Leap day, the one extra day that comes around every four years. That’s what it took to get back to normal. Except for the snowstorm, which turned our brown winter nicely white. I hope that isn’t becoming a once-every-four-years thing too.
The weather kept Julio up in his mountain hideaway, so I did back-to-back shows. Clipper, who haunts the studio most of the time these days, stopped in for part of my show and launched Julio’s with a live set from one of The Monkees 2001 reunion shows in remembrance of Davy Jones, who died today. I’ve nonetheless omitted that set from the playlist.
- The Spiders – Furi Furi
- Spencer Kenney – Blue Moon
- Beta Hector – Jupiter Mission
- Charlie Parr – Gospel Plow
- Kithkin – Ampersand
- Ritmo Machine – The Ooohs
- Zun Zun Egui – Cowboy
- The Dodos – So Cold
- Hey Marseilles – Elegy
- Mark Lanegan – The Gravedigger’s Song
- Cloud Control – Meditation Song #2 (Why, Oh Why)
- Breathe Owl Breathe – Snow Blow
- Fire In the Northern Firs – Weather Machine
- Walls – Heat Haze
- Manooghi Hi – Silence
- Manooghi Hi – My Friends
- The Squirrels – Pope On A Rope (Cigarette Butt)
- The Squirrels – Bone Of Contention
- The 667s – I Smell Toast
- The 667s – Picketts Charge
- The Fuzz – Are You Gonna Miss Me
- The Fuzz – I Want
- Skeleton Ed – Fridley Bound
- Islands – Hallways
- Hospitality – Friends of Friends
- First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
- Zoo Animal – The Too Men
- The Front Bottoms – Flashlight
- Airtist – Air Jam
- David Byrne – Big Business
- Kimya Dawson – Tire Swing
- Akiko Yang – Daydream Believer
- Owen Pallet – Lewis Takes Charge
- Tjupurru – Unkol James Brown
- Lynda Barry – Beck
- Replacements – Saturday Night Special
- Suburbs – Macho Drunk
- T Rex – Left Hand Luke
- Staples Singers – Freedom Highway
- Three Dog Night – Shambala
- tUnE-yArDs – Sunlight
- Tullycraft – The Punks Are Writing Love Songs
- Chick Webb – Heebie Jeebies
- Fiona Apple – Red Red Red
- Slim Whitman – Indian Love Call
- Max Webster – Battlescar
- Labelle – Lady Marmalade
- Kurt Vonnegut – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
- Doo Rag – Hussy Bowler
- The Phones – I’m So Neat
These guys from the What Doth Life music collective are gonna have a great show, I tell you what. Good music, fun banter. They graduated tonight. But they still need to face the management team gauntlet before they get a showtime though. And after tonight’s Red Button incident with Julio, that might be hard going.
I don’t have a playlist to post here again this week, but it was a great show. Including Ave Maria sung by a dog.
Share on FacebookTrainees tonight! A couple guys from the What Doth Life rock-n-roller co-op collective thing up there Windsor way. www.whatdothlife.com
They hung me by my undies on a peg on the wall and hijacked the show. I don’t have a playlist to share. Thanks to Julio for helping me down after they left.
Tune in next week – it’s their last training day.
Share on FacebookI went into the cassette vault looking for something that I never did find. But I emerged (gasping for breath) with a handful of my favorite demos and DIY releases from some Minnesota and Wisconsin bands from the heyday of the late ’80s and early ’90s. I didn’t have anything to do with making these recordings; I just like ‘em.
- Skeleton Ed – It Don’t Matter
- Skeleton Ed – Here Come The Merkins
- Skeleton Ed – Tightrope Wire
- Skeleton Ed – Walk Away
- Skeleton Ed – Down South
- Skeleton Ed – untitled jam
- Skeleton Ed – Mississippi
- Skeleton Ed – Glass Ceilings
- Skeleton Ed – On The Ground
- Skeleton Ed – What You Want
- Skeleton Ed – Far Country
- Skeleton Ed – Wisconsin
- The Draghounds – Chain
- The Draghounds – This Ain’t
- The Draghounds – Every Tale
- The Weables – 1:55
- The Weables – Let Them
- The Weables – It’s In the Paper
- Bone Club – Day I Died
- Bone Club – Now Way In Hell
- Bone Club – Six Feet Underground
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – Suntan City
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – Oh No, Here It Comes
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – Life Near a Higher Sun
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – John, I’m Only Mating
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – What Tangled Webs?
- Swingin’ Uncle Jimmy – Like That
- Polk County – Fuel To Spare
- Polk County – Long Night Home
- Something Fierce – Brush With the Law
- Something Fierce – Joined At the Hip
- The Coolhand Band – Halby Learns Guitar
- The Coolhand Band – Lost in Boston
A new episode of the The Pretty Big Place Video Hour — the monthly TV version of my radio show — is up at FACT-TV. It got stretched to widescreen, as mysteriously happens sometimes. That’s overlookable though.
Shonen Knife – Top of the World (live) | Arcwelder – Missing | Battles – Atlas (live) | Laurie Anderson – Sharkey’s Day (live) | Doomsday (trailer) | Barnes and Barnes – Fish Heads | Gary Numan – Cars | T-Rex – Jeepster (live) | Parry Gripp – Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig) | Chumbawamba – Tubthumping | Devo – Satisfaction | The Flying Lizards – TV | The Road Warrior (trailer) | The Residents – Hello Skinny | The Minutemen – This Ain’t No Picnic
And oddly enough, it seems that I never posted the previous episode here on the Pretty Big Place website. How did I manage to not do that? And it was such a good one! The most number of views of any so far. You can still see it:
Cocteau Twins – Song to the Siren (live) | The Cult – Rain | Siouxsie & The Banshees – Peek a Boo | Rent-A-Friend | Barry und Hans – Swiff Fruit | Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (live) | The American Idiot | It’s OK Not to Like Things | Laurie Anderson – Ask A Question | David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World (live) | Count Basie – Swingin’ the Blues | The Holy Modal Rounders – Bound To Lose documentary trailer | The Mofos – Levitation (live) | Circus Contraption – Stilt Faeries & Carousel | Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man | The Saints – Stranded | Soda Estereo – Musica Ligera (live)
Share on FacebookTonight we stole a page from the playbook of the Mixtape Radio show (hosted by Jade Barbee on Tuesdays from 9-11 ET) and played stuff supplied by a couple members of the army of six weird listeners: Rodney and Megan, who both happen to live in Minnesota. Delightfully good! Next week – if there aren’t trainees – I’ve got some great ones lined up courtesy of Jeremy. Anybody else want in?
Rodney Set
- The Heavy Petting Zoo – Screaming Directions
- Team America – America, F___ Yeah
- Kenneth Patchen – Change the Mood (interstitial)
- John Grant – Sigourney Weaver
- 801 – Baby’s On Fire
- Stornoway – Zorbing
- Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby – Super Freak
- Cornershop – Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform
- Impressions – The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story
- Gary Wilson – Linda Wants to Be Alone
- Ebony Three Vocal Trio – Go Down Moses
- Bettye Lavette – It Don’t Come Easy
- The Vulgar Boatmen – Change the World All Around
- Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – Stranded in Your Love (ft Lee Fields)
- Half Man Half Biscuit – S___ Arm, Bad Tattoo
- Walter Jackson – My Ship is Comin’ In
- The Zutons – Valerie
- Caffe-In – Come On! Crawling Larvae
- The Thermals – I’m Gonna Chagne Your Life
- King Curtis – Memphis Soul Stew
- Noah and The Whale – 5 Years Time
- Gonna Fix You Good – The Alan Bown Set
- The Rezillos – (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
- Moby Grape – Omaha
- Flatt & Scruggs – Cabin in the Hills
Megan Set
- Hanoi Rocks – Dead By Christmas
- The Coral – Dreaming Of You
- Touch & Go – In Harlem
- Big Maybelle – 96 Tears
- The Cribs – I’m Alright Me
- Banana Splits – I’m Gonna Find A Cave
- Frente! – Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In
- The Harbinger Complex – My Dear And Kind Sir
- Jimmy Cliff – Guns of Brixton
- RJD2 – Ghostwriter
- The Boys – (Baby) It’s You
- The Hep Stars – Kana Kapila


