WFMU: Mike Lupica: Playlist from October 21, 2003

Mike Lupica: Playlist from October 21, 2003

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October 21, 2003: Bustelo de Milo

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	New	Approx. start time
So here's the thing with San Francisco, which is where I was last week. Beautiful place, great restaurants, impossible scenery, but sort of like what I imagine a 90s theme park would be like. Many of the random San Franciscans I observed still flexed a considerable arsenal of disposable income and walked the streets with the confidence of a wo/man who voted for an elected Democrat.
I fear it may all be coming to a crashing halt for them soon. Conan the Republican is their new governor (although the people of SF apparently voted 85% against the recall), so they may well soon be getting the fear again, a la Tate/LaBianca so many years ago.
No matter, I live in Jersey, but was visiting for the quasi-wedding of two old pals. The party was great, I got to see old friends I haven't been in the same hemisphere with in nearly 10 years, and I got to go biking, driving, and even accidentally light my trousers on fire, all while within city limits. Hard to ask for a better vacation than that. To wit, this jam -- which under normal circumstances would go out to Trenton -- is dedicated to Hugh and Rachel. I'm proud to count you among my pals and I wish you all the best for the future. Apologies for making you dance to the Jimmy Scott song, but if there's any lesson to be learned here it's never to let a mildly sauced guy behind the turntables.

Beth Orton	Carmella (Four Tet remix)	The Other Side of Daybreak		*
Flaskkvartetten with Freddie Wadling	Tag & flyg & Bat	Vita Droppar En Samling 1987-1998		*	0:10:56 Pop-up)
Joe Walsh	Rocky Mountain Way	Dogtown and Z-Boys soundtrack	No lie, coming up onto the Golden Gate Bridge while the opening chords of this song came roaring through the speakers was more like being in a rock video than any other experience in recent memory.		0:15:15 Pop-up)
Bellrays	Making up for Lost Time	The Red, White, and Black		*	0:20:22 Pop-up)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids	Betrayal takes Two	Blank Generation			0:23:16 Pop-up)
Three	Food for Thog	Dark Days Coming	For those of us who always hope we'll find a Gray Matter track in the karaoke books, but just never do...		0:26:48 Pop-up)

Sophie Rimheden	In Your Mind	Hi Fi		*	0:41:00 Pop-up)
Freddy Fresh and his Orchestra	Don't Misunderstand Me	7"			0:45:17 Pop-up)
Girls at our Best	Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast from Nowhere	Peel Sessions EP			0:49:01 Pop-up)
Lyres	She Pays the Rent	EP			0:53:52 Pop-up)
Scoundrelles	Why doesn't someone take this Goddam Girl away from me?	Sympathetic Sounds of Toe-Rag	compilation		0:56:03 Pop-up)
Spectre (w/ Caz)	Vampyr Killa	The Second Coming			0:59:17 Pop-up)
Big Bad Baz	I Believe in a Thing Called Love	MP3	"Remix" seems like a strong word to throw around here... how about a "cover"? Originally by the Darkness. Yes, that Darkness.	*	1:04:24 Pop-up)
Edan	Emcees Smoke Crack	12"			1:08:48 Pop-up)

11th Dream Day	Tarantula	Prairie School Freakout	reissue	*	1:20:41 Pop-up)
Phillip Lynott	King's Call	Solo in Soho	he of Thin Lizzy		1:25:36 Pop-up)
Nobody	Porpoise Song	Pacific Drift	Monkees cover	*	1:29:06 Pop-up)
John Cale	Hello There	Vintage Violence			1:32:07 Pop-up)
The Gits	Bob (Cousin O.)	Enter: the Conquering Chicken	re-issue	*	1:34:44 Pop-up)
Rapeman	Trouser Minnow	Two Nuns and a Pack Mule	Warning: I am about to compare Rapeman to the Grateful Dead. Please leave now if this is going to irritate you.<--> One of the more interesting case studies in the "It's not them, it's their fans" paradigm is the Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac/Steve Albini school of guitar hero-worship. I like all those bands to some extent. Big Black was a serious deal when I was first getting into the psycho music, so they were a logical early touchstone in my path to musical delinquency... Rapeman was similar in many ways but perhaps more versatile and definitely better to dance to (I invite you to listen to their utterly brilliant cover of ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" for all the examples you're ever gonna need)... Shellac released two startlingly wonderful singles and then completely lost my interest, but that's more my fault than their's because by the time the early 90s had rolled around, there were so many guitar dudes attempting to ape Albini's guitar style and sardonic wit populating the college rock ghetto (which I was a chronic dweller within for many years), that I became a naysayer first-class. Again, I don't hold any of this against the band or players themselves -- they are all clearly talented individuals -- but when so many of the people I found myself surrounded by adopted the same inroads to "dark" music and culture, I discovered that it had lost a lot of the mystique for me it had once held, and I thusly began looking elsewhere for such satisfactions. Wasn't I talking about the Grateful Dead? Yeah, well I always liked them too...		1:37:48 Pop-up)
Variable Unit	Walking with my Son	Handbook for the Apocalypse			1:43:00 Pop-up)

Dsico	All Night is Mine	MP3			1:56:36 Pop-up)
Sun City Girls	Radar 1941	Torch of the Mystics			1:58:42 Pop-up)
Van Duren	Make a Scene	Rockin' Memphis Vol. 1	compilation		2:01:18 Pop-up)
Scorpions	Hey Honey	Havoc from Holland compilation	No, not those Scorpions		2:05:09 Pop-up)
Urinals	Teach me to Crawl	What is Real and What is Not	Yes, those Urinals. THEY'RE back together, too.	*	2:07:52 Pop-up)
Presto (w/ Lowd & DJ Haul)	Breath Control	Deep Concentration 4: Wreckin' the Floor	compilation	*	2:09:47 Pop-up)
DM & Jemini	The Only One	12"		*	2:13:43 Pop-up)
Shudder to Think	Crosstown Traffic	Funeral at the Movies EP	Jimi Hendrix cover. Yes, that Jimi Hendrix. Wait, what?		2:16:42 Pop-up)

Hanadensha	Seasky Rainbow	Doobie Shining Love EP			2:26:55 Pop-up)
Cheater Slicks	Thinkin' Some More	Whiskey	Feel free to get up and hit the bathroom, get a drink, finish your dissertation, or whatever... This song is about 30 minutes long.		2:32:46 Pop-up)

Artist

Track

Album

Comments

New

Approx. start time

So here's the thing with San Francisco, which is where I was last week. Beautiful place, great restaurants, impossible scenery, but sort of like what I imagine a 90s theme park would be like. Many of the random San Franciscans I observed still flexed a considerable arsenal of disposable income and walked the streets with the confidence of a wo/man who voted for an elected Democrat.

I fear it may all be coming to a crashing halt for them soon. Conan the Republican is their new governor (although the people of SF apparently voted 85% against the recall), so they may well soon be getting the fear again, a la Tate/LaBianca so many years ago.

No matter, I live in Jersey, but was visiting for the quasi-wedding of two old pals. The party was great, I got to see old friends I haven't been in the same hemisphere with in nearly 10 years, and I got to go biking, driving, and even accidentally light my trousers on fire, all while within city limits. Hard to ask for a better vacation than that. To wit, this jam -- which under normal circumstances would go out to Trenton -- is dedicated to Hugh and Rachel. I'm proud to count you among my pals and I wish you all the best for the future. Apologies for making you dance to the Jimmy Scott song, but if there's any lesson to be learned here it's never to let a mildly sauced guy behind the turntables.

Beth Orton

Carmella (Four Tet remix)

The Other Side of Daybreak

Flaskkvartetten with Freddie Wadling

Tag & flyg & Bat

Vita Droppar En Samling 1987-1998

0:10:56 Pop-up)

Joe Walsh

Rocky Mountain Way

Dogtown and Z-Boys soundtrack

No lie, coming up onto the Golden Gate Bridge while the opening chords of this song came roaring through the speakers was more like being in a rock video than any other experience in recent memory.

0:15:15 Pop-up)

Bellrays

Making up for Lost Time

The Red, White, and Black

0:20:22 Pop-up)

Richard Hell & the Voidoids

Betrayal takes Two

Blank Generation

0:23:16 Pop-up)

Three

Food for Thog

Dark Days Coming

For those of us who always hope we'll find a Gray Matter track in the karaoke books, but just never do...

0:26:48 Pop-up)

Sophie Rimheden

In Your Mind

Hi Fi

0:41:00 Pop-up)

Freddy Fresh and his Orchestra

Don't Misunderstand Me

0:45:17 Pop-up)

Girls at our Best

Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast from Nowhere

Peel Sessions EP

0:49:01 Pop-up)

Lyres

She Pays the Rent

0:53:52 Pop-up)

Scoundrelles

Why doesn't someone take this Goddam Girl away from me?

Sympathetic Sounds of Toe-Rag

compilation

0:56:03 Pop-up)

Spectre (w/ Caz)

Vampyr Killa

The Second Coming

0:59:17 Pop-up)

Big Bad Baz

I Believe in a Thing Called Love

MP3

"Remix" seems like a strong word to throw around here... how about a "cover"? Originally by the Darkness. Yes, *that* Darkness.

1:04:24 Pop-up)

Edan

Emcees Smoke Crack

12"

1:08:48 Pop-up)

11th Dream Day

Tarantula

Prairie School Freakout

reissue

1:20:41 Pop-up)

Phillip Lynott

King's Call

Solo in Soho

he of Thin Lizzy

1:25:36 Pop-up)

Nobody

Porpoise Song

Pacific Drift

Monkees cover

1:29:06 Pop-up)

John Cale

Hello There

Vintage Violence

1:32:07 Pop-up)

The Gits

Bob (Cousin O.)

Enter: the Conquering Chicken

re-issue

1:34:44 Pop-up)

Rapeman

Trouser Minnow

Two Nuns and a Pack Mule

Warning: I am about to compare Rapeman to the Grateful Dead. Please leave now if this is going to irritate you.<--> One of the more interesting case studies in the "It's not them, it's their fans" paradigm is the Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac/Steve Albini school of guitar hero-worship. I like all those bands to some extent. Big Black was a serious deal when I was first getting into the psycho music, so they were a logical early touchstone in my path to musical delinquency... Rapeman was similar in many ways but perhaps more versatile and definitely better to dance to (I invite you to listen to their utterly brilliant cover of ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" for all the examples you're ever gonna need)... Shellac released two startlingly wonderful singles and then completely lost my interest, but that's more my fault than their's because by the time the early 90s had rolled around, there were so many guitar dudes attempting to ape Albini's guitar style and sardonic wit populating the college rock ghetto (which I was a chronic dweller within for many years), that I became a naysayer first-class. Again, I don't hold any of this against the band or players themselves -- they are all clearly talented individuals -- but when so many of the people I found myself surrounded by adopted the same inroads to "dark" music and culture, I discovered that it had lost a lot of the mystique for me it had once held, and I thusly began looking elsewhere for such satisfactions. Wasn't I talking about the Grateful Dead? Yeah, well I always liked them too...

1:37:48 Pop-up)

Variable Unit

Walking with my Son

Handbook for the Apocalypse

1:43:00 Pop-up)

Dsico

All Night is Mine

MP3

1:56:36 Pop-up)

Sun City Girls

Radar 1941

Torch of the Mystics

1:58:42 Pop-up)

Van Duren

Make a Scene

Rockin' Memphis Vol. 1

compilation

2:01:18 Pop-up)

Scorpions

Hey Honey

Havoc from Holland compilation

No, not *those* Scorpions

2:05:09 Pop-up)

Urinals

Teach me to Crawl

What is Real and What is Not

Yes, *those* Urinals. THEY'RE back together, too.

2:07:52 Pop-up)

Presto (w/ Lowd & DJ Haul)

Breath Control

Deep Concentration 4: Wreckin' the Floor

compilation

2:09:47 Pop-up)

DM & Jemini

The Only One

12"

2:13:43 Pop-up)

Shudder to Think

Crosstown Traffic

Funeral at the Movies EP

Jimi Hendrix cover. Yes, *that* Jimi Hendrix. Wait, what?

2:16:42 Pop-up)

Hanadensha

Seasky Rainbow

Doobie Shining Love EP

2:26:55 Pop-up)

Cheater Slicks

Thinkin' Some More

Whiskey

Feel free to get up and hit the bathroom, get a drink, finish your dissertation, or whatever... This song is about 30 minutes long.

2:32:46 Pop-up)

Mike Lupica: Playlist from October 21, 2003

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