Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
October 4, 2007
Hosted by Greg Lyon on Thursdays at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)
Notes:
– Besides AC/DC (and U.S. Maple playing AC/DC), I was particularly moved this week by the track I played from the Bougouni Yaalali compilation of music from Mali. It’s on a new label, Yaala Yaala, which according to the website is the response given by many Bougounian musicians when you ask them what’s up: "Ça va?" "Yaala yaala" (just wandering). There are two other CDs on the label, which is a subsidiary of Drag City, but I haven’t heard thoseyet.
– It’s a real shame that the Sirone album, Artistry, from 1978 has not been reissued, although according to a 2004 article, there are at least plans to do so. Sirone was the bassist in the Revolutionary Ensemble, but what makes Artistry so unique is the instrumentation: Sirone on bass, James Newton on flute, Muneer Bernard Fennell on cello, and Don Moye on percussion. Try to find that combination somewhere else. And the songs are phenomenal.
Background Music: Julius Hemphill – ‘Coon Bid’ness (Arista Freedom, 1975)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Maple | Sin City | AC/DC Sides 1-4 | Skin Graft | compilation double 7" | |||
| AC/DC | What’s Next to the Moon | Powerage | Atlantic | the real thing | |||
| Qui | New Orleans | Love’s Miracle | Ipecac | David Yow’s new band | * | ||
| Les Savy Fav | The Equestrian | Let’s Stay Friends | French Kiss | better than I expected | * | ||
| Magik Markers | Taste | Boss | Ecstatic Peace! | can’t resist this song | * | ||
| Minutemen | Jesus and Tequila | Double Nickels on the Dime | SST | once upon a time, my show theme (back at WXDU, Durham) | |||
| Mekons | Dickie Chalkie and Nobby | Natural | Quarterstick | first record in 3 years | * | ||
| The Resonars | Nonetheless Blue | Nonetheless Blue | Get Hip | new sunny California garage pop | * | ||
| The Shays | Brainwashed | The Essential Pebbles Collection | AIP | old garage rock | |||
| The Cynics | The Ring | Here We Are | Get Hip | new garage psych | * | ||
| Robert Pollard | Pill Gone Girl | Standard Gargoyle Decisions | Merge | from one of two new albums | * | ||
| Uz Jsme Doma | Feelings of Fences | Cod-Liver Oil | Skoda | Czech band, like Plastic People crossed with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | * | ||
| Orthrelm | [tracks 1-10] | Asristir Vieldriox | Troubleman Unlimited | 99 tracks, just under 13 minutes | |||
| Han Bennink & Terrie Ex | Kieft | The Laughing Owl | Terp | they have a new one I haven’t heard yet | |||
| Cabaret Voltaire | Doubled Delivery | 1974-76 | Industrial / Mute | early stuff | |||
| David Thomas & Two Pale Boys | Weird Cornfields | Erewhon | Cooking Vinyl | 1996 | |||
| Old Time Relijun | Liberation | Catharsis in Crisis | K | yet another track from this; I can’t get enough | * | ||
| Sirone | Illusions of Reality | Artistry | Of the Cosmos | 1978, still not released on CD | |||
| Various Artists | Track 3 | Bougouni Yaalali | Yaala Yaala | phenomenal stuff from Mali | * | ||
| Savage Republic | So It Is Written | Jamahiriya | Fundamental | sounding dated | |||
| Health | Crimewave | Health | Lovepump United | L.A. noisy rock | * | ||
| Gun Club | Preaching the Blues | Early Warning | Sympathy for the Record Industry | L.A. old-school cowpunk | |||
| Lamps | Bob the Cat | Lamps | In the Red | L.A. new-school garage punk | * | ||
| Groundhogs | Split Part 3 | Split | BGO | 1971 | |||
| Pre | Nope Fun | Epic Fits | Skin Graft | first new Skin Graft I’ve heard in a while | * | ||
| Larry Young | Sunshine Fly Away | Lawrence of Newark | Castle | 1973 | |||
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