Little Boxes/A Little Big Star

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioFreeBatcaveEpisode532810

Playlist:

• Beach House – Take Care
• Pete Seeger – Little Boxes
• The Jam – Batman Theme (RFB Intro)
• The Kinks – A Well Respected Man
• XTC – Earn Enough for Us
• Mothers of Invention – Mom & Dad
• Pretty Things – A House in the Country
• Field Music – Them That Do Nothing
• Talking Heads – Nothing But Flowers
• Liars – The Overachievers
• Stephin Merritt – Not One of Us
• Rush – Subdivisions
• Rogue Wave – Stars & Stripes
• Otis Redding – A Hard Day’s Night
• The Who – Bell Boy
• One for the Team – I’ve Been Here So Long
• Descendants – Suburban Home
• Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
• The Small Faces – Lazy Sunday
• X – In This House that I Call Home
• Uncle Tupelo – Grindstone
• Neil Young – Out On The Weekend
• Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy In New York
• Johnny Cash – Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound
• Nick Lowe – I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)
• The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
• The Shout Out Louds – Show Me Something Different
• The Replacements – Alex Chilton
• Juliana Hatfield – Don’t Lie To Me
• Teenage Fanclub – Jesus Christ
• Elliott Smith – Thirteen
• Big Star – Nighttime

Andrew’s WIUX Blog Post on Alex Chilton

http://www.wiux.org/blog/2010/03/24/children-by-the-million-sing-for-alex-chilton-when-he-comes-round/

Andrew’s WIUX Blog Post on Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy

http://www.wiux.org/blog/2010/03/09/crowley-chronicles-the-ditch-triology/?utm_source=wordtwit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordtwit

Same Title, Different Song

This week, for the first time since our Valentine’s day show, we had a full two hours of airtime at our disposal. Taking full advantage of this (since we don’t know when we’ll be pre-empted/truncated again), we decided to go with a theme that might be a bit of an investment of time, a double feature if you will. We opted for a theme of “Same Title, Different Song.” It was interesting to see what ended up next to what, seeing with our conceptual themes, we tend to be more deliberate in our song selection. It’s also interesting to note that many of these common titles seemed to lend themselves to musical similarities, not just lyrical similarities (see: “Run Run Run,” “Ball and Chain,” and “Mansion on the Hill,” though the last one draws from a common wellspring of American folk lyrics and imagery).

And now here it is in it’s entirety for you to enjoy! And as I type this, we’re finding out that there will be no (live) programming on WIUX for the entire week of spring break, including both weekends (rather unlucky for the weekend shows, many of whom get pre-empted enough as it is). So, on that note, we will see you all on March 28th (same bat time, same bat channel). Since we have a good three weeks to prepare, we plan on making it a good one.

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioFreeBatcaveEpisode43710

Playlist

• The Who-Run Run Run
• The Velvet Underground – Run Run Run
• Spoon – I Saw the Light
• Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light
• Ride – Kaleidoscope
• Rain Parade – Kaleidoscope
• Nirvana – Son of a Gun
• The La’s – Son of a Gun
• Woody Guthrie – Bad Repetation
• The dB’s – Bad Reputation
• Bad Brains – Attitude
• The Replacements – Attitude
• Howlin’ Wolf – Evil
• The Flaming Lips – Evil
• The Zakary Thaks – Bad Girl
• New York Dolls – Bad Girl
• Hank Williams – A Mansion on the Hill
• Bruce Springsteen – Mansion on the Hill
• Charley Patton – It Won’t Be Long
• The Beatles – It Won’t Be Long
• The Jam – I Need You
• The Kinks – I Need You
• The Temptations – All I Need
• The Willowz – All I Need
• The No No No Hopes – Nobody’s Fool
• Alex Chilton – Nobody’s Fool
• XTC – Ball and Chain
• Murder by Death – Ball and Chain
• The Byrds – Goin’ Back
• Devendra Banhart – Goin’ Back
• Scott Walker – The Bridge
• John Doe – The Bridge (aborted for the sake of time. Sorry, John)
• Les Paul & Mary Ford – Hummingbird
• Wilco – Hummingbird

The risk of being uncool…

No set theme this week, but today’s show had plenty of recurring threads throughout.

Earlier in the week, we decided it might be a good idea to play a few more of what we think to be excellent country songs, primarily because we figure that, aside from the Country/Folk/Americana specialty shows on WIUX, the larger scope of truly excellent country music doesn’t get that much airplay on college radio as a whole (although it gets much less anywhere else, especially country music stations today). Similarly, instrumental music is often well-represented in specialty shows under certain categories, but wouldn’t get heard nearly as much on a “format” show.

We decided to do a little of both this week, starting the show off with Roy Acuff and devoting the last half hour of hour show to instrumental music, covering everything from Buck Owens’ and Floyd Cramer’s early instrumentals to the outer reaches of Sonic Youth’s more experimental works. Both of these within ten minutes of one another could have driven segments of our audience elsewhere, but there are many reasons we do it. The chief of them is that we would NEVER have the freedom to do it anywhere else on the radio.

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioFreeBatcaveEpisode322810

Playlist

• Roy Acuff – It Won’t Be Long
• Jeff Tweedy – Acuff Rose
• Batman Theme (RFB Intro)
• The Replacements – Alex Chilton
• Bob Dylan – Song to Woody
• Billy Bragg – Ingrid Bergman
• Television Personalities – I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
• Drive-By Truckers – Danko/Manuel
• Richard Thompson – Mingus Eyes
• Flesh Lights – Crush on You
• The Clash – 1 2 Crush on You
• Bruce Springsteen – Crush on You
• The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
• Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry – Sonny’s Flight
• Leo Kottke – Watermelon
• Buck Owens – Buckaroo
• Floyd Cramer – Last Date
• Santo & Johnny – September Song
• Neil Young – The Emperor of Wyoming
• Booker T. – Get Behind the Mule
• Frank Zappa – Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
• The Minutemen – Love Dance
• Ciccone Youth – Children of Satan / Third Fig
• Nels Cline – Thurston County
• The Who – Sparks

A Hazy (Slushy, 45-degree) Shade of Winter

Earlier in the week as we trudged through practically waist-high snow, cursing the public schools in the area who had snow days, Andrew thought it might be particularly appropriate to devise a winter-themed playlist. So we went about scouring our collection of CDs, LPs, and 8-tracks to find only the best songs written loosely about the winter, cold, or snow (making it a particular point to avoid Christmas music however), until Sunday arrived. The temperature: 45 degrees. The (remaing) snow: gray and slushy. The studio: overheated. Apparently the city of Bloomington isn’t far enough north to be reliably consistent for a winter-themed radio show. Oh well.

Either way, we went ahead with it. We got started a little bit later than usual, mainly due to the women’s basketball game. And Andrew ran a bit late, so the first stretch of the show is Jordan filling up time. But here it is, warts and all.

Another note: Much of the first part of the show was spent with our station director Ryan dutifully cleaning the CD players, which have been acting up a bit lately (many thanks to him for that). We pretty much made it through the entire show without a problem, but it decided to skip on our last song (apparently it just didn’t like Captain Beefheart?) However, rather than repost our embarrassing fumbling in the wake of that, we decided we’d just add the last song into this archive, as if the whole thing never happened. Consider it our equivalent of airbrushing the cig out of Paul’s hand on the cover of Abbey Road. We’re not censoring history, we’re improving it!

Speaking of improvements, sorry for the lack thereof on this blog. This should all be looking a bit better sometime this week.

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioFreeBatcaveEpisode222110

Playlist

• Spoon – Out Go The Lights
• Sonic Youth – Do You Believe in Rapture?
• Devendra Banhart – Can’t Help but Smiling
• Beach House – Norway
• Wilco – Side with the Seeds
• The Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands
• Woody Guthrie – You Can Hear My Whistle Blow
• (Andrew arrives, commence winter theme)
• T-Bone Walker – Cold Cold Feeling
• The Who – Batman (RTB Intro)
• The Pixies – Winterlong
• Pavement – Summer Babe (Winter Version)
• Hüsker Dü – Ice Cold Ice
• The Apples in Stereo – Winter Must be Cold
• The Choir – It’s Cold Outside
• Tom Petty – Out in the Cold
• Teenage Fanclub – Winter
• Mike Viola – Snowman in Tompkins Park
• Simon and Garfunkel -  A Hazy Shade of Winter
• The Autumn Defense – Winterlight
• Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
• Devo – Snowball
• XTC – Snowman
• Frank Zappa – Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow (Suite)
• Captain Beefheart – Steal Softly Thru Snow

Hello, second medium!/Valentines Day show

Greetings Batfans,

So today was our first week of a new show at a (slightly) different time. It would have been last week, but instead we were bumped off in favor of a basketball game. But that means our first show was on Valentines Day, so that wasn’t such a bad deal. Today’s playlist and a recording of today’s show are posted below.

In addition to getting an extra hour and an extra co-host (Jordan Kilpin), we figured it might also be a good idea to start this blog, because hey, two hours a week on air in a musical landscape where everything is always happening is not nearly enough, so expect regular updates of thoughts, musings, recommendations, or, failing that, pure blogosphere filler. We also figured this would be a good forum for comments, requests, etc, so please, make use of it! Plus, we can cuss here without fear of getting slapped with an FCC fine (Holy… shit, Batman)! In the meantime, please bear with us while we venture out of WordPress-Stock-Themeville and convert our start-up blog into a batcave of its own, but, you know, in the form of ones and zeros.

Until next week (provided the basketball game doesn’t keep us off the air), happy Valentines/Live at Leeds Day!

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioFreeBatcaveEpisode121410

Playlist from today’s show:

• Rufus Wainwright – My Funny Valentine
• The Jam – Batman Theme [RFB Intro]
• The Sonics – Do You Love Me?
• The Replacements – Valentine
• My Bloody Valentine – Sueisfine
• Joe Tex – If Sugar Was as Sweet as You
• The Strangeloves – I Want Candy
• Elvis Costello – So Like Candy
• Spoon – Is Love Forever?
• Kurt Vile – Blackberry Song
• Drink Up Buttercup – Why Can’t I Touch It?
• George Harrison – If Not For You
• The Velvet Underground & Nico – I’ll Be Your Mirror
• Elliott Smith – Thirteen
• The White Stripes – You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)
• M Ward – Rave On
• Either/Or – Myspace is Temporarily Unavailable
• Nick Lowe – Marie Provost
• Tom Petty – A Mind with a Heart of its Own
• Billie Holliday – Good Morning Heartache
• Captain Beefheart – Ashtray Heart
• The Mothers of Invention – Stuff Up The Cracks
• Hank Williams – Nobody’s Lonesome for Me
• The Stuffies – No One’s Gonna Miss You
• Fucked Up – Anorak City
• The King Khan & BBQ Show – Anala
• Nirvana – About a Girl [Live]
• The Who – A Quick One (While He’s Away) [Live At Leeds]
• They Might Be Giants – James K. Polk
• The Byrds – He Was a Friend of Mine
• Neil Young – Let’s Impeach the President
• Billy Bragg & Wilco – Christ for President
• Amo Joy – Diggity Doom
• Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers – Monster Mash