Green Eggs and Ham: Election Week 2

Another show by the seat of my pants, delving sporadically into the in-station library mid-show more than I have for a long time. But sometimes that's when it all comes together, with musical genres overlapping until the show as a whole is like a musical melting pot; a whirlwind two hours of music that I hope feels like a guided tour of quality creative expression. Or it's just a bunch of songs. Whatever. Here's the playlist:


The Black Angels - "Entrance Song"
The Hold Steady - "Barely Breathing"
Camp Radio - "Alone In A Tent"
Malajube - "Le Blizzard"
Quaker Parents - "Teeshirt"
Twin Sister - "Space Babe"
Ryan Adams - "Rocks"
Poler Bear - "Parachute"
Fleet Foxes - "The Shrine / An Argument"
Marine Dreams - "Visions"
Snailhouse - "Sentimental Gentleman"
Grimes - "Oblivion"
Daft Punk - "Encom Part 2" (Com Truise remix)
Born Gold - "Decimate Everything"
Chixdiggit - "Miso Ramen"
Bayonets!!! - "Space Agency"
Many Metal Mistakes - "Death Proof"
Male Bonding - "Carrying"
B.A. Johnston - "Pep and Ched"
The Cover Girls - "Show Me"   *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Teenburger - "Kill Lincoln" (feat. D-Sisive)
Siskiyou - "Twigs And Stones"
Greg MacPherson - "Ukrainians"
Octoberman - "The Years"
Adam & The Amethysts - "Canadian Tired"

Green Eggs and Ham: Election Week 1

A week off for a rejuvenating house concert with Paper Beat Scissors and Terra Lightfoot, a new job for the provincial election, and here we are: I'm busy and tired as hell. This week's show was fun, though. Everything kind of clicked into place. Here's the playlist:


Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans - "Fell Off The Dock"
The Dodos - "Sleep"
Man Your Horse - "Grass Baskets"
David Francey - "Yesterday's News"
White Ash - "Katie Cruel"
Feist - "Bittersweet Melodies"
Sandro Perri - "Love & Light"
Jason Collett - "The Slowest Dance"
Michael Rault - "The Things You Said"
Feral Children - "Magic Sacred Ritual"
S.C.U.M. - "Amber Hands"
Surfer Blood - "Miranda" (SVIIB Exhalation Remix)
Karlsson & Winnberg - "The Dance"
Casiokids - "Det haster!"
The Barr Brothers - "Beggar in the Morning"
Bruce Peninsula - "Chupacabra"
Aaron Hall - "Curiosity"   *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Socalled - "Work With What You Got"
Painted Palms - "Water Hymn"
The Darcys - "Shaking Down The Old Bones"
Dive - "Sometime"
Ohbijou - "Iron and Ore"

Green Eggs and Ham: Panties by Request

Nothing says "busy life" like an extremely late blog post that amounts to not much more than a copy-and-paste job and little bit of commentary, right? Well, it's been busy. What with all the CFCR-sposored FM-phasis shows, working, and otherwise being lazy, I'm finding it hard to find time for the cool stuff, like this (oh yeah, you can also see what else has been occupying my time at unrealcity.ca). This week was week 2 of FM-phasis, and I actually got 2 (2!) calls from people making pledges. One was a pay-for-play request (that sounds bad, doesn't it?), so I played "Bargain! Shop Panties" by SK's Little Miss Higgins (also Santigold for the other pledge). The rest of the playlist is below:

Blue Peter - "Radio Silence"

Wild Beasts - "Thankless Thing"

The Lazy MK's - "Sled Dogs"

Music Explosion - "A Little Bit O' Soul"

The Beatles - "Money (That's What I Want)"

Beach House - "Walk In The Park"

Les Jupes - "Someone Lit A Fire Under Khruschev"

Hollerado - "Riverside"

SebastiAn - "Embody"

Little Miss Higgins - "Bargain! Shop Panties"

Pat Jordache - "Radio Generation"

The Weather Station - "Everything I Saw"

National Parks Project (Old Man Luedecke, Tony Dekker, Daniela Gesundheit) - "Listen And Profit" 

Corey Hart - "Never Surrender"   *this week's Slice of Cheese

Smith Westerns - "End of the Night"

Dan Mangan - "Post-War Blues"

Blitzen Trapper - "Street Fighting Sun"

Santigold - "L.E.S. Artistes"