Exodus

Episode no.76, aired June 9, 2010.

Featured most of the first 13 Chapters of the book of Exodus from the Commuters’ Audio Bible (chapters played noted below), plus several tracks from Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1977 Exodus album and all four tracks from D.O.A.’s 1985 E.P. Don’t Turn Yer Back On Desperate Times.

Part 1

1. Prelude – Judas Priest -- Ch.1
2. Round & Round I – John Beckwith
3. Natural Mystic – Bob Marley & The Wailers
4. Man Who Almost Was – Hylozoists -- Ch.2
5. Tyrant – Judas Priest
6. The Call Of Ktulu – Metallica -- Ch.3,4
7. Round & Round II – John Beckwith -- Ch.4 (con't)
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Burn It Down – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. For Starters – John Beckwith -- Ch.5
2. The Heathen – Bob Marley & The Wailers
3. Lovers Become Lovers – Hylozoists -- Ch.7
4. A Season In Hell – D.O.A.
5. Green Dolphin Street – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.8
6. Underdog World Strike – Gogol Bordello

Part 3

1. Round & Round III – John Beckwith -- Ch.9
2. Round & Round IV – John Beckwith -- Ch.9 (con't)
3. Race Riot – D.O.A.
4. Guiltiness – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. Glad To Be Unhappy – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.10
6. Round & Round V – John Beckwith -- Ch.11
7. Creeping Death – Metallica

Part 4

1. General Strike – D.O.A.
2. Round & Round VI – John Beckwith -- Ch.12
3. la fin du monde – Hylozoists -- Ch.12 (con't)
4. Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. 245 – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.13
6. One Love / People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers

The Mountain Ash Is Covered With Spawn

Episode no.75, aired June 2, 2010.

Featured an on-air reading of How I Know The Sky Is A River: selected and new shorter poems 1978 – 1998 by Saskatchewan poet Allan Safarik. To obtain copies of recent books by Allan & other great Hagios Press poets, visit http://hagiospress.com/.

Part 1

1. Write A Song – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. Journey To The End Of Night – Hylozoists
3. Telluride – Motocaster
4. Hearst – King Cobb Steelie -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)
5. T.I.M.E.B.O.M.B. – (International) Noise Conspiracy
6. Alternate Vision – Jon Ballantyne -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)

Part 2

1. Plants And Rags – PJ Harvey
2. From The Eastern Gate 3 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Rachel – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. Joe – PJ Harvey
5. Sacred Love – Bad Brains
6. Bad Information – King Cobb Steelie -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)
7. Dogs Part 2 – Motocaster
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

Poems read on-air from How I Know The Sky Is A River:

Crab / Saskatoon / Octopus / Mad Dogs Are Beautiful / Red Parrots In the Blue Jungle / The Human Factor / The Afterthought / Icarus / Between a Man and a Woman Was a Sail of Skin / Yellow and the Grave Sea / Two Eyes of the Faithless Dog / Deer / Tale of the Firefly / After the Rainbow / Rock River Poem / Meat in the Silo / Horticulture / The Duality of One / Pastoral / God Loves Us Like Earthworms Love Wood / Tree in Moonlight / The Debt / Yellow Bird / Mimicry of Birds at War

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