Playlist for February 18th, 2010

A selection of songs that I have been enjoying quite a bit recently.

* = Canadian

1. Postdata* - Paranoid Clusters (Postdata)
2. American Analog Set - Know By Heart (Know By Heart)
3. Octoberman* - Breath of Sunshine (Run From Safety)
4. Deer Tick - These Old Shoes (War Elephant)
5. Gravity Wave* - The Great One (Gambol)
6. Clues* - Cave Mouth (Clues)
7. WOMEN* - Group Transport Hall (WOMEN)
8. Woodhands* - P'issin
9. Sleepless Nights* - You Don't Anymore (The Phone Booth Outside the Video Store)
10. Young Galaxy* - Destroyer (Invisible Republic)
11. Yeasayer - Madder Red (Odd Blood)
12. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Baker Shop Blues (Black Snake Moan)
13. Museum Pieces* - Lewis and Clark (Philidelphia)
14. Shugo Tokumaru - Rum Hee (Rum Hee)

HOMEWORK: a) go listen to that entire Postdata album (it's amazing) and b) go read all of the Achewood comic strips, starting here. (This will likely take you more than a week, but that's okay.) Report back here when you are finished/feel like you have grown as a person.

"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."

This show was all about the wee country of Scotland (wee geographically, not in heart, or... other areas, according to rumour.) It turns out they've mostly perfected strongly emotional rock and roll with an underlying melody catchy enough to keep you from getting too sad.

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1. Broken Records - Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009) (Until the Earth Begins to Part)
2. De Rosa - Flight Recorder (Prevention)
3. The Twilight Sad - Made to Disappear (Forget the Night Ahead)
4. Arab Strap - Dream Sequence (The Last Romance)
5. My Latest Novel - Pretty in a Panic (Wolves)
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight)
7. Copy Haho - This Retro Decade (Bred For Skills & Magic)
8. Belle and Sebastien - Dog on Wheels (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Roll Up Your Sleeves (These Four Walls)
10. The Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered (Will Anything Happen)
11. The Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw (Enter the Vaselines)
12. Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me (Bandwagonesque)

This week's homework was to go listen to some Mogwai. Here's the trip-tacular track "The Sun Smells Too Loud" from their latest album"The Hawk is Howling" to get you started (or restarted). I, for one, have been away from these guys for far too long. (Unnecessary note: the people in the video are not Mogwai.)

Females!

Brett challenged me to an all-female fronted band radio show. He even came in and cohosted with me for it- what a swell guy. The show was two hours, marking the third edition of "When Insects Kill Leonard Cohen"!

* denotes Canadian

1. Feist* - Gatekeeper (Let it Die)
2. One Hundred Dollars* - My Father's House (My Father's House)
3. The Gruff* - Country Lovin (Hole in My Jeans)
4. The Heartstrings* - Amelia Earhart (In a Land Far Away That is True)
5. You Say Party! We Say Die!* - Dark Days - XXXX
6. Thunderheist* - Sweet 16 (Sweet 16)
7. A Gentle Forest* - No One Thought to Blow Up The Bridge (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
8. Basia Bulat* - Heart of My Own (Heart of My Own)
9. Jenn Grant* - Blue Mountains (Echoes)
10. Julie Doiron* - Tailer (I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day)
11. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds (Gregory and the Hawk)
12. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat du Cafe (IRM)
13. Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (Leader of the Pack)
14. Sleater Kinney - Turn it On (Dig Me Out)
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night (Date With the Night)
16. Plumtree* - Open the Window (Mass Teen Fainting)
17. Jeanette Stewart* - Dark Forces (A Sides)
18. The Pack A.D.* - Making Gestures (Funeral Mixtape)
19. Ohbijou* - Make it Gold (Beacons)
20. Ghost Trees* - Sounds of the City (Feathers EP)
21. Tricot Machine* - L'Ours (Tricot Machine)
22. Tessa Kautzman* - Someone Like You (Always Going Home)
23. Candi Staton - I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Candi Staton)
24. Bella* - Can She Play Guitar (Pretty Mess)
25. Laura Barrett* - Gamma Ray (Seven Year Itch)
26. Ghost Bees* - Vampires of the East Coast (Tasseomancy)
27. Deerhoof - O'malley, Former Underdog (The Runner's Four)

Song linking

This show was a game that I played with everyone I'm friends with on facebook. I picked the first song, then someone picked the next song based on the last letter of the last song's title, etc. All of the songs are Canadian.

1. (Dana) Woodpigeon - Empty-Hall-Sing-Along (Die Stadt Muzikanten)
2. (Trista) Mother Mother - Ghosting (O My Heart)
3. (Danny) Neil Young - Goin' Back (Comes A Time)
4. (Travis) Broken Social Scene - K.C. Accidental (You Forgot it in People)
5. (Kara) Hey Ocean! - Eskimo Kisses (Stop Looking Like Music)
6. (Josh) Our Lady Peace - Stealing Babies (Happiness Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch)
7. (Sana) Ohbijou - St. Francis (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)
8. (Brett) The Rural Alberta Advantage - Sleep All Day (Hometowns)
9. (Brian) Constantines - You Are A Conductor (Tournament of Hearts)
10. (Samantha) Born Ruffians - Red Elephant (Red, Yellow, and Blue)
11. (Bitsy) The Danks - Treaty Connector (Are you afraid of the Danks?)
12. (Charles) The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (Reunion Tour)

That was all I could fit in the show, but more people joined in on the game. The rest of the list:
13. (Brandon) - Chad Vangaalen - Red Hot Drops (Skelliconnection)
14. (Will) Pearson - Streetlight (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
15. (Eric) David Usher - Too Close To The Sun
16. (Jesse) Joey K. Lorer - Noticing You

Ukuleles!

Oh yeah, the show has a blog. New year's resolution - keep up with this a bit better.

I've been filling in a lot more lately too, mostly on the Afternoon Buzz on Mondays. Interviews are pretty fun.

* denotes Canadian

(1 through 5 and 8 and 9 are ukulele songs)

1. Elliott Brood* - The Valley Town (Mountain Meadows)
2. Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force a Dance Party (The Goodfeeling Music of)
3. Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me (live)
4. Said the Whale* - The Real of It (Howe Sounds)
5. The Burning Hell* - Last Will & Testament (Tick Tock)
6. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells)
7. Woodpigeon* - 7th Fret Over Andres (Treasury Library Canada)
8. Basia Bulat* - Before I Knew (Oh My Darling)
9. Beirut - Postcards From Italy (The Gulag Orkestar)
10. Young Galaxy* - Outside the City (Young Galaxy)
11. Fruit Bats - Beautiful Morning Light (The Ruminant Band)
12. The Bicycles* - I Will Appear For You (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)
13. The Bees - One Glass of Water (Free as a Bee)
14. Del Barber* - The Party Song (Where the City Ends)
15. The Gruff* - I Know My Mind (Hole in my Jeans)

Playlist for December 31, 2009

In this episode I put forward the idea that Broken Social Scene deserves the title "Canadian Band of the Decade" and that Radiohead is the "Band of the Decade".

Discuss?

1. Rah Rah* - My Guarantee (Going Steady)
2. The Arcade Fire* - Neighbourhood # 1 (Tunnels) (Funeral)
3. Woodhands* - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (Heart Attack)
4. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Work Out Fine (Truthfully Truthfully)
5. Wilco - Kamera (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
6. The Constantines* - Lizaveta (Tournament of Hearts)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Don't Haunt This Place (Hometowns)
8. Maybe Smith* - Open War (Animals and Architects)
9. Soso* - Company of Chairs (Tinfoil on the Window)
10. The Deep Dark Woods* - How Can I Try? (Winter Hours)
11. Ride Til Dawn* - The Golden Years (Hearts of the World's Forgotten)
12. Carbon Dating Service* - Fossils (Reliquiea)
13. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
14. Beck - Rental Car (Guero)
15. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button (Elevator)
16. Sloan* - Another Way I Could Do It (Never Hear the End Of It)
17. Broken Social Scene* - Cause = Time (You Forgot it in People)
18. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight)
19. Wintersleep* - Dead Letter and the Infinite Yes (Welcome to the Night Sky)
20. Ryan Adams - Starting to Hurt (Demolition)
21. Immaculate Machine* - Invention 77 (Ones and Zeroes)
22. Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Kid A)
23. Radiohead - You and Whose Army (Amnesiac)
24. Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up (Hail to the Thief)
25. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows)

Playlist for December 11, 2009

A scottish music set followed by an all Canadian "s bands" set.

1. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow (These Four Walls)
2. The Twilight Sad - Interrupted (Forget the Night Ahead)
3. Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend (Ten Years of Tears)
4. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land (Swim Until You Can't See Land EP)
5. Basia Bulat* - Before I Knew (Oh My Darling)
6. The Sheepdogs* - Creeps (Big Stand)
7. Sunset Rubdown* - You Go On Ahead (Dragonslayer)
8. Shotgun Jimmie* - Duet (The Onlys)
9. The Sadies* - Anna Leigh (New Seasons)
10. Smothered in Hugs* - Blank Test (The Healing Power of Injury)
11. Said the Whale* - Black Days in December (Islands Disappear)
12. Snailhouse* - Dollar Signs (Lies on the Prize)