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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