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Track Artist Album / Format Label Approx. start time Get Happy / MUSIC BEHIND THE DJ: Mr. Lucky Jane Horrocks / Henry Mancini fxo mix (CD-R) no label 0:00:00 Pop-up) Do You Know The Way To San Jose Martin Medeski "Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach" compil. Lp (CD) Tzadik 0:12:41 Pop-up) This Guy's In All With You Burt Bacharach & Marian McPartland Burt Bacharach Sessions (MP3) no label 0:18:05 Pop-up) All My Loving George Martin George Martin Strings (MP3) no label 0:20:12 Pop-up) Dark Was The Night Kronos Quartet (by Blind Willie Johnson) "Dark Was The Night" compil. Lp (CD) 4 AD 0:23:28 Pop-up) How Soon Is Now Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs "Under The Covers- Vol. 3" Lp (CD) * Shout 0:26:16 Pop-up) Loud Minority (Club mix) United Future Organization "The Rebirth of Cool" compil. Lp (CD) 4th and Broadway 0:31:26 Pop-up) Big Fish Eat The Little Fish Louis Logic "Look On The Blight Side" Lp (CD) * Fake Four 0:36:19 Pop-up) Frission Daedelus "Drown Out" Lp (CD) * Anticon 0:40:13 Pop-up) MUSIC BEHIND DJ: Daly's Tune / FMU Locked Groove Tommy Daly fxo mix - mashup (CD-R) no label 0:45:11 Pop-up) Delusion Six Phoaming Edison "This" Lp (CD) * Marble Moat 0:48:44 Pop-up) Flat Faded Daedelus "Drown Out" Lp (CD) * Anticon 0:52:09 Pop-up) Ooh La La Ronnie Lane with Slim Chance "You Never Can Tell" Lp (CD-R) BBC sessions 0:55:44 Pop-up) Lose This Skin The Clash "Sandinista!" Lp (CD) Epic 0:59:40 Pop-up) No Language In Our Lungs XTC "Transistor Blast: Best of BBC Sessions -Live, Hammersmith Palais- 12/22/80" (CD) TVT 1:04:56 Pop-up) Anteprima 2 Plunderphonic "Di Prova Alla Cazzo A Cane" (MP3) no label 1:11:33 Pop-up) King Of Carrot Flowers-Parts 1, 2, &3 Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" Lp (CD) Merge 1:14:19 Pop-up) Again and Again The Bird and The Bee Remix by Ace Roxwell (MP3) no label 1:17:35 Pop-up) MUSIC BEHIND DJ: Here It Comes/ FMU Locked Groove Freddie Fresh fxo mix - mashup (CD-R) no label 1:22:21 Pop-up) Little Addy Andy Statman "Superstring Theory" Lp (CD) * Shefa 1:26:51 Pop-up) Black Horse and a Cherry Tree KT Tunstall IRU remix (MP3) no label 1:32:26 Pop-up) Baker Street JZBIGDADDYNEWMAN Acoustic remix (MP3) no label 1:34:30 Pop-up) Baker Street Denis Krako 8 Bit Remix (MP3) 1:39:06 Pop-up) Right Down The Line Gerry Rafferty Joy Petals remix (MP3) no label 1:44:45 Pop-up) Sleep To Dream Fiona Apple Surfchop remix (MP3) no label 1:48:18 Pop-up) Milkshake (acoustic version) Kelis 8 Bit Crookz remix (MP3) no label 1:54:39 Pop-up) In Search Of Truth Jimmy Smith "The Big Brawl" Lp (CD) Inner City 1:58:18 Pop-up) It's Code Janelle Monae "The Electric Lady" Lp (CD) * Atlantic 2:03:22 Pop-up) MUSIC BEHIND THE DJ: Why?... and We Repeat... Why? Taj Mahal "Music Keeps Me Together" Lp (Vinyl) Columbia 2:07:21 Pop-up) Andro Queen The Pixies "Ep" Ep (CD) * no label 2:11:49 Pop-up) Back To Land Wooden Shjips "Back To Land" Lp (CD) * Thrlll Jockey 2:15:03 Pop-up) Little Games The Yardbirds "Rock Is Dead, But It Won't Lie down" compil. Lp (CD) EMI Records Group 2:20:19 Pop-up) Suite 3 RJd2 "More Is Than Isn't" Lp (CD) * RJ's Electrical Connections 2:22:49 Pop-up) You Can't Hurry Love (great Funk Brothers track) The Supremes remix/ mash up (MP3) no label 2:27:56 Pop-up) Higher and Higher The Move "The BBC Sessions" Lp (CD) * Strange Fruit 2:31:06 Pop-up) Jealous Guy Donny Hathaway "Never My Love: The Anthology" Lp (CD) * Atlantic 2:34:27 Pop-up) Stranger To My Happiness Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings Ep (CD) * Daptone 2:39:23 Pop-up) MUSIC BEHIND THE DJ: King For A Day (I Dub Thee Sir Mix) XTC 12" Ep (Vinyl) Geffen 2:42:20 Pop-up) Hell Bulldog The Beatles Mr. Bristow remix (MP3) no label 2:46:46 Pop-up) Little Johnny Jewel Television The Blow Up (CD) R.O.I.R. 2:53:01 Pop-up) Dance Macabre The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra "The Bride of Frankenstein (by Franz Waxman)" soundtrack Lp (CD) Silva 3:01:53 Pop-up) end theme(s) Alfred & Nelson (with orchestra) fxo mix - mashup (CD-R) no label 3:04:37 Pop-up)
Listener comments!
6:05am : Good morning, F.X.!6:07am : Hi Frank! Hello World!
A sunny day over here, not too cold and ... I'm @ work!
What else is to do on a sunny monday?6:07am : good, 'n chilly, here in Jersey City.
Morning P-90. hows things bayou?6:08am : Guido! hows yer day, out there?6:11am : Columbia U campus was a pleasant winter wonderland overnight, until everything started to melt and get yucky. I blame amEdeo (cuz I can't think of anyone else to blame at the moment)6:16am : be sure: I make my best of it!
Yey! Bacharach, the master himself!
Actually he even can sing!
Reminds me of poor George Meek ...
have all those collectors labels done him justice by pushing his embarrassing demos to the public?6:18am : @Guido: Do you mean Joe Meek from England? Or...?6:20am : Yes. Joe Meek from england, of Telstar-fame.6:21am : we're all blameless, eh? ...or blame-ful?6:22am : and: yeah! Burt B. has never been gotten enough credit for his great singing6:25am : let's call him an interpreter of his tunes. That covers it.6:28am : Same about the 'Cole Porter sings Cole Porter' recordings.6:30am : Excellent! Do we know who was speaking about Jazz clubs at the beginning of the track? Thank heaven no one has sampled Phil Schaap in a song....6:32am : By the way "Dark Was The Night" by Kronos Quartett was pretty awesome. I admire them anyway, but this is another surprise. Never heard about this 4AD-comp..6:32am : Noel Coward singing Noel Coward is another noteworthy example6:39am : ...freezing rain warning up he-uh in North New England; we must all step carefully, & you know there will be traffic accidents somewhere...highs around 20°F all week...all we have to do is learn to enjoy this & a maximum of 20 min.s of sunlight a day until April, & we'll have this thing down fine...6:41am : ...the words 'Noel Coward' capture my sentiments about the Season exactly - but then he was very witty like that...6:44am : RevRab: eggs-zactly...6:47am : Greetings, RevRab. Drive w/caution up in Noo Hamsha. Not so bad in NY, just slushy because it isn't quite cold enough for snow to stick. It's been teens and twenties Farenheit in Chicago all last week--that's our weather for the next week. "Noel Coward": should enter the language as a slang term for those sentiments re: the Season.6:50am : heya. Here in Finland its all snowy. Just did over an hour of snowshoveling pheeuw. Getting down to -20C next night but after that it'll be over 0C ... can't wait to get skiing on lake.6:54am : Mauri: enjoy your afternoon. Watch the ice cracks
P-90: ggod way to put it.6:55am : Huomenta mauri! MINUS 20C ?! That's seriously cold!6:57am : Howdy, Frank, et al! A bit of 'Go Tell Aunt Rhody' in this arrangement. :)7:01am : g'morn, everybody! Looked a lot like Helsinki here in midwest today.7:02am : kat330: you talkin' about Tymon Dogg?
Philo: you would know...7:02am : Hi Philo! May I ask where in Midwest?7:03am : That comment was about "Lose This Skin" if already had ended however you listen. Also heard Matthew Sweet doing a mighty faithful version of Morrissey's song. Seemed just his Sweet voice to same arrangement. Not exactly karaoke, but close enough. Still dug it.7:03am : winter makes the hotchocolate with a drop of cream liquir that extra flavour7:05am : Hi P-90! Southern Indiana, near Louisville Kentucky. Slushy snow, wet and cold and slick... reminded me of my days in Kallio. A few more trees, maybe.7:05am : First time tuning in live since...too long! Hello fxo and everyone. Delighted to be here :)7:07am : Now all I can think of is hot chocolate w/Irish Cream....I'm very suggestible where food and beverages are concerned. @Philo: where the heck is Kallio?7:09am : ...there is always chocolate & alcohol...hopefully served in the lobby of the Neutral Milk Hotel...7:09am : Me too! Oh, thought maybe you were also a Finn -- Kallio is an old borough or section of Helsinki.7:09am : left: glad to be with you.7:09am : Interwebs say: Kallio is "where the hipsters drink in Helsinki"7:11am : Yeah, I was going to say "step right in, left."7:12am : @kat That was always one of my fave songs of that Clash album. THough like I just mentioned (off the air) I never even heard of the Aunt Rhody song.7:13am : Hiya, Frank, and good morning all. First real snow of the season starting later, followed by that mess RevRab reports. Sorry to have missed all the early good stuff but Christmas party last night...7:13am : It was only one tiny recurring theme in that Clash song that sounded like "Go Tell Aunt Rhody."7:14am : ...I ruminate that the Clash were more stoned poets than is most commonly thot...7:14am : Funny that NMH is one of Philo's all-time faves, and he's lactose intolerant.7:14am : @P-90 That's about right. Lots of bars, book and music shops. At least was so in late 90s when I lived there for 5 years or so. Couldn't probably afford to live there these days; used to be cheap.7:15am : ...well - it's *Neutral* Milk...7:15am : @kat I think it's the "neutral" part that helps.7:15am : Actually, I've been to Norway and Sweden, but not Finland. Yet. I'm guessing the ladies in Helsinki are amazing. "Aunt Rhody" is a really old (like Colonial) children's folk song. One probably wouldn't have heard it except in the NorthEast US.7:15am : - jinx !7:15am : Heh, you owe each other a kalja!7:16am : Ha!7:16am : @P-90: Be that as it may, he landed this all-American "girl." ;)7:18am : Really fine set, Frank!7:18am : Worth a visit, a lot to like (ladies might be a bit more reserved than in other nordic countries).7:18am : ...'go tell Aunt Rhody the old grey goose is dead' ; I'd guess a Folk tune is Southern 9 times out of 10
- but some BritPsych is being referred to ?7:20am : Actually, I was discussing that point with Philo. I was wondering if South African?7:21am : And as for me hearing bits of other songs in songs, that's just how my brain is wired. After posting my Rogue World mashup, someone commented "I'd like to inhabit the universe you inhabit." I dunno if I'd wish so much aural vermicelli in another's brain myself.7:21am : thanks kat.7:22am : - actually this *does* say Protestant Nw England :
balladofamerica.com...7:24am : @Philo & @Rev: found a little info on "Aunt Rhody"(w/lyrics):
http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/indexes/songs/gotellauntrhody/index.htm7:26am : Ha! Jinxed again! Thanks, RR and P-90!7:26am : OK you beat me to it, I shouldn't even have tried....
"Aural Vermicelli" hahaha!7:26am : P-90 you must be steering the collective unconscious this day! :)7:27am : ...heard a Nick Lowe tune on 'Prairie Home Companion' yesterday that borrows heavily from 'If I Only Had a Brain' - an interesting example of decisions a songwriter has to make - yerknow - is it a deliberate reference ~ meant as an allusion to intrigue us & is it worth it & such...7:27am : Steering? just surfin' the wave7:28am : At Rev -- YES, YES!!! We heard that, too, and Philo will confirm that's the FIRST thing I said!! :) Cool.7:28am : @RR Kat said the exact same thing as we were listening yestrday!7:30am : [Our exciting Saturday night life is revealed.]
This Baker St. is so great. But it's one of my fave tunes, IAE.7:30am : ...Nick Lowe was on Michael Shelley - making the rounds for his Xmas album - but I didn't here him here 'cause I work then. His 'Christmas @ the Airport' tune an instant earworm, & I hate Xmas music 'cause I work in a shop...7:31am : @Rev: Isn't that all any artist can do, take bits and pieces of stuff he's heard/seen/read and liked, and put them together his own way? But yeah, the question of when you're INTENDED to detect a "quote" or "influence" is interesting...
This "Baker Street" guitar arrangement is kickass!7:31am : ...I mean here him hear...I mean...7:33am : @Rev --a shop? Are you one of Santa's elves?
Damn, missed him THIS time on Shelley -- heard him last time -- but I heard him before PHC on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. He surely IS making the rounds.7:34am : @Rev: it's worth checking the archive, Shelly did a great job with Lowe, there's a lot of stuff in it you'll like. (Lowe gives a long description of what Yes was like in London clubs back in the day, believe it or not)7:37am : ...& oh - that brings to mind how that's what they did in Bop & whether that was Sampling - & then the whole 'Copyright Criminals' documentary which is really good...I work @ a Thrift Store for Community Services - & *heve* been described as elf-like @ least once in life (if not relating to Xmas specifically) - & Dickensian as well, altho' I was never sure which character *precisely*. The English fiddler who plays @ our local's weekly Irish Trad. sessions & was briefly employed by FairportConvention notes there I'd be my own character...7:39am : He also talks about why Americans have a stronger tradition of Christmas songs than the English do, fascinating observations. And: yeah, "X-mas at the Airport" is a worthy addition to the holiday songbook7:39am : It's a Rafferty fest!7:40am : ...I got so into 'War on Xmas' tunes (Fear, South Park, Eric Idle) that - well - more or less...Tradition...7:41am : The only Gerry Rafferty tune I ever heard before was Baker Street. That was played to death. This cut is kind of nice.7:41am : ...like when Beatles & Rutles get together & reportedly all sing each others' songs together...7:42am : @P-90: I'll try to find time for the archive. Lowe's always been special to me. Odd what he said about English vs. American's and Christmas songs. My fave songs (in English) as a kid were always those from the UK. I've never cottoned to the modern U.S. "carol." I do love the Waitresses though. :)7:42am : Gotta head out to work; great list and a terrific set of tunes, Frank! Cheerio.7:43am : Moi, moi, hunaja! (Oh, right, I can kiss you 'bye right here. ;)7:44am : @Rev: Well, you're certainly an "elf-like" presence on these boards, so no surprise. And you have an English fiddler and "weekly Irish trad sessions"? Lucky dog, sounds really cool7:44am : duke: I used to pump up the volume, in the headphones to hear the Baker guitar lead. Still sends me up...7:46am : ...to survive it all one year - I developed this whole imaginary Alternate Holiday of the Ugly Green Dwarf of MumbledeyPeg...partly based on 'Electric Funeral' by Black Sabbath; a song about how in defiance of Nature, we would burn all the energy & fuel possible in Midwinter until it was one blazing fiery Light like an evil Never-Resting Sauron-like eye in the sky
...anyhow...7:47am : Kind of a Heavy Metal Festivus? Groovy7:47am : ...the Reel & the Unreal...same old Jig...7:49am : ... this is funny:
the remix is more easy listening than the hit single (Kelis)7:51am : ...yerknow - the mind can take only so much massive social irrationality @ Xmas - so I figured, give my Horrorday its' own facebook page, see what I could get started...7:51am : Backing up there @ Rev: It all comes together in "Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe." ;)7:51am : Booker T?7:53am : "Horrorday" haha7:53am : @Rev: Have you heard any of Bad Religion's holiday album? Heard snippets in an interview yesterday morning.7:55am : - no kat330 - but now yer talkin' my language! Love them guys...
...As for the icon of my Horrorday - the Ugly Green Dwarf himself - he has a very curious admixture of traits indeed !...7:57am : 'admixture..." Pray tell, Maestro8:00am : That "I need a glass of Merlot "line always cracks me up8:02am : Two interesting snippets I heard were their version of "O Come Emmanuel" and "Little Drummer Boy," a song I HATE WITH A PASSION, but sounded as though they bang it up pretty good.8:03am : ...well, the main Motif of the is Horroday is to defeat Mother Nature Godess by exponentially exalting all the worst Materialistic instincts of Mankind in this extreme Black Saturnalia of Consumption & Aggression & Cultural Assertiveness & Fascistic oppression of any other dissenting views...like : I said MERRY MUMMBLEDEYPEG mofo !! ...simple really...Imagine a festive green winter boot stomping on a butterfly forever...8:06am : Go tell Aunt Rhody was one of the first songs in the book when learning a musical instrument back in the 4th grade.8:06am : @Rev: You have me on board -- actually more likely I'm the engineer of any anti-consumerism train given my age and how long I've been touting conservation and environmentalism -- with your anti-crass Christmas campaign. But that shouldn't mean turning a deaf ear to great music just because the wankers have co-opted and abused it in the name of the almighty dollar.8:07am : Oh, and Hi Frank!8:08am : @phlodnaR: Yeah, we had to learn a bunch of folk songs in elementary school. I recall learning "Waltzing Matilda," too, so I thought maybe "Rhody" was also one from outside the U.S.8:10am : say, what? oh yeah, hey phlodnaR. Welcome to our club...8:10am : @phlodna: We learned to sing it first, in preparation for learning to play it on the recorder (plastic "Tonette" actually)8:11am : I was unlucky trying to see the Wooden Shjips.
The club was so packed, harly any chance to get in ... I gave up.8:13am : "Back to Land" reminds me of Sonic Youth's "Sugar Kane"8:15am : Wow, thought I knew most all Yardbirds, but not familiar with this tune.8:16am : - the final Jimmy Page period kat330 - he w/ his violin bow on the guitar.8:17am : - title song their last album.8:17am : Little Games:
The LP where Jimmy Page, the notorios copycat "prooved" that he "composed" the Davy Graham Raga version of "She went through the fair".8:17am : Thanks, and guess that explains it. Great album title!8:18am : Oh, by title, I meant the one on fxo's list.8:19am : Eddie Phillips of The Creation was with violin bow before. (Listen to "Painterman").8:19am : DeemerDave:you called it.
RevRab, kats on it. Jeff Beck quit, Pagey kept the ball rollin'. He was gonna call Led Zep, "The New Yardbirds". Momentary lapse of title...8:20am : hello frank and everyone. cold.8:21am : Warm in here. So far. ;)8:21am : - yup - cred to The Creation - Thx for putting name to Eddie Phillips.8:23am : If you want to get a real picture of late Yardbirds I recommend the Pierre Lattès' "Bouton Rouge"-show. It prooves that the group almost sounded like Led Zep at that time.
Check YouTube for it. It's worthwhile.8:23am : Nice remix!8:24am : Yes, 'tis. Yours, Frank?8:29am : ...Zep in fact @ 1st fulfilling the Yardies contractual obligations - & meant to be a kind of supregroup of Yardies leftovers & a disgruntled Wh♂ rhythm section...I'd like to add that some Small Faces things are antecedents to some LedZep things too; it's ok - everything has antecedents - but not everything gets the credit ; ) ...8:29am : Yes, indeed. Lovely, fxo. Timely.8:29am : Not me. Let's call it "infotainment".8:30am : OK by me. :)8:31am : Sem: thanks.8:31am : I had the honour to watch Wooden Shjips in Brussels last Friday. Very, very happy with that. Great performance.8:31am : Went out this day 33 years ago and bought the Wedding album, Japanese pressing. Still have it, unplayed.8:33am : @Sem: Saving it for a rainy day?8:34am : - Righteous Sem.
...when people critique John Lennon - I say please remember he only got to live to age 40 & the year 1980.
...I feel like the World changed that day
- but then again John Lennon Will Never Die.8:34am : Don Arden (Small faces manager) send a message to Jimmy page:
"How do you want to play guitar without fingers?"
keith Moon (prospected super-group member) made the joke about the band going down like a Zeppelin made of lead.8:35am : @kat330: a moment in amber, I guess. Time travel. Healthier to let go, but not yet.8:35am : ✔ Guido.8:38am : @Sem: Just made my mind wander to a sort of Twilight Zone plot where a character's been saving something for decades, for that special moment, and then an asteroid hits the planet, or WWIII. Wow...sorry, I need to herd my thoughts better, but it's like herding Kats. ;)8:39am : Hello fxo, very slow dark start with ground mist. Then within ten minutes clouds cleared and it was the most beautiful mid December morn.
Has Sharon Jones been poorly despite being in the parade?8:43am : @FX: Ace "Bulldog" remix! Haven't heard this one8:44am : - I think it's non-verbal symbolic perfection Sem.
...Yoko said in Mojo that she only listens to John for business not pleasure, because that would be 'sacrilege'. When considering I hear John Lennon's voice probably every day - that brought it home to me...
- 'Stranger to My Happiness' is great !8:44am : Brian: who needs a parade. 'tis good music, 'ight?
btw: Don Arden was also the manager of The Move. His daughter, Sharon, well you know the rest (married with the Osbournes).
thanks all for the overwhelming comments. Y'all know who you are...8:45am : @kat: seems my estate will just have to deal with it, absent an apocalyptic event.8:48am : Mr Arden was a real charmer from all accounts.8:48am : @RevRab: I think you've touched on it, an inexplicable moment that just has to be as it is.8:49am : Sure hope you have a most worthy inheritor and a trustworthy executor! :)
Thanks, fxo, for the warm sounds on this frosty morn!8:51am : A wildly articulate morning around the FXO musical round table.A fine thing to listen to and read this Monday, Frank. Thanks and catch you, and all, next week.8:52am : I'm all over the comments. Wow! I hope you enjoyed this set, as I did. Have a cool week, and check me out on the archive. New live webcast, next Monday.
peace in the valley.8:52am : @FX O'T.: Thanks for another winner! The show gets better and better. Have a merry week!8:53am : Yes, and thanks, y'all for the great discussions and edifications!8:58am : Thanks, Frank!9:00am : uh, this is confusing9:50am : thank you again for a fantastic show10:12am : thank you again for a fantastic show
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