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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.