Playlist for August 24, 2009

A standard episode of the jukebox, but it has a good variety of genres. Or maybe not, the genres in today's program include country, metal, and indie rock. But look at the playlist, there's bound to be something you'd dig :P.

The highlight from today's show is the beastly 21 minute track from Bloody Panda titled Miserere. It's a gargantuan doom track that really crawls under one's skin.

Playlist:
1) Bloody Panda- Miserere (Summon)
2) Panda Bear- I'm Not (Person Pitch)
3) Paper Moon- The Spaces Where Your Paintings Once Hung (Only During Thunderstorms)
4) Lightning Dust- Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Infinite Light)
5) Extra Happy Ghost- Hot Time Sartre in the City (How the Beach Boys Sound to Those With no Feelings)
6) The Smiths- Some Girls are Bigger than Others (The Queen is Dead)
7) Leonard Cohen- Diamonds in the Mine (Songs of Love and Hate)
8) Swans- Blood & Honey (Children of God)
9) Converge- My Unsaid Everything (When Forever Comes Crashing)
10) Coalesce- Wild Ox Moan (Ox)
11) Amelia Curran- Bye Bye Montreal (Hunter-Hunter)
12) Deer Tick- Houston, Texas (Born on Flag Day)
13) Diana Catherine & The Thrusty Tweeters- Come With Me Baby (The Spirit Ranch Sessions)

Kind of Blue turns 50 today! Playlist for August 17, 2009

Another birthday celebration, this one is for 50 years of Miles Davis' seminal jazz recording Kind of Blue, an album that helped launch the career of John Coltrane, and was a cornerstone in the development of modal jazz. Davis himself was responsible for the creation of many sub-genres of jazz, and is arguably the most innovative and influential jazz musician of all time, while Kind of Blue is arguably his best album. Whether Kind of Blue is the best Miles Davis album is eternally open for debate, since he has at least five essential recordings in his discography. But today belongs to Kind of Blue (released on August 17, 1959), and I intend on giving the album more dues that it very much deserves.

Other highlights include new music from Wolf Eyes and Bloody Panda, and my guest Tara, who sat in for training, and requested the wonderful The Paint Movement. They are coming to Phog this September, and Id recommend any Windsorites into jazzy-rock to check it out.


John Coltrane with Miles Davis in the background. Image speaks for itself!

The Playlist (Kind of Blue selections in Blue, what else would they be in)

1) Miles Davis- So What (Kind of Blue)
2) Simon Fisk Trio- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Unless)
3) Kieth Smith Trio- Karumba (Afterthought)
4) Miles Davis- Blue in Green (Kind of Blue)
5) Johnny West- Pre-Prom Plastic Surgery (Creative Nightmares)
6) Wolf Eyes- Free (Moods in Free Time)
7) The Paint Movement- Eternity Seems to Lie Here (Our Eurythmy)
8) Bloody Panda- Grey (Summon)
9) Bauhaus- Dark Entries ("Dark Entries" Single)
10) Miles Davis- Flamenco Sketches (Kind of Blue)

Playlist for August 10, 2009

I'm really procrastinating here, damn. While today's show has no theme, next weeks is the big 50th anniversary of Miles Davis- Kind of Blue. One of the best albums eva! This week had some good albums, among them is Serge Gainsbourg's controversial Histoire De Melody Nelson, a concept album about a middle-aged man obsessing over a young girl after he hits her with his Rolls Royce. Despite the lurid content, the album has stunning string arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier.

Here is the playlist, was pretty good, and it covered many emotional bases.

1) Katatonia- Leaders (The Great Cold Distance)
2) Opeth- April Ethereal (My Arms, Your Hearse)
3) Agalloch- I am the Wooden Doors (The Mantle)
4) Strapping Young Lad- Underneath the Waves (City)
5) Dillinger Escape Plan- Horse Hunter (Ire Works)
6) Serge Gainsbourg- Melody (Histoire De Melody Nelson)
7) Ohbijou- Wildfires (Beacons)
8) The Junction- Pick Your Battles (Another Link in the Chain)
9) Electric Kool-Aid Slideshow- Rare Exotic Vermin (A Tall Luscious Drink of Kool-Aid Flavoured Rock)
10) Little Girls- Youth Tunes (Tamborine)
11) Radiorama- Yeti
12) Scooter- Nessaja (Nessaja single)
13) Frontline Assembly- Gun (Tactical Neural Imprint)

Silliness and Seriousness: Playlist for August 3, 2009

This week's show started off on a very straightforward note, just as any regular Juxtaposition Jukebox episode. Yet, when my good friends Chris Kerr and Chris Genovesi came in to guest on the show, things got very interesting to say the least, and a giggle fit between all of us occurred after one song (you'll have to listen to the show to find out which song it was). Featured on this week's program were sets of experimental music with CJAM music director Chris White's Fortunately Everything Dies project, essential industrial, classic jazz from two Miles Davis proteges and another innovator, two requests from both Chrises from the golden era of hip-hop (or the golden hip-hop era of our childhoods), and a black metal essential.

Here is the playlist:
1) Fortunately Everything Dies- This is the Dream of Eno and Vangelis (Censored)
2) Fortunately Everything Dies- Girls Heart Noisecore (Censored)
3) Scottie's Cut and Paste Project- I Never Get Enough [The Greedy] (S/T)
4) Loop 2.4.3- Zodiac Dust (Zodiac Dust)
5) Throbbing Gristle- Hot on the Heels of Love (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
6) Pigface- The Good, The Bad, and the Druggly (6)
7) Wire & Light- Fading AM Radio Signal (S/T)
8) Eleazar vs John- When You're Built Like That (Pits in the Sandblaster)
9) Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane- Epistrophy (Live at Carnegie Hall)
10) Herbie Hancock- Watermelon Man (Headhunters)
11) Duke Ellington- Warm Valley (Money Jungle)
12) Lost Boyz- Renee (Legal Drug Money)
13) Dead Prez- Hip-Hop (Lets Get Free)
14) Melanie Fiona- Bang Bang (The Bridge)
15) Bathory- Equimanthorn (Under The Sign...The Sign of the Black Mark)
16) Thor- Vancouver Millionaires (Sign of the V)

Coming in two weeks to the Jukebox is the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis- Kind of Blue. I suggest you folks check it out, because it will be a golden jubille worth listening to.