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Showing posts with label Peter Bjorn and John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Bjorn and John. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

38: Whistling Dixie


Right now on a dark matter planet bouncing around in the Alpha-Centaurian star system a pair of young lovers are lying together in the back of a flat bed truck looking up at the night sky. The boy, who knows a little bit about astronomy, points to one of their brightest stars.  He tells his girl about that little yellow sun, he tells her that that despite it's small size, it meagre gravity clings to a number of planets and that one of those planets is not to hot and not too cold and that maybe, just maybe, there's a strange man with a charity moustache living on that planet and writing the story of their love on the internet.

The two of them look at our sun in silence... Then the boy begins to whistle while the girl accompanies him on the Ukulele, for on the goldilocks planet of Alpha Centauri, this is how baby's are made.


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TRACK LISTINGS

'Me and Julio Down by The School Yard' performed by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, originally by Paul Simon
 It is well known that the Space Baby loves Whistlin' Whittlin' and Whishin'. He hates Fistin' Fishin' Fission. Which is understandable really.

'Centerfold' by the J. Geils Band
It's a little known fact that Matt Setback was raised by whales. Having been abandoned at sea by irresponsible pirates, these majestic kings of the sea took pity on him and allowed him to suckle their nourishing blubbery milk. Matt grew stronger as the years went by, but always wondered why he was smaller and less aerodynamic than the other kids. Then he came across a copy of playboy took one look at the centrefold and realised there had been some kind of a mix up.


'Mary Melody' by the Mad Caddies
Neither Matt nor myself can whistle. We are in awe of those that can. I am also impressed by people that can pick up girls in bars, do proper handbrake turns and, of course, park their cars in really tight spaces.

'Coming Home,  Left my Broken Heart in Carolina' by Weezer
 (Yes this song really is by Weezer)


'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay' Performed by Pearl Jam, originally by Otis Reading
Otis Reading originally planned to write lyrics for the whistling section of this song, but sadly he died in a plane crash before he got the chance. I like to imagine that perhaps, he got the inspiration he was looking for just moments before his plane went down. I like to imagine that they were scribbled on a napkin that once the explosions were over eventually floated down to earth and became the inspiration for this song.


'Young Folks' by Peter, Byorn and John
I like this version of this song, but sadly it doesn't have any whistling in it. Matt seems convinced that this song, 'was only written so that it could be on an advert' I think that in his thick skinned baleen cynicism he has seriously missed out on the basic truth of artistic endeavour.  No one thinks that way Matt. People make music they love. Some tracks end up on adverts. This is the way of things.


 'My Girlfriends Dead' by the Vandals
The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century, perhaps best known for their sack of Rome in 455. Although they were not notably more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, Renaissance and Early Modern writers who idealized Rome tended to blame the Vandals for its destruction. This led to the coinage of "vandalism", meaning senseless destruction, particularly the defacing of artworks that were completed with great effort.


'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' by Monty Python
Philosophical pessimism is the similar but not identical idea that life has a negative value, or that this world is as bad as it could possibly be.  Pessimism is not a disposition as the term commonly connotes. Instead, it is a cogent philosophy that directly challenges the notion of progress and what may be considered the faith-based claims of optimism. Still, mustn't grumble.



Goodnight!

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

34: The banana in your Tail Pipe Special

In the car on the way to the studio I said to Matt that I had not realised the metaphorical significance of the Banana in the Tail Pipe joke in the Beverly Hils Cop film. (much loved but now forgotten classic of the 1980s childhood) and he admitted to me that it was indeed a revelation to him.  So we started the show with it.

A show you can listen to
  
Here
We do actually have another theme... or at least I do, but more about that in the...

Track listings

'Dann's Old Friend Dave is a Tool/ Don't let her pull you down' by A New Found Glory 
I have a few friends call Dave. None of them are "tools". I especially like Big Dave who got drunk at my wedding, threw up a lot and then passed out in the long grass. Also Dave the Librarian who writes stories about Joan of Arc and takes girls to Gay Bars when they are feeling down. Finally there is Dave the Doctor, he was kind of a tool when we were teens I guess but he has a beard now which has to count for something.

'Brand New Colony' The Postal Service
I think we have played this before so I am just going to seek out what wrote last time and insert it here as a quote. I sure it will be pure gold... I'm wrong we haven't. This is embarrassing. Um... does anyone want any more potato chips? Hey err... why don't we play twister?

'She Found You' by Sam I Am.
When I went to school I had a friend called Sam. We were good buddies for years. Towards the end of my time at that school I started getting bullied pretty bad and Sam never stood up for me.  Infact he kind of ditched me and joined in with the bullies. This ones for you traitor, I will never forgive you.

'Dime' by Cake
Cake. Possible the best and most underrated band in history. There they are pumping classic tracks in to obscurity while you the public are dishing out your hard earned credit to fill the local landfill with a billion plastic renditions of 'hit me baby one more time' be ashamed of yourselves you sick ass horny bastards.

'Alive with the Glory of Love' Say Anything
During the build up to this song I had no idea how good this was going to be. I think it may now be my current favourite song. After the one about the monkey riding the pig of course... and the theme tune to Happy Days...  Still it's up there though, definitely top ten.

"Blue Picasso" Peter, Bjorn and John
 Matt's thoughts on this track, take the form of a jingle advertising the community radio station that is fool enough to broadcast us every Friday Night at 8pm. 93.2 


'Babylon' by Skindred
I don't know about you, but I've been babbling on all night... 


'Hat and Feet' by Fountains of Wayne
I am at work right now. I've been here since 8am. I'm not going to leave the building till midnight. I know exactly how this dude feels.

Goodnight.



Monday, 27 September 2010

32: The Blackholes of Texus

What do you want to talk about. I want to talk about the Large Haydron Collider. Sadly neither of us is professor Brian Cox. Unless, like, through some weird quirk of fate Brian Cox is reading this. In which case... Hello Brian,  welcome to the Erotic Toast Project...  this must be pretty weird for you. Thanks for tuning in.

You can listen to this episode

Here
 
I'm not going to talk about the large Haydron Collider... Apparently I'm just going to go off on a massive rant about post-modernism that ultimately does little but expand upon the lyrics to Earth Song by the late Michael Jackson.

TRACK LISTINGS


'I Want So Hard' by The Eagles of Deathmetal
One of the well publicised but totally unattempted problems of post modernity is Drama school culture.  The view that we have been brainwashed into believing that Wanting and Working are synonymous that if we want it hard enough we can have it. I don't think that people actually think this. I think we all work really hard.  There is just a lot of people who want to be entertainment superstars.

'It Don't Move Me' by Peter,  Bjorn and John.
The reason is this... we used to have progress we could believe in. We did things for the greater good, to work towards 'an end to war/poverty/disease'. We believed that these were both achievable and desirable goals and people were happy to be part of that. We made predictions of what was to come like Star Trek and all those adverts for the future with the assured sounding Mid-Western narrators that told us about flying cars and push button homes. Most of us didn't need or want to be on telly then... we were happy to be a small but vital cog in the benevolent machine of progress. Sadly we lost faith in this machine.


'Palo Alto' by Radiohead
Here's part of the reason why: progress was too successful for it's own good. Like a particle gaining mass as it approaches the speed of light, as we got closer and closer to achieving the goals we set ourselves, we found that our partial success had caused yet more complex and dangerous problems. Victory over disease leads to massive global overpopulation, progress of science leads to nuclear weapons, the war on poverty and 'inconvenience' leads to horrifying environmental consequences...

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens
Here's another reason why: In order for us to make 'Progress' we had to abandon what we had before, which was knowledge passed down from the past. Where we had faith in our elders, our traditions and ultimately an immortal god that had been there since the very beginning, in its place we had empirical scientific analysis in all areas of human life and faith in new knowledge and a brighter future. People miss the things they have had to give up along the way, the morality, authority and sense of community. They feel that they are missing something from there lives... disrespecting those that went before. Dancing on their grandparent graves if you will.


'Pantera Fans in Love' by Nerf Herder
 As faith in the great machine of progress collapses, people are not only not content that they are living worthwhile lives just by taking part, but actively feel bad about taking part at all. In to the world comes the creeping feeling that by working for, or investing in, big oil or some other massively corporate entity you are similar to a pre-second world war German, passively collaborating in some horrific and evil crime against nature.

DANN'S SIXTH FORM SONG
'1979' By Smashing Pumpkins
Some rage against the system that pays either their wages or their dole cheque. They fight for any cause that will have them,  Some give up on the whole thing, disaffected they waste their lives on recreational drug use, world of war craft and DJ hero.  The rich seek validation in expensive and dangerous hobbies, mountain climbing and extreme sports. They conquer peaks and put the pictures on their bedroom walls.

'When Life Gives You Lemons' by Atmosphere
What they all have in common is that they are now defining themselves by what they do in their free time. People no longer wish to define themselves though the work that they do. They want to feel as separate from it as possible. They look for things to do in their free time that will give them a long missing sense of achievement.


'Ready for Anything' by Patrick Alexander
Everyone likes to sing and dance in one form or another, it's easy and it's free.  I think where I am going with this, the ultimate truth I am going for...  is that I want to be Ghengis Kahn. I am interested in meeting anyone that will at least pretend that I am Ghengis Kahn and I will pay good money for them to do so.

Ghengis Kahn  was the biggest super star of them all...

Thursday, 18 February 2010

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!