Green Eggs and Ham: I'll Be Alright

The last of the late playlists! I don't even know what to say. This show was last week.

Wild Nothing - "Paradise"
Stars - "Backlines"
Evening Hymns - "Asleep In The Pews"
Love Cuts - "Hi Smile Wave"
Peace - "Your Hand In Mine"
The Weakerthans - "Wellington's Wednesdays"
Thee Oh Sees - "Flood's New Light"
The Mouthbreathers - "Quicksand"
Wavves - "Hippies Is Punks"
Ladyhawk - "You Read My Mind"
Drift Dive - "The Antlers"
Echo Lake - "Breathe Deep"
Dirty Beaches - "Elizabeth's Theme"
Passion Pit - "I'll Be Alright"
Hot Chip - "How Do You Do?"
Niki & The Dove - "Somebody"
Diamond Rings - "I'm Just Me"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Kinski Assassin"
Wax Mannequin - "Body Black / Body White"
Fergus & Geronimo - "Roman Nvmerals"
Bad Company - "Bad Company"
Jason Collett - "I Wanna Roba A Bank"
A.C. Newman - "Not Talking"
Moon Duo - "Sleepwalker"
The Black  Lips - "Drugs"
Moon King - "Sleeping In My Car"

Green Eggs and Ham: Woah-lympics!

Ok, it's a week late. Or two. Ok, it's two weeks late. I've been busy, I guess?
Two weeks ago, I did the closest thing to recognizing the quadrennial Olympiad on the show: playing songs as loosely associated with sport as USA Today is with journalism.  See if you "get" how each song fits! It's like a game! The Rah Rah song "Arrows" is pretty straightforward, as Archery is an Olympic sport, but there might be a few stumpers. Here's the playlist:

Silkken Laumann - "On The Mend"
Tokyo Police Club - "Breakneck Speed" (Andy Rourke Remix)
Vampire Weekend - "Run"
Echo Lake - "Swimmers"
Patrick Watson - "Swimming Pools"
Real Estate - "Pool Swimmers"
Rah Rah - "Arrows"
Bidiniband - "Big Men Go Fast On The Water"
Hollerado - "What's Everybody Running For (Part II)"
Austra - "Darken Her Horse"
Zulu Winter - "We Should Be Swimming"
The Ruby Suns - "Olympics On Pot"
Fuck Buttons - "Olympians"
Broken Social Scene - "Meet Me In The Basement"
Miike Snow - "Paddling Out"
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Bicycle"
Giorgio Moroder Project - "To Be Number One"
Wolf Parade - "You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son"
Winter Gloves - "Jump"
The Super Friendz - "Karate Man"
The Meters - "Funky Miracle"
Javelin - "Doug Flutey"
Kurt Vile - "Runner Ups"

         - this week's Slice of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: It Ain't Over

Sure. Life gets in the way. I've somehow gone from posting plenty of "interesting" and varying types of things here, to just posting playlists, to doing even that super late. Sorry. Whoah. Rest assured that I'm going to shape it up, though it's summer so that rest is bound to be difficult to achieve what with sweat, heat and all that stuff. But try and get some sleep. Do it for me, will ya? I don't like it when you're all irritable and whatnot.
Here's LAST week's playlist:

Born Gold - "Alabaster Bodyworlds"
Maserati - "The Eliminator"
Deerhoof - "The Trouble With Candyhands"
Lou Wreath - "Mother / Daughter"
The Tallest Man On Earth - "Revelation Blues"
Fine Times - "High Brow Low Times"
Halls - "White Chalk"
Patrick Watson - "Fall"
Fiona Apple - "Werewolf"
Miesha & The Spanks - "She Wolf"
Ringo Deathstarr - "Rip"
Seapony - "Prove To Me"
Brazilian Money - "Can't Make Up Your Mind"
Mister Lies - "Dionysian"
Sepalcure - "Me"
The Presets - "Youth In Trouble" (Green Velvet Remix)"
Moon King - "Only Child"
Parlovr - "4000"
Slates - "New Beginnings"
The Cars - "Hello Again"     the slice of cheese   
Shad - "It Ain't Over"
Laika - "Pangaean Drift" ft. AWOL One
Slim Twig - "Still The Same"
Animal Collective - "Honeycomb"
The Luyas - "Fifty Fifty"

Green Eggs and Ham: We Never Sleep

The new stuff peppers this week's show, but songs like "Ritual" by Blood Diamonds and "Art and a Wife" from Regina's Rah Rah are so much more than mere seasoning. Here's the playlist:

The High Dials - "My Heart Is Pinned To Your Sleeve"
Superchunk - "Cursed Mirror"
Sloan - "People of the Sky"
Honheehonhee - "We Never Sleep"
Mode Moderne - "Foul Weather Fare"
Stars - "Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It"
Chad VanGaalen - "No Panic / No Heat"
Bat For Lashes - "Laura"
Lord Huron - "Time To Run"
Teenage Kicks - "Shook Our Bones"
The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks"
Blood Diamonds - "Ritual"
Lorn - "Weigh Me Down"
Crystal Castles - "Plague"
Purity Ring - "Ungirthed"
Gillian Welch - "The Way It Goes"
Drive-By Truckers - "Guitar Man Upstairs"
Beachwood Sparks - "Sparks Fly Again"
Elton John - "Tower of Babel"
No Joy - "Shame Cave"
Nu Sensae - "100 Shades"
Shooting Guns - "Sky High and Blind"
Fergus & Geronimo - "No Parties"
The Mountain Goats - "Cry For Judas"
Rah Rah - "Art and a Wife"

Green Eggs and Ham: Double Down

Last Thursday, I actually did 4 hours of radio. The following playlist is for the first 2 only. Partly because it's a week late and I feel bad, partly because in the second set of two hours I took advantage of a largely different audience from my regular one to play lots of stuff I've played before (although there were requests for Woodhands and MC5 thrown into the mix). What follows will have to do. It was pretty rad:

The Mountain Goats - "Up The Wolves"
Hot Panda - "Future Markets"
Black Mountain - "In Sequence"
Cinderpop - "Summers in the Shelter"
Islands - "Can't Feel My Face"
Shearwater - "Pushing the River"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Watch The Corners"
Chelsea Light Moving - "Groovy & Linda"
Dusted - "(Into The) Atmosphere"
Muneshine - "The City"
Handsome Furs - "Dead + Rural"
Divine Fits - "Would That Not Be Nice"
Quadrant Khan - "It's Your Dying Wish"
Mr. Oizo - "WC"
Diamond Rings - "I'm Just Me"
Beck - "I Just Started Hating Some People Today"
Mark Davis - "Eliminate The Toxins"
Shadow Folk - "Heaven's Gate"
New Kids on the Block - "This One's For The Children"
The xx - "Angels"
Jets Overhead - "Beach Dream"
Mark Sultan - "Misery's Upon Us"
The Spits - "Wanna b A.D.D."
Talk Normal - "Bad Date"

Green Eggs and Ham: What's The Rush?

I was a little bit late this morning. Of course, I could blame my lateness on Saskatoon's crushing heat wave and my noisy neighbours spontaneously conspiring to render my ability to achieve a sleep-state as impossible as Iceland's summer Olympic hopes or I could face facts and admit I'm bad at mornings. That's why I kicked off the show with the classic Pursuit of Happiness gem "I'm An Adult Now". It's time to take responsibility for my shortcomings. Wait, I was only 10 minutes late? I arrived in time to do everything I'm supposed to do? Ok, forget about all that "taking responsibility" malarky, I'm going to shirk like nobody's business. Here's this morning's playlist:


Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
The Danks - "What's The Rush?"
Apollo Ghosts - "Why Can't I Be The Man On Stage?"
COUSINS - "Thunder"
Cold Showers - "Double Life"
Polysick - "Smudge, Hawaii"
Cold Cave - "Believe In My Blood"
Bend Sinister - "Don't You Know"
The Darcys - "Deacon Blues"
Young Benjamins - "Bones"
Twin Shadow - "Golden Light"
MNDR - "Faster Horses"
Dirty Projectors - "About To Die"
Hot Panda - "Holidays"
Howie Beck - "Everybody Sold Out"
James Irwin - "Nothing At All"
Foreigner - "Urgent" **
The People's Temple - "Looter's Game"
Omma Cobba - "Up And Run"
METZ - "Headache"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Only In My Dreams"
Tame Impala - "Apocalypse Dreams"
Taken By Trees - "Dreams"




**This week's Slice Of Cheese

Green Eggs and Ham: Turn Up The Radio

I may have veered towards weird this morning. Any place of business that had the wherewithal to turn on CFCR and the fortitude to leave it on may have been met with consternation and skepticism from their clientele: if that did happen, it's simply proof that the clients aren't cool enough. Personally, I found this morning's mix of mainstream-esque pop with one-off misdirects of strange sounds kept it fresh. Maybe it's just me. Here's the playlist:


Los Campesinos! - "Tiptoe Through the True Bits"
Spools - "Spool VI"
Wolfcow - "Caveman Bones"
Peer Support - "Kremlin Gremlin"
One Hundred Dollars - "Work"
Foxygen - "Waitin' 4 U"
Thee Oh Sees - "Lupine Dominus"
Ty Segall Band - "I Bought My Eyes"
Father John Misty - "I'm Writing A Novel"
Royal Wood - "When the Sun Comes Up"
Elk - "Every Girl That I Meet"
Cat Power - "Ruin"
Mungolian Jetset - "Toccata"
Fur - "Knots"
Purity Ring - "Fineshrines"
Unicorns - "I Don't Wanna Die"
Unnatural Helpers - "Hate Your Teachers"
Caymans - "Hard Feelings"
Seapony - "What You Wanted"
Fist City - "The Creeps"
Colonel Abrams - "Trapped"**
Ice Choir - "I Want You Now And Always"
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - "The Body"
Sheer Agony - "She's An Artist"
Korean Gut - "If You Want"
Camp Radio - "Turn Up The Radio"
Young Guv & The Scuzz - "Heal Over Time"

**This week's Slice Of Cheese