Found some old notes...

August 27, 2009 playlist

Reason # 12 Cleaning Your Room Takes Forever - stopping to write blog posts

This was the "Regina Folk Fest Backstage Interview" show.

1. Fall Horsie* - The Devil's Performance ( Devil (e) Dirge)
2. Ghost Bees* - Vampires of the West Coast ( Tasseomancy)
3. Socalled* - These Are the Good Old Days (Ghettoblaster)
4. Little Miss Higgins* - Dirty Old Tractor Song (Live)
5. The Deep Dark Woods* - Nancy (Winter Hours)
6. Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few* - We Go Down (What the Boat Gave the River)
7. Pirate Fridays* - Money But Music (Pirate Fridays)
8. Hawksley Workman* - When These Mountains Were the Seashore ( Treeful of Starling)
9. The Gruff* - Easy Does It (A Trail of Missing Thoughts)
10. The Heartstrings* - Used to Fly (In a Land Faraway That is Fair)
11. Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans* - I Want To Be In the Cavalry (Horse Soldier)

The truth comes out.

So! It seems I was quick to jump on the "Oh hey guys, I have the best new show on CFCR, just saying." type of announcement. That distinct honour belongs to the lovely Jennifer Freeze over on Sunday night's Thrice Removed, who raised over twice what I did for FM-phasis.

A lesson in fact checking.

The show won "Best New Show" at the CFCR volunteer appreciation night.

Awesome!

Funeral Songs

If you happened to die right now (or in the very near future), what song would you want played at your funeral? This was the question we were trying to answer on this edition of the show. We being myself and special guest host Jennifer Freeze, who hosts Thrice Removed on Sunday night.

* denotes Canadian

1. Dana: Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off (The Midnight Organ Fight, 2008)
2. Doug Hoyer: The Burning Hell* - Last Will and Testament (Tick Tock, 2008)
3. Laurie: Woodpigeon* - I Live a Lot of Places (Treasury Library Canada, 2008)
4. Julia: The Kinks - Strangers (Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt 1, 1970)
5. Jeanette: Shotgun Jimmie* - Bedhead (The Onlys, 2007)
6. Leon: Monolithic Cloud Parade - Do Ghosts Dream of Death? (Children With Wolf Heads)
7. Jenn: Joel Plakett* - Natural Disaster (La De Da, 2005)
8. Joel: The Weakerthans* - Sounds Familiar (Fallow, 1999)
9. Stephen: The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)
10. Dan Mangan (when he was 16): Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) (The Bends, 1995)
11. Kyle (Crash the Car) - Wintersleep* - Home (Wintersleep, 2003)

We had a very nice lady call in and tell us that she was enjoying the show, and that she did not think we were wrecking the songs by associating them with funerals. So far, Jenn is winning the co-host-a-thon.

Sad vs Happy

Franny and I had another radio battle yesterday morning. Sad songs vs Happy songs. It was a close match for almost the entire show, until she pulled ahead in the last half hour. Final tally - six sad saps to eight happy campers.

Franny’s blog - http://mondaywakeup.blogspot.com/

The Autumn That Never Was

This week's theme was Autumn, even though we sort of jumped right into winter. There's hope yet!

Special guest host Brett Suwinski helped out.

* denotes Canadian

1. Slow Down, Molasses* - Leaves and Lay (I'm An Old Believer)

2. Hawksley Workman* - Autumn's Here (Lover/Fighter)

3. Royal City* - In the Autumn (Royal City)

4. Joel Plaskett* - In The Blue Moonlight (Three)

5. Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves, 7" Version (Oh, You're So Silent, Jens)

6. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)

7. Buttless Chaps* - Migratory Birds (Mint Harvest Fall 2006 Sampler)

8. Of Montreal - October is Eternal (The Sunlandic Twins)

9. Jim Bryson* - All the Fallen Leaves on the Ground (Where the Bungalows Roam)

10. The Flaming Lips - My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (At War With the Mystics)

11. Del Barber* - Harvest (Where The City Ends)

There was also a super exclusive Del Barber phone interview. His first ever recorded phone radio interview! Mine too. It wasn't quite as awkward as you'd think.

A Train Trip Retrospective - a Playlist

Playlist for October 8th, 2009

Okay, so, I have admittedly not been the best at keeping this blog up to date. I cobbled together a string of posts from some notes I had lying around, but there are a couple of shows lost to the ages. Heard the way real radio is heard - live. Not read about on the internet, which is what we're doing here.

Not to say this isn't useful too! I mean, I wouldn't want to think I was wasting my time on this blog. No sir.

Anyway, I recently took a train trip out to the east coast and back. It was really, really awesome. I stopped in Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax, Sackville, and Montreal, in that order. The show was an overview of some of the bands I managed to see live on the trip.

1. Del Barber* - Story That You Tell (Where The City Ends)

2. Novillero* - Life in Parentheses (A Little Tradition)

3. Oh My Darling* - Sail Away (Oh My Darling)

4. Brent Randall and his Pinecones* - Lion's Valley (We Were Strangers in Paddington Green

5. The Meligrove Band* - Grasshappers in Honey (Planets Conspire)

6. Deerhoof - Odyssey (Runner's Four)

7. Born Ruffians* - Barnacle Goose (Red, Yellow, and Blue)

8. Lars Ludvig Löfgren - We Always Knew (Heterchromia)

9. Ghost Trees* - Books In Your Hands (Feathers EP)

10. Paper Tiger - This Year (Everyone Here)

11. The Wind Whistles* - Judo (Animals Are People Too)

12. Tom Fun Orchestra* - Watchmaker (You Will Land With A Thud)

13. Sister Suvi* - Desolation (I Am Champion)