BtWoS 11-30-11

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Cranes - Jewel (Forever - 1993)
Chapterhouse - Frost (We Are The Beautiful Single - 1993)
Lush - Leaves Me Cold (Gala - 1990)
Adorable - Cool Front 23-6 (My Favourite Fallen Idol Single - 1993)
Curve - Frozen (Public Fruit - 1992)
The Verve - Slide Away (Storm In Heaven - 1993)
Station Break - Love Spirals Downwards - Ipomoea
Dead Can Dance - Severance (Serpent's Egg - 1988)
Love Spirals Downwards - Illusory Me (Idylls - 1992)
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck (Iceblink Luck Single - 1990)
Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm (On Fire - 1989)
Medicine - A Short Happy Life (Shot Forth Self Living - 1992)
Slowdive - Rutti (Pygmalion - 1995)

Synthpop and new wave, mostly focusing on motion, travel and distance. Stream or Download

Visage - Fade to Grey (Visage - 1980)
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur (Rio - 1982)
John Foxx - No One Driving (Metamatic - 1980)
Berlin - The Metro (Pleasure Victim - 1983)
Station Break - Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe (Electric Cafe - 1986)
Oppenheimer Analysis - Men in White Coats (New Mexico - 1982)
David Bowie - V2 Schneider ("Heroes" - 1977)
Silver Apples - Dust (Silver Apples - 1968)
Station Break - Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - We Have A Technical
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing - 1982)
New Order - Mesh (Movement - 1981)
Tones on Tail - Performance (Pop - 1984)
Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician (Before and After Science - 1978)
Gary Numan - Tracks (The Pleasure Principle - 1979)
Pet Shop Boys - Integral (Fundamental - 2006)

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Errors - Earthscore (Have Some Faith in Magic - 2012)
Surfer Blood - Miranda (School of Seven Bells Mix) (Tarot Classics - 2011)
Austra - Energy (Beat and the Pulse single - 2011)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Introspective
Soft Moon - When It's Over (Soft Moon - 2010)
HTRK - Eat Yr Heart (Work, Work, Work - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Love or Prison (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Portishead - The Rip (Third - 2008)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Slowblow
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - For the Rest of Your Life (Through the Devil Softly - 2009)
Widowspeak - In the Pines (Widowspeak - 2011)
Tashaki Miyaki - Nothing Can Change This Love (Sam Cooke Cover)
Hermann und Kleine - Blue Flower (Slapp Happy cover) (Our Noise - 2002)
Cut Copy - Need You Now (Zonoscope - 2011)

Pickman's Model

Tonight's episode is a little different. For the first half of the show I read one of my favorite Lovecraft tales, "Pickman's Model". The show finishes out with Lovecraft and horror related tunes for the chilling of spines. Stream or Download

A reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model"
Rudimentary Peni - Imps of the Perverse
Rudimentary Peni - Dream City
Lurking Fear - Something in the Basement
Station Break - Dead Can Dance - The Arcane
The Meteors - Corpse Grinder
The Cramps - Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon
The Misfits - London Dungeon
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surfbat
Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombified
The Vaselines - Lovecraft

Check out Joshua Hoffine's excellent photographic retelling of Pickman's Model at his blog.

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Zola Jesus - Collapse (Conatus - 2011)
HTRK - Synthetik (Work, work, work - 2011)
Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Zephyr Mix) (In Your Room - 1994)
Recoil - Luscious Apparatus (Unsound Methods - 1997)
David Bowie - Breaking Glass (Low - 1977)
Iggy Pop - Baby (The Idiot - 1977)
Joy Division - No Love Lost (Substance 1977-1980 - 1988)
Rozz Williams/Gitane Demone - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music cover) (Dream Home Heartache - 1995)
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls (Fever Ray - 2009)
Austra - The Villain (Feel It Break - 2011)
Julee Cruise - In My Other World (The Voice of Love - 1993)
M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)
M83 - Wait (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)

Surfy- Post Punky- Gaze-y Stuff!

My English teacher was awesome enough to postpone the analysis deadline to Monday, so this show is possible largely thanks to her. So give her thanks. Unless you hate it. In which case, why are you even listening? Stream or Download.


Beach Fossils - Daydream
Eternal Summers - Safe at Home
Art Museums - Oh Modern Girls
The Raveonettes - Apparitions
Sunsplit - All I Want
Asobi Seksu - Thursday
Station Break - The Soft Moon - Dead Love
Ringo Deathstarr - Rats Live On No Evil Star
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Sleepover Disaster - Funnel Cloud
Woven Bones - I've Gotta' Get
Screen Vinyl Image - What You Need
Ceremony - Old
Station Break - M83 - Unrecorded
A Shoreline Dream - Seattle
Secret Shine - Stars in the Sky
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Lullabies for Roads and Miles
Dum Dum Girls - Dream Away Life

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-17-2011 - Living in the 80s

80s Extravaganza, here. Stream or Download.

The Cure - The Kiss
Comsat Angels - We Were
Psychedelic Furs - Torch
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Puppet
Book of Love - Still Angry
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (live)
Joy Division - Means to an End (live)
Depeche Mode - It's Called A Heart
ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Oingo Boingo - Skin
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rhapsody