Theme: Christmas show 2008 |
| This was my annual Christmas show and as usual I didn't play your typical holiday songs. I kept the show short to reflect the amount of really good new Christmas songs I found this year, but still had time to add a few Fireball XL5 Christmas classics. The best new holiday song I heard this year was by The Wedding Present featuring Simone White with Holly Jolly Hollywood. I've had to listen to it a few times every day because it is that good. The video is also incredibly fun and insanely cute (well at least Simone is insanely cute), do yourself a favour and watch it from the link below. Merry Christmas Everyone! Links to some of the things I mentioned during the show Fireball XL5 Setlist - December 5, 2008 |
December 19, 2008
December 5, 2008
Theme: Back to the indie pop with lots of new stuff |
| It was good to finally get back to a regular show that wasn't all about me. As I had not done a show like this in a while I had a large backlog of new music to play, as evidenced by the fact that this show clocks in at a little over 2 hours and even then I cut out two entire sets that I was originally going to play. I'll just highlight one of the things I talked about on the show: Every year the BBC asks a list of music critics and broadcasters to find out which bands will they think will make it big in the next year. They did pretty good last year as the 2008 list included The Ting Tings, Adele, Vampire Weekend, The Black Kids, and MGMT. You can check out the BBC Sound of 2009 site using the link below. In the third set I played a couple of songs to commemorate those who recently passed away: Odetta and Levi Stubbs (see links below for more information) Links to some of the things I mentioned during the show: Link to BBC Sound of 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7758169.stm Link to Pitchfork review of Black Kids http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic Link to Wee Pop records http://www.weepop.net/releases.php Link to Heaven's Just A Kiss Away http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=235058564 Link to information about Odetta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta Link to information about levi Stubbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Stubbs Fireball XL5 Setlist - December 5, 2008 TALK (Theme) The Ting Tings - Be The One Masonic - Lifetime of Deception Marching Band - Gorgeous Behaviour Detektifbryån - Neonland TALK (recent CD set) Black Kids - Look at me (When I Rock Wichoo) Vancouger - unmanned (C) Los Campesinos! - Ways To Make It Through The Wall Don Lennon - Really Dave Matthews Herman Dune - On A Saturday TALK (lo-fi) The Endless Bummer - Baseball in China (C) Kevin Ayers - Girl On A Swing Tvärvägen - September Charles Douglas - Where Did I Go The 6ths (with Odetta) - Waltzing Me All The Way Home Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears TALK (Female voices) Firefox AK - City To City Santa Maria - Lalalalalaaa Point Junction WA - Melon Bird Minisnap - Leave It To You The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star TALK BlueJuice - Vitriol (Pious Edit) **See Note 1 Japanese Motors - Better Trends Salut!machaut - Tom and Joanna The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You TALK Lizards From Afar - Just A Girl **See Note 1 +/- - Snowblind We and Lisa - Ana The Lovekevins - Private Life Of A Cat TALK Firefly - Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side) **See Note 2 Note 1: Both of these songs were sent to me. Note 2: This is not the Waterloo band Firefly but one from a compilation CD of Italian Disco songs. (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
November 21, 2008
Theme: Soundtrack of my life, Part 2 |
| This was the second part of the soundtrack to my life that I started last time, this show goes from my University days to the present. I won't say much about the show here as I have a pretty long explanation for each song both here and on the actual podcast. Although it might not have been that interesting for most people, I quite enjoyed putting these last two shows together and I would recommend it to everyone. Thanks for putting up with my indulgence and I promise to get back to the indie pop goodness for the next show that will hopefully be out soon. UNIVERSITY Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Had the album cover in my residence room) Jay McShann - Smooth Sailing (From the first CD purchased) The Clash - Train in Vain (Best of 80s) Sprit of the West - Labour Day (great show at Bombshelter, saw them many times) Stompin Tom - Bud the Spud (show on UNB radio station CHSR) CKMS Dave Claerhout - Wackyland Theme (show on CHRW and CKMS) War Wagon - Dead Soldier (first band than I knew the members of and on album thank yous) Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (Derek put this on a mixed tape and I became a big fan of the band) The Cure - Friday I'm in Love (Radio Show in Whitehorse) Barry Gray - Fireball XL5 Theme (do I have to say why?) After CKMS Electronic - One Day (best CD of 90s) Belle and Sebastian - Dirty Dream No. 2 (bad 30th birthday and probably best of 00s) Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (Went to see them the evening after getting married) Acid House Kings - A lover's weekend (first real twee song) Jens Lekman - Sky Phenomenon (best concert ever) Jonathan Richman - Dignified and Old (probably seen more times than anybody else) Armand Mirpour - Curly Boys Law (latest top song, one for the future) (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
October 25, 2008
Theme: Soundtrack of my life, Part 1 |
| As this show coincided with my 40th birthday I thought it was allowable to have a show (or a couple of shows) that are self indulgent. A few years ago I heard about someone doing "the soundtrack of their life" for a school project on the CBC and I thought this sounded like a cool idea and this seemed like a good time to try it. As I explain in the intro to the show it isn't just a list of my 25 favourite songs of all time, rather they are songs that have for various reasons been significant in my life. As each song was special there is unfortunately a lot of talking during this show, but I felt each one needed its own introduction. I decided to split the entire concept into two shows (I figure nobody is actually going to listen to a show about me, but even less than that would listen to a 3 hour show about me). So part one goes from my early years up till my time on my first radio station of CHRW. I will leave my time at university and CKMS for part two. Here is a link to the video I mentioned during the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOuTr0BXb4 (as it happens I own the exact same outfit that Bobby Sherman is wearing during this video)
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October 10, 2008
Theme: Cue the Zombies |
| All the sets had 5 songs this show, don't know just worked out that way. Also interesting is that even without the time restriction of being on the radio, my shows are still about 2 hours long, guess that just the natural way they should be. I haven't done it in a while but this show I did play a set of people who either just had or were just going to play the area. The highlight was the Awkward Stage whom I saw in Waterloo last week, they put on a great show and they are playing across Canada so look for them in your town. Also in the set were Shout Out Out Out Out coming to the Starlight and The Bicycles coming to Trepid House. |
September 26, 2008
Theme: More leftovers |
| Not much to say about this show, still working on lots of leftover song list that just seems to get bigger each week. One of the cool things about CKMS was the new release section, although a lot of time it didn't have much I was interested in, every once in a while it was nice to flip through a CD from somebody I had heard about. One such CD would have been the new release from Montreal's Hexes and Ohs that I happen to know is at CKMS. But I was able to find a place to stream the new album so with a bit of work anything is possible. Here are some of the links I mentioned during the show: Ed Greene Download I said during the show that you could download this song by Ed Greene from his record label, but their website is now under construction. Airborne Toxic Event Letter to Pitchfork http://www.theairbornetoxicevent.com/news/an-open-letter-to-pitchfork-media-from-the-airborne-toxic-event.html Link to the very silly and slightly pornographic video for Erik Hallden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LzDoc9vQo TALK-Theme Erik Hallden - If I Ever Get Married Montt Mardie - Names Not Forgotten **See Note 1 Voxtrot - The Start Of Something Esther - I Can't Promise TALK The Second Band - The Future Alfred Daniels Midland - Oceanside Speedmarket Avenue - Accident Pinto - Restless Heart TALK Churchbuilder - Microdancer Tada Tata - Sticky Dumb Gum B'Ehl - Happening Again (C) Bonnie and clyde - Guess There's No One Maia Hirasawa - Crackers TALK Ed Greene - When The Sky Is About To Fall Damien Jurado - Gillian Was A Horse The Social Services - The Baltic Sea Tom Levin - I Miss Her Missing Me TALK The Airborne Toxic Event - Wishing Well **See Note 2 The Little Ones - Forgive Yourself Northern Portrait - I Give You Two Seconds To Entertain Me The Virgins - Private Affair Ironville - Don't You Wish WALK Hexes and Ohs - We Remain (C) Everything All The Time - Take Stock Biker Boy - You Got Me Wrong Action Biker - Ica Lappis Melodies In Mono - Malmo Forsta utkast TALK Looptroop Rockers - The Building Armand Mirpour - Lucky Lady Hotshot Cocoanut Groove - Midsummer's Dream DoublePark - I Don't Want To Party **Thanks to Derek TALK Spanky & Our Gang + Sebo K - Like To Get To Know You + Moved (Tennishero Edit) Note 1: I have played a song by Montt Mardie the last 3 shows, he is my favourite discovery so far this year. Note 2: The Airborne Toxic Event has finally released an album after last year's great single "Does This Mean You're Moving On?". (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
September 12, 2008
Theme: Holy F*%$ Mr. Sulu |
| I started out with the Stolen Minks from their new album "High Kicks" that I got when I saw them in Guelph. It was a great show, but I have a beef with the venue as although there were 4 bands the first one didn't go on till 11:30 pm. Once again a reminder that The Minks are doing 10 week tour that will probably be coming to a city near you. I also played the band Holy Fuck (which I'm sure is setting off all kinds of alarms in your e-mail program) who were not only in the news lately for their name ( http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=15362 ) but are also playing a great festival in London Ontario this weekend ( http://www.lolafest.com/ ). I got to play the song "The Other Side Of Mr. Sulu" by the Show Business Giants as once again George Takei got in the news: http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=13075 . The song features great samples from Star Trek including my favourite "It fires lead pellets propelled by expanding gases from a chemical explosion". During the show I also mentioned that the new Pelle Carlberg album can be heard here: http://www.labrador.se/index_lab115.php3 and the song from Architecture in Helsinki was from the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZqjufDWBY . Also note that as I no longer have to worry about CRTC regulations, there are some songs on this particular show that contain some very dirty words, well at least one word that is repeated more than a few times in some of these songs. TALK-Theme The Stolen Minks - Bring It (C) Strip Squad - If You Don't Take Me Right Away You Might As Well Fuck Off Anne Backeley - Underground Summer Love Song California Snow Story - The Only One That Matters TALK Eskobar - Flat Earth Pets - Rollercoaster Heart-sick Groans - The Season For Us Bye Bye Bicycle - Eastside TALK Sea Urchins - Pristine Christine Those Dancing Days - Run Run Architecture in Helsinki - Like It Or Not Sunny Summer Day - So Much Fun TALK The National - Mistaken For Strangers Tindersticks - The Flicker Of A Little Girl Pelle Carlberg - Animal Lovers Parker Lewis - Weird Turns Pro Pale Fountains - Just A Girl TALK (The all connected set) She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? The do - Stay Just A Little Bit More **See Note 1 Ben Folds (featuring Regina Spektor) - You Don't Know Me **Again suggested by Mary Knock, Knock, Ginger - Upsala (C) Talk Of Montreal - Gallery Piece Sunday Forever - Barely Cloetta Paris - Secret Eyes Kitty and the K - By The Way (Euro Remix) Holy Fuck - Safari (C) TALK Sprial Beach - Made Of Stone (C) Muslims - Bright Side Bound Stems - Happens To Us All Otherwise The Hep Stars - Bald Headed Woman The Fugs - CIA Man **See Note 2 TALK Show Business Giants - The Other Side Of Mr. Sulu (C) Note 1: The name is actually The do with a line through the o, but I couldn't get that to print. Note 2: The song over the end credits of the movie "Burn Before Reading" (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
August 29, 2008
Theme: My Sentimental Heart |
| I have to thank Mary for my best song of the week, she asked me if I had heard "Sentimental Heart" by She & him, at the time I had not heard of the song but really enjoyed it when I heard it. So much so that I picked up the CD entitled "Volume One" when I saw it in a record store the past weekend. The band consists of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel but you can listen to the show to find out more about She & him. When playing the "Let's Ride Mega Mix" by Gonzales I started thinking about what is this year's song of the summer. Although I didn't particularly listen to the song this summer it has the elements of a good summer song with the funky beats and summer vibe. The last set ended with the band the Stolen Minks (friends of the show) who came on my show last year. This year they are doing a mega 10 week tour across Canada and the US and if you are reading this anywhere in North America the chances are they are going to be playing in your town. Check out their tour schedule here http://www.myspace.com/stolenminks and read their tour blog here: http://thestolenminks.exclaim.ca/ And I ended with a request that I finally played for Paul that he made way back before my last show on CKMS, sorry about being so late. TALK-Theme She & Him - Sentimental Heart Therea Andersson - Birds Fly Away Firefox AK with Tiger Lou - Winter Rose Yo La Tengo - Our Little Corner Of The World Hello Saferide - San Francisco **For Karen TALK Marching Band - Makeup Artist Peace In Our Time - Desperate for something to say The Second Band - No Song Speedmarket Avenue - I Can Tell By Here Eyes The Gresham Flyers - Shiftwork TALK salut!machaut - Train Song Billie the Vision and The Dancers - Lily From The Middleway Street I'm From Barcelona - Music Killed Me The Polyphonic Spree - Running Away TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Love Will Pop Levi - Never Never Love Sad Day For Puppets - Hush Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating TALK Natalia Clavier - Dormida Air France - No Excuses The Virgins - Rich Girls Monte Marde - Highschool Drama Gonzales - Let's Ride Mega Mix (C) TALK New Radiant Storm Kings - Undignified Born Ruffians - Hummingbird (C) Okkervill River - Lost Coastlines Hawaii Mud Bombers - Chewy - Lovie The Stolen Minks - Peppy Twist (C) TALK Holiday Flyer - I'm Here, You're Gone (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
August 15, 2008
Theme: Baseball and blip.fm |
| I was happy with my first non-CKMS podcast, however I am still working out some of the bugs in my system. Thus I apologize for any uneven levels, blowing into the microphone, and songs playing on while I was talking. As for the show, Derek sent me a song by The baseball project, an album of songs about baseball put together by Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey. The song I played, "The Yankee Flipper", chronicles the time that Jack McDowell gave the finger to the New York fans and the events that lead up to that moment. Read more about the baseball project here http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=12539 . I also did a set of songs that I found out about through the website blip.fm , where people recommend songs (or "'blip" them) along with short comments on the songs. I played a few songs from two of my favourite DJs on blip, Seeshell and VanillaJ, unfortunately you have to sign up as a DJ in order to see their picks, but it is free and quick. One of reasons that I have to go on with the show is my reaction when I heard about the passing of Isaac Hayes, the first thing I thought was "I should play an Isaac Hayes song on my next show".
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August 1, 2008
Theme: Last Show On CKMS |
| Well my final show went down exactly as I had hoped; lots of people at the station, lots of people playing songs, lots of people sharing stories about CKMS. Thanks to everybody who came the studio that night and everybody who was listening from near and far. There were sets of music from Dave, Jen, Peter, Sari, Wayne, Karen, Eric, and Derek. I also managed to sneak in a few sets including ones about the Hillside Festival, musicians who had appeared on my show, a set for Charlene, and songs dedicated to friends of the show who were far away. It was also great to have local artists from Knock, Knock, Ginger and Bocce who talked about their upcoming albums and the great race to see which one will be released first. And although we bid a fitting farewell to CKMS that night do remember that Fireball XL5 will continue in podcast form for as long as I am able. I picked up some new equipment last week and I think I am ready to go to start recording at home.
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July 4, 2008
Theme: Couples and wacky male singers |
| OK I shouldn't really do this, but I'm changing the top song from this show after the fact. Although at the time I said it was The Leslies "Take A Look", since that show I have really grown to love the Hello Saferide song "The Quiz". It is so good, it describes the questions that a girl would ask a prospective boyfriend, questions like: Is your IQ higher than your neighbour’s? And is it very much higher than mine? Can you sleep when I grind my teeth? Do you look away if I slob when I eat? Do you talk in the middle of Seinfeld? Do you get racist or sexist when you’ve had a few? I had just picked up the new album by Mates of State which I am liking very much and that got me thinking about bands where members are romantically involved (no I didn't play Abba). This led to playing I am the World Trade Center, Arcade Fire, and Immaculate Machine, unfortunately after the show I found out that Holiday Flyer are actually a brother/sister duo. |
June 20, 2008
Theme: Venus and Honey
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| Michelle joined me for this show so the talking bits are lot more interesting then when I do the show solo. After my initial set I managed to squeeze in a set by artists who are going to be playing in the area and a set about honey. I got the idea for the honey set while looking for the song "Shade And Honey" by Sparklehouse and I came upon an MP3 blog entry of songs about honey, so I stole the idea. Of course Michelle rhymed off about 5 more songs about honey during the set but I only had time to play the ones I did. Here is Michelle's description of her sets: My first set started off with a song that was played in the final scene of the movie "Young People Fucking", a great little indie Canadian film for which the title does little justice other than publicity as it is quirky, and humorous, with absolutely no, per say, below-the-belt shots (unfortunately -- this comment added by Frank). The rest of the set included songs I find particularly "summery" including a track from The Cloud Cult who have been releasing their albums on the Earthology Record label, a not-for-profit environmental record label (which includes 100% recycled jewel cases and paper, soy based inks, and the recycling of CD cut scraps into milk cartons). I can't get enough of "I Woke Up Today", I've been listening to it for months and my ears haven't tired in the slightest. Check out a youtube video by Throw Me The Statue - most were shot on the deck of a very windy Seattle ferry ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacCAXDLz10 ). Thao Nguyen put on one of the best live shows I've seen yet this year at Sneaky Dee's back in March, a tireless guitar player she whipped her hair about like the wild Vietnamese Virginian she is. At first listen to her cd "We Brave Bee Stings And All" I wasn't sure if it was a girl or a guy singing, at least at times it sounded at lot like The Flaming Lips. The album is certainly one of my favourites so far this year. I followed my second set up with a number of British bands I've recently discovered (Life Without Buildings, Hefner, Nina Nastasia). Life Without Buildings are from Glasgow, and broke up in 2002, but that girls completely unique vocal style is mind blowing. Also, I had tickets to see Nina at The Drake the night of the radio show but sadly she cancelled. The late John Peel was a huge fan of Nina Nastasia, and he also gave enormous props to Hefner, so I have also recently looked into their back catalogue. The final song I played was my favourite single from 2007: The Cave Singers - Seeds Of Night. That song is so beautiful it makes me ache. TALK-Theme Herman Dune - I Wish I Could See You Soon Adam Green - Morning After Midnight Bjorn Kleinhenz - The Quest For Your Heart Joel Alme - The Queen's Corner TALK Fembots - Countdown Our Days (C) Cloud Cult - Journey Of The Featherless Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today Throw Me The Statue - Lolita Thao And The Get Down Stay Down - Swimming Pools TALK Life Without Buildings - The Leanover Hefner - Hello Kitten The Replacements - Unsatisfied Nina Nastasia - A Dog's Life Bonnie Prince Billy - So Everyone TALK The Milwaukee's Best Band - The Way She Goes (C) Parlour Steps - The Garden (C) Knock, Knock, Ginger - Love Renee (C) Rebekah Higgs - Parables (C) Born Ruffians - I Need A Life (C) TALK (Honey Set) Sparklehouse - Shade And Honey Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey Daniel Johnston - Honey, I Sure Miss You Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - A Taste Of Honey Jim White - Crash Into The Sun Judd And Maggie - Sleep Interrupted The Cave Singers - Seeds Of Night TALK Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
June 6, 2008
Theme: Trepid House and Shelflife records |
| Sometimes a show just seems to go together well and this was one of those times. A few themed sets along with some random sets and it all comes out well. The second set focused on the bands that were playing that night in the Trepid House, a private house where small bands play in a great intimate environment. One of them were my current favourite band from Guelph "The Magic" who finally had some recorded material that I was able to buy, Torcus was also really good, but unfortunately although I liked the song by Rockenspiel that I played on the show I wasn't able to stay long enough to see them that night. I found out about the Swedish band Kuryakin from the great Swedesplease blog and while checking out the band's record label Shelflife I checked out some of their other recent releases. One of the new bands from the label were described as "modern psychedelic pop songs influenced by the heyday of '90s Madchester." So that allowed me to also play bands from those days including The Charlatans who just happened to have a CD in the new release section of the library. You can download the first three songs in the set from: www.shelflife.com . Of course I had to play a song to mark the passing of Bo Diddley, I thought the song might be a cover of the Jonathan Richman song, it wasn't, but it was still really good. TALK-Theme Acid House Kings - Say Yes If You Love Me The Shermans - Summer In Your Heart Lisa Bouvoir - Belgium Those Dancing Days - Tasty Boy First Aid Kit - Cross Oceans TALK (Trepid House Set) The Magic - Night School (C) Rockenspiel - When You Were Born (C) Torcus - I've Been Down (C) Dearly Beloved - When You Were Born (C) The Johnstones - Last Chance (C) TALK The Gruesomes - What's Your Problem? (C) Mates Of State - My Only Offer Merrymakers - Spinning My Mind Away Ms. John Soda - Go Check New Radiant Storm Kings - Scuttled TALK (Shelflife Records Set) Days - A Part Of The World Kuryakin - Peace Of Mind Ruling Class - Flowers The Charlatans - Oh! Vanity Happy Mondays - Lazyitis TALK Boomdaddy - No Stranger Now (C) **See Note 1 Ivana Santilli - Always Better (C) MG Blues - Shake The Boogie (C) Bo Diddley - Roadrunner Robert Forster - Did She Overtake You Lloyd Cole - Chelsea Hotel (C) **See Note 2 TALK A Popular History Of Signs - Justice Not Vengeance Note 1: The first time I can remember playing a song by someone actually related to me as my cousin Linda sang backup vocals on this song. Note 2: Played in honour of many people I know who were going to see Leonard Cohen in concert. (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
May 23, 2008
Theme: TweePop, Seattle, and little bit of Finland |
| On this show I had a set where I highlighted the CDs that I picked up while I was out west in the week before the show. My first musical stop was Seattle where I saw Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, and Anna Ternheim, the show was excellent, the venue was excellent, you can hear my review on the podcast (although I did go to Calgary and Banff as well there wasn't much of a musical part to that part of the trip). Also in Seattle I visited Easy Street Records ( http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/easystreet/ ), a cool fountain( http://nedkahn.com/water.html# and look at the Encircled Stream), and a cool library ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SCL9.JPG ) . TALK-Theme |
May 9, 2008
Theme: Very Random |
| This was pretty much a random show with a poppy set, rockin' set, laid back set, funky set, and even a failed set. I'll just talk about the failed set, ahh the magic of live radio. I played the song Twee by Tullycraft and then had the idea to play songs by the bands that are mentioned in the song. Of course I didn't do any pre-show planning so I was hoping to grab the songs while I was there, but nothing worked out, I couldn't find any of the music either at the station or even on the web. So instead of my usually 5 or 6 song set I only managed to find 2 of the artists mentioned in the song and I just decided to quit the set rather than struggle on. On a side note, one of the bands I did play was the Posies who happened to be playing their 20th anniversary show when I was in Seattle last week, I didn't go, but I saw it listed. TALK-Theme |
April 25, 2008
Theme: Carl!! and Wesley Willis |
| My top song this week was most definitely the oldest top song I have ever had, the reason I heard it was that I watching a documentary on the rise of British music in the 60s and they discussed the Yardbirds who originally featured Eric Clampton on guitar. But this particular song "For Your Love" is the song that drove him out of the band as he considered himself a serious musician and didn't want to do the kind of light fare that the band was doing. Of course the song fits pretty well into the type of pop that I play on my show. Before this show I went to see a couple of music related documentaries at the HotDocs festival in Toronto, you can hear my reviews on the podcast. There was also a set of music about the CARL! festival that went on the weekend after the show at the fantastic Trepid House, a private house in Waterloo that puts on a lot of great shows. And on a sad note, I ended the show with the Frank Sinatra song "I'll be seeing you" as a tribute to Mr. Jeffery Millar who unfortunately passed away a few weeks before the show. Jeffery was a friend from Waterloo back in my IMPRINT days, he was a fantastic person who will be missed. TALK-Theme The Yardbirds - For Your Love Under the Pines - My Architechs Data Rock - I Will Always Remember You Doug Hoyer - Emma (C) Must Be Tuesday - My Boyfriend's Girlfriend (Isn't Me) (C) TALK Bellevue - I've Been Meaning To Get Thearapy (C) The Wet Secrets - Get Your Own Apartment (C) Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes The Sound Of Arrows - Danger! TALK Wesley Willis - Jello Biafra Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas The Johnnys - I'm Hot (I Get What I Want) (C) Cassius - Rock Number One TALK (Carl!! Festival Set) The Liptonians - Charlie's Back (C) Mixylodian - Free For All (C) Sunparlor Players - If The Creeks (C) Horses - 14 Years (C) Lake Of Stew - Water Bill (C) TALK Katie Stelmanis - Join Us (C) Rick White - Birds And Bees (C) Los Campesinos - Knee Deep At ATP The Heavy - Coleen Lyrics Born - Like It, I Love It Little Dragon - No Love TALK Frank Sinatra - I'll Be Seeing You (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
April 11, 2008
Theme: RIP NQRS |
| For this show I spent the first set lamenting the loss of a great podcast that after about a year of putting out great indie-twee called it quits. The podcast was called Not Quite Rocket Science and each show had a theme like boy/girl vocals, cover songs, and one titled "Pa pa pa pa ra pa pa pa pas!". And if you remember back a few months, most of the my last Christmas was stolen from them. It looks like the main website is no longer working, but you can get see some of the shows here: http://www.last.fm/user/miss_ladybug/journal/ There was also a set based on a link that Derek sent to me (http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/2008_04_07.php) that mentioned David Barclay who was a member of show favourite The Diskettes, along with many other musical projects. As well as music that David actually made, I also got a few ideas for the set from the mp3 blog that he contributes to : http://www.popsheep.com/ I also went through a lot of my backlog of leftover songs but I was glad to get suggestions from Michelle, Milosz, and Stephen P.
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March 28, 2008
Theme: The best thing about New York City is you and me |
| This show seemed like it was over before it started, it just went by in flash. Unfortunately for the people who were actually listening (or about to listen on the podcast) I did a lot of talking, mostly about my trip to New York City the weekend before the show. I won't go into the stories here, but if you do check out the podcast you can hear about why we went, the flights from hell, and a first hand account of NYC's Bowery Ballroom. The top song this week was from a very unknown artist from Winnipeg whom I saw on Muchmusic's The Wedge (yes it is still on Wayne), the song just grabbed me with its funky feel and cool vocals. TALK-Theme Voldis - Flashlight (C) The Lions - Jungle Struttin The Heavy - That Kind of Man Little Dragon - Forever Daddy Long Legs - Drives the Girls Crazy (C) TALK Los Campensinos - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats Woodhands - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (C) Bocce - Disco Juan (C) Hilotrons - Lights Off (C) The Magic - Door To Door (C) TALK (New York City Set) Vampire Weekend - Campus Saturday Looks Good To Me - Make A Plan The Crash - Reasons To Sing Sons And Daughters - Johnny Cash The Brunettes - Obligatory Road Song TALK We Are Scientists - After Hours The B-52s - Hot Corner The Teenagers - Feeling Better White Town - Taste Of A Girl These United States - First Sight TALK Girlfriendo - Make Up Fitness Forever - Bachrach Kimkio - Dogru Hawksley Workman - Piano Blank (C) Matthew Barber - I'm Gonna Settle My Accounts With You Billy Bragg - I Almost Killed You TALK Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We Call On The Author (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
March 14, 2008
Theme: Pi Day
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| It was only during the show that I was reminded that March 14 is also known as Pi Day (03 14). That person also hooked me up with the song by Kate Bush. By the way, the actual title of the song by Kate Bush is the mathematical symbol for pi, but it is difficult to get that symbol to print in these text files. A quick search of Hype Machine found another "Pie" song by Ben Hibbard and Ted Leo that was not only a Neil Diamond cover but also described here ( http://www.friendsoftom.com/fotpedia/index.php?title=Porcupine_Pie ) as "the worst song in the history of mankind". I started off with some artists that I hope to be seeing in a few months: all of Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, and Anna Ternheim are touring together this spring. And although I am missing the Toronto show, as it happens I will be on the west coast when they are playing Seattle so I'm going to see them there. There were also a lot of CDs in the CKMS new release section that were interesting, including the entire album from Adele that contains last week's top song. I scanned through the rest of the CD and the rest of it sounds really good as well. TALK-Theme Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone El Perro Del Mar - How Did We Forget Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone Anna Jorvinen - Gotgatan TALK Hawksley Workman - Alone Here (C) Luther Wright - Goodtime (C) Vampire Hands - Paradise Knife Fights Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Gold Son TALK (Pi set) Kate Bush - Pi Ben Hibbard and Ted Leo - Porcupine Pie Friday Bridge - Love and Nostalgia Oh No Miriam - Girls at School TALK The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson Grand Theft Bus - Don't Go Say That (C) D'Ubervilles - Hot Tips (C) The Lovely Feathers - Rod Stewart (C) TALK The Sugarettes - Ready Steady Dog Day - The Uptown Train Joe Jackson - The Uptown Train Adele - Tired TALK Under Electric Lights - Your Rainy Days (C) Russian Futurists - Sentiments and Syllables (C) Supreme Beings Of Leisure - The Light Francis and the Lights - Striking Maynard Ferguson - My Sister (C) TALK Moses Mayes - Jungle Plums Part 2 (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
February 29, 2008
Theme: Bisextile Day |
| I started a new Leap Day tradition with this show as I had two songs that I couldn't decide between for my top song of the week, so this week there are officially two top songs of the week. Both of the these (along with the third song) all came from the excellent Popcasting podcast ( www.geocities.com/popcastingpop ). There were also two sets of music from bands that had either just played or were about to play locally. I managed to see most of them, including a short but very fun set by Catriona Sturton, it was only afterward that I found out that she was once a member of the great Halifax indie-pop band from the the 90s called Plumtree. However, as it turns out she hadn't joined the band when the song by Plumtree was recorded. And can I tell you how much I am lovin' the way that I can now play songs live off the internet using the Wi-Fi capabilities at CKMS. For example on my European Capitals (well almost) set I remembered during the show that I have been meaning to play a song by Jens Lekman that I found on a blog once. I managed to find it again thanks to technorati and play it on the show. I ended with the only "Leap" song I could think of: a live (and updated) version of his song "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward". TALK-Theme Kings Have Long Arms F. - Big Umbrella Adele - Chasing Pavement The Duke Spririt - The Step and the Walk The Higher Elevations - Breaking The News The Heavenly States - Lost In The Light TALK (Owen's Birthday Party) Burning Hell - Grave Situation Part 1 (C) Wax Mannequin - The Price (C) Catriona Sturton - Digger (C) Plum Tree - Sodium Chloride (C) TALK (Playing Waterloo this week) D'Ubervilles - This Is The Life (C) Superfantastics - Lullaby Punches (C) Laura Barrett - Deception Island Optimists Club (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - Its Not Working (C) Immaculate Machine - Secret Affliction (C) TALK (European Capitals Set - sort of) The Arcade Fire - All The Umbrellas In London The Last Party - Come Back To Stockholm Billie the Unison and the Dancers - A Beautiful Night In Oslo The Blue Seeds - Barcelona (C) Jens Lekman and The Silver Ages - Paris TALK Pinto - Iron and Rust Indurain - The Moment Le Futur Pompists - It's Not You My Darling You! - We Break Up On Friday TALK Miss T-Bones - Voodoo Doll Strip Squad - Damn You Foals - Balloon Santa Maria - Dogs Paper - To Her Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma TALK Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward (live at Barbicon)
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February 15, 2008
Theme: That's What She Said |
TALK-Theme Hercules & Love Affair (f. Antony Hegarty) - Blind Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing One Self - Cupid Smiling The Smile Chris Joss - I Want Freedom New Order - Guilt Is A Useless Emotion TALK Tindersticks - Don't Ever Get Tired *TWSS* The National - Fake Empire Emma Hasselband - Fall Velcro Stars - Brand New Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do? TALK Firefly - Made Me Glad (C) *TWSS* The Doers - No Right Now (C) *TWSS* Henry Faberge & The Adorables - Out Of Your League (C) *TWSS* The Bicycles - Sure Was Great (C) *TWSS* Acid House Kings - That's Because You Drive Me *TWSS* TALK Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (C) Kate Nash - We Get On Saturday Looks Good To Me - Hands In The Snow Celestial - Dream On TALK The Tom Fun Orchestra - When You Were Mine (C) The Superfantastics - Turn On Me (C) *TWSS* The Honeydrips - I Wouldn't Know What To Do *TWSS* The Roadside Poppies - Just Another Love Song TALK Pants Yell! - Tried To Be Good Le Futur Pompists - The Air That Surrounds US Lightspeed Champion - Dry Lips TALK MGMT - Kids *TWSS* - Songs that go well followed by "That's What She Said (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
February 1, 2008
Theme: I also heart Labrador Records |
As I never pass up a chance to play bands from the great label Labrador Records, I couldn't resist playing a set of music by bands from the label when I heard the song "I heart Labrador Records" by the band Jam on Toast. All the bands I played in the set are mentioned in the song which contains the great line "All Swedish kids are born with little indie pop hands". I have to admit that the reason I first listened to the band Parker Lewis (my top song of the show) was because I was a big fan of the TV show Paker Lewis Can't Lose ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Lewis ), although looking at some clips on youtube I don't know if the show stands the test of time. And although the song by Parker Lewis was the top song I had heard in the two before the show, the best new song during the show was by "Foundations" by Kate Nash, do yourself a favour and check it out. I also want to mention that the band The Summerlad that started out the third set are from Calgary and one of the members is the brother of setlist member Iain G. The song has also been on the CBC Radio 3 Top 30 for the past few weeks. TALK-Theme Parker Lewis - Dirty Dancing The Royal We - All The Rage Postal Blue - The World Doesn't Need You Tellus About The Moon - Wwwm Springfactory - No More TALK (Female Indie Pop) Au Revoir Simone - Fallen Snow The Icicles - Snowbird B'Ehl - Hey! I've Got A New Friend (C) Sakert - Allt Som Ar Ditt TALK The Summerlad - City Of Noise (C) The Dick Ends - Living The Good Life (C) Echo Beach Surf Club - Same Side (C) Scratching Post - Don't Sweat It (C) The Evaporators - Suharto Stomp (C) TALK Milk Bag Brother - Swim Naked (C) Stephen Trothen - Shoe Song (C) Kate Nash - Foundations Belle and Sebastian - Expectations TALK (Dance set) Chris Joss - Luna Rides Back Roisin Murphy - Movie Star Velella Lelella - Alex Boom Selector Muscles - Hey Muscles I Love You TALK (Labrador Records Set) Jam on Bread - I Heart Labrador Records Irene - Seaside Pelle Carlberg - I Touched You At Sound Check Acid House Kings - I Write Summer Songs For A Reason Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Marry Me TALK Magnetic Fields - Please Stop Dancing First Fall - Bonnie and Clyde TALK White Williams - New Violence (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
January 18, 2008
Theme: The Gig Theatre, Au Revoir Simone, Best of 2007, and Juno
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There was a set of music that was bookended by a couple of bands that were playing The Gig Theatre that night and now that CKMS has wireless internet I was able to play songs directly from the Myspace pages of the local bands, that was pretty cool. There was a set of music inspired by the band "Au Revoir Simone" whom I saw the week before this show in Toronto (Do you know where that name came from? Answer is after the setlist). I started this set with a cover they did for their encore by David Bowie, with the average age of the audience I'm sure that only about 3 people there recognized the song. Luckily, I was standing beside one of them (Derek). After playing Au Revoir Simone the rest of the set was just kind of low-fi stuff that reminded me of the show. There was a set of music inspired by the movie Juno mostly stolen from this website: http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/01/07/songs-for-juno/ There was a set of music inspired by the Best of 2007 lists that I got from everybody, Thanks to Mary, Derek, and Michael T. TALK-Theme The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk To Dream Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days Plastic Operator - Folder Second Hand Furniture - Nice Try, Sunshine Sakert - Vikommer Att Posamtigt TALK (The Gig inspired set) Spy Machine 16 - Disappointed Tourist (C) The Assistants - Fiction (C) Gaye Rage - Nothin' (C) Pet Politics - Taken Away By Aliens Battlecreek - The Lion's Tale (C) TALK (Au Revoir Simone inspired set) David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song Remote Kid - Casual Day At The Carnegie Endowment (C) The Little Penguins - Say It Once The Consonant C - Distance (C) TALK (Juno inspired set) The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You Adam Green - Jessica The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (C) The Replacements - Bastards Of Young TALK (Other people's best of 2007 inspired set) Flight of the Chonchords - The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room Page France - Here's A Telephone Feist - I Feel It All LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great TALK Blood Music - Eagles In The Water Lolligags - Wired Up Stars - Bitches In Tokyo (C) Echo Beach Surf Club - Turf Dream (C) TALK The Go! Team - Keys To The City (C) Denotes Canadian Content The name Au Revoir Simone comes from the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRP42OS5mjo |
January 4, 2008
Theme: Best of 2007 |
| I was actually giddy with excitement as I was putting together the music for this show, I was excited about being able to play a selection of the great songs that I played over the year. The first part of the show featured my favourite singles of 2007 and the final 10 songs were from my top albums. You can see all of my picks here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/best_of_2007.htm I did my best to indicate on the setlist where I first heard about each song. TALK-Theme Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance **KEXP** Tim Armstrong - Into Action **KEXP** The Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean Your Moving On **KEXP** Sweet Homewreckers - Wild America (C) **The Wedge** Major Maker - Rollercoaster (C) **Maynard's commercial** TALK Dance Hall Free For All - Something Collective (C) **Hillside** Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know **Popcasting** The Flight Of The Chonchords - Business Time **Wayne** Small Sins - We Will Beak Our Own Hearts (C) **CKMS** TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit **Swedesplease** Juni Jarvi - If We Just Want To **Swedesplease** Young Galaxy - Outside The City (C) **The Wedge** Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down **Popcasting** TALK The Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts (C) **CKMS** The Superfantastics - Oh! How You Used To Know Me Well (Back Then) (C) **Halifax** The Doers - We're Open (C) **CKMS** Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said **Bury Me Not** Amida - Class of 2000 **Poppolar** Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It **KEXP** California Snow Story - Suddenly Everything Happens **Poppolar** TALK Los Campensinos - You Throw Parties, We Throw Knives **KEXP** Immaculate Machine - Jarhand (C) **CBC** Little Name - For The Attention Of **Indie Pop Radio** TALK Annemarie - The Living Model **Popcasting** Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile **Swedesplease** TALK Lucky Soul - Get Outta Town **Poppolar** The Icicles - Snowbird **Motorola commercial** TALK Irene - Always On My Mind **Poppolar** TALK I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona **Globe and Mail** TALK Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar **Me** KEXP - KEXP song of the day ( www.kexp.org ) Swedesplease - www.swedesplease.net Bury Me Not - www.burymenot.com Poppolar - www.poppolar.com Indie Pop Radio - www.indiepopradio.co.uk The Wedge - www.muchmusic.com/tv/thewedge/ (C) Denotes Canadian Content |