Radio Fragments

I like to refer to my show as "The Coolest Music of the last 100 years", but I recognize that sometimes I spend a bit more time in the last 40 years than that tagline deserves.

So, tonight, we're going back to the past. Starting 10 years ago with an album released in February 2000, we just go back, back, back. The 90s and 80s flash by in the first set. We dwell in the seventies for 25 minutes or so, rush through the 60s, going deeper and deeper. Soon we're into the 40s, the 30s...a couple of songs from 1929, and then to one of the oldest pieces in my collection, dating from 1915.

And these aren't going to be 'old standards'. Many are quite subversive, some tackle social issues, some technological issues. There's a piece of experimental electronic music from '72, a song about drug use from '44, some of the oldest blues recordings we have, a 'New Sound' (the newest sound around, doncha know), what may very well be the first all-girl rock band...and then a piece called "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals". Tell me that isn't a show!

The show is available from the streaming archive, or you can download the podcast/mp3 version by hour (below).

Hour 1 – 1-2 am (Download - 57 Mb)

Supreme Beings of Leisure, "Under the Gun" (2000)
Ministry, "Jesus Built My Hotrod" (1992)
Skinny Puppy, “Glass Houses” (1985)
Kate Bush, "The Dreaming" (1982)
Throbbing Gristle, "Hot On The Heels Of Love" (1978)
Langley Schools Music Project, "Space Oddity" (1976)
Tom Waits, "Diamonds on my Windshield" (1974)
Sadistic Mika Band, "Dance Is Over" (1973)
Ingram Marshall, "Cortez" (1972)
T.Rex, "Motivator" (1971)
Sly and the Family Stone, "I Want To Take You Higher" (1969)
The Continental Coets, "Live for the Present" (1966)
Phil Moore, "Watch Your Step, Please" (1964)

Hour 2 – 2-3 am (Download - 57 Mb)

Charles Mingus, "Freedom" (1963)
Fabian, "About This Thing Called Love" (1960)
Ella Fitzgerald, "Do Nothing Till you Hear From Me" (1957)
Elvis Presley, "Mystery Train" (1955)
Tony Burello, "There's a New Sound" (1952)
Roy Brown, "Butcher Pete Pt. 1" (1950)
Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson, “Who Put The Benzadrene In Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine” (1944)
Foy Willing & The Riders of the Purple Sage, "Texas Blues" (1943)
Bukka White, “Fixin’ To Dies Blues” (1940)
Robert Johnson, “Travelling Riverside Blues” (1937)
Raymond Scott, "Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" (1936)
Cleoma Falcon, "Blues Negres" (1934)
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, “Minnie The Moocher” (1931)
Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band, "Get the 'L' on Down The Road" (1929)
Billy Murray, "Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, For Ipswitch?" (1915)