August 13, 2012 - Is There Anybody Out There Listening?

Last week John made a mention that I had yet to play any Bears or Psychodots (two of my favorite bands) yet this year. I told him I would make sure that I remedied that. Not only did I play Bears and Psychodots, but I also played some Raisins instead. I completed the trifecta!

The Luca Boys are still working on their new album. One of the songs that will be on their is a song called Josephine, originally written and recorded by Lou Luca in the 80's. Since that was from the 80's I decided to choose a few other songs from the 80's. Throw all those together and add a few other great songs andyou've got my playlist for the week, except for one last thing.

I had two songs that I wanted to play together. Actually they were the same song, done by different artists. The song is You Remind me and it was written by Dave Matheson and released on his post-Moxy Fruvous eponymous solo album. Ten years later, Marti Jones and Don Dixon covered the song. I was going to play them together, but John decided he wanted to play Don & Marti's version. So he played that version right before my segment started. Including that song, here is what was played:

Marti Jones & Don Dixon - You Remind Me Lou Luca - Josephine True Believers - Tell Her D.L. Byron - Listen To The Heartbeat The Raisins - A Little Discipline David Matheson - You Remind Me Hindu Rodeo - Pledge Bryan Shumate - Close My Eyes (To See) The Van Delecki's - A Photograph Psychodots - Help Yourself The Plimsouls - Oldest Story In The World House Of Freaks - Remember Me Well The Bears - Success

I had wanted to play the House Of Freaks song When The Hammer Came Down, but John played Remember Me Well instead. Thinking about it, that would have been the perfect way to end the show, but instead we went out with the Bears rocker Success instead. Kinda like mellowing you out to go home, then jacking you back up right before you leave.

We're getting near the end. Only two shows left before our next hiatus. John will be on vacation next week so there will be no show. That means we only have August 27th and September 3rd (Labor Day) as our final two shows. I hope someone will tune in before the end.

August 6, 2012 -Things that fell through the cracks!

John started doing this show in March of 2008. I joined him in May of 2008. What started out as 3 songs a week quickly morphed into much more. Now we split the show between his choices and mine. We ended the original version of the show back in February of 2011 with plans to start a podcast. That never happened, but John decided to bring the show back for the summer of 2012. We started right after Memorial Day and plan to end on Labor Day. John is talking about bringing it back in the winter for a quick month of shows around the holidays. We'll see if that works.

Anyway, when I started putting music together for this week, I decided to concentrate on things that came out after the original show ended but before the current show began. That gave me about a year and a half of music to work with. For the most part, I stuck to that.

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives released their 6th studio album in June and announced that it would be their final album. This band is my favorite band of the that 15 years and I'm very sorry to hear that they are splitting up. I hope that whatever comes next for them will be as good as what has come before. I plan to play several songs from this record before we end our summer run.

About five years ago, Mike Keneally and Andy Partridge started talking about making an album together. This album finally came out last month. I've been an Andy Partridge fan since I discovered the band when I was 15 years old. I've been a Mike Keneally fan since I saw him playing with Frank Zappa back in 1988. When I heard about the project, I was very excited and was ecstatic when I heard that it was finally being released. The album has twelve tracks, eight of which were co-written by Keneally and Partridge. Unfortunately, Andy chose not to take part in the recording of the album. I think the album is great and would highly recommend it to everyone, but I still wish I could have heard their two voices together. Ok, enough of me rambling. Here's what I played on the show this week:

The Smithereens - Nobody Lives Forever from 2011 The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Reality Show from Throw It To The Universe Fountains Of Wayne - Song Of The Passaic a bonus track from Sky Full Of Holes Mike Keneally - Your House from Wing Beat Fantastic Jamie & Steve - Can We Start Again, Girl from The Next Big Thing Marti Jones & Don Dixon - Feels Like 1972 from Living Stereo Alex Chilton - If You Would Marry Me Babe from Free Again: The 1970 Sessions Sloan - It's Plain To See from The Double Cross Cake - Sick Of You from Showroom Of Compassion The Jayhawks - She Walks In So Many Ways from Mockingbird Time Mike Keneally - Wing Beat Fantastic from Wing Beat Fantastic Mars Classroom - Man, Wine, Power! from The New Theory Of Everything Jamie & Steve - Seaside Sparrow from The Next Big Thing Sloan - Beverly Terrace from The Double Cross Cake - War Pigs from B-Sides And Rarities

Everything I played was released in 2011 or 2012 except War Pigs. That is something I had on my computer for at least a couple years but hadn't listened to. I finally listened to it last week and decided that it NEEDED to end the show, so it did. I"m already thinking about next week's show. I haven't picked all the music yet, but I do know that we will be getting in the time machine for at least part of the show. See you next week........

July 30, 2012 - What would we do without the Ladies?

Another Monday Night, Another Independents Uncovered and Another Donohue's Music Den! This week John's guest was Alex Wong. John had interviewed Alex a couple years ago, along with Amber Rubarth as The Paper Raincoat. This time, he concentrated on Alex's other work. It was a good interview but seemed a little choppy and I'm sure there was a lot cut for time.

My segment came up at 9pm and this time all my songs had a female name in the title. What would music be without Girl Songs, right? It's always a good fallback when I need one. To change things up a little bit, John went right into the first song after the BB's Donohue Show Theme, rather than bringing me on and talking first. This way we had something to talk about, for a change. We also had another work in progress from the Luca Boys. I can't wait till their album comes out!

So, what did I play? Here is what I played: The Hollies - Dear Eloise Something Happens - Esmerelda Brian Charles - Cinny Monkeeman - Crazy Ann The Luca Boys - Dorothy (song cut at 43 seconds) Lou Luca - Dorothy Rick Altizer - Amy And Her Baggage Foo Fighters - Dear Rosemary All Day Sucker - Camila Rose Ruth Ruth - Turning To Eva dada - Mary Sunshine Rain The Beach Boys - Caroline No Morphine - Sheila The Graveblankets - Claudia Robyn Hitchcock - Sally Was A Legend Alejandro Escovedo - Rosalie

For the 2nd week in a row, the song from The Luca Boys didn't download properly and we didn't get to hear the whole thing. Last week we hear most of the song, but last night we only heard 43 seconds of Dorothy before it stopped. Fortunately, we had an older version of the song(MUCH older) that we were able to play. The version we played was done in the 80's and sounded like it, but there's nothing wrong with the 80's!

As usual, I have no idea what I will be playing next week. I do know that I will be playing at least one song from Wing Beat Fantastic, the brand new album from Mike Keneally. On this album, Keneally collaborated with XTC's Andy Partridge. They co-wrote eight songs together. Unfortunately, Partridge chose not to participate in the recording of the album, but it still sounds great! I hope you tune in to hear it.