Friday, July 07, 2006

The Lovers' Album of the Week


Nomo New Tones

The Modern World playlist on 7/7/06

  1. The Jam - The Modern World (83)
  2. Clean - Tally Ho! (81)
  3. The Soft Boys - The Queen of Eyes (80)
  4. The Embarressment - Lifespan (83)
  5. Half Japanese - Firecracker (85)
  6. The Cure - Plastic Passion (79)
  7. Young Marble Giants - Credit In The Straight World (79)
  8. Wire - 15th (79)
  9. Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (79)
  10. Alternative TV - Life (79)
  11. The Cure - Fire In Cairo (79)
  12. The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses (82)
  13. Suicide - Keep Your Dreams (77)
  14. Spectrum - Indian Summer (93)
  15. Yo La Tengo - The River of Water (86)
  16. Sonic Youth - Burning Spear (82)
  17. Happy Mondays - Holiday (90)
  18. Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling (82)
  19. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny (83)
  20. The (English) Beat - Ranking Full Stop (83)
  21. The Cure - Killing An Arab (79)
  22. The db's - The Spy In The House Of Love (84)
  23. Heavenly - I Fell In Love Last Night (01)
  24. Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (77)
  25. A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song (82)
  26. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (79)
  27. The Bats - The Law of Things (90)
  28. Honeybunch - Hey Blue Sky (87)
  29. The Smiths - Unloveable (86)
  30. Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind (83)
  31. Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease (89)
  32. Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw (92)
  33. New Order - Dreams Never End - Peel Sessions (81)

bold = Album Feature: The Cure Boys Don't Cry (1979)

Thursday, July 06, 2006

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/6/06

  1. Wanted To Be Your - Spoon from Telephone (reissue)
  2. Puzzles Like You - Mojave 3 from Puzzles Like You
  3. To Get Lost - Carey Ott from Lucid Dream
  4. The Time Of My Ruin - Frank Black from Fast Man Raider Man
  5. Alone On The Sea - Steel Train from Bonnaroo Sweet Sounds Vol. 11
  6. Rats - Sonic Youth from Rather Ripped
  7. Dragonfly - My Brightest Diamond from Bring Me The Workhorse
  8. I Just Came To Tell You That I'm Going - Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco and Karen Elson from Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisted
  9. Love Connection, Pt. II - Parenthtical Girls from Safe As Houses
  10. This Lamb Sells Condos - Final Fantasy from He Poos Clouds
  11. OK-Oyot System - Extra Golden from OK-Oyot System
  12. Coulibaly (Akon Remix) - Amadou et Mariam from Summer Tour EP
  13. Boy From School (Erol Alkan's Extended Mix) - Hot Chip from Boy From School EP
  14. Divisions - Nomo from New Tones
  15. This Month Day 10 - CSS from Cansei de Ser Sexy
  16. Whole World - Aloe Blacc from Shine Through
  17. Power Is On (by request) - The Go! Team from Thunder, Lightning, Strike
  18. La Verdad - Juana Molina from Son
  19. Commuter Anthem - Opsvik & Jennings from Online Exclusive
  20. Sex On Wheelz (by request) - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Cool World (Soundtrack)
  21. C.T.A. - Tortoise from Urban Renewal Program
  22. Our Swords - Band of Horses from Everything All The Time
  23. Party - El Perro Del Mar from El Perro Del Mar
  24. TV On The Radio - TV On The Radio from Return To Cookie Mountain
  25. Topsy Turvey - Shapes and Sizes from Shapes and Sizes
  26. No Man's Land - Sufjan Stevens from The Avalanche

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

HiFidelity playlist on 7/4/06

  1. Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
  2. Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About
  3. The Tyde - Go Ask Your Dad
  4. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Underwater
  5. Flake Music - The Shins
  6. Stephen Malkamus - Fractions and Feelings
  7. Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
  8. The Decemberists - Shiny
  9. Radar Brothers - Sisters
  10. T.W. Walsh - Old Fashioned Way Of Speaking
  11. Pedro the Lion - Never Leave A Job Half Done
  12. Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
  13. Pinetop Seven - The Fear Of Being Found
  14. Summer Hymns - Half Sick Of Shadows
  15. Matt Marque - Unknown Flowers On Your Dress
  16. Jerremy Enigk - Abegail Anne
  17. Rainer Maria - Artifical Light
  18. Portastatic - Oh Come Down
  19. Portastatic - Josephine
  20. Magnetic Fields - Lonely Highway
  21. Camera Obscura - Teenager
  22. The Clientele - Five Day Morning
  23. Sea & Cake - Jacking the Ball
  24. Of Montreal - Tim Wish You Were Born A Girl
  25. All Time Quarterback - Empire State
  26. East River Pipe - Make A Deal With The City
  27. Sufjan Stevens - Niagara Falls Final
  28. Belle and Sebastian - Belle & Sebastian
  29. Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Spin Me Round `86
  30. Spoon- Sister Jack (Piano Demo)

Monday, July 03, 2006

Flow Radio playlist on 7/3/06

  1. Sonny Sharrock - Broken Toys
  2. Autechre - Bike
  3. Cranes - Flute Song
  4. Patrick Phelan - Lesser Laws
  5. Harold Budd/Simon Raymonde/Robin Guthrie/Elizabeth Fraser - Sea, Swallow Me
  6. The Innocence Mission - Bright As Yellow
  7. Windy & Carl - Sketch For Flea
  8. Thievery Corporation - Interlude/Omid (Hope)
  9. King of Woolworths - Bakerloo
  10. Tommy Hools - Doricamente
  11. Jazzanova - Song Of Will
  12. Gabin - Terra Pura
  13. Amina - Hemipode
  14. De Facto - Fingertrap
  15. Third Eye Foundation - What Is It With You
  16. Dead Can Dance - The Writing On My Father's Hand
  17. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
  18. Blow Up Hollywood - Descend
  19. This Mortal Coil - I Am The Cosmos
  20. Flunk - Blue Monday

The Lovers' Albums of the Week - So Far

Here are all the Lovers' picks for Album of the Week since January. Do you see any major mistakes?

  • Cat Power - The Greatest (1/13)
  • Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave and the Bold (1/28)
  • Film School - Film School (2/3)
  • Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2/10)
  • Various Artists - I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey (2/17)
  • Chicago Underground Duo - In Praise Of Shadows (2/24)
  • Various Artists - Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From the Urb'N'Jungle (3/3)
  • Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom (3/10)
  • Various Artists - Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads (3/18)
  • Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2:Movie Scenes (3/24)
  • Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic (3/31)
  • Aki Tsuyuko - Hokane (4/7)
  • Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Woodwind Years (4/21)
  • Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, & Wives EP (4/28)
  • Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought (5/6)
  • Danielson - Ships (5/12)
  • Camera Obscure - Let's Get Out Of This Country (5/19)
  • Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (5/19)
  • Cut Chemist - Garden/Storm (singles) (5/26)
  • Carl Hancock Rux - Good Bread Alley (6/9)
  • Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (6/23)
  • Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (6/30)
  • Sunday, July 02, 2006

    Out On The Side playlist for 7/2/06

    1. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Out On The Side
    2. Love - A House Is Not A Motel
    3. The Red Krayola - Sherlock Holmes
    4. Gary Lewis & the Playboys - I Won't Make That Mistake Again
    5. The Webb Brothers - Some Velvet Morning
    6. Devin Davis - When I Turn Ninety-Nine
    7. T.Rex - Jeepster
    8. Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (live)
    9. Knaughty Knights - I'm Not Trying To Hurt You
    10. Rat Traps - Tennessse Rock'n'Roll
    11. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock and Roll
    12. Secret Service - End of the Night
    13. Half Japanese - Daytona Beach
    14. Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
    15. B.C. Camplight - Couldn't You Tell
    16. The Beach Boys - Let's Go Trippin' (live)
    17. The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
    18. Boris - Electric
    19. Make-Up - Intro: Hold It/Here Comes The Judge
    20. The Velvet Underground - I'm Gonna Move Right In
    21. The Mekons - Lost Highway
    22. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Helpless
    23. Pearls Before Swine - Another Time
    24. Charlie Mcalister - Darla Come Down From Jackson
    25. Thinking Fellers Unnion Local 282 - Hell Rules
    26. Daniel Johnston - Devil Town
    27. Frank Black - Seven Days
    28. Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
    29. Ted Leo - Biomusicology
    30. Sloan - The Good In Everyone
    31. My Bloody Valentine - Paint A Rainbow
    32. Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
    33. Bob Dylan - Wedding Song (Though I should have played the updated version from Megan Reilly)

    WEVL and I: A Week of Subbing

    This week I will be subbing for the following programs:

    Sunday: Out On The Side 8-10pm
    Monday: Flow Radio 6-8pm
    Tuesday: HiFidelity 10pm-Midnight
    Friday: The Modern World 6-8am

    Plus this week, the Memphis Beat will be two hours long.