Into the Mystic: Playlist for Nov. 4, 2011

Inspired by the Van Morrison song, this evening features songs for the Halloween/Day of the Dead and coming winter season.

R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985
Van Morrison	Into the Mystic	Moondance	1970
The Rosebuds	Second Bird of Paradise	Loud Planes Fly Low	2011
Elbow	The Birds	build a rocket boys!	2011
R.E.M.	King of Birds	Document	1987
Patti Smith	Birdland	Horses	1975
Radiohead	Everything In Its Right Place	Kid A	1995
Tame Impala	The Bold Arrow of Time	InnerSpeaker	2010
The High Violets	Cool Green	To Where You Are	2006
Broken Bells	The Ghost Inside	Broken Bells	2009
Neko Case	Deep Red Bells	Blacklisted	2002
Karen Elson	The Ghost Who Walks	The Ghost Who Walks	2010
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year
Tori Amos	Crazy	Scarlet’s Walk	2002
Shearwater	The Snow Leopard	Rook	2008
Sigur Ros	Svefn-g-Englar	Agaetis Byrjun	2000
Buffalo Springfield	Expecting to Fly		1967
M83	This Bright Flash	Hurry Up We’re Dreaming	2011
Dick Dale	Haji	Spacial Disorientation	2001
Dead Can Dance	Mother Tongue	The Serpent’s Egg	1988
The Doors	LA Woman	LA Woman	1971
Led Zeppelin	Over the Hills and Far Away	Houses of the Holy	1973
The National	Bloodbuzz Ohio	High Violet	2010
M83	Highway of Endless Dreams	Saturdays = Youth	2008

The Long Career: Playlist for Oct. 21, 2011

Featuring work from artists who have been recording for 30 years or more and are still turning out fresh and exciting material.

Artist	Song	Album	Year
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985
Richard and Linda Thompson	When I Get to the Border	I Want to See the Bright Lights…	1974
Richard Thompson	You Dream Too Much	Rumor and Sigh	1991
Richard Thompson	Big Sun Falling in the River	Dream Attic	2010
Led Zeppelin	Bron-Y-Aur Stomp	Led Zeppelin III	1970
Led Zeppelin	Over the Hills and Far Away	Houses of the Holy	1973
Robert Plant	House of Cards	Band of Joy	2010
Neil Young	Don’t Let It Bring You Down	After the Gold Rush	1970
Neil Young	You and Me	Harvest Moon	1994
Neil Young	Love and War	LeNoise	2010
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year
U2	Twilight	Boy	1980
U2	Love Rescue Me	Rattle and Hum	1990
U2	Moment of Surrender	No Line on the Horizon	2009
Los Lobos	Will the Wolf Survive?	How Will the Wolf Survive?	1984
Los Lobos	Midnight Shift		c. 1992
Los Lobos	On Main Street	Tin Can Trust	2010
Van Morrison	And It Stoned Me	Moondance	1970
Van Morrison	Ancient of Days	A Sense of Wonder	1985
Van Morrison	Behind the Ritual	Keep It Simple	2008

The Motown Sound: Playlist for Oct. 7, 2011

Artist	Song	Album	Year
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends (theme)	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985
Stevie Wonder	Fingertips, Part 2 (live)	Hitsville U.S.A.
M83	Up!	Saturdays = Youth	2008
The Temptations	The Way You Do the Things You Do    Hitsville U.S.A.	Hitsville U.S.A.	1964
Dirty Projectors	Cannibal Resource	Bitte Orca	2009
Yeasayer	Mondegreen	Odd Blood	2010
The Miracles	Mickey’s Monkey	Hitsville U.S.A.	1963
Adele	My Same	Nineteen	2008
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings	Inspiration Information	Dark Was the Night	2009
The Velvelettes	He Was Really Saying Something	Hitsville U.S.A.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	Five Easy Pieces	Some Loud Thunder	2007
Jackson 5	ABC	Hitsville U.S.A.	1970
Stereolab	The Ecstatic Static	Chemical Chords	2008
The New Pornographers	Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk	Together
Artist	Song	Album	Year
Edwin Starr	Twenty-five Miles	Hitsville U.S.A.	1969
Hooverphonic	Jackie Cane	The Magnificent Tree	1998
Gladys Knight & the Pips	I Heard it Through the Grapevine	Hitsville U.S.A.	1967
Portugal.The Man	The Home	The Satanic Satanist	2009
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas	Nowhere to Run	Hitsville U.S.A.
Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	What’s Going On	1971
The Temptations	Ball of Confusion	Hitsville U.S.A.	1970
Janelle Monae	Cold War	The ArchAndroid	2010
The Four Tops	Standing in the Shadows of Love	Hitsville U.S.A.	1966
Florence and the Machine	Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)	Lungs	2009
Smoky Robinson & Miracles	The Tears of a Clown	Hitsville U.S.A.	1967
Rare Earth	Get Ready	Hitsville U.S.A.	1969
Van Morrison	Wild Night	Tupelo Honey	1971
M. Ward	To Save Me	Hold Time	2009
The Contours	Do You Love Me?	Hitsville U.S.A.	1962

Happy-Sad: Playlist for Sept. 23, 2011

Whew… Human beings are complicated critters! One minute we’re happy, the next sad… and more often, we’re a complicated and perplexing mix of both–alternating, conditioning, and underlying each other. These songs all present strong doses of both happy and sad emotions, creating an ambivalence and bittersweetness that both express and transport their subject matter. E-motion, after all, is all about movement, making music’s movements a natural vehicle for such.

It was especially interesting to see how songs such as The Beatles’ iconic “Hey Jude” start out slow and dirgelike and seem to work their way through to a better or clearer emotion at the end. They do indeed “take a sad song and make it better.”

Date        Sept. 23, 2011	Show no.  73	Theme   Happy/Sad   happy. Sad    Happy? Sad?
Hour 1
Artist	Song	Album	Year
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985
Joni Mitchell	Darkness and Light	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	1974
Emma Pollock	The Loop	The Law of Large Numbers	2010
James	Bubbles	Hey Ma	2008
Indigo Girls	Strange Fire	Strange Fire	1987
The Mynabirds	What We Gained in the Fire	What We Lose in the Fire We	2010
		Gain in the Flood
Van Morrison	When the Leaves Come Falling Down         Back on Top		1999
Florence & The Machine	Dog Days Are Over	Lungs	2009
Radiohead	Stop Whispering	Pablo Honey	1993
R.E.M.	Walk Unafraid	Up	1998
Karen Elson	Stolen Roses	The Ghost Who Walks	2010
Mew	Vaccine	No more stories are told today…	2009
			TOTAL
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year
The Beatles	Hey Jude		1968
Built to Spill	Oh Yeah	There Is No Enemy	2009
The Frames	Happy	Burn the Maps	2004
David Bowie	Golden Years	Station To Station	1976
Janelle Monae	Mushrooms & Roses	The ArchAndroid	2010
Plants and Animals	Swinging Bells	La La Land	2010
Gomez	Natural Reaction	A New Tide	2009
My Morning Jacket	Wonderful (The Way I Feel)	Circuital	2011
Magnetic Fields	I Don’t Know What To Say	Realism	2009
Richard Buckner	Mile	Meadow	2006
The Decemberists	Down By the Water	The King Is Dead	2011
R.E.M.	Begin the Begin	Lifes Rich Pageant	1986

The Drum: Playlist for Sept. 9, 2011

Drums are used to mark time, to make time, and to move us. They are an essential part of healing and celebration rituals worldwide, and just about any time we need to get our young or old bones moving. If you have heard a catchy song that you can’t get out of your head, chances are the rhythm did much of the work. On this show, we will trace drumming in popular music from its African roots, straight into early rhythm and blues. We’ll listen to tracks from master drummers such as John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Neil Peart (Rush) and Ginger Baker (Cream), along with a special tribute to The Who’s Keith Moon. Add in some Latin rhythms from Bo Diddley and Los Lobos, then consider how the early music of U2 subverted the usual “march to war” rhythm to make a powerful statement about its consequences, and you are in for one foot-tapping evening.

Hour 1
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985	3.11
Brent Lewis	Doom Tac A Doom	Earth Tribe Rhythms	1990	5.35
Babatunde Olatunji	Oya (Aw-Yah)	Drums of Passion	1960	5.34
Neal Peart/Rush	Drum Solo	YouTube		8.43
U2	The Refugee	War	1983	3.41
Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode		1958	2.42
Fats Domino	I’m Walkin’		1957	2.56
The Pogues	The Sunnyside of the Street			2.44
R.E.M.	Pretty Pursuasion	Reckoning	1984	3.53
The Who	Going Mobile	Who’s Next	1971	3.43
The Who/Keith Moon	Going Mobile (isolated drum)	From YouTube		3.38
The Who	The Real Me	Quadrophenia	1973	3.21
The Who/Keith Moon	Drum Solo	From YouTube
			TOTAL	46.61
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain	The Hunt	Planet Drum	1991	3.52
Laurie Anderson	In Our Sleep	Talk Normal: The L.A. Anthology	2000	2.35
School of Seven Bells	Wired for Light	Alpinisms	2009	4.57
Cream	White Room	Wheels of Fire	1968	4.57
The Black Keys	Everlasting Light	Brothers	2010	3.24
Bo Diddley	Craw-Dad	Ride On/The Chess Masters	1960-61	2.31
Los Lobos	Dream In Blue	El Cancionero	2000	3.35
Jack Penate	Give Yourself Away	Everything Is New	2009	2.57
The Avett Brothers	Kick Drum Heart	I and Love and You	2009	2.54
The White Stripes	I Just Don’t Know What to Do	Elephant	2008	2.46
	With Myself
Florence & the Machine	Drumming Song	Lungs	2009	3.44
Little Richard	Keep A’ Knockin’		1957	2.12
Led Zeppelin	Rock and Roll	Led Zeppelin IV	1971	3.41
The Police	The Other Way of Stopping	Zenyatta Mondatta	1980	3.22
			TOTAL	43.67

Remake Remodel: Aug. 19, 2011 Playlist

On this show we hear remakes and covers of some great old, and great new, music. How does an artist pay tribute to her forebears and still make the song her own? The answers might surprise you. Sometimes the song that strays furthest from its original version retains its spirit the best. I especially like Bryan Ferry’s audacious, glam-rock version of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and Robyn Hitchcock’s cool, composed take on Jimi Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary” that allows its beautiful poetry to emerge.

	MAPS & LEGENDS PLAYLIST
Date   Aug. 19, 2011	Show no. 71	Theme:  Remake Remodel
		plus Fund Drive
Hour 1
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985	3.11
Buddy Holly	It’s So Easy		1958	2.09
Paul McCartney	It’s So Easy	Rave On Buddy Holly	2011	4.35
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates	Shakin’ All Over		1960	2.21
Wanda Jackson	Shakin’ All Over	The Party Ain’t Over	2011	3.47
Iggy Pop	Shakin’ All Over	Avenue B	1999	4.35
Ben E. King	Stand By Me		1961	3.01
Otis Redding	Stand By Me	Pain In My Heart	1964	2.52
John Lennon	Stand By Me	Rock ‘n Roll	1975	3.32
Roy Orbison	Blue Bayou		1963	2.32
Linda Ronstadt	Blue Bayou			3.59
Norah Jones w/M. Ward	Blue Bayou	…Featuring	2010	3.44
Bob Dylan	A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan	1963	6.5
Bryan Ferry	A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall	These Foollish Things	1999	5.19
			TOTAL	49.47
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
Bob Dylan	Chimes of Freedom	Another Side of Bob Dylan	1964	7.08
Eliza Gilkyson	Chimes of Freedom	Misfits	1999	4.04
The Yardbirds	Heart Full of Soul		1965	2.28
Chris Isaak	Heart Full of Soul	Chris Isaak	1987	3.21
Jimi Hendrix	The Wind Cries Mary		1967	3.21
Robyn Hitchcock	The Wind Cries Mary	Shadow Cat	2008	2.57
The Beatles	Dear Prudence	The White Album	1968	3.56
Siouxsie & the Banshees	Dear Prudence	Twice Upon A Time	1992	3.51
Nirvana	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nevermind	1991	5.01
Patti Smith	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Twelve	2007	6.32
			TOTAL	43.92

 

“Ain’t Working Downtown”: Aug. 5, 2011 playlist

Rock and rollers of all ages have always used their music to express their wish to swim against the mainstream. Never mind if some of them became the mainstream… questioning one’s society and defining one’s own path is an important rite of passage, and our right as free human beings. We travel from Greenwich Village folkies such as Hoyt Axton and Bob Dylan to indie darlings Arcade Fire, taking time to hear Sufjan Stevens’ brilliant crooning to his heartland state of Michigan and Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, and Laurie Anderson’s wry commentary on our national delusions.

 

	MAPS & LEGENDS PLAYLIST
Date   Aug. 5, 2011	Show no. 70	Theme  Commentary and Protest – “Ain’t Working Downtown”
Hour 1
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
R.E.M.	Maps & Legends	Fables of the Reconstruction	1985	3.11
John Mellencamp	Freedom’s Road	On the Rural Route 7609	2010	4.14
Tori Amos	Sweet Dreams	A Piano	2006	3.26
Joan Baez	Dangling Conversation	Joan	2006	2.47
Joni Mitchell	Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	1974	4.05
Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues	What’s Going On (40th Anniv.)	1971/2011	5.32
Robyn Hitchcock	Belltown Ramble	Ole! Tarantula	2006	6.16
Talking Heads	Don’t Worry About the Gov’t	Talking Heads ’77	1977	3.02
Gang of Four	Not Great Men	Entertainment!	2005	3.06
The Mekons	Give Me Wine or Money	Natural	2007	3.20
Arcade Fire	(Antichrist Television Blues)	Neon Bible	2007	5.10
The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket	London Calling	1979	3.47
Creedence Clearwater Revival    Fortunate Son				2.18
			TOTAL	48.54
Hour 2
Artist	Song	Album	Year	Play time
Janelle Monae	Locked Inside	The ArchAndroid	2010	4.17
Laurie Anderson	Only an Expert	Homeland	2010	7.26
Tune-Yards	My Country	WHOKILL	2011	3.40
Jimi Hendrix	The Star-Spangled Banner	Live At Woodstock	1969/1999	3.43
Sufjan Stevens	Oh, Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary	Greetings from Michigan	2003	8.21
	Head!
Arcade Fire	Sprawl I (Flatland)	The Suburbs	2010	2.54
Arcade Fire	Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mts)	The Suburbs	2010	5.26
Hoyt Axton	Greenback Dollar	The Balladeer	1962	3.12
Leonard Cohen	Democracy			7.04
Randy Newman	Sail Away			2.59
Bruce Cockburn	Laughter	Waiting for a Miracle	1987	3.40
			TOTAL	50.42