Sunday, March 31, 2024

Sunday AM - Ascending

 
Bob Dylan
Randy Newman
Johnny Cash
Xixa
Richard Thompson
Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry
Tom Waits
Brian Wilson 
The Band
13th Floor Elevators
World Party
Queen
Barry Adamson
John Lennon

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"We sit at the table, with all we have loved 
 We sit at the table with all that we have feared and lost"


RFW

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Sunday AM - Even Slow But Fair Zombies Cry

 
Colin Blunstone
The Zombies
Argent
Three Dog Night
The Galileo 7
The Jam
Buddy Miller
The Beatles
Jon Batiste
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Joe Bonamassa
Bonnie Raitt
Ben Folds Five
Be Bop Deluxe
Todd Rundgren

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"You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The Supreme Court won't do it,
The President and the Congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it,
The sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it,
And I certainly won't do it
That leaves You, You'll have to do it"


RFW

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Transmission 2624 - Kinkish

 

The Kinks
Chartruse
Ray Davies
Temples
Mario Van Peebles
Pussy Riot
Kinski
Primal Scream
The Wylde Tryfles
The Apples In Stereo
Buzzcocks
David Werner


"You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'"


RFW


Thursday, March 21, 2024

Deep Listening Music - Take The L Out Of LOST

 
Ennio Morricone
Thom Yorke
David Sylvian
John Cale
Haruomi Hosono
Colin Stetson
Brian Eno
John Zorn

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"Into numberless reflections"



*The included version of Nico's Frozen Warnings (originally found on her The Marble Index lp produced by John Cale), was performed live in 1995 for the commissioned OST of the rereleased Warhol film Kiss. The band included former VU members Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Cale and featured the haunting vocals of Jimmy Justice.

  RFW

Monday, March 18, 2024

Transmission 2124 - The Cockney Was A Rebel

 
Steve Harley
1951 - 2024

Cockney Rebel

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"Ever thought of dying totally unholy
And can you think of one good reason to remain? "


*My first radio show was called Son Of Rock, Etc. (an early seed of the still running Late Risers Club on WMBR FM). It debuted on WTBS, Cambridge, MA in the Summer of 1976 (I was 20). It was a mixture of the new music just arriving from across the US, the UK, the already vibrant Boston local scene and albums from my library that I loved (everything). I played bands like The Beatles, The Stones, The Monkees, The Stooges, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, The Spiders From Mars and Cockney Rebel. I had earlier read in an article about the latter in the NME that there was a serious rivalry in London between Bowie, Ferry and Steve Harley, so I immediately bought their 1973 debut The Human Menagerie and remain a devotee 51 years later. 

I'm bound to remember you, Steve.

RFW