WFMU: Andrew Listfield: Playlist from September 22, 2008

Andrew Listfield: Playlist from September 22, 2008

Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.

September 22, 2008: Show 204
(listen to entire show / each exact individual set / each exact individual song)

Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM

The start and end times for each individual set and each individual song are exact.

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(*** = special)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Special
Set 1: a quiet way to calm down after 2 days of great live music at All Tomorrows Parties. (Listen to this set: Real)
Lawrence English	Soft Fuse (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Kiri No Oto	Touch Tone	Quiet, almost floating sound.
Aidan Baker	Survival (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Book Of Nods	Beta-Lactam Ring	Best track on CD; beautiful, dreamy, rhythmic, slightly surging, I just keep liking it more and more as it goes along.	***
Jasper TX	Black Sleep III (track 3) (Listen: Real)	Black Sleep	Miasmah	Quiet start, a warm and even beautiful ballad, really nice and calming. Hard to believe almost noone at FMU played this CD....
KTL	Estranged (track 1) (Listen: Real)	KTL	Editions Mego	Beautiful, soft & subtly fluctuating sound, occasional spacey / druggy sounds come in and work well with it.	***

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)
Quiet, Please	Calling All Souls	Originally broadcast October 31, 1948	(no label)	This episode: on Halloween, an innocent man on death row sends his soul out of his body to find out who really did the murders - but he finds out too late: "They hanged you half an hour ago." The series is now considered by many to be 1 of old-time radio's best science fiction / horror series – if not THE best. It was always very reductive: very few people were in any episode, and all the action centered around 1 extraordinary actor: Ernest Chappell. Excerpts about Quiet, Please from Dunning's Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio: "...unsung and little-heard in it's day...Creator Wyllis Cooper was radio's best practitioner of an almost surrealistic dramatic form....His characters walked in a fuzzy dream world where the element of menace was ripe and ever-present...." All in all, superior radio.	***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the psych rock portion of the evening - on the heavier side, this time. (Listen to this set: Real)
Grails	Belgian Wake Up Drill (track 3: begun at -3:15, ended at -0:35) (Listen: Real)	Black Tar Prophesies Vol's 1, 2 & 3	Important	Sweet, warm and quiet --> easy, dark and heavy acid psych rock.
Skullflower	Rotten Sun (track 6) (Listen: Real)	IIIrd Gatekeeper	Crucial Blast	Heavy, dark psych rock, calms down near end.
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound	D. Brown (track 7) (Listen: Real)	Ekranoplan	Tee Pee	Heavy psych rock.
F/i	Grandfather Blanga And His Band Light It Up (track 6) (Listen: Real)	Blanga	Lexicon Devil	Heavier and serious psych rock, stately tempo until gets faster last 2:30 or so.	***
Hawkwind	You Shouldn't Do That (CD #3, track 4) (Listen: Real)	Greasy Truckers Party	EMI	Easygoing, ambient space-psych rock.
Cosmic Psychos	Jellyfish (CD #1, track 12) (Listen: Real)	Fifteen Years, A Million Beers	Dropkick	Who would have thought they'd do music that would wind up in a set like this? Me, neither, but psych rock it is.
Up-Tight	Sweet Sister Session (track 5) (Listen: Real)	Five Psychedelic Pieces	Static Caravan	Easygoing start, slower at times, blues-influenced psych rock, active and almost hallucinatory last few minutes.	***

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop

Set 4: a quiet way to start the show, a quiet way to end it. (Listen to this set: Real)
The Fun Years	My Lowville (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Baby, It's Cold Inside	Barge	Sentimental, with just a little bit of an experimental edge, gradually building soft harmonies come in.
James Blackshaw	Shroud (track 5) (Listen: Real)	Litany Of Echoes	Tompkins Square	Sharp and sweet sound, very nice.
End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Comments

Special

Set 1: a quiet way to calm down after 2 days of great live music at All Tomorrows Parties. (Listen to this set: Real)

Lawrence English

Soft Fuse (track 2) (Listen: Real)

Kiri No Oto

Touch Tone

Quiet, almost floating sound.

Aidan Baker

Survival (track 2) (Listen: Real)

Book Of Nods

Beta-Lactam Ring

Best track on CD; beautiful, dreamy, rhythmic, slightly surging, I just keep liking it more and more as it goes along.

***

Jasper TX

Black Sleep III (track 3) (Listen: Real)

Black Sleep

Miasmah

Quiet start, a warm and even beautiful ballad, really nice and calming. Hard to believe almost noone at FMU played this CD....

KTL

Estranged (track 1) (Listen: Real)

KTL

Editions Mego

Beautiful, soft & subtly fluctuating sound, occasional spacey / druggy sounds come in and work well with it.

***

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)

Quiet, Please

Calling All Souls

Originally broadcast October 31, 1948

(no label)

This episode: on Halloween, an innocent man on death row sends his soul out of his body to find out who really did the murders - but he finds out too late: "They hanged you half an hour ago."

The series is now considered by many to be 1 of old-time radio's best science fiction / horror series – if not THE best. It was always very reductive: very few people were in any episode, and all the action centered around 1 extraordinary actor: Ernest Chappell.

Excerpts about Quiet, Please from Dunning's Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio:

"...unsung and little-heard in it's day...Creator Wyllis Cooper was radio's best practitioner of an almost surrealistic dramatic form....His characters walked in a fuzzy dream world where the element of menace was ripe and ever-present...."

All in all, superior radio.

***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the psych rock portion of the evening - on the heavier side, this time. (Listen to this set: Real)

Grails

Belgian Wake Up Drill (track 3: begun at -3:15, ended at -0:35) (Listen: Real)

Black Tar Prophesies Vol's 1, 2 & 3

Important

Sweet, warm and quiet --> easy, dark and heavy acid psych rock.

Skullflower

Rotten Sun (track 6) (Listen: Real)

IIIrd Gatekeeper

Crucial Blast

Heavy, dark psych rock, calms down near end.

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound

D. Brown (track 7) (Listen: Real)

Ekranoplan

Tee Pee

Heavy psych rock.

F/i

Grandfather Blanga And His Band Light It Up (track 6) (Listen: Real)

Blanga

Lexicon Devil

Heavier and serious psych rock, stately tempo until gets faster last 2:30 or so.

***

Hawkwind

You Shouldn't Do That (CD #3, track 4) (Listen: Real)

Greasy Truckers Party

EMI

Easygoing, ambient space-psych rock.

Cosmic Psychos

Jellyfish (CD #1, track 12) (Listen: Real)

Fifteen Years, A Million Beers

Dropkick

Who would have thought they'd do music that would wind up in a set like this? Me, neither, but psych rock it is.

Up-Tight

Sweet Sister Session (track 5) (Listen: Real)

Five Psychedelic Pieces

Static Caravan

Easygoing start, slower at times, blues-influenced psych rock, active and almost hallucinatory last few minutes.

***

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop

Set 4: a quiet way to start the show, a quiet way to end it. (Listen to this set: Real)

The Fun Years

My Lowville (track 1) (Listen: Real)

Baby, It's Cold Inside

Barge

Sentimental, with just a little bit of an experimental edge, gradually building soft harmonies come in.

James Blackshaw

Shroud (track 5) (Listen: Real)

Litany Of Echoes

Tompkins Square

Sharp and sweet sound, very nice.

End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)

Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop

Listener comments!

Mon. 9/22/08 12:40am (mta) Tony:

Good morning, Andrew! Just tuned in. Looking forward to your upcoming sets. Thanks for the prior advisory via eMail.

Mon. 9/22/08 12:46am Andrew:

Thanks, Tony. I'm looking forward to them as well! If anyone wants to be on my email list about my upcoming shows (I send out an email a day before I do a show, containing an outline of what I'm gonna play), you can let me know either here or privately at andrew@wfmu.org.

Mon. 9/22/08 1:02am Ike:

That set was great. Lovely drifting.

Mon. 9/22/08 1:16am Andrew:

A different kind of drifting going on now...Especially if you close your eyes or turn off the lights.

Mon. 9/22/08 1:34am (mta) Tony:

Wow. What a journey! Has anyone noticed the similarity to "The Thin Blue Line" film by Errol Morris? Andrrew?

Mon. 9/22/08 1:48am Andrew:

I know I saw the movie, but my memory being what it is don't remember it too well....

Mon. 9/22/08 1:49am Andrew:

I'm glad you liked Quiet, Please!

Mon. 9/22/08 3:05am (mta) Tony:

The film had an innocent man on Death Row in Texas while the real killer was his new-found buddy.

Mon. 9/22/08 3:13am (mta) Tony:

Only ther were no ghosts involved, so I guess the analogy doesn't really apply.

Andrew Listfield: Playlist from September 22, 2008

Listener comments!

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