27: It's Ladies Night!!!

Let's kick things off by talking a little bit about women. According to Wikipedia 'Women are mammals, they lack a phallus but make up for this failing by retaining the sole right to activly replicate human life through the miracle of birth.' Women and their contribution to society have been largly ignored by the writers of history and television.' It is high time that Matt and myself redress the balance with this... Our Ladies Night special. First 50 wonder bra's get in free! ('Editors note: Oh dear god, what have we done?)
You can listen to this celebration of the female form (and function)...

HERE




TRACK LISTINGS


'Leeds United' by Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer is a hugely accomplished young woman, who writes and performs her own music both live on stage and within the recording studio environment. Her songs invoke the folk and cabaret tradition while bringing a freshness to the sound with a post-modern eye for contemporary detail, and the surprising depth of feeling that can be invoked by the seemingly superficial imagery of the sandwich, the football club and the mac store..I bet she smells pretty damn good too. (Editor's Note: Dann likes the word 'invoke'. Writing it causes him to perspire.)

'Pin' by Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
Yeah yeah yeahs are lead by Karen O. Somewhat of an Icon in her own right, Karen was once offered the chance to pose for the cover of Playboy Magazine. I think they probably wanted her becuase they felt that her feminist credentials would give the glorified jazz-mag some much needed credibility as a genuine magazine. I have never been offered the chance to pose for Playgirl. Just for reccord, unlike Karen, I'm totally up for it. (Editor's Note: Playboy isn't really a glorified jazz- mag anymore. It's now an even more boring and middle aged version of GQ. But with tits.) ((Author's note... Isn't that what Glorified means?))


'Hide and Seek' by Imogen Heap
Imogen is a web phenomenon (Editor's Note: Dahhn dahhn, dannannun!) . I have heard in interviews that she previews works in progress on line and responds directly to her fans criticism. To be fair I wasn't really listening. I could be wrong about that. Either way I first heard this song as the background music to this sketch.

Imogen is quoted as saying  "One night I decided to record my boyfriend and me eating dinner. I wanted to get the sound of the room. So, on "Hide and Seek", for example, you can actually hear the sound of a frying pan. People might think it sounds like rain, but it's a frying pan. Certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important."

 I have a few recordings I have made with my wife that I am attempting to sell to the pop industry. They might be most suitable for use in French music.

 'I am a Revenant' by the Distillers
A handy combo using the mighty Revenant:
Revenant + Whetstone
Whetstone (or any other card that forces discards)  alows you to discard cards many cards from your library into your graveyard... hopefully losing many creatures to it making your Revenant stronger and stronger. (it's even stronger with the Lhurgoyf  because you get the benefit of  all graveyards) My brother in law used this as the icing on the cake of his vastly annoying 'Deck distruction Deck' but it would do equally well in a kind of black and green, creature-heavy weenie-madness type deck. If  you have no idea what i'm talking about. good for you. (Editor's Note: At least we're not referencing Warcraft, ok?)

'Dance Anthem of the 80's' Regina Spektor
I remember the 80's and now, horrifically, it seems to be happening again. That doesn't stop me liking this track though. I think it's original, catchy and musically interesting. I particularly like the warbling. It reminds me of the year when everything went kind of  Turkish, and Ozzy  "Girl Next Door" Holly Valance was briefly a credible pop artist. Despite the fact that she seemed to think that photoshopped lens flair counted as clothing.


'I Love Turbulence' by Rolo Tomassi
Yes, but the real question is, do you love turbulence enough to give it your last Rolo?

 'Catch the Morning Line' Shannon Stephens
I am writing this whilst simultaneously producing a radio programme on another station and at this point I have become tired and more than a little confused. This might not have the gravitas of an epic Russian novel. It might not have the lightning spark of a carefully crafted haiku but let no one say that I have not tried. Consider these words a metaphor for the steaming breath of a Shire-horse cresting a hill on a frosty northern morning; consider them the splash of mud that my head makes as I fall face first in the Mud; consider this as me, towing the line.

(Editor's Note: i'm not sure what he's talking about here. Then again, neither is he. Also, The Shirehorses were brilliant.)

 'God Called in Sick Today' By AFI
In an unusual co-incidence I almost called in sick today. I haven't had two days off together for a really long time. Now when I actually get a day off I tend to used it to catch up on sleep. as a result it just registers in my mind as one long night. My brain ends up thinking that it hasn't really had a day off at all and as a result I seem to be getting more and more mental everyday. Less and less able to mentally censor my conversation. Had I lived in a village I'd probably be chatting to the village idiot right about now and ready to see him as some kind of misunderstood genius.

Goodnight Children.

26: The Psychobilly Three-Way Special

The Psychobilly Special!

Featuring the mysterious and alluring Nikki Druce from TV's famous Vanity Scare.
This episode proves that matt literally cannot talk when there are women in the room.  From Vanity "Square"... onwards. It just gets worse. He is very funny on this one though. Much funnier than me. That pains me inside.

Whats really special about this special is that for once we do exactly as we say on the tin and actually play some hillbilly death/un-death music for your eager, sensationalist earholes.

As usual you can listen to and or download the show from...
Here


Track Listings

'Blood Beat' by 'The Meteors'
Picture the Beatles, in Hamburg, in 1922, years ahead of their time... see them take the stage... four pre-foetal entities, intersteller beings formed of pure pop-music energy... one of them clutching a left handed bass guitar. See them set their etherial arms high in the air in preperation to strike down. Take a breath. Prepare yourself . The world is about to change forever. Fingers made of light form the opening chord of 'love love me do' on an intangible fret-board... the future is a split second away.  Just then the ceiling buckles, 1000 tons of nickel/iron asteroid metal comes crashing down and sends you all to hell. The dust settles. An amp crackles with feed back. 'Too soon,' says God... 'Too soon.'

'Zombie Beach' by Zombie Ghost Train
Ever read World War Z? No... Seriously.... I recommend it all the time. At least I do in my personal life. Take my advice... have a break from your chat rooms, web-comics and obscure german space-trading simulators and go read it you lazy, lazy bastard(s). Elsewhere in my personal life...  I like to wait till there is no one home and then run around the flat doing car noises.

This track description was mostly aimed at Matt.

'Horny in a Hearse' by the Necromantixs
The Nekromantix were formed in 1989 in Copenhagen by Kim Nekroman after he left the Danish Navy, in which he had been a submarine radio operator. Having recently seen 'Das Boot', I feel that the two of us are kindred spirits. I both know and feel his pain. Like some kind of freaky psychic twin.

'Crawl Straight Home' by The Horror Pops 
On second thoughts if you could see your way to crawling via a Tesco Metro and picking me up a Cornetto and a couple of bags of pork scratchings that would be great....  You're a legend... Cheers.

'The Hunger' by The Distillers
Dann blatantly read this track title and subconciously started thinking about food, hence the above ramble. He's so easy to manipulate. I've planted triggers, so if I say certain words, he will do things like go a get a hair cut identical to Stewart Lee circa 1995. if you don't know who Stewart Lee is, you need to do some youtube exploring pronto.

'Transformation Fascination' by Vanity Scare 
Seriously, Vanity Square rolls of the tongue a lot more easily. Try it.

'War of the Worlds' by Jeff Wayne 
You've all seen War Of The Worlds. You already know all the radio broadcast trivia. But do you know what happens when you put a brick in a washing machine? This happens.
If you don't want to try this yourself you're lying, basically.

See y'all of all next week!