Green Eggs and Ham: Summer Spectacular 2012

A full 2 hours of summer fun this morning, with songs that evoke heat in the forefront. From your road trips, to your ocean dips, to tornadoes (the theme so far in Saskatchewan this year), the show was designed to soundtrack the season. It's an annual tradition now. Here's the playlist:

King Tuff - "Bad Thing"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "The Mighty Sparrow"
PS I Love You - "Princess Towers"
Young Rival - "The Ocean"
Frankie Rose - "Pair Of Wings"
Echo Lake - "Even The Blind"
Chromatics - "At Your Door"
Hey Ocean! - "Islands"
We Were Lovers - "Islands"
Islands - "Jogging Gorgeous Summer"
Crocodiles - "My Surfing Lucifer"
Robin Ward - "Wonderful Summer"
Magic Kids - "Summer"
Breakbot - "Summerparty"
Teen Daze - "Cold Sand"
The Parish of Little Clifton - "It's Okay, Roseanne"
The Golden Seals - "Summer Side Of Life"
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - "Summer Wind"
Actual Water - "Summer In The End"
Shotgun Jimmie - "Summer Sound"
Richard Marx - "Endless Summer Nights"**
Drive-By Truckers - "Tornadoes"
The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Tornado '87"
Cannon Bros - "Soft View"
Real Boys - "Vacation"
Superchunk - "This Summer"
Japandroids - "The Nights of Wine and Roses"




**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: The MoSo With The MoSo-est

This week's show was simple: 2 hours of songs by bands and artists playing this year's MoSoFEST in Saskatoon. It's going to take over the city's nightlife this weekend, so I let it take over my show. This thing is going to be absolutely terrific. Here's the playlist:


Smokekiller - "Jenny"
Eamon McGrath - "I Am The Deer"
Slow Down, Molasses - "Wake Me Up at the Coast"
Snailhouse - "I Never Woke Up"
Zachary Lucky - "Back In The Fall"
Bry Webb - "Get You Up In Peace"
Factor - "Cassette Tape Hiss" (ft. Jeans Boots)
Moka Only & Ayatollah - "Come Along"
Feral Children - "Magic Sacred Ritual"
Zombifyus - "City Heads"
Breaker Breaker - "You're A Machine"
Eyebats - "Who Made You Government Baby"
C'mon - "Feeding Off the Dirt"
Junior Pantherz - "(jammer)"
Teen Daze - "Brooklyn Summer"
Form - "Celery"
economics - "Night Shift"
The Karpinka Brothers - "When the Storm Clears"
Andy Shauf - "Sam Jones"
B.A. Johnston - "Raised by the Wooden Spoon"
Ketamines - "Evil Intentions"
Shuyler Jansen - "Wedding Band"
Damien Jurado - "This Time Next Year"
Shotgun Jimmie - "That's Not Joel"
Cannon Bros - "Out Of Here"
The Dudes - "Tear it Up"

Green Eggs and Ham: Space Will Follow

From an 80's pastiche of an opening, to brand spanking new tracks from Grizzly Bear, Cold Warps, Cookie Duster and No Joy, this show was fun to do. It's always fun when it's wall-to-wall good times. Here's the playlist:

Chromeo - "The Right Type"
Hall & Oates - "Out Of Touch"
Chairlift - "Amanaemonesia"
Octoberman - "Waiting For Christine"
The Crackling - "Ashen"
Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy - "Your Wild"
Crocodiles - "No Black Clouds For Dee Dee"
Boxer the Horse - "Bridge to the U.S.A."
White Lung - "Those Girls"
Trailer Trash Tracys - "Candy Girl"
SFV Acid - "Granmasmitza"
Handsome Furs - "When I Get Back"
Cut Copy - "Sun God"
Cold Warps - "Slimer"
No Joy - "Junior"
Stella Ella Ola - "Little Black Rope"
Milks & Rectangles - "Hospital Patience"
John Waite - "Missing You"**
Wintersleep - "Unzipper"
Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute"
Cookie Duster - "Space Will Follow"
Young Liars - "Marathon"


**This week's Slice of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Drink To Moving On

There is so much good music out there; this week is no different. Some grand and brand new tracks from Cellphone, Kestrels, King Tuff, Weed and We Were Lovers graced the airwaves, Tenacious D returned only to end up as the slice of cheese, and I paid tribute to the fact that I'm moving today with a few semi-related jams. Here's the playlist


Soft Mirage - "Courtyards of Atlantis"
David Simard - "The Knife"
Parlovr - "Now That You're Gone"
Kestrels - "The Field Where I Died"
King Tuff - "Anthem"
The Sadies & Andre Williams - "One Eyed Jack"
Drive-By Truckers - "Dancin' Ricky"
Japandroids - "Fire's Highway"
Weed - "Ben's Tour"
Wintersleep - "In Came The Flood"
Grand National - "Drink To Moving On"
The National - "Apartment Story"
Billy Joel - "Movin' Out"
We Were Lovers - "Islands"
Young Galaxy - "B.S.E."
Blood Diamonds - "Phone Sex" (ft. Grimes)
Lower - "Craver"
Fist City - "Buried"
Cellphone - "One Last Shot"
Tenacious D - "Rize of the Fenix"**
Zeus - "Strong Mind"
Rah Rah - "Little Poems"
Monomyth - "Sacred Hand"
Army Girls - "T W I C E"
PS I Love You - "How Do You"


**This week's Slice of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Time Flies

I love it when a plan comes together. Or, in the case of this morning's show, disparate items cohere into a unit that strongly resembles a plan. Take the opening "Shine A Light" themed set: not planned; the finishing "girls" themed set: not at all planned; The Nick Lowe / Elvis Costello book-tune 1-2 punch: decided in 5 minutes in advance. I also couldn't have planned for somebody requesting a song by Mariachi El Bronx, a band I'm still not sure I enjoy. It all worked out, though. Here's the playlist:

Adam Franklin - "Shine A Light"
Constantines - "Tiger & Crane"
Rolling Stones - "Shine A Light"
Arkells - "Coffee"
Joel Plaskett Emergency - "Time Flies"
Nick Lowe - "When I Write The Book"
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Everyday I Write The Book"
White Ash Falls - "Your Song"
Cold Specks - "When the City Lights Dim"
John Southworth - "So Glad It's Finally Spring"
Houses - "Endless Spring"
Alice Cooper - "Sun Arise"
Lemonade - "Softkiss"
Girl Unit - "Wut"
Baauer - "Harlem Shake"
Mariachi El Bronx - "Revolution Girl"
Actual Water - "Brighton"
Chad Vangaalen - "Burning Photographs"
The Jam - "I've Changed My Address"
Will Smith - "Men In Black"**
Metric - "Speed the Collapse"
In-Flight Safety - "I Could Love You More"
The Dudes - "American Girl"
Best Coast - "Better Girl"
The Mohawk Lodge - "Wicked Nights (Canadian Girl)"
M83 - "Graveyard Girl"


**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Point Of Return

I don't really have much commentary. Y'know the usual mix of certified "hitz" and brand spanking new "hitz in the makin'". Oh yeah, and The Carpenters doing a song about sausage. The usual. Here's the playlist:

Wolf Parade - "Shine A Light"
Mike O'Neill - "Calgary"
Krief - "Tell Yourself"
Fang Island - "Asunder"
Zeus - "Messenger's Way"
Brasstronaut - "Francisco"
Ohbijou - "Sligo"
Beach House - "The Hours"
The Intelligence - "(They found me in the back of) The Galaxy"
Apollo Ghosts - "Landmark"
OFF! - "Cracked"
d'Eon - "Al-Qiyamah"
Lazer Sword - "Point Of Return"
Napolian - "False Memories"
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - "Queens"
Crocodiles - "Endless Flowers"
The Carpenters - "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)"**
Light Asylum - "Pope Will Roll"
Wild Nothing - "Nowhere"
Young Benjamins - "To Stay Here"
The Tallest Man On Earth - "1904"

**this week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Swingin' Party

I think the playlist speaks for itself. Plenty of über-new selections, a little bit of this, a bit of that; my mediocre attempt at a tribute to the late, extremely great Adam Yauch; some rock, some disco, some R & B; oh yeah, and then there was Aerosmith. I think I played about 3/4 of the song before gettin' out of Dodge. Here's the aforementioned playlist:

Kalle Mattson - "Water Falls"
Big Star - "Ballad of El Goodo"
The Schomberg Fair - "Black Train"
Yukon Blonde - "Breathing Tigers"
The Murmaids - "Popsicles And Icicles"
Ty Segall & White Fence - "Easy Ryder"
The Cribs - "Come On, Be a No-One"
Hot Sweet Noise - "Gypsy Love"
Mode Moderne - "Nightly Youths"
Spoons - "Conventional Beliefs"
Geist - "Fissures"
Beastie Boys - "Sure Shot"
Tomas Barfod - "November Skies"
Lone - "Lying in the Reeds"
Jimmy Edgar - "U Need Luv"
Heavenly Beat - "Messiah"
Doug Hoyer - "Little Things"
Jessica Jalbert - "Swingin' Party"
Aerosmith - "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing"
     *This week's Slice of Cheese
Brazilian Money - "Can't Make Up Your Mind"
Cannon Bros. - "String Lights"
Teenage Kicks - "I Get What You Give"
Ice Choir - "Teletrips"
DIIV - "How Long Have You Known"
Lower Dens - "Alphabet Song"