Playlist for Andrew Listfield

Playlist for Andrew Listfield - August 18, 2008

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August 18, 2008: Show 200
(listen to entire show / each exact individual set / each exact individual song)

Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM

The start and end times for each individual set and each individual song are exact.

Listen to this show: RealAudio | Read comments

(*** = special)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Special
Set 1: some great rock. (Listen to this set: Real)
Jonathan Kane	Pops (track 2) (Listen: Real)	February	Table Of The Elements	Jonathan Kane's brand of blues rock, a definite western feel, gradually & slightly builds, easygoing.
Richard Lloyd	Field Of Fire (CD 1, track 9) (Listen: Real)	Field Of Fire Deluxe	Reaction	One of the great rock songs ever. This is the original version - not the remixed and shortened version on CD #2. I understand why Lloyd remixed the entire original album (it's contained on CD #2 of this 2 CD set) but, in this case, at least, the original is magical.	***
Marble Sheep	Tears (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Message From Oarfish	Captain Trip	I sat down to listen to this album, expecting more of the great psych rock Marble Sheep often comes up with. I was momentarily taken aback, I admit, because I wasn't hearing psych rock at all. As luck would have it, we have here, and also on track 3 of this CD, some great straight-ahead rock. This track: a sustained exuberant blast is more like it!	***

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)
Gunsmoke	Hero's Departure	Originally broadcast December 18, 1960	(no label)	There's a new guy in town, and he's a war hero - or is he? This is one of the last episodes of one of radio's great series, honed down to its essentials of well-defined characters and a story style that makes it easy to imagine you're right there in it. The ending of this episode carries a punch. "I just changed the truth a little bit, Marshall. It made me seem important." Sure, it takes place in The West - or, as they call it in France, Le Far West. So, you could call it a western. But Gunsmoke was and is to this day far more than this. And that's why it's one of radio's great series. Unless you're among those who say it IS the greatest. And check the 2 commercials at the end: the first is for a laxative cereal (still on the market), and the second is for a sleeping pill called Mr. Sleep. Simpler times.....	***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the psych rock portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)
Oneida	Preteen Weaponry Part 2 (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Preteen Weaponry	Jagjaguwar	Slow, acidy & druggy, heavy, builds gradually & moderately, quieter last few minutes, sudden end.
The Warlocks	Stone Hearts (track 3) (Listen: Real)	Phoenix EP	Birdman	A sunnier feel, psych rock, harmonica, sustained.
Up-Tight	1994. Jan at Ritz (track 1: faded out by -3:00) (Listen: Real)	Sweet Sister 1994 - 2003	Up-Tight	Monster Japanese psych rock. The music on the CD is arranged from earliest (this piece) to most recent at the end.
The Warlocks	Jam Of The Warlocks (track 6) (Listen: Real)	Warlocks	Bomp!	Their 1st album. Anticipatory start, like the band's getting ready for what's to come - a piece of at-times ecstatic psych rock.	***

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 4: quieter & darker - to start. But it warms up. (Listen to this set: Real)
Maurizio Bianchi	Aurea Aetas (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Das Platinzeitalter	Incunabulum	Airy, deep & dark, soft & quiet, deep & soft surges, gets somewhat active for a while, good for a feel of an experimental outer space, good at above quiet volume to bring out the slight storminess. Das Platinzeitalter translates as The Platinum Age.
Giancarlo Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi	I'm Happy Here (Before The Rain) (track 2: faded out by -2:22) (Listen: Real)	Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines	A Silent Place	Quiet and gentle guitar --> warm but mysterious music with echoey voices in the mix.
Aidan Baker	The Sea Swells A Bit... (track 1) (Listen: Real)	The Sea Swells A Bit...	A Silent Place	Feeling of water, deep-ish, slow & calming, you do feel like you're being slowly lifted and set down by the sea, develops a gentle edge underneath, slowly quiets down last few minutes.	***

Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 5: 2 very different ways to relax. (Listen to this set: Real)
Musicians of Sekolas Tinggi Seni Indonesia	Gending Tunggul Kawung (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Gamelan Of Central Java I: Classical Gendings	Felmay	Instrumental, quiet, meditative.
James Blackshaw	Past Has Not Passed (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Litany Of Echoes	Tompkins Square	Quiet start, then a luminous folk-oriented guitar over a darker base. Sweet music.	***

End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Comments

Special

Set 1: some great rock. (Listen to this set: Real)

Jonathan Kane

Pops (track 2) (Listen: Real)

February

Table Of The Elements

Jonathan Kane's brand of blues rock, a definite western feel, gradually & slightly builds, easygoing.

Richard Lloyd

Field Of Fire (CD 1, track 9) (Listen: Real)

Field Of Fire Deluxe

Reaction

One of the great rock songs ever. This is the original version - not the remixed and shortened version on CD #2. I understand why Lloyd remixed the entire original album (it's contained on CD #2 of this 2 CD set) but, in this case, at least, the original is magical.

***

Marble Sheep

Tears (track 1) (Listen: Real)

Message From Oarfish

Captain Trip

I sat down to listen to this album, expecting more of the great psych rock Marble Sheep often comes up with. I was momentarily taken aback, I admit, because I wasn't hearing psych rock at all. As luck would have it, we have here, and also on track 3 of this CD, some great straight-ahead rock. This track: a sustained exuberant blast is more like it!

***

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)

Gunsmoke

Hero's Departure

Originally broadcast December 18, 1960

(no label)

There's a new guy in town, and he's a war hero - or is he?

This is one of the last episodes of one of radio's great series, honed down to its essentials of well-defined characters and a story style that makes it easy to imagine you're right there in it. The ending of this episode carries a punch.

"I just changed the truth a little bit, Marshall. It made me seem important."

Sure, it takes place in The West - or, as they call it in France, Le Far West. So, you could call it a western. But Gunsmoke was and is to this day far more than this. And that's why it's one of radio's great series. Unless you're among those who say it IS the greatest.

And check the 2 commercials at the end: the first is for a laxative cereal (still on the market), and the second is for a sleeping pill called Mr. Sleep. Simpler times.....

***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the psych rock portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)

Oneida

Preteen Weaponry Part 2 (track 2) (Listen: Real)

Preteen Weaponry

Jagjaguwar

Slow, acidy & druggy, heavy, builds gradually & moderately, quieter last few minutes, sudden end.

The Warlocks

Stone Hearts (track 3) (Listen: Real)

Phoenix EP

Birdman

A sunnier feel, psych rock, harmonica, sustained.

Up-Tight

1994. Jan at Ritz (track 1: faded out by -3:00) (Listen: Real)

Sweet Sister 1994 - 2003

Up-Tight

Monster Japanese psych rock. The music on the CD is arranged from earliest (this piece) to most recent at the end.

The Warlocks

Jam Of The Warlocks (track 6) (Listen: Real)

Warlocks

Bomp!

Their 1st album. Anticipatory start, like the band's getting ready for what's to come - a piece of at-times ecstatic psych rock.

***

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 4: quieter & darker - to start. But it warms up. (Listen to this set: Real)

Maurizio Bianchi

Aurea Aetas (track 1) (Listen: Real)

Das Platinzeitalter

Incunabulum

Airy, deep & dark, soft & quiet, deep & soft surges, gets somewhat active for a while, good for a feel of an experimental outer space, good at above quiet volume to bring out the slight storminess. Das Platinzeitalter translates as The Platinum Age.

Giancarlo Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi

I'm Happy Here (Before The Rain) (track 2: faded out by -2:22) (Listen: Real)

Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines

A Silent Place

Quiet and gentle guitar --> warm but mysterious music with echoey voices in the mix.

Aidan Baker

The Sea Swells A Bit... (track 1) (Listen: Real)

The Sea Swells A Bit...

A Silent Place

Feeling of water, deep-ish, slow & calming, you do feel like you're being slowly lifted and set down by the sea, develops a gentle edge underneath, slowly quiets down last few minutes.

***

Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 5: 2 very different ways to relax. (Listen to this set: Real)

Musicians of Sekolas Tinggi Seni Indonesia

Gending Tunggul Kawung (track 2) (Listen: Real)

Gamelan Of Central Java I: Classical Gendings

Felmay

Instrumental, quiet, meditative.

James Blackshaw

Past Has Not Passed (track 2) (Listen: Real)

Litany Of Echoes

Tompkins Square

Quiet start, then a luminous folk-oriented guitar over a darker base. Sweet music.

***

End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Listener comments!

Mon. 8/18/08 12:14am From: harold

mmmm aaaaaa uuuuuu rgggggg ggrrrrrr nnnnnnpppptaaaaaa and aaaaaaaaaa thats my wfmu , music music music

Mon. 8/18/08 12:23am From: (mta) Tony

Hi Andrew, thanx for the eMail reminders of your show. Glad to be catching it live.

Mon. 8/18/08 12:24am From: Andrew, your DJ

My pleasure, Tony.

Mon. 8/18/08 12:27am From: dave

man, this marble tears record goes right on the "must have" list.

Mon. 8/18/08 12:27am From: dave

errr, marble sheep. oops. freudian slip.

Mon. 8/18/08 12:27am From: Andrew, your DJ

If anyone else wants to be added to my emailed show notification list, just let me know: either here, by including your email here (only I will see your email address), or privately, by sending me an email to andrew@wfmu.org.

Mon. 8/18/08 12:35am From: harold

marble sheep yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa , info please

Mon. 8/18/08 12:46am From: Andrew, your DJ

Most - if not all - their stuff is out on the Captain Trip label. Their url: www.captaintrip.co.jp. I'd recommend: Whirl Live, and Marble Sheep Meets Circle Triangle Square.

Playlist for Andrew Listfield - August 18, 2008

Listener comments!

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