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91.1 FM WTJU Charlottesville
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.