AAT #021 (11/04/09): Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Wow, what an Argyll. This was our long-awaited crossover event with 9th UB Radio. We called it UBgyll UBventure TrUB, and it was four hours of music with very little talk. Whoever was playing the current record would spin a slightly damaged spinner to determine who would follow them at the turntables.

You can listen to the whole show here, or just the argyll portion here, or just the UB portion here.

The result was this eclectic list of records…

Giant Friend – THE MUTTON BIRDS
Araby – THE GUN CLUB
Heart of Darkness – PERE UBU
The Crank – THE CREED TAYLOR ORCHESTRA
Bustin’ the Bongos – LES BAXTER’S DRUMS
Gyu-Nyu – eX-GIRL
Here You Come Again – DOLLY PARTON
Germ/SunDub – DJ MARCELLE
Gubelyè (My Gubel) – A BAND ON ETHIOPIQUES 4
Fare Thee Well, Adios & Goodbye – McCABE & MRS. MILLER
Broken Head – ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS
Hey – BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Skeletons – INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS
Devo Corporate Anthem – THE COCTAILS
Salt – CALIFONE
Silver Rocket – SONIC YOUTH
We Smoke Cocaine – DARLING FREAKHEAD
Kismet – LELONEK
Why Does the Light Fall? – ESCAPE MECHANISM
Sit Right Down – TOOTS & THE MAYTALS
You and Oblivion – ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Panic Button Control – HOME STUDY FLIGHT INSTRUCTION
Show Me How This Thing Works – CRACKER
White Out – ELEVATOR RIDE
Without You – DANIEL JOHNSTON
Drop the Bomb – TROUBLE FUNK
Eric the Half-a-Bee – MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS
ABC – JACKSON 5IVE
Egowar – GANG GANG DANCE
8th Wonder – GOSSIP
All the Madmen – ALIEN SEX FIEND
Andy Warhol – DAVID BOWIE
Black Hole Sun – THE MOOG COOKBOOK
Mezarai Yisrael – THEODORE BIKEL
Tropicalia – CAETANO VELOSO
Les Neiges de Finlande – EDITH PIAF
The Art Teacherr – RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
Hambu Hodo (12″ Version) – RENALDO & THE LOAF
Steroids – MR. OIZO
On Every Other Street – CABARET VOLTAIRE
Smoking Car – DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE
Natural’s Not In It – GANG OF FOUR
Flat Dog – PINK SECTION
Wimoweh – YMA SUMAC
A Life in the Day of, Part 1 – WEEKEND
Kalimidiba – DAN DEACON
Green Man (Radio Edit) – XTC
Into Another World – YOKO KANNA
Ludwig – AMON DUUL 2
Ull (voce inventa) – TOM ZÉ
Nomad for Love (Cannibal) – GANG GANG DANCE
Carol Ann – THE OH SEES
Man Who Dies Every Day – ULTRAVOX
Press Darlings – ADAM & THE ANTS
I Hate the White Man – ROY HARPER
What You Talkin’ About? – PAUL PENA & KONGAR-OL ONDAR
An Embassy to Gaius – THANATOS
My Brother, the Wind – SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA
Erineys – ZU
Don’t Cry for Me – FRED FRITH
Sweet Georgia Brown – ROY SMECK
Phase 5 – COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF BROADCASTING

Well, there you have it. You’ll have to download both the Argyll Adventure Tree and 9th UB Radio files to get the whole show. Even then, a few songs will be missing in the middle and at the end, because the recordings cut off the last ten minutes of the second and fourth hours. Still plenty of stuff to hear. Lots of interesting juxtapositions and surprising picks from all four of us. I’ll post the links when Aaron posts the podcasts.

Spooky Argyll playlist: AAT #020

Well, dAS and Ninah were unable to join us for our 2nd annual Halloween show, but we managed to frighten ourselves and our listener with this show. You can listen to the spookiness by clicking here.

The Man who Liked Zombies – Idiot Flesh
Because I Do – X
To Raise the Dead – Vincent Price
I Will Haunt You – Oneida
Grim Grinning Ghosts – Disney
Mr. Ghost Goes to Town – The Five Jones Boys
Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Ghost in the Trees – The Oh Sees
Turning Blue – Jay Reatard
Because You’re Frightened – Magazine
Sick of Goodbyes – Sparklehorse
Soul Dracula – Hot Blood
To Parter – Butthole Surfers
Crows – the gothic archies
Black Angel’s Death Song – Velvet Underground
Lord’s Prayer – William S Burroughs
Bad Memories – Johnny Dowd
T.V. Set – The Cramps
Graveyard – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) – David Bowie
Halloween Spooks – Lambert Hendricks & Ross
Voices on the Air – Siouxsie & the Banshees
With Her Head Tucked Under Her Arm – Rudy Vallee
All of My Monsters – Giant Ant Farm
Teratophobia – Silvana Straw
Rat Rider – Blood Brothers
Halloween – Lynda Barry
Exterminating Angel – Secret Chiefs 3

We actually played the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song twice by mistake.

AAT #019 (09-03-09): Camp!

September may mean “back to school” for kids and people with kids, but for Argyll Adventure Tree, September 2009 meant Camp! That’s because we were preparing to go to the Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker Campout in Pioneertown. So join us as we explore the many meanings of “camp.” OK, two meanings. Maybe not even two. We didn’t really camp, in either sense, in Pioneertown. But there was plenty of camp to go around on this webcast. Andy threw in some decidedly non-camp downers by John Doe and Dave Alvin to round out the program. Oh, Mary!

Barbarella – from the soundtrack?
Jet Boy Jet Girl – Elton Motello
(music from Valley of the Dolls – John Williams)
It’s Impossible – Gail Heideman (for Patty Duke)
Sex Dwarf – Soft Cell
Boy Like You – Glen Meadmore
An Occasional Man – Julie London
Oh, Calcutta – from the soundtrack
B Movie – Monks of Doom
The Meanest Man in the World – John Doe
People Got a Lotta Nerve – Neko Case
Downey Girl – Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
Music Perspective with Ron Fields – Christopher Guest
Mad About the Boy – Tom Robinson
Mueva el Dinero – Eduardo Davidson
I Wish I Had an Evil Twin – The Magnetic Fields
The Poisoned Well – Quasi
(Jesus Christ Superstar – John Keating)
Le Chien – Eduardo Davidson
Don’t Touch My Tomatoes – Josephine Baker
Everything’s Coming Up Roses – Ethyl Merman
Yes – Liza Minelli
I’m One Too – Mark Bunyan
Children of the Revolution – T-Rex
(It’s All at the Coop Now – Alan Hawkshaw)
(I Feel the Earth Move – John Keating)
What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
Center of the Universe – Built to Spill
Tonight You Belong to Me – Patience & Prudence
The Man I Love – Zebedy
Hungry – Teddy and Darrel
(Light My Fire – John Andrews Tartaglia)
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Edith Massey

AAT#018 (08-06-09): UBgyll UBventure Tree

We were out of town for our second Thursday-night webcast, but the show must go on. Luckily for our listeners, dAS and Ninah sat in for us, and played songs exclusively from compilations. We’re calling the show, UBgyll UBventure TrUB. The second half of the 4-hour mega-show, webcast as the regularly scheduled 9thUBradio immediately afterward, can be downloaded here.

If you’ve never listened to UB, this is a fine place to start. Noise, art rock, industrial music, even stuff on the edge of pop. You just never know what’s going to come next.

Flutes, Whistles and Ocarinas – Susan Rawcliffe
Will? – Maybe Mental (not sure which track. they were on Dry Lungs vols. I and III but not II)
Willie V.2 – J. Allen Williams
Deconstruction In D. Minor – Trance
Funny Funny – The Bran Flakes
Crybaby Duck – ECC
I Don’t Believe in Evolution – ECC
Yesterday Man – Robert Wyatt
Don Alfonso – Mike Oldfield
Go and Sit Upon the Grass – Ivor Cutler
Tehuan – Suraya
The Post-Asiatic Lost War Dream Music
The Jet Black Hair People
bleached point 1-6 [11/99 mix of Steev Hise's Original] – Wobbly
Fast Talk – Negativland
Are We Not Clowns? We Are Bozo – The Firemen
Mongoloid – The Deadliner?
a bunch of stuff we don’t know what it was
something by Snakefinger
Blue Rosebud – The Residents

Sorry, we’re relying on back-announcing for this playlist, and said back-announcing was sorely lacking in the second half of the show. If you want to know who all that music was by, ask dAS & Ninah!

AAT #017 (07-02-09): America

Join us and God in blessing America on this special podcast. Numerologists will note the special significance of this show’s original webcast date: 07+02=09. Everyone else will just enjoy this wonderful tribute to the music, culture and ideals of the greatest nation on Earth, the United States of America.

America (edit) – Neil Diamond
51-7 – Camper Van Beethoven
The American Ruse – MC5
Lake of Fire – Meat Puppets
A Man Can’t Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days (The Declaration of Independence) – Stan Freberg
(Exaltation – Henry Cowell)
American Music (original version) – The Blasters
Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
Mean and Wicked Boogie – The Maddox Bros. and Rose
Interesting People – Spot 1019
Nothin’ but Love – The Presidents of the United States of America
Everybody Wants to Be an Art Director (Betsy Ross and the Flag) – Stan Freberg
Going North – Sonya Hunter
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing – The Minutemen
America – Throwing Muses
Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
Bobby Salazar – Brian Kenny Fresno
America Has Spoken – Patton Oswalt
Crime to Be Broke in America – Spearhead
Businesses on Parade – MDC
Ha Ha Ha – Flipper
Reject All American – Bikini Kill
I Got Rhythm – The Residents
Cripple Creek – Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward and Dale Poe
Harvey and Sheila – Allan Sherman
Supermagic – Mos Def
Sally Go ‘Round the Roses – The Jaynetts
(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real – Sylvester
Tough Pickin’ – Roy Smeck
Walk or Ride – The Ditty Bops
A Piece of the Pie – Randy Newman
The Star Spangled Banner (arr. Igor Stravinsky) – MTT and the London Symphony Orchestra
Everybody’s Going to Make It This Time – Funkadelic
God Bless America (Live at the Whiskey a Go Go) – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

AAT #016 (06-19-09): Up-to-Date with Dr. Todd

This show was originally webcast soon after David Letterman made an infamous joke about a Palin daughter, and the right wing went nuts. Ironically, as I finally get around to typing up the playlist four months later, Dave has just admitted sleeping with several female staff members. I haven’t heard of any protestors outside the Late Night studios. Anyway, there you have it: you’re now Up-to-Date with Dr. Todd.

Wait, who’s Dr. Todd? Well, Dr. Todd is one of the main driving forces behind popular blog, The Ripple Effect. He’s starting his own boutique record label, Ripple. In 2009? In the middle of a terrible recession? Yes. Because he is obsessed. Because he is a true believer in the power of music. Because he wants everyone to have a chance to hear the music he loves. And because he has superhuman levels of energy and a little spare cash.

On this show, we featured a bunch of recent Immersion Composition Society recordings, plus some special records brought in by Dr. Todd and Corinne.

Untitled – Michael Mellender, as Operation Kill Dr. Steven Clark
? – Dooie & Clark
Vera – A.M.
Tippecanoe – Kelek
(Holiday for Strings)
The Abba Dabba Doo Dance – The Coctails
Mystery Date – Voice Farm
Berlin – Brazilian Girls
While You Wait for the Others – Grizzly Bear
(Instrumental – Dren McDonald)
Raymond Scott Homage – Dren McDonald
Untitled – Michael Mellender, as Operation Kill Dr. Steven Clark
Instrumental – Dooie & Clark
Haiku #2 – Andy Cowitt
Meat Song – Karry Walker, aka Ultralash
(Buddhist Monk Chanting)
El abujero – Juanita y los Feos
Zombie Attack – Rock ‘n’ Roll Monkey & the Robots
Had Enough of Your Lies – The Garage Gods
Songreal – Mod Amish
Surprise, Surprise – X
Aeon – Antony & the Johnsons
The Penis Song – Momus
Rodeo Butterfly – The Bran Flakes
Sensuous – Cornelius
Dirty Trash Hands (demo) – Darling Freakhead
Hirsute Honey – Stikman
Don’t Go No Further – Koko Taylor
The Cock Crows at Midnight – Victor Krummenacher
Your Spears – Crystal Antlers
Saran Wrap – Dengue Fever
(Untitled – Steven Clark)
Asian Girl – Rachel
Life Defying (edit) – Matt Lebofsky

Sorry, Matt, your song gets cut off at the end. We make it up to you in a later podcast.

AAT #015 (05-15-09): Music of the Stratosphears

Our 15th AAT was originally webcast on the 15th of May. In April, 2009, via his Ape House label, Andy Partridge re-released deluxe editions of 25 O’Clock and Psonic Psunspot. The deluxe editions feature extra tracks and copious liner notes. Those interested in the influences and inspirations of the fantastic music on those records will be especially pleased with the liner notes. What we’re saying is, go to your local record shop (while it still exists) and buy the CD’s! You’ll be glad you did.

And once you’ve listened to the CD’s, you’ll naturally want to hear the great music that inspired the Dukes in their youth. Next thing you know, you’re down the rabbit hole of 60’s psychedelia. And it sounds like The Music of the Stratosphears.

My Love Explodes – The Dukes of Stratosphear
For Your Love (scratched vinyl version) – The Yardbirds
Biff Bang Pow! – The Creation
Who Are the Brain Police? – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
(Blues Theme – Davie Allen and the Arrows)
Leave Jackie Alone – The Dukes of Stratosphear
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? – The Barbarians
Humanoid Boogie – The Bonzo Dog Band
Lazy Sunday – The Small Faces
What in the World? – The Dukes of Stratosphear
Get Me to the World on Time – The Electric Prunes
Astronomy Domine – Pink Floyd
Go Fuck Yourself with Your Atom Bomb – Tuli Kupferberg
Granny Takes a Trip – The Purple Gang
You’re a Good Man, Albert Brown – The Dukes of Stratosphear
Isn’t It Strange? – Sparrow
Collideascope – The Dukes of Stratosphear
(El bueno, el mal e el feo – Romanceros)
25 O’Clock – The Dukes of Stratosphear
Eastern Music – The Mode
A Dream for Julie – Kaleidoscope
You’re Gonna Miss Me – The 13th Floor Elevators
Yes I Need Someone – The Eire Apparent
You’re My Drug – The Dukes of Stratosphear
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – The Move
Your Gold Dress (Demo) – The Dukes of Stratosphear
Shangri-La – The Kinks
He’s Our Dear Old Weatherman – Mark Wirtz
Vanishing Girl – The Dukes of Stratosphear
When My Mind is Not Live – The Status Quo

AAT #014 (04-17-09): That Goddamn Mockingbird Woke Me Up Again

Happy Springtime, everyone! Let’s celebrate everyone’s favorite season of rebirth with a very sleep-deprived podcast entitled, That Goddamn Mockingbird Woke Me Up Again. The recording leans heavily to the left at the very beginning, but fear not, it finds its balance during the second song.

I’m Happy – Ivor Cutler Trio
If I Could Do It All Again, I’d Do It All Over You – Caravan
Can’t Take It? – ?
Don’t Forget to Smile – Mose Allison
Snookered – Dan Deacon
Kill the Poor – Duckmandu
It Might as Well Be Spring – Ella Fitzgerald
Hambu Hoedown (Remix) – Renaldo & the Loaf
Dangling on a String – Chairmen of the Board
Shopping – Pink Section
Success and Failure – Saccharine Trust
Quita Quita – Gasper Lawal
Genie in a Bottle – Andy Partridge
Oceanus Pacificus – Chris Watson
Second Coming – Christian Marclay
I’ve Got My Car and My T.V. – Faust
from Die Fledermaus – Florence Foster Jenkins
Slippi (live) – Animal Collective
Hologram Buffalo – Brightblack Morning Light
Burn Your Life Down – Tegan and Sara
Beata Viscera – Zu
Circle Pit – Venetian Snares
(The Disintegration Loops Disc 1 – William Basinski, with Florence Foster Jenkins on top)
Waves – Signal
Sema – Tlahoun Gessesse
Fun ‘N’ Frenzy – Josef K
Vacilando con Ayahuesca – Juaneco y su Combo
(I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good – Thelonious Monk)
4′33″ (excerpt) – John Cage
A little random spoken word and the beginning of a Violent Femmes song…

AAT #013 (03-20-09): The Texture of Noise

For lucky Argyll #13, we really brought the UB. Starting with an eerie silence, we soon filled the webwaves with some nods to the original AAT show and lots and lots of texture. This show features clips recorded in August, 1986 from On the Verge, a show astonishingly still on the air at people’s radio KKUP, Cupertino (Cowabunga!).

Given that this is our noise show, you can expect to hear a few improvised audio collages among the pop songs and experimental pieces. Together, let’s explore The Texture of Noise.

Orses Opera – Crawling with Tarts
Solar Drums – Sun Ra
Tomorrow Never Knows Slowed Down and Sped Up
Beatles – John Oswald
Indeterminacy – John Cage with David Tudor
Two Friends – Dan Deacon (left channel only – doh!)
Won’t You Keep Us Working – The Residents
Study for Player Piano #14 – Conlon Nancarrow
Chloe – Spike Jones and His City Slickers
Persuasive Conditioning – The Bran Flakes
Pretender – John Oswald
Hippopotami – Chris Watson
Volver Volver – Antonio Eugenio Martinez
Andimal Collective – Andy Cowitt
Étude aux Chemins de Fer – Pierre Schaeffer
For the Trees – Matmos
The Willsaphone Stupid Show (excerpt) – Negativland
Fire on the Mountain – The Blitzoids
Drone Gnomes – Big City Orchestra
Yellow, Black and Rectangular – Negativland
Melancholia – William Basinski
Requiem for a Doll – Steven Clark
Kill Your Gods – Pandas of Black Metal
Cap the Knife – Fred Frith
Live at the Metro, Kyoto – DJ Eye
Kaleidophon (Strict) – Carter Scholz

Not sure if the track order is exactly right above, but you get the idea.

AAT #012 (02-19-09): Lux Interior: Shine On, You Crazy Zombie

Lux Interior died on February 4, 2009. We invoke his presence by playing some classic Cramps tracks and many of Lux and Ivy’s favorite records on a show entitled, Lux Interior: Shine On, You Crazy Zombie. We also work in some interview segments we swiped from the mighty WFMU.

Human Fly – The Cramps
Love Me – The Phantom
Garbageman – The Cramps
She Said – Hasil Adkins
Drug Train – The Cramps
Tear It Up – Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio
Goo Goo Muck – The Cramps
(Lust – Les Baxter)
People Ain’t No Good – The Cramps
The Green Door – Jim Lowe
The Most Exalted Potentate of Love – The Cramps
I’m a Mummy – Bob McFadden
You Got Good Taste – The Cramps
Nobody But Me – The Isley Brothers
I Can’t Find My Mind – The Cramps
She’s Got Balls – The Cramps
Teenage Head – The Flamin’ Groovies
T.V. Set – The Cramps
Juanita Banana – The Peels
How Come You Do Me? – The Cramps
Flower of My Heart – Sparkle Moore
Eyeball in My Martini – The Cramps
(Harlem Nocturne – The Viscounts)
Rockin’ Bones – The Cramps
The Bells – Billy Ward and His Dominoes
What’s Inside a Girl? (live) – The Cramps
Save It – Mel Robbins
Do the Clam – The Cramps
I Came to Demolish Cleveland – Stacy Bengel & His Six Outfielders
New Kind of Kick – The Cramps
Shamilar – Sheriff & the Rebels
(RFD Rangoon – The Forbidden Five)
Don’t Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk – The Cramps
1970 – The Stooges
What’s Behind the Mask? – The Cramps
I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingoes (Argh! This gets cut off. Sorry!)

Fiat Lux!