Archive for July, 2008
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Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 25, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
– How did Peter Frampton get away with what has to be the most ridiculous album title ever? "I’m In You"?????????? Incredibly weak song, too. We were going to play it straight, but I couldn’t do it, so we did our best Mystery Science Theater 3000 imitation and gave commentary. Check out that outfit–and the chest hair. 1977 was weird. Just think about crap coming out and shooting up the charts at the same time that the Sex Pistols were ushering in a new universe. Thank you, Johnny Rotten.
– Had a nice drug commentary set with Sonny Bono’s "Pammie’s on a Bummer," which Shaina knows all the lyrics to from her childhood (her dad had the record). Bill Cosby’s "Dope Pusher Song" is a fun and funky scare-tactic song. Holy Modal Rounders sang the "Cocaine Blues"; WPVM just got an incredible shipment of new CDs from the rejuvenated ESP-Disk, including two Holy Modal Rounders reissues and a slew of great jazz (Milford Graves, Giuseppi Logan, and Don Cherry). For more of this stuff, you should listen to Tenor to Tabla, Wednesday nights on WPVM from 8-11 pm, hosted by Jonathan. It’s dope.
– I played two of the three releases on the newly created Assophon Records out of Seattle: an imaginary soundtrack by Factums and a great skronky jazz set by the Spider Trio. You’ll hear the third disc, by The Sea Donkeys, in an upcoming show, I promise, as it may be the best of the three. Great new label!
Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
New |
Swell Maps |
Midget Submarines |
Collision Time Revisited |
Mute |
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Pumice |
Sick Bay Duvet |
Quo |
Soft Abuse |
New Zealand
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* |
Factums |
Lotus |
A Primitive Future |
Assophon |
2008, new one |
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Awesome Color |
Eyes of Light |
Electric Aborigines |
Ecstatic Peace! |
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* |
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Great American Desert |
The Still Lake |
Split CD with Drear |
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from Martha Hurley’s WFMU premium
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The Shadow Ring |
Put the Music In its Coffin |
Put the Music in Its Coffin |
Siltbreeze |
1994 |
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Bruce Haack |
Mean Old Devil |
The Electric Lucifer Book |
QDK Media |
1979 |
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Black Devil Disco Club |
Coach Me |
28 After |
Lo Recordings |
we have somebody at WPVM requesting this album constantly |
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Flying Lotus |
Beginner’s Falafel |
Los Angeles |
Warp |
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* |
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Sonny Bono |
Pammie’s on a Bummer |
Inner Views |
Atco |
1967 |
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Bill Cosby |
Dope Pusher Song |
Talks to Kids About Drugs |
Uni |
1971 |
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Holy Modal Rounders |
Cocaine Blues |
Indian War Whoop |
ESP-Disk |
1967 |
* |
The Dutchess and the Duke |
Back to Me |
She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke |
Hardly Art |
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* |
John Terrill |
Lazy Day |
Frowny Frown |
Family Vineyard |
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* |
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Peter Frampton |
I’m in You |
I’m in You |
A&M |
1977 |
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Andre Williams |
Can’t Take ‘em Off |
Can You Deal With It? |
Bloodshot |
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* |
Asie Payton |
Skinny Legs & All |
Worried |
Fat Possum |
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Thee Minks |
Lust for You |
Songs About Boys |
Steel Cage |
Philadelphia |
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The Cute Lepers |
Nervous Habits |
Can’t Stand Modern Music |
Blackheart |
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* |
The Shaggs |
My Pal Foot Foot |
Philosophy of the World |
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Skip James |
I’m So Glad |
1931 |
Mississippi |
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The Yardbirds |
I Ain’t Done Wrong |
Live at the BBC |
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Spider Trio |
[Side 2 Track 2] |
Rendezvous |
Assophon |
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Posted by: Greg in Playlist
Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 18, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
– I’m catching up and just posting some playlists. Lot of good new music in this show.
Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
New |
John Terrill |
I’ll Follow in Time |
Frowny Frown |
Family Vineyard |
former lead singer of the Dancing Cigarettes |
* |
Pumice |
Pumice Quo |
Quo |
Soft Abuse |
New Zealand |
* |
Alan & Richard Bishop |
Papa Legba |
The Brothers Unconnected |
Abduction |
tour CD |
* |
Fred McDowell |
You Gotta Move |
You Gotta Move |
Arhoolie |
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Del McCoury Band |
Get Down on Your Knees and Pray |
The Family |
Ceili |
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Charlie Feathers |
Jungle Fever |
Long Time Ago: Rare and Unissued Volume 3 |
Norton |
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* |
The 13th Floor Elevators |
Fire Engine |
The Psychedelic Sounds of |
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1966 |
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Edgar Broughton Band |
Madhatter |
Edgar Broughton Band |
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1971 |
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Equipe 84 |
29th September |
VA – Let’s Ride: 20 Popsike Excursions from the UK & Europe |
Psychic Circle |
Modena, Italy |
* |
U.S. Maple |
The Wanderer |
The Wanderer EP |
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Holy Modal Rounders |
Radar Blues |
Indian War Whoop |
ESP-Disk |
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* |
Paavoharju |
Tuoksu tarrttuu Meihin |
Laulu laakson kukista |
Fonal |
Finnish |
* |
Circle |
Back to Pori |
Pori |
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Finnish |
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Elephant 9 |
Skink |
Dodovoodoo |
Rune Grammofon |
Norway |
* |
Orange |
Subway Over the Rainbow |
In The Midst Of Chaos |
De Stijl |
1978, Connecticut, sax player Paul Flaherty’s recorded debut |
* |
Blurt |
My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People |
In Berlin |
Ruby |
1981 |
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring |
It’s All Square |
Eddy Current Suppression Ring |
Dropkick |
2006, Australia |
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Ikara Colt |
Escalate |
Sink Venice |
Fantastic Plastic |
UK |
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Abe Vigoda |
Bear Face |
Skeleton |
Post Present Medium |
L.A. |
* |
Awesome Color |
Burning |
Electric Aborigines |
Ecstatic Peace! |
Brooklyn/Michigan |
* |
Cosmic Psychos |
Down on the Farm |
Fifteen Years, A Million Beers |
Dropkick |
Australia |
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Andre Williams |
Pray for You Daughter |
Can You Deal With It? |
Bloodshot |
sick |
* |
King Khan and the Shrines |
Land of the Freak |
The Supreme Genuis of King Khan and The Shrines |
Vice |
anthology |
* |
The Diplomats of Solid Sound Featuring the Diplomettes |
Smokey Places |
The Diplomats of Solid Sound |
Pravda |
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Posted by: Greg in Playlist
Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 11, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS 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:
– Don Howland (of the Bassholes, Wooden Tit, and Gibson Bros.) showed up with his Cincinnati Reds t-shirt and a sack full of rock ‘n’ roll records from the underbelly of the underground, ready to spring them on the rest of the world during this here little radio show. Many of these discs were ones Don said he had always wanted to hear on the radio airwaves, and they were all over the place, from classic UK punk rock to swampy R&B, from Columbus OH garage rock to French femme art-rock to NYC no wave. It was all a blast. Here are some things I learned…
– I need to track down a bunch of those 7-inch 45s on High Water Records, the label started by Dr. David Evans, ethnomusicologist (Delta blues expert) at Memphis State University. I had the Jessie Mae Hemphill LP, but Don brought a superb R&B blues-boogie thing by the Fieldstones. There’s an interesting piece on the Fieldstones and High Water Records in general in the superb online ‘zine, Perfect Sound Forever.
– We played several tracks related to Jim Shepard (Vertical Slit, V-3), and I learned that while both Jim and Don grew up in Columbus, Don didn’t know him until around the time punk broke. Jim had already been playing out in the Columbus area, thus making him truly proto-punk, kinda analogous to Pere Ubu in Cleveland.
– Some other drum and guitar duos before the White Stripes: Doo Rag, Flat Duo Jets, and the Bassholes (with Don Howland, of course).
– Bassholes will be recording later this summer for a release on Columbus Discount Records, which is evidently a collective involving folks from Times New Viking.
– When asked what his favorite band off all time is, Don will reply, "Chain Gang."
– Today’s picture is of the Beast 7", about which I completely forgot to ask Don. There’s precious little about them on the old internet, but Don wrote back to let me know that they were led by Bryan Gregory, original guitarist for the Cramps, and were rumored to be practicing satanists (some sites–here’s one–dispute this).
Background Music: Gabor Szabo – His Great Hits (Impulse!)
Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
Lew Lewis |
Caravan Man |
Boogie on the Street 7 |
Stiff |
1976 UK pub rock, proto-punk |
Beast |
Possessed |
Possessed 7" |
Amdusias |
1982. I need to ask Don about this one. I couldn’t really find any info, and I forgot to back-announce it. |
Lolitas |
La fille qui se promène sur les rails |
La fille qui se promène sur les rails |
New Rose |
1988, French, featuring Françoise Cactus, now of Stereo Total. |
The Fieldstones |
The Thing |
7" |
High Water |
c. 1983 |
Jessie Mae Hemphill |
Feelin’ Good |
Feelin’ Good |
High Water |
my choice, informed by the fact that Don covered a track from this album on his solo record, The Land Beyond the Mountains
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The Cheater Slicks |
You Don’t Satisfy |
You Don’t Satisfy 7" |
Sympathy |
1990, band now residing in Columbus |
Scrawl |
Just Plain Bad |
Just Plain Bad 7" |
Sol |
1992, Columbus |
V-3 |
Spellbound |
Monsters of Hollywood EP |
Iron Press |
1991, Columbus |
Don Howland |
Buckeye Jim |
Matter Dominates Spirit: Jim Shepard Tribute |
Meta |
2001, Columbus |
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V-3 |
Inside Outpost |
7" |
Siltbreeze |
1991, Columbus |
Television Personalities |
King and Country |
Smashing Time! |
Rough Trade |
1980, UK. Crazy drum-break! Nice "Venus" riff rip-off. |
Ron House |
Restraining Order |
Obsessed |
Moses Carryout |
2002, Columbus. Don was briefly in Great Plains with Ron House. They also did Ego Summit together with Jim Shepard and others. This song was my choice. |
Les Bellas |
Hey, I’m Going Down |
Hey, I’m Going Down |
Profêt |
2005, French |
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Bassholes |
Interzone |
7" |
Seldom Scene |
1997, Joy Division cover. |
Strip Kings |
Slow Panic |
7" |
In the Red |
1996, UK. First Brit band on L.A.’s In the Red Records |
The Mad |
The Hell |
Fried Egg 7" |
Disgusting |
1979 early NY harcore |
Mars |
3E |
7" |
Ze |
1977, NYC no wave |
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The Bird and the Bee |
La La La |
The Bird & the Bee |
Blue Note |
2007, California. Inara George has a new one with Van Dyke Parks |
Bill Watkins |
Big Guitar |
Cincinnati Rock & Roll |
Lee |
c. 1957, Ohio |
Hasil Adkins |
When I Saw You Last Night |
Moon Over Madison: The Lonesome and Blue Sounds of Hasil Adkins |
nameless |
My choice. |
Ars Nova |
I Was Once |
Sunshine & Shadows |
Atlantic |
1969, New York |
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Chain Gang |
Gross Out on 40 Deuce |
Mondo Manhattan |
Lost |
1987, New York |
The Electric Chairs |
Paranoia Paradise |
1977 |
Illegal |
released 1978, Wayne County’s band, NYC |
Princess Tinymeat |
A Bun in the Oven |
A Bun in the Oven |
Rough Trade |
1985, UK. Virgin Prunes offshoot |
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Debris’ |
Boyfriend |
Debris’ |
Anopheles |
Recorded 1976, in Oklahoma. My choice. |
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Don Howland is an underground rock-n-roll legend, shredding eardrums with his tinny ax and garage-punk high-lonesome vocals in such bands as Wooden Tit (from Asheville), Bassholes, Gibson Bros., and Great Plains for about 3 decades now. He’s coming all the way from his home in West Asheville to spin records and shoot the breeze on the air with Greg during “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, Friday 2-4 pm. Don’s going up to Columbus, OH, later this summer to record another Bassholes album, so he’ll be talking about that, the Columbus music scene, and god knows what else. If you miss it, catch up by listening to the archive!
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Posted by: Greg in Playlist
Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 4, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
Notes:
– Independence Day! The Feelies reunited and played Hoboken and New York this week, and as we were doing this radio show, they were probably playing live in Battery Park, opening for Sonic Youth in a free show. In lieu of actually being there, I played a live set by the Feelies. I always think of July 4 as a day to see–or at least listen to–live music (remember those Beach Boys shows on the Mall in D.C.?), so I hope everybody enjoyed it.
– Next week I will be having a special co-host, namely DON HOWLAND! Very exciting. Don lives here in Asheville and has graciously agreed to come in and spin some records with me. So tune in!
Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
New |
Duke Ellington |
The Star-Spangled Banner |
Live at Newport |
Columbia |
1956 |
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The Louvin Brothers |
There’s a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere |
Close Harmony |
Bear Family |
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Phil Ochs |
That’s What I Want to Hear |
I Ain’t Marching Anymore |
Elektra |
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Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers |
Back in the U.S.A. |
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers |
Berkeley |
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Irving Berlin |
Let’s All Be Americans Now |
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition |
New World |
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Johnny Cash |
Hiawatha’s Vision/The Road to Kaintuck |
Mean As Hell |
Bear Family |
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Holy Modal Rounders |
Going to Memphis |
Live in 65 |
ESP-Disk |
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* |
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Don Howland |
Barren Woman |
The Land Beyond the Mountains |
Birdman |
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Bassholes |
Light Bulb Boogie |
Blue Roots |
In the Red |
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Bassholes |
Long Way Blues |
Long Way Blues |
Matador |
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Bassholes |
Bowling Ball |
Deaf Mix Vol. 3 |
In the Red |
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The Black Angels |
Doves |
Directions To See A Ghost |
Light in the Attic |
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* |
Awesome Color |
Eyes of Light |
Electric Aborigines |
Ecstatic Peace |
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* |
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The Feelies |
[Live] |
Live |
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