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Or as we old birds call it: eBay Eve! paDOW! (I'm pretty sure I'm stealing that joke from someone, possibly even a music writer I've met. Lars? Christopher R.W.?) Grouse is low on planning time these days, so we get to hear that tried and true lazy DJ mainstay: the Let's Listen to Records I Just Bought But Haven't Listened To! show. It's a talky show: if you love the sound of Grouse's voice as much as he seems to himself, you're in for a treat! What is going on with all these shifting voice-POVs? I'm confused! Download | PodcastAlso, how about that beautiful Cal Tjader photo above? More from that stunning LIFE Magazine spread are available here. Bold text indicates relatively new releases (including reissues and comps). Debt Collectors calling READ-GROUSE (732-347-6873) Robert Wyatt - "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" (from Nothing Can Stop Us) Stalling tape Grouse pours out his soul like silver. The Meters - "Funky Miracle" (from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology) Dieuf-Dieul De Thiès - "Na Binta" (from Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1) Karthala 72 - "Marche De La Mort" (from Diable Du Feu) Fela And Afrika 70 - "Sorrow Tears And Blood (Original Extended Version) " (from Sorrow Tears And Blood) CSC Funk Band (featuring David Maraniss) - "Choom Gang" (from Funkincense) Shake Keane & His Highlifers - "Balonga" (from London Is The Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London) Joseph Jarman - "Little Fox Run" (from Song For) Tunji Oyelana - "Omonike" (from London Is The Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London) Lord Kitchener - "London Is The Place For Me" (from London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950 - 1956) Wilmoth Houdini with Gerald Clark's Night Owls - "I Need a Man" (from Songs of Trinidad) Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - "Begin the Beguine" (from Cugat's Favorite Rhumbas) The Cal Tjader Trio - "Ivy" (from The Cal Tjader Trio) Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "Tropical Merengue" (from Greatest Hits) Grouse sees his future, and gives a shout out to a Pulitzer Prize winner that he really does know. The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968) Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster" (from Floating Coffin) White Fence - "Pink Gorilla" (from Cyclops Reap) Apache Dropout - "I'm So Glad" (from Magnetic Heads) Apache Dropout - "I'm So Glad" (from Apache Dropout) Gram Parson [sic] and the International Submarine Band - "Folsom Prison Blues / And: That's All Right" (from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea) The Scientists - "She Said She Loves Me" (from The Scientists) The Bats - "By Night" (from By Night) Orange Juice - "Felicity" (from You Can't Hide Your Love Forever) Orange Juice - "Love Sick" (from The Glasgow School) Lord Apologizer sends a message to Edwyn Collins. Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords) The Troggs - "With A Girl Like You / I Can't Control Myself" (from The Best Of The Troggs) Simon Turner - "(Baby) I Gotta Go" (from Velvet Tinmine) The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind" (from The Definitive Anthology)
The Lady Katie joins the Mighty Grouse for an hour on the annual Radio CPR New Year's Eve Marathon. I think we showed up a little early for the party. Download | Podcast Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers - "Time Is Tight" (from Steel Vibrations) The Clash - "Time Is Tight" (from Super Black Market Clash) Booker T & the MGs - "Time Is Tight (extended intro)" (from Up Tight) Grouse has bird flu, and hello from the Lady Katie Ike Bennet & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set) Phyllis Dillon - "Don't Touch Me Tomato" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set) Sir Lancelot - "Scandal In The Family" (from The Rough Guide to Calypso Gold) Unit 4+2 - "Never Say Goodbye" (from Concrete & Clay) The Troggs - "With A Girl Like You" (Atco 45-6415) Grouse introduces the Lady Katie set. Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords) Marscha Gee - "Peanut Duck" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another) The Ramones - "Needles & Pins (Early Version)" (from Rocket to Russia) Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" (from The Essential Etta James) James Brown - "Please Please Please" (from 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!) Rockin' Sidney - "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (from The Louisiana Party) Huey Smith And His Clowns - "I Tried" (from For Dancin') Cats on Fire - "Draw In The Reins" (from Draw In The Reins EP) The Olivia Tremor Control - "The Opera House" (from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle) The Four J's - "Will You Be My Love" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another) Petula Clark - "Heart" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another) The Lady Katie does a mean mic set. The answer to your question, Grouse, is: Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono! The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology) The Zombies - "This Will Be Our Year [Mono Mix]" (from Odyssey & Oracle)
Radio CPR is broadcasting beyond its own backyard for the first time in the life of Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall, and the Grouse, as you might expect, crumbles under the pressure. Late start because of a DJ training session before the show. Download | Podcast Bold text indicates relatively new releases (including reissues and comps). Stalling tape Jeffrey Stolet - "Lariat Rituals" (from YouTube) Daniel Bachman - "Sita Ram (Who is God)" (from Oh Be Joyful) The Fear that is knowing potentially thousands of people could be listening; the disappointment in knowing it won't stop Grouse from rambling on anyway. The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology) Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords) Frederic Rzewski performed by Marc-André Hamelin - "NORTH AMERICAN BALLADS (exc) (3) Down by the Riverside" (from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations On ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!) Bent Leg Fatima - "Greetings and Farewells / Cup and Saucer" (from Bent Leg Fatima) Grouse played some Rush because he thought they were Thrush. Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults) Silo Halo - "Wonderful Gift" (from Night and the City) Unrest - "June" (from BPM 1991-1994) Cotton Candy - "Strudel Zum Toast It / Compulsory & Auditory / Water Country" (from America Hearts / Cotton Candy split EP) Teething Veils - "You Write on My Face" (Live on Radio CPR) Six Organs of Admittance - "Blues for Jack Parsons" (from Parson' Blues) America Hearts - "White Socks" (from America Hearts / Cotton Candy split EP) Grouse gave up on this episode a while ago. Onward and upward! The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968) Talibam! - "Squeeze My Nuts In the Barnyard" (from Discover AtlantASS) The Pyramids - "Absolution" (from Otherworldly) Funkadelic - "Groovallegiance" (from One Nation Under a Groove) The Congos - "Congoman" (from Heart of the Congos)
On the spur of the moment, I decided that EASGS would unofficially take part in the John Cage Centennial Festival by airing Cage's ROARATORIO in its entirety. I swear it isn't because I forgot to plan this week's show (these back to back 5th and 1st Thursdays always sneak up on me!). For this program, I'm trying something different. I have a sneaking suspicion that some of you might not feel like listening to an hour-long Irish circus. Rather than making you hold down fast-forward (and risk skipping me entirely!) I've split the first half of the show off as Program 26.1. The podcast you can dance to is Program 26.2. Note, if you're the sort of weirdo who ONLY wants to listen to avant literary sound effects, my further discussion of the piece extends into the beginning of 26.2. Download | Podcast Stereolab - "John Cage Bubblegum" (from Why Popstars Can't Dance) The Grouse dutifully introduces the Circus. Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords) John Cage - "Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake" (from Roaratorio)
Stereolab played a small show on June 10, 2008 at The Windmill in Brixton as a warm up for their world tour to support Chemical Chords (in stores and on iTunes now).
Stereolab played a small show on June 10, 2008 at The Windmill in Brixton as a warm up for their world tour to support Chemical Chords (in stores on August 19, 2008). This is the first song we're unleashing and it's called Valley High.