Mothers In It For The Money

No.153, aired January 11, 2012. First ever two-hour episode running 9 – 11 pm (some previous editions ran 10 – 12). Featured the complete We’re Only In It For The Money album by The Mothers Of Invention, released in 1968. Also included more passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Your Inner Mind – Emetics
2. I Don’t Love You – Dishrags
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Dance Of The Swamp Woman – Five Man Electrical Band
5. Boomer’s Hill Road – Zubot & Dawson
6. I Wanna Be A Girl – The Generators
7. Efg – Emetics
8. I Wanna Be A Girl – King Khan & The Shrines
9. Hoedown – Zubot & Dawson
10. Aunti Anti – Emetics
11. Barbra – Modernettes
12. The Last Waltz Of John Kordic – Joel Fafard

Part 2

1. Go Stoned Bees – Emetics
2. Divided By Three – Female Hands
3. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
4. We’re Only In It For The Money (side 1): Are You Hung Up? / Who Needs The Peace Corps? / Concentration Moon / Mom & Dad / Telephone Conversation / Bow Tie Daddy / Harry, You’re A Beast / What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? / Absolutely Free / Flower Punk / Hot Poop – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
5. M5 – Derek Bailey

Part 3

1. Partner – Lungbutter
2. We’re Only In It For The Money (side 1): Nasal Retentive Calliope Music / Let’s Make The Water Turn Black / The Idiot Bastard Son / Lonely Little Girl / Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance / What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise) / Mother People / The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
3. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
4. Money Back Guarantee – Five Man Electrical Band

Part 4

1. Parenthetical Squeeze – Emetics
2. Land Of The Freak – King Khan & The Shrines
3. Uncle Meat Variations – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
4. Red Tube Brule – Emetics
5. 1/28 Silverfish Macronix – Derek Bailey (guitar & vocals) / Out To Lunch (text)
6. Circle, With Tangents, no.2 – John Beckwith
7. Liar For Hire – D.O.A.
8. Art 3 – Jaworzyn / Wilkinson / Fell
9. Meditation 1 & 2 – Pericardium
10. Bodies - Pericardium

Torture (With Screaming)

No.122, aired May 25, 2011. Featuring more of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters in dramatic format, produced by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Torture – King Khan & The Shrines
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Temptation – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. theironchef – Hylozoists
5. Frenzy – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins-
6. red bird wishes – Hylozoists
7. Person To Person – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
8. Judgment – Asian Dub Foundation
9. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
10. 911 – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. The Hylozoists – Hylozoists
2. Rebel Warrior – Asian Dub Foundation
3. Milano Odeo – John Zorn
4. Burnin’ Inside – King Khan & The Shrines
5. streets of crocodiles – Hylozoists
6. Chaos Girl – Ripcordz
7. Chi Mai – John Zorn
8. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Nightflight To Venus!

No.90, aired September 29, 2010, continuing the celestial voyage to the planet Venus, with a live reading of Canto VIII of Dante’s Paradiso. No I didn’t play Boney M.

Part 1

1. Speed Load’er – Red Hot Lovers
2. Dancing In The Sun – Sun Ra
3. Rocket Number Nine – Sun Ra
4. Shivers Down My Spine – King Khan & The Shrines
5. Negasonic Teenage Warhead – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, No.2, Venus, The Bringer Of Peace – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. I Wanna Be A Girl – King Khan & The Shrines

Part 2

1. Vegas Knights – Red Hot Lovers
2. Venus – John Coltrane
3. Destination Venus – Man ... Or Astroman?
4. Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
6. Venus In Furs – Monster Magnet

All OUT

No.83, aired August 11, 2010.

Featuring exclusively tracks with the word “Out” in the title, except the opening song, which was supposed to be The Hanson Brothers’ Duke It Out, but my notes were messed up so that song had to wait until the end.

Also featured a live reading of KRYATL, a strange but potent brew of words by one Out To Lunch.

Part 1

1. It’s A Secret – Hanson Brothers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jerk It Out – Caesars
4. Get Out Of My Life – D.O.A.
5. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – Ugly Ducklings
6. Extension Out – Sun Ra –- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
7. Outta Harm`s Way – King Khan & The Shrines
8. Lashed Out And Gashed – Pericardium
9. Sort It Out – Caesars

Part 2

1. Check It Out Dude, Get Ready, Cuz We're Rock 'N' Roll Rebels Cruisin' for Chicks in Our Metal Machine, Baby, All Night Long, Alright, Oh Yeah! (A Rock Anthem) Dude. (We Really Know How to Rock.) – Lungbutter
2. Demons Out! – Art Brut
3. Out To Lunch – Eric Dolphy -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
4. (I`m Gonna) Kick You Out – Caesars
5. Looking Outward – Sun Ra -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
6. Duke It Out – Hanson Brothers
7. Noise [#] [Outtake] – Diodes

Out of the Storm & Into the Drains

Episode 34, Aired August 5, 2009. Featured a live reading of Issue 11 of Infiltration, "the zine about going places you're not supposed to go", an issue devoted to urban explorations of Storm Drains.

Part 1
1. Crackin' Up - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Great Day - Storm Inc.
4. Brainless Wonder - Nomeansno
5. I Wanna Be a Girl - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Support-A-Man - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
7. The Tower - Nomeansno
8. Rainstorms In My Knees - Agnostic Moutain Gospel Choir
9. In From the Storm - Jimi Hendrix

Part 2
1. Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emperor -- Infiltration Issue 11: Storm Drains (My First Eight Drains - Ninjalicious -- The Holy Grail of Minneapolis Draining - Peter M. Sand)
2. Water Main - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3. End of the World - Nomeansno

This Cleaving & this Burning ...

Episode 14 aired February 18, 2009, and featured the poetry of Hart Crane read live in the CJTR studio with Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16 (1949 Revision), as well as tracks from John Coltrane's Love Supreme, The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, and The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.

Part 1

1. Sweet Tooth - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Acknowledgment - John Coltrane
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Life is Long - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Summer Morning by a Lake - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Legend - Hart Crane, Repose of Rivers - Hart Crane
6. Burnin' Inside - King Khan & the Shrines
7. Peripetia - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Taking it Out - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Torture - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Resolution - John Coltrane
3. Illumination - Gogol Bordello
4. The Obligatory Recitative - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Possessions - Hart Crane
5. Outta Harm's Way - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Premonitions - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
7. Mishto! - Gogol Bordello