Winter Solstice Special 2009

Aired December 23, 2009. Spoken word snippets came from Frank Zappa's Opera Pantomime Civilization Phase III.

Part 1

1. "Dark water!" - Frank Zappa
2. Dark Holler - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. "Have you heard their band?" - Frank Zappa
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Gone Black - CPC Gangbangs
6. Eleking the Clay - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
7. "Saliva can only take so much" / Buffalo Voice - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. "Someplace else right now" - Frank Zappa
2. Tired of Waiting - Nomeansno
3. Sorcerer's Stone Of The Magi - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. "A kayak (on snow)" / N-Lite - Frank Zappa
5. M1 - Derek Bailey
6. Time Wasted - West Port Murders

1927! Upon These Boiling Seas

Episode 53 aired December 16, 2009. This is part 3 of the 4 part "20th Century Zeitgeist" series featuring the string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg's 3rd String Quartet was composed in 1927 - & by a stroke of luck I happened to select some Louis Armstrong recordings that date from the same year, & by a second stroke of luck chose an accompanying poetic text, from Hart Crane's The Bridge, that was published in 1927!

While it was tempting to name the episode "Monsters & Robots" after the title of Buckethead's CD and Guerrilla Funk Monster's robot references, the concept of boiling is a better description of the hot, popping funk of much of the music.

Part 1

1. Jump Man - Buckethead -- The Harbour Dawn (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
2. Kaos Rex - Dog Eat Dogma
3. Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong
4. Fear On The Bridge (Upon The Boiling Sea I) - 3 Inches of Blood
5. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30, 1. Moderato - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / New Vienna String Orchestra -- Ave Maria (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
6. Lord Of The Storm (Upon The Boiling Sea II) - 3 Inches of Blood
7. robot love serenade - Guerrilla Funk Monster

Part 2

1. Stick Pit - Buckethead -- The River (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Ron Donson - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30, 3. Intermezzo (Allegro Moderato) - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / New Vienna String Orchestra -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
5. Isle of Eternal Despair - (Upon The Boiling Sea II) - 3 Inches of Blood
6. burgundy - Guerrilla Funk Monster -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
7. Revenge of the Double Man - Buckethead -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
8. Alligator Crawl - Louis Armstrong

DADA

Episode #52 continues where #50 left off in the 20th Century Zeitgeist, this time featuring Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, composed in 1909, along with Tristan Tzara's 1918 DADA Manifesto, Mamie Smith's That DA DA Strain, and a handful of contemporary artists that exemplify dadaesqe tendencies in their own way.

Part 1

1. Little Pink Gibson - Evil Dick
2. That DA DA Strain - Mamie Smith
3. Bogg-Marsh Boogie - Evil Dick
4. No More Trading Clothes - Lungbutter
5. Ooo ... OMG - Lederhosen Lucil
6. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1. MaBig) - Arnold Schoenberg (comp.) / New Vienna String Quartet
7. Free Kill Pass - Lungbutter
8. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
9. What Is It Now? - Evil Dick

Part 2
1. It's Only Life! - Blah Blah 666
2. I Think His Name is Something (I Don't Know) - Lungbutter
3. Council Wife - Evil Dick
4. Doin' the Ganglion - Lederhosen Lucil
5. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (2. Sehr rasch) - Arnold Schoenberg (comp.) / New Vienna String Quartet
6. PCB Polka - Lungbutter
7. Klismaphilia Funk - Evil Dick
8. The Darktown Flappers' Ball - Mamie Smith

GWAR!!!

This episode aired December 2, 2009, featuring songs from nine of GWAR's eleven CDs of original music, with readings from GWAR Mythos and passages from Oderous Urungus (aka Dave Brockie)'s web-novel Whargoul.

GWAR came to the Riddell Hall in Regina on December 4, slaughtering a few hundred young, healthy Reginans & taking the rest as slaves.

Part 1

1. GWAR Theme - GWAR (from Hell-O, 1989)
2. Studies in Line: Allegretto - Barbara Pentland
3. Sick of You - GWAR (from Scumdogs of the Universe, 1990)
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. The Morality Squad - GWAR (from America Must Be Destroyed, 1992)
6. Studies in Line: Largo - Barbara Pentland
7. Saddam-A-Go-Go - GWAR (from This Toilet Earth, 1994)
8. Studies in Line: Presto - Barbara Pentland
9. Whargoul - GWAR (from Ragnarok, 1995)
10. Studies in Line: Andante Tranquillo - Barbara Pentland
11. Crush Kill Destroy - GWAR (from Ragnarok, 1995)

Part 2

1. Song of Words - GWAR (from Violence Has Arrived, 2001)
2. Membrane - King Cobb Steelie
3. Immortal Corruptor - GWAR (from Violence Has Arrived, 2001)
4. Womb With a View - GWAR (from War Party, 2004)
5. Busy Bee - King Cobb Steelie
6. Go To Hell - GWAR (from Beyond Hell, 2006)
7. Punished By Funk - King Cobb Steelie
8. Let Us Slay - GWAR (from Lust In Space, 2009)
9. Fight - GWAR (from This Toilet Earth, 1994)