No Names Are Mentioned - 3/6 show (swapping with Matt this week)

This year I swapped shows with Matt, so he could sleep in the day after his birthday. ("Sleeping in" meaning sleeping past 4am; Matt lives all the way across town and it takes him a while to get up to Roger's Park.)

Kate Bush's album The Dreaming has always seemed to me to be her darkest, freakiest album, and possibly the pinnacle of her work with the Fairlight CMI. The Fairlight CMI was a state-of-the-art digital sampling synthesizer, used in most of the best 80's music — wide-ranging artists used it including Peter Gabriel (who introduce Bush to it), ABC, U2, Alan Parsons, Duran Duran, Stevie Wonder, Public Image Limited, Yes, and EBN-OZN. It was key to creating that dense, studio sound that Bush and Gabriel were known for. These days, artists like Björk and Sufjan Stevens can create that same sound in their homes using a laptop, for a lot less money.

I've mentioned The Free Design before, a few weeks ago when I played "Bubbles". Last week, I found a link on Copy, Right? to a cover of The Free Design's "I Found Love" that was featured on the hipster kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba. I watched the video, and thought, 'I know this song, but I didn't know if was The Free Design.' Then, on Monday, Mary played the version I knew, which it turns out is also a cover, by Styrofoam with Sarah Shannon. So today I played the original version, just to hear it. Of the three, I think I have to go with the Styroform and Sarah Shannon version as my favorite; it's so lush, which I really think suits the song.

We recently got a new album in the studio by Destroyer. Our reviewer compared it to Hunk Dory-era David Bowie, and I just had to compare them side by side on my show. I brought in my copy of Hunk Dory, to play "Oh! You Pretty Things," right before Destroyer's "Plaza Trinidad". The comparison is apt, in terms of vocal styling and other aspects of sound, but I don't think the comparison does Destroyer any favors. Hunk Dory is a pretty strong album.

Spring is approaching! My official spring-is-approaching song this week is "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" by the B-52's.

Next week I'm doing Mary's show, and then she'll do mine; the week after I should be back in my regular spot.

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
Kate Bush	Night of the Swallow	The Dreaming	EMI Manhattan
(r)Siouxsie	Loveless	Mantaray	Decca
Xiu Xiu	Boy Soprano	The Air Force	5RC
*Mahjongg	Teardrops	Kontpab	K
*Headlights	Catch Them All	Some Racing Some Stopping	Polyvinyl
The Free Design	I Found Love	Kites Are Fun (The Best of the Free Design)	Varese Sarabande
Elizabeth Conant	The Sky Fell Down	Why Shouldn't I?	Haven
*Vashti Bunyan	How Do I Know	Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind	Dicristina
Trash Can Sinatras	Only Tongue Can Tell	Cake	Go!
Troubled Hubble	Mrs. Whiskerson	Broken Airplanes	The Magic Spot
Final Fantasy	Song Song Song	Hee Poos Clouds	Tomlab
*Bon Iver	Skinny Love	For Emma, Forever Ago	Jagjaguwar
P:ano	T. Hatch Says 'Round Ev'ry Corner'	Ghost Pirates without Heads	Mint Records
*Thao with the Get Down Stay Down	Bag of Hammers	We Brave Bee Stings and All	Kill Rock Stars
Saint Etienne	Kiss and Make Up	Fox Base Alpha	Warner Brothers
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Peek-A Boo (Silver Dollar Mix)	The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees	Polydor UK
Justice	DVNO	†	Ed Banger/Vice
Jamie Liddell	The City (Four Tet Mix)	Multiply Additions	WARP
*Hot Chip	Bendable Poseable	Made inthe Dark	Astralwerks/DFA
*Kelley Stoltz	The Birmingham Eccentric	Circular Sounds	Sub Pop
Konrad	Canyon Blue	First Disguised as Last	Radical Turf
David Bowie	Oh! You Pretty Things	Hunky Dory	Virgin
*Destroyer	Plaza Trinidad	Trouble in Dreams	Merge
(r)Cut Copy	Saturday	Bright Like Neon Love	Modular
The B-52's	Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland	Bouncing off the Satellites	Warner Brothers
*Vox Dei	Terroriste	Bippp: French Synthwave 1979/85	Everloving
*Baby Dee	The Only Bones that Show	Safe Inside the Day	Drag City
Mucca Pazza	Coat Czech	A Little Marching Band	Self-released
Elliot Smith	Baby Britain	XO	Dreamworks
Blossom Dearie	Rhode Island IS Famous for You	Jazz Masters 51	Verve
Ella Fitzgerald	Something's Gotta Give	Trav'lin' Light: The Johnny Mercer Songbook	Verve
*Cat Power	Song to Bobby	Jukebox	Matador
*Vampire Weekend	The Kids Don't Stand a Chance	Vampire Weekend	XL
XTC	Making Plans for Nigel	Drums and Wires	Geffen/Virgin
Chin Up Chin Up	We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers (Stephen Snydaker Mix)	Chin Up Chin Up	Flameshovel
*No Kids	I Love the Weekend	Come into My House	Tomlab
The Most Serene Republic	Proposition 61
eX-Girl	Cucumber Surrender	Back to the Mono Kero!	Ipecac
Laurie Anderson feat. Peter Gabriel	Excellent Birds	Mister Heartbreak	WB
*British Sea Power	Down on the Ground	Do You Like Rock Music	Rough Trade
*Karl Blau	Spring Morning	AM	Whistler
Neko Case	Lady Pilot	Blacklisted	Bloodshot
Tom Tom Club	L'éléphant	Tom Tom Club	Sire

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