Show 1/28/09: dark and droney

With this week's show I got a lot more noise/drone sound into the playlist. I was especially proud with the lineup of the first hour. I felt like the songs flowed into each other, like a river. Thanks to everyone that listened and called in. Here's the playlist:

1. Bjork - Innocence
2. Caribou - Cherrybomb
3. Alexis Gideon - Liophant
4. Mahjongg - Mercury
5. Abe Vigoda - The Garden
6. Giraffes? Giraffes! - When Catholic School Girls go camping, the nicotine vampires reign supreme
7. Experimental dental school - Drum Circuit's Lake
8. Beck - Soul Suckin Jerk
9. Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky
10. Liars - Housecloud
11. Excepter - And And Every
12. Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart
13. The Flaming Lips - Talkin bout the smiling deathporn immortality blues (Everybody wants to live forever)
14. The Microphones - Bass Drum Dream
15. Ciccone youth - Macbeth
16. Indian Jewlery - Health & wellbeing
17. Animal Collective - My Girls

18. Portishead - Machine Gun
Portishead, a band thrust into the lime light for (perhaps accidentally) pioneering the trip-hop genre, took a radical departure from the sound with their 2008 release - Third. The album perfectly captures the disorientation, alienation, and even anger, that arise from themes of loneliness, desperation and confusion in ways that use raw sound to convey actual physical reactions within you. These reactions are just a part of the song as the sound itself, such as with the pounding jackhammer percussion and high-pitched wail of this next track, machine gun.


19. TV on the Radio - Dreams
20. Goldrapp - Utopia
21. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Strange Fires
22. Can - Oh Yeah
23. Mum - Guilty Rocks
24. Rings - Is He Handsome?


25 Beirut - Venice
The high praises of Beirut's baltic-inspired indie folk, typically featuring strings and high-powered brass have been sung from the highest transmitter towers to the most esoteric of music blogs. But his newest release, March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland, features on it's latter half Zach Condon's explorations of electronica, which he actually experimented with before he became the act known as Beirut. This next song is called Venice.



26. Menomena - E is Stable
27. Deerhunter - Strange Lights
28. Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
29. Sonic Youth - I Love You Golden Blue
30. God Is An Astronaut - Post Mortem
31. Do Say Make Think - 107 Reasons Why

And, as always, you can see live-updated playlists for mine (or any other) show on the Great 88 at kzsc.org, under "Schedule & Playlists"