Playlist ArchiveClick on each date to see a playlist of that
show as well as a commentary about special guests or themes (you can
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Setlists for 1998 |
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| July 3 | July 17 | August 28 | September 11 |
| September 18 | September 25 | October 16 | October 30 |
| November 20 | November 27 | December 5 | December 18 |
Date: March 19, 2010 |
I got into a dancey/electropoppy mood with my top song of the week and it just continued from there for most of the show.
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Date: March 5, 2010
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| Finally a chance to play some new music after many themed shows, this of course
created a log jam for my top song of the week as I had lots to choose from. So any of the
first three songs could have been the one, but I went with the one I listened to the most
over the last few weeks. As it turns out all three are from the labrador record label and
are availabe either from the record label website ( www.labrador.se
) or here ( http://bit.ly/bC9Ykj ). Although I would like to keep the podcast coming out every 2 weeks it seems like I can't do more than one a month. This time I blame the Olympics as I went to Vancouver and that kind of took me off my schedule. However, I did manage to see quite a few bands while I was out there and used that as a theme for a set. Fireball XL5 Setlist - March 5, 2010 TALK The Mary Onettes - Dave The Radio Dept. - Heaven't On Fire Sambassadeur - Stranded The Ogdens - Rachel Put Your Arms About Me The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again TALK Very Truly Yours - Every Little Word Strawberry Whiplash - Picture Perfect The Close-ups - 20,000 Groups Je Suis Animal - Painted My Face Leaving Mornington Crescent - April Song TALk (Vancouver 2010 set) Devo - Secret Agent Man couer De Pirate - Printemps (C) Hawksley Workman - No Sissies (C) Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line (C) Library Voices - Kundera On The Dance Floor (C) TALK The Ravonettes - Last Dance The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition Bye Bye Bicycle - Westside Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I) The Lightning Seeds - Sense TALK The Fall - Hit The North Sisty Wish - Float CC Baxter - Ry Cooder Metro - Girls In Love Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars TALK Sweedish Shoes - Sleep and Eat Vetiver - Everyday Pants Yell! - Cold Hands Javelins - Nosebleeders On The Track Moustache Of Insanity - 16,000 Kilometres TALK EJ Brule - Killer Whale Attack (C) (C) - Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: February 5, 2010
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| Wow, has it been 10 years already, yes I remember doing my best of the 1990s radio
show way back when. Who would have thought then that my next best of the decade recap
would be on an internet only podcast distributed on something called the internet created
on a magical box called a laptop. I decided to be uninspired in the order of the show as all I did was play my top singles of the decade from 1 to 15 and then my top albums of the decade from 15 to 1. If you want to see the complete list of my top 50 singles and top 23 albums at the Fireball XL5 Facebook page. (which I think is accessible even if you aren't on Facebook) See a graphical representation of my 20 of the decade here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/best_of_2000s.htm Fireball XL5 Setlist - February 5, 2010 TALK - Theme (Singles 1-5) The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (2006) (L) Bran Van 3000 - Astounded (2001) (C) (1) Peter, Bjorn, and John - Young Folks (2006) (L) (1) Hard-Fi - Hard to Beat (2006) Lykke Li - Little Bit (2007) (L) TALK (Singles 6-10) Black Kids - I'm not going to teach your boyfriend to dance (2007) (L) (1) I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse (2007) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart (2005) (L) Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know (2007) Los Campesinos! - You!Me!Dancing! (2007) (L) TALK (Singles 11-15) Junior Senior - Move Your Feet (2003) (1) The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (2009) (L) (1) Tim Armstrong - Into action (2007) My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats (2007) (L) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With you (2008) (L) TALK (Albums 15-11) The Icicles - Crazy - Arrivals and Departures (2007) (L) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday - S/T (2009) (L) The Diskettes - ABCs of Love - S/T (2003) (C) (L) My Teenage Stride - To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge - Ears Like Golden Bats (2007) (L) Black Kids - Hurricane Jane - Partie Traumatic (2008) (L) TALK (Albums 10-6) The Pocketbooks - Every Good Time We Ever Had - Flightpaths (2009) (1) Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone - Sing along with ... (2005) Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000) (L) Belle and Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003) (L) (1) Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (2004) (C) (L) TALK (Albums (5-1) Irene - Waterfront - Apple Bay (2006) Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me - Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007) (L) (1) Lykke Li - Tonight - Youth Novels (2008) (L) (1) The Pipettes - You're Kisses Are Wasted On Me - We are the Pipettes (2006) (L) TALK Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog (live) - The Life Pursuit (2006) (L) (1) (C) - Canadian Content (L) - Song I have seen performed live (1) - Songs or albums that were number 1 during their release year Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: January 1, 2010
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| My annual best of show highlighting my picks for 2009. I started off with the singles
and worked up to the albums ending with double shots of the top 4. You can listen to the comments about the songs on the podcast, but I just want to say that I might be crazy by putting a CD I just got in the beginning of December as my top pick however I'm just loving it that much. It is the best pure twee pop songs together in one place for many years. Catchy songs, references to public transit, waiting in line for concert tickets, and the boy/girl vocals just hits all my buttons. See a graphical representation of both my album and single Best of 2009 picks here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/best_of_2009.htm
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Date: December 10, 2009
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| I decided not to talk much during this show, just a whole lot of Christmas music, look
for my best of 2009 and best of the decade show in January. Happy Holiday's everyone! |
Date: November 27, 2009
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| As this was my last new music show for a while (Christmas show next, then best of
shows) I tried to get rid of a lot of leftover songs that I have collected over the last
year. Some of them seem very old to me as I have been listening to them for a while on my
MP3 player, but I was surprised when I checked my archive and had never played them on the
show. Nobody should be shocked that most of the show was in the indie pop/twee side of the
musical spectrum. The third set was loosly related to the Jens Lekman song "Maple Leaves" which came up during a shuffle play while a bunch of us were at Erik's place. The song is a story about a guy who misinterprets his girlfriend saying that thier love was "make believe" but he thinks they she said "Maple leaves". Similarly there is confusion between the fall of their relationship and the band with Mark E. Smith, so that's why I played the Fall and the other two songs are just related to people where were also there. Things I referenced on the show: Various blogs I read: http://happyhappybirthdaytome.blogspot.com/ http://alex-loves.blogspot.com/ http://cloudberryrecords.com/blog/ http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ http://indiemp3couk.wordpress.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - November 27, 2009 TALK Boa Constrictor - Out of Nothing Butcher Boy - Carve A Pattern Red Sleeping Beauty - Summer Tells Stories Cars Can Be Blue - Do You Remember? TALK The Servants - Present Northern Portrait - Crazy Laura Walting - Let's go The Hidden Cameras - In The NA (C) TALK (Jens and related set) Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves The Fall - Totally Wired Sambassadeur - Days Woods - Born To Lose TALK Summer Cats - Super Xylos - In The Bedroom Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - World Music The Micropops - Telephonebaby! TALK (female pop set) Leaving Mornington Crescent - Seventeen **See Note 1 Liechtenstein - This Must Be Heaven Hari And Aino - A Considerate Kind Of Home Sexy Kids - Sisters Are Forever TALK Fireflies - Winter Brown Recluse - Night Train The Late Call - Linnea The Blind King - Driving In America TALK David Cassidy - How Can I Be Sure Note 1: Dedicated to two of my nieces who are both seventeen (C) - Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: October 29, 2009
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| A lot of this show, especially the first set was stolen from the show Central
Services, a great radio show that was formerly on CKMS but can now be found on CFRU
(www.cfru.ca). Corey and I have very similar tastes in music as you can see from the
description of his show: Host Corey W. Schmidt delves into his massive record collection and shares with you some independent pop music delights from around the globe. Side trips are also taken into the worlds of 60s sugar, 70s prog noodling, disco thunder and hot buttered soul, 80s synthesized glam, 90s shoegazing as well as other strangeness that lurks in thrift shop dollar bins. All in all, the best pop music you'll hear all week. You can download the last few Central Services shows from the CFRU website, I highly recommend them. Back to this current show which started out with a funky set that followed along from my top song and then an electro pop set because it seemed to fit there, it was only after these that I got back to my bread and butter indie pop sets. And my big ending that was over 10 years in the making didn't happen. Here is the story, back when I was doing my Masters I remember playing a song with the lyrics "going for my Masters, calling bullshit on my PhD". At the time I thought I would never do a PhD, but then I did do one and I thought that I should really play that song when I was done. Well fast forward to the present and a few weeks ago I had my convocation for my PhD so I thought I should play the song. I had it in my mind that it was by a guy named Wierd Paul (who was popular at CKMS as the time), I went so far as to borrow the album from a friend, but when I listened to the album I couldn't find the song. My search continues for that song I was looking for, but in the meantime I ended with a song by Wierd Paul song anyway. Things I referenced on the show: Weird Paul's website http://weirdpaul.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - October 29, 2009 TALK Pizzicato Five - Happy Sad (CS) Gila - Why Don't We Do It (CS) Gino Soccio - Turn It Around (CS) Brandi Disterheft - Twilight Curtain Sandy Edmonds - Daylight Saving Time **See Note 1 TALK Lioness - You're My Heart Fritz Helder and the Phantoms - Lagerfeld Lady Mr. Suitcase - You Don't Smile Anymore Nakatomi Towers - Cut Me Out Lusine - Two Dots TALK Afternoon Naps - Postcard (CS) Dylan Mondegreen - Girl In Grass The Gladeyes - Monika Wildwood lights - Town and Country Milky Way - In Love (CS) TALK Red Sleeping Beauty - Season's Change My Teenage Stride - We'll Meet At Emily's Marching Band - Make No Plans Hari and Aino - Maple Dent May And His Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force A Dance Party TALK (sort of kinda the British set) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - One Night Stand Town Bike - Hey Hey Ho The Apple Moths - Miserable Town Golden Glow - Streetligher ** See Note 2 Joy Division - Transmission TALK Wierd Paul - Whalin' the Shit Out Of Guys (CS) - Song stolen from Central Services Note 1: The show was recorded the weekend before the clocks changed for daylight saving time Note 2: This song sounded so much like Joy Division I had to play them after. Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: September
25, 2009
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| This show started with two sets dedicated to the record label Cloudberry records (
www.cloudberryrecords.com ). Their website describes themselves as "an indiepop label
purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in sunny Miami, Florida", how could I not
love them. They look to specialize in shorter products such as 7 inch vinyl, split CD
singles, and mini-CDs. The other cool think is that for pretty much all their releases
they have at least one song that you can download for free. I also put in an ectro-pop and funky set, something I haven't done in a while, so that was nice. Things I referenced on the show: Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEnMc9xakeg link to soul sides blog: http://soul-sides.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 25, 2009 TALK (Cloudberry Records 1) The Parellelograms - Dream On Daisy The Shandy Express - Surfing On Love's Wave Girl Alliance - Frances And The Dancing Fairies Pale Man Made - In Your Bed Play People - Goes Out TALK (Cloudberry Records 2) Twig - Ciao Ciao Bomb Kevin McGrother - A Week Of Wednesdays The Tartans - My Baby Doesn't Care For You The Westfield Mining Disaster - Hank Williams Saved My Life The Cavalcade - Meet You In The Rain TALK So Many Dynamos - New Bones Golden Glow - Adore Me Voxtrot - Trepanation Party Astrid Swan - Unrelated Bad Hands featuring Nina Kinert - Badn Hands TALK Jenny Wilson - Only Here For The Fight The Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache Lydia Marcell - The Girl He Needs The Impossibles - Easy To Be Heard Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution TALK The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars Horse Shoes - The Imperial School Rubik - No Escape Afternoon Naps - Beach Bums Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way TALK Free Energy - Free Energy The singles - can you go out tonight (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: September 5, 2009
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| This was a 4 song set kind of show, just kind of worked out that way. My top song for
the show was a song that I heard a while back at the NYC popfest this spring. But I was
reminded of the great performance by Karim and his Brown Coach of Leisure podcast (
http://silenttalkie.com/ ). I just can't get the song out of my head. They are also
releasing their first EP soon that I'm very much looking forward to. I tried not to talk a lot during this show as I felt there was a lot of talking during the Hillside review show. Keeping with the same sentiment I won't write a lot about the show except to say that I was happy with how it came together. Even got a slow set in which is relatively rare for me. And do listen to the end of the show as the last song by the band Death By Chocolate was fighting to be my top song, but I still can't describe it, you just have to listen. Things I referenced on the show: See video of the performance by The Drums at the NYC Popfest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4W5SEwdOk Download the Celestial song here: http://musicismygirlfriend.com/celestial/hop-you-know/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 5, 2009 TALK (Theme) The Drums - Let's Go Surfing Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well Girl Alliance - Straight To My Heart The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes TALK Papermoon - What are you going to do with me? (c) The San Marinos - On Our Way The School - And Suddenly The Darling Buds - Burst TALK Downdime - Lessons The Charade - A tough Decision Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be The Mugs - Could It Be TALK The Faintest Ideas - Procrastination Of Every Day Tasks Knight School - Pregnent Again Candy Panic Attack - Heartbreaker Casa Murilo - 19th Floor TALK Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Horse Shoes - Changing Winds Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return The Radio Dept. - David TALK Margo & The Nuclear So and So's - As Tall As Cliffs Landon Pigg - Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop Tiny Microphone - Home Celestial - Hope, You Know TALK Phantogram - When I'm Small Glass Cake - We'll Work It Out Jenny Wilson - Like A Fading Rainbow The Understudies - Flickknives TALK Death By Chocolate - Magpie (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: August 9, 2009
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| A lot of this show was dedicated to my review of the Hillside Festival that took place
in Guelph in late July. Apart from the artists that I previously knew about, it is always
cool to find out about bands that I didn't know existed. My favourite find this year were
the Library Voices, as I said in the show, if Los Campesinos! grew up in Regina instead of
Wales, they would have been the Library Voices. Another band I quite enjoyed was FRED,
apologies to Bernard for not seeing them at the Starlight for St. Patrick's Day. The first song of the show I first heard on a patio overlooking Niagara Falls, thanks to S for helping to find out the name of the song. The last song was from the movie "500 Days of Summer", a movie I liked on its own but the peppering of indie music throughout made it all the better, thanks to M for getting the song for me. The rest of the show was my usual indie mix. Things I referenced on the show: link to lightning strike at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQE_JbE2zRU link to Final Fantasy at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8 Acid House Kings twitter: http://twitter.com/acidhousekings
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Date: July 10, 2009
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| Uncharacteristically I started this show with a funky set as it went well with my pick
for my top song of the week. A few of the songs in that set are a bit long so I hope you
can make your way through them. The rest of the show was back to the indie pop sound. As well as a leftover set from last show's spotlight on the blog Heaven Is Above Your Head, I also played the song "Heaven Is Above My Head" by Louis Philippe that I assume the blog was named after. As coincidence would have it I heard the Philippe song on another podcast last week. I ended with the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants in honour of the Toronto Raptors signing free agent Hedo Turkoglu (I stole this idea from Peter). Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after the song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: The One and Other art project - http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - July 10, 2009 TALK (Theme) Johnny Legend - Green Light Cut Glass - Without Your Love All Because Of You - Dramatics Greyboy featuring Jeremy Ellis - Colour In Between The Lines Johnny Burnette Trio - Honey Hush TALK (leftover HIAYH set) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is Lois Lane - Turn Me Loose Jackie Deshannon - Find Me Love Bobble Smith And The Dreamgirls - Now He's Gone Patti And The Emblems - It's The Little Things TALK (Female indie pop) Pocketbooks - Fleeting Moments Comet Gain - A Kind Of Loving Steso Songs - The Worse The Popguns - Where Do You Go? God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl TALk My Teenage Stride - To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge The Mary Onettes - Dave Fireflies - Butterscotch Hotels - Kite Flight Louis Philippe - Heaven Is Above My Head TALK Little Big Adventure - Happiest Time The Paper Merchants - I Don't Care Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings Ketch Harbour Wolves - So Long To The Ground The Blind King - Driving In America TALK AA-Awesome - I Wish I Were A Belgium **From Karim Harlem Shakes - Sunlight **From Sari or Michelle Candy Panic Attack - What's He Got That I Haven't Love Is All - Wishing Well Project A-Ko - Molten Hearts TALK They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) **Stolen from an idea by Peter (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: June 26, 2009
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| As often happens, as soon as I find a new source of music I go crazy and get obsessed
about getting all the music from that source ignoring my regular go-to sources. For this
show it was my discovery of the great MP3 blog/podcast called "Heaven is above your
head", the blog is based in New Zealand but it appears that it started out in Sweden.
The blog seems to have been going a few years and this past February they started a
podcast that unfortunately seems to have ended this past week. Although the blog mostly
plays the same sort of indie pop that I love, the podcast also has a heavy focus on 60s
and 70s soul songs which is very cool. It just kind of worked out that about half of the
songs from this show are from HIAYH as well as a set specifically focused on those cool
soul songs. http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ Even with the focus on HIAYH the show was back to the normal sets divided by different musical types and of course I had to end off with a song by the recently departed Michael Jackson. I know that I haven't really been into anything he has put out in the past 20 years, but when I was growing up Thriller was certainly an album that I (like the rest of world) was in love with. I went with P.Y.T. (Pretty young thing) instead of one of the more famous songs as I remember particularly liking that song back in the day. Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after last show's top song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: Video for the Biker Boy songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBZUaFG7C8 video for Juni Jarvi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SaJr58qHw Video for Little Boots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUs9YzY7t-8 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 26, 2009 TALK (Theme) Sandstream - Teenage Love Biker Boy - Where Do You Go To? Juni Jarvi - Looking At You Is Like Looking At The Sun Baby Doll Lounge - Paisley Shirt (HIAYH) Bunnygrunt - We Suspect He Was Trying To Spell Monkey (HIAYH) TALK Baby Daylinger - You Push, I'll Go Little Big Adventure - The Hateful Eye Mike Snow - Animal Passion Pit - The Reeling Little Boots - New In Town TALK God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing Asobi Seksu - Transparence Helen Love - We Love You (HIAYH) Stolen Hearts - Fire (HIAYH) TALK Even As We Speak - I Won't Have To Think About You (HIAYH) Fireflies - Sledding Godsmania - All Gone Wrong Today The Seven Inches - Open-ness And Honesty (HIAYH) The New Breed - Summers Coming (HIAYH) TALK (HIAYH spotlight) Paul Sindab - You Dropped Your Candy In The Sand (HIAYH) Ty Karim - You Just Don't Know (HIAYH) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is (HIAYH) Mickey And Silvia - Love Is Strange (HIAYH) The Moments - You Said (HIAYH) TALK California Gold - Love Is All You Need (HIAYH) World Atlas - Inner city Kids (HIAYH) Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare Moustache Of Insanity - The Cat Chicken Song The Windmills - Beach Girls TALK Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (C) Denotes Canadian Content (HIAYH) Denotes song from Heaven is above your head Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: June 11, 2009
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| This show highlighted my experience at the New York Popfest back in May, in fact the
first two sets were from CDs that I bought at the festival. The next set was a combination
of other bands that played the festival and songs that were covered during the shows. Overall, it was a great time and of course being in New York City is always cool, especially walking around Harlem at 2 in the morning. The best conversation I overheard on the subway was one teenage girl telling her friend that she was bummed that she didn't have her iPod, the cops took it when she got busted and she hasn't had the time to get up to the Bronx and get it back, but she only has a month to do it. I won't go into a detailed description of the festival here as you can see the daily summary of my impressions of the New York Popfest on the Wall the Fireball XL5 radio show facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2437232020 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 11, 2009 Smittens - 11:11 My Teenage Stide - Grim Wind Cats On Fire - Steady Pace Eux Autres - When I'm Up TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart Burning Hearts - Iris Pants Yell! - Tried To Be Good A Faulty Chromosome - Bad Things TALK The Radio Dept. - Freddie And The Trojan Horse The Drums - Me And The Moon Very Truly Yours - Homesick The Sixths - Falling Out Of Love (With You) Matt Pond PA - In The Aeroplanes Over The Sea The Go-Betweens - People Say TALK The Lucksmiths - Good Light Spent - Excuse Me While I Drink Myself To Death Surf City - Dickshakers Union Pretend You're Happy - The Other Side Of The Earth Matt & Kim - Daylight TALK Threatmatics - Big Man The Interiors - My Little Pony Ribbons - Plain The Fizzbombs - Sign On The Line TALK Nouvelle Cuisine - Comunicacion no verbal (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: May 8, 2009
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| This was at the same time the easiest show to do and the hardest. As most of you
probably heard my very good friend Derek Weiler passed away in April. I felt that just
playing a set or two in a regular show wasn't enough thus this entire show is about Derek.
It contains songs that had special connections between me and Derek from the first day we met to the last time I saw him. His influence on my musical tastes (and those of countless others) will be evident in the music I listen to for the rest of my days. If Derek thought that you had even a hint of interest in music you were sure to receive a mixed CD or back in the day a mixed tape. And it wasn't just about the music, but it was about the handwritten linear notes, with special notations for the songs he thought you would really like. Since meeting Derek at a Johnny Cash concert back in the fall of 1991, I can't count the number of bands that I first heard of from him, be it from a mixed tape, mixed CD, in a car, or being dragged to a concert by a band I had never heard of but ended up loving. Apart from going to countless concerts together we also co-hosted a weekly radio show for a little over a year (Jan 1993 to April 1994) called Wackyland, this was the real start of my musical education. This education never stopped as I played a song he recommended on my last podcast and finally got to another recommendation on this show. Every once in a while in the past month I've heard a tidbit about a band and I think "I should really e-mail that to Derek", but then I realized that I can't do that anymore, and that's something I'm going to miss every single day. Again most of you probably know about this, but if not you can see all the things that people have written about Derek on the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=69655274189
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Date: April 6, 2009
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| Yes it has been a while since the last show, sorry about that. The good news is that I
managed to submit my PhD thesis this week, the downside was that I wasn't able to put out
a show for over 2 months. Hopefully I should be able to keep a regular schedule from now
on. The thing is that I never stopped accumulating music over the past 2 months so I really have enough material for about 4 shows, but I didn't think that putting out a 6 hour show was a good idea. So I kept it down to its usual 2 hours and just took a small dent of the backlog. Apart from playing all the pent up songs from the last 2 months I also did a spotlight on Wee Pop records ( www.weepop.net ). This is a record label out of England that specializes in TWee pop on the format of mini-CDs so each one can only hold about 20 minutes of music. Each release has a very limited edition and the liner notes are all handmade, this combined with the size just makes each release really cute. But they do pose a storage problem as they don't fit well with regular CDs. I got a delivery of 5 releases from Wee Pop just after the last show. Hopefully it won't be such a long break before the next show. Fireball XL5 Setlist - April 6, 2009 TALK-Theme My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats Young Rival - Your Island Hooded Fang - Land Of Giants (C) Cuddle-pop - You Moustache of Insanity - I Need MORE!!! TALK Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele - Meet Me In The Garden Nickel Eye - Brandy Of The Damned The Very Most - April Is The Kindest Month FemBots - My Hands Are A City (C) Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses TALK (Wee pop records spotlight) One Happy Island - Temporary Tattoo Horowitz - Drop The Hat Megamoog - Icicle Little My - Sellotape My Hands The Endless Bummer - Boring But Beautiful (C) TALK The Dodos - Winter **See Note 1 The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Red Sleeping Beauty - Don't Say You Love Me The Killers - Spaceman TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - 1999 The Sound Of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C. Lowood - Crash Niels Nielsen - It's All In My Head Architechture In Helsinki - That Beep TALK Black Kids - Listen To Your Body Tonight **See Note 2 Mates Of State - My Only Offer Note 1: The banjo and voice on the song by the Dodos reminded me a lot of Stephin Merrit, thus the reason for playing the Magnetic Fields right after Note 2: I went to see The Black Kids and Mates of State in Toronto just after the show (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: January 30, 2009
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| Between my Best of 2008 and the Christmas show, it has been a while since my last show
of new music. And of course you have to remember that most of the music I play is stuff
that I've been introduced to in the past month or so as well as some familiar songs
sprinkled in. So it was nice to get back to playing some of my recent finds along with one set of music from CDs that I picked up from other people during the holidays. So thanks to Derek, Sari, and Michelle for their contribution to the show. In that set I also played a song that I found out from the resurrection of a great show that used to be on CKMS called "The Brown Couch of Liesure". Karim, the host of that show, finally got his act together and is now putting out a weekly podcast from his website ( silenttalkie.com ). He is always listening to great music and I recommend that everybody listen to his podcast and of course I'm sure I'll be stealing lots of stuff from his playlists in the future. Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 30,
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Date: January 2, 2009
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| As usual not much to say about this show, simply my best singles and albums from the
past year. It shouldn't be much of surprise that my number one album from the past year
was Lykke Li's Youth Novels, a great album from top to bottom that I never get sick of
listening to. I was also happy to have seen her twice during the year, once in Seattle and
then in Toronto for my birthday. It is also not surprising that just like Lykke Li, Black Kids (my second favourite album from 2008) also had a single on my list from 2007. I had to put Black Kids on as number two as every time I was listening to my MP3 player on shuffle and a song came up that I didn't recognize that I liked when I looked it up it was often by the Black Kids. You can listen to my reasoning for my other picks from the show. On the setlist I have tried my best to remember how I found about the bands on the setlist. Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 2,
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Date: December 19, 2008
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| This was my annual Christmas show and as usual I didn't play your typical holiday
songs. I kept the show short to reflect the amount of really good new Christmas songs I
found this year, but still had time to add a few Fireball XL5 Christmas classics. The best new holiday song I heard this year was by The Wedding Present featuring Simone White with Holly Jolly Hollywood. I've had to listen to it a few times every day because it is that good. The video is also incredibly fun and insanely cute (well at least Simone is insanely cute), do yourself a favour and watch it from the link below. Merry Christmas Everyone! Links to some of the things I mentioned during the show Link to "I'll Stay Till After Christmas": http://store.limewire.com/store/app/pages/album/Album/productId/168937/;jsessionid=0A03E8F47C3453CB7FEB5DED47747C1D Fireball XL5 Setlist - December 5, 2008 |
Date: December 5, 2008
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| It was good to finally get back to a regular show that wasn't all about me. As I had
not done a show like this in a while I had a large backlog of new music to play, as evidenced by the fact that this show clocks in at a little over 2 hours and even then I cut out two entire sets that I was originally going to play. I'll just highlight one of the things I talked about on the show: Every year the BBC asks a list of music critics and broadcasters to find out which bands will they think will make it big in the next year. They did pretty good last year as the 2008 list included The Ting Tings, Adele, Vampire Weekend, The Black Kids, and MGMT. You can check out the BBC Sound of 2009 site using the link below. In the third set I played a couple of songs to commemorate those who recently passed away: Odetta and Levi Stubbs (see links below for more information) Links to some of the things I mentioned during the show: Link to BBC Sound of 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7758169.stm Link to Pitchfork review of Black Kids http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51246-black-kids-partie-traumatic Link to Wee Pop records http://www.weepop.net/releases.php Link to Heaven's Just A Kiss Away http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=235058564 Link to information about Odetta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta Link to information about levi Stubbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Stubbs Fireball XL5 Setlist - December 5, 2008 TALK (Theme) The Ting Tings - Be The One Masonic - Lifetime of Deception Marching Band - Gorgeous Behaviour Detektifbryån - Neonland TALK (recent CD set) Black Kids - Look at me (When I Rock Wichoo) Vancouger - unmanned (C) Los Campesinos! - Ways To Make It Through The Wall Don Lennon - Really Dave Matthews Herman Dune - On A Saturday TALK (lo-fi) The Endless Bummer - Baseball in China (C) Kevin Ayers - Girl On A Swing Tvärvägen - September Charles Douglas - Where Did I Go The 6ths (with Odetta) - Waltzing Me All The Way Home Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears TALK (Female voices) Firefox AK - City To City Santa Maria - Lalalalalaaa Point Junction WA - Melon Bird Minisnap - Leave It To You The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star TALK BlueJuice - Vitriol (Pious Edit) **See Note 1 Japanese Motors - Better Trends Salut!machaut - Tom and Joanna The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You TALK Lizards From Afar - Just A Girl **See Note 1 +/- - Snowblind We and Lisa - Ana The Lovekevins - Private Life Of A Cat TALK Firefly - Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side) **See Note 2 Note 1: Both of these songs were sent to me. Note 2: This is not the Waterloo band Firefly but one from a compilation CD of Italian Disco songs. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: November 21, 2008
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| This was the second part of the soundtrack to my life that I started last time, this
show goes from my University days to the present. I won't say much about the show here as
I have a pretty long explanation for each song both here and on the actual podcast. Although it might not have been that interesting for most people, I quite enjoyed putting these last two shows together and I would recommend it to everyone. Thanks for putting up with my indulgence and I promise to get back to the indie pop goodness for the next show that will hopefully be out soon. UNIVERSITY Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Had the album cover in my residence room) Jay McShann - Smooth Sailing (From the first CD purchased) The Clash - Train in Vain (Best of 80s) Sprit of the West - Labour Day (great show at Bombshelter, saw them many times) Stompin Tom - Bud the Spud (show on UNB radio station CHSR) CKMS Dave Claerhout - Wackyland Theme (show on CHRW and CKMS) War Wagon - Dead Soldier (first band than I knew the members of and on album thank yous) Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (Derek put this on a mixed tape and I became a big fan of the band) The Cure - Friday I'm in Love (Radio Show in Whitehorse) Barry Gray - Fireball XL5 Theme (do I have to say why?) After CKMS Electronic - One Day (best CD of 90s) Belle and Sebastian - Dirty Dream No. 2 (bad 30th birthday and probably best of 00s) Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (Went to see them the evening after getting married) Acid House Kings - A lover's weekend (first real twee song) Jens Lekman - Sky Phenomenon (best concert ever) Jonathan Richman - Dignified and Old (probably seen more times than anybody else) Armand Mirpour - Curly Boys Law (latest top song, one for the future) (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.fireballxl5.ca |
Date: October 25, 2008
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| As this show coincided with my 40th birthday I thought it was allowable to have a show
(or a couple of shows) that are self indulgent. A few years ago I heard about someone
doing "the soundtrack of their life" for a school project on the CBC and I
thought this sounded like a cool idea and this seemed like a good time to try it. As I explain in the intro to the show it isn't just a list of my 25 favourite songs of all time, rather they are songs that have for various reasons been significant in my life. As each song was special there is unfortunately a lot of talking during this show, but I felt each one needed its own introduction. I decided to split the entire concept into two shows (I figure nobody is actually going to listen to a show about me, but even less than that would listen to a 3 hour show about me). So part one goes from my early years up till my time on my first radio station of CHRW. I will leave my time at university and CKMS for part two. Here is a link to the video I mentioned during the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOuTr0BXb4 (as it happens I own the exact same outfit that Bobby Sherman is wearing during this video)
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Date: October 10, 2008
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| All the sets had 5 songs this show, don't know just worked out that way. Also
interesting is that even without the time restriction of being on the radio, my shows are
still about 2 hours long, guess that just the natural way they should be. I
haven't done it in a while but this show I did play a set of people who either just had or
were just going to play the area. The highlight was the Awkward Stage whom I saw in
Waterloo last week, they put on a great show and they are playing across Canada so look
for them in your town. Also in the set were Shout Out Out Out Out coming to the
Starlight and The Bicycles coming to Trepid House. |
Date: September 26, 2008
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| Not much to say about this show, still working on lots of leftover song list that just
seems to get bigger each week. One of the cool things about CKMS was the new release section, although a lot of time it didn't have much I was interested in, every once in a while it was nice to flip through a CD from somebody I had heard about. One such CD would have been the new release from Montreal's Hexes and Ohs that I happen to know is at CKMS. But I was able to find a place to stream the new album so with a bit of work anything is possible. Here are some of the links I mentioned during the show: Ed Greene Download I said during the show that you could download this song by Ed Greene from his record label, but their website is now under construction. Airborne Toxic Event Letter to Pitchfork http://www.theairbornetoxicevent.com/news/an-open-letter-to-pitchfork-media-from-the-airborne-toxic-event.html Link to the very silly and slightly pornographic video for Erik Hallden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LzDoc9vQo TALK-Theme Erik Hallden - If I Ever Get Married Montt Mardie - Names Not Forgotten **See Note 1 Voxtrot - The Start Of Something Esther - I Can't Promise TALK The Second Band - The Future Alfred Daniels Midland - Oceanside Speedmarket Avenue - Accident Pinto - Restless Heart TALK Churchbuilder - Microdancer Tada Tata - Sticky Dumb Gum B'Ehl - Happening Again (C) Bonnie and clyde - Guess There's No One Maia Hirasawa - Crackers TALK Ed Greene - When The Sky Is About To Fall Damien Jurado - Gillian Was A Horse The Social Services - The Baltic Sea Tom Levin - I Miss Her Missing Me TALK The Airborne Toxic Event - Wishing Well **See Note 2 The Little Ones - Forgive Yourself Northern Portrait - I Give You Two Seconds To Entertain Me The Virgins - Private Affair Ironville - Don't You Wish WALK Hexes and Ohs - We Remain (C) Everything All The Time - Take Stock Biker Boy - You Got Me Wrong Action Biker - Ica Lappis Melodies In Mono - Malmo Forsta utkast TALK Looptroop Rockers - The Building Armand Mirpour - Lucky Lady Hotshot Cocoanut Groove - Midsummer's Dream DoublePark - I Don't Want To Party **Thanks to Derek TALK Spanky & Our Gang + Sebo K - Like To Get To Know You + Moved (Tennishero Edit) Note 1: I have played a song by Montt Mardie the last 3 shows, he is my favourite discovery so far this year. Note 2: The Airborne Toxic Event has finally released an album after last year's great single "Does This Mean You're Moving On?". (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: September 12, 2008
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| I started out with the Stolen Minks from their new album "High Kicks" that I
got when I saw them in Guelph. It was a great show, but I have a beef with the venue as although there were 4 bands the first one didn't go on till
11:30 pm. Once again a reminder that The Minks are doing 10 week tour that will probably
be coming to a city near you. I also played the band Holy Fuck (which I'm sure is setting off all kinds of alarms in your e-mail program) who were not only in the news lately for their name ( http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=15362 ) but are also playing a great festival in London Ontario this weekend ( http://www.lolafest.com/ ). I got to play the song "The Other Side Of Mr. Sulu" by the Show Business Giants as once again George Takei got in the news: http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=13075 . The song features great samples from Star Trek including my favourite "It fires lead pellets propelled by expanding gases from a chemical explosion". During the show I also mentioned that the new Pelle Carlberg album can be heard here: http://www.labrador.se/index_lab115.php3 and the song from Architecture in Helsinki was from the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZqjufDWBY . Also note that as I no longer have to worry about CRTC regulations, there are some songs on this particular show that contain some very dirty words, well at least one word that is repeated more than a few times in some of these songs. TALK-Theme The Stolen Minks - Bring It (C) Strip Squad - If You Don't Take Me Right Away You Might As Well Fuck Off Anne Backeley - Underground Summer Love Song California Snow Story - The Only One That Matters TALK Eskobar - Flat Earth Pets - Rollercoaster Heart-sick Groans - The Season For Us Bye Bye Bicycle - Eastside TALK Sea Urchins - Pristine Christine Those Dancing Days - Run Run Architecture in Helsinki - Like It Or Not Sunny Summer Day - So Much Fun TALK The National - Mistaken For Strangers Tindersticks - The Flicker Of A Little Girl Pelle Carlberg - Animal Lovers Parker Lewis - Weird Turns Pro Pale Fountains - Just A Girl TALK (The all connected set) She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? The do - Stay Just A Little Bit More **See Note 1 Ben Folds (featuring Regina Spektor) - You Don't Know Me **Again suggested by Mary Knock, Knock, Ginger - Upsala (C) Talk Of Montreal - Gallery Piece Sunday Forever - Barely Cloetta Paris - Secret Eyes Kitty and the K - By The Way (Euro Remix) Holy Fuck - Safari (C) TALK Sprial Beach - Made Of Stone (C) Muslims - Bright Side Bound Stems - Happens To Us All Otherwise The Hep Stars - Bald Headed Woman The Fugs - CIA Man **See Note 2 TALK Show Business Giants - The Other Side Of Mr. Sulu (C) Note 1: The name is actually The do with a line through the o, but I couldn't get that to print. Note 2: The song over the end credits of the movie "Burn Before Reading" (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: August 29, 2008
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| I have to thank Mary for my best song of the week, she asked me if I had heard
"Sentimental Heart" by She & him, at the time I had not heard of the song
but really enjoyed it when I heard it. So much so that I picked up the CD entitled
"Volume One" when I saw it in a record store the past weekend. The band consists
of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel but you can listen to the show to find out more about She
& him. When playing the "Let's Ride Mega Mix" by Gonzales I started thinking about what is this year's song of the summer. Although I didn't particularly listen to the song this summer it has the elements of a good summer song with the funky beats and summer vibe. The last set ended with the band the Stolen Minks (friends of the show) who came on my show last year. This year they are doing a mega 10 week tour across Canada and the US and if you are reading this anywhere in North America the chances are they are going to be playing in your town. Check out their tour schedule here http://www.myspace.com/stolenminks and read their tour blog here: http://thestolenminks.exclaim.ca/ And I ended with a request that I finally played for Paul that he made way back before my last show on CKMS, sorry about being so late. TALK-Theme She & Him - Sentimental Heart Therea Andersson - Birds Fly Away Firefox AK with Tiger Lou - Winter Rose Yo La Tengo - Our Little Corner Of The World Hello Saferide - San Francisco **For Karen TALK Marching Band - Makeup Artist Peace In Our Time - Desperate for something to say The Second Band - No Song Speedmarket Avenue - I Can Tell By Here Eyes The Gresham Flyers - Shiftwork TALK salut!machaut - Train Song Billie the Vision and The Dancers - Lily From The Middleway Street I'm From Barcelona - Music Killed Me The Polyphonic Spree - Running Away TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Love Will Pop Levi - Never Never Love Sad Day For Puppets - Hush Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating TALK Natalia Clavier - Dormida Air France - No Excuses The Virgins - Rich Girls Monte Marde - Highschool Drama Gonzales - Let's Ride Mega Mix (C) TALK New Radiant Storm Kings - Undignified Born Ruffians - Hummingbird (C) Okkervill River - Lost Coastlines Hawaii Mud Bombers - Chewy - Lovie The Stolen Minks - Peppy Twist (C) TALK Holiday Flyer - I'm Here, You're Gone (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: August 15, 2008
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| I was happy with my first non-CKMS podcast, however I am still working out some of the
bugs in my system. Thus I apologize for any uneven levels, blowing into the microphone,
and songs playing on while I was talking. As for the show, Derek sent me a song by The baseball project, an album of songs about baseball put together by Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey. The song I played, "The Yankee Flipper", chronicles the time that Jack McDowell gave the finger to the New York fans and the events that lead up to that moment. Read more about the baseball project here http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=12539 . I also did a set of songs that I found out about through the website blip.fm , where people recommend songs (or "'blip" them) along with short comments on the songs. I played a few songs from two of my favourite DJs on blip, Seeshell and VanillaJ, unfortunately you have to sign up as a DJ in order to see their picks, but it is free and quick. One of reasons that I have to go on with the show is my reaction when I heard about the passing of Isaac Hayes, the first thing I thought was "I should play an Isaac Hayes song on my next show".
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Date: August 1, 2008
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| Well my final show went down exactly as I had hoped; lots of people at the station,
lots of people playing songs, lots of people sharing stories about CKMS. Thanks to
everybody who came the studio that night and everybody who was listening from near and
far. There were sets of music from Dave, Jen, Peter, Sari, Wayne, Karen, Eric, and Derek. I also managed to sneak in a few sets including ones about the Hillside Festival, musicians who had appeared on my show, a set for Charlene, and songs dedicated to friends of the show who were far away. It was also great to have local artists from Knock, Knock, Ginger and Bocce who talked about their upcoming albums and the great race to see which one will be released first. And although we bid a fitting farewell to CKMS that night do remember that Fireball XL5 will continue in podcast form for as long as I am able. I picked up some new equipment last week and I think I am ready to go to start recording at home.
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Date: July 4, 2008
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| OK I shouldn't really do this, but I'm changing the top song from
this show after the fact. Although at the time I said it was The Leslies "Take
A Look", since that show I have really grown to love the Hello Saferide song
"The Quiz". It is so good, it describes the questions that a girl would
ask a prospective boyfriend, questions like: Is your IQ higher than your neighbour’s? And is it very much higher than mine? Can you sleep when I grind my teeth? Do you look away if I slob when I eat? Do you talk
in the middle of Seinfeld? Do you get racist or sexist when you’ve had a few? I had just picked up the new album by Mates of State which I am
liking very much and that got me thinking about bands where members are romantically
involved (no I didn't play Abba). This led to playing I am the World Trade Center,
Arcade Fire, and Immaculate Machine, unfortunately after the show I found out that Holiday
Flyer are actually a brother/sister duo. |
Date: June 20, 2008
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| Michelle joined me for this show so the talking bits are lot more interesting then
when I do the show solo. After my initial set I managed to squeeze in a set by artists who
are going to be playing in the area and a set about honey. I got the idea for the honey
set while looking for the song "Shade And Honey" by Sparklehouse and I came upon
an MP3 blog entry of songs about honey, so I stole the idea. Of course Michelle rhymed off
about 5 more songs about honey during the set but I only had time to play the ones I did. Here is Michelle's description of her sets: My first set started off with a song that was played in the final scene of the movie "Young People Fucking", a great little indie Canadian film for which the title does little justice other than publicity as it is quirky, and humorous, with absolutely no, per say, below-the-belt shots (unfortunately -- this comment added by Frank). The rest of the set included songs I find particularly "summery" including a track from The Cloud Cult who have been releasing their albums on the Earthology Record label, a not-for-profit environmental record label (which includes 100% recycled jewel cases and paper, soy based inks, and the recycling of CD cut scraps into milk cartons). I can't get enough of "I Woke Up Today", I've been listening to it for months and my ears haven't tired in the slightest. Check out a youtube video by Throw Me The Statue - most were shot on the deck of a very windy Seattle ferry ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacCAXDLz10 ). Thao Nguyen put on one of the best live shows I've seen yet this year at Sneaky Dee's back in March, a tireless guitar player she whipped her hair about like the wild Vietnamese Virginian she is. At first listen to her cd "We Brave Bee Stings And All" I wasn't sure if it was a girl or a guy singing, at least at times it sounded at lot like The Flaming Lips. The album is certainly one of my favourites so far this year. I followed my second set up with a number of British bands I've recently discovered (Life Without Buildings, Hefner, Nina Nastasia). Life Without Buildings are from Glasgow, and broke up in 2002, but that girls completely unique vocal style is mind blowing. Also, I had tickets to see Nina at The Drake the night of the radio show but sadly she cancelled. The late John Peel was a huge fan of Nina Nastasia, and he also gave enormous props to Hefner, so I have also recently looked into their back catalogue. The final song I played was my favourite single from 2007: The Cave Singers - Seeds Of Night. That song is so beautiful it makes me ache.
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Date: June 6, 2008
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| Sometimes a show just seems to go together well and this was one of
those times. A few themed sets along with some random sets and it all comes out
well. The second set focused on the bands that were playing that night in the Trepid House, a private house where small bands play in a great intimate environment. One of them were my current favourite band from Guelph "The Magic" who finally had some recorded material that I was able to buy, Torcus was also really good, but unfortunately although I liked the song by Rockenspiel that I played on the show I wasn't able to stay long enough to see them that night. I found out about the Swedish band Kuryakin from the great Swedesplease blog and while checking out the band's record label Shelflife I checked out some of their other recent releases. One of the new bands from the label were described as "modern psychedelic pop songs influenced by the heyday of '90s Madchester." So that allowed me to also play bands from those days including The Charlatans who just happened to have a CD in the new release section of the library. You can download the first three songs in the set from: www.shelflife.com . Of course I had to play a song to mark the passing of Bo Diddley, I thought the song might be a cover of the Jonathan Richman song, it wasn't, but it was still really good. TALK-Theme Acid House Kings - Say Yes If You Love Me The Shermans - Summer In Your Heart Lisa Bouvoir - Belgium Those Dancing Days - Tasty Boy First Aid Kit - Cross Oceans TALK (Trepid House Set) The Magic - Night School (C) Rockenspiel - When You Were Born (C) Torcus - I've Been Down (C) Dearly Beloved - When You Were Born (C) The Johnstones - Last Chance (C) TALK The Gruesomes - What's Your Problem? (C) Mates Of State - My Only Offer Merrymakers - Spinning My Mind Away Ms. John Soda - Go Check New Radiant Storm Kings - Scuttled TALK (Shelflife Records Set) Days - A Part Of The World Kuryakin - Peace Of Mind Ruling Class - Flowers The Charlatans - Oh! Vanity Happy Mondays - Lazyitis TALK Boomdaddy - No Stranger Now (C) **See Note 1 Ivana Santilli - Always Better (C) MG Blues - Shake The Boogie (C) Bo Diddley - Roadrunner Robert Forster - Did She Overtake You Lloyd Cole - Chelsea Hotel (C) **See Note 2 TALK A Popular History Of Signs - Justice Not Vengeance Note 1: The first time I can remember playing a song by someone actually related to me as my cousin Linda sang backup vocals on this song. Note 2: Played in honour of many people I know who were going to see Leonard Cohen in concert. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: May 23, 2008
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| On this show I had a set where I highlighted the CDs that I picked up while I was out
west in the week before the show. My first musical stop was Seattle where I saw
Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, and Anna Ternheim, the show was excellent, the venue was
excellent, you can hear my review on the podcast (although I did go to Calgary and Banff
as well there wasn't much of a musical part to that part of the trip). Also in Seattle I
visited Easy Street Records ( http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/easystreet/
), a cool fountain( http://nedkahn.com/water.html#
and look at the Encircled Stream), and a cool library ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SCL9.JPG
) . TALK-Theme |
Date: May 9, 2008
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| This was pretty much a random show with a poppy set, rockin' set,
laid back set, funky set, and even a failed set. I'll just talk about the failed set, ahh the magic of live radio. I played the song Twee by Tullycraft and then had the idea to play songs by the bands that are mentioned in the song. Of course I didn't do any pre-show planning so I was hoping to grab the songs while I was there, but nothing worked out, I couldn't find any of the music either at the station or even on the web. So instead of my usually 5 or 6 song set I only managed to find 2 of the artists mentioned in the song and I just decided to quit the set rather than struggle on. On a side note, one of the bands I
did play was the Posies who happened to be playing their 20th anniversary show when I was
in Seattle last week, I didn't go, but I saw it listed. TALK-Theme |
Date: April 25, 2008
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| My top song this week was most definitely the oldest top song I
have ever had, the reason I heard it was that I watching a documentary on the rise of
British music in the 60s and they discussed the Yardbirds who originally featured Eric
Clampton on guitar. But this particular song "For Your Love" is the song
that drove him out of the band as he considered himself a serious musician and didn't want
to do the kind of light fare that the band was doing. Of course the song fits pretty
well into the type of pop that I play on my show. Before this show I went to see a couple of music related documentaries at the HotDocs festival in Toronto, you can hear my reviews on the podcast. There was also a set of music about the CARL! festival that went on the weekend after the show at the fantastic Trepid House, a private house in Waterloo that puts on a lot of great shows. And on a sad note, I ended the show with the Frank Sinatra song "I'll be seeing you" as a tribute to Mr. Jeffery Millar who unfortunately passed away a few weeks before the show. Jeffery was a friend from Waterloo back in my IMPRINT days, he was a fantastic person who will be missed. TALK-Theme The Yardbirds - For Your Love Under the Pines - My Architechs Data Rock - I Will Always Remember You Doug Hoyer - Emma (C) Must Be Tuesday - My Boyfriend's Girlfriend (Isn't Me) (C) TALK Bellevue - I've Been Meaning To Get Thearapy (C) The Wet Secrets - Get Your Own Apartment (C) Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes The Sound Of Arrows - Danger! TALK Wesley Willis - Jello Biafra Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas The Johnnys - I'm Hot (I Get What I Want) (C) Cassius - Rock Number One TALK (Carl!! Festival Set) The Liptonians - Charlie's Back (C) Mixylodian - Free For All (C) Sunparlor Players - If The Creeks (C) Horses - 14 Years (C) Lake Of Stew - Water Bill (C) TALK Katie Stelmanis - Join Us (C) Rick White - Birds And Bees (C) Los Campesinos - Knee Deep At ATP The Heavy - Coleen Lyrics Born - Like It, I Love It Little Dragon - No Love TALK Frank Sinatra - I'll Be Seeing You (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: April 11, 2008
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| For this show I spent the first set lamenting the loss of a great podcast that after
about a year of putting out great indie-twee called it quits. The podcast was called Not
Quite Rocket Science and each show had a theme like boy/girl vocals, cover songs, and one
titled "Pa pa pa pa ra pa pa pa pas!". And if you remember back a few months,
most of the my last Christmas was stolen from them. It looks like the main website is no
longer working, but you can get see some of the shows here: http://www.last.fm/user/miss_ladybug/journal/ There was also a set based on a link that Derek sent to me (http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/2008_04_07.php) that mentioned David Barclay who was a member of show favourite The Diskettes, along with many other musical projects. As well as music that David actually made, I also got a few ideas for the set from the mp3 blog that he contributes to : http://www.popsheep.com/ I also went through a lot of my backlog of leftover songs but I was glad to get suggestions from Michelle, Milosz, and Stephen P.
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Date: March 28, 2008
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| This show seemed like it was over before it started, it just went by in flash.
Unfortunately for the people who were actually listening (or about to listen on the
podcast) I did a lot of talking, mostly about my trip to New York City the weekend before
the show. I won't go into the stories here, but if you do check out the podcast you
can hear about why we went, the flights from hell, and a first hand account of NYC's
Bowery Ballroom. The top song this week was from a very unknown artist from Winnipeg whom I saw on Muchmusic's The Wedge (yes it is still on Wayne), the song just grabbed me with its funky feel and cool vocals. TALK-Theme Voldis - Flashlight (C) The Lions - Jungle Struttin The Heavy - That Kind of Man Little Dragon - Forever Daddy Long Legs - Drives the Girls Crazy (C) TALK Los Campensinos - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats Woodhands - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (C) Bocce - Disco Juan (C) Hilotrons - Lights Off (C) The Magic - Door To Door (C) TALK (New York City Set) Vampire Weekend - Campus Saturday Looks Good To Me - Make A Plan The Crash - Reasons To Sing Sons And Daughters - Johnny Cash The Brunettes - Obligatory Road Song TALK We Are Scientists - After Hours The B-52s - Hot Corner The Teenagers - Feeling Better White Town - Taste Of A Girl These United States - First Sight TALK Girlfriendo - Make Up Fitness Forever - Bachrach Kimkio - Dogru Hawksley Workman - Piano Blank (C) Matthew Barber - I'm Gonna Settle My Accounts With You Billy Bragg - I Almost Killed You TALK Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We Call On The Author (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
Date: March 14, 2008
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| It was only during the show that I was reminded that March 14 is
also known as Pi Day (03 14). That person also hooked me up with the song by Kate
Bush. By the way, the actual title of the song by Kate Bush is the mathematical
symbol for pi, but it is difficult to get that symbol to print in these text files.
A quick search of Hype Machine found another "Pie" song by Ben Hibbard and Ted
Leo that was not only a Neil Diamond cover but also described here ( http://www.friendsoftom.com/fotpedia/index.php?title=Porcupine_Pie
) as "the worst song in the history of mankind". I started off with some artists that I hope to be seeing in a few months: all of Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, and Anna Ternheim are touring together this spring. And although I am missing the Toronto show, as it happens I will be on the west coast when they are playing Seattle so I'm going to see them there. There were also a lot of CDs in the CKMS new release section that were interesting, including the entire album from Adele that contains last week's top song. I scanned through the rest of the CD and the rest of it sounds really good as well. TALK-Theme Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone El Perro Del Mar - How Did We Forget Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone Anna Jorvinen - Gotgatan TALK Hawksley Workman - Alone Here (C) Luther Wright - Goodtime (C) Vampire Hands - Paradise Knife Fights Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Gold Son TALK (Pi set) Kate Bush - Pi Ben Hibbard and Ted Leo - Porcupine Pie Friday Bridge - Love and Nostalgia Oh No Miriam - Girls at School TALK The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson Grand Theft Bus - Don't Go Say That (C) D'Ubervilles - Hot Tips (C) The Lovely Feathers - Rod Stewart (C) TALK The Sugarettes - Ready Steady Dog Day - The Uptown Train Joe Jackson - The Uptown Train Adele - Tired TALK Under Electric Lights - Your Rainy Days (C) Russian Futurists - Sentiments and Syllables (C) Supreme Beings Of Leisure - The Light Francis and the Lights - Striking Maynard Ferguson - My Sister (C) TALK Moses Mayes - Jungle Plums Part 2 (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
Date: February 29, 2008
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| I started a new Leap Day tradition with this show as I had two
songs that I couldn't decide between for my top song of the week, so this week there are
officially two top songs of the week. Both of the these (along with the third song)
all came from the excellent Popcasting podcast ( www.geocities.com/popcastingpop ). There were also two sets of music from bands that had either just played or were about to play locally. I managed to see most of them, including a short but very fun set by Catriona Sturton, it was only afterward that I found out that she was once a member of the great Halifax indie-pop band from the the 90s called Plumtree. However, as it turns out she hadn't joined the band when the song by Plumtree was recorded. And can I tell you how much I am lovin' the way that I can now play songs live off the internet using the Wi-Fi capabilities at CKMS. For example on my European Capitals (well almost) set I remembered during the show that I have been meaning to play a song by Jens Lekman that I found on a blog once. I managed to find it again thanks to technorati and play it on the show. I ended with the only "Leap" song I could think of: a live (and updated) version of his song "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward". TALK-Theme Kings Have Long Arms F. - Big Umbrella Adele - Chasing Pavement The Duke Spririt - The Step and the Walk The Higher Elevations - Breaking The News The Heavenly States - Lost In The Light TALK (Owen's Birthday Party) Burning Hell - Grave Situation Part 1 (C) Wax Mannequin - The Price (C) Catriona Sturton - Digger (C) Plum Tree - Sodium Chloride (C) TALK (Playing Waterloo this week) D'Ubervilles - This Is The Life (C) Superfantastics - Lullaby Punches (C) Laura Barrett - Deception Island Optimists Club (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - Its Not Working (C) Immaculate Machine - Secret Affliction (C) TALK (European Capitals Set - sort of) The Arcade Fire - All The Umbrellas In London The Last Party - Come Back To Stockholm Billie the Unison and the Dancers - A Beautiful Night In Oslo The Blue Seeds - Barcelona (C) Jens Lekman and The Silver Ages - Paris TALK Pinto - Iron and Rust Indurain - The Moment Le Futur Pompists - It's Not You My Darling You! - We Break Up On Friday TALK Miss T-Bones - Voodoo Doll Strip Squad - Damn You Foals - Balloon Santa Maria - Dogs Paper - To Her Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma TALK Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward (live at Barbicon)
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Date: February 15, 2008
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TALK-Theme Hercules & Love Affair (f. Antony Hegarty) - Blind Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing One Self - Cupid Smiling The Smile Chris Joss - I Want Freedom New Order - Guilt Is A Useless Emotion TALK Tindersticks - Don't Ever Get Tired *TWSS* The National - Fake Empire Emma Hasselband - Fall Velcro Stars - Brand New Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do? TALK Firefly - Made Me Glad (C) *TWSS* The Doers - No Right Now (C) *TWSS* Henry Faberge & The Adorables - Out Of Your League (C) *TWSS* The Bicycles - Sure Was Great (C) *TWSS* Acid House Kings - That's Because You Drive Me *TWSS* TALK Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (C) Kate Nash - We Get On Saturday Looks Good To Me - Hands In The Snow Celestial - Dream On TALK The Tom Fun Orchestra - When You Were Mine (C) The Superfantastics - Turn On Me (C) *TWSS* The Honeydrips - I Wouldn't Know What To Do *TWSS* The Roadside Poppies - Just Another Love Song TALK Pants Yell! - Tried To Be Good Le Futur Pompists - The Air That Surrounds US Lightspeed Champion - Dry Lips TALK MGMT - Kids *TWSS* - Songs that go well followed by "That's What She Said (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: February 1, 2008
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As I never pass up a chance to play bands from the great label Labrador Records, I couldn't resist playing a set of music by bands from the label when I heard the song "I heart Labrador Records" by the band Jam on Toast. All the bands I played in the set are mentioned in the song which contains the great line "All Swedish kids are born with little indie pop hands". I have to admit that the reason I first listened to the band Parker Lewis (my top song of the show) was because I was a big fan of the TV show Paker Lewis Can't Lose ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Lewis ), although looking at some clips on youtube I don't know if the show stands the test of time. And although the song by Parker Lewis was the top song I had heard in the two before the show, the best new song during the show was by "Foundations" by Kate Nash, do yourself a favour and check it out. I also want to mention that the band The Summerlad that started out the third set are from Calgary and one of the members is the brother of setlist member Iain G. The song has also been on the CBC Radio 3 Top 30 for the past few weeks. TALK-Theme Parker Lewis - Dirty Dancing The Royal We - All The Rage Postal Blue - The World Doesn't Need You Tellus About The Moon - Wwwm Springfactory - No More TALK (Female Indie Pop) Au Revoir Simone - Fallen Snow The Icicles - Snowbird B'Ehl - Hey! I've Got A New Friend (C) Sakert - Allt Som Ar Ditt TALK The Summerlad - City Of Noise (C) The Dick Ends - Living The Good Life (C) Echo Beach Surf Club - Same Side (C) Scratching Post - Don't Sweat It (C) The Evaporators - Suharto Stomp (C) TALK Milk Bag Brother - Swim Naked (C) Stephen Trothen - Shoe Song (C) Kate Nash - Foundations Belle and Sebastian - Expectations TALK (Dance set) Chris Joss - Luna Rides Back Roisin Murphy - Movie Star Velella Lelella - Alex Boom Selector Muscles - Hey Muscles I Love You TALK (Labrador Records Set) Jam on Bread - I Heart Labrador Records Irene - Seaside Pelle Carlberg - I Touched You At Sound Check Acid House Kings - I Write Summer Songs For A Reason Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Marry Me TALK Magnetic Fields - Please Stop Dancing First Fall - Bonnie and Clyde TALK White Williams - New Violence (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: January 18, 2008
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There was a set of music that was bookended by a couple of bands that were playing The Gig Theatre that night and now that CKMS has wireless internet I was able to play songs directly from the Myspace pages of the local bands, that was pretty cool. There was a set of music inspired by the band "Au Revoir Simone" whom I saw the week before this show in Toronto (Do you know where that name came from? Answer is after the setlist). I started this set with a cover they did for their encore by David Bowie, with the average age of the audience I'm sure that only about 3 people there recognized the song. Luckily, I was standing beside one of them (Derek). After playing Au Revoir Simone the rest of the set was just kind of low-fi stuff that reminded me of the show. There was a set of music inspired by the movie Juno mostly stolen from this website: http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/01/07/songs-for-juno/ There was a set of music inspired by the Best of 2007 lists that I got from everybody, Thanks to Mary, Derek, and Michael T. TALK-Theme The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk To Dream Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days Plastic Operator - Folder Second Hand Furniture - Nice Try, Sunshine Sakert - Vikommer Att Posamtigt TALK (The Gig inspired set) Spy Machine 16 - Disappointed Tourist (C) The Assistants - Fiction (C) Gaye Rage - Nothin' (C) Pet Politics - Taken Away By Aliens Battlecreek - The Lion's Tale (C) TALK (Au Revoir Simone inspired set) David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song Remote Kid - Casual Day At The Carnegie Endowment (C) The Little Penguins - Say It Once The Consonant C - Distance (C) TALK (Juno inspired set) The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You Adam Green - Jessica The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (C) The Replacements - Bastards Of Young TALK (Other people's best of 2007 inspired set) Flight of the Chonchords - The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room Page France - Here's A Telephone Feist - I Feel It All LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great TALK Blood Music - Eagles In The Water Lolligags - Wired Up Stars - Bitches In Tokyo (C) Echo Beach Surf Club - Turf Dream (C) TALK The Go! Team - Keys To The City (C) Denotes Canadian Content The name Au Revoir Simone comes from the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRP42OS5mjo Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: January 4, 2008
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| I was actually giddy with excitement as I was putting together the music for this
show, I was excited about being able to play a selection of the great songs that I played
over the year. The first part of the show featured my favourite singles of 2007 and the
final 10 songs were from my top albums. You can see all of my picks here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/best_of_2007.htm I did my best to indicate on the setlist where I first heard about each song. TALK-Theme Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance **KEXP** Tim Armstrong - Into Action **KEXP** The Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean Your Moving On **KEXP** Sweet Homewreckers - Wild America (C) **The Wedge** Major Maker - Rollercoaster (C) **Maynard's commercial** TALK Dance Hall Free For All - Something Collective (C) **Hillside** Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know **Popcasting** The Flight Of The Chonchords - Business Time **Wayne** Small Sins - We Will Beak Our Own Hearts (C) **CKMS** TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit **Swedesplease** Juni Jarvi - If We Just Want To **Swedesplease** Young Galaxy - Outside The City (C) **The Wedge** Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down **Popcasting** TALK The Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts (C) **CKMS** The Superfantastics - Oh! How You Used To Know Me Well (Back Then) (C) **Halifax** The Doers - We're Open (C) **CKMS** Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said **Bury Me Not** Amida - Class of 2000 **Poppolar** Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It **KEXP** California Snow Story - Suddenly Everything Happens **Poppolar** TALK Los Campensinos - You Throw Parties, We Throw Knives **KEXP** Immaculate Machine - Jarhand (C) **CBC** Little Name - For The Attention Of **Indie Pop Radio** TALK Annemarie - The Living Model **Popcasting** Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile **Swedesplease** TALK Lucky Soul - Get Outta Town **Poppolar** The Icicles - Snowbird **Motorola commercial** TALK Irene - Always On My Mind **Poppolar** TALK I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona **Globe and Mail** TALK Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar **Me** KEXP - KEXP song of the day ( www.kexp.org ) Swedesplease - www.swedesplease.net Bury Me Not - www.burymenot.com Poppolar - www.poppolar.com Indie Pop Radio - www.indiepopradio.co.uk The Wedge - www.muchmusic.com/tv/thewedge/ (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: December 21, 2007
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| I played a few new Christmas songs and a few old Fireball XL5 standards, but when all
is said and done the best holiday song is still Elisa Gabbai's Winter In Kanada. Not
much else to say about the show, but I just wanted to mention that most of the new songs I
played I stole from this podcast: |
Date: December 7, 2007
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| I got through a lot of great music this show that I had stored up the weeks and months
before. I also did two sets highlighting a great record label with a great name:
Happy Happy Birthday to Me. I came upon them reading a blog that described bands as
having that "HHBTM" sound, I like the band so I did some research and found out
what HHBTM stood for and found the record label's website. Most of the bands have
the Indie-Twee sound that I'm into so it was a fortuitous find. You can find out more about the label and listen to many of bands here: http://www.hhbtm.com Just one other note that the song my Murray Dear sounded to me so much like the Magnetic Fields that I had to play them immediately after. In other Magnetic Fields news their new album is due out in January something that I'm very much looking forward to hearing. TALK-Theme Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining The Sadies - Higher Power (C) Bughouse 5 - Ten Lost Years (C) Hot Kid - Ties That Bind (C) Andrew Vincent and the Pirates - Martha (C) TALK The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight (C) The Evaporators - Grassy Jack (C) Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations The Purrs - She's Got Chemicals TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Is Trying To Outfox Us All TALK Murray Dear - Deserter The Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend Tellus About The Moon - Hate Postal Blue - Weather Sensitive The Assistants - Stop Dead (C) TALK (HHBTM Set 1) Keith John Adams - Never Look Down Patience Please - I'll Have What She's Having The Smittens - Stop The Bombs Casper and the Cookies - Eux Autres TALK (HHBTM Set 1) James Ausfahrt - Lucy Ferocious Slumber Party - Sooner Or Later Spring Factory - Get Out Of Bed The Dreamers - A Place I Know TALK Lykke Li - Little Bit B'Ehl - Jammers Like Me (C) Paint By Numbers - Deep In The Snow The Lovely Feathers - The Only Appalachian Cornfield (C) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - I Never Thought I Could Feel That Way For A Boy TALK DJ Champion - No Heaven (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: November 23, 2007
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| My top song this week was by a band from Florida called the
"Black Kids" and their great tune called "I'm Not Going To Teach Your
Boyfriend To Dance". As opposed to the Shout Out Louds songs (see the August 17 setlist) that sounded like it was a cover of a song
by The Cure that I had not heard about before, this song sounds like a song the The Cure
might write in the future. By the way it came from a great podcast that highly recommend, it is the KEXP song of the day ( http://kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp ) every weekday you get a new song, it is hit and miss but when I love a song I really love it like this one. Yes, I promise this was the last time I will do a direct comparison between Jens Lekman and Jonathan Richman, but if you listen to the two songs the "Bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum-ba-bum" part is identical. I'm not alone in thinking this as I managed to find 2 other references to this similarity: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviewcomment.php?ID=3596 http://users.livejournal.com/_shmoo/ Congratulations to Dave and Michael who won the tickets to "Control", the movie about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. TALK-Theme Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance All Girl Summer Fun Band - Girl #3 Postal Blue - Puzzle Edson - Sunday, Lovely Sunday TALK Masonic - Way Gone By **See Note 1 Neverending White Lights - Always (C) Shock Hop Arousal - Rhythm Thief (C) The Hives - Won't Be Long TALK Joy Division - Ice Age **Suggested by Dave F. Joy Division - Decades **Suggested by Michael T. New Order - Waiting For The Siren's Call Small Sins - It Keeps Me On My Toes (C) TALK Hidden Cameras - Smells Like Happiness (C) Ostrich - Ice Cold Killers TIAC - Catalogue of Failures The Evaporators - Do The Eggbeater (C) TALK Jonathan Richman - Walter Johnson Jens Lekman - Sweet Summers Night on Hammer Hill Jens Lekman - You Can Call Me Al The Pipettes - Judy TALK The Brunettes - If You Were Alien Basia Bulat - Before I Knew Chicklet - Whitewashed Lykke Li - Tonight **See Note 2 Belle and Sebastian - A Century of Fakers **Thanks to Karen TALK The Golden Dogs - 1985 Note 1: I got this song from Derek's Bury Me Not MP3 Blog - www.burymenot.com Note 2: She is supposed to be the next Robyn. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: November 9, 2007
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| I was lucky enough to have a guest on this week's show in the form
of Bruce who came all the way from Saskatoon just to be there (well actually he might have
had a meeting in town or something like that as well). As a result of having a guest
you might notice from the length of the setlist that we talked a lot and didn't play
nearly as many songs as a usual week. For the first time in a while I played a funky/jazzy/dancy kind of set, I know it has been a while as some of the songs came from the CDs I made a few months ago. The rest of the show was a mish-mash of whatever Bruce and I felt like playing, but overall we mixed up picking out most of the music so I didn't note who picked what on the list. One thing we didn't really talk much about till nearly the end of my show was recent trip to Chicago, but I did manage to get in my two stories that came from riding on the Chicago subway (you will have to listen to podcast to find out more). But I didn't have the time to properly talk about the main reason that I went to Chicago was to see Jens Lekman, so I'll try and do a better recap on the next show. TALK-Theme The Sonics - Stychnine Immaculate Machine - Broken Ship (C) Chuck Prophet - Doubter of Jesus (All Over You) The Fiery Furnaces - The Old Hag Is Sleeping The Voom Booms - Nine Ships TALK (funky/jazzy/dancy set 1) Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema The Trinidad Steel Band - Sissy Strut Ruby And The Romantics - Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore Time Box - Beggin' Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know **See Note 1 TALK (funky/jazzy/dancy set 2) Gorillaz - Rock The House Buck 65 - Dang (C) David Bowie with The Pet Shop Boys - Hallo Spaceboy Small Sins - I Need A Friend (C) Thievery Corporation - Vivid TALK Eugene Ripper - Banks Of Newfoundland (C) **See Notes 2 and 3 Dog Day - Oh Dead Life (C) Neverending White Lights - The World Is Darker (C) The Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty Room (C) Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar TALK Feist - I Feel It All (C) Note 1: Out of all the songs I played this week this is the one I have listened to the most since the show. Note 2: The last time Bruce and I had seen each other was at a conference in St. John's, Newfoundland at a conference, thus this song seemed appropriate. Note 3: Another note about this song was that it came from a CD that was sent to me by Eugene Ripper. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: October 26, 2007
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| Once again I had to make a comparison between Jens Lekman and
Jonathan Richman (and I know I promised that this would be the last time during the show
but I might have to do it just one more time). In both of these songs they narrate a
little story about their past that goes along with the song, they even have some of the
same articulation. In the case of Lekman, this version of the song is 7 minutes long
from the digital-only EP that was released before the album and it gives a lot more
background on the story than the 4 minute version that is on the CD. Not much else to say about the rest of the show: a set about upcoming shows, a party rock set, and a few random sets of great songs. A few notes about a few of the songs are shown below. TALK-Theme The Brunettes - Baby Strawberry Whiplash - Falling Through Heavenly - Three Star Component The San Marinos - Guess How Much I Love You TALK (Upcoming show set) Bella - None Will Ever Know (C) Knock, Knock Ginger - Syllables (C) Square Root of Margaret - Time Bomb (C) The Pipettes - Dance & Boogie **See Note 1 TALK (very Twee) Jens Lekman - Postcard For Nina Jonathan Richman - Monologue About Bermuda Oh! Sweet Music - Four Long Years Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs TALK (party rock) Shout Out Out Out Out - Chicken Soup For The F*** You (C) **See Note 2 The Russian Futurists - These Seven Notes (C) Bocce - Again Again Again Again (C) The Go! Team - Doing It Right TALK Tokyo Police Squad - Box (C) The Sequins - Lost Art Of Friendship Chuck Prophet - Doubter Out Of Jesus Simply Saucer - Bullet Proof Nothing (C) Small Sins - On The Line (C) TALK Juni Jarvi - Asleep Note 1: I don't like that the Pipettes put a couple of extra songs on the US release of album after I bought the import version last year. Note 2: Saw them at the Starlight the night before the show, crazy crowd, great show. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: October 12, 2007
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| I've been listening to the first set of this show over and over
again, it was just a really, really good set. Anchored by the incredible new release by Swedish pop sensation Jens Lekman (he actually did have the number 1 album in Sweden for a week). The album is called "Night Falls Over Kortedala" and it reminds me a lot of the great songs that Jonathan Richman was recording in his prime, so of course I had to play Richman in the set. Interestingly, Lekman's sound is not for everybody and I can see how he might not be eveybody's cup of tea, but for those who are into him they are usually really into him and so you should give him a shot as he might just become one of your favourite artists. The second set ended with Shout Out Out Out Out. Interesting fact I found out about the band while I was listening to a session they did on CBC radio was that their lead singer is the son of a guy who used to be in band called Wilfrid N and the Grown Men. I might be wrong on this but I think that I used to listen the them back in the day. In this case "the day" was back in the late 1980s when I used to listen to a bunch of "garage" bands and I think they were one of them. Not only was it kind of cool that he was able to cover a song by his dad it also gave me a great idea for set of music by garage bands (with the added bonus of making me feel old). Many of the songs I played are available as free downloads from the London music archive provided by CHRW, the UWO campus radio station where I used to be a DJ. Many of the songs from the set I played were from cassette compilations that came as part of homemade music "zine" called What Wave. You can see the archive that contains the What Wave compilations here: http://chrwradio.com/lma/LMA1990.htm TALK-Theme Jens Lekman - Friday Night At The Drive-in Bingo Jonathan Richman - Our Swingin' Pad Juni Jarvi - If We Just Want To Irene - End Of The Line Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said TALK Small Sins - Drunk e-mails (C) Stars - Midnight Coward (C) The Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice You Say Party! We Say Die! - What's The Hold Up? Where's The Fire? (C) Shout Out Out Out Out - For Ever Indebted (C) TALK Wilfrid N And The Grown Men - Sad New Day (C) Misc S - Real World (C) Colour Me Psycho - October God (C) The Gruesomes - You're Not The Boss Of Me (C) The Empty Hours - Same Time, Same Place (C) TALK Those Dancing Days - Hitten **See Note 1 Novillero - Lost Possibilities (C) Stuffy And The Fuses - Joe C (is an idiot) Sun Parlour Players - The Detroit River Is Alive (C) The Zoobombs - Highway A Go-Go **See Note 2 TALK Sunny Intervals - Sixty Seconds To Fall In Love Everyday Sensations - Things We Never Had Little Name - Picked Out The Line Amida - Virtue Was Your Downfall The Saturday People - Man Without Qualities Pipas - Sorry Love The Doers - Just Saying (C) TALK Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver **See Note 3 Note 1: I really got excited when I first heard about this all girl band from Sweden Note 2: I saw the Zoobombs at the Starlight the week before the show Note 3: There was a description of the recent UN humanitarian envoy to Mynamar (formerly Burma) as a "Mission from Burma", so of course I had to play this song (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: September 28, 2007
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| As a carry over from the last show, there were still lots of new
releases at the station that I played for this show. I also got in a set of new CDs that
came in the mail from www.poppolar.com , the best
place to get Indie pop in Canada. Erico had the new album by Irene on his website a week
after it was released in Sweden. And I had to wait some 30 odd years, but I finally got to play the Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet song "5 American, 6 Canadian" and say "They will have to rename the song 5 American, 5 Canadian". However, it was difficult to plan it out so that my show would come on the first day since 1976 that the Canadian dollar finished the day worth more than the American one, but it was worth it for the joke in the end. TALK-Theme Murder Mystery - Love Astronaut Theoretical Girl - It's All Too Much Taken By Trees - Julia **See Note 1 All Girl Summer Fun Band - Grass Skirt TALK Stars - The Ghost Of Genova Heights (c) Square Root Of Margaret - Things People Do (c) Pender - Laundry In London (c) Hot Little Rocket - Like Killers (C) TALK (poppolar set) Irene - Last Forever The Saturday People - Conditonal Tense (Now It's Gone) California Snow Story - Brook Line The Go! Team - The Wrath Of Marcie TALK Junior Senior - Like Music Galactic - Bounc Baby Russian Futurists - Why You Gotta Do That Thing? (c) DD/MM/YYYY - Twin Star (c) TALK Little Name - I Always See The Sunrise Honey Bunch - Mine Your Own Business Emma Pollock - Paper and Glue Rocketship - Your New Boyfriend TALK Bella - Give It A Night (c) Sylvie - Rise And Fall (c) Neighbourhood Noise - Another Face In The Crowd (c) The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight (c) Arthur and Lu - The Ghost Of Old Bull Lee TALK Shadowy Men From A Shadowy Planet - 5 American 6 Canadian (c) Tin Bangs - The Skinny (c) Note 1: This is the newest project from Victoria Bergsman, the former lead singer of the Concretes, but of course most people know her when she joined Peter, Bjorn, and John for the song "Young Folks" (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: September 14, 2007
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| I didn't have an overall theme for this show, but between the
leftover songs from past shows and the loads of new releases there was lots to play during
the show. Notable new albums in the new release section were from: Junior, Senoir, The Go!
Team, Stars, and The Weakerthans. Not in the new release section, but I had a pre-release
MP3 from one of my favourite bands from last year, the Swedish band Irene. My top song of week was dedicated to my friend Wayne who can't stop talking about the New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. It is a very funny song and you should also check out the video on Youtube. I ended the show with a song from the movie Once, a very good movie about a couple that meets on the streets of Ireland and starts to create music together. As it turns out I saw the movie with Wayne the week before the show and although the music isn't usually my thing, some of the songs really stuck in my mind. TALK-Theme Flight of the Conchords - Business Time Galactic - Got It (What You Need) Junior, Senior - Hip Hop A Lulu The Go! Team - Titanic Vandalism TALK The Chemical Brothers - Battle Scars Simian Mobile Disco - Love DD/MM/YYYY - Subjects (C) DD/MM/YYYY - Fort Drippy (C) Orchester Frank Pleuer - Sunday Love Affair TALK Stars - My Favourite Book (C) Square Root Of Margaret - Memories Of Things To Come (C) The Weakerthans - Tournament Of Hearts (C) Wax Mannequin - You And All Of Our Friends (C) TALK The Sadies - The Trail (C) Farewell - Start It Up Running With The Kittens - You're My Dog Thee Tall Dwarfs - Nothings Gonna Happen TALK Irene - By Your Side S'ambassadeur - Subtle Changes Elias And The Wizards - The Dance Henry Faberge And The Adorables - Crawl Back (C) TALK The Field Mice - Emma's House Jonna Lee - Dried Out Eyes New Buffalo - Cheer Me Up Thank You Airliner - Everything That's You TALK Peace In Our Time - Some Nice And Decent Thoughts Loney, Dear - The City, The Airport TALK Glen Hansard - Falling (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: August 31, 2007
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| Another week, another guest on the show, this time it was Milosz
from the band Knock, Knock, Ginger who came on without his band so we could talk about
music. It was also good that Milosz brought his music enabled phone as one of the CD
players at the station was broken so it was difficult for me to play consecutive
MP3s. His influence can be seen in the second half of the show where we pretty much
swapped songs and we also had some good conversations including an interesting one about
the importance of editing in music. Milosz supplied me with my top song of the week, The Ladybug Transistor song "Like A Summer Rain" which to me sounded a lot like the Magnetic Fields so I had to play them right after. As it happens, in the two weeks before the show I was made aware of a Tullycraft song from two different people, strange as the song is a couple of years old. The name of the song is "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About" and in it he mentions other bands that he likes to listen to, so the rest of the set contains some of those bands. I ended with a song from the movie "24 Hour Party People" which is a movie about the Manchester music scene and in particular about Tony Wilson the found of Factory Records (Factory Records released such legendary Manchester bands Joy Division, New Order, and the Happy Mondays). The reason I played the song was that Tony Wilson passed away a few weeks before the show, and here is an interesting tidbit from his Wikipedia entry (of course this means it might not be true): As with everything else in the Factory empire, Tony Wilson's coffin was also given a Factory catalogue number - FAC 501. This will be the last Factory catalogue number. TALK-Theme The Ladybug Transistor - Like A Summer Rain The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams Page France - The Ruby Ring Man Bellevue - Carry On (C) Griffin and the True Believers - Tivoli (C) All Girl Summer Fun Band - Later Operator TALK (Funky set) Calvin Harris - Merry Making At My Place The Grey Boy Allstars - Still Waiting Champion - The Plow (C) Azure Ray - New Resolution Wild Magnolias - Somebody's Got (Soul Soul Soul) TALK The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache Belle and Sebastian - For The Price Of A Cup Of Tea Crowded House - Even A Child Acid House Kings - Say Yes If You Want Me Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof (Live at KEXP) **See Note 1 TALK (Tullycraft set) Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About The Pastels - Mandarin Alan Clap and His Orchestra - Something Strange Happens Cub - New York City (C) Heavenly - Hearts and Crosses TALK Stars - Take Me To The Riot (C) Miracle Fortress - Maybe Lately (C) Ohbijou - The Woods (C) The Beautiful South - You Keep It All In TALK Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People Note 1: Saw them at Sneeky Dees in Toronto the week before the show. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: August 17, 2007
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| I was very excited before this show as for the first time in a
while I was going to have a band come and visit me. I first had the idea when I saw
that the Stolen Minks were playing Waterloo the same night as my show, so I e-mailed them
and they agreed to come to CKMS before their gig. Unfortunately on the day of the
show, they called a little after 6 saying they were just leaving London and didn't know if
they would make it to the station time and suggested perhaps making it a phone
interview. That's why I might seem a little frazzled in the first half of the show
as I was running around looking at the logistics of doing a phone interview. Luckily, they managed to make it to the station around 7:15 pm and drop of
two members of the band, Erica and Tiina (yes that is how she spells it) who came
on the show for a couple of great interview segments. They talked about touring
across Canada in a van, their albums, day jobs, and there was even a reference to Henry
Rollins. It was a lot of fun and they put on a great show that night that I had the
pleasure of witnessing. Note 3: I played this song as it was from the first CD I every
purchased, a blues compilation that I picked up the same day as I bought my first CD
player in 1989 in Edmonton. |
Date: August 3, 2007
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| This was the first show since the Hillside Festival so I played a
couple of the bands that made an impression on me during the festival. My biggest
surprise was a band that was probably the youngest band to play the festival as they were
the winner of the Guelph high school band contest. They are called "Dance Hall
Free For All" (just say that out loud a couple of times, it makes you feel good) and
have a great funky sound that really impressed me. Other highlights of the festival
were Mother Mother, Immaculate Machine, Two Hours Traffic, and in their first North
American show Los Campensions. I won't go into detail as you can read my full review
here: http://www.stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=86678.0
(near the bottom of the page as Steve Zodiac of course). The rest of the show was a mix between a slow set, a funky set, and a set of a few leftovers from the last couple of shows. The funky set started with a song going out to Mary who likes the Red Hot Chili Peppers cover the Sly and the Family Stone song "If You Want Me To Stay". If you remember I saw Sly in concert during my recent trip to Italy and he was actually on stage during this song. I ended with The Zombies "Time of the Season" because The Immaculate Machines covered it as their last song when I went to see them at the Jane Bond the week before the show. Then I was watching a documentary on the 60s a few days later and sure enough I heard the songs once again. TALK-Theme |
Date: July 20, 2007
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| If I sound a bit tired during this show, it is because I woke up
that morning in Rome, got on a plane to Toronto, got back to Waterloo, had half an hour at
home, and then had to get on my bike for the radio show. So when the show ended it
was the equivalent of 2 am for me. I didn't pick up any CDs during my recent trip to Italy and Poland however I did see a very unique show as the conference I was attending was happening in the same city as Umbria Jazz festival. It turns out this is a pretty major jazz festival in Europe and it made certain aspects of the conference pretty cool in that there was live jazz music on one of the free stages from noon to midnight. On the bad side it made finding a place to stay difficult, I ended up finding a place way out of town that required a bus ride and then calling the B&B owner to pick me up. The last
day I was there, I noticed that both Solomon Burke and Sly and the Family Stone were
playing as part of the jazz festival so I had to get a ticket (even though it meant
getting back to my B&B at 12:30 am and having to wake up the owner). Nothing like a couple of Hillside preview sets to boost up that
Canadian Content. For those who don't know, Hillside is an annual festival in Guelph
that features great music, great food, and just a great vibe. For this show I
previewed some of the bands that were playing Hillside and next week I'll have my Hillside
review TALK-Theme Note 1: Venice was referred to as the "Most Serene
Republic" |
Date: July 6, 2007
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| Another week another show. Between the Denver set (where I
purchased the latest Calvin Johnson album) and the set of music highlighting his recent
shows, there was a definite Calvin Johnson bent to a lot of the show. After seeing
him at the Music Gallery last Saturday with Julie Doiron I found out that he was playing a
backyard show in Guelph on Wednesday. I liked him so much the first time I had to
see him the second time. It is a good time for the new release section at CKMS with lots of good stuff to play including a couple of surprises such as Code Pie and the Immaculate Machines. There was also a new album by Carolyn Mark, there used to be a time when I would have been very excited by this, but I don't know if I have been all that excited by her recent stuff. However, she and Geoff Berrner are playing the Jane Bond in September and I'll probably go and see them. The second last set had a mish-mash of ideas: - the Rubinoos song (thanks Dan) that is the centre of the controversy with Avril Lavigne (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/308830/avril_lavigne_sued_over_girlfriend.html ) - the original of the song that was my top song last week - and a small feature on a recent great commercial song for
Maynard's candy, the one with the girl in the red polka dot dress walking along a street
and then splits into different versions of herself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7pGMfVNVg
) After much research I think I am correct that the band is a Canadian band called
Major Maker and the song was written for the commercial and there are no plans to create a
full version of the song. However, one of the members of Major Maker is Lindy, so
perhaps I will one day be able to ask him as he plays the Jane Bond every once in a while.
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Date: June 29, 2007
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| This was my first show in over a month so of course I had lots of
music to play and not enough time. As such, it wasn't just a top song to start the
show but more of a top set as any song in the first set could have been the top song of
the week. If you are an Amy Whinehouse fan do yourself and favour and check out the
first song, Amy Whinehouse covering the song "Valerie" originally by the Zutons,
hear it once and it will be in your head all day. I was out east at the beginning of June, and as this was the first show since then, I finally got to play all of the music that I collected out there. Only two of the artists were actually from Eastern Canada, the rest I just happened to buy out there. I was very surprised to see the "I'm From Barcelona" CD in a used record store in Halifax (well actually Michelle found it) also surprising is how much I like the songs on the album that I had not already heard. The Smokey Robinson CD was a from a bargin bin in Wolfville just to have something to listen to in the car, and I'm surprised with how many of the songs I recognize and enjoy. My usual routine is to play 5 songs in each set (maybe something to
do with my engineering mind always wanting order in the world) but for this show the sets
just worked out better having 6 songs. There was also a weird coincidence in that
there was a streak of about 10 songs between Brideshead and The Stolen Minks of songs that
featured female lead singers.
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Date: May 25, 2007
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| I had three songs that were neck and neck for my top song this
week, in the end "Summer 2005" by Seymore Saves The World was the one that
won by a nose. I first heard it on CHRW, the campus radio station in London, which
by the way this was the station that gave me my start in radio during high school so many
years ago. The second contender was a song by Pelle Carlberg that has the best (and
longest) title of any song I know: Clever Girls Like Cleverer Boys Much More than Clever
Boys Like Cleverer Girls. Unfortunately I was away when he played Toronto recently,
but I heard it was a great show. The third song was a cover of a Kaiser Chiefs song
done by Mark Ronson featuring Lilly Allen, but I'll say more about him on the next show. During my previous show, I ran out off time before playing another set of "strange" music so I finally got to it this show. The reason for the set was that I found an off-beat song by Robert Forster (formerly of the Go-Betweens) on a children's album and I needed somewhere to play it. The album looks cool, it is called "Songs for the Young at Heart" and also has songs from Bonnie Prince Billy, Jarvis Cocker, and Stuart Murdoch. The set ended with a great cover of "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" by Kids on TV. A few days before this show, I went to see the Joel Plaskett Emergency and Peter Elkas at the Starlight, it was a great show albeit very uncomfortable with the hot temperature that day and the sold out energetic audience. I followed their songs with a set of music of bands from the Maritimes. This was timely as right after the show I went to both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia for a couple of conferences. This was also the reason that I ended the show with Rawlins Cross, the only band from St. John's that I know. TALK - Theme Seymore Saves The World - Summer 2005 Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Cleverer Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Cleverer Girls Mark Ronson (Featuring Lily Allen) - Oh My God The Bird and the Bee - Again and Again Young Galaxy - Calendar Girl (C) TALK Joel Plaskett Emergency - True Patriot Love (C) Joel Plaskett Emergency - Snowed In/Crusin' (C) Eric's Trip - Girlfriend (C) Jale - Nine Years Now (C) Plumtree - I'm Not Moving (C) TALK Peter Elkas - Party Of One (C) The Earaches - Not The Kinda Man I Am Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Unwanted Things Lonnie James - Piano In The Sand (C) Los Campsinos! - You! Me! Dancing! ** See Note 1 TALK Robert Forster - Uncle Sigmund's Clockwork Story Sage Francis - Broccilude Eleni Mandell - Girls Kids On TV - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off TALK Don Lennon - My Resume Pistepirkko - I Know The Album Leaf - Always For You Electrelane - At Sea The Bravery - Bad Sun (C) The Faintest Ideas - You're Beautiful The Sea and Cake - Lightning TALK Rawlins Cross - Open Road (C) Note 1: I swear that during the past week I've heard this song a couple of times a day on CKMS. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: May 11, 2007
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| My favourite album for the year so far is one that came as a direct
result of the show I did a few weeks back on commercial music, when I got reacquainted
with The Icicles and ordered their new album called "Arrivals and Departures". I
also went to see them in concert the week before the show and keeping with the title of
their album, the women in the band dressed like stewardesses and the male member was a
pilot, they also covered the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane". Needless to say I
loved it. Thanks to everybody who sent in suggestions for the
"Arrivals and Departures" set, even if for some of them I only sort of got the
request correct. Doing research for the set I found out that there are tons of
covers of "Getting on Jet Plane", in fact even the most famous version by Peter,
Paul, and Mary is a cover of the original by Bob Denver. I ended up playing a
version by Lisa Loeb. |
Date: April 27, 2007
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| No overall theme to this show, just a lot of random ideas strung
together: - I had to play the band "Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin" after Boris Yeltsin passed away last week. I also played The Russian Futurists for the same reason. - The Stephin Merrit songs comes from a release called "Plague Songs" that has "10 Songs - 10 Plagues - 10 Artists". - When I found a song called "Sideways" by American band Let's Go Sailing I had to play the song by Men Without Hats with the same name (but it wasn't a cover song like I had hoped). - Both Peter Elkas and Joel Plaskett are playing the Starlight on May 24th. - Memphis is one of the bands playing this year's Hillside Festival, more on this later TALK - Theme The Sweet Homewreckers - Wild America (C) The Salteens - Time You Have Been Wasting (C) The Yokocasinos - Loose Cannon Hera - Don't Play This Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl TALK Skeeter Davis - Let Me Get Close To You Francoise Hardy - On Dit De Lui Lucky Soul - One Kiss Don't Make A Summer Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man Stephin Merrit - The Meaning of Lice TALK The Russian Futurists - The Science Of The Seasons (C) LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great B. Fleischman - Le Desir Wally Jericho - Kuryakin (C) TALK Ladybug Transistor - Her Words Hang In The Air Leopold - Work You/Me - To Live Morning Bride - Time Delay Thomas Dybdahl - A Love Story TALK Let's Go Sailing - Sideways Men Without Hats - Sideways (C) Lapko - All The Best Girls Peter Elkas - Fall Apart Again (C) Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nothing More To Say (C) TALK The Sea and Cake - Too Strong Sondre Lerche - Airport Taxi Reception Elbow Beach Surf Club - Our Hood (C) The Icicles - Crazy TALK Memphis - A Little Place In The Wilderness (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: April 13, 2007
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| It seemed like I did a lot of talking this show, but I was happy
with how it went, as I think I had pretty interesting things to say. Thanks for the
suggestions on the commercial music set and as always the site www.adtunes.com was an invaluable resource. I have
tried to put in links to web versions of the commercials the best one is for Axe that uses
the Israel Kamamawin'ole version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". IZ as he
was known, was a very large Hawaiian man who looked very strange playing this tiny
ukulele, unfortunately he passed away in 1997 of health related problems. Another band that I was happy to find out about doing research for the set was the song "Suger Sweet" by the Icicles, not only is it a great song but I also realized that I have played them before doing their song "Snowman". I have now ordered both of their CDs, going to prove that getting a song played on a commercial can pay dividends. After the show I couldn't get the song "Do the Freddie" out of my head, it was a novelty song back in the 60s by a British band called "Freddie and the Dreamers". It reportedly did start a bit of dance craze, but the Wikipedia description of the dance itself seems pretty boring "stand in place, then in rhythm with the music first extend the left leg and left arm, then the right leg and right arm. Repeat until the song's conclusion". Apparently there was a reference to the dance in the movie "Troop Beverly Hills" that I'm intrigued to see now. TALK - Theme I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse The Legends - Lucky Star Bermuda Triangle - It Feels Good Sissy Wish - DWTS Midlake - Young Bride TALK Hot Hot Heat - 5 Times Out Of 100 (C) **Request for Laura Firefly - Unsinkable (C) The Wooden Stars - Microphone (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - Surf Theme (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Letter (C) TALK Freddy and the Dreamers - Do The Freddie Caribou - Handelschnapp (C) Bullfrog - Ya-Ya (C) Quadra - Grey Something (C) Reality Sandwich - Blue (C) TALK (commercial music set) Israel Kamamawin'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World (Rice Krispies) link to ad Nouvelle Vague - I Melt With You (GMC) **Suggested by Garth link to ad Beck with The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize (Mitsubishi) **Suggested by Stephen P Royksopp - Remind Me (Geico) link to ad The Jam - Start (Cadillac) can be seen on this site The Salteens - Nice Day (C) (Zellers) **Sort of suggested by Derek link to ad **See Note 1 Icicles - Sugar Sweet (Motorola) link to ad TALK The Besties - Rod'n'Reel California Snow Story - Suddenly Everthing Happens Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea Marit Larsen - Under The Surface TALK Marmoset - Sky Phenomenon **See Note 2 Note 1: I love the fact that this song has the lyric "I know you think that I'm gay", of course that part isn't used in the commercial. Note 2: This is from a compilation out of the American record label Secretly Canadian, to celebrate their 100th release they had their artists cover each other's songs. This is a cover of a song originally by Jens Lekman. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: March 30, 2007
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| There were two themed sets this show: The Johnny Marr set - highlighting the various bands that he has played in since his start in the Smiths and ending with his current membership in Modest Mouse The Equation set - it was hard to even find 4 songs to fill out this set, but I managed to do it with some help from Derek. As I mention in the setlist below, watch out for the very high cheese factor in the second set. The opening song was "Runaway Lane" by Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, I played this because I heard it on the last broadcast of CBC Radio 3 on terrestrial radio (it is now satellite only). I have always loved this song and it was great to hear somebody apart from me playing considering it is now over 20 years old (I have it on cassette). I ended with the great piece by Bruce McCulloch (formerly of Kids in the Hall) about being a Doors fan, the reason was that I have see advertisements recently about a recent "Very Best of the Doors" compilation and in the McCulloch's song he specifically says that Best of albums are for "housewives and little girls". TALK - Theme Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra - Runaway Lane (C) The Stooges - Trollin' The Eels - Hey Man Now You Are Really Living The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Fall - Victoria TALK (watch out for the cheese) The Crash - Pony Ride Orbit - Electric Rubik - City and the Streets Lio - Comix Discomix Kristoffer Ragnastram - Breakfast By The Mattress TALK You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity (C) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (C) Collapsing Opposites - Will (C) Cub - Way To Go (C) TALK (Johnny Marr set) The Smiths - Panic The The - Dogs of Lust Electronic - One Day Modest Mouse - Dashboard TALK (equations set) The Kissaway Trail - Smother + Evil = Hurt Sekiden - 1 + 1 = Heartache Ivana Santilli = Sun + Moon = Tomorrow Haircut 100 - Love + One **Suggested by Derek TALK Loney Dear - I Am John Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side You/Me - Through Four Kinds The Bicycles - I Know We Have To Be Apart (C) **See Note 1 Hilotrons - Stuck In The Sound (C) TALK Bruce McCulloch - Doors (C) Note 1: I went to see both The Bicycles and the Hilotrons in Ottawa at a place called Zaphod Beeblebrox, it is the legendary place to see a band in Ottawa. The show was great and as an added bonus as it was Easter weekend the bar was decorated by Kinder Surprise eggs. There is no better way to kill time waiting for a band then putting together Kinder Surprise toys. By the way for anybody who doesn't know how the bar was names see this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox
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Date: March 16, 2007
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| Thanks for all the suggestions about the Hall of Fame set, as you
can see below I tried to stay away from the most popular songs by the artists and used a
Van Halen cover instead of the real thing. I got a lot of suggestions for an REM
song, but I had to defer to Derek on that one as he is the biggest REM fan I know. I
thought that "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was a bit
to obvious, so I went with "White Lines". There is also some controversy
about the song as to whether or not Grandmaster Flash (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_flash). I have complained in the past few months about not finding a lot to play from the CKMS new release section, however this has really turned around lately. Combined with the many different websites I have found highlighting the Scandanavian bands playing the recent South by Southwest music festival in Texas it meant that I had lots of songs to play for the show (and lots of songs leftover). Here are some of those sites about SXSW: sixeyes.blogspot.com/2007/03/scandinavia-comes-to-sxsw-mp3s.html www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/31476/bylarm-2007-part-1-the-music I got an e-mail from a band from the United Kingdom call the Hit and Runs, they had seen my setlists and thought their music would fit into my show. So I checked them out and liked them, you should check them out at www.thehitandruns.com TALK - Theme Charlotte Gainsbourg - Don't Forget To Forget Me Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go Leopold - Johnny Air - Once Upon A Time Moi Caprice - For Once In Your Life Fight For Something You Believe In **See Note 1 TALK Marit Bergman - No Party You Say Party! We Say Die! - Downtown Mayors Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule (C) Annemarie - The Living Model Deacon Blue - A Is For Astronaught **See Note 2 The Saturday People - Slipping Through Your Fingers **See Note 2 The Hit and Runs - Low Tops and Make-up **See Note above TALK Jeremy Fisher - Remind Me (C) Nich Worby - Oh, Little Bonez (C) Sondre Lerche - Well Well Well Sean Clarke - No Phone Before Regina (C) Geoff Berner - Good Luck Now (C) TALK (Hall Of Fame Set) Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - White Lines (Don't Do It) Patti Smith - Kimberly **Suggested by Dan REM - Harborcoat **Suggested by Derek Aztec Camera - Jump (of course a Van Halen cover) The Ronettes - Do I Love You? TALK Adaptor 45 - Keep on Groovin' (C) Steady, Garcia - Pretend Girlfriend (C) **See Note 3 Peter Elkas - Sweet Nancy (C) The Gruesomes - Out Of Our Tree (C) TALK Arcade Fire - Ocean Of Noise (C) Note 1: I thought this song was an unknown song by the Flaming Lips the first time I heard it. Note 2: Stolen from the podcast The Great Leap Forward Note 3: I loved the title of the album this song is from: "Bring me the head of Steady, Garcia", this reminds me of one of my favourite sketches written by my friend Cat Sullivan called "Bring me the head of Poncho Garcia". This was back in another life when we used to co-host a radio comedy show called The Frank, Frank, and Frank show. Of course they both were taken from the Sam Peckinpah movie "Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia". (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: March 2, 2007
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| I started out in a funky groove beginning with the top song by Ruth Brown. The
set also included a song from the Light in the Attic release "From Jamaica to
Toronto", it is a compilation that was released last year featuring acts that came
from the West Indies and settled in Toronto. The morning of the show I saw a
performance by some of the acts from the CD on Breakfast Television publicising a show
that they were doing that night in Toronto, I couldn't make it but that would have been
cool to see. Another Light in the Attic release I'm looking forward to is their
collection of music from Bollywood movies of the 60s and 70s. I ended up playing more songs that I had planned in the "hard to listen to" set, see if you are able get through the 7 song endurance test. After that set the rest of show was pretty laid back, I promise more happy, poppy stuff for the next show. I know it is buried near the end, but the song by Keren Ann "Lay Your Head Down" is a really great song that has really grown on me since the show. It was fighting for the top song spot but didn't quite make it, however do yourself a favour and make sure you give it a listen. TALK - Theme Ruth Brown - 5,10,15 Hours B'Ham Rhythmn Section - I've Been Lonely For So Long Howard Tate - She's a Burglar Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy - Fire (She Need Water) (C) Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras TALK Bellevue - KC Thugs (C) The Gruesomes - You Were Not Using Your Head (C) The Fussy Part - Dog Food Thumb Jim Ried - I'm Stranded The Organ - Memorize The City (C) TALK (The hard to listen to set) Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind The Sixth with Odetta - Waltzing Me All The Way Home Geoff Berner - Can't Stay Dry (C) Daniel Johnston - Mind Contorted Calvin Johnson - When You Are Mine Tom Waits - Filipino Box Spring Hog The Comedian Harmonists - Wenn ich vergnugt bin, muss ich singen **Suggested by Derek TALK Ron Sexsmith with Bob Wiseman - Trains (C) Steven McKay - The Other Bums (C) Friday Morning's Regret - When Lost at Sea (C) Jeremy Fisher - American Girls (C) Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down - Say It All TALK Dean and Britta - Teen Angel Airport Girl - Show Me The Way Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down **Almost the top song of the week Holden - Ce Que Je Suis Ukjent - My New Hang Up The Pipettes - A Winter's Sky **See Note 1 TALK Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time (C) Denotes Canadian Content Note 1: I saw the Pipettes at their first ever North American show at the Rivoli in Toronto on March 9. They were totally awesome, they only allowed 100 people into the venue because of a violation the night before. So although the show was "sold-out" the venue was only about half full. See another review with pictures here. You can also see many different videos from the show on youtube.com. Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: February 16, 2007
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| I started the show with one of the few vinyl albums I have acquired
in the last few years. I got it at a showing of the Canadian movie Monkey Warfare ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832906/ ) at the Princess Cinema, the director, Reginald Harkema, was at the showing
and answered questions after the movie. A few of the questions were about the music
in the movie and in particular how much is costs to use a song in a movie (answer: about
$500 to the person who performed the song and another $500 for the rights owner of the
song). He also mentioned that the bands agreed to have the songs part of a limited
edition 1000 vinyl pressing and that he had some copies of it with him. So after the
questions were over I was second in line to get a copy. The first two songs were
from the soundtrack along with some bonus dialogue from the movie. Most of show ended up being a spotlight on the Labrador Records label ( http://www.labrador.se/ ). This idea came to me
after using a quote from the band Suburban Kids With Biblical Names for my UW weather
Station contest ( http://weather.uwaterloo.ca/contest2007/contest2007_entry.htm
). So I thought that I should play at least that song, but when I was looking at the
band's record label and saw the rest of the great bands they have put out I started
downloading all the songs I could from the record label's website. The label also
has just came out with their 100th release, and to celebrate they have released a four CD
set featuring a song from each one of their releases, it has the very humble title of
"The Complete History of Popular Music". |
Date: February 2, 2007
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| I didn't have anything to play for Groundhog Day so I decided not
to force the issue as a result there was no set on that theme. Yet
another song from the swedesplease.com website was the top song of the week. You can hear my review of the Camera Obscura/Essex Green show on the
podcast. And no The Clash didn't somehow reform (and resurrect Joe Stummer), the
reason I played the Clash was that it was their "Super Black Market Clash" CD
that was played between the bands at the Opera House that night. |
Date: January 19, 2007
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| In past years I often tried to play only songs from the new release
section of CKMS during the first real (ie. non-specialty) show of the new year. But
now I find that most of the new music I play comes from podcasts and blogs and the new
release section doesn't really intrigue me as it once did. So most of the stuff I
played on this show was new along with some of your suggestions for the Best of 2006. A few random notes on some of the other songs from the show: I
played the The Cardigans' Lovefool as it was part of an episode of The Office, when Jim
was trying to annoy an office mate by singing the lyrics. At first I couldn't place
the lyrics but a web search revealed the name of the song. I ended with the George Krantz song Din Daa Daa which was used in
one of the commercial's in the Cannes Best of 2006 commercial movie that I saw the week
before the show. I thought the song sounded familiar and when I did some research I
saw that it was on the Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo soundtrack ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086999/ ) , I
actually thought I might own the vinyl of this soundtrack but I was getting it confused
with the soundtrack to Krush Groove ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089444/
). Krush Groove was obviously cooler starring the likes of: Sheila E., the Beastie
Boys, The Gap Band, Run DMC, and the Fat Boys. |
Date: January 5, 2007
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| Nothing much to say about this one, the first half were my top
singles of the year while the second half were my top albums. By definition my best
show of the year. You can see all of my top choices listed in order here : http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/2006/best_of_2006.htm The astute among you may notice that I didn't play The Math and Physics Club on this show but they appear on the Best of 2006 page. In my own defense, I did mention during the show that I had not heard the album and they might make the top 10. Behind the songs I have done my best to list where I first heard about the song, see the legend below the setlist. TALK - Theme Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks (popcasting) The Concretes - Chosen One (The Wedge) Essex Green - Don't Know Why (You Stay) (bury me not) Cats On Fire - Higher Ground (poppolar) The Tidy Ups - Dizzy Heights (indiepopradio) TALK The Stolen Minks - Peppy Twist (C) (CKMS) The Doers - We're Open (C) (CKMS) Henry Faberge and the Adorables - Out Of Your League (C) (Live - Grad House) Lake Holiday - Press Record Then Play (C) (poppolar) Lovely Feathers - Right Where You Are (C) (Live - Hillside) TALK Amp Fiddler - Right Where You Are (The Wedge) Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (Zulu Records) Blaze presents UDA featuring Barbra Tucker - Most Precious Love (The Wedge) Hard Fi - Hard To Beat (The Wedge) Bocce - Bicycle Cops (C) (Live - Starlight) TALK Good On Paper - The Message (indiepopradio) El Perro Del Mar - God Knows (You Gotta Give What You Get) (KCRW Song of the Day) Regina Spektor - Fidelity (myboytheriotgirl) Psapp - Hi (KCRW Song of the Day) The Gresham Flyers - Shiftwork (indiepopradio) TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - Love Renee (C) The Bicycles - Paris Be Mine (C) TALK Memphis - In The Cinema Alone (C) Junior Boys - In The Morning (C) (myboytheriotgirl) TALK Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken (myboytheriotgirl) Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough (bury me not) TALK The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (poppolar) Irene - Little Things That Tear Us Apart (poppolar) TALK Belle and Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard popcasting - http://www.geocities.com/popcastingpop/ indiepopradio - http://indiepopradio.blogspot.com/ bury me not - http://www.burymenot.com poppolar - http://www.poppolar.com CKMS - http://www.ckmsfm.ca Hillside - http://www.hillside.on.ca/ Zulu Records - http://www.zulurecords.com/ The Wedge - http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/thewedge/ KCRW Song of the Day - http://www.kcrw.com/ My Boy the Riot Girl - http://www.myboytheriotgirl.com/ (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: December 22, 2006
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| I think I did pretty good job of playing mostly new (ie. songs I have never played
before) for this year's Christmas show. The highlights were the first and last songs, do
yourself a favour and listen to both of them. The starting song was a great 60s German
tune extolling the glories of winter in Canada while the last song was recorded and sent
to me by my friend Darryl Reimer from Vancouver. Both are sure to return to future
Christmas shows. My favourite discovery during the show was a new album by the Bell Rays that included the song "All I wanna Do Is Shag For Christmas" that went well with a Fireball XL5 Christmas favourite "Back Door Santa". TALK - Theme |
Date: December 08, 2006
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| After the last few shows I had a whole lot of leftover songs that
didn't get to play and with the Christmas show up next and the Best of show after that I
figured I should start out the new year with a clean slate. Thus there wasn't an
overall theme to the show but I still think the show went together very well. The only set that had a theme was one inspired by an article I saw in the Globe and Mail by Russel Smith, in it he discusses the fine division of Indie Pop music called Twee Pop. A lot of music I have been listening to and playing on the show lately could be classified as twee. Most of the article is pretty factual discussing the major bands in twee and describing the sound, he calls the Smiths the proto-twee band and that Belle and Sebastian are the current most famous twee band (I think this might have been true with a lot of their early stuff but no so much lately). But, the parts of the article that I really had problems with were his assertions that somehow the music is part of an organized movement striving to be anti-establishment, in my opinion its just happy music that sounds good. He ends the article by saying that the people who like twee are "uniformly women" (based on my gender I disagree) and you outgrow this type of music as you get older (again based on my advanced age I disagree). However, an upside of the article is that I found out about a great band called "I'm from Barcelona" which is how I started out that set. See the original article here:
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Date: November 24, 2006
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| This was a very special show as I was joined by most of the members
of local band Knock, Knock, Ginger to preview their upcoming EP release show at the
Starlight on Thursday, December 7th. The topics of conversation included: the
origins of the band, their experiences traveling to and performing at this year's Halifax
Pop Festival, the songwriting process, and of course their new EP. One cool thing we also got to do was to play a few songs that came from a contest the band held in conjunction with the Starlight. As part of the contest people could suggest up to 3 songs that the band should cover during their show at the Starlight, the band got an anonymous list of the songs and the person who suggested the song they pick will get a prize pack. So for the show we played some of the suggested songs (which may or may not have been the songs that I suggested), I have marked the songs appropriately below. Once more I would like to thank Milosz, Matt, Lisa, and Owen for coming out to the show and doing such a great job. See more info about the band here: http://www.myspace.com/knockknockginger TALK - Theme Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You The Diskettes - Art (C) The Pipettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone **See Note 1 TALK (mostly a Milosz set) Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone ** Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet Henry Faberge and the Adorables - Out Of Your League (C) **See Note 2 The Bicycles - Australia (C) Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down (C) TALK (Matt's set) Ratatat - Wildcat **See Note 3 The Sourkeys - Gossip (C) Two Hours Traffic - Stuck For The Summer (C) Hot Chip - The Warning TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - Virginia Black (C) ** New Order - Fine Time ** Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love Child ** The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - Love Renee (C) TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - Tragic Love Affair Of Kasey and Jaime (C) **Song that was suggested as part of the contest Note 1: Even after almost 30 years this song really holds up well Note 2: Both of these bands played a show with Knock, Knock, Ginger at the Grad House a few months ago, unforunately they didn't have as good a time as when the other bands played Vancouver: http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2006/11/Take-Your-Shirt-Off Note 3: Matt likes this song so much he has it has the ringtone on
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Date: November 10, 2006
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| For this show Deep Space Wayne was my guest and he was celebrating
his poker victory the night before by playing a few songs about money or gambling (I can't
believe he beat me not once but twice when I had a straight). Before he got there I
played some of the songs that I had built up over the last little while since I had theme
for the last few shows. The second set started with Lloyd Cole whom I recently saw in Toronto at the Mod Club. It was a great show where he concentrated on a lot of his earlier solo material and songs that he did with the Commotions, not being a fan of his most recent album "Antidepressant", this was quite alright with me. However, the song I played during the show is the best from Antidepressant. I ended the show with The Jolly Llamas who were playing that night at the the inaugural Sonic Boom Awards. These were CKMS sponsored awards for both programmers and local artists, just like those track and field events in public school where everybody got a ribbon, I tied for Most Memorable Voice (not best or coolest, but most memorable, I don't know if that is a compliment or not). TALK - Theme Irene - Into the Sun Little Name - How To Swim And Live Cats On Fire - Draw In The Reins Shade Tree - Where Do We Go From Here Lovejoy - In The Rain TALK Lloyd Cole - NYC Sunshine Great Aunt Ida - Little Voice (C) Stuart Staples - There Is A Path **Note 1 Young and Sexy - Satellite (C) Carolyn Mark - Chumpville (C) TALK Ohbijou - St. Francis (C) De Novo Dahl - Shout El Perro Del Mar - God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get) The Lovely Feathers - Photocorners (C) Howe Gelb - But I Did Not TALK Bocce - Bicycle Cop Bears (C) **See Note 2 Shout Out Out Out - Self Loathing Rulz (C) Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor (DSW) The Rapture - Get Myself Into It The Beta Band - Outside (DSW) TALK Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment (C) (DSW) The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone And Out (DSW) The Cliks - Start Leading Me On (C) Sonic Youth - Reena (DSW) The O'Jays - For The Love Of Money (DSW) TALK The Jolly Llamas - Jenna's Vegan Docs (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content (DSW) Denotes song picked by Deep Space Wayne Note 1: This song features the former lead singer from Lambchop who has one of the most distinct voices in music. Note 2: The second last set started out with a couple of bands that I caught at the Starlight a few days before the show, Bocce and Shout Out Out Out. Although their website says that SOOO has 4 bass players; I only saw 2 of them along with 2 keyboardists, 2 drummers, and a singer. They were almost as high energy as the local opener Bocce. Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: October 27, 2006
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| The theme for this show was Big and Tall and Short (after a sign I
saw for a store in Hamilton) so all the songs I played were either over 6 minutes or under
2 minutes long. I think it went OK, but it was difficult to mix the two different
song lengths, as in general the shorter songs were happy indie pop while the longer ones
were more groovy laid back songs. I made sure to note the lengths of each of the songs in the setlist. I got a couple of suggestions of songs to play, but I couldn't justify playing Onita's suggestion of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, as at 18 minutes it would have taken up too much of the show. The last song (Abe Vigoda's dead) was 15 seconds short of 6 minutes but I let it go as it was my tribute to Halloween. However do note that Abe Vigoda is indeed alive, this is confirmed by the website www.abevigoda.com where the current state of Mr. Vigoda is displayed (you can also get this as an add-on to Firefox). I still remember the Letterman episode where they quelled the original Abe Vigoda is dead rumour by having him in the show's control room. Does anybody still watch Letterman anymore or has everybody moved to Stewart/Colbert? And although I had to play a first song I'm not considering it my top song of the week. It was a busy time for me before the show with being in Saskatchewan for a week and a couple of birthdays so I couldn't find a song that had that something something that it needs to be my top song. TALK - Theme Nicole Willis and the Sound Investigators - No One's Gonna Love You (6:05) Bran Van 3000 - Astounded (C) (5:56) Ivana Santilli - Sun + Moon = Tomorrow (C) (6:01) The Pipettes - I Love You (1:38) The Diskettes - Art (C) (1:42) TALK The Bicycles - Sure Was Great (C) (1:35) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go (C) (6:02) The Doers - We're Open (C) (1:55) Yo La Tengo - Heard You Looking (7:01) **Suggested by Chris D Chixdiggit - Getting Air (C) (1:33) **Suggested by Chris D TALK Dengue Fever - 1000 Years Of A Tarantula (6:43) Cassius - The Sound Of Violence (7:13) Junior Boys - Like A Child (C) (6:07) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Butterball (6:18) TALK CUB - Your Bed (C) (1:32) The Sin-Tones - Trailer Park Sadie (C) (1:43) Unrest - Cath Carroll (10 cc mix) (7:13) King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (7:36) The Pipas - Riff Raff (1:51) TALK spinnwebe.com - Abe Vigoda's Dead (Premorteum mix) (5:45) (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: October 13, 2006
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The accordion themed show went very well, and again before I scare anybody off from listening to the show, I only started off each set with a song that contained some accordion. As well during each talking break I read some selections from the Geoff Berner booklet: How to be an Accordion Player, get more information about it here: http://www.geoffberner.com/introduction.htm Note that unlike the Corrine Bailey Rae song, I am aware that the Lilly Allen song "Smile" is a popular song, but I played it anyway. The third set came from music that I had recently purchased from the great indie pop website: www.poppolar.com After the side projects set I was made aware that I had done a great injustice by not playing the band Dump after playing Yo La Tengo (Dump is a side project of Yo La Tengo's James McNew), I corrected this great injustice during this show. TALK - Theme The Rascals - Groovin' Amp Fiddler - Right Where You Are Lily Allen - Smile Bic Runga - Say After Me Hawksley Workman - You Me And The Weather (C) TALK Wet Spots - Blitzkrieg Polka (C) **See Note 1 The Snow Fairies - The Life Of A Total Square The Besties - Prison Song Sandro Perri - Circles Axel Yngvell - The Great Big Saturday Nils Folke Valdemar - The Taking Off Of Pants TALK (poppolar.com set) The Cajun Ramblers - Venez A Louisianne (C) **Digital Tape The Pipettes - One Night Stand Cats on Fire - The Smell of An Artist The Tidy-ups - Death To The Tidy-ups Pipas - Basements Lake Holiday - Don't Stay Forever (C) TALK They Might Be Giants - Istanbul Not Constantinople Wax Tailor - Que Sera Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (C) Memphis - In The Cinema Alone (C) Two Hours Traffic - Jezebel (C) TALK Jens Lekman - Julie (Remix) Square Root of Margaret - The 3-D Breeze (C) Yo La Tengo - Point and Shoot Dump - Erotic City The Reverb Society - Shake Don't Stir (C) TALK Geoff Berner - We All Gotta Be A Prostitute Sometime (C) Note 1: The show was during the annual Oktoberfest festival in Kitchener-Waterloo and this song mentions the festival. (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: September 29, 2006
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| The side projects theme really got people thinking so I got lots of
suggestions for bands to play. A great suggestion was made by Chris F. who
remembered that I had told him about seeing NoMeansNo before the show and came up with the
Hanson Brothers a side project of NoMeansNo. Also topical as hockey season started
the week after the show. Deep Space Wayne suggested that I could have just done the whole show based on Broken Social Scene which is pretty much a band that is a side project of people from other bands. I made an impulse buy the night before the show and picked up the acclaimed and influential album "Colossal Youth" by the Young Marble Giants. I first heard of Stuart Moxham of the band because of his involvement with the Stephin Merrit project The 6ths as well I have heard lots of people praise him so I decided to go for it. So far I'm really liking it. I also played songs from few other CDs I picked up right before the show. TALK - Theme Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks Cats On Fire - Higher Ground ^^ Jim Noir - Key of C Dyrdin - Popp & Co ** Young Marble Giants - Salad Days TALK ## The Stars - Reunion (C) ++ Amy Milan - He Brings Out The Whiskey In Me (C) ++ ** Memphis - Incredibly Drunk on Whiskey (C) Violet Lyal - To You Leaving (C) TALK ## NoMeansNo - I Need You (C) **Suggested by Chris F. ++ The Hanson Brothers - 100 + 10% (C) ## New York Dolls - Personality Crisis **Suggested by Karen M. ++ Buster Poindexter - All Night Party TALK ## Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Chicken Dog **Suggested by Chris D. ++ 20 Miles - Mend Your Heart Ladyhawk - The Dugout (C) **Suggested by Rick W. ^^ Sound Team - Your Eyes Are Liars Yo La Tengo - Watch Out For Me Ronnie TALK ## Metric - Combat Baby (C) **Sort of suggested by Chris D. ++ Emily Haines - The Lottery (C) Those Transatlantics - The Other Cheek Great Aunt Ida - We Say No (C) ^^ The Icicles - Snowman TALK ## New Order - Regret ++ Electronic - Late At Night ** Junior Boys - In The Morning (C) TALK Jonathan Richman - Since She Started To Ride **See Note 1 Harvee - No One Here **See Note 2 ## Original band ++ Side Project ** Bought the day before the show at Soundscapes ^^ Doesn't mean anything but I just really wanted to make the setlist really, really, confusing Note 1: Dedicated to Mike and Jackie, I decided to
play the song because of a conversation I had with them and Jackie talking about spending
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Date: September 15, 2006
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| Not a lot to say about this show, I think I played lots of great
songs, but not much of an overall theme even within individual sets. There were a
couple of notable new releases by both Yo La Tengo and Memphis, I was really excited by
both of them so I played a set of double shots so I could hear more of each album. I
talked about Yo La Tengo in the last mailout while Memphis is a side project of Torquil
Campbell of the Stars. From this initial listen it sounds much more developed than
the first Memphis album and more my style than Amy Milan's solo effort. Another song of note was by the Shakers, a band that featured Dave Rave, formerly of Teenage Head and many other bands. He has just released a great Anthology featuring songs from his long career. Find more about him here: www.dave-rave.com . For the rest of the show I played lots of other great songs, a few from some CDs in the new release section that I had never heard of before the show: the aforementioned Violet Lyal, The Golden Dogs, and The Balling Jacks.
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Date: September 1, 2006
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| I just loved both of the first songs I played, I could have just
put them on repeat for the rest of the show. I still don't know why I like Regina
Spektor so much, on paper I shouldn't, she is a solo piano player who does a lot of vocal
gymnastics which is generally not my thing, also I have never been a big fan of Kate Bush,
Tori Amos, or Ani DiFranco all of whom she has been compared to, yet something about her
songs make them catchy and beautiful. The second song was by New Buffalo and
featured Jens Lekman and thus was a no-brainer as far as me liking it. In the first set I also played a song by a band called The Repomen, so I had to play a song off of the soundtrack to the cult classic Repo Man. That album has so many great songs, but I decided to play the Burning Sensations version of the Jonathan Richman song Pablo Picasso. The Yo La Tengo song is from their new album "I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass", related to this is the website http://www.iamnotafraidofyouandiwillbeatyourass.com/ where you can see many different people saying the line, you can even submit a video of you saying it and maybe it will be added to the video wall. The Circus Room set featured songs by some of the great bands I saw at the Circus Room the Sunday before the show, not only were the headlining Mega-Haunches great (with their Bizarro twins from Knock Knock Ginger and go-go dancers) but the opening acts were also quite good. The Reverb Society lead singer (like me) obviously watched a lot of TV in the late 70s and 80s as they have song titles like "I Am The New Number 2" and "Zis is KOAS!" they also played the theme to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." during the set. So during the show I played song from a vinyl EP I bought many years ago solely because of the title "Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me", as the two agents from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. were Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. Got to love the Magic Numbers doing a cover of the Beyonce song "Crazy in Love", the only reason I know the song is that they used it as the Raptor intro song this past season. I ended the show with a song by trumpet player Maynard
Ferguson who passed away before this show. He is best known for playing the trumpet
part in the Rocky theme "Gonna Fly Now", find out more about him here: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2352609
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Date: August 18, 2006
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The advertising music set didn't go that well, of course I should realize by now that if I want to make sure that I will be able to play a song I have to bring it myself. I wanted to play some more songs in the set but I didn't have them. I also should have remembered that the song by Joel Plaskett I was looking for is only available as a mini-CD included in his DVD. I did manage to find a good website that lists music used in commercials (adtunes.com). The best part of the site is the searchable forum section, so you can look up a song, artist, or product you want to know about and usually somebody has started a thread about it. As I missed doing the previous show, there were 4 weeks of songs vying for the top song of the week, you can see the winner and other contenders in the setlist below. A few songs from the first set (and the top song) came from a great new podcast I found this week called indiepopradio ( http://indiepopradio.blogspot.com/ ), there are only 5 of them on the site but they are all very good. He also has a live365 site that plays a new set of 50 songs every week. And I swear I had not heard of Corinne Bailey Rae before I played the song during the show, but a few days after the show, I was driving to Montreal and flipping around stations when I heard the song on America's Top 20 with Kasey Kasem (yes he is still doing the show and it is 20 now instead of 40). I have also seen stories on Bailey Rae in various newspapers and on-line. That is the danger of not listening to commercial radio, I can hear a song on somebody's podcast and I think that nobody else knows about it but it turns out to be a popular song. There was also the "bands that sound like Franz Ferdinand" set, especially the song by Cribs which could have been a Franz Ferdinand cover, some people don't agree with me about the concept of the set, but listen to it and decide for yourself. Speaking of sound-a-like songs, I ended with a song by the band "Boys" that sounds exactly like Morrissey, check below to see to whom the song was dedicated. TALK - Theme
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Date: July 21, 2006
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I got the party started with the first set of danceable music, starting off with my top song by the Pipettes who released their debut album in England this week, unfortunately I haven't seen a North American release date. The second set featured some of the acts that are going to play the Grad House the Thursday night following the show. Along with great local act Knock, Knock, Ginger the evening features Henry Faberge and the Adorables as well as the Bicycles. I remember the Bicycles from when I saw them with Derek open for I am the World Trade Centre a few years back in Toronto. Even back then I thought the Bicycles were something special and now they have come out with a great debut album. The Hillside preview highlighted a few of acts that I was looking forward to seeing in Guelph at the Hillside Festival the next weekend. As well as the musical acts I also tried to touch on the various workshops and other things that make the Hillside Festival so enjoyable. On the festival theme, Michael T e-mailed me that him and Garth were going to see Sonic Youth and the Go! Team in August. Also in that set, the song by the Submarines sounded so much like the Stars that I had to play them next. I ended the show with a song from the movie Clerks II that I saw at
a free preview the night before the show, the Talking Heads song played over the opening
credits. I enjoyed the movie, it wasn't as good as Chasing Amy or the original
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Date: July 7, 2006
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In the week before this show, I went to see the movie about quirky alternative singer Daniel Johnston (http://www.hihowareyou.com/) called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston", it was quite good and I recommend it to people familiar with him, however I don't know how the movie would be for people who aren't. During the movie, they interview the lead singer of the band the Butthole Surfers while he was getting a tooth filled at the dentist, I didn't like that scene. Anyway, I played the song Sweat Loaf as it was featured in the movie and it reminds of my days at CHRW where Dave, Brian, and I used to play that song and mix in wacky sound bites during the quiet parts, the original mash up. I tried it here with the only spoken word record I could find in the station - George Carlin, but no matter who it was, I think that it needs to be about 4 in the morning before the process makes sense. I played the Diskettes song "Art" as Michelle was part of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition going on that weekend in Toronto. I ended the show honouring the 60th anniversary of the bikini, it was introduced on July 6, 1956 although it was already being worn by French women for many years, that style of swimsuit got its name that day. Plus I never need an excuse to play "Wild Bikini" by Tullycraft.
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Date: June 23, 2006
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I was really happy with how this show came together, probably something to do with the fact that I missed a show because of my knee surgery and had not been on the air in a month. A special song I played was called "A Night in Paris", it is a song about Paris Hilton (the lyric goes "I want to spend a night in Paris"). Even better was that the version I got off the band's website was updated from the original with a new boyfriend (now gone) and new dog. The song was also topical as Paris was in the news for making out with Jose Theodore after the MuchMusic Video awards. In the same vain I played the Mojo Nixon song "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin" and the Show Business Giants "I've Got A Crush on Wendy Mesley". Unfortunately I couldn't find another song - "Winona Ryder, I want to rider her" but the song might only exist in my imagination. I got to play another song by the Swedish band "Irene", I've only heard 3 songs but I love each one of them, I'm really looking forward to hearing their first album this summer. I ended the show on a World Cup note (Go Argentina! - I have them in a pool), unfortunately the station no longer has the New Order song "World in Motion" that they did for the 1990 World Cup. I ended with Jens Lekman because I was under the mistaken impression that he was playing goal for the German World Cup team, it turns out the goalie's name is actually Jens Lehman, sorry my bad. It was too easy but I had to follow up the Camera Obscura song (Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken) with the song it refers to - Lloyd Cole's "Art you ready to be heartbroken". If you are in the Kitchener-Waterloo area for Canada Day and you are going to check out the fireworks on the University of Waterloo campus, be sure to stick around after the fireworks and on the main stage you will see Knock, Knock, Ginger, in my opinion they are the best local band around today. TALK - Theme Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? S'ambassadeur - Kate Venus & Fergus - Song For My Head (C) Tasty Treats & Smelly Feet - Jet Ski Accidents (C) **Love this band name TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - Looks & Books (C) The Hylozoists - Smiley Smiley (C) Figurines - Rivalry Math and Physics Club - Graduation Day Irene - To Be With You TALK (Funky set) Professor Longhair - Big Chief Catherine and the Firebirds - He's Sure To Remember Me Jo-Jo and the Fugitives - Chips, Chicken, Banana Split **Love this song title Lil'Ed and the Blues Imperials - Pride and Joy Herb Albert - Green Peppers TALK Nous Non Plus - A Night in Paris Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Stuffin' Martha's Muffin Show Business Giants - I've Got A Crush On Wendy Mesley (C) Peter Mansbridge and the CBCs - Back Where You Came From (C) TALK The Leather Uppers - Break My Leg (C) Starbeam - No Earthly Means of Transportation (C) The Girls - My Baby Air Miami - World Cup Fever TALK Jens Lekman - A Higher Power (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca |
Date: May 26, 2006
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I didn't have an overall theme to this show, however I did start off each set with one of the albums I had purchased on my trip to Vancouver. And as I explained during the show I don't know the artist or title or my first song, I heard it on a Spanish language podcast and although the host says in English "Alan Clapp and his orchestra - Something strange happens" right before playing the song, I listed to an online version of that song and it isn't the same. Also the song doesn't contain those lyrics, the chorus is "leave all your old lives in the past". I have searched for songs with that lyric and haven't found anything. If you happen to know the song please tell me what it is, this is also a good incentive to listen to the podcast (remember you don't need an IPOD or even an MP3 player to listen, you can listen on any computer). If you are thinking that it has been a longer than normal time between shows you are correct. After debating for a while, I finally decided to put a permanent fix on the ACL in my right knee that I tore a few years back. The surgery involved taking part of my hamstring and using that to replace the ACL. My last radio show would have been the day after my surgery, I was feeling pretty good that day but getting around the station would have been difficult, so it was probably a good thing I got a replacement for the show. By the way, the knee is feeling great, 10 days after the surgery and I'm walking without crutches, unfortunately I didn't come off the anesthetic very well and the pain drugs actually gave me headaches, nausea, and caused me to spend Sunday curled in the fetal position praying for death. As I said I'm much better now.
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Date: May 12, 2006
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I had a few nice tidy sets for this show. The call and response set just kind of happened putting together a few of the new releases at the station with a song off of Derek's music blog (www.burymenot.com), I think the Cab Calloway song is the most well known song of this type. The Grant McLennan set is pretty self explanatory, the reason for playing the Church is that Jack Frost consisted of McLennan and Steve Kilbey of the Church. In one of the articles I read about his passing it said that the Australian senate passed a motion recognizing his contribution to the country, that's cool. There was also a set of music by some of the people who have been confirmed at the Hillside festival.
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Date: April 21, 2006
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On this show I managed to take care of a lot of songs that I had been bringing to the station for a few months but never playing, that might be why some of the sets are a bit disjointed. I also found some various CDs in the CKMS delete pile that brought back some memories (and made me feel old) so I had to play them: Ian Knope - Solar, Man of the Atom (from an Edmonton compilation that I remember from way back) Altogether Morris - Eaten Alive (I remember that when Dave and I first played this song many years ago, he guessed that the band name came from an episode of Tales of the Riverbank (starring Hammy Hamster), but this has never been confirmed, unfortunately the CD is showing its age and didn't play very well in the CKMS CD players) The Vinaigrettes - PS I Hate You (I never played this album when it first came out, but this was Carolyn Mark's first band) Maxine Brown - Oh No Not My Baby |
Date: April 14, 2006
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This past week I got to play songs from the six new CDs that I had received in the mail before the last show, in fact I got them the day before the last show so some of them I didn't even get to listen to before I played them on the air. The rest of the sets were a mis-mash of new stuff and the usual upcoming shows at the Starlight set. TALK-Theme Knock, Knock, Ginger - Virginia Black (C) The D'Ubervilles - War on the Poor (C) The Doers - Wicked World (C) Daniel Johnson - Crazy Love The Miniatures - Any Day Now (C) The Stolen Minks - Chug A Lug (C) TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Parakit The Honest Johns - Judas In Me Singing Lovejoy - Everybody Hates Us And We Don't Care James Kirk - Rehab The Silent Boys - Wishing Well Eyes TALK Of Montreal - Requim for O.M.M. Acid House Kings - 7 Days S'Ambassadeur - Between The Lines Morrissey - You Have Killed Me The Charade - Monday Morning TALK Carolyn Mark - 2 Days Smug and Sober (C) Luther Wright and Wrongs - Celia (C) Oh Susanna - King's Road (C) Young and Sexy - Conventional Lullabies (C) Gentleman Reg - Plan On Including Me (C) TALK Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner #1 **Digital Vinyl Pretty Girls Make Graves - Parade We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Fancy TALK Look People - Stop Making Cheese (C) **Digital Vinyl Scarbora Aquarium Club - Queen of the Beach (C) TALK Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca If you want to taken off this mailing list please e-mail me. |
Date: March 31, 2006
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The first half of the show was the usual mix while the last half melded into Barry's all 80s show that followed mine. In the second set I played a song by Meryn Cadell, most people remember her song "The Sweater" from the mid 1990s, well in a strange turn Meryn came out as transgendered in 2004 (on the CBC) and he is now a professor at UBC. The reason I know this is that Karen mentioned that he pitched a song on the former CBC show The National Playlist and his voice is as deep as mine. And speaking of The National Playlist, does anybody know why the CBC took it off the air? It seemed like a very popular show that was aimed at the demographic the CBC is looking for. By the way you can read about Cadell here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryn_Cadell
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Date: March 17, 2006
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As my top song this week was only one minute and 3 seconds long, I decided to play an entire set of short songs, this resulted in 14 songs in 24 minutes, perhaps the most I have every played in a row without talking. I had to follow this fast set with a mellow one to recuperate. The show also featured the return of Digital Vinyl, because of some rearranging of my office at home it has been difficult for the past few months to do it, but now that I have a new laptop I am back in the digitizing business. TALK-Theme The Pipettes - It Hurst Me To See You Dance So Well -1:03- Air Miami - You Sweet Little Heartbreaker -1:48- Electric 6 - Nuclear War On The Dance Floor -1:16- Swearing at Motorists - Slave To The Kettle -1:48- Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens -1:47- Young And Sexy - The Night Wears A Sombrero (C) -1:58- Pipas - Wells Street -1:53- Adventures in Stereo - Down In The Traffic -1:28- Le Mans - Astronauts A.S. -1:27- DD/MM/YYYY - So Cold (C) -1:02- The Gruesomes - Wish You Were Her (C) -1:34- Les Sequelles - La Machine (C) -1:50- Les Breastfeeders - Mini Jupe Et Watusi (C) -1:57- Deja Voodoo - Bound For Glory (C) -1:16- TALK Finnigan's Tongue - Abilgail Becker (C) Honest Johns - Hollywood Affair Sondre Lerche - Minor Details Ben & Nathan - Geeky But Hot (C) Jens Lekman - Cold Sweedish Winter TALK The Concretes - Choosen One Essex Green - Don't Know Why You Stay Acid House Kings - That's Because You Drive Me I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness - The Ghost Math and Physics Club - You're So Good To Me TALK Magneta Lane - Wild Gardens (C) Ashley MacIssac - Bitch (C) Editors - All Sparks Interpol - Slow Hands MC 900 Ft Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain TALK Dik Van Dykes - Curling (C) Supreme Bagg Team - 20th Century Dog Faced Boy (C) Robocop Kraus - I Picture You Hot Chip - The Beach Party The Smitherines - Only A Memory TALK The Pogues - London Girl (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca If you want to taken off this mailing list please e-mail me. |
Date: March 10, 2006
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It was great to have Deep Space Wayne on the show last week, even though the theme to his set was "CDs from Wayne's car". As we had to play some music during the show, we weren't able to have all the conversations we wanted, but we did our best to keep up with the "more talk, less rock" credo of the station. He was also gracious enough to offer to share his "roll up the rim to win" cup with a caller which he opened live on air at the end of the show, unfortunately it didn't win. Of course if it did win we might have had a court case like those two little girls in Quebec. TALK-Theme Essex Green - This Isn't Farm Life Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day Acid House Kings - This Heart Is A Stone Papermoon - Better Days (C) Mike Erb Band - Tracked Me Down (C) TALK Issac Hayes - Theme From Shaft Mundo Livre - Meu Esquema Bombay Dub Orchestra - Compassion Astrid - Running Home (C) Richard Underhill - 3 AM (C) TALK The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit Young and Sexy - The Curious Organ (C) Pink Mountaintops - Plastic Man, You're The Devil The Robocops Kraus - After Laughter come Tears White Stripes - My Doorbell TALK Elliot Brood - Only At Home (C) Buttless Chaps - Migratory Birds (C) Leeroy Stagger - Let Her Down (C) Ben & Nathan - When Water Chokes (C) TALK Red Snapper - 3 Strikes You're Out Beta Band - Liquid Bird The Organ - Memorize The City (C) New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (C) The Fembots - So Long (C) TALK Powderfinger - These Days (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca If you want to taken off this mailing list please e-mail me. |
Date: March 3, 2006
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Yes, it was only last week that I was on, but I'm filling for Charlene this week so it will be three weeks in a row for Fireball XL5 (Lord help us all). If you want to play a game with set number 2 on the podcast try and guess the second song in each of the 3 sets of songs: In each case the first song has been compared to a well known act, the second song was by the well known act. For those you that don't want to play along, the full listing of the second set is at the very bottom of the mailout. TALK-Theme Acid House Kings - Do What You Want My Morning Jacket - Off The Record Calvin Johnson - Your Eyes Barmitzvah Brothers - Hollow Time Of Night (C) Belle and Sebastian - The Wrong Girl TALK The Radio Department - Deliverance Jesus & Mary Chain - Between Us The Robocop Kraus - You Don't Have To Shout The Fall - Couldn't Get Ahead Egger - Pixels (C) The Inbreds - Matterhorn (C) TALK Elliot Brood - Oh, Alberta (C) Clothes Make The Man - Singles Only (C) DD/MM/YYYY - Death & Taxes (C) DD/MM/YYYY - Culture Industry (C) Final Fantasy - This Is The Dream Of Win & Regine (C) Boy - French Diplomacy (C) TALK Skye - Love Show Morcheeba - Otherwise Astrid - Turn Me Loose (C) Ivanna Santilli - Breath Inn (Moonstar Remix) (C) Dois Irmaos f/ Mariana De Moraes - Como Vou Fazer Ladies & Gentlemen - STAY (C) I Am The World Trade Centre - Soiree Cibo Matto - Sugar Water TALK They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (Live) (C) Denotes Canadian Content Remember the Fireball XL5 Homepage is at www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen and that you can listen to the show live through the CKMS webcast at www.ckmsfm.uwaterloo.ca If you want to taken off this mailing list please e-mail me. |
Date: February 17, 2006
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I had to start out with the Belle and Sebastian spotlight as of course the first single from their latest albums was the best song I had heard in the previous four weeks (Coupled with the fact that I was going to see them the next week in Toronto). Unfortunately, the venue for the Belle and Sebastian show was the Docks, and it sucks royally. Never ever see a band there, I command you. First off, parking is $15 and you still have to walk a good piece, then for a large place not many people have a good sight lines to the stage, I got a bit closer for B&S, but once I moved up I couldn't move again and although I could see the band, anybody under 6 foot 5 would have had trouble. However, the band itself was actually quite good, apart from the obligatory healthy number of songs from the new release, the rest of the setlist went really far back into their 10 year history, and unfortunately for me only one song from their previous release "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". See another review of the concert (by listmember Derek) here: http://www.burymenot.com/2006/02/final-date.html The Juno award set went well (congrats to Joel Plaskett for picking up the songwriter award at the East Coast Music Awards) as did the set of songs from the Poppolar podcast (available at www.poppolar.com). And if you like the last song by Jens Lekman, you can download it and many others at: www.jenslekman.com/presents.htm
Note 1: Dedicated to Mary and Chris, as when I was visiting them in Regina I picked up a cool red Vespa T-shirt
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Date: January 20, 2006
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I was planning on doing a show with lots of new releases, but in looking at the new release section at the station there wasn't a whole lot of CDs that caught me eye. Good thing I brought a lot of new music myself. At the end of the first set I played a song by local band the Haunches. On their website they invite you to remix their songs and send them your results. See details here: www.dadmobile.com/haunches/remix/ I ended with a song by the Stars whom I saw with Mary and Chris in Regina a couple of Fridays ago (that is why I missed the last radio show in case anybody noticed or cared).
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Date: January 6,
2006
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I didn't really have an overall strategy on how I played the songs on the Best of 2005 show, however I did leave my picks for the top 3 albums of the year until close to the end. I had a tough time picking the top album from my top three. But in the end, I chose the CD that I most consistently wanted to be in my player, New Order's "Waiting For The Siren's Call". I know it is old school but even after all these years they still managed to put out a solid album. I put the Diskettes down as number two with their album "Weeknights at Island View Beach", their low-fi sound is about as far from New Order's as you can get. The Magic Numbers self-titled CD was number three, the album is filled with lots of incredibly catchy songs. You can see all my picks for the best of 2005 here: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/archive/setlists/2005/best_of_2005.htm One of the hardest things I had to do was to make sure that the albums and singles were actually released in 2005. I was good with most of the albums, but I was surprised at how many of my picks for singles were actually from 2004. Then there is also the difficulty in deciding what to do about albums that were released in their native countries in 2004 but not in Canada till 2005. That is why my number one single is "Heartbeat" by Annie, although it was released in Europe in 2004, it only came out here in 2005.
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