Musicians with no concept of an ipod.

All of these songs were written before the ipod was a thing.

1. Broken Social Scene* - I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC (Feel Good Lost)
2. The American Analog Set - The Kindness of Strangers (Know by Heart)
3. Modest Mouse - It Always Rains on a Picnic (Sad Sappy Sucker)
4. Television - See No Evil (Marquee Moon)
5. Fugazi - Full Disclosure (The Argument)
6. Propagandhi* - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes)
7. The Weakerthans* - Pamphlateer ( Left & Leaving)
8. Greg Macpherson* - West St. James (Balanced on a Pin)
9. Snailhouse* - Daylight (The Opposite is Also True)
10. The Inbreds* - Is It The Right Time? (Winning Hearts)
11. Local Rabbits* - When You Return (Basic Concept)
12. Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)
13. The Smoking Popes - My Lucky Day (Born to Quit)
    

The Yarnocalypse (June 3rd)

This week I was responding to a challenge laid out by Jay in the show description he wrote for my show for cfcr's new website. He claims I do shows about things ranging from "bands that start with T to songs about yarn", which is a lie, since I haven't done either of those. The only course of action was, of course, to attempt to do a show about yarn.

(I abandoned the theme about 8 songs in...)

* = Canadian

1. Aiden Knight* - Knitting Something Nice (Versicolour)
2. Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song (Blue Album)
3. There Will Be Fireworks - We Sleep Through the Night (There Will Be Fireworks)
4. Sophie Madeliene - The Knitting Song (Love, Life, Ukulele)
5. The Morning Benders - Stitch (Big Echo)
6. Bjork - Unravel (Homogenic)
7. Broken Social Scene* - Texico Bitches (Forgiveness Rock Record)
8. The Frenetics* - Shortest String (Scenery EP)
9. Wintersleep* - Terrible Man (New Inheritors)
10. WOMEN* - Sag Harbor Bridge (WOMEN)
11. Boats!* - Haircuts For Everybody ("Cannonball, Cannonball")
12. Born Ruffians* - Nova-Leigh (Say It)
13. The Karpinka Brothers - Let Them Guess (One Brick at a Time)
14. Pearson* - On Second Thought, Our Collected Alcohol Consumption Was A Tad Ambitious

The Sound of Settling (Catan) (May 27th)

Today's theme was the Settlers of Catan, a game that I've been playing more of lately. It's been growing on me now that I know how to play the Cities & Knights expansion.

* = Canadian

1. Death cab For Cutie - The Sound of Settling (Transantlanticism)
2. Kevin Drew* - Saftey Bricks (Spirit If)
3. The Sheepdogs* - I Don't Know (Learn & Burn)
4. The Deep Dark Woods* - Mountain (The Deep Dark Woods)
5. The Wheatpool* - The Geographic Centre of Canada (Township)
6. The Karpinka Brothers* - One Brick at a Time (One Brick at a Time)
7. Spiral Beach* - Made of Stone (Ball)
8. Dan Mangan* - Road Regrets (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
9. Chad Vangaalen* - City of Electric Light (Soft Airplane)
10. We Are the City* - There Are Very Tiny Beasts in the Ground (In A Quiet World)
11. Aidan Knight* - North East South West (Versicolour)
12. Sloan* - Sinking Ships (Navy Blues)
13. Immaculate Machine* - Army (Ones and Zeroes)

HOMEWORK: play some German board games.

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Rain, Rain, Eff You

1. Black Mountain* - Stormy High (In the Future)
2. The Golden Dogs* - Driving in the Rain (Everything in Three Parts)
3. Minus the Bear - Spritz! Spritz!
4. Sexy Mathematics - Who Knows (Integration EP)
5. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (Heretic Pride)
6. Rick White* - Rain (Part 3) (1-3-7)
7. The Fugitives* - City of Rain (Eccentrically We Love)
8. Sun Kil Moon - Neverending Math Equation
9. Patrick Watson* - Drifters
10. Sam Amidon - Way Go Lily
11. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers* - 45 (Papillonette)
12. Wolf Parade* - Palm Road (Expo 86)
13. Wintersleep* - Archaeologists (Welcome to the Night Sky)

HOMEWORK: Go read the explanation for why the new Wolf Parade album is called Expo 86 and track down a copy of the new Wintersleep.

Nostalgia (May 6th)

I found my old 200 cd binder full of burnt cds (and some purchased ones that I'd long given up for lost) in my basement while cleaning. The first part of the show was random pulls from that.

1. The Anniversary - The "D" in Detroit (Designing a Nervous Breakdown)


2. The Get Up Kids - Stay Gold, Ponyboy (Four Minute Mile)


3. Braid - A Dozen Roses (Frame & Canvas)


4. Mike Park - From Korea (For the Love of Music)


5. The Lawrence Arms - Navigating the Windward Passage (Apathy & Exhaustion)


6. Colossal - The Serious Kind (Welcome the Problems)


7. Fall Horsie* - The Devil's Performance (Devil (e) Dirge)


8. Whale Tooth* - Sleepwalking (Whale Tooth)


9. Daniel, Fred, and Julie* - The Runner (Daniel, Fred, and Julie)


10. Rick White* - Back Home (137)


11. Yukon Blonde* - Rather Be With You (Yukon Blonde)


12. Fish & Bird* - Lydia (Left Brain Blues)


13. Jim Guthrie* - You Are Far (Do You Exist?) (Now More Than Ever)

HOMEWORK: Go find some of your old cds from years past and give them a listen. Revel.

Earth Day - Playlist for April 22nd, 2010

Earth day! Special guest host Rich Taylor helped out.

1. Crystal Castles* - Celestica (Crystal Castles)
2. Joy Division - Interzone (Unkown Pleasure)
3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
4. Land of Talk* - Magnetic Hill (Applause Cheer boo Hiss)
5. Shotgun Jimmie* - One Trick Pony (Paint it Pink EP)
6. B.A. Johnston - My Heart is a Blinking Nintendo (My Heart is a Blinking Nintendo)
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Sloan* - Deeper Than Beauty (Twice Removed)
9. The Polymaths* - Strike (So Long, Castle Road)
10. Neil Young* - After the Goldrush (After the Goldrush)
    
11. Richard Hell & the Void - Blank Generation (Blank Generation)
12. Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (Mule Variations)
13. Gillian Snider* - Take me Homw (In The Rough) Tom Waits cover

HOMEWORK:

Vivefest! - Playlist for April 15th, 2010

I am ultra-excited for Vivefest on Saturday. The pre-Vivefest dance party happened right after this show (with Sexy Mathematics, Spirits, and the Balconies) and was a lot of fun.

1. Maybe Smith* - Hearts Like Bears (Animals & Architects)
2. Immaculate Machine* - Phone Number (Ones and Zeroes)
3. The New Pornographers* - Mass Romantic (Mass Romantic)
4. Carbon Dating Service* - No Beards Reprise (This Circuitry is New to Me)
5. Pearson* - Cold Comfort (Clear Thinking On Mixed Feelings)
6. The Dears* Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe? (No Cities Left)
7. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever (The Monitor)
8. The Morning Benders - Cold War (Big Echo)
9. Yeasayer - I Remember (Odd Blood)
10. Spirits* - Open the Door (Spirits)
11. The Books - Venice (Lost & Safe)
12. Old Man Luedecke* I Quit My Job (Hinterland)
13. The Inbreds* - Is It The Right Time? (Winning Hearts)
14. The Balconies* - Ghost Fever (The Balconies)