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See It for Yourself, but Not Through the Eyes: Transmission 393, 2018 January 31

Do you have a favorite genre of diary entry? I do. Mine is "I couldn't tell you what happened on this program if my life depended on it." I am blaming this on sickness--literal sickness that has dogged me at various times this year, including the week after this show aired, when I was listening back to it, such that I feel I haven't really been in my right mind at any point in 2018, and a general malaise that has me not wanting to do or think about much of anything. Isn't it good to hear from me?

So anyway, I can't tell you how this show "felt" at the time, though it was good to be able to speak properly (inasmuch as I do) and not to have to commemorate a death (can't help seeing myself as Casey Kasem here). Looking at the playlist, I can faintly remember some good segues. The selection looks tight. I think you will enjoy this, but who am I to say?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Margaritifer" | Dan Terminus | Automated Refrains | Blood Music
2. "Cemetry Gates - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
3. "Hello Victim! Awake!" | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
4. "Silly Girl" | Chester | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
5. "Perishan" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
6. "Tanith" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
7. "Merle's Boogie Woogie" | Merle Travis | Hillbilly Music...Thank God! Volume 1 | Bug / Capitol
8. "Covehithe" | Second Storey | Lucid Locations | Houndstooth
9. "Iambic 5 Poetry" | Shobaleader One | Elektrac | WARP
10. "Zandra" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
11. "Pain" | Quays & Lixo | GETME! Is Ten | GETME!
12. "The Color of Love is Blue" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
13. "Strait of Dover" | Last Days | Seafaring | N5MD
14. "Giggles" | Blue Hawaii | Tenderness | Arbutus
15. "Teenage Witch" | John Maus | Screen Memories | Ribbon
16. "Ghabash" | Muqata'a | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Nieznajoma" | Tamten | Diamentowa Sutra EP | Transatlantyk
18. "Let Me Sing" | Saint Abdullah | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
19. "What About Brian - Alt. Version" | CTMF | What About Brian (Alt. Version) | Damaged Goods
20. "Arpo" | Call Super | Arpo | Houndstooth
21. "Tonal Bath For Bubbles" | Gregg Kowalsky | L'Orange L'Orange | Mexican Summer
22. "Being Home Tonight" | Muziekkamer | 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 | Contort Yourself
23. "Australasie 2" | Astrobal | Memories of Stars EP | Karaoke Kalk
24. "Endless" | Know V.A. | Black Label | Signal Life
25. "Breathe In" | Sky High | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
26. "Balustrade" | Achterbahn D'Amour | Acid Test 13 | Acid Test
27. "DLR" | Bicep | Glue EP | Ninja Tune
28. "Detours" | Saine | For The Dreamers | Omena
29. "Sem Teto" | Cinema | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
30. "Zapoi" | Rone | Mirapolis | Infine
31. "The Neverending" | James Holden & The Animal Spirits | The Animal Spirits | Border Community
32. "I've Got Acid (On My Brain) (Acapella)" | John Tejada & Justin Maxwell | I've Got Acid (On My Brain) | Acid Camp
33. "Haunting Ex" | Giant Head | Lessons | Front and Follow
34. "Post Self" | Godflesh | Post Self | Avalanche
35. "got HYPE" | Glow In The Dark | Into Existence | Sonar Kollektiv
36. "The Split" | Howard Hello | Election Year | Temporary Residence Limited
37. "En Espiritu" | Jorge C. | Sueno Viejo | Dopeness Galore

finding it hard

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Drink the Long Draught, Dan: Transmission 392, 2018 January 24

I'm going to be petty for a moment and talk about an inconvenient aspect of death. It can really mess with the plans of the living. Here I was, planning on featuring a Leslie Winer record (NB that I did anyway) and in comes the news that Mark E Smith has died. What on earth am I supposed to do with this? I did what I could, and what I always do--I played a Fall song on the radio.

Should I have gone with two hours' worth? Maybe, though frequent listeners will already be overly familiar with my Fall habit. I certainly didn't become acquainted with the band through large doses. Funnily enough, my first relevant memory is of hearing a tune in the car, age 16 or 17, not knowing who it was, having it stick in my head firmly enough to drive me crazy with curiosity, and finding out years later that it was "Barmy." There was also Friend of Bombast Jeremy, who had a copy of Palace of Swords Reversed that he would try to get me to listen to but I couldn't seem to be bothered, most of the time. Still, things stuck with me--bits of "Leave the Capitol," "Fit and Working Again" and "Kicker Conspiracy," and all of "Marquis Cha-Cha." At some point I bought this compilation and was bowled over by the rendition of "Wings." (Ah, this one, here! So good!) I wouldn't call this succumbing instantaneous or gradual; it was very random and staccato. Things just lingered, waiting to be latched onto. Seems fitting.

It's been weird, the last 20 years, watching the man's personal decline--hearing about the belligerence, the drinking, the verbal and physical violence. I have to say that I haven't made sense of it--I'm unable to bracket off the "product" from the personal, but I also can't stop listening. I can't quit him though I know I probably should. It is probably like this for other people.

If this seems like an abrupt ending, that's how life works.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Other (Justin K Broadrick as JK FLESH Remix)" | S U R V I V E | RR7387 | Relapse
2. "PHANTOM BRICKWORKS II - Edit" | Bibio | PHANTOM BRICKWORKS II (Edit) | WARP
3. "Never Enough Time" | Michael C. Sharp | Never Enough Time | Holodeck
4. "I Think About Your Car When I Drive Mine" | Jori Hulkkonen | Don't Believe In Happiness | My Favorite Robot
5. "Babe" | Ruby My Dear | 15 Years of PRSPCT | PRSPCT
6. "Choose Ur Illusion - Jay Glass Dubs Version" | Bonebrokk | Hollow Systems | Trial and Error
7. "La Riviere Des Perles" | Becker & Mukai | Eyes | Sas
8. "Fieldofdreams" | Om Unit | Self | Cosmic Bridge
9. "Cold Sweat" | Phuture-T | Fugitive Drummer / Cold Sweat | Inperspective
10. "Hip Priest" | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | Superior Viaduct
11. "The Cross" | R.I.P. | Street Reaper | Riding Easy
12. "Night Beat" | Odonis Odonis | No Pop | Felte
13. "Lost Flight" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
14. "V.III" | Papir | V | Stickman
15. "A Year In A Day" | Hannu Karjalainen | A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert | Karaoke Kalk
16. "The Future Is Hurt / Dirt & Fields" | Shackleton with Anika | Behind the Glass | Woe to the Septic Heart
17. "Red Kite like a Dust Mote in my Third Eye (Bee Fart)" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
18. "Garden Portal" | Semiomime | Close Ones | Mindtrick
19. "The Boy Used To Whistle" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Night Shift" | Wild Ones | Mirror Touch | Topshelf
21. "When He Come Back" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Cloudburst Five" | The Belbury Circle | Outward Journeys | Ghost Box

a train to Crewe

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Poured Kerosene on Some Bridges: Transmission 391, 2018 January 17

Finally a good program from 2018! It seems that maybe I have not "lost" it after all. Unburdened by "physical evidence" and "the listening parlour" (I do seem to take joy in saying "it's a featureless program tonight"), I am able to make sense of some segues. Some. It's about damn time. Now, if I could just stop playing Smiths records.

Seems noteworthy that I guess out loud that it's "Roving Iinternational" and not "Raving International." Is that a sign of age, or tiredness, or both, not to mention whatever degree of general malaise I am feeling? To be fair, I'm not really up for raving OR roving these days. A year into--I can hardly name it--our current era, let's say, I'd prefer much of the time to stay in bed. "Were it not that I have bad dreams."

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 17, 2100-2300:

1. "How Soon Is Now?" / "Hand In Glove" / "I Want the One I Can't Have" / "Never Had No One Ever" - Live in Boston | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
2. "Another Moon" | Minor Science | Whities 012 | Whities
3. "Wakihi" | Sugai Ken | UkabazUmorezU | Rvng Int'l
4. "Harvest" | Tom Trago | Serene Waters | Voyage Direct
5. "I'm Interesting, Cheerful & Sociable" | Errorsmith | Superlative Fatigue | PAN
6. "A Spark To Light The Hollows" | Hoofus | Lessons | Front and Follow
7. "What A Day" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
8. "Pull" | Elite Barbarian | Lessons | Front and Follow
9. "As I Get To Know You Better" | Fake Laugh | Fake Laugh | Headcount
10. "Dottie's Messages" | Oliver Cherer | Lessons | Front and Follow
11. "London Bridges" | Grandbrothers | Open | City Slang
12. "Elephant" | Eye O | Deux O & Debut | Public Release
13. "The Triangle" | Gilb'r | Dekmantel 10 Years 07 | Dekmantel
14. "Self Reliance" | TuTH | Transgression | Umor Rex
15. "La Plume Des Armes" | Esmerine | Mechanics of Dominion | Constellation
16. "Kerberos" | MEUTE | Tumult | Tumult
17. "Superflare" | Psycho & Plastic | Kosmopop | Give Us Your Gold
18. "Solarhys" | Chloe | Endless Revisions | Lumiere Noire
19. "Lumen" | Aparde | Glass | KI
20. "Resist Much Obey Little" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
21. "Great Heroes" | Little Axe | London Blues | Echo Beach
22. "Millers Pond" | Headroom | Head in the Clouds | Trouble in Mind
23. "Fine Line" | Alvarius B. | With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven | Abduction
24. "Appointment" | Aathens | Virtue Signal | Blank Editions
25. "Soar" | Kink | Playground | Running Back
26. "Fogged_M1" | Pye Corner Audio | Lessons | Front and Follow
27. "46 Things I Did Today (feat. Little Annie)" | COH | COHGS | Editions Mego
28. "Pangea" | Speakman Sound | Warm | Ears to Learn With

the vowels are missing

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All This Peaceful Wilderness: Transmission 390, 2018 January 10

I am beginning to think 2018 might not be a good year for this program. You have heard, no doubt, of "women laughing alone with salad." Consider this modification--me, crying alonne with my mixtape--and you begin to get a picture of how I have experienced this particular broadcast. It is not for the faint of heart, to begin with--it is a dark, dubby, moody two hours, but then I am such a person and these are such times. The segues are incomprehensible, which means either that Trench Town Dub is the greatest record of all time or I've completely lost it. I'll let you decide!

Note: I speculate that the recordings on this "physical evidence" record were done prior to its release date of 1989. Well, no duh--what I meant was "significantly earlier," but I may have even been wrong about that. If I'm not mistaken, I hear a gated drum sound on at least one of these tracks, so maybe this is mid-to-late 80s stuff. Yes, I listen carefully even when I am annoyed at what I do.

At least my cold is gone. The dulcet tones are back, baby!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Space Movement Section 2" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
2. "Sakouro Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Caju" | Fia Fiell | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
4. "Lost and Blind" | Null+Void | Cryosleep | HFN
5. "Fresh Fruit" | Roman Nails | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
6. "Streetwise Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Beachy Head" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
8. "Unity of Opposites" | Miris | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
9. "Hustler Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Second Mistake" | Ayya | Mono No Aware | PAN
11. "Up the Path and in My Door" | Herb Henson | The Other Side of Bakersfield | Bear Family | "The Listening Parlour"
12. "Mountainside" | Deradoorian | Eternal Recurrence | Anticon
13. "East Tower Stairwell Gathering - Alternative Mix" | Howlround | Lessons | Front and Follow
14. "Gu" | Necro Deathmort | Overland | Profound Lore
15. "It Could Be Now - Interlude" | FD | Alone with Everybody | The North Quarter
16. "The Absolute Territory" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
17. "Crossing" | Sova Stroj | Refugium | Testtoon
18. "Comprehensive Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Motif Of A Fish" | Ewan Jansen | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
20. "In The Dust Of This Planet" | K-Lone | In The Dust EP | Soundman Chronicles
21. "Wolves" | London Modular Alliance | Wolves EP | Hypercolour
22. "Untitled" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
23. "The Seams of Goodwill - Original Quincux Version" | IX Tab | Lessons | Front and Follow
24. "Black Shore" | Kangaroo Skull | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
25. "Jungle Man Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Structures and Behavior (Group Dynamics)" | The Mayhem Lecture Series | Structures and Behavior | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

there's a club if you'd like to go

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I Need To Cling to Something: Transmission 389, 2018 January 3

Please find attached the first Bombast program of 2018, and I must say it is an inauspicious start. "My voice is shot," as I say toward the end of the program when I am giving up on backannouncing, and that's no exaggeration. Elsewhere you will find me experiencing Sean McDonough-worthy adolescent voice cracks, and other indignities. This is on account of a cold I was trying unsuccessfully to fight off, one which would have me convalescing in a Manhattan hotel room a couple days later, during a business trip I was not looking forward to anyway. "A program of many moods and energies?" Not exactly, on this night.

Anyway, we have an elusive 4AD-related piece of Physical Evidence to feature in this program, so that is something. Back in the day, this Garlands compact disc was one of a small handful of reasons why I finally "went digital." It was an expensive medium to jump into, and I had to be convinced, you see. What were the other reasons? As I recall, the cd combining the first two Felt LPs and a 3" (!) cd single by Trisomie 21. For you younger readers and listeners, you have to understand what a novelty it was, in the 1980s, to hear dead silence preceding the onset of music, instead of crackle or hiss. Friend of the program Mr. D. had the cassette of Garlands, which also featured these bonus tracks, and the A/B comparison was mind-blowing. I suppose my mind was easily blown.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Stuck in the Track at Salford Priors" | Fret | Over Depth | KarlRecords
2. "Dear Heart" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Chile's Crimson Tide" | Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement | Ambient Black Magic | Hospital Productions
4. "Something in My Brain" | The Telescopes | As Light Return | Tapete
5. "Ripleys" | Spectrasoul | How We Live | Ish Chat
6. "Perhaps Some Other Aeon" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Java Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
8. "Time to Sell the Golden Teeth" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
9. "Dead Fly Disguise" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
10. "Guitar" | Hisato Higuchi | She (Reissue) | Family Vineyard
11. "Stretch Out And Wait" / "The Boy With the Thorn In His Side" / "Cemetry Gates" / "Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring" - Live in Boston | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
12. "Sa Ou Che" | Cristobal and the Sea | Exitoca | City Slang
13. "Stannum" | Kemper Norton | Lessons | Front and Follow
14. "Speak No Evil" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Tom at the Library" | West Norwood Cassette Library | Lessons | Front and Follow
16. "Brexit Jazz - New Version" | Brexit Jazz | Brexit Jazz Remix EP | Compost
17. "The Garden" | Carla dal Forno | The Garden | Blackest Ever Black
18. "Hazel" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Healthcare" | Ben Frost | The Centre Cannot Hold | Mute
20. "Blind Dumb Deaf" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Release the Bats" | The Birthday Party | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
22. "Dan Dare" | The Wedding Present | Singles 1989-1991 | Manifesto | "The Listening Parlour"
23. "Island Fanfare" | Off World | 2 | Constellation
24. "Friendship Train" | SJOB Movement | Friendship Train | Cultures of Soul
25. "The Mighty 8th" | July Skies | The English Cold [reissue] | Caroline True
26. "Hearsay Please" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Alaska Cruisin" | Walter TV | Carpe Diem | Sinderyn
28. "Voices" | Belia Winnewisser | PE-010 | Prasens Editionen
29. "Pregame" | Blue Hawaii | Tenderness | Arbutus
30. "The Opening" | Spotlights | Seismic | Ipecac
31. "Madeira II (Mae Terra)" | Marco Bosco | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
32. "Dragou mig" | Hogni | Two Trains | Erased Tapes
33. "Theta v2 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

it could be now

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Chatting All the Chat, Now Look at You: Transmission 388, 2017 December 27

With this mixtape we say good riddance to 2017, an awful year from our perspective, truly one of the worst. My perspective may be too narrow and that may be the problem, but this is my opinion and I am sticking with it. The slow descent into fascism, the degradation of fact, personal stresses and crises, an aborted vacation, an austere holiday season, Lady C falling and concussing herself--right now the idea that time only moves in one direction and therefore we will never revisit these moments is the only thing giving me any hope.

So we say "adieu" by featuring the Legendary Little Annie (yep, still not getting paid)--and I can think of no one better for this occasion. To tell the truth about this particular sausage of a program, I have the cd that combines Short and Sweet with In Dread, but if I recall correctly--sorry, too lazy to consult the database at the moment--we have already featured the latter. So it goes! There are odd moments in this program where one song ends abruptly, giving way to the next song's extremely slow and quiet fade-in. A good program for headphone listening, then! Or you could blast it on your hifi and lull your neighbors repeatedly into false senses of calm.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Black and Blue" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
2. "Going for Gold" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Dirty Joke" | DIRTY SONGS | DIRTY SONGS play DIRTY SONGS | Audika
4. "Boots with Wings" | UUUU | UUUU | Editions Mego
5. "Ambition" | TV21 | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
6. "frikandel [the end bit]" | Brainwaltzera | Poly-Ana | Film
7. "The Friendly Coroner" | Extrawelt | Fear of an Extra Planet | Cocoon
8. "Metronomic Underground" | Stereolab | Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology | Rhino / Elektra / Duophonic | "The Listening Parlour"
9. "Give It To Me" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Big Shot" | Patrick Cowley | Afternooners | Dark Entries
11. "Moonlight" | Ziur | U Feel Anything? | Planet Mu
12. "You, the Night and the Music" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Party Of The Mind" | The Dead Suns | New Dark Age, A Tribute to the Sound | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "If Cain Were Able" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Nobody" | Michael Claus | Memory Protect | 100% Silk
16. "The Homeless Mutants" | Naked Beast | Naked Beast | Guitars and Bongos
17. "Sanfte Grusse" | Voigt & Voigt | Speicher 99 | Kompakt
18. "Watch the World Go Bye" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Metropolis" | Somne | Metropolis EP | Just This
20. "Hanging Pyramid" | Juju & Jordash | Sis-boom-bah! | Dekmantel
21. "Lazuli" | Von Haze | VII | Drone UK
22. "Boys Club" | Johannes Klingebiel | We'll Sea, Part 2 | Mireia
23. "See the Light - Rework" | Sofa Surfers | 20 | Monoscope
24. "Little Man" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
25. "The Queen Is Dead" / "I Know It's Over" - Live in Boston" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
26. "Dieu dans le bordel" | Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini | Madame E. | Undogmatisch

ere long done do does did

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We're Going To Touch Part of You That's Never Been Touched: Transmission 387, 2017 December 23

Since I never get to, or am never allowed to, do a WRFI broadcast on Christmas Eve, I suppose I will have to make do with another Festivus program. (This may be "inside talk" of the sort with which we had an attraction / repulsion thing going during this broadcast, but whatever.) Nevertheless, this was a good outing. Lady Catharsis and I had a nice mix of "chestnuts" and tunes we had never before played, and the banter was cheery and good. In an added bonus, I resisted the temptation to share all 24 minutes of Oval with our listeners.

And there was reason for cheer--it was the second night of our "Christmas vacation." Little did I know at the time that it would be ten days of mediocre sleep and troubled dreams, most of them dreams of a previous life I am well out of. Looking back, maybe our mood on this night was "premature," or "misplaced," or whatever, but hindsight doesn't cloud the fact that this was a fun show to do, and (I hope) to hear.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 23, 1900-2100:

1. "December" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | DGC
2. "The Secret Touch" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Time To Tell | Conspiracy International
3. "Christmas Underground" | Kristin Hersh | Banjo's Pavlova | self-released
4. "You Little Shits" | Stereolab | Peng! | Too Pure
5. "Good Morning Blues" | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas | Verve
6. "It's That Time Again" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones | Live | Midnight
7. "Fyt" / "Fond Affections" / "The Last Ray" | This Mortal Coil | It'll End in Tears | 4AD
8. "Sleigh Ride" | The Partridge Family | A Partridge Family Christmas Card | Razor & Tie
9. "Spacelab" | Kraftwerk | The Man-Machine | Capitol
10. "Mary Mild" | The Kingston Trio | The Last Month of the Year | Capitol
11. "Must Be Santa" | The Tea Jennies | "Christmas Crackers" | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Sno Cat" | Kristin Hersh | Duchess of York UK Live 2009 | self-released
13. "Quarterdrawing of the Dog" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Tinderbox | Geffen
14. "Rose Madder" | A Primary Industry | Ultramarine | Sweatbox
15. "One Christmas For Your Thoughts" | The Durutti Column | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
16. "Jingle Bells" | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas | Verve
17. "Jesus Christ" | Big Star | Big Star's 3rd: Sister Lovers | PVC
18. "My Christmas Card To You" | The Partridge Family | A Partridge Family Christmas Card | Razor & Tie
19. "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" | Coil | Winter Solstice: North | Eskaton
20. "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" | The Smiths | Hatful of Hollow | WEA

make mine gin and panic

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Queueing for a Shuttle into Space: Transmission 386, 2017 December 20

This program was the second night of a back-to-back engagement. (I brought this on myself.) It was also the fourth program in eight nights. (I brought that on myself too.) If you had asked me beforehand, and no one did, I would never have volunteered! I am so exhausted these days, physically and emotionally. Yet I seem up for it on this night. It must be solstice magic!

Notes: I suspect I've said just about as much as there is for me to say about the Jazz Butcher, except that I find myself enjoying these grainy, older recordings more than I used to. Elsewhere: I am certain the Indie Gods are punishing me for ending an honest to goodness ROCK BLOCK at the beginning of the program by going junglist all of a sudden, giving me (and you) a five-second dropout during "Night Vision" to contemplate the error of my ways. Nevertheless, it's true that I sell myself short during the backannounce. I am a Very Important Person. (And, by the way, so are you.)

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Wait in the Car" | The Breeders | Wait in the Car | 4AD
2. "Bigmouth Strikes Again - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
3. "Marnie" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
4. "The Magic Ray" | The Magic Ray | The Magic Ray | Dischi Autunno
5. "Last Train to Clarkesdale (Back Crack Track)" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
6. "JB V. PM" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Night Vision - VIP Mix" | Technimatic | Technimatic Remixed | Shogun Audio
8. "Open The Gift" | Laraaji | Bring On The Sun | All Saints
9. "Distance" | Flying Saucer Attack | Distance [reissue] | VHF
10. "Ten Cats Down (alt. take)" | The Miller Sisters | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
11. "Outside" | Inner Self | O.E. Outside Experience | 100% Silk
12. "Helena Markos" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
13. "Poly" | Daphni | Joli Mai | Jiaolong
14. "Zombie Love" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Mokou Mokou Blues" | Amadou & Mariam | La Confusion | Because Music
16. "Shot" | The Hipshakes | Shot | Nerve Centre
17. "Lost in France" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Dream Come Now" | Honey | New Moody Judy | Wharf Cat
19. "Reborn After the Road" | Several Definitions | Reborn After the Road | Stil vor Talent
20. "Small Wonder" | The Carpettes | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
21. "The One Who's Hurting Is You" | Sunny & The Sunliners | Mr. Brown Eyed Soul | Big Crown
22. "JB Meets Count Dracula" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Thema II" | Sully | Escape | Keysound
24. "Camus" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
25. "Broccoli Tempura" | Kitty, Daisy & Lewis | Superscope | Sunday Best
26. "Karma" | Will Lister | Space to Breathe | Joy in Repetition
27. "You Are Digging Your Grave" | Nelson Can | EP3 | Alcopop!
28. "Southern Mark Smith" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Swampland" | Pere Ubu | 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo | Cherry Red
30. "Rain" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
31. "Falls 2" | Four Tet | New Energy | Text
32. "Dust In Your Eyes - Mark Du Mosch Remix" | Nuno Dos Santos | Trigonometry of Love Remixes | Something Happening Somewhere
33. "A Gleam" | Dmitry Evgrafov | Comprehension of Light | FatCat
34. "Chatter" | L.Zylberberg | PE-010 | Prasens Editionen
35. "Sheet Music" | Simian Ghost | Simian Ghost | Heist or Hit
36. "Harmony Day" | The Mole | De La Planet | Maybe Tomorrow

resembling a thought

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Veering Back into the Usual Unprofessionalism: Transmission 385, 2017 December 19

At long last, a well-executed program. I am in another of those troughs, it seems; it took an opportunity for "hero time," Godfrey's sudden indisposal--is that a word?--for me to show my best radio self. Unlike DJ Danelectro, who preceded me on this night, I couldn't plan or summon much holiday spirit, but perhaps hearing this program within the appropriate season will conjure up some of the hoped-for magic. My built-in "excuse," insofar as I need one, is that there would be two more programs between this one and "the big day."

Surely there are better segues than "Vicar in a Tutu" transitioning into "Crystal Pleasure," but I am willing to be wrong about this. Elsewhere there are moments that vary between lovely and weird and often achieve both qualities. Additionally we see the welcome return of Blancmange! I say so because someone phoned in specifically to tell me how awesome that track is. It must be true.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Little Jacket" | Loney Dear | Loney Dear | Real World
2. "Fit to be Tied" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
3. "Lost at Sea" | Martial Canterel | Lost at Sea | Dais
4. "Arcade Desire" | Laroze | Past Twenty Years | RTCT
5. "The Shape Of Trance To Come" | Lorenzo Senni | XAllegroX / The Shape Of Trance To Come | WARP
6. "Bells" | Wooden Arms | Trick of the Light | Fierce Panda
7. "~42º" | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Derelicts | Blood Music
8. "George's Garden" | Mister Heavenly | Boxing the Moonlight | Polyvinyl
9. "Grow - Nite Jewel Remix" | Barbara Morganstern & Werkstatt | Monika Werkstatt Remixes | Monika
10. "Kitka" | Die Angel | Entropien I | Cosmo Rhythmatic
11. "Groundsboy" | The Fall | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red
12. "Vicar In a Tutu" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
13. "Crystal Pleasure" | Orlando Julius & Ashiko | Love Peace & Happiness | Hot Casa
14. "Gratitude" | Blancmange | Unfurnished Rooms | Blanc Check
15. "The Swarm of Sweettooth - Child Bite Remix" | Controlled Bleeding | Carving Songs | Artoffact
16. "Fault Line" | Flat Worms | Flat Worms | Text Me
17. "Samba" | The Hipshakes | Shot | Nerve Centre
18. "The Winding Path" | Terminal Cheesecake | Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients | Box
19. "Good Ol' Days" | Pablo Valentino | My Son's Smile | MCDE Recordings
20. "Gravity Can Not Catch You" | Tzusing | In A Moment A Thousand Hits | Bedouin
21. "Cold" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
22. "Dolce" | I-iii | Dolce / Bun So Nude | Livity Sound
23. "Paron Largo" | Ferenc vs. Eduardo de la Calle | Collab | Motor City Drum Ensemble
24. "Beast" | Phase Fatale | Redeemer | Hospital Productions
25. "Das Expanded, Untitled Riff" | Dedekind Cut | The Expanding Domain (DED005) | Hallow Ground
26. "One Sad Touch" | G.S. Schray | Gabriel | Last Resort
27. "Home Grown" | London Modular Alliance | Home Grown EP | Hypercolour
28. "The Magic in You" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities

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My Cloudy Brain Remembers: Transmission 384, 2017 December 14

This outing was less angry for us than the previous one. Indeed, in the intervening day we had come down from that infuriating telephone call and begun to feel remorse. Maybe that old lady--had we mentioned that it was an old lady?--was merely lonely and had difficulty communicating. Maybe we had shut her down in some way. Maybe she was a supporter of the station, or a would-be supporter, and we had alienated her (that probably happened in any case). We are extremely narcissistic and think our umbrage and words matter a lot!

Nevertheless, as we warned, we did not deliver a "lovely" program on this substitute occasion. (The previous program, The Joe Show, had "harmony" as its theme--is "theme" the right word when the songs literally featured harmonies? Is it not "style" or "feature?--making us wonder if we should return to "themed" programs, having burned ourselves out long ago.) But we did deliver a good, weird program, hopefully enjoyable whether you are old and lonely or young-ish and with healthy friendships.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Helen in the Woods" | TORRES | Three Futures | 4AD
2. "Before at the Flat, 'The Aquarium,' Conant Gardens, 10:00 PM" | Taos | Nights | Pont Neuf
3. "Clouds" | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Derelicts | Blood Music
4. "Without You" | Danvers | Omiyage EP | SGOL
5. "Night Valve" | Off World | 2 | Constellation
6. "Law and Panda" | Weaves | Wide Open | Memphis Industries
7. "Circuit" | VVV | Shadow World | Holodeck
8. "Aisling" | John Tejada | Ceol | Kompakt
9. "Everyone Is Falling" | Vessels | The Great Distraction | Different
10. "An Intention" | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | The Kid | Western Vinyl
11. "Provinces" | City | A Goal Is an Image | Halcyon Veil
12. "Neon Swing" | Juju & Jordash | Dekmantel 10 Years 05 | Dekmantel
13. "For One Moment" | Lee Hazlewood | Love and Other Crimes | LHI | "The Listening Parlour"
14. "Meille" | Hannu Karjalainen | A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert | Karaoke Kalk
15. "Bleeding Eyes" | White Manna | Bleeding Eyes | Agitated
16. "Bagman" | Honey | New Moody Judy | Wharf Cat
17. "Mere Pseud Mag. Ed." | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | Superior Viaduct
18. "The Painted Word" | The Pristines | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
19. "San" | Hinosch | Hinosch | TAL
20. "Climate Change" | Display Homes | Display Homes | Tough Love
21. "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
22. "Thorazine" | Sumerian Fleet | Pendulum | Dark Entries
23. "LPG" | Fvzz Popvli | Fvzz Dei | Heavy Psych Sounds
24. "Patrick" | Juju | Our Mother Was A Plant | Fuzz Club
25. "Searc" | Jabu | Sleep Heavy | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Carretera" | Arce | Lapsus EP | M.I.S.T.
27. "The End of Daydreams" | Behind the Shadow Drops | H a r m o n i c | Temporary Residence Limited
28. "Still" | Nick Hoppner | Box Drop EP | Ostgut Ton
29. "Mirror Mirror" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Pages of Aquarius | Metropolis
30. "Cover From the Sun" |  Destroyer | ken | Merge
31. "Titan's Island" | Ancient Ocean | Titan's Island | Palmetto

A laughable life

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