December 8, 2006

Theme: Playing Catch-up On Air: Frank

After the last few shows I had a whole lot of leftover songs that didn't get to play and with the Christmas show up next and the Best of show after that I figured I should start out the new year with a clean slate. Thus there wasn't an overall theme to the show but I still think the show went together very well. The only set that had a theme was one inspired by an article I saw in the Globe and Mail by Russel Smith, in it he discusses the fine division of Indie Pop music called Twee Pop. A lot of music I have been listening to and playing on the show lately could be classified as twee. Most of the article is pretty factual discussing the major bands in twee and describing the sound, he calls the Smiths the proto-twee band and that Belle and Sebastian are the current most famous twee band (I think this might have been true with a lot of their early stuff but no so much lately). But, the parts of the article that I really had problems with were his assertions that somehow the music is part of an organized movement striving to be anti-establishment, in my opinion its just happy music that sounds good. He ends the article by saying that the people who like twee are "uniformly women" (based on my gender I disagree) and you outgrow this type of music as you get older (again based on my advanced age I disagree). However, an upside of the article is that I found out about a great band called "I'm from Barcelona" which is how I started out that set. See the original article here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/images/smith_article01.gif http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/images/smith_article02.gif Find out more about Twee here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee_pop TALK - Theme The Positions - Back To Me Starflower - Dance Till Morning Light Los Abandoned - Van Nuys (Es Very Nice) Psapp - Hi The Exteriors - The Hates TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - You Could've Been My Johnny Marr (C) D'Ubervilles - We're Blowing Up (C) Kelly and the Kelly Girls - Ferris Wheel (C) Duke Spirit - House Is Not A Motel The Pants Situation - Fifty Fifty (C) **I love the name of this band! Los Straightjackets - Peppermint Twist TALK Moses Mayes - Tell Me (C) Sasha Dobson - Without You Evy - Quel Genre De Fille El Perro Del Mar - Here Comes That Feeling Dion - I Was Born To Cry TALK Robyn - Be Mine Goldstoned - Always On My Mind Peter, Bjorn, and John - Let's Call it Off Kings of Convenience - Misread TALK From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona Shade Tree - Stupidest Thing The Broken Hearts Club - Abbotsford and Flemington (C) The Diskettes - Jump Up (C) Henry Faberge and the Adorables - Lonely Postcards (C) Lake Holiday - In Whisper (C) Tom Waits - Lie To Me TALK Blow Monkeys - It Doesn't Have To Be That Way (C) Denotes Canadian Content