B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ WED., 10 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER (for BUCK CALHOUN SHOW)/ WED., 10 SEPT. 08/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT
Thingamajig/ JOHNNY LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS
Excerpt/ LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Lady is a Tramp/ FRANK SINATRA ('57)
Each and Every One/ EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden)
Shopping/ THE JAM
San Diego Zoo/ THE 6TH’S (’95, feat. Barbara Manning & Stephen Merritt, Wasps’ Nests)
A Place in My Heart/ ORANGE JUICE (’84, Texas Fever)
There She Goes/ THE LA’S (’88, BBC Session w/ Liz Kershaw)
Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85)
Radio/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’93, 13)

All of a Sudden/ XTC (’82, English Settlement)
Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)
Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)
Harmony/ THE CLINIC (’02, Walk With Thee)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter)
Digital/ JOY DIVISION +by request
Happy Nightmare Baby/ OPAL (’87, self titled)

Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)
In the Street (single version)/ BIG STAR (’72)
Shackles & Chains/ SNAKE HIPS (’93, Lit)
Casino Queen/ WILCO (’95, A.M)
Date in Church/ THE ‘MATS (’87)
Faster Pussycat/ BOTWEEDS
Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS (’87, Hoodoo Train)
Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
The Most Exalted Potenate of Love/ THE CRAMPS (’83, live, Smell of a Female)
Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77)
Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY

Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’93)
You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotised)
Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 9 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 9 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
The Good Life/ THE WEEK THAT WAS (’08, self-titled)*
The Beast and Dragon, Adored/ SPOON (’05, Gimme Fiction)
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)/ YO LA TENGO (’95, Electr-O-Pura)
Chains, Chains, Chains/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid)
Can’t Hardly Wait (the “Tim” version)/ REPLACEMENTS (’97, All For Nothing, Nothing For All)
Amphetamine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)

Motorcycle Boy/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled)
Cigarettes, Coffee & Booze/ MINUS 5 (’06, the “Gun” album)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)*
The News About William/ CALEXICO (’08, Carried to Dust)*
Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)
Soon Enough/ THE CONSTANTINES (’05, Tournament of Hearts)
Pineola/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’07 October, NY/ Town Hall, live)

All the Same to You/ LAURA CANTRELL (’02, When the Roses Bloom Again)
Start a War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, The Boxer)
Secret Agent Eyes/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Good Year for the Roses/ ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS (’81, Almost Blue)
Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’93, Unlucky ep)
Witchcraft/ FRANK SINATRA (’57)
Out in the Street/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’65, Greenwich/Barry tune)
Summer Wine/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66, w/ Suzie Jane Hokum)
Virtually Happy/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’95, The Good Things)
Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabaretta)
Don’t Ever Do That Again/ GOLDEN SHOULDERS (’04, Friendship is Deep)

Broken English/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’79, Broken English)
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)
Ballad of Big Nothing/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, Either/Or)
Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ TUES., 2 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER/ HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 2 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2AM
Crescent City/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’92, self titled)
You’re Still on My Mind/ THE BYRDS (’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Don’t Break the Heart/ AMY RIGBY (’96, Diary of a Mod Housewife)
Passenger Side/ WILCO (’95, AM)
Neon Rainbow/ BOX TOPS (’67)
Look For Me I’ll Be Around/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)
Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Dirty Life and Times/ WARREN ZEVON (’03, The Wind)
Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
This Wonderous Day/ PETE MOLINARI (Walking Off the Map)

Drove Up From Pedro/ MIKE WATT (’95, Ball-Hog or Tugboat)
Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
Gin Rummy/ NELLIE McKAY ('07, Obligatory Villagers)
Freeway/ AIMEE MANN (’08, @#%&*! Smilers)*
Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (’08, self titled)

Past Time/ BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1)*
Baba O’Riley/ WACO BROTHERS
Let’s Love/ MATTHEW SWEET (’08, Sunshine Lies)*
About You/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’95, Grand Prix)
Radiation/ APPLES IN STEREO (’07, New Magnetic Wonder)
Gold Day/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s A Wonderful Life)
Perfect Day/ LOU REED ('72, Transformer)
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’04, Abbatoir Blues)
Lowlands Low/ BRYAN FERRY & ANTONY (Rogue’s Gallery)
Let the Bitches Die/ LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION (’08, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge)
Johnny 99/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Withered & Died/ ELVIS COSTELLO (Richard Thompson cover)
*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ TUES., 26 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/"HOT CIRCLES"/TUES., 26 AUG. 08/MIDNIGHT-2 AM
The Other End of the Telescope/ ELVIS COSTELLO & STEVE NIEVE (live in Chicago, 18 May 96)
Cotton/ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (’04, We Shall Be Healed)
Goin’ Down to Acapulco/ JIM JAMES & CALEXICO (’07, I’m Not There st)
We Must Have Been Out Our Minds/ GEORGE JONES (’63, w/ Melba Montgomery)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find/ SUFJAN STEVENS (’04, Seven Swans)
Human Racing/ ST. VINCENT (’07, Marry Me)
All Around the Houses/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’03, Truly She is None Other)

Maryanne With the Shaky Hands/ THE WHO (’67, The Who Sell Out)
Alone Again Or/ CALEXICO (’04, Convict Pool)
Good Friend/ PLANTS & ANIMALS (’08, Parc Avenue)*
Sunlight/ MATTHEW SWEET (’04, Living Things)
Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake/ GRANDADDY (’03, Sumday)
King of Nails/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s a Wonderful Life)

Turn It On/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’93, The Satellite Heart)
Therefore, I Am/ JIM O’ROURKE (’01, Insignificance)
When You Make Up Your Mind/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled, w/ Stephen McCarthy and Bryan Harvey)
Constructive Summer/ THE HOLD STEADY (’08, Stay Positive)*
Torture/ KING KAHN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)
Foggy Notion/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, Velvet Underground, third record)

You’re Welcome/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
Here/ PAVEMENT (’92, Slanted and Enchanted)
Start a War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, Boxer)
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All is Well)
Hefner and Disney/ T-BONE BURNETT (’82, Proof Through the Night)
Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)
From a Window to a Screen/ THE dB’S (’82, Repercussion)

Afternoon Tea/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)

For No Good Reason

Just to show my admiration for performance artist, actress, director and writer Miranda July, who wrote, directed and starred in 2005 film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. Truly no other. Photo from a NY Times, June '05 piece.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 23 AUG. 08

BOY WONDER/ "RADIO ROULETTE" PLAYLIST/ SAT., 23 AUG. 08/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Bar-BQ/ WENDY RENE (’64)
He’s Really Saying Something/ THE VELVELETTES (’64)
Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (‘69)
Return to Gijon/ THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS (’06, 102%)
Be Easy/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS (‘07, 100 Days, 100 Nights)
Mesmerizer/ THE COME-ONS (’01, Hip Check!)
Chatterton/ MICK HARVEY (’95, Intoxicated Man)
Le Roi Des Fourmis/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’07, Between You and Me)
69 Annee Erotique/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69, w/ Jane Birkin)
All Tomorrow’s Parties/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, Velvet Underground w/ Nico)
Some Velvet Morning/ LEE HAZELWOOD & NANCY SINATRA (’68)
Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (Ike Turner cover, ’98, Serial Girlfriend)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’08, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)*
Good Friend/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, Parc Avenue)*
Devil Never Sleeps/ IRON & WINE (’07, Shepherd’s Dog)
The Alibi/ LUNA (’02, Close Cover Before Striking)

Assouf/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
New Hampshire/ SONIC YOUTH (’04, Sonic Nurse)
Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)
I Can See For Miles/ THE WHO (’67, Who Sell Out)
Who’s the Mystery Girls/ NY DOLLS (’74, Too Much Too Soon)
Jeepster/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Buried Alive/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, 45 rpm 7” single)

Pleasure Unit/ THE GORE GORE GIRLS (’07, Get the Gore)
Let’s Kill Ourselves/ THE PONYS (’03, Laced With Romance)
Back Slider/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’93, Extra Width)
Brown Paper Sack/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
Funny Face/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)
All’s Quiet on the Western Front/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Devil Doll/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Obama, Why Langford

Musician, songwriter artist and founding member of the great Leeds band, the Mekons, Jon Langford has threw in his hat into the political ring, so to speak, concerning the upcoming U.S. Presidential elections. Langford's piece originally appeared in the blogsite Largehearted Boy, on 7 Aug. 2008. His essay was part of a series entitled, "Why Obama," from a collection of authors and musicians.

"I never quite worked out how the last eight years happened. So soon after Vietnam my adopted homeland slides back down the rabbit hole, hijacked by mean old rich white zombies full of hate. I remember driving back from O'Hare in October 2001 after the Waco Brothers' stagger-a-bout down under and seeing all the flags taped up in the windows next to Halloween ghouls, vampires & dancing skeletons etc. Weird happenstance collages of doom - ominous shit indeed! Back in the 80s when I was still living in the UK and Reagan & Thatcher ruled the world; there were bombs falling on Libya, Argentinean conscripts sunk deep in the South-Atlantic with lungs full of cold water and the whole pub cheered when Reagan got shot. I still get into fights with hardcore anti-American drunks in Brit-cities who can't believe I came here and settled here (and me a socialist too) but I did and there are reasons.

The explosion of music that took place in this country during the last century swept me up and consumed early on. Not just the punk (though my ears were always pointed this way back in 77) but the whole shebang. In the 80s we (the Mekons) started listening to Country, Cajun, Blues, Zydeco, Western Swing and found what we did as a band was not some year-zero re-invention of any wheel but thankfully just another tiny helpless bio-cog in a huge beautiful organic cultural mechanism that spans the globe but is clearly fueled & sourced somewhere over here in the USA in the confused melding of African and European folk traditions. I have often said I have a love-hate relationship with it (Love George Jones hate George Bush) and I have often been told I should go back to Russia BUT I have seen this place and been treated with great kindness and respect here and am saddened by the hatred this current junta's actions have inspired across the planet. I have American friends living in Europe who have to pretend to be Canadian for f*ck's sake.

Time for a change no doubt and a smart young Black bloke from Chicago as president will suit me just fine. I think we all know what they'll fling at him, what dark forces they'll unleash to bring him down and how hard he'll have to fight to clean up their mess when he's elected but this is historic, symbolic, once in a lifetime stuff. This country has talked a great game about freedom and opportunity over the years and while I have been the willing recipient of much of that promise it shames me to see what's been done in its name by this crowd of zombies and vampires. I've been really happy here, settled and raised a family & I could never have done half the things I do if I'd stayed in the UK so I thank you America, now do yourself a favor, give yourself a present and elect Obama."

-Jon Langford