Allergy to the Fans

A playlist posted on the same day as the show? No - It can’t be… Read it and weep suckers - The playlist for TODAY - February 16th:

Nathaniel Mayer - I Wanna Dance with You
The Cadillacs - Speedo
Ike and Tina Turner - Save the Last Dance for Me
The Moonglows - Chickie Um Bah
Marsha Gee - Peanut Duck
The Schoolboys - Please Say You Want Me
Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters - Money Honey
The Sapphires - Who Do You Love?
The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What’s Going On (In My Mind But Me)
The Chords - Sh-Boom
The Butterflys - Goodnight Baby
The Shirlettes - Boys
The Crystals - There’s No Other Like My Baby
Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Boss Tones - Mope-Itty Mope
The Silhouttes - Get a Job
Vito and The Salutations - Unchained Melody
The Ronettes - I Wonder
The Cinderellas - Baby baby (I Still Love You)
The Elegants - Little Star
The Ikettes - I’m Blue
Dorothy Berry - You’re So Fine
The Blossoms - Good Good Lovin’
Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby
Madelaine Bell - You Don’t Love Me No More
PP Arnold - The First Cut is the Deepest
Darlene Love - Stumble and Fall
Marie Knight - Hey, Tell me Boy
Bran Van 3000 w/ Curtis Mayfield - Astounded
Junior Wells - Snatch It Back and Hold It
James Brown - Goliath

Finally all caught up! Thanks to the Summerlad for playing live this past Friday. Go and support their ‘My Bloody Valentine’ covers show this Valentine’s Day at the Marquee Room at the Uptown Stage (second floor). Proceeds will help the ‘Lads raise some dough for their film project. Cool raffles and otehr surprises. Watch out for Cupid!!!

The list:
Looper - Ballad of Ray Suzuki
The Joggers - Wicked Light Sleeper
Bedhead - Smoke
Julie Ruin - Radical or Pro-Parental
Blonde Redhead - 10
*Live on CJSW - Summerlad with a bunch of My Bloody Valentine covers*
Modest Mouse - Doin’ the Cockroach
Joy Division - Transmission
Nerfherder - Van Halen
The Jam - Mr. Clean
Make-Up - Save Yourself
Jack O’ Fire - No Love Lost
Bellrays - Pay the Cobra
Laughing Hyenas - Hard Time Blues
Bad Wizard - Mean Nite, Tonite
James Kochalka Superstar - Talk to the Wookie
Babe the Blue Ox - Chicken Head Bone Sucker
Neal Pollack Invasion - Never Mind the Pollacks
Shane MacGowan and the Popes - That Woman’s Got Me Drinking
The Barracudas - The KGB Made a Man out of Me
Bare Jr. - You Blew Me Off
The E&Y Company song
Liquor Giants - Medicene Ball Game
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Ghosts

I called my good friend Nick from the Beachcombers to help me with the playlist logjam that has been building up for the past few weeks. I just got to say that Nick sure has a nice boat. He also tells me that the sooner I get this logjam finished, the sooner we can go for some breakfast at Molly’s Reach. Ok Nick, I guess we have got to get going…

Playlist for January 12, 2007
Urge Overkill - Tequilla Sunrise
Wolfcolonel - A Medium Rootbeer
The Kooks - See the World
Built to Spill - TimeTrap
Falconhawk - Olympia
Rabbit Has Brain - Sad Season
Roxy Music - Editions of You
The DTs - The Price of Love
Hot Little Rocket - Down with Safe
Twisted Sister - The Beast
3 Inches of Blood - Destroy the Orcs
Red Hot Lovers - Rock Hammer
Swan Lake - Are You Swimming in Her Pools?
Young and Sexy - The Curious Organ
Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
The Quitters - Levitation
Sean Marchetto (spoken word about Stompin’ Tom) - Long Time Listener, 1st Time Caller
The Sadies - 1000 Cities Falling (Part 1)
Stompin’ Tom - Made in the Shade
Scottie Cut and Paste Project - Bush is a Moron
*Interview with the Rude Pundit*
Parkade - There’s a Logical Break Break Here
You Say Party! We Say Die! - You Did It!
Reverie Sound Revue - Walking Around Waiting Downtown
RX Bandits - A Mouth Full of Hollow Threats

Playlist for January 19, 2007
- *Live at CJSW* -
Martin Fulton Overkill - Get Up; Singed by the Flames of Heaven; Head Smashed In
Fu Manchu - Godzilla
Thrush Hermit - North Dakota
Sue Garner and Rick Brown - Asphalt Road
The Gris Gris - For the Season
Mr T - ?
*Interview with Nick Prueher from Found Footage Film Festival*
The Futureheads - The City is Here for You to Use
MC Noodles - Fan the Flames
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Got My Eye on You
The Jayhawks - What Lead Me to this Town
Neko Case - The Virginian
Robbie Fulks - Let’s Kill Saturday Night
Friends of Dean Martinez - All the Pretty Horses
Nancy Sinatra - Burn the Spark

Playlist for January 26, 2007
The Political Blockheads - Military Moron
Blues Explosion - Damage
Frank Black and the Catholics - If It Takes All Night
Bling Kong - We’ve Got the Bling
Poo Poodles - Here Comes the Future, The Future is Now
The Hidden Cameras - Doot doot
Islands - Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby
Poo Poodles - Bananaman/eggboy
Stretch - Why Did You Do It?
Solesides - Lyric Fatham
The Rogers Sisters - Why Won’t You
Iggy Pop - Repo Man
Big Sandy and his Fy-Rite Boys - Jumping from 6 to 6
BA Johnston - I Will Be a Skid Dad
The Hold Steady - Hot Soft Light
Now It’s Overhead - Meaning to Say
Ladyfinger - Smuggler
Brant Bjork - Automatic Fantastic
The Hoods - Tricky
The Fucking Ocean - Bombs in the Underground
Daniel Lanois - o Marie
Beck - The Information

Playlist for GROUNDHOG DAY!!!! - February 2, 2007
The Sights and Sounds of Football - various sounds from football…
Great Uncle Bull - John the Revelator
Pittsburg Steelers - featuring Franco Harris and Lynn Swann - 1974 season
Boone and Erikson - How the Vikings Football Came to Minnesota
Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew - The Superbowl Shuffle
Walter Payton - Doin’ It Right
Fat Boys - Chillin’ with the Refridgerator
Al Pacino - Peace with Inches
Bongo Billiard - They Call In the Frdge
Flaming Lips - Vein of Stars
Great Lake Swimmers - Various Stages
This Moment in Black History - Parish Skinner
Backbeat - Money
The Head Set - Late for the Show
Deerhoof - Believe ESP
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - Saturday Morning Caveman
The Gris Gris - Everytime
Feathers - Tone Poem
The Klaxons - The Bouncer
Gutterawl - Bismuth
Ghost Stories - The Upper 10/The Lower Five

Ok Nick - let’s go eat!!!!!

My favourite “holiday” of the year is Groundhog Day. The origins seem to date back to the Celts (European not Boston) to celebrate the “special days” between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. During these “special days” animals got special powers (mind reading, talking, etc.) that would freak out most anyone - especially in those early days (5th century, 1976, etc.).

The earliest known North American reference to Groundhog Day can be traced back to Reading, Pennsylvania. According to Wikipedia:

“The reference was made Feb. 4, 1841 in Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania storekeeper James Morris’ diary: “Last Tuesday, the 2nd, was Candlemas day, the day on which, according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks nap, but if the day be cloudy he remains out, as the weather is to be moderate.”

2007!!!
It looks like the likes of Balzac Billy, Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck, Wiarton Willie, Shubenacadie Sam and General Beauregard Lee, Malverne Mel are all predicting an early Spring for 2007. There were two dissenters - Jimmy the Groundhog and Holtsville Hal - that predicted six more weeks of winter.

In 2006, this is how it broke down:
6 more weeks of winter — Dunkirk Dave, Punxsutawney Phil, Buckeye Chuck
Early Spring — Spanish Joe, Wiarton Willie, General Beauregard Lee, Staten Island Chuck, Shubenacadie Sam, Jimmy the Groundhog, Malverne Mel, French Creek Freddie

And in 2005:
6 more weeks of winter — Dunkirk Dave, Punxsutawney Phil, Shubenacadie Sam, Spanish Joe, Octorara Orphie, Malverne Mel
Early Spring — Wiarton Willie, Jimmy the Groundhog, General Beauregard Lee, Balzac Billy, Staten Island Chuck

Whatever happened to Spanish Joe? French Creek Freddie? Man I loved those groundhogs!!
Happy Groundhog Day suckers!!!!