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Vradio #54: Underpass

Friday, January 9th, 2009

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1. Autechre “Tankakern”
2. Radiohead “Where I End And You Begin (demo)”
3. Eels “A Daisy Through Concrete”
4. M. Ward “Sad, Sad Song”
5. Stephen Malkmus “Ballad Of A Thin Man”
6. Rilo Kiley “Accidntel Deth”
7. DeVotchKa “Transliterator”
8. Jungle Brothers “The Promo No. 2 (Mind Review ‘89) (feat. A Tribe Called Quest)”
9. [...]

Vradio #53: Melt Our Faces Off (Best Of 2008)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

1. Death Cab For Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart”
2. Spiritualized “Soul On Fire”
3. Laura Marling “Tap At My Window”
4. TV On The Radio “Family Tree”
5. Erykah Badu “Me”
6. The BPA “Toe Jam (feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal)”
7. The Black Keys “Strange Times”
8. Martha Wainwright “Bleeding All Over You”
9. Emiliana Torrini “Fireheads”
10. Q-Tip “Gettin’ [...]

Boring Stats

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I put up the first Vradio on Jan 1 last year, with a Best Of 2007 mix.  There have been 52 episodes.  I put up 692 songs, by 382 artists.
1. Bob Dylan - 22 tracks
2. Beck - 13 tracks
3. Yo La Tengo - 11 tracks
4. Radiohead - 9 tracks
5. Kate Bush - 8 tracks
6. Tom [...]

Vradio #51: Theme Time Rip-Off Hour #6: Jail

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

I gotta add, making a nice, diverse mix of songs about jail was not easy. In the end, it is not that diverse, unfortunately: mostly blues and old songs and some rap tossed in. There’s only one woman on here, and I tried to find songs that were actually about jail and not [...]

Vradio #50: Owl

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

I had a couple of theme things for this I was putting together, but wasn’t motivated to finish them. So I’ll just hit shuffle and post everything that comes up. Oh the excitement! Sorry if some 30-minute avant-garde noise thing pops up.
1. Prince “The Beautiful Ones” (awesome)
2. Low “Long, Long, Long” (slow)
3. [...]

Vradio #49: Floating

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

1. Jim O’Rourke “Fuzzy Sun”
2. Eugene McGuinness “Moscow State Circus”
3. The Roots “Sacrifice”
4. The Neville Brothers “Ballad Of Hollis Brown”
5. Elvis Presley “Tomorrow Is A Long Time”
6. Isobel Campbell “October’s Sky”
7. George Harrison “The Day The World Gets ‘Round”
8. Wilco “At Least That’s What You Said”
9. Sparklehorse & The Flaming Lips “Go”
10. Lambchop “Nothing But [...]

Vradio #48: I Like Danger

Monday, November 17th, 2008

1. The Stooges “No Fun”
2. Q-Tip “Manwomanboogie”
3. Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe “Your Ghost”
4. Midlake “Balloon Maker”
5. Beck “Go Easy (live on KCRW, Nov. 3, 2000)”
6. John Cale “Barracuda”
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze”
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Fleeting Love”
9. Britta Persson “Just Not Going To Be”
10. Dock Boggs “Country Blues”
11. Arcade [...]

Vradio #47: F

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Starting up again, but slowly, with an easier alphabet mix.
1. Forest For The Trees “Fall”
2. Frightened Rabbit “Floating In The Forth”
3. Fila Brazillia “Firelanes”
4. Funkadelic “Funky Dollar Bill”
5. The Flaming Lips “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate”
6. Flotation Toy Warning “Fire Engine On Fire Part 2″
7. Feist “Flight #303″
8. Fela Kuti “Funky Horn”
9. Fiery Furnaces “Forty Eight Twenty [...]

Vradio #46: Bookshelf

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

1. Beach House “Saltwater”
2. M. Ward “Sad, Sad Song”
3. Led Zeppelin “Custard Pie”
4. Nick Drake “Black Eyed Dog”
5. The Modern Lovers “Government Center”
6. The Blue Van “Have Love Will Travel”
7. Cocteau Twins “Peppermint Pig”
8. Thurston Moore “Beaujolais Nouveau Day (feat. Cheap Glue)”
9. At Swim Two Birds “Down By The Stream”
10. Warren Zevon “Knockin’ On Heaven’s [...]

Vradio #45: Theme Time Rip-Off Hour #5: Coffee

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Bob Dylan’s fifth Theme Time Radio Hour was on coffee. It seems that coffee is a popular topic for blues songs.
1. Prince “Starfish and Coffee”
2. Roger McGuinn “One More Cup Of Coffee”
3. Can “Bring Me Coffee Or Tea”
4. Mississippi John Hurt “Coffee Blues”
5. Bill Strength “Black Coffee Blues”
6. The Dandy Warhols “The Coffee And [...]