January 23, 2012: Rejoice

Listen!

Harry Belefonte, is he happy? I presume Danny Glover is...

Sun Ra.

Music of celebration. I hope you are happy. I sure was. I guess I am too edgy and cool to play straight-up happy music, see Sinead O'Connor and (surprisingly) World Party below. So, yeah, I'm cool and, oh yeah, the loggins.

Robot News: Finally! A robot pig you can make out with!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Harry Belafonte - In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' - Belafonte

Gary Numan - Music for Chameleons - I, Assasin

Moon Duo - Escape - Escape

Santana - Life is A Passing Parade - Oneness

The Mammas & the Pappas - Twelve Thirty - The Pappas & the Mammas

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Sun is Shining - Soul Revolution

World Party - When the Rainbow Comes - Keep the Fire

Kenny Loggins - This is It - Keep the Fire

Sinead O'Connor - Someday My Prince Will Come - Stay Awake

Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Pink Elephants on Parade - Stay Awake

Harry Nilson - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Stay Awake

John Lennon - Kiss Kiss Kiss - Double Fantasy

James Taylor - Second Star to the Right- Stay Awake

January 4, 2012: Good Music is Really Good!

Listen!

This is just what happened when I Googled "GONG YOU". Pretty good for a TV Guide cover.

Kevin has got that smile that says: "40 years from now, people will still be discovering how mind-meltingly genius I am." Or am I projecting a tad? I really like Soft Machine. Why was I sleeping?

Making up for the indulgence of last week's journey into music so out there, that it looped back as cheesy mainstream. This is just desperately good stuff.

Robot News: Boxy the Cutest herald of the inevitable robocalypse to date.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Grateful Dead - Box of Rain - American Beauty

Love - A House Is Not A Motel- Forever Changes

Spectrum - Trilha Antiga - Love, Peace & Poetry Brazillian Psychedelic Music

Soft Machine - Pig - Volume Two

Soft Machine - Orange Skin Food - Volume Two

Soft Machine - A Door Opens and Closes - Volume Two

Bardo Pond - Chicken Gun - Peri

Gong - The Isle of Everywhere - You

Wooden Shjips - Home - West 

Plastic Cloud - Art's a Happy Man - The Plastic Cloud

Singing Post Family - Daddy Sang Bass -The Singing Post Family

Oneida - Pre- Human - Absolute

December 28, 2011: Holiday Special, 2nd Annual Bad Songs That Rock

LISTEN!

Sammy Hagar, two at once!

Not a mini, MOOG!

Post-Collwell-Bros-Up with People - hooray for everything is terrible

I had been trying to limit the amount of kitchy music played on the program, saving up some gems for this year's parade of questionable sound. Some songs are interesting, some are fun, some are just plain bad.

I couldn't resist laying down some of the Hagar promo disc that I discovered in a Carruthers Hall sub-basement, but that track was too much to be played in full, and the former Halenite's VOA was asking for it. I think Sammy's troubling "Dick in the Dirk" it made for a wonderful contrast to the Collwell Brothers' musical crew cut titled "You Can’t Live Crooked and Think Straight". These brothers seem to be a combo designed for those who found the Kingston Trio too edgy.

We couldn't let the event pass without a second helping of Ananta, Saga and more from the 80's video game album. Ringo Starr's Snookeroo? It gets exactly that, Elton John wrote it. Perhaps, while penning it he thought, "Y'know, what I'd really like to be doing is Disney soundtracks". 

The Cheetah record was a 50 cent find in North Bay. They appear to be Heart, but without the ability to play instruments, write songs or sing that well. Still, there was some soul there, perhaps draw out by the production of Vanda and Young?

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Did You Really Have To? - Roger Whittaker - Roger Whittaker in Kenya

Gershon Kingsley - Have It - Or Grab It - Or Go

Buckner & Garcia - Mousetrap - Pac Man Fever

Wings - Cook of the House - At the Speed of Sound

Sammy Hagar - Turn Up the Music - A Little Rap & a Lot of Rock n’ Roll

Ananta - Home Sweet Home - Night & Daydream

Saga - Social Orphan - Heads or Tails

Colwell Brothers with Up With People - You Can’t Live Crooked and Think Straight - Up With People

Sammy Hagar - Dick in the Dirt - VOA

Voivod - Fuck Off and Die - Rrroooaaarrr

Cheetah - Sufferin’ Love - Rock n Roll Women

Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodbye Vienna

They Might Be Giants - Disappointing Show - They Got Lost

Roger Whittaker - High - Roger Whittaker in Kenya

Magma - Gama Anteria - “Inedits”