Wednesday, March 4, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ TUES., 3 MARCH 09


LOS ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE/ BOY WONDER/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT
Esoteric/ JACKIE McLEAN (’63, Destination Out)

On the Bones of the Homegoing Thunder/ ALEX CLINE (09, Continuation)*
Not Sa No Sa/ NELS CLINE (’06, New Monastery)

The Only Tune (Cycle)/ NICO MUHLY (’08, Mothertongue)

Shake That Devil/ ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS (’09, Another World, ep)*

Exposure/ ROBERT FRIPP (w/ Terri Roche, vocals, ’79, Exposure)
Rafael/ COCOROSIE (’07, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
Alice/ TOM WAITS (’02, Alice)
Feeling Good/ MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND (’09, Dark Was the Night)*
Dounia/ ROKIO TRAORÉ (’08, Tchamantche)
Concion de Orteo/ LOS ZAFIROS (’99, Bossa Cubana)

Fez – Being Born/ U2 (’09, No Line on the Horizon)*
Vengeance/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Under the Waves/ PSEUDOSIX ('07, self titled)
Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON (’06, I’m Your Man)
Every Path/ ALELA DIANE (’09, To Be Still)*
*new or recent release

Saturday, February 28, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 28 FEB. 09


JULIE CHRISTIE the rumors are true! Ms. Christie loves the Boy Wonder with a cup of tea in the evening.
THE BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Baby, I Love You/ ERMA FRANKLIN (’68)
He’s Really Sayin’ Something/ THE VELVELETTES (’68)
I Hate to See You Go/ LITTLE WALTER (’55)
Pass You By/ GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS (’96, Revival)
Rock On/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)
Shake Your Hips/ SLIM HARPO (‘66)
Heartbroken, In Disrepair/ DAN AUERBACH (’09, Keep It Hid)*
Raw-Hide/ LINK WRAY (’59)
Mystery Plane/ THE CRAMPS (’80, Songs the Lord Taught Us)
Underdog/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

You Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It)/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotised)
LiLi/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)
Girl With a Cantelope Girlfriend/ THE THREE O’CLOCK (’83, Sixteen Tambourines)
Dancing the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77)
Therefore, I Am/ JIM O’ROURKE (’01, Insignificance)
Top of the World/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)
That’s Not My Name/ THE TINGS TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)

OMMD2/ OF MONTREAL (’05, Sunlandic Twins)
52 Girls/ B-52’S (’79)
Don’t You Worry/ NECO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Summer Wine/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’69)
I Think I Love You/ THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (’70)
Burro/ BECK (’96, Odelay)
The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain)
So You Wanna Be a Rock n’ Roll Star/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’79, Wave)

Ah-So/ 5,6,7,8’S (’93, Can’t Help It)
Mensa’s Marauders/ SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’09, Communion)*
Codename Potato/ THE KIWIS (’09, We’ve Got the Murder Weapon)*
Box Elder/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’99)
Autonomy/ THE BUZZCOCKS (‘78)


In the Engine Room/ MIKE WATT ('97, Contemplating the Engine Room)
*new or recent release

Saturday, February 21, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 21 FEB. 09



BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Gravity of Levity/ LILA NELSON ('08, Letter Home)
Shake Yourself Loose/ T-BONE BURNETT (’86, self titled)
I Was Young When I Left Home/ ANTONY & BRYCE DESSNER (’09, Dark Was the Night)*
Cursed Sleep (live, Edinburgh, ’08)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’09, Is It the Sea?)*
The Next Time You Say Forever/ NEKO CASE (’09, Middle Cyclone)*
Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

Further On Up the Road/ JOHNNY CASH (’06, American V: A Hundred Highways)
Rock Me/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE (’41)
Wonder Chairman/ DON CAVELLI (’08, Cryland)
Imidiwan Winakalin/ TINARIWEN (’07, Aman Iman)
Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis)/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’09, Dark Was the Night)*

Into the Mystic/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’69)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’08, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)
The Prowl/ DAN AUERBACH (’09, Keep It Hid)*
Way Down in the Hole (Waits)/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95, Gambling Days Are Over)
Le Roi Des Fourmis/ FABIENNE DELSOL (’07, Between You and Me)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALADIN ('88, Copy Cats)
Run Boy Run/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’63)
Burning House of Love/ X (’98, Unclogged)
Kingdom of Love/ SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
Son of a Gun (BBC, ’88)/ THE LA’S (’06, BBC in Session)
David Watts/ THE KINKS (’66, Something Else)

She’s a Mindbender/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
Let’s Kill Ourselves/ THE PONYS (’03, Laced With Romance)
Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination)
Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons)
Do Anything You Want to Do/ EDDIE & THE HOT RODS (’77)
Color Me Impressed/ THE REPLACEMENTS ('83, Hootenany)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 14 FEB. 09


Ah, Love Is in the Cigarette-Filled Air! Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, together again.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM/ ST. VALENTINE'S SPECIAL
Cucurrucu Paloma/ CAETONO VELOSO (’02, Talk to Her, ost)
I Fall in Love in Too Easily/ CHET BAKER (’52)
Corcovado (live, NYC)/ ASTRID & JOAO GILBERTO & STAN GETZ ('64)
Paris Match/ STYLE COUNCIL (w/ Traci Thorn, ’84, CafĂ© Bleu)
Dime Cuando/ ELY GUERRA (’00, Amores Perros, ost)
Je T’aime Moi Non Plus/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (w/ Jane Birkin, ‘69)
There’s No Other Like My Baby/ THE CRYSTALS ('61)
Sunshine of My Love (live)/ ELLA FITZGERALD (’68)
Nothing But a Heartache/ THE FLIRTATIONS (’67)

I Still Want to Be Your Baby/ BETTYE LAVETTE (w/ Drive-By Truckers, ’07, Scene of the Crime)
Save It/ SOLOMON BURKE (’68)
Try Love/ DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Love Letters/ DEX ROMWEBER DUO (w/ Chan Marshall, ’09, Ruins of Berlin)*
Oldest Story in the World/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere at Once)
You Can’t Put Your Arm Around a Memory/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

If I Was Your Girlfriend/ PRINCE (’87, Sign ‘O’ the Times)
Que Lindo Sueno/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, The Supreme Genius of…)
A Jelly Behind Woman Blows My Mind/ ELTON WHITE
I Wish I Was Your Mother/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash)
Alison (live at Hollywood High)/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’79, Armed Forces)
Wrapping Paper/ GRAHAM PARKER (’91, Struck By Lightning)
Something About What Happens When We Talk (live, NYC, '07)/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS ('92, Sweet Old World)

Tonight Will Be Fine/ TEDDY THOMPSON ’06, I’m Your Man)
God Only Knows/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
If I Needed Someone/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)
In the Core of the Flame/ THE GO-BETWEENS (’86, Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express)
Don’t Break the Heart/ AMY RIGBY (’96, Diary of a Mod Housewife)
Burning House of Love/ X (’85, Unclogged)

Wake Up and Make Love (Ian Dury & the Blockheads (’78, Live Stiffs)

*new or recent release

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Fare Thee Well, Lux!


(photo by Wendy Lynch)
Lux Interior, former staff member of the mega NY bookstore, the Strand, was the first performer I had seen to stick a microphone down the front of his sweaty leather pants and then put it into his mouth. Amazing. In 1981, Gun Club opened for the Cramps at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Unforgettable show. He (and the Cramps) will be missed. Lux Interior, 1949-2009.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT, 31 JAN. 09


BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES, 9-11 PM
In Time/ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (’73, Fresh)
She Spoke to Me/ PRINCE (’96, Girl 6 soundtrack)
Bossa Cubana/ LOS ZAFIROS (’99, Bossa Cubana)
Little Green Bag/ GEORGE BAKER SELECTION (’70)
The Back Side of Dallas/ JEANNIE C. RILEY (’69)
In the Basement, Pt. 1/ ETTA JAMES & SUGAR PIE DESANTO ('66)
Fujiyama Mama/ WANDA JACKSON (’58)
Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’00, w/ Dan Melchior)

Not a Woman, Not a Child/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’78, Tracks on Wax 4)
Clap Hands (live)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Pink and Sour/ CALIFONE (’06, Roots & Crowns)
Fire Engine/ 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of…)
Flood/ THE ACORN (’07, Glory Hope Mountain)

Untitled/ THE LITTLE IS NOT BIG ENOUGH (’06)
Babys/ BON IVER (’09, Blood Bank)*
All of My Days and All of My Days Off/ AC NEWMAN (’09, Get Guilty)*
Rock Hard Times/ THE EELS (‘03, Shootenany)
Sweet Louise/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
I Walk By Your House/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
I Get So Excited/ GENTLEMAN JESSE (’07, Gentleman Jesse)

Shackles and Chains/ SNAKEHIPS (’93, Lit)
Plenty For All/ HOT SNAKES (’04, Audit in Progress)
F*!#^in’ Up/ NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE (’90, Ragged Glory)
Natural’s Not in It/ GANG OF FOUR (79, Entertainment)
The Product/ THE MINUTEMEN ('83, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat)

Annalisa/ PiL (’78, Public Image)

Saturday, January 10, 2009

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 10 JAN. 09


RIP, Ron Asheton (far right), Stooges guitarist, 1970
BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Sock It To ‘Em JB/ REX GARVIN & THE MIGHTY CRAVERS (‘66)
Sweet Tooth/ KING KHAN & THE SHRINES (’08, Supreme Genius of…)*
Down, Down, Down/ TOM WAITS (’83, Swordfishtrombones)
Good Golly Miss Molly/ LITTLE RICHARD (‘58)
Jaan Pechechaan Ho/ MOHAMMED RAFI (65)
The Most Exalted Potentate of Love/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)
Roadside Wreck/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’91, Too Much Pork For Just One Fork)
Casual Worker/ DON CAVALLI (’08, Cryland)*
Back to School/ THE FLESHTONES (’08, Take a Good Look)*
Los Angeles/ X (’79, Dangerhouse single)
Just a Little Bit/ THE KAISERS (’88, Twist With the Kaisers)
Little Girl/ SYNDICATE OF SOUND (’66)
See You Tonight/ VETIVER (’08, More of the Past)*

Cardinal Points/ ESSEX GREEN (‘06, Cannibal Sea)
San Diego Zoo/ THE 6THS (feat. Barbara Manning, vocals, ’85, Wasps’ Nests)
This Boy is Exhausted/ THE WRENS (’03, Meadowlands)
Nothing Ever Happen/ DEERHUNTER (’08, Microcastle)*

Ramblin’ Man/ HANK WILLIAMS, SR. (‘51)
I Just Destroyed the World/ WILLIE NELSON (’61)
California Stars/ WILCO (‘98, Mermaid Avenue)
Molly Bawn/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (w/ Harem Scarem, ’08, Is It the Sea?/ Live in Edinburgh, Scotland/BBC, ‘06)*
Killing Moon/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)
When We Talk About Forever/ STEVE WYNN (’08, Crossing Dragon Bridge)
Pair of Brown Eyes/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash)

Blind Man’s Bluff/ SNAKEHIPS (’04, Monster Bars)
Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (’77)
+81/ DEERHOOF (’07, Friend Opportunity)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)
This Ain’t No Picnic/ THE MINUTEMEN (’84, Double Nickels on a Dime)
TV Eye/ THE STOOGES (’70, Funhouse)
*new or recent release