Allergy to the Fans

I got to spend some time in Vancouver in June attending a radio conference called the NCRC. Hanging with fellow campus and community radio freaks and weirdos is always lots of fun. Saw some great shows too - Stink Mitt is always mental (They bodyslam on their own merch table for goodness sakes!). The Transmitors are great and getting ready to head to Europe for a tour. The Evaporators were brilliant. Nardwuar even busted out a Captain Canada rhinestone suit that few had ever seen before. Nardwuar deserves to get the Order of Canada.

We have a good thing going here on the radio dial. Be sure to support and listen to campus and community radio wherever you go. Ok - Playlist for June 22 - The Playlist that I think lots of my listeners wanted to see (all 5.5 of ‘em):

Jonathan Richman - She Cracked

The Astronauts - Shortnin’ Bread

Jades - Little Girl

Jesters of Newport - Stormy

Visions - Humpty Dumpty

The Bel-Aires - Baggies

The Fireballs - Bulldog

Rising Tides - Take the World as it Comes

The Revels w/ Barbara Adkins - Church Key

The Roemans - Miserlou

Elite - One Potato/Two Potato

Richard and the Young Lions - You Can Make It

The Tropics - You Better Move

The Swinging Machines - Do You Have to Ask?

Arlen Sanders - Hopped Up Mustang

Dick Dale and the Del-Tones - Surf Beat

The Continentals - I’m Gone

The Sabras - La Bamba

The Lively Ones - Surf Rider

The Pygmies - Don’t Monkey with Tarzan

The Trashmen - Surfin’ Bird

The Kinks - Milk Cow Blues

The Seeds - Pushin’ Too Hard

Milt Rogers - Lonely Raod to Damascus

Bananamen - Love Me

Roxy Music - Editions of You

The Nazz - Open Your Eyes

Huey ‘Piano’ Smith - Don’t You Just Know It

Nouvelle Vague - Dancing With Myself

Happy June! In like a wrinkled suit, out like a fresh pressed tuxedo. June 1, 2007 equals:

The Barracudas - Summer Fun

The Maggots - Ain’t Nothing But a Maggot

Dollhouse - Dead Man’s Hand

We Are The Fury - Blue Coat, Black Hair

The Young Gods - C’est Quoi C’est Ga

Gutterawl - Turn Off the Light

Rabbit is a Sphere - Newscasters on Cocaine

Diamond Jim - Little Heartbreaker

Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway

Robbers on High Street - Married Young

The Death of a Party - Weekend

Scuba - Fish with Some Lixxx

The Ladybug Transistor - This Old Chase

Dappled Cities - Work It Out

The National - Apartment Story

Data Rock - Ugly Primadonna

The Saturday Knights - 45

Elkano Browning Cream - Demons and the Bank

Sean One - Gangstah Boogie Outro

Yacht - We’re Always Waiting

Electrolane - Bells

Hightower Smith - Bluffing Sun

Tokyo Police Club - Box

Ben Davis & The Jets - Bouncin’ Party

Taxi Taxi - Empty Handed

Supersuckers - Rubber Biscuit

Fake Problems - How Far Our Bodies Go

Here is the next playlist in May before I took off to pick my nose for a couple of Fridays:

Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun

The Replacements - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out

Chesterfield Kings - Taste of the Same

The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

The Fall Outs - Here I Come

Damn Dirty Ape - I Need It

Gutterawl (LIVE in the CJSW Studios) - Bismuth; Condescending Race; Return of the Rat

JSBX - Bellbottoms

Teenage Head - She Rips My Lips

The Daggers - Can’t Stop Drinking

The Studdogs - Haven’t Started Drinking Yet

Problem Children - Red Dyed Hair?

Stumpy Joe - I Get Drunk

The Cramps - Weekend on Mars

The Purple Toads - Wildtime

Bob Seger Sound System - Heavy Music

The Pink Mountain Tops - Can You Do That Dance?

Girl Trouble - Old Time Religion

The Fall - Shoulder Pads #1

Peaches - Tombstone, Baby

Stereolab - Eye of the Volcano

Gil Scott Heron - Lady Day and John Coltrane

Spoon - Take the Fifth

Catchup time. A playlist from May 4, 2007:

Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Blonde Redhead - Dr. Strangelove

The Ponys - Exile on my Street

Ween - Stroker Ace

The Woggles - Rock and Roll Backlash

Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome - Zombie Song

Panthers - Goblin City

Murder City Devils - I Want A Lot Right Now

Lazy Cowgirls - Just the Last Goodbye

Von Zippers - Bad Generation

Supersuckers - Junk

David Bowie - Hang Onto Yourself

The Wipers - Nothing Left to Lose

The Young Knives - The Decision

The Twilight Singers - Underneath the Waves

Superdrag - Relocate My Satellites

Laura Peek and The Winning Hearts - Stand Right There

Benni Hemm Hemm - Sol A Hey Hola

Gary Wilson - Gary’s in the Park

Tour De Fours - Sheep’s Clothing

Wesley Willis - The Rolling Stones

Jim White - God was Drunk When He Made Me

Iron and Wine - Freedom Hangs Like Heaven

Andre Williams and The Sadies - I Understand (Do You)

The Dying Californian - Half Staff Stomp

UILab - ?

Goldrush - Heaven’s My Destination

Grampa Boy - OD Blues

Friends,

I am sad to say that it has indeed been a long long time since I last posted. Excuses are plenty - got busy, needed a haircut, my leg itched, decided to go away, had to bla bla bla. Well who really cares? The next several posts will catch up us all in the world of ‘Allergy to the Fans’ playlists. Note to the cherry-pickers - Don’t try these lists at home. Only under the trained and watchful eye of a true professional doctor should one attempt to recapture the “magic” of these musical moments.

Read on and be good for #@$% sakes!

- Chad