These are the playlists for the shows that I've done on CKCU. I try and update this page as the show progresses, but it's probably best to give me a day to get it up here with links and everything. If you'd like to listen to me, my show broadcasts Thursday mornings, 9:30-noon., and can be heard in Ottawa, Canada, western Quebec and northern New York state by tuning into 93.1 FM, and it is also available worldwide via the Internet and streaming Real Audio by going to CKCU's audio page. More recent playlists can be found here.
Episode 23: Wednesdays are killing me (Or: When is a DJ like a Russian leader?)
Taped: Wednesday, June 2, 2004; 13:00-16:00
Aired: Thursday, June 3, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Kinks "Tired of Waiting for You" Greatest Hits
The Organ "Steven Smith" Grab That Gun [Listen Here]
DJ Shadow "Organ Donor" Endtroducing.....
Miles Davis "Rated X" Get Up With It
Temptations "I Need Your Lovin'" Cloud Nine
Funkadelic "You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me" Hardcore Jollies
Funkadelic "One Nation Under a Groove" One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic "(Not Just) Knee Deep" Uncle Jam Wants You
Cee-Lo Green f. Pharrell "The Art of Noise" ...is the Soul Machine
!!! "When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Karazzee" Louden Up Now (Clean Version)
Wiley "Doorway" Treddin' On Thin Ice
Dizzee Rascal "Jus A Rascal" Boy in da Corner (Real Audio here)
The Streets "**NOT ADDICTED***" A Grand Don't Come for Free
Pixies "Break My Body" Sufer Rosa
Pavement "Secret Knowledge of Back Roads" & "Shoot the Singer" Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
Preston School of Industry "Walk of a Gurl" Monsoon
Black Ox Orkestar "Toyte Goyes in Shineln" Ver Tanzt?
New Year "Sinking Ship" The End is Near
Phono-Comb "The Crass and the Switchblade" Fresh Gasoline
Nazz "Some People" III
A.C. Newman "Miracle Drug" Slow Wonder [Available here]
New Grand "Yours Truly" More of Our Stupid Noise comp
Suburban Pop Project "Sister Two" EP
Sloan "Laying Blame" I Am the Cancer EP
Tangiers "Love Rackets" Never Bring You Pleasure
Uncut "Buried with Friends" Those Who Were Hung Hang Here
Dinosaur Jr "Yeah We Know" Bug
Temptations onward was pre-taped; if anybody has webspace they'd want to give me, perhaps I could post the show for future listening. Or not.
Episode 22: He could charm the elbows off a legless man
Taped: Wednesday, May 26, 2004; 13:00-16:00
Aired: Thursday, May 27, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Toronto Symphony conducted by Andrew Davis "Movement I: Allegro Non Troppo" Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Popol Vuh "In Den Garten Pharoas" In Den Garten Pharoahs
David Pritchard "An Admission of Guilt" Nocturnal Earthworm Stew
Amon Duul II "Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse" Wolf City
Gas Mask "The Immigrant" Their First Album
Elvin Jones "Shinjitu" The Coalition
John Coltrane "The Drum Thing" Crescent
Art Blakey "O'Tinde" Holiday for Skins Vol. 2
Merle Haggard & the Strangers "Workin' Man's Blues" A Portrait of...
Willie Nelson "Remember Me" The Red-Headed Stranger
Lee Hazlewood "I'll Live Yesterdays" "requiem for an almost lady"
Marty Robbins "A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)" Marty's Greatest Hits
Greenfield Main "How to Select a Deer Rifle" Hunting Tips for Everyone
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two "You Win Again" Get Rhythm
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Point of View" Plastic Fang
Sonic Youth "I Am Right" Melting Plot comp
Bardo Pond "Sunrise" Dilate
Unintended "Stay Calm" Unintended
Alise Marlane "Prussian Blue" Crazy Making EP [clip]
Red Shag Carpet "Rockland" Red Shag Carpet
Popol Vuh to Art Blakey was pre-taped; Alise Marlane and Red Shag Carpet were requests; Sonic Youth and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are both coming to down this summer. Stir it up and viola you have a radio show.
Episode 21: Isn't technology grand?
Taped: Wednesday, May 19, 2004; 13:00-16:00
Aired: Thursday, May 20, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Arab Strap "First Big Weekend" The Week Never Starts Round Here
Timmy Thomas "Funky Me" Miami Sound comp
Timmy Thomas "Stone to the Bone" The Magician
Aural Exciters "Marathon Runner" Spooks in Space 12"
Universal Robot Band "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine"
Donna Summer "I Feel Love" Greatest Hits on the Radio Vol 1 & 2
Material & Nona Hendryx "Bustin' Out" Mutant Disco comp
Cristina "Disco Clone" Mutant Disco comp
George McCrae "Rock Your Baby"
Edwin Starr "Contact"
Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Business"
Bush Tetras "Can't Be Funky" New York Noise comp
The Dance "Do Dada" New York Noise comp
Au Pairs "Instant Touch" Sense & Sensuality
Slits "Love and Romance" Peel Session
Avengers "Car Crash" Avengers
Dishrags "Nowhere to Hide" Love/Hate
'B' Girls "Who Says Girls Can't Rock" Who Says Girls Can't Rock
Telephone "J'suis parti de chez mes parents" Crache ton venin
Television "Torn Curtain" Marquee Moon
Television "The Dream's Dream" Adventure
Exhaust "Wool Fever" Exhaust
Faust "It's a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl"
Glenn Branca "Lesson No. 1" New York Noise comp
Simply Saucer "Here Comes the Cyborgs" Cyborgs Revisited
Ugly Ducklings "Not For Long" Somewhere Outside
Buck 65 "Riverbed 3" Talkin' Honky Blues
Due to schedule conflicts, I had to pre-record most of the show (only Arab Strap and my jabbering at the beginning were live) and unfortunately there was a technical problem somewhere along the lines as the show played off a computer on air, and the show ended early. I have no idea what ended up being deleted from the show, so I don't know which of these songs didn't get played. Sorry. I'll try and make it up next week. This is the playlist as recorded by Chris I (Monday afternoons at 4) and me. Also thanks to Dave for trying to get the show into proper working order (listen to him Wednesdays at 4), and Taline for doing a last second fill-in. No thanks to Andrea (Wed. at 3). She knows why.
Episode 20: Wrestling Hillbillies Equals Box Office Gold
Aired: Thursday, May 13, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Fire Engines "Get Up and Use Me" MPEG-1 Layer 3
The New Elvin Jones Trio "Kei Ko's Birthday March" Puttin' It Together
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme Pt 2 - Resolution" A Love Supreme
Ornette Coleman "Lonely Woman" The Shape of Jazz to Come
Paul Bley "Cartoon" Touching
Arthur Blythe "Lower Nile" The Grip
Don Cherry "Terrestrial Beings" Mu The First Part
Charles Mingus "Haitian Fight Song" The Clown
Cortijo Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo "Carnaval" Nu Yorica! comp
Joe Bataan "Latin Strut" Nu Yorica! comp
Guerrilla Funk Monster "Cumbia de los Pajaritos" Bomb
Andrew Vincent & The Pirates "Jonathan" I Love the Modern Way
Modern Lovers "Astral Plane" Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman "Springtime" Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Neil Young "Albuquerque" Tonight's the Night
Emmylou Harris "O Evangeline" Stumble into Grace (Listen Here)
Jane Siberry "Writers Are A Funny Breed" Jane Siberry
Bruce Cockburn "Let Us Go Laughing" High Winds White Sky
Jackie O Motherfucker "Bonesaw" 2003 Touch & Go/Quarterstick Records Sampler
Wooden Stars "Shade Tree Crescent" Rise Up & Get Down
...as the Poets affirm "Literary Non-Fiction" i want to tell my heart to you.but i cannot say English
Ornette, Mingus, Guerrilla Funk Monsters, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn and ...as the Poets affirm were all requests (Emmylou and Cockburn song specific, the others were left to me to choose the song).
Update: Elvin Jones Dead at 76. He died May 18. I knew he was ill, but I didn't know he was that sick. For those of you that missed this show, "Birthday March" and "A Love Supreme" were played in hopes of sending "good vibes" to and a recovery on the part of Mr Jones. While it didn't work, I did get a call from a listener who was very impressed by the Elvin Jones Trio track, particularily the drums, and for music that's nearly 40 years old, maybe that's all really needs to be said about the wonderful talent that was Elvin Jones.
Episode 19: The One With No References to the Last Episode of Friends
Aired: Thursday, May 6, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Squarepusher "Tetra-Sync" Ultravisitor
Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners "Rock'n'Roll Jolie Blon" Come On!
Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners "Sweet Love on my Mind" A Billy EP comp
Charlie Feathers "Everybody's Lovin' My Baby" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Roy Orbinson "I'm Hurtin'" All Time Greatest Hits of... Vol 2
Johnny Cash "Down the Line" & "Witchita Lineman" Unearthed
Alexander Spence "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" Oar
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band "Orange Claw Hammer" Trout Mask Replica
Robert Johnson "Eric C1apton Must Die" King of the Delta Blues Singers
Blind Lemon Jefferson "Balky Mule Blues" Early Blues
Mississipi Fred McDowell "The Train I Ride" S/T
Lightning Hopkins "Airplane Blues" Early Recordings
Mississippi John Hurt "Casey Jones" Folk Songs and Blues
John Lee Hooker "Morning Blues" Boogie Awhile
Howlin' Wolf "I Have A Little Girl" Real Folk Blues
Young Jesse "I Smell A Rat" Hit Git & Split
Exhaust "Behind the Water Tower" Enregistreur
This Heat "24 Track Loop" In the Beginning There Was Rhythm comp
Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" Revolver
Can "Halleluwah" Tago Mago
Incredible Bongo Band "Apache" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Fire" Press Colour
LCD Soundsystem "Yeah (Crass Version)" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Gang of Four "I Love A Man in Uniform" Songs of the Free
Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself" Motown 25th Anniversary Special
Lizzy Mercier Descloux (Rosa Yemen) "Rosa Vertov" Press Colour
2 Foot Flame "Lindauer" 2 Foot Flame
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic "Sleep with Dried Up Tears" Stand with Stillness
Episode 18: April is the cruellest month
Aired: Thursday, April 1, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Neil Hamburger "Top Ten-Censored" America's Funnyman
Davy Jones "You've Got a Habit of Leaving Me" Nuggets II
David Bowie "Quicksand (Demo)" Hunky Dory
David Bowie "Helden (1989 Remix)" Sound + Vision
Iggy Pop "China Girl" The Idiot
Quickspace "They Shoot Horse Don't They" MPEG-1 Layer 3 [Available Here]
Mystery Machine "Ride" Glazed
Television "Elevation" Marquee Moon
Moonsocket "Truth Becomes Lies" Accept Fear
New York Dolls "Human Being" Too Much Too Soon
Murder City Devils "Johnny Thunders" Empty Bottles Broken Hearts
Boss Hog "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" SubUrbia sndtrk
Wolfhounds "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" Shangri-La comp
Moonshake "Capital Letters" Big Good Angel
Laika "Girl Without Hands" Wherever I Am I Am What is Missing
Electrelane "Gone Under Sea" The Power Out
Mount Florida "Another Thought" Storm
Sixtoo feat. Damo Suzuki "Storm Clouds & Silver Linings" MPEG-1 Layer 3
The Smacks "Firecracker" Don't Move
Delta 72 "Another Let Down" 000
Grant Green "Luny Tune" Talkin' About
Bill Cosby "Stop, Look and Listen" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bill Cosby "Rigor Mortis" Cosby Classics
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 "Eko Ile" Afrodisiac
Antibalas "Blood and Dirt" Liberation Afro Beat Vol. 1
Toronto Tabla Ensemble "African Waterhole" Toronto Tabla Ensemble
Episode 17: Props to My Dawgs at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
Aired: Thursday, March 25, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Codeine "Broken Hearted Wine" MPEG-1 Layer 3 [Available Here]
Glenn Gould "Sonata No 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op 27, No 2, 'Moonlight'" Beethoven's Sonatas
Miles Davis "All Blues" Kind of Blue
ICP Orchestra "Precise Dimensions and Weight" Oh, My Dog
Antipop vs Matthew Shipp "A Knot in Your Bop" Antipop Consortium
De La Soul "Rollerskating Jam Named 'Saturdays' (Ladies Nite Decision)" Rollerskating Jam Named "Saturdays"
De La Soul "Say No Go" 3 Feet High and Rising
Sly Stone "Crossword Puzzle" High On You
Curtis Mayfield "If I Were Only A Child Again" Back to the World
Dan Melchoir's Broke Revue "(A Girl Called) Saccarine" unreleased
Deadly Snakes "Closed Casket" Ode to Joy
Lynnfield Pioneers "Crossfade" Free Popcorn
James White & the Blacks "Contort Yourself (August Darnell Mix)" Irresistible Impulse sampler
Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers" MPEG-1 Layer 3
The Cure "Just One Kiss" Japanese Whispers
Radio Berlin "Stroke" Sibling
Idee du Nord "Le Fou" Naked in the Marsh comp
Orange Glass "Flashing Yellow" Interstellar Interstellar
Sianspheric "Beneath the Ocean Floor" Aspirin Age (split w/ Torshack Highway)
All Night Radio "Daylight Till Dawn" Spirit Stereo Frequency [Available Here]
Zumpano "Some Sing Some Dance" MPEG-1 Layer 3 [Available Here]
Zombies "She's Not There" The Best of...
Tommy James & the Shondells "Mirage" Greatest Hits
R. Dean Taylor "There's A Ghost in My House" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Antibalas "Dirt & Blood" Liberation Afro Beat Vol 1
Episode 16: The Happy Fisherman
Aired: Thursday, March 18, 2004; 9:30-12:00
House of Pain "Top O' the Morning to Ya" House of Pain
OutKast w/ Killer Mike & Jay-Z "Flip Flop Rock" Speakerboxxx
Dizzee Rascal "Stop Dat" Boy in Da Corner
New Kingdom "Cheap Thrills (100 Proof Mix)" spilt w/ Marx Man
GZA/Genius w/ ODB "Crash Your Crew" Beneath the Surface
Wu Tang Clan "Hollow Bones" The W
Mohawks "Champ" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System "Trouble Dub Plate" Dub Plate Selection
Augustus Pablo "King Tubby Meets the Rocker's Uptown" MPEG-1 Layer 3
King Tubby "Kutchie Dub" Bring the Dub Come
Jackie Mittoo "Drum Song" Champion in the Arena 1976-1977
Gogogo Airheart "C8/...'Programme'" Gogogo Airheart
Public Image, Ltd. "Swan Lake" Second Edition
...as the Poets affirm "Polyhymnia" i want to tell my heart to you.but i cannot say english
Slint "Washer" Spiderland
Mogwai "Honey" A Tribute to Spacemen 3
Do Make Say Think "Horns of a Rabbit" Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
David Pritchard "The Evil Ogre Interlude/Satan's Seaside Walk" Nocturnal Earthworm Stew
Notwist "This Room (Four Tet & Manitoba Remix)" Different Cars and Trains
Manitoba "I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life" Up in Flames
Roxy Music "Like A Hurricane" The High Road
Unintended "Stay Calm" Unintended [Listen here]
Jonathan Richman "Government Center" Beserkley Chartbusters Vol. 1
Juliana Luecking "To Be Touched" Big Broad
Leonard Cohen "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye" The Best Of...(Listen here)
Palace Songs "Winter Lady" Hope
Nightmares on Wax "Fishtail Parker" Les Nuits
March 20, 2004: Did anybody see The Citizen today? In their Saturday music review section, they also have a weekly feature where they go to a different music store around town and ask four people what they bought. Two of the four people bought music by artists played on the show this week! (Dizzee Rascal and Jackie Mittoo, if you're curious.) I'm going to pretend that I'm such a popular DJ/tastemaker that people are rushing out to buy what I play, even if they gave stories for buying their respective discs that totally contradict that (and the kid was wrong when he said the DR album just came out last month; it's been out since September, but it was nice to see someone say that even though he'd downloaded an album for free he still rushed out to buy it when he could. Even if it was from a used CD shop.).
Episode 15: Nobody's 'Cool'
Aired: Thursday, March 11, 2004; 9:30-12:00
Dinosaur Jr "Whatever's Cool With Me" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Boy "Trip" unreleased
Infinite "Radio Mix" 360 Degrees
Burger/Ink "Love is the Drug [Paris Texas]" [Las Vegas]
Buck 65 "In Every Dreamhome a Heartache" MPEG-1 Layer 3
MadM "Love is the Drug" Shanti Project Collection 2 comp
Roxy Music "Mother of Pearl" Stranded
Sloan "Chester the Molester" Navy Blues
Cecil Taylor "Niggle Feuigle pt.1" Student Studies
Sunny Murray "Suns of Africa pt. 1" Homage to Africa
Paul Bley "When Will the Blues Leave" Footloose
Horace Silver "Filthy McNasty" The Best of...
Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass "Elligtonia" A Salle Pleyel
Rolling Stones "Citadel" Their Satanic Majesties Request
Rolling Stones "Sway" Stickey Fingers
Sackville "Four-Alarm Fire" Principles of Science
La Lengua Asesina "Tastee Freeze" Hotel Opera
Lee Hazlewood "Long Black Train" Trouble is a Lonesome Town
Bill Murray "More Than This" Lost in Translation sndtrck
Episode 14: Mit 50% More Rootin' Tootin'
Aired: Wednesday, March 3, 2004; 13:00-16:00
The Evaporators "Higgle-ly Piggle-ly" Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rock Angst comp
Oblivians "Viet Nam War Blues" Soul Food
Deadly Snakes "I Can't Sleep at Night" Ode to Joy
Scat Rag Boosters "Shake Down" Blow the Fuse comp
Pussy Galore "Alright" Right Now!
Stooges "1970" Funhouse
Albert Ayler "For John Coltrane" In Greenwich Village
John Coltrane "Ascension: Edition II" The Major Works of...
Pharoahs "In the Basement" In the Basement
Roland Kirk "What's Going On/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Blacknuss
Joe Thomas "Thank You" Return of Jazz Funk: Killer Jazz Funk from the Groove Merchant Vault comp
Sly & the Family Stone "Thank You For Talkin' to Me Africa" There's A Riot Goin' On
The Exploding Meet "Capricornesque Goat Dancing in the Wake of Duane Allman" Nightshade
Angus MacLise "Drum Solo" Brain Damage in Oklahoma City
Vanity Press "Country Song" Things to Do
The Gay "Fidelity" You Know the Rules
Spinanes "Hawaiian Baby" Imp Years
Unintended "No Curse of Time" & "So Long Goodbye" Unintended
Pink Floyd "Cymbaline" More
Alexander Spence "War In Peace" Oar
Ghost "Hazy Paradise" Hypnotic Underworld
Pearls Before Swine "(Oh Dear) Miss Morse" MPEG-1 Layer 3
Neil Young "The Old Homestead" Hawks & Doves
Click here for the Sept 2003-Feb 2004 playlists.
If you'd like to purchase anything you've heard on the show, I've created a page with links to stores that may be able to help you out.
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