birdman 4:24 The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78)
Asleep In Perfection Augie March 4:04 Sunset Studies
Neutron Popsong I Heart Hiroshima 1:37 A Three Letter Word For Candy

Music stuff

2007-04-30T01:59:00.000+10:00

Ramblin Man Beasts Of Bourbon 2:48 From The Belly Of The Beasts: Red Disc
Jolene Dolly Parton 2:41 The Very Best Of
My Dog Killed Ma Gurski's Chook Ed Kuepper 3:25 Cloudland
Bug Powder Dust (with Justin Warfield) Bomb The Bass 4:18 Clear
Boys Don't Cry The Cure 2:41 Greatest Hits - The Cure
Dead Flowers The Rolling Stones 4:05 Sticky Fingers
Levi Stubbs' Tears Billy Bragg 3:32 Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg [Disc 1]
Under The Milky Way The Church 4:57 Rage - The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers
Stayin Alive in The Wall Wax Audio 3:16 Mashopolos
Tesco V Sainsbury's Trans Am 2:54 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
Velvet Girl Howling Bells 3:22 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
Yankee Bayonet The Decemberists 4:20 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
Choir Girl Katie Noonan 3:22 Standing On The Outside (The Songs Of Cold Chisel)
The Only Way Gotye 4:49 Like Drawing Blood
Must Be The Moon !!! 5:56 Myth Takes
Go Tell The Woman Grinderman 3:24 Grinderman
Girl Sailor The Shins 3:44 Wincing The Night Away
Vision Bell Dappled Cities 3:47 Granddance
Love In A Trashcan The Raveonettes 2:51 Pretty In Black
Open Book The Rakes 2:17 Capture/Release
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)? The Buzzcocks 2:43 Buzzcocks Live
Jimmy Jazz The Clash 3:57 London Calling
Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock 6:34 Head Hunters
When Doves Cry Prince 5:54 Purple Rain
Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 3:14 The Queen Is Dead
Space The Fuelers 2:33 Hot Dang
Rabbit in your Headlights Unkle 6:20 Psyence Fiction
Powder Blue Ween 3:14 12 Golden Country Greats
Radioactivity Kraftwerk 6:41 Radioactivity
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Wonder Riff Baterz 3:03 Out of Hell
funny little frog belle and sebastian 3:08 the life pursuit
Don't Dream It's Over Sarah Blasko 4:42 She Will Have Her Way
Le Chant De l'Helium Marie-Jo Therio 4:53 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone The Temptations 9:58 The Best Of Blaxploitation (Disc 1)
Black Betty Spiderbait 3:28 Greatest Hits

Music for april

2007-04-22T23:16:00.001+10:00

Original Sins Chris Bowden 7:36 Xen Cuts
No Wonder Neil Young 5:45 Prairie Wind
Summer78 Yann Tiersen 3:54 Goodbye Lenin!
Into Temptation Jimmy Little 4:48 Messenger
I hope I never Lisa Miller 4:09 She will have her way
Year of the rat Badly Drawn Boy 4:43 One plus one is one
Our faces split the coast in half Broken Social Scene 3:42 Broken Social Scene
Get up The Smallgoods 4:23 Listen to the radio
Stoneage Cinderella Died Pretty 3:15 Do the Pop
I don't love anymore Belle and Sebastian 3:56 Tigermilk
Anxiety Full Fathom Five 3:49 07Seven
Long way to go with no punch Dirty Three 4:57 She has no strings Apollo
Morning rain The Sleepy Jackson 2:06 Lovers
Take you home Devastations 3:53 Coal
Love me like you The Magic Numbers 4:51 The Magic Numbers
Love goes on The GoBetweens 3:12 16 Lovers Lane
Average Man Turin Brakes 2:43 Ether song
Can you forgive me? Lupine Howl 5:37 The bar at the end of the world

Back again

2007-04-15T22:04:00.000+10:00

After a week off (the folk festival crew broadcast a highlights package), I'm back baby and more eclectic than ever. Get your ears around these babies :)

Staring Through My Rear View 2Pac 5:14 The Prophet
Dawsons Creek Sarah Sarah 3:05 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
When The War Is Over Something For Kate 5:19 Standing On The Outside (The Songs Of Cold Chisel)
Khe Sanh Paul Kelly 4:17 Standing On The Outside (The Songs Of Cold Chisel)
You Say You Lie The Raveonettes 2:55 Pretty In Black
Ladykillers Lush 3:14 Lovelife
Let's Get Lost Chet Baker 3:44 A Selection From 25 Best Albums
Fire Fire Fire Dappled Cities 3:48 Granddance
War Still A Run Zenzile 4:20 Modus Vivendi
Us Amazonians Kirsty MacColl 4:09 Tropical Brainstorm
Caravan Trash The Fuelers 3:23 Hot Dang
Show Me Dexy's Midnight Runners 3:25 Uncut The Playlist - March 2007
The Illustrated Man Konrad Lenz w/The Henchmen 4:01 One of the missing
Velvet Girl Howling Bells 3:22 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
The Lion & Albert Jarvis Cocker 3:10 VARIOUS Now Hear This! - February 2007
Panther Dash The Go! Team 2:45 Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Know You Too Well Minimum Chips 2:52 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
The Old Man Can Talk Bit By Bats 3:30 Bit By Bats
Sharkfin Blues The Drones 4:32 Single
This is Not a Love Song Nouvelle Vague 4:33 Versions
Twin Lakes Sodastream 2:12 Reservations

Monday music

2007-04-02T00:38:00.000+10:00

All this and much much more.

Miles Away Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2:19 UNCUT - Neat Neat Neat
Passive Manipulation The White Stripes 0:35 Get Behind Me Satan
Sorry Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:36 Under The Covers
Flippin' Tha Bird Ruby 4:10 Salt Peter
Tattoo your name on my ass Trost 1:58 Trost
The day we lost Fitzroy The Bites 3:05 White lines and runways
You turn me on I'm a radio Joni Mitchell 2:39 Hits
Kool thing Sonic Youth 4:06 Goo
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Cannonball The Breeders 3:33 Last Splash
Make it Count Barb Waters & Kim Salmon 3:35 Rosa Duets
Glory Box Portishead 5:05 Dummy
In The Red Love Of Diagrams 3:36 We Got Communication
Labour Of Love Frente! 3:10 Whirled
Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 3:12 Dry
Little Plastic Castle Ani DiFranco 4:04 Little Plastic Castle
Nine to Five / Eple Dolly Parton / Royksopp 2:32 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Le Chant De l'Helium Marie-Jo Therio 4:53 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
Dirty Jeans Magic Dirt 3:41 What Are Rock Stars Doing Today
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Sexy Body Frencham Smith 3:04 Into My Room
Hearth Philippa Nihill 4:37 A Little Easy
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague 3:19 Bande À Part

Oops - better late than never I guess

2007-04-01T21:28:00.000+10:00

Ok, so I got pleasantly sidetracked last week and forgot to post the list of (guest-playlisted) tracks. Guest playlisting worked really well I might add - thanks Rachel, great selections - and I can definitely see more of this happening in the future. Kind of like Rage on a Saturday night but without having to be famous.

I'll Fly Away Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:57 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
DJan DJan Angélique Kidjo 4:12 Triple J - Earthcore
England 2 Colombia 0 Kirsty MacColl 3:45 Tropical Brainstorm
Cada Beijo Bebel Gilberto 4:19 Versions
Off With Your Head Sleater-Kinney 2:26 Future Soundtrack for America
I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree The Sleepy Jackson 3:20 Personality
Take me out Franz Ferdinand 3:57 Franz Ferdinand
Those Little Things Carla Bruni 2:09 Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
Parisien Du Nord Cheb Mami With K-Mel (Alg/France) 3:29 Rock The Kasbah
With Plenty of Money and You Count Basie & Tony Bennett 1:33 Swingers
Fast As You Can Fiona Apple 4:40 When The Pawn...
King Of New York Fun Lovin' Criminals 3:44 Q Mmmmm
Alimony The Hummingbirds 3:57 Tales from the Australian underground Vol.2 1977-1990
Rachel Lets Go Of The Handlebars Dean Manning 4:46 Diplomatic
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Zombie Girl Baterz 2:50 Out of Hell
Wow Zenzile 5:08 Modus Vivendi
Thanks For Your Time Gotye 4:18 Like Drawing Blood
All My Heroes Are Weirdos !!! 3:04 Myth Takes
Unguarded Moment The Church 3:35 El Momento Descuidado
Little Trip To Heaven Tom Waits 3:01 The Early Years

Happy Canberra day

2007-03-19T12:02:00.001+11:00

Shining a bit of a spotlight on local artists today

Walk Tall Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen 4:12 Mikelangelo & The BSG
A Dark Horse Will Either Run First or Last Tamas Wells 6:10 A Mark On The Pane
Puzzle With A Piece Missing Gotye 5:40 Like Drawing Blood
Myth Takes !!! 2:24 Myth Takes
Must Be The Moon !!! 5:56 Myth Takes
Magdeline Konrad Lenz 2:53 Living with the spirits of the dead
Unguarded Moment The Church 3:35 El Momento Descuidado
Depth Charge Ethel Grinderman 3:47 Grinderman
Ride After Ride Art Of Fighting 3:50 Runaways
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Koolism Is Koolism 3:50 Diverse EP
Wow Zenzile 5:08 Modus Vivendi
In these shoes? Kirsty MacColl 3:39 Tropical Brainstorm
Into My Room Frencham Smith 3:29 Into My Room
Caravan Trash The Fuelers 3:23 Hot Dang
Wonder Riff Baterz 3:03 Out of Hell
Blade-running Elf 4:12 Preview
Eyes Open The Gossip 2:10 Standing In The Way Of Control
Uncertain Times The Raveonettes 3:58 Pretty In Black

Zombie Girl Spazzys 3:39 Aloha! Go Bananas
Be Thankful for What You've Got Massive Attack 4:09 Blue Lines
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Live) Nitocris 4:00 Epic Voyage
Tropical ice land The Fiery Furnaces 3:30 Gallowsbird's Bark
Banana Chips Shonen Knife 2:58 Happy Hour
Man Overboard Deborah Conway & Wicked Beat Sound System 6:11 He died with a felafel in his hand - Soundtrack
You're Sorry Now The BellRays 2:21 The Red White & Black
Horny As A Dandy - Original Version Mousse T. Vs. The Dandy Warhols 3:17 Horny As A Dandy (Mashed By Loo & Placido)
Stutter Elastica 2:22 Elastica
Kid Fears Indigo Girls 4:34 Indigo Girls
Guenevere And The Fire Penelope Swales 3:20 Justifying Your Longings To The Doctor
Know You Too Well Minimum Chips 2:52 Kitchen Tea Thankyou
For A Short Time Tiddas 4:59 Lethal By The Kilo
Bad Girl The Detroit Cobras 2:28 New Blood Vol 3
Devil Song theredsunband 2:23 Peapod
Drive Paradise Motel 4:29 Flight Paths
Hieronymus The Clouds 3:47 Penny Century
Sarah Vaughan - Summertime UFO 6:50 Verve Remixed
Chicken? Happyland 2:56 Soundscape 02
California Paradise Motel 3:09 Still Life

Monday tunes - for International Womens Day (week)

2007-03-06T21:54:00.000+11:00

Bit of a spotlight on women artists this week - which has made me realise that (albeit unconsciously) I really don't play a lot of stuff by women. Well fear not, if it's good, it'll get played.

Miles Away Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2:19 UNCUT - Neat Neat Neat
Passive Manipulation The White Stripes 0:35 Get Behind Me Satan
Sorry Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:36 Under The Covers
Flippin' Tha Bird Ruby 4:10 Salt Peter
Tattoo your name on my ass Trost 1:58 Trost
The day we lost Fitzroy The Bites 3:05 White lines and runways
You turn me on I'm a radio Joni Mitchell 2:39 Hits
Kool thing Sonic Youth 4:06 Goo
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Cannonball The Breeders 3:33 Last Splash
Make it Count Barb Waters & Kim Salmon 3:35 Rosa Duets
Glory Box Portishead 5:05 Dummy
In The Red Love Of Diagrams 3:36 We Got Communication
Labour Of Love Frente! 3:10 Whirled
Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 3:12 Dry
Little Plastic Castle Ani DiFranco 4:04 Little Plastic Castle
Nine to Five / Eple Dolly Parton / Royksopp 2:32 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Le Chant De l'Helium Marie-Jo Therio 4:53 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
Dirty Jeans Magic Dirt 3:41 What Are Rock Stars Doing Today
We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Sexy Body Frencham Smith 3:04 Into My Room
Hearth Philippa Nihill 4:37 A Little Easy
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague 3:19 Bande À Part

A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll

2007-02-26T00:29:00.000+11:00

Perhaps it was the influence of the Canberra Show on the weekend but a bit of twang has crept into the playlist today. Like most things in life, there are nuggets of gold to be found everywhere(even in the most unstylish of genres)and these are just a few.

Rock Song Smoosh 2:03 Free To Stay
New Genius (Brother) Gorillaz 3:58 Gorillaz [UK]
Blown A Wish My Bloody Valentine 3:36 Loveless
Wicked Game Chris Isaak 4:49 Wicked Game
Bull In The Heather Sonic Youth 3:04 Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star
Anything Could Happen The Clean 2:38 The Clean - Anthology
Long Legs The Magic Numbers 3:22 The Magic Numbers
Rachel Lets Go Of The Handlebars Dean Manning 4:46 Diplomatic
Je N'y Crois Plus The Whitlams 3:48 Don't Believe Anymore
Postcard Karma County 3:42 Last Stop Heavenly Hieghts
Ice Cream Man Tom Waits 3:12 The Early Years
Reduced to Clear Tamas Wells 3:34 A Mark On The Pane
I see a darkness Johnny Cash 3:42 American III : Solitary Man
Make it Count Barb Waters & Kim Salmon 3:35 Rosa Duets
Fabulous Driving Pinky Beecroft & The White Russians 4:40 Pinky Beecroft & The White Russians
This House Jasper James & The JetSet 3:02 Shortbus
The Ship Song Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:09 The Abattoir Blues Tour 2004 (Disc 1)
Electric Alice Grinderman 3:15 Grinderman
Let Somebody In The Magic Numbers 3:33 Those The Brokes
Black Wave The Shins 3:19 Wincing The Night Away
The Eve The Girl Dappled Cities 4:02 Granddance
Trigger Calexico 2:34 The Black Light

Tunes

2007-02-13T23:12:00.001+11:00

Sky High From The Man From Hong Kong Jigsaw 2:47 Music For Film : Cults Classics Curios
Swoon From Intermission Philip Brophy 3:03 Music For Film : Cults Classics Curios
New York Joint Smoke & Mirrors 6:17 Dope On Plastic 5 (Disc 2)
Girl Sailor The Shins 3:44 Wincing The Night Away
Sea Legs The Shins 5:22 Wincing The Night Away
Anthracite Mick Harvey 2:55 Pink Elephants
Transmission Joy Division 3:36 Substance 77-80
Red Caboose Snowbug 2:46 Inextricably intertwined
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
The Supermen David Bowie 3:39 The Man Who Sold The World
My brain is hanging upside down (Bonzo goes to Bitburg) Ramones 3:58 Anthology 2
Gravity Kim Salmon & The Surrealists 4:11 Sin Factory
She Wears A Mask Machine Translations 3:12 Happy
Runnin' Out The Magic Numbers 5:02 Those The Brokes
Take A Chance The Magic Numbers 3:32 Those The Brokes
Fire Fire Fire Dappled Cities 3:48 Granddance
Talk Amongst Yourselves Grand National 4:25 Kicking The National Habit
Friction Television 4:44 Marquee Moon
No Fun / Push It Iggy & The Stooges / Salt n' Pepa 2:33 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Under the Milky Way Jimmy Little 4:56 Messenger

Better late than never

2007-02-05T09:10:00.000+11:00

Ok, well there probably isn't a lot of point to this post but it seems like the thing to do nonetheless. Here are last weeks tracks

Helpless Cowboy Junkies 5:27 'neath Your Covers, Part 1
The Passenger Iggy Pop 4:44 Lust For Life
Posters Jack Johnson 3:14 Brushfire Fairytales
Pink moon Nick Drake 2:06 Pink Moon
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)? The Buzzcocks 2:43 Buzzcocks Live
Romulus Sufjan Stevens 4:41 Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:07 In Space There Is No Sound
Get Behind The Mule Tom Waits 6:52 Mule Variations
Tropicalia Beck 3:20 Mutations
Ruby_Tuesday The Rolling Stones 3:33 Singles collection 1963 - 1976
Release Me On The Floor Figurines 5:48 Skeleton
Chelsea Hotel #2 Leonard Cohen 3:06 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 1)
Mornings Eleven The Magic Numbers 5:34 The Magic Numbers
Everything Reminds Me of Her Elliott Smith 2:37 Figure 8
32-20 Blues Robert Johnson 2:49 Deal With The Devil
.32-20 Blues Tom Woodward 3:16 32-20 Blues
Trouble in mind Konrad Lenz 2:20 Living With the spirits of the dead
The Argus Ween 4:53 Quebec
Six Pack Tortoise 3:11 Standards
She finally gets to travel The Beautiful Few 4:03 Metal for Melbourne...and other stories

Telegram Sam Marc Bolan 3:42 Acoustic Warrior
Fitzroy Strongman Sodastream 4:10 Looks Like A Russian
Ring Of Fire Ed Kuepper 4:04 Character Assassination
Open Book The Rakes 2:17 Capture/Release
Brainville The Flaming Lips 3:13 Clouds Taste Metallic
Down With Prince Hot Chip 3:17 Coming On Strong
Down by the River Neil Young And Crazy Horse 12:23 Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 1970 [CD/DVD]
Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 3:56 Crowded House
Wave Of Mutilation Pixies 2:04 Death To The Pixies
Common People (Vocoda Mix) Pulp 6:18 Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Blade-running Elf 4:12 Preview
Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 3:12 Dry
Indian Song Elastica 2:46 Elastica
Space The Fuelers 2:33 Hot Dang
Ciao! Lush 3:31 Lovelife
Secrets The Zutons 3:16 Tired of Hangin' Around
Rip It Up Razorlight 2:25 Up All Night
Time For Heroes The Libertines 2:40 Up The Bracket
Exit Music (For A Film) Easy Star All Stars 4:23 Radiodread
Adelaide Paul Kelly 3:37 Post

Some tunes for Monday

2007-01-23T13:33:00.001+11:00

19-2000 Gorillaz 3:27 Gorillaz [UK]
Acid In My Heart The Sleepy Jackson 3:31 Lovers
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Broken Boy Soldier The Raconteurs 3:02 Broken Boy Soldiers
California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco 4:58 Mermaid Avenue
Fortress Europe Asian Dub Foundation 3:51 Rock The Kasbah
Girl Beck 3:29 Guero
Hallelujah Custard 4:58 Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:04 Kill Your Idols
Just Like Animals Paul Kelly 4:40 Wanted Man
Overkill Colin Hay 3:46 Going Somewhere
People ain't no good Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 5:42 The boatmans call
Pink moon Nick Drake 2:06 Pink Moon
Rich girl Augie March 4:57 Waltz
Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) De La Soul 5:06 Timeless
The Passenger Iggy Pop 4:44 Lust For Life
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
Where Is My Mind? Frank Black Francis 3:41 Frank Black Francis
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better

New stuff this week

2007-01-14T21:35:00.001+11:00

Ciao!    Lush    3:31    Lovelife
No Going Back    Gold Mice    3:13    Kill Your Idols
My Pal    God    3:21    Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Ian Thorpe Was Bored    Justin Heazlewood    2:35    The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Chemical, chemical    Pretty Girls Make Graves    2:39    The New Romance
Hotel Yorba    The White Stripes    2:10    White Blood Cells
No Mercy For She    Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright    5:42    Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright
Don't Go Dancin Down The Darktown Strutter's Ball    C.W. Stoneking    3:38    King Hokum
Friends In Danger    Magic Dirt    4:45    Friends In Danger
Pink bullets    The Shins    3:53    Chutes too narrow
Mao Tse Tung Said    Alabama 3    5:16    Exile On Coldharbour Lane
The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying    The Devastations    4:58    Coal
Calling You    Paradise Motel    4:33    Still Life
Previous Crimes    Devastations    4:58    Devastations
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction    Otis Redding    2:48    The Ultimate Otis Redding
Wired For Sound    B(if)tek    3:51    2020
1am (Italo Workers Club)    Dark Network    7:09    Late Set
Our Way Of Life    EYE Vs The Commonwealth Government    1:17    Songs Of Protest
Vending machine    Snowbug    6:38    Inextricably intertwined

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Holiday tracks (if you are so lucky)

2007-01-08T12:47:00.001+11:00

Well, once more I've been delving into the depths of the rockin and the slight odd - my fascination with unusual cover versions and mashups continues unabated and for your listening pleasure today I present Run DMC mashed up with Metallica, The Sugababes singing The Arctic Monkeys, Mousse T mashed with the Dandy Warhols and the Flaming Lips fairly radical reimagining of the White Stripes Seven Nation Army.

Enjoy

Fall at Your Feet Crowded House 3:18 Woodface
Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield 6:11 Live In Europe
Horny As A Dandy - Original Version Mousse T. Vs. The Dandy Warhols 3:17 Horny As A Dandy (Mashed By Loo & Placido)
Seven Nation Army (Harry Potter And George Bush's Severed Head Army Mix) The Flaming Lips 2:49 LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor Sugababes 2:44 Q: Best Of 86/06
Tricky Sandman (Run-DMC vs. Metallica) DJ M.I.F. 3:41 Best of Bootie 2006
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Brown Bessy The Fuelers 2:20 Hot Dang
Caught Out In The Rain Tom Woodward 3:23 32-20 Blues
Nick The Stripper The Birthday Party 3:52 Prayers On Fire
Heavenly Bodies Lush 2:59 Lovelife
You Say You Lie The Raveonettes 2:55 Pretty In Black
How Does It Feel The Zutons 3:49 Tired of Hangin' Around
over and over Hot Chip 5:45 The Warning
Shark Fin Blues Drones 5:43 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
I Thank You- The Powder Monkeys 3:32 Redball Soundtrack
More suicides please The Thought Criminals 2:31 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
The Nature vs. Effect Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Master And Servant Depeche Mode 3:47 The Singles 81-85
Strasbourg The Rakes 2:30 Capture/Release
Modern Way Kaiser Chiefs 4:03 Employment
Wave Of Mutilation Pixies 2:04 Death To The Pixies

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Mo less.

2007-01-08T08:38:00.001+11:00

After 2 months (and a bit) it was time for a change. The mo is no more.

Looking backwards

2007-01-02T13:44:00.001+11:00

After doing the retrospective thing on Monday Sunset yesterday, I thought I was pretty well going to get into looking forward and enjoying the best new music that people are making but my trip to the cd shop at lunchtime would say otherwise.

I had intended to look for some James Brown - I was in Melbourne when he died and 3RRR (one of the best radio stations around) played huge slabs of him (well - his music, you know what I mean) - anyway, I realised that there is a big Brown hole in the collection.

As it turns out, I found a best-of double cd in the collection of best-of double cds in the 3 for $20 pile so also scored some Curtis Mayfield (arguably cooler than JB) and some Cuban tunes.

Then I saw the Breakfast club soundtrack and before I knew it, I was in retro city.

I'd say that the Flaming Lips - Late Night Tales cd is more contemporary, but there's also a lot of their old retro faves on there, so what do you do?)

Now granted, there hasn't been a whole lot of 07 music released yet (or is that 007?) but I wonder what it all means.

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Happy New Tunes (ok, so they're the picks of 2006 but if you haven't heard them, they're new, right?)

2007-01-01T15:41:00.001+11:00

Nausea    Beck    2:55    The Information
Love handles    Boytown    1:59    Boytown Soundtrack
No Backbone    The Lemonheads    3:07    The Lemonheads
Two Can Play At This Game    Dallas Crane    2:49    Factory Girls
Midnight Snack    You Say Party! We Say Die!    4:03    Hit The Floor!
revision    love of diagrams    4:23    e.p.
Paranoid Android    Easy Star All Stars    6:27    Radiodread
Roscoe    Midlake    4:49    The Trials Of Van Occupanther
The Future    Teddy Thompson    6:51    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Girl From The Tote    The Swedish Magazines    4:26    Eat More Baby
Blue Monday    Nouvelle Vague    3:06    Bande À Part
Together    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah    3:30    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Further On Up The Road    Johnny Cash    3:25    American V: A Hundred Highways
Broken Boy Soldier    The Raconteurs    3:02    Broken Boy Soldiers
The Brotherhood Of Al Wazah    Radio Birdman    5:30    Zeno Beach
Country Girl    Primal Scream    4:33    Riot City Blues
The Clock    Thom Yorke    4:16    The Eraser
Money Green    Bit By Bats    3:11    Let's Go Romeo

Warm July Sodastream 4:24 Reservations

Cinnamon girl Matthew Sweet&Susanna Hoffs 2:44 Under The Covers

over and over    Hot Chip    5:45    The Warning
Disco 2000 (Nick Cave Pub Rock Version)    Pulp    4:22    Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Common People (Vocoda Mix)    Pulp    6:18    Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Pop Star Girl    Tom Woodward    3:53    32-20 Blues
These walls have ears    Snowbug    2:06    Inextricably intertwined
Black Sabotage (Beastie Boys vs. Led Zeppelin)    DJ Moule    2:32    Best of Bootie 2006
Crazy Logic (Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell)    Arty Fufkin    4:27    Best of Bootie 2006
1150 Closer To The Boxer.mp3    The Kleptones    4:55    24 Hours (Disc 1)
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)    Neil Young    3:47    Rust Never Sleeps (Live)
Worth The Wait    We Are Scientists    2:43    With Love And Squalor
You Will You Won't    The Zutons    2:54    Who Killed The...
Ambush    Figurines    3:08    Skeleton
Watch Out For Me Ronnie    Yo La Tengo    3:01    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Why Won't She Marry Me?    Digger And The Pussycats    3:56    Watch Yr Back
Puttin' On The Dog    Tom Waits    3:39    Orphans: Brawlers
Fat Children    Jarvis Cocker    3:23    Jarvis
Bad boy for love    Ian Rilen    6:14    Love In Murder (Bonus)
Charley Bostock Blues    C.W. Stoneking    3:34    King Hokum
Fistful Of Dallas    Ground Components    5:37    An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Yakuza's Girls    Don Walker    2:19    Cutting Back

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Last for the year

2006-12-18T15:13:00.000+11:00

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

2006-12-10T23:25:00.001+11:00

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)

2006-12-03T23:02:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-27T14:19:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-23T09:05:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-21T11:49:00.001+11:00

The desk, originally uploaded by Colism.

Old as the station but still kicking

Back on track - tunes for today

2006-11-19T22:22:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-13T13:47:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-05T22:28:00.000+11:00

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

2006-11-03T14:53:00.000+11:00

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

2006-10-29T21:37:00.000+11:00

Cameo or Guest Host - you be the judge

2006-10-27T13:29:00.000+10:00

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?

2006-10-23T14:05:00.000+10:00

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

2006-10-08T22:43:00.000+10:00

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

2006-10-02T15:29:00.000+10:00

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

2006-09-25T09:03:00.000+10:00

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...

2006-09-17T23:44:00.000+10:00

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)

2006-09-17T23:38:00.000+10:00

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

2006-09-13T10:20:00.001+10:00

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

2006-09-11T23:09:00.000+10:00

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

2006-09-10T23:43:00.000+10:00

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

2006-09-10T18:46:00.000+10:00

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 :)

2006-09-04T13:17:00.000+10:00

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

2006-08-29T14:16:00.000+10:00

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

2006-08-14T10:34:00.000+10:00

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

2006-07-24T11:00:00.000+10:00

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

2006-07-17T12:16:00.000+10:00

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

2006-07-10T15:17:00.000+10:00

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

2006-07-03T14:42:00.000+10:00

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.

2006-06-30T10:24:00.000+10:00

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

2006-06-30T09:18:00.000+10:00

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

2006-06-19T14:54:00.000+10:00

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

2006-06-13T15:18:00.000+10:00

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)

2006-06-12T15:28:00.000+10:00

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

2006-06-06T09:18:00.000+10:00

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

2006-06-02T08:54:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-30T18:55:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-23T14:31:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-21T21:18:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-21T21:17:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-08T14:37:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-05T13:12:00.000+10:00

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

2006-05-02T09:46:00.000+10:00

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

2006-04-26T12:43:00.000+10:00

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

2006-04-10T12:31:00.000+10:00

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

2006-04-04T08:57:00.000+10:00

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

2006-03-27T09:23:00.000+11:00

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

Hits and Memories

2006-03-20T14:45:00.000+11:00

So now you're Paul Simon's Producer Full Fathom Five
Got no money theredsunband
Grace King Creosote
Mornings eleven The Magic Numbers
Constant ships Sodastream
Oh, Madalene The Oranges Band
Swimmers Broken Social Scene
Solar Flare Endorphin
Black Heart Calexico
Everything reminds me of her Elliot Smith
John Wayne Gacy Jr Sufjan Stevens
Music The Beautiful Girls
Outer accelerator Stereolab
Run baby run Alex Cortiz
It's a dream Neil Young
This modern love Bloc Party
Silver Bird Collard Greens and Gravy
Blackjack Tortoise

Jazz Devil Barry Adamson
Ring of Fire Ed Kuepper
Postcard Karma County
Please break me gently Tex Perkins
Empty Nights Art of fighting
Love in the cupboard Jim Dead
Crazy Cordrazine
Holiday in Spain Machine Translations
For a short time Tiddas
Morning Rain The Sleepy Jackson
Requiem for the Punters Club The Lucksmiths
Human equivalent of penicillin Rob Clarkson
Arthurs Pizza Pnau
Constant Ships Sodastream
Rubin The Anyones
Hush Money Hugo Race and the True Spirit
Ocean of you The Blackeyed Susans
Wide Open Road Weddings Parties Anything

Monday's choons

2006-03-06T15:08:00.000+11:00

U.S Forces Midnight Oil 4.08
Worry Worry The Fiery Furnaces 2.05
The Golden Path The Chemical Brothers 4.36
Gimme Danger Iggy Pop 3.23
She finally gets to travel The Beautiful Few 4.03
Salt water fish Ruby 8.26
Open air channel Rocket Science 7.13
Shakin' Dandy Warhols 3.55
Starman Culture Club 5.14
The Passenger Iggy Pop 4.43
Better the devil you know The Meanies 3.05
Talking talking lion blues Mick Thomas 3.45
Flag (Half mast mix) Alabama 3 3.40
Down in Splendour Straitjacket fits 3.38
Wrong party Dallas Crane 4.14
Hitched The Kills 4.02
Livin' in the city The Casanovas 4.13
A big star The City Lights 2.30

Dirty Lives Love as laughter 3.09
What I want Mark Hilton 3.47
Sunshine 78 Saab 4.49
Lay down Dallas Crane 3.16
Promised Land Edan 3.11
Heart in a cage The Strokes 3.27
Killing Lies The Strokes 3.50
Latin Flute Deodato 4.46
Weight of the world BRMC 3.41
Metal and hair The Mess Hall 2.35
I see a darkness Johnny Cash 3.42
La Di Doh Ed Kuepper 6.34
The Complaint Buju Banton 3.49
Time Edwin Starr 2.54
Winter in the hamptons Josh Rouse 3.12
Chinito Chinito Ry Cooder 4.54
Tin Pan Valley Robert Plant & the strange sensation 3.45
Shame PJ Harvey 2.33
Government Centre The Modern Lovers 2.03

Monday tunes

2006-02-28T12:04:00.000+11:00

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

Be Thankful For What You Got William De Vaughan 7:04 Best Of Blaxploitation
Hitch the undowner Rectifiers 4:59 At Crossroads of C'wood and Fitzroy
Let Me See Morcheeba 4:21 Big Calm
Poor Howard Ed Kuepper 4:45 With A Knapsack On My Back
Indecise Coralie Clement 2:35 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
When You Get Out Of Hand Bergerac 4:25 Voice Of Translator
Nite And Fog Mercury Rev 3:58 All Is Dream
Swimmers Broken Social Scene 2:55 Broken Social Scene
Alameda Elliott Smith 3:43 Either/Or
Free So Free J. Mascis And The Fog 5:59 Free So Free
Ping Pong Stereolab 3:02 Mars Audiac Quartet
Got No Money theredsunband 2:43 Peapod
Make It Rain Tom Waits 3:39 Real Gone
This Modern Love Bloc Party 4:25 Silent Alarm
history of the Amen breakbeat Nate Harrison 18:08 Internet stuff

The Amen breakbeat, sampling and copyright.

2006-02-22T11:03:00.000+11:00

I just came across a really interesting video (pretty well just audio really) about the history of the Amen break. It's a six second drumbeat (a.k.a breakbeat a.k.a break) from the song Amen Brother by The Winstons, recorded in 1969.

This video looks at the way it became almost a standard sample in hiphop tracks through the 80's and 90's (including NWA's Straight out of Compton) and then as sampling got more sophisticated became the foundation for almost all Jungle music and was eventually taken over and used by big business in advertising. Lots of really interesting stuff about copyright as well.

It's about 18 minutes long and I'm thinking that I'll grab the audio and play it on the show next week. Check the video out here

Todays Tunes

2006-02-20T14:57:00.000+11:00

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

One Eighty Seven Air Emsemble 5:28 The Message
The Television Is Lying Riff Random 3:13 In Space There Is No Sound
Vision Of Division The Strokes 4:20 First Impressions Of Earth
Compute Soulwax 4:45 Any Minute Now
Sunshine 78 Saab 4:49 At Crossroads of Collingwood and Fitzroy
Tell her goodbye Luxedo 5:26 At Crossroads of Collingwood and Fitzroy
Unsafe at any speed The Fauves 3:20 Footage Missing
Ta Douleur Camille 3:07 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
La Patte Saian Supa Crew 3:09 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
On Top The Killers 4:19 Hot Fuss
Gonna Leave You Queens Of The Stone Age 2:50 Songs For The Deaf
Cyclone Launch Fu Manchu 3:25 In Search Of
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow
Disco 1 Mess Hall 3:59 Notes From A Ceiling
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie Belle & Sebastian 3:10 Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Escape From H.K Agency Dub Collective 3:50 Rhymes From The Bubble
Comet Wire 3:18 Send
Hard To Beat Hard-Fi 4:13 Stars Of CCTV
Bad Girl The Detroit Cobras 2:28 New Blood Vol 3
Last nite (The Strokes) The Detroit Cobras 2:35 Stop me if you think...
Shake It The Casanovas 2:59 The Casanovas

Tiny workers of the world unite

2006-02-17T10:32:00.000+11:00

(Click to enlarge)

Great pics from ~~Russia~~ France of tiny people going about their business. (Link to more)(via Boing Boing)

Songs of love and not-so-much

2006-02-13T14:12:00.000+11:00

Call me a sentimental fool or a sucker for the barrage of St V's day media but today's tracks are all around the general theme of love and/or the lack thereof. (Not sure which camp I fall into here :)

We Think You're Dishy B(if)tek 3:53 2020
Hearth Philippa Nihill 4:37 A Little Easy
Into my arms Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 4:16 The boatmans call
Solitary man Johnny Cash 2:25 American III : Solitary Man
Candy Morphine 3:14 Cure For Pain
Road To Nowhere Talking Heads 4:20 Once In A Lifetime (IMPORT)
Don't Dream It's Over Sarah Blasko 4:42 She Will Have Her Way
Fall At Your Feet Clare Bowditch 3:50 She Will Have Her Way
A Thousand Kisses Deep Leonard Cohen 6:29 Ten New Songs
It's Gonna Be (Alright) Ween 3:18 The Mollusk
Rich girl Augie March 4:57 Waltz
Melting Paul Kelly 5:12 Words And Music
Le Chant De l'Helium Marie-Jo Therio 4:53 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 1)
Que Bonita Es La Vida Rubin Steiner 3:45 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
Peapod theredsunband 3:49 Peapod
Fifteen Baterz 2:05 Out of Hell
She finally gets to travel The Beautiful Few 4:03 Metal for Melbourne...and other stories
(Are You) the One I've Been Waiting For Jimmy Little 4:08 Messenger
Love You Madly Cake 3:57 Comfort Eagle

Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top) Torero 4:28 Best of Bootie 2005
Do You Wanna Cuz It's Tricky (Franz Ferdinand vs. Run-DMC vs. The Knack) Thriftshop XL 2:47 Best of Bootie 2005
Badd To Me (Ying Yang Twins vs. The Cure) King of Pants 3:32 Best of Bootie 2005
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) The Buzzcocks 2:42 24 Hour Party People
Take You Home The Devastations 3:53 Coal
Alone With You (Orig) Sunny Boys 3:13 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Ain't Goin' To Goa Alabama 3 3:55 Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Are you gonna be my girl Jet 3:33 Get Born
white collar boy belle and sebastian 3:20 the life pursuit
Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols 3:31 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Ocean Of You The Blackeyed Susans 3:33 Welcome Stranger
Dirty Jeans Magic Dirt 3:41 What Are Rock Stars Doing Today
No One Knows Queens Of The Stone Age 4:38 Songs For The Deaf
A Can Of Lemonade And A Pastie Rob Clarkson 1:13 Shirts & Skins: Songs 90-96
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:07 In Space There Is No Sound
I Thank You- The Powder Monkeys 3:32 Redball Soundtrack
Hey Little Girl Osterberg 2:36 Osterberg
Is This It The Strokes 2:34 Is This It?
Cool World Custard 3:28 Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
Heavy Heart Supersucker 3:31 Free The West Memphis 3
Sex call Rocket Science 3:05 Eternal holiday
Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr 3:37 Ear-Bleeding Country: Best Of Dinosaur Jr
Can't work you out Dallas Crane 3:05 Dallas Crane

Todays tracks

2006-02-06T11:55:00.000+11:00

One Soul Now Cowboy Junkies 4:54
3 Speed Eels 2:45
Hotwax Beck 3:49
Backdrifts Radiohead 5:22
'Tis of thee Ani DiFranco 4:43
New star in the sky Air 5:40
Still need your love Reno 3:28
Greetings in braille The Elected 3:50
Free ride Nick Drake 3:06
Requiem for the Punters Club The Lucksmiths 5:19
Le Monde Thievery Corporation 3:11
Dead Wrong Frausdots 5:00
Fashion Death Trends Frausdots 2:50
Tugboat British Sea Power 6:49
Peace in the valley Alabama 3 5:47
Blowfly Professor Ratbaggy 4:56
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Cake 2:24

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

Vale Chris Magor 1971 - 2006

2006-01-31T09:23:00.000+11:00

Chris bowling one of his deceptively pacy deliveries in one of many games of street cricket.
(More pics in the pictures section of the Brown couch website)

I heard this morning that an old friend of mine died on Sunday - the details were scant but he was hospitalised late last year with serious liver problems (I think) so I assume it was related.

I'm kind of floored really. Chris had a most amazing mind, knowledge, ideas, talent, humour and generosity of spirit and now it's all gone. Sure, he wasn't perfect, noone is but all in all he was a top bloke and I'll always regret the way we kind of drifted apart over the last few years. My fault and my loss.

It's a cliche but he was the candle that burnt far too bright for far too short a time.

See ya Tarquin

(And for the first time, I really appreciate Ginsberg's Howl - a small chunk I'll quote here)

Howl

I

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs
illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the
scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull

Update 7/2/6
Dedicated the last half hour of the show to Chris, playing a combination of tracks that I thought he would like and which also summed up some of my feelings about the whole thing. While the title of the Bukowski track mightn't seem so flattering, I reckon he would appreciate the joke.

Star Star Rolling Stones.
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

It was really nice to see so many of the old crew at the funeral - obviously never a time people would choose to come together but nice to see them nonetheless. Probably a more religious service than I would've expected but as they say, funerals are for the living and Chris' mum and dad certainly deserved the kind of service they wanted having been so good to him over the years.

His brother Anthony selected a nice Coltrane track for him and Paul and Russ got the Stones (Sweet Virginia) and Ride in there too. There was a nice little table with some of the relics of his life - a book on Kiss, the complete works of Shakespeare, the Rolling Stone guide to Rock and Roll; and some dvds including Leaving Las Vegas and Shameless - an English series currently on SBS that I'd just discovered last Monday. His guitar was also propped up there and on his coffin was draped his punk leather jacket - it looked right.

Big turnup - lots of friends and family, standing room only in the end. Standing (in some small strange way maybe) made it seem a little more like a gig, which I guess he would've liked.

Anyways, enough of this - time to get out and live the life that you should be big guy.

Show tunes

2006-01-31T09:21:00.000+11:00

Tunes played on yesterdays show (excuse the delay, blame the technology)

Roadrunner The Modern Lovers 4:55 The Modern Lovers
The Latin Theme Carl Cox 5:22 Human Traffic (Disc 2)
Black Steel Tricky 3:42 J Files - Best covers of all time
She-Riff Magic Dirt 5:06 Young And Full Of The Devil
Part-time Punks Jeffrey Lewis 2:35 Stop me if you think...
Kool thing Sonic Youth 4:06 Goo
Chromakey Dreamcoat Boards Of Canada 5:47 The Campfire Headphase
Smash it up International Noise Conspiracy 3:12 Garage Days
Zombie Girl Spazzys 3:39 Aloha! Go Bananas
For My Woman [The Easybeats] Intoxica 3:20 Used And Recovered By
Lick The Bacon Osterberg 2:08 Osterberg
Monkey23 The Kills 3:06 Keep on your mean side
Search and destroy Iggy and the Stooges 3:29 Raw Power
NY Excuse Soulwax 4:48 Any Minute Now
Miles Away Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2:18 UNCUT - Neat Neat Neat
Buddy Holly Weezer 2:39 Weezer
Sorry The Easybeats 2:34 Rage 1

Original Sins Chris Bowden 7:36 Xen Cuts
No Wonder Neil Young 5:45 Prairie Wind
Summer78 Yann Tiersen 3:54 Goodbye Lenin!
Into Temptation Jimmy Little 4:48 Messenger
I hope I never Lisa Miller 4:09 She will have her way
Year of the rat Badly Drawn Boy 4:43 One plus one is one
Our faces split the coast in half Broken Social Scene 3:42 Broken Social Scene
Get up The Smallgoods 4:23 Listen to the radio
Stoneage Cinderella Died Pretty 3:15 Do the Pop
I don't love anymore Belle and Sebastian 3:56 Tigermilk
Anxiety Full Fathom Five 3:49 07Seven
Long way to go with no punch Dirty Three 4:57 She has no strings Apollo
Morning rain The Sleepy Jackson 2:06 Lovers
Take you home Devastations 3:53 Coal
Love me like you The Magic Numbers 4:51 The Magic Numbers
Love goes on The GoBetweens 3:12 16 Lovers Lane
Average Man Turin Brakes 2:43 Ether song
Can you forgive me? Lupine Howl 5:37 The bar at the end of the world

Tunes for today

2006-01-23T08:53:00.000+11:00

AA XXX Peaches
Discipline/Punish Nou
Comet Wire
Lick the bacon Osterberg
Check level The Rogers Sisters
The heart's a lonely hunter Thievery Corp (featuring David Byrne)
Doris Dirty Three
The Zither Player Dirty Three
Ain't no easy way Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Pills The Mess Hall
Cherry Chapstick Yo La Tengo
Speakers push the air Pretty Girls Make Graves
Recoil TZU
Back to Front TZU
Take, Take, Take The White Stripes
Turn a square The Shins
Igloo The Screaming Tribesmen
Something good Ruck Rover
Burn in Hell Rocket Science
Breathe Prodigy
Nothing on my mind Paul Kelly

Thrillseeker Josh Abrahams
Zatopeks Spazzys
Johnny & Dee Dee The Eastern Dark
Time will tell Ice
Seahag Fu Manchu
N.I.B Black Sabbath
Ramble On Led Zeppelin
Why can't you be nicer to me White Stripes
Crack Whore Blues Neckbones
Send a message to her Beck
Space Monkey The Patti Smith Book
Asthma Attack The Fiery Furnaces
Short memory The Superjesus
See the sun Rocket Science
Kick it in Bored!
Kick it Peaches featuring Iggy Pop
You're gonna get yours Public Enemy
Take it or leave it The Strokes
Lose my breath My Bloody valentine
Take me away Ween
She breathes in The Blackeyed Susans

5 reasons to watch King Kong (Peter Jackson's version, obviously)

2006-01-22T20:04:00.000+11:00

Yes it feels like it's been overhyped and yes it's long but with hardly a bump in the road, this is a new classic.

A giant monkey (well d'uh)
All the stuff with dinosaurs and the other inhabitants of Skull Island
A decent amount of time dedicated to getting the characters right and sympathetic
Great design and general film-making craft
Jack Black, Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody

For some reason I didn't rush to see this when it came out, the marketing all seemed a bit shlockbuster, the reviews were half-hearted and I wasn't really sure what could be done with a film I've seen the original of enough times to know reasonably well.

I should've put my trust in Pete.

Now this maybe some kind of heresy but towards the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was starting to lose it for me a little - obviously still entirely speccy and a big grand sweeping story in a big grand sweeping world but I thought there was a bit of heart, a bit of soul missing. (Though I should go back for a revisit now that the dust has settled I guess).

Kong has heart - very occasionally Naomi Watts seems a little bit closer to the big guy than I was entirely right with - though to his credit, he worked for it in battles to save the fair maiden. This is very much a labour of love by Peter Jackson, who has said that he's wanted to remake this since he was a kid.

Dive in and enjoy this one, leave your disbelief at the door and come out after 3 hours having had a ball.

5 reasons to watch Memoirs of a Geisha

2006-01-22T19:46:00.000+11:00

Looks pretty spectacular in parts
Ummm...
Let me see...
Nope
That's about it.

Ok, so I guess there is one reason to watch Memoirs of a Geisha - maybe 2 if you read the book and want to compare. There's nothing realllllly wrong with it, the story moves along at a reasonable pace and the performances are all pretty fair but director Rob (Chicago) Marshall and the big man himself Spielberg have stamped big Hollywood schlockfest all over this.

It's the tale of a country girl who gets sold to the madam of a "we are sooo not hookers" Geisha house and the trials and tribulations she undergoes on her way to become a famous classy hooker (sorry, Geisha). (Yes I get that the art of Geisha is about more than sex but to watch this film you'd think the girls get a root once in their lives, if you'll excuse the earthy)

I'm not sure how you could make a film about sex workers so snoreworthy - though I note the book was written by a guy - that might be a clue.

Just the one reason to watch this then.

5 reasons to watch Nothing

2006-01-22T19:27:00.000+11:00

That'd be the film called Nothing, obviously.

Directed by Vincenzo Natali, the legend behind Cube (and thankfully not Cube 2)
Original, creative, humourous and quirky (not in the bad way either)
Bouncing heads
Tofu
Based on a true story (we assure you)

In short, two guys suddenly end up (with their house) in a big wide empty nothing, just after it looks like their lives couldn't get much worse. Then they discover why they're there and a pretty amazing new power they have. A little weird but very wonderful.

I could go into more detail here but the concept of this film is really what makes it - so enjoy.
I found it at Civic Video in Braddon in the comedy section, so it's out there.

Quote: (from IMDB)

(A cop on a horse has just knocked on their door)

Mounted Police Officer:Dave Johnson?
Dave:Yes?
Mounted Police Officer:You're under arrest. For embezzlement
Dave:[closing door] Oh, hang on a sec, let me just get my horse.

Tunes for today

2006-01-16T15:14:00.000+11:00

Pacific State 808 State 3:53 24 Hour Party People
Film International Karate 3:52 Weapons Of Mass Protection
Naked as we came Iron and wine 2:33 SubPop : Patient Zero
Wicked Game Chris Isaak 4:49 Wicked Game
Summer of love Black Cab 4:51 Altamont Diary
Yoshimi Battles Snoop Dogg DJ BC 4:06 Internet Exclusive
Ivy The Dearhunters 5:12 Red Wine and Blue
Springtime Genshen 3:45 Someplace Else
Holographic Universe Thievery Corporation 3:42 The Cosmic Game
Midweek morning The Lucksmiths 3:05 Naturaliste
World Divided The View From Here 3:15 Songs Of Protest
New Slang The Shins 3:51 Oh, Inverted World
Hotel California Gipsy Kings 5:47 The Big Lebowski
Plans Bloc Party 4:10 Silent Alarm
Look to the sun Gersey 3:58 Storms dressed as stars
Bananas And Blow Ween 3:34 White Pepper
Chom chom generator Jack Planck 3:49 To hell with you, I'll make my own people
Words Fail Me Tex, Don & Charlie 5:01 All Is Forgiven
Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 3:34 Suedehead: The Best of Morrissey

Rebel, Rebel David Bowie 4:30 Best Of Bowie 69-74
Hello Operator The White Stripes 2:36 De Stijl
Salt Water Fish Ruby 3:28 Salt Peter
The Supernova that never quits The Powder Monkeys 4:24 Meredith - 10 years
I wanna kill your boyfriend Hoss 5:48 You get nothing
Gutless Wonder Paul Kelly 4:56 Words And Music
Everybody's Gonna Be Happy The Kinks 2:18 High Fidelity
Burn It Off Blues Explosion 2:56 Damage
A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" De La Soul 4:02 Rage 2
Song In Space The Church 5:24 Forget Yourself
Nature Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:54 Abattoir Blues
Power Is Boring D.O.A. With Jello Biafra 2:49 Last scream of the missing neighbors
Second Solution The Living End 3:00 Soundscape 01
Limited Liability Chris Knox 3:24 Songs Of You And Me
Down Down Down Presets 3:16 Beams
Cominagetcha The Propellerheads 7:01 Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 4:47 From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:01 Kill Your Idols
Nude School Painters And Dockers 3:34 Used And Recommended By

Tunes for today

2006-01-09T11:17:00.000+11:00

Some of the tracks I'll be playing today - hope you enjoy them :)

Hot Kids Riff Random 4:04 Kill Your Idols
Woman Wolfmother 2:41 Kill Your Idols
Where Eagles Have Been Wolfmother 5:33 Wolfmother
No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:01 Kill Your Idols
Girl & the Sea The Presets 4:40 Kill Your Idols
Help You Out The Golden Age 3:05 Mexico City Bees
Big in Japan The Inches 3:39 Trust me
Take You Home Devastations 3:53 Coal
The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying Devastations 4:58 Coal
Rubin The Anyones 3:34 The Anyones
Sabotage The Beastie Boys 2:59 The Sounds Of Science (Disc 2)
Yo Mama Butterfingers 3:20 Breakfast At Fatboys
Say Goodbye Hunters & Collectors 4:53 Living In Large Rooms And Lounges (Disc 2)
Get Off The Dandy Warhols 3:11 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Useless Depeche Mode 4:53 The Singles 86>98 (Disc 2)
Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (Untitled) Eels 3:59 Daisies Of The Galaxy
We Care A Lot (Original Version) Faith No More 4:03 Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits
Self Abuser The Fauves 2:54 Future Spa
Love will tear us apart Joy Division 3:12 Series 7 - The Soundtrack

Dirty Lives Love As Laughter 3:09 Terminal Sales Vol. 1 (SubPop)
What I Want Mark Hilton 3:47 At Crossroads Of Collingwood And Fitzroy
Sunshine 78 Saab 4:49 At Crossroads Of Collingwood And Fitzroy
Lay Down Dallas Crane 3:16 At Crossroads Of Collingwood And Fitzroy
Promised land Edan 3:11 Beauty and the Beat
Heart In A Cage The Strokes 3:27 First Impressions Of Earth
Killing Lies The Strokes 3:50 First Impressions Of Earth
[radio espantoso] Latin Flute Deodato 4:46 GTA VC Radio Espantosa
Weight Of The World Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 3:41 Howl
Metal and Hair Mess Hall 2:35 Notes From A Ceiling
I See A Darkness Johnny Cash 3:42 American III: Solitary Man
La Di Doh Ed Kuepper 6:34 With A Knapsack On My Back
The Complaint Buju Banton 3:49 Under the Influence (Ian Brown)
Time Edwin Starr 2:54 Under the Influence (Ian Brown)
Winter in the Hamptons Josh Rouse 3:12 Uncut 2005
Chinito Chinito Ry Cooder 4:54 Uncut 2005
Tin Pan Valley Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation 3:48 Uncut 2005
Shame PJ Harvey 2:33 Uh Huh Her
Government Center The Modern Lovers 2:03 The Modern Lovers

Cute Overload

2006-01-09T11:12:00.000+11:00

You know those times when the day is a bit sucky and you just want some kind of mindless diversion to bring a smile back to your face? Pretty hard to go past this regularly updated site.
www.cuteoverload.com

Here's one of their recent offerings.

Ricky Gervais Podcast

2006-01-06T11:14:00.000+11:00

Ricky Gervais - star of The Office (David Brent) - has a 12 part podcast up on the Guardian Unlimited Website.

Teaming up with Steve Merchant (co-writer on The Office) and Karl Pilkington (their producer from their radio days), they pretty well just have a general rant about anything and everything for 30 odd minutes about life, the universe and everything. (As well as midget fighting leagues, monkey astronauts, charity collectors and a new plan for zero population growth - all in the first two episodes)

Well worth a listen if you can squeeze in some uninterrupted listening time.
Ricky Gervais' website is also worth a squiz - at www.rickygervais.com

Musical Highlights of 2005

2006-01-03T09:55:00.000+11:00

Well, for the world it might have been a less than stellar year (though personally it was pretty good) but at least there's always the music to keep you going.

In no particular order, these are some of the songs/artists/albums that did it for me. (as played on the show yesterday)

Turn Up Your Radio The FBi Idols 4:06 Kill Your Idols
This is the final track on a great album put out by FBi, a community station in Sydney.
Great range of tunes on this and I've always liked this Master Apprentices track, performed here by a supergroup including Dave McCormack and Sarah Blasko, possessor of a most sexy rock growl at the start.

Pyramid Wolfmother 4:28 Wolfmother
Wolfmother had a big year in 05 with their big, enthusiastic Sabbath/Zeppelin driven rock. Lots of fun and hard to get past some great dirty 70's guitar and vocals - it'll be interesting to see if they're more than a one trick pony. Missed their show at the ANU bar though reports were pretty positive.

Smokescreen Amusement Parks On Fire 4:11 Amusement Parks On Fire
Well hyped critically at the start of the year, APOF have an interesting guitar drenched shoe gazer sound - early 90's style. On the surface this album seems slightly derivative but begs repeated listens to dig down to the treasure that seems to lie just below.

Girl and the Sea Presets 4:46 Beams
Another artist that the FBi compilation put me onto this year, the Presets have a low key, at times sombre (for electronica) sound with compelling beats and vocals. Their sound is very much their own - I'd almost drawn comparisons to my first experiences of Depeche Mode or New Order but only for a lack of anything closer.

The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying The Devastations 4:58 Coal
Take You Home The Devastations 3:53 Coal
Probably my favourite album and live show of the year. The Devastations live in the same general neighbourhood as the Bad Seeds, Tex Perkins and Leonard Cohen. Every part of the band comes together to produce sophisticated and emotional songs of thought and beauty - which also manage to rock out with some inspired guitar and well placed keyboard. Their show supporting Clare Bowditch at the ANU bar was inspiring and all too underappreciated

Dirty Harry Gorillaz 3:43 Demon Days
Hard to go past Gorillaz for sheer joy and inventiveness in tunes, yet another great offering from them in 05.

451 Decoder Ring 4:10 Fractions
Coming across these guys firstly through their impressive work on the Somersault soundtrack, I was pretty blown away by the accomplished tracks of energetic and slightly moody electronica on this album.

Rebellion (Lies) The Arcade Fire 5:10 Funeral
A firm critics favourite for 2005, I think I still need a few more listens to this album but this track in particular gives a pretty good indication of what's good about these guys - all the pieces fit together so well and in a way that still brings something new while having a timeless kind of sound. (if that doesn't sound to wanky :)

Blue Orchid The White Stripes 2:38 Get Behind Me Satan
Take, Take, Take The White Stripes 4:22 Get Behind Me Satan
Definitely my other big highlight of the year, this album didn't leave the cd player/iPod/etc for weeks. Ideas, emotion, humour, power, clean sounds - it's got it all.

Kawasaki Z117 50 Rock'N'Roll The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 3:13 I Love Guitar Wolf... Very Much
Cyborg Kids J. Mascis And The Fog 5:19 I Love Guitar Wolf... Very Much
A late entry (only listened to it properly on New Years Eve after having it sitting in the back of the car for a week before) but well deserving. Guitar Wolf are probably the loudest band I've ever heard (in a good way) - taking that whole Japanese cool 50's leather jackets, motorbikes and surfing rock sound and injecting 10000 volts of pure energy through it. This is a compilation of other artists paying them a well deserved tribute.

Yoshimi Battles Snoop Dogg DJ BC 4:06 Internet Exclusive
Sanctuary's Over (Youth Mix) (The Doors vs. The Cult) Smash Mash-Ups 4:11 Internet Exclusive
One of the things I've tried to do with Monday Sunset through 05 has been seek out interesting tidbits online and the mashup movement has been of particular interest. There is a link to these (and others) in a previous posting

Crackajack 2UP 3:18 Player's Club
Aus Hiphop has been another highlight in the last year or so (and ideally I also would've included tracks from outfits like the Speakeasies and TZU in this listing but forgot - oops). After the Tastes like Chicken ep that 2up put out a while back, I was pretty keen to see where they are now - and they really impressed. Fantastic, intelligent and funny lyrics, great samples and djing. Still loving the line "Bad to the bone like osteoporosis".

Gabrielle Ween 3:29 Shinola (Vol. 1)
Ween continue to fly just a little below the radar doing their thing, playing with genres and making them their own as they always do. This album has everything from this Thin Lizzy inspired track to songs that sound like they belong on kids tv.

Panther Dash The Go! Team 2:45 Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Hard to describe but fun, energetic and original sounding (while still not being afraid to plunder the last 50 years of music for sounds)

No Way Out Love Of Diagrams 4:05 We Got Communication
Caught these guys supporting the Rogers Sisters at the Annandale earlier this year and was way impressed. Great urgent indie rock.

Girl Beck 3:29 Guero 16/05/2005 7:17 PM
Heaven Hammer (Missing) (Remix by Air) Beck 4:54 Guerolito
Shake Shake Tambourine (Black Tambourine) (Remix by Adrock) Beck 3:36 Guerolito
Maybe Beck is a little overrepresented in this listing but I'm a fan so what can you say. Two great albums this year - well one album and a remix album but both pretty bloody interesting. Revisiting the Odelay sound a little but why wouldn't you.

Like Dylan In The Movies Belle & Sebastian 4:26 If You're Feeling Sinister Live At The Barbican
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian 6:09 If You're Feeling Sinister Live At The Barbican
Belle and Seb are another of the bands to bring out the fanboy in me (as some of my gorgeous-yet-slightly-twee-indy-folk-pop hating friends will attest). Great b-sides compilation out this year in Push Barman to Open Old Wounds but this late starter snuck through to become a quick fave. It's the If You're Feeling Sinister... album performed live and it's a corker.

Doris Dirty Three 3:26 Cinder
Great Waves Dirty Three 3:28 Cinder
Another of my musical faves, I could never really go past a Dirty 3 album - and if you've ever seen them live I hope you'd feel the same way. This is a bit of a change of pace for the D3, lots of songs, nothing more than 6 minutes and new instrumentation thrown into the mix (including the best rock bagpipes since um...). Great Waves, a track with vocals from Chan Marshall of Cat Power is another highlight.

Lavender The Go-Betweens 3:09 Oceans Apart
The Go-Betweens continue their triumphant comeback with their 3rd album of recent years being another great one.

Six Months In a Leaky Boat Little Birdy 3:53 She Will Have Her Way
Don't Dream It's Over Sarah Blasko 4:42 She Will Have Her Way
Fantastic compilation of covers of Tim/Neil Finn songs as performed by a swag of Aus female artists (and I think I'm getting a crush on Sarah Blasko's voice). (Give the Renee Geyer - Into Temptation track a miss though - no idea what she was thinking but it's tragic - doubly so as it's one of my fave Crowdy's tracks)

Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole Martha Wainwright 3:14 Martha Wainwright
From a family of musical freaks, Martha puts it all out there for the world to see in a particularly beautiful way with this song apparently about her dad.

Where the wild roses grow Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 3:47 B-Sides And Rarities Volume II
No new album from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds this year but this 3 cd compilation was fine compensation. And to think that these 50+ tracks are the ones that didn't make previous cds. This version of what is perhaps his biggest hit - Where the Wild Roses grow - features the grand teutonic vocals of Blixa Bargeld, now ex-Bad Seed.

The Rider #1 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis 1:15 The Proposition Soundtrack
One of the reasons there was no Bad Seeds album this year? Atmospheric, eerie, haunting etc soundtrack to one of a swag of great Oz films this year.

Creep (Ft. Fred From Fitter Ha Radiohead 3:29 Me & This Army: Radiohead Remix
More delving into online sampling/remixing/mashing with this cute version of Creep as performed by computer voice Fred - from Fitter, Happier, More Productive)

Don't Call Me Red Ry Cooder 5:00 Chavez Ravine
3 Cool Cats Ry Cooder 3:00 Chavez Ravine
Ry Cooder continues his exploration of different musical genres with this concept album looking at a Mexican neighbourhood in LA in the 50's.

Keith And Tina Sodastream 5:42 Take Me With You When You Go
Sodastream get dark with this great tale of fucked up lives in America in their thoughtful acoustic style.

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Sufjan Stevens 3:19 Illinois
Prairie Fire That Wanders About Sufjan Stevens 2:11 Illinois
Another pretty interesting concept album from a guy on a mission to release an album about each of the 50 states in the USA. Lots of stories in song.

Harry Was A Bad Bugger Tex, Don & Charlie 5:19 All Is Forgiven
Cold Chisel legend Don Walker teams up with Tex Perkins and all-star Oz guitarist Charlie Owens in his song about a bad bad man which has classic written all over it. Great telling of a story in a bone dry Oz voice.

Mashups

2006-01-01T18:51:00.000+11:00

CultureBully: CultureBully's 10 Favorite Mash-Ups 2005

Here's a fantastic list (with MP3 download links) of one blogger's ten fave mashups for 2005:

1. DJ BC "Yoshimi Battles Snoop Dogg"
The Flaming Lips vs. Snoop Dogg vs. Will Farrell
2. Aggro1 "Pull Up the Poor Bitches"
M.I.A. vs. Mindless Self Indulgence
3. DJ BC "Can You Hear Biz Knocking?"
The Rolling Stones "Can You Hear Me Knockin'" vs. Biz Markie "Let Me See You Bounce"
4. DJ Riko "Stand Up and Ring My Doorbell"
Ludacris "Stand Up" vs. The White Stripes "My Doorbell"
5. CCC "One of These Heatwaves"
Pink Floyd "One of These Days" vs. Wings "Rockestra" vs. Martha Reeves The Vandellas "Heatwave"
6. Smash Mash-Ups "Sanctuary's Over"
The Doors "When the Music's Over" vs. The Cult "She Sells Sanctuary" vs. pop beat
7. DJ BC "Money"
Wu-Tang Clan "C.R.E.A.M." vs. The O'Jays "For The Love Of Money"
8. FullMickTon "1000 Miles N Jiggin"
N.W.A. - 100 Miles and Running vs. Martyn Bennett - No.6 (untitled)
9. DJ Payroll "Intergalactic Enemy"
Beastie Boys "Intergalactic" vs. Rage Against the Machine "Know Your Enemy"
10. DJ iTrain "Frontin' on the Root Down"
Beastie Boys vs. The Who

Thanks to Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing

Praise and Happy New Year

2006-01-01T08:20:00.000+11:00

Happy New Year to everyone - 05 was an interesting one - great personally but globally boy did it suck. Here's hoping 06 is da shizzle all round.

My friend Lisa paid me (what I consider) a great compliment yesterday - she said that my show was the closest thing that Canberra has to RRR (which probably means a whole bunch more if you're from Melbourne - but given that I am, it does). Thanks Buj.

Tunes from Monday's show and other generalities

2005-12-21T17:31:00.000+11:00

Well, as the silly season moves along it's been getting a little quiet around the old Monday Sunset blog - nothing like work time to inspire you right.

Monday's show was the last (by me at least - tune in next week for special Bonnie arranged guest presenter) for this year and while I had intended to work that hoary old chestnut of what was good in 2005, I think I might save that for the start of next year. (After all, who knows what cool and groovy stuff is yet to come in the next 10 days)

So, for the record or posterity or for some reason I still haven't entirely figured out yet, here are the tunes from Monday.

Fiction The Lucksmiths
AA XXX Peaches
Kemuri/El Condor Pasa DJ Krush
Easter The Patti Smith Group
Monkey gone to heaven Frank Black
Caribou Frank Black
On & On Erykah Badu
Jaan Talvin Singh Featuring Amar
Pablo Picasso The Modern Lovers
I'm Straight The Modern Lovers
Red Right Hand Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Theme from Shaft (vocal) Isaac Hayes
Lifting the building David Holmes
Piazza, New York Catcher Belle & Sebastian
eatthechort Coach Z (Homestarrunner.com)
Popcorn Hot butter
Time Alex Gopher
Krupa Apollo 440
Jump'n'shout Basement Jaxx
Hey boy Hey girl Chemical Brothers
Da Funk Daft Punk
Escape Pod Decoder Ring
Personal Jesus Depeche Mode
Doris Dirty Three
Black Flute Leftfield
45 Machine Gun Fellatio
Crystal New Order
Doctor Who Orbital
Breathe Prodigy
Theta State Sonic Animation
Back to front TZU

As for what else has been a'going on - really enjoying Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories on the PSP (still not convinced by the small screen but the gameplay is great), doing the Christmas shopping thing (it still counts if you wander aimlessly around shops waiting for something to leap out right?) in preparation for the trip to Melbourne. Nothing amazingly exciting, when I think about it. (Well, apart from lion-taming classes, but I'm sure everyone does that at some stage or another ;)

Ok, well, guess I'll get back to umm... stuff

Hope you have a great break, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, joyous Kwanza, Happy New Year and so on and so forth

Riots and Racism

2005-12-16T11:54:00.000+11:00

I haven't said anything about this how disgusting episode yet - still kind of trying to process it I guess.

Having just finished reading Philip Roth's "The Plot against America", this whole hideous scenario takes on more weight.

The Plot is a speculative fiction novel set in the U.S between the late 30's and mid 40's and looks at what might have happened if fascism had taken root (or at least tried to). Charles Lindbergh (heroic pilot with some fairly anti-semitic views) wins the 1940 election for the presidency against Roosevelt on a campaign not to take America to war in Europe against the Nazis and step by step, little by little we see the emergence of an anti-Jew demonisation campaign.

Told from the point of view of a 10 year old boy in a Jewish family in New Jersey but taking the wider view when necessary, this book hit me hard. Very much about the whole notion of "evil flourishes when good people do nothing" and with far too many echoes in the Howard government's ongoing racist campaign first of Muslims as queue-jumpers and now as potential terrorists.

I accept that the Cronulla thing has been more than a one sided affair, with unacceptable behaviour all round, however the Anglo response of the weekend is by far the most disgusting, embarrassing and depressing behaviour I have seen in this country for longer than I can recall.

Walking down the street and coming across people from different communities, I've found myself feeling ashamed and wanting to try to explain that it's just a bunch of young, stupid, angry, scared drunk people who have been poked, prodded and generally mindfucked for the last 10 years and beyond by some horrendously evil neo-conservatives led by Howard (and his US Republican masters) and given voice to by nasty nasty greedy media including Alan Jones, the News Ltd stable of press (Is that the whole truth or is your News Limited) and some particularly hateful, slimy and opportunistic toads from the neo-Nazi movement.

But I can't, I'm still too embarrassed. I really felt it yesterday, wandering in to my favourite Turkish place in the city in Canberra - the Turkish Pide House. The place was really busy, which I thought was nice but just the fact that they felt they need to have an Australian flag draped prominently in the doorway really saddened me.

I've always liked the laidback quality of our patriotism in this country - noone has seemed to take things too seriously or needed to be too showy about things (outside of sport), unlike the always over the top American thing. The fact that few people know all of the national anthem has always seemed kind of healthy and very much in keeping with the casual humility of this place. The prevalence of the Australian flag in the images of Cronulla on the weekend had a really sinister undertone to it.

I was glad this morning to read that one of the surfers who was filmed geeing people up at the
Cronulla carry-on has issued a public apology for his behaviour (off his own bat as far as I can see).

Hopefully sense is returning.

I just pray it doesn't carry on.

I'd just like to apologise as an Australian to the world for what my countrymen have done. I'm really sorry.

Tunes from Monday - bit late - oops

2005-12-14T10:16:00.000+11:00

For what it's worth :)

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

Calm before the storm

2005-12-12T11:24:00.000+11:00

Gee, guess it's been a bit of a busy week - not so much with the time for lolling about the web and posting the odd bit and piece opinion or interesting link to the blog. Fortunately, we got through this whole work thing :) - got all the outstanding projects sorted out for the year, made the presentation video and all seemed to go fairly well. (Actually, forget the false modesty, they loved us - the team here at FLS strutted it)

Anyways, now that there's a little more time, guess it's time to get back to the posting and whatnot. Got a few things to mention but think I might put the show together first up.

Did manage to update the links at least - the Suprglu thing I've mentioned before, essentially it's a site that draws in content that you've stuck up around the web - blog postings, photos on Flickr, favourites from del.icio.us (now pwned by Yahoo apparently - same as Flickr) and bibs and bobs from 43 things and such.

The 2XXfm link is fairly self explanatory - apparently there is a major reworking of the 2xx site coming soon which should be interesting. 2xx is getting pretty switched on with the technology (impressive considering the budget we run on) and there looks to be more new, exciting and funky ways to connect with the community in the pipeline.

Dee's Temporal Island is the blog of an old friend of mine living in Augusta, down in the SW of WA. Lots of interesting musings about life, web stuff, writing, public transport and all kinds of things. Always worth a look.

And finally, there's The RiotACT. Often feisty ACT news and commentary blog (with open posting) which is certainly one way to stay tuned in to what's going on in the 'Can. (Or at least what people think is going on :)

I've been thinking about the way people - and I guess me in particular - post to boards like this and have really started wondering whether it's kind of hypocritical to talk to people in these places differently than the way you would speak to them face to face. Obviously, when writing something there is extra time to compose and arrange your thoughts so it's never going to be exactly the same, but what about tone and manners.

Last week - in the wake of the IR/Terror/VSU/etc laws passing I was thinking it might be satisfying to cyberslap around some young libs (not sure how well I did but I was called an assclown) but maybe there's enough aggro in the world today. Maybe manners is the way to go. After all, I often get the sense when these discussions devolve to general sledging that there isn't so much in the way of an argument behind them and maybe it's the ideas that we need at the moment.

Weird USB drives

2005-12-10T19:00:00.000+11:00

Gadgets » The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

This is really worth a look.

Today's tunes

2005-12-05T08:33:00.000+11:00

Getting in early today as there's much to be done at work (alas :)

Monday Sunset 051205

Cut Your Hair Pavement 3:06 Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
Hazel Eyes The Darkness 3:26 One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back
Kali-Fornia Uber Alles 21st Century Jello Biafra With The Melvins 3:19 Sieg Howdy!
Satellite Burgers Of Beef 3:28 Satellite (EP)
Harmonicas And Trams The Lucksmiths 4:45 Why That Doesn't Surprise Me
Harry Was A Bad Bugger Tex, Don & Charlie 5:19 All Is Forgiven
Girl & the Sea The Presets 4:40 Kill Your Idols
Turn Up Your Radio The FBI Idols 4:06 Kill Your Idols
Pills The Mess Hall 4:00 Notes From The Ceiling
Big Buck Cato Salsa Experience 3:51 No. 3
It's My Star Sounds Like Sunset 2:54 Invisible
Stairway To Gilligan's Island Little Roger & the Goosebumps 3:14 Libraryofvinyl.blogspot
If Rap Was A Sport... 2UP 3:55 Player's Club
Interlude ft Ziggy Ziznack The Speakeasies 3:34 Speaken Freely
Diabolik Boogie Messer Chups 3:07 Crazy Price
Eternal Struggle Full Fathom Five 4:00 07 Seven
Space Monkey The Patti Smith Group 4:06 Easter
A big star The City Lights 2:56 Escape from tomorrow today
Kooks Motor Ace 2:58 Garage Days
Love is the drug Roxy Music 3:59 Garage Days
The Jean Genie The Dandy Warhols 2:14 Single

AAXXX Peaches 4:30
Discipline Punish Nou 2:19
Comet Wire 3:18
Lick the bacon Osterberg 2:08
Check level Rogers Sisters 3:20
The Heart's a lonely hunter Thievery Corporation 4:05
Doris Dirty Three 3:26
The Zither Player Dirty Three 5:01
Ain't no easy way Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 2:36
Cherry Chapstick Yo La Tengo 6:11
Speakers push the air Pretty Girls Make Graves 2:51
Recoil TZU 5:00
Back to Front TZU 3:09
Take, Take, Take The White Stripes 4:22
Turn a square The Shins 3:11
Igloo The screaming tribesmen 4:01
Something good Ruck Rover 2:01
Burn in Hell Rocket Science 2:47
Breathe Prodigy 5:34
Nothing on my mind Paul Kelly 4:55

Stairway to Gilligan

2005-12-04T20:50:00.000+11:00

http://libraryofvinyl.org/blog/StairwayToGilligan.mp3

Hmm, child of the 70's much (yep, I'm that old - 34) - this is reasonably amusing mashup of Stairway to Heaven and the theme from Gilligans Island. Actually, I'm not sure I'd really call it a mashup as it doesn't use the originals in themselves, but it's the song sung to the tune of Stairway. The end is cool.

Actually, on re-reading the link from Boing Boing, they do call it a proto-mashup. This actually came out as a single. Wonder what was on the b-side? Nothing about that at the blog this was posted on originally - http://libraryofvinyl.blogspot.com/ but certainly a fairly interesting history of the whole thing. Enjoy.