June 26, 2009

Theme: Heaven is above your head On Air: Frank

As often happens, as soon as I find a new source of music I go crazy and get obsessed about getting all the music from that source ignoring my regular go-to sources. For this show it was my discovery of the great MP3 blog/podcast called "Heaven is above your head", the blog is based in New Zealand but it appears that it started out in Sweden. The blog seems to have been going a few years and this past February they started a podcast that unfortunately seems to have ended this past week. Although the blog mostly plays the same sort of indie pop that I love, the podcast also has a heavy focus on 60s and 70s soul songs which is very cool. It just kind of worked out that about half of the songs from this show are from HIAYH as well as a set specifically focused on those cool soul songs. http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ Even with the focus on HIAYH the show was back to the normal sets divided by different musical types and of course I had to end off with a song by the recently departed Michael Jackson. I know that I haven't really been into anything he has put out in the past 20 years, but when I was growing up Thriller was certainly an album that I (like the rest of world) was in love with. I went with P.Y.T. (Pretty young thing) instead of one of the more famous songs as I remember particularly liking that song back in the day. Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after last show's top song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: Video for the Biker Boy songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBZUaFG7C8 video for Juni Jarvi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SaJr58qHw Video for Little Boots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUs9YzY7t-8 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 26, 2009 TALK (Theme) Sandstream - Teenage Love Biker Boy - Where Do You Go To? Juni Jarvi - Looking At You Is Like Looking At The Sun Baby Doll Lounge - Paisley Shirt (HIAYH) Bunnygrunt - We Suspect He Was Trying To Spell Monkey (HIAYH) TALK Baby Daylinger - You Push, I'll Go Little Big Adventure - The Hateful Eye Mike Snow - Animal Passion Pit - The Reeling Little Boots - New In Town TALK God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing Asobi Seksu - Transparence Helen Love - We Love You (HIAYH) Stolen Hearts - Fire (HIAYH) TALK Even As We Speak - I Won't Have To Think About You (HIAYH) Fireflies - Sledding Godsmania - All Gone Wrong Today The Seven Inches - Open-ness And Honesty (HIAYH) The New Breed - Summers Coming (HIAYH) TALK (HIAYH spotlight) Paul Sindab - You Dropped Your Candy In The Sand (HIAYH) Ty Karim - You Just Don't Know (HIAYH) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is (HIAYH) Mickey And Silvia - Love Is Strange (HIAYH) The Moments - You Said (HIAYH) TALK California Gold - Love Is All You Need (HIAYH) World Atlas - Inner city Kids (HIAYH) Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare Moustache Of Insanity - The Cat Chicken Song The Windmills - Beach Girls TALK Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (C) Denotes Canadian Content (HIAYH) Denotes song from Heaven is above your head