12.21.2012

PROGRAM 33: THIS WORLD OVER / ENDLESS WALTZ [12.20.12]

All day I had the words "this world over" floating in my head, and only after doing this show did I remember that's a song title on my least favorite XTC record.* So it was left out of this impromptu apocalyptical set.

A few months ago while reading about Kaoru Abe, I learned about his exploitative biopic. At the time, I joked that I should try to get the movie and play it on the air. And then I found the movie, and the Grouse stands by his word. It's a "Sid & Nancy for the free jazz set." The Lady Katie, listening from Shaw, asked if the movie was just sex and crying; and indeed it is. But also a few dust-ups, an amputated toe (for love's sake), and some blistering improv. As far as I can tell, the real Keiji Haino and Fushitsusha play themselves, on and off stage. My knowledge of the Japanese free jazz scene is extremely limited; with the exception of the lead actor, they all looked like real players giving semi-real performances.

The entire movie audio was broadcast on 97.5 FM on 12.20.12. The entire audio is again presented here... because, what the hell. The full video is out there if you're really interested. Good luck finding subtitles! While on the air, I did my best to live tweet some visuals, and I've collected them at the bottom of this post.

While typing these notes, I learned that the director of "Endless Waltz," Koji Wakamatsu, died in October. Let's just pretend, ex post facto, that this whole thing was a belated tribute to a director I'd never heard of. For podcasting purposes, I cannot link to anything above my audio link below. But click on his name in the playlist for the New York Times obituary. Rest in peace, Koji.

The original plan for today was 1:44 to "Endless Waltz," 4 minutes to a late tribute to Ravi Shankar (the appropriate "I Am Missing You"), and 4 minutes for Bird's rendition of White Christmas. I hadn't planned to give in to the zeitgeist and do an end of the world set. But then the Lady Katie requested the Ted Leo track that we open with. I also showed up early for the first time in a great while, so bonus world-ending radio for all!

*It would have made a good segue piece in this set too; from XTC to Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (the band, named after the XTC song on "The Big Express"), to Kaoru Abe.

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  • Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Last Days" (from The Brutalist Bricks)
  • Talulah Gosh - "My World's Ending" (from Backwash)
  • Jenks "Tex" Carman - "End of the World" (from Chippeha! (1947-57))
  • Ohm-A-Revelator - "World's End" (from Windswept Trees & Houses)
  • Silmaril - "Song of the Apocalypse" (from The Voyage of Icarus)
  • Grouse introduces this ridiculous episode. And proceeds to screw everything up.
    • Sun Ra - "Mayan Temple" (from The Singles)
    • Charlie Parker - "White Christmas" (from Charlie Parker - Archive of Folk & Jazz Music)
  • "Endless Waltz" (Koji Wakamatsu, 1995)
  • Ravi Shankar - "I Am Missing You" (from Shankar Family & Friends)
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12.13.2012

PROGRAM 32: LEFTOVERS TASTIER THAN THE ORIGINAL MEAL [12.06.12]

I feel like we haven't done a show this... stable?... in more than 6 months. Planning is caring, for my own sanity and for the ears of the discerning radio listener. The seed of this show was leftovers from the previous week (the dreaded 5th to 1st Thursday no-gap!). But toss in the unfortunate death of Dave Brubeck and some choice new material, and we get a program far superior--far more structurally sound--than the previous week. And then for the next show, December 20, we're returning to anti-radio!

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  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (from Time Out)
  • The Nice - "Rondo" (from The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack)
  • Le Orme - "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (from L'Aurora Delle Orme)
  • James Cotton - "Midnight Creeper" (from Midnight Creeper (Live in Montreal 1967))
  • Grouse discusses the Blue Rondo Formula of prog rock songwriting
    • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Strange Meadow Lark" (from Time Out)
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Unsquare Dance" (from Time Further Out)
  • Van Shipley - "Jan Pahechan Ho" (from Bollywood Steel Guitar)
  • M. Geddes Gengras - "Air Solo" (from Beyond the Curtain)
  • Daphni - "Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)" (from Jiaolong)
  • Karthala 72 - "Delores" (from Dans Le Coeur Du Feu)
  • Kaoru Abe - "1972.1.21 Alto 1" (from Another Day's Dream)
  • The Pyramids - "Ancient Funk!" (from Otherworldly)
  • Kalaimamani Kadri Gopalnath - "Kangalidyatako" (from Gem Tones)
  • Mulatu Astatke - "Gubèlyé (My Gubel) " (from Ethiopiques 4 - Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974)
  • Dr. John - "You Lie" (from Locked Down)
  • DJ Kentaro - "Big Timer (f/ MC Zulu)" (from Contrast)
  • Bunji Garlin (f/ Nigel Rojas)- "Differentology" (new single)
  • Las Malas Amistades - "Lamento" (from Maleza)
  • Le Marchand du Soleil - "Laila Je T'Aime" (from Laila Je T'Aime)
  • I'm running out of snarky things to write about Grouse; he's actually sounding somewhat professional now that he has a real radio audience. No fun!
    • Ike Bennet & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
  • Mr. Confuse - "Lookout Weekend" (from Feel the Fire)
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12.06.2012

PROGRAM 31: STALLING INTO THE ABYSS [11.29.12]

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.

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  • 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)
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11.16.2012

PROGRAM 30: BACHMAN LOVEJONES OVERDRIVE [11.15.12]

Nearly every Thursday that I do this show, I bring a copy of something by Daniel Bachman to the studio in my bag of records, tapes, CDs and other tricks. Yet somehow, I've only played him once in the 29 previous shows (Sacred Harp, way back in Program 4). And it wasn't even an official broadcast; it was something I tacked on after the fact. Well I'm making up for that in this program by plugging the hell out of DB's show in DC this Friday night. See the previous posts or listen to this podcast to find out the whens and wherefores.

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  • Frederic Rzewski performed by Marc-André Hamelin - "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED - Thema- With determination" (from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations On ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!)
  • Roxy Music - "Pyjamarama" (from The Thrill of It All)
  • Plastic Bertrand - "Ca Plane Pour Moi" (from An 1)
  • Illaiyaraaja - "Naanthaan Ungappanda feat. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam" (from Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 Vol. 2)
  • The wonders of an on-time Grouse
    • Professor Longhair - "Big Chief" (from New Orleans Funk)
  • Brighter Side of Darkness - "Love Jones" (from Love Jones)
  • Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Black Boy" (from Bulletproof Brass EP)
  • White/Light - "Can You Get to That / Hit it and Quit It" (from White/Light plays Maggot Brain)
  • Günter Schickert - "Puls" (from Überfällig)
  • Ryley Walker and Daniel Bachman - "Devil In The Old Dominion" (from Of Deathly Premonitions)
  • The Grouse has a love jones for you.
    • Brighter Side of Darkness - "Love Jones (instrumental)" (from Love Jones)
  • Daniel Bachman - "Sun Over Old Rag" (from Seven Pines)
  • Daniel Bachman - "Grey (Take Two)" (from Grey-Black-Green)
  • Daniel Bachman - "Rove Ryley Rove/ Wild Bill Jones/ Darling Cory" (from Oh Be Joyful)
  • Mark Fosson - "Gorilla Mountain" (from Digging in the Dust : Home Recordings 1976)
  • Angel Olsen/Marissa Nadler - "My Dreams Have Withered and Died" (Soundcloud)
  • Charalambides - "My Little Bessie (cassette only)" (from Historic 6th Ward CS)
  • Sacred Harp - "Brother Green" (from Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation)
  • Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - "The Old Ship of Zion" (from Heaven's My Home, 1927-1928)
  • The Watersons - "Autumn - Souling Song" (from Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs)
  • Donald Swann - "Namárië" (from The Road Goes Ever On)
  • Synanthesia - "Just As The Curtain Finally Falls" (from Synanthesia)
  • Daniel Bachman & Ian McColm - "WRGOA / MLIAOI / BABD" (from Taman Shud)
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11.05.2012

PROGRAM 29: VOTE FOR GROUSE!: OR, SAINTS AND SANDIES COMING TOGETHER [11.01.12]

Election day is almost here, much of the East coast is under water, and Halloween has come and gone without the Mighty Grouse making you listen to 15 versions of the Monster Mash. You come to us for satisfaction, and instead we give you these sadistic candles: a hurricane set, an atheist DJ acknowledging a Christian holiday, and a new track from Lello Boscoverde called "93 Years of Disappointment" (an invective to the Great Communicator). But what's really important is that we all Come Together, no matter what happens this Tuesday. And I think we can all unite over the majesty of Frederic Rzewski's tribute to the rioters of Attica (last track! show highlight!).

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  • Satisfaction - "You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie" (from Satisfaction)
  • Sadistic Candle - "Live Improvisation, SF 6/10" (from Sadistic Candle [CS-SA011])
  • A visit from Lord Apologizer
    • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Caribou - "Sandy" (from Andorra)
  • The Lil' Hospital - "The Floods" (from Heavy Metal)
  • Reverend Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones - "Secret Storm" (excerpt) (from Can I Get A Witness? Sinner's Crossroads 2011 WFMU Marathon Premium)
  • The Ivytree - "Flood" (from Winged Leaves)
  • Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers - "Stormy Monday" (from Go Go Swing Live)
  • Eastern Standard Time - "Eye of the Storm" (from Jump Up! Records: "Caribbean Shakedown")
    • Lacking gravitas, the Grouse plays a LOCAL ska band and doesn't even realize it.
  • The Left Banke - "There's Gonna Be a Storm" (from There's Gonna Be A Storm: The Complete Recordings)
  • Lord Beginner - "Jamaica Hurricane" (from London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956)
  • The Mighty Grouse's Kitch impression is offensive Trini-face.
    • The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • The Saints - "Orstralia" (from Eternally Yours)
  • The Minutemen - "Political Song for Michael Jackson" (from Double Nickels on the Dime)
  • The Move - "Vote For Me" (from The Move)
  • Lello Boscoverde - "93 Years of Disappointment" (excerpt) (unreleased)
  • Grouse gets out the vote.
    • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
  • Frederic Rzewski - "Coming Together" (from Coming Together)
    • Correction: text by Sam MELVILLE, not Neville.
  • John Fahey - "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God" (from Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You : The Fonotone Years [1958-1965])
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10.24.2012

PROGRAM 28: A NEAR-OPEN FRONT, OR: THE SOUND OF THE WILD, YOUNG GROUSE [10.18.12]

A sentence begun and interrupted on 10.04.12 is finished (and slightly restated) in this program. Seeking proposals for anti-radio stunts to close out 2012. Please phone (READ-GROUSE on the dial) or email them to your friendly neighborhood Grouse.

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  • Adolfo Echeverría & Su Conjunto - "Sabroso Bacalao" (from Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque)
  • Joe Bataan - "Too Much Lovin'" (from Subway Joe/Gypsy Woman)
  • The one time this Pennsylvania Grouse doesn't default to a near-open front unrounded vowel (ae), is the one time it would have been appropriate (Joe Bataaaaaaaan).
    • The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Kaoru Abe - "Sopranino Improvisation No. 1" (from Mort à Crédit)
  • Getatchew Mekuria - "Tezeta" (from Moa Anbessa)
  • Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - "For Fred Anderson" (from Scraps And Shadows)
  • Chris Corsano - "Fed Ex'd Gorilla" (from Cut)
  • Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Spin" (from Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
  • Golden Dawn - "Evolution" (from Power Plant)
  • Can - "Dead Pigeon Suite" (from The Lost Tapes)
  • Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras Meet the Congos - "Invocation" (from FRKWYS Vol. 9: Icon Give Thank)
  • This Heat - "Cenotaph" (from Deceit)
  • Frente Cumbiero - "Pitchito" (from Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque)
  • King Grouse can't wait for the show where he just plays "Endless Waltz" on the radio.
    • Ike Bennet & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
  • King Tuff - "Anthem" (from King Tuff)
  • Ty Segall Band - "The Bag I'm In" (from Slaughterhouse)
  • The Intelligence - "Fidelity" (from Everybody's Got It Easy But Me)
  • King Tuff - "Wild Desire" (from Wild Desire 7")
  • The Hive Dwellers - "The Dignity of Saint Judy" (from Hewn from the Wilderness)
  • Tronics - "TV On in Bed" (from Love Backed By Force)
  • Gandalf - "Julie (The Song I Sing Is You)" (from Gandalf 2)
  • Tim Hardin - "You Upset The Grace Of Living When You Lie" (from Tim Hardin 2)
  • Ty Segall & White Fence - "Scissor People" (from Hair)
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10.10.2012

PROGRAM 27: OSCILLATORS, COSMIC SING-A-LONGS & BASEBALL [10.04.12]

Back on the air in our regular format of totally batshit disorganization. We've got baseball, we've got tape noise, we've got plinky indie rock and skronky horns. And it's all tied together with a tattered twine of logic that only a bird could understand. The last bit of this show felt truncated (I was kind of hoping Uncle Matt would come super late). So I might actually repeat a song or two at the top of PROGRAM 28 before going where I meant to go had I kept going.

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  • Doc & Merle Watson - "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" (from Baseball's Greatest Hits)
  • The Baseball Project - "Satchel Paige Said" (from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails)
  • Sister Wynona Carr - "The Ball Game" (from Baseball's Greatest Hits)
  • The Baseball Project - "(Do The) Triple Crown" (from The Broadside Ballads)
  • Sports Talk with the Grouse
    • Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults)
  • Dolphins Into the Future - "Verde" (from Canto Arquipélago)
  • Lello Boscoverde - "Agura" (unreleased)
  • Sarin Smoke - "Upsound" (from Vent)
  • Don Preston - "Analog Heaven #7 (1975)" (from Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-75)
  • Daphne Oram - "Mermaid (Excerpt)" (from The Oram Tapes Volume One)
  • Pauline Oliveros - "Three Pieces I" (from Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970)
  • The Curtains - "Telegraph Victories" (from Make Us Two Crayons On The Floor)
  • Please join Grouse while he blindly feels his way through the DJ arts.
    • The Blue Men - "Valley Of The Saroos" (from It's Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek)
  • The Curtains - "Show Me The Way Things Work" (from Worried Noodles)
  • Chris Cohen - "Optimist High" (from Overgrown Path)
  • Cryptacize - "Cosmic Sing-a-long" (from Dig That Treasure)
  • Maher Shalal Hash Baz - "Black-Eyed Susan" (from Make Us Two Crayons On The Floor)
  • Half-handed Cloud - "In Holy Pursuit / Tuck Us In, Father / Our First Full Day Was Spent In Rest / Running Late For Bed / That You May Be Gracious / There Remains A Rest / I Got A-Rested / Work Isn't What It Seemed To Be" (from We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved)
  • Dinosaur Feathers - "Young Bucks" (from Whistle Tips)
  • The Mighty Grouse doesn't realize it's "Blue Men," not Blues Men.
    • The Blue Men - "The Bublight" (from It's Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek)
  • Kaoru Abe - "No. 2" (from Winter 1972)
  • Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends - "Tezeta" (from Y'Anbessaw Tezeta)
  • Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - "For Muhammad Ali" (from Scraps And Shadows)
  • Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Cuernavaca" (from Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
  • Les Ya Toupas Du Zaire - "Je Ne Bois Pas Beaucoup [truncated by the next show]" (from Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque)
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10.04.2012

SPECIAL PROGRAM 4: FILLING IN FOR DJ86 [09.27.12]

DJ 86 and I decided to trade 3rd and 4th Thursdays this month. While it is not required by 86 or the station in anyway, I like to treat fill-in shows as a chance to cater to a different programming audience; doing a show that isn't exactly like The Cone of Noize but should hopefully find a way to appeal to its regular audience. Even though my show is "freeform" sometimes it's nice to take a break from the restrictions inherent in that form. Basically, in a world of absolute freedom, genre-rigidity is liberation!

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  • The Amboy Dukes - "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (Mainstream 684)
  • Spencer Davis Group - "I'm A Man" (UA-50144)
  • The Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird [Demo Version]" (from Surfin' Bird)
  • Little Richard - "Ooh! My Soul" (Specialty 633)
  • The Who - "Circles" (from My Generation)
  • GROUSE IS EXCITED TO BE OUT OF FORMAT! CAN YOU TELL?
    • Wynder K. Frog - "Green Door" (UA-50156)
  • Fats Domino - "Walking to New Orleans" (IM-2615)
  • Manfred Mann - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (UA-10898)
  • Syndicate of Sound - "Little Girl" (Bell 640)
  • The King Khan & BBQ Show - "Animal Party" (FP1122)
  • Belfast Gypsies - "Gloria's Dream [45 mix]" (from Them Belfast Gypsies)
  • Golden Dawn - "Starvation" (from Power Plant)
  • Dan Melchior's Broke Revue - "Me and J.G. Ballard" (from Bitterness, Spite, Rage and Scorn)
  • Swell Maps - "H.S. Art" (from A Trip To Marineville)
  • 13th Floor Elevators - "Roller Coaster" (from The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators)
  • Night Beats - "Ain't A Ghost" (from Night Beats)
  • Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke & Sassafras" (IA-128)
  • The Times - "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (from Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996)
  • The Idle Race - "Imposters Of Life's Magazine" (from Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 1)
  • Max Frost and the Troopers - "Shape of Things to Come" (Tower 45-61658)
  • Jacco Gardner - "Where Will You Go" (from TIM042)
  • The Spongetones - "She Goes Out with Everybody" (from Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996)
  • The off-mic talking is getting less and less cute, Grouse.
    • Just Brothers - "Sliced Tomatoes" (MS-1002)
    • Duane Eddy - "Peter Gunn [slow]" (J-DE-25)
  • Country Joe & the Fish - "Section 43" (from Electric Music For Mind And Body)
  • The Sonics - "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (from Psycho-Sonic)
  • Nichts - "Radio" (from Neue Deutsche Welle)
  • The Honeycombs - "Have I the Right" (IN-7707)
  • The Adults - "Have I the Right?" (from I Can't Stop: Songs From the Single File, Vol. 2)
  • Tommy James & the Shondells - "Hanky Panky" (GG-71)
  • The Olympics - "Western Movies" (DE-015)
  • Lee Dorsey - "Ride Your Pony" (FLB-20)
  • The Savages - "Gone to the Moon" (from Live N' Wild)
  • Beacon Street Union - "Mystic Morning" (from The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union)
  • The Surfaris - "Wipe Out" (Dot 45-144)
  • Apache Dropout - "Lady Blood" (from Bubblegum Graveyard)
  • Music Explosion - "Little Bit O' Soul" (LR-3380)
  • Eddie Holland - "Leaving Here" (M-1052)
  • Grouse gives a wonderfully enticing preview of his regularly scheduled program.
    • The Ventures - In Space
  • The Easybeats - "Friday on My Mind" (UA 50106)
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9.08.2012

PROGRAM 26.2: GROUSATORIO, A FREEFORM CIRCUS ON A SIGNIFICANT GRAVITAS SHORTFALL [09.06.12]

From Kollywood and Bollywood to a calypso boogaloo, with some artier stops in between, this hour long sojourn tries to make amends to everyone who tuned out on the first hour. But you're still gonna have to hear Steve Reich and Philip Glass and you're going to like it! Can my new nom de guerre be "Messiagh of roaratorios"?

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  • Genesis - "In the Cage" (from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway)
  • King Grouse attempts to explain the thinking behind ____,____ ____ circus on ____
    • Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults)
  • Ilaiyaraaja - "Raja Rajadhi Raja (Raja the Emperor)" (from Fire Star)
  • Kalyanji Anandji - "Khaike Paan Banaras Wala" (from Don)
  • The Kinks - "I'm On an Island" (from The Kink Kontroversy)
  • Moondog, Steve Reich, Philip Glass & Jon Gibson - "I Came Into This World Alone" (from Moondog, The Viking Of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography)
  • Ray Barretto - "From Russia With Love" (from Señor 007)
  • Willie Rosario - "Calypso Blues" (from Boogaloo Pow Wow)
  • Dolphins Into the Future - "Azul. Primeira Trova" (from Canto Arquipélago)
  • Can - "Millionenspiel" (from The Lost Tapes)
  • The Grouse sounds sort of smug, doesn't he?
    • A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "Nitetime Rainbows (Acid Wash Edit By Benoît Pioulard)" / "Nitetime Rainbows (Ezekiel Honig Remix)" (from Nitetime Rainbows)
  • Apache Dropout - "Quaaludes '68" (from Bubblegum Graveyard)
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9.07.2012

PROGRAM 26.1: GROUSATORIO, A FREEFORM CIRCUS ON A SIGNIFICANT GRAVITAS SHORTFALL [09.06.12]

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.

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  • 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)
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9.04.2012

PROGRAM 25: SLEEPING THROUGH AUGUST [08.30.12]

The dreaded fifth Thursday of the month, when all ideas run dry! Join the Mighty Grouse for songs long and short, and much much longer. Quiet and loud. Serious and not. Skronk and pop. I'm out of things to say. Back on the air the Thursday after Labor Day!

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  • Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Sleep" (from Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!)
  • WIM Fanfare - "FM 84" (from WIMproveen)
  • The Mighty Grouse and the Confessions of Ignorance.
    • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
  • Sunn O))) - "Bathory Erzsebet" (from Black One)
  • Teething Veils - "You Write on My Face" (Live on Radio CPR)
  • Don Preston - "Analog Heaven #4 (1975)" (from Filters, Oscillators and Envelopes 1967-75)
  • The Mighty Grouse and the Shameless Promotions
    • Teenage Fanclub - "Is This Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)
  • John Cage - "Water Walk" (from I've Got a Secret / YouTube)
  • John Cage - "4'33" (from YouTube)
  • Oneida - "Sheets of Easter" (from Each One Teach One)
  • The Curtains - "Go Lucky" (from Calamity)
  • Deerhoof - "You Can't See" (from The Runners Four)
  • Chris Cohen - "Don't Look Today" (from Overgrown Path)
  • Grouse says goodnight. But spends 20 minutes plugging the show websites first.
    • Ike Bennet & The Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
  • Duke of Iron - "Take Me" (from RCA Victor DJ-89)
  • Duke of Iron - "Prisoner Arise" (from RCA Victor DJ-89)
  • Lou Monte - "Calypso Italiano" (from RCA Victor DJ-89)
  • Lou Monte - "Someone Else is Taking You Home" (from RCA Victor DJ-89)
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8.29.2012

PROGRAM 24: BEATING A DEAD HORSE; A VISIT FROM LADY KATIE [08.16.12]

The City of New Orleans is at risk of washing away for the second time in ten years, so EASGS presents a set of New Orleans music as tribute in this podcast, curated by the Lady Katie (though this show was actually recorded when the only Isaac on our minds was of the Hayes variety). And it's sandwiched by our ABSOLUTELY FINAL installment in a tired and boring theme.

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  • Gilberto Gil - "Aquele Abraço" (from Gilberto Gil)
  • The Mighty Grouse's guest is currently out of the room: self-awareness at an all time low.
    • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Dukes of Stratosphear - "Vanishing Girl" (from Psonic Psunspot)
  • Aphrodite's Child - "Loud Loud Loud" (from 666: The Apocalypse of John, 13/18)
  • Hawkwind - "Sonic Attack / Time We Left This World Today" (from Space Ritual)
  • The Soft Machine - "Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle / Why Are We Sleeping?" (from The Soft Machine)
  • Pavement - "Conduit for Sale!" (from Slanted and Enchanted)
  • Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band - "Eighteen Nuns" (from War Between Fats and Thins)
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson - "Lorraine" (from Bass Culture)
  • Belle & Sebastian - "I Could Be Dreaming" (from Tigermilk)
  • Isaac Hayes - "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (from Hot Buttered Soul)
  • King Grouse introduces Lady Katie.
    • James Booker - "Black Minute Waltz" (from Junco Partner)
  • James Booker - "Goodnight Irene" (from Junco Partner)
  • Huey "Piano" Smith - "Little Liza Jane" (from This Is... Huey "Piano" Smith)
  • Benny Spellman - "If You Love Her" (from Get Low Down!: The Soul of New Orleans, '65-'67)
  • Snooks Eaglin & Boogie Bill Webb - "Country Boy Down in New Orleans" (from The Blues of Snooks Eaglin & Boogie Bill Webb)
  • Inell Young - "What Do You See In Her" (from Soul Jazz Presents: New Orleans Funk, Volume 2)
  • Betty Harris - "Nearer to You" (from Get Low Down!: The Soul of New Orleans, '65-'67)
  • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology)
  • Johnny Adams - "Reconsider Me" (from Absolutely the Best)
  • Marilyn Barbarin - "Reborn" (from Soul Jazz Presents: New Orleans Funk, Volume 1)
  • Lady Katie does a marvelous back-announce.
    • Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults)
  • Kelan Philip Cohran the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Cabin Tale" (from Kelan Philip Cohran and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
  • Chris Cohen - "Caller No 99" (from Overgrown Path)
  • Apache Dropout - "Katie Verlaine" (from Bubblegum Graveyard)
  • Jacco Gardner - "Where Will You Go" / (and a little bit of the b-side "Summer's Game" before Uncle Matt showed up) (from TIM042)
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8.12.2012

PROGRAM 23: WORDS, PART II, AND GOODBYE TO THEBILLDOSS [08.02.12]

Bill Doss of the Olivia Tremor Control died a few days before this program aired. The Mighty Grouse remembers some of his favorite Thebilldoss tracks, along with some more speaking tracks, and a few things rotating around the OTC part of his brain. The end of the program didn't record due to a pulled power cord in the studio, but it's been assembled here without the final awkward back-announce.

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  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "A New Day" (from Black Foliage: Animation Music)
  • The Shangri-Las - "Leader of the Pack" (from Myrmidons Of Melodrama)
  • Autry Inman - "The Ballad of Two Brothers" (from Troubled Troubadours)
  • Irma Thomas - "Coming from Behind / Wish Someone Would Care" (from In Between Tears)
  • The Flying Burrito Brothers - "Hippie Boy" (from The Gilded Palace of Sin)
  • Kaleidoscope - "A Lesson Perhaps" (from Tangerine Dream)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "Green Typewriters VII" (from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle)
  • Yusef Lateef - "Interior Monologue" (from Roots Run Deep)
  • Mogwai - "Punk Rock" (from Come On Die Young)
  • The Velvet Underground - "The Gift" (from White Light White Heat)
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex - "Frowning Atahuallpa" (from My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows)
  • Porter Wagoner - "Waldo the Weirdo" (from Troubled Troubadours)
  • Confessions of a Grousey Insomniac
    • Booker T & the MGs - "Soul Dressing" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "Exigesis (No Growing)" (from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "The Sylvan Screen" (from Black Foliage: Animation Music)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "California Demise 3" (from Black Foliage: Animation Music)
  • Dukes of Stratosphear - "Shiny Cage" (from Chips From The Chocolate Fireball)
  • Bill Holt - "Program 10" (from Dreamies)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "I'm Not Feeling Human" (from The Olivia Tremor Control Presents: Singles & Beyond)
  • The Sunshine Fix - "Love Athena" (from A Spiraling World Of Pop)
  • The Olivia Tremor Control - "NYC-25" (from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle)
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8.01.2012

PROGRAM 22: AMERICA AND ETHIOPIA HAVE WORDS [07.19.12]

Feels like it's been a while since there's been a show without a grand theme. A return to normalcy? The new normal also apparently means I take 6 weeks and a day to process every podcast. Guess what, we're back on the air this Thursday/tomorrow at 7pm. Death is back, so expect their to be some sort of tribute to Bill Doss of the Olivia Tremor Control.

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  • Tom Carter & Bardo Pond - "Side 1" (from 4/23/03)
  • Charalambides - "Variant" (from Drilling the Curve)
  • Giving out the live call-in number... a little risky, eh, Grouse?
    • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology)
  • Holy Modal Rounders - "Interlude" (from The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders)
  • The United States of America - "The American Way of Love" (from The United States of America)
  • Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies - "Moonsong: Pelog / Patriot's Lullabye" (from The American Metaphysical Circus)
  • You got all of that Metaphysical stuff wrong, Grouse!
    • Booker T & the MGs - "Soul Dressing" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Cuffs - "Private Views / YCCT" (RTS 017)
  • Terry Malts - "Disconnect / Don't Think You're Funny" (from LL007 ["Shit Split"])
  • CSC Funk Band - "A Little Weight" (from EC 022)
  • The Apostles - "Oshi Onwu" (from ASS-003)
  • Mulatu Astatke - "Yegelle Tezeta" (from Ethiopiques 4 - Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974)
  • Amen Dunes - "Ethio Song" (from Ethio Covers 7")
  • Debo Band - "Akale Wube" (from Debo Band)
  • Caston Deluca & Mellow Kello - "Voicemail Song #2" (a READ-GROUSE voicemail)
  • The Velvet Underground - "Murder Mystery" (from The Velvet Underground)
  • Caston Deluca - "Diary Entry" (a READ-GROUSE voicemail)
  • Pants Yell! - "Two French Sisters" (from Alison Statton)
  • The Make-Up - "How Pretty Can U Get" (from Destination: Love; Live! At Cold Rice)
  • Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Black Boy" (from Bulletproof Brass EP)
  • Jewish Renaissance Medical Center - "Ivan has an appointment" (a READ-GROUSE voicemail)
  • Ronnie Von - "Atlântida" (from A Misteriosa Luta do Reino do Parassempre Contra o Império de Nunca Mais)
  • Grouse, how dare you talk over Floh De Cologne
    • Floh De Cologne - "Fließbandbaby (cut short by dead battery)" (from Fließbandbabys Beat-Show)
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7.14.2012

PROGRAM 21: AND SHE NEVER HOLLERS COO-COO TILL THE FOURTH DAY OF JULY [07.05.12]

It's the day-late July 4th show (and the week late podcast!). The Mighty Grouse pays tribute to his sister bird, The Cuckoo, who only sings "cuckoo" each year on Independence Day. Then it's on to a big America set, which in true Grousey fashion has to end up in Trinidad eventually.

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  • Charalambides - "Can You Count the Stars" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
  • The Mighty Grouse talks out his ass about pneumonia and forgets the name of Trish Keenan
    • Charalambides - "Pieta" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
  • Clarence Ashley - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from Roots of Drone)(really!)
  • Tom Carter and Christian Kiefer - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from From The Great American Songbook)
  • Dorothy Carter - "The Cuckoo" (from Troubador)
  • John Fahey - "Variations on the Coocoo" (from The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites)
  • Robert Wyatt - "Cuckoo Madame" (from Cuckooland)
  • Antiteater - "Opening" (from Cloud Cuckooland)
  • Genesis - "Cuckoo Cocoon" (from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
  • Erik Darling - "Cuckoo" (from True Religion)
  • Gary Higgins - "Cuckoo" (from Red Hash)
  • Holy Modal Rounders - "Cuckoo" (from Holy Modal Rounders Vol 1)
  • Monks - "Cuckoo" (from Black Monk Time)
  • Obscure album liner notes read by the Mighty Grouse!
    • Joseph Byrd - selections from Yankee Transcendoodle
  • Bill Orcutt - "The Star-Spangled Banner" (from YouTube)
  • Liquor Store - "Proud to Be an American Man" (from Yeah Buddy)
  • Prince - "America" (from Around the World in a Day)
  • Ray Charles - "America the Beautiful (followed by a Coke Commercial)" (from Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection)
  • Lord Invader - "Intro (with Alan Lomax) / Rum and Coca-Cola" (from Calypso At Midnight)
  • Duke of Iron - "Intro (with Alan Lomax) / Roosevelt in Trinidad" (from Calypso After Mignight)
  • Mighty Zebra & La Motta Brothers - "We Like Ike" (from Muriel's Treasure)
  • Mighty Terror & His Calypsonians - "Heading North" (from Trojan Calypso Box Set)
  • Mighty Sparrow - "Jean and Dinah" (from 16 Carnival Hits)
  • Mighty Sparrow - "Yankees Gone / Steel Band Procession" (from Calypso Awakening: From The Emory Cook Collection)
  • Van Dyke Parks - "Stars and Stripes Forever" (from Discover America)
  • Grouse, your instincts proved right for once, that was Packy Axton. Also Grouse enjoys saying "yank me" a little too much.
    • Baracudas - "Yank Me (Doodle)" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • The Liberty Belles - "Shing-a-Ling Time" (S-209)
  • Funkadelic - "Groovallegiance" (from One Nation Under a Groove)
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7.06.2012

PROGRAM 20: DEATH SET, PT II [06.07.12]

The Mighty Grouse is a lazy bird. It is known. But I've been meaning to post this podcast for weeks. It almost went out right on the tail of the first half of the DEATH SET, but late night Audacity cleanup sessions can only take you so far before a 6 AM flight to Minneapolis. And now it's been in the can for a week waiting for Verizon to recover from THE GREAT STORM OF 2012. Goodbye DSL, you are dead to me, literally.

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  • The Dillards - "Intro/Band in the Hollow" (from There Is a Time (1963-70))
  • The Dillards - "There Is a Time" (from There Is a Time (1963-70))
  • The Dillards - "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune" (from Wheatstraw Suite)
  • The Dillards - "Last Thing On My Mind" (from Let The Music Flow: The Best of 1963-1979)
  • Dillard & Clark - "Don't Let Me Down" (from Through The Morning, Through The Night)
  • King Grouse jumps on top of the breakdown to introduce the show. With perfect timing!
    • Doug Dillard & Frank Wakefield - "Dixie Breakdown" (from Marin County Bluegrass Festival)
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc & Merle Watson - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (from Marin County Bluegrass Festival )
  • Doc Watson - "Talk About Suffering" (from Doc Watson)
  • Doc Watson - "St. James Hospital" (from Doc Watson)
  • Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley - "Old Ruben" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
  • Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley - "I'm Sitting On Top of the World" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
  • Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson - "The Coo-Coo Bird" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
  • Sahilin and Siti Rohmah - "Terang Bulan" (from Music of Indonesia, Vol. 20: Indonesian Guitars)
  • A Passage from Part I of Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, read by Christopher Hurt
    • Windy & Carl - "Antarctica" (from Antarctica)
  • Grouse says goodbye to Death.
    • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology)
  • The Apples in Stereo - "The Narrator/Tidal Wave" (from Fun Trick Noisemaker)
  • King Tuff - "Hit & Run" (from King Tuff)
  • Grass Widow - "Disappearing Industries" (from Internal Logic)
  • B-52's - "52 Girls" (from Rock Lobster (DB-52))
  • Henry Cow - "Industry" (from Western Culture)
  • Günter Schickert - "Side A" (from Uberfallig)
  • Giuseppi Logan - "Curve Eleven" (from More)
  • The Girls - "Jeffrey I Hear You" (from Reunion)
  • Normally jumping at the chance to go over into Uncle Matt's time, Grouse instead gets out while the gettin's good.
    • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
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6.11.2012

PROGRAM 19: DEATH SET, PT I [05.31.12]

The Mighty Grouse looks back at several musicians who died while EASGS was off the air. This show came out with a prominent R&B focus, with a dash of pop. Program 20 will pay closer attention to the country/bluegrass musicians who died in May.

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  • Booker T & the MGs - "Time is Tight" (from Time is Tight)
  • King Grouse says hello and goodbye.
    • Booker T & the MGs - "Time is Tight" (STAX 119)
  • Booker T & the MGs - "Emperor Rosko Introduction / Red Beans & Rice" (from The Stax/Volt Revue Volume 3 - Live In London & Paris)
  • Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - "We Need Some Money" (from Go Go Crankin')
  • Chuck Brown - "Radio CPR Station ID"
  • Chuck Brown - "Woody Woodpecker" (from We Got This)
  • Chuck Brown - "We The People" (from We Got This)
  • Chuck Brown - "Funky Beat" (from We Got This)
  • Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - "It Don't Mean a Thing" (from Go Go Swing)
  • Chuck Brown - "Bustin' Loose" (from We Got This)
  • Hal Jackson - "May 6, 2012 (excerpts)" (from WBLS New York Sunday Classics)
  • Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby" (from Love to Love You Baby)
  • Grouse wishes death upon a famous practitioner of trascendental meditation
    • Booker T & the MGs - "Soul Dressing" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Beach Boys - "Til I Die" (from Surf's Up)
  • Bee Gees - "I Started a Joke" (from Best of Bee Gees)
  • Bee Gees - "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (from Bee Gees' 1st)
  • Bee Gees - "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" (from Best of Bee Gees)
  • Bee Gees - "I Close My Eyes" (from Bee Gees' 1st)
  • Bee Gees - "I Can't See Nobody" (from Bee Gees' 1st)
  • Leadbelly - "Goodnight Irene" (from Louisiana : Catch That Train And Testify!)
  • The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene" (from Wasn't That A Time?)
  • Shel Silverstein - "Boy Named Sue" (from Boy Named Sue And His Other Country Songs)
  • Johnny Cash - "Boy Named Sue" (from Wanted Man)
  • Wendy Rene - "Gone For Good" & "Your Love Is All I Need" (from After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-65)
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5.30.2012

PROGRAM 18: GROUSE IN EXILE [04.25.12]

The Mighty Grouse has been out of town for about 2 months now. While stuck in New York I was hoping to make several appearances on Washington Heights Free Radio. Several became just one appearance last month. Here's a quick jump back into the past, a time when the Flyers still stood a chance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs! Another trip to Indonesia before landing back in the warm, familiar waters of the Caribbean.

EASGS should be returning to the Washington DC airwaves soon... possibly even this coming Thursday at 7pm.

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  • Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - "Radio Prague" (from Dazzle Ships)
  • Dexys Midnight Runners - "Let's Make This Precious" (from Too-Rye-Ay)
  • Grousin in the red, and then, a naked bird
    • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Gentleman Jesse - "Take It Easy on Me" (from Leaving Atlanta)
  • St. Vincent - "Cheerleader [sped up]" (from Cheerleader single)
  • Dinosaur Feathers - "City Living" (from Whistle Tips)
  • Yes - "And You and I" (from Close to the Edge)
  • Grouse still doesn't realize quite how loud he is
    • Teenage Fanclub - "Is This Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)
  • Ed Askew - "Mr. Dream" (from Ask the Unicorn)
  • Willis Earl Beal - "Swing on Low" (from Acousmatic Sorcery)
  • Abner Jay - "St. James Infirmary" (from Folk Song Stylist)
  • Mississippi John Hurt - "Keep on Knocking" (from The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt)
  • Phil Ochs - "Knock on the Door" (from All The News That's Fit To Sing)
  • The Congos - "Can't Come In" (from Heart of the Congos)
  • Billy Fury - "Don't Knock Upon My Door" (from The Sound of Fury)
  • Florina - "Knock Three Times" (from With Zieli Band)
  • Eddie Floyd - "Knock on Wood" (from The Stax/Volt Revue Volume 3 - Live In London & Paris)
  • Wendy Rene - "Gone for Good" (from After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-65)
  • Grouse morbidly roots for the long dead Flyers.
    • Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults)
  • Unknown - "Kuda Lumping" (from Street Musicians of Yogyakarta)
  • Arrington de Dionyso with Jaran Kepang Timbul Aji Jubah - "Mojokoerto" (from Trance Music of East Java)
  • Salina - "Mutiaraku" (from Keronchong Instrumental)
  • Neung Phak - "Fucking USA!" (from 2)
  • Sunil Ganguly - "Bombai Se Aaya Hun" (from Magic Melody)
  • Ramdew Chaitoe - "Track 5! (wish I had more than that)" (from The Legend Ramdew Chaitoe)
  • The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - "Apeman" (from The Esso Trinidad Steel Band)
  • Grouse does his Bill O'Reilly impression.
    • The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - "Cecilia" (from The Esso Trinidad Steel Band)
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4.07.2012

PROGRAM 17: THE BARACK OBAMA II HERITAGE SHOW [03.29.12]

You wouldn't know it from the back-announces this week, but this show's for President Obama. The Mighty Grouse just finished reading an advanced copy of David Maraniss's new family biography, BARACK OBAMA: THE STORY. So, on short notice I whipped up a brief Kenyan set and a twisted stew of music from the Indonesian archipelago. Only Kenya is in Obama's ethnic heritage, but he never lived there. He actually spent formative years in Indonesia and may have heard things similar to the stuff in this program. Aaand there's a Hawaiian after thought. And the ghost of Jomo Kenyatta.

EASGS is taking a terrestrial break while the Mighty Grouse skips town for a few weeks. Podcasts and maybe even live webcasts of some sort may return in mid-April. We should be back on Radio CPR by the end of May.

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  • Earl Scruggs - "Cumberland Gap" (from The Essential Earl Scruggs)
  • Earl Scruggs - "Earl's Breakdown" (from Live At the Ryman)
  • Earl Scruggs - "Randy Lynn Rag" (from The Essential Earl Scruggs)
  • The Mighty Grouse goes through the bi-weekly litany of contact information and implores the listeners to let him know if they're actually listening.
    • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
  • Blithe Sons - "In the Shade of the Earth" (from The Great Orthochromatic Wheel)
  • Hypnotic Brass Band - "Pluto" (from Bulletproof Brass EP)
  • Coast Social Orchestra - "Napenda" (from Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm)
  • Okoth Onuko - "March Guitar" (from Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm)
  • Suzzana Owíyo - "Kisumu 100" (from The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya)
  • Kakai Kilonzo - "Mama Sofi Pt. 1" (from The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya)
  • King Grouse shows of his knowledge of the tribal groups of Kenya
    • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology)
  • Black Tambourine - "Pack You Up" (from Black Tambourine)
  • Lilys - "A Diana's Diana" (from Everything Wrong is Imaginary)
  • Lorelei - "Float My Bed" (from Why Pop Stars Can't Dance)
  • Chain and the Gang - "Detroit Music" (from Music's Not For Everyone)
  • Galactic feat. Big Freedia - "Double It" (from Ya-Ka-May)
  • Hy Lit - "The Death of WIBG" (from YouTube)
  • "Allah's Hit Explosion" (from Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience)
  • Syamsudin - "Talang Denti" (from Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 2)
    • Wrong, wrong, wrong Grouse! Rabab Dangdut is the style, not the artist!
  • "Rubber Television" (from Night Recordings from Bali)
  • "Lullaby" (from The Balinese Gamelan: Music From the Morning of the World)
  • Paku Alaman palace gamelan, directed by K.R.T. Wasitodipuro - "Ketawang: Puspawarna ('Kinds of Flowers')" (from Javanese Court Gamelan From The Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakarta)
  • Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa - "Susu Naga" (from Suara Naga)
  • "Ketjak Dance (Excerpt)" (from The Balinese Gamelan: Music From the Morning of the World)
  • Mercury Rev - "If You Want Me to Stay" (from Lego My Ego)
  • Really, King Grouse should maybe only play nothing but Indonesian music from now on, because his pronunciation of Bahasa is streets ahead of every other bit of world music on this show.
    • Ike Bennet & The Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
  • Burning Spear - "Slavery Days" (from Marcus Garvey)
  • The Ventures - "Hawaiian War Chant" (from The Ventures)
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - "Time Zones" (from Dazzle Ships)
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3.03.2012

PROGRAM 16: LEAP DAY HANGOVER AND CARNIVAL WRAP-UP [03.01.12]



You're in for a treat, podcast listener! I still haven't figured out what went wrong with the sound, but what I recorded from the broadcast was so bad that I practically had to replace every track but the back announces. So you're in for a much hi'er-fi'er experience here. We start in New Orleans before heading back to 1940s Trinidad, then leaping straight ahead to Soca 2012! Then we've got some new from here in the States. Oh and a goodbye to Davy Jones.
EASGS will be off the air for the 3rd Thursday of March, but we should be returning on 3/29.
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  • Professor Longhair - "Go to the Mardi Gras" (from 'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology)
  • Professor Longhair - "Rum & Coca-cola (Version Two)" (from 'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology)
  • An excitable Grouse goes through the inside baseball of his craptacular radio program.
    • Professor Longhair - "Big Chief (drum break)" (from New Orleans Funk)
  • Roaring Lion - "Ancient Carnival" (from West Indian Rhythm)
  • Lord Executor - "Carnival Again" (from West Indian Rhythm)
  • Attila the Hun - "History of Carnival" (from History of Carnival)
  • The Growler - "Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival" (from West Indian Rhythm)
  • Mighty Sparrow - "Carnival '68" (from Calypso Carnival)
  • Rudy Bronson - "Trinidad and Tobago" (from YouTube)
  • Fay-Ann Lyons - "Get On" (from Soca Gold 2008)
  • Grouse still going on about stuff you don't need to know about.
    • Bunji Garlin - "Hold a Burn (instrumental)"
  • Machel Montano - "Pump Yuh Flag"
  • Skinny Fabulous - "6:30 (What Time Is It)" (from I Am Soca - 2012)
  • Destra - "Link Up"
  • Blaxx - "Inna Band" (from Madd Blood Riddim)
  • Iwer George - "Jab (No Pain)" (from I Am Soca - 2012)
  • Bunji Garlin - "Born Ready"
  • The Mighty Grouse provides, like, your bi-weekly update on T&T musical politics.
    • Sonny Rollins - "The Everywhere Calypso" (from Next Album)
  • Duane O'Connor - "The Hunt Is On"
  • Chalkdust - "Hows Dat" (from YouTube)
  • The Monkees - "Someday Man" (from Come To The Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults)
  • Accute gravitas shortfall. And show promotion!
    • The Monkees - "Daydream Believer (instrumental)" (from The Best Of The Monkees (Bonus Karaokee Disc))
  • Still Flyin' - "Cleat Talking" (from On A Bedroom Wall)
  • Pants Yell! - "Don't Take It" (from Recent Drama)
  • Dinosaur Feathers - "Untrue" (from Whistle Tips)
  • Orange Juice - "Flesh of My Flesh" (from Rip It Up)
  • Grass Widow - "Disappearing Industries" (M'LR 036)
  • Grouse creeps out Uncle Matt with his Silent Sausage Dance.
    • Jackie Davis - "Mañana (Is Soon Enough For Me)" (from Mambo Fever)
  • Terry Malts - "I Do" (from Killing Time)
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