Mass Production

Trains

Today's theme is all about the train.  The best part about doing this theme is how many genres you can touch upon

Playlist:
Bukka White - The Panama Limited
The Velvet Underground - Train Round The Bend
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Train Long-Suffering
Woodie Guthrie - Muleskinner Blues
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Train Song
The Holy Modal Rounders - Reuben's Train
A Musical History of Disneyland - All Aboard The Mine Train
Entrance - Silence On A Crowded Train
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train Comin' +
Request by Stephen
Steve Reich - Different Trains - 1. America - Before The War +
Request By Amanda
Dennis Brown - Westbound Train
Symarip - Must Catch A Train
Lee Scratch Perry - Rasta Train
Lord Buckley - The Train
The New York Dolls - Subway Train +
Request from Charles
The Kinks - The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains
Tom Waits - Down There By The Train
Leadbelly - Midnight Special
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train
Tony Rick - Old Train
Jose Gonzales - Train In Marfa
Gang of Four - Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time
Magnetic Fields - Born On A Train
The Nextdoor Neighbors - The Train Song
Ed Askew - Real Train
Roy Acuff - Wabash Cannonball +
Request by Fleetwood
Johnny Cash - Train of Love
Steve Martin w/ The Steep Canyon Rangers - Orange Blossom Special
Bright Eyes - Train Under Water
Link Wray - Soul Train

Valentine's Day - Un-cynical Love

So, it's moments past Valentines Day.  Granted, it's a useless holiday amounting to headache, heartache or both; but cynicism has become as cliche as puppy love, so I'm trying to break out.  I'm putting together a show all about being in love and actually enjoying it (for the most part) while not letting heart ruin the music.  This is a collection of great love songs that still fit into the KXLU spirit (again, for the most part).

I also have a guest in the studio: Jake Weiss, a 15 year old with the best taste I've ever seen on a kid this young.  Frankly, I never trust anyone who's musical taste was never, at any point, terrible.  Musical skeletons in one' s closet build character.  I'm making an exception for Jake though because he's Danny Gabai's cousin.

Playlist
Psychic TV - Papal Breakdance
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Love
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus
Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me
Bauhaus - Passion Of Lovers
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Home
Built To Spill - Saturday
Inara George - Tell Me That You Love Me
Big Star - I'm In Love With A Girl
Nick Drake - Place To Be
Galaxie 500 - Listen The Snow Is Falling
Billie Holiday - There Is No Greater Love
Mayer Hawthorne - Love Is All Right
ESG - My Love For You
Otis & Carla - Tramp
Sam & Dave - If You Got The Loving
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Kind Hearts & Coronets - Victoria
Dedicated to Victoria who has a birthday right now
Pugh Rogefeldt - Love, Love, Love
The Modern Lovers - Someone To Care About
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End
Lavender Diamond - Song of Impossible Occurrences
Clif "Ukelele" Edwards - Somebody Loves Me
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
The Velvet Underground - I Love You
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Here Tonight

Super Bowl Show

Wow, I have been insanely busy!  I started my first week as a high school history teacher and have been going crazy putting together my lesson plans.  On top of all of this, today was the Super Bowl.  While I would have preferred to stay home with my work, I think it's important to be able to hold a decent conversation on large cultural events that might interest my students, so I watched the Super Bowl. 

The experience inspired me to do a Super Bowl theme show and what better way to do it than to play Friends Forever's masterpiece, Killball.  Killball is an album based around a fictional futuristic mutant sporting event to the death.  If you aren't familiar with Friends Forever, check this out:

Friends Forever Review

Then I decided to play Football Blues by The Holy Modal Rounders



To follow Killball and Football Blues, I have chosen to play a set of music from New Orleans. 

Playlist
Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
Beau Jocque - Motor Dude Special
Rebirth Brass Band - Do Whatcha Wanna (Part 2)
Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis Style/Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans Style
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Sobbin' Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Jazz Me Blues
Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
Wynton Marsalis - Cherokee
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Clarence Williams - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Allen Toussaint - Louie
The Meters - Chicken Strut
Dr. John - I Been Hoodood
The Wild Magnolias - Injuns, Here We Come
The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko
Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Sont Pas Sales
Jelly Roll Moton - Buddy Bolden Blues

Isaac Brock and Naheed Simjee Photos!

They're finally here!  Sorry it took so long.

 

 
Beatles Rock Band Party!              ...we need practice

 

 

The floating head of Peter Choyce looks over us all

 

 
     

  
 

New York

Glenn O'Brien's TV Party: The Best Thing About New York...Maybe Ever (Visuals by Jean Michel Basquiat)

It's my first theme in a while (which is crazy considering this is a theme show).  Tonight's theme is reflective of the trip that I took two weeks ago to New York.  I was going to do this last week, but then Isaac Brock and Naheed Simjee asked to come on and who am I to say no.  How To Make A Mixtape is really taking off and there will definitely be more guests coming.  For now, though, I am happy to get back to live DJing on air.  I had begun to miss the improvisational nature of it all.  

With all of my themes I try to cover as much musical ground as possible and New York has been a muse to almost everyone for as long as music has been recorded.  This show is especially dedicated to all of the people at Enid's in Greenpoint who were so good to me when I DJed there.

Alright.  Theme:

Psychic TV - New York Story
Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd
Hello - New York Groove
Glass Candy - Miss Broadway
Dominatrix - City That Never Sleeps
Woody Allen - The Moose
XTC - Statue of Liberty +
Request By Niesha
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
Xiu Xiu - Brooklyn Dodgers
Sufjan Stevens - Interlude I: Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigation (This is from Sufjan's new orchestral album about the BQE...it's really good!)
Allen Ginsberg - City Midnight Junk Strains (For Frank O'Hara)
Woody Guthrie - New York Town
Bob Dylan - Talkin' New York +
Request By George
The Jesus and Mary Chain - New York City
Eleni Mandell - Bedford (Avenue)
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2
Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train
Harry Nilsson - I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City +
Request By Niesha
The Mountain Goats - Going To Queens
The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25
Lenny Bruce - Spanish Harlem
Amon Tobin - The New York Editor
Implog - Holland Tunnel Dive
The Fugs - Slum Goddess
Stephen Malkmus - Vanessa From Queens
Woody Allen - N.Y.U.
LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
Ramones - 53rd and 3rd (Now Playing)