WFMU: Andrew Listfield: Playlist from August 8, 2003

Andrew Listfield: Playlist from August 8, 2003

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.

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August 8, 2003: Show 170: fill-in for Frank O'Toole (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)

The start and end times of each song and set are exact.

Show time: 11 PM - 2 AM

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(*** = special)

Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Images Special Approx. start time

Set 1 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) "Set 1"

Lee Konitz I'll Remember April (track 5) Motion Blue Note Cool-slinky, a little zippy, a quiet end. I like his comment in the liner notes: "Fortunately for me, I never really made it professionally...." In other words, kinda like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken - the less travelled one made all the difference.

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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: Psych & acid: sometimes quiet, sometimes different, sometimes lush, sometimes beautiful. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

Tuxedomoon James Whale (Side A, track 6) (Listen: Pop-up) Half-Mute Cramboy Bells, low key, quiet spookiness, acid.

Jon Hassell The Elephant And The Orchid (Side B, track 2) (Listen: Pop-up) Power Spot ECM Bit softly lush & mysterious, like slowly crossing a mysterious desert. ***

Warlocks Cosmic Letdown (track 5, ended at -1:40) (Listen: Pop-up) Phoenix Album Birdman Kinda druggy & mysterious, long instrumental part to begin, then builds, with an edge.

Loop Fade Out (Side A, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) "Fade Out (Side A, track 1)" by "Loop" Fade Out Rough Trade

Dimentia 13 Disturb The Air (Side B, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) Disturb The Air Midnight International One of the finest lush, neo-psych albums, from the late 1980s.

Sciflyer Burning Down The House (track 4) (Listen: Pop-up) Fair Weather Karma Claire Fine, beautiful, long, shimmering, introspective. ***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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 old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

Harry Lyme, The Third Man Ticket To Tangier (none) from August 24, 1951 A 1 year long, 52 episode series broadcast from the summer of 1951 to the summer of 1952, it capitalized on the popularity of the movie The Third Man. Both the movie and this series starred Orson Welles. He does a great job in this series as well. The episode we hear is the 4th in the series.

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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.

a song

Set 4: from heavy-core to rock. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) "Set 4: from heavy-core to rock."

Sunn O))) My Wall (track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) "My Wall (track 1)" by "Sunn O)))" White 1 Southern Lord This is the heavy-core. The first 10 minutes or so is an intense poem, written and read by Julian Cope, over heavy-core by Sunn O))). The second half of the piece: pure, glorious solo heavy-core. ***

Tia Carrera (no title) (begun at -14:07, ended by -0:15) (Listen: Pop-up) Live At Room 710 (unreleased) Easy tempo, but major, in-the-red distort-o rock, with a definite psych feel. The last few minutes are much calmer. ***

Scientists We Had Love (CD #2, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989 Feel Presents Almost 5 minutes of great, solid rock. ***

Cosmic Psychos Lost Cause (CD #2, track 20) (Listen: Pop-up) Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989 Feel Presents Heavier, more raw, faster. ***

Comets On Fire Comets On Fire (track 8) (Listen: Pop-up) Comets On Fire Alternative Tentacles As usual, the fastest in the set comes last.

Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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 5: some gamelan from the court of Yogyakarta. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

played on the Gamelan Kanjeng Kyahi Madu Kentir (The Venerable Madness Of Honey orchestra) Gending Wasital Asih, pelog nem (excerpt from track 1) Java: Palais Royal de Yogyakarta 4: La Musique de Concert Ocora/Radio France I've selected the most beautiful part, situated roughly in the middle of the piece. It's a rarified, intensely beautiful and celestial part, of a style rarely heard outside the confines of the palace. ***

Mic break between Sets 5 & 6. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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 6: some more jazz I've been listening to, to end the show. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

McKinney's Cotton Pickers Do You Believe In Love At Sight (track 5) (Listen: Pop-up) City Of Ghosts soundtrack United Artists Easy, syncopated, bouncy - but relaxed about it. A real pleasure. ***

Jackie McLean Iddy Biddy (track 10) (Listen: Pop-up) Vertigo Blue Note Bit bluesy, bit soul-jazz, very Jackie.

Coleman Hawkins Riviera Blues (track 5) (Listen: Pop-up) Dali Stash We get to hear both Coleman Hawkins and some hot electric guitar. ***

End of show mic break. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)

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 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) "Set 1"
Lee Konitz	I'll Remember April (track 5)	Motion	Blue Note	Cool-slinky, a little zippy, a quiet end. I like his comment in the liner notes: "Fortunately for me, I never really made it professionally...." In other words, kinda like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken - the less travelled one made all the difference.

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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: Psych & acid: sometimes quiet, sometimes different, sometimes lush, sometimes beautiful. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
Tuxedomoon	James Whale (Side A, track 6) (Listen: Pop-up)	Half-Mute	Cramboy	Bells, low key, quiet spookiness, acid.
Jon Hassell	The Elephant And The Orchid (Side B, track 2) (Listen: Pop-up)	Power Spot	ECM	Bit softly lush & mysterious, like slowly crossing a mysterious desert.	***
Warlocks	Cosmic Letdown (track 5, ended at -1:40) (Listen: Pop-up)	Phoenix Album	Birdman	Kinda druggy & mysterious, long instrumental part to begin, then builds, with an edge.
Loop	Fade Out (Side A, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) "Fade Out (Side A, track 1)" by "Loop"	Fade Out	Rough Trade
Dimentia 13	Disturb The Air (Side B, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up)	Disturb The Air	Midnight International	One of the finest lush, neo-psych albums, from the late 1980s.
Sciflyer	Burning Down The House (track 4) (Listen: Pop-up)	Fair Weather Karma	Claire	Fine, beautiful, long, shimmering, introspective.	***

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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 old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
Harry Lyme, The Third Man	Ticket To Tangier	(none)	from August 24, 1951	A 1 year long, 52 episode series broadcast from the summer of 1951 to the summer of 1952, it capitalized on the popularity of the movie The Third Man. Both the movie and this series starred Orson Welles. He does a great job in this series as well. The episode we hear is the 4th in the series.

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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.
	a song
Set 4: from heavy-core to rock. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) "Set 4: from heavy-core to rock."
Sunn O)))	My Wall (track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) "My Wall (track 1)" by "Sunn O)))"	White 1	Southern Lord	This is the heavy-core. The first 10 minutes or so is an intense poem, written and read by Julian Cope, over heavy-core by Sunn O))). The second half of the piece: pure, glorious solo heavy-core.	***
Tia Carrera	(no title) (begun at -14:07, ended by -0:15) (Listen: Pop-up)	Live At Room 710	(unreleased)	Easy tempo, but major, in-the-red distort-o rock, with a definite psych feel. The last few minutes are much calmer.	***
Scientists	We Had Love (CD #2, track 1) (Listen: Pop-up)	Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989	Feel Presents	Almost 5 minutes of great, solid rock.	***
Cosmic Psychos	Lost Cause (CD #2, track 20) (Listen: Pop-up)	Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989	Feel Presents	Heavier, more raw, faster.	***
Comets On Fire	Comets On Fire (track 8) (Listen: Pop-up)	Comets On Fire	Alternative Tentacles	As usual, the fastest in the set comes last.

Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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 5: some gamelan from the court of Yogyakarta. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
played on the Gamelan Kanjeng Kyahi Madu Kentir (The Venerable Madness Of Honey orchestra)	Gending Wasital Asih, pelog nem (excerpt from track 1)	Java: Palais Royal de Yogyakarta 4: La Musique de Concert	Ocora/Radio France	I've selected the most beautiful part, situated roughly in the middle of the piece. It's a rarified, intensely beautiful and celestial part, of a style rarely heard outside the confines of the palace.	***

Mic break between Sets 5 & 6. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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 6: some more jazz I've been listening to, to end the show. (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers	Do You Believe In Love At Sight (track 5) (Listen: Pop-up)	City Of Ghosts soundtrack	United Artists	Easy, syncopated, bouncy - but relaxed about it. A real pleasure.	***
Jackie McLean	Iddy Biddy (track 10) (Listen: Pop-up)	Vertigo	Blue Note	Bit bluesy, bit soul-jazz, very Jackie.
Coleman Hawkins	Riviera Blues (track 5) (Listen: Pop-up)	Dali	Stash	We get to hear both Coleman Hawkins and some hot electric guitar.	***

End of show mic break. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up)
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.

Andrew Listfield: Playlist from August 8, 2003

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