An eclectic selection of shoegazing, slow core, trip hop, indie, synthpop, and gothic music from now and the past. Catch the show streaming online Fridays at 8pm MST at www.kisu.org
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Today is the first day of Hannukkah and Christmas is not far behind. In celebration of this wonderful Yule, I have put together a holiday special featuring songs that have become near and dear to me over the years. Most of these tracks come from the three volumes of gothic Christmas music that Projekt put out ages ago. Proof that you don't have to be of a certain culture or denomination to enjoy the season and its trappings. Stream or Download
Playlist: Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Channukkah, O Channukkah Sofia Run - Nerotai Hazarurim (Little Candles) Rhea's Obsession - Huron Indian Carol El Duende - Gaudete, Gaudete Station Break - Julia Kent - What Child is This? Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman Rhea's Obsession w/ Athan Marou - We Three Kings Siddal - In the Bleak Midwinter Station Break - Lycia - O Little Town of Bethlehem C-3PO & R2-D2 - Sleigh Ride The Raveonettes - Come On Santa Departure Lounge - Christmas Downer Granddaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland Belle & Sebastian - O Come, O Come Emmanuel Love Spirals Downwards - Welcome Christmas
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant:
Jack Skellington - What's This?
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
It snowed. I was cranky. This was the show that ensued. Stream or Download
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche Emiliana Torrini - Stephanie Says Pernice Brothers - Pisshole in the Snow Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter Station Break - Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Beneath the Icy Floe Belle & Sebastian - Fox in the Snow Tori Amos - Winter Modern English - After the Snow Kate Bush - Under Ice The Cure - Last Dance Station Break - Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Beneath the Icy Floe Regina Spektor - 20 Years of Snow Eisley - Winter Song Modest Mouse - The Cold Part Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 15 Feet of Pure White Snow
This song isn't really about winter; it's about masturbation instead of reading the Bible. But it also drips with regret and twinges of guilt, so it's very wintry in that respect.
Also, the Nick Cave video for 15 Feet of Pure White Snow:
Sorry for the delay on posting this episode. Destined to become one of my favorites, this show focuses mainly on the people who defied the status quo and thereby defined glam rock. Truly, truly out of this world.
The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror David Bowie - Be My Wife Brian Eno - Everything Merges With the Night Roxy Music - Song for Europe T. Rex - Life's A Gas Station Break - David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town Paul Williams - Phantom's Theme (Beauty and the Beast) Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian Klaus Nomi - Cold Song (Henry Purcell cover) Station Break - David Bowie - The Weeping Wall Shudder to Think - Hot One London Suede - Where the Pigs Don't Fly Morrissey - You Know I Couldn't Last Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Midnight Radio
Klaus Nomi performs "Cold Song" live shortly before his death in 1983:
David Bowie in one of the bleakest music videos ever made: "Be My Wife". From the Low album, recorded in Berlin during Bowie's rehabilitation from drugs.
Smog - Bathysphere Trespassers William - Anchor Doves - Sea Song Keane - Bedshaped Station Break - Secret Machines - Leaves Have Gone Snow Patrol - Run Channels - Helen Mirren Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Isis Secret Machines - Nowhere Again Station Break - Troubled Hubble - Ear, Nose & Throat #2 Dears - 22 (The Death of All Romance) Black Heart Procession - Guess I'll Forget You Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Darker With the Day
Video Times: As promised, here's the video for the Dears track "22: Death of All Romance". The animation in this is wonderful, the story is appropriately heartbreaking and one of the singers (I believe Natalia Yanchak but don't quote me on that) is the most beautiful woman I have seen in my entire life. Watch it!
This show didn't come together like I had planned. I was left with seven minutes of space to fill and couldn't manage to re-arrange anything well enough to cap things off with "Nature Boy" as I'd intended. But, it is what it is. So for the anniversary of "mission accomplished" I present a collection of songs about dreams, lies, destruction, desperation, death, the end and love. Stream or Download
Tom Waits - Alice Dresden Dolls - Mrs. O Jason Webley - Dance While the Sky Crashes Down Vermillion Lies - I Should Fly Station Break - Mercury Rev - I Collect Coins Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Toby Take A Bow Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Station Break - Mercury Rev - The Happy End (The Drunk Room) Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday Depeche Mode - Stripped Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover) Shearwater - Rooks Big Star - Nature Boy Lights Out Asia - Drift_Fade
Bonus Video Time!
Interesting note: when I was first approached with the idea of doing a show, I had initially considered calling it "Running Up That Hill Radio" because I love this song so much. Thankfully it hasn't been the uphill battle that everything else is. And so-
Kate Bush being... Kate Bush in the video for "Running Up That Hill":
So, this is actually a fan-made video, but it's professional quality and pretty amazing as far as videos go. While I don't like the male singer's voice on this track, STG made a decent effort and it outshines that godawful other cover that was released on the Depeche Mode tribute album x years back. Anyway, without further ado: Shiny Toy Guns performing "Stripped".
'Nother Saturday, 'nother episode. Enjoy, folks. Stream or Download
Psychedelic Furs - President Gas The Smiths - A Rush And A Push And the Land is Ours Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark - Electricity The Damned - Wait for the Blackout Station Break - Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (instrumental) Joy Division - Isolation (live) The Buzzcocks - Autonomy Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sin in My Heart Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside Station Break - Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (instrumental) Dave Gahan - Song for Europe (Roxy Music cover) David Bowie - Outside Gary Numan - We Are Glass Ultravox! - The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars Nico - These Days Brigitte Fontaine - Dommage que tu sois mort Nick Drake - Way to Blue Station Break - Blue States - Day Star Neko Case - Things That Scare Me Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Caitlin Cary - My Dreams Have Withered and Died The Kills - Black Balloon Eisley - One Day I Slowly Floated Away Minipop - Precious Station Break - Takeshi Kobayashi - Ether Tune Mazzy Star - Into Dust Low - Shame Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna Be A Superhero? Azure Ray - These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
