New tracks 11/25/09 (Thanksgiving eve)

I had a fine time playing music on Thanksgiving eve. Nothing like having the next day off. Got way more calls than usual, as well. I'm grateful for that.

New tracks
6 pm hour

Lucero -- Sick of the City
Gogol Bordello -- Immigrant Punk (demo version)
BLK JKS --Taxidermy
Black Heart Procession -- Wasteland
Shaky Hands -- Love Curse
Kurt Vile -- Monkey
Flaming Lips -- Watching the Planets

Recurrent track (4-12 months old)
Dinosaur Jr. -- I Want You to Know

7 pm hour/ New tracks

The Ettes -- I Can't Be True
Exotics -- Spy's Demise
Chuck Prophet -- Where the Hell is Henry?
Viva Voce -- Devotion
Purgatory Hill/ Pat MacDonald -- Reset Me Lord
Black Seeds -- Slingshot
Gossip -- Vertical Rhythm
The Slits -- Lazy Slam
Tom Waits -- Goin Out West (live)

8 pm hour
Drivin n Cryin -- Detroit City
Anders Parker -- Calling Out to You
The High Strung -- Out of Character

The 80s at 8:30

Spandau Ballet (sort of request) -- To Cut A Long Story Short
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy -- Big Bad Thing
Fun Boy 3 (request) -- Faith and Hope and Charity
The Cramps (request) -- The Way I Walk
The Neats -- Sometimes
Couch Flambeau (salute to "The Day the Music Died" making Spin top Pigf--k list) --
Mobile Home
Satan's School for Girls
The Zoo Is Cool
Curtains for You
Santa Skips Cudahy

Way to go Couch Flambeau!

Congrats to Milwaukee's own Couch Flambeau for being named to Spin magazine's top 8 "essentials" for the precursor of grunge, which Spin refers to as Pigf--k. The 1985 Flambeau album The Day the Music Died made the list, along with albums by Scratch Acid, Killdozer, Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers and Big Black. See this week's '80s at 8:30 playlist for the tracks I played from The Day the Music Died. Article is in the December issue of Spin.

Whew -- Back2Normal Playlist 11-11-09

The pledge drive is over and done, now we will get back to our regular fun. Here for your entertainment pleasure are this week's new trax and 80's @ 8:30 lineup...

6 pm hour

Drivin n Cryin -- Detroit City
Julian Plenti -- Fly As You Might
The Ettes -- I Can't Be True
King Khan and the BBQ Show -- Animal Parts
Chuck Prophet -- Where the Hell is Henry?
Sea Wolf -- Oh Maria
The Slits -- Peer Pressure

7 pm hour

Girls -- Morning Light
Gossip -- Dime Store Diamond
Fiery Furnaces -- Charmaine Champagne
Yo La Tengo -- Periodically Double or Triple
Har Mar Superstar -- Don't Ask Don't Tell
Raveonettes -- D.R.U.G.S.
Gordon Gano and the Ryans -- Way that I Creep
BLK JKS (Black Jacks) -- Lakeside

Recurrent track
Dinosaur Jr. -- Pieces

8 pm hour
new tracks

Black Heart Procession -- Rats
Flaming Lips -- Trembling Hands
Dirty Projectors -- Stillness is the Move (Radio Edit)
Mission of Burma -- Good Cheer

The '80s At 8:30

The Brains -- In the Night
Dinosaur Jr. (in town soon, had to play 'em twice tonight) -- Just Like Heaven
Soul Asylum -- Freaks
Spanic Boys -- Spark of Love
Del Fuegos -- Don't Run Wild
The Three O'Clock -- Sorry
Dag Nasty -- Trouble Is

Thanx and 80s at 8:30 for 11-4-09

Thanks again to those who helped us hit the minimum goal I set for this week's showgram of $500 so we helped (with Direct Supply) send 5 turkeys to the Hunger Task Force for families in need.

I believe I played only one "new" track due to my pledge drive hit parade. That was the Fiery Furnaces "I'm Going Away."

80s at 8:30
Bonemen of Barumba -- Walking with the Dead Men
Replacements -- We're Coming Out
Agent Orange -- Bloodstains

Spoken word from English as a Second Language (1983)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Blacks
Clayton Clark -- Visions of Muhammad Ali
Scott Goddard -- Nikita Krushchev
Bill Inglot -- Retirement of the Badge
Luis Campos -- Fruit Cocktail
Dennis Cooper -- 7 Poests Chosen By John Ashbery

Laurie Anderson -- Sweaters
Plasticland -- Processes of the Silverness
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Arabian Nights

Pledge Drive Take 2 w/ Turkey

We're talking Turkey now on the WMSE fall pledge drive -- as in when you give, one of our underwriters will donate turkey dinners to the Hunger Task Force. That underwriter is Direct Supply of Milwaukee. Depending on the show, Direct Supply is providing turkeys to hungry Milwaukee-area families to the tune of five for every $500 raised or 10 for every $1,000 raised. I'd like to raise $1k on my showgram this week -- and I'll start with my own pledge of $100. So we need another $400 to $900. Please give a call Wednesday night from 6 to 9 at 414-799-1917.
Also, thanks to Friends of Rich Mars who called with pledges last week -- Ketch Jr., Bro Dan, Uncle Paul, Lady S and others.
Rich Mars