the argyll adventure tree

aat #044 entreating the gods for rain 01/05/12

Michael Wertz — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:49:25 +0000

rainmaker – SPARKLEHORSE (from Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot)
i see the rain – THE MARMALADE (from Nuggets II)
didn’t it rain – THE KLEZMATICS with JOSHUA NELSON & KATHRYN FARMER (from Brother Moses Smote the Water)
looks like it’s going to rain – KEN NORDINE (from Word Jazz, Vol. 1)
tropical storm – OLIVER BROWN (from Eats Five Hot Dogs)
rain of earth – THE STONES THROW SINGERS (from Dimension Mix)
walking in the rain – GRACE JONES (from Nightclubbing)
stormy weather – PERE UBU (from Datapanik in the Year Zero box set)
the rain – MISSY ELLIOTT (from Supadupafly)
the sun and the rain – MADNESS (from Absolute Madness)
about the weather – MAGAZINE (from Rays & Hail)
running water – MARTIN STEPHENSON & THE DAINTEES
hey mr. rain – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (from Another View)
don’t rain on my parade – BARBRA STREISAND (from Funny Girl)
i wish it would rain – NANCY GRIFFITH (from The MCA Years)
water – GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION (from In Yo’ Face – The History of Funk, Vol. 4)
green rain – SHUGO TOKUMARU (from Exit)
rain – ERASURE (from Cowboy)
thank goodness for the rain – PEANUT (from One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found)
Water My Flowers – MRS. JANIE HUNTER (from Been in the Storm So Long)
what have they done with the rain – MALVINA REYNOLDS (from Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960 – 1978)
storm in my house – THE MINUTEMEN (from Double Nickels on the Dime)
singin’ in the rain – CLIFF “UKULELE IKE” EDWARDS (from Singin’ in the Rain)
in the city in the rain – THE 6THS (from Wasps’ Nests)
here comes the flood – ROBERT FRIPP (from Exposure [Third Edition])
brown rain – CHRISTIAN MARCLAY (from Records)

12: 1: 11 everything seems to be up in the air

Michael Wertz — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:48:09 +0000

ambiguity song : camper van beethoven (telephone free landslide victory)
swervin’ : the coup (steal this double-record)
justice : alan price (o lucky man soundtrack)
you broke my heart with bebop : johnny bond featuring rosemary calvin
where evil grows : poppy family
lucky lucky luck : evangelista
spiral waltz [italian version] : (?)
the imposter [live] : elvis costello
bloodrocuted : dethklok
rasket el fadaa : omar khroshid
daddy’s song : the monkees
the devil and the deep blue sea : george harrison
i lik : the divine comedy
(i keep thinking about) a new thing : field music
something came over me : wild flag
super are : boredoms
morning light : girls
sucker punch : jonathan coulton
my thin sides : army/navy
*i’ve got shoes : ruth brown
viramundo : gilberto gil
the laws have changed : the new pornographers
away/way : ponytail
festival of colors : the creatures
la hora de volve : rita indiana y los misterios
as good as i can feel : funkadelic
left & right : x
lo strano vizio delia signora wardh : nora orlandi
doom broom : matt lebofsky

aat #042 – occupy eleven (11.03.11)

Michael Wertz — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:48:33 +0000

goody goody – ella fitzgerald (from ‘get happy’)
north sea bubble – billy bragg (from ‘don’t try this at home’)
“The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)” – flaming lips (from ‘at war with the mystics’)
you want it, they got it – the redskins (45 single)
destroyed fortress reappears – the oh sees (from ‘help’)
real world – husker du (from the ‘metal circus’ EP)
poison dart – the bug (from ‘london zoo’)
the more i see, the less i believe – fun boy three (45 single)
fire brigade – the move (move – fly records)
express yourself – charles wright & the watts 103rd street rhythm band (in yo’ face – rhino records)
90 degrees – ladytron (gravity the seducer – nettwerk)
wild in the streets – garland jeffreys (ghost writer – a & m records)
music – cornelius (sensuous)
uprising (parts 1 and 2) – antibalas with jojo qou (africafunk)
we are all prostitutes – the pop group (45 single)
one bad apple – the osmonds (osmonds – mgm records)
paper & iron – xtc (black sea)
money – o’jays
freaky people – evolution control committee (all rights reserved)
in san francisco – the residents (eskimo)
the song of the dignity of labour under capital – art bears (the world as it is today)
disguises – the minutemen (the punch line – sst)
i wanna destroy you – the soft boys (underwater moonlight – matador reissue)
drugs – talking heads (fear of music)
up against the wall – tom robinson band (45 single)
i’ll meet you halfway – the partridge family (at home with their greatest hits – bell)
rainbow flag – matmos (supreme balloon)
a change is gonna come – sam cooke (portrait of a legend – abkco)

AAT #040 (09.01.11) – Hello. Hello again.

argylladventuretree — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:41:12 +0000

We’re back!

Tonight, Argyll Adventure Tree returned to the interwebs/not-airwaves after a one-month hiatus, webcasting from a delightful new studio in a portable building just off-campus. Instead of being down the hall, Melissa and Aaron now keep an eye on us from the other side of a large recording studio-type window.

We were excited to be working in the new studio. Everything sounded pretty good in there. Here’s what we played in the first official 9thfloorradio.com show from the new single-floor location…

Hello – THE BRAN FLAKES
Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal – THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) – DE LA SOUL
Hey Tell Me Boy – MARIE KNIGHT
Hello There – JOHN CALE
Hello Goodbye – THE BEATLES
Hey Jude – THE DEL RUBIO TRIPLETS
Hello, Young Lovers – BOBBY DARIN
Hey Grandma – THE MOVE
Hello Skinny – THE RESIDENTS
Hey Mr. Rain – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Hey Little Boy – RUTH BROWN
Good Morning Aztlan – LOS LOBOS
Hey Joy – JONATHAN SEGEL
O’Hell – JOHN OSWALD
Hey Freethinker – VOICE FARM
Comin’ Through – THE PASTELS
Hey (Rise of the Robots) – THE STRANGLERS
Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite) – STEINSKI
Hey Joni – SONIC YOUTH
Good Morning Suburbia – ULTRALASH
Hey Pocky Way – THE METERS
Hi Hi Hi – WINGS
Hello – FLOP
The Red Telephone (edit) – LOVE
You’re a Good Man, Albert Brown – THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR
Hey Good Lookin’ – HANK WILLIAMS
Hi – THE BRAN FLAKES
Hey Boy – OS MUTANTES
Goodbye Joe (edit) – THE MONOCHROME SET

AAT #035 (03.03.11) — CULTS

Michael Wertz — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:43:55 +0000

sun ra, est, and the jejune institute. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS SHOW.

light in the sky – MONKS OF DOOM
Praying Hands – DEVO
The Life You Preferred – ONEIDA
Trippy Green Skull – DAN DEACON
Mama Made Me Do It – VOICE FARM
Stone God – LES BAXTER
Baboon Goddess Procession – NANNY EATING DINGOES
Persuasive Conditioning – BRAN FLAKES
Gun Sale at the Church – BUDDY BLUE
When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty – XTC
Crazy for You (But not that Crazy) – MAGNETIC FIELDS
Letting Go of God (excerpt) – JULIA SWEENEY
Freak-a-zoid – MIDNIGHT STAR
Neolithic Female Goddess – CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA
The Bewitched: Scene 2 – Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual – HARRY PARTCH
Crazy Cult (excerpt) – MARIA BAMFORD
Breatharian Chants – BREATHARIANS
Christianity and the Cults, Joseph Smith, Brainwashing at the Cuckoo Club – NEGATIVLAND
In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song) – PETER IVERS
Go – TONES ON TAIL
Priestess – IMAAD WASIF
Kiss Me, Son of God – THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
The Quest (excerpt) – AFRO CULT FOUNDATION

AAT #034 Part 2 (02.03.11) – We’re Not UB!

Michael Wertz — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:50:18 +0000

Part Two of a Four-Hour Argyll. Listen (or download) here.

Taco Pizza Five – JOHN OSWALD
The Be Colony – BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP

In My Room – YAZ

Agent Shadow – SVELTE
Indeterminacy (Excerpt) – JOHN CAGE & DAVID TUDOR
Silly Noises – MONTY PYTHON
Religion & Politics – SCOTT BEACH
A Future in the Future – REGGIE WATTS

Loomer – JAPANCAKES
Sagitarius Silver Announcement – FLAMING LIPS

Higher Ground – STEVIE WONDER

Tightrope – JANELLE MONAE
Tropicalia – CAETANO VELOSO

New Breed – THE MACKENZIES

Spanish Inquisition – MONTY PYTHON
Miniatures Vol. 1 Track 10 : DAVID CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN COYNE, ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN, NEIL ORAM and KEN CAMPBELL and the SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE OF LIVERPOOL, PETE SEEGER
I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing – FUNKADELIC
Augusta, Angelica e Consolocao – TOM ZE
Nutty – THELONIOUS MONK with JOHN COLTRANE
N.I.T.A. – YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS

Artemis – DALIS CAR
Grand Surface Noise Opera (Excerpt) – CRAWLING WITH TARTS
Spanish Inquisition Part 2 – MONTY PYTHON
Drive on Driver – MAGNETIC FIELDS

Do You Know the Way to San Jose? – RICHARD “GROOVE” HOLMES
Fago Ribi – KOGOU
I’m Not Home #2 – LYNDA BARRY
Study for Player Piano #3A – CONLON NANCARROW
Did You Get the Letter? – EUPHORIA
Do as I Say Or – NELS CLINE
Vivian & Ondine (Excerpt) – WILLIAM BASINSKI

AAT #034 Part 1 (02.03.11) – Anything Goes!

Michael Wertz — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:53:37 +0000

It’s a new year, and it’s a new Argyll. Give a listen here.

You can also subscribe to this podcast by opening up iTunes, going to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast, and copying this URL in the boxy box that pops up: http://argylladventuretree.9thfloorradio.libsynpro.com/ds_player_7679439.

Here’s the playlist from the show. Also: I’ve dug up some amazing stuff for guys to feast your eyeballs on. Behold:

Mr. Tambourine Man – WILLIAM SHATNER
You’ve Got the Power – WIN
Kouzelnik – UZ JSME DOMA
Ritual/Looking In – BROADCAST & the FOCUS GROUP

In San Francisco – THE RESIDENTS

Do I Love You – ELLA FITZGERALD
You Do Something to Me – KEN NORDINE
1-2 Crush on You – THE CLASH
I Feel Good – SHIRLEY & LEE
Gimme Some Kinda Sign – BRENTON WOOD

Love is All Around – HUSKER DU

Wiggly Worm – DEVO
People in the City – AIR

Theodora is Dozing – MUSIC OF BULGARIA
When I Win the Lottery – CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN

Silver Soul – BEACH HOUSE
Have You Ever Seen – SONYA HUNTER
Sister Sarah – MARIA BAMFORD
Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That – THE MUMPS

2*4 – THE FALL

He Touched Me – ANITA BRYANT
Kaleidophon (Strict) – CARTER SCHOLZ
Fire – THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN

Guns – NEGATIVLAND

Gold Teeth on a Bum – THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
The Star-Spangled Banner – IGOR STRAVINSKY
The Once Over Twice – X

Marie Marie – THE BLASTERS

Ghu Zu Jun – CHENG GONGLIANG

AAT #033 (12.02.10) – vital organs

Michael Wertz — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:49:35 +0000

Take a crazy journey through varied times and places as we celebrate the wild and wooly sounds of electric keyboards! You can listen to the show by clicking here.

In a Persian Market – DICK LEIBERT
A Shot in the Dark – SHIRLEY SCOTT TRIO

Sack-O-Woe – THE MAR-KEYS
96 Tears – ? & THE MYSTERIANS

Azure Te – WILD BILL DAVIS
The Liquidator – HARRY J ALL-STARS

Enchanted Farm – THE FORBIDDEN FIVE
The Happy Organ – DAVE “BABY” CORTEZ

On My Radio – THE SELECTER

Our Happiness is Guaranteed – QUASI

Ain’t Gonna Take It – TOM ROBINSON BAND
Limbo: The Organized Mind – RAYMOND SCOTT
Manhattan Fable – BABS GONZALEZ
Hog Maw Stomp – FATS WALLER
TV is the Thing this Year – DINAH WASHINGTON
Three Deuces – EDDIE “Lockjaw” DAVIS
Psychedelic Woman – HONNY & THE BEES BAND
Iena Sequence – ROBERTO PREGADIO
Amore per Tutti from Giulietta degli Spiriti – NINO ROTA

The Digah’s Stomp – FATS WALLER
Gearhead – DANNY GATTON & JOEY DeFRANCESCO
Ya se ha muerto mi Abuela – JUANECO Y SU COMBO
Farfisa Beat – SQUEEZE
Love is Just Around the Corner – JACKIE DAVIS
Side 1, 7″ single – CONN ORGAN CORPORATION
“Where Was I?” (Bonus Track) on ORGANS in ORBIT
You Are the Sunshine of My Life – HUGO MONTENEGRO
Jalousie – BILLY NALLE
St. Louis Blues – BESSIE SMITH

Organ Grinder’s Swing – JIMMY SMITH

Sudden Organ – YO LA TENGO

xxm&a

p.s. It has been brought to our attention by Andy Arkley from the Bran Flakes that Ken Griffin is well worth a listen.

big black hairdos – fall 2010

Michael Wertz — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:03:35 +0000

here’s an itunes playlist for those of you with black hair and blacker dreams. falltime is here : it’s time to get out the aquanet.

the only band that is not represented in this playlist (not on itunes – hrmmm) is the cocteau twins. here’s liz singing song to the siren complete with falling leaves and aquanet:

AAT #032 – Things We’re Thankful For

argylladventuretree — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:48:08 +0000

The theme of this week’s show is sort of What We’re Thankful For. But sort of not. You can listen by clicking here. We’re especially thankful that Dr. Todd from The Ripple Effect joined us and brought along some vinyl and CD’s, some of which he kindly left with us.

Autumn Almanac – THE KINKS

Model Worker – MAGAZINE

Warm Slime – THE OH SEES
Triste – BIG CITY ORCHESTRA
Bolero – PACK OF GURUS
All That Jazz – ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

Shoot You Down – APB
Shifting Heart – THE PLUGZ
Tranquillo – BIG CITY ORCHESTRA
I Should Be Coming Up But I’m Coming Down – SKY PARADE

Bo Mambo – YMA SUMAC

Funhappy – WARM WIRES
Diamond in the Coal – THE 88
Komplicated Man – JASON FALKNER
So Tough – THE SLITS

Police Truck/Short Songs/Straight A’s – DEAD KENNEDYS
Your Molecular Structure – MOSE ALLISON
Good Vibrations (Single Mix) – THE BEACH BOYS
Do I Love You – ELLA FITZGERALD
I Like You – PHRANC
By This River – BRIAN ENO
Haul on the Bowline – RENALDO & THE LOAF

Swanlights – ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS

Foolish Love – RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

x m & a