Saturday, October 4, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 4 OCT. 2008

BOY WONDER/ "RADIO ROULETTE"/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Superfly/ CURTIS MAYFIELD (’72, Superfly soundtrack)
She Spoke to Me/ PRINCE (’96, Girl 6 soundtrack)
Fight the Power/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)
Say No Go (New Keys Vocal remix)/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)
North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)
Gut Feeling/ DEVO (’78, Are We Not Men? We Are Devo)
Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

52 Girls/ THE B-52’S (’79, self titled)
Kingdom of Love/ THE SOFT BOYS (’80, Underwater Moonlight)
He’s Frank (Slight Return)/ MONOCHROME SET (’83)
I’m Waiting For My Man/ VELVET UNDERGROUND (’67, The VU & Nico)
Valentine/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’87, Pleased to Meet Me)
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DEVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Alligator Wine (Leiber and Stoller)/ SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS ('58)

Baby, It’s You/ PATTI PALLADIN & JOHNNY THUNDERS (’88, Copy Cats)
Dressy/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
As Long As I Have You/ DETROIT COBRAS (07, Tied & True)
Crazy About You/ ANN PEEBLES (’69, Part Time Love)
Shake’em On Down/ RL BURNSIDE (’94, Too Bad Jim)
Rock On/ T. REX (’72, The Slider)
Never Aim to Please/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)
In the Street/ BIG STAR (’72, #1 Record)

Don’t Want You Back/ THE SIGHTS (’02, Got What You Want)
Sister Surround/ SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’01, Behind the Music)
1976/ REDD KROSS (’80, Third Eye)
Cherry Bomb/ THE RUNAWAYS (’76, self titled)
Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I’m Not Afraid of You…)

Newman's Own


Original poster from 1961 film, The Hustler, directed by Robert Rossen, based from the excellent (and underrated) novel by Walter Tevis. One of his finest performances and films, Newman portrays Fast Eddie Felson, with the brilliant supporting role by Jackie Gleason (as Minnesota Fats).

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ MON., TUES., 29, 30 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER/ GUS MOZART'S MUSIC BOX/HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM- 1 AM
Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Recognize I/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)
The Blue Room/ EVANGELISTA (w/ Carla Buzolich, ’08, Hello Voyager)*
Times Square/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’90, Blazing Away)
Just As You Are/ ROBERT WYATT (w/ Monica Vasconselos, vcls, ’07, Comicopera)
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Ultaviolet/ EXTRA GLENNS (’01, Martial Arts Weekend)

Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH (’72)
We Must Be Out of Our Minds/ GEORGE JONES (w/ Melba Montgomery, ’63)
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country/ RANDY NEWMAN (’08, Harps and Angels)*
Turn the Cards Slowly/ PATSY CLINE (’55)
1,000 Years From Now (rehearsal take)/ THE BYRDS (w/ Gram Parsons, ’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Lion’s Jaws/ NEKO CASE (’06, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

Turn Me Around/ MAVIS STAPLES (’07, We’ll Never Turn Back)
I Am What I Hated When I Was Young/ IAN HUNTER (’07, Shrunken Heads)
Oh How It Rained (Eddie Floyd)/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
Michigan Girls/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)
I Shall Be Released/ WILCO (w/ Fleet Foxes, live, ‘08, Bend, OR)*
I Wish It Was Saturday Night/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
Don’t Worry Baby/ RONNIE SPECTOR
Starstruck/ KINKS (’68, Village Green Preservation Society)
Care of Cell ‘44/ THE ZOMBIES (’67)
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’97, It’s Heavy Here)

Halfway Home/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)*
Sound and Vision/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
For Phoebe Still a Baby/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)
Your Lucky Day in Hell/ THE EELS (’96, Beautiful Freak)
Borrowing Time/ AIMEE MANN (’08, @#%&*! Smilers)*
Go For the Exit/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)*

Loose Ends/ BASH & POP (’93, Friday Night is Killing Me)
Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)
TV (The American Dream)/ JON JAMES (’03)
Everyone Knows This is Nowhere/ MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS (’06, Under the Covers)
Date to Church/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’86)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’88, Copy Cats)
Protest Song/ ORSO (’08, Ask Your Neighbor)*

Long Legs/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)
Big Kick, Plain Scrap/ NICK LOWE (’79, Labour of Lust)
These Boots Are Made For Walking/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)
I Surrender/ FONATELLA BASS
New Amsterdam/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Tell It to Me/ TOM WAITS (’06, Orphans)
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All is Well)
For Emma/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*

*new or recent release

Beauty, Grace Does Age Well. Sometimes.


Kristen Scott Thomas
(Tony Cenicola, NY Times, 28 Sept. 08)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 23 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
September Song/ LOTTE LENYA (’57)
Soldier’s Wife/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’85, Lost in the Stars)
Little Sister (Reed/Cale)/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl)
Galileo/ DECLAN O’ROURKE (’03, Since Kyabram)
It’s Only Time/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’04, İ )
Carolyn’s Fingers/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll)
Bye Bye Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08)*
I Can’t Talk About It/ EL PERRO DEL MAR

King Size/ CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE (’04, Foreign Land)
Girls/ ELENI MANDELL (’07, Miracle of Five)
Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DEVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)*
New Lace Sleeve/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Trust)

The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain)
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*
Girl Downtown/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*Gun Street Girl/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
Hot Blood/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (Live in NY Town Hall, Oct. ’07)
In the Street/ BIG STAR (single version, ’72)
Dandelion/ MATTHEW SWEET (’04, Living Things)

One Wink at a Time/ THE ‘MATS (’90, All Shook Down)
Planet Queen/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Desert Skies/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)
To Baby/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)*
Lazy Butterfly/ DEVENDRA BANHART (’05, Cripple Crow)
When I Was a Young Girl/ FEIST (’04, Let It Die)

You and Your Sister (Country Version)/ CHRIS BELL (originally recorded from '72-'75. ’92, I Am the Cosmos)
*new or recent release

Saturday, September 20, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ SAT., 20 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S RADIO ROULETTE/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Nickel Bag of Funk/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’)
Matadjem Yinmixan/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman)
(I Know) I’m Losing You/ THE TEMPTATIONS
Tainted Love/ GLORIA JONES
Canto de Ossanha (Let Go)/ ASTRUD GILBERTO (’69)
Talking Old Soldiers/ BETTY LAVETTE (’07, Scene of the Crime)
Take Me/ GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE
I Don’t Like the Man That I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, Virtual Landslide)
The Lovely Sky Boat/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS (’05)
Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
It’s Not the Only Way to Be Happy/ FIELD MUSIC (’05, self titled)

Nothin’ in the World Can Stop Me From Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl/ MARK LANEGAN
Amnesia/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (’04, Spacegirl Espionage)
Mambo Sun/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
Open My Eyes/ NAZZ (’67)

Violence/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Long Time Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Your Funeral…My Trial)
Faster Pussycat/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female)
Dance the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77)
You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotized)
Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)
You Sound Like Your Sick/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Is It My Body/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Ghost on the Highway/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)
You’re a Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled)
Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)
Reptile Style/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb Highschool)
Roadside Wreck/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’91, Too Much Pork)
Back Slider/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Extra Width)
Pen/ SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight)

*new or recent release

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM, 90.5/ TUES., 16 SEPT. 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2:00 AM
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer/ AMOS MILBURN ('57)
Bossa Cubana/ LOS ZAFIROS
El Pito/ JOE CUBA
Slow Drain/ MINK DeVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT*
Even So/ EVERTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden)
Too Drunk/ NOUVELLE VAGUE (’05)
Live Let Live/ BRIAN WILSON (’08, That Lucky Old Sun)*
Just As You Are/ ROBERT WYATT ('07, Comic Opera, w/ Monica Vosconselos)
Accidental/ INARA GEORGE (’08, An Invitation, w/ Van Dyke Parks)*
Identity Theft/ NELLIE McKAY (’07, Obligatory Villagers)

All the Way From Home/ THE GREEN PAJAMAS (’05)
Wave/ ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO (’01, A Man Under the Influence)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around)
The Other Side of Town/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)

The Great Atomic Power/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61)
Do Right Woman/ FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (’69, Gilded Palace of Sin)
Do You Got the Time/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)*
Killing For Love/ JOSE GONZALES (’07, In Our Nature)
Kamera/ WILCO (’01, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
Shade and Honey/ SPARKLEHORSE (’06, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain)
Opportunity/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Ex-Girl Collection/ THE WRENS (’03, The Meadowlands)

The General Specific/ BAND OF HORSES (’07, Cease to Begin)
I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE
Good Friend/ PLANTS & ANIMALS (’08, self titled)*
Roscoe/ MIDLAKE (’06, The Trials of Van Occupanther)

Drink to You, Babe, Then/ A.C. NEWMAN (’04, The Slow Wonder)
*new or recent release