Sun Ship

No.152, aired January 4, 2012, still celebrating the Solstice season with three tracks from John Coltrane’s 1965 Sun Ship LP and the Phaithon episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook), where the human son of Apollo usurps the sun chariot with disastrous consequences.

Part 1

1. Off The Deep End – Insex
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Dearly Beloved – John Coltrane
4. Nothing Holding You – Active Dog
5. Amen – John Coltrane
6. Awakening – Mahavishnu Orchestra
7. Suicide Ride – CPC Gangbangs

Part 2

1. Don’t Go Lookin’ For Trouble – Mose Scarlett
2. The Noonward Race – Mahavishnu Orchestra
3. (Right On) Thru – L7
4. Sun Ship – John Coltrane
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

Yo' Mama

No.137, aired September 7, 2011, the sixth in the Orgazmo-Cozmik Ascension series (see no.123 for details), featuring Frank Zappa’s astral-incredible xenochronous guitar surgery in Yo’ Mama, plus the whole of side 2 of the Sheik Yerbouti album, which I am inclined to call the “castration suite.” And to enhance the mail castration anxiety in Zappa, strong female voices (Little Miss Higgins, The Pack A.D., American Flamewhip, L7) were heard throughout the program.

Part 1

1. Gather My Fruit – Little Miss Higgins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jones Crusher – Frank Zappa
4. Fast And Frightning – L7
5. What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World / Rat Tomago – Frank Zappa
6. Kick It – American Flamewhip
7. Hardtack Saloon #1 – The Pack A.D.
8. Wait A Minute / Bobby Brown – Frank Zappa
9. Shiny Things – The Pack A.D.
10. Rubber Shirt – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Tornado Song – Little Miss Higgins
2. Sheik Yerbouti Tango – Frank Zappa
3. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
4. Yo’ Mama – Frank Zappa
5. Black Cat – American Flamewhip
6. Fingertight – American Flamewhip

Oh Canaduh

No.127, aired June 29, 2011. An all-Canadian episode, featuring tracks from the Oh Canaduh vol.2 CD, a compilation of Canadian punk rock cover versions, and readings of Canadian poet Earl Birney.

Part 1

1. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Oh Canada (Can’t Help Standing On Guard For You) – uncredited final track on Oh Canaduh CD.
4. Try Not To Stutter – Puritans (originally by Nomeansno)
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard -- Slug In Woods / World Winter / Ulysses – Earle Birney
6. Living On Top – Stand GT (originally by Jerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra)
7. Slaughterhouse – Little Miss Higgins -- El Greco: Espolio – Earle Birney
8. Shamrock Bang – Titans (originally by U.I.C.)
9. Divertissement: Andante Allegro – Pierre Mercure -- Mapmounde / Bushed – Earle Birney

Part 2

1. Machine Shop – Junior Varsity (orginally by The Spys)
2. Dripsody – Hugh LeCaire -- Can Lit – Earle Birney
3. Barbara – More Fun (originally by The Modernettes)
4. Snowin’ Today: A Lament For Louis Riel – Little Miss Higgins
5. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
6. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz -- Ellesmereland / A Walk In Kyoto – Earle Birney
7. The Grey And The Black – Nomads (originally by the Demics)
8. 1000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT -- Vancouver Lights – Earle Birney
9. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

No.117, aired April 6, 2011, featuring live readings of Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson.

Part 1

Intro. The Philosophy Of The Parthenon – Ralph Gustafson
1. Heroic Doses – Glueleg
2. Haught – Derek Bailey -- At The Ocean’s Verge – Ralph Gustafson
3. Cough Syrup – Butthole Surfers
4. Nacht (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis -- On This Sea-Floor / “S.S.R., Lost At Sea.” – The Times / Basque Lover: Spain 1937 – Ralph Gustafson
7. Magic Word – Fucked Up

Part 2

1. Polio – Glueleg
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Waiting – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Open Doors – Odyssey: the Band -- Flight Into Darkness / Legend – Ralph Gustafson
5. Days Of Last Light – Fucked Up –- Prolegomenon At Midnight – Ralph Gustafson
6. Wash These Blues Away – Little Miss Higgins
7. Last One - Odyssey: the Band -- Aspects Of Some Forsythia Branches – Ralph Gustafson
8. Midnight Show – The Horribles

My Dear Wormwood ...

No.112, aired March 2, 2011.

This is the first episode in a series to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a cosmic psycho-drama in which a young aspiring demon is tutored by a severe master in the corruption of an innocent human.

Part 1

1. Rattletrap – Forbidden Dimension
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Regrets – Cancer Bats
5. Seventh Arrow – Weather Report
6. Glad Your Whiskey Fits In My Purse – Little Miss Higgins
7. One Tooth For The Time Train – Buckethead
8. Circle 2 – John Beckwith
9. Around The Corner – Evil Dick

Part 2

1. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension
2. Umbrellas – Weather Report
3. Heat Distraction – Women
4. I Put A Spell On You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
5. Coprophagism – Evil Dick
6. Meat Is Meat - Forbidden Dimension
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready - Forbidden Dimension
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf