WFMU: Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 9, 2003

Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 9, 2003

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September 9, 2003: A Little Slice of Hell.

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	New	Approx. start time
So here's what I learned this week:
1. The best night of the week to stay up late is Sunday. It doesn't matter if you go out or stay in, but you definitely shouldn't be going to bed any time before 1 AM on Sunday night. This past Sunday, I decided to dig through my crate of old videotapes and was rewarded with a documentary about the band QUEEN (which was totally great) as well as the bizarre 1986 film F-X, in which Bryan Brown plays a special effects movie man who is hired by the Justice Department (actually Mason Adams, who you may remember from various Nuprin commercials from the mid 80s) to fake the assassination of a mob kingpin who is preparing to testify for the NYPD. Things go awry when Mason's character (weirdly named "Mason" in the movie) tries to have our Australian hero (Brown) killed so there are no "loose ends." Later on, Brown defeats the bad guys by employing his movie-making special effects props, including fake blood packets, smoke machines, a large alien that roars like Chewbacca with a bad sinus infection, Krazy Glue, and a fake corpse from a splatter flick called "I Dismember Mama" (which really exists!) Although I fell asleep on my couch before the end of the movie, I believe the exciting conclusion of the film features Brian Dennehy as an angry NYPD detective who reveals that he is actually an alien from outer space who goes back in time to fight nazis during World War II with the aid of a modern aircraft carrier. I missed the sequel, F-X-2, which I think elaborated further on this surprising plot twist.
2. I like art more than I thought I did.
There was more, I think... I learned that I shouldn't stay at the station late on Monday nights, even if Scott Williams is hosting live sets from badass rock bands that I like, because it just spells disaster for my Tuesday morning radio duties. Apologies for the numerous sonic flubberies contained herein. Approach with caution.

Bloodthirsty Lovers	Transgression #9	Bloodthirsty Lovers			0:00:18 Pop-up)
King Kong	I Don't Wanna Party Anymore	Kingdom of Kong	Whoops, Ethan Buckler wasn't in Squirrelbait, he was in Slint -- a band I pretended to like for a while when their first record came out on Jennifer Hartmann Records & Tapes. Actually, I remember quite vividly being bullied into buying that album ("Tweez") by this excessively talkative woman I met at the Record Store who was in the midst of lecturing the staff on the lack of vision exposed on side two of all records by the band Big Black. I made the mistake of disagreeing with her (something I would never do now... Not because I've become less opinionated, but because these days I don't actually care when people are visibly wrong in my presence) and then the next thing you know, she forced me to spend $7.99 that she assured me would prove her point. It didn't. I thought "Tweez" sounded like side two of a Big Black record, but never mind about that now. Interestingly enough, the woman in question turned out to be the editor of the great RABID FANZINE, which you might remember if you grew up punk rock in New Jersey.		0:04:04 Pop-up)
Badfinger	Just a Chance	Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the 70s	compilation		0:07:10 Pop-up)
TTC	Pollutions	Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque	You are not imagining the ABBA samples in your head.		0:10:01 Pop-up)
Eraldo Palmero	Funk da Verada (Waterfront Lounge mix)	City of God REMIXED	compilation/soundtrack	*	0:15:05 Pop-up)
Make Up	The Joy of Sound	In Mass Mind			0:21:45 Pop-up)
Fuses	Me, I Disconnect from You	Sex Crimes 7"	Tubeway Army cover	*	0:25:24 Pop-up)
Redd Kross	I Don't Know how to be your Friend	Third Eye			0:28:49 Pop-up)

Peaches	Back it up Boys	Fatherfucker		*	0:41:02 Pop-up)
Positive K	Step up Front	Ego Trip's: The Big Playback	compilation		0:44:38 Pop-up)
Candy Machine	Nerve Central	Tune International			0:48:44 Pop-up)
Big Stick	Drag Racing	EP	This must be the greatest song of all time because every time I play it, people call wanting to know what it is or carrying on about how they haven't heard it in so long. Hey, let's hear it for the cheap crowd-pleaser! Is Cleveland in the house tonight? Let's go Tribe!		0:52:19 Pop-up)
Negativland	Gimmee the Mermaid	Fair Use (The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2)	If I told you who the sampled voice in this track was, you probably wouldn't believe me.		0:54:01 Pop-up)
Band on the Run	Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five	Band on the Run		*	0:58:22 Pop-up)
ZZ Top/Turtles	Indecision	various slowed down MP3s			1:03:43 Pop-up)

Flaming Fire	Gun through a Razor	Songs from the Shining Temple			1:19:34 Pop-up)
Cosmic Psychos	Bullet	Self-Totalled	Thug shit. I love this stuff just as much as, and in exactly the same manner as late 80s gangsta rap. Now if only the Cosmic Psychos had been paired with, say, Eazy E on the soundtrack to Judgment Night, we might live in a slightly better world than the one we're forced to reckon with each morning when we address the edge of the bed. (Aside: I have just become mildly disturbed by the fact that I'm only now, at my advanced age, discovering that I'm not quite sure if there should actually be an "E" in the middle of the word "Judgment" and the internet isn't helping.)		1:22:14 Pop-up)
Rude Kids	Absolute Ruler	7"	A lot of punk rock bands achieved a primitive sound, Sweden's Rude Kids no exceptions. But I've always thought they unleashed something a little bit more special on this single... It's slightly scarier, uglier, and makes me wonder what my reaction to these obviously posessed Swedes would've been, had I been more than a young tot at the time of their reign.
Mars Ill	Afterlife	Backbreakanomics		*	1:29:47 Pop-up)
Too Poetic	Poetical Terror	12"			1:33:39 Pop-up)
Freddy Fresh & MPC Genius	Tracks 2, 3, and 4	The Trainspotters Dream Mastermix Vol. 2		*	1:37:29 Pop-up)
Sophie Rimheden	In Your Mind	Hi-Fi		*	1:43:09 Pop-up)
Cobra Killer	H-Man A Psychocat	The Third Armpit		*	1:45:57 Pop-up)

Nebula	Whatcha Lookin' For?	To the Center	If this song doesn't make you want to take up the drums, you should start checking yourself for a pulse.		1:56:25 Pop-up)
Swingers	Certain Sound	AK-79	compilation		1:58:56 Pop-up)
Johnny Thunders	I Only Wrote this Song for You	Que Sera Sera			2:02:39 Pop-up)
Fire in the Kitchen	Backseat Connoisseur	Glow 2x7"			2:05:06 Pop-up)
Ratto Ja Lehtisalo	Nykyaika	Kopernikus Hortoilee Nakinkengassa		*	2:09:26 Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Be my Lover	Killer	Warning: Amateur radio hour approacheth about 60 seconds in.		2:14:53 Pop-up)
Nausea	Clutches	Extinction			2:16:50 Pop-up)
Harvey Milk	Probolkoc	The Singles		*	2:19:18 Pop-up)
Really Red	Prostitution	Teaching you the Fear			2:20:45 Pop-up)
Brainbombs	Stigma of the Ripper	7"	Hide your kids. Better hide your pets, parents, grandparents, and car keys while you're at it. Wait: they broke up. Eh, best not to take any chances. They might have friends.	*	2:22:16 Pop-up)

Scornflakes	Live at City Gardens	Live at City Gardens	In all my yammering on about this band's nebulous affiliations to Black Flag and the Rollins Band, I neglected to mention the true celebrity at hand: the late E. William Tucker, to whom fans of the band Pigface, as well as the guitar sound unleashed on Ministry records like "Land of Rape and Honey" and "Burning Inside" owe their credit.		2:35:06 Pop-up)
Dizzee Rascal	Cut 'em Off	Boy in Da Corner		*	2:41:26 Pop-up)
Villain Accelerate	Surgery	Maid of Gold		*	2:44:40 Pop-up)
Schwartzeneggar	Take Your Elbows off the Table	Take Your Elbows off the Table EP	Featuring Steve Ignorant, late of Crass.		2:48:13 Pop-up)
Atmosphere	Reflections	12"		*	2:53:27 Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Be my Lover (This time for Real)	Killer			2:57:57 Pop-up)

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Artist

Track

Album

Comments

New

Approx. start time

So here's what I learned this week:

1. The best night of the week to stay up late is Sunday. It doesn't matter if you go out or stay in, but you definitely shouldn't be going to bed any time before 1 AM on Sunday night. This past Sunday, I decided to dig through my crate of old videotapes and was rewarded with a documentary about the band QUEEN (which was totally great) as well as the bizarre 1986 film F-X, in which Bryan Brown plays a special effects movie man who is hired by the Justice Department (actually Mason Adams, who you may remember from various Nuprin commercials from the mid 80s) to fake the assassination of a mob kingpin who is preparing to testify for the NYPD. Things go awry when Mason's character (weirdly named "Mason" in the movie) tries to have our Australian hero (Brown) killed so there are no "loose ends." Later on, Brown defeats the bad guys by employing his movie-making special effects props, including fake blood packets, smoke machines, a large alien that roars like Chewbacca with a bad sinus infection, Krazy Glue, and a fake corpse from a splatter flick called "I Dismember Mama" (which really exists!) Although I fell asleep on my couch before the end of the movie, I believe the exciting conclusion of the film features Brian Dennehy as an angry NYPD detective who reveals that he is actually an alien from outer space who goes back in time to fight nazis during World War II with the aid of a modern aircraft carrier. I missed the sequel, F-X-2, which I think elaborated further on this surprising plot twist.

2. I like art more than I thought I did.

There was more, I think... I learned that I shouldn't stay at the station late on Monday nights, even if Scott Williams is hosting live sets from badass rock bands that I like, because it just spells disaster for my Tuesday morning radio duties. Apologies for the numerous sonic flubberies contained herein. Approach with caution.

Bloodthirsty Lovers

Transgression #9

Bloodthirsty Lovers

0:00:18 Pop-up)

King Kong

I Don't Wanna Party Anymore

Kingdom of Kong

Whoops, Ethan Buckler wasn't in Squirrelbait, he was in Slint -- a band I pretended to like for a while when their first record came out on Jennifer Hartmann Records & Tapes. Actually, I remember quite vividly being bullied into buying that album ("Tweez") by this excessively talkative woman I met at the Record Store who was in the midst of lecturing the staff on the lack of vision exposed on side two of all records by the band Big Black. I made the mistake of disagreeing with her (something I would never do now... Not because I've become less opinionated, but because these days I don't actually care when people are visibly wrong in my presence) and then the next thing you know, she forced me to spend $7.99 that she assured me would prove her point. It didn't. I thought "Tweez" sounded like side two of a Big Black record, but never mind about that now. Interestingly enough, the woman in question turned out to be the editor of the great RABID FANZINE, which you might remember if you grew up punk rock in New Jersey.

0:04:04 Pop-up)

Badfinger

Just a Chance

Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the 70s

compilation

0:07:10 Pop-up)

TTC

Pollutions

Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque

You are not imagining the ABBA samples in your head.

0:10:01 Pop-up)

Eraldo Palmero

Funk da Verada (Waterfront Lounge mix)

City of God REMIXED

compilation/soundtrack

0:15:05 Pop-up)

Make Up

The Joy of Sound

In Mass Mind

0:21:45 Pop-up)

Fuses

Me, I Disconnect from You

Sex Crimes 7"

Tubeway Army cover

0:25:24 Pop-up)

Redd Kross

I Don't Know how to be your Friend

Third Eye

0:28:49 Pop-up)

Peaches

Back it up Boys

Fatherfucker

0:41:02 Pop-up)

Positive K

Step up Front

Ego Trip's: The Big Playback

compilation

0:44:38 Pop-up)

Candy Machine

Nerve Central

Tune International

0:48:44 Pop-up)

Big Stick

Drag Racing

This must be the greatest song of all time because every time I play it, people call wanting to know what it is or carrying on about how they haven't heard it in so long. Hey, let's hear it for the cheap crowd-pleaser! Is Cleveland in the house tonight? Let's go Tribe!

0:52:19 Pop-up)

Negativland

Gimmee the Mermaid

Fair Use (The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2)

If I told you who the sampled voice in this track was, you probably wouldn't believe me.

0:54:01 Pop-up)

Band on the Run

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

Band on the Run

0:58:22 Pop-up)

ZZ Top/Turtles

Indecision

various slowed down MP3s

1:03:43 Pop-up)

Flaming Fire

Gun through a Razor

Songs from the Shining Temple

1:19:34 Pop-up)

Cosmic Psychos

Bullet

Self-Totalled

Thug shit. I love this stuff just as much as, and in exactly the same manner as late 80s gangsta rap. Now if only the Cosmic Psychos had been paired with, say, Eazy E on the soundtrack to Judgment Night, we might live in a slightly better world than the one we're forced to reckon with each morning when we address the edge of the bed. (Aside: I have just become mildly disturbed by the fact that I'm only now, at my advanced age, discovering that I'm not quite sure if there should actually be an "E" in the middle of the word "Judgment" and the internet isn't helping.)

1:22:14 Pop-up)

Rude Kids

Absolute Ruler

A lot of punk rock bands achieved a primitive sound, Sweden's Rude Kids no exceptions. But I've always thought they unleashed something a little bit more special on this single... It's slightly scarier, uglier, and makes me wonder what my reaction to these obviously posessed Swedes would've been, had I been more than a young tot at the time of their reign.

Mars Ill

Afterlife

Backbreakanomics

1:29:47 Pop-up)

Too Poetic

Poetical Terror

12"

1:33:39 Pop-up)

Freddy Fresh & MPC Genius

Tracks 2, 3, and 4

The Trainspotters Dream Mastermix Vol. 2

1:37:29 Pop-up)

Sophie Rimheden

In Your Mind

Hi-Fi

1:43:09 Pop-up)

Cobra Killer

H-Man A Psychocat

The Third Armpit

1:45:57 Pop-up)

Nebula

Whatcha Lookin' For?

To the Center

If this song doesn't make you want to take up the drums, you should start checking yourself for a pulse.

1:56:25 Pop-up)

Swingers

Certain Sound

AK-79

compilation

1:58:56 Pop-up)

Johnny Thunders

I Only Wrote this Song for You

Que Sera Sera

2:02:39 Pop-up)

Fire in the Kitchen

Backseat Connoisseur

Glow 2x7"

2:05:06 Pop-up)

Ratto Ja Lehtisalo

Nykyaika

Kopernikus Hortoilee Nakinkengassa

2:09:26 Pop-up)

Alice Cooper

Be my Lover

Killer

Warning: Amateur radio hour approacheth about 60 seconds in.

2:14:53 Pop-up)

Nausea

Clutches

Extinction

2:16:50 Pop-up)

Harvey Milk

Probolkoc

The Singles

2:19:18 Pop-up)

Really Red

Prostitution

Teaching you the Fear

2:20:45 Pop-up)

Brainbombs

Stigma of the Ripper

Hide your kids. Better hide your pets, parents, grandparents, and car keys while you're at it. Wait: they broke up. Eh, best not to take any chances. They might have friends.

2:22:16 Pop-up)

Scornflakes

Live at City Gardens

In all my yammering on about this band's nebulous affiliations to Black Flag and the Rollins Band, I neglected to mention the true celebrity at hand: the late E. William Tucker, to whom fans of the band Pigface, as well as the guitar sound unleashed on Ministry records like "Land of Rape and Honey" and "Burning Inside" owe their credit.

2:35:06 Pop-up)

Dizzee Rascal

Cut 'em Off

Boy in Da Corner

2:41:26 Pop-up)

Villain Accelerate

Surgery

Maid of Gold

2:44:40 Pop-up)

Schwartzeneggar

Take Your Elbows off the Table

Take Your Elbows off the Table EP

Featuring Steve Ignorant, late of Crass.

2:48:13 Pop-up)

Atmosphere

Reflections

12"

2:53:27 Pop-up)

Alice Cooper

Be my Lover (This time for Real)

Killer

2:57:57 Pop-up)

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Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 9, 2003

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