playlist for 12/8/09 (sub)

George Had a...Sun?
3 hours of standards; favorites; and some new stuff (in italics)...

the blow - parentheses (rory phillips remix)
canned heat - poor moon - uncanned!
frank black - go find your saint - honeycomb

flight of the conchords - carol brown - i told you i was freaky
magnetic fields - i think i need a new heart - 69 love songs

dutchess and the duke - mary - she's the dutchess, he's the duke
the belles - melvin (gloria) - girls in the garage (vol 1)
standells - dirty water - bb 1966

incredible bongo band - apache - bongo rock
bobby womack - across 110th street - american gangster (ost)
tammi terrell - my heart - rare + unreleased; youtube
don covay - see about me - mercy mercy

los straightjackets - god rest ye merry gentlemen - surf xmas
(can't wait for christmas!!)

the clean - billy two - anthology
the verlaines - pyromaniac - juvenilia
pains of being pure at heart - higher than the stars - higher than the stars
the crocodiles - tears - 100 top NZ songs
the bats - north by north - daddy's highway

king khan and the bbq show - tryin' - invisible girl
the staggers - wild teens
the monks - i hate you - black monk time

apples in stereo - same old drag - #1 hits explosion
man man - van helsing boombox - six demon bag
mother mother - wisdom - o my ♥
mount righteous - christmas accordian - when the music starts

why - gemini (birthday song) - elephant eyelash
lake - breathing - let's build a roof
the xx - vcr - xx
madeleine peyroux - you're gonna make me lonesome when you go - careless love

beny more - como fue - mambo kings (ost)
clocks - coldplay...latin remix! - rhythms del mundo
she's leaving home - the beatles...remixed by luciano albo! - youtube
single ladies - pomplamoose...covering beyonce! - youtube

fool's gold - nadine - fool's gold
magnetic fields - absolutely cuckoo - 69 love songs
yo la tengo - if it's true - popular songs
the tams - be young, be foolish, be happy! - hey girl, don't bother me

dinah washington - teach me tonight! - dinah
blossom dearie - i'm hip! - blossom time at ronnie scott's
fats waller - your feets' too big! - mandy
fats waller - it's a sin to tell a lie! - the complete recorded works

brenton wood - oogum boogum song - the oogum boogum man
the exciters - blowing up my mind - northern soul floorshakers
joe dassin - siffler sur la colline - souvenirs

quem e - nara leao - nara leao (1968)
sylvie vartan - abracadabra - best of sylvie vartan
george a romero - the gonk - dawn of the dead (ost)
darondo - didn't i - let my people go

so here's the hap!

There's no playlist for this past Saturday (12/5/09) because I got a sub! It's been cold and rainy, which does not bode well for a sick girl on a bike.

However, I will be subbing the awesome George Had a Hat late tomorrow morning (11-1pm), so look forward to that!

playlist for 11/28/09

Nice mix of things today. Hopefully there were some people listening out there -- if it were up to me, I'd still be in a food coma from Thursday.

~musica de mexico, california, brazil y cuba~
café tacuba - volver a comenzar - sino
the ventures - perfidia - best of the ventures
chico buaraque - chega de saudade - youtube
ibrahim ferrer - herido de sombras - buena vista social club presents...

~soft but strong females~
linda perhacs - chimacum rain - parallelograms
dusty springfield - soft core - white heat
gladys knight & the pips - if i were your woman
nouvelle vague - just can't get enough - nouvelle vague

~let's have a dance party to hide our melancholy~
the blow - parentheses (rory phillips remix) - parentheses (ep)
animal collective - water curses - water curses (ep)
la bionda - i wanna be your lover - DiscoRing
marine girls - fridays - beach party

~jams~
ian dury - don't ask me - do it yourself
soft machine - as long as he lies perfectly still - volume two

~reflecting on relationships~
cinerama - hate - va va voom
kings of convenience - me in you - declaration of dependence
the jean paul sarte experience - einstein - love songs
thao and the get-down-stay-down - trouble was for - know better learn faster

~heavy folk influences~
magnet + gemma hayes - lay lady lay
the dutchess + the duke - living this life makes it hard - sunset/sunrise
grizzly bear - i live with you - veckatimest

~jangly DIY sound~
pants yell! - someone loves you - received pronunciation
the verlaines - doomsday - juvenilia
tall dwarfs - the brain that wouldn't die
television personalities - jackanory stories - jackanory stories

~faux + bonafide soul~
the animals - bring it on home to me
major lance - um um um um um
don covay - see about me - mercy mercy
the exciters - blowin up my mind

~earnest indie rock w/ a beat~
frank black - go find your saint - honeycomb
lake - breathing - let's build a roof
atlas sound - walkabout (feat. panda bear) - logos
sam prekop - c+f - who's your new professor

~good way to start the day~
m. ward - vincent o'brien - transfiguration of vincent
devandra banhart - can't help but smiling - what will we be

I'm thankful for...

...the 1970s...when you could get away with lurid costumes and hokey dance moves, because everyone was overflowing with soul.