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!