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)

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)

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)