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Vinyl at Barnes and Noble

This is the entire selection of vinyl at our Barnes and Noble. I am stumped as to how to make this worse. Even removing both selections would improve it.

This is the entire selection of vinyl at our Barnes and Noble. I am stumped as to how to make this worse. Even removing both selections would improve it.

Imaginary Soundtracks

RETURN OF THE GRINGO.

All this reggae-styled Italian western needs is a movie.

A show dedicated to movie soundtrack music that never appeared in movies.

We celebrate the fact that soundtrack music, especially Italian horror and western soundtracks, has become a musical genre detached from film.

A dense, lush, funky, orchestral, and creepy mix.

Turn on the projector of your mind and listen here.

BLOOD FEAST.

This one is actually a real movie, not a fake soundtrack. I didn’t play it. But it looks fake.

Astonishing Debuts 1976-1996 / Freaks and Geeks

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Cristy, William, and Baby Chaos identify their favorite stand-out debut albums from 1962 through the present, playing tracks from the greatest first albums released between 1976-1996. All accompanied by astute analysis, personal anecdotes, factual misunderstandings, and a rambunctious toddler. Listen to the first hour here.

They are then joined by Chelsea Bandita and Milkwagon, and help co-host Surfabilly Freakout in a human mash-up called Freaks and Geeks. Surf and rockabilly music old and new, some from places with no beaches whatsoever.

Appetite for Stupidity

This is the best-selling debut album of all time, according to Wikipedia this morning. #2? Boston. Neither made our list. An oversight? On whose part? Ours or the world’s?

Losers

Songs about losers, losing, losing you, for losing, lost losers. Actually a pretty upbeat and punchy mix!

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Tune it in and get happy here. I left a chunk of the previous show on this recording so you can cringe at the awkward transitions that are a part and parcel of community radio. It will be a sad day when commercial professionalism entirely consumes the airwaves.

Country-Ass Music

Like his heroes George Strait and Ketih Whitley, William is unapologetically Country. His songs, while rooted in the present, call to mind simpler times when the back porch was where folks gathered to network. The first track on this show, ‘Trash,’ paints a picture of rural life that speaks to his small town sensibilities. ”This song identifies who I am,” he says. ”It shows character and that’s important where I’m from. You learn to say ‘yes, ma’am’ and ‘no, sir,’ and to open the door for the ladies.”

Download the MP3 straight to your truck.

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Confessions of a Hipster

Confessional Painting by Cristy Scoggins.

Confessional Painting by Cristy Scoggins.

Ska Covers

A fatty! An hour point five of ska bands covering rock songs, soundtrack music, show tunes, Sinatra, heavy metal, and even Nancy Sinatra.

Put on your boots, click, download, and stomp.

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Dub UEFT

Reggaetone and MC Willy G spin two hours of dizzy dub, from Tubby to Fatty, from Scientist to the Meow Meows.

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The setlist is here. The audio is here.

Illness and Doctors

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Songs about doctors, illness, hospitals, disease, dementia, ambulances, and death. Click here and someone will be in to check your hearing shortly.

Clean living.

Clean living.

Tributes

Chuck Berry statue in St. Louis. Photographed by William.

Chuck Berry statue in St. Louis. Photographed by William.

In this hour, Cristy and William spin songs that are full-on tributes to other bands or musicians. We travel through rock, country, folk, full-on worship, winking references, from and to rock royalty and peasantry alike. Not covers, all originals.

Pay homage here.