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Let Me Show You How Sweet It Could Be: Transmission 438, 2018 December 19

This episode finds me "by my own" for once, and I'm in a weird state. I looked forward to this "Bombastic Complication" as it had been fun the last time I tried it, which was (gulp) five years ago. I was flying solo then, too. But the thing about worsening depression is that you literally become numb, I guess, unable to experience joy. More on this in an upcoming diary entry. At any rate, I am audibly missing Lady Catharsis, moaning out loud about her absence. Elsewhere I am haunted by the ghosts of bad segues, and I lament mistakes that never happened. Apparently I need a caretaker.

Not to say that the episode was free from the usual errors--I biff the segue leading into "Float On," as apparently Alvin Lives (In Leeds) carries some kind of curse that acts upon me. I seem flabbergasted that 1998 was two decades ago, which could be an awakening, or just symptomatic of something. I credit Lux Interior for curating Beat from Badsville, but not Ivy Rorschach, which is a bad look. I could probably have chosen more "adventurous" tracks at the expense of some of the "sure things." Speaking about Bo Diddley in the present tense was intentional, though, because he does live forever.

Onward and upward!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 19, 2100-2300:

1. "5-8-6" | New Order | The Peel Sessions - The Sampler | Strange Fruit
2. "Monkey Jazz" | Ian O'Brien | The Rebirth of Cool Seven | Island
3. "Straight A's In Love" | Peter Shelley | Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute to Johnny Cash | Red Rhino
4. "Float On" | The Close Lobsters | Alvin Lives (in Leeds) | Midnight Music
5. "Service With a Smile" | The Kuf-Linx | Beat From Badsville Vol. 2 | Stag-O-Lee
6. "Bo Diddley Is A Lover" | The Liverbirds | Girls With Guitars | Ace
7. "Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa" | Nana Kinomi and Leo Beats | Nippon Girls (Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-69) | Big Beat
8. "Road Close (Dance Dub)" | Tony Allen | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
9. "Polyacid Blue" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
10. "Praying for a Cheaper Christmas" | Swinging Buildings | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Brand New Life" | Young Marble Giants | Winters Of Discontent - The Peel Sessions 77-83 | Strange Fruit
12. "Swamp Gas" | The Space Walkers | UFO on Farm Road 318 | Trailer-Park
13. "Your Jolly Giant" | Nubile G & The Spurious Wizz | Death of Vinyl | DOVe
14. "Agadez Fatimata" | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
15. "Bina" | Os Jovens Do Prenda | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
16. "You Thought I Was Dead" | Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate | Pay It All Back Vol. 3 | On-U Sound
17. "Love & Fire" | Ruts DC / Mad Professor | dub or die vol:2 | ROIR Europe - Danceteria
18. "Leaves in the Wind" | The Project | The Zulu Compilation | Zulu
19. "Raindance" | The Past Seven Days | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
20. "Baby Honey" | The Pastels | Different for Domeheads | Creation
21. "Crawdad" | The Colonials | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Volume 1 | Crypt
22. "Slaughter" | Mark Brodie and the Beaver Patrol | Hang 10: Volume One | Shredder
23. "Time's Up" | Buzzcocks | Short Circuit Live at the Electric Circus | Virgin

Justify the tears I've cried

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You Know That Time's Not Kind: Transmission 437, 2018 December 12

Is there a difference between "radio magic" and straight-up cheating? Thanks to the absence of a WRFI Studio Cam, you'll have to rely on your ears to discern it, if you can. That and many other topics get a robust airing on this haphazard, mostly enjoyable broadcast. We came to play the 12-inch single on this night, not to praise or bury it, and (thank goodness) not to discuss it a whole lot, as I was seemingly even worse than usual with facts.

It turns out that David Byrne did not "produce" the Fun Boy Three song that we played, though he is credited with "mixing" the flipside of that record. The OMD single we played (how OMD persists!) is not pristine, skipping at least twice, so I should not have agreed with Lady Catharsis's assessment there (though it looks to be in lovely shape). Most egregiously, I get the Negativland U2 story almost completely wrong, forgetting that they did at least one whole book about it. Not having visited their website in "god knows how many years" should have shut me up about it, but of course things transpired differently.

Venturing into the realm of opinion and feelings, I do somewhat better, but not much. 1980 and 2018 were bad years, and we were alive and aware for both. Bela Lugosi's Dead may be the "ultimate" 12-inch, "arguably," but I feel sorry for whoever is spending time on that argument. New Order's carrying on without Peter Hook--I do keep coming back to this, don't I? Are there not greater injustices in the world? By the end of the program I am somewhat incoherent, claiming to be "enjoying myself" but also expressing sadness about all the records we didn't get to. Or is that just "nuance" and "complexity?"

At least we found screeching (squealing?) tires, as we hoped to do, and I fulfilled a request for the first time in nearly a year (you're welcome, Keith!), so this was not a total bust.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 12, 2100-2300:

1. "The Precinct of Sound" | The Dub Syndicate | Classic Selection Volume 2 | On-U Sound
2. "Say You" | Colourbox | Say You | 4AD
3. "Armageddon" | Culture | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
4. "Harley Davidson (Francais / Deutsche)" | Gina X | Harley Davidson (100 M.P.H. Mix) | Statik
5. "Talking Loud and Clear - Extended Version" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Talking Loud and Clear | Virgin
6. "Don't Stop the Dance - Todd Terje Remix" | Bryan Ferry | Don't Stop the Dance | The Vinyl Factory
7. "The Perfect Kiss" | New Order | The Perfect Kiss | Base Record - Factory
8. "Don't Let Go" | Pink Industry | Don't Let Go | Cathexis
9. "Fizzing Human Bomb" | Danielle Dax | The BBC Sessions | Dutch East India Trading - Strange Fruit
10. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1991 A Capella Mix)" | Negativland | U2 | SST
11. "Any Second Now" | Depeche Mode | Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix) | Mute
12. "The Lunacy Legacy" | Fun Boy Three | The Tunnel of Love | Chrysalis
13. "The Prince" | Madness | The Peel Sessions | Dutch East India Trading
14. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" | Bauhaus | Bela Lugosi's Dead | Small Wonder
15. "Thoughtforms" | Lush | Mad Love | 4AD
16. "Waves" | Blancmange | Waves | London

Rock and roll still needs innovation

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Cruising Altitude Departure 30, 2018 December 8

[GUEST POST]

This is your Captain, Halcyon, here, with what is probably a less startling appearance than the last one. I appear "in the hour of need," and it would seem that in December the need is more likely to arise than in many other months. This was a crisp morning in late Autumn, which if I recall has been a favorable condition for me in the past, but this particular day was a bit overcast for my taste. Alas. This program was conceived in summer sunshine and is probably best suited for that time, and this particular broadcast seems dreary and "rubs me the wrong way" to an extent. It seems to me barely there until Cindytalk reminds us that indeed we are here.

To each their own, though, and this may give you the same pleasure that some listeners experienced at the time. Laraaji was especially popular, as is proper. I remember having a zither in the Halcyon household when I was a child, and the thought fills me with warmth. Having to talk about a chowder cook-off breaks the mood, such as it is, but we do what we must. And we had a bit of a clunky landing with "Boundless Informant," but you may feel differently.

Since this program is of the "pop-up" variety, I am "popping down" for the time being, but I suspect you have not heard the last from me.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2018 December 8, 1000-1100:

1. "Aural Dawn" | Marco Shuttle | Tropicalia | Spazio Disponibile
2. "Introspection" | Laraaji | Bring On The Sun | All Saints
3. "Who Will Choose My Dress" | Cindytalk | The Labyrinth of the Straight Line | Editions Mego
4. "Banteay Srey" | Carl Stone | Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties | Unseen Worlds
5. "Panorama" | Wurden & Pfeiffer | Pop Ambient 2018 | Kompakt
6. "Doobieatics" | Magic Mountain High | Air Texture, Vol. V - selected by Spacetime Continuum and Juju & Jordash | Air Texture
7. "Boundless Informant" | Jasmine Guffond | Traced | Sonic Pieces

forgive

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Songs About Bad People: Transmission 436, 2018 December 5

Lady Catharsis (not pictured) joins me for a sloppy, sometimes dark evening of bad promo copy and decent music. For family reasons, we don't do shows on December 24 or 25, so Krampusnacht, Festivus, and Boxing Day seem to be the sacred observances for us. At least that is what the archives tell me. We were both in good spirits on this night, but the mood was dampened somewhat by (as always) error and chaos. If only I could learn to embrace these things, I would be so much more happy and relaxed!

It makes me shudder to listen to this and hear the former teacher in me, coming out to quiz Lady Catharsis relentlessly on a subject for which I had barely prepared and for which she didn't prepare at all. This did give us one of several opportunities for on-the-spot "research," which greatly enhanced the evening's banter. I do think someone should bankroll Lady C's proposed Krampus documentary, or whatever it turns out to be, not just because I am confident that it will be great, but because I like the idea of someone bankrolling us without my having to roll out a Patreon or something.

Musical notes: I think I probably played the wrong pair of Barry Adamson tunes. That's life. It was gratifying that people were listening in real time and pestering us to play murder ballads--good to see such curiosity! I'm not sure anyone was anxious to hear "Like a Possum," much less the final 8 minutes of it, though we might have gone ahead and separated "the wheat from the chaff" and played the entire thing had I not been chastened by having upset management a few weeks prior. I guess I'm not the rebel I once was, and I am grateful for my time slot.

As predicted, we would wake up the next morning to find that the bad people had not disappeared. But we are keeping the faith.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 5, 2100-2300:

1. "The Man Comes Around" | Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American Recordings - Lost Highway
2. "The Devil Is My Friend" | The Jazz Butcher | The Human Jungle | Glass
3. "St. Christopher" | 50footwave | Bath White | Happy Happy Birthday To Me
4. "Armagideon Time" | Willie Williams | Full Up: Best of Studio One Volume 2 | Heartbeat
5. "Round Up The Usual Suspects" / "Sounds From The Big House" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Restless - Mute
6. "Rotten Fodder" | The Wolfgang Press | Standing Up Straight | 4AD
7. "Kommienezuspadt" | Tom Waits | Alice | Anti-
8. "Razzle In My Pocket" | Ian Dury | New Boots and Panties!! | The Hit Label
9. "The Bunny Song" | King Missile | They | Shimmy Disc
10. "People Ain't No Good" | The Cramps | A Date With Elvis | New Rose
11. "They're Hanging Me Tonight" | Thin White Rope | Red Sun | Demon
12. "Knoxville Girl" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities | Mute
13. "Like a Possum" [excerpt] | Lou Reed | Ecstasy | Reprise
14. "The Bad Will Die" | Keith Mlevhu | The Bad Will Die (1976-1979) | Strawberry Rain
15. "Armagideon Time" | The Clash | Clash on Broadway | Epic - Legacy
16. "Margin Walker" | Fugazi | 13 Songs | Dischord
17. "The Hungry Wolf" | X | Under the Big Black Sun | Elektra - Rhino
18. "Lilli Schull" | Uncle Tupelo | March 16-20, 1992 | Rockville
19. "For Jackie M" | 400 Blows | The Good Clean English Fist | Dojo
20. "He's Biding His Time" | Danny Dill | Beating on the Bars | Trailer Park
21. "Darkest Dreams" | His Name Is Alive | Livonia | 4AD

He bought me fifteen rum-and-cokes and then he went too far

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C'mon Queenie, Let's Get With It: Transmission 435, 2018 December 1

It is true when I say at some point in this program that we don't normally sound like this. So--first time visitors and listeners, be warned. Normally our transmissions are filled with "many moods, styles, and atmospheres," or whatever it is I say, "sonic trail mix" doing the work of the dreaded word "eclectic." Not that Billy Childish isn't up to the task, and not that we haven't devoted an entire program to him before, but don't come to Bombast looking for reliable "garage rock" or whatever designation people apply to BC. Of course you're welcome to stay as long as you like.

This broadcast is the first from a very busy December in which we found ourselves abandoning novelty and playing a lot of familiar stuff, a good deal of which we'd played before. Oh well, it is "nostalgia season," as I like to say. Nevertheless, due to the brevity of the tunes here, I was resolved (or resigned) not to care about the raggedness of segues. But--maybe it is also miracle season!--some of them turned out quite well. Perhaps it is impossible for greatness not to get along with itself.

So much for "content"--w/r/t "technique," I've had better nights, though I suppose I should be grateful that this is the first time in over 400 episodes that I have referred to the program as "Bauhaus." "It's late for me in a lot of senses," I muse, and I think that is valid. Elsewhere, I wonder out loud if 16 is the age of consent "in English," before suggesting that maybe I should be put out of your misery and yanked off the air. Lady Catharsis is audibly exasperated with this train of thought, which is her way of having my back.

Thanks for listening!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 1, 2000-2200:

1. "Wiley Coyote" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesar's Pleasure | Big Beat
2. "Don't Hold Me Back" | The Buff Medways | This Is This | Vinyl Japan
3. "Have Love, Will Travel" | Thee Headcoatees | Have Love, Will Travel | Vinyl Japan
4. "She's Fine, She's Mine" | Wild Billy Childish and the Blackhands | Live in the Netherlands | Hangman
5. "Strychnine" | Thee Headcoat Sect | Deerstalking Men | Hangman's Daughter
6. "We're Gonna Get Married" | Mickey & Ludella | Bedlam A' Go-Go! | Vinyl Japan
7. "I Can Tell" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Hangman's Daughter
8. "Your Touch On Me" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
9. "Run Cold" | Holly Golightly | Painted On | Sympathy for the Record Industry
10. "She's Got A Strange Attractor" | Thee Headcoats | Beached Earls | Crypt
11. "Temptress of Love" | The Delmonas | I Am The Billy Childish | Sub Pop
12. "Keep Your Man in Mind" | Wild Billy Childish | i remember... | M'Lady's
13. "Brimfull of Hate" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
14. "Laughing Song" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'Lady's
15. "Kray Twins" | The Pop Rivets | I Am The Billy Childish | Sub Pop
16. "I Can't Seem To Love That Girl" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter
17. "Long Legged Baby" | Natural Born Lovers | The Medway Poets | Hangman
18. "Train Kept A Rollin" / "Fire" | Auntie Vegetable | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
19. "Have Love, Will Travel" | Taylor Meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor Meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's
20. "Just 15" | The Buff Medways | 1914 | Transcopic
21. "Headstart" | Holly Golightly | The Good Things | Damaged Goods
22. "Miss Ludella Black" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Surely They Were The Sons of God | Crypt
23. "Ready Sect Go!" | Thee Headcoats Sect | Ready Sect Go! | Vinyl Japan
24. "Did I Tell You" / "Bill's Beat" / "Just Like You" | Thee Milkshakes | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 4 | Hangman
25. "Radio Dreggs" | Wild Billy Childish and the Spartan Dreggs | Coastal Command | Damaged Goods
26. "Dead Sea Fruit" | Miss Ludella Black | Till You Lie In Your Grave | Damaged Goods
27. "What About Brian - Alt. Version" | CTMF | What About Brian (Alt. Version) | Damaged Goods
28. "Ballad of the Insolent Pup" | Thee Headcoatees | Ballad of the Insolent Pup | Vinyl Japan
29. "Little Queenie" | The Billy Childish | The 1982 Cassetes | M'Lady's
30. "I Am The Object Of Your Desire" | Wild Billy Childish and His Famous Headcoats | I Am The Object Of Your Desire | Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association
31. "Sally Go Round the Roses" | Holly Golightly | Laugh It All Up! | Vinyl Japan
32. "The Green Hornet" | The Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat

Broadcasting the future from the past

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I Make My Own True Crooked Way: Transmission 434, 2018 November 28

Happy New Year! I cannot decide whether this is the "birthday" episode of the program, or whether the previous outing marked that occasion. Ideally, we would have celebrated the 6th anniversary of our debut on 21 November, which was, at long last, the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, but we were spending the holiday at my brother's house, which was surely more festive. At any rate, our last episode was more of a party, albeit (a big caveat here) a fundraising one, and this episode here is a more restrained yet representative solo outing. Fat, refreshed, and grounded, I was, on this night.

This is not to say that we never go "off the path" here. Though it begins strongly, the program seems to lose its way somewhere in that Mac Gregor / C Cat Trance / Pete Bassman sequence, despite the fact that all of those are good tracks. In the second hour I start to find myself, in grooves and atmospheres, but then I start to play John Tejada twice (again, a good track, but still). I've been re-reading Shadowplayers lately, and in it Bernard Sumner describes his creative process as "the way of mistakes." That could be the title for this program, generally. We owe a debt to Mr. Sumner, and we'll try to pay a bit of it soon.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 November 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Forest Floor" | LT | Forest Floor | Rhythm Section International
2. "Dotty" | Khotin | New Tab | Pacific Rhythm
3. "Powergrid" | Terranova | Singularity EP | Kompakt
4. "Eyewitness Clown" | Hairbone | Earth to Momma | Blank Forms
5. "Interlude" | The Mattson 2 | Play "A Love Supreme" | Spiritual Pajamas
6. "The End Is Nigh" | Orbital | The End Is Nigh | ACP
7. "Ascension" | Tokyo Prose | Wild Grace | The North Quarter
8. "Ere Aladun" | Gboyega Adelaja | Colourful Environment | Livingstone Studio
9. "La Pura Bianco" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
10. "Kingdom's Coming" | Bauhaus | Burning From The Inside [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
11. "Tone Burst (Country)" | Stereolab | Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2] [reissue] | Duophonic
12. "Abidjan" | Mac Gregor | In Abidjan | Hot Casa
13. "Take Me to the Beach" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
14. "Scars" | Pete Bassman | Lost In Space | Hoga Nord
15. "Splashed On" | R. Girardin | Emotional Music | Palto Flats
16. "Dark Energy" | The Bermuda Triangle | Sketches from Space | Vibraphone
17. "Guess Who?" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
18. "All At Sea" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
19. "Beyond My Eyes" | Bibio | Beyond Serious | WARP
20. "Trance 1" | Oneohtrix Point Never | The Station | WARP
21. "Previous Employee (feat. Maryouss)" | Cale Sexton | Melondrama | Butter Sessions
22. "On the Sunshine" | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | Bella Union
23. "On Returning" | Wire | 154 | Pink Flag
24. "Stone Tumbling Stream - fast version" | Jon Langford / Martin Bramah | Worm In Your Ear | Tiny Global Productions
25. "King Babylon Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
26. "Kur Tu Esi?" | Ingus Bauskenieks | Spoki | Stroom
27. "It Moves" | Astral TV | Chrystal Shores | El Paraiso
28. "Forgiveness Is Bliss" | Lay-Far | War Is Over | In-Beat-Ween
29. "Misty Avalanche" | Masayoshi Fujita | Book of Life | Erased Tapes
30. "Noumenon" | Afriqua | Vice / Principle | R & S

I'm not getting a second beep

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U_D_M Detour 34, 2018 November 17

[GUEST POST]

Guy LeBatard checking in once again. Kid Catharsis tells me, with no subtext whatsoever, that I am "clogging the pipeline" of new episodes he wants to post. Never mind that said episodes are barely "newer" than this one, but it is true, I must be shamed or whipped into productivity. So here, please find attached a sonic excursion I made just prior to Thanksgiving. The last time out, I did promise another outing. You can call me a flake, but I am no liar.

In retrospect this episode starts off a bit rhythm heavy, even for me. But I am resolved never to be disappointed, so it is just an observation. For those of you who love melodic techno, things get "sweeter" toward the end of the program. "More Sugar," indeed. I even manage to rep Montreal in this broadcast. I must have been full of the holiday spirit.

But that's all finished. I am off to new adventures, for now.

U_D_M playlist, 2018 November 17, 1900-2000:

1. "Zhivago Zhivago - Khidja Dub" | Jonny Sender | Jonny Sender EP | Codek
2. "Fantasy" | John Heckle | Cocoon Compilation R | Cocoon
3. "Into the Wild - Black Loops Remix" | Ponty Mython | Tropic of Capricorn (The Remixes) | Wewillalwaysbealovesong
4. "Dawn" | Locked Groove | Kompakt: Total 17 | Kompakt
5. "Last Minute Man" | Axefield | Pressure Drop | Atomnation
6. "Forgive Me" | Gui Boratto | Kompakt: Total 18 | Kompakt
7. "Red" | Robert Babicz | Red EP | Selador
8. "More Sugar" | Physical Therapy | More Sugar | Sounds of Beaubien Ouest

longevity

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Daddy Goes Dancing with Mommy-O: Transmission 433, 2018 November 14

This is better, and worse. Lady Catharsis finally makes it to the studio, where we are joined by pitching co-host Jeff and the criminally uncredited Kristi, who did not have the benefit of a microphone. We actually earned money on this night, which is novel. My mother was Mrs. Moneybags, though other listeners pitched in on that front as well, to save me a bit of embarrassment. There was a good feeling on the night, as opposed to the barely contained desperation of the previous week.

I can't help but feel that this episode is a bit unfocused, musically, though. Granted, when I invite Lady Catharsis into the studio, we are always in the Listening Parlour, and I generally feel like the more I get my way, the better my show is (hmm). It certainly wasn't a wall-to-wall "Legends Night" like last week's episode, and it definitely sounds less exciting than the "flutes and synthesizers" Jeff promises on his own program, "Radio Nomadics." I have to say I simply don't like Mariachi El Bronx, that Jeff embarrasses me (without meaning to) by pronouncing "toque" "correctly," and that "Metronomic Underground" is not a happy song. ("Thieves Like Us" is.) All that said, the "ragged segues" I predicted really didn't come to pass, and for the most part things went more smoothly than planned. "Striving for Excellence in Content and Technique?" Sometimes we get there.

 

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 November 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Anar (Instrumental)" | Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat | Mdou Moctar Meets Elite Beat In a Budget Dancehall | Boomarm Nation
2. "You Know I'm No Good" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
3. "Let's Have a Party" | Psychotik Tanks | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
4. "Daddyo Loves Mommyo" | Tommy Duncan | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family
5. "No Bulbs" | The Fall | The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route to... | Beggars Banquet
6. "Jack The Ripper [Acoustic Version]" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides and Rarities | Mute
7. "You Don't Know What Love Is" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
8. "Birdie Song" / "Dreams and Light" | The Wolfgang Press | Queer | 4AD
9. "Revolution Girls" | Mariachi El Bronx | Mariachi El Bronx | ATO Records / White Drugs
10. "Si Firmi O Grido" | A Certain Ratio | Mickey Way (The Candy Bar) | Factory
11. "Buzz" | Throwing Muses | The Season Sessions: Fall | CASH Music
12. "All Fall Away" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
13. "Tarantula" | Colourbox | Breakdown (Second Version) | 4AD
14. "Metronomic Underground" | Stereolab | Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology | Rhino
15. "Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)" | New Order | Murder | Factory Benelux

I always have a smile for you

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Feels Like Murder But That's Alright: Transmission 432, 2018 November 7

Can you feel the excitement in the air? It's alright, I can't either. This is a fundraising program, and if it isn't obvious from my voiceovers on this episode, let me tell you that I hate fundraising. I truly believe that people should just give their money freely to WRFI, year-round, without our having to ask for it. Is that unrealistic? There are some "inside baseball" stories I could tell, but I don't want to upset anyone. It is Christmas, after all.

To compound the "issue," I wasn't in a great mood on this night. Lady Catharsis had a "family obligation" (though I don't remember what it was, probably a rehearsal for Junior) and couldn't make it to the studio like we planned. Plus, the Ithaca Vegans had done their normal bit and complained about our social media postings having to do with "Ithaca Sheepskin," the donors of this evening's prize. Vegans! You are free to support the station and then we will post nice things about you one day! Another thing that aggravates me, after the fact: apparently I mispronounced "toque," saying "toke" instead of the "correct" "took." But at the risk of doubling down--Canadians! Surely you are wrong about this. Someone please explain to me the rule of pronunciation that brings us to this awful place.

Anyway, about the music--it is tough to go wrong with "Legends Night," though circumstances did their best to take me there. That Durutti Column record is "well-loved," and there is a bad skip in the Singers and Players record, though it went well with the song's tempo and I handled it deftly, I have to say. On the plus side--that This Mortal Coil record is truly wild (and for the most part doesn't even sound like a 4AD record to me anymore). I will never understand why their reception was as poor as it was.

Co-host Josh and I do our best on this demoralizing evening where we didn't happen to make any money. At least we didn't refer to the WRFI hat as a "beanie." We have that going for us. There's a very convoluted discussion of the concept of "local," after which Josh admits that he is slipping (transparency is part of WRFI's mission statement). "Anything goes...pretty much," I offer. Sigh. I am not an anarchist and, let's face it, I have stopped pretending.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 November 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Hu / Re" | Dif Juz | Huremics | 4AD
2. "Green Hazed Daze" | A.R. Kane | Love-Sick | Rough Trade
3. "Happy Cycling" | Boards of Canada | Peel Session | WARP
4. "The Snow" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
5. "Spanish Reggae" | The Durutti Column | Obey the Time | Factory
6. "Ravi Shankar" / "The Show Is Coming" | The Dub Syndicate | Tunes from the Missing Channel | On-U Sound
7. "Quante Jubila" | Singers and Players | War of Words | On-U Sound
8. "Alone" / "Mama K II" / "The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb" / "Drugs" / "Red Rain" / "Thais II" | This Mortal Coil | Filigree & Shadow | 4AD
9. "Behind the Light" | Breathless | Behind the Light | Tenor Vossa
10. "Animal or Vegetable [A Wonderful Wooden Reason...]" | Stereolab | Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2] | Drag City

Green means go

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Cruising Altitude Departure 29, 2018 November 3

[GUEST POST]

Surprise! Do you remember me? It's Captain Halcyon, just checking in at holiday time with a program I did a little over a month ago. It stunned me to realize that it had been just over two years since my most recent audio departure. So I felt I had to rectify it when I had the chance, and the chance is now (or then).

This program gave me good, happy feelings, particularly the Easychord piece, which comfortably goes on nearly forever without changing. I even received some positive feedback in real time, though the caller (actually texter) mistook me for someone else. It happens. I hope Kid Catharsis won't mind my telling you that the kudos made him jealous! This sort of thing never happens to him, he says, though he apparently has other things that drive him.

I promise we'll meet again soon (and I do mean sooner than two years from now!).

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2018 November 3, 1000-1100:

1. "Third Site" | Landing | Third Sight | El Paraiso
2. "Kaskelot - offthesky Remix" | Tobias Hellkvist | Kaskelot: Reissue + Remixes | Home Normal
3. "Small Hours" | Altars Altars | Small Hours | Home Normal
4. "Want We" | Max D | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
5. "Sonido Espanol" | Leandro Fresco | Pop Ambient 2017 | Kompakt
6. "I Wasn't There For Goodbye" | Easychord | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
7. "Looped" | Bowery Electric | Beat | kranky
8. "Good Life" | Thore Pfeiffer | Pop Ambient 2017 | Kompakt
9. "C6 81 56 28 09 34 31 D2 F9 9C D6 BD 92 ED FC 6F 6C A9 D4 88 95 8C 53 B4 55 DF 38 C4 AB E7 72 13" | TCF | Mono No Aware | PAN
10. "Home" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Maria Dimension | Play It Again Sam

introspection

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