Monkey Mind - 12/19/2011

You know, sometimes when you’re doing radio you get this warm, full feeling of the music flowing and filling you as you select and channel it, sweeping your hands into the river of sound to speed it along and knowing - just fucking *knowing* - that you’re doing good in the world when you usually just muddle along, muttering to yourself about how awful everything is.

I don’t know if you’ll feel it like I did, but this show was definitely one of those times. Thanks for listening, and thanks to taintradio for giving me the chance to feel that again.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Getbye Organos Limbs EP
  The Event Horizon Air Miami me. me. me.
  Sleep Mark Eitzel The Invisible Man
  Psychiatric Sergeant Jade Warrior Jade Warrior
  Bamboo Floor John Cale The Island Years
  Bang Bang Two Nice Girls Like A Version
  Stray Dog Beaver Nelson The Last Hurrah
  The Garden Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening
  Tonton Macoutes I Muslimgauze Coup D'Etat
  Emergency Call Judy Mowatt Reggae Songbirds
  Someone To Talk My Troubles To Judy Roderick Woman Blue
  No Looking The Raincoats The Raincoats
  Hindi Lullabye Marta Sebestyen Best of Marta Sebestyen
  Funky Doo Melvin Jackson Funky Skull
4pm Third Rate Romance Amazing Rhythm Aces Stacked Deck
  Hard Luck Guy Eddie Hinton Hard Luck Guy
  Faces Stone the Crows Teenage Licks
  69 Annee Erotique Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg
  Im Diskodickicht Jan Jelinek Kosmicher Pitch
  Concret P-H II Iannis Xenakis Electro-Acoustic Music
  Funeral Collections of Colonies of Bees Customer
  Baile de Almut Radio Tarifa Temporal
  I've Got to Do a Little Bit Better Joe Tex I Believe I'm Gonna Make It: The Best of Joe Tex
  I Got the Blues Eddie Jefferson There I Go Again
  Dat Dere Oscar Brown, Jr. Sin & Soul... And Then Some
  Wanting Memories Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey
  Beware Young Ladies Alix Dobkin Living With Lavender Jane
  Mama Keeps Her Man at Home Judy Roderick Woman Blue
  Better Beware Little Esther I Paid My Dues
  You Know What They're Writing About Van Morrison Into the Music

Monkey Mind - 12/05/2011

The usual all-over-the-map stuff, hopefully with enough you’ve never heard before to make it worthwhile. That spoken word Eddie Harris, though; I don’t know what to say about it except it’s an undeniably fascinating foul-mouthed record - mostly fascinating for raising the question, “How the fuck did this ever get released?”

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Ride On Hurdy Gurdy Hurdy Gurdy
  Paul Greg Douglass & Mistress Free Flyte
  Don't Cry Wolf The Damned Neat Neat Neat: The Alternative Anthology
  Set It On Fire Scientists Absolute Scientists
  Fun (track 8) Collections of Colonies of Bees Customer
  Fine Modern Jazz Quartet & Guests Third Stream Music
  Quotations Mario Lavista/Christopher Adkins & Jo Boatwright Voces Americanas/Voices of Change
  It Feels So Good Eddie Harris Bad Luck is All I Have
  I'm Your Servant Howard Tate Get It While You Can: The Legendary Sessions
  Juke Joint Jumping Wayne Hancock Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
  Politics & Religion Jack Ingram & the Beat-Up Ford Band Live at Adair's
4pm She's a Woman Charles River Valley Boys Beatle Country
  Drifter's Wind Tish Hinojosa Culture Swing
  Bright Side of the Road Van Morrison Into the Music
  Take A Load off Your Feet Beach Boys Surf's Up
  Mind Gardens (instrumental) Byrds Sanctuary II
  Kalan Nege Issa Bagayogo Tassoumakan
  The Mexican Bandito Quattro Brazilica Lounge
  Yes We Can Azeem w/ Variable Unit Mayhem Mystics
  Happy Band Mr. Scruff
  Swamp Buggy Badass Quintron and Miss Pussycat Swamp Tech
  Run Paint Run Run Captain Beefheart Doc at the Radar Station
  Goddamn Job Replacements Replacements Stink
  Jump the Fence Big Boys The Fat Elvis
  Do Policemen Sing? Robyn Hitchcock Black Snake Diamond Role
  Are There Any Questions Eddie Harris The Reason Why I'm Talking Shit

Monkey Mind - 11/07/2011

Was feeling Bartok today and couldn’t bring myself to excerpt the 6th Quartet, but the usual melange follows. Oh, insert “Wasted Union Blues” from It’s A Beautiful Day’s first record between the Rupie Edwards and the Leigh Stephens (yeah, there was a mini theme going there). Bizarre little track if all you know’s “White Bird.” Thanks for listening, as always.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm String Quartet No. 6 Bela Bartok/Hungarian String Quartet The Six String Quartets
  No One Is There Nico The Marble Index
  Listen to This/Save This House/Say Hello to Jamie Jones Red Krayola God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
  Unchained James Moody The Teachers
  Come Lay Some Lovin' on Me Paul Kelly Don't Burn Me
  Churisi Sweet Talks Hollywood Highlife Party
  Feeling High Rupie Edwards Ganja Reggae Box
4pm I Grow Higher Leigh Stephens Red Weather
  Cowboys In Africa Bush Tetras I [Heart] NY Punk
  Fun World Mission of Burma VS
  When You Love Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails
  Yeah The Alarm Clocks Yeah!
  Mick Avory's Underpants The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society Deluxe Edition
  Hot Smoke and Sasafrass Bubble Puppy A Gathering of Promises
  Lazy Afternoon McGuiness Flint McGuiness Flint
  Me and God Avett Brothers A Carolina Jubilee
  Spanish Guitar Gene Clark White Light
  I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me Art Pepper Intensity
  We the People The Soul Searchers
  Babylon Don't Touch My Sensi Dub Neville Brown & the Roots Radics Ganja Reggae Box
  The Day I Found Myself/When Will It End Honey Cone

Monkey Mind - 10/24/2011

You know, I’d forgotten how much I like Lowell George’s career arc - psychedelic garage band, Zappa/Mothers, Little Feat, then one great solo record before dying too young (ok, I don’t like that part too much). Hope you enjoy the George interlude in the first hour along with the rest.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Fa No Dum Ara Guedu Blay-Ambolley Booniay!! a Compilation of West African Funk
  Disco Africa The Ogyatanaa Show Band Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion, volume 2
  One Step Forward Max Romeo War ina Babylon
  Where or When Etta Jones Don't Go To Strangers
  Manhattan-Rico George Russell New York, NY
  Himmler's Ring Lowell George Thanks I'll Eat It Here
  A Apolitical Blues Little Feat Sailin' Shoes
  Changes/Smile, Let Your Life Begin Lowell George & the Factory Lightning-Rod Man
  Easy Money Lowell George Thanks I'll Eat It Here
  Juliet Lowell George & the Factory Lightning-Rod Man
  Kontraphunktus Lara Downes/Derek Bermel 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg
  Massig (Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11) Schoenberg/Maurizio Pollini The Piano Music
  Willie's Tune Jon Hendricks & Company Love
  Dino Dream D. Moebius, M. Neumeier, et al Space Explosion
4pm Atrocity Exhibition Joy Division Closer
  Drums/Voice II, III, IV Yoshida Tatsuya Drums, Voices, Keyboards & Guitar
  Twinkle Toes Max Roach M'Boom
  O Pato Joao Gilberto The Legendary Joao Gilberto
  Saudadinha Dr. Edmundo De Bettancourt Fados From Portugal, vol 2: Fado De Coimbra, 1926-1930
  Soul Mountain Sandpebbles We Got Love Power: The Complete Calla Recordings 1967-1969
  Mr. Groove One Way Street Jams: Back 2 the Old Skool, part 3
  Africa is Home Joe Mensah Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion, volume 2
  Up From the Skies Ellen McIlwaine Honkey Tonk Angel
  Police Seargent Blues Robert Wilkins The Original Rolling Stone
  Chasing Goldberg Lara Downes/Fred Lerdahl 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg

Monkey Mind - 10/10/2011

Love that Ahmed Abdul-Malik early 60s world-jazz stuff; highly recommended, along with Les Fleur de Lys for all your psychedelic needs.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Nuts & Bolts Carson Kievman/David Arden The Temporary & Tentative Extended Piano
  One of Us Life Life
  Got Your Heart Anders Osborne American Patchwork
  Supernatural Thing Ben E. King
  Fly Your Natty Dread Meditations Greatest Hits
  Dust On The Bible Golden Echoes
  I'm Loving Nothing Impressions This Is My Country
  African Bossa Nova Ahmed Abdul-Malik Jazz Sounds of Africa
  DIAPOW Luna Sol Excursions in Ambience: The Fourth Frontier
  Circles Les Fleur de Lys Reflections
  Put the Clock Back on the Wall The Parrots Psychedelic Unknowns, Vol 4
  No Place I'd Rather Be Lowell George & the Factory Lightning-Rod Man
4pm Lightning-Rod man Lowell George & the Factory Lighning-Rod Man
  Fall Down Laughing Jim Carroll Pools of Mercury
  Security/T.V. Big Boys The Skinny Elvis
  Therapy Bored Stiff Bomb Hip Hop Compilation
  Time Marches On Lee Scratch Perry Battle of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator)
  She Ain't Looking Too Tough Mandrill Just Outside of Town
  You Really Got Me Sly Stone Who in the Funk Do You Think You Are
  I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love Emotions Flowers
  Night Light Miho Hatori Urban Renewal Program
  Produced Music Eckart Rahn Produced Music 1966-1996
  Bombay Calling It's a Beautiful Day
  Creepin' About Sky Saxon Blues Band A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues

Monkey Mind - 10/03/2011

“Did you ever have a pregnant dog? And how far removed we are from that reality?” Yes, it’s a little more strange than usual this week but a friendly brain scrub is always welcome, right?

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Behold! God's Sunshine! Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Forces and Feelings
  Soldier Groundhogs Thank Christ For the Bomb
  Chasing Shadows Deep Purple Deep Purple
  Poor Man's Dream Soul Survivors Expressway to Your Heart
  Roger the Rocket Ship Markley Markley, A Group
  Catch the Man on the Rise Sir Douglas Quintet 1+1+1=4
  The Amazing Rhythm Aces Stacked Deck
  Give Me Back That Wig I Bought You John Dee Holeman & Fris Holloway Country Girl
  Green Chimneys Walter Davis, Jr. In Walked Thelonious
  Extended Clarinet (for clarinet and tape) Elliott Schwartz/Jerome Bunke Chamber Works
  Twice-Told Tales of the Pomegranate Forest Harumi Harumi
4pm All Things Are Possible Lee Battle of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator)
  Mora Na Filosofia Caetano Veloso Transa
  Get Down Your Line The Byrds Farther Along
  Never Die Mandrill Just Outside of Town
  Supernatural Thing Ben E. King
  Walking Up The Road Betty Davis Betty Davis
  Monkies and Butterflies Guy Warren with Red Saunders Orchestra Africa Speaks America Answers!
  Sun Spots Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Forces and Feelings
  Telephone Girl Jade Warrior Jade Warrior
  Tattoed Love Boys Robby Krieger Versions
  Down the Highway Steamhammer Steamhammer
  Love Is Always Real Gentle Soul Gentle Soul
  The Fox and Hounds Lilly Brothers & Don Stover Bluegrass at the Roots: 1961

Monkey Mind - 09/12/2011

I wish you 1/7th of the happiness I felt making this week’s show as you listen to this week’s show (you deserve more, of course, but I’ll be happy if you get 1/7th).

Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Masculine Intuition/The People In Me Music Machine Turn On: The Very Best of The Music Machine
  Do What You Want The Ugly Ducklings Too Much Too Soon
  Nasty Sex La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata
  I Forget How It's Been Chants R&B Stage Door Witchdoctors
  Go Out And Get It John & Beverly Martyn Stormbringer
  I Don't Know You New Riders of the Purple Sage Wasted Tasters: 1971-1975
  Let Him Roll Guy Clark Old No. 1
  You've Got To Die Mississippi John Hurt Last Sessions
  Sweet Honesty John & Beverly Martyn Stormbringer
  Fool on the Hill Stone the Crows Stone the Crows
  Garvey Mutabaruka The Ultimate Collection
  I've Got the Handle Jacob Miller and Inner Circle Reggae Greats
  Choshi Stan Richardson Shakuhachi Meditation Music
4pm Catena II Donald Sur/Collage New Music Collage Performs Donald Sur
  Six Minus 6 If, Bwana Assemblage.Age!
  All The Way Down Esther Phillips Capricorn Princess
  A Real Mother For Ya Johnny Guitar Watson A Real Mother
  The New Spirit James Moody The Teachers
  You Had A Lesson Groundhogs Hogwash
  Fish/Meditation of the Snake Steve Hillage Fish Rising
  Good Good Things Descendents Somery
  Which Way To Go Big Boys The Fat Elvis
  Femme in a Black Leather Jacket Pansy Division undressed
  What About Tomorrow? Sir Douglas Quintet 1+1=4
  Psalms of Bob Marley Culture 17 Chapters of Culture

Monkey Mind - 08/29/2011

Oh man I hope it was good for you because I sure liked doing it. Cool links to come; check back.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Slivadiv Back Door Back Door
  Blonde Redhead DNA Jean-Michel Basquiat: Downtown 81
  Retired Woman Starts New Career in Monkey Fashions Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo Strange But True
  Free From All Alarm Groundhogs Solid
  (I Got A) Stomach Ache Junior Wells Best of the Vanguard Years
  Apple of My Eye Roy Head Treat Her Right: The Best of Roy Head
  Are You Loving Me More (But Enjoying It Less) Electric Prunes Lost Dreams
  Alice in Wonderland King George Discovery King George Discovery
  Lieutenant Loose Back Door Back Door
  Potential Jimmy Castor Bunch Best of
  Looking at the Front Door Main Source Hip Hop Essentials 1979-1991, vol. 2
  Funky in the Hole The Blowflys Movements: 14 Deep Funk Pearls
  Quiet 6 Sheila Chandra Quiet!
  Lovely on the Water Steeleye Span Spanning the Years
  A.C.D.C. The Parade Soft Sounds for Gentle People
  Cum Stains on the Pillow Chinga Chavin's Country Porn Country Porn
4pm The Biggest Whatever The Dillards Wheatstraw Suite
  White Light Gene Clark White Light
  Right On Time Mother Superior The Heavy Soul Experience of Mother Superior
  A Little Old Fashioned Elizabeth Phillips Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Cubs In Five Mountain Goats Nine Black Poppies
  Metal Mothers Guided By Voices Propeller
  Suit City Rocket From the Crypt Scream, Dracula, Scream
  In Your Grave King Khan and the Shrines What Is?!
  Gospel Zone Shadows of Knight Back Door Men
  Drink the Wine Valerie Simpson Keep It Coming
  Zungo Nina Simone The Tomato Collection
  Homenaje Al Malhechor Chico Buarque
  Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou Dahomey Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
  Suavecito Malo Malo
  Beat Bop Rammelzee vs. K-Rob Jean-Michel Basquiat: Downtown 81
  Eruption Michael Garrison Prisms

Monkey Mind - 08/22/2011

Two current faves open and close the show; that Lawrence of Newark CD was an especially happy find. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Let This Music Get Down In Your Soul Rance Allen Group Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul
  Gimmie That Funk Dennis Coffey Band A Sweet Taste of Sin
  Slang Thang Frankie Smith Children of Tomorrow
  Silent Force Cedric Brooks Jamaica Funk: Original Jamaican Funk & Soul 45s
  Journey to the Eiliff Close encounter with their third one
  tom told me pt 1 The Buddy System Transitions
  I Would If I Could But I Can't The Smoke It's Smoke Time
  I Just Want To Make Love To You Cold Blood Cold Blood
  Yesterday's Music Maggie Bell Queen of the Night
  Let Him Roll Guy Clark Old No. 1
4pm Hey Boys The Dillards Wheatstraw Suite
  Creeping Jane Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick But Two Came By
  Until Lately Dream Syndicate Days of Wine and Roses
  Crusader's Smile Morning Dew Morning Dew
  Ain't It Hard Electric Prunes Lost Dreams
  Everybody Up Randy Holden/The Fender IV Randy Holden Early Works 64-66
  Mosem-e Gol Parva Pomegranates: Persian pop, funk, folk and psyc of the 60s & 70s
  Sail On Stud Stud
  New Nails Mission of Burma Vs
  JFA JFA Blatant Localism
  Your Man My Man Betty Davis Betty Davis
  Hang Together Odyssey Hang Together
  Happy Needs Help Rance Allen Group Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul
  Let Your Mind Be Free Brother to Brother Let Your Mind Be Free
  Hello Your Quietness (Islands) Larry Young Lawrence of Newark

Monkey Mind - 07/25/2011

A little less distractable this week, so you get a full hour of obscure funky 70s soul, and then an hour (mostly) of punk and post-punk oddness (until I got distracted again). Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Love Makes A Woman Barbara Acklin Love Makes a Woman
  Can't Trust Your Neighbor Johnny Taylor Who's Making Love...
  Easy Evil Friends of Distinction Golden Classics
  I'm Back To Collect Bill Coday Lost Soul (Rhythm & Soul series)
  Hole in the Wall Bar-Kays Soul Finger
  Dance to the Music Enchantment Golden Classics
  Your Body Won't Move, If You Can't Feel the Groove Leon Huff Here to Create Music
  Afro-Strut New Birth Very Best of the New Birth
  Wishful Thinking Black Ivory
  Up the Ladder to the Roof Supremes Right On
  Mr. Sunshine The Persuaders Thin Line Between Love & Hate
  Caught Making Love Roger Hatcher Lost Soul (Rhythm & Soul series)
  Wake Up Everybody Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Best of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
  Men Are Getting Scarce Chairmen of the Board Greatest hits
  Tight Money Leon Huff Here To Create Music
4pm Fuck Off Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
  Little Star Jayne County Deviation
  Bored Destroy All Monsters
  I Watch the Cars Robyn Hitchcock Black Snake Diamond Role
  Walk Like A River Leaving Trains Sleeping Underwater Survivors
  Oizumio OOIOO Feather Float
  Magellan Kite Operations Festival
  While You Wait For the Others Grizzly Bear Veckatim Est
  Mussentango Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy
  Home Lene Lovitch Stateless
  It's The New Thing The Fall Early Fall 77-79
  Blues For Godzilla Bellrays Let It Blast.
  Girl From Germany Sparks A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
  I Don't Mind Fat Mattress The Black Sheep of the Family: Anthology
  Going Going Gone Richard Hell
  Young Miles in the Basement Pere Ubu The Art of Walking
  Better Off Dead Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy