Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Episode 41

     I made the announcement on air this morning. After the show whose playlist you see below, there will be only nine more episodes of ECI. I’ll put off giving an explanation until the final blog entry, which you’ll see shortly after 3:00 a.m. on 26 September. What I’m going to do for episode 50 is still up in the air. Right now, there are two possibilities—about which I’ll write more before the final entry—that will more than likely be combined.
     As was the case last week, this episode started in a more straight rock vein than some of you might have grown accustomed to getting from me, but by the end of the hour more standard ECI fare was again on offer. You know the drill: there seemingly can’t be a show without something by an artist on 4AD, Drag City, Arts & Crafts or Matador. While I’ll cop to liking almost everything ever released on 4AD, the Drag City, Arts & Crafts and Matador recurrences are purely coincidental (as are any others you might have noticed).
     There are a few goodies sprinkled throughout the show, thanks to what seems to be my insatiable desire for buying new CDs/clearing off my Amazon Wish List in addition to mining every CD I already own for show-worthy tracks. So keep your virtual ears peeled for tracks from Carla Bozulich and Television Personalities among the new releases and Deep Rumba, the Au Pairs, Edith Frost, Roddy Frame, D’Angelo, Gang of Four and Stevie Wonder among the deep and not-so-deep catalog material. As always, it’s all good stuff. I just hope I can keep finding great things for the next nine weeks. Though with new releases coming from Eric Matthews, Midlake, Lisa Germano, TV on the Radio and several reissues in the pipeline (including a total of six from Depeche Mode and the Cure), I think everything will be fine....

  • 12:00–1:00 a.m.:
  • Medicine, “Miss Drugstore,” Shot Forth Self Living, Def American
  • Liz Phair, “Only Son,” Whitechocolatespaceegg, Matador
  • My Morning Jacket, “It Beats 4 U,” Z, ATO
  • Islands, “If,” Return to the Sea, Equator
  • Dinosaur Jr., “Poledo,” You’re Living All Over Me, Merge
  • The Au Pairs, “Fiasco,” Stepping Out of Line: The Anthology, Castle Music
  • Logh, “Trace Back the Particle Track,” A Sunset Panorama, Hydra Head
  • Sondre Lerche, “Track You Down,” Two Way Monologue, Astralwerks
  • Jason Collett, “Tinsel and Sawdust,” Idols of Exile, Arts and Crafts
  • Roddy Frame, “Big Ben,” Surf, spinART
  • Celebration, “Good Ship,” Celebration, 4AD
  • Deep Rumba, “Negro and Andy Run This Very Night into the Rumba,” Esta Noche en una Rumba, American Clave

  • 1:00–2:00 a.m.:
  • Joe Henry, “Sold,” Tiny Voices, Anti
  • Broken Social Scene, “Guilty Cubicles,” Feel Good Lost, Arts and Crafts
  • Stevie Wonder, “Jesus Children of America,” Innervisions, Motown
  • The Art of Noise, “Who’s Afraid (Of the Art of Noise)?,” Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise, ZTT
  • Malcolm McLaren, “World’s Famous,” Duck Rock, Island
  • Gang of Four, “If I Could Keep It for Myself,” Solid Gold, Warner Brothers
  • Pixies, “The Happening,” Bossanova, 4AD
  • The Flaming Lips, “My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion,” At War with the Mystics, Warner Brothers
  • Prefab Sprout, “Weightless,” Andromeda Heights, Kitchenware
  • The Czars, “Caterpillar,” The Ugly People vs. the Beautiful People, Bella Union
  • Electrelane, “I Keep Losing Heart,” Axes, Too Pure
  • Carla Bozulich, “Steal Away,” Evangelista, Constellation
  • Edith Frost, “Who,” Wonder Wonder, Drag City

  • 2:00–3:00 a.m.:
  • Prince, “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker,” Sign ‘o’ the Times, Warner Brothers
  • Dali’s Car, “The Judgement [sic] Is the Mirror,” The Waking Hour, Beggars Banquet
  • Japan, “Sons of Pioneers,” Oil on Canvas, Virgin
  • The Sugarcubes, “Birthday,” Life’s Too Good, Elektra
  • Mercury Rev, “Diamonds,” The Secret Migration, V2
  • Finley Quaye, “It’s Great When We’re Together,” Maverick a Strike, Epic
  • D’Angelo, “Spanish Joint,” Voodoo, Virgin
  • Paul Weller, “It’s Written in the Stars,” Illumination, Yep Roc
  • Television Personalities, “You Kept Me Waiting Too Long,” My Dark Places, Domino
  • Colin Newman, “2-Sixes,” Commercial Suicide, Crammed
  • Sam Prekop, “The Shadow,” Sam Prekop, Thrill Jockey
  • Cowboy Junkies, “Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis),” The Trinity Session, BMG

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