Radio Fragments

Sometimes, when I'm carefully crafting my show from a huge pile of CDs, I tend to favor the shorter to medium-length songs. I start to worry that people won't want to hear a long song, that I have to keep things moving, changing, to stay interesting. Tonight was my attempt to prove myself wrong.

2 hours, 10 songs. Some of my favorite long-format music.

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)

James Brown, "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)"
Can, "Future Days"
Talk Talk, "After The Flood"
Pink Floyd, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Richard Thompson, "Season of the Witch"

Hour 2 – 2-3 am (Download - 57 Mb)

Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
Suicide, "Frankie Teardrop"
These New Puritans, "Navigate Navigate"
Fela Kuti, "Zombie"
Bill Laswell, "Rebel Music"

Getting in a little late tonight and I'm tuckered out, so I'll skip the witty descriptors for a week and just get straight to the music.

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)

Garmarna, “Gamen”
The Doors, “The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)”
Chris Whitley, “Dust Radio”
Can, “She Brings The Rain”
DJ Zebra (Goldfrapp vs. N. Greenbaum vs. ZZ Top), “Ooh la Grange in the Sky”
Utah Saints, “New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)”
The Police, “I Burn For You”
Spoons, “Nova Heart”
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “From Her To Eternity”
White Stripes, “One More Cup of Coffee”
Rosemary Clooney, “Black Coffee”
Tony Alvon & the Belairs, “Sexy Coffee Pot”

Hour 2 – 2-3 am (Download - 57 Mb)

Jim’s Big Ego, “Someday Café”
Shel Silverstein, “Have Another Espresso”
Scout Niblett, “Calcification”
New Young Pony Club, “Ice Cream”
Ohio Players, “Funky Worm”
The Hot Rats, “Pump It Up”
The Tragically Hip, “At the Hundredth Meridian”
St. Etienne, “Split Screen”
Richard Swift, “The Ballad of Old What’s His Name”
Albert Kuvezin, “Yenisei-Punk”
The Braineaters, “Edge”
Canned Heat, “Future Blues”
Laurette Langille, “Won’t Kill Me”
Manic Street Preachers, “This Joke Sport Severed”
DJ Krush, “Final Home (Vocal Version)”
Lusine, “Gravity”
Vangelis, “Albedo 0.39”

...or two hours, depending on how fast you play the music. It's a beautiful early spring (fingers crossed) here in the Pacific Northwest -- and to celebrate, more music!

Steve & Edie performing "Black Hole Sun"? Frontier Psychologists? Jazz Butchers? Pat Boone sings Metallica? You betcha. Not just that, but Kinetic Stereokids, The Strokes, Elbow -- and let's not forget Luis Russell & His Orchestra coming atcha from 1929. All this and more on tonight's Radio Fragments.

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)

Southern Culture on the Skids, “Voodoo Cadillac”
Buddy Greco, “The Lady Is a Tramp”
Soft Cell, “Memorabilia”
Richard Cheese, “Been Caught Stealing”
The Jazz Butcher, “Caroline Wheeler’s Birthday Present”
Super Furry Animals, “The Very Best of Neil Diamond”
The Who, “The Seeker”
Berlin, “The Metro”
Steve Lawrence & Edie Gorme, “Black Hole Sun”
The Avalanches, “Frontier Psychologist”
Fever Ray, “Triangle Walks”
Banco de Gaia, “Last Train to Lhasa”

Hour 2 – 2-3 am (Download - 57 Mb)

Luis Russell & His Orchestra, “New Call of the Freaks”
T-Bone Walker, “Call It Stormy Monday”
Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam, “Romance Without Finance”
The Monks, “Monk Time”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “If 6 was 9”
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, “She’s Too Young”
King Crimson, “I Talk to the Wind”
Pat Boone, “Enter Sandman”
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, “Thou Shalt Always Kill”
Elbow, “Grounds for Divorce”
The Strokes, “Juice Box”
Kinetic Stereokids, “Twisted Thoughts”
Spiritualized, “I Think I’m In Love”

Well, ok, the whole show isn't glam. But we've got some Bowie, Roxie Music, Stooges, something from the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack... Heck, there's some Bauhaus & very early Ultravox, and I think the argument could be made that they come from the same place. Also tossed in there, some semi-spoken word by David Lynch, The Four Lads, and a Brazilian band singing in japanese a song based on one by a Frenchman who was covering a piece by an Italian composer done for a Swedish documentary!

It's not called Radio Fragments by accident.

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

Hour 1 – 1-2 am

The Thought Gang, “A Real Indication”
Henri Salvadore, “Mais Non, Mais Non”
Pato Fu, “Made In Japan”
David Bowie, “Moonage Daydream”
Roxy Music, “Virginia Plain”
Brian Eno, “Dead Finks Don’t Talk”
The Venus in Furs, “Baby’s On Fire”
The Stooges, “1969”
Division of Laura Lee, “Need To Get Some”
Yello, “Domingo”
Royksopp, “You Don’t Have a Clue”
JJ, “From Africa To Malaga”
Medeski, Martin & Wood, “Your Name is Snake Anthony”
Dee-Lite, “Groove is in the Heart”

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Hour 2 – 2-3 am

Ultravox, “Sat’day Night In the City of the Dead”
Bauhaus, “God in the Alcove”
Cowboy Junkies, “Baby Please Don’t Go”
Peter, Paul, and Mary, “I Dig Rock and Roll Music”
The Four Lads, “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”
Bruce McCulloch, “Eraserhead”
Bob Crosby & the Bobcats, “Way Back Home”
Talking Heads, “This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)”
Cream, “Sunshine of your Love”
Angelique Kidjo, “Voodoo Child”
Clientele, “Jennifer & Julia”
Adam Ant, “Place In the Country”
Phoenix, “1901”
Orbital, “Impact USA (the Earth is Burning Diversion)”

Download Hour 2 (57 Mb)

Two hours of well-supervised craziness this week. Steampunk, Nerdcore, someone funnelling music through their mouth, a set of music for english majors and one for people who enjoy the bath.
The show is available from the streaming archive, or you can download the podcast/mp3 version by hour (below).

Hour 1 - 1-2 am

Cast Recording, “Tumse Milke Dil Ka Jo Haal”
Cake, “Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps”
Doris Day, “Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps”
Peter Drake, “I’m Just a Guitar”
Violent Femmes, “Eep Op Ork Ah Ah”
Bob McFadden & Rod McKuen, “The Beat Generation”
Richard Hell & The Voidoids, “Blank Generation”
Suicide, “Rocket USA”
Matt Cook, “James Joyce”
Cream, “Tale of Brave Ulysses”
A3, “Woke Up This Morning”
Passengers (U2 & Brian Eno), “Slug”
Real Tuesday Weld, “Bath Time In Clerkenwell”
English Beat, “Mirror in the Bathroom”
Lemon Jelly, “In the Bath”

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Hour 2 - 2-3 am

Abney Park, “Until the Day I Die”
Snilth, “Snow Falls”
Thomas Dolby, “Airwaves”
High C, “Divided States (Kid Charlemagne Remix)”
Beefy, “1-800-NERDCORE”
The Herbaliser, “8 point Agenda”
Latryx, “Latyrx”
M. Ward, “Four Hours In Washington”
Van Morrison, “Ring Worm”
Benoit Charest, “Les Triplets de Belleville”
Strong Bad & Friends, “Sensitive to Bees”
Anubian Nights, “Walking Eagle”
Amerzcua/Nortec Collective, “Tango La Voz”
Boards of Canada, “Aquarius”

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