It's only springtime: 3/23 show

A spring-themed show! Thanks for all the requests.

Some notes one what I played:

The Super Furry Animals I discovered the song Ysbeidiau Heulog several years ago before I had even started listening to WLUW. The station I heard it on would i.d. the song merely as "Welsh", as in "that was the Super Furry Animals, and that song is Welsh". It took me a little while to figure out what the song was. It sounded to me like they were singing "lazy eye, halo"; it's actually pronounced iz-BAY-dee-eye HAY-log. I found a web page listing and translating the lyrics. The name means "sunny intervals", and so it seemed like a good spring song. The song has a nice psychedlic vibe; I still don't really know the rest of the album, Mwng, which is a two-CD set of rock entirely in Welsh.

Meanwhile, the Super Furry Animals' lead singer, Gruff Rhys, has a solo project out now, and I played the title track (Candylion) from it right before this song. It was pretty different; you wouldn't know it was even the same singer. It's sort of a sweet silly song you might sing to your kids.

LCD Soundsystem's new album is one of the hotly anticipated releases of 2008. I don't have much to say about it since I haven't heard the whole thing, but I'm liking what I hear, and I liked the last album.

Office was one of the breakout local Chicago bands last year. Q&A was self-released (in 2005, according to Wikipedia), and last year they signed with an indie label. As you may recall, I ranked this band as one of my top 10 of 2006, and while I'm rethinking some of those placements (Alice Smith should have just been an honorable mention, I'm thinking now), I'd still place Q&A near the top.

Orwell is a French band I discovered on WLUW before I was a DJ, and I put this CD (The Following Days) on my Amazon wish list, and then kind of forgot about it. By surprise I got it for Christmas this year, and I've been listening to it a lot, and it's really a great CD. This song, Fear of Mars, has the feel of a single about it, like it's designed for radio play. So I obliged today.

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song/album	label
Tom Waits	New Coat of Paint / The Heart of Saturday Night	Asylum
Neko Case	Train from Kansas City / The Tigers Have Spoken	Anti
Grace Jones	La Vie en Rose / Island Life	Island
*!!!	Heart of Hearts / Myth Takes	WARP
*Bonobo	The Fever / Days to Come	Ninja Tune
*Panda Bear	Search for Delicious / Person Pitch	Paw Tracks
Aretha Franklin	Skylark / Sweet Bitter Love	Columbia
Saint Etienne	Spring / Foxbase Alpha	Warner Brothers
(r) The Velvet Underground	Lisa Says/ Vu	Verve
*Mess Up the Mess	Crystal Pools / You Remind Me of Summer Vacation	Paroxysm
Royce	Girls on Bikes / Tuff Love	Galapagos4
*Gruff Rhys	Candylion / Candylion	Team Love
The Super Furry Animals	Ysbeidiau Heulog / Mwng	Flydaddy
The Folk Implosion	One Part Lullaby / One Part Lullaby	Interscope
Rufus Wainwright	14th Street / Want One	Dreamworks
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / 20 Greatest Hits	Polydor
*Feist	The Water / My Moon My Man EP	Cherrytree
*LCD Soundsystem	Watch the Tapes / Sound of Silver	DFA/Capitol
Office	If You Don't Know by Now / Q&A	self-released www.reachoffice.com
*Trans Am	Obscene Strategies / Sex Change	Thrill Jockey
The Zincs	New Thought / Dimmer	Thrill Jockey
The B-52's	Queen of Las Vegas / Whammy!	Warner Brothers
*The Stooges	She Took My Money / The Weirdness	Virgin
(r) The Fiery Furnaces	Here Comes the Summer / EP	Rough Trade
Blossom Dearie	They Say It's Spring / Jazz Masters	Verve
*Andrew Bird	Simple X / Armchair Apocrypha	Fat Possum
The Proclaimers	Sean / Sunshine on Leith	Chrysalis
Orwell	Fear of Mars / The Following Days	Hidden Agenda/Europop

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 11:42 AM