the gothic novel.

a timely completion of radcliffe's the mysteries of udolpho inspired us to bring you this show. each song title relates to a particular characteristic of the genre, and a few reflect some actual aspects of the plot.



Television Personalities – The Room At The Top Of The Stairs
The Church – The Unguarded Moment
The Magnetic Fields – In My Secret Place
Shop Assistants – After Dark
Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
The Soft Machine – A Door Opens And Closes
Jens Lekman – I Don’t Want To Die Alone
The Birthday Party – Faint Heart
Elf Power – Rolling Black Water
The Bats – Watch The Walls
Bis – Action And Drama
Devotchka – In The Tower
Beck – Lonesome Tears
Adorable – Have You Seen The Light?
The Bicycles – I Know We Have To Be Apart
The Chills – Hidden Bay
The Smiths – Death At One’s Elbow
Yann Tiersen – A Secret Place
Tyrannosaurus Rex – The Misty Coast Of Albany
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Dark Night
The Jasmine Minks – Cold Heart
The Delgados – Knowing When To Run
Patrick Wolf – Apparition
Midlake – Some Of Them Are Superstitious
Sondre Lerche – Dead End Mystery
Television Personalities – A Picture Of Dorian Gray
Castanets – At Least One Lie
Final Fantasy – Spell For A Weak Heart
The Church – Don’t Open The Door To Strangers
Isabel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Black Mountain
Architecture in Helsinki – It’s Almost A Trap
The Bats – The Looming Past
The Field Mice – Bleak

it was a carefully constructed playlist! we hope you enjoyed it. apologies for forgetting udolpho back in our apartment...we had hoped to provide you with some choice quotations about weakened hearts and gloomy dungeons.

a day in the life.

naturally, you are all probably dying to know what your ultra honey hosts do when they're not on the air.
we thus present you with a comprehensive, chronological playlist of our daily lives in song-titles!
consider this your indoctrination into our cozy world of tea, library visits, muffins, records, bike rides, and trashy reality television (amongst other things).

The Fruit Bats – Every Day That We Wake Up It’s A Beautiful Day
The Beatles – Good Morning Good Morning
Orange Juice – Breakfast Time, Breakfast Time
Of Montreal – Pancakes For One
Jens Lekman – I Saw Her In The Anti-War Demonstration
The Kinks – Have A Cuppa Tea
Blast Off Country Style – All She Wants To Do Is Ride Her Bike
Tsunami – Brickbook Building
Even As We Speak – Falling Down The Stairs
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Hallway
The Books – Getting The Job Done
Eternal – Breathe
[FORSYTE SAGA SOUND CLIP: SCANDAL AT THE BALL!]
The Revolving Paint Dream – In The Afternoon
Adorable – Feed Me
Cat Power – Red Apples
Be Your Own Pet – Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bicycle
Shop Assistants – Home Again
Television Personalities – Makin’ Time
The Clientele – From A Window
The Bicycles – B-B-Bicycle
Final Fantasy – Library
Cap’n Jazz – Planet Shhh
Y.A.C.H.T. – I Love A Computer
The Church – Memories In Future Tense
[ANTM SOUND CLIP: TYRA'S TY-RADE!]
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – The Last Page
Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
The Soup Dragons – One Way Street
Screen Prints – Evening Feel
Yann Tiersen – 7PM
The Bats – Spill The Beans
Beirut – Forks & Knives (La Fête)
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
Belle & Sebastian – Sleep The Clock Around

curiosity satiated, i hope.

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Cold War!

This week, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the russian revolution*, we give you...a cold war themed show!

Guided by Voices - Bomb in the Beehive
Beat Happening - I Spy
Television Personalities - How I Learned to Love the...Bomb
Beulah - Dig the Subatomic Holdout #2
Yo La Tengo - The Race is on Again
Ill Mitch - Chernobyl Poem from Old Russia
Stereo Total - LA, CA, USA
Vashti Bunyan - Window over the Bay [of pigs]
Elliott and the Letter Ostrich - Kennedy Wears a Colostomy Bag from a Previous Gunshot Wound, He is Also Known to Wear Women's Clothing
Matt & Kim - Lightspeed [request]
The Kinks - Animal Farm
The Chills - A Whole Lot of Non Going On
Jesus & Mary Chain - Blues from a Gun
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Eastern Spell
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Andrew Bird - Way Out West
The Apples in Stereo - Radiation
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter
David Bowie - Bombers
Jonathan Richman - Parties in the U.S.A.
Lou Reed - Berlin
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Tear Me Down
Kleenex/Liliput - A Silver Key Can Open an Iron Lock
New York Dolls - Vietnamese Baby
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Elvis Costello - Peace, Love, and Understanding
Pixies - There Goes My Gun
Edwin Starr - War
Yann Tiersen - Goodbye Lenin (really should say "hello trotsky," b. 11/7/1879)
Joan of Arc - Kissinger's Lament When Some Young Bunny or Bildeburg Whore Kicks Him Out of Bed
The Beatles - Back in the USSR


*this show was actually meant for may 14th last semester, to coincide with the anniversary of Tito's death. Sadly, my computer suffered an untimely death (or at least an untimely entrance into a months-long comatose state), and it could not be done. But lo! the seventh of November is clearly more appropriate anyway.