33 It's My Bris and I'll cry if i want to.

The week that this episodes aired a festival was thrown in our home town (Bristol UK) called BrisFest.
This is what a Bris is. I hope that makes things horrifically clear.

Anyway you can listen to this long awaited episode...


HERE

TRACK LISTINGS
'Beat it' by Pomplamoose (originally by Michael Jackson)
In the immortal words of Me first and the Gimme Gimmes, this next song's a cover... I am playing you-tube sensation, Pomplamoose for the same reason I play any track on this show: I quite fancy the lead singer. Good eyes... nice hair... talented.

'Chips Ahoy' by the Holdsteady
 One of the few bands that Matt and I agree on as being pretty awesome.  In the Video to this track the lead singer is like a cross between Elvis Costello and Will Farrell in Anchorman. You have to admit that's pretty hot by anyone's standards.
Did you realise that Anchorman is essentially a remake of "The China Syndrome" with Jane Fonda? Did you realise that they totally took jokes from/paid tribute to the awesome "Drop the Dead Donkey?" neither did I until I saw it with my own eyes.


'Peanuts' by Tindersticks 
 Not the cartoon I don't think but the Nut... which apparently isn't a true nut or something? I think it might be a seed or a bean or something. I have no idea really. They grow underground apparently. Like Goths, Orks and Plump Helmet.


'Cosmopolitan Blood Loss' by Glassjaw
"I feel cold Johnny... So cold"
"Just hold on, your gonna be fine, the medic is on the way and he's gonna fix you up real good I promise"
"Read to me Johnny... read to me from the list of 100 sex tips I need to know... please Jonny... I don't... I don't think I got long left to live."


DANN'S SIXTH FORM SONG
'Girl Like You' Edwynn Collins 
I don't know about you but I've never met a girl like this before.  I'm not sure I want to either though.
I went to school with a lot of girls. When I play this song I want them to know that this one is dedicated to all of them; individually and collectively and especially to those that let me touch their passionate areas.


'Get Better' Dan Le Sack vs Scroobius Pip
Hey! Pip and Sack, yeah I'm talking to you... While it was a good idea to 'Imagine' the song you describe you have failed to actually write it. I don't need your creepy-priest-like advice; Ice T told me how to get out of the Ghetto. I have another question! Better at what Scroobius? Animal Communication? Car Jacking? Knife Fighting? Did I say Animal Communication?
In the songs defence... My wife likes this track, and she is much smarter than I am.


'Nighty Night' by Jenny Owens Young 
This should be the last track we play as by the time it's finished you should all be asleep. Then I will snap my fingers and you will all wake up naked at an orgy in Matts "Entertainment Room" 'Welcome to the party' I will say, and then the real fun will begin.


'Admit It' by Say Anything
I guess this is the first time we play anything by Say Anything, but trust me we will be playing a lot of this as Matt gets lazier and lazier in his quest for new music.

I've had enough of this, I'm going to the bidet. 

28: Return of the Matt

Due to the wobbly nature of time. Matt will actually return this week: the week before he goes away. It's a Dr Who/Gilbert and Sulivan-esque Paradox of biblical proportions.  Before we really get started on this one I for one would like to apologise ahead of time for whatever spews forth from my brain. I have been eating a lot of chocolate covered coffee beans and would describe my current status as 'seriously wired'. Here's hoping for the best.

As always you can hear this thrilling instalment of the ETP...

HERE

TRACK LISTING

'I Wanna Do Bad Things With You' by Chase Everett
Chase Everett. A man. A legend. A dream of American freedom. A naked moonlight walk on the prairies of yore. The drifting spirit of a union soldier passing through the concrete walls of office blocks and malls built large on the fields of Gettysburg. A mysterious smell in the back of your car. A lost raccoon in an oversize Stetson hat. The guy that did the title music for True Blood.

'Pretty Good Year' by Tori Amos

Tori Amos once peed on my leg but that's a story for another time. For now I'd like to talk about her flaming red hair. Mostly because it reminds me of Amy Pond. Beautiful time travelling Amy who every night in my dreams sits beside me as I drive and slowly runs her hand up the inside of my thigh.

'Let's Go Surfing' by The Drums
Matt and I seem to be drifting towards surf rock. I used to go surfing when I was a kid. I guess it was a cheap family holiday. Camp down in Bude and surf the mighty one and a half foot breaks of the  Atlantic Cornish coast. I remember the day I decided to give it up. I was sitting on my board, just out of the breaking zone, waiting for a ripple worth riding to come my way and it started hailing. As the ice fell from the sky, I remember thinking... 'Seriously dude, either move to California... or find some other way to spend your time because this is just stupid.'

'Suffocation' by Against Me

Divers report feelings of extreme euphoria when their breathing equipment packs up and they start to suffer from nitrogen narcosis. Swingers and perverts strangle each other to reach the ultimate sexual high. Kids seem obsessed with sticking plastic bags over their heads at every available opportunity. Do I have to go round door to door and tell everyone in the world to stop being stupid? Sometimes I feel like that might be the only thing left in the world that would make a difference.

'Fish' by Mr Scruff

Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, what did you and your husband do after you were ejected from the restaurant?
Marge: We pretty much went straight home…
Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, you are under oath!
Marge: We drove around until 3AM looking for another all-you-an-eat fish restaurant.
Hutz: And when you couldn’t find one?
Marge: We went fishing…
Hutz: Do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?

The New Kid on the Block
The Simpson's Season 4, Episode 6
Originally aired November 12, 1992

'International Dreambeat' Adebisi Shank
'The name of the song is going to be 'International Dreambeat''
'Seriously?'
'yeah'
'you still on that...'
'Prescription medication? Yes, yes I am. What of it?'
'Nothing man, nothing'

DANN'S INAUGURAL SIXTH FORM SONG

'Place Your Hands' by Reef

All my life I thought that Reef were a bunch of LA wasters. It turns out they actually come from Glastonbury. Glastonbury... The mythical burial ground of King Arthur. Home of the sacred Glastonbury thorn and the equally sacred Glastonbury Festival. This is just another case of Marketing and Hype playing me for the sucker I am.

'A Slight Discomfort' by the Holdsteady

The lyrics to this track are somewhat poetic. They left me with a feeling. I don't really know exactly what that feeling is. A slight sinking in my chest. Perhaps is a melancholic longing. Perhaps it's just the Coffee beans wearing off.  Maybe I should neck a couple of cans of power-thirst and then see how I feel.


Goodnight!

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