Video of the week - Rock Lobster!!!!

Lotus Land Show playlist for 7/25/07

Chris Freeman dropped by the Lotus Land Show today to chat and share some of his music with us. He has a new CD out called "The Robins Eat Like Me Now". What a swell fellah he is.

Here is how the show went.
Artist - Song
HOUR 1
Nine Inch Nails- Me I'm Not (ProtoParamour FXrmx)
Lightning Dust - Heaven
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Tulsa Drone - Risk Guitar
Airiel - You Kids Should Know Better
Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoor
Man Or Astroman? - Like A Giant Microwave
ProtoParamour - To The Heart Of It
Electric Six - Getting Into The Jam
Trembling Blue Stars - Helen Reddy
Nena - Indianer
The Cooper Temple Clause - A.I.M.

HOUR 2
In studio interview with Nashville singer songwriter Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman - Fine Line (LIVE)
Chris Freeman - Don't Ever Have Sex
Chris Freeman - Noah's Ark (LIVE)
Chris Freeman - Coffee Is My Best Friend
Chris Freeman - A+ (LIVE)
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Bloodrock - Breach Of Lease
The Feelies - Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
Starlight Mints - Pages
Chris Freeman - The Ballad of Mr. Spock, Milhouse and Robin

Lotus Land Show playlist for 7/18/07

WOW! A week late on this. I have to get better at this whole blog thing. My appologies for the delay.
Artist - Song
Hour 1
Ultra Dolphins - Mar
Ultra Dolphins - Town Ghost
Pixies - Velouria
Squirrel Bait - Rose Island Road
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Nocturnal House
At The Drive In - Enfilade
Interpol - Scale
Red House Painters - All Mixed Up
The Lost Patrol - Orbit
Ladytron - High Rise
Underworld - Moaner
Joy Division - Something Must Break
Tuxedomoon - Dark Companion
TV On The Radio - Snakes and Martyrs

HOUR 2
Ubangi - The Little Cat and the Dirty Dog
Optiganally Yours - Poodleman
They Might By Giants - Ana NG
Gnarls Barkley - Transformer
TRS-80 - Phontam Power
Think of One - Discipilnador
Tiger Army - Twenty Flight Rock
Man...or ASTRO-MAN? - Theoretical sounds of slow motion
The The - Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
Strasse - The Stranger In Your Eyes
The Legendary Pink Dots - Curious Guy
Hugo Largo - Second Skin

Video of the week

This week's video of the week (hands down probably one of the strangest videos I have ever seen) comes from Ubangi. A Swedish band from the early 80's who had two full length releases and a hand full of singles. I don't really know much more about band except that singer Cia Berg went on to be in the band Whale in the early 90's. You may remember their song "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe" which was released in 1993. Ah heck, let's just make it a two fer video of the week. I highly recommend you check out Ubangi's live videos from a 1985 television appearance. Highly energetic! Rather DEVOesque.

Ubangi - Where Have All the Good Sperms Gone


Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

Lotus Land Show playlist for 7/11/07

Here is how tonight's show played out. I felt pretty good about it considering not a whole lot of planning went into it this week. It was nice just spinning on the fly like I used to when I first started doing radio. I have been doing that a bit more lately. I like to see where the night and music takes me. Take a look and if you like what you see listen in next week and take the journey with me.

Artist - Song
HOUR 1
Metric - Rock Me Now
M83 - Facing That
Plexi - Change
Sneaker Pimps - Kiro TV
Deftones - To Have and To Hold
Depeche Mode - Question of Time
Prototypes - Decider
Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
The Sugarcubes - Take Some Petrol Darling
Radiohead - Sit Down Stand Up
Mission UK - Sacrilege
Dead Can Dance - Frontier
Ringo Deathstar - Some Kind Of Sad

HOUR 2
Girls Against Boys - Black Hole
Glen Armstrong and the Dirty Clergy - Scene Tucked Under a Van Gogh Sky
Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming
The Black Keys - The Flame
Free - Fire and Water
Akimbo - Tower of the Elephant
Kelly Hogan - Dirty Vs. Clean
The Jody Grind - 3rd of July
Delorean - Heather Remind How This Ends
Sade - Haunt Me
Hope Amico - There Are Reasons for Things
Denali - Relief
Death Cab For Cutie - For What Reason
Wayne Newton - Danke Shoen

Listen in at www.wrir.org

SPAMusic

I picked up a magazine (ESOPUS) while I was out today that came with a CD of SPAM inspired music. For the most part the CD is pretty good. I was skeptical but much to my delight there is some quality song writing here. See if you can figure out what sort of SPAM emails each tune is referencing. Some are more obvious then others. Also, check out some of the other archived CDs from past issues.

Video of the week

Ella sings "Summertime" Berlin 1968

And so it begins.

Holy mother. I can feel the pressure. Suddenly I am paralyzed with the thought that OH MY GOD THIS HAS TO BE SO PROFOUND and meaningful and interesting because the world is going to potentially see this and JUDGE! Okay, I just have to shake it off and just dive in. Here gooooooooooooooooo..........