Special Guest Host: Jenn Freeze! - June 10, 2010

Yes, the very same Jenn Freeze from Thrice Removed. This came soooo close to being a space themed show, but then Jenn bailed on that. I have us covered, but space is a fun one. I should do it again another time.

* = Canadian

1. Woodpigeon - In The Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon (Treasury Library Canada)
2. Rebekah Higgs* - Mr. Weatherman (Rebekah Higgs)
3. Rah Rah* - Henry (Breaking Hearts)
4. By Divine Right* - All Over It! (Sweet Confusion)
5. Wilco - Hate It Here (Sky Blue Sky)
6. T. Rex - Planet Queen (Electric Warrior)
7. Dan Anerbach - My last Mistake (Keep It Hid)
8. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (The White Stripes)
9. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Cry Together (Down At The Khyber)
10. Meligrove Band* - Halflight (Shivering Lights)
11. Shapes & Sizes* - Tell Your Mum (Candle to Your Eyes)
12. Josh Ritter - The Curse (So Runs the World Away)
13. Ugly Casanova - Lay Me Down (The 180 South Soundtrack)
14. Sports: The Band* - Cast Lots (Sports: The Band)

Punk Rock and cheesy 80s covers - July 15th, 2010

Two weeks week after the very fun Sled Island music festival in Calgary. I wrote an article about it for the Concordian.

Personal highlights:

• meeting InMediaRes after getting drunk and deciding to ditch Dinosaur Jr. to find their show. I used to listen to them when I was in high school in Melfort. I was posting on a forum ran by a guy out of Vancouver who was friends with them. I warmed to them immediately because they sort of sound like David Bazan if he was in a rock band. Their guitarist was intensely awesome.
• Nardwar pinata at the Paper Bag Records party
• seeing other bands that I've liked for years and years and years, Hot Water Music and The Thermals.

Playlist:

* = Canadian

1. In Media Res* - Radio Friendly (Of What Was)
2. Minus the Bear - Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco (Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Paper Tiger - Medi's Asleep (Get It Right)
4. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
5. The Lawrence Arms - Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
6. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory (Dig Me Out)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Eye of the Tiger (Drain the Blood 7")
8. Arcade Fire* Brazil (Cold Wind 7")
9. Duvall - True (Racine 7")
10. The Pack A.D.* - Everyone Looks Like Everyone (We Kill Computers)
11. Tessa Kautzman* - Back to the Yukon (Always Going Home)
12. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

More nostalgia - July 8th, 2010

Some more tunes from my youth mixed in with new ones.

* = Canadian

1. Dakota/Dakota - Don't Pee In My Bed and Tell Me It's Raining (Shoot in the Dark)
2. The Firebird Band -Beautiful (Setting Sun & It's Satellites)
3. Feral Children* - Illustrate (Currents)
4. Owls - Everyone is My Friend (Owls)
5. Fred Eaglesmith* - Dynamite & Whiskey (Cha Cha Cha)
6. The City Streets* - Irish Rose (The Jazz Age)
7. The Thermals - How We Know (Fuckin' A)
8. The Burning Hell* - Northern Life (This Charmed Life)
9. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (Winners Never Quit)
10. Bob Dylan - Slow Train (Slow Train)
11. The Guess Who* - It's My Pride (The Guess Who)
12. Raised By Swans* - Easier (No Ghostless Place)
13. Crystal Castles* - Year of Silence (Crystal Castles)

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1. Pearson* - Cold Comfort (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
2. Sleepy Sun - Wild Creatures (Fever)
3. Mini Mansions - Pacers (Mini Mansions)
4. The Pinecones* - Act A Gentlemen (Sage)
5. Young Galaxy* - Queen Drum (Invisible Republic)
   
6. Collapsing Opposites* - You Can Escape From Time (In Time)
7. Daniel Johnston - Happy Time (Happy Time 7")
8. Dumb Angel* - I Woke Up This Morning (I Woke Up This Morning)
9. The Robots* - Drunk Uncle (Hey Buddy, Dummy)
   
10. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place (Hometowns)

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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