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Farces · Wanna · Mo · LJ
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http://www.live365.com/stations/farces College shopping with my dad in, like September 1984. Dayton, Ohio. We ended up buying a van (customized!) instead of choosing me a college. Too many nuns at the college in Dayton, so probably a good thing -- although being in Dayton three years later when Forever Since Breakfast was released would have been kewl in a way. Back to the me and dad roadtrip: Fixx on the FM band signing about UFOs, asking if we are the pod people, after all. The synth lead sounds to modern ears like cymbals way overcompressed on the mp3 tip. Back then it was just sweet noize. I think this is my favorite Fixxsong. They had bigger hits, but this is weirder, punchier. On second thought, "Sign Of Fire" from that movie soundtrack is even better -- that movie with "Young Thing, Wild Dreams" by Red Rider that I never saw (and, sadly, never purchased the soundtrack for). Will have to track that one down and get that Fixx and that Red Rider in-loop. I don't think I have heard those gr8 tunes songs for over 20 years now!
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http://www.live365.com/stations/farces Does it get any better than this? Well, "Blue Collar Man" was a shade better, but really, the Pieces Of Eight LP was STYX at their best. Perhaps the only STYX you need. Scratch that last thing. Defo the only STYX you need.
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http://www.live365.com/stations/farces Chisel is one of the bands that Ted Leo was in prior to Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists have some great songs like "I Will No Longer be Loyal To My Sorrowful Country," "Walk Around (Cause No One's Gonna Drive You)" and "Keep It Down." Now that I have heard a bit of Chisel, my personal verdict is that he wasn't quite there yet. Nice try, tho.
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http://www.live365.com/stations/farces I only have one Jens Lenkman album and I would not describe myself as a huge fan. Still, his mid-fi production is unique and charming. On "Tram #7" the distortion on the vocal sounds vaguely like the vocal distortion on the first Strokes record, but less on-purpose and more charming. He also has that exotica-in-a-box thing going that he has going on some of his other songs on the record I got (forgot title, something punny about being a dog).
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At http://www.live365.com/stations/farces, we are playing a couple songs by Philadelphia recording artist Adrienne Hamilton this month. I discovered her thru a service called MusicSubmit. A couple things: (i) she sounds like a Tori Amos update; (ii) generally I don't like Tori Amos; but (iii) d**n this woman is good. I liked "Cornflake Girl" plenty, I guess, and this woman's album consistently hits that sweet spot, one that has not been hit by anyone in a long time. I think I may have a mild crush, which never happens to me from just music. Anyway, Adrienne Hamilton obviously puts a lot of attention into sonic and songwriting details -- the creativity is subtle, but it is there. In a way, she is like a running back that always takes it straight up the middle and always gains 4 yards, song after song.
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My wife did the loop this month. So she has this "The Horse Song" by Iggy in there. This is my first time hearing it. Sounds like The Doors if Michael J. Fox had brought them an 80s Casio from a future which is now the past. Fine song. Iggy feels repeatedly. And he laughs a bit. Iggy. Tune in to hear radio as DJ Melsky would have it and does. Farces Wanna Mo radio. On LIVE365. Have a "Golden Day!"
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This song has a unique mood. Sort past futuristic, like Esquivel. Stately and playful at the selfsametime. Thereminish keyboard ducking and weaving through a guitar figure as repetitive as the Fall, but precisely placed as Steely Dan. Franklin's vocals are very Mario Lanza or Al Jolson or Pavorotti or something. I think that is Tommy Larkins on drums -- been yoinks since I ditched the cd packaging, but I have a vague recollection and that put-your-good-ear-down-hear-right-by-the-s nare-whil-I-hit-it-with-a-brush is quite telling. This song is a grower, rather than a dazzler. I would dig it if Franklin did a whole album of songs like this one. http://www.live365.com/stations/farcesDisclaimer: I don't really know what Mario Lanza or Al Jolson or Pavorotti sound like, but I think they sound old fashiony and well-enunciated. Will leave the comments open on this one in case any Pavorotti (sp?) fans need to set the record straight.
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Uhh, this song is coming out of the loop. Too lurid. Not hott.
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I usu. find the Fiery Furnaces brilliant, but with some kind of thin sheen, or edge of annoyingness. Or maybe "veneer" is a better word. I don't know if this quality pervades the whole of the volume of their dense, quirky, distinctive ouevre, or whether it is on the surface of it, because really music has no volume and no real surfaces. Anyway, this particular Fiery Furnaces song now playing in the Dec. 06 loop at http://www.live365.com/stations/farces is sans the annoyingness. Not overly dramatic. Sounds sort of like "Downtown" by Petula Clark.
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This audio portion of a video was a poor choice for the December 2006 radio loop at http://www.live365.com/stations/farces. However, this bit from Mr. Show Starring Bob and David is, of course, brilliant in its original form on HBO's lo fi interconnected sketch comedy show from the mid 90s. And, even so, parts of the PJ Woodycooks sketch are funny even if only the words are considered: Crimefighters, take note! The dunderhead's best friend is silence. By screaming loudly, and often, and playing the nap card, the guard had torn their plan into two pieces, bad and worse. *jingles Crimestick* You said it, Crimestick, those two were a couple of dingalings. Oh, one more thing. That wily guard and I shared a name . . . ME! Now who wants ice cream?
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Well, the rumors of the demise of my LIVE 365 radio station and this associated blog were, ahem, exaggerated. The radio loop is up for another year, which means this blog is back, too, and that is exactly why you are reading this entry now. Some changes and non-changes: - will only change the playlist on a monthly basis; specifically, will change about the first of each month. - The loop is still 5 hours and change. - Live 365 will still only work on some computers and not others, for reasons I don't full understand -- if it doesn't work on the computer you have now, then give it a try when you get a new computer. - The album of the month feature will continue. I am very excited because the album of the month this month (Nov 06) is ME. Well, my band anyway, the inimitable Farces Wanna Mo, with its Calm Blue Ocen Calm Blue Ocean joint, just released Novemebr 15, 2006. You can download the entire album at the FWM website and it is free so don't wait! The album of the month songs will be rotated during the month because they only let me have 4 songs in the loop at a time from a single album. If you are a band, then send me your album for consideration as the next album of the month. - Will keep doing song reviews here at the old LJ blog. - Will continue tro have many songs in the loop by members of the The Unofficial Fall Forum, where all my friends focus on the best band in the world outside the sphere of influence of that lil devil Mark E. (for Edward) Smith and his "minions." - Send song requests to me and I will try to get them in for the next month. Actually, it helps if you can send me an mp3 of the requested song itself. Contact me to arrange email.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - Nov 06: Album of the month = Calm Blue Ocean by Farces Wanna Mo. Playlist a | |
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 http://www.live365.com/stations/farces?tm=1159716415 Farces Wanna Mo Radio (and this blog winds down at the end of the month (October 2006. In the meantime, we will still be changing the loop regularly, so please tune in several times this month and hear the last of the tracks that I have enjoyed offering up for the past years. Thanks to my listeners. ... ... ...  The album of the month for October 2006 is The Velveeta Heartbreak's self titled debut lp. many will recognize this as Michael J. Bowman of Insect Darts and Mummies Of the Insane fame. And MJB fame! Mid eq madness abounds and sounds wonderful on The Velveeta Heartbreak's thingee here. http://www.myspace.com/michaeljbowman..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....  http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=101862510 My band, The Farces Wanna Mo has a "virtual 7 inch single" out. Available in its entirety at the myspace link. For a limited time only! It is me singing, karaoke stylee, over old practice four track cassettes of my old law school rockabilly band Slept On It! ..... ..... ..... .....  Until further notice and with no ill feelings . . . ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... ...... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... ...... ..... ..... .....  Consider this blog closed. |
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 The album of the month for September 2006 at Farces Wanna Mo Radio is Taste The Flavor by Nothing Painted Blue. Couple of things to say about this work. First, it is thoroughly a 0PB record, picking right up where the band left off last millenium. Singer, niceguy and smartguy Franklin Bruno has been more stylistically adventurous on his recent solo albums, but his old band has a nice comfortable shoe feel. I think Pitchfork dismissed them as dicking around with power pop. FU, Ryan or whomever -- making powerful rocking pop with sharp lyrics is a rare thing and not dicking. Go back to your Sigur Ros records or Silver Scooter or whatever flavor of the month is driving your traffic this week. Another thing is Franklin is in fine voice. A unique voice his. Perhaps an acquired taste, but easy to acquire and authentic. Capital A Authentic. Onemorething about the elpee is that is sonically interesting, which is something I wouldn't have called the band since that "Haunted House" tossoff from somewhere in the middle of the Clinton admin. Some tasteful feedback, some weird frequencies, but always thoroughly contextualized in that powerpop they master so masterfully. Always 4 songs from this album in the old radio loop -- that is as many as LIVE365 lets me put in, but tune in every week because we will be cycling the whole album through over September.  As far as the other 4 hours and 45 minutes of the radio loop -- it is all stuff from YouTube. Pirate radio, I guess. Like Ray Parker's band, but more pirate-y. Most of these YouTube selections were recommended by posters at the Unofficial Fall Forum. For those interested, here is the thread: UFF recommends . . . on the YouTube!Oh yeah, September 2 the radio station will be down for maintenance. It is also my 39th birthday.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - For the month of September, the songs and skits are all taken from the YouTu | |
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 Bongwater is a band that I always felt I should like more than I ever did. The guy (Kramer, that is) promoted obscure rock bands based on merit, which sounds like a commonplace until you think about it and realize that nobody really does this. Maybe Creation, or Scat, or Rough Trade in tha day, but even them not really. Kramer was also out of the cool band Shockabilly, which was getting off to an interesting start and could have been one of the best bands of the 90s with a bit less purposeful alienation of audience maneuvers. Chadborne will be Chadborne probably. So Kramer gets with the beautiful and talented Anne Magnuson and makes Bongwater and does funny, genre hopping music with passably funny lyrics. All the pieces fit "on paper," but the cassette player in my Isuzu I-Rod (or whatever it was called) couldn't put the formula accross. Neither could the jambox in my bedroom. I blame Bongwater for underwhelming me.  However, Bongwater had its moments. No, not "Nick Cave Dolls." That was silly. But that song about throwing the car keys in the lake was just fine -- what the band could have been. In the Farces Wanna Mo radio loop is the band's shining moment, tho -- the only legacy they need. I think its a cover song. It is called "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." A duet with a genuineness that doesn't come into other Bongwater so much. There is humor in the song, too: both the philosophical and hee-yuk varieties. Mostly pathos. Writing about it now, this is a song that doesn't work "on paper." Like the Chuckles The Clown episode of MTM or the movie Waking Life. Sure as hell works in the radio loop tho. Will have to get to ye olde youtube and see if I can find some Waking Life or Slacker samples.  In other news, I read the Klosternman book. Well, read the music parts and skimmed the parts about gurls. I semi-enjoyed Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, the previous one. The new book (something about dying or dead rockstars or kill yourself) put me off at first. There are parts where Klosterman seems young and foolish. The more I got into the book, the more I related to the author. He likes the rock. I like the rock. It is probably as simple as that, but it was nice to feel a new human connection in my lonely Canadian life, even if was just a book. I can so, so, so get into the part about tracking down Bob Stinson's apartment. I have dreams like that. Actually, now that I think about it, I had this dream that I was trying to save these rare Replacements masters being neglected at some kind of library, maybe music college library, but defo in Minneapolis. I have never been to Minneapolis. Sort of recall that Westerberg himself was in the dream, not being particularly helpful. I get the feeling Klosterman doesn't like The Replacements, but, if so, he hid it good enough.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - Mix of everything, punk, diy, 70s pop, 80s pop, grunge, electronic, cassette | |
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 August 2006 brings a new feature to Farces Wanna Radio. It is the Featured Album Of The Month. The Featured Album will have 4 songs in the radio loop at all times -- that is the most songs that Live365 lets me put in. The Featured Album will tend to the obscure. For example, in this inaugural month, the album is Charles Rice Goff III's new album Pink Wooden Bodies. Although you may not have heard of Charles, his output has been prodigious and nearly continuous since the 80s. Here is his website: http://www.geocities.com/padukem/ Charles is part of the hometaping movement that fluorished in the 90s and, oddly enough, seems to still be going strong even in the age of big harddrives and YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybDLIu3wgo&search=taped%20rugs). I have been corresponding with Charles for many years now, but sadly I have never met the man. Charles has so much material, it can be imposing for the n00b. My take is that he really clicked in around 2003 or 2004, about the time I moved to Canada. Right around the time he did 7 versions of "Auld Lang Syne" to welcome in a new 2004. Actually, I think "Hole In the Donut," a song that made me realize how computer generated music should sound came a bit before that even. Anyway, dood is clicking along on all cylinders now and his carburetor is full of genius juice. You will notice that I haven't talked much about the new record yet. I have only heard part of it once, and then my car stereo decided it didn't like the CDR. Especially speaking as someone who sends out lots of CDRs, let me just say I hate it when that happens. Based on the partial lissen, I think this may be his best yet, probably his most consistently lissenable, too. The rhythms and voice are not offputting as they have sometimes been in the past. The focus is on Goff painting impressionistically with sounds and stream-of-consciously with words. Anyways, I am sure to get better acquainted now that the songs are being cycled through the radio loop four at a time, throughout the doggyday month of August 2006. Like that man with the drugs useta say: TUNE IN, turn on and GOFF OUT! As I edit this entry, Goff's song "Deep In the Cake" has come up in the loop. Per the titular suggestion, the song is "Deep In the Cake." People are lost in this song in a strange place, like those Superman villains in space or Homer in the real world on Simpsons or Spock in 1960s LA on Star Trek or those people vitrifying in JG Ballard's "The Crystal World."  Final thought: Charles is also a part time Farces Wanna Mo now and I am honored to have him contributing to the new record which is being intensely labored over every weekend to slow progress nowadays.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - Mix of everything, punk, diy, 70s pop, 80s pop, grunge, electronic, cassette | |
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 Captain just plain being way ahead of his time again. This one sounds like a delta blues version of a Sonic Youth song, meaning it is an improvement on both ref pts. Spare and loose, a haunted house of jangly, angular mayhem. And slide guitar. Captain sounds older than dirt and this is nineteen freaking 67! Fersisaklees. This song is now in the loop at: http://www.live365.com/stations/farces
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - Mix of everything, punk, diy, 70s pop, 80s pop, grunge, electronic, cassette | |
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 As close as Bob Pollard gets to the Butthole Surfers, think The Who meets John E. Smoke. This is from the Ringworms Interior lp, which I am not sure whether that is the 1st or 2d Circus Devils lp. Anyway, it is the one that is not Harold Pig. Would much like to hear that LP tho.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - Mix of everything, punk, diy, 70s pop, 80s pop, grunge, electronic, cassette | |
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 This is a band with Unofficial Fall Forum poster "Snarfyguy." His avatar from the forum is over there to the left. So now you know how Snarfyguy looks in my mind -- exactly like Guy Caballero from SCTV. Here is a Snarfyguy quote, provided uncluttered by cumbersome context:
"Only in the news media or academia, surely.
I've never heard anyone say 'POTUS'. But perhaps I'm not moving in the right circles. :("
As it turns out, tho, Snarfyguy is moving in fine circles as his band completely reminds me why I loved music in the early 90s. We have three songs in loop from Fly Ashtray over at the station now, including the Now Playing feature song "Gud." Judging from these three, the band comes out of the musical neighborhood of Pavement, Galaxie 500 and Thinking Fellers Local 242. There always used to be a good band in town back then -- one must see show a week, oh them days. Fly Ashtray is particularly derivative of no forebear I can detect, carving out their own identifiable sound or maybe feel is the right word, sort of like Chune did. Like Chune they also employ tape compression as the 4th instrument, and there ain't nothing wrong with that. Not sure if Snarfyguy is the drummer. I have a vague memory of trying to blow him away with my inordinate fondness for Billy Ficca. He seemed unblown. He often seems that way. Likeable, too. He's one of those likeable people. Getting back to the drums, they are a highlight of this band. A bit off kilter, a bit complicated. This band sounds like what I expected Polvo to sound like after I had read about that band for a couple years, but never heard them. Polvo didn't sound quite like that, but Fly Ashtray does. Which makes me think the band does a lot of reading. This impression was only reinforced by Snarfyguy who revealed that "The Investiture Controversy" (another song in the radio loop now) was indeed researched. I can't wait to hear their "Song of Roland." I can't help but wonder if Snarf knows Michael J. Bowman, too.
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Farces Wanna Mo Radio - June: Bands of Unofficial Fall Forum | |
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What that means is that all the music is by people who post at the Unofficial Fall Forum, where good discussion is had revolving around the Fall and Its ethos:
http://invisionfree.com/forums/thefall/index.php?act=idx
In a way, the Unofficial Fall Forum members radio loop at Farces Wanna Mo radio is amateur hour stretched to 5 hour length for the MySpace generation, but really it is just good music: electronic, pop, punk, even some Fall covers. Get your free Live365 Internet radio account and tune in:
http://www.live365.com/stations/farces
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