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

Winter Solstice 2010

No.102, aired December 22, 2010, third annual Winter Solstice special, celebrating imaginative peaks & outer darkness. Featuring further passages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, audiobook ran simultaneous with mostly Braxton’s Open Aspects, but also with other tracks. Played four Nursery Hymns by W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson), where he sets nursery rhymes to classical hymns, thus re-uniting once popular (as opposed to classical) tunes with popular (as opposed to religious) content – more info at http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html.

Part 1

1. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Redhead No.76 – W.B. Yonder
2. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – Mothers Of Invention
3. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep / Melita – W.B. Yonder
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Only Junior Fiction – Godfried & Soy
7. Open Aspect, No.1.2 – Anthony Braxton
8. Eansy-Weensy Spider / Judas Maccabeus - W.B. Yonder
9. The Treeman – Buckethead

Part 2

1. This Old Man / Praise, My Soul - W.B. Yonder
2. All Friends & Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
3. Open Aspect, No.6 – Anthony Braxton
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. A Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – Mothers Of Invention
6. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

A Trip To The Moon

No.89, aired September 22, 2010, with readings from Cantos II & III from Dante’s Paradiso, where he visited the Moon and talked to the Spirits that live there.

Part 1

1. Moondrunk (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Moonshine (Friend Of Mine) – Five Man Electrical Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Moonlight On Vermont – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Colombine (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
6. Moonlight Instrumental – David Vanervelde
7. Beyond The Moon – Max Webster
8. The Dandy (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
9. Distracted By The Moon – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Light Reflected Off The Oceans Of The Moon – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. A Chlorotic Laundery Maid (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Ghoul Next Door – Forbidden Dimension
4. Duke Of Prunes / Amnesia Vivace / The Duke Regains His Chops – The Mothers Of Invention
5. Wolves And Werewolves – The Pack A.D.
6. Valse de Chopin (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Werewolf - Five Man Electrical Band
8. Blah Overture – Blah Blah 666
9. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

Visions Of A(Nightare)ica

No.85, aired August 25, 2010. Featuring on-air readings of the poetry of Winnipeg’s Werner “Van” Harder.

Part 1

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers Of Invention
2. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie -- The Unwelcome Critic – Werner “Van” Harder
3. Wake Up America – Dayglo Abortions
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. America The Beautiful – D.O.A.
6. Hatian Fight Song – Charles Mingus -- I Am Dick Dick / Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran (?): Some (Viet)Nambulism (we’ve sleepwalked through this nightmare before) - Werner “Van” Harder
7. Everything I Touch – American Flamewhip

Part 2

1. American Society – L7
2. Sad Statue – System Of A Down
3. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
4. Ronald McRaygun – Dayglo Abortions
5. Americanized – GWAR
6. Once Upon A Time There Was A Holding Corporation Called Old America – Charles Mingus -- Jumping Jingoism: Flag-nostic / Calamity Gain - Werner “Van” Harder
7. American Dream – Cat Rapes Dog

Son Of Mostly Monsters

No. 70, Aired April 14, 2010, a double epidsode.

Another Monter Movie-themed show, this time featuring several spine-tingling chapters from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Lord 13 (track 3 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Take My Life ... Please – Dog Eat Dogma (from Dogzilla)
4. The Shape vs. Buckethead – Buckethead
5. Equatorial – Edgar Varese
6. Bastard Is As Bastard Does – Monster Voodoo Machine

Part 2

1. Longhair (track 2 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
3. Nocturnal – Edgar Varese

Part 3

1. 25 (track 1 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet

Part 4

1. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
2. Ani Can Sing – Guerrilla Funk Monster
3. From The Eastern Gate II – Alexina Louie
4. Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet – The Mothers Of Invention
5. From The Eastern Gate III – Alexina Louie