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A celebration of The Midnight Special, a quirky 70s music-themed late-night show.
A Fifth of Beethoven – Water MurphyTired of Being Alone – Al GreenRubberband Man – The SpinnersWill It Go Around In Circles – Billy PrestonFire – The Pointer SistersOver My Head – Fleetwood MacMagic Man – HeartNights on Broadway – Bee GeesHot Child in the City – Nick GilderShow Me the Way – Peter FramptonLove Rollercoaster – Ohio PlayersDazz – BrickMagic – Olivia Newton-JohnCisco Kid – WarListen to the Music – Doobie BrothersLet’s Go – The CarsLong Long Time – Linda RonstadtSummer Breeze – Seals & CroftsBrick House – The CommodoresGet Up Offa That Thing – James BrownHeart of Glass – BlondieSuperfly – Curtis MayfieldDon’t Cross the River – AmericaSundown – Gordon LightfootCome and Get Your Love – RedboneJive Talkin’ – Bee GeesBlack Diamond – KissAmerican Girl – Tom PettyDisco Inferno – The TrammpsI Feel Love – Donna SummerKnock on Wood – Amii StewartDo It Again – Steely DanRhiannon – Fleetwood MacBreezin’ – George Benson & Carlos Santana
It’s a long one but it’s good.
Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric (Wreckless Eric)Ca plane pour moi – Plastic Bertrand (Plastic Bertrand)Magnetic Warrior – Archie Bronson Outfit (Coconut)Yer Crutch – Moon Shy (Yer Crutch)Piano Fire – Sparklehorse (It’s A Wonderful Life)Attack of the Ghost Riders – The Raveonettes (Whip It On)Ambulance – Battles (Juice B Crypts)Summon The Fire – The Comet Is Coming (Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery)Come Meh Way – Sudan Archives (Sudan Archives)Big Noise – The Upsetters (The Upsetter)Blueeyed Devil – Soul Coughing (Ruby Vroom)It’s Not Easy – Ofege (51 Lex Presents: Lead Me On)India – The Psychedelic Furs (The Psychedelic Furs)There’s a Wrinkle in Our Time – 1984 (Movements, Vol. 2)Baila Chibiquiban – Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. (Ritual)Pinball Number Count – The Pointer Sisters (Sesame Street: Songs from the Street, Vol. 3)Charley’s Girl – Lou Reed (Coney Island Baby)Barracuda – John Cale (Fear)One Trick Ponies – Kurt Vile (One Trick Ponies)Shadows – Future Islands (feat. Debbie Harry) (The Far Field)Dream Baby Dream (Single Edit) – Suicide (Dream Baby Dream EP)Morningstar – Grant Hart (The Argument)A Salty Salute – Guided By Voices (Alien Lanes)Revolution – Dr. John (Locked Down)Coffy Is The Color (From The “Coffy” Soundtrack) – Roy Ayers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wayne Garfield (Coffy)Jim on the Move – Lizzy Mercier Descloux (Press Color)You’ve Got a Woman – Lion (You’ve Got a Woman)Harley Davidson – Brigitte Bardot (Salut les copains)Rebel Rebel – David Bowie (Diamond Dogs)Save It For Later – The English Beat (Special Beat Service)Drop – CORNELIUS (Matador At Fifteen)Time (You and I) – Khruangbin (Time (You and I))Superbike – Jay Som (Anak Ko)Play Money – The New Pornographers (Whiteout Conditions)Mucho Mungo / Mt. Elga – Harry Nilsson (Pussy Cats)Dancing in the Moonlight – King Harvest (Dancing in the Moonlight)Midnight In Richmond – Young Gun Silver Fox (AM Waves)Everyone’s Gone To The Movies – Steely Dan (Katy Lied)Love Will Bring Us Back Together Again – Roy Ayers (The Best Of Roy Ayers)Sookie Sookie – Grant Green (Alive!)Listen Here – Eddie Harris (The Electrifying Eddie Harris)Do Your Thing – Isaac Hayes (Shaft)
All records! And probably turned up a little too loud.
Camp Orange – Cornershop (Woman’s Gotta Have It)Cool – Pylon (Cool/Dub 7″)Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)Come Together – The Internet (Hive Mind)Computer Love – Kraftwerk (Computer World)When the Lights Go Out – Naked Eyes (Naked Eyes)Seattle – P.I.L. (Happy?)Universal Speech – The Go! Team (Proof of Youth)Just Like Heaven – Dinosaur Jr. (12″ EP)Seen Your Video – The Replacements (Let It Be)River Euphrates – Pixies (Gigantic / River Euphrates EP)The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill – Hüsker Dü (New Day Rising)Texas Never Whispers – Pavement (Watery, Domestic EP)Down on the Street – Stooges (Funhouse)Rainmaker – Sparklehorse (Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot)Planet of the Wolves – Guitar Wolf (Planet of the Wolves)Dead Record Player – Dr. Dog (The Psychedelic Swamp)You’re My Drug – Dukes of StratosphearThe Noise of Carpet – Stereolab (Emperor Tomato Ketchup)Babydoll – Medicine (The Buried Life)Generals and Majors – XTC (Black Sea)Old Engine Oil – Budos Band (V)Modern World – Wolf Parade (Apologies to the Queen Mary)Tom Violence – Sonic Youth (EVOL)Pacer – The Amps (Pacer)Ambiguity Song – Camper Van Beethoven (Telephone Free Landslide Victory)I’m Not Sayin’ – Nico (I’m Not Sayin’ 12″)Greyhound – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Orange)Sidewalkin’ – Jesus & Mary ChainYes I Do (Merry Go Round) – Psychedelic Furs (Forever Now)Starman – David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars)Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction (Nothing’s Shocking)Draining Euphrates – The Mighty Missoula (Remnants)The Minotaur – Dick Hyman (Moog)Nothin’s Gonna Stop the Show – Folk Implosion (Kids Soundtrack)No Aloha – The Breeders (Last Splash)Fragile – Wire (Pink Flag)Bad Days – Flaming Lips (Clouds Taste Metallic)I Am the Resurrection – Stone Roses (Stone Roses)
Topical show this week.
The Intro and the Outro – Bonzo Dog BandYou Haven’t Done Nothin’ – Stevie Wonder (Fulfillingness’ First Finale)Kung Fu – Curtis Mayfield (Sweet Exorcist)Me & Mr. Hohner – Bobby Darin (Songs From Big Sur)Jockey Full Of Bourbon – Tom Waits (Rain Dogs)Living in America – Sault (7)Cavern – Liquid LiquidI Fought the Law – The ClashPolice On My Back – The EqualsBring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple) – John Lennon (Mind Games)We Gotta Live Together (Live At Filmore East, 1970) – Band Of GypsysLiquidator – Harry J AllstarsFantastic Man – William OnyeaborYou’ve Got a Woman – LionSo We Won’t Forget – Khruangbin (So We Won’t Forget)Sign ‘O’ the Times – Prince (Sign ‘O’ the Times)The Message – Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five, Melle Mel, Duke BooteeDave – Cheech & ChongPolice & Thieves – Junior Murvin (Police & Thieves)The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron (Pieces of a Man)Everyday People – Sly & The Family StoneThis Land is Your Land – Woody GuthrieWelcome To The Occupation – R.E.M. (Document)Moody (Spaced Out) – ESG (The Moody EP)Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley & The WailersHikky-Burr (Album Version) – Quincy Jones (The Original Jam Sessions 1969)Wiggle Waggle – Herbie Hancock (Fat Albert Rotunda)Bulldog (Live) – The Ventures (Live In Japan ’65)Fat Back (Album Version) – Mongo SantamariaBlowin In The Wind – The Staple SingersAht Uh Mi Hed – Shuggie Otis (Inspiration Information/ Wings Of Love)Love Will Bring Us Back Together Again – Roy Ayers (The Best Of Roy Ayers)God Make Me Funky – The Headhunters (Survival Of The Fittest)Israelites – Desmond DekkerKeep On Pushing – The Impressions (Keep On Pushing)Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic – Isaac Hayes (Hot Buttered Soul)
So much 70s! It’s a lot of 70s in here. It really is.
Root Down (And Get It) (Live) – Jimmy Smith (Root Down)Lover of the Bayou (Live) – The Byrds ((Untitled) / (Unissued))Listen to the Music – The Doobie Brothers (Toulouse Street)Cool It Down – The Velvet Underground (Loaded)Coffy Is The Color – Roy Ayers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wayne Garfield (Coffy)The Bitch Is Back – Elton John (Caribou)Lazy Days – The Flying Burrito BrothersCountry Air – The Beach Boys (1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow)If Not For You – George Harrison (All Things Must Pass)California – Joni Mitchell (Blue)California Revisited – America (Homecoming)On and On – Ned Doheny (Ned Doheny)Tangerine – Led Zeppelin (III)Walk a Thin Line – Fleetwood Mac (Tusk)Midnight Rider (Alternate Mix) – The Allman Brothers Band (Idlewild South)Downed – Cheap Trick (In Color)Less Than Zero – Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True)Hey, Hey Helen – Abba (Abba)Little Willy – SweetJive Talkin’ – Bee Gees (Main Course)Summer – WarWaiting On A Friend – The Rolling Stones (Tattoo You)Oh Darling – Supertramp (Breakfast In America)You’re So Fine – Badfinger (Wish You Were Here)Tennessee Jed (Live at L’Olympia, Paris, May 3, 1972) – Grateful DeadRevolution Blues – Neil Young (On the Beach)Miss Judy’s Farm – Faces (A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse)You Don’t Mess Around with Jim – Jim Croce (You Don’t Mess Around With Jim)As I Went out One Morning – Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding)Monkey In Your Soul – Steely Dan (Pretzel Logic)Glad Tidings – Van Morrison (Moondance)Station to Station – David Bowie (Station to Station)Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty – Herbie Mann (Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty)
A very Sixties-centric set with plenty of rock and psychedelia.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Version 1) – Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash (The Complete Million Dollar Quartet)We Wanna Boogie – Sonny Burgess (The Arkansas Wild Man)Let Her Dance – Bobby Fuller Four (I Fought The Law: The Best Of Bobby Fuller Four)You Told Me (2007 Remaster) – The Monkees (Headquarters [Deluxe Edition])Nashville Skyline Rag – Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline)One Hundred Years from Now (Rehearsal Version – Takes 14 & 15 – Gram Parsons Vocal) – The Byrds (Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (Legacy Edition))Feelin’ Alright – Joe Cocker (20th Century Masters: The Best Of Joe Cocker (The Millennium Collection))Laisse tomber les filles – April March (Chick Habit)Nowhere To Run – Martha Reeves, The Vandellas (Dance Party)I Am Waiting – The Rolling Stones (Aftermath)Mama Roux – Dr. John (Gris Gris)Le temps de l’amour – Françoise Hardy (Belles, belles, belles)Moi je joue – Brigitte Bardot (BB 64)She’s My Best Friend (“1969” / Original Mix) – The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground (45th Anniversary / Super Deluxe))Pride And Joy – Marvin Gaye (Gold)My Boyfriend’s Back – The Angels (My Boyfriend’s Back)I Wanna Be Sedated (2002 Remaster) – Ramones (Road to Ruin (Expanded 2005 Remaster))Sloop John B – The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds Sessions Disc 1)This Will Be Our Year – The Zombies (Odessey And Oracle)A Quick One While He’s Away (Remastered 2018) – The Who (The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus (Expanded))Good Times – Harry Nilsson, The New Salvation Singers (Spotlight On Nilsson)There Is a Mountain (Single Version) – Donovan (Donovan’s Greatest Hits)So You Say You Lost Your Baby – Gene Clark, The Gosdin Brothers (Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers – (Deluxe Edition))I Saw Her Again (Single Version) – The Mamas & The Papas (The Mamas & The Papas)Kitty Can – Bee Gees (Idea (Deluxe Edition))Plastic Factory – Captain Beefheart (Safe As Milk)Mercy, Mercy – Don Covay (See Saw)Candyman – Grateful Dead (American Beauty)John Jones – Van Dyke Parks (Discover America)Yes We Can (Pt. 1) – Lee Dorsey (Yes We Can …And Then Some)Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere)The Village Green Preservation Society (2018 Stereo Remaster) – The Kinks (The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (2018 Stereo Remaster))Don’t Bring Me Down – The Animals (Animalization)Think For Yourself (Remastered 2009) – The Beatles (Rubber Soul (Remastered))A Minha Menina – Os Mutantes (Os Mutantes)Roller Girl – Anna Karina (BOF Anna)I’m the Urban Spaceman – Bonzo Dog Band (The Bestiality Of Bonzo Dog Band)Positively 4th Street (Single Version) – Bob Dylan (The Essential Bob Dylan)Buzz The Jerk – The Pretty Things (Get The Picture?)Nobody Spoil My Fun – The Seeds (The Seeds)Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised)These Days – Nico (Chelsea Girl)The Air That I Breathe – The Hollies (The Air That I Breathe – The Very Best of the Hollies)
A dreampop and shoegaze-inspired evening that went in some interesting directions.
Godless – The Dandy Warhols (Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia)Evil Woman – Sexton Blake (Plays the Hits!)Treason – The Bats (Daddy’s Highway)Iceblink Luck – Cocteau Twins (Heaven or Las Vegas)Superbike – Jay Som (Anak Ko)Aruca – Medicine (Shot Forth Self Living)Soon – My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)Crash – Ultra Vivid Scene (Ultra Vivid Scene)Loose Fit – Happy Mondays (Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches)Peace To All Freaks – of Montreal (UR FUN)Kamera – Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)Telecommunication – A Flock of SeagullsPull Up to the Bumper – Grace Jones (Island Life)Come Meh Way – Sudan ArchivesUp All Night – Boomtown RatsBad Decisions – The Strokes (The New Abnormal)Hendrix with Ko – Caribou (Up in Flames)Cream On Chrome – Ratatat (Magnifique)Out – Liquid LiquidMoody – ESG (The Moody EP)Everywhere That Wog Army Roam – Cornershop (England is a Garden)Take off Your Bandages – Robyn HitchcockSaturday Night Blues – Natural Child (Dancin’ With Wolves)Hundreds of Sparrows – Sparklehorse(A big mess-up on-air as per a theoretical listener request) A Promise – Echo & The Bunnymen (Heaven Up Here)Seventeen – Ladytron (Best of 00-10)Laisse tomber les filles – France Gall (Poupée de son)Mais où sont passées les gazelles? – Lizzy Mercier Descloux (Zulu Rock)We Did It Again – Bongwater (Box of Bongwater)Fingertips – The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Bout Des Doigts)High as Apple Pie – Slice II – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm BandDead Set on Destruction – Hüsker Dü (Candy Apple Grey)
A solid two hours of high-quality listening.
Time (You and I) – Khruangbin (Mordechai)Cherry – Chromatics (Cherry)When You Were Mine – PrinceJeannie Becomes a Mom – Caroline Rose (Loner)Over – Sault (7)Forever Now – Psychedelic Furs (Forever Now)Summon the Fire – The Comet Is Coming (Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery)Sleep the Clock Around – Belle and Sebastian (The Boy With the Arab Strap)Distortions – Clinic (Internal Wrangler)I Melt With You – Nouvelle Vague (Nouvelle Vague)I’m Straight – The Modern Lovers (The Modern Lovers)Unsatisfied – The Replacements (Let It Be)Laid – James (Laid)Hero Ran – The AmiesTwist Top – The Clean (Anthology)Pacer – The Amps (Pacer)Photograph – Camper Van BeethovenLet’s Call It Off – Peter Bjorn And John (Writer’s Block)Hoola – Archie Bronson Outfit (Coconut)The Courtesan Has Sung – Sunset Rubdown (Random Spirit Lover)Take To The Sky – Guided By Voices (Under The Bushes Under The Stars)Riki Tiki Tavi – Donovan (Open Road)Home – Caribou (Home – Single)Nice – Latroit (Nice – Single)Soul Island – The Meters (The Very Best of the Meters)Like Sugar – Chaka Khan (Hello Happiness)52 Girls – The B-52’s (The B-52’s)Oh Woman, Oh Why – Paul McCartney (Ram)I Can’t Stand It – Lou Reed (Lou Reed)Full Grown – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Orange)Rhythm Bandits – Junior Senior (D–D–Don’t Stop the Beat)Masoko Tanga – The Police (Outlandos D’Amour)Mission Impossible – Lizzy Mercier Descloux (Press Color)Goodbye Stranger – Supertramp (Breakfast in America)I’ve Been Tired – Pixies (Come On Pilgrim)