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.

also note: please comment to let us know if you'd like us to upload mp3 files!

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.

fairytales & the occult.

halloweeeen!
on a night when all things spooky and ghoulish run rampant, what better than a haunted playlist to entrance and horrify your ears? precisely: nothing.
note the strategic narrative placement of certain track titles.

Television Personalities - Honey I Sure Miss You [cuz yr dead]
The Magnetic Fields - Falling In Love With The Wolfboy
Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers
Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain
Silver Jews - Welcome To The House Of The Bats
Future Bible Heroes - She-Devils Of The Deep
Complex - Witch's Spell
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard
Television - See No Evil
Devotchka - This Place Is Haunted
T. Rex - Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)
XTC - Sacrificial Bonfire
Madonna - Like A Virgin
Iron Maiden - Flash Of The Blade
Irving - Death In The Garden, Blood On The Flowers
Daniel Johnston - Casper The Friendly Ghost
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
Os Mutantes - Ave, Lucifer
San Francisco Earthquake - Fairytales Can Come True
Guided By Voices - Cut Out Witch
Califone - Our Kitten Sees Ghosts
Television Personalities - Mummy [HAHA GET IT] You're Not Watching Me
The Magick Heads - Seventh Sense
Harry & The Potters - I Am A Wizard
Johnny Thunders - The Wizard
Fruit Bats - Magic Hour
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Witch - Soul Of Fire
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Bat You'll Fly
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Devil In A Blue Dress

tune in next week, of course!
and i have no doubt that you were sufficiently spooked.

The Bounty of the Land!

The leaves are changing! We've had our first few brisk breezes! This week, you've probably donned a sweater! Time for some genuine autumn jams. We give you: the first show of (actual) fall.

Devendra Banhart – Queen Bee
Jens Lekman – Maple Leaves
Dan Deacon – Two Friends
The Clientele – Elm Grove Window
Two Gallants – Fly Low Carrion Crow
Park – Red Coat Charmer
14 Iced Bears – Hay Fever
Peter, Bjorn & John – The Chills
Katch-22 – Pumpkin Mini
Frank Zappa – Any Way The Wind Blows
Bob Marlow – Thoughts Are Leaves
Guided By Voices – Acorns & Orioles
Lush – Leaves Me Cold
The Harvest Ministers – You Do My World The World Of Good
Orange Juice – In A Nutshell
The Velvet Underground – Cool It Down
The Beatles – Long, Long, Long
Françoise Hardy – Autumn Rendezvous
Pink Floyd – Scarecrow
Linda Perhacs – Paper Mountain Man
Sandy Stoddard – Moose & Bear Calls
The Chills – Autumn Testament #20
The Velvelettes – Needle In A Haystack
The Magnetic Fields – Long Vermont Roads
Donovan – The Magpie
T.S.D.O.L.E – Summer Gave Us Sweets, But Autumn Wrought Division
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
Beach House – Apple Orchard
Starlight Mints – Pumpkin
Feathers – Silverleaves In The Air Of Starseedlings
Sufjan Stevens – Romulus

question, if anyone actually reads this: if we started uploading individual songs/podcast type things, would you download them?

songs of de-stress.

due to the unfortunate circumstances surrounding midterms, we hoped that this week's show could be a nice source of relaxation. or, at least, sweet background music for your studies. one look at the psychotic woman above should adequately sum it up.

Raincoats – Honey Mad Woman
Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly
Seasick Crocodile – Don’t Tread On My 8-Track
T. Rex – Mambo Sun
The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning
The Zombies – Maybe After He’s Gone
Linda Perhacs – Moons & Cattails
Kaleidoscope – Jenny Artichoke
April March – Cet Air-La
Devendra Banhart – Hey Mama Wolf
The Chills – Doledrums
Felt – The World Is As Soft As Lace
The Beatles – Leave My Kitten Alone
Bob Dylan – I Am A Lonesome Hobo
Os Mutantes – Dia36
Cardigans – Your New Cuckoo
Might Flashlight – Ventilating Zephyrs
Donovan – Jennifer Juniper
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Artifact
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Conesuela
Beirut – Elephant Gun
Simon & Garfunkel – America
David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
The Bats – Jetsam
Fannypack – So Stylistic
Can – Mushroom
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
Close Lobsters – In Spite Of These Times
The Field Mice – An Earlier Autumn
Francoise Hardy – Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles

as always, thanks for listening! hopefully you emerged from the abyss of exams and papers relatively unscathed.

celestial bodies

this week's theme: celestial bodies!
by which, okay, we mean space.
this is actually a continuation of last week's show, which was unfortunately cut short by a power shortage. rad.

Os Mutantes – I Feel A Little Spaced Out
The Servants – The Sun Is A Small Star
ESG – UFO
Camera Obscura – Arrangements of Shapes and Space
David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
Deerhoof – Sinistar
Kraftwerk – Space Lab
McCarthy – Celestial City
Tyrannosaurus Rex – A Beard Of Stars
Guided by Voices - Jane of the Waking Universe
The Field Mice – Star of David
Television Personalities – Goodnight Mr. Spaceman
Xiu Xiu – Saturn
Circulatory System – Stars
Castanets – No Sleep Among The Stars
Seu Jorge – O Astronauta De Marmore (Starman)
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Starmoonsun
Luna – Lost In Space
Bis – Young Alien Types
The Byrds – Mr. Spaceman
The Chills – Rolling Moon
The Beatles – Across The Universe (anthology version)
The Plastic People of the Universe – Spofa Blues
Galaxie 500 – Leave The Planet
Electrocute – Venus Fly Trap
Elf Power – King Of Earth
David Bowie – Life On Mars?
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors – Saturn Jig
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days 100 Nights
M. Ward – Neptune’s Net
Jens Lekman – You Are The Light By Which I Travel Into This & That
Talking Heads – Moon Rocks

we hope we boldly went where few have dared to go.