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 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 the National Capital Region and surrounding areas 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.
If you'd like to purchase anything you've heard on the show, I've created a page with links to stores, both local and online, that may be able to help you out.
Episode 96: "You're no angel from above / You're the last girl I will love"
Wharton Tiers "Guitar Overture #2" Brighter Than Life
Ike & Tina Turner "You Better Think of Something" Feel Good
Orgone "Funky Nassau" Rewind! 4 comp [Listen]
Boots Brown & His Blockbusters "Dynamite" split LP w/ Little Richard
Sly & the Family Stone "Dynamite" Life
Free Design "Umbrellas (Peanut Butter Wolf remix)" Now Sound Redesigned
Blockhead "Quiet Storm" Downtown Science
Shirley Horn "You Won't Forget Me" But Beautiful: The Best of...
Sarah Harmer "The Phoenix" I'm A Mountain
Palace Songs "Christmastime In the Mountains" Hope EP
Museum Pieces "Country House?" Philadelphia
Great Lake Swimmers "Falling into the Sky" Bodies and Minds
Okkervil River "Black Sheep Boy #4" Black Sheep Boy Appendix
Julie Doiron "Snowfalls in November" split CD w/ Okkervil River
Funkadelic "Maggot Brain (Live)" One Nation Under a Groove
Eric Webber "Picking Up Girls Made Easy: The Women's Clothing Story Pick-Up" empeethree [Available Here]
Spirit "I Got A Line On You" The Best of...
Kid Champion "Gigil" Kid Champion 7"
* Funkadelic was a request, Tina Turner turned 66(!) on Saturday.
* An open letter to Peter Simpson, arts editor for the Ottawa Citizen: What do you possibly have to gain from running a CD review bashing a Regis Philbin Christmas album? I highly doubt anybody predetermined to buy it will be swayed one way or the other by a scathing one-star review. But I'm not here to defend Regis, I'm here to ask, if the Citizen is only going to review 10-12 albums every week (with most of the pop/rock ones being imported from a Montreal newspaper), why waste one of the limited spaces on something bad/that's not going to get a fair criticism anyway/inputted as a lark? This is made even more galling by the fact that the last bit of space in the music review section asks local bands to send stuff for review. If I were an indie band, not just restricted to Ottawa, or to Canada, but in all of North America, why would I send a CD to a newspaper that would intentionally run a review for something awful instead of using that space to support a band that needs coverage, could use the feedback for help with touring, distribution, etc. If I were a local band, would I find myself wondering, "You know, that could've been our album reviewed in that space had they not thrown it away"? If I were a local independent retailer, would I be wondering why you were driving people away from coming into my store at Christmas time instead of giving them a reason to come in? Doing a radio show at a station where we recieve untold amounts of music, local, national and international, it's hard to believe you couldn't find anything truly worthy to review, and get people excited at music being created today.
Episode 95: Jeep Beats and Toe Tappers
Link Wray "Rawhide" Live at the Paradiso
Guitar Wolf "Rumble" Planet of the Wolves
Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet "Run Chicken Run" Savvy Show Stoppers
Meters "Chicken Strut" Cissy Strut
Rufus Thomas "Do the Funky Chicken" Do the Funky Chicken
Jackie Mittoo "One Step Forward" Champion in the Arena: 1976-1977
Twilight Circus Sound System "Dance" Horsie
Bionaut "Strawberry" Lubricate Your Livingroom
Boards of Canada "Chromakey Dreamcoat" The Campfire Headphase
Human League "Being Boiled" Mutant Pop comp
U2 feat. Johnny Cash "The Wanderer" Zooropa
U2 "Neon Lights" empeethree
Kraftwerk "Ruckzuck" empeethree
Ghislain Poirier "Mic Diplomat (feat. DJ Collage)" Breakupdown
Lady Sovereign "A Little Bit of Shhh (Smallstars Remix by AdRock)" Vertically Challenged EP
Kardinal Offishall "Last Standing Soldier" Fire and Glory
Maestro "Fine Tune Da Mic (feat. Showbiz)" Urban Landmark 1989-2005
Rick Moranis "Five Star Motels" The Agoraphobic Cowboy
* Guitar legend Link Wray passed away around two weeks ago at the age of 76.
* Well, the U2 concert that tickets went on sale for 8 months ago finally happens this week. It's funny how the Stones, Springsteen and Aerosmith can announce a show only six weeks in advance of playing. But I guess in U2's case all of the interest collected on the money from 18,000 tickets sold and sitting in the bank for nearly 3/4 of a year, plus all of the radio royalties for the increased amount of radio airplay they've recieved since the show was announced, not an inconsiderable amount when you take into consideration CHEZ, the Bear, BOB, and KISS playing them excessively in honour of the announcement, all of this extra money will go to Africa so Bono shows he's a man of action and not just words, right? Right?
Lady Sovereign feat. Frost P, Zuz Rock & Shystie "The Battle" Vertically Challenged
Herbie Hancock "Lil' Brother" Treasue Chest
Lee Morgan "Stopstart" The Procrastinator
Wayne Shorter "Adam's Apple" Adam's Apple
Roland Hanna Trio "Allemande - Dance" Child of Gemini
Jeff Lorber Fusion "The Samba" Soft Space
Arab Strap "Dream Sequence" The Last Romance
My Dad Is Dead "A Divided House" A Divided House [Listen]
Gang of Four "Not Great Men" Return the Gift
Birthday Party "Happy Birthday" Hits
Black Keys "Have Love Will Travel" thickfreakness
Laika "Starry Night" Sounds of the Satellites
ESG "UFO" A South Bronx Story
Controller.Controller "Tigers Not Daughters" X-Amounts
Betty Davis "He Was A Big Freak" They Say I'm Different
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You" empeethree [Listen]
* I thought this was a great show, especially the jazz tracks, although I have no idea if anyone was listening (did get three fax machine calls to the studio line, though). Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings in town tomorrow (Tuesday) at Babylon. GO SEE THEM! Black Keys in town Friday as part of CKCU's 30th anniversary celebrations (station was born Nov 14, 1975 at midnight); another, smaller concert birthday celebration featuring Rhume, the John Henrys and the Empiricals takes place Saturday, as well as an open house at the station.
* If you and some chums like to get together on Saturday nights and try and recreate ItBS! episodes for your own amusement (almost as much fun as Pictionary), perhaps you'd like to know that I was going to play "Mr. Love Song" by the Bush Tetras, from Beauty Lies, between C.C and Betty Davis for a smoother transition between the tracks. It got yanked for time considerations.
Episode 93: Hold me close, Tiny Lister
Honeymoon Killers "Gimme Some Money" Sing Sing (1984-1994)
Randy Newman "Sail Away" Sail Away
Arab Strap "Autumnal" Elephant Shoe
Idaho "Hail Mary" Fuel 7"
My Dad Is Dead "The Well" A Divided House
Will Oldham & Tortoise "Daniel" empeethree
Neil Young "Don't Be Denied" Time Fades Away
Neil Young "Falling Off the Face of the Earth" Prairie Wind
Nick Cave "Helpless" The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young comp
Deadly Snakes "Let It All Go" Porcella
Golden Famille "Sometimes I Forget" Nobody Loves A Growler
Devendra Banhart "Long Haired Child" Cripple Crow
Bruce Cockburn "Train in the Rain" Speechless
Robert Johnson "Love In Vain" King of the Delta Blues Singers Vol 2
Mississippi John Hurt "Spike Driver Blues" Frankie & Albert
Mississippi Fred McDowell "Get Right Church" Mississippi Fred McDowell
Oliver Jones "Looking For Lou" Cookin' at Sweet Basil
Arcade Fire "Maps" empeethree
* Respect due to Brian Murphy, who passed away last week. He hosted the radio shows The Source, Blues 106 and Jazz 106 back when CHEZ was a good radio station. I probably listened to more blues than most young Canadian boys did because of him (didn't tend to listen to the jazz show, however, as it was on a little late for me), and his annual Christmas Source shows were just as much a part of the countdown to Xmas Day as watching A Charlie Brown Christmas was for me. And I always really liked the way he'd say the year when starting his show. Ex: "Nineteen-hundred and eighty-six."
The first time I was ever on the radio was for a quick one-hour DJ/tape the performance for evaluation for the program director shot during the Friday Overnighter, around 3 in the morning in March 1996. A man called up and wanted to hear "Sail Away" by Randy Newman. I played it, and after it was over, the man called back to thank me and get a little info on the station. He said he was friends with Brian Murphy, and was trying to convince him to get back on the radio. I said I thought that would be great, as Brian Murphy was an amazing DJ. As far as I know, however, that was about as far as that idea went.
Episode 92: Everywhere I Go Seems to Cost Me $20
Aired: Monday, Roctober 31, 2005; 10:00-11:30
Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Mission Impossible 2.0" Press Color
Caribou "The Spiritually Immature Mansion" Yeti
Jad Fair & Phono-comb "In A Haunted House" 7"
Otis Redding "Tick or Treat" Dreams to Remember
Ornette Coleman "Eventually" The Shape of Jazz to Come
Milton Brown & His Brownies "Hesitation Blues" Western Swing Vol 2 comp
Jonathan Richman "Roadrunner" Beserkley Chartbusters Vol 1 comp
Jesus & Mary Chain "Upside Down" Barbed Wire Kisses
Modernettes "I Can Only Give You Everything" Get It Straight
* Funding Drive episode 2: Nigel H, Rupi C, Impress Driving School, Chris I, Bruce W, Shawn S, Christiane T, Ian C, Craig, Susan B and Jeanine B. $305.87! Thanks to all who donated.
Episode 91: Everywhere I Go I Seem to Spend $20
Aired: Monday, Roctober 24, 2005; 10:00-11:30
Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Mission Impossible" Press Color
North Atlantic Explorers "Tonight You Belong to Me" Skylines
The Acorn "Sent (Awaken the Kraken)" Blankets!
Unireverse "Supergravity" Plays the Music
Kraftwerk "Airwaves" Radio-Activity
M.I.A. "Ten Dollars" Arular
Vanity Press "Things to Do" Things to Do
* Funding Drive episode 1: I made $260. Thanks to my mom, Arlene, Ryan, Ron, Andrea, Susan and Bill.
Episode 90: A Dream to Build a Kiss On
Aired: Monday, Roctober 17, 2005; 10:00-11:30
Velvet Underground "What Goes On" 1969
Feist "One Evening" Let It Die
Brigitte Fontaine "J'ai 26 ans" empeethree
Miles Davis "All Blues" Kind of Blue
Mars "11,000 Volts" 78+
Twitch "Know Wave/Drone Wave" empeethree
Grauzone "Film 2" Eisbaer 12"
The Sound "The Fire" From the Lions Mouth
The Cure "Siamese Twins" Pornography
Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Titch" And Besides...
Paul "Wine" Jones "I'm Gonna Leave" Not the Same Old Blues Crap II comp
Black Keys "When the Lights Go Out" Rubber Factory
The Transit "The Try and the Fail" It's Lights Out for Downtown
Shotmaker "10/22/94" The Crayon Club
Happy Go Licky "13 Months of Sunshine" Will Play
Fugazi "Break In" 3 Songs 7"
Jawbox "Savory" For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Controller.Controller "PF" X-Amounts
* This show was "one of those days". Paul "Wine" Jones passed away last Sunday. Twitch in Montreal Thursday, Black Keys as part of CKCU's 30th anniversary celebration next month.
* Because my only listener listens to Energy 1200 during the time that I'm not on the air, I'll give my Stanley Cup prediction. Hmm, Florida wins the Cup, and during the post-game interview, Jacques Martin goes all Ric Flair, and looks straight into the camera, tears his shirt open and yells, "John Muckler, you smell like Ben Gay and cheap cigars, and now I'm the man! Whoooo!"
Episode 89: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Autechre "Inhake 2" Peel Session
Instruments "Black Kite" Nominal [Sample]
Can "Pinch" Ege Bamyasi
The Fall "I Am Damo Suzuki" This Nation's Saving Grace
Mr. Bungle "Sleep II: Carry Stress in the Jaw" Disco Volante
Boredoms "3" Super Roots 6
Ravi Shankar "Tilak Shyam" The Exciting Music of...
Sonny Sharrock "Blind Willy" Black Woman
John Fahey "Juroscho Ascopi" Rain Forests, Oceans, and Other Themes
Loren MazzaCane Connors "Voice of the Ocean, 'Despair Not!'" Evangeline [Listen]
Gris Gris "Mary #38" The Gris Gris [Sample]
Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog (Original John Cale Mix)" The Stooges
Funkadelic "Trash A Go-Go" Cosmic Slop
Blackalicious "Powers" The Craft
Danger Doom feat. Talib Kweli "Old School" The Mouse and the Mask
Broken Social Scene "7/4 (Shoreline)" Broken Social Scene
* Ravi Shankar is in town tomorrow, ex-Can vocalist Damo Suzuki is in town Friday night, Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn in town Saturday afternoon, Gris Gris are in town Sunday, Social Scene is playing the 21. There's a special on Parliament-Funkadelic on PBS Tuesday at 10 (if you missed it, basically the same material is covered here).
Episode 88: Slow dance
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Kings "Rocket 88" The Best of Chess Rock'n'Roll comp
Joy Division "Transmission [Something Else version]" Complete BBC Recordings
Slits "FM" Cut
Silver Apples "Program" Silver Apples/Contact
The Juan Maclean "Shining Skinned Friend" Less Than Human
Annie "Heartbeat" Anniemal
Department of Foreign Affairs "Only A Matter of Time" Stories Up High [Available Here]
Folk Implosion "Fall Into November" Dare To Be Surprised
Lou Barlow & Friends "Blonde in the Bleachers" Another Collection of Home Recordings '91-'94
Moonsocket "Boulder" Moonsocket
Rick White "Darkland" The Rick White Album
Red House Painters "Midnight on the Bay" Shanti Project Collection comp
Arab Strap "Kate Moss" The Week Never Starts Round Here
Buck 65 "Corrugated Tin Facade" Secret House Against the World
Empiricals "Super-Cool Killer-Guy" 4 Songs
Turtles "Love Minus Zero" It Ain't Me Babe
Odetta "Love Proved False" It's a Mighty World
Old Regular Baptists "Sweet Glories Rush Upon My Sight" Back Road to Cold Mountain comp
Large Professor "'Bout That Time" 'Bout That Time 12" [Available Here]
Main Source "(Remix)" Fakin' The Funk 12"
* Department of Foreign Affairs and Empiricals were non-specific song requests. Lou Barlow in town Tuesday, Foreign Affairs playing Saturday, Large Prof next Friday. Looking at Ari Up's website it says she played here July 5; is that true?!
* This programme is now Punk Ottawa approved.
* Hey isn't it Rori's (ex-Riding Raw host) birthday this week? If he's out there, happy birthday.
Episode 87: The Faust DATs
Aired: Monday, September 26, 2005; 10:00-11:30
Raymond Scott "Powerhouse" Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
The Carl Stalling Project "The Good Egg" Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936 - 1958
Sonic Youth "Unwind" Washing Machine
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 "Hurricane" Admonishing the Bishops [Sample]
Seely "Seal Skin" Julie Only
Rick White "Strange to Be Alive" The Rick White Album
Bardo Pond "Soaked" Big Laughing Jym
Gris Gris "Best Regards" The Gris Gris [Sample]
Greg Ashley "Mona Rider" Medicine Fuck Dream [Sample]
Leonard Cohen "Master Song" The Songs of...
North Atlantic Explorers "Sweet Heart" Skylines
SIANspheric4 "This Window" Somnium
Spiny Anteaters "Car Crusher" Planet Mars 7"
Pizzicato 5 "Holger & Marcus" Sister Freedom Tapes
Neil Hamburger "Diagnosis/Moment of Silence/Factory Outlet Malls/Menswear/Gourmet Chocolate/Women's Lingerie/Doctors" America's Funnyman
Unsane "Body Bomb" Total Destruction
* Unsane are in town this week, Hamburger on October 1 for Shawn Scallen's 42nd birthday celebration. Gris Gris are playing Oct 16.
* My number one fan has decided that taking a class during this timeslot is more important than listening to me bring the good stuff every Monday morning, so I am now looking for a new number one fan. If you would like to be considered, please send me an e-mail briefly stating why you should be ItBS!'s number one fan.
Episode 86: "If you're at a club and a girl with a big ass is throwing it on you, the DJ could play the Smurfs theme song and that would be the club banger, like, 'Yo, he dropped that Gargamel! It's off the chain!' Anything [sounds good] to a bunch of half-drunk [people] in a room with lights off."
The Cure "Last Day of Summer" Bloodflowers
Nightmares on Wax feat. De La Soul "Keep On (86'init Mix)" Sound of N.O.W.
DJ Mink "Hey Hey! Can You Relate?" Warp 10+2 Classics '89 - '92 comp
Shystie feat. Kano, Bruza, & Ronnie Redz "One Wish (Terror Danjah Remix)" Run the Road comp
Last Poets "Just Because" Last Poets
K'naan "The African Way" The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Infinite "Radio Mix" 360 Degrees 12"
OutKast (Big Boi) feat. Khujo Goodie & Cee-Lo "Reset" Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Cee-Lo Green "Living Again" ...is the Soul Machine
Labi Siffre "I Got the" empeethree
Deadly Snakes "The Banquet" Porcella
Oblivians "Feel All Right" ...Play 9 Songs with Mr Quintron
Pearls Before Swine "Uncle John" The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings
Michael Yonkers Band "Kill The Enemy" Microminiature Love
Bend Sinister "Hell or Shelter" Bend Sinister
The Fall "R.O.D." Bend Sinister
For Against "It's A Lie" Autocrat 7"
Savage Republic "Andelusia" Ceremonial
Episode 85: Yeah, so, next week I'm defending my thesis, "Wile E. Coyote as Embodiment of the Problematic Societal Dependency Upon Brand Loyalty."
Aired: Monday, September 12, 2005; 10:00-11:30
Kate Bush "Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)" Hounds of Love
Big Star "September Gurls" Live
Big Star "I Am the Cosmos" The Big Star Story
Red Arrows "Quality of Air" Wounded In Haste
Falconhawk "Oxygen" Here's Your Ghost
Sebadoh "Beauty of the Ride" Harmacy
Lou Barlow & Friends "Run To You" Another Collection of Home Recordings '91-'94
Novillero "Laissez-faire System" Aim Right For the Holes In Their Lives
Heavy Blinkers "Three Sleeps" Hooray For Everything
The Zombies "A Rose For Emily" Odessy and Oracle
Meligrove Band "Along Comes A Smile" Let It Grow
The Pets "Island" Love and War
Twigs "Eleven" Epicure
Morella's Forest "Lullaby" Tiny Lights of Heaven
Projektor "Silver Circles" Red Wolf Glass
K'naan "Smile" The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Dizzee Rascal feat Wiley "2 Far" Boy in Da Corner
Wiley "Wot Do U Call It?" Treddin' On Thin Ice
Riko and Target "Chosen One" Run the Road comp
Beastie Boys "Hold It Now, Hit It" License To Ill
Nouvelle Vague "In A Manner of Speaking" Nouvelle Vague
* This week marks one year in this timeslot, two years since I returned to CKCU's airwaves (blame Ryan for that).
* I'll admit it: a large chunk of this show was chosen on the basis of wanting to hear more songs by bands on an Endearing sampler I have. Nouvelle Vague in Montreal and Toronto this week, Lou Barlow in town first week of October. The Kate Bush album came out 20 years ago this week.
* I forgot to mention this on the air, but in the liner notes to Wiley's album he's pictured wearing an Ottawa Lynx hat! How did that happen?
* Hey, who wants to do their radio buddy Bryan a favour? E-mail Much More Retro at [email protected] and tell them "No more commercials, please!" This digital cable channel was a ray of sunshine in my cloudy life, with its 24-hour a day broadcasting of videos from the 1970s-1990s, but they recently started airing commercials, and airing them frequently, I might add. The channel made my favourite music of 2004 list, and I'd say is the fourth-most important influence on the programming of this show (its reminded/introduced me to a lot of forgotten 1980s Canadian bands), and everything good about the channel went out the window with the introduction of commercials 2 weeks ago. This is a subscription-based channel, with no on-air personalities, and no programming aquisitions to make (the videos were given to them decades ago), so how much overhead can they possibly have? Thank you for reading.
Episode 84: Wake me up when the video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" ends.
Frogs "Where's Jerry Lewis" My Daughter the Broad
Frogs "Vacation" Unsealed: A Tribute to The Go-Gos comp
Nirvana "School" Bleach
Oliver Morgan "Roll Call" Saturday Night Fish Fry comp
Inell Young "The Next Ball Game" Saturday Night Fish Fry comp
Lee Dorsey "Yes We Can Can" Saturday Night Fish Fry comp
Lee Dorsey "People, I Wish You Could See" Ride Your Pony/Get Out My Life, Woman
Professor Longhair "Carnival in New Orleans" The Last Mardi Gras
Rev. Charlie Jackson "All Aboard" & "Jesus Fix It" God's Got It!
Dr John "Back By the River" Hollywood Be Thy Name
Aaron Neville "Over You" Like It 'Tis
Gaturs "Gator Bait" New Orleans Funk comp
Meters "Sassy Lady" Zony Mash
Spencer Dickinson "Zigaboo" Spencer Dickinson
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "R.L. Got Soul" Now I Got Worry
R.L. Burnside "Goin' Down South" A Ass Pocket of Whiskey
R.L. Burnside "Hard Time Killing Floor" empeethree
The Stills "Gender Bombs" Logic Will Break Your Heart [Listen here]
Heroes & Villains "Nothing's More Than Anything" All the Giants Are Buried At Sea
Black Dice "Smiling Off [DFA mix]" empeethree
* A little tribute to the fine, fine music to have come from NOLA over the years, as well as a tribute to R.L. Burnside who passed away Sept 1 at the age of 78. Stills might be in town tonight (definitely later in the month) and Black Dice are here Sunday.
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