Scream and Shout - 9/13 Show

Probably my favorite New Order song is the one that opened today's show, "All Day Long." It's got a symphonic quality to the synthesizers and a rhythm that feels as though it's constantly moving forward. The whole effect is dense, enveloping, and slightly sad.

Today was my interview with Haale (who's playing Saturday night at the Kinetic Playground). It was my first ever live interview, and it went pretty well, I thought. Mike from work heard it and said I sounded like an old hand. Unfortunately, the tape recorder was disconnected and I didn't get a recording of it. A short interview is a funny thing, because there isn't really time to learn anything new. It was news to my listeners, I'm sure, which is enough. Anyway, maybe I'll do more live interviews... anyone want to be interviewed?

Whenever I play the Family Fodder, I invariably play "Deep Time", because I love the song so much. It's a good move-your-but dance toon — but there are other good songs on the album I should probably play. I bought the album because I liked the song "Naked" so much (another dance tune, which ends with a non-dancey couple of minutes of wailing bagpipes that evoke windswept moors. (So maybe I'd want to fade out partway into that; I enjoy it, but I do think it's about a minute or so too much.) The Family Fodder is a sort of post-punk collective from the early 80's, who came back together in 1999/2000 to release Water Shed. I discovered them when I used to listed to Yale's AM station on the internet; they always played Family Fodder's cover of "Sunday Girl", but it took me a while to figure out who they were. (Yale's AM station, at least at the time, was often playing off a tape, with a recorded DJ's voice coming in and announcing the songs periodically, but so quietly and quickly that I could hardly ever understand it. Still, it introduced me to some great stuff.)

The full playlist:

* = new stuff / (r) = requests

artist	song	album	label
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	Counting Down the Hours	Shake the Sheets	Locust
New Order	All Day Long	Selections from Retro	Warner Brothers
Family Fodder	Deep Time	Water Shed	Dark Beloved Chord
Laurie Anderson	Baby Doll	Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology	Warner Bros
*Aesop Rock	Five Fingers	None Shall Pass	Definitive Jux
*Bat for Lashes	Prescilla	Fur and Gold	Echo
Charlotte Gainsboug	Tel Que Tu Es	5:55	Because Music/Vice
*Mirah and Spectratone International	My Lord Who Hums	Share the Place	k Records
Elvis Costello	My Funny Valentine	Armed Forces	Ryko
Cocteau Twins	Heaven or Las Vegas	Stars and Topsoil: 1981-1990	4AD
The Aluminum Group	Chocolates	Plano	Minty Fresh
*Thurston Moore	Never Day	Trees outside the Academy	Ecstatic Peace
*Imperial Teen	Everyone Wants to Know	The Hair, the TV, the Baby and the Band	Merge
Zerostars	Like Lovers Do	The Good Can't Escape	Self-released
Romeo Void	Talk Dirty to Me	Warm, in Your Coat	Columbia/Legacy
The Decemberists	Angel, Won't You Call Me	5 Songs	Hush Records
Tom Waits	Please Call Me, Baby	The Heart of Saturday Night	Asylum
The Housemartins	The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death	The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death	Elektra
*Stereo Total	Miss Rébellion des Hormones	Paris-Berlin	Kill Rock Stars
*The Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Kiss Kiss	Is Is EP	Interscope
The Fiery Furnaces	I'm in No Mood	Bitter Tea	Fat Possum
P:ano	All of November, Most of October	When It's Dark and It's Summer	Zum/Hi-Five Recordings
*Plane	Blood on the Waves	Lose All Time	Paper Bag
*You Say Party! We Say Die!	Monster	Lose All Time	Paper Bag
Atombombpocketknife	Leave Tonight	Lack Aid Pattern	File 13
Yasuyuki Okamura	Burning Down the House	Fine Time~A Tribute to New Wave
Haale	Floating Down	Paratrooper	Darya Records
Interview with Haale
Haale	Navayee	Morning	Darya Records

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 11:15 AM