7: The Pretentious Special!

You can hear this Pretentious Show: HERE

This show is dedicated to Sheila in Gwent an 86 year old woman who heard me on another radio station and asked for more information... She said that she was going to get her son to help her find us on the internet. I like to think she listened to the whole thing... this ones for you Sheila.

'Brother Sport' by Animal Collective
What can I say about Animal Collective that I didn't say last time we played them. How about this, they have the weirdest Gang-names I have ever heard of, Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deacon (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). I ain't never heard of no Gang-Banger callin' himself Geologist before. but then again they are from Baltimore. This track is my current ring-tone. It makes me want to pick up my receiver and shout out 'Ahoy Hoy' at the top of my lungs. I love this band so much it's freaky.

'Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus' The Mars Volta
Shifting from English to Spanish and back again at will, this is the longest track yet played on the Erotic Toast project, I like it because you can pretty much clean your entire flat in just one playing, thus earning major brownie points from your significant male/female companion. Mostly female... male companions don't tend to notice. I also like that it mentions the ocean floor. For obvious reasons.

'I Don't Wanna' Be The One (acoustic version)' by the Ting Tings
On air I promiced the listener a full report of our in-depth 'Interview and session' with the Ting Tings. it pretty much went like this.

Dann: Hello, is that the Ting Tings?
The Ting Tings: No, this is Easton Express
Dann: Really?
The Ting Tings: Yes
Dann: In that case, I'll have a Fuji Bento, and some Prawn Crackers... Hey Matt Do you want anything?
Matt Setback: Some of those vegetable things
Dann: And some of those vegetable things please.
The Ting Tings: no problem, it will be there in 60 minutes
Dann: Do people ever call you Stacy?
The Ting Tings: No, I just take your order, ok?
Matt Setback: Ask them why the hell they can't say Wait'ting' when the god damn name of the group is the 'Ting' 'tings...'

Our food arrived in less than half an hour.

Ok back to the music...
This song is kind of the opposite of This Track by Lily Allen. The top youtube comment when I posted that link was, "Can you Get Lily Allen Toilet Paper?" I'm not sure if they wanted it because they hate Lily Allen or just love her in a really sick way. Either way it was a cool post and I salute it.


'First Light' and 'Last Light' by Converge
Massachusetts. Home of MIT, the king of all the Tech based universities. Converge are actually from Salem, whose witch trials have ironically become synonymous with the dangers of too little education and possibly Ergot poisoning. Converge have been described on wikipedia as 'Metalcore'. How that differs from 'Metal' I have no idea. lets give whoever made that description up a big hand.

'Legionaires Lament' by the Decemberists

When on December 14, 1824, Lieutenant Panov and other high ranking leaders marched with armed troops to Senate Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, to force the Senate to sign a manifesto deposing the autocracy, abolishing serfdom, and proposing the institution of democratic reforms they were harshly quelled. Due to the hesitation and vacillation on the part of their own leaders, these Decembrists, as they became known, ultimately failed in their quest to bring liberal Western ideals to a backwards and mystical Russia. Their legacy, however, lived on. The group came to be regarded as the forefathers of the Russian revolutionary movement.

Quoted from here

Sadly it's very difficult to get information on these important revolutionary pioneers as most google searches get swamped by the more popular band of the same name. Ironic, since they presumably chose the name in the hope of shedding light on this somewhat obscured piece of human history.

'Ænima' by Tool
The title Ænima is a combination of the words 'anima' (Latin for 'soul') associated with the ideas of "life force" and a term often used by psychologist Carl Jung and 'enema' the medical procedure beloved by the bowel obsessed inventor of cornflakes.
At the time of recording neither me nor Matt knew this, and thus, from a position of ignorance, we both do our best to sound clever. I'll let you decide which one of us wins. It looks like I'll be the one getting the free enema!


'Good Night, Another Bad Morning' by the Kills
lets explore the possible meanings of this song. The Kills could be implying that any kind of a good time comes at a cost, not just the obvious idea of alcoholic indulgence leading to hangovers, but a deeper explanation of the philosophical and religious ideas of karmic cause and effect. like night and day, good and bad simply do not exist except by comparison to one another... a good night, A bad morning... such is the way of things.

Or it could be, an analysis of takings at a local bar or restaurant...

Perhaps it's simply wishing someone called 'Anne Uther-BadMorning, a good night as the credits roll on a re-run of QI and the two of them share a cup of coco. At this point I don't care.

Goodnight everybody, God bless us one and all...

6: Frankie said Relax. We listened.

To listened to our most 'Relaxed' Show yet... Click HERE

I heard a rumour once that the ear bones are the clitoris of the mind. If this is the case then let us play you something... Stimulating. Let us get that hammer, anvil and stirrup vibrating out a rhythmic pulse of pure orgasmic energy... Straight to the Brain!

Don't forget to email the show on DannandMatt@bcfm.org.uk

Track Listings

'Deep Blue Sea' by Grizzly Bear
What could be more erotic than a grizzly bear. Standing proud at 47feet in height, the modern Grizzly can smell a female in heat from 1000 miles away. That's not what this song is about. This song is about various family members drowning in the sea. despite this macabre subject matter it seems quite a happy little song.

'Drop Out' by Rocket From the Crypt
Pretty much everyone at my old school (not the one in the link) got well into Rocket From the Crypt except me. I think that this is probably because they all went off and watched a Rocket concert without me. Perhaps even to this day I am blinded by my own misguided jealousy, Perhaps songs about hanging onto ropes just don't do it for me. Who knows. The lead singer of Rocket from the Crypt is called 'Speedo' He doesn't support Man City.

'Jesus Land' by Ben Folds
This song reminds me primarily of wandering through a suburb of Melbourne when I went to visit my sister in Australia. It was much too hot for anyone to actually go outside, people drove from air-conditioned place to air-conditioned place in air-conditioned cars. There was a huge church and no people anywhere. All the houses looked the same and every third or fourth bush had a massive spider in it, like dinner plate size.

'Channel Zero' By Public Enemy
While I was well into my hip hop throughout the 90's and early 00's I never got into Public Enemy at all. I found their politics to be naive and predictable, not at all like the nuanced message of personal empowerment I would get from Ice T, KRS1 and Jru. In the end I kind of grew out of my hip hop phase, mostly I think because I wanted to spend time with girls and the older I got the more trouble I had excusing the rampant misogamy.

'Woozy with Cider' by James Yorkston
James’ solo career began when John Peel played a demo of his ‘Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel’, proclaiming it had “The Song title of the year, no doubt”. as both Matt and I worship John's ever-living ghost as the greatest radio DJ of all time, we felt it only right to continue his good work and give James some more exposure. This time not on Radio One, but on BCFM. A radio station staffed by volunteers, and loved by the seven or eight people able to tune in to it's faltering candlelight signal... I hope James appreciates what we have done for him.
James does another song called 'Tortoise Regrets Hare' Every time I hear it I can't help but imagining the little guy in a toupee, at a school reunion or something, feeling pretty awkward.

RIP Peel.

All Down Hill From Here by A New Found Glory
This band's lead singer sounds like he's a tiny little guy trapped in the nose of a much larger man. From that perspective everything would appear to be downhill. I get the feeling that this song is about the end of a relationship. Which is kind of fair, who wants to go out with a guy who's covered in Mucus. New found Glory are from Florida and their picture on Wikipedia is of the lead singer holding his crotch. There's also a topless fat bloke in the background and a guy who looks like he is setting up a drum kit for the next band on. Not a good look

'Symphony in C' by Cake
Cake! please mark that as 'useful'


'Last Will And Testament' by Propagandhi
Ironically this is the Last track we Will play and um... it reminds me of a 'Test I meant' to take, but never turned up for. Sadly due to missing that vital exam I will never be a Gynaecologist.
Propagandhi are Canadian. What? There's nothing wrong with that. Did you not see the opening ceremony to the Olympics? You didn't? You wouldn't be talking that Jive about the big C if you did. It was Awesome. They Rocked that Sh=T Like a huracain

By my calculations, based on a 40 hour working week, Matt Setback will do pretty much anything for £48.01 per hour. If he's willing to work everyhour of every day it's more like £11.40. He, like myself, works on this show for free.

5: The Rodeo Special...

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Track Listings

'El Rodeo' by Kyuss
I presume that Kyuss is a misspelling of kius, a god-ugly cross between the Ford KA and the Toyota Prius, neither of which had been invented at the time the band rose to fame. In reality it turns out they were named after a god from the Dungeons and Dragons Universe, which is pretty geeky. Kyuss began their career banging out their tracks for free surrounded by miles and miles of peyote infested desert. Like ballplayers on a field of dreams, people came out to watch them play. The rest is history. (They broke up in 95 but went on to form at least 2 of your favourite bands)
El Rodeo is not, as Matt and I thought about a rodeo. it appears to be about a particularity harsh prison outside of Caracas in Venezuela. DO NOT COMMIT A CRIME IN SOUTH AMERICA!

'White Collar Boy' by Belle and Sebastian
This is a ballad about a rich kid that gets into a little bit of trouble with the law and then kind of goes down hill from there. Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish Band. Not a 'French, Dutch or Swedish or Something' Duet as I may claim during this show. I am wrong and should have done better research. I am sick of being wrong. I am sick to damn death of smug people telling me I am wrong about stuff. How is it everybody else in the world seems to already know everything. I'm not a stupid guy. I'm not lazy. I have my own show. Do they have their own show? NO, they don't, I do... so they can piss off. Still what do I get for all my efforts? Next to nothing. I want a better paid job and a nice car and a family bucket of chicken.

'Heroes Get Remembered' (not Beatdown in the key of happy) by Four Year Strong
Four year strong released this Fire Safety Anthem, that advocates fighting fire with fire, pre-emptively. The idea being that if you burn the house down on purpose, then it's impossible to do it by accident. Matt loves this track but to be honest it bores me to death. Death is approaching, probably in a house fire.

'Worn Down a Knuckle Too Far' by James
When I first, heard James, it was during that period in time when everyone in in Bristol worked for BT, I'd just gone through my induction training and I was given a CD by one of my workmates. He was from Manchester, called James and had a voice almost identical to the lead singer. I lost touch with James the person, but my memory of him and my memory of the band will always share an intrinsic link. I last saw James the person, at 'Dig In' a kind of eclectic hippy night they used to run at The Thekla before it went all upmarket. I never actually asked him if he was in the band, but I assume that he wasn't.

'Deep Inside' by Incubus
Jazz fusion meets rock apocalypse in the lounge of the Sacramento Holiday Inn. it's two pm but you've been through so many time-zones you have not idea. Your luggage has been lost in Heathrow and your facing a whole convention full of Southpark fans with only the cheap sweatpants and non-logo knitted jumper you travelled in. It's cheap drinks at the bar and an attractive blond spikes your drink with a syringe full of pure Ethanol. Suddenly you can't see straight. If you want to take the blond to your room, turn to page 104 If you want to try and make it to the bathroom before you throw up, turn to page 16. to stay where you are, just read this page again.

'Stranger' The Presidents of the USA.
There was really only one link I could post with this. OK Maybe two links . I saw the presidents live in London once and I lost a shoe in the middle of the mosh pit. Then I found someone else's shoe and then just went on moshing. When the gig was over I had to hunt around in the mess until I eventually found my own shoe, lying covered in blood next to the body of a badly-beaten, dead roadie. Coincidence? I think not.

'Meet Me By The River's Edge' by The Gas Light Anthem
The Gas Light Anthem are from New Brunswick in New Jersey. They are not however Nu metal. They're actually pretty old-school and have been compared to Springsteen. it's almost as if Springsteen is their boss and they are a band formed from a bunch of his employees. despite calls for them to do so, The GLA refuse to perform naked or even Semi Naked. Though they have been quoted as saying they would do a nude scene in a movie if it was tastefully done. This Song talks a lot about the things Sally Said. Here is another song about things Sally said.

'Forget the Souvenirs' by The Stares
Surely Souvenirs are things to help you remember. once you've forgotten them, what do you have left?

The Stares really aren't famous at all, but they are awesome so please go to their website and buy an album. I'm not sure if it's available on Itunes at all, or really anywhere other than their website. Maybe if we buy enough albums they will finally release another great record. I saw them live in a smokey little bar in Seattle. Those were the days when I was young and cocky and had an expendable income. I'm sad to say we fade this out before the song even finishes, and when it went out on air they pretty much faded it out as soon as it started. I will never forgive them.

Goodnight.

4: Lucky Episode Number 7... (Some episodes are missing from this site.)

You can hear this 'lucky' Episode HERE

You lucky lucky people.

First up... Please ignore the email address we tout throughout this episode. It does exist, but for the sake of continuity, we have been given our own BCFM email address, which is DannAndMatt@BCFM.org.uk
not
DannAndMatt@bcfm.com

as we mention in later programmes...

We are really sorry for all the confusion. let me assure though, no one is more confused than us.

DannAndMatt@BCFM.org.uk

Anyway, without further ado on with

The Track Listings

'Time' performed by Easy Star All Stars featuring Corey Harris & Ranking Joe (original song by Pink Floyd)

I defy anyone not to like this piece of music, or in fact the album it comes from 'Dub Side of the Moon' My mum loves it, My dad loves it, my friends love it. Stoners who walk past my house on their way to their dealers love it. Cats love it. Dogs love it. Former US president Richard Nixon is a particularly vocal 'DubSide Enthusiast' as he mentions on his blog.
I'd like to add that it's this song that gets me out of bed in the morning, that gets me to buckle down and get things done. The human race is indeed a race, and no one out there is going to tell you to start running, you just have to take your cue from seeing their greassy buttocks bouncing off into the distance as they desperately swing their arms for balance.

'Don't Hate Me' by The Get Up Kids
The Get up kids are totally Emo. But they did their best to break away from being called Emo, presumably because it hurt their feelings a bit. After reading about them on Wikipedia, it appears that they hold themselves totally responsible for 'the state of punk today' which they claim has become 'just like glam rock'. Which according to that last link seems to imply that punks today do their utmost to look as much like transvestites as possible, but crucially without trying to look like actual women. Which may explain The Get Up Kids' unusual sound.

(Going back to that photo for a second... Is it just me or does the guy in the gold jacket look like he's their pimp.)


Fossils are awesome!


'Librarian' by My Morning Jacket
This is a great song that plays on a number of clever themes, first the damaging proliferation of self-image-obsession in these post-modern consumerist times and second... SEXY LIBRARIANS!!!

Which I had to risk getting fired to google at work. What's really depressing is that I couldn't find anything that lived up to my own rampant imagination. One of the pictures was of Sarah Palin which is not cool. And then the rest looked like Glamour Models in librarians clothes. So in the end I decided that this was what I would go with (she's not a librarian she's a guidance councillor with OCD, but you know....). I could just put up a picture of my wife who this song really does remind me of... but this isn't that kind of website.

In the interest of sexual non-discrimination and the ticking of diversity boxes, here is a picture of a sexy male librarian


'Hyperborea' by H.O.R.S.E The Band

Hyperborea... That's a pretty weird name for a song. Certainly a nightmare to anyone with lupis. I reckon they are probably talking about the last wikipedia meaning... the theory that the Human Race was born fully formed at the North Pole,(borea like in auraborealis) 'where the sun never stops shining' the theory is that hyperborean times were the golden age and that the south pole is the root of all evil and that as we have progressed down towards it we have become less and less human... and more and more animal. The fact is I've seen March of the Penguins and those little guys seemed quite loving and civilised. penguins don't lie to each other about love, they don't make promises they can't keep. If a penguin doesn't show up to a little league game or it's child's birthday it won't be because it went out drinking or stayed late at work. It's much more likely it's been eaten by a leopard seal.

'Nothing to Worry About' by Peter, Bjorn and John.
Sweden. Sweden. Sweden Peter, Bjorn and John are Swedish. I'm typing this but I'm actually really tired and feeling quite I'll. I'm at work too, which I mentioned earlier. I'm kind of hoping nobody will notice that I'm working my own website instead of any real work. I figure that as long as my eyes are open and my keyboard keeps pumping out those little tappy tappy noises nobody's going to call my bluff

...What happened next? We think it might have been 'The Event'.

'A Small Demand' by The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The (International) Noise Conspiracy should not be confused with The (National) Noise Conspiracy. They stand for very different things. The Nationals for example don't have a bitchin' Sax Solo in the middle of any of their songs. And they also hate puppies, allegedly. The Internationals on the other hand have puppies on their rider, which they say is a 'small demand'.


'John Wayne Gacey Jr.' by Sufjan Stevens
This is a song about the serial killer, John Wayne Gacey Jr. It's taken from Sufjan's Illinois Album. It's a true ballad of the old school, telling the news through song. I picked this because I found that it handled a difficult subject really well. It doesn't glamorise the murders, and it doesn't take them lightly. I think it really does capture the feeling of finding out there was killer in your home town, maybe in your street. Gacey would gain the trust of young men with his wit and humour and then convince them to allow him to tie them up by pretending he was doing magic tricks. Then he killed them and buried them underneath his home. No one knows why. I doubt even he does.

'Beatdown in the Key of Happy' by Four Year Strong
When Matt first mentioned that he was going to play this song I thought he said
'Beatdown in the Key of Hippy'
I thought he was taking about that Rolling Stones concert where the Hells Angels beat up a load of people, killed a guy and effectively put to death the dream of "The Sixties" and the mythical summer of love. The more I read about the Hells Angels the more disturbed I am by them. I mean I should have guessed by the name but when I read the Electric Cool Aid Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe I was genuinely shocked, not so much by the violence but by their extreme sexual behaviour. I just had no idea I guess. I'm sure they're all cool now. The last thing I want to do is start some kind of Beef.

That's it for this week people... Goodnight!

3a: In Bed with a White Wedding.

You can listen to this episode HERE

The Beds
A bed is what we Dj's call the music we play to fill up the gaps in our talking. I have called this episode 'in bed with a White Wedding because there is much discussion at the start over my 'cheesy choice of bed' We eventually switch to a bit of DJ Shadow.

I'm gonna make some new beds. I promise. No Seriously. Stop looking at me like that. I'll bloody do it OK! Fine then be like that. See if I care.

Track Listings
'Summertime Clothes' by Animal Collective
Animal Collective were much touted as the next being thing about a year or so ago. They've been around for ages but most of their music is too... inaccessible for most people. With their Album 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' they kind of made it more mainstream and the pundits thought that this would make them explode like a musical supanova... Sadly this only kind of half happened for them, but they are still awesome. Merriweather Post Pavillion had an optical illusion for an album cover And possibility the worst name for an album of all time. This track is about insomnia on a hot summers night and the feeling of absolute relief at finding someone else that can't sleep and wants to go walking around the cooling city streets at night.

'Hip Hop is Art' by Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip
Dan Le Sac got famous because of this awesome Viral Youtube Video While probably being the best hip hop artists working in the UK today, I know nothing about Dan Le Sac and most of what I know about Scroobius Pip is that he has a massive beard and probably the most annoying voice in the world. luckily his talent outstrips his leather-elbow-padded, academic-on-the-sex-register looks and sound to make him a hit with everyone on the internet that like to think of themselves as cool. Hip Hop artists of the old school cannot really get to grips with Scroobius Pip's lack of visible ego, jewellery and women.

'Wash Away (reprise)' by Joe Purdy
If you listen to the show you will find out that I heard Wash Away at the end of a seminal Lost episode and then went on a one man 500mile quest to track it down. Such was the chord it struck with me. Matt has the impudence to compare it to Damien Rice who is worse than this which I actually quite like. I mean at least the guy obviously has some real pain in his life and doesn't come out with mindless and clichéd rhyming couplets just to feed his growing cocaine addiction. Damien Rice is a class A moron and he can eat my poo. I think the only reason he got famous at all was because people confused his name (and sound) with that of David Grey, who actually isn't that bad either, for a London-Underground busker. One wonders how many people he had to sleep with to get to the top? The answer is seven. David Grey slept with seven people to get to the top, three of them at the same time... to put things in perspective, Joe Purdy slept with a Plymouth Sedan and Damian Rice Slept with the entire population of Tunbridge wells. As far as I know, Mark Gormley has never slept with anyone. For legal reasons let me add that much of the above is not necessarily true.

'Love, Ire and Song' by Frank Turner (previously of Million Dead)
This is a kind of protest song about not really feeling like protesting any more and then you know... getting that impetus back. It's nice enough but it is the second acoustic guitar type hippy song in a row... for which I apologise. Sadly I cannot go back in time and slot in a bit of hardcore something angry.. and wrathful... There are moments in this song when Frank breaths really loudly. I want you to seek those moments out and try your best to enjoy them. You could turn it into a drinking game. or even a breathing game. or perhaps it could be like some kind of kissing game... which would be sick hot. I also hope that Matt has uploaded the clean version of this Episode otherwise... I'm really sorry about all the swearing ya'll.

'Acid Song' by Loudoun Wainwright III
Loudoun reminds me of my dad quite a lot. My dad has never taken acid but he does love to sing and play the guitar. Some of my favourite childhood memories are of my dad waking me up in the morning by strolling into my bedroom, softly strumming an old 6 string and singing that it was time to get up. We were poor back then and dad used to get all his guitars from second-hand shops for about a tenner. He has one now that's probably worth about a grand. I made him give me one of the old ones because I like the sound that they make. It's painted white from top to bottom and right now it's in the corner of my bedroom gathering dust. At least one of the strings is broken. I really should get that fixed and start playing again. Dad says if I don't play it then he'll take it back.

'Moved as Mountains, dreamt of by the sea' by The Ghost of 1000
Matt Finally returns to form by playing a band that sound and look like angry teens.
The Ghost of 1000 play musically intelligent riffs and licks buried beneath a collapsing wall of sound. That's quality music journalism right there, the kind of solid writing you have come to expect from me... Like Burt Baccarat taped face-down on a pile of old Metallica Vinals while Grace Jones beats him to death with a whip. Ahh yeah.. I'm on a Roll.

'Divine' by Sebastian Tellier
A previous French Eurovision entry that for some reason I fell in love with. I think the French may well take Eurovision just about as seriously as we do. I think our entry might have been the 35 year old Daz's Anti Educational Rant 'Teenage Life'. What makes me love this song more than anything though, is how much Matt hates it.

'Only in Dreams' by Weezer
Matt and I agree that this is the best last song on the album of any album ever. It's about 10 minutes long. Erotically charged and yet wistfully nostalgic. Certainly for me anyway. I first heard this song during my Sixth Form Years. I was young free and single then and I did my best to make the most of that. There was this one night when... You know what, I'm not even going to tell you about that. But feel free to imagine it if you like... perhaps on a bus or in your place of work, and when someone asks you why you are smiling you can say... 'oh no reason, I'm just happy' and they'll have to take your word for it and the last laugh will be on them.

Goodnight!

3: The Dubstep Special

You can hear our world famous Dubstep Special HERE

Matt picked all the tracks for this show which he promised me would be all Dubstep and that we would do our best to explore this fascinating and cool fresh and above all local style of music. Apparently he lied. By the end of the show it was clear that this was our 'Dubstep Free Special' as we cruised through another hour without playing any Dubstep at all.

Here for your reading pleasure is the world famous track listings...

'Recording Device' By Babyhead
On the show Matt tells an elaborate story about this local 'SkRap' band, He claims that they broke up and then got back together because of problems with the brass section, but according to thier website They never broke up, and the confusion arose due to the fact that they titled their 2008 show 'The End of Babyhead?' it turns out that the answer to that question was 'No... No it isn't'

'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' by Faith No More
Crooning Rock sung straight faced by the versatile front man Mike Patton. Mike wasn't the first person to sing for Faith No More, before they broke through to the big time Faith No More were fronted by, the Yoko Ono of Grunge Courtney Love. It's old, it's Classic, it's Faith No More.

'Pawn Shop' by Sublime
According to Matt 'They're a famous, kind of orange county kind of um.. ska punky kind of California band.' According to me 'Sublime were formed in 1987 when their manager, Dr Lou Gehrig who was also a baseball player decided he would turn his equally muscled and skilled hands, to playing guitar' I like my version better even if it isn't true. mmmm... Muscled Hands

'Puppies in Love' by the Love Puppies (Actually 'Carpe Diem' by WilHaven)
Heavy like the crushed heart of the sun, like the water of the Mariana Trench, Heavy like the bleeding eyes of the first man to see the face of the anti-christ. HEAVY. Like the future imagined by Dr Emmett Brown. like a T-Rex footfall. Like the smell in the air on the eve of nuclear war. That's heavy man. That's Wilhaven.

'Economics 101 (the Natal Lottery)' by Clayton Blizzard
'Change doesn't trickle down to us it rises up like dust so stamp your feet!'
Clayton is a local artist that is frickin' awesome, witty, political, clever and utterly amazing live. One day we will have Clayton on the show and all me and Matt will be able to do is giggle and prod him occasionally to see if he's really there. go to his website.

'Night Letters' by Propagandhi
No false Gandhi's here! These guys are from Canada a land of lakes, beavers, massive trees and two of my favourite novelists (Douglas Coupland and Matt Hooton). In 1998 Canada had a GDP of 1.4 trillion US dollars and had never started a war. It has however perpetrated a very under-reported series of atrocities against what we call the 'First Nations People'. In Canada there are forests the size of Europe. Think about that for a second. Europe dude. That's pretty massive.

'MX' by the Deftones
The Deftones are from Sacramento, California. This semi secret song from the end of the Around the Fur album is a kind of frustrated and uncomfortably sexy durge. There is sexy lady in the background who takes time out of her busy day to encourage him to keep singing. She seems to imply that if he follows through with her instructions there might be an unspecified reward in it for him.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for reading. I'm gonna go ride my bike through the woods. I'm 30 years old, but I still know how to have fun. good clean dubstepless fun.

2: The Christmas Episodes (1)

Here is a link to Christmas Episode 1

This was the episode where we "accidentally" said 'Smelcome' for either the first or second time. A homage to this Utube Clip

Track Listings

'Oh Little Town of Bethlehem' (To the tune of house of the rising sun)
by Bob Rivers

I think we have a real classic on our hands here. Christmas music can be so Cheesy so why not take an old song and just convert it into a Christmas song. I think it works well. I would like to apologise personally to the city of New Orleans.

'We're all Going to Die' by Malcolm Middleton
During the show we fail to correctly name this angry Scottish man's take on Christmas but we do mention his video. You can see the video to this song here which proves that it really is a Christmas song and not just a warning to the perambulation obsessed contingent of the Proclaimer family.

'Last Christmas I Gave you my heart' (not) sung by Richard Cheese
The less said about this the better.

'Christmas in Las Vegas' by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
Normally Strictly a covers band this is a rare original offering by what is ironically a very original band. In the country of Genre-clash Richard is probably king.

my favourite lines are probably 'the elves are doubling down...' and 'What would Jesus Hit?'

Christmas has never been so Classy!

'Christmas is Awesome' by Reuben
This Surrey based rock band have captured the spirit of Christmas in the same way that Lordi captured the spirit of Eurovision with their classic 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' but we're not here to talk about Lordi we're here to talk about Rubens Barrichello, Christmas Parties and Run DMC.

'It's Cold Outside' Sung by James Taylor and Natalie Cole
James seemed like such a nice mild mannered man at the party. But when I woke up in his flat and realised that a bad bad thing had happened to me and that I couldn't remember a thing about it, my opinion of him changed. My main worry now is whether or not to keep the baby.

'Making Friends' by Lagwagon
Matt Setback shoehorns a bit of Lagwagon into the Christmas show by pretending that Making Friends is a thing that people only do at Christmas. This clearly isn't true. The name Lagwagon comes from the band's old tour van, which is pictured on on the back cover of the album Trashed. If you have downloaded their album, you won't get to see it.

'Circus Maximus' by Clutch
Circus sounds a bit like Christmas right? and Clutch are freakin' awesome. and this song talks about making love to the mythical beasts. The video practically films itself. Sadly I can't put a link to it as I can't find it on You Tube, You'll just have to lie back and imagine it for yourself.

'Changing the CD' by Matt Setback
This may well be the longest track we play on this show. Ever.

'The Shape of Punk to Come' by Refused
Brought to us by the Ghost of Christmas Punk. Christmas Christmas Christmas. Matt really failed to find enough Christmas tracks, which is why on the next episode I pick all the tracks. I'm the kind of guy that does his homework. I'm the one with a double first Degree and and MA with distinction. Matt got a 3rd. Although he got that in Physics and I got mine in Sociology and Creative Writing. I guess that kind of evens thing out.

'Hurt' sung by Johnny Cash (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
moving ever further away from being a Christmas Special this is the Track we choose to end on. The gravely tone of Cash's Delivery Gives this track a fantastic depth of feeling and sends goosebumps up the spine.

Merry Christmas Everybody. I'm writing this in February.

1: Pilot Episode: Naked Baby Photos

Here for your listening pleasure is the Pilot Episode

Track listings

'Sleeping In' by the Postal Service

Before that asshole OwlCity ripped off their style and sound with his mindless pile of bullcrap 'FireFlies', there was a band called the Postal Service. The main difference between the two is that The Postal Service came first, have talent and like to discuss big ideas. Their lyrics riff on the complex emotional nature of the human experience rather than just connect a bunch of words together that rhyme.

At no point do they receive hugs from bugs, or say goodbye to flies.

Click HERE for a more comprehensive slagging off of OwlCity. All of it deserved. My god it makes me angry.

'Joy, Discovery, Invention' by Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro (a kind of emolicious foo-fighters-esque soundtrack-to-intense-lovemaking type band) demand to be taken to your blackened skies. Who are you to argue with Biffy?
According to Matt, this is from their older stuff... which is better.

'Faliure' by Laura Marling
A truly amazing song from the truly amazing Laura Marling in which she dumps a guy for losing his poetic ethic and writing pathetic songs. Fair enough.

'Adderall' by The Holdsteady

The Holdsteady are a kind of drunken Irish American pub-party band, a kind of Soundtrack to the secret life of Jimmy McNulty of the Baltamore PD. Matt compares them to Bruce Springstein and says that their other music is more pretentious and intellectual than this one.

According to Wikipedia: 'Adderall is a brand-name psycho-stimulant medication composed of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which is thought to work by increasing the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.[1] Adderall is widely reported to increase alertness, libido, concentration and overall cognitive performance while decreasing user fatigue.'

'You're Gonna Die' by William Shatner, produced by Ben Folds...

Shatner confronts mortality in this haunting and thought provoking track. He may be talking to an individual, he may be talking to the human race as a whole. Listen to this song everyday, perhaps set it as your wake up alarm. You'll either get up and do everything on your to-do list, or you won't get up at all.

Sadly discussion between Matt and I drifts away from such lofty topics as life and death and drifts towards Shatner's historical quest to achieve a personal directed panspermia.

'Less Bright Eyes More Deicide' by the Wilhelm Scream

Fast Loud Music, picked by Matt. Apparently this particular song sounds more like the band, Deicide and less like the band Bright Eyes. It's a high energy, heavy guitar, man-singing masterpiece.

Here is a link to the Wilhelm Scream in action.

THE WILHELM SCREAM IN ACTION