420, The passing of a talented writer, and speaking out against despotism. Playlist for April 20, 2009

Quite a show today, and many of the songs played tied-in to events that occur around April 20th. Of course, it wouldn't be 4/20 without acknowledging the influence marijuana has on this day, so I played a few stoner songs for the occasion. Ranging from Peter Tosh's reggae classic Legalize It to doom/stoner rock band Sleep's hypnotic Holy Mountain, it was a set that, while incomplete, hopefully got people into a relaxed and lazy groove.

Yesterday, influential writer J.G. Ballard succumbed to prostate cancer, dying at the age of 78. His novel, The Atrocity Exhibition provided the namesake to the Joy Division song, and his works have influenced countless musicians from a wide variety of genres.

Since today was a rainy day, gloomy music was played to reflect the conditions outside. Along with Joy Division, woeful acts My Dying Bride and Katatonia
, two bands I turn to when feeling morose, were given spins on today's program.

The classic punk song Nazi Punks Fuck Off was also played in conjunction with Adolf Hiter's birthday. While some people are still unfortunately influenced by Nazi ideology, Jello Biafra will have none of that, and from it came a great song that exposes nazi punks for the misguided fools they are.

Below is the playlist. Weed songs are in green, sad songs are in white, while Minor Threat songs are in red. It can't be all stoner material, and besides, Minor Threat is one of the most influential bands of the last 30 years, and their mark on the music scene is too large to ignore, even on such an anti-straight-edge day.

The playlist:
1) Jaga Jazzist- Another Day (The Stix)
2) Bat For Lashes- Sleep Alone (Two Suns)
3) False Face- Year of the Benefit of the Doubt (Apple Crisp Compilation)
4) My Dying Bride- The Lies I Sire (For Lies I Sire)
5) Joy Division- Atrocity Exhibition (Closer)
6) Katatonia- We Must Bury You (Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
7) Dharmakasa- Kojo No Tsuki (Between Worlds)
8) Myles Bigelow- Can I Get a Whoa! (Good Life)
9) Peter Tosh- Legalize It (Legalize It)
10) Sublime- Smoke Two Joints (40 oz. to Freedom)
11) Kyuss- Thumb (Blues for the Red Sun)
12) Sleep- Holy Mountain (Sleep's Holy Mountain)
13) Minor Threat- Straight Edge (Minor Threat)
14) Minor Threat- Screaming at a Wall (Minor Threat)
15) Dead Kennedys- Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Plastic Surgery Disasters)
16) Hot Panda- Whale Headed Girl (Volcano...Bloody Volcano)
17) The Lodge- World in Me (That That Devil)