Tuesday, June 4, 2013

"What the Snowman Learned About Love"

Old Man Luedeke "Mountain Plain" My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs, 2010.
The Knack "Good Girls Don't" Get the Knack, 1979.
Lou Barlow "Dragdown Memory" Winning Losers, 1994.
The Mountain Goats "Pure Intentions" Songs for Petronius, 1992.
Jim Guthrie "Communication" Morning Noon Night, 2001.
The Radio Dept. "What Will Give?" Pet Grief, 2006.
Cat Power "Love & Communication" The Greatest, 2006.
Grandaddy "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" The Sophtware Slump, 2000.
Townes van Zandt "Second Lover's Song" Our Mother the Mountain, 1969.
Pink Mountaintops "While We Were Dreaming" Outside Love, 2009.
(Scott Aukerman, Seth Morris, Tig Notaro & Jesse Ventura)
Aimee Mann "One" Magnolia, 1999.
Stars "What the Snowman Learned About Love" Heart, 2003.
Grandaddy "Everything Beautiful is Far Away" Under the Western Freeway, 1997.
Bright Eyes "Tereza and Tomas" Letting Off the Happiness, 1998.
Nick Lowe "Cruel to Be Kind"Labour of Lust, 1979.
The Mountain Goats "Love Love Love" The Sunset Tree, 2005.
Pink Mountaintops "The Gayest of Sunbeams" Outside Love, 2009.
Slowlover "Falling Bodies" Parsley Days, 2000.
Chad VanGaalen "Kill Me In My Sleep" Infiniheart, 2003.
(Kyle Kinane)
White Hinterland "Icarus"  Kairos, 2010.

"The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying"

Pink Floyd "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (Part I)" Atom Heart Mother, 1970.
Neil Young "Heart of Gold" Harvest, 1973.
Magnolia Electric Co. "Give Something Else Away Every Day" What Comes After the Blues, 2004.
Devastations "The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying" Coal, 2005.
Built to Spill "In the Morning" There's Nothing Wrong With Love, 1994.
Thurston Moore "Kissing on the Bridge" Heavy, 1995.
Pink Floyd "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (Part II)" Atom Heart Mother, 1970.
Pink Floyd "The Narrow Way (Part III)" Ummagumma, 1969.
The Smiths "I Want the One I Can't Have" Meat Is Murder, 1985.
Neil Young "Like a Hurricane" American Stars 'n Bars, 1977.
The Sea And Cake "There You Are" The Fawn, 1997.
Thurston Moore "Culinary Institute" Heavy, 1995.
Magnolia Electric Co. "It's Made Me Cry" It's Made Me Cry, 2009.
The La's "There She Goes" The La's, 1990.
Evan Dando "Frying Pan" Sweet Relief, 1995.
Pink Floyd "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (Part III)" Atom Heart Mother, 1970.

Monday, June 3, 2013

"You Have to Be Joking"

Grandaddy "Protected From the Rain" Signal to Snow Ratio, 1999.
The Flaming Lips "You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)" Hit to Death In the Future Head, 1992.
Chet "The Shepherd" Fight Against Darkness, 2007.
Hayden "Better-Off Inside" The Closer I Get, 1998.
Blondie "I Know But I Don't Know" Parallel Lines, 1978.
Graham Nash "Simple Man" Songs for Beginners, 1971.
Giantess "Einstein of Love" Giantess, 2007.
The Black Keys "Just a Little Heat" Magic Potion, 2006.
Sparks "Sherlock Holmes" Angst In My Pants, 1982.
Bon Iver "Blood Bank" Blood Bank, 2008.
The Gits "Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human" Frenching the Bully, 1992.
Blondie "Will Anything Happen?" Parallel Lines, 1978.
Bob Dylan "In the Summertime" Shot of Love, 1981.
Portastatic "In the Lines" Autumn Was a Lark, 2003.
Kings of Convenience "Parallel Lines" Quiet is the New Loud, 2001.
Cass McCombs "My Sister My Spouse" Catacombs, 2009.
The Lyres "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" On Fyre, 1984.
Arthur Russell "That's Us/Wild Combination" Calling Out of Context, 2004.

"A Cup to Put Your Blood In"

Listener "You Were A House On Fire"
Wilco "Jesus, etc"
Sondre Lerche "The Curse of Being In Love"
The American Analog Set "The Postman"
Lee Hazelwood & Suzi Jane Hokum "Summer Wine"
B. Fleischmann & Ms. John Soda "Here She Comes"
Common Base "Summer Music"
The Wooden Birds "Cross My Heart"
Tom Petty "Here Comes My Girl"
Delta Five "Anticipation"
Spoon "Trouble Comes Running"
The Tallest Man On Earth "The Gardener"
Orange Juice "Falling and Laughing"
Dojo Workhorse "A Cup to Put Your Blood In"
Sentridoh "No One Taught Me"
Sarah Blasko "Don't Dream It's Over"
Pink Mountaintops "Rock'N'Roll Fantasy"
Neil Halstead "Love Is a Beast"
Alasdair Roberts "You Muses Assist"
The Telescopes "And Let Me Drift"
Listener "Wooden Heart"

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

"To Be Of Use"

Stereolab "Refraction (Part 1)" Dots and Loops, 1997.
Grandaddy "Fentry" Broken Down Comforter Collection, 1998.
June Of 44 "I Get My Kicks For You" Engine Takes to the Water, 1995.
The War On Drugs "Your Love Calls Out My Name" Slave Ambient, 2011.
Built to Spill "Temporarily Blind" Keep It Like A Secret, 1999.
Silver Swans "Secrets" Forever, 2012.
Jim Guthrie "Gamera" A Thousand Songs, 1999.
Lou Barlow "Dirty Mind" Lou Barlow and his Sentridoh, 1994.
Stereolab "Refraction (Part 2)" Dots and Loops, 1997.
Spain "Nobody Has to Know" She Haunts My Dreams, 1999.
Nick Lowe "So It Goes" 1976.
Luna "Astronaut" Close Cover Before Striking, 2002.
Miracle Fortress "Everything Works" Was I the Wave, 2011.
Stereolab "Refraction (part 3)" Dots and Loops, 1997.
The Wooden Birds "Secrets" Two Matchsticks, 2011.
Damien Jurado "Mountains Still Sleep" Maraqopa, 2012.
Richard Swift "As I Go" The Novelist, 2003.
Cults "Oh My God" Cults, 2012.
Stereolab "Refractions (part 4)" Dots and Loops, 1997.
Scout Niblett "Could This Possibly Be?" It's Up to Emma, 2013.
Smog "To Be Of Use" Red Apple Falls, 1997.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

"What Were The Chances"

Karl Blau "Shadow"
Bjork "Venus As a Boy"
Lightning Dust "Reckless & Wild"
Sebadoh "Nothing Like You"
Pure Ecstasy "Twisted Mirror"
Guided By Voices "Hot Freaks"
The Cave Singers "Seeds of Night"
Damien Jurado "What Were the Chances?"
Dean & Britta "Random Rules"
Seam "Bunch"
Suuns "Edie's Dream"
The Sea And Cake "Down in the City"
Dr. Dog "I've Just Got to Tell You"
Karate "Today or Tomorrow"
Asobi Seksu "Walk On the Moon"
Do Make Say Think "Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!"

"The Deepest Well"

Wilco (ft. Feist) "You And I"
Screaming Females "Mothership"
TV On the Radio "Staring At the Sun"
Crooked Fingers "When You Were Mine"
Iron & Wine "Love and Some Verses"
Peter, Bjorn & John "Young Folks"
Modest Mouse "The Good Times Are Killing Me"
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Is This Love?"
Karen O. and the Kids "All Is Love"
The Mountain Goats "Fault Lines"
Dr. Dog "Heart It Races"
Keaton Henson "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are"
The Magnetic Fields "Heroes"

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

"All For Nothing"

Billie Holiday "My Yiddishe Mama"
Neko Case "Outro With Bees" Blacklisted
Will Oldham "No More Rides" Guarapero
Tyranahorse "Teenage Girl" Ghostwolfmotherhawk: Prairieunicornlionlioness
M83 "Teen Angst" Before the Dawn Heals Us
The Abramson Singers "Deja vu" Late Riser
Kaki King "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers" Until We Felt Red
Tegan & Sara "How Come You Don't Want Me" Heartthrob
Emmy The Great "Where is My Mind?"
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash "Girl from the North County" Nashville Sessions
The Muffs "All For Nothing" The Muffs
The Rolling Stones "Factory Girl" Beggars Banquet
Lykki Li "Silver Springs"
Lucinda Williams "Fruits of My Labor" World Without Tears
Greg MacPherson "Invisible" Balanced On a Pin
Liz Phair "Divorce Song" Exile In Guyville
The Sea and Cake "The Transaction" The Biz
Ellie Goulding "Anything Could Happen"
Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Thunder Road" The Brave and the Bold
Calexico "I Send My Love to You" I Am a Cold Rock I Am Dull Grass


Tuesday, May 21, 2013

"They're Playing Our Song"

The American Analog Set
Smog
Hayden
Jimmy Eat World
American Football
Herman Chin-Loy
The Smiths
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Arum Rae
T Rex
Adrian Orange
Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters
Anni Rossi
The Lemonheads
Yo La Tengo
Akron/Family
Elliott Smith
Bells Clanging
Neil Halstead
Destroyer
Looper

Sunday, May 12, 2013

"Blues for Mother"

Pink Floyd
Richard Swift
Seabear
Tindersticks
Pale Saints
Tunng
Smog
Low
Broken Water
The Beatles
The Veils
Beulah
Blonde Redhead
Townes van Zandt
Eels
Smog
Casiotone
Jim O'Rourke, Akira Sakata & Yoshimio
The Long Winters
Cameron Dilworth

Saturday, May 11, 2013

"Sleepwalking"

Beth Orton "She Cries Your Name" Trailer Park, 1996.
Buffaloswans "No Way But Forward" Buffaloswans, 2007.
Vic Chesnutt "Everybody Can Change" KCRW Rare On Air Volume 2, 1995.
The Abramson Singers "Fight Or Flight" Late Riser, 2013.
Modest Mouse "Sleepwalking" Interstate 8, 1996.
Robert Francis "Some Things Never Change" Strangers in the First Place, 2012.
Tame Impala "Feels Like We Only Move Backwards" Lonerism, 2012.
Deerhunter "Sleepwalking" Monomania, 2013.
The Damned "Edward the Bear" Phantasmagoria, 1985.
Mickey & the Soul Generation "We Got To Make a Change" Iron Leg, 2003.
Atlas Sound "Change Is Good" Bedroom Databank Volume 2, 2010.
Havergal "How I Do" How I Do, 1999.
Portastatic "Swimming Through Tires" Summer of the Shark, 2003.
Beck "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" Eternal Sunshine OST, 2004.
Songs: Ohia "I've Been Riding With the Ghost" Magnolia Electric Co, 2003.
Yppah "The Tingling" We Know What Ghost Know, 2009.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

"Some Things Come From Nothing"

Bontempi "I Can Hear You" What Keeps Us Awake, 2004.
Chad VanGaalen "Clinicly Dead" Infiniheart, 2003.
The Arcade Fire "No Cars Go" Arcade Fire, 2004.
Pure Ecstasy "Things In My Head" Crawling Up the Stairs, 2013.
Precious Fathers "Red Norvo" Precious Fathers, 2004.
Yo La Tengo "Stupid Things" Fade, 2013.
Jim Guthrie "The Difference a Day Makes" Takes Time, 2013.
Yppah "Gumball Machine Weekend" They Know What Ghost Know, 2009.
Super Furry Animals "Some Things Come From Nothing" Guerrilla, 1999.
Loscil "Rye Fields" Intervalo, 2013.
High Highs "Love Is All" Open Season, 2013.
Junip "Suddenly" Junip, 2013.
Lou Barlow "Feel Good" Lou Barlow and Friends, 1994.
P:ano "Animal Friends" Ghost Pirates Without Heads, 2005.
Michael Andrews "Goldfish" Me And You And Everyone We Know, 2005.
Nico "The Fairest of the Seasons" Chelsea Girl, 1967.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

"Bring On the Night"

Boards of Canada "Everything You Do Is A Balloon" Hi Scores, 1996.
Luna "Sleeping Pill" Bewitched, 1994.
Nagisa Ni Te "Me, On the Beach" Dream Sounds, 2005.
Isan "Celia's Dream" Blue Skied An' Clear, 2002.
The Besnard Lakes "For Agent 13" Are the Dark Horse, 2007.
Tortoise "Everglade" TNT, 1998.
B. Fleischmann "Sleep" Welcome Tourist, 2003.
Hinterland "Portrait of My Invention" Under the Waterline, 2003.
Stina Nordenstam "125" The World Is Saved, 2004.
Desolation Wilderness "Paris to New York" White Light Strobing, 2008.
Jim Guthrie "Bring On the Night" Takes Time, 2013.
Neil Young "Look Out For My Love" Comes a Time, 1978.
Sandro Perri "Impossible Spaces" Impossible Spaces, 2011.
Jim Guthrie "The Rest Is Yet to Come" Takes Time, 2013.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

"Don't Be Denied"

Henry Hall and His Gleneagles Hotel Band "Home" 1931.
Tram "Home" Heavy Black Frame, 1999.
Arthur Russell "Home Away From Home" Another Thought, 1994.
Broadcast "Message from Home" Work And Non Work, 1997.
The American Analog Set "Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home" Promise of Love, 2003.
Galaxie 500 "When Will You Come Home?" On Fire, 1989.
Rex "Ride Home" C, 1996.
Mates of State "Hoarding It For Home" Our Constant Concern, 2002.
Yo La Tengo "I Feel Like Going Home" I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, 2006.
Jana Hunter "There's No Home" There's No Home, 2007.
Low "Home" Secret Name, 1998.
Chet "Fellow Rides Home" The Tiger Is In the Window, 2002.
Band of Horses "On My Way Back Home" Infinite Arms, 2010.
Midlake "Head Home" The Trials of Van Occupanther, 2007.
Neil Young "Don't Be Denied" Time Fades Away, 1973.
Sentridoh "Same Old, Say Mold" Lou Barlow and His Sentridoh, 1994.
Adelaide "Carry Me Home" II, 2009.
Azure Ray "Home" Burn and Shiver, 2002.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes "Home" Up From Below, 2009.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"Trial of the Century"

Sebadoh "Homemade" Bubble & Scrape, 1993.
The Jesus & Mary Chain "God Help Me" Stoned and Dethroned, 1994.
Stereolab "Brakhage" Dots & Loops, 1997.
Elliott Smith "Everything Reminds Me Of Her" Figure 8, 2000.
Eels "Ordinary Man" Hombre Lobo, 2009.
Lymbyc Systym "Narita" Field Studies, 2008.
Havergal "Burn Up the Bay" Elettricita, 2007.
The High Places "Stardust to Sentience" High Places, 2008.
The French Kicks "Trial of the Century" Trial of the Century, 2004.
The Beatles "She Said She Said" Revolver, 1966.
The Mountain Goats "Up the Wolves" The Sunset Tree, 2005.
Sally Seltmann "Dreaming of Changing" Heart That's Pounding, 2010.
Of Montreal "The Repudiated Mortals" The Sunlandic Twins, 2005.
Stereolab "Tomorrow is Already Here" Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1996.
Deerhunter "The Missing" Monomania, 2013.
Julie Doiron "Sending the Photographs" Heart & Crime, 2002.
Havergal "New Innocent Tyro Allegory" Elettricita, 2007.
Kingsway & the Great Outdoors "$5" Live at Lucky's, 2010.
The Books "Free Translator" The Way Out, 2010.
Sebadoh "Cliche" Bubble & Scrape, 1993.

Friday, April 19, 2013

"Distortions"

Galaxie 500 "Strange" On Fire, 1989.
Th' Faith Healers "Heart Fog" Imaginary Friend, 1993.
Television Personalities "Stranger to Myself" I Was A Mod Before You Was A Mod, 1996.
Paper Cranes "I'll Love You Till My Veins Explode" Veins, 2006.
New Order "Leave Me Alone" Power Corruption and Lies, 1983.
Jason Loewenstein "I'm a Shit" At Sixes And Sevens, 2002.
Wire "Strange" Pink Flag, 1977.
Quasi "Let's Just Go" Field Studies, 1999.
For Stars "Playing At A Party" For Stars, 1998.
The Velvet Underground "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" Loaded, 1970.
Dr. Dog "Ain't It Strange" We All Belong, 2007.
Mojave 3 "Who Do You Love?" Out of Tune, 1998.
Houses "Smoke Signals" A Quiet Darkness, 2013.
Plaid Dragon "Dog Physics" Dog Physics, 2012.
The Radio Dept. "Strange Things Will Happen" Lesser Matters, 2004.
Reverie Sound Revue "One Marathon" Reverie Sound Revue, 2004.
Three Mile Pilot "On a Ship to Bangladesh" Three Mile Pilot, 1998.
Little Chords "Afterlife" Afterlife, 2011.
Clinic "Distortions" Internal Wrangler, 2000.

Featuring Excerpts from: 'Pity Me Not' by Edna St. Vincent Millay and 'So Now' by Charles Bukowski, both read by Tom O'Bedlam. Thanks.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

"Why They Won't Talk To Me"

The American Analog Set "Gone to Earth" The Fun of Watching Fireworks, 1996.
John Cale "Paris 1919" Paris 1919, 1973.
Sloan "Can't Face Up" One Chord to Another, 1996.
DIIV "Wait" Oshin, 2012.
Yo La Tengo "Demons" Genius + Love, 1996.
Rökkurró "Heiðskýr Heimsendir" Það Kólnar í Kvöld, 2007.
The Apples In Stereo "Lucky Charm" Fun Trick Noisemaker, 1995.
Dead Gaze "Back and Forth" End of Days Why Not You, 2010.
Versus "Jealous" Secret Swingers, 1996.
Lightning Dust "Diamond" Fantasy, 2013.
New Order "Dreams Never End" Movement, 1981.
The Olivia Tremor Control "Define a Transparent Dream" Dusk at the Cubist Castle, 1996.
Tame Impala "Why Won't They Talk To Me?" Lonerism, 2012.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra "Secret Xtians" II, 2012.
Teenage Fanclub "Is This Music?" Bandwagonesque, 1991.
Cat Power "Water & Air" What Would the Community Think, 1996.
Josef K "It's Kinda Funny" The Only Fun in Town, 1980.
Twin Shadow "Five Seconds" Confess, 2012.
Lilys "Shovel Into Spade Kit" Better Can't Make Your Life Better, 1996.
Yo La Tengo "I'll Be Around" Fade, 2013.
Jim O'Rourke "Eureka" Eureka, 1999.

Friday, April 5, 2013

"Just Like Anything"

Phosphorescent "Sun, Arise!" Muchacho, 2013.
Julian Lynch "Terra" Terra, 2011.
Solex "Flevoland" Solex Ahoy, 2013.
Wild Belle "Take Me Away" Isles, 2013.
Devendra Banhart "Won't You Come Over" Mala, 2013.
The Cave Singers "Shine" Naomi, 2013.
Kurt Vile "Wakin' On a Pretty Day" Wakin' On a Pretty Daze, 2013.
Youth Lagoon "The Bath" Wondrous Bughouse, 2013.
Hey Chica! "Curse the Space" Do You Really Believe, 2009.
Little Wings "Knock On Every Door" The Last, 2013.
Jackson C. Frank "Just Like Anything" Jackson C. Frank, 1965.
High Highs "Pines" Open Season, 2013.
The Boo Radleys "Song For the Morning to Sing" Everything's Alright Forever, 1992.
Dumbo Gets Mad "Indian Food" Quantum Leap, 2013.
Summer Heart "Hit Me Up Again" 2013.
Ducktails "Letter of Intent" The Flower Lane, 2013.
Phosphorescent "Song for Zula" Muchacho, 2013.
                                                                                                                    Built to Spill "You Are" Ancient Melodies of the Future, 2001.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

"North Star Blues"

"Ghost Tropic I" Ghost Tropic, 2000.
"Being In Love" Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma, 2001.
"No Limit on the Words" Ghost Tropic, 2000.
"What's Broken Becomes Better" The Black Ram, 2007.
"Advice to Aces" Hecla & Griper, 1997.
"Heart My Heart" Autumn Bird Songs, 2012.
"Spectral Alphabet" Pyramid Electric Co, 2004.
"Protection Spell" It's Made Me Cry, 2009.
"Just Be Simple" Magnolia Electric Co, 2002.
"It's Easier Now" Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go, 2006.
"Jennie Blackbird's Blues" Amalgamated Sons of Rest, 2002.
"Easy" Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma, 2001.
"Captain Badass" Axxess & Ace, 1999.
"Nashville Moon" Nashville Moon, 2007.
"Josephine" Josephine, 2009.
"Ghost Tropic II" Ghost Tropic, 2000.
"Incantation" Ghost Tropic, 2000.
"Hard to Love A Man" Hard to Love a Man, 2005.
"An Ace Unable to Change" Impala, 1998.
"Blue Chicago Moon" Didn't It Rain, 2002.
"Northstar Blues" What Comes After the Blues, 2005.
"Promise Not to Quit" Live in Dresden, 1999.
"Translation" Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma, 2001.