Pete Radio 015 (fixed)

July 20, 2005

The first of probably too many theme shows. All the songs in this session have parentheses in the title which makes for a somewhat random but oddly mainstream sounding selection. With a couple of exceptions this is about as Radio 2 as I get, though that's no bad thing once in a while. (file was bad - fixed now. Please download again.)

Tracklisting

The Clash - (White Man In The) Hammersmith Palais
Cornershop - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - (When I Was Born For The 7th Time)
Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
The Magnetic Fields - (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy - (69 Love Songs)
Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) - (OK Computer)
Tex Williams - Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - (Gold)
The Cox Family - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - (O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack)
The Divine Comedy - Everybody Knows (Except You) - (A Secret History)
Bal Sagoth - The Dark Liege Of Chaos Is Unleashed At The Ensorcelled Shrine Of A'Zura-Kai (The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire Part II) - (Battle Magic)
Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman
XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
Amp - So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears) - (Tribute to Spacemen 3)
The Beach Boys - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - (Pet Sounds)
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Comments

SM, on July 20 2005 at 21:25, said:

Pete, I've d/led this twice and both times it's stopped at 35 minutes, partway through The Divine Comedy - is it all there ?

Pete Ashton, on July 21 2005 at 04:31, said:

Yup, my bad. I've been checking stuff religiously since the last time I screwed up an upload and the one time I don't bother...

All better now (I hope).

Pete Ashton, on July 21 2005 at 11:33, said:

Shit, I completely forgot to thank Dave Shelton for suggesting a load of bracketted songs for this show back when I first had the idea. Thanks Dave!

Dave Shelton, on July 21 2005 at 17:41, said:

You're very welcome.

Oh, and I just ordered a microphone, you'll be happy to hear.

mooncat, on July 22 2005 at 07:48, said:

didn't the sgt rock 7" come with a fold out Hunt Emerson sgt rock cartoon?

i think it was him - memory is... a shattered cup

Dave Shelton, on July 22 2005 at 09:09, said:

Bizarrely, when I searched for tracks with a ! on iTunes I got exactly the same number of matches (68) as you. More than half of these, though, were tracks on Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello (plus its bonus disc) and quite a few of the others also had the ! in the album title rather than the song name.

F*!#In' Up, by Neil Young would be good though.

Pete Ashton, on July 22 2005 at 09:20, said:

Hmm, not sure about the Neil Young. I'm thinking more of songs that end with an exclaimation so I can read them out as such.

SM, on July 22 2005 at 15:35, said:

Isn't there a band whose name is three exclamation marks ?

Pete Ashton, on July 22 2005 at 16:54, said:

Yes there is though you can't google "!!!".

Almost as good as the band "+/-".

Actually, I do wonder when a band is thinking of a name whether they check Google. I seem to be seeing a lot more unique words cropping up. I doubt "The The" would cut the mustard these days.

Garen, on July 25 2005 at 18:10, said:

Yes, Pete, we did this in the last band I was in (last summer). Our head-honcho really liked the name 'Soma" (you know, Brave New World) but I dashed his hopes of uniqueness after a quick Google search...

mooncat, on July 25 2005 at 23:23, said:

had a devil of a time finding info on a band called 'we' who did an excellent album called 'as is'

even harder to locate anything on ebay