Screwtape Meets Hellephant

No.118, aired April 13, 2011, featuring further segments from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, in a dramatic audiobook version by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Sweat Loaf – Butthole Surfers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
4. Bedlam’s Bluff – Buckethead
5. Track A – Solo Dancer - "Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!" – Charles Mingus
6. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
7. Circle, With Tangents 1 – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
2. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
3. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
4. Yellowed Hide – Buckethead
5. Save The Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
6. Track B – Duet Solo Dancers - "Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces" – Charles Mingus
7. Hell – Blind Melon
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Hero Going Down

No. 56, aired January 6, 2010.

This was another episode in the "Western Movie" mode, this time the text being a country-tinged reading of Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost (with the lines I read given below, e.g. PL I:1-13), featuring the ultimate fallen hero ... Satan!

Also featured the World Premier of Ernie Klinger's new song, Hero Going Down.

Part 1

1. The Ballad of Hank McCain (vocal) - John Zorn -- PL I:1-13
2. Country - Muscle Bitches
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. This Terror - The Pack A.D.
5. Snake Earl - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice -- PL I:27-75, I:192-224
6. Dust Devil - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Hardtack Saloon #1 - The Pack A.D.
2. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
3. Hero Going Down - Ernie Klinger
4. The Big Gundown - John Zorn -- PL I:225-263
5. Siamese Wet Dream - Muscle Bitches
6. Svegliatti & Uccidi - John Zorn -- PL I:264-270
7. The Ballad of Hank McCain (instrumental) - John Zorn -- PL I:315-323

Evil

Aired August 26, 2009, featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, a monodrama (in German) about a woman wandering in a forest at night searching for her lover. To this nightmarish setting was added Howlin' Wolf (for a fairy-tale aspect), as well as several monstrous heavy metal anthems by The Muscle Bitches, Monster Magnet, and Anvil. Three different versions of the Willie Dixon-penned blues classic Evil were heard, as performed by Howlin Wolf, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, and Monster Magnet.

Part 1
1. Sonata Tragica - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 2 - Howlin Wolf
2. I'm the Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Erwartung, Sc.III - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. Cyclops Revolution - Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
7. Mothra - Anvil
8. Erwartung, Sc.I - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
9. Peek Through the Pines - Muscle Bitches -- The Wolf Talks 3 - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2
1. Dogs - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 1 - Howlin' Wolf
2. Evil - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
3. Erwartung, Sc.II - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. 666 - Anvil
5. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.1 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
6. Balls To the Wall - Muscle Bithches (originally performed by Accept)
7. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.3 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
8. Evil - Monster Magnet
9. Cielito Lindo - Blah Blah 666
10. Wolf At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

Desolation & Purgery

This episode was to be a more secular journey than the last, but a serendipitus discovery of a 2nd-hand copy of the obscure Hellephant CD by Vancouver’s The Muscle Bitches sent us back into the world of demonic phantasmagora (& if anyone knows how to get a copy of the Muscle Bitches extremely rare Demon Boy Takes a Lover CD please let me know so I can put it on air).

And to counteract the Muscle Bitches' Satanic Elephant worship, I called upon the Prophets Isaiah (on the Commuters' Audio Bible, to be accompanied by Pierre Boulez' Dialogue of the Double Shadow) and the paranoid religious psychodrama of Polly Jean Harvey with John Parish. Aired December 10, 2008

Part 1

1. Is That All There Is? – Frank Zappa
2. Comeland – Muscle Bitches
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Save the Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
5. Taut - John Parish & PJ Harvey
6. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe I) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.6
7. Heela - John Parish & PJ Harvey
8. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Transition I-II) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.9
9. Lost Fun Zone – John Parish & PJ Harvey
10. from Symphony No. 3 (Allegro Vivace – Lento) – Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu -- Isaiah Ch.5
11. Asscrack Bathmat – Muscle Bitches

Part 2

1. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Sigle Initial) – Pierre Boulez
2. Dance Hall at Louse Point – John Parish & PJ Harvey
3. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe II) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.21
4. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
5. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Transition II-III) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.22
6. Elephant - Muscle Bitches
7. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe III) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.24
8. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
9. Dialogue de l'Ombre double – (Transition III-IV) Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.27
10. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
11. Is That All There Is? – John Parish & PJ Harvey
12. Is That All There Is? – Frank Zappa