Coursing Through The Wires #13, or Blowing One's Own Horn?
Another trip to central New Jersey, another guest DJ slot at WPRB-FM. Thanks again to Jon Solomon for yielding 60 minutes of his time to the gentleman from the nation's capital.
Notes: (1) I was fairly pleased with this attempt to get my computer to play nicely with the board, allowing for various MP3s (some downloaded, others ripped so I wouldn't have to bring the originals) to be part of the show. Now if we can just get a different board input ... I'd gladly give up 1/3 of the CD players instead of 1/2 of the turntables (though I represent a distinct minority in that selection). (2) Admittedly, I had a few too many "cute" ideas around segues and combinations -- especially the "occupied" theme. On the whole, though, this show worked pretty well and even gave me the space and grooves to dance around the studio. (You'll just have to guess which songs inspired the pogo / whirl-about / demented Charlie Brown bobbing.)
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
21:00 to 00:00
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |
| Brainiac | Go! | Jabberjaw compilation 7" | Tones on Tail cover | ||
| Flat Duo Jets | Love Me | In Stereo | |||
| Thee Minks | Mama's Boy | Plaything EP | Steel Cage | (N) | |
| The Walkmen | 138th Street | Bows + Arrows | Record Collection | ||
| Conner | Cold Feelings | mp3 | From Lawrence, KS, despite sounding English... | ||
| Tall Dwarfs | Burning Blue | That's The Long and Short of It | Flying Nun | which came first... this or... | |
| Daniel Johnston | Some Things Last A Long Time | 1990 | Shimmy Disk | ||
| Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem | Mountain Dew | Greatest Irish Hits | Columbia? | ||
| Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan | Good Old Mountain Dew | Nashville Skyline Outtakes | Recorded in 1969 | ||
| The Great Unwashed | Boat With No Ocean | Singles EP | Flying Nun | ||
| Dead C | Power | Vain, Erudite, and Stupid | BaDaBing | 1988-2005 retrospective release | (N) |
| The Violets | Hiero | mp3 | This band is from London, while the High Violets are from Portland, OR -- I transposed the two on-air | ||
| Lovers of Today | Guy Fawkes | mp3 | (N) | ||
| Pitchblende | Penny For The Guy | Working Holiday | Simple Machines | originally part of the November WH single | |
| Sky Larkin | Traits and Traitors | Souvenir EP | (N) | ||
| 21-645 | Babble | Laughing At The Ground | Propeller | later covered by Moving Targets | (C) |
| Dangerous Birds | Emergency | Laughing At The Ground | Propeller | featuring Thalia Zedek | (C) |
| Swell Maps | Blenheim Shots | Jane From Occupied Europe | Mute (reissue) | ||
| Jane From Occupied Europe | Horizons In Blue | Little Valley Town | |||
| Desperate Bicycles | Occupied Territory | 7" | Refill | ||
| Traffic Jam | Another War | Instrumental Quarter | Sickroom | (N) | |
| The Long Blondes | Fulwood Babylon | 12" | b-side of Weekend Without Makeup | (N) | |
| Human Switchboard | (Say No To) Saturday's Girl | Who's Landing In My Hangar | Faulty Products | ||
| The Pipettes | Dirty Mind | 12" | Memphis Industries | "as featued on Grey's Anatomy..." | (N) |
| Blondie | X Offender | Blondie | Private Stock | ||
| The Left | 5AM | Jesus Loves The Left | Bona Fide | (N) | |
| Girly Sound | White Babies | Chinny Chin Chin | Shimmy Disk | Liz Phair, singing on the Kicking Giant answering machine | (C) |
| Felt | Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow | Goldmine Trash | PVC | the "demo" version with better, more bitter lyrics | |
| Voxtrot | Raised By Wolves / You Can't Hide Your Love Forever | WOXY Lounge | Comet Gain covers | ||
| Comet Gain | Beautiful Despair | 12" | What's Your Rupture? | (N) | |
| Fury Of The Headteachers | Farewell Comrade | 7" | (N) | ||
| Strange Idols | X-Ray Vision | mp3 | (N) | ||
| Bloodless Pharoahs | Bloodless Pharoahs | The Groups of Wrath | TVT | Brian Setzer's pre-Stray Cats band | (C) |
| Funkadelic | Super Stupid | Maggot Brain | Westbound | Just because. | |
| The Thermals | St. Rosa & The Swallows | The Body, The Blood, The Machine | Sub Pop | (N) | |
| The Eternals | Stirring Up Weather | The Eternals | DeSoto | ||
| Augustus Pablo | Pablo In Red | Trojan Dub Rarities | Trojan | (C) | |
| Lloyd Price | Stagger Lee | His Big Hits | Pickwick | ||
| The Black Neon | Ralph & Barbara | Arts & Crafts | Memphis Industries | (N) | |
| The United States of America | The Garden of Earthly Delights | The United States of America | Edsel | ||
| 14 Iced Bears | Coming Down | EP | United States of America cover(?!) | ||
| Tripod Jimmie | Nu Spartans | Long Walk Off A Short Pier | Do Speak | ||
| Endtables | White Glove Test | 7" | |||
| The Good, The Bad, and The Queen | Three Changes | Live at BBC Electric Prom | Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (the Clash), Tony Allen (Fela Kuti), Simon Tong (The Verve) | (N) | |
| World/Inferno Friendship Society | Only Anarchists Are Pretty | Red-Eyed Soul | Chunksaah | (N) | |
Sorry I missed listening to the show but thanks for posting your playlist. Anyway, JS said I should talk to you about Crayon & WPRB circa 94 which confirms you are the DJ that ruined my life AND you're in line for a starring role in the liner notes of the Brick Factory reissue. Go figure. Sorry for being a stalker all these years. I'm just enthusiastic. E-mail me. Courtney