Each week Ed Shepp and his guests explore a theme plucked randomly from the perfume cloud over Macy's. May include (but is not limited to) talking, music, turkey sounds and eargasmic eclectitude.

July 22, 2005: Drugs

The topic for this show is Drugs.
My guest is Michael Collins, a friend of mine from those crazy college days...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
	Heather's Anti-Drug   → "Heather's Anti-Drug"
Ed Shepp	The Ed Shepp Radio Experiment Theme (Listen: Pop-up)   → "The Ed Shepp Radio Experiment Theme" by "Ed Shepp"	N/A	N/A	2005
FIRST MUSIC SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "FIRST MUSIC SEGMENT"
Fire on High	Float in a Dream of X-TC (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Float in a Dream of X-TC" by "Fire on High"	Technorave III				I used to love this song way back in the day. It was on this compilation my sister had called Technorave III: Technomania. If I'm not mistaken, also on that compilation were: Shut Up, Elvis Has Left the Building and No Sex Until Marriage. Text is from hedweb.com: The Good Drug Guide. This text demonstrates one thing: I really need to proofread the texts that I use! I didn't notice the grammatical errors in it until I'd heard it read back, and by then it was just too late to redo it. I had a similar problem with the America show, reading that piece of text from wikipedia, except I noticed while I was reading it that it was very clumsy text. But time was too of the essence to edit it. Alas!
Radioactive Goldfish	LSD Is a Bomb (Listen: Pop-up)   → "LSD Is a Bomb" by "Radioactive Goldfish"					Another song from way back in the day. The spoken part, "Know Your DOPE FIEND," comes from a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas CD.
	Don't Do It! (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Don't Do It!"	Grass: The Soundtrack				An old PSA.
Tara Delong	Overdose Scare (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Overdose Scare" by "Tara Delong"	You Do the Math				A song that I discovered on the K48 compilation CD that Halloween. I wish it were a bit less low-fi, cux I'd like to know all the words, and I just can't make them out.
FIRST MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "FIRST MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT"
Prefuse	Perverted Undertone (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Perverted Undertone" by "Prefuse"					Plays under Michael Collins
Cex	Theme Song to Cex (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Theme Song to Cex" by "Cex"	Role Model				Plays under Michael Collins. Cex just does great stuff.
SECOND MUSIC SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "SECOND MUSIC SEGMENT"
Christopher DeLaurenti	cocaine (Listen: Pop-up)   → "cocaine" by "Christopher DeLaurenti"	red disc				"Armed with two microphones and a tiny card inscribed cocaine, folks read from the card while I taped the results. cocaine is an ear-popping mosaic of voices, vehicles, words and other urban sounds."
Whitney Houston	It's Not Right, But It's OK (Listen: Pop-up)   → "It's Not Right, But It's OK" by "Whitney Houston"	My Love Is Your Love				Whitney makes a brief, acapella appearance.
J.J. Cale	Cocaine (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Cocaine" by "J.J. Cale"	Grass: The Soundtrack
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel	White Lines (Listen: Pop-up)   → "White Lines" by "Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel"					Text is from hedweb.com. Thanks to Tonya Townes for pointing this song out to me. I had never actually listened to it! I rememeber hearing it all the time in gay bars in Tallahassee and other places, and I hated it! I would think, 'ugh, it's that stupid disco song with that 'higher, baby' part.' I never listened to it, so I had no idea it was about cocaine! But when I listened to it, I thought, DUH.
Stewie Griffin	Cuckoo for Crack (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Cuckoo for Crack" by "Stewie Griffin"
Ed Shepp	Back to the Crack Shack (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Back to the Crack Shack" by "Ed Shepp"	Radio Friendly	N/A	2004
	Amphetamine Psychosis (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Amphetamine Psychosis"	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
	[text] (Listen: Pop-up)   → "[text]"					Text from The Speed Culture, a cheesy old anti-drug (or rather anti-amphetamines) book from the 70s. Song underneath is Sing, Sing, Sing, sped up and distorted a bit. I LOVE that song! It's gotta be my favorite big band-type song ever. I remember listening to it election day last year, and it just made everything seem even more exciting. ...it was last year, wasn't it?!
SECOND MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "SECOND MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT"
eric laurence	strungout (Listen: Pop-up)   → "strungout" by "eric laurence"					Plays under Michael Collins
THIRD MUSIC SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "THIRD MUSIC SEGMENT"
The Beatles	Yellow Submarine in Pepperland (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" by "The Beatles"	Yellow Submarine				I thought I remembered hearing that 'yellow submarine' referred to a barbiturate, or something like that. But apparently that might just be a myth. Who knows.
William S. Burroughs	Heroin Is a Vitamin (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Heroin Is a Vitamin" by "William S. Burroughs"
	[text] (Listen: Pop-up)   → "[text]"					Text from hedweb.com. Sounds underneath: a melange of a piece from the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, Silencio from the Mulholland Drive soundtrack, sitar sounds and, of course, the remnants of Yellow Submarine.
Michael Jackson	Morphine (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Morphine" by "Michael Jackson"	Blood on the Dance Floor				Another gem, courtesy of Tonya Townes, who had this album in her collection. This is only a small part of the song--the rest is an uptempo, dance-type number, and ghastly in that way that most MJ songs are. But it has this teensy little interlude in the middle. the noisy elements you hear I guess are supposed to preserve some continuity between this and the uptempo parts of the song. Now, can I just say how unbelievably well this piece works for this show?! It works on so many levels! First of all, the MJ cheesiness, and how he feels the need to inject his own cheesiness in this serious song (with the 'hee-hees' and all). Second--I just think it's a great song, this part--I love the pattern of the lyrics, the tune is catchy, the mood is evocative, it has those great little flourishes like that flute-sounding thing that allude to the subject matter. I think it's great. Third: THOSE LYRICS! Sung by MJ, they take on a whole other meaning: Before I put it in, close your eyes and count to ten... Eeew! And while he's probably not saying it per se, it sounds like at the end there he's saying, "Oh my, his god is Demerol." That can't be what he's saying, though. It would be too good to be true. Fourth: The piece is perfect for the show because he keeps saying 'Demerol' in it. Can't get more to the subject matter than a brand name like that. There is a danger to this piece, though: don't listen to it too much, cux it will get STUCK IN YOUR HEAD. And then you'll get all depressed. You don't want to have that lingereing in your head all day.
Snoop Doggy Dogg	Chronic Break (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Chronic Break" by "Snoop Doggy Dogg"
	Lucy (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Lucy"	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rita Lee	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by "Rita Lee"
	Science Experiment (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Science Experiment"	Grass: The Soundtrack
Child's Garden of Grass	Psychological Effects (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Psychological Effects" by "Child's Garden of Grass"	A Child's Garden of Grass
Ed Shepp	Ed Shepp's Scenes from a Life (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Ed Shepp's Scenes from a Life" by "Ed Shepp"	N/A	N/A			The music under the segment was Cex's You Kiss Like You're Dead, from Being Ridden Instrumentals
THJIRD MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "THJIRD MICHAEL COLLINS SEGMENT"
400	Daydream (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Daydream" by "400"					Plays under Michael Collins
Aphex Twin	Flim (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Flim" by "Aphex Twin"	Come to Daddy				Plays under Michael Collins I can't stress enough how much I like this piece. I've wanted to use it for something since the first time I heard it. I find it bittersweet, more emotionally complex than other stuff I've used. For me it has a wistful, nostalgic, slightly melancholic feel, at the same time a little joyful. Michael Collins, after haring the show, said that when this piece comes in it seems to evoke the mood of being slightly depressed after a long high. I think it ends on the perfect note, because it seems to look back and conclude at the same time. But the tone it ends on is conclusive and open-ended at the same time, almost reverberant, like memory. Hmmm, I hope those are all real words. I said to someone, referring to the piece, "I'm painting with a little blue in this show." There were a couple of processing issues with this piece, however. It seemed that in the end some of the vibe/elec. piano sound dipped, and that really drives the piece. So I hope it comes through more when I air it. I'm not actually sure it dipped, though, but it sounded different after processing. But processing was necessary, so, alas!
FOURTH MUSIC SEGMENT (Listen to this set: Pop-up) → "FOURTH MUSIC SEGMENT"
Ed Shepp	Ed Shepp Exposes: Ritalin (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Ed Shepp Exposes: Ritalin" by "Ed Shepp"	Radio Friendly	N/A	2004		Sped up with music added.
Ween	Zoloft (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Zoloft" by "Ween"	Quebec				Text is from Listening to Prozac. Yes, Listening to Prozac is an old book (actually, it wasn't that old at the time the show refers to), but I wanted to use it cux I like how it gives this really rosy view of antidepressants and what current pharmacology is capable of. Plus, it's a classic.
Cab Calloway	Reefer Man (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Reefer Man" by "Cab Calloway"	Grass: The Soundtrack
William S. Burroughs	Just Say No to Drug Hysteria (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Just Say No to Drug Hysteria" by "William S. Burr...
	Parents Beware! (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Parents Beware!"	Grass: The Soundtrack
Ed Shepp	Partydance (Listen: Pop-up)   → "Partydance" by "Ed Shepp"	Five	N/A	2005		People probably got this song in the spirit I intended it, but I wasn't always sure. I think some people thought I was serious. But I thought that the whole 'smoke some XTC, or take a marijuana pill' made it seem evident that this whole piece was tongue-in-cheek.
	[text] (Listen: Pop-up)   → "[text]"					Final Thought. I felt like I should add a disclaimer in at the end. At first I was going to put a cheesy, over-the-top 'just say no' thing in, but then I thought it might be better to put in something with a little balance. This is what I came up with.
This show is dedicated to the memory of Ron Odyssey → "This show is dedicated to the memory of Ron Odys...