PROGRAM 15: PHONING IT IN... WITH NEW EQUIPMENT! [02.16.12]

The Mighty Grouse started on time! But he forgot to bring a radio show with him. Spent the two hours fiddling with some new equipment that will hopefully bring superior broadcasts in weeks to come! Back again on March 1st, assuming we all survive the Leap Day festivities.

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And if you haven't noticed already... the podcast has moved to http://easgs.blogspot.com. I don't think this should require any changes or movements on the listener's end. Since I'm actually podcasting through Feedburner, the transition should have been seamless. What's the difference? Well now the podcast will present more than just the last 10 episodes. And if anyone is really interested in subscribing to my increasingly disappointing Tumblr content in Google Reader, the classic Tumblr RSS is re-enabled.

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• The Commodores - All of Midnight Magic
  • It happened to be lying around and I needed to kill time while I set up some new equipment. For the sake of this podcast, I think we didn't catch track 1 "Gettin' It," and I decided to cut everything after "You're Special," because Lionel Richie songs put me to sleep.
• Arthur Lee Maye & the Crowns - "This is the Night for Love" (Dig 124)
• Earth - "The Rakehell" (from Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II)
• Pandit Kamalesh Maitra & Trilok Gurtu - "Raag Bhupal Todi" (from Tabla Tarang: Melody on Drums)
• Uh... nothing to see here.
  • The Upsetters - "Return of the Ugly" (from For A Few Dollars More; 28 Shots of Western Inspired Reggae)
• Prince Rama - "Golden Silence" (from Trust Now)
• Small Island Pride - "Mildred Don't Cry" (from Calypso Atrocities)
• Mr. Confuse - "Feel the Fire" (from Feel the Fire)
• Floh de Cologne - "Wir werden immer mehr" (from Lehrlinge zusammenhalten)
• Madlib - "It Has Widespread Support" (from Madlib Medicine Show No. 6: The Brain Wreck Show)
• Madlib - "Saturday - So Beautiful (Dues Paid)" (from Madlib Medicine Show No. 9: Channel 85 Presents NittyVille, Feat. Frank Nitt)
• The Ethiopians - "Train to Skaville" (from Young Gifted and Black)
• Julia Holter - "Try to Make Yourself a Work of Art" (from Tragedy)
• The Mighty Grouse back-announces the entire show.
  • The Ventures - "The Shuck" (from The Ventures)
• Mystic Minds - "It's Real" (from Mind Over Matter)
• Mystic Minds - "Welfare to Unemployment" (from Mind Over Matter)

PROGRAM 14: @REDBARAAT TRIBUTE SHOW, OR: POWERSTRIP TERROR IN GARBAGE TIME [02.02.12]

Brass out the ass! This is the podcast that almost wasn't. The Mighty Grouse is seriously considering starting a Kickstarter campaign to buy Uncle Matt an extension cord so he doesn't knock out the power to the studio computer every time we switch shows. Stay tuned to the end for a song that was cut off when we lost power, plus one I forgot to play. Some non-brassy songs will be back on 2/16.

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• Amar Singh Chamkila & Amarjot - "Danga Kharak Payian" (from Hits of Chamkila and Amarjot Vol. 2)
• Amar Singh Chamkila & Amarjot - "Pehle Lalkare Naal" (from Hits of Chamkila and Amarjot Vol. 1)
• Mike Westbrook Concert Band - "Hooray!" (from Marching Song, Vol. 1)
• The Mighty Grouse gives directions to Red Baraat.
  • Bed: The Mar-Keys - "Bo-Time" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Red Baraat - "Punjabi Wedding Song (Balle Balle)" (from Chaal Baby)
• The Bollywood Brass Band - "Teri Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" (from Around The Horn: Brass Band Music From All Over, c/o GTDS Doug)
• "Rtanjsko Kolo" (from Golden Horns - Brass Band Music Of Serbia)
• Moussa Doumbia - "Keleya (Alternate LP Version)" (from Keleya, c/o Mining the Audio Motherlode)
• Rebirth Brass Band - "What Goes Around Comes Around" (from Rebirth of New Orleans)
• Coincidental Brass Promotion from the Grouse
  • Bed: The Mar-Keys - "Bo-Time" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Follett Educational Corporation - "Pakistan Band: Dholak, Bansri and Voices" (from Folk Instruments of the World, Album L24)
• Red Baraat - "Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna" (from Chaal Baby)
• Secretaria De La Defensa Nacional - "Side 1A" (from Ano De Juarez, c/o Heroic Leisure)
• Rogério Duprat - "Domingo no parque" (from Os Maestros Premiados, c/o Heroic Leisure)
• Raul de Barros - "Trombone travesso" (from Ginga de Gafieira, c/o Heroic Leisure)
• The Mighty Grouse casts aspersions.
  • Bed: Percy Faith & His Orchestra - “Tropical Merengue” (from Greatest Hits)
• The Mighty Sparrow - "Chinese Love Affair" (from Sparrow Power)
• Ralph Weeks with the Telecaste - "Gua Jazz" (from Panamá! 3)
• Young Tuxedo Brass Band - "Panama" (from Jazz Begins: Sounds of New Orleans)
• A Naked Grouse goodbye.
• Johnny Otis - "Why Don't You Do Right? (Get Me Some Money, Too)" (from The Capitol Years)
• WIM Fanfare - "Gutcha" (from Fanfare 1975-1988, c/o GTDS Doug)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Lord Panama And The Stickers - "Fire Down Below" (from Panamá! 3)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! L. Pelo - "Permit" (from Bringing It Down: South African Sax Jive)

SPECIAL PROGRAM 3: FILLING IN FOR DJ86 [01.26.12]

Can the Grouse handle doing a radio show 3 weeks in a row? We're about to find out. Last week, DJ86 was off getting some much deserved R&R, and the Grouse stepped in to fill his Mighty shoes. We didn't want to shock 86's normal listeners, so we tried to keep it generally within the same format. The regularly scheduled weirdness of Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall will be back tonight.

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• Baker Knight and the (K)nightmares - "Hallucinations" (from Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults)
• Howie Thayer and His Psycho-Electric Happening Psychedelic Sounds - "Movin' Groovin Fairy Tale" (from Single-Mindedness: Tony Coulter's 2011 WFMU Marathon Premium)
• Harper's Bizarre - "Come to the Sunshine" (from Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults)
• Modern Folk Quartet - "This Could Be the Night" (from Phil Spector - Back To Mono)
• Misty Wizards - "It's Love" (from A Heavy Dose Of Lyte Psych)
• Orange Alabaster Mushroom - "Your Face is in My Mind" (from Space & Time: A Compendium Of The Orange Alabaster Mushroom)
• The Searchers - "Love Potion No. 9" (KJB-27)
• Gandalf - "You Upset the Grace of Living" (from Gandalf)
• Traffic - "Heaven Is In Your Mind" (from Heaven Is In Your Mind)
• Lord Apologizer is always sorry.
  • Duane Eddy - "Detour b/w The Lonely One" (33 rpm) (Jamie 1117 )
• Etta James - "Plum Nuts" (from The Second Time Around)
• Howard Tate - "Ain't Nobody Home" (VK 10420)
• Johnny Otis - "Willie and the Hand Jive" (from Capitol Years)
• The Music Machine - "Talk Talk" (from (Turn On) The Music Machine)
• The Amboy Dukes - "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (Mainstream 684)
• Tunnel of Love - "Time Don't You Pass Me By" (TAPES-013)
• Teenage Gang Debs (1966) Trailer (from YouTube)
• The Chymes - "Quite a Reputation" (from Girls in the Garage)
• Mikal Cronin - "Get Along" (from Mikal Cronin)
• Ty Segall - "Goodbye Bread" (from Goodbye Bread)
• Apache Dropout - "Sam Phillips Rising" (from Apache Dropout)
• Crystal Stilts - "Sugar Baby" (slr91)
• The Rantouls - "Little Green Hat" (CCR-006)
• Mark Sultan - "Axis Abraxis" (from Whatever I Want)
• The Troggs - "With a Girl Like You" (Atco 45-6415)
• The Mighty Grouse gives a goodbye fakeout.
  • Booker T & the MGs - "Soul Dressing" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Moon - "Mothers and Fathers" (from Without Earth & The Moon)
• Brute Force - "To Sit on a Sandwich" (from I, Brute Force - Confections of Love)
• David Peel & the Lower East Side - "I Want to Kill You" (from The American Revolution)
• Lance Romance (Kim Fowley) - "Hollywood Nights" (from Living In The Streets)
• The Hollies - "Signs That Will Never Change" (Epic 5-10180)
• The Everly Brothers - "I'm So Lonely" (from Two Yanks in England)
• Adrian Pride - "Her Name is Melody" (from Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults)
• Pisces - "Mary" (from Pisces: A Lovely Sight)
• An exciting study of the calendar with the Mighty Grouse
  • The Mar-Keys - "Bo-Time" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind" (UA 50106)

PROGRAM 13: A NEW YEAR AND CARNIVAL’S COMING [01.19.12]

Fittingly, a late start to the new year (both on the clock and on the calendar). Better get whipped into shape soon, because we're looking at the possibility of doing the show three weeks in a row! Almost immediately after this podcast posts the Grouse will be back on the air filling in for DJ 86. Same Thursday night slot, different part of the month.

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• Planning music! King Crimson - "The Talking Drum / Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two" (from Larks' Tongues In Aspic)
• Good evening from the Grouse; a mini state of the show, state of the station
  • George Washington Brown - "Donovan's Colours (Mono Single Mix)" (from Arrangements, Volume 1)
  • Van Dyke Parks - "Come to the Sunshine" (from Arrangements, Volume 1)
• Madlib - "World Leaders Plan Centralized" (from Madlib Medicine Show No 6 The Brain Wreck Show)
• Chico Buarque - "Deus Ihe Pague" (from Construção)
• Weasel Walter - "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (from Ominous Telepathic Mayhem)
• Psandwich - "Something to Prove" (from Northren Psych)
• The Grouse is non-apologetic.
  • Wu Tang Vs The Beatles - "C.R.E.A.M. (loop)" (from Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers)
• The New Orleans Brass Band - "Track 4 (name that cover!)" (from 2012 Hits, Get Yours)
  • The answer, thanks to a podcast listener outside the broadcast range: "Living for the Love of You," originally by the Isley Brothers.
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Clarinet Marmalade" (from New Orleans' Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
• Louis Prima - "Robin Hood / Oh Babe" (from The Capitol Recordings)
• The Grouse lists local events.
  • Ike Bennet & The Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan: Rocksteady)
• Creole Kaukira Boys - "Rialto! Sens Unique" (from Au Bal Antillais: Franco-Creole Biguines From Martinique: Early Recordings of Caribbean Dance Musique)
• Rupert Clemendore and John Buddy Williams - "Last Night the Landlord Nearly Killed Me" (from Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad)
• Alicia D Duchess - "Vol 1 - Duchess Soca Mixtape 2012" (from Hott 93)

PROGRAM 12: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE / BACK ANNOUNCING FROM THE FUTURE [12.29.11]

It feels weird to be processing a podcast from last year. That arbitrary boundary in time towering over me like a slightly opaque glass wall. This show featured power failures, mild tardiness and a return to mixed media eclecticism. Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012 and a world where Four Mayan Tebow Broncomen usher in our collective demise. Hopefully this podcast tides you over until our first show of the new year, January 19.

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• "Motherland Megamix" (from Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom)
• Santana - "Everybody's Everything" (from III)
• King Grouse knows Kung Fu, but appreciates some Karate.
  • Kingston High School Marching Band - "Everybody's Everything (Karate)" (from YouTube)
• Emperors - "Karate" (from Karate)
• Bobby Fuller - "Keep On Dancing [Outtake]" (from Shakedown!: The Texas Tapes Revisited)
• Mikal Cronin - "Is It Alright" (from Mikal Cronin)
• Apache Dropout - "Dry Basement" (from Apache Dropout)
• Sapan Jagmohan - "Sote Sote Adhi Rat" (from Bollywood Bloodbath)
• Bo Hansson - "The Horns Of Rohan & The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields" (from Lord of the Rings)
• Art Blakey - "A Night in Tunisia" (from A Night at Birdland, Volume 1)
• John Coltrane - "Countdown" (from Giant Steps)
• Roscoe Mitchell - "Ornette" (from Sound)
• Louis Prima - "Chili Sauce" (from Breaking It Up!)
• Did the Grouse just plug Rush Limbaugh?
  • Percy Faith - "The Bandit" (from Aquarela Do Brasil)
• Mic set outro: Andrea True Connection - "More More More Break Loop" (from YouTube)
• Aphrodite's Child - "The Four Horsemen" [from 666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18)]
• The Jesters - "I'm Falling in Love" (from Paragons Meet the Jesters)
• Chantal Goya - "Si Tu Gagnes Au Flipper" (from Masculin Féminin)
• Household - "Phases" (from Household)
• Traoré Seydou Richard, Les Vaudou du Flamboyant - "Katougou" (from Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso)
• Unknown Caller - "Voicemail from Royersford, PA" (a READ-GROUSE voicemail)
• The Conservancy - "Morning Train" (from More Bucks County Ballads)
  • Below: Friday Group - "Friday Group 1" (from Friday Group)
• Madlib - "Sunday - Red Light Green" (from Madlib Medicine Show No. 9 - Channel 85 Presents NittyVille, Feat. Frank Nitt)
• Chico Buarque - "Deus lhe pague" (from Construção)
• A startled and unprepared Grouse. I edited out at least 5 more seconds of stunned dead air.
  • Bed: Nada!
• Grousey back announce from the future!
  • Broadcast - "One Hour Empire" (from Pendulum)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Eugene McDaniels - "Supermarket Blues" (from Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse)
• Kitch - "Pan Of The 21st Century" (from Melody Of The 21st Century)
• Goodbye and Happy New Year from the Mighty Grouse. Thanks for listening!
  • Kitch - "Social Dora" (from Melody Of The 21st Century)
• Red Crayola with the Familiar Ugly - "Free Form Freak-Out / War Sucks" (from The Parable Of Arable Land)

SPECIAL PROGRAM 2: CALYPSO MIX FOR RADIO CPR HOLIDAY MIX EXCHANGE [12.22.11]

This mix isn't lyrically Christmas themed. Such a compilation might take a few years of exhaustive research. I tacked some Christmasy stuff on at the end, just to get in the spirit. There's also a song about a guy pulling out his sausage at a Christmas party.
I believe a non-affiliated CPR friend got my mix. I was lucky to pull DJ Wanako's. I'm excited to hear it!
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• My Intention Is War - Lord Invader and Mighty Dictator
• Etheopia - The Jamaican Calypsonians
• Red Tomato - Chin's Calypso Sextet
• Roosevelt In Trinidad - Duke of Iron
• You Are My Sunshine - Mike Alexander/Pott Steelers
• Cinemascope - Carlie Binger and His Calypsonians
• Human Race - Lord Pretender
• Russian Satellite - The Mighty Sparrow
• Indrani - Lord Shorty (Ras Shorty I)
• Shame and Scandal - Duke Errol And The Lords
• Tribute to Luther King - Canary
• My Donkey Wants Water - Macbeth The Great
• Atomic Nightmare - Talbot Brothers
• Sausage - Baldhead Growler
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Mighty Sparrow
• Christmas is Joyful - The Executor
• Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner

PROGRAM 11: “RETURN OF THE (MAGNIFICENT/SECAUCUS) SEVEN (INCH)” [12.15.11]

The last of the all 7" shows! Three problems with this show: First off, I started late (again!) so this podcast is truncated! There is a ridiculous amount of ungrounded buzz! And it seems like Edwyn Collins, my favorite song is entitled "Boredom," because I mis-announced "Breakdown" near the end of the show. Consider this my fuzzy, loose-threaded Christmas & Hannukah present to you, Internet. EASGS will be back on for one more 2011 show, 12/29/11. New music, esoteric sounds, digital tracks, and hopefully less fuzz. Happy holidays!

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• The Bar-Kays - "Soul Finger" (Volt 45-148)
• Late again! And it takes every ounce of strength for the Grouse to resist the urge to verbally strut over Soul Finger.
  • The Bar-Kays - "Soul Finger" (45-148)
  • Booker T. & the MGs - "Outrage" (S-169)
  • The Bar-Kays - "Knucklehead" (45-148)
• Solomon Burke - "Stupidity" (45-2196)
• Eddie Holland - "Leaving Here" (M-1052)
• Oscar Mack - "Dream Girl" (S-152)
• S.A.M. - "Broadside" (Mediatribe/MT-001)
• Air Miami - "I Hate Milk Milk (remix)" (PRO-S-7823)
• Stereolab - "Moogie Wonderland" (D-UHF-D04S)
• The Hidden Cameras - "Learning the Lie" (EVILEVIL005)
• Dukes of Stratosphear - "My Love Explodes" (VS-763)
• Tunnel of Love - "Rock Around the Cock" (TAPES-013)
• Tunnel of Love - "Time (Don't Pass Me By)" (TAPES-013)
• The Troggs - "Wild Thing" (45-6415)
• Baby Carrot - "On Paper" (Monkeybite/MB-002)
• Earth Army - "Yourself" (AIH-1348)
• The Goldenrods - "Barbwire Chair" (HARP-004)
• Grouse fills you in, and it feels a little dirty.
  • Duane Eddy and the Rebels - "Peter Gunn (slow)" (J-DE-26)
  • Duane Eddy and the Rebels - "Along the Navajo Trail (slow)" (J-DE-26)
  • Just Brothers - "Sliced Tomatoes" (MS 1002)
• SSGT Barry Sadler - "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (47-8389)
• Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa - A-Side to unknown titled red lathe cut -- labeled "New Song"
• The Paragons - "Blue Velvet" (C 1280 A)
• The Silhouettes - "Get a Job" (FLB 13)
• Aaron Neville - "Tell It Like It Is" (Par-Lo 101)
• The Olympics - "Western Movies" (FF-1508)
• Dexy's [sic] Midnight Runners - "Geno" (Late Night Feelings / R6033)
• Buzzcocks - "Breakdown" (ORG-1)
• The How - "Polly" (wish013/55551)
• The Champagne Socialists - "Blue Genes" (slr98)
• Jane From Occupied Europe - "Ocean Run Dry" (Jane-001)
• The Pathways - "Productivity" (REC003)
• Eux Autres - "Patrick Nil" (BON001)
• The Mighty Grouse battles the Triumphant feedback monster
  • The Triumphs - "Big Dog" (KAB 45-2600)
• Orange Juice - "Rip It Up" (POSP 547)

PROGRAM 10: ‘THE 7” SHED IN WINTER’ [12.01.11]

There are rats crawling out of the shed I keep all of my singles, 45s and 7"s in (whatever you want to call them). Well, just one rat, specifically the Ascension/BLBAF split 7" on Crank. And if you might allow one more rodent, the vermin of laziness would be the second! Program 10 is the second episode in what seems to be a trilogy of 7" focused shows. This one gets weird very quickly. And then retreats to much safer territory. I promise Program 11 will be the end of this medium-focused madness! The last show of 2011 will hopefully feature a return to digital newness, long players, and maybe even an antique compact disc!

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• Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "The Bandit" (from Aquarela Do Brasil)
• A Suprisingly Composed Introduction from the Grouse! Late as Always!
  • Bed: Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "The Bandit" (from Aquarela Do Brasil)
• Siegel-Schwall Band and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa, conductor) - "Blues Band, Opus 50, Part I & II" (from The Third Movement of THREE PIECES FOR BLUES BAND AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA by William Russo) [DG 15 068]
• First Word - "Sleeping on the Sidewalk" (Family Insane Records 0011-R)
• Spuyten Duyvil - "Love Under Pressure" (Noiseville / MOTR 1B)
• The Mighty Grouse: Spuyten Duyvil's first new fan this century?
• Spuyten Duyvil - "Cruisin Hawthorne" (MOTR 1A)
• Spuyten Duyvil - "Kill the Bankers" (MOTR 1A)
• Ashtray - "Trailer" (Shoe / SH-1)
• Broken Lightbulb Anal Fetish - "The Tool Shed In Winter" (Crank Automotive / C3)
• Kuupuu - "Tein Tulen Tänään" (Time-Lag 027)
• Steff Lindemann mit seinem Orchester - "Love and Kisses" (Vinyl Postcard)
• Transmission down! But the Grouse perseveres.
  • Bed: Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "Tropical Merengue" (from Greatest Hits)

• Grass Widow - "Mannequin" (HLR 1)
• Artists United Against Apartheid - "Sun City" (B50017)
• Skunko and Sois - "Streakin' U.S.A." (NR-4429)
  • Etched next to the matrix: 'FOR A "GOOD TIME" CALL 946-4686'
  • After that, dial READ-GROUSE (732-347-6873) and share your 'good time' story with us.
• The Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke & Sasafrass" (IA-128)
• Modettes - "Paint it Black" (DET-R 1)
• Vic Donna - "I Won't Be Me Anymore" (TI 106)
• Louis Prima & Keely Smith - "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" (Dot 45-15956)
• Tippie & the Clovers - "My Heart Said" (Stateside 45SS-160)
• Lord Kitchener - "Kitch" (M-204)
• Mickey and Sylvia - "Mommy Out De Light" (URC-1078)
• The Grouse is lying. He's not on Diaspora. No one's on Diaspora.
  • Bed: Booker T & the MGs - "Soul-Limbo" (STA-0001)
• The Honeycombs - "Have I the Right?" (IN-7707)
• Dear Nora - "Make You Smile" (MMR008)
• Dear Nora - "The Sign of the Times" (MMR008)
• Unrest - "Deaf" (SP103)
• Simon & Garfunkel - "America" (4-45663)
• The Jesters - "Oh Baby" (LN-122-A)
• Goodbyes. More lies: next show is DECEMBER 15, not December 14. Hey that's this Thursday!
  • Bed: The Packers - "Hole in the Wall" (Pure Soul Music / 45-1107)

PROGRAM 9: SEVEN INCH LOCKOUT [11.17.11]

Pain and scandal in the family! The Grouse is currently limping back and forth to Radio CPR on a wing and a platterpak of 45s. Until he's healed up, there won't be much played from LPs or digital sources. Only as many tunes as he can fit in his lunchpail of dusty old wax. This show does have one digital interlude though... the world radio debut of the German booze-improv collective "Fuck Jazz," recorded live in Munich.
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!
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• Booker T. & the MGs - "Time is Tight" (from Up Tight!)
• Good evening from the Grouse. What is that buzz?!
  • Booker T. & the MGs - "Time is Tight" (STX-1002)
• Mary Wells - "The Doctor" (JB 5621)
  • Yes, yes. The Grouse realizes Mary Wells was not a Supreme... that was Mary Wilson.
• Paul Chaplain - "Shortnin' Bread" (Harper 100)
• Rude and awkward interruptions from the Mighty Grouse, thinking faster than his lips will move.
• Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction" (45-D-4009)
• Bobby Fuller Four - "Don't Ever Let Me Know" (Mustang 3016)
• The Liberty Belles - "Shing-a-Ling Time" (S-209)
• Terry Malts - "Fun Night" (SLR 159)
• Ernie K. Doe - "Mother in Law" (XW110)
• The Meters - "Cissy Strut" (Joz 644)
• Pants Yell! - "'83 in '05" (paper cities 002)
• Cuffs - "Archer" (RTS 013)
• Rocketship - "Naomi and Me" (BUS 034)
• Greetings to the thousands of participants in the radio journey that is EASGS.
  • The Ventures - "The Shuck" (from The Ventures)
• King Louie's Missing Monuments - "Tailspin" (DMR039)
• A quick introduction to blowing your ears out.
• Thee Lolitas - "Caffeine Pills" (from Soundcloud)
• Please call the Grouse at READ-GROUSE. He's lonely
  • Unknown caller - "White Noise from Rahway" (a READ-GROUSE voicemail)
• Christina Carter - "Pale Rose Cream" (from Texas Blues Working)
  • Voicemail from Caston Deluca
• Fuck Jazz - "mlt" (from Bandcamp)
• Grouse wraps up and looks forward to the next 7"palooza.
  • Stockholm Monsters - "Happy Ever After" (from All At Once (Singles 1981-1987))
• Evol Twin - "Big Hole" (DSR 103)
• Lorelei - "Float My Bed" (SLR 32)
• Cinema Red and Blue - "Coming Soon" (?0210)

PROGRAM 8: TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS, OR: THE BARELY BONUS PODCAST [11.3.11]

Man, all it takes is one missing y-cable to ruin a whole show for me. This program isn't half bad. I thought I needed to go back and add 10 songs to the playlist; 10 songs that were cut for time wasted on getting everything up and running. But looking back at my notes, I can't figure out what could have been missing. There are a few extras in this podcast, but not the entire set I thought was missing at the time. Let's just hope that y-cable is there for tonight's show and I'm less melodramatic about how that one turns out.

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• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Quinteto Violado - "Asa Branca" (from Quinteto Violado)
• A Grousey hello
• Palghat Raghu, V. V. Subramaniam, K. V. Narayanaswamy - "Kriti: Raghuvāranannu" (from Dhyānam/Meditation - South Indian Vocal Music)
• Listen to his voice, Grouse has already lost the will to live.
  • The Upsetters - "Return of the Ugly" (from For A Few Dollars More; 28 Shots of Western Inspired Reggae)
• The Sensational Nightingales - "It's a Highway to Heaven" (from Original Greatest Gospel Hits)
• Little Richard - "Coming Home" (from Little Richard Sings Spirituals)
• Memphis Minnie - "The Saints" (from Moaning the Blues)
• Patton Oswalt - "Power of Jesus [clean]" (from Finest Hour)
• Blind Willie McTell - "Lord Have Mercy If You Please" (from Trying to Get Home)
• John Fahey - "In Christ There is No East or West" (from Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You : The Fonotone Years [1958-1965])
• Blind Thomas (John Fahey) - "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" (from Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You : The Fonotone Years [1958-1965])
• John Fahey - "A Raga Called Pat, Part III" (from The Voice of the Turtle)
• George Katsaros - "Vre Ti Mangas Pou'Mai Go" (from To What Strange Place : The Music of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916 - 1929)
• Forward, backward, double back and forth; Grouse is lost.
  • Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "Tropical Merengue" (from Greatest Hits)
• Mark Sultan - "For Those Who Don't Exist" (from Whenever I Want)
• Need New Body - "Irlimpi" (from Need New Body)
• Roscoe Mitchell - "Solo" (from Old/Quartet Sessions)
• Romica Puceanu & The Gore Brothers - "Vintule, Bataia Ta" (from Sounds From A Bygone Age. Vol 2)
• Grouse local promo time
  • Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "The Bandit" (from Aquarela Do Brasil)
• Percy Faith - "The Bandit [Fuck Jazz Phase Shift]"
• WIM Fanfare - "Gutcha!" (from WIMPROVEEN (1975-88))
• Uncredited Serbian Brass Band - "Juznomoravka Kolo" (from Golden Horns - Brass Band Music Of Serbia)
• Mercury Dance Band - "Envy No Good" (from Afro-Rock Vol. 1)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Houghas Sorowonko - "Enuanom Adofo" (from Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds, Ghanaian Blues 1968 - 1981)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Amara Touré - "Lamento Cubano" (from Afrolatin Via Dakar)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - "Kyenkyen Bi Adi M'Awu" (from K. Frimpong & His Cuban Fiestas)
• Grouse makes a hasty exit.
  • Lloyd Simmons - "Hair in Your Teeth" (from Calypso Party)

SPECIAL PROGRAM 1: RADIO CPR RECORD SALE DJ SET [11.12.11]

Last Saturday the Grouse and several other CPR DJs provided audible entertainment during the annual Radio CPR Fundraising Record sale. Grouse brought his digital recorder so that you, the Internet listener, might enjoy the same tunes. Keep an eye out, DJ Dianamatic might also be posting her set some time soon.

I had originally thought of doing an entirely calypso based set for my hour. But the last time I pulled that trick, I had half the crowd snoozin, and half in a riot (Philistines!). Instead we get a brief prologue with Calypsos from across the Caribbean. The set then veers totally off course into 50 minutes of freeform mess!

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• The Mighty Terror - "Chinee Children, Call Me Daddy" (from Calypsos From the West Indies (Monogram 834))
• Duke and His Jamaica Five - "Shame and Scandal" (from Kalypso and Ska)
• Sidney Bean - "Bloodshot Eyes" (from Calypso Holiday in Bermuda)
• Wynonie Harris - "Good Morning Judge" (from Good Rockin' Blues)
  • If I might explain my thinking here... Duke has covered "Chinee Children" and "Bloodshot Eyes," which of course was originally recorded by Wynonie...
• Bent Leg Fatima - "Cup & Saucer" (from Bent Leg Fatima)
• Illaiyaraaja - "Sorgam Madhuvile feat. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam" (from Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 Vol. 1)
• The Emperors - "Karate" (from MALA 543)
• The Shag - "Stop & Listen" (from The Pebbles Box, Record 1)
• Hugh Masekela - "Mace & Grenades" (from UNI 55102)
  • NB: First heard this song while Ted Leo and Chris Wilson were DJing a bar in Chicago. Emphatically air-drumming the whole time.
• The Mighty Sparrow - "Chinese Love Affair" (from Hot and Sweet)
• Rocketship - "Your New Boyfriend/Like a Dream" (from Why Popstars Can't Dance: A Slumberland Compilation)
• Fire Engines - "Candyskin" (from POP 010)
• The Rantouls - "Little Bit of This" (from CCR-006)
• Terry Malts - "Something About You" (from SLR 159)
• Jimmy Jukebox (Kim Fowley) - "Motor Boat" (from Living in the Streets)
• Pere Ubu - "Street Waves" (from The Modern Dance)
• The Meters - "Tippi-Toes" (from Struttin')
• Can - "I Want More" (from 12spoon047)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson - "Brain Smashing Dub" (from LKJ in Dub)

(NB: The last show, 11/3/11 will be posted soon! Hopefully before the next show... which is later today!)

PROGRAM 7: PLANNING’S FOR THE BIRDS [10.20.11]

Back after another month off the air. You'd think with all that extra time to plan, this show would be a breeze. Instead a swift gust blew through my record collection. Half way through the show I derailed a Trini set (though we eventually got back to it) after realizing I skipped an entire stack of records. If you listen carefully, the Mighty Grouse is unaware that the mic is open for the first set. He was probably singing along the loudest for the Walker Brothers. More embarrassing than the singing is his complete lack of lyrical understanding. The last few minutes of the show (which just included uneventful back-announcing over Carnatic music) were cut off as my digital recorder ran out of juice.

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• Treniers - "Poon-Tang!" (from A Introduction to the Treniers)
• Tom Northcott - "Who Planted Thorns In Miss Alice's Garden?" (from Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults)
• Aerovons - "Resurrection" (from Resurrection)
• Tremeloes - "Suddenly You Love Me" (Epic 5-10293)
• Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" (S-1419)
• The Zombies - "You Must Believe Me" (from Live At BBC)
• Tommy James & the Shondells - "I Think We're Alone Now" (R-4720)
• The Mighty Grouse is always easily excitable when he hears the steady back beat of Al Jackson, Jr.
  • Bed: Booker T. & the MGs - "Time is Tight" [forewords and backwards] (STX-1002)
• Van Dyke Parks - "On The Rollin' Sea When Jesus Speaks To Me" (from A Sample of The Genius Of Van Dyke Parks)
• Lord Shorty - "Om Shanti Om" (from The Collection)
  • GROUSEY INTERRUPTION!
• 5th Ward Webbie and Big Choo - "I Wanna Be Where U Are (Gutta Bounce Mix)" (from Shake Twerk & Wobble 2)
• Baby Huey - "Hard Times" (from The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend)
• Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies - "Nightmare Train" (from The American Metaphysical Circus)
• Bee Gees - "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You" (from Bee Gees' 1st)
• Curtains - "Go Lucky" (from Calamity)
• The Paperhead - "Let Me Know" (from The Paperhead)
• Gentle Giant - "Another Show" (from Intervew)
• Aphrodite's Child - "The System"/"Babylon" (from 666: The Apocalypse of John, 13/18)
• R. Stevie Moore - "Forecast" (from Everything You Always Wanted To Know About R. Stevie Moore But Were Afraid To Ask)
• The Sparks - "Eaten By The Monster Of Love" (from Angst In My Pants)
• Listen as the tears roll down Grouse's face, lamenting his dear Phillies
  • Bed: Dexys Midnight Runners - "TSOP" (DEXYS 1012)
• Merchant - "Um Ba Yo" (from Golden Hitz Of Calypso And Soca Vol. 2)
• Growling Tiger - "Down the Road" (from Mata la Pena)
• OBLIGATORY HALLOWEEN SET
• Duke Errol And His Lords - "Back To Back And Belly To Belly" (from Muriel's Treasure Vol. 1)
• The King Khan & BBQ Show - "Zombies" [clean] (from What's For Dinner?)
• I Was A Teenage Werewolf Trailer (from Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly)
• Holy Modal Rounders - "Werewolf" (from The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders)
• The Zombies - "Goin' Out of My Head" (from The Singles A's & B's)
• The Exciters - "He's Got the Power" (from One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found)
• Bandana Splits - "Sometimes" (from Mr. Sam presents the Bandana Splits)
• The Shangri-Las - "Sophisticated Boom Boom" (from Myrmidons Of Melodrama)
• Illaiyaraaja feat. T.M. Soundararajan & L.R. Eswari - "One and Two ChaChaCha" (from Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 Vol. 2 LP)
• Vidwan Ramnad Krishnan - "Kriti: Ninnāḍanela" (from Music of South India: Songs of the Carnatic Tradition)
• Lord Grouse is cut off by poorly charged batteries. In the unrecorded portion he explains the thinking behind the previous sets with logic only a mother could love.
  • Bed: Vidwan Ramnad Krishnan - "Kriti: Pālincu Kāmāksi" (from Music of South India: Songs of the Carnatic Tradition)

PROGRAM 6: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES & BASEBALL! [09.29.11]

There's an extended jam session during this program, in which there was much soldering, lamenting and gnashing of teeth. Sorry for the late update: the Mighty Grouse has counterintuitively flown north for the week, presently typing this playlist from a roost on Chebeague Island, Maine. It's cold and wet, but for you, the radio listeners, my heart will always be hot and dry.

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• Sonny Sharrock - "Black Woman" (from Black Woman)
• The Pretty Things - "Mr Evasion" (from SF Sorrow)
• Sagittarius - "Hotel Indiscreet" (from Present Tense)
• Max Roach - "Garvey's Ghost" (from Percussion Bitter Sweet)
• The Mighty Grouse greets the non-existent terrestrial audience!
  • Bed: Booker T & the MGs - "Soul Dressing"
• Phurpa - "Mu Ye" (from The Sound of Dakini Laughter)
• Tonstartssbandht - "Sinkhole Storm and Sandwich" (from Sinkhole Storm and Sandwich)
• Don't listen to those Grousey complaints... through the magic of editing I'll never have to learn to fade in these beds!
  • Bed: Teenage Fanclub - "Is this Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)
• Bickley Reichner and Elliot Lawrence and the Delaware County String Band - "The Fightin' Phils" (Check out this YouTube video!)
• The Simpsons - "Were Talkin' Softball" (from Homer at the Bat)
• The Baseball Project - "The Death Of Big Ed Delahanty" (from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails)
• The Treniers - "Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)" (from Baseball's Greatest Hits)
• The Duke of Iron - "The NY Mets" (from Limbo! Limbo! Limbo!)
• The Mountain Goats - "Cubs in Five" (from Nine Black Poppies)
• The Baseball Project - "Ichiro Goes to the Moon" (from Volume 2: High and Inside)
• Lord Grouse shills for the Cherch
  • Bed: Ike Bennet & The Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan: Rocksteady)
• The Cheniers - "The Drift" (from The Drift)
• Polyps - "Bell Song" (from Bandcamp)
• Patton Oswalt - "The Invisible Anus [clean]" (from Finest Hour)
• Lame Drivers - "Congratulations" (from Cruisin' Classics: 2003-2010)
• Barn Owl - "Light Echoes" (from Lost in the Glare)
  • Voicemail from Caston Deluca
• Household - "Go Away" (from Items)
• Veronica Falls - "All Eyes on You" (from Veronica Falls)
• Lord Grouse is back on the air! Really: I think we fixed everything.
  • Bed: Various grooves from side B of Running in Place: Locked Grooves from WFMU

PROGRAM 5: EXTRA LONG WITH TEETHING VEILS [09.15.11]

Last show we had a special Internet-only bonus. This time, everybody gets an extra hour. We're joined by Greg Svitil of Teething Veils for an in-studio performance and interview. With Uncle Matt out sick, we decided to lean into half of his time slot. Here's hoping he gets well soon. Apologies for the long delay in posting this playlist!

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• The Watersons - "Seven Virgins, or The Leaves Of Life" (from Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs)
• Lord Flea & the Blue Mountain Caroleers - "Irene And Yo'Fr'en" (from Jamaica-Mento 1951-1958)
• Bunji Garlin - "Hold a Burn" (2011 Soca Monarch entry)
• Witthüser & Westrupp - "Bauer Plath" (from Bauer Plath)
• Adriano Celentano - "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (from Celentaneide)
• Hugh Masekela - "Blues for Huey" (from Masekela)
• Encarnita Polo - "Paco, Paco, Paco" (from Achilifunk - Gypsy Soul 1969-1979)
• Francilia - "Nou tout se moun" (from Musical Selections from Alan Lomax in Haiti)
• DJA-Rara - "Medley 1" (Live at Barbés on WFMU's TSP 9/19/2009, available on FMA)
• Lord Grouse introduces Teething Veils
  • Bed: The La Drivers Union Por Por Group - "Otsokobila" (from Honk Horn Music Of Ghana)
• TEETHING VEILS - "You Write on My Face" (live on-air)
• The Mighty Grouse interviews Greg Svitil of Teething Veils
• TEETHING VEILS - "Cobblestone" (live on-air)
• Jandek - "Cellar" (from Lost Cause)
• Verdure - "Greentrees" (from The Telescope Dreampatterns)
• Charalambides - "Gypsy Woman" (from The Historic 6th Ward)
• Gene Estribou - "You Know - The One You Played Saturday Night" (from Intensifications)
• Jean Paul Pickens - "Coo Coo Bird" (from Intensifications)
• A quick back announce!
• TEETHING VEILS - "Post-Marks" (live on-air)
• TEETHING VEILS - "Dinner Date" (live on-air)
• Charalambides - "Variant" (from Drilling the Curve)
• Pearls Before Swine - "The Surrealist Waltz" (from One Nation Underground)
• Erik Darling - "Cuckoo" (from True Religion And Other Blues, Ballads And Folksongs)
• Ed Askew - "Mr. Dream" (from Ask the Unicorn)
• caUSE co-MOTION! - "Which Way is Up" (WYR?0306)
• German Measles - "What Goes On" (from A German Joke Is No Laughing Matter)
• Bill Cosby & His White Puddin Pops - "We Won't Stop" (from Passion Of The Pops)
• The Rantouls - "Little Bit of This" (CCR-006)
• King Grouse and the Bed Music Free For All
  • Bed: Various grooves from side A of Running in Place: Locked Grooves from WFMU
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw - "Wicky Pocky" (Live on WBAR, 10/15/03)
• The New Sound of Numbers - "Tuning the Air" (from Liberty Seeds)
• The Raincoats - "Only Loved at Night" (from Odyshape)
• Household - "Our Song" (from Items)
• Grass Widow - "Milo Minute" (HLR 1)
• Felt Letters - "600,000 Bands" (M'LR 015)
• Bruno M - "Dança do Scomba" [edit] (from Jess & Crabbe present Bazzerk: African Digital Dance)
• TT the Artist f/ Murder Mark - "Set Me Free" (from Murder Mark Productions)
• Vockah Redu & Da Cru - "Shake Ya Bones Loose" (from YouTube)
• A startled Grouse shills for the avant-garde
  • Bed: Something from side A of Running in Place: Locked Grooves from WFMU
• Terry Riley - "Dorian Reeds" (from Reed Streams)

PROGRAM 4: “A CAPPELLA SANDWICH IN A THUNDERSTORM” [08.18.11]

Despite the raucous thunderstorm outside, we didn't lose power, and the Grouse's records stayed dry. I must have talked for an hour in this show, because I thought I only had half a program planned, and in the end I had to cut a bunch of stuff. I tacked a few things back on for this archive/podcast. INTERNET BONUS!

EASGS will be off the air the first Thursday of September, so DJ86 and his Cone of Noize will be on 3 weeks in a row starting next week. This show here will be back on the air the 3rd Thursday of September, 9/15, at the usual time 7-9pm EDT. Our guest for that show will be Greg from Silo Halo, performing under his solo project TEETHING VEILS. 

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• Juanita Rogers - "I'm So Glad You Love Me (Unissued)" (from The Second Stop Is Jupiter)
• Black Eyes - "False Positive" (from Cough)
• The Mighty Grouse feeds back, adjusts the trim, then nearly falls on his ass.
  • Bed: Wu-Tang vs. the Beatles - "C.R.E.A.M." (from Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers)
• Ken Boothe - "Can't You See" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
• Tall Dwarfs - "All My Hollowness to You" (from Hello Cruel World)
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford - "Dry Bones" (from Anthology of American Folk Music)
• Electric Prunes - "Ain't It Hard" (from I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night)
• Hooverphonic - "2wicky" (from A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular)
• Lord Grouse is still getting the hang of Traktor, and needs to learn to fade into his bed music.
  • Bed: Booker T & the MG's - "Soul Dressing" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Moussa Doumbia - "Femme D'Aujourd'Hui" (from Keleya)
• Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson & Peter Evans - "Scuppernong Malfunction" (from Electric Fruit)
• Galactic (f/ Big Freedia) - "Double It" (from Ya-Ka-May)
• DJ Ketchup - "O Babo" (from Jess & Crabbe present Bazzerk: African Digital Dance)
• Ya Ho Wa 13 - "Ho" (from Penetration: An Aquarian Opera)
• Olivia Wyatt - "Dirashe Drum Song" (from Staring Into the Sun)
• Faust - "Devoted Bone Dance" (from Faust 5)
• Dinosaur Feathers - "Parallel July" (from Early Morning Risers)
• Lord Grouse feels very comfortable lying on this particular bed.
  • Bed: Ike Bennet & The Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
• The Raincoats - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" (from The Raincoats)
• Grass Widow - "Celebrate the Mundane" (from Grass Widow)
• Sonny & the Sunsets - "Girls Beware" (from Hit After Hit)
• Arthur Alexander - "You Don't Care" (from The Ultimate Arthur Alexander)
• Apache Dropout - "Shot Down" (TIM030)
• High Tension Wires - "Incorporeal" (from Welcome New Machine)
• The Grouse is closing up early to avoid the DJ transition CHAOS! Back in a month!
  • Bed: Terry Riley - "A Rainbow in Curved Air" (from A Rainbow in Curved Air)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson - "Victory Dub" (from LKJ in Dub)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Popul Vuh - "Train through Time" (from Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999)
• Macbeth the Great - [the LP and jacket say this track is called "Emily" but I have a sneaking suspicion it is mislabeled and actually the song "Bajan Girl"] (from Calypso Holiday)
• Eric Weissberg - "Jesse James/Hard Ain't it Hard" (from American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style)
• Stefan Grossman - "Allison's Piano Blues" (from Finger Picking Guitar Techniques)
• BONUS FOR THE PODCAST! Sacred Harp - "Make For Me a Way" (from Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation)
• Mrs. Texas Gladden - "The Three Babes" (from Child Ballads Traditional in the United States (II))

PROGRAM 3: “NIGHT, NIGHT OF THE VIKRAM, VIKRAM” [08.04.11]

Fuck Tumblr and fuck Chrome. I just typed out half this playlist, flipped around to another tab for some reason, came back and hit backspace, only to have the entire browser scroll back a page and lose my work. Fuuuuuccckkk. Another awkward show, but better Internet, new a/c unit (even though last show was 130 degrees and this one was only 80). My DJ hand offs before and after need work. Good show musically. Fuuuuck!

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• Bhundu Boys - "Kuroja Chete" (from Shabini)
• Nodzzz - "Old Clothes" (from Innings)
• Laughing Man - "Already Always" (from The Lovings '63-'69)
• The Evens - "No Money" (from Get Even)
• Wugazi - "Another Chessboxin' Argument" [edit] (from 13 Chambers)
• Michael Dracula - "Rational Hatred" (from In the Red) [h/t Diana CPR]
• Ty Segall - "Children of Paul" (DC478e)
• Half-handed Cloud - "Gentile Perception" (from DOVE EP)
• The Mighty Grouse does his part for plugging a local event after it's already half over.
  • Bed: Charles Wilp - "Purple Playmate" (from Fotografiert Bunny)
• Les Rallizes Dénudés - "夜、暗殺者の夜" [Night of the Assassins] (from Cable Hogue Soundtrack)
• Gene Clark - "Stand By Me" (from White Light)
• The Fresh & Onlys - "Secret Walls" (from Secret Walls)
• James Pants - "Every Night" (from James Pants)
• Atropolis - "NYChero" (from Atropolis)
• Ghetto Brothers - "The Girl from the Mountain" (from Power Fuerza) [h/t GTDS]
• If you thought the Japanese and German pronunciations were bad, wait till you hear Lord Grouse introduce some Kollywood music.
  • Bed: Charles Wilp - "Nanci for Soft-Ice" (from Fotografiert Bunny)
• Illaiyaraaja - "Sorgam Madhuvile feat. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam" (from Solla Solla: The Electronic Pop Sound of Kollywood 1977-1983)
• Big Freedia - "Rock Around the Clock" (from Hitz Vol. 1)
• Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers - "Got My Mind Gone" (from Up in Flames)
• Vikram - "Vikram, Vikram" (from Play That Beat Mr. Raja [Selected Oddities From The Tamil Film Industry 1984-1991])
• Group Doueh - "Ana Lakweri" (from Zayna Jumma)
• Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa - "Wadah Rohani" (from Suara Naga)
• John Fahey - "Requiem for Molly, Parts 1 & 2" (from Requia)
• Tower Recordings - "Other Kinds Run" (from The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings)
• Grouse realizes he needs to put more planning into how to end his shows just as Uncle Matt comes knocking. 
  • Bed: Los Relampagos - "Recuerdos De La Alhambra" (from Nit De Llampecs)
• Blind Willie McTell - "Dying Crapshooter's Blues" (from Atlanta Twelve String) [played for a little bit before I had to let Uncle Matt in]
• The German Measles - "It's Me Babe" (from A German Joke is No Laughing Matter)
• [then some Fred McDowell - Alan Lomax recordings reissued on Mississippi Records played us out while Uncle Matt set up]

PROGRAM 2: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES B/W “HEAT WAVE” [07.21.11]

Sorry for posting this show 2 weeks late. Wasn't too happy with how it turned out, so I was considering not posting it at all. Besides being about 103°F in DC (or 155°F with the heat index) the station had some technical difficulties that kept me from going on air until about 8pm. Is it just me, or does this playlist also seem a bit half-assed? Again, chalk it up to heat-derangement and dehydration. Now with the bar at an all time low, you should all be looking forward to the astounding radio magic we'll have tomorrow 08.04.11 at 7pm! This time, [hopefully] starting on time!

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• [Cream's Disraeli Gears was playing while I tried to get the station on-air.]
• Martha & the Vandellas - "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" vocal track
• The Supremes  - "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" (from The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland)
• Lou Christie - "Love is Like a Heat Wave" (from Lightnin' Strikes)
• The Jam - "Heat Wave" (from Direction, Reaction, Creation)
• Cilla Black - "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" (taken from YouTube, probably from Ready Steady Go!)
• The Who - "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" (from My Generation - Deluxe Edition)
• Martha & the Vandellas - "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" (Gordy 7022)
• The Lovin' Spoonful - "Do You Believe in Magic" (from Do You Believe in Magic)
• King Grouse hunts for a good lock groove and tries to explain the proceeding madness
  
  • Bed: Something from side A of Running in Place: Locked Grooves from WFMU
• Jan & Dean - "She's My Summer Girl" (Liberty 55580)
• Pisces - "In the Summer the Grape Grows" (from Pisces: A Lovely Sight)
• Television Personalities - "Seasons in the Sun" (Twis 20)
• The Undertones - "Here Comes the Summer" (from The Undertones)
• Wendy Rene - "Bar-B-Q" (S-159)
• Cosmic Rays - "Summertime (unissued)" (from Interplanetary Melodies)
• The Zombies - "Summertime" (from Begin Here)
• The Apollo Stars - "Summertime" (from Power of Source)
• The Mighty Grouse is distracted by shorting connections, dropping laptops and the arrival of Uncle Matt
  • Bed: The Apollo Stars - "Summertime" (from Power of Source))
  • (If you're annoyed that the righteous drum solo was fucked up by our tinkering with the board, download the full track here.)
• Crystal Stilts - "Love is a Wave" (SLR91)

PROGRAM 1: "PREOCCUPATION" [06.30.11]

The first regularly scheduled show! Much of it was filled with distraction and preoccupation: with technical difficulties, with surprised and beleaguered fellow DJs. And this was an unusual entirely digital show thanks to some conflicting prior engagements.  Better planning, better background, better variety to come! We're learning--onward and upward! Also, the track from YouTube is for Canada Day Eve!

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• Clive Palmer - "Banjoland" (from Banjoland)
• King Crimson - "Get Thy Bearings" (from Epitaph Vol. 1)
• Ghostface Killah - "Jellyfish" (f/ Cappadonna, Shawn Wigs & Trife) (from Fishscale)
• King Grouse Sings! Or, Radio CPR needs a cough button
  
  • Bed: Teenage Fanclub - "Is This Music?" (from Bandwagonesque)
• The Seeds - "You Can't Be Trusted" (from The Seeds)
• Dan Melchior's Broke Revue - "Me and J.G. Ballard" (from Bitterness, Spite, Rage and Scorn)
• Ewa Demarczyk - "Karuzela z Madonnami" (from Spiewa Piosenki Zygmunta Koniecznego)
• The Savages - "The World Ain't Round It's Square" (from Live'n Wild)
• The Mighty Sparrow - "Sailor Man" (from First Flight: Early Calypsos from the Emory Cook Collection)
• Gwigwi Mrwebi - "Zobongo" (from Mbaqanga Songs)
• Baas Mal Orchestra - "Leba" (from Around The Horn: Brass Band Music From All Over)
• The Mighty Grouse does not pronounce non-Western languages well.
  • Bed: Hugh Masekela - "Riot" (from Masekela)
• Charles Bradley - "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)" (from No Time For Dreaming)
• The Emperors - "I've Got to Have Her" (from Soul Treasures - Looking For My Baby)
• The Meters - "Zony Mash" (Josie 45-1024)
• Mary Jane Hooper - "I've Got Reasons" (from Psychedelphia: Rare & Unreleased New Orleans Funk)
• Irma Thomas - "In Between Tears" (from In Between Tears)
• Traffic - "Glad" (from John Barleycorn Must Die)
• Confusion! Grouse is flustered! 
  
  • Bed: The Emperors - "Tic-Tac-Toe" (from Soul Treasures - Looking For My Baby)
• Nodzzz - "In Troubled Times" (from Innings)
• Iceage - "Collapse" (from New Brigade)
• Ex-Models - "Girlfriend is Worse" (from Other Mathematics)
• Devo - "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)" (from Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
• Sonny Sharrock - "Blind Willy" (from Black Woman)
• Superspeed Rush - "2112 pt 2" (from YouTube)
• Lord Grouse apologizes for making you listen to more than 15 seconds of Superspeed Rush. But: Happy Canada Day!
  
  • Bed: Superspeed Rush - "2112 pt 2" (from YouTube)
• The Young Generation - "The Hideaway" [from Girl Group Sounds Lost And Found (One Kiss Can Lead To Another)]
• Incredible String Band - "A Very Cellular Song" [truncated!] (from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter)
• Joseph Spence - "Good Morning, Mr. Walker" (from Bahamian Guitarist)
• Ruth Garbus - "Falling Down to Earth" (from Rendezvous With Rama)
• UB40 - "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (from Signing Off)
• Joe Bataan - "Subway Joe" (from Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Sound of Latin New York) 
• Gilberto Gil - "Bat Macumba" (from Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis)
• The Mighty Grouse is suddenly unprepared for the handover to Uncle Matt
  
  • Bed: Sun City Girls - "The Shining Path" (from Torch of the Mystics)
• Maria Bethania - "Marginalia II" (from Recital Na Boite Barroco)

PROGRAM 0: “PREFLYTE” [06.12.11]

Before the start of my regularly scheduled program, I filled in for Dianamatic on Sunday, June 12 from 9 to 11 pm EDT. This program may not be indicative of my future radio show. It was mostly a chance to get some practice on the CPR equipment.
Download show here. Podcast link here.

Bold text indicates relatively new releases.

• Rush - "Fly By Night" (from Fly By Night)
• Greetings and introductions
  
  • Bed: Booker T & the MG's - "Tic-Tac-Toe" (from The Best of...)
• Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - "Malayalam" Alap (from Malayalam)
• John Fahey - "The Siege of Sevastopol" (from The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites)
• Ellen Stekert - "Johnny Troy" (from Songs of a New York Lumberjack, Folkways FA 2354)
• Alash Ensemble - "Tractor Drivin' Woman" (from Buurra)
• Blithe Sons - "Try to Find a Memory in a Dark Room" (from The Great Orthochromatic Wheel)
• Michael Hurley - "Werewolf" (from Armchair Boogie)
• Maher Shalal Hash Baz - "Joab" (from L'autre Cap)
• The Mighty Grouse back announces
  • Bed: Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues)
• Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa - "Kerasukan (I'm Possessed)" (from Suara Naga)
• David Peel & the Lower East Side - "I Want to Kill You" (from The American Revolution)
• Mo-dettes - "Paint It Black" (DET-R 1)
• Let's Wrestle - "I'm So Lazy" (from Nursing Home)
• Cuffs - "Privilege" (RTS-013)
• The Mighty Grouse speaks
  • Bed: Alash Ensemble - "Xomustar" (from Buurra)
• Pretty Things - "Baron Saturday" (from SF Sorrow)
• Gandalf - "You Upset the Grace of Living" (from Gandalf)
• Jan & Dean - "Like a Summer Rain" (from Save for a Rainy Day)
• Tradewinds - "New York's a Lonely Town" (RB 10-020)
• Troggs - "With a Girl Like You" (Atco 45-6415)
• Grouse is packing up and thinking of closing with the sounds of Trinidad
  • Bed: Toussaint McCall - "The Monkey People" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues)
• Duke of Iron - "Tie Up Me Dress" (M944B-45)
• Duke & His Jamaica Five - "Chinese Children" (from Kalypso & Ska)
• Lord Shorty - "Oh Trinidad" (from The Collection)
• Pompey - "Vampire" (Rix 260923)
• Lord Grouse says goodnight
  • Bed: Brute Force Steel Band - "Ping Pong Bounce" (from Authentic Trinidad Steel Bands)
• Lee Dorsey - "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)" (Amy 11055)