SOCAN Week

When Insects Rule the World for July 16th, 2009

SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada) Week is the week they gather data on how many radio plays Canadian artists get. They take the numbers from this week and extrapolate it out to cover the rest of the year and pay the artists accordingly.

The show this week took SOCAN Week to heart. I took as many local albums as I could and played the shortest song on each of them so that I could fit as many as possible into the hour. Talking was at a minimum, and over instrumental sections of songs when it happened. I managed to fit 19 songs into the hour.

Plants and Animals

Jay and I decided to do a double themed set between our two shows. Inspired by the Montreal trio we went with "Plants and Animals", meaning I was stuck with songs about plants while Jay got to to tackle a musical bestiary. I kept things all Canadian to be fair.

1. No Birds - Flowers (Flowers)

2. Attack in Black - Seeds (Years (By One Thousand Fingertips))

3. Elliott Brood - Garden Valley (Mountain Meadow)

4. The Gruff - Copper Flowers (The Gruff)

5. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (Five Roses)

6. Chad Vangaalen - Willow Tree (Soft Airplane)

7. Deep Dark Woods - Two Time Loser (The Winter Hours)

8. Ohbijou - The Woods (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)

9. A Gentle Forest - Because of the Wine (A Gentle Forest)

10. The Acorn - Antenna (Glory Hope Mountain)

11. Sarah Harmer - Oleander (I'm a Mountain)

12. Bruce Peninsule - Crab Apples (A Mountain is a Mouth)

13. Crash the Car - The Dagger Woods (We Built Houses Here)

14. Said the Whale - Last Tree Standing (Howe Sounds/ Taking Abalonia)

In which we learn I can't pronounce things well.

* denotes Canadian

The Kinks - Strangers (Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1)

Jim Bryson* - The Wishes Pile Up (Where the Bungalows Roam)

The Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need a New Heart (69 Love Songs, Vol. 1)

Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs Bad Arms (The Midnight Organ Fight)

Spencer Krug set (playing July 4th at Louis'):

Wolf Parade* - I'll Believe in Anything (Apologies to the Queen Mary)

Swan Lake* - Ballad of Swan Lake or Daniel's Song (Enemy Mine)

- this wasn't actually the song I meant to play, since it mostly features Dan Bejar on vocals.

Sunset Rubdown* - You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II) (Dragonslayer)

Swan Lake* - Paper Lace (Enemy Mine)

Dan Mangan (with Shane Koyczan)* - Tragic Turn of Events / Move Pen Move (Roboteering EP)