Wrong versus Right

Episode no.74, aired May 26, 2010.

Featured “right” & “wrong” songs, plus select chapters [18-24] from Leviticus, the Old Testament book of law and priestly ritual, which provided hilarious moral commentary as various sexual taboos & severe punishments were described to a backing of Charles Mingus’s Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces from The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Leviticus 21:9 provided some rather scary (and unintentional!) congruence as the text ordered the burning of promiscuous daughters of priests to the tune of Queen’s Of The Stone Age’s Burn The Witch.

Part 1

1. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Absolutely Right – Five Man Electrical Band
4. I’m Right, You’re Wrong – D.O.A.
5. Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces – Charles Mingus
6. Not Right – The Stooges
7. Burn The Witch – Queens Of The Stone Age
8. III Meditation – Pericardium
9. I Am Wrong – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Corrupted - Pericardium
2. I Meditation – Pericardium
3. Ain’t No Right – Jane’s Addiction
4. From The Eastern Gate I – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Ultimate Everything – Monster Magnet
6. II Meditation – Pericardium
7. You Were Right – Built To Spill
8. The Right Stuff – Monster Magnet

Carnival

Episode no.73, aired May 12, 2010, 10 pm to midnight. A double episode.

Featured a playing of the entire Funhouse album, released by The Stooges in 1970, plus several tracks from Carnivocal: a Celebration of Sound Poetry, and an on-air reading of bpNichol’s The Martyrology of Saint And.

Part 1

1. Land of the Freak – King Khan and the Shrines
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Ubu Hubbub – Christian Bok
4. Loose – The Stooges
5. The Loose – Jon Ballantyne
6. 60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello
7. Dirt – The Stooges
8. Sodom City – Red Hot Lovers

Part 2

1. Mange Avec Tes Doigts – Les Georges Leningrad
2. The Carney – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. The Future For Les – Les Georges Leningrad -- The Martyrology of Saint And - bpNichol
4. 1970 – The Stooges
5. “A” Yantra – First Draft
6. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

Part 3

1. Down In The Street – The Stooges
2. Monorails & Satellites – Sun Ra
3. Tease Me, Please Me – Anvil
4. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz
5. Restlessness – First Draft
6. T.V. Eye – The Stooges

Part 4

1. Sigh About This – Lederhosen Lucil
2. The Alter Destiny – Sun Ra
3. Funhouse – The Stooges
4. L.A. Blues – The Stooges
5. On Dissecting The Larynx – W. Mark Sutherland
6. Lonely Lonely – Les Georges Leningrad
7. Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

More Birds & Guitars

Episode no. 72, airing April 28, 2010, revisited the combination of guitars & birds from no.9, featuring real birds this time rather than poems about birds, with guitar solos from various artists mixed with the Peterson Field Guide of Western Bird Songs, an audiobook produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Part 1

1. A Real Mother For Ya – Johnny Guitar Watson
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Dogs – Blah Blah 666
4. One That All Plectrum Guitar Players Can Relate To The Ending Of – Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
5. Psychic Vacuum – Voivod
6. Slapshot – Tim Postgate
7. Snow – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Open Country Joy – Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
3. Letter To Derek - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
4. M12 – Derek Bailey

Dead Poets II

No. 71, aired April 21, 2010 – picks up where No.69 left off, in the early 20th Century literary zeitgeist, featuring historic recordings of poets reading from their work.

Part 1

1. Resume – Dorothy Parker
2. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
3. Zenooner – Evil Dick -- Song For The Last Act – Louise Bogan
4. I Don’t Love You - Dishrags
5. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Marching Song – Pointed Sticks
7. Syrmos (for 18 Strings) – Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / as freedom is a breakfastfood – E.E. Cummings / Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies – Edna St. Vincent Millay
8. Kill, Kill, This Is Pop – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Big Shot – Exxotone
2. Snog With My Drums – Hession, Wilkinson, Fell -- Afternoon – Dorothy Parker
3. Wirehead – Wasted Lives
4. Ballad Of Otis Twelvepersons - Hession, Wilkinson, Fell –- The Dream – Louise Bogan / Dark Symphoney V & VI / An Ex-Judge At The Bar – Melvin B. Tolson
5. Fun While It Lasts – Active Dog
6. Doo’s – Evil Dick -- Resume – Dorothy Parker
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

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

Dead Poets Dug Up

Episode no. 69 took us back into the 20th Century Zeitgeist, featuring a digging up of the dead in recordings from the Poetry Speaks audio anthology of famous poets reading from their work. Aired April 7, 2010.

Part 1

1. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, I.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
2. The Gravedigger – SNFU
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, II.Rasch – Anton Webern -- The Oven Bird – Robert Frost
5. Messiah Ward – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- Nothing Gold Can Stay – Robert Frost
6. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, III.Sehr langsam - Anton Webern -- Cool Tombs – Carl Sandburg
7. A Coffin Named Desire – Forbidden Dimension
8. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, IV.Bewegt – Anton Webern -- Grass – Carl Sandburg
9. Everything Is Alive – Beef Terminal -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly II, IV, and V – Ezra Pound
10. Martian Gravedigger – Forbidden Dimension

Part 2

1. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, IV.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself – Wallace Stevens
2. Death Was Too Kind – Subhumans
3. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, I.Heftig bewegt – Anton Webern -- The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
4. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, II.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- XLV from The Cantos – Ezra Pound
5. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, IV.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern
6. III Meditation – Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyond – Pericardium
8. II Meditation – Pericardium -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
9. Fifty-two Incorporated – Tinkertoy -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock (continued)
10. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, V.In zarter Bewegung – Anton Webern -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock (continued)
11. Cemetary – Headstones

Humpty Dumpty Contrafacta

No. 68, aired March 31, 2010 – an Easter special.

Featured live readings of poetry from Reginan Hendrik Markus’s Phenomena No Hindrance. Copies are available for purchase in the Sask Lit. Section at Book & Briar Patch.

Also featured 4 recuperated “Nursery Hymns” of W.B. Yonder, a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson. Free downloads plus notes on his contrafactal process and other delights can be found at: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Resolution – Mahavishnu Orchestra –- The Messianic Heart – Hendrik Markus
2. Humpty Dumpty / Arnsberg – Patrick Johnson
3. Crack In The Egg – GWAR
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Tori – Not Goin’ To Vegas
6. The Treeman – Buckethead -- Axis Mundi – Hendrik Markus
7. Jack And Jill / Maryton - Patrick Johnson
8. Free Satpal Ram – Asian Dub Foundation
9. From the Eastern Gate 2 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
10. Gor-Gor – GWAR

Part 2

1. Chocolate Jesus – Tom Waits
2. Pylegathon – Buckethead
3. Three Blind Mice / Crusader’s Hymn – Patrick Johnson
4. Sanctuary – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- Easter Sunday, 1983 (A Buddhist Talks To God) - Hendrik Markus
5. Traveling Morgue – Buckethead
6. Alphabet Song / Dix – Patrick Johnson
7. Asscrack Bathmat – Muscle Bitches
8. Watermelon In Easter Hay – Frank Zappa
9. Saved – Amour Fou
10. Sailing - Ripcordz