Another Old Radio Show

WDCV has audio from another of my old radio shows up on their tumblr blog. You'll need to go there directly to hear it. This show aired sometime in March of 1991, which means that the cassette tape I took the audio from will be old enough to buy a drink sometime this month.

Here is my playlist from that evening:

0:00 PSA Followed by bitter DJ Rant

0:38 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - "Green Peppers"

2:05 Tom Zè - "Mã"

5:49 Sly And The Family Stone - "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"

10:18 Daniel Owino Misiani - "Joshirati Misiani "

15:10 DJ Announcements

15:30 Fugazi - "Waiting Room" *listener request

18:20 Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - "Ella Guru"

20:48 Robyn Hitchcock - "The Ghost In You" [Psychedelic Furs Cover] *listener request

23:59 Phil Ochs - "Tape From California"

30:38 DJ Announcements

31:25 Chris McGreggor Brotherhood Of Breath - "Country Cooking"

36:30 Bad Brains - "Day Tripper/She's A Rainbow [Live]" [Beatles/Rolling Stones Cover]

41:00 Kip Kyler And His Flips - "Jungle Hop"

43:00 The Busters - "Bust Out"

45:30 Elvis Presley - "Patch It Up [Live]" *listener request

48:56 DJ Announcements

49:35 Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Multihorn Variations"

54:26 Das Damen - "Sky Yen"

57:05 Gilberto Gil - "Quilombo, o El Dorado Negro"

61:28 Snakefinger - "The Man In The Dark Sedan"

65:46 Tom Waits - "16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six"

70:18 Sun Ra And His Arkestra - "Space Is The Place"

79:10 DJ Announcements

79:51 Sly And The Family Stone - "Ride The Rhythm" and "Family Affair"

85:23 Love - "You I'll Be Following"

87:40 Yung Wu - "Aspiration"

91:17 The Mekons - "I Can't Find My Money" [Cuts Off]

I think I was in a slightly pissed off mood that evening, in part because I was going to be graduating in a couple months and wouldn't have a radio show anymore. Also, at the time I felt certain songs were getting overplayed on the station (I specifically mention Material Issue's "Valerie Loves Me" in my opening rant, and I have to confess I still find that song slightly annoying). I was very much of the view that college radio should have a freewheeling, "anything goes" kind of vibe to it, and not simply mimic the highly repetitive nature of commercial radio with a different playlist of "hits." Not everyone shared, or even appreciated, that vision which is understandable. 

My playlist that evening was an attempt to redress that balance, although I notice that some college radio favorites of the era also make appearances. Some of those were listener requests, but even at my most bitter I wasn't the kind of person who was going to turn down a request for music by Fugazi or Robyn Hitchcock in order to prove some pedantic point. And I certainly would never turn down a request to play Elvis the King under any circumstances.

While I winced a couple times listening to my opening rant, I still find this pretty fun to listen to, and when the tape cut off during The Mekons' "I Can't Find My Money" I was pretty bummed, not just because it's a great song, but because I found myself wondering what I was going to play next.

I'm Back + New Year's Changes + Sally Timms

Happy New Year. I'm back and considering switching file hosting services. The free service I've been using has been down for the last few days, so I'm taking this as an opportunity to try something new. I've signed up for a .Mac account, which is something I've contemplated for a while anyway because it allows me to sync calendar and address book information between my work and home computers. Hopefully their file hosting is a little more reliable than what I have been using (you get what you pay for I guess). For you this should mean faster and more reliable downloads, and no more right clicking. Let me know how it works for you so I can decide if I want to pony up for the service.

To get the New Year started I wanted to offer Sally Timms' cover of John Cale's "Half Past France." Timms is best known as a member of The Mekons (more from them some other time). This track comes from her 1995 solo album, To The Land of Milk and Honey. Anyone can cover The Velvet Underground (even Weezer apparently), but it takes real taste to cover a track from Paris 1919.