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........
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