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Hi.

It’s been a second since I’ve posted some new tunes, but now I am back with a juicy two part selection from my radio show last night.

I feel like I should write more right now, but I am sick of computing and I just want to be done for the day. I hope you enjoy the music.

Oh, and the good news came to me today that Bill Callahan (smog) will be playing here in October.

ok, bye, Collin

ARTIST / ALBUM / SONG

PART 1

John Jacob Niles /I Wonder When I Wander / “go ‘way from my window”

• I can’t say this version of “go ‘way from my window” performed by Marlene Dietrich is as powerful as John Jacobs, but the look on her face during this performance is priceless…pure sorrow and bitterness.

Tim Buckley/ live at the troubadour 1969 / “strange feelin’”

Fred Neil / the many sides of fred neil / “dolphins”

Tom Waits / Orphans / “fannin street”

Bill Fay / time of the last persecution / “’Til the Christ Come Back”

Nick Drake / Bryter Layter / “At The Chime Of A City Clock”

Townes Van Zandt / high, low and in between / “the highway kind”

Smog / Knock Knock / “I could drive forever”

PART 2

Elvis Costello & the Attractions / Armed Forces / “Big boys (alternative version)”

Love / S/T / “my little red book”

Them / them and again/ “my lonely sad eyes”

The Kinks / Kinda Kinks / “tired of waiting for you”

The Who / the Who Sell Out / “our love was”

Elvis Costello & the Attractions / Armed Forces /“green shirt”

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band / shiny beast / candle mambo”

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Hi.

Missoula is officially goddamn smokey and I have to get up extra early if I plan on getting my morning jog and extended stretch-out in. Here is a webcam, in case you care to spy in on my misery from whatever heavenly kingdom you come from. Yesterday I spent a 2 hour chunk of time DJing on KBGA and I got more phone calls than ever before in the history of man kind….probably due in part to the mass number of people trapped indoors attempting to give their lungs a slight reprieve from the heavy grey air outside. I was the cure, saved by the radio those folk been. Anyway, the show was a success and I chopped it up into two sections and put those up here for you to listen to at your leisure. Lots of Them, Love, Kinks, Troggs, and just generally upbeat tunes that have been putting me in a really nice happy sort of mood.

-alright

-bye

–—-collin

Also, I wanted you to take a close at this painting I have hanging at the top of this page here. Do you like it? Do you hate it?….it is the work of one NECK FACE, and he is 19 years old dammmmit.

ARTIST / ALBUM / SONG

PART 1

Them / The Story of Them / Here Comes the Night

Love / Love / Can’t Explain

The Zombies / Zombie Heaven / Remember You

The Kinks / Face to Face / Dandy

The Troggs / Archeology / Cousin Jane

Donovan / Sunshine Superman / Ferris Wheel

Love / Da Capo / Que Vida!

Them / The Story of Them / Philosophy

The Velvet Underground / Loaded / I’m Set Free

PART 2

Andre Ethier / Secondathallam / Don’t Let this Mean Old World Swallow you

The Deadly Snakes / Porcella Double LP / Veronica Brown

Love / Love / Message to a Pretty

The Zombies / Odyssey and Oracle / I Want Her She Wants Me

The Kinks /Something Else /Love Me ’til the Sun Shines

The Beatles / Beatles for Sale / What You’re Doing

Them / The Story of Them / How Long Baby?

The Small Faces / The Small Faces / It’s too Late

The Troggs / Archeology / Last Summer

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It’s been sort of hard updating this site since I moved back to Montana due to the slow internet connections that plague this place. I started DJing down at the local college radio station, KBGA 89.9, and I managed to record the first section of my last set there and that is what I’ll be posting here. The highlight of this mix, at least for me, is Jerusalem by Simon Finn. Each time I listen to Jerusalem I can feel the madness and feverish quality of the song start to work me over. Few songs can build a sense of anticipation as well as Jerusalem…everything builds and builds and then crumbles into chaos. The Lyrics are sweet too. Anyway, enough of that. I hope to update this site a little more often now that I sort of have my act together. I hope you are doing okay. Collin

Artist / Album / Song

The Books / Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities /You’ll Never Be Alone

The Skygreen Leopards / One Thousand Bird Ceremony / Summer Alchemy

Simon Finn / Pass the Distance / Jerusalem

Donovan / Mellow Yellow / Epistle to Dippy

The Velvet Underground / White Light/White Heat / Here She Comes Now

Elizabeth Cotten / Freight Train and Other North Caroline Folk Tunes / Ain’t Got No Honey Babe Now

The Monks / Black Monk Time / I Can’t Get Over You

The Talking Heads / Warning Sign / 1975 CBS demo

Joy Division / Closer / Isolation

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Hi.

This last winter in Vermont hit me hard and heavy. Due to time-zone skipping I had managed to be without a winter since the ’04-05 season, and that, folks, had left me extremely dependent upon the sun for a quick fix of happiness. In order to stave off the wolves until the weather broke, I became thoroughly obsessed with rocksteady and reggae music from January-March. Something about the rhythms, matched with soulful vocals and simple, but poignant lyrics kept my spirits from taking a nose-dive. I accrued quite a collection of albums and compilations over this time period and sifting through them now, for this mix, was like taking a trip down a memory lane only three months old but still incredibly distant. Usually I associate reggae with warm weather and sun, but forever no more…now snow, and a dark dimly-lit room, but the feelings are still positive.

collin

Artist / Album / Song

Desmond Dekker and The Israelites / Best of… / It Mek

The Versatiles /Trojan Rocksteady Boxset / Teardrops Falling

Phyllis Dillon / Midnight Confessions / Midnight Confessions

The Natives / Trojan Rocksteady Box set / You You

The Kingstonians / Sufferer / Winey Winey

Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters / Prisoner of Love / One Little Lie

The Melodians /Rivers of Babylon / You Don’t Need Me

Phyllis Dillon / Love is all I Had / One Life to Live

The Kingstonians / Suffer / Your Love

The Ethiopians / World Goes Ska / I’ll Never Get Burnt

Max Romeo and The Upsetters / War Ina Babylon / Uptown Babies Don’t Cry

———————-ARCHIVES!–——————————

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Here is a mix that is part sun-soaked summer psychedelia, alt-country, organic drone folk-noise , doom-folk, Nature Psych, Outdoor Folk, and whatever other meaningless descriptors hippies can think of. Basically, this is a solid summer mix that just felt right when the sun was peaking into my room, ’nuff said…it’s got an easy-breezy sort of feeling along with some psychedelic warmth around the edges. I laid it on thick with 3 classic tracks from The Byrds that have been getting maximum air play in my room, along with some newer cuts from one of my favorite groups, The Skygreen Leopards. The Byrds made an incredible album called “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” that was the last they ever made before disbanding,that album served as a sort of guide for this compilation, or at the least it inspired me subconsciously. Ok Ok. bye. collin

ARTIST / ALBUM / SONG

The Skygreen Leopards / Jehovah Surrender / Jehovah I Surrender

The Byrds / The Notorious Byrd Brothers / Draft Morning

Them / Them Again / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Giant Skyflower Band / Blood of the Sunworm / The Archangel (Hurray for the Beast)

The Monkees / HEAD / The Porpoise Song

The Byrds / The Notorious Byrd Brothers / Get to You

The Skygreen Leopards / Life and Love in the Sparrow’s Meadow / Mother, The Sun Makes Me Cry

The Byrds / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / You Don’t Miss Your Water

Vetiver / To Find Me Gone / Won’t Be me

Giant Skyflower Band / Blood and the Sunworm / Meditations on Christ and the Magi

C. O. B. / Spirit of Love / Wade in the Water

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Hello-

I am not going to lie, the news does get me down, but I still continue to read it. Each morning when I wake I raise the blinds, turn the kettle on for hot water, and sit at the computer and log on to cnn.com. Most of what I come across is absolute trash….”Cadet’s wild dance creates YouTube sensation”… “Harry Potter theme park to open in Orlando”… “God phone conspiracy?”..but, amongst the garbage there are a few nuggets of true-to-life news…..

Bush urges 15 nations to set global emissions goal

Putin says test missile is signal to U.S.

Coalition: Taliban have Iran arms

but that is just on CNN, and CNN is most often full of sensational news meant to get the attention of readers rather than educate them . After I peruse the mainstream I head over to www.alternet.org where I find a live and up to date feed of international news along with daily articles from guest columnists like:  Haircuts and Gossip — Pageantlike Presidential Election Coverage; Where’s the Real News? Or, Can You Believe This War Is Still Going On? After alternet I head over to Crooks and Liars, a site which posts much of the same news as alternet, but also usually posts video clips to go along with it. neat.

Got any news sites for me?

Anyway, I guess the whole point of this post is to legitimize this mix of music I’ve got right here. Many of these songs are political in nature, or address the madness and impending doom this world seems to be heading for (the news doesn’t seem to suggest otherwise). There are a few spoken word pieces in this mix including a harrowing poem by Charles Bukowski called, “Dinosauria, We”. It is a very affecting poem, makes my gut sink every time I read it, and you can find it here

Well, take care.

Here is what we have Artist / Album / Song Running time 32:25

Max Richter / Songs From Before / Fragment

Tom Waits / Orphans / Road to Peace

Bob Dylan / No Direction Home / Masters of War (live)

John Lennon / Anthology / I Don’t Want to be a Soldier

Devo / Recombo DNA / Beautiful World (demo)

Charles Bukowski / Run With the Hunted Sessions / Dinosauria, We

Godspeed! You Black Emperor / Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven / Storm: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven

ARCHIVES

• March 2007
• April 2007
• May 2007

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Hi.

It’s been a second since I have posted a new mix due to the fact that I’ve been traveling a little bit over the last two weeks. I made it Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York City, and New Jersey ladies and gentlemen. It was a whirlwind tour, but a refreshing one and now I am back to wow you.

This installment here features some legendary cuts that are vocally expressive without a doubt, beautiful, sad, and near perfect. Thematically this set goes a bit like this…Love/Heartbreak/Hate/Loneliness/Love /And Repeat……all my favorite themes. This mix was inspired by a 4 disc boxset I picked up awhile back now called, “In Crowd: Ultimate Collection 1958-67” that features, according to the liner notes, “the cream of soul”. This a here set is also highlighted by some incredible songs from Sam Cooke ( he can do no wrong), and a few other awesome songs I came across recently. The very last song, “this bitter earth” by Dinah Washington, I heard on the soundtrack to an incredible film I recently saw called, “Killer of Sheep”….Try and see it if you can find it.

Why don’t they make music like this any more?

Well, I hope you are doing well and here is what we are hearing.

Artist / Album / Song

Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Brenda Holloway / Best of / Every Little Bit Hurts

Doris Troy / Just One Look / What’cha Gonna Do About It?

Willie Tee / Teasin’ You / Walkin’ Up a One-Way Street

Erma Franklin / Golden Classics / Piece of My Heart

The Elgins /Motown Anthology /Put Yourself in My Place

Elvis Presley / Elvis Presley / Blue Moon

Sam Cooke / Night Beat / I Lost Everything

Dinah Washington / Golden Songs / This Bitter Earth

ARCHIVES

• March 2007
• April 2007
• May 2007

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F. Zappa- Waka/Jawaka

Hi.

I had planned to put up a mix this week but things got a little hectic and I have work in 20 minutes and I am leaving for Philadelphia tomorrow, so I thought I would just stick up one of my favorite F. Zappa jams. phew.  I have this doomsday/apocalyptic mix ready to roll, but it is a little bit heavy, and today is too nice outside to post such a thing. All right, so next week, for now check this incredible song out…there is a point in this song… at 8:04 exactly…where I feel like my head is going to explode from pure pleasure.

Collin

What You are listening to:

Frank Zappa / Waka/Jawaka / Waka/Jawaka

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Hi.

These last days in Burlington have been absolutely gorgeous…bright, hot days, and I even slept with the window open. I have been having a problem with mice lately. Starting a few weeks ago I started waking up hearing little feet scuttling about in my ceiling. At first I was in denial, but after a couple of nights I began to realize that I had mice living in my ceiling and I had better do something about it, and fast. I have been sleeping with earplugs since the sounds of mice above me seems to be giving me dreams full of tension and anxiety. Anyway, I started setting traps up there and I have caught four mice so far and last night night I didn’t hear a single noise, so I am hoping that there were just four mice inhabiting my ceiling and I won’t have to deal with it anymore. cross your fingers!

Now, this hot new mix we’ve got here consists of nothing but choice underground cuts from the 1980’s. I recently acquired a totally great boxset called, “Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the ’80s Underground, and I have been digging through that and a few other albums in order to create this mix.

Anyway, hope you are having a nice day. Collin

Here is what we are listening to (artist / album / song)

The Pretenders / II / Message of Love

The Violent Femmes / The Violent Femmes / Prove My Love

Echo and the Bunnymen / Porcupine / The Cutter

The Go-Betweens / Before Hollywood / Cattle and Cane

Depeche mode / Black Celebration / Black Celebration

The Cure / Staring at the Sea / A Forest

New Order / Substance / Temptation

Ultravox / Vienna / Vienna

The Smiths / The Smiths / Suffer Little Children

• total running time 38:00

Tropicalismo!

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Hi.

Looks as if another nor’easter is heading my way tonight, damn it all, so I decided to hunker down this sunday and post a hot new mix I’ve been dreaming of. Back in November I came across a compilation called, “Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound“, and I was floored, more than that even. I’ve spent the last 4 months or so gathering up the key albums from the movement and I was totally pumped to make a mix out of some of my favorite tunes. This mix is heavy on Os Mutantes and Tom Ze, undoubtedly my two favorites to emerge from the albums I have gotten. Anyway, here is a pretty solid write-up from Wikipedia, the most holy of informational sources.

• In the beginning, Tropicalia was not only a musical movement, but also took form in the visual arts scene of 1960s Brazil, by the hands of the artists Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Rogério Duprat and Antonio Dias. The name “Tropicália” came from an Hélio Oiticica art installation of the same name. It is important to note that one of the cultural constructs of the Tropicalia movement was “Antropofagia” or the cultural and musical cannibalism of all societies, taking in without prejudice influences from all types of genres and concocting something unique. The concept of antropofagia as embraced by the Tropicália movement was created by poet Oswald de Andrade in his 1928 “Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto)” The 1968 collaboration album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses is considered the musical manifesto of the movement. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are considered to be the leaders of the movement. Veloso, Gil and other artists commonly associated with the movement, notably Os Mutantes, have experimented with unusual time signatures and other means of unorthodox song structures. A lot of Tropicalismo artists were driven by socially aware lyrics and political activism following the coup of 1964, much like its contemporary Brazilian film movement, Cinema Novo (Brazilian new wave). The movement only lasted consistently for a few years, and, in part, is responsible for what is now known as Música Popular Brasileira (Brazilian Popular Music), or MPB. Tropicália as a movement ended in 1969 when its leaders, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were jailed for about a month and, shortly after their release, exiled by the military government. (They relocated to London until 1972.)

WHAT WE ARE LISTENING TO: (artist, album, song)

Os Mutantes / Os Mutantes / Panis et Circenses

Tom Zé / Estudando O Samba / Doi

Gal Costa / Gal Costa / Baby

Os Mutantes / Os Mutantes / Minha Menina

Gilberto Gil / Frevo Rasgado / Procissão

Tom Zé / Estudando O Samba / Hein?

Caetano Veloso / 1969 / Irene

Os Mutantes / Mutantes / Nao Va Se Perder Por Ai

Caetano Veloso / Beleza Tropical /Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco De Ilê (Ilê Ayê)

“[Music] makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it”

One of my absolute favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut, passed the other day.

Here is the story, “Harrison Bergeron”, from the excellent collection of short stories, “Welcome to the Monkey House”.

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Hi.
So.
Here is a true to life rock/punk-rawk mix (best played loud) to keep things moving on this rainy monday . Last week I thought I had enough time/energy to put together a full-length, fifty-minute rock mix, but I failed miserably and here instead, is a nice bite-size twenty-minute powerhouse of a collection. If this week continues to be rainy and I remain locked inside this damp, dark room, then maybe I’ll get around to posting the second half of this mix that I have been dreaming of making.

I added a side B to this mix that makes this whole collection feel a little bit more complete.

I went and saw David Lynch’s new Film (video? can I call it that?), Inland Empire. Not only is Inland Empire shot entirely on Video, but the plot is less cohesive and more fragmented than it’s predecessor, Mulholland Drive, making the three hour film quite a lot to take in during one sitting. It’s extremely challenging, go see it, I want to talk to you about it. -Collin

WHAT YOU ARE LISTENING TO: (artist, album, song)

SIDE A

Gang of Four / Entertainment! / Anthrax

The Undertones / True Confessions / True Confessions (Singles= A’s + B’s)

The Jam / Direction, Reaction, Creation (disc 5) / That’s Entertainment (demo)

The Buzzcocks / Another Music in a Different Kitchen / Autonomy

Guided By Voices / Alien Lanes / A Salty Salute

Television / Marquee Moon / Guiding Light

SIDE B

Devo /Duty Now for the Future /Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize

Joy Division / Heart and Soul (disc one) / Digital

The Buzzcocks /Singles Going Steady / Ever Fallen in Love?

The Ramones / Mania / Rockaway Beach

The Clash / Combat Rock / Straight to Hell

Suicide / Suicide / Rocket U.S.A.

Talking Heads / Fear of Music / Drugs

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Hi again,

It got a might sunny here in Burlington this last week and I sat down at this a’here computer and thought about making a sort of early-spring-into-summer mix (not too summery though, there is still snow on the ground and the threat of cold looming on the lips of the forecaster’s mouth), and this is what I churned out. Yesterday was the first day of open windows in my house and I can’t really explain how good it felt to have fresh air drifting past my face.

I’ve got a full-fledged 50 minute rock ‘n roll mix on the horizon for later on this week (if I can get my act together).

WHAT YOU ARE LISTENING TO: (artist, album, song)

Webb Pierce / In the Jailhouse Now / There Stands the Glass

Richie Havens / Collection / High Flying Bird

Bill Doggett / Super Hits 1956 / Honky Tonk (part 1)

Bobbie Gentry / The Capitol Years: Ode to Bobbie Gentry / Ode to Billy Joe

Hank Williams / Your Cheatin’ Heart / Lost Highway

Bob Dylan / Bob Dylan / Man of Constant Sorrow

Koko Taylor / Wild at Heart Soundtrack / Up in Flames