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Busy Doing Nothing : 26 February 2009

(Verka Serduchka, Ukraine's representatives in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

26 February  2009 | Mashed up yodeling polka kids against climate change!

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

unknown - Intro: Welcome to Thailand - Thai Pop Spectacular (Sublime Frequencies)
Hypnotuba - I Like Apples - Loosed (Hypnotuba)
Monareta - Get the Rec - Picotero (Nacional)
Deanna Durbin - The Turntable Song (from the 1947 film, Something in the Wind) - Memories (MCA) / It's a Date (Coral)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel - Scratchology Mixed by the X-ecutioners (Sequence)
The Bran Flakes - Marchy March - I Have Hands (Illegal Art)
The Temptations - I Can't Get Next to You - 7" (Gordy)
Sakarin Boonpit - Kotmorn Yoop Yap - Thai Beat a Go Go (Subliminal Sounds)
    behind DJ: Tipsy - Bunny Kick - Uh-Oh! (Asphodel)

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Caroline was a Drop-Out - In Praise of Older Women & Other Crimes (Sire)
Madonna - Material Girl - 45 played at 33 (Sire)
Eläkeläiset - Humppaneitsyt (Like a Virgin) - collection (Finnish for "retirees")
Mary Schneider (Australia's queen of yodeling) - Clarinet Polka Yodel - Yodeling the Classics (Innerworks/Ichiban)
Tawney Reed - You Can't Take It Away - You Can Be Wrong About Boys (Sequel)
    behind DJ: Glenn Branca - Bad Smells - Who You Staring At? (Giorno Poetry Systems)

Wing - Top of the World - Sings the Carpenters (Wing Music)
Dondero High School Symphony Band and A Capella Choir - More Than a Feeling (Boston) - Pop Concert 1996 (Comfort Stand)
Go Home Productions - Rapture Riders (Blondie/Doors) - The Allen Dean Project (Go Home Productions)
The Coasters - Besame Mucho - 7" single (Atco)
Cuarteto Don Ramon Sr (Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie Boys) - Pachuco Boogie - Pachuco Boogie (Arhoolie)
    behind DJ: Las Comadrejas - Oaxacatelas - We Are Ugly But We Have the Music (Comad)

Ambrosia - Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Ambrosia (20th Century)
The Insect Trust - The Eyes of a New York Woman - Hoboken Saturday Night (Atco; Collectors' Choice)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover) - Dream On (Pias)
The Bran Flakes - The Sidewalk Song - I Have Hands (Illegal Art)
Sing-Out Lancaster - There Is Something Going - Sing-Out Lancaster (Largo)
    behind DJ: Stravinsky - loop from Symphony in Three Movements - Igor conducting (Columbia)

DJ Morgoth - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up (Rick Astley/Nirvana)
Eläkeläiset - Humppanirvana (Smells Like Teen Spirit) - collection
Jonathan Coulton - When I'm 25 or 64 - Thing a Week 1 (Jonathan Coulton)
Oranj Symphonette - A Shot in the Dark - Plays Mancini (Gramavision)
Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters - September in the Rain - Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters (originally on Now! Hear!) (Prestige)
Loong Piau Piau - Love Is Like a Dream - Chinese cassette
Shirley Henderson - The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - Topsy-Turvy soundtrack (Sony Classical)
    behind DJ: Prefuse 73 - Radio Attack - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (Warp)

Busy Doing Nothing : 19 February 2009

(Record Mart, Rockford IL, 1975, photo by galechicago)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

19 February  2009 | The show that doesn't know

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Shirley Scott - A Shot in the Dark - Great Scott!! (Impulse!)
The Pinker Tones - In Pea We Nuts - The Million Colour Revolution (Nacional)
Jorge Ben - Ive Brussel (with Caetano Veloso) - Salve Simpatia (Som Livre)
Pere Ubu - Ubu Dance Party - Dub Housing (Rough Trade)
    behind DJ: George Wright - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - Encores (High Fidelity Recordings)

Brave Combo - Happy Wanderer - Polkatharsis (Rounder)
Sveta Kolibaba - Hey DJ - Russen Disko Hits (va) (Trikont)
The New World - In the Year 2525 - Sings It's a New World (FourMost)
DJBC - Mad World Forever - DJ BC website
Jim Copp & Ed Brown - Mr. and Mrs. Destitute - East of Flumdiddle (Playhouse)
Paula Tsui - Blue Moon - best of cassette
    behind DJ: Ethel Smith - That Old Black Magic; Love for Sale - The Many Moods of (Decca)

Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me - Here Come the Warm Jets (Editions E.G.)
The Flaming Lips - Buggin' - The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)
Hugo Montenegro - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Colours of Love (RCA)
Dim Dim - Split - Whip (Audio Dregs)
    behind DJ: The Three Suns, with Pipe Organ (played by Alfredo Mendez) - Louisiana Hayride - The Things I Love in Hi-Fi (RCA)

Robert Farnon - Moon Over Rio - Betty Page, Jungle Girl (QDK Media/Normal)
Edmund Welles - Into the Void - Agrippa's Three Books (Zeroth Law)
Kaada - All Wrong - Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)
Risto - Nina, olen palasina - Summer and Smiles of Finland (va) (Fonal)
    behind DJ: Brad Swanson - To You Sweetheart Aloha; Drifting and Dreaming - Goes Hawaiian (Thunderbird)

The Bran Flakes - The Girl That I Used to Be - I Have Hands (Illegal Art) (pre-order here)
Najma - Neend Koyi - Qareeb (Shanachie)
Hoven Droven - Malört - Hippa (Northside)
Peggy Lee - I'm Beginning to See the Light - With the Dave Barbour Band (LaserLight)
Shirley Scott - The Five O'Clock Whistle - Great Scott!! (Impulse!)
    behind DJ: Leroy Anderson - The Syncopated Clock - The Leroy Anderson Collection

The Young Generation - It Must Be Love - Happy Together (RCA)
Strawbs - Just Love - Hero & Heroine (A&M)
Jerry McCain - It Must Be Love - Choo Choo Rock (found here)
Raincoats - In Love - Raincoats (Rough Trade/DGC)
L.T.D. - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - 7" single (A&M)
    behind DJ: The Three Suns, with Pipe Organ - Linger Awhile - The Things I Love in Hi-Fi (RCA)

Busy Doing Nothing : 12 February 2009

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

12 February  2009 | A show made out of old cans

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Pretenders - In the Sticks - Attack of the Killer B's (va) (Warner Bros.)
Lowney's Chocolates - Gikki Gong - 7" single (RCA Canada) (found here)
The Womenfolk - Jika Jing - Never Underestimate the Power of The Womenfolk (RCA)
Billy Mbowa w. The AGS Boys - Jane Wange - The Kampala Sound (Original Music)
Lulu & The Luvvers - Surprise, Surprise - 7" single (Decca)
    behind DJ: Pigbag - The Big Bean - 12" single (Y America)

Thomas Chauke & The Shinyori Sisters - Xumaxilovile - The Heartbeat of Soweto (Shanachie)
Dee Dee Sharp (with Chubby Checker) - Slow Twistin' - It's Mashed Potato Time (Cameo)
Los Super Elegantes - Por Que Te Vas? - Channelizing Paradise (Los Super Elegantes)
Nogu Svelo - The Little Chinese Bells - Russen Disko Hits (va) (Trikont)
John Barry Seven - Bees Knees - The EMI Years vol. 1 (EMI)
    behind DJ: John Lurie - Manny & Lo (End Titles) - African Swim/Manny & Lo (Strange and Beautiful)

Gyedu Blay Ambolley & The Steneboofs - Simigwado - Ghana Soundz (va) (Soundway)
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise (No Noise Instrumental) - 12" single (Def Jam)
Cheb Khaled & Safy Boutella - La Camel - Kutche (Stern's Africa)
    behind DJ: Dim Dim - Stippy - Whip (Audio Dregs)

Os Rocks - I Put a Spell on You - Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage vol. 1 (va) (No Smoke)
Fats Waller - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Fats Waller Plays, Sings & Talks (Jazz Treasury)
Blossom Dearie - Figure Eight - Multiplication Rock (Capitol)
Rutland (VT) Jr. High School Ensemble - I Write the Songs - In Concert January 29, 1976 (Green Mountain)
Yamasuki Singers - AIEAOA - Le Monde Fabuleux des Yamasuki (Finders Keepers) (info here)
    behind DJ: Pigbag - Schounda - 12" single (Y America)

Professional Beach Melodians 'Uhuru No. 2' - Shake It - Money No Be Sand (va) (Original Music)
Jonathan Richman - Government Center - Beserkley Chartbusters (va) (Beserkley)
Sharmila & Black Star Club - Bunduki - Nyota: Black Star & Lucky Star Musical Clubs (va) (Globestyle)
Cher - I Go To Sleep - Absolutely the Best vol. 1 (Fuel 2000)
Sad Rockets - Sad Rocket's Rock Steady - Transition (Matador)
    behind DJ: Sad Rockets - Sad Rocket's Rock Steady - Transition (Matador)

Fanny - Badge - Feels Like the First Time: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade)
The Special Pillow - No More Problems - Sleeping Beauty (Zofko)
Kilimambogo Brothers - Mwendwa Jane - Guitar Paradise of East Africa (va) (Earthworks)
Konono No. 1 - Lufuala Ndonga - Congotronics (Crammed Discs)

Busy Doing Nothing : 5 February 2009

 

(a room at the Ice Hotel, in Jukkasjärvi, northern Sweden, picture by Helen Forslund)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

5 February 2009 | I Like Ice

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Nortec Collective - Tengo la Voz - Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 (Nacional)
Us 3 - Tukka Yoot's Riddim - Hand on the Torch (Blue Note)
Plastilina Mosh - Supercombo Electronico - Juan Manuel (Astralwerks)
The Turtles - Sound Asleep - Greatest Hits (Rhino)
    behind DJ: Stereolab - Blaue Milch - Peter Thomas Sound Orchester: Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)

The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Columbia)
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light (by which I travel into this and that) - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
Brave Combo - Skokiaan - World Dance Music (Four Dots)
Stu Phillips - Ampersand (&) - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (soundtrack) (Harkit)
Dim Dim - Love Serenade - Ananas (Audio Dregs)
    behind DJ: Schneider TM - Neukoment - Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club (Sire)
Sly & Robbie - Miles (Black Satin) - Language Barrier (Island)
Steely Dan - My Old School - Countdown to Ecstasy (ABC) (watch it here!)
Tommy Roe - Dizzy - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy: The Best of Bubble Gum (va) (K-Tel)
    behind DJ: High Llamas - The Bells of Senegal - Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)

The Special Pillow - Sixteen Worlds Away - Sleeping Beauty (Zofko)
Daniel Johnson - Life in Vain - Fun (Atlantic)
Lizzy Mercier Desclous - Sun Is Shining - Best Off (Ze)
The Wailers - Caution - collection of late 60s/early 70s recordings
The Association - Wantin' Ain't Gettin' - Insight Out (Warner Bros.)
Barbary Lory - In Guesto Mondo - Holidays in Italy (downloaded here)
    behind DJ: Yoshinori Sunahara - PTvsYS - Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Juan Loco - Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rubyworks/ATO)
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Lancet Bossa Nova - Futuremuzik (Scamp)
Vinicius & Toquinho - Samba da Volta - Vinicius & Toquinho (Philips)
Hector Buitrago - Damaquiel - Conector (Nacional)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Para no Vivir Desesperado - Piñata (Nacional)
Amy Allison - Beautiful Night - No Frills Friend (Diesel Only)
    behind DJ: Ronnie & Clyde - Zero One - Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)

The Zombies - Just Out of Reach - The Singles A's & B's (See for Miles)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Everybody's Talkin' - If You Don't Know Me by Now: Best of (Epic/Legacy)
    behind DJ: Dauerfisch - Es Läuft - Warp Back to Earth (va) (Bungalow)