These are the playlists for the shows that I've done on CKCU. I try and update this page as the show airs, letting you know what's currently playing, but it's probably best to give me a day to get it up here with artist links and everything. If you'd like to listen to me, my show broadcasts Monday mornings, 10:00 'til 11:30 AM Eastern, 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.

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.

Public Enemy "Son of a Bush" Revolverlution
Michael Yonkers Band "Kill the Enemy" Microminiature Love
Wolfhounds "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" Shangri-La comp
Jonathan Richman "The New Teller" Beserkley Chartbusters comp
White Hassle "Oh, What a Feeling" National Chain
Julie Doiron "Snowfalls in November" split w/ Okkervil River
Cowboy Junkies "Mining For Gold" Trinity Sessions
Spiny Anteaters "Mining For Gold" Well Laid Plans
Sons & Daughters "Awkward Duet" Love the Cup
Okkervil River "Omie Wise" split w/ Julie Doiron
Montreal Jazz Club "Rules of the Road" Montreal Jazz Club
John Coltrane "Acknowledgement" A Love Supreme
Albert Ayler "Swing Low Sweet Spiritual" Swing Low Sweet Spiritual
Blind Willie Johnson "God Moves on the Water" Negro Religious Music Vol 1 - Sanctified Singers Part 1 comp
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn "Then We'll Need That True Religion" Negro Religious Music Vol 1 - Sanctified Singers Part 1 comp
Rev. Charlie Jackson "I Gave Up All I Had to Serve the Lord" God's Got It!
Tim Hecker "Acephale" Mirages [Available here]
Isis "Carry (First Version Remix - Tim Hecker)" empeethree
Liquified "Tropikal" The Same Deep Water As You

I think I may have set a personal record of most on-air blunders in a show with this episode.

Episode 43: Tasteless, Senseless, Sightless
Aired: Monday, Yesvember 22, 2004; 10:00-11:30

n/a "Side One" Il Dramma Di Dallas
Destroy All Monsters "November 22, 1968 {sic}" Destroy All Monsters
Ambrose Kelly Reynolds "Holy Mackerel" Greatest Hits
n/a "Side Two" Il Dramma Di Dallas
Avengers "Car Crash" Avengers
Million Dollar Marxists "Every Action" Give It A Name
Iggy & The Stooges "You Better Run" empeethree [Available Here]
Peaches feat. Iggy Pop "Kick It" Fatherfucker
Les Georges Leningrad "Nebraska's Valentine" Sur de Traces Black Eskimo
Lesbians on Ecstasy "Tell Me Does She Love the Bass" Lesbians on Ecstacy
Kiiiiii "Brown Girl in the Ring" empeethree [Available here]
Tears for Fears "Mad World" The Hurting
boy "Real" Hey!
boy [jr] "Up in This Town" Every Page You Turn
Fire in the Kitchen "The Fog" Theory of Everything
Soft Boys "Mr. Kennedy" Nextdoorland [Available Here]
Sons & Daughters "Johnny Cash" Love the Cup [Listen here]
Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two "Doin' My Time" Get Rhythm
Smilin' Johnny & His Prairie Pals "I've Been There" The Best of Canada's...
As the Poets Affirm "Snow-White Wings in the Bottomless Blue" The Jaws That Bite, The Claws that Catch

Looking over the list, it would've made more sense to have played the Soft Boys after the two Boys.

Episode 42: You've Hardly Touched Your Banana Ka-Boom
Aired: Monday, Yesvember 15, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Aphex Twin "Lornaderek" & "Gwety Mernans" Drukqs
Suicide "Fast Money Music" Alan Vega & Martin Rev
Les Georges Leningrad "Sponsorships" Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo
Nine Inch Nails "Sanctified" Pretty Hate Machine
Einsturzende Neubauten "Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T." Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T./Drawings of OT
Birthday Party "Dead Song" Prayers on Fire
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Long Black Veil" Kicking Against the Pricks
ODB feat. Lil Mo "Good Morning Heartache" empeethree
Wu Tang Clan "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" Disciples of the 36 Chambers: Chapter 1
Wu Tang Clan "Proteck Ya Neck" Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Sensational "Clean Version" Beat, Rhymes & Styles
Mr Len "Straight (Original)" What the F...?
Large Professor "LiveGuy Saga (Clean)" 'Bout That Time
Last Poets "Black & Strong (Homesick)(radio edit)" Black and Strong (Homesick)
Techno Animal "Megaton (Dalek remix)" Techno Animal vs Dalek
Prefuse 73 feat. MF Doom & Aesop Rock "Blacklist" Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Parliament "Dr. Funkenstein" 20th Century Masters
New York Dolls "Frankenstein" New York Dolls
Rod Stewart "Handbags and Gladrags" Sing it Again Rod

Today marks CKCU's 29^th birthday (hence the first Aphex song). It also marks 5 years to the day that I had to give up the Monday morning, 10-noon slot, but that's less important. Nick Cave was played because of my English teacher saying "Kicking against the pricks as they might say. From the Bible. Or the Nick Cave album," in class last week (and let me play Birthday Party in honour of the station's birthday; in retrospect my initial plan of Neubauten-Bad Seeds-Party was the better sequence. First thought, best thought...). Parliament and NY Dolls were because I read Shelley's Frankenstein over the weekend. Stewart because I watched the 2 Office Xmas specials last night. ODB/Wu Tang in honour of the passing/36th birthday of Osiris. Sensational, Len, Large Prof and Techno Animal as a little spotlight on ill-fated Matador Hip Hop series. NIN because I had the bassline in my head this weekend. No hits to the website. Funding drive got my hopes up.

Von LMO "This is Pop/Rock ('94)" empeethree
Modern Lovers "Walk Up the Street" Live at the Longbranch and More
Neil Young "Revolution Blues" On the Beach
Resin Scraper "Record Goes Round" Ridin' on the Small Bus
Beastie Boys "The IntergAlactic Team" empeethree
Mixmaster Mike "Marvel" Bangzilla
Wu-Tang Clan "Sucker M.C.'s" Legend of the Wu-Tang: Greatest Hits
Dizzee Rascal "Respect Me" Showtime
Mouse on Mars "Die Seele von Brian Wilson" Vulvaland
Brian Wilson "On a Holiday" Smile
Gabriel Yared "La Poubelle Cuisine" Betty Blue sndtrk
Lydia Mendoza "No Es Culpa Mia" La Gloria de Texas
Bert Jansch "If You See My Love" A Rare Conundrum
Gabor Szabo "Mizrab" Jazz Raga
Pink Floyd "Biding My Time" Relics
Gonzales "Manifesto" Solo Piano
Ray Charles "Mary Ann" Ray sndtrk
Arab Strap "We Know Where You Live" Shanti Project Collection 3 comp
Nancy Walker "Oxygen" When She Dreams

The inspiration behind this show was an article on iPods in last weeks tech section of the Citizen. One of the writers marveled over the "Random" feature of the machine, tossing off names of artists in different genres, and wondered why radio couldn't be that way. I took it as a challenge. Initially what I was going to do was print out all off these playlists, cut the tracks into individual scaps of paper and pull 20 of them out of a hat and make that the show, but instead I just decided to play a lot of songs from different genres and see if I could make it flow (Modern Lovers thru Arab Strap aired uninterupted by my talking). As good as hearing Napalm Death into Brian Eno into Patsy Cline into Kandis sounds in theory, it doesn't make for good listening in actuality, so I did it my way.

Jonathan Richman is in town Thursday; it was Neil Young's birthday yesterday. Richman is currently on Young's Vapor record label. See if you can figure out the flow after that. Our game'll continue in the next episode!

Episode 39: [Raises eyebrow] Thirty-nine, again?
Aired: Monday, November 1, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Joy Division "Transmission" Peel Session
My Dad is Dead "Just Pretending" empeethree
Blues Explosion feat. Chuck D "Hot Gossip" Damage
Public Enemy "How to Kill a Radio Consultant (DJ Chuck Chill Out Mega Murder Boom)" Greatest Misses
James Brown "The Payback" Solid Gold
JBs "Gimme Some More" empeethree
Honeydrippers "Impeach the President" empeethree
All Night Radio "Daylight Til Dawn" Patient Zero comp
Vanity Press "Things to Do" Things to Do

Funding Drive 2004, Episode 2: I made $268.10 in an hour and a half. Thank you for donating: Ryan B., Claude H., Derek B., Marius S., Andrea S-K., Alnoor A., Chris I. I just realised that I got too nervous starting up the show and forgot to make my mention of John Peel's passing, and the aftermath in which people talked about how important his radio show had been on them, which was largely my reasoning for playing the Joy Division session. D'oh. Actually, I was a little under the weather and forgot a whole bunch of things I wanted to say. MDID was a non-specific song request from last week.

Gories "Give Me Some Money" empeethree
Hidden Cameras "That's When the Ceremony Starts" Mississauga Goddam
Sons & Daughters "Fight" Love the Cup
Blues Explosion "Mars, Arizona" Damage
Death From Above 1979 "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" You're A Woman...
The Organ "There is Nothing I Can Do" Grab That Gun
ESG "Party Music" empeethree
Wayne Omaha "Easier to Breath" Let It Mellow
Kid Koala "Start Hear/Dinner With Yoda/Statics Waltz {io - fi version}/Tricks 'n' Treats" Scratchhappyland [Excerpt Here]
Eric Weber "Picking Up Girls Made Easy: The Women's Dressing Room Pick Up" empeethree [Available Here]

Funding Drive 2004, episode 1: I made $208 in an hour and a half. Thank you for donating: my mom, Tony H, Zaira A, Pascal Jolicoeur, Shawn Scallen, Dan L.

Episode 38: I Often Dream of Trainwrecks
Aired: Monday, October 18, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Feist "One Evening" Let it Die
Moonshake "City Poison" Eva Luna
My Dad is Dead "The Harvest" empeethree (Listen here)
Husker Du "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" Candy Apple Grey
Red House Painters "Medicine Bottle" & "Japanese To English" Retrospective
Broken Girl "Sorry Story" Broken Girl
Sebadoh "Dreams" Bakesale
Smog "All Your Women Things" The Doctor Came At Dawn
Modern Lovers "Hospital" The Modern Lovers
Arab Strap "Direction of Strong Man" Elephant Shoe
Third Eye Foundation "What is it With You" Little Lost Soul
Mount Florida "Another Thought" Storm
Dinosaur "Kiss Me Again" empeethree
Gogogo Airheart "When the Flesh Hits" Death Before Disco comp
Buck 65 "The Anthem" CBC Radio 3 Sessions comp
Re: "Radio Free Ramadi" Alms

Old faves I haven't heard in a long time the theme of the day. I think I spoke a total of a minute and a half this episode; I'll make it up when a speak for about an hour and fifteen minutes of the next two.

Episode 37: Bryan Learns the True Meaning of Thanksgiving
Aired: Monday, October 11, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Sly & the Family Stone "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" Greatest Hits
Ike & Tina Turner "I Want to Take You Higher" Come Together
Otis Redding "I Can't Turn You Loose" Recorded Live
The Winstons "Amen, Brother" empeethree
Incredible Bongo Band "Let Ther Be Drums" empeethree
Liquid Liquid "Bellhead '04" empeethree
The Organ "Basement Band Song" Grab That Gun
Controller.Controller "Silent Seven" History
Slits "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" Cut
Guy LaFleur "Scoring" empeethree
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell "Togo" Old and New Dreams
Michael Jerome Browne "Saturday Night Rub" Michael Jerome Browne
Brian Wilson "Cabin Essence" Smile
Spike Jones & His Wacky Wakakians "Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)" The Best of Spike Jones
Neil Hamburger "The Diagnosis", "A Moment of Silence", "Factory Outlet Malls", "Menswear", "Gourmet Chocolate", "Doctors" America's Funnyman
They Shoot Horses Don't They "Sad Sack" They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Quickspace "They Shoot Horse Don't They?" empeethree [Available Here]

Browne was a non-specfic song request; LaFleur thru Browne was a little something for you poor suckers souls who won't have the hockey season begin this week; Sly Stone because I couldn't think of another "Thank" song for Thanksgiving. If you've ever wondered, "How do I get rid of an audience?" Guy Lafleur is your answer. FLOWER POWER!

Episode 36:-24-36
Aired: Monday, October 4, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Lee Hazlewood "My Autumn's Done Come" empeethree
Los Chijuas "Changing the Colors of Life" Nuggets II comp
Good2Go "O-Train" Bar-B-Que
Oblivians "Ride That Train" Play 9 Songs with Mr Quintron
Rev. Charlie Jackson "Morning Train" God's Got It!: The Legendary Booker & Jackson Singles
John Coltrane "Goldsboro Express" Bahia
Ornette Coleman "Times Square" Of Human Feelings
Cy Coleman "Medley: Never Can Say Goodbye/Doctor's Orders" The Party's On Me
Bob Dylan "Tiny Montgomery" The Basement Tapes
Palace Brothers "Riding" There is No-one What Will Take Care of You
Wayne Omaha "A Girl Named Lee" Let it Mellow
Red Orkestra "Settle an Old Score" After the Wars
The Sadies "A Good Flying Day" Favourite Colours
Unintended "The Truth" The Unintended
Andre Ethier "The Night" with Christopher Sandes featuring Pickles and Price
Metallica "Creeping Death" Ride the Lightning
Kittens "The Koala Fireball" in Bazzoka Joe and the Hustler
Gloria Coleman feat. Pola Roberts "Melba's Minor" Soul Sisters

Breakdown: Hazlewood and Chijuas were played due to their current seasonal timeliness (in the course of my hour and a half show, it went from gray to sunny to rainy outside); G2G thru Coltrane is probably as close as I'll ever get to my long threatened "Nothing But Train Songs" show ("O-Train" also came on the heels of telling people to take a ride on it to enjoy the changing colours witnessed between Carleton and South Keys); Dylan was due to his autobiography being released the next day; Palace Bros was because Ryan of Whatever's Cool with Me played a Sebadoh cover of it the week before; Metallica because they were in town later in the week.

Episode 35: Dimples that house a thousand cupids?
Aired: Monday, September 27, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Julie Doiron "When I Awoke" Goodnight Nobody
Love "A House is Not a Motel" Forever Changes
7 and 7 is "Backstab" Smashed to Pieces (In the Still of the Night)
Frog Eyes "Ship Destroyer" The Folded Palm
Uncut "Copilot" Those Who Were Hung Hang Here
Interpol "Not Even Jail" Antics
Apostle of Hustle "Gleaning" Folkloric Feel
Tom Waits "Hoist That Rag" Real Gone
Sianspheric "No Space" Aspirin Age
A Certain Ratio "All Night Party (Peel Session 1979)" Early
ESG "UFO" A South Bronx Story
Joy Division "Sound of Music" Peel Session (Nov 26, 1979)
New Order "We All Stand" Peel Session (June 1, 1982)
Happy Mondays "'Enery" Happy Mondays
Gang of Four "5.45" Entertainment!
Public Image Limited "Another" Memories
Wire "2 people in a Room" 154
Rufus Thomas "Funky Chicken" Do the Funky Chicken
The Meters "Chicken Strut" Cissy Strut
Jazzstory "Famous Movie Director" Jazzstory [Listen Here]

Another episode where the website got no hits?! What happened to all my Thursday morning listeners?! Well, for anybody who's reading this in the future, this is how the show came together: Julie Doiron and Forever Changes were played in honour of the tenth anniversary of the release of Eric's Trip's second (and best) LP, Forever Again; ACR thru Happy Mondays was because I watched 24 Hour Party People last week (oddly, the Mondays' track was the only thing that was an honest to Pete Factory Records' release); Go4 thru Wire was because I'm sick of reading stories by people doing Sony's marketing people's work for them by using a 25th anniversary release of a record to proclaim it "The Best Album Ever!" or other such silly hyperbole, when the band/album aren't very good, and there were far more interesting albums messing around with punk rock than some bar band release that year (in addition to the records played, add Cut, Unknown Pleasures, Live at the Witch Trials and Singles Going Steady to the Class of 1979); Rufus was played because I happened to catch his performance from Wattstax on TV a few weeks back, and was completely bowled over by the sights and sounds. Watching the crowd of people dancing during his performance is insane.

Ramones "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" Ramones Mania
Richard Hell & the Voidoids "Don't Die" Time
Rocket From the Tombs "So Cold" The Day the Earth Met the...
Pere Ubu "Street Waves" The Modern Dance
Park Attack "Boo Hoo" empeethree
Six Finger Satellite "Coke and Mirrors" Paranormalized
Fred Wesley & the JBs "Blow Your Head" empeethree
Moby & Public Enemy "Make Love, Fuck War (Radio edit)" empeethree
Leonard Cohen & Phil Spector "Fingerprints" Death of a Ladies Man
Leonard Cohen "What I'm Doing Here", "You Have the Lovers", Now of Sleeping", "Style", "Two Went to Sleep", "Nothing Has Been Broken", "These Heroics" Canadian Poets 1 comp
Mike Johnson "Leaving Greensleeves" i feel alright
Mark Lanegan Band "When Your Number Isn't Up" Bubblegum
Julie Doiron "The Songwriter" Goodnight Nobody
The Sadies "The Curdled Journey" Favourite Colours
Arcade Fire "Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)" Funeral
The Ex "Theme From Konono" Turn

No hits to the website, no calls, no e-mails. I still got it! Leonard Cohen turns 70 tomorrow, hence the song, seven poems and a cover. I'd completely forgotten that Mike Johnson and Mark Lanegan had done all those Sub Pop LPs together, and played the two back to back because I thought they sounded good together.

Episode 33.3: Chris breathes a sigh of relief
Aired: Monday, September 13, 2004; 10:00-11:30

Kronos Quartet "Spectre" Short Stories
The Frogs "Vacation" Unsealed: A Tribute to the Go Gos
Royal Trux "Back to School" Singles, Live, Unreleased
Johnny Cash & His Nine Inch Nails "Synchronized Hurting" empeethree
The Masters Apprentices "War or Hands of Time" Nuggets II comp
The Haunted "125" Nuggets II comp
Gary Wilson "Electric Depression" Mary Had Brown Hair
Mouse on Mars "Wipe That Sound" Radical Connector
Four Tet "First Thing/Chia (The space between 3 and 7 - Isambard Khroustaliov remix)" My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
Gong "5 & 20 Schoolgirls" 'Magick Brother'
The Exploding Meet "Crepuscular" Nightshade 30 Year Smoke
Wayne Omaha "Goin' to London" Let it Mellow
Le Fly Pan Am "Brulez suivant, suivante!" N'ecoutez Pas
Gris Gris "Everytime" empeethree
Les Georges Leningrad "Supa Doopa" empeethree
Death From Above 1979 "Going Steady" You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Nancy Walker "A La Brunante" When She Dreams

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