frow show, fmu-15

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Detailed playlist.

1. “When the Stars Shine” – The Instruments (from Billions of Phonographs)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “It’s Up To You” – The Shop Assistants (from Shopping Parade) EP)
4. “Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)” – Earth (from The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull)
5. “Crystal Dust Dream” – Stag Hare (from Black Medicine Music)
6. “Brazil” – Cornelius (from Point)
7. “In the Night” – Professor Longhair and His Blues Scholars (from New Orleans Piano anthology)
8. “Escaped and Lost Down in Medina” – Ghost (from Hypnotic Underworld)
9. “#3” – Lorkakar (from The First of the Lost Signals)
10. “Side B” – Sun Circle (from Sun Circle)
11. “A Son With No Father” – Carlos Giffoni (from Adult Life)
12. “For Brass (excerpt)” – LaMonte Young (from Vol. 1 anthology)
13. “Ise’-No-Umi” – Imperial Household Orchestra (from Secret Museum of Mankind, v. 1: Ethnic Music Classics, 1925-1948 compilation)
14. “California” – Dr. Dog (from Takers and Leavers EP)
15. “Wild About the Lady” – J. Justine (from My New Music)
16. “I Think It’s Time (You Were Mine)” – Alice Swoboda (from Eccetric Soul: The Tragar and Note Labels)
17. “Trio Bimbo Dan Iln (My Girl)” – ??? (from Indonesian Cassette Mix)
18. “Bubblegum Independence” – v/a (from Radio Phnom Penh compilation)
19. “Day Tripper” – Lee Moses (from Ike’s 2008 Hanukkah mix)
20. “And I Love Her” – Bob Marley and the Wailers (from One Love at Studio One anthology)
21. “? ?????? ??? ??????” – Yuri Morozov
22. “Jaegermeister” – Tabata Mitsuru (from KFJC Presents Live from the Japanese Music Underground compilation)
23. “Beyond the Dusty Hills (Cowboy in the Desert, part II)” – La Otracina (from Tonal Eclipse of the One)
24. “Part II” – Les Rallizes Denudes (from Oz Days Live compilation)
25. “Perfume For Winter” – Fennesz (from Black Sea)
26. “Jam > Stella Blue” – Grateful Dead (from Dick’s Picks, v. 1)
27. “The Saints of My City Are Children” – Levitts (from We Are the Levitts)
28. “Elara” – John Hill (from Six Moons of Jupiter)
29. “Haunted Circus Accordion Wind Ghost Reed Forest Ensemble” – Greg Carr (from Technological Retreat: Mixes, v. 1)
30. “A Cloud In Doubt” – Flying (from Faces of the Night)
31. “Welcome to the Working Week” – Elvis Costello (from My Aim Is True)

83 points of laser-beamed love from brooklyn (with mp3s)

Hey everybody!

Happy New Year! I hope you’re doing awesome!

At least for a second, at some point in 2008, each of these 83 tracks was my favorite thing in the entire known universe. Some still are.
Click here & download (no rigmarole this year!): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M62XEW3K

Make a playlist! Shuffle it!

Welcome to the other side.

Love,
Jesse.

frow show, fmu-14

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Detailed playlist.

1. “Before and Again” – Akron/Family (from Akron/Family)
2. “Minority” – Bill Evans (from Everybody Digs Bill Evans)
3. “Frow Show Theme” = MVB
4. “New Year” – The Breeders (from Last Splash)
5. “We Deflate” – Surrender to the Air (from Surrender to the Air)
6. “Punkte” – Ursula Bogner (from Recordings, 1969-1988 anthology)
7. “Maybe In Another Year” – Jennie Pearl (from Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon compilation)
8. “Sanctus” – Harry Partch (from Made to Order: Bethany Ryker’s 2008 WFMU Marathon Premium compilation)
9. “B3” – Avarus (from III)
10. “Mother and the Bird Machine” – Dixie Blood Moustache (from Sounds to Sooth a Nervous Robot compilation)
11. “Echolalia” – David Gans (from The Ones That Look Weirdest Taste the Best)
12. “Summer Daydream” – Ralph White (from Navasota River Devil Squirrel)
13. “Maine” – Homegas (from Homegas)
14. “I Believe” – Lambchop (from OH (ohio))
15. “Every Year Carries A Number” – Mighty Voices of Wonder (from Local Custom: Downriver Revival anthology)
16. “Ob Ish” – Why? (from Miss Ohio’s Nameless)
17. “To The Love Within” – Megapuss (from Surfing)
18. “Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told” – Six Organs of Admittance (from RTX)
19. “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” – Trad, Gras, och Stenar (from Trad, Gras, och Stenar)
20. “Cricket Music 1964” – Walter DeMaria (from Drums and Nature)
21. 1971 in Review: The news, the events, the personalities as they happened as you lived them
22. “Concession Speech” – Richard Nixon (from Great Speeches of the 20th Century, v. 4 compilation)
23. “Solo” – Henry Grimes (from Solo)
24. “Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond” – David Dunn (from Angels and Insects)
25. “Stridulations (miniatures for temple block ensemble” – Billy Martin (from Black Elk Speaks)
26. “New Year’s Eve” – Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers (from Heroin)
27. “Sasong” (un-backwards) – Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan (from Pullhair Rubeye)
28. “Voaltz (U-Bus Remix by Altz Kabamix)” – The Boredoms (from Voaltz/Rereler 12-inch)
29. “Don’t Say A Word” – Yo La Tengo feat. Smokey Hormel (23 December 2008, Maxwell’s)
30. “Accidentally Like A Martyr” – Jerry Garcia (from All Good Things box set)

ylt, night 8

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
28 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 8)*
Metal Mountains and Todd Barry opened.

Mix disc by Zooey Deschanel.

Not A Second Time (The Beatles) (sung as “Not A Ninth Time”)
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
Mr. Tough
The Room Got Heavy (with Samara Lubelski on violin)
Swing For Life (with SL, Pat Gubler on guitar, and Helen Rush on keyboards)
4th Time Around (Bob Dylan) (with SL, PG, and HR)
Group Grope (The Fugs) (with SL, PG, and HR)
Saturday (with SL, PG, and HR)
The Way Some People Die (with PG)
Stockholm Syndrome
The Story of Jazz
Tom Courtenay
I Heard You Looking (with Joe Puleo on organ)
Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)

*(encore)*
Autumn Sweater
This Ain’t The Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult) (with Todd Barry on drums)
You Can Have It All (George McCrea)
You’ve Got A Friend (Carole King)

ylt, night 7

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
27 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 7)*
Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band and David Cross (as Rabbi Alan Sugarman) opened.

Mix disc by Ira.
Benefit for Community Partnership School.

(whole show, minus “Sugarcube,” with David Mansfield on violin, pedal steel, and electric guitar.)

Sugarcube
Let’s Be Still
She May Call You Up Tonight (The Left Banke)
Cone of Silence
One PM Again
Pablo and Andrea
Griselda (Peter Stampfel)
The Crying of Lot G
I Feel Like Going Home
Nowhere Near
Off and Running (Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders)
Barnaby, Hardly Working
Big Day Coming (fast) >
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie >
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

*(encore)*
Long Gone (Customs/Lyres)
Walk Away, Rene (The Left Banke) (with DM and Willie Alexander)
Maybe More Than You (The Lost) (with DM and WA)
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling (Willie Alexander arrangement, Phil Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) (with DM and WA)
To Sir, With Love (Don Black/Mark London) (with David Cross)

ylt, night 6

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
26 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 6)*
Lambchop and Jon Wurster (as Marky Ramone) opened.

Mix disc by James.
Benefit for Zumix.

(set through “Moby Octopad” with William Tyler of Lambchop on guitar.)

Jesus Christ (Big Star)
My Heart’s Reflection
Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop
Tears Are Your Eyes
Song for Mahlia
Did I Tell You
The Weakest Part
Moby Octopad
Babysitter (The Ramones) (with “Marky Ramone” on drums)
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell) (with “Marky Ramone” on drums)
Cherry Chapstick
Tom Courtenay
Heroin (Velvet Underground, Roky Erickson arrangement)

*(encore)* with Cyril Jordan of the Flamin’ Groovies on guitar/vocals
You Tore Me Down (Flamin’ Groovies)
Absolutely Sweet Marie (Bob Dylan)
Dog Meat (Flamin’ Groovies)
Second Cousin (Flamin’ Groovies)
Shake Some Action (Flamin’ Groovies)

ylt, night 5

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
25 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 5)*
Antietam and Fred Armisen opened.

Mix disc by Georgia.
Benefit for NICE and Justice at Work Project.

(whole show, minus encore, with Fred Armisen on drums.)

Jesus Christ (Big Star)
False Alarm
I Should Have Known Better
The Last Days of Disco
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Little Eyes (Armisen on guitar)
Season of the Shark
Black Flowers (Armisen on guitar)
Things I Should’ve Said (P.F. Sloan/Steve Barri)
Take A Giant Step (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Demons (with Tara Key on guitar)
Deeper Into Movies (with Tara Key on guitar)
From A Motel 6 >
Nuclear War (Sun Ra) (with Josh Madell on percussion)

*(encore)* with Cyril Jordan of the Flamin’ Groovies on guitar/vocals
You Tore Me Down (Flamin’ Groovies)
Have You Seen My Baby (Randy Newman)
I Can’t Hide (Flamin’ Groovies)
Slow Death (Flamin’ Groovies)
Shake Some Action (Flamin’ Groovies)

ylt, night 4

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
24 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 4)*
Jennifer O’Connor and Jon Benjamin opened.

Mix disc by Russell Maer.
Benefit for Mercy Corps.

Big Day Coming (slow)
Beanbag Chair
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
Drug Test
The Weakest Part
Mr. Tough
Tiny Birds
Paul Is Dead
Shadows
Angst In My Pants (Sparks)
Upside Down
Autumn Sweater
I Heard Her Call My Name > (Velvet Underground)
Blue Line Swinger

*(encore)*
(I Gotta) Dream On (Herman’s Hermits)
Detouring America With Horns
Cherry Chapstick (slow)
Rock and Roll Santa (Jan Terri)

ylt, night 3

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
23 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 3)*
John Zorn & Marc Ribot and Slovin & Allen opened.

Mix disc by Gaylord Fields.
Benefit for Seacology.

(whole show with Smokey Hormel on guitar)

Leaving Home
We’re An American Band
Little Eyes
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Bob Dylan)
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (Neil Diamond)
The Race Is On Again
Damage
Can’t Forget
Don’t Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)
Our Way To Fall (swing version)
Out the Window
Styles of the Times
Tom Courtenay
I Heard You Looking (with Yoni Wolf on keyboards)

*(encore)*
Stay With Me (The Dictators)
Center of Gravity

ylt, night 2

Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s
22 December 2008
*(Hanukkah, night 2)*
Magnetic Fields and John Hodgman opened.

Mix disc by Steve Shelley.
Benefit for Burmese Refugee Project and Burma Border Projects.

(show played with upright piano)

The Weakest Part (slow)
Big Day Coming (fast)
Guess I’m Falling in Love (Velvet Underground)
Stockholm Syndrome
Winter A Go-Go
Sometimes I Don’t Get You
Don’t Have To Be So Sad (with Claudia Gonson, drums, and Sam Davol, cello, of Magnetic Fields)
Alyda
Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
Autumn Sweater
Double Dare
Decora
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie
The Story of Yo La Tango

*(encore)*
Be Careful, It’s My Heart (Irving Berlin) (Ira & Stephin Merritt duet)
A Foggy Day in London Town (George Gershwin) (with Doug Gillard, guitar/vocals)
No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits) (with Doug Gillard, guitar/vocals)
The Next Big Thing (The Dictators) (with Doug Gillard, guitar/vocals)
My Little Corner of the World (Bob Hilliard/Lee Pockriss) (with Ira’s mom, vocals)