Playlist for 12-28-08

• laika and the cosmonauts - NY '79 - local warming
• maraca five-o - gidget's guns - headin south at 110 per
• man or astro-man - special agent conrad uno - your weight on the moon
• los straightjackets - black is black - sing along with los straightjackets
• the ventures - linda lu - bobby vee meets the ventures
• los straightjackets - bumble bee - sing along with los straightjackets

• the fathoms - rockabilly surfer - fathomless
• the halibuts - rumble at waikiki - reverb central
• neil mooney - hitch hiker - delponic sounds...today!
• meshugga beach party - driedel driedel driedel - 20 songs from the chosen surfers
• RNA - spanish bombs - charlie don't surf

• dandy warhols - wonderful you - welcome to the monkey house
• beach house - childhood - beach house
• saturday looks good to me - ambulance - SLGTM
• broadcast - paper cuts - the noise made by people
• ladybug transistor - three days from now - can't wait another day
• pas/cal - what happened to the sands - the handbag memoirs

• beachwood sparks - let it run - once we were trees
• lenola - lazy eye - treat me to some life
• origami ghosts - east station - short momentum
• gorky's zygotic mynci - if fingers were xylophones - introducing...
• fleet foxes - white winter hymnal - fleet foxes
• gorky's zygotic mynci - moon beats yellow - introducing...

• what laura says - get better soon - thinks and feels
• isobel campbell + mark lanegan - the flame that burns - sunday at devil dirt
• damon & naomi - in the sun - playback singers
• cub country - your old street - hugh unita high

• eef barzelay - well - bitter honey
• mt. eerie - what? - lost wisdom
• broadcast - tender buttons - tender buttons
• lake - heaven - oh, the places we'll go
• matt elliot - the mess we made - the mess we made

Playlist for 12-21-08

The Christmas Episode!

These were compiled from a mess of compilations. There are really only a few worth mentioning: Maybe This Christmas (and MTC "Too" and MTC "Tree"); 50,000,000 Elves Fans Can't Be Wrong; The O.C. Mix 3 (...yes, don't laugh); and Plastic Snow: 16 Swell Songs by Local Bands Benefiting Los Angeles' Midnight Mission. The last one is so significantly swell, and so well-used in this show, that I've asterisk'd every song from that album. You're welcome!

• * the breakups - breaking up for christmas
• the aislers set - "christmas song"
• sufjan stevens - it's christmas! let's be glad
• * i make this sound - holiday
• yo la tengo - it's christmas time
• bright eyes - god rest ye merry gentlemen
• * the hectors - the last december

• the arcade fire - a very arcade xmas
• the waistcoats - (i wish you could be more like) santa claus
• sufjan stevens - come on! let's boogey to the elf dance!
• the ravonettes - the christmas song
• the rory mcbrides - (we like) eggnog!

• the ventures - santa claus is coming to town
• the ventures - sleigh ride
• los straitjackets - god rest ye merry gentlemen
• los straitjackets - feliz navidad

• jens lekman - maple leaves - when i said i wanted to be your dog
• * the sweet hurt - christmas, california
• tom mcrae - wonderful christmas
• pedro the lion - i heard the bells on christmas day
• palace - christmastime in the mountains

• * princeton - where's my christmas morning?
• bright eyes - blue christmas
• sufjan stevens - only at christmas time
• pedro the lion - the first noel
• mark kozelek - white christmas
• martina sorbara - it's the most wonderful time of the year

• peter joback - gud frid i gode vise man
• ben kweller - rock of ages
• low - just like christmas
• * earlimart - i'll be home for christmas
• the flaming lips - a change at christmas (say it ain't so)
• low - silent night

Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah

I have not been able to stop playing this song for several days. It's adorable and perfect. And this is a really cute version of it.

Playlist for 12/7/08

Tonight I was on the air for four (4!) hours, because I subbed the show that came after mine (the wonderful "The Song Also Rises"). So this week's playlist is especially long. The first half is mostly surf, and the second half is rrrreally mellow stuff, in the mode of Mt. Eerie -- both wistfully happy and morose.

Also, around 4:30am, a British friend of mine "called in" requests, all the way from the United Kingdom. This incongruous section of hip-hop and Christmas music was nonetheless lovely.

• insect surfers - flamin' eddie's dragstrip - hot rods to hell vol. II
• speed devils - showdown - speed devils
• frankie and the pool boys - magyara - frankie and the pool boys
• pollo del mar - hall of the mountain king - the golden state

• laika and the cosmonauts - fadeaway - laika sex machine (live!)
• ben vaughn - romantic beach scene - psycho beach party
• the ventures - candy man - bobby vee meets the ventures
• trocadero sextett (from former DDR) - leicht verdreht - surfbeat behind the iron curtain
• meshugga beach party - ose shalom - 20 songs of the chosen surfers
  

• laika and the cosmonauts - floating - laika sex machine (live!)
• royal coachmen - loophole - lost legends of surf guitar vol. 1
• the esquires - what a burn - flashin' red
• the daytonas - go! - beyond the beach
• eliminators (uk) - wipe-out! - surfbeat behind the iron curtain

• saturday looks good to me - since i stole your heart - every night
• saturday looks good to me - i would find it so beautiful - SLGTM
• crystal stilts - the dazzled - alight of night
• so so glos - love or empire - tourism / terrorism

• dr. dog - my old ways - we all belong
• little joy - the next time around - little joy
• lake - oh, the places two - oh, the places we'll go
• dr. dog - weekend - we all belong

--- UK request time ---

• cliff richard - mistletoe and wine - youtube
  
• siv pettersson - lat mig fa tanda et ljus - absolut christmas
• dandy warhols - little drummer boy - it's a cool cool christmas
• n-dubz - strong again - youtube
• hermigervill - eggjahvita - lausnin
  

-- back to surf and such --

• laika and the cosmonauts - disconnected - absurdistan
• man or astro-man? - super rocket rumble - deluxe men in space
• perro del mar - a flash of green - the golden state

• kaki king - close to me - perfect as cats: a tribute to the cure
  
• herman dune - i wish that i could see you soon - i wish that i could see you soon
• jens lekman - opposite of hallelujah - night falls over kortedala
  
• her space holiday - sleepy tigers - xoxo, panda kid
• welcome wagon - sold! to the nice rich man - welcome to...
  
• ladybug transistor - the swimmer - the albermale sound

• department of eagles - teenagers - in ear park
• saturday looks good to me - don't try - SLGTM
• her space holiday - the heartbreak moment - xoxo, panda kid
• the muslims - grinding halt - perfect as cats (cure tribute)
  

• math and physics club - when we get famous - weekends away
  
• polaris - recently - music from the adventures of pete and pete
• wallpaper - shag carpet- on the chewing gum ground
• origami ghosts - east station - short momentum

• i am robot and proud - island life - uphill city
• mt. eerie - o my heart - lost wisdom
• dear nora - here we come around - mountain rock
• jens lekman - when i said i wanted to be your dog

• damien rice - cheers darlin' - o
• the postmarks - five years - 1-12 by the numbers
• seu jorge - oh! you pretty things - the life aquatic sessions
• rio en medio - pictures of you - perfect as cats: a tribute to the cure

• maia hirasawa - the worrying kind - the worrying kind (single)
• school of the seven bells - white elephant coat - alpinisms
• tom waits - ghosts of saturday night - heart of saturday night

• the cardigans - little black cloud - super extra gravity
• the ladybug transistor - oceans in the hall - abermarle sound
• frida hyvoren - my cousin - silence is wild
• los campesinos - heart swells/pacific daylights time - we are beautiful, we are doomed

• brad barr - still shives - the fall apartment
• seu jorge - e isso ai (the blower's daughter) - ana y jorge ao vivo
• mirah - the sun - the old days feeling
  

Playlist for 11/30/08

This week, I unplugged (!!) the computer in studio A just as I was finishing my show. I was pissed, as I didn't save my open playlist, nor was I able to recover the stream recorder. These are all I can remember; I might have missed one or two tracks.

• japanese motors - single fins and safety pins - japanese motors
• pas/cal - the truth behind all the vogues she sold - i was raised on matthew, mark, luke, and laura
• little teeth - oh drag - child bearing man
• da bears - don't make up the rules as you go - world famous...
• andrew beaujon - andy - a raw-boned june
• block of yellow - you shook my head - do i do
• the rumble strip - girls and boys in love - girls and weather

• bird names - referents - open relationship
• special needs - blue skies - blue skies (ep)
• parts and labor - sattelites - recievers
• little joy - keep me in mind - little joy
• saturday looks good to me - meet me by the water - all our summer songs
• beachwood sparks - the sun surrounds me - once we were trees
• michael shelley - the pill - too many movies
• dressy bessy - left to the right - holler and stomp
• team genius - sing song - team genius
• bird names - grant's parting word - open relationship

• sincron (from romania) - in gara la leordeni - surfbeat from behind the iron curtain
• the tiki tones - spectre detector - suburban savage
• ben vaughn - neenie's famous weenies - psycho beach party

• link wray - batman theme - rumble!
• jerry goldsmith - "man from uncle" theme - secret agent file
  
• the galaxy trio - "fistful of dollars" theme - mondo drive-in
• ben vaughn - main title - psycho beach party
• the penetrators - chariots of foam - mondo drive-in
• the ventures - "the green hornet" - bobby vee meets the ventures

• she and him - why do you let me stay here? - volume one
• department of eagles - ear park - in ear park
• little joy - play the part - little joy
• mt. eerie - lost wisdom - lost wisdom

Playlist for 11/23/08

• the thrills - santa cruz, you're not that far - so much for the city the
• jayhawks - poor little fish - sound of lies
• michael shelley - stoop sale - i blame you
• math and physics club - love, again - weekends away (ep)
• pas/cal - the bronzed beach boys - the handbag memoirs (ep)

• gomez - these three sins - split the difference
• pants yell! - tried to be good - alison statton
• eagle*seagull - your beauty is a knife i turn on my throat - eagle*seagull
• dr. dog - old ways - we all belong
• dr. dog - ain't it strange - we all belong
  

• crystal stilts - the sunking - alight of night
• pipas - riff raff - chillharmonium
• billy nichols - daytime girl - would you believe
• the ventures (with bobby vee) - walk right back - bobby vee meets the ventures
• department of eagles - no one does it like you - ear park

• link wray - batman theme - the best of link wray
• eliminators - dawn patrol - reverb central
• the tiki tones - go go loco - suburban savage
• wild turkey - surfin' hearse - live at the esplanade hotel
• link wray - the shadow knows - the best of link wray
• laika and the cosmonauts - liposuction - local warming
• man or astro-man - interstellar hardrive - eeviac
• the ventures - hawaii five-o

• little joy - brand new start - little joy
• bikeride - that's math! - 37 secrets i only told
• noah and the whale - shape of my heart - peaceful, the world lays me down
• dr. dog - california - takers and leavers (ep)

• jeremy jay - escape to aspen - a place where we could go
• da bears - leonardo says - the world famous da bears
• bingo gazingo - up yours jurassic park
• the ventures (feat. bobby vee) - bird swingers - bobby vee meets the ventures
  

• the shermans - sunday morning - in technicolor
• dressy bessy - look around - pink hearts yellow moons
• miss mary - the cutest boy - hey blue
• vivian girls - damaged - vivian girls
• stan ridgeway - mexican radio - youtube