Malls Well that Ends Well

I just quit my mall job, so I thought I would celebrate these iconic urban spaces with a themed show. Cynicism about rampant consumerism, cultural references (Mallrats! Dawn of the Dead!), complaints about mall food, and hilarious mall facts included free of charge.

1. Old Man Luedecke* - I Quit My Job (Hinterland)
2. Collapsing Opposites* - Working, Shopping, Working, Shopping (In Time)
   
3. The Constantines* - Credit River (Kensington Heights)
4. Against Me - Pretty Girls (Searching For a Former Clarity)
5. The Pinecones* - Four More Days (Til I Open My Music Shoppe)
6. Daniel Ramano* - Workin' For the Music Man (Workin' For the Music Man)
7. Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
8. You Say Party!* - Lonely Lunch
   
9. Maybe Smith* - Dinner is Served (Second Best Death)
10. Modest Mouse - King Rat
11. B.A. Johnston* - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)

Double Bill and a Half! Two and a Half Hours!

How incredibly exciting.


When Insects Take to the High Seas and Steal Treasure


(I covered Pirate Radio)

(Adam Ant dressed as a pirate)

* = Canadian

1. Dan Mangan* - Sold (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
2. Northcote* - Energy (Borrowed Chords, Tired Eyes)
3. The Hold Steady - Hurricane J (Heaven is Whenever)
4. In media Res* - Shakeher (Of What Was)
   
5. Guided By Voices - Skills Like This (Isolation Drills)
6. Male Bonding - Nothing Remains (Nothing Hurts)
7. No Age - Glitter (Everything In Between)
8. DEVO - The Super Thing (New Traditionalists)
9. Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule (Runners Four)
10. Shapes and Sizes* - Sing Them Songs (Candle to Your Eyes)
11. Small Sins* - Drunk E-Mail (Mood Swings)
12. Born Ruffians* - The Ballad of Moose Bruce (Say It)
13. The Provincial Anthem* - Sore Eyes (Maybe We Could Be Holy)
14. Sarah Slean* - Sweet Ones (Night Bugs)
15. Daniel Romano* - Poor Girls of Ontario (Workin' for the Music Man)
16. Cameron Scott Fraser* - We Could Have It All (Promised Land)
17. The Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud (Got LIVE If You Want It!)
18. Mohawk Lodge* - Cold Hearts (Crimes)

1. Timber Timbre* - Demon Host (Timber Timbre)
2. The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You (Love, Hate, and The There's You)
3. Falklands* - Hell Is Up (Think About It)
4. The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers (The Crane Wife)
5. Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming (Bone Machines)
6. Ladyhawk* - Fear (Shots)
7. The Smiths - How Soon is Now (Hatful of Hollow)
8. Man Man - Feathers (Six Demon bag)
9. SSRIs* - Certain Set Configuration (Effeminate Godzilla-Sized Windchimes)
10. Ghostkeeper* - Haunted (Ghostkeeper)
11. Jonathan Coulton - re: Your Brains (Thing a Week)
12. B.A. Johnston - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)
13. Collapsing Opposites - Time = Zero
    

Double Bill, Two Hours!

50 Cent's twitter feed is hilarious.

* = Canadian

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky (American Slang)
2. Ride Til Dawn* - Hard Logic (Hearts of Worlds Forgotten)
3. Male Bonding - Weird Feelings (Nothing Hurts)
4. Rah Rah* - Ghosts (Breaking hearts)
5. Shotgun Jimmie* - Onomatopoeia (The Onlys)
6. Mates of State - Fraud in the 80s (Bring it Back)
7. Dan Mangan* - The Indie Queens Are Waiting (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
8. Kathryn Calder* - Castor and Pollux (Are You My Mother?)
9. Corb Lund* - It's Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean (Losin' Lately Gambler)
10. B.A. Johnston* - Love = NBA Jam (Thank You For being a friend)
11. Local Rabbits* - Never Had to Fight (This is it Here We Go)
12. Jets to Brazil - Morning New Disease (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)

When Ants Crawl Inside of Leonard Cohen's Brain and Control Him From the Inside in a Plot to Dominate the World from Within the Systems of Man

(I covered Faster Leonard Cohen Die! Die! for Jay)

1. Sunset Rubdown* - They Took a Vote and Said No (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
2. Gobble Gobble* - Mountains of Flesh (Neon Graveyard)
3. We Are the City*- There Are Very Tiny Beasts In the Ground
4. Wintersleep* - Home (Wintersleep)
5. The Acorn* - Strange Animal (Gowan cover)
6. Woodhands* - In the Woods (Heart Attack)
7. Slates* - Dirty Water (Slates)
8. Sisters - Sky (Ghost Fits)
9. The Asexuals* - Take a Look Around You (Be What You Want)
10. Owen Pallet* - Scandal in the Parkade (Swedish Love Story EP)
11. Neil Young* - Sign of Love (Le Noise)

FM-Phasis Deux

This happened during FM-Phasis.

1. Wintersleep* - Sore (Wintersleep)
2. The National - Abel (Alligator)
3. The Vaselines - Such a Fool (Sex With an X)
4. Hey Rosetta!* - Handshake the Gangster (Into Your Lungs)
5. Hot Panda* - Pools (How Come I'm Dead?)
6. B.A. Johnston* - I Am Doing Better In A Parallel Universe (Thank You For Being a Friend)
7. Japandroids* - Rockers East Vancouver
8. Ladyhawk - STHD
9. Holy Fuck - Casio Bossa Nova
10. Winter Gloves - Strange Love
11. Pack AD - BC Is On Fire
12. The Kinks - Come On Now (Kinda Kinks)
    

Man vs Machine - September 16th, 2010

Like a science fiction movie, but on the radio.

One playlist was created by my new ipod's genius playlist creation program and the other by me. Which one is better?

SET 1

• Immaculate Machine* - Broken Ship (Ones and Zeroes)
• Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
• You Say Party!* - Downtown Mayor Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule! (Lose All Time)
• Joel Plaskett* - Snowed In / Cruisin' (Ashtray Rock)
• Ohbijou* - St. Francis (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)
• The Bicycles* - B-b-bicycles (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)

SET 2

• GOBBLE GOBBLE* - Meteor Aschat (Neon Graveyard)
• Winter Gloves* - Tooth Fairy (All Red)
• Maybe Smith* - A Walrus With a Gunswordaxe vs The Big Bang Machine (Another Murder in the Morning)
• Woodhands* - Be Back Soon (Heart Attack)
• The Asexuals* - Be What You Want
  
• Turbo Fruits - Naked With You
• The Kinks - Situation Vacant (Something Else by the Kinks)
  

HOMEWORK: make some playlists by hand, share with friends

3 song set challenges! With Vicky Loessin

Vicky and I gave each other mini challenges for the entire show.

* = Canadian

1. Songs the ghostbusters listened to while ghost busting (Dana)
- Wolf Parade* - Ghost Pressure (Expo 86)
- Winter Gloves* - We Need New Transportation (All Red)
- Devo - What We Do (Something For Everyone)

2. Songs You Would Not Want To Have Sex To (Vicky)
- B.A. Johnston* - How Many T-Bone Steaks Could I Fit In My Pants? (Stairway to Hamilton)
- Mountain Goats - No Children (Tallahassee)
- Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm (The Midnight Organ Flight)

3. Theme Songs For A Walk Of Shame (Dana)
- Broken Social Scene* - I Slept With Bonhomme At the CBC (Feel Good Lost)
- Aidan Knight* - Fighting Against Your Lungs (Versicolour)
- Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring (Romance is Boring)

4. Songs to Explain the Earth to an Alien (Vicky)
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Areoplane Over the Sea (In The Areoplane Over the Sea)
- Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains* - American Names (Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains)
- Library Voices* - Step off the Map and Float (Hunting Ghosts (and Other Collected Shorts))

Solutions to the BP Oil Crisis - June 17th, 2010

* = Canadian

1. The Sadies* - Cut Corners (Darker Circles)
2. Carbon Dating Service* - Oil Sands (Reliquiae)
3. Adam & the Amethysts* - Stupid Ocean (Amethyst Amulet)
4. Dan Mangan* - Robots (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
5. Bruce Peninsula* - Steamroller (A Mountain is a Mouth)
6. Wintersleep* - Laser Beams (Welcome to the Night Sky)
7. Wax Mannequin* - Volcano God (And Black Blood)
8. Think About Life* - Wizzard (Family)
9. Azeda Booth* - Lobster Quadrille (In Flesh Tones)
10. Deer Tick - Choir of Angels (The Black Dirt Sessions)
11. The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection (The Meadowlands)
12. Sleepless Nights* - Allyson Got Robbed (Turn Into Vapour)
13. Mumford & Sons - Thistle & Weeds (Sigh No More)