Episode 30

     If you’ve been paying attention to the playlists over the last several months, you might have noticed that ECI is basically a rock show with occasional R&B, country, dance/electronic or hip-hop tracks thrown in. In part, that’s because my initial idea for the show was for it to be ethereal, gauzy and showgazey. While I’m still more or less committed to that vision, there are times when it seems a bit too confining and doesn’t give me the chance to explore the breadth of things that I like and want to program.
     So this morning’s show was perhaps a sign of things to come. There are so many more pop-oriented things in this show that some of you might wonder whether the same DJ was putting it together. And I was the same person — just showing some different sides. If things keep going the way they are, it won’t be long before you hear George Michael on the show. And that’s not a threat. Think of it as a promise....

• 12:00–1:00 a.m.:
• Soul II Soul, “Feeling Free,” Keep on Movin’, Virgin
• Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Sun Is Shining,” Kaya, Island
• T. Rex, “Planet Queen,” Electric Warrior, Reprise
• Icehouse, “Hey, Little Girl,” Primitive Man, Chrysalis
• Ron Sexsmith, “Several Miles,” Ron Sexsmith, Interscope
• Edith Frost, “My Lover Won’t Call,” It’s a Game, Drag City
• Van Hunt, “Daredevil, Baby,” On the Jungle Floor, Capitol
• Gil Scott-Heron, “The Bottle,” Winter in America, Strata East
• Morcheeba, “Slow Down,” Charango, Reprise
• Lamb, “Fly,” Fear of Fours, Fontana
• EPMD, “So Wat Cha Sayin’,” Unfinished Business, Priority
• The Juan Maclean, “My Time Is Running Out,” Less Than Human, Astralwerks

• 1:00–2:00 a.m.:
• Laurie Anderson, “Smoke Rings,” Home of the Brave (Soundtrack), Warner Brothers
• Tom Waits, “Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song),” Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, A&M
• The Books, “S Is for Evrysing,” The Lemon of Pink, Tomlab
• The Flaming Lips, “Pompeii am Götterdämerung,” At War with the Mystics, Warner Brothers
• Cassandra Wilson, “Strike a Match,” Thunderbird, Blue Note
• John Martyn, “Don’t Want to Know,” Solid Air, Island
• Donald Fagen, “What I Do,” Morph the Cat, Reprise
• Tim Buckley, “Song to the Siren,” Works in Progress, Rhino
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Green Fingers,” A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, Geffen
• Eurythmics, “This City Never Sleeps,” Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), RCA
• Madness, “Coldest Day,” Mad Not Mad, Geffen
• Andy Bey, “River Man,” Shades of Bey, Evidence