Playlist for March 1, 2010

Miles Davis- Shhh/Peaceful
Ralf Buschmeyer- Wojo
Elizabeth Shepherd- Heavy Falls the Night
Shrinebuilder- Blind for All to See
High on Fire- Frost Hammer
Fear Factory- Designing the Enemy
Owen Pallett- Red Sun No. 5
Yukon Blonde- Kumiko Song
Eluvium- The Motion Makes Me Last
Yazoo- Bad Connection
Depeche Mode-In Chains

Playlist for February 15, 2010

Check it out on www.cjam.ca if you like. Found in the archives of the program's file.

1) Alex Cuba- Directo
2) Pablo Borges- De Noite
3) Meera- Fagun Ke Din Char
4) Price- Destiny
5) The Slow Prisoners- Carbalick Acid Bag
6) Louis Armstrong- I've Got the World on a String
7) John Coltrane- Cousin Mary
8) Ravi Coltrane- When You Dream
9) Animal Collective- On a Highway
10) Johnny West- It's Only a Chocolate Cigarette
11) Johnny West- We'll Cross That Bridge When We Burn it
12) Asobi Seksu- Blind Little Rain
13) This Mortal Coil- I Must Have Been Blind
14) Dinosaur Jr.- Imagination Blind

Playlist for February 8, 2010

1) Can- Pinch
2) Trans Am- Koln
3) The Paperbacks- Slow Learners
4) Blessure Grave- Changes in the Darkness*
5) Christianne- Une Chanson Pour Che
6) James Gordon- Forbidden Lake
7) Christelle feat. Dizzy D- Crush on You^
8) Louder than Love- Dark Days
9) Acid Bath- Jezebel
10) Christian D & the Hangovers- Vampire Rocker
11) Ruth Minnikin & Her Bandwagon- Sleeping & Dreaming
12) Haunted Hearts- I Thought My Name Was Dark Clouds
13) Ramblin Dawgs- Head Case
14) We are the Willows- A Collection of Sounds
15) Dead Can Dance- Ullyses

*Check them out if you are a fan of Bauhaus, Killing Joke, The Cure, Sol Invictus, etc.
^ one of the worst songs I have ever heard, it's unforgivably bad.

Playlist for February 1, 2010

Back by popular demand (meaning three people asking what happened to this blog), I am once again posting playlists, after a two month absence, from what was another two month absence before that. This one will be more stripped down than others. Song title and artist only. If you like what is listed, go to www.cjam.ca, go to the program guide, and download the archived show.

1) Massive Attack- Pray for Rain
2) Massive Attack- Group Four
3) Isaac Hayes- Baby I'm-A want You
4) Eyehategod- My Name is God (I Hate You)
5) Crowbar- I Feel the Burning Sun
6) Manu Malik- Free Drinks
7) 31Knots- A Void Employs a Kiss
8) Ori Dagan- I Wish I Were in Love Again
9) Eric St. Laurent- I Will Follow You
10) Ernesto Cervini Quartet- On Being Grand
11) Thelonious Monk- Monk's Dream
12) Ranee Lee- I Just Found Out About Love
13) Ride- Decay
14) Harvey Milk- Jim's Polish

Playlist for November 2, 2009

Wow, I am actually posting it a day after the show, fastest post since the summer!

Today's show was one I am very pleased with, has a nice variety, and many great artists with very different sounds are crammed within 90 minutes. My favourite part is the juxtaposition between Gogol Bordello and This Mortal Coil, which really embodies what I aimed to create with this program.

1) Om- Thebes (God is Good)
2) Ensemble Plolaris- Klosterjungfurun (Vikings on Vacation)
3) Satomi Sakei- Matsuri No Taiko (Japanese Koto Music)
4) Nudge- Harmo (As Good As Gone)
5) Gogol Bordello- American Wedding (Live From Axis Mundi)
6) This Mortal Coil- Another Day (It'll End in Tears)
7) Tegan and Sara- The Ocean (Sainthood)
8) Language Arts- Where Were You in the Wild (Where Were You in the Wild)
9) We Are Wolves- Dreams (Invisible Violence)
10) The Slits- Reject (Trapped Animal)
11) Throbbing Gristle- Convincing People (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
12) Air- So Light is Her Footfall (Love 2)
13) More or Les & Fresh- Crossbow (The Les Kills EP)
14) A Tribe Called Quest- Steve Biko [Stir it Up] (Midnight Marauders)

Happy Halloween! Playlist for October 26, 2009

So, I have been absent from posting for the past few weeks. I have no real excuses, just been lazy and swamped at the same time. But the celebration of Halloween, the best holiday (it is a holiday for me!) of the year is the perfect time to come back.

Today's show was a celebration of all things horror, and horror-themed punk, metal, and soundtracks. Genres will be colour-coded, punk/psychobilly selections are in red, metal selections are in green, and soundtracks are in yellow. Psychobilly selections came from the great Zombie Night in Canada compilation, a fine selection of Canadian rockabilly and psychobilly bands.

1) The Howling Hound Dogs- Cat by the Tail (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
2) Krazy 8s- Phantom car (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
3) Zombie Riot- Pet Cemetary (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
4) The Meathookers- Dodging Bullets (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
5) The Devil's Hotrod- Baby, if you Leave Me (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
6) The Weirdies- Knife Fight at the Planetarium (The Weirdies in 3D)
7) Vampires of Dartmoore- Die Folter Kammer des Dr. Sex/The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sex (Dracula's Music Cabinet)
8) Deadguy- Horror Business [Misfits cover] (Misfits Truibute Album)
9) Nekromantix- Panic at the Morgue (Life is a Grave...and I Dig it)
10) Entombed- Evilyn (Clandestine)
11) Lord Gore- The Forgotten Flesh (The Autophagus Orgy)
12) Hooded Menace- The Eyeless Horde (Fulfill the Curse)
13) Electric Wizard- I, the Witchfinder (Dopethrone)
14) Anton Garcia Abril- Tombs of the Blind Dead Theme (Tombs of the Blind Dead)
15) Angelo Badalamenti- Laura Palmer's Theme (Twin Peaks Soundtrack)
16) Goblin- Death Dies (Profondo Rosso Soundtrack)

And what would Halloween be without horror movies. Below are some badass trailers for films that are required horror viewing.

Playlist for September 7, 2009

I'll be upfront first and say that for those who loyally read this blog (are there any?) that playlist posts will come on Thursday. School is going to be quite busy this year, and I have quite the juggling act ahead of me. Sorry for the discrepancies between air date and playlist posting. This week's show was a solid one though, especially if you are into experimental music. Highlight comes from the underappreciated Flying Saucer Attack, whose self-titled album is one of the best space rock/psychedelic influenced rock albums from the 90s. It's very soothing and overly dreamy. Listen to the whole thing if you never heard it, it's a masterpiece!


A great album!

I also highly recommend Virt's 8-bit Nintendo remix of Freddie Freeloader. A great jazz tune gets a stunning re-interpretation. And speaking of great jazz, the legendary Alice Coltrane shows up this week! Plus, Battles vocalist Tyondai Braxton has a solid new solo album out, hopefully the new Battles album will follow suit.

Here is the playlist:
1) Virt- Freddie Freeloader (Kind of Bloop: 8-bit Remixes of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue)
2) Fortunately Everything Dies- I Don't Wear White Jeans (Censored)
3) Skinny Puppy- Hospital Waste (VIVISectVI)
4) Nadja- Absorbed in You (The Bungled and the Botched)
5) Flying Saucer Attack- The Season is Ours (S/T)
6) Tyondai Braxton- Opening Bell (Central Market)
7) Alice Coltrane- Walk With Me (Translinear Light)
8) Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq- Task Sharing (Where is Pannonica)

Playlist for August 31, 2009

A standard program, with music to dance to, music to weep to, music for a revolution, or music for a daydream.

1) Black Mold- Toxic Lake (Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz)
2) Dancehall Free For All- 9-5 Lives (9-5 Lives)
3) Kids on TV- Still on About Kieth Cole (Shape Shifting Mutants)
4) Major Lazer- When you Hear the Baseline (Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do)
5) KMFDM- Light (Angst)
6) Coil- Blood From the Air (Horse Rotovator)
7) Silk Flowers- Night Shades (S/T)
8) Helado Negro- Santero (Awe Owe)
9) Voivod- A Room With A V.U. (Infiniti)
10) Augury- Brimstone Landscapes (Fragmentary Evidence)
11) Anaal Nathrakh- I am the Wrath of God and the Desolation of the Earth (In the Constellation of the Black Widow)
12) Comets on Fire- The Antlers of the Midnight Sun (Blue Cathedral)
13) Cocteau Twins- Pitch the Baby (Heaven or Las Vegas)
14) Neu!- Fur Immer (Neu! 2)

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.

Playlist for July 27, 2009

No theme for this week's program as well. Though some songs were played in order to tie-in with current events. Kraftwerk's "Tour De France" was played in conjunction with the Tour De France race held this month, where, for the fourth year in a row, a Spaniard wins (Alberto Contador to be specific, who also won the 2007 Tour De France). Similarly, Depeche Mode's "Clean" was played in conjunction with seeing them live in Toronto on the 24th of July. The show was spectacular, as expected, but driving in and out of Toronto was an ordeal. If I ever were to live there, I'd rely on public transit.

The playlist:
1) Viosac- January 1991 (You are Planning to Enjoy the Apocalypse)
2) Stravinsky- Song of the Nightingale (The Nightingale)
3) Amon Tobin- Mee The Reapers (inFAMOUS Soundtrack)
4) Tchaikovsky- Le Prologue: Scene Dansante (Sleeping Beauty)
5) Kraftwerk- Tour De France (Tour De France Soundtracks)
6) Fritz Helder & The Phantoms- All Over the Place (Greatest Hits)
7) Le Bus- Atom Love (Fission, Friction, Frequency)
8) Thavius Black- Absinthe (Urban Subsonic)
9) Depeche Mode- Clean (Violator)
10) Alcest- Sur L'Autre Rive Je T'Attenrai (Souvenirs De Autre Monde)
11) Slowdive- Slowdive (Blue Day Singles Collection)
12) Tortoise- Minors (Beacons of Ancestorship)
13) Dark Mean- China (Frankencottage)

Playlist for July 20, 2009

Just a regular show today, though a juxtaposition was given to Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Blackstar. Mos Def's new album The Ecstatic was recently released, and it is his best one since Black on Both Sides. Thus, I decided to compare and contrast the music of Mos Def and Talib Kweli solo, with them working together on Blackstar.

The playlist:
1) Acid Mothers Temple- Eleking the Clay (Lord Vishnu of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir)
2) Francois Couture- Metro (Tape Speed Ins./Sec.)
3) Dynamo Coleoptera- Megagurushi Uta (S/T)
4) Megilla Funk Conduit- Notorious B.A.G.* (New Set New Sound)
5) Inspectah Deck- The Uncontrolled Substance (The Uncontrolled Substance)
6) Mos Def- Auditorium [feat Slick Rick] (The Ecstatic)
7) Talib Kweli- Around my Way [feat. John Legend] (The Beautiful Struggle)
8) Blackstar- Astronomy (Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar)
9) Obituary- Fields of Pain (Darkest Day)
10) Fuck the Facts- Secret Asian (Collection of Splits 2002-2004)
11) Iron Maiden- Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Flight 666)

* B.A.G. stands for Big Ass Gorilla, I found that quite amusing.

Hanging with my friend Chris: Playlist for July 13, 2009

Wow, I am really late with this post. And I really have no excuse, I've merely been a slacker. I will try my best to get posting sooner (does anyone even read this blog?)

On the July 13th show, my good buddy Chris Kerr sat in with me and chose some of the songs, his selections will be highlighted in blue. Now on to the playlist:

1) Sunn O)))- Alice (Monoliths and Dimensions)
2) Electric Wizard- Return Trip (Come My Fanatics)
3) The Peace Leaches- The Party (ROYGBIV)
4) Citywide Vacuum- Sweet Kraut (Pact)
5) Kraftwerk- Tour De France Etape 3 (Tour De France Soundtracks)
6) Black Dice- Kokomo (Load Blown)
7) Broadcast- I Found the F (Tender Buttons)
8) Front 242- Felines (Front by Front)
9) Do Make Say Think- You, You're Awesome (You, You're a History of Rust)
10) This Quiet Army- Death of a Sailor (Unconquered)
11) Elfin Saddle- Running Sheep (Ringing for the Begin Again)
11) Portishead- Silence (Third)

Phog Phest: Playlist for June 6, 2009

I'm sure everyone know about the Phog Lounge winning CBC Radio 3's Best Live Venue award, and the performances to celebrate the honour. If not, I'll just tell you that this Saturday July 11, 2009 is going to be one for the ages, so checking it out will definitely be worth the while.

The playlist is below, and the acts playing at Phog Phest are highlighted in red.

1) Can- Halleluhwah (Tago Mago)
2) Orphan Choir- Everything in Past Tense (ST)
3) What Seas What Shores- Bonaparte (ST)
4) Sigur Ros- O Friour (Saeglopur)
5) Beef Terminal- No Robbers, No Kidnappings, No Fires, No Floods (Anger Do Not Enter)
6) Actors and Actresses- Dig to China (Arrows)
7) Square Root of Margaret- Hollywood Will Find a Way (Telegram Photeur)
8) Julian Marley- Oh Girl [feat. Mr. Cheeks] (Awake)
9) Ziggy Marley- I Love You Too (Family Time)
10) D.A.F.- Der Mussolini (Alles Ist Gut)
11) Bibio- Haikuesque [when she laughs] (Ambivalence Avenue)
12) Laibach- Get Back (Let it Be)
13) Holy Fuck- Chopper (EP)

Playlist for June 29, 2009

No theme again, but there are things worth talking about, and this week's program had a nice variety of soothing, heavy, and chilling music. Highlights include the Meiko Kaji double-bill, featuring the main themes to two of her most popular films, the notorious woman-in-prison film Female Prisoner 701, and Lady Snowblood, a film that perhaps had the highest level of influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Meiko Kaji was an accomplished pop singer and was the most popular actress in Japanese revenge/exploitation films during the 1970s. Kaji may have not been the most accomplished actress from a technical standpoint, but like Clint Eastwood, she had a presence, and her stoic eyes could communicate more than words often could.



Below is the playlist, which also features a hilarious new rendition of Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm," with a very funky Sly Stone feel to it that fits perfectly with the lyrical content of the song.

1) Al Di Meola- Flight Over Rio (Elegant Gypsy)
2) Mr. Something Something- Only the Maker (Shine Your Face)
3) Bomba- Y Tu Que Te Pensabas (Cuatro Caminos)
4) Toronto Tabala Ensemble- Tongue Twister Two (Second Palla)
5) Meiko Kaji- Urami Bushi (Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion Soundtrack)
6) Meiko Kaji- The Flower of Carnage (Lady Snowblood Soundtrack)
7) Spinal Tap- [Funky] Sex Farm (Back From the Dead)
8) Halford- God, Bringer of Death (Resurrection Remastered)
9) 1349- Maggot Fetus (Revelations of the Black Flame)
10) Nameless Grave- King of all Scum (13 Songs from the Grave)
11) Meshuggah- Concatenation (Chaosphere)
12) Dinosaur Jr.- Ocean in the Way (Farm)
13) Sonic Youth- Posion Arrow (The Eternal)
14) Coeur De Pirate- Berceuse (ST)
15) Pigface- KMFPF (6)
16) Tiga- Mind Dimension (Ciao)

The Return of Coalesce and other goodies

The return of Coalesce wasn't a theme per se, but today's program opened with two songs off of their stunning new album Ox, their first one since 1999s 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening. Coalesce, along with Converge and Botch, are the what I consider to be the three most important hardcore bands to come from the late 1990s/early 2000s and influence countless pale imitators. Another minor theme in today's program was Elliott Smith, for his music was featured in the form of Nadja's cover of "Needle in the Hay," and from Elliott Smith himself with "Ballad of Big Nothing." Overall, I was rather pleased with today's program, and I think it turned out to be among my best. Stream it from cjam.ca if you get the chance.

The playlist:
1) Coalesce- The Plot Against My Love (Ox)
2) Coalesce- In My Wake, For My Own (Ox)
3) Lithica- Retaliation on Heaven (Invokation of Satan Within)
4) Nadja- Needle in the Hay [Elliott Smith Cover] (When I see the Sun Always Shines on TV)
5) Entombed- Living Dead (Clandestine)
6) Field Assembly- Out of the Arms (Broadshades & Ephemera)
7) Nick Drake- River Man (Five Leaves Left)
8) Elliott Smith- Ballad of Big Nothing (Either/Or)
9) Luxury Pond- Caving In (S/T)
10) The Peace Leeches- Safe Sex (Roygbiv)
11) Tangerine Dream- Betrayal (Sorcerer Original Soundtrack)
12) Black Dice- Nite Creme (Repo)
13) Drumbo- Take me Higher (Def3 & Factor)
14) Plex- Better Days (Brainstorm)
15) Slakah- Enjoy Ya Self V2
16) A Tribe Called Quest- Butter (The Low-End Theory)

25 years of From Her To Eternity. Playlist for June 15, 2009

Like last week's celebration for Unknown Pleasures, this week's program marks the 25th anniversary of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds debut album From Her to Eternity. Rising from the ashes of Nick Cave's previous band, The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds have been one of the most consistently great bands of the last three decades, with Nick Cave ranking among the highest of songwriters.

While Nick Cave is the only remaining member from the From Her to Eternity line-up, core Bad Seeds members Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld (who also fronts legendary German experimental band Einsturzende Neubauten) are present on guitars, while Cave's early muse Anita Lane co-wrote the lyrics to the title track.

Apart from Nick Cave, this week's program featured new music from the long-awaited new Toritoise album, Beacons of Ancestorship, along with classic cuts from Berlin's Einsturzende Neubauten and Atari Teenage Riot. I will also mention Montreal's Pawa Up First, an experimental rock act with influences ranging from Ennio Morricone, Jaga Jazzist, Wu-Tang Clan, Fugazi, and Miles Davis. When I saw all those influences listed on their myspace page, I got really excited, and the song played was stunning. Imagine someone rapping over Tortoise or Don Caballero, and that's what Pawa Up First's "In a Hurry to Nowhere" sounded like.

This is the url to their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/pawaupfirst. Check it out!

The playlist:
1) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Cabin Fever (From Her to Eternity)
2) Caledonia- We Are America (We Are America)
3) Flowers of Hell- Forest of Noise (Come Hell or High Water)
4) Flogging Molly- Paddy's Lament (Float)
5) Pawa Up First- In a Hurry to Nowhere (The Outcome)
6) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- From Her to Eternity [Wings of Desire version] (From Her to Eternity)
7) Einsturzende Neubauten- Vanadium-I-Ching (Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.)
8) Bethlehem- Veheiking Du Krone Des Todeskultes (Dictius te Necare)
9) Atari Teenage Riot- Destroy 2000 Years of Culture (The Future of War)
10) Fancy- Chinese Eyes (Get Your Kicks)
11) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- The Moon is in the Gutter (From Her to Eternity)
12) Boo Hoo- Married to the World (Don't Die)
13) Tortoise- The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One (Beacons of Ancestorship)
14) Kara Kieth- Monsters (Visions Fugitives)
15) Mike Evin- Good Watermelon (Good Watermelon)

From 1984 to 1990, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds primarily operated out of West Berlin. As expats in the city, this convieniently allowed them to appear in Wim Wenders wonderful 1987 film Wings of Desire. Below is the clip from the aforementioned film, where the band performs 'The Carny' (from their 1986 album Your Funeral, My Trial) and the title track to the album celebrated.

30 Years of Unknown Pleasures: Playlist for June 8, 2009

It's been 30 years since this masterwork was released from one of the most influential bands to come out since the origins of punk. To celebrate, I played 5 of the 9 songs from the album and interspersed them throughout the show. A 30th anniversary celebration for Closer will come next year, because both albums are worth dedicating much attention to, and I believe modern music would not sound like what it is today without Joy Division.

Today I also showcased from songs from the 'Best of Revolution Rock compilation' in the on-air studio. Dave from Revolution Rock filled-in for me a couple weeks ago and did an outstanding job. Revolution Rock airs every Tuesday morning from 10:30-12:00 PM below is his blog, check both the blog and the show out, it's worth your while.

http://revrock.blogspot.com/

Here is the playlist (Joy Division in white, Revolution Rock selections in blue)

1) Joy Division- Disorder (Unknown Pleasures)
2) Public Image Limited- Public Image (First Issue)
3) 49th Parallel- Citizen Freak (Citizen Freak/She Says)
4) Dry Heaves- Portable (Shoot Yourself 7'' EP)
5) Buzzcocks- What Do I Get? (Another Music in a Different Kitchen)
6) Elephant Stone- Bombs Bomb Away (The Seven Seas)
7) Maybe Smith- Crimes and Diplomacy (Another Murder in the Morning)
8) Joy Division- Insight (Unknown Pleasures)
9) Isis- Stone to Wake a Serpent (Wavering Radiant)
10) Pelican- Spaceship Down, Parts Needed (City of Echoes)
11) Brutal Truth- Daydreamer (Evolution Through Revolution)
12) Agoraphobic Nosebleed- Trauma Queen (Agorapocalypse)
13) Joy Division- New Dawn Fades (Unknown Pleasures)
14) Heaven & Hell- Neverwhere (The Devil You Know)
15) Sultans of String- Auyuittuq Sunrise (Yalla Yalla)
16) Ache Brasil- Paranaue (Ecos Do Mangue)
17) Joy Division- Shadowplay (Unknown Pleasures)
18) Joy Division- Interzone (Unknown Pleasures)

Tune-in Next week for 25 years of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- From Her to Eternity. It shall be Caverific!

Other tenative anniversary shows coming in this year include:
50th anniversary of Miles Davis- Kind of Blue (August)
25th anniversary of Cocteau Twins- Treasure (October)
20th anniversary of Ministry- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (November)