Episode 21

     I haven’t done a three-hour show since September. I’d forgotten both what a luxury being able to stretch out for that long is and how much more preparation a longer show requires. All in all, the extended format was a success. I managed to get to a few long-standing requests and, I hope, to play some music for my friend Jeffrey. I’m really exhausted now, so I won’t write much more. There’ll be information about an upcoming show here soon. Until then, happy holidays, happy new year, etc....

• 12:00–1:00 a.m.:
• Mark Eitzel, “Make Sure They Hear,” Candy Ass, Cooking Vinyl
• Johnny Cash, “Wayfaring Stranger,” American III: Solitary Man, American Recordings
• Ron Sexsmith, “In a Flash,” Whereabouts, Interscope
• Donny Hathaway, “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” Extension of a Man, Atlantic
• Stina Nordenstam, “Get on with Your Life,” The World Is Saved, V2
• Syd Barrett, “Feel/If It’s in You,” The Madcap Laughs, Capitol
• Blonde Redhead, “Misery Is a Butterfly,” Misery Is a Butterfly, 4AD
• Do Make Say Think, “Horns of a Rabbit,” Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn, Constellation
• Brian Eno, “Blank Frank,” Here Come the Warm Jets, EG
• Caetano Veloso, “Alfômega,” Caetano Veloso, Philips
• Freakwater, “Cricket versus Ant,” Thinking of You..., Thrill Jockey
• Wire, “I Feel Mysterious Today,” Chairs Missing, EMI
• Tom Waits, “Frank’s Wild Years,” Swordfishtrombones, Island

• 1:00–2:00 a.m.:
• Rubén Blades, “Creencia,” Tiempos, Sony
• Neil Young, “Out on the Weekend,” Harvest, Reprise
• Chad VanGaalen, “Kill Me in My Sleep,” Infiniheart, Sub Pop
• Yuka Honda, “Liberation #6—Leaving the Memories Behind,” Memories Are My Only Witness, Tzadik
• Scott Walker, “Face on Breast,” Tilt, Drag City
• Animal Collective, “Bees,” Feels, Fat Cat
• The Auteurs, “School,” How I Learned to Love the Bootboys, Virgin
• Lori Carson, “Christmas,” Where It Goes, Restless
• Broadcast, “America’s Boy,” Tender Buttons, Warp
• Kraftwerk, “The Man-Machine,” The Man-Machine, Capitol
• Dead Can Dance, “Ocean,” Dead Can Dance, 4AD
• Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir, “Kalimankou Denkou,” Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Nonesuch

• 2:00–3:00 a.m.:
• Cheikh Lô, “Set,” Né La Thiass, World Circuit
• Akron/Family, “I’ll Be on the Water,” Akron/Family, Young God
• The Russian Futurists, “Why You Gotta Do That Thang?” Our Thickness, Upper Class
• The Decemberists, “On the Bus Mall,” Picaresque, Kill Rock Stars
• Rogue Wave, “You,” Descended like Vultures, Sub Pop
• Mogwai, “R U Still in 2 It?” Young Team, Jetset
• The Flaming Lips, “The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot),” The Soft Bulletin, Warner Brothers
• Pinback, “The Yellow Ones,” Summer in Abaddon, Touch and Go
• A.R.Kane, “Spermwhale Trip Over,” Sixty Nine, One Little Indian
• Red House Painters, “Void,” Old Ramon, Sub Pop