Still more Radio Wowsville episodes. . .

Still more Radio Wowsville episodes. . .

WTJU 91.1 FM

The Sound Choice in Central Virginia

Sunday Nights

11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

10 / 25 / 98

Episode 199

Turkey, Tomato & Dressing

Motel Time Again

“Moonshiner”– Cat Power

“(Pardon Me) I’ve Got Someone to Kill”– Johnny Paycheck

From the essential The Real Mr. Heartache, a Country Music Foundation compilation of early Paycheck hardcore honkytonk. Another potent track from this set is included later in the show, “Motel Time Again.”

“The Trial” (excerpt)– Pigmeat Markham

“Jazzy Bell”– Outkast

“Ghost Town”– The Specials

“New Orthopony”– Stereolab

“Cruel Summer”– Bananarama

Thought you might like to know– this is the “dub” mix.

“Charlton Heston”– Stump

Jumpy, bumpy, folk exotica about our favorite NRA Shill / ham actor. “Bushes that refuse to burn…”

“Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship”– Hank Snow

“Leo”– The Zodiac

This is about when avid listeners began to call and ask for Dan to whinny and make horsey noises. Frightening.

“Time After Time”– Paul Revere & The Raiders

“Turn The People On”– Hodges James & Smith

Dan’s choice. Funky ‘70’s sisters embrace the electric guitar.

“New Frontier”– Donald Fagen

Tyler was much derided in the studio for the inclusion of this slicker-than-Brylcreem breeze.

“No Head, No Backstage Pass”– Funkadelic

“The Bitch in Yoo”– Common

“The Rockafella Skank”– Fatboy Slim

Brand new from Fats. . . and damn good.

“Cruisers Creek”– The Fall

“Black Monk Theme (Funeral Mix)– The Fall

Mark E. Smith double shot.

“Aqua Boogie”– Parliament

Tyler and Dan attempt a mock “Commentary” on the meaning of Sir George Clinton’s phrase of “being afraid of the water” at the end of this Motor Booty Affair classic. Nothing is revealed.

“You Don’t Own Me”– Lesley Gore

“Prize Possession”– Ferlin Husky

“Feelin’ Good at Midnight”– Bohannon

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die”– King Missile

“Are Your New Shoes Fit For The New Dance”– Union of a Man & a Woman

Staunton Rock-Child-Gods, on the Jagjaguwar label!!

“Walter Carlos”– Momus

Censored track from the prolific auteur-cabaret artist’s new My Little Red Songbook on Le Grande Magistry. A love song concerning a sex change and a Moog that didn’t go over well with the Moog’s lawyers.

“Motel Time Again”– Johnny Paycheck

“Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds”– Leo Kottke

10 / 18 / 98

Preempted due to WTJU Jazz Marathon

10 / 11 / 98

Episode 198

Dan, Tyler & Don

This is the City

Intro: Orson Welles as the Shadow. . . for Goodrich Tires

“Keep Cool (Don’t Be a Fool)”– Howard Tate

“Fan The Flame”– The Temptations

A very un-PC statement from the recently-dramaticized-by-NBC Motown band. An album track from I Wish It Would Rain. The next transition didn’t work at all…

“Fuck You Man”– Pussy Galore

“Bring It To Jerome”– Bo Diddley

If you don’t own Bo Diddley’s Greatest Hits, do so now.

The arriving late Dan saves the day and takes us to a higher place.

“Jesus I’ll Never Forget”– Soul Stirrers

“He’s My Light”– Mahalia Jackson

“Walk Around Heaven”– The Caravans

“My Evergreen”– Squirrel Nut Zippers

A preview track from the Chapel Hill-based Zippers upcoming X-Mas album, mostly originals, called Christmas Caravan. On Mammoth.

“Rain” (Live)– Martin Denny

“Phantom”– Broadcast

“The Swan”– Clara Rockmore

The Queen of the Theramin sounds great along with Dame Judith Anderson

“The Wisdom of the Believer”– Pat Robertson

We pick on Brother Pat again. Alternating with. . .

“Cartoon Sound Effects”

“Before I Lose My Style”– Space Needle

Beautiful, echo-drenched epic from Josh Krahn’s favorite band. Cut nicely into. . .

“Saracid”– Duke of Harringay

“Yours Truly, 2095″– Electric Light Orchestra

From the much maligned Orch-Rock pioneers’ latter-day 1981 Uberwerk, Time. D.R. Tyler Magill, with his ‘hot face’ on, delivers a passionate speech in defense of the Jeff Lynne oeuvre on the air.

“Mr. Hood Gets a Haircut”– KMD

“My Incense Don’t blend”

“The Sounds of the City”

A strange kiddie 45 from the ‘70’s, with street sounds, garbage truck noises and intrusive creepy narrator.

Goes surprisingly well with…

“Hallofon”– Hall & Oates

“Black Boot Stomp”– Professor X

“Cloud Nine”– Temptations

“Plain Song”– Seefeel

“Love Can’t Be Right”– Flat Duo Jets

“Take Me Back Home”– Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

“Courtin’ In The Rain”– T. Texas Tyler

“Stolen Guitar”– Jeffrey Fredrick & The Clamtones

From the late Mr. Fredrick’s only full-length album with the Clamtones, Spiders In The Moonlight. You can find their best stuff on the acclaimed multi-artist gang-bang, Have Moicy .

“2000 Seasons”– Reflection Eternal

“Yellow Knife”– Flin Flon

Local rock!!!

“Waited Too Long”– Traveling Fellers Union Local 282

“Tragedy of War in 3 Parts”– Company Flow

“Baron of Love Part Two”– Ross Johnson & Alex Chilton

Discarded, raucous ‘70’s masterpiece collaboration between Ross “Wet Bar” Johnson and the illustrious Mr. Chilton, now reunited with the Box Tops and still yelling at soundmen.

“Letter To ZZ Top”– US Maple

“I Can Hardly Spell Your Name”– Lambchop

From their very first 45 EP.

“Deth”– Ed Hall

Essentially: “Beth” by Kiss, for the goth kids.

“I’ll Die Happy”– Louis Jordan

Wowsville’s viewpoint on that deal.

10 / 4 / 98

Episode 197

Don & Dan

Sophisticated Boom-Boom

“Little Children”– Zipcode Rapists

This is NOT the correct title. A suitably blank one from the ambitious, funny, stupid 1992 Night of the Living Dead Vinyl compilation, of different obscure West Coast bands doing songs based on the classic George Romero horror flick. Another song from this LP by the Drinks is played later in the show.

“Sophisticated Boom-Boom”– The Shangri-Las

“Did You C-C-C What Happened– Dwight Twilley Band

From the now-out-of-print Great Lost Twilley Album CD. The b-side of the ‘70’s pop-rock band’s one and only hit single, “I’m On Fire.”

“Money City Maniacs”– Sloan

Inspirational lyric: “Your body is covered with Coke fizz.”

“Adventures on the Wheel of Steel”– Grandmaster Flash

“Pachito C-Che”– Perez Prado

From Mambo Mania, a great Rhino compilation of hot ‘50’s / ‘60’s Mambo by Prado, Celia Cruz, Dezi Arnaz, etc. If you like this cut, rush out and buy Prado’s Havana 3 a.m. disc.

“Texas Boogie”– T. Texas Tyler

“We have a new Wowsville Classic”– D.P.

“We Were Raised on Love”– Jeannie C. Riley

Spunky little country diva Riley scored a big hit with the subversive ‘60’s PTA-meets-Feminism anthem”Harper Valley PTA,” but this similarly independent-thinking cut from her third album (?), Country Girl, is just as good. . . and just as kick ass.

“Pick Me Up On Your Way Down”– Charlie Walker

“Fuzz”– Hugh Masekela

“I Like It Like That”– Tribe Called Quest

“Common Ground”– Tribe Called Quest

A double-shot from the Tribe’s new Love Movement CD.

Enresistirement”– Francoise Hardy

Francoise does a funky version of this Serge G. song on her odd little 1977 album, Star. Stereolab should cover this jaunty tune.

“Wild One”– Martha & The Vandellas

“Kiko and the Lavender Moon”– Los Lobos

Dan thinks that Kiko is the best album of the ‘90’s NOT created by a hip-hop act. The rest of us nod agreeably because Dan can get quite violent.

“Last Time I Looked, I Wasn’t Living”– The Drinks

“Que Vida”– Love

“It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry”– Bob Dylan

This is the INCREDIBLE, Blues-on-Speed alternate version, found on the Bobster’s Bootleg Series Vol. 1 set.

“Don’t Cry For Me”– Zombies

“The Ferris Wheel”– Everly Brothers

“Never Can Say Goodbye”– Gloria Gaynor

“I Love The Nightlife”– Alicia Bridges

Disco double-shot. Leads nicely into. . .

“Dear Mr. Salesman”– Fantastic Plastic Machine

“5 Minutes”– Bonzo Goes To Washington

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to announce today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 Minutes”– Ronnie Reagan. Leads nicely into. . .

“Tie My Huntin’ Dog Down, Jed”– Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith

“Cadillac Daddy”– Howling Wolf

A lightnin’ bolt from the Wolf’s early, raunchy ‘50’s Sun sessions.

“Stand Up”– Al Green

“A Message From The Meters”– Meters

“My Talk About Leaving”– T. Texas Tyler

Ah, T.Texas! . . .

And we close the show with a phone request from the irrepressible Paul Wilkinson that we play something “wordy, pretentious and sad.” So, Wowsville obliges with the King of that Wordy Heady Sad Stuff:

“Winter Lady”– Leonard Cohen

“The Stranger Song”– Leonard Cohen

9 / 27 / 98

Episode 196

Tyler, Dan & Don

H.L.’s Monkey Talk Dream

Intro– H.L. Mencken

“Monkey Talk”– Little Stevie Wonder

An interesting 45 that Dan unearthed from the early ‘60’s– a playful Little Stevie stomper that could be construed today as– what?– a bit un-PC?

“Cloud 149″– Pere Ubu

“Mace & Grenades”– Hugh Masekela

From the Wowsville Non-Hits Library: Another stellar track that proves there was more to Hugh than “Grazing In The Grass.”

“Children’s Story”– Black Star

“Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again?”– The Monkees

From the soundtrack to the excellent and totally-wigged Monkees movie, Head, this is Peter “The Dumb One” Tork’s finest hour.

“Arbor Sirens”– Electric Company

“Come Raise Your Glasses High”– The University of Virginia Singers

Rolls in nicely with. . .

“Garden of Eden”– Pat Robertson

An early-’70’s 700 Club 2-disc set, “free” to listeners of the statewide crypto-Republico nightmare known as Rev. Robertson, it is interesting to note that Mr Former Tax Exempt Status uses the same Gothic Scary typeface on his cover as Black Sabbath did on THEIR early albums.

“8 a.m. Jullander Sphere”– Cornershop

“It Sure Gets Cold in Des Moines”– Tom T. Hall

“Stoned Is The Way of the Walk”– Cypress Hill

“Life ‘n’ Perspectives Pt. 1″– Urban Dance Squad

“Energy”– Earth, Wind & Fire

“Mojo Hand”– Lightning Hopkins

From the gritty bluesman’s 1969 “Poppy” album with the multi-colored psychedelic cover.

“Listen At That Bull”– George Coleman

“Big Dick From Dixie”– Salt T. Peter

Standout (?) track from a particularly wussy mid-’50’s “naughty” songs album– sorry, parents!

Leads nicely into. . .

“I’ve Found Someone”– Barry White

“Magic Bunny”– Sissy Bar

“Life Is a Bitch”– Nas

“Dance Band”– XTC

From the early, quirky, jagged days of the Swindon-based art-rock combo, when keyboardist Barry Andrews defined the proceedings with his aural squiggles.

“Kandy Pop”– Bis

“From the One That Hurt You”– Fred Lane

“Don’t See Us”– The Roots

The first 12″ from the Philly hip-hop band’s Things Fall Apart.

“When The Levee Breaks”– Killdozer

Played, sez Tyler, at the wrong speed. In any case, it sounds nice as a duet with Dame Judith…

“Medea” (Excerpt)– Dame Judith Anderson

“They Like Me” (Snoopy’s Dream)”– from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown

“I Wanna”– Moe Tucker

Raging end song from the Best Album Made By an Ex-Velvets Member in The Past Ten Years, 1994’s Dogs Under Stress. A tom-tom-heavy Moe Feast!!

“Black Thought Meets Rahzel The Godfather Of Noise”– The Roots

“Let No Man Tell Me What To Do”– Dave Dudley

The king of Trucking tunes chimes in with the ultimate Me Generation song.

“Blue Moon of Kentucky”– Elvis Presley

Poarch has an original 78 of this first-ever Presley single (the b-side to “That’s All Right”) and we played the 78, as a historical / archival experiment. Still rocks, even with the hiss.

“Lie Dream of A Casino Soul”– The Fall

Not available on 78, unfortunately.

“Say No Go”– De La Soul

9 / 20 / 98

Episode 195

Dan, Don & “Blind Lemon Pledge”

Wowsville All-Skate

Our annual Live remote broadcast from

The Palisades Skate-a-Whirl in Staunton

Intro– Norm Crosby

“Golden Atoms”– Stereolab

A track from the electronic art-rock combo’s Aluminum Tunes b-side collection, a cool throwaway from the Emperor Tomato Ketchup sessions.

“Little Man From Mars”– Perrey & Kingsley

“I Wish”– David

From David’s “Sesame Street” LP. You remember wool-hatted David from the Street, right? Later arrested for beating his wife and running nekked down the– don’t make me say it! If only it hadn’t rained that day.

“The Goose”– The Parliaments

Early George Clinton and Co. 45, available on any number of quasi-legal CD collections with “I Just Wanna Testify” and other hissy, direct-from-vinyl copies of essential early Mothership takeoffs. This was later remade on Up For The Down Stroke.

“On The Road Again”– Jungle Brothers

“Back In the Shadows Again”– Firesign Theatre

From the comedy band’s underrated I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus.

“I’m Going Straight To Heaven”– MC 900 Ft. Jesus

“We’ll Understand It Better By and By”– Spence

from the Real Bahamas. D.R. Tyler swears by this recent collection of Bahamian religious blues music on the Nonesuch label.

“Fox and Socks”–Marvin Miller & Dr. Seuss

“Federal Dust”– Silver Jews

Dave Berman / Stephen Malkmus collaboration from American Water disc on Drag City

“Ladies Night”– Kool & The Gang

An All-Skate is announced, and Blind Lemon Pledge presents the lucky Golden Carnation winner with her prize but the wily Pledge insists he has to paper the buxom skater with Braille and “read her” first. The groove from everyone’s favorite synthetic “Funk” band nearly averts a Ballroom social catastrophe.

“Oh Yeah”– Can

“Poet Is Priest”– Julian Cope

Mini-tribute to Cope’s fantastic Krautrock memoir and guidebook, with his Jehovahkill freakout enjoined with Damo’s from Tago Mago (plus– sigh– a scratching Grandpa Cole)

“Hum Along and Dance”– Temptations

“Oscillations”– Silver Apples

The original space-rock keyboard-drone wizards, this otherworldly duo’s two classic late ‘60’s LPs are now available stateside, Silver Apples & Contact., on one awesome CD. Fans of Stereolab, Spacemen 3, et al should dig!

“Jenifa Taught Me”– De La Soul

“For Science”– They Might Be Giants

“You’re a Big Girl Now”– Stylistics

“Let It Be Me”– Dennis Russos

“Echoes Of My Mind” — Ronnie Butler

“I found this LP by Ronnie Butler and the Ramblers at a thrift store and it’s an odd one. Available on Nassau Beach Hotel Records, it’s a hotel Bahamian bar band going through a set of lite-soul covers and dinkily-funky originals. Someone didn’t get the title right on this cut– essentially a smolderingly funky “Everybody’s Talkin’” wrapped in a relaxed mid-tempo– but it’s aces.” — Don

“The State I Am In”– Belle & Sebastian

From the critically-acclaimed Scottish troup’s Dogs On Wheels EP.

“Evil”– Earth Wind & Fire

“Win Instantly”– Roger Miller

“Moose Jaw”– Flin Flon

Despite the forthcoming series of drummer jokes, Charlottesville’s Matt Datesman is one of Wowsville’s favorite people. He’s a team guy, and here he hooks up with Air Miami / Unrest leader Mark Robinson in a crackin’ good supergroup on, natch, the TeenBeat label.

“Barnyards In Orbit”– Perrey & Kingsley

(After this final station break, the show disintegrates into drummer jokes– like: “How can you tell that the drum risers are level? Because drool is coming out of both sides of the drummer’s mouth,” stuff like that. . . not pretty. )

“Shout”– Devo

“Boys are Boys and Girls are Choice”– The Monks

“Go Stetsa I”– Stetsasonic

9 / 13 / 98

Episode 194

Tyler, Don & Dan

East Coast Groove

“Theme From Neil Miller”– Lambchop

“Trilobites”– Visiting Kids

“Bang Bang Get Down Get Down”– Son Of Berserk

Dan bought this Hank Shocklee masterpiece 12 inch at one of the Illadelph Halflife Record Shows in Philly. Don regrets selling his Bezerk Bezerk Bezerk CD now.

“You Can Never Go Down The Drain”– Fred Rogers

“Clowns & Ballerinas”– Negitivland

“East Coast Groove”– Bohannon

Hamilton Bohannon’s ‘70’s funk career was based on the most simplistic, airtight, minimalist groove ever concocted. This is from the slick one’s third album, Inside Out, the one with the great first side of zoned-out shufflers and the second full of yucky slow songs.

“The Race”– Bill Cosby

“3-2-1-AH”– Los Canarios

From the recent Exitos A Go-Go CD on the Planetary Pebbles label. Essential stuff– garage punk and neo-psych from Latin America, circa ‘66-’75.

Anti-Nigger Machine”- Public Enemy

Seque: Bing Crosby and (Your Camp Here)

“Pizza Man”– Old Skull

“Do You Wanna Get Heavy?”– Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

From JSBX’s new Acme, on Matador.

“Bistro”– Henry Mancini

“Upright Kangaroo”– Mike & Rich

“Tell Him He’s a Pig”– Eldridge Cleaver

“54-46. That’s My Number”– Toots & The Maytals

“Jungle Line”– Joni Mitchell

Joni’s excellent jazz-folk-bluesy Hissing Of Summer Lawns is supposedly The Artist Formerly Known as Prince’s favorite album– this track with Burundi drums shows why.

“Great Five Lakes”– Buffalo Daughter

“Big Funk”– Cabaret Voltaire

“LSD”– Pretty Things

A controversial 1965 curio, cut when acid was still legal, banned from the airwaves anyway. But– you know what, you know what: As Mike Arlo once said about “Eight Miles High,” we don’t care about the Man: We’re GONNA PLAY IT ANYWAY. In fact, we just did. From the band’s second album, now out with extra tracks.

“This World”– Staple Singers

“In the Upper Room Pt. 1 & 2″– Mahalia Jackson

The worst break-edit in Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 History. One of the greatest songs ever.

“Krazy Kooky Call”– Albert Brooks

“Balls Fire”– Didjits

“Call Me”– Al Green

Recent stats: Al Green is Number One on the All-Time Wowsville Survey. Source: OffTheTopOfOurHeads Inc.TM

“Running Out of Lies”– Johnnie Taylor

“Monday Night”– Pere Ubu

8 / 6 / 98

Episode 193

D&D

The Art of Lip-Synching

“Torture”– Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

From JSBX’s Acme, on Matador.

“House In The Country”– Pretty Things

Bonus track on Snapper reissue of the band’s 1967 platter, emotions, a fine cover of a GREAT Kinks song. Another fine track from the disc, “House of Ten,” is featured later in the show.

“Have You Ever Loved Somebody”– The Hollies

The Hollies could, and did, make good albums. Their best is the out-of-print Evolution, from 1967, which hides this great rocker.

“Bummer In The Summer”– Love

Free Arthur Lee!!

“The Banana Question”– Royal Trux

“El Principe Gaetano Del Monte”– Los Walkers

Can’t say enough about the Exitos A Go Go compilation on Planetary Pebbles, which brings together prime ‘60’s Latin-American rock. This is a helluva great pop song.

“The Dummy”– Larry Williams

John Lennon idolized Larry Williams and this rowdy 45 shows why!!

“So Glad You’re Mine”– Al Green

“Psychedelic Shack”– Temptations

“I Want You”– Marvin Gaye

Sinewy title track to smoother-than-loveoil ‘70’s Gaye LP: A more decadent Let’s Get It On.

“Blues For Huey”– Hugh Masekela

“It’s a Man’s World”– James Brown

“Picture This”– Beastie Boys

“People”– Silver Jews

“House of Ten”– The Pretty Things

“Sunshine”– Ian Brown

From the ex-Stone Rose’s lead singer’s erratic solo debut. It mentions the Beach Boys. . . so:

“Sail Plane Song”– Beach Boys

The Endless Harmony soundtrack (to a VH-1 Special) is actually worthwhile– lots of undocumented live tracks, rarities and home demos, like this atypically trippy Brian Wilson number from 1969. What it basically, is though, is the band’s (read: NOT Brian Wilson’s) version of events, and the documentary itself was flawed from that standpoint. The soundtrack is a different story– if you’re a fan!

“Dirty Dream Number Two”– Belle & Sebastian

“Life Is Good”– Los Lobos

“C.O.D.”– Albert King

“Signed, Sealed, Delivered”– James Brown

No, not the Stevie track. This is James at his album-filler best!

“Hard to Handle”– Otis Redding

“The Jones Girl”– The Five Satins

“Mama Feelgood”– Lyn Collins

One of J.B.’s “Funky Divas.”

“When The Circus Comes to Town”– Los Lobos

“33 % God / Dis Yourself in ‘89″– Beastie Boys

Recently issued on CD (as a b-side), this classic B-Boys encapsulation of 1989’s Paul’s Boutique stands on its own as a sample-crazed statement of purpose.

“Happy”– Sugar Plant

8 / 30 / 98

Episode 192

The Brothers Harrison

Experiments

Dave Harrison’s Party

“Mad Blunted Jazz”– DJ Cam

“Don’t Glue The World”– His Name is Alive

From the 4AD band’s excellent Fort Lake CD. Angular, sweet-as-molasses, life-affirming pop. With an edge.

“Caravana”– The Lucksmiths

“Bye Bye Pride”– The Go-Betweens

Australian-Rock Double Shot.

“Down In The Traffic”– Adventures In Stereo

“Ten Small Paces”– Ida

“This could be Ten Small Faces. I Can’t tell because of the cheap typesetting.”– Dave H.

“Wear Your Love Like Heaven”– Donovan

“… and speaking of cheap typesetting!– Don H.

“Pick Seeds From My Skull”– Robert Pollard

Short and eerie track from Guided By Voices’ leader Pollard’s great new Waved Out solo CD on Matador.

“Remember”– Air

“Do It Again”– Beach Boys

Since Air appears to sample “Do It Again”’s blap-blap drum riff on “Remember,” the Radio Wowsville crew tried an audio-montage experiment with the two tracks. Soon available on an underground 12″ near you.

“The Man From Operations”– Scott Brookman

Dave H., your selector, swears by the stuff on the Tweekitten label.

“Headlights”– Trembling Blues Stars

This Scottish band’s excellent beat-poppish Their Lips That Taste Of Tears CD on Shinkasen, is boss.

“The Chime of a City Clock”–Nick Drake

“Blow Up”– Bowery Electric

“Seeperbold”– Stereolab

Colts Vs. Cowboys

An excerpt from a weird-o “Colts History” LP with J. Unitas on the cover. Dave’s Dad lost 50 dollars and the living room sofa on this game, and he recounts this tearfully for the listeners.

“Park & Ride”– Camera Obscura

“It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career”– Belle & Sebastian

From The Boy With The Arab Strap, on Matador

“3D Movies”– Metronome

From the mysterious Hub City-labeled Ona King Made This Dress CD compilation of DC-area bands. Little is known about this band and this cool track!

“Between Us”– Mojave 3

From the U.K-only “Who do You Love” Single on 4AD

“Fievre”– Los Johnny Jets

“Easy Way Down”– Snowpony

New band featuring Stereolab’s former organist, Katherine Gifford.

“Captain Marvel Jones”– ???

A great, blues-grunge track from a strange “Superhero” soundtrack on Design Records. Circa 1966 or thereabouts. The tracks cover subjects like Batman to Mickey Mouse to Tarzan, in mock-rocking, cruddy knockoff style. But this song is a real standout. YOW! The vocalist sounds like someone– Leon Russell? Someone. . .! Please: MORE INFORMATION!!

“Psycho’s Blues”– Clear Spot

From their Duophonic single. “Like a more organic, less in-your-face Steroid Maximus.”– Dave H.

“El Fanatico”– La Tropa Loco

8 / 23 / 98

Episode 191

Dan hisself

Front Poarch Quiet Storm

w/ added background ambience

“Love And Happiness”– Al Green

“Telling Lies”– The Staple Singers

Dan hasn’t heard a Staple Singers LP he’s disliked yet, and 1971’s We’ll Get Over (on Stax) is one of the unheralded soul releases of the ‘70’s.

“Breakadawn”– De La Soul

“If You Got A Love”– Bobby Byrd

“Bewildered”– James Brown

“Crawl Before You Walk”– The Eighth Day

“A Lover’s Prayer”– Otis Redding

“Behave Yourself”– The “5″ Royales

An influence on Otis, and James Brown, as well as seminal rock-soul hitmakers, why aren’t these guys in the Rock Hall of Fame? Highly recommended: The 2-CD set, Monkey Hips & Rice, on Rhino!

“Wasting Time”– Lost Generation

Unknown band on the Invictus label. MORE INFORMATION PLEASE.

“You’re A Big Girl Now”– The Stylistics

The Radio Wowsville staff and crew recently took an informal studio poll and it was agreed that this is a pretty creepy song when it comes right down to it.

“Respect Yourself”– Staple Singers

“All Over But The Shouting”– Millie Jackson

“Don’t Knock My Love”– Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross

“Let’s Stay Together”– Al Green

“Kind of cliched to play this in a ‘love theme’ set, but– hey– it’s Al Green!”– D.P.

“Think About Loving You”– Earth, Wind & Fire

“Lowdown Popcorn”– James Brown

“Silent Treatment”– The Roots

“Gettin’ Into It”– SLYK 130

“Find A Way”– Tribe Called Quest

From the just-released The Love Movement. Rumors are true: The Tribe is breaking up after this long-awaited disc and current tour.

“Passing Me By”– Pharcyde

“Why Must You Hate Me?”– Prince Paul

“Buddy”– De La Soul

“Beautiful Skin”– Goodie Mob

From Still Standing. A masterpiece.

“Electric Relaxation”– Tribe Called Quest

“Try A Little Tenderness”– Otis Redding

“I’ve Got Dreams To Remember”– Otis Redding

Otis double shot! The latter cut is from The Immortal Otis Redding, a sparse and spooky collection of songs released to complement “Dock Of The Bay” after Otis’ death. Like most of the man’s recorded work, it’s essential AND immortal.

“Strong As Death, Sweet As Love”– Al Green

Al’s greatest track? Certainly one of his wilder vocal performances. Available on The Other Side of Al Green CD of b-sides and unreleased singles.

8 / 16 / 98

Episode 190

Brian, Abby & Don

The Route 29 to Highway 66 Tape

Brian Greene is driving

and Abby Hoffman is backseat driving

“Iron City”– Grant Green

“Butter (Fo Yo Popcorn)”– Brother Jack McDuff

“Ieanniaz”– Richard “Groove” Holmes

Groove-Jazz triple shot!

“After Sunrise”– Sergio Mendes

“Superbarana”– Caetano Veloso

“Refazinda”– Gilberto Gil

Brazillian Triple Shot!

“Jeanne”– Air w/ Francoise Hardy

B-side, featuring the reclusive chanteuse Hardy in a guest turn.

“Immobile”– Autour De Lucie

“The Javanaise”– Mick Harvey

From Pink Elephants, Harvey’s second collection of anglophiled Serge Gainsbourg remakes.

“I Gotta Know”– Wanda Jackson

“I Can’t Hardly Stand It”– Charlie Feathers

“A criminally forgotten rockabilly legend”– B.G.! Shoutouts go out to John Fahey’s new Revenant label for the new Get With It compilation of classic Feathers tracks from the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

“Super Goo”– The Cramps

“Dolly”– The Lyres

“Mr. Farmer”– The Seeds

“Making Time”– The Creation

“Come On”– Chocolate Watchband

“Long And Lonesome Road”– Shocking Blue

“Live At the Rhythm Hive”– The Make-Up

“The Banana Question”– Royal Trux

“Come and Have a Go If You Think You’re Hard Enough”– Mekons

Brian thinks this is the best track from the Mekons’ recent Me release (available on Touch & Go), and Don thinks it’s one of the worst. Either way, it fit in as the end of this paisley garage-rockin’ set.

“Easy Way Down”– Snowpony

“The Sweaty Hide of Circumstance”– Chris Knox

“Baby, You Feel Me Up”– His Name Is Alive

New Zealand Quirky-Pop Double Shot!

“Pass Me By”– Adventures In Stereo

“Love’s Prelude”– Pizzicato Five

“Lolitapop Dollhouse”– Kahimi Karie

“Underneath It All”– Money Mark

“Broken Homes”– Tricky

“Time I Took A Holiday”– Nick Lowe

A standout track from vet Lowe’s excellent new disc of torch songs, Dig My Mood, on Rounder-Upstart.

“Afraid To Go Home”– St. Etienne

“World’s Strongest Man”– Scott Walker

Brian Greene, Chairman of the Minor Chorded Strings Fan Club, has been promised a future Wowsville devoted to the idiosyncratic career of the dour Scott Walker.

“T.V.”– Babybird

“Tangent”– Beth Orton

“Smoke and Mirrors”– Evelyn

“Bridge Over Troubled Water”– Senator Sam Ervin

A reminder. . . from back when Senate Judiciary Hearings were cool!

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3 / 7 / 99

Episode 216

Tyler & Dan

A Short History of Pork Cracklins

We believe we CAN tell you that this show featured Redd Foxx talking about Aluminum Foil . . .

2 / 28 / 99

Preempted due to WTJU Rock Marathon

2 / 21 / 99

Episode 215

Dewey, Huey, Louie

In Memory of Thomas Elvis Edison

This episode was recorded-over during the Great WTJU Tape Shortage of Feb. 1999.

Such was the early days of radio.

2 / 14 / 99

Episode 214

Dirk, Stig & Nasty

Sonic Whiplash

“I was there. I think.”– Harrison

2 / 7 / 99

Episode 213

Don, Tyler & Dan (w/ Meg Schayes)

Funny Vibe

“Ride My Seesaw”– Bongwater

“Funny Vibe”– Living Color (w/ Daddy-O)

Dan found this obscure Living Color 12 inch, produced by none other than Prince Paul, at a Richmond record fair. He knows nothing about it and it’s driving him crazy. Can someone out there help Dan and shed light on this unexpected retro one-shot so’s to save his sanity?

“The Summer of ‘42″ / “Must Be Something”– Gil Scott Heron

“Dub”– Pylon

“Do You Want to Fuck”– Basehead

“I’m in Holland. I can smoke a big fat spliff and say ‘fuck’ on the radio”– Michael Ivey

“Write It Down”– Curious Digit

“King Kong”– Jimmy Castor Bunch

“Beastie Bear”– King Kong

“Cable Fellow”– Curious Digit

“Dub Dreams (Dreamland)”– Bunny Wailer

Mr. Wailer’s fine dub experiments from the late ‘70’s / early ‘80’s were recently reissued on CD by RAS Records. If you like scary, EQ-shifting reggae dub. . .

“Summer Breeze”– The Main Ingredient

Actual quote from current hip-hop magazine: “I don’t care what y’all say– Seals and Crofts got BEATS.”

“Too Many Cooks Spoil The Soup”– 100 Proof (Aged in Soul)

Probably Wowsville’s REAL theme song.

“Too Close”– Staple Singers

Poarch, shaking his head, reading the back of the early SS Veejay album that this spooky live cut hails from: “Mavis Staples was only 22 years old when this was released.”

This amazing song starts this week’s Wowsville gospel set. . .

“Jesus Gave Me Water”– Soul Stirrers

“It’s All Right Now”– Chuck Wagon Gang

“God’s Got a Crown”– Arizona Draines

“O Death”– Patton & Lee

“Call Him and Tell Him What You Want”– Caravans

“Funky Duck”– Young-Holt Unlimited

This silly, funky instrumental has been punctuated by archival sounds of animals in the wild. And we aren’t talking about the deejays. . .

“Stormy Weather”– Pixies

“I’m Not Satisfied”– Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

a.k.a. Ruben & The Jets– the original 1968 mix.

“By The Time It Gets Dark”– Yo La Tengo

“Some Trust in Chariots”– Rod McKuen

Acceptable, and quite swingin’, little tune from the Robert James Waller of the ‘60’s.

“Can’t Say It’s Nice to Be Here in Kent, Ohio”– Dick Gregory

The beginning of the hilarious, biting Dick Gregory Live at Kent State LP.

“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”– Staple Singers

1 / 31 / 99

Episode 212

Don & Tyler

The Count’s Countdown

Intro– The Count from Sesame Street

“Ladybug’s Picnic”– Duane Wayne

The Count Counts, a 1974 Sesame Street LP, turns out to be one of the best, and most conceptually sound, concept albums of the “rock era.” In it, the Count has his own Casey Kasem-like Top 40 show and teaches you to count while his “singers” concoct a Who Sell Out for the Kiddie Set. Amazing.

“History Lesson #2″– Minutemen

The most beautiful, life-affirming song to ever contain a verse about “fucking corndogs.”

“Demolicion”– Los Saicos

“NY Flat Top Box”– Naked City

“Livin’ Life as a Dog”– Johnny Paycheck

“Fuzzy Wuzzy”– Al Herda

“George Washington”– Gashuffer

Tyler, giving you the behind the scenes: “Who are Gashuffer? Well, they live in the Seattle area there, one guy draws comics, another has impressive sideburns.”

“Women’s Love Rights”– Laura Lee

“I Love My Mommy”– Little John

“Lake of Fire”– Nirvana

“Virginia Plain”– Roxy Music

Someone called and ask for some early Roxy and wanted to be surprised. . .

“Pass On By”– Charlie Rich

From Charlie’s mid-period Hi years– a bluesy yelp for help.

“Ne me Quitte Pas”– Jacques Brel

“Danse Avec Moi”– Petula Clark

Don recently found an LP of Petula Clark singing tunes and covering everyone from Serge G. to Ray Davies in French and it’s a remarkable album– anyone out there know anything else about Petula’s foray into the French language?

“The Ballad of Red Buckets”– Yo La Tengo

“Words”– Fantastic Four

Legendary soul-funk band the FF concoct one HELL of a cautionary fable on this eerie and evocative ballad about, yes, society’s over-reliance on semantics. Beautiful. From the ambitious 1975 Alvin Stone: Death of a Gangster LP.

“Learn Yr. Parrot to Talk Pt. 2″– Howlin’ Banana

“Angels in the Air”– God Is My Co-Pilot

“My Big Hands (Just Fall Through the Cracks)”– David Byrne

From the Catherine Wheel soundtrack– one of the best albums of the ‘80’s and great mood music for jittery airplane passengers.

“The American”– Simple Minds

“Mama’s Pearl”– Jackson Five

“Drag Strip Race”– Rhondelles

Koko swears by the Rhondelles and that’s good enough for us at Wowsville.

“Take Me For A Little While”– Dusty Springfield

“World of Forgotten People”– Loretta Lynn

“The Season’s Reverse”– Gastr del Sol

Wiry acoustic freakout for the ages!

“No No No”– Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

“From a Silver Phail”– Gene Clark

From Gene’s lush, weird No Reply album, circa mid-’70’s. Clark, a founding member of the Byrds, is one of rock music’s underappreciated songwriters and an ongoing Wowsville obsession.

“Voice of Harold”– REM

Tyler says he prefers this one-take b-side revamping to its “official” counterpart, “Seven Chinese Brothers.” Don is not sure about that….

“Tiddle Winks”– Allen & Allen

A super-duper one-off ‘50’s 45 collaboration between New Orleans heavyweights Allen Toussaint and Allen Orange. “A-HAH!”

“Lot 105″– Blur

“The Flyswatter”– DDT & the Repellents

“Miss Mushmouth”– Lloyd Fatman

“Lloyd was, like, Big Joe Turner’s ne’er do well cousin or something”-- The Wowsville trivia department

“White Woman” / “From the One That Cut You”– Fred Lane

1 / 24 / 99

Episode 211

Don, Tyler & Dan

Uh-Oh

The Kick Inside / Shake Off The Ghosts”– Simple Minds

“Nothing Is Easy”– Lungfish

“Kill Niggaz”– Slick Rick

“Uh-Oh (Part 1)”– The Nutty Squirrels

Apparently, whenever you couldn’t get The Chipmunks for a gig, you could get the Nutty Squirrels for bar tab and cab fare. Yes, there IS a “Part 2″ to this, and NO you can’t hear it.

“Groove Will Make You Move”– Jimmy Castor Bunch

“Castor sez it, I believe it and that settles it.”– D.P.

“Washington We’re Watching You”– Staple Singers

“Washington! Washington”– Trenchmouth

Timely doin’s. The former is Gospel-protest meets Moog and the latter is cynical wiseassery that know nobody’s on the other line but the prank call is made anyway. . .

“Las Vegas” (French version)– Petula Clark

“Easter Bunny”– Eugenius

“Dear Mary”– Steve Miller Band

Drag City’s latest moping whiner? Nope. A young Joker and his gang in San Fran in the heady late ‘60’s on a pretty heavy, if heavily pretty, trip.

“Allon a Lafayette”– Harry Choates

“Wild Wild Party”– Charlie Feathers

“Down and Out in New York City”– James Brown

“’B’ Movie”– Gil Scott Heron

The Reagan Presidency gets a mid-term exam from the Original Agitator. Unearthed by Poarch as part of his “Black Revolutionary” series. Leading to. . .

“No More Auction Block / Great Gettin’ Up Morning”– Paul Robeson

“Remember I Said Tomorrow”– Swamp Dogg

From the Portsmouth native’s Rat On album, his major label debut on Elektra in 1971, which our pal Kirk O’ Brien tells us is not one of Swampy’s best. It DOES feature Mr. Dogg riding on the back of a (smiling) rat like a bucking bronco. And it does have this song– a rollicking cry for justice co-written with (Norfolk’s own) Gary “U.S.” Bonds.

“Never Alone”– Rev. Charles A. Craig

“If I Could See The Light”– The 8th Day

“Highway 61 Revisited”– P.J. Harvey

“Pet You and Hold You”– Rockpile

“You Make Your Own Heaven & Hell Right Here on Earth” — Undisputed Truth

A worthy, impressively orchestrated, followup to “Smiling Faces”– the group ups the ante on pop apocalyptic damnation with one of Norman Whitfield’s most elaborate productions.

“Strange Blues”– Elmore James

“Magnolia”– Jimmy Castor Bunch

“The Funky Duck”– Young-Holt Unlimited

“Roadrunner”– Modern Lovers

“Want Ads”– Honey Cones

“Experience in love preferred. . . but will accept a young trainee.”

“Spirit in the Sky”– Fuzzbomb

“Stay In My Corner”– The Dells

1 / 17 / 99

Episode 210

Dan & Don

Freedom Highway

Our 2nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Show

“Strange Land”– Roy Hawkins

“The World It’s Midnight” (speech)– Martin Luther King

“We’ll Never Turn Back”– SNCC Singers

“Biological Speculation”– Funkadelic

“Wake Up Everybody”– Harold Melvin

“Sock It To ‘em, Soul Brother”– Bill Moss

“Freedom Highway”– Staple Singers

“The Negro Dilemma” (speech)– Martin Luther King

“Inner City Blues”– Marvin Gaye

“Echoes of My Mind”– Ronnie Butler

“We’re A Winner”– The Impressions

“People Get Ready”– Aretha Franklin

“Compared To What?”– Les McCann

“The Street Sweeper” (speech)– Martin Luther King

“We Shall Not Be Moved”– Carolina Freedom Fighters

“Freedom Train”– James Carr

“One Chain Don’t Make No Prison”– Four Tops

“My Rock”– Swan Silvertones

“Run All The Way”– Mahalia Jackson

“Mother Bowed”– Pilgrim Travelers

“Search Me Lord”– Brother Jo Mae

“No Restricted Signs”– Golden Gate Quartet

“Search Me Lord” (speech)– Martin Luther King

“Give More Power to the People”– Chi-Lites

“Evil”– Howlin’ Wolf

“I’d Fly Away”– Al Green

“This Is My Country”– Impressions

“You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure”– Funkadelic

“Troubles”– Harry Belafonte

“If The World Were Mine”– Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

“Two Steps From The Blues”– Bobby “Blue” Bland

1 / 10 / 99

Episode 209

Dan, Tyler, Don

Tomorrow and Today

“My Talk About Leaving”– T. Texas Tyler

“Tomorrow & Today”– Charlie Feathers

Sadly, just as overdue reissues were reviving his legacy, Mr. Feathers (a Sun pioneer and GREAT rockabilly artist) died this year. Just listen to that voice. . .

“Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line”– Buck Owens

“Will Sweethearts Know Each Other”– Dock Boggs

“See The Big Man Cry”– Charlie Louvin

“Scared of the Blues”– Louvin Brothers

One-two punch from the bittersweet Louvin boys– from their hard-to-find Capitol period.

“I Break Horses”– Smog

“Somebody to Say Goodbye To”– Michael Hurley

This song hails from a mid-80’s effort on the long-gone indie label, Rooster, Blue Navigator. Supposedly the master tapes for this shambling Hurley epic were destroyed in a fire.

“Breaking the Rules”– Hank Thompson

“Theme From ‘Midnight Cowboy’”– Faith No More

This was about the time that listeners called up to say that we were bumming them out with all of this sad folk and country. We tried to liven things up a bit. . .

“Aquas de Marco”– Byrne / Monte

“When the Circus Comes”– Los Lobos

“The Windmills of Your Mind”– Dusty Springfield

Swirling psychedelia from Ms. Springfield’s awesome Dusty in Memphis album, out on CD with those all-important “bonus cuts.”

“Mr. Pitiful”– Otis Redding

“Don’t Let Go”– Isaac Hayes

… where King Ike figures out Dumb is Better and that this Disco thing could really be big.

“Fucking Ida”– Ian Dury

“Chicken Truck”– Fetchin Bones

“I Was Made to Love Her”– Stevie Wonder

“Ronnie Johnnie”– Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters

“Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing”– Lou Rawls

“Stones”– Neil Diamond

“I’ve Got Dreams to Remember”– Otis Redding

A whole lot of peoples’ favorite Otis Redding song.

“Golden Ring”– George Jones / Tammy Wynette

“Signed Sealed Delivered”– James Brown

“Pop Man”– Circus Lupus

“Cool”– Superchunk

New 45 track, on Merge– the ‘Chunk played a live gig in Charlottesville in early ‘99 and they sounded GREAT!

“Oswald Defence Lawyer”– The Fall

“Funky Worm”– Ohio Players

“Big River”– Johnny Cash

“Skid Row Joe”– Porter Waggoner

“Drug Machine in Heaven”– Flaming Lips

“Circle Jack”– Melt Banana

“That show was like Donny & Marie– a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll.”– Radio & TV Mirror

1 / 3 / 99

Episode 208

Harrison, Poarch, Nash & Young

Blast Off Into Infinity

Intro– Groucho Marx

“Trying to Forget the Blues”– Porter Waggoner

“Black-Eyed Dog”– Nick Drake

This song was the late, great U.K. singer / songwriter Nick Drake’s own take on “Hellhound on My Trail.” Recommended to fans who want to know more: Patrick Humphries’ new book on the mysterious singer-songwriter, available in finer bookstores or internet outlets everywhere.

“Let’s Say Goodnight”– Los Lobos

“Who’ll Be The Next in Line”– The Kinks

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”– Paul Robeson

“Milky White Way”– The Trumpeters

One of the most beautiful doo-wop songs in existence– gospel, secular or what have you. From the There Is No Sweeter Sound compilation.

“Get Down”– Curtis Mayfield

Curtis in his jammy, utopian period– sorry about that.

“You’re a Big Girl Now”– Stylistics

“Hold Me Tight”– Johnny Nash

“Frozen Laughter”– Rising Storm

“I am I Said”– Neil Diamond

Something about playing Neil Diamond always makes Dan want to bring out the Hip-Hop. Does Neil have BEATS??

“B-Boy Beat”– Wildstyle

“What It’s All About”– Pasco

“What a Nigga Know”– KMD

“Dos Collabo”– Network Reps

“Seven Minutes of Funk”– Eric B. & Rakim

Island has reissued the hip-hop duo’s classic Paid In Full in a double CD package called The Platinum Edition. This one is a Coldcut remix, available on disc two of the new package.

“3rd Person”– Sole

“I Used to Manage PM Dawn”– Block

From the new Timing is Everything– a dance-rock indictment of “the manager” that actually scores points beyond the obvious. “We’ll shoot your video in. . . Iceland!”

“Fencewalk”– Mandrill

“Brother Rapp Pt. 1 & 2″– James Brown

“Funky Reggae”– Bohannon

“Out of the Day”– The Zombies

Oddball garage session outtake, available only on the indispensable Zombies Heaven box set– quite normal British youth gone absolutely bonkers.

“Everybody Loves the Sunshine”– Roy Ayers

A discordant, bittersweet, minimalist ode to sunny days. Odd and unforgettable.

“Greasy Chicken”– Andre Williams

A love duet to deep fried birds from Williams, and some unnamed, drunk-sounding “chick.” Williams, a mainstay of the Sin Alley / Big Itch! set, was seemingly responsible for more prehistoric-recorded dementia than Hasil Adkins and Screaming Jay combined.

“I’m Thinkin’”– No I.D.

“Lonesome Dog Blues”– Lightnin’ Hopkins

“Blast Off Into Infinity”– Abstract Tribe Unique

“Cowboys to Girls”– The Intruders

“I Pity the Fool”– Bobby “Blue” Bland

12 / 27 / 98

Episode 207

Don & Tyler (w/ a visiting Adam Busch)

Grammar Bell Rings

“Crucial Bar-B-Q”– Murphy’s Law

“Beaten to the Punch”– Elvis Costello & the Attractions

“Theme From ‘Square Pegs’”– Waitresses

One of the greatest, quirkiest TV theme songs ever.

“Sinners”– Freddie & the Hitchhikers

“Chameleon’s Dish”– Art of Noise

“Justified & Ancient”– The KLF w/ Tammy Wynette

Kyle and Lisagh Hogg’s Wedding Song, as we recall…
“Great Five Lakes”– Buffalo Daughter

“Sunday”– Brian Lillie

“Oblivious”– Aztec Camera

“Put the Book Back On the Shelf”– Belle & Sebastian

“One of These Things First”– Nick Drake

“Grammar Bell Rings”– Manischevitz

Manischevitz, A.K.A. Adam Busch of Curious Digit, debuts his upcoming Jagjaguwar release FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE on this edition of Wowsville and then refuses to answer embarrassing personal questions afterward. What good is he??

“Lemonade Kid”– Kak

“Alone & Forsaken”– Hank Williams Jr.

“Ambitious” / ” Cheeking Tongues”– Wire

From the Wire boys’ career-shifting The Ideal Copy, a revved-up one-two punch from an album that Wowsville deejays love to debate the overall merits of.

“Rocket From a Bottle”– XTC

“Ukraina”– Flin Flon

“Your Silent Face”– New Order

“I Used to Manage PM Dawn”– Block

“Fight Fire”– The Golliwogs

Available on Rhino’s Nuggets box (essential!): This is pre-Creedence Creedence Clearwater Revival– John Fogerty and Co. yelling at you from outside the garage. Call the neighbors!

“Night Society”– Silver Jews

“Cursing”– Neil Hamburger

“Just trying to be hip and up to date here.”

“Loose Lips”– Percy Mayfield

“The Banana Question”– Royal Trux

“Sink The West Coast”– The Monorchid

“Surfer Girl”– Pere Ubu
“Last Train to Clarksville”– the Monkees

“Your Molecular Structure”– Mose Allison

12 / 20 / 98

Episode 206

Tyler & Don

Rep. Virgil Goode’s

129th Wet Dream

“Eros”– Rod McKuen

“Watchdog”– Etta James

“Brave & Strong”– Sly & The Family Stone

“Rip it Up”– Orange Juice

“I Hate You”— The Monks

“I Can’t Live Without You”– The Vitamen

“A Public Execution”– Mouse

“Inky Bloaters”– Danielle Dax

“What The World is Waiting For”– Stone Roses

“The Only One I Know”– Charlatans UK

“The Ugly Underneath”– XTC

“Gloria”– Elastica

“Riot Act”– Elvis Costello

“In the Land of Make Believe”– Dusty Springfield

“Now That’s the Bark Lords”– Urge Overkill

“He’s A Mighty Good Leader”– Beck

“Hold Me Tight”– Johnny Nash

“Lie To Me”– David Byrne

“Where Does The World Go To Hide”– Utopia

“We Have The Technology”– Pere Ubu

“This Is My Country”– Impressions

“I’ve Been Lonely For So Long”– Lambchop

“Gentle Touch”– Rod McKuen

“Tears of Rage”– Bob Dylan and the Band

“The Disorderly House”– Junior Samples

“And That Was Yesterday”– Jules Shear

“Elgin Miller”– Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

“Oh Death”– Charlie Patton

“Talkin’ New York Blues”– Bob Dylan

“Coming”– Chuck Wagon Gang

“American Woman”– Butthole Surfers

“Self-Explanatory”– D.H.

12 / 13 / 98

Episode 205

Dan & Tyler (w/ a late arriving Don)

Catch the Magic

“Wanderin’ Boy”– Carter Family

“Tin Chime”– Lambchop

“Walkin’ Over God’s Heaven”– Mahalia Jackson

“Crime Cut”– Wildstyle

interspersed with. . .

MC 90 Year Old Sir John Gielgud droppin’ science like Shakespeare dropped an adverb. . .

“Drop the Bomb”– Crazy Wisdom Masters

From the Jungle Brothers REAL third album, released under the guise of CWM. “Crazy stuff”

“Money is King”– Tiger

From the excellent Calypsos From Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue and Violence on Arhoolie. Appropriate choice during a seasonal time of Presidental Impeachment. . .

“Take Me Back to Tulsa”– Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

“Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto”– James Brown

“Tijuana Christmas”– Sy Mann

From the extraordinary Switched On Santa epic. A Moog-y Christmas.

“Upright Kangaroo”– Mike & Rich

“Hard For To Love”– Hayes Shepherd

“David’s Lamentation”– Alabama Congregation

“Burying Ground”– Sensational Nightingales

“By and By”– Soul Stirrers

The obligatory Gospel section of our program. . . leads nicely into:

“True Love”– Al Green

“If I Really Bug You (Then You Don’t Love Me)”– Jose Feliciano

Don was much derided for this swell raveup from Jose’s second album of the same name .

“Velvet Pants”– Propellerheads

“If Moon Was Cookie”– Cookie Monster

A beautiful string-laden ballad from the Sesame Street’s “Basement Tapes” sessions. This masterpiece is revived later in the program when a listener calls in and requests Bella Morte.

“It’s Nasty (Genius of Love)”– Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

“Rip the System”– KMFDM

“Machine Gun”– Commodores

“Memories are Made of This?”– Spike Jones

Dean Martin, deconstructed for the Milk Bone Set. “Early Jingle Dogs”– D.H.

“I Really Love You”– the Stereos

“Real Cool Kitty”– Nona Raye

“Oh My God!”– Tribe Called Quest

“If Moon Was Cookie” (repeat by request)

“Sugar Baby”– Dock Boggs

“Eleanor Rigby”– Tony Bennett

“Let’s Unite The Whole World of Christmas”– James Brown

“The Milk Cycle”– Pro Rock S

Local Charlottesville rock– Mr. Jeff Grosfield is loving nature.

“The Black Hole Tube”– Negitivland

“Splitting Wicked Randomness”– Jungle Brothers

12 / 6 / 98

Preempted due to WTJU Classical Marathon

11 / 29 / 98

Episode 204

Don

Nothing Is Saving Me

“Moulty”– The Barbarians

“Memories Are Made of This?”– Spike Jones

“In the Street”– Big Star

You’ll recognize this as the opening jingle of FOX’s “That ‘70’s Show.” Something about scorching stumblers or somesuch. . .

“Mama Don’t Want No Twistin’”– Jo Ann Campbell

“Wild Wild Party”– Darryl Vincent

“Let Her Dance”– Bobby Fuller Four

“Goodnight”– St. Etienne

From Sarah & Co’s exquisitely cool Good Humor, on SubPop.

“Wild Man on the Loose”– Mose Allison

“Whispers”– Luna

“Terrapin”– Syd Barrett

“Lobby of Your Heart”– Hank Thompson

“Apartment #9″– Johnny Paycheck

“Hot Burrito #1″– Flying Burrito Brothers

“Sign on the Cross”– Bob Dylan and the Band

An outtake from “The Basement Tapes”– seven minutes of Gospel testifying and smirking pastiche from Dylan, Robbie and Co. It sounds like Mr. Bob found God earlier than fans ever suspected. . .

“Uncle Bob’s Corner”– Michael Hurley

“Sweet Lucy”– Michael Hurley

“Little Black Egg”– Nightcrawlers

“There’s A New World Opening Up For Me”– The Kinks

Moody Kinks outtake, circa late ‘60’s. Also used in Wim Wenders’ Alice of the Cities, if memory serves.

“Canceled Check”– Beck

“Wyatt Earp Makes Me Burp”– Spike Jones

“Nothing Is Saving Me”– Translator

Who remembers the great, San Francisco-based Translator? WE remember the great Translator. (Those of us who remember the ‘80’s)

“Cheese and Onions”– Galaxie 500

“Half Day Closing”– Portishead

Selection from the live Roseland NYC disc.

“Coldest Days of My Life”– The Chi-Lites

“Freeze”– Robyn Hitchcock

“Primitive”– The Groupies

Another scorching track from the recent Nuggets 4-CD box set on Rhino. Rare, essential punk rock and early psych from the Vaults.

“It Doesn’t Matter”– Flying Color

“Cocaine Eyes”– Neil Young

Killer cut from Neil’s Japanese-only Eldorado EP.

11 / 22 / 98

Episode 203

The Law Firm of Magill, Harrison, Poarch

Our Future?

“Lords Prayer”– Beach Boys

“Beatbox”– Art of Noise

“We Never Know, Except…”– Nicolette

“Towers of Dub”– The Orb

“Double Dutch”– Malcolm McLaren

“Planet Rock”– Afrika Bambataa

“Lesson Two”– D.D. & Steinski

“Better By the Pound”– Funkadelic

“Mea Culpa”– Byrne / Eno

“Erik B. For President”– Erik B. & Rakim

“So Whatcha Gonna Do Now?”– Public Enemy

“I Was Never Here”– Baby Bird

“Jack Ass”– Beck

“Coffee Dan”– Milt Hinton

“Sex”– Paul Young

“Shoot Your Shot”– James Brown

“What Is This Feeling?”– Al Green

“Bert’s Blues”– Donovan

“Our Future?”– Black Ivory

“There’s Gonna Be An Accident”– Baader Meinhof

“Can of Whoopass”– Bastro

No one will take responsibility at ‘THE FIRM’ for the preparing of this brief.– The Firm

11 / 15 / 98

Episode 202

Dan, Tyler & Don

An Evening Prayer

“An Evening Prayer”– Mahalia Jackson

“Waling and Falling / Looking For You”– Laurie Anderson

“. . . and I couldn’t find you.”

‘Dieu Pour Tous”– Willy Roots

“Miss Modular”– Stereolab

“Rainbo Conversation”– Stereolab

Tyler and Dan attempt a dual turntable Remix of these two Stereolab epics. The lawsuit is in the mail. . .

“Winning Style”– Propellerheads

Courtesy of the disc collection of Dave Harrison– an overlooked 1998 gem.

“Run Nigger”– Last Poets

“Hook & Sling”– Eddie Bo

How many times has THIS been sampled??? From the ESSENTIAL disc of the same name on Tuff City.

“NYC Everything”– RZA

“I Got the Fear”– Meat Beat Manifesto

“Terrorism”– XTC

B-side from the Skylarking era.

“Eat & Buy & Eat”– Audio Sports

“White Trash”– OMD

“Tellin’ Lies”– Staple Singers

“Can’t Find No Substitute For Love”– Larry Williams & Johnny “Guitar” Watson

“Everybody Plays the Fool”– Main Ingredient

Cuba Gooding Sr., in his element.

“Emulsified”– Rex Garvin

Aha. . . anyone who loves the Yo La Tengo version should hear the original.

“Sounds of Science”– Beastie Boys

“Ra Ra Kid”– Crazy Wisdom Masters

A.K.A. The Jungle Brothers!!!

“Prayer For My Demo”– Urban Dance Squad

Dan can’t get enough of UDS.

“Maid of Sugar, Made of Spice”– Mouse & the Traps

“Ack Ack Ack”– Minutemen

“The Ballad of Ms. Toni Fisher”– Drain

“Inverse Proportions”– Carbon

“Lesson #3″– Double Dee & Steinski

“Genius of Love”– Tom Tom Club

“I Want A Monster to Be My Friend”– En Vogue (really??)

“Ode to My Favorite Beer”– Basehead

“Get Your Rocks Off”– Bob Dylan & The Band

11 / 8 / 98

Episode 201

DTD, inc.

Mind Over Matter

Intro– Scene from Jean Genet’s “The Balcony”

“Knock Knock”– The Humane Society

A standout track among standouts on the Nuggets 4-CD box from Rhino, an essential voyage into the world of ‘60’s garage rock.

“Drugs and Gurus”– K-Stars

Has this Vancouver band– a TeenBeat Sampler mainstay– now disbanded? MORE INFORMATION.

“Sleeping Gas”– The Teardrop Explodes

“Heavenly Pop Hit”– The Chills

Leadoff cut from this New Zealand pop-rock band’s best LP, the rich and diverse 1990 gem, Submarine Bells.

“Mr. Clock”– Fapardokly

“It’s Not a Game”– Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

“Marion Barry / Million Man March”– Chris Rock

“Even in our finest hour, we had a crackhead on stage.” The funniest man in contemporary show business on one of contemporary politics’ most unlikely comeback kids.

“And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma”– Harry Partsch

“Mind Over Matter”– Ini

“Yellow Back and Rectangular”– Negitivland

“The World’s a Stage (a Dramady)”– Prince Paul

1996’s incredible Psychoanalysis, on the Tommy Boy label, is one of the FUNNIEST releases of the ‘90’s so far. Bet on it. P. Paul’s comedy routines are from outer space.

“Spazz”– The Elastik Band

“Lady Sniff”– Butthole Surfers

One particular Wowsville deejay lip-synched this entire song in the studio, much to the dismay of his fellow deejays. No names.

“Bad Liquor”– American Music Club

“Back in Our Minds”– Funkadelic

“Animal”– The Gun & Doll Show

A most interesting band from San Fran: Their new Working on the Bomb is 1/4 indie-pop, 1/4 raveup and 1/2 fun. Produced by “Jim Greer”– the very same??? Available from 915 Cole St. #915, San Francisco, CA. 94117.

“Pop Man”– Circus Lupus

“The Man Who Murdered Love”– XTC

A never-made-it-to-LP home demo from Andy Partridge, ‘round about the Nonsuch sessions. Jolly good.

“Hey Leroy”– The Jimmy Castor Bunch

“Free James Brown… So He Can Run Me Down”– Foetus

“Straight Out the Jungle”– Jungle Brothers

“Knock On Wood”– Ami Stewart

“They Don’t Know”– Tracy Ullman

Tyler recounts a teary-eyed defense of the Tracy Ullman oeuvre.

“There’s A Fight at the End of the Tunnel”– Third Eye Foundation

From the new You Guys Kill Me, available on Merge. Dance music for paranoids.

“Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl”– the Barbarians

“Mexican Radio”– Polvo

After cueing this cover version, Tyler recounts a teary-eyed tale of his love for Wall of Voodoo, his first radio show, his first car, girlfriend, beer, etc.

“Love’s Happening”– the Impressions

“Eyes, Eyes”– Michael Hurley

The last word is given to Wowsville fave-rave Hurley…. a gem from the out-of-print Hi Fi Snock Uptown (1972).

11 / 1 / 98

Episode 200

Dan, Tyler, Don & Charlie Olver

Dress Rehearsal

Press Release: To commemorate Radio Wowsville’s 200th (or so…) show, the Wowsville Crew (plus very special guest Rev. Olver) allows the studio microphone to remain on during the first half-hour of music broadcasting on the special 3-hour edition of 11 / 1, in order to give listeners a backstage view of what happens when you attempt to squeeze a battalion of corn-fed musicologists into a small studio with a two liter of Mountain Dew and a ton of vinyl. Weekly.

“Spare-Ass Annie”– William S. Burroughs

“Right On For the Darkness”– Curtis Mayfield

From Mr. M’s post-Superfly opus, Back to the World.

“Smashed Blocked”– John’s Children

“Please . . I’m losing my mind. Help me now….”everything’s spinning…. my eyes are getting tired… where am I? I’m losing my way. . . help me now….” One of the best intros in rock music history. The rest of this swirling psych-singalong ain’t bad either. Available on the bonus disc that accompanies Richie Unterberger’s excellent book on cult music, Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Hyperion). This amazing Johns Children 1965 cut was pre-Marc Bolan.

“Walking After Midnight”– Ultra Vivid Scene

Folk-industrial cover of the Patsy Cline classic.

“Stop and Think”– The Rascals

“Aquarius”– The Zodiac

Another astrological gem from the wigged-out Cosmic Sounds LP.

“Shadows On My Wall”– The Poppy Family

“Hold My Hand”– The Feminine Complex

Who sez the kids today can’t write sophisticated cocktail pop? A breezy number that calls out for an ascot, an olive and a torrid summer romance.

“The Critics”– Peter Sellers

“This. . . is true Cinema!”

“Flowful Fruit”– Rob Swift

“No Way”– Johnny Revolting

An unsigned, and deliciously to-the-point, Tonawanda, NY band. This punker trak is from a Mary’s Lounge compilation available from PO Box 1462, Buffalo NY. 14213.

“Beer”– Murphy’s Law

“Gotta Get Away”– Stiff Little Fingers

“Swamp”– That Petrol Emotion

“Monk Time”– The Monks

“The Promo”– Jungle Brothers

Featuring the debut of a very young Q-Tip.

“Synthesizer Guidebook on Fire”– The Boredoms

From the completely unlistenable Chocolate Synthesizer disc.

The mike turned off, Wowsville begins “The Quiet Storm”:

“Frozen Laughter”– Rising Storm

A bunch of Prep School kids recorded a vanity album in 1967 and forgot about it. Collectors and musicologists didn’t, though. and the Rising Storm’s unique, quasi-psych Calm Before LP became one of those elusive and hard-to-find ‘60’s treasures. Soon after being discovered again the band reformed, after thirty years. Great story. Fine album. Original copies go for nearly $2000. The disc itself was reissued by Arf! Arf!– along with the reunion gig– and this shimmeringly haunting track is, again, from the excellent disc that accompanies Richie Unterberger’s book, Unknown Legends of Rock, which has an informative writeup on the Rising Storm’s unusual tale.

“Love to Keep You In My Mind”– Curtis Mayfield

“City of Heaven”– Mahalia Jackson

“American Flag”– Cat Power

Big in late 1998 on WTJU: Ms. Cat’s latest, Moon-Pix.

“Nubia”– The Rascals

From the stalwart New York band’s later-period See LP. Charlie O. been ravin’ about “rediscovering” dem Rascals.

“Pearly Dewdropsie Drops”– Cocteau Twins

“Empty Boxes”– Everly Brothers

“Outside My Window”– The Fleetwoods

“Grace”– Country Joe and the Fish

. . . the remainder of the epic 11 / 1 broadcast cannot be adequately represented, as playlists, recordings and accounts of the remaining hour and 1/2 have been lost, burned, trampled and shredded by WTJU upper echelon. It really wasn’t as bad as all that.

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8 / 29 / 99

Episode 240

Don, Tyler and an unannounced guest

Drop the Bomb

Dan Poarch was in town, y’see

“There’s Only One Year Left”– Busta Rhymes

“What Would Brian Botanno Do?”– South Park Gang

“Kyle’s mom can’t be all that bad”– Dan

“Itsy Bitsy Spiders”– Children from Hell

From an album called Toddlers with a punk baby on the cover who gives Tyler the willies.

“Master of the Game”– Kool Keith

“Batter on the Jam”– Boom Boom Satellites

“Waterpark”– Royal Trux

“Drop the Bomb”– Trouble Funk

Call and response Go-Go classic, from the Poarch D.C. files.

“Drunken Guitar”– The Lushes

“The Lesson”– Mayo Thompson

“Viking”– Los Lobos

“Kick Out the Jams”– MC5

“Suzanne”– Landlords

Formerly Charlottesville’s own Happy Flowers.

“The Daily Planet”– Love

“??”– The Fourth Seal

From the B. Hosier file: ghostly ‘60’s garage-rock tracks from Harrisonburg Va. where, apparantly, the cool kids have ALWAYS lived. Leading up to an exceptionally long air-break, song announcements interrupted frequently by…

“Steve Albini”– Wesley Willis

“2000 B.C.”– Basehead

“Looking For Clues”– Robert Palmer

“Pearl City”– The Fall

“Help Me Somebody”– Eno / Byrne

“Non-Alignment Pact” / “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (live)– Pere Ubu

“Colored Section”– Bomb M.C.

“Rollerskate”– Evil Tambourines

Any song that begins “Everyone all-skate!!” BELONGS on the Wowsville broadcast.

“Treehouse”– Looper

8 / 22 / 99

Episode 239

Tyler & Don

Square Rave

“What about this show?” – interviewer

(tense silence from deejays)

“Was this the one where you had the fistfight?” – interviewer

(shuffling of papers, clearing of throats)

“…over the airing of Pink Floyd? – Interviewer

(deejays leave room thru separate doors, with nervous entourages)

8 / 15 / 99

Episode 238

Don, Tyler, Adam, Crazy Tom

Highways… or Dieways

“Give this unruly broadcast to the Gods as atonement.”

– the deejays’ spiritual adviser, Packy Baba

8 / 8 / 99

Episode 237

Don & Tyler

The Diary of Horace Wimp

“All Those Dirty Swine”– Lonesome Organist

“Cheree”– Question Mark & The Mysterians

Suicide covered “96 Tears,” so this is ? and the Mysterians returning the favor…. masterfully.

“Ghost Rider”– Suicide

“Kerosene” (Vida Loca remix)– Drown

“I know Big Black, Big Black was a friend of mine. Drown: You are NO Big Black!“– Tyler

“Batter The Jam”– Boom Boom Satellites

“Waterpark”– Royal Trux

“Cocaine Eyes”– Neil Young and the Restless

“Half-Suckered”– Lion Tamer

“Have You See Her Face”– The Byrds

“All the Lights in North Carolina”– Hot Lights

“Dot Dash”– 901

“Non-Alignment Pact” / “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (live)– Pere Ubu

“Happy Place”– Sparklehorse

“I Can’t Use You in My Business”– Gary U.S. Bonds

“Savanna”– Vellum

“The Diary of Horace Wimp”– Electric Light Orchestra

“Let There Be Light”– Pink Floyd

“If You Want Me To Stay”– Sly & the Family Stone

“The Snakebite Song”– Flaming Lips

The following 3 “Lost” episodes are available as a specially-priced

“Wowsville Gift Pack.” Order now.

8 / 1 / 99

Episode 236

Mr. Wrestling 3 & Mr. Wrestling 4

Prime Minister of Mars

7 / 25 / 99

Episode 235

Don

A Severed Head– Does it Float?

7 / 18 / 99

Episode 234

Tyler & Don

Kinder, Gentler Wowsville

7 / 11 / 99

Episode 233

Don & Tyler

Don’t Spook The Horse

“Let’s Move”– Ace & The Rangers

Young swing-punk turks frenzy up on their new Light This Sucker Up!

“See No Evil”– Television

“Have You Seen My Baby”– Big Bobby & The Nite Caps

“Kung Fu Ramone”– Guitar Wolf

“Broke My Hand”– 7 Hearts

“So Long Bonus”– US Maple

“Don’t Ever Call Me The Chickenhead”– XTC

Unreleased demo from Oranges & Lemons. How come Andy Partridge doesn’t put this kind of stuff on XTC albums??

“Christine”– Luscious Jackson

“Missionary Man”– Eurythmics

“One of Our Girls (That’s Gone Missing)”– AC Marias

A gem from this Nico-like Wire collaboratrix.

“Elecricity” (live)– Capt. Beefheart

“Oral Fixation Anonymous”– Monorchid

“Crazy Daisy”– Jo Ann Campbell

“No No No”– Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention

A Wowsville perennial… from the unblemished original LP version of Ruben & the Jets.

“The Hit Girl”– Bis

“Cloud Cuckoo Land”– Takako Minekawa

” Wasn’t that a Pere Ubu song, too?” — a confused Wowsvillian

“I’ll Come Running”– Brian Eno

“We Need Order”– Chi-Lites

“Now We Have the Bomb”– Mekons

“Don’t Spook the Horse”– Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Tremendous b-side sludge from the Ragged Glory LP.

“Folk Song”– Bongwater

“She Said”– Hasil Adkins

“Double Dealing”– John Sinclair

In honor of the Detroit-reared countercultural rabblerouser’s visit to Charlottesville, which happened around this time.

“The Night Before”– Lee Hazelwood

“Everybody Cryin’ Mercy”– Mose Allison

“Lloyd’s Choice”– The Robustos

“Jackie”– Annie Ross

“If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”– Ominious scribble on playlist

7 / 4 / 99

Episode 232

Don

Uncle Sam’s Corner

This Wowsville Post-BBQ Independence Day soundtrack was panned by the “liberal media”

for its heavy use of between-song commentary by folksy radio columnist Paul Harvey.

“Back in the USA”– Chuck Berry

“Outside Chance”– The Turtles

“Spaced Cowboy”– Sly & The Family Stone

“California”– Wedding Present

“I Found You”– Gene Clark

“Don’t Go Out Into the Rain”– Laurie Linden

“Absence of Passion”– Brilliant Mistakes

“Hawks & Doves”– Neil Young

“Empire of the Senseless”– The Mekons

“4th of July”– X

“I’ve Been Everywhere”– Johnny Cash

“This is My Country”– Impressions

“Mansion in the Sky”– Brian Jonestown Massacre

“Give Myself a Party”– Mandy Barnett

“Fifth of July”– Silo the Huskie

Working class Ohio band, with a heartfelt ode to the American hangover.

“The One that Got Away”– Tom Waits

“Up’s and Downs”– Paul Revere & the Raiders

Easily the most underrated American ‘60’s group, this band’s apparant crime was dressing up as American Minutemen in the flush of the British Invasion. In this case: America First!

“Red Firecracker”– Jayhawks

“Ballad of Easy Rider”– Byrds

“Wake Up!”– Funkadelic

“Today was Tomorrow Yesterday”– Staple Singers

“Just One More Day” (Live)– Otis Redding

“BiCentennial”– Ohio Players

“Last Dollar on Earth”– Utopia

“Sweat & Blood”– Tarnation

Led by the spooky vocals of Paula Frazier, this 4AD band’s excellent country-meets-the-ozone 1995 debut, Gentle Creatures, has just been reissued with bonus tracks. Think Patsy Cline meets Nick Cave.

“I’m Sick of Poverty”– Gang of Four

“Cumberland Gap”– Sen. Robert Byrd

Backed up by Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, the quirky-yet-respected Senator from West Virginia released a not-bad bluegrass album called Mountain Fiddler during the Watergate days. Byrd fiddles as D.C. burns!

“Hoodoo Bash”– Peter Stampfel & Unholy Modal Rounders

Wowsville’s idea of a July 4th picnic!

“Carnival Time”– Al Johnson

“Reconsider Baby”– Elvis Presley

“If July”– His Name is Alive

From the band’s new Always Stay Sweet, this drone begs for a Brothers Quay video.

“Message from the Meters”– The Meters

“Beware”– Al Green

6 / 27 / 99

Episode 231

Tyler & Don

Free Guitar Lessons

For Animals

This is the one.

The infamous Wowsville debut of Flossie & the Unicorns.

We burned the playlist

so don’t ask us…

6 / 20 / 99

Episode 230

The cast of TV’s “Big Valley”

Metal Machine Country Music

“Alcohol is a Major Problem”– Wylie Wharton

The item? A country 45 from the ‘70’s on a Charlottesville record label. Found? Behind one of the station’s filing cabinets. Theme? Booze is bad for the nation. Leading to. . .

“Drinkin’ Thing”– Gary Stewart

“(I Was) Drunk at the Pulpit”– Palace

“A Picture From Life’s Other Side”– Carl Story

“Oh Death (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie)”– Carter Family

“My Treasure”– Johnny Cash

“Where You Going”– Jimmie Dale Gilmore

“I Forgot to Cry”– Charlie Louvin

“Gone to Stay”– Freakwater

“Stayed Too Long at the Fair”– Bonnie Raitt

“Unsuspecting Girl”– Brilliant Mistakes

Exceptional country rock band on the Aunt Mimi’s label.

“Driving on 9″– Breeders

“Touch Me”– Willie Nelson

“Keys to the Car”– Mike Nesmith & the First National Band

“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”– Spacemen 3

“It’s A Mighty Thin Line Between Love & Hate”– Johnny Paycheck

“Tin Foil”– Handsome Family

“Gentle On My Mind”– Glen Campbell

“Mr. Richard Smoker” (Live)– Ween

“Kinda went, ah, off-format, didn’t ya’ pard?” – Don to Tyler

“I Ain’t Got Nobody”– Emmet Miller

“Take Me Back to Tulsa”– Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

“Long Time to Forget”– Red Sovine

“Stop The World and Let Me Off”– Patsy Cline

“A Girl in the Night”– Hank Thompson

“I’m Over You”– Silos

Jesse from Richmond wanted to hear this one.

“They’ll Never Take Her Love Away From Me”– Hank WIlliams

“I’m a Stranger Here”– Lambchop

“Silent Crusade”– Gene Clark

“I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground”– Bascom Lunsford

“Fist City”– Loretta Lynn

“I’m Sending Daffydils”– Maddox Bros. & Rose

“The Disorderly House”– Junior Samples

6 / 13 / 99

Episode 229

Dan, Don & Tyler

So You’re Leaving….

“Your One & Only Man” (Live)– Otis Redding

Can we even begin to understand how cool and perfect this singer, and this band, sounded together in their live prime? Recorded 1966 at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, “Your One & Only Man” is available with many other sensational concert tracks on the excellent 4-CD Otis! box set (Rhino).

“I’ve Been Hurt”– Bill Deal & The Rhondells

Virginia’s own BD & the R’s have been a beach music fixture for eons now. This seminal ‘60’s cut is when the beachcombers were young and hungry… and foisting the ska rhythm onto NC yacht clubs & VA boardwalks.

“Funky Kingston”– Toots & The Maytals

Toots once said that this was his “Otis Redding” song. We understand fully.

“Ain’t Nothing But a Houseparty”– Showstoppers

“They Don’t Know”– Tracy Ullman

Tyler once again recounts a teary-eyed defense of the Tracy Ullman oeuvre.

“Unhealthy”– Starlings

“Since I’ve Lost You”– Temptations

“You’re a Big Girl Now”– Stylistics

The Radio Wowsville staff and crew took yet another informal studio poll and it was, once again, determined that this is a pretty creepy song.

“I Saw You When You Met Her”– Undisputed Truth

“Boogie Wonderland”– Girls Against Boys

“Sadie” (Live)– The Spinners

Paul “The Crusher” Wilkinson and his trusty dog Flyboy came by the studio and methodically placed this smooth-as-silk in-concert lurrrve song on the turntable. Which leads us to one of the hallmarks of that particular genre. . .

“Soothe Me”– Sam & Dave

“I’m Still in Love With You”– Thelma Mae Joseph

From the Angola Prison compilation: A mournful blues sung by a female prisoner, with the repetitive, droning accompaniment of a jailhouse washing machine. Quite beautiful.

“I Stand Accused”– Isaac Hayes

Speaking of lurrrve, how could you forget THIS butterball? From The Isaac Hayes Experience…

“Stay in School”– Otis Redding

“3-D Movies”– Metronome

From the mysterious and utterly wonderful Hub City-labeled Ona King Made This Dress CD compilation of DC-area bands and songwriters. Little is known about this band and this cool track! Get the disc from Hub City at PO Box 1223, Greenbelt, MD. 20768.

“Satisfied Mind”– Pete Drake

Speaking of mysterious, how about this steel guitar-vocoder rendition of a hoary ol’ country classic? Early ‘60’s, maybe. Spooky, get-under-your-skin stuff. Thanks to the Steve Richmond Collection for providing this one.

“Nearness of You”– James Brown

“Happy Birthday Dear Norman”– Dave Fischoff

“Gimme Some”– Freddie McCoy

“Transformer Man”– Neil Young

“Deteriorata”– National Lampoon’s Radio Dinner

“Cover It With Gas & Set it On Fire”– Ween

“Some Men”– Rebby Sharp

Richmond legend Rebby’s one and only solo long-player, an early ‘90’s classic on Shimmy-Disc called In One Foot and Out Another, has held up quite well. THIS song is absolutely stunning. Word is that Manishevitz (AKA Adam Busch) will be covering it on their (his) next CD. . . that’s the word saying that, not us.

“Robin’s Theme”– Dan & Dale

“Drunken Maria”– The Monks

“So You’re Leaving”– Al Green

Yep, that’s right– Dr. Dan Poarch moved to the D.C. area and stopped co-hosting the Big Broadcast on a regular basis…this episode, partially programmed by The Front, was also dedicated to him. The lug.

“God’s River”– Emmett Miller

6 / 6 / 99

Episode 228

Your Smooch Merchants

Hello Young Lovers

“The Lawyer Who Wasn’t There” — Sen. Eugene McCarthy

“On The Move”– The Impressions

“Bummer in the Summer”– Love

“I Love You, You Big Dummy”– Capt. Beefheart

“Tellin’ Lies”– Staple Singers

“She’s Acting Single (I’m Drinking Doubles)”– Gary Stewart

Recommended for fans of hardcore honky-tonk, old school variety: Gary Stewart’s Greatest Hits.

“Not A Woman, Not A Child”– Dave Edmunds

From Edmund’s essential Tracks on Wax, a treasure trove for Rockabillists and classic rock guitar fetishists.

“Send Me Someone to Love”– Percy Mayfield

“I Was Born Last Monday”– Johnny Prophet

This one is a love song, sent out to a couple of kids on a smoochy date on Lover’s Lane. It’s the sappiest thing we could find on short notice from Wowsville’s short-stack of vintage 45s, and not very good: a syrupy ‘50’s ballad apparently sung by a ten day year old kid who discovers his first hard-on (at least that’s OUR reading).

“If I’m Going to Sink, I Might as well Go To the Bottom”– Johnny Paycheck

“Russia, Let That Moon Alone”– Sister Dora Alexander

“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”– Barry White

“Oh Esmerelda”– Donner Party

The great lost ‘80’s group (collect the series)– “indie irony” before it made the cover of Rolling Stone.

“Let’s Go For A Walk Upon the Water”– The Move

“Edge of the Envelope”– Cupid Car Club

Pre-Make Up 45 EP . Back cover contains the band’s hilarious “obituaries.” The music is rancorous noise.

“Stutterin’ Cindy”– Charlie Feathers

“Sweet Dreams”– Atsushi Miuri

Still not available commercially, Atsushi’s debut CD is a warts-and-all live performance from the Tokyo Rose owner / singer-songwriter; despite its obscurity on the shelves, it’s been a WTJU chart-topper for nearly two months. The disc combines sweet covers with awesome Atsushi originals. It also contains crowd banter from a drunk and angry Tyler Magill and, folks, THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!! Atsushi plays acoustic every Tuesday at the Rose, with interchangeable friends and collaborators. Any enterprising label auteur want to sign one of Charlottesville’s most original talents? Just release this great live document immediately, as mixed by the esteemed Josh Krahn.

“A Minor Place”– Bonnie Prince Billy

“Just What I Was Lookin’ For”– The Everly Brothers

“All by itself, I think Disc Three of the Everly Brothers’ 4-CD box set, Heartaches and Harmonies, would make my Top Ten of all time. It’s not even the disc with the hits.”– a sober Don Harrison

“3rd Person”– Sole

“La Raza”– Kid Frost

“Seagreen Serenade”– Silver Apples

“Battle Show”– Crazy Wisdom Masters

“Come Clean”– Jeru the Damaja

“Jungle Brother”– The Jungle Brothers

“From This Day On”– Eddie Bo

“I found out on my recent trip to New Orleans that if you leave an Eddie Bo CD (like, say, the excellent and totally funky The Hook and Sling on Tuff City,) in the car when you park, you not only catch a better rate from the guys at the lot but you find that the hubcaps have been waxed. Just a tip.”– an inebriated Don Harrison

“I’m So Green”– Can

“Section 8″– Melt Banana

“What It Takes”– Choclair

“Lonely Saturday”– Gene Clark

From ex-Byrd Gene’s severely underrated, and unheard, 1978 album on RSO, Two Sides to Every Story.

5 / 30 / 99

Episode 227

Tyler + Dan

Bouquet of Sarcasm

Excerpts from “That Looks Like Chicken” begin the program…

“Bitch Gets No Love”– Dr. Doom

“Pisces”– Mort Carson

“Bad Timin’”– Jim O’ Rourke

“Guide Me on Thou Great Jehovah”– Thornton Baptist

This was about the time when the phone calls requesting Celine Dion came pouring in. . .

“Saucerful of Secrets”– Pink Floyd

“My Brother’s Keeper”– Dick Gregory

“Taxi to Galax”– DJ’s Poarch / Magill *

One of the many ‘love themes’ composed and deconstructed by the songwriting team of Poarch / Magill for the unreleased film, When Cows Fuck

“Come Clean”– Jeru the Damaja

“Bouquet of Sarcasm”– Sole

“Guilty Conscience”– Eminem

“Ra Ra Kid”– Crazy Wisdom Masters

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Dude”– Chubb Rock

“Drunk Friend”– Freakwater

“Is that A Rifle When It Rains?”– Gastr Del Sol

“No Kid Electric”– Urban Dance Squad

“You Got Me” (remix)– The Roots

“Sound Bwoy Burial”– Smif-n-Wesson

“Perry”– Butthole Surfers

“Sect. 8″– Melt Banana

*”All excerpted tracks performed live by trained animals.

5 / 23 / 99

Episode 226

Brian Greene & Scott Seymour

Dodobobo Takeover

“The Hunchback of Solo”– Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra

“That Shirt”– Meat Beat Manifesto

“Pink Elephants”– Mick Harvey

“Snowy in F-sharp Minor”– Tindersticks

From Tindersticks II

“Eugene”– Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire

“Get Tough”– The Woggles

Athens, GA. pop-rock band goes for the propulsive hook. The title track from their latest CD.

“No Reason to Complain”– The Lyres

From Lyres, Lyres– one of four noteworthy Lyres ‘80’s releases recently reissued by Matador.

“Motorcycle Grey”– The Make-Up

“Another Year”– Royal Trux

“Pigsville”– Waco Brothers

From the new Waco World, on Bloodshot

“Lucky Star”– Mekons

. . . is I Have Been to Heaven & Back really the legendary punk-country-pop ensemble’s last album ever???

“When You’re Gone”– Adventures in Stereo

“Lover Plays the Bass”– St. Entenne

From a French-only 7″

“My Baby Portable Stereo Sound”– Pizzicato Five

As remixed by head High Llama Sean O’ Hagen.

“Nothing New”– April March

“Number One”– Hot Pursuit

From the TeenBeat 1999 Sampler.

“Spirit Needs a Spiritual”– His Name is Alive

“Missouri”– Low

Brian says the new disc from this dreamy trio, Secret Name, is their best in a long time.

“Room for Skin”– G.W. McClennan

“On a Roll”– Brian

(Hidden Track)– Babybird

Mysterious add-on lamenter from the ‘bird’s Greatest Hits collection.

“I’d Like That”– XTC

“I See Love”– Sam Phillips

Available on the new Zero Zero Zero compilation of prime Sam Phillips offerings.

“First Love”– Marshall Crenshaw

A great 1979 9-Volt Years demo.

“Summer Teeth”– Wilco

“See All Her Faces”– Dusty Springfield

“Hallucinations”– Roy Budd

From the Get Carter soundtrack…

“The Bird with The Crystal Plumage”– Ennio Morricone

Available on Rhino’s essential 2-CD anthology of freaky-to-schmaltzy Morricone film score highlights.

“Madame & the Knight”– The Gert Vliden Orchestra

Brian & Scott proudly announce that this cut is available on the Schoolgirl Report compilation.

“Main Theme From I Told You Not To Cry“– The Gert Vilden Orchestra

“Really Rosie”– Carole King

This excellent, if underheard, collection of children’s songs from the formidable pen of Carole King (and Maurice Sendak) is being reissued for the first time on CD. A Brian Greene perennial.

5 / 16 / 99

Episode 225

Don, Dan & Tyler

This is the

Modern Muffin!

“That’s a Lie”– Too Much Joy

“Yoo Hoo”– Imperial Teen

The video for this cut is cool. The band is taken prisoner by Rose McGowan in a dominatrix outfit. YOW!

“Computer Games”– George Clinton

“Get Involved”– Raphael & Q-Tip

“Shiny Happy People”– Fatima Mansions

“Goin’ To Hell”– Brian Jonestown Massacre

Interpolated with “Goin’ To Hell”(?) by everyone’s fave-rave exploratory monkey, Curious George

“We Feel Fine”– Red Krayola

“Liberated Lady”– Shel Silverstein

He was a children’s author. . . Loretta Lynn & Johnny Cash’s favorite song hitswriter. . . flamboyant sensualist. . . cartoonist. . . humorist. . . put-on artist. . . movie and TV collaborator: He even co-authored the hilarious film, Things Change with none other than David Mamet. The late Shel Silverstein’s jagged, everywhere-at-once renaissance-man career is impossible to adequately describe. We miss him already.

“Frankie’s Man, Johnny”– Johnny Cash

“Do the Milkshake”– The Oblivions

“Heaven”– Rolling Stones

“Hilliary”– The Fall

“Party Boys”– The Parliaments

We believe that this is the first recording of George Clinton’s prolific and ever-evolving career. We could be wrong. It’s ONE of the first, in any case– a prescient (& smooth) doo-wop shuffle celebrating malcontentia.

“Keep A Grip on Yourselves” (excerpt)– Richard Pryor

“My Own Dog Bit Me” (excerpt)– Redd Foxx

“Big Apple City”– Strawberry Shortcake and Friends

Alternating with Wesley Willis and a song about a Caribou’s ass.

“One of Those Funky Things”– Parliament

“Taurus”– The Zodiac

“Shark Bites Back”– Monorchid

“Forty Below Trooper”– Jungle Brothers

“Commercial Rain”– Inspiral Carpets

“You Live at Home With Your Mom”– Dr. Doom

“Be My Beach”– Funkadelic

“The first vocal appearance by Bootsy Collins on a P-Funk disc.”– the statisticians.

“Hair & Grits”– Dennis Coffey Trio

“Drum Buddy”– Quintron

“Chicken Heart” (excerpt)– Bill Cosby

“Burger King Charlie”– Bonnie Prince Billy

5 / 9 / 99

Preempted due to WTJU Folk Marathon

5 / 2 / 99

Episode 224

The Usual Suspects

I Got The Fear

“Lhasa Lhasa”– Ghost

“The Devil is a Sly Ol’ Fox”– Jim & Tammy Bakker

There is nothing, nothing, not one thing, as annoyingly nail-peelingly GODAWFUL as Tammy Faye Bakker imitating a little girl, Scientists show!!!

“Slow Rider”– Julian Cope

“Dry the Rain”– Beta Band

“Shadows Breaking Over My Head”– Left Banke

This sparklingly lovely mid-tempo ballad is but one of the many great gems in the unheralded discography of this sullen, moody ‘60’s combo.

“Army”– Ben Folds 5

“That’s All For Everyone”– Fleetwood Mac

“If you took all of Lindsay Buckingham’s songs on Tusk and made a tape of ‘em– and I have, I assure you– that would be one of the best albums of the ‘80’s, hands down.”– an adamant Wowsvillier

“Smoke”– South

“Will The Night”– Low

“I Was Never Here”– Babybird

“The Weasel”– Joe & The Furies

“Rah Rah Kid”– Crazy Wisdom Masters

“I Got the Fear”– Meat Beat Manifesto

“It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl”– Faust

The primordial bomp-bomp of this Krautrock classic (from Krautrock combo Faust’s excellent So Far LP from 1972) could go on forever . And does. Leading to. . .

“Drum Machine”– MCA & Burzootie

“EFL”– Art of Noise

“Loud and Hard to Hit”– Young Black Teenagers

“X Marks the Spot”– Monorchid

“Lelani”– Hoodoo Gurus

A walloping epic about a tribal sacrifice from Koko’s least favorite band of all time.

“Two People in a Room”– Wire

“The Manipulator”– Master Gee & The Turntable Orchestra

. . . with additional commentary by a personal motivation speaker

“She’s Going Bald”– Beach Boys

“Oscillations”– Silver Apples

“Respiration”– Black Star

“Donkey Rhubarb”– Aphex Twin

“Touch Me”– Johnny Burnette & His Rock & Roll Trio

“When I’m On Da Mic”– Lootpack

“I’m Going to the Castle on the Happy Day Express”– Jim & Tammy

“RU a Believer”– the Make-Up

4 / 25 / 99

Episode 223

Don, Tyler & Dan

Dedicated to ‘The White Woman’

“See No Evil”– Television

“Reno”– Jonathan Richman

“Roadrunner”– Modern Lovers

“Electric Thang”– Dennis Coffey Trio

“Jansimram King”– Cornershop

“17 Days”– Prince

“Defcon 1″– Pop Will Eat Itself

“Make Room”– Alkaholiks

“The Manipulator”– Master Gee & Turntable Orchestra

Discovered by Poarch at the Charlottesville record show– a killer prehistoric hip-hop 12″ that spells out

P-U-L-A-T-E-R, like it is.

“My Real Name”– Steve Martin

“Cooky Puss”– Beastie Boys

“Garf”– Lambchop

“Yep, that’s the name of it all right.”-- Tyler Magill

“A Simple Delusory Phillipic”– Simon & Garfunkel

“The Boxer”– Paul Simon

In honor of the Paul Simon / Bob Dylan summer ‘99 tour, we present these advisaries-now-concert-buds’ acidic previous recording swipes at each other. The former is a dead-on parody of Dylan by Simon (“I lost my harmonica, Albert…”) and the latter is Dylan imitating both Simon AND Garfunkel in an arrangement that has GOT to be a joke.

“Gimme Some”– Freddie McCoy

“Come on Children”– Earth, Wind & Fire

“What’s a Telephone Bill?”– Bootsy

“White Woman”– Rev. Fred Lane

“Higher Education”– DJ Cocky Squirrel w/ DJ Etch A Sketch

“The Visitors”– Laurie Anderson

“Shed Me No Tears”– Jeannie C. Riley

“Round Every Corner”– Petula Clark

“Sometimes I Wonder”– Impressions

“Tender”– Blur

Leadoff love anthem for the ages. Leading nicely into…

“Wanderin’ Star”– Lee Marvin

Yes, it’s from the Paint Your Wagon soundtrack.

“Downward Road”– Staple Singers

“I’m In Your Army”– Duncanaires

4 / 18 / 99

Episode 222

Guitar, bass, drums

Chicken Walk

“Chicken Walk”– Red Shift

“40 Below Trooper”– Jungle Brothers

“No Can Do”– Hall & Oates

Cue much in-studio discussion over the relative merits of Hall & Oates’ discography. Nothing is revealed.

“Blue Flowers”– Dr. Octagon

“Company Flow”– 8 Steps to Perfection

“Boogie Down Bronx”– JVC Force

“Ketchup Mess”– Melt Banana

D.R. Tyler Magill on the music of Melt Banana: “All control has been lost and they’re about to explode because there’s so much music coming through them at once. They just don’t have time to play just one song at a time! ”

“Cable Fellow”– Curious Digit

“Shout”– Devo

“Rockit”– Herbie Hancock

“J.O.B.”– Prince Paul

“Big Sexyland”– Revolting Cocks

“I Feel Sanctified”– Commodores

“Playboy Channel”– Negitivland

Ain’t it a bitch when someone interrupts your orgasm?

“Is That A Rifle When It Rains?”– Gastr Del Sol

“On The Road Again”– Jungle Brothers

“Da Art of Storytellin’”– Outkast

“LeFreak”– Chic

“So Sick”– Unrest

“Personal History”– Seymores

Richmond, Va. band– produced by David Lowery– on the Vernon Yard-Caroline label. A big Steve Richmond fave.

“Dee”– Monroe Mustang

Austin, TX. band on the Jagjaguwar label.

“Yeah You Get Props”– Beatnuts

“Anthem”– Flat Duo Jets

“Waitin’ For the Night to Fall”– Green Pajamas

“Heart-stopping melodies, swirling harmonies & great guitar lines”– D.C. Dave

4 / 11 / 99

Episode 221

Tyler & Don

Raw Hamburger

“Tender”– Blur

“Up, Up & Away”– Fifth Dimension

“Great Five Lakes”– Buffalo Daughter

The unofficial WTJU Rock Department theme song?

“Program”– Silver Apples

“Paintbox”– Pink Floyd

“The Power of Pussy”– Bongwater

Ah, this is the unofficial WTJU Rock Department theme song.

“The Badger Song”– Dead Milkmen

“Inner Meet Me”– Beta Band

“Louis XIV”– Wolfgang Press

“Warp Back to Earth”– Peter Thomas & the Maxwell Implosion

“Every Five Miles”– Gastr Del Sol

“Let the Wind Blow”– Beach Boys

ALMOST considered for the WTJU Rock Department theme song.

“Hercules”– Aaron Neville

“Hard Left”– Tackhead Sound System

“You Sold Me Out #2″– Love 666

“Black Metal Stars”– Rock * A * Teens

Georgia combo, high on reverb, swamped with pathos. On Merge. Theme song status undetermined.

“Surfin’ USA”– Melt Banana

“Not Me”– The Orlons

“Meet Me at the Clubhouse”– Quintron

“96 Tears”– Suicide

“Summer Teeth”– Wilco

“I Want Candy”– Bow Wow Wow

“Raw Hamburger”– Kool & the Gang

This was briefly in the running for the unofficial WTJU Rock Department theme song until the PAC Money dried up following a disappointing finish in the Iowa Caucus and the Unions endorsed some Pavement song. Typical.

“Sweet Talk”– Rusty York

“Isle of Capri”– Dennis Farnon & His Orchestra

“There’s More Snakes Than Ladders”– Cap’n Sensible

“End of the Season”– The Kinks

The unofficial WTJU Rock Department theme song on Earth Two.

“See the Train”– Blancmange

4 / 4 / 99

Episode 220

Don & Dan

Small Town Spree

“The semi-annual Wowsville Quiet Storm”

“The Nearness of You”– James Brown

“Almost Blue”– Elvis Costello

“Gimme Some”– Freddie McCoy

“Who is He & What is He To You”– Bill Withers

“Something is Wrong With My Baby”– Sam & Dave

“Life Ain’t So Easy”– Undisputed Truth

“No Easy Way Down”– Dusty Springfield

“Mercy Mercy Me”– Marvin Gaye

“Heart”– Petula Clark

“Emotions”– The Impressions

“You Don’t Love Me Any More”– Temptations

“Small Town Spree”– Peter Case

“Silent Treatment”– The Roots

“Inner Meet Me”– Beta Band

“Hug O’ War”– Shel Silverstein

“Swing Low Sweet Chariot”– Staple Singers

“Draft Morning”– The Byrds

“River of Orchids”– XTC

“Come Down Softly to my Soul”– Spacemen 3

“You Don’t Know Me”– Everly Brothers

“That’s The Way of the World”– Earth, Wind & Fire

“Distance I Was Keeping”– Trembling Blue Stars

“Leave Me Be”– The Zombies

“My Creole Belle”– Manishevitz

“That Makes It Tough”– Buddy Holly

“A Million Miles Away”– Bob Dylan

“Dog’s Got a Bone”– Beta Band

3 / 28 / 99

Episode 219

Tyler, Dan & Don

I Want to Call You

My Wild Horse

and other remixes

“If We Never Needed the Lord Before”– Mahalia Jackson

“Hey Man”– Spacemen 3

“Wouldn’t Mind Dyin’ if Dyin’ Was All”– AC Forehand / Blind Mamie Forehand

“Knockfarne”– Bonnie Prince Billy

“I Bid You Goodnight”– Joseph Spence

“What Would You Do (if Jesus Came to Your House)”– Porter Waggoner

“The Thicket”– David Grubbs

Title track from Grubb’s recent Drag City disc. D.R. Tyler Magill sez: “The great news is that this is one of David’s best albums, including the old Bastro stuff, and it’s good songs you can hum. “

“Country Death Song”– Violent Femmes

“Invisible Man Rag”– Manishevitz

“Maria’s Little Elbows”– Sparklehorse

“The Tourist”– Radiohead

“Hair & Thangs”– Dennis Coffey Trio

“So Glad I’m Yours”– Intruders

The spoken word of Jewel was then remixed by DJ Front Poarch, cruelly. . .

“Welcome To the Terrordome”– Public Enemy

“Diary of a Madman”– Gravediggaz

“Doris”– Shellac

“Mic Check”– Aceyalone

“Space Cadillac”– Sir Menelik

“Fast Food”– Ian Scholls

“Dimmin’ the Life”– L-Fudge

“Message From a Black Man”– The Temptations

“Who’s Jim Sox?”– GTO’s

“Black Thighs”– Last Poets

“Mama Call the Fire Brigade”– Wilmouth Houdini

“Dirty Knees”– The Teletubbies

3 / 21 / 99

Episode 218

Um… the Ant People??

French Film Blurred

“The Blue Period?”-- Alternative Press.

“A month of bizarre indirection climaxed with Tyler’s in-studio Baptism

during the infamous 3 / 21 / 99 broadcast.” -- Film Comment

3 / 14 / 99

Episode 217

Dan & Don

Stanley & Dusty

This program interpolated a running tribute to two Entertainment greats

that recently left the world, Dusty Springfield and Stanley Kubrick.

More Radio Wowsville

Radio Wowsville

Radio Wowsville

is broadcast live– sometimes by satellite, at other times by nuclear warhead– weekly across Central Virginia via the benevolent frequency of 91.1 FM. WTJU., Sunday nights at 11 p.m.

WTJU is “The Sound Choice in Central Virginia,“ don’t you know?

Hosted by Don Harrison, Tyler Magill and an ever-evolving cast of “guest deejays” that includes former regular Dan Poarch, Michelle Sasscer, Brian Greene, Dave Harrison, Charles Olver, Adam Busch, Paul Wilkinson, Scott Burger, Tina Eshleman and Scott Seymour, Radio Wowsville has been airing its live blend of progressive hoot, provocative commentary, offbrand humor and sprawling anecdote for a half-decade.

We’ll try and update Radio Wowsville indexes whenever we can illegally obtain them from the station’s vast filing cabinet. If you simply have to know about a song, or want to register a complaint about a particular show, feel free to e-mail tyler0032@aol.com or harrisond@mindspring.com

1 / 16 / 00

Episode 258

Don

The Truth Marches On

Wowsville’s third annual birthday tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Side Effects” — Parliament

“Troubles a’comin’” — The Chi-Lites

“Damn Right, I am Somebody” — Fred Wesley & the JB’s

“The Whole World Needs Liberation” — James Brown

“The Truth Marches On” — Al Green

“U Could Get Arrested” — Dream Warriors

“But Officer” — Sonny Knight

“Jail Skit” — Slick Rick

“Speed Law” — Mos Def

“Sock it to ‘em Soul Brother” — Bill Moss

“Walk Tall” — Cannonball Adderly

“Keep on Pushing” — The Impressions

“Get Up” — Barry White

“Mind Power” — James Brown

“Victims of the Darkness” — Allen Toussaint

“Skin I’m In” — Sly & The Family Stone

“Dirty South” — Goodie Mob

“Ain’t No Justice” — Temptations

“Comment” — Charles Wright

“We’re a Winner” — Impressions

“Source of Labor / Beyond Reality” — Aunt Anna

“Voice Your Choice” — The Radiants

“New Born Soul” — Staple Singers

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” — Paul Robeson

“Asimbonga” — Johnny Clegg & Savuka

“Don’t Let the Devil Ride” — Sonny Treadway

“No Restricted Sign” — Golden Gate Quartet

“Mean Old World” — T-Bone Walker

“If I Can Dream” — Elvis Presley

“Jonah in the Wilderness” — Henry Thomas

“God’s River” — Emmett Miller

1 / 9 / 00

Episode 257

Don

Fresh Goods

“Headphoneworld” — Busy Signals

Due for release on Chicago’s super Sugar Free label in March ‘00, you’ll be hearing a lot of advance play for THIS Minnesota-based one-man-sampling unit’s effervescent pop wonderment on forthcoming Wowsvilles.

“Paris” — Cookie Galore

Ditto this unisex duo, creating excellent, quirky, techno-pop for the Yonkers, NY-based HeartBeat label.

“Watermelon Man” — King Curtis

The “Electro-lounge” remix.

“Underdrive” — Star Ghost Dogs

“Once You Get Started” — Rufus & Chaka Khan

“What What” — Public Enemy

“Life in Mono” — Mono

A Propellerheads remix we had lying around in the studio.

“Bird on High” — Busy Signals

“Hushie Pushie” — The Monks

“Come and Get It” — Joe Simon

“Broken Arrows” — The Only Ones

“Vote Elvis” — Popinjays

“Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2″ — Pink Floyd

“I couldn’t have played this if Tyler or Dan were co-hosting. I would have been critically-drubbed!!” — Don

“The Duchess” — Robert Wyatt

“You’re The Fool” –The Three Degrees

“Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House” — Yo La Tengo

As advertised, you only get the FRESHEST aural oddities on Wowsville. Thanks to the visiting, and very connected, Dominic DeVito (“Trust The Wizard”), listeners are treated to an exclusive preview of the upcoming Yo La Tengo release. Thanks D.D.!

“Never Before” — The Byrds

“Pebble / Shoe” — Eugenius

“Nihilismus Dub” — DJ Spooky

interspersed with….Sir Ralph Richardson reciting Coleridge

“Mixed Bizness” — Beck

“Troglodyte (Cave Man)” — Jimmy Castor Bunch

“Thermal Neural Netwerk” — Cookie Galore

“Dick Starbuck” — The High & Mighty

“The Hippy Song” — Slim Harpo

“Sin, Sin” — Parker Paul

“It’s Lonely at the Top” — Randy Newman

“Bluebirds” — Cinematic Orchestra

1 / 2 / 00

Episode 256

Harrison

Right On For

The Darkness

“Omaha” — Everly Brothers

“Dunston” — The Mekons

“Little Bitty Tear” — Wanda Jackson

“A Minha Menina” — Os Mutantes

“Paint Work” — The Fall

“Another damn story about a fish that Junior Caught” — Junior Samples

What’s up with this? Junior Samples is interrogated YET AGAIN about a fish — this time a 25-pound bass — he may or may not have caught. The previous stabs at this were conducted by a professional Ralph Emery-type announcer; here Junior (ex- “Hee Haw”) is interrogated by a goober even more simple-minded than himself. This is FASCINATING POP CULTURE GRADUATE THESIS MATERIAL!!! Send us a copy of your report.

“Absolutely Cuckoo” — Magnetic Fields

Grandpa Magill called from D.C. and requested this. (Played it)

“Chapter 24″ — Pink Floyd

“In the Land of Make Believe” — Dusty Springfield

“Front” Poarch called from D.C. and requested this. (Became suspicious)

Festus from “Gunsmoke” Talks about Girls

“White Line” — Neil Young

“American Eagle” — Bruce Haack and Dimension 5

I believe the playlists from the Wowsville program alone have caused Listen Rock Compute Home to chart on CMJ. Man, one could HOPE!!

“We Are Neighbors” — The Chi-Lites

“Right On For The Darkness” — Curtis Mayfield

The late, great Curtis Mayfield passed away before the turn of the century, but his defiant spirit and timeless romanticism will live on in today’s contemporary music thru cover after cover. No doubt about it. This man was, simply, one of the great soul, pop, rock, funk songwriter/performers and this mid-’70’s workout, from Back to the World, showcases his amazing arranging skills. From the superb Impressions material to Superfly to lesser-known works like Short Eyes, he blazed trails and left behind some incredible songs. Curtis was a Giant.

“Get Up” –Barry White

“Thats Good, That’s Bad” — Archie Campbell

“The Jungle Line” — Joni Mitchell

“Half as Much” — Charlie Rich

“I picked up this mid-’60’s Charlie Rich record on Hi of my man doing Hank Williams songs, thinking it was a quickie hack job. Turns out it’s jazzy and funky as as get out. Go Charlie!!” — Don

“Blind Finger Sweep” — Parker Paul

“Way Out” — The La’s

“She Will Have Her Way” — Neil Finn

A mini-Wowsville Country Roundup begins…

“It’s My Fault” — Hank Thompson

“My Baby Don’t Love Me Anymore” — Johnny Paycheck

“That’s All This World Needs” — Connie Smith

“Cheap Watch” — Freakwater

From the excellent End Time CD.

“Corn Bread and Buttermilk” — Festus

Do the Festus!

“Sweet Young Thing” — The Monkees

“Little Black Egg” — Nightcrawlers

“Hey High Class Butcher” — Julian Cope

“The Walk” — Cannonball Adderly

12 / 26 / 99

Episode 255

Tyler, Adam & Don = the Doomsday Trio

2000 Years

of Creamed Corn

The once in our lifetime Three-Hour Millennium Pushoff episode of Radio Wowsville featured

an in-studio performance from a specially-formed ad hoc “musical” combo

called the Doomsday Trio… and they were aptly named.

“Preparations For Combat” — Love 666

“A Mina Menina” — Os Mutantes

Os Mutantes were Brazil’s answer to the Beatles. They were also Brazil’s answer to the Velvet Underground. Who they were on THIS awesome bongo-psych classic is up to you.

“Army Ants in Your Pants” — Bruce Haack & Dimension 5

Bruce Haack made beatnik children’s music for the ages. The new Listen Rock Compute Home compilation will make you the hippest kid on the monkey bars. Buy it.

“Maybe I’m Doing It Wrong” (live) — Randy Newman

“Mellow Together” — Robyn Hitchcock

A daffy b-side from Robyn’s I Often Dream of Trains CD. “It sounds like a bunch of those gumbies from Monty Python”– Tyler

“Go to Hell!” — King Brothers

“Uptight Tonight” — Flash & the Memphis Casuals

“Midsummer N.Y.” — Yoko Ono

“Cool” — Pylon

“Turn of the Century” — Bee Gees

“Free Will & Testament” — Robert Wyatt

Adam Busch’s favorite disc of 1999 was Wyatt’s eclectic Shleep... only it was released a few years ago. We play a few cuts from this tonight ‘cause we don’t play enough Robert Wyatt.

“Levitation” (live) — 13th Floor Elevators

“Wild Indians” — Quintron

“The Girl From New York” — Billy Nicholls

“Downs” — Big Star

“Blues in Bob Minor” — Robert Wyatt

“Love’s Happening” — Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions

In tribute.

“The Way You Say Goodnight” — Magnetic Fields

“Hyperactive” — Thomas Dolby

“Bat Macumba” — Os Mutantes

“Ms. Foxy Face” — Flossie & the Unicorns

“Woman Power” — Yoko Ono

“Don’t Worry Baby” — Amazing Dolores

“Rats in the Trailer” — Ronnie Spector

“2000 Years of Creamed Corn” — The Doomsday Trio

“Can’t Get it Out of My Head” — Electric Light Orchestra

“Dear Mary” — Steve Miller Band

“She’s My Lover” — Kid Loco

“Debra” — Beck

“Delirious” — Prince

Ah-ha! Fooled ya!

“2000 Year Millennium Blues” — The Doomsday Trio

“Y2K Love Song (Albright or Yearwood?)” — The Doomsday Trio

“In 2000 Years We’ll All Be Dead” — The Doomsday Trio

12 / 19 / 99

Episode 254

Don & Tyler

Wowsville Christmas Party

“Too Much Egg Nog” — the listeners

“Christmas Party” — Brendan Hanlan and the Batmen

“Santa’s Second Line” — New Birth Brass Band

“It’s Christmas Time Pt. 1″ — James Brown

“Jesus Gonna Be Here” — Tom Waits

“Suburban Miracles” — The Three Tinas

“Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa” — De La Soul

“Just Like X-Mas” — Low

“One of You in Every Size” — Marty Robbins

“Christmas Island” — The Dinning Sisters w/ Bob Archer

“Here Comes Santa Claus” — Esquivel

“Santa Claus is Back in Town” — Elvis Presley

“Mrs. Claus Wants Some Lovin’” — The Bobs

“Wear a Smile for Christmas” — Paul Revere & the Raiders

“Nuttin’ For Christmas” — Stan Freberg

“Blue Christmas Lights” — Buck Owens

“Lonely Christmas Call” — George Jones

“Deck the Hall with Boston Charlie” — Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

“Gloria” — Elastica

“Last Month of the Year” — Staples Singers

“Saviour Pass Me Not” — Swan Silvertones

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” — Mahalia Jackson

“Blue Christmas” — Low

“Riu Chiu” — The Monkees

“12 Days of Christmas” — Art Carney

“They Shined Up Rudolph’s Nose” — Johnny Horton

“Little Saint Nick” — Beach Boys

“I Want you For Christmas” — Julie London

“Christmas Boogie” — The Davis Sisters

“X-Man Extravaganza” — Ladybug Transistor

“Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto” — James Brown

“Little Drummer Boy” — Beck

“I’m Gonna Tell Santa Claus on You” — Faron Young

“Christmas Spirit?” — The Wailers

“Run Rudolph Run” — Chuck Berry

“God Bless The Children” — Staple Singers

12 / 12 / 99

pre-empted due to WTJU Classical Marathon

12 / 5 / 99

Episode 253

Magill

Feeling Man

“Rotterdam” — Aerialist

“Othello” — Dance Hall Crashers

“Get Real Paid” — Beck

“Fantastic Cat” — Takako Minekawa

“Hand Jive” — Bruce Haack & Dimension 5

Yep, another classic from Listen, Rock, Compute Home. WHAT? You mean you haven’t bought it yet?

“He Broke My Heart in Three Places” — Spike Jones

“You Broke My Heart in 17 Places” — Tracey Ullman

“Hanging With You is Heavy” — Parker Paul

“Halfway to A Three-Way” — Jim O’Rourke

Title cut of indie auteur/producer O’Rourke’s latest effort on Drag City.

“Do You Believe in Magic” — Lovin’ Spoonful

“”I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control and Beer” — Two Nice Girls

“Stone Lost Child” — Lee Hazlewood

Existential showbiz legend Hazlewood’s eccentric back catalog is now on CD thanks to the Smells Like label.

“Make Me A Feeling Man” — The Make-Up

“German Shepherds” — Wire

“I’ve Got the Keys to the Kingdom” — Washington Phillips

“Mister Roberts” — National Lampoon Gang

“Charlton Heston” — Stump

“Cracked Zoo on the Wall” — Melt-Banana

11 / 28 / 99

Episode 252

The Harrison-Magill Project

What Are You Wearing?

“We Do Wie Du” — The Monks

YIKES! The great Black Monk Time is currently out-of-print but here comes this superb collection of Monkified outtakes and single sides on the Omplattan label, Five Upstart Americans. Long live the Monks!

“6 and 7 Books” — Toots & the Maytals

“Mrs. Lady Lady” — Ui

“New Rock Critic” — Skull Kontrol

“Hear, hear!” – the people

“Memory Machine” — Dismemberment Plan

“Blind Finger Sweep” — Parker Paul

Nepotism update: We don’t just play Paul “Parker Paul” Wilkinson’s brand new Lemon Lime Room CD (on Jagjaguwar) ‘cause he’s a homey, a fellow traveler, a Grip contributor and a devoted Wowsville listener… we play it because we want to! Hear his black keys interact with the white ones.

“Nicotine & Gravy” — Beck

You gotta give Beck his due. His new Midnight Vultures is goofy-great, with the most pleasingly godawful cover art of 1999.

“Sport Utility Vehicle” — The Coney Islanders

Man, was that Clem Comstock clairvoyant or what?

“What Are You Wearing?” — Kahimi Karie

“Las Vegas” — Petula Clark

The French version, natch!

“Priest Shelter” — Seven Hearts

These noisy, fiery new-age whiz kids are from Jerry Falwell-ville: Lynchburg, Va. Their punk-metal duststorms sound like the perfect soundtrack for a Hammer horror movie. Get the group’s excellent debut CD from 2108 Memorial Ave., Lynchburg, Va. 24501.

“Cleaner Than Your Surroundings” — Lungfish

“Mars” — Television

“The Hunch” — Mike & the Maniacs

“I Hate Sodomy” — The Counselors

The Times-Dispatch editorial page editor couldn’t have said it better himself.

“Everyone’s a Winner” — Hot Chocolate

“The Notic” (live) — The Roots

The new Roots Come Live: electric, eclectic, booty-shaking apocalypse!

“Man in the Hills” — Burning Spear

“Secondhand Clothes” — Moonshake

“Whale, You Ease My Mind” — His Name is Alive

“Battle of the Wills” — Gary Gilantro

Clem Comstock had the GOODZ, bro!

“Three Yr. Olds” — Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair

“Celebrity Biography” — Flossie & the Unicorns

“Army Ants in Your Pants” — Bruce Haack & Dimension 5

“Pick Me Up On Your Way Down” — Norma Jean

“A Harlan Howard song, I believe” – Tyler

“Covet These” — Curious Digit

“It’s Over…” — Beta Band

11 / 21 / 99

Episode 251

Tyler

Sound on Sound

“I’m Not Lonely with Cricket” — Papa M

“Your Head is so Small It’s Like a Tiny Little Light” — Jessamine

“Sound on Sound” — Jawbox

“Super Blooper” (live) — Buffalo Daughter

“Surrender to the Night” — Trans-Am

“Astronaut’s Prayer” — Lungfish

“Army Ants in My Pants” — Bruce Haack & Dimension 5

How often do we have to tell you: buy Haack’s Listen, Rock, Compute Home (on Emperor Norton) immediately!

“Picnic Boy” — Residents

“French Toast Man” — Rev. Fred Lane

“Safe as Milk” — Capt. Beefheart

“Magical Misery Tour” — National Lampoon Gang

“I’m Still in Love With You” — Thelma Mae Joseph

“Girl O’ Clock” — Dismemberment Plan

Wiry, electro-spazz pop-rock-angst from one of the best bands in the world right now. On D.C.’s DeSoto label. Ask for ‘em by name.

“Sin, Sin” — Parker Paul

“Fear” — John Cale

“Banned From the End of the World” — Sleater-Kinney

“Can I Ride?” — Polvo

“Dig and Tickle” — Melt Banana

“Square Rave” — Squarepusher

“Where You at Now?” / “Crash & Burn” / “Twitch” — Ministry

11 / 14 / 99

Episode 250

Bukka Magill

Thrill Fit

“I am in the Heavenly” — Bukka White

“I’m Still in Love With You” — Thelma Mae Joseph

“Idaho” — John Linnell

“Sheep Sheep Don’t You Know the Road?” — Bessie Jones & Sea Island Singers

Damn near the finest song title of all time.

“Purposeful Dub” — Alpha & Omega

“The Panama Limited” / “Baby Baby Please Don’t Go” — Bukka White

“New Frisco Train” — Bukka White

Tyler went a little Bukka-crazy on this particular show. Did he have the BLUES?

“Click Clack” — Captain Beefheart

“Fighting Kites” / “Downtown Dedication” — Polvo

“Glory” — Television

“Bye Bye Baby” — Ronnie Spector

“I’m Going to Spain” — The Fall

“Structuralist Filmmaking” — Laurie Anderson

“The Classical” — Pavement

“Thrill Fit” — Syrup USA

“Please Shut Up” — The Rondelles

“Sink the West Coast” — Monorchid

“Hockey Night in Canada” — Snake Out

“So I Hear You’re Moving Out” — Lambchop

“Robot Probe” — DJ Me DJ You

“False Alarm” — Yo La Tengo

“Been Listening All the Day” — Blind Joe Taggart

“Norma” — Knife in the Water

“Absolutely Cuckoo” — Magnetic Fields

11 / 7 / 99

Episode 249

Don, Tyler, Dave, Michelle

Cut the Dummy Loose

“In the Year 2525″ — James Last Band

“Burning Down the House” — Tom Jones & the Cardigans

“Fear Not of Man” — Mos Def

“Motorcycle Ride” — Bruce Haack & Dimension 5

Listen Rock Compute Home. On Emperor Norton.

“Southernmost” — The Lucksmiths

“Darlene Hey” — Sukpatch

“Corporate World” — The Dust Brothers

“She’s My Lover” — Kid Loco

“God Bless America” / “A Party Able Model of” — Joan of Arc

“Cut the Dummy Loose” — High Llamas

“Fowell Byrd” — Fable Factory

“Yeah! Oh Yeah!” — Magnetic Fields

“Teach Me to Forget You” — The Outsiders

“Don’t Tell Me” — Blancmange

“Ballad of John & Yoko” — James Last Band

“White Rental Car Blues” — Bongwater
“Speeding Motorcyle” — Yo La Tengo w/ Daniel Johnston

“Escape Pod From the World of Medical Observations” — Stereolab

“Making Time” — The Creation

“Magic Trip” — Three 4 Teas

“You Left the Water Running” — Otis Redding

“What’s Yer Take on Cassavetes?” — Le Tigre

“Northern Lights” — Varnaline

10 / 31 / 99

Episode 248

Magill + Harrison = Goosepimples

Whirling Hall of Knives

(Wowsville’s scary doin’s Halloween broadcast)

Intro — William “Cannon” Conrad tells a spooky tale

“Feel Me” — Phil Milstein

“Whirling Hall of Knives” — Butthole Surfers

“Graveyard Rock” — Tarantula Ghoul & Her Gravediggers

“Strange Magic” — Electric Light Orchestra

“Black Rider” — Tom Waits

“Cloak of Frogs” — Freakwater

“The Big Green” — Igor & the Maniacs

“Out There in the Dark” — Outrageous Cherry

“Pepper Tree” — Cocteau Twins

“Let There Be More Darkness” — Robyn Hitchcock

“Honey I’m Home” — Foetus

“Frankenstein’s Den” — Hollywood Flames

“Graveyard Cha-Cha” — The 3-D’s

“Into the Void” — Black Sabbath

“Hell’s Bells” — AC/DC

“Miss Lucifer’s Love” — Funkadelic

“Maggots” — GWAR

Gregg Turkington calls Blockbuster Video and asks for Night of the Living Dead.

“When the Levee Breaks” — Killdozer

“Scatty Cat” — Bob Bunny

“Dig it Up!” — Hoodoo Gurus

“Human Fly” — The Cramps

“Deteriorata” — National Lampoon Gang

“Sandro Gubernatorial” — Ed Hall

“When you Die Your Eyes Pop Out” — The Donner Party

10 / 24 / 99

Episode 247

Don

Clap Hands

“Shaft” (live) — Isaac Hayes

“Roller Skatin’ Jam Called Saturdays (Ladies Nite Decision)” — De La Soul

“Bentley Gonna Sort You Out” — Bentley Rhythm Ace

“Clap Hands” — Tom Waits

“Anotherloverholeinhead” — Prince

“The Critics” — Peter Sellers

“Georgie Don’t You Know” — Outrageous Cherry

“Sweet Life” — Varnaline

“The Slow Song” — Luna

“Bobby Peru” — Luna

“Big Green Tree” — Essex Green

“The Projects” — Handsome Boy Modeling School w/ Biz Markie

“Call Me Mommy” — The Make-Up

“Maybe We Will Find the Divine Cult” — Salako

“Strategic Hamlets” — Yatsura

“If You Don’t Want my Love” — Bobby Womack & Peace

“The Overdraft” — Warren Zevon

“I Got the Hots” — Soft Boys

“Full Moon (Tropical Blend)” — The Wondermints

“Round Every Corner” — Petula Clark

“Shape of Things to Come” — Max Frost & the Troopers

“So Beyond Me” — Sloan

“You Keep Me Praying” — The Seers

“Trouble is a Lonesome Town” — Lee Hazlewood

“Gail Loves Me” — Jonathan Richman

“Supermarket” — Fapardokly

“Let Me Have it All” — Sly & the Family Stone

10 / 17 / 99

Episode 246

Nipsey Harrison

Where Do Little Tears

Come From?

Intro — Nipsey Russell on the mic

“The Dreamers” — David Bowie

“Happy Happy Joy” — Company Flow

“Words” — Fantastic Four

“A Bad Movie” / “It’s Always Never” — Outrageous Cherry

“Cold Irons Bound” (live) — Bob Dylan

“I’ll See Him Through” — Tammy Wynette

“Where Do Little Tears Come From?” — George Jones

“Rivers of Babylon” — Willie Nelson

“Rivers of Babylon” — the Melodians

“Crosseyed and Painless” (live) — Talking Heads

“Runaway Child, Running Wild” — Temptations

“Dick Starbuck” — The High & Mighty

“Slauson Shuffle” — the Tiki-Tones

“He’s A Whore” — Cheap Trick

“Passionate Friend” — The Teardrop Explodes

“I Have Been Floated” — Olivia Tremor Control

“Funk #49″ — The James Gang

“Dear Diary” — Luna

“Danny Don’t Rapp” — Daniel Johnston

“Didn’t Wanna Have to Do It” — Cloud Eleven

“Upside Down” — Jesus & Mary Chain

“Ups and Downs” — Paul Revere & the Raiders

“Trouble is a Lonesome Town” — Lee Hazlewood

“Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” — Johnny Cash

10 / 10 / 99

Episode 245

Stonewall Harrison

You Can Check On Me

“Togetherness” — Outrageous Cherry

“Out of My Mind” — Buffalo Springfield

“Softly Softly” — The Equals

“The Pretty Things are Going to Hell” — David Bowie

“Math Wiz” — Luna

“Primitive” — The Groupies

“Please Go Home” — Rolling Stones

“She Called Me Daddy” — Iggy Pop

“How Does it Feel to Feel?” — The Creation

“Get Up!” — Barry White

“Eclipsed” — Outrageous Cherry

“I’ve Never Seen Your World” — Outrageous Cherry

“Blues is King” — Marshall Crenshaw

“Bye Bye Mon Amour (Hello Mary Lou)” — Petula Clark

“I’m Not Suspicious” — Joe “Papoose” Fritz

“Absence of Passion” — Brilliant Mistakes

“Oh When I Was a Boy” — R.B. Greaves

“Mary Don’t you Weep” — Swan Silvertones

“I Don’t Want to Wake You Up” — Babybird

“You Can Check On Me” — Stonewall Jackson

“Tell the Truth” — Otis Redding

“There Won’t Be Anymore” — Charlie Rich

“Morning Sun” — Lilac Time

“Parasite” — Nick Drake

“Birth Control Pills” — The Singing Doctors

“Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet” — the Mekons

“Sunshine” — Handsome Boy Modelling School

“Janet Jangle” — High Llamas

10 / 3 / 99

Pre-empted due to WTJU Jazz Marathon

9 / 26 / 99

Episode 244

Harrison / Magill, brief Shea interlude, brief Bob-ness

The Board of Education is Applied to

the Seat of Our Knowledge

Commentary by D.R. Tyler Magill

Synopsis: Local homie / honky Adam “Manishevitz” Busch has his last show in Charlottseville ,

so we plug his concert over and over in this episode.

It didn’t affect the show, though. And probably didn’t do much for Adam’s, either.

Meanwhile, a sealed copy of Don Lonie Talks Again is opened, and few are spared…

“Get Up”– Barry White

The Man (not the bad one) exhorts movement. You figure it out.

“They Live By Night”– The Make-Up

“River Girl”–T.Texas Tyler

Apparently, the boy had a million friends. This is according to Don and Dan.

“Calvin’s on a Bummer”–Sideways Soul

Calvin Johnson and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion do a one-off. Calvin is the Eeyore of indie rock.

“I Got my Eyes on the World”– Charlie Walker

“Wang Dang Doodle”– Koko Taylor

“If You’re Going to the City”– Mose Allison

No horns on this version on 32 Records, but still a version that made Meg go nutty.

“Your Sunny Fucking Day”– Lambchop

“Is this Motown?” — Don.

“Do the Dog”– the Specials

“Natty Dread Taking Over”– Culture

“Glassbong”–DJ Me DJ You

It should be noted that DJ Me DJ You did a “Dirty Sanchez” remix of a Sukia song TWO YEARS before any of us on Wowsville knew what a Dirty Sanchez was. Proof that the important knowledge takes awhile before it gets to Virginia.

“Telephone Song”– Getz and GIlberto

“Going Down to Liverpool”– The Bangles

“Wait, this isn’t off their ONE album! Where’s ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’?” — Meg

“On the Run”– Love as Laughter

“Bootleg”– Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Little Scratch”– Capt. Beefheart

Outtake available on the new Rhino 2-CD retrospective. Bet they’re pissed Revenant Records beat ‘em to the punch with the fairly triumphal Grow Fins 36-CD compilation and book-end.

“Lover of Animals” and “Praise for the Economie” — Manishevitz

A double shot for a Manishevitz Monday! Adam would have shown up to talk about the album, but wouldn’t come in because we balked at playing Limp Bizkit’s “Nookie.” His album, Grammar Bell and the All Fall Down, is placed prominently on the Wowsville Pre-Millennial Top 10.

“Can’t Explain”– Spells

Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein get a lot cuter than you might expect on this Who cover.

“Love Song for Annie”–Kaleidoscope

“That’s the UK Kaleidoscope, now. Did you know that there was a Kaleidoscope USA? Neither did I.“– Tyler

“The Minus Five”– Momus

I’ll let Don talk about this one.

“I have a theory about Momus’ new patronage record but I’m not sharing it here, thank you very much”– Don

“Un Mal pour un Bien”– Petula Clark

“Washington DC”– Magnetic Fields

Frigid, but fun. Does that make sense?

“Mr. Whiskerwits”– Michael Hurley

Seems to be about drinking with a raccoon. I’ve done worse. Hurley can do no wrong.

“Art-Loft Rebel”– Winterbrief

“The sounds of Brit-Pop done by Germans over a Nintendo soundtrack,” said Pop Bob, who walked in about five minutes earlier. I thought it sounded almost exactly like…

“This is Fake D.I.Y.”– bis

More “Damn the Man, gimme his candy,” “teen” rebellion music. Fun fun fun.

“Darlin’ Hey”– Sukpatch

Current Wowsville faves, on the Grand Royal label.

“Teenage Lobotomy”– The Ramones

This was our response to Don Lonie, who we had been playing during breaks in the show. Don Lonie was a Christian comedian from the fifties, who among other things didn’t understand eyeliner and thought more people should be smacked. His spastic giggle haunts the airwaves still… what would he think about Wowsville? Or about you? Makes ya think. But only for a second. Well, not really.

9 / 19 / 99

Episode 243

Tyler, Don, with a disapproving Adam

Technicolor Clambake

“Rocket Number 9″ (Live)– Yo La Tengo

“Blaze”– The Arsonists

Fast-talking rap crew on the Matador label. Much better than…

“Pokemon” rap interspersed with old Rod McKuen crap. Don’t ask.

“Why We Wish”– Los Lobos

Current from Wowsville’s fave-rave Tex-Mex surrealists, a rampaging philosophy lesson from the new This Time.

“Untitled #10″– Neutral Milk Hotel

“I Want to Play with Your Poodle”–Johnny Buckett

From Sin Alley, for Johnny Boom-Boom.

“I’m Glad You’re Mine”– Elvis Presley

“Yeah Oh Yeah”– Magnetic Fields

“One Sign Divine”– Sukpatch

Mystery Artist– “Something in French”

“Un Jeune homme bien”– Petula Clark

First, Petula does Ray and the Kinks in French…

“Dedicated Follower of Fashion”– Ray Davies

. . .then Ray and the Kinks do themselves, fashionably.

“Pokemon Triumph March”– nevermind….

“Tuning Notes”– Thinking Fellers Union 282

“Chickie Run”– Homer Denison Trio

“Terrible Ivan”– Art Roberts

“Doctor Baker”– Beta Band

“For a brief moment, I was distracted and thought we were playing the Moody Blues.”– Don

“Pulsing, Pulsing”– XTC

“Blue Baby”– Circus Lupus

“Snappy and Cocky”– Solex

“Pencil Neck Geek”– Freddie Blassie

“The Hanging Tree”– Marty Robbins

Could this guy sing, or what? Ditto the next guy…

“Two Steps From the Blues”– Bobby Blue Bland

“Woman Driver”– The Carlisles

Don played a hissy Carlisles 78 he just picked up at an antiques barn, then Adam demanded we play something by

Ali Farke Toure

and Tyler countered with…

“Toys in the Attic”– Aerosmith

“Never to Be Forgotten”– Bobby Fuller Four

“Run On” (Remix)– Moby

“I love the album track from Play. This remix doesn’t do it for me, but since WTJU doesn’t have the disc for some reason, what the hey.”– Don

“Starfish and Coffee”– Prince

“Music and Politics”–

“See All Her Faces”– Dusty Springfield

9 / 12 / 99

Episode 242

Tyler, Don, Adam

Please Remix my Ass

(and other teenage reflections)

“Autumn Sweater” (live) — Yo La Tengo

“Oh Blimey”– Solex

Dutch record store owner Elisabeth “Solex” Esselink’s quirky pop consists of samples from some of the tackiest, most obscure music lying around her Amsterdam shop, and she wrings energetic groove after tuneful surprise after electrifying rant out of the clearance bin on the new Pick Up, from Matador. Popular on Free Radio Oregon Hill, too.

“Old Georgie Buck”– Taj Mahal

Commentary: Moms Mabley talking about “the kids today”

“Sini Lindile”– Mganeziyamfisa No Khambalomvaliso

From the essential first volume of The Indestructible Beat of Soweto.

“My Pistol”– Cajun All Stars

“The Emergency Kisses”– Stereolab

From the band’s latest Elektra release, Cobra and Phases. . . , causing public debate everywhere.

“Darlin’ Hey”– Sukpatch

“It’s Only a Northern Song”– Beatles

“25 O’ Clock”– Dukes of Stratosphear

You might know this time-warping combo by their other name: XTC.

“Jet Fighter”– Three O’Clock

“Have You Ever Loved Somebody”– The Hollies

“Hambone, Where You Been?”– Georgia Sea Island Singers

“Glory”– Television

“Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”– Talking Heads

“Virginia Plain”– Roxy Music

“Scatty Cat”– Bob Bunny

“You Gonna Wreck My Life” (alt take)– Howlin’ Wolf

“Yes We Can Can” (live)– Pointer Sisters

“Little White Lies”– Ian Shoals

(. . . the rest of this episode, we’re pretty sure, consisted of anonymous atonal humming followed by smatterings of duck quacks. That’s the log entry anyway.)

9 / 5 / 99

Episode 241

“Tex” Harrison & “Spade” Magill

Wowsville Country Roundup

“”Meanest Jukebox in Town!”

Intro: One in a series of Junior Samples Fish Stories

“Cold Hard Facts of Life”– Porter Waggoner

“Where My House Lives”– Willie Nelson

“Ghost in this House”– Allison Krauss

“Gone To Stay”– Freakwater

“Drinkin’ Thing”– Gary Stewart

“Sins of Memphisto”– John Prine

“Luxury Liner”– International Submarine Band

“George Jones Never Sung About My Girl”– Slim Chance & the Convicts

“Sweethearts in Heaven”– George Jones

“Ben Dewberry’s Last Ride”– Hank Snow

“Frankie & Johnnie”– Jimmie Rodgers

“Wildwood Flower”– Johnny Cash

“The Storms are on the Ocean”– The Carter Family

“Love Turned to Hate”– The Louvin Brothers

“Jesus Hits Like an Atomic Bomb”– Lowell Blanchard

“Sin City”– Flying Burrito Brothers

“Fist City”– Loretta Lynn

“Jackson”– Pansy Division

“Goin’ To Memphis”– Johnny Cash

“I Guess They Ought to Name a Drink After You”– John Prine

“Texas Blues”– J. Farrar and Kelly Willis

“Six Pack to Go”– Hank Thompson

“Moonshiner”– Roscoe Holcomb

“She’s Actin’ Single, I’m Drinkin’ Doubles”– Gary Stewart

“Don’t Touch My Hat”– Lyle Lovett

“Meanest Jukebox in Town”– Johnny Paycheck

“The deejays invited the listening public out for drinks afterward, which was

by no means an endorsement of anything.”– the staff

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