08/03/30

The Endless Bummer/ unreleased/ Itacan of Lakotah
Piggy/ Don't Stop the Calypso/ Money is King
The Endless Bummer/ unreleased/ Southern California
The Magnetic Fields/ Distortion/ California Girls
Camera Obscura/ Old Enough to Know Better/ San Francisco Song
My Teenage Stride/ Ears Like Golden Bats/ Terror Bends
Lenin I Shumov/ Dehnh N Wymob/ In C THIS SONG'S LYRICS WERE COWRITTEN WITH A THEATRE SECURITY GUARD FROM ARMENIA WHO SPEAKS 4 LANGUAGES. IT'S ABOUT HOW THERE IS NO LOVE.
Phil Elverum & Nick Krgovich/ David Shrigely's Worried Noodles/ Whatcha Doin'
Yume Bitsu/ The Golden Vessyl of Sound/ Song Four
Velocity Girl/ Gilded Stars & Zealous Hearts/ Go Coastal
Tindersticks/ Tindersticks (First)/ Marbles
Milky Wimpshake/ Lovers Not Fighters/ Too Much, Too Drunk


Ryan is playing his interview with Bob Wiseman. It's really funny how Bob just called Feist a "big machine" regarding her popularity. Later Now he's playing the Werbster (Woodhands) and I'm feeling nostalgic.

I came to the station with nothing in hand and barely a plan twenty minutes before show time because I have been writing a paper which is due tomorrow. It's that time of year. I can't wait for summer when I can devote more time to progamming, maybe getting together some some spoken word of indiepop/ DIY interest, maybe some interviews and some guests and themes.

Anyway, the Endless Bummer songs can be found on David Barclay's website. I disagree with Lenin I Shumov's remark that "there is no love," although it is appealingly tragic to think so. I guess it's just his Soviet childhood in Minsk coming through. I want to promise that I will never play "Whatcha Doin'" again, but I think that that's a dangerous promise to make. The singer from Velocity Girl has a voice that really bugs me sometimes; I like the way the Icicles have taken the same power pop vocal style yet somehow they make it so much better. "Too Much, Too Drunk" is what happens when people overindulge in sex and alcohol, but not in that order.

Larry just got here; he recently saw Jens Lekman in Seattle. I wonder how that makes me feel.

Go to the Old Life website because they're like whoaaaaa BLOWING UP. (Who's the machine now?)

let's talk about crushes

Who is yours?

Playlist 08/03/23

I am a little sad that I did not go to see Bob Wiseman last night; his shows are consistently good and he's just such a genuinely friendly person. I interviewed him about four years ago when I co-hosted a show called My First Balloon with Casey. This time, Ryan interviewed him. Listen to Carload of Whatever next week to hear what he had to say.

This week on G&L, I played some quiet stuff and things I'd forgotten about.

P:ano/ The Den/ L.D.
Dear Nora/ Mountain Rock/ Here We Come Around
Jon-Rae Fletcher/ Now Then/ Bird on the Wrong Side of a Window
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone/ Twinkle Echo/ Calloused Fingers Won't Make You Strong, Edith Wong
The Dismemberment Plan/ A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan/ Life of Possibilities
The Dismemberment Plan/ Emergency & I/ You Are Invited
Dog Day/ Thank You/ Sharp Teeth
The Diskettes/ s/t/ Art
The Diskettes/ s/t/ Girl With Sunglasses
The Postal Service/ Such Great Heights/ There's Never Enough Time
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names/ #3/ Noodles
The Galactic Heroes/ Every Sidewalk/ Bus Stop
The State of Samuel/ Mutiny on Mercury/ The Fortune Song

wthf 2008

Tickets now.

Playlist 08/03/16

Mudhoney/ Superfuzz Bigmuff/ If I Think
Rivers Cuomo/ Alone: The Home Recordings/ Lover in the Snow
Rivers Cuomo/ Alone: The Home Recordings/ Chess
The Mekons/ So Good It Hurts/ Ghosts of American Astronauts*
The Pastels/ s/t/ Automatically Yours
The Housemartins/ London 0 Hull 4/ Get Up Off Our Knees
Jens Lekman/ Night Falls Over Kortedala/ I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
Paul Simon/ Graceland/ I Know What I Know
Jonathan Richman/ s/t/ I Eat with Gusto, Damn! You Bet
Shop Assistants/ Will Anything Happen/ After Dark
The Raincoats/ Odyshape/ Red Shoes

*Remind me to play this for my next annual Cold War show

Today I went digging in the vinyl stacks for my favourite kind of music -- late seventies, eighties, and early nineties pop! Can you believe CFUV has two Housemartins albums? Shop Assistants? The self-titled Pastels? Thank god they haven't been stolen, as the s/t Mudhoney had been. My further forays into Rivers Cuomo's home solo recordings proved an unexpected delight. (If I had thought at all, I would have expected it, considering I ♥♥♥ older Weezer.) Paul Simon made his first (his only?) appearance on the show today. Sunday Surprise sat in a hot on-air booth smelling the heating latex of pink and purple balloons left over from a very successful Women's Radiothon last Friday.

Tk Yu/ Playlist 08/03/09

Gumdrops & Lollipops exceeded its Fundrive show goal by $100. Thank-you thank-you thank-you.


Teenage Fanclub/ s/t / Everything Flows
The Jesus and Mary Chain/ Psychocandy/ My LIttle Underground
Say HI/ The Wishes and the Glitch/ Northwestern Girls
The Velveteens/ Tall House/ Tall House
Calvin Johnson/ What Was Me/ Love Will Come Back Again
No Kids/ Come into My House/ You Look Good to Me
Blanco BLank/ Old Life Comp./ Jungles Out of Order
Colourbook/ s/t/ Lung Fung
Jens Lekman/ Night Falls Over Kortedala/ And I Remember Every Kiss

Oh yeah, please donate to FUNDRIVE

Have you ever watched PBS and then your show is interrupted by that thing where they sell you the video version and in the background there's all these people answering phones? That's kind of what CFUV is doing right now, except that we have, at most, two people answering phones and we only do this once a year, not once every month. We're a non-commercial station so we gots to do it.

Anyways, what I'm saying is, please call in during my show and donate to the station. Every show has to raise a certain amount of money, so I need help. Even if you donate $5, you have the opportunity to get a "gift" (prize). If you donate $25 or more, there are a bunch more prizes available (or you could opt for a tax receipt...). If you don't like any of the prizes available to you, tell me, and I will make you a prize.

Kewl? Please call! (Tks.)

(250)721-8700

Sing it in a sour key

I've had some problems with people sending me naughty pictures lately. I just want to say that the name of my show was in no way intended to invoke sexualized responses.

Friday, March 7
Dylan Thomas (the band, not the deceased poet), Balacade, Young Lions aka OldLife xTreme sports
Solstice Cafe
8-10pm

Yew herd it hear furst.


Oh yeah, submit to the new Old Life comp. Actually, you're only allowed to submit to it if you're a weirdo; I'm not sure if that's self-identified or what. Don't you think that's a little exclusive? I wonder if perverts are allowed. Perverts who draw penises erupting with candy. Probably.


**Edit:
I felt bad not posting about that Vincat show.

Saturday, March 8
Inner Space EP Release Party
Vincat w/ Run Chico Run, Candles, Hank Pine
Open Space Gallery
Discount price if you dress up in space-themed costume. They also need people to make decorations.

Playlist 08/03/02

The Boss and the Bandits/ Stranded in the Park/ Born in North Van
The Blankket/ Be Your Own Boss/ Thunder Road
The Bloggers/ s/t/ Marine Life
Think About Life/ s/t/ Paul Cries
Miracle Fortress/ Five Roses/ Maybe Lately
Dan Weisenburger/ Aaargh! III Of Heaven and Small Mercies/ Scarecrow
Tullycraft/ Disenchanted Hearts Unite/ Girl About Town
All Girl Summer Fun Band/ s/t/ Canadian Boyfriend
The Softies/ Winter Pageant/ Pack Your Things and Go
No Kids/ Come Into My House/ Bluster in the Air
The Superfantastics/ Choose Your Destination/ Rites of Spring
The D'Urbervilles/ We Are the Hunters/ National Flowers
Oxford Collapse/ s/t/ Sex Face