DT Radio -- 24-April-2009
Continuing with the radio playlists... this show marked my first visit to the WPRB studios in 2009 and also my first foray into hosting the "Top Ten Show." I didn't include that hour in my playlist (as I had no control over it), but let's just say it was an experience.
This particular program had some outstanding highs, particularly my remembering to play Pegboy (as a tribute to the closing of Touch & Go's P&D arm) and the unreal segue between RTFO Bandwagon and Broadcast. It also had a weak finish, between the mind-bending "Lesbian Seagull" and the unfortunate appearance of the DJ following my show -- he plugged in a laptop, futzed with the turntable mixer while I was still playing albums, and completely failed to acknowledge the existence of a massive record library just outside the studio door. Even the Thin Lizzy closer couldn't quite save the day for me.
Deadly Tango Radio
WPRB, 103.3 FM, Princeton, NJ / www.wprb.com
Friday, April 24, 2009, 18:00 to 20:00 (UTC-4)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Bassline & Kavsrave | Lucky Charms | 12"/digital | self-released | (NP) slam that bass. |
| Pegboy | Field of Darkness | Strong Reaction | Quarterstick | |
| Razar | Task Force | Where Birdmen Flew | Taz Devil | (C) |
| My Teenage Stride | Weirder Nightmare | Selected And Collected | eMusic | (NP, C) Staff-curated compilation |
| The Bats | Mad On You | Made Up In Blue EP | Flying Nun | Showing the debts owed by the preceding song... |
| Dolly Mixture | Everything And More | 7" | Respond | 1982. Amazingly, this one never hit the radar during my 80s-english-post-pop phase about 15 years ago. |
| Theron & Darrell | It's Your Love | Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace | Numero Group | (NE, C) Wichita getting funky! |
| Joanna | Hold-up Inusite | Ultra Chicks Vol.2 | (C) | |
| Material Issue | Valerie Loves Me | International Pop Overthrow | Capitol(?) | A song I slept on and disparaged the first time around. I know better now. |
| Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones | The New Slap and Tickle | Arriere Garde | S-S | (NE) |
| Burning Hearts | I Lost My Color Vision | Aboa Sleeping | Shelflife | (NP) Featuring members of Cats on fire. |
| Yonokiero | Rare Bit | Blue Apples | Front & Follow | (NE) |
| Magazine | The Light Pours Out Of Me | Real Life | IRS | (R) |
| Moscow Olympics | No Winter, No Autumn | Cut The World | self-released? | (NP) Filipino dream-pop, not yet worthy of a name from a brilliant Orange Juice song. |
| Reverend Cleatus & The Soul Saviors | Salt Popcorn | Hot Funky & Sweaty: The Sound of Heavy Soul & Funk Today | Hard Soul |
(C) 2005 release based on slamming London club nights. |
| Music Go Music | Thousand Crazy Nights | Warm In The Shadows | Secretly Canadian | (NP) |
| Marina and the Diamonds | Obsessions | 7" | Neon Gold | (NP) Such a fitting song title. |
| Earatik Static | Tearz | The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Gravel | (NP) Chicago underground hiphop. |
| Bell Orchestre | Bucephalus Bouncing Ball | As Seen Through Windows | Arts & Crafts | (NE) |
| La Roux | In For The Kill (Hostage Remix) | 12" | (NP) The piano makes this particular mix work. | |
| RTFO Bandwagon | Skipper Bunkum | Dums Will Survive | Dull Knife | (NE) |
| Broadcast | Before We Begin | Haha Sound | Warp | The pop equivalent of a Dead C/noise-fiend post-apocalyptic walk through the wreckage? |
| The Equals | Police On My Back | Greatest Hits | (OP) Later covered by the Clash. Features a very young Eddy Grant, long before there was an "Electric Avenue." | |
| Let's Wrestle | Song For Man With Pica Syndrome | In Loving Memory Of... | Stolen Recordings | Offered in anticipation of the album released a few weeks after this program. |
| Vashti Bunyan | Winter is Blue | Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind | Dicristina | (OE) restored acetate demo. |
| Tom Wilson Weinberg | Lesbian Seagull | Gay Name Game | Yes, the original of the Beavis & Butthead campfire song. No, I'm not sure what I was thinking either. | |
| Brenton Wood | Gimme Little Sign | Greatest Hits | A soul chaser of sorts after the preceding nonsense. | |
| Karl Hendricks Trio | If This Song Was A Cigarette | Some Girls Like Cigarettes | Big Ten Rex | |
| Thin Lizzy | Cowboy Song (Derby Blues) | UK Tour '75 | (OP) Early live version of "Cowboy Song" before the band had worked out the whole itinerary. | |
(R) = request
(C) = compilation
(NE) = station new emphasis
(OE) = recent but older acquisition (e.g. reissue)
(NP) = new from personal collection
(OP) = recent but older acquisition from personal collection
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