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Busy Doing Nothing : 27 May 2010

(picture by shoothead, found here)

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

27 May 2010 | Chip off the old shoulder

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

Kyai Lokananta (slendro): Duradasih - Gamelan of Java vol 1: Kraton Kasunanan (Lyrichord)
Tujiko Noriko - Endless End - Shojo Toshi + (Mego)
"Blue" Gene Tyranny - Next Time Might Be Your Time - Out of the Blue (Unseen Worlds)
    behind DJ: Frederic Rzewski - Les Moutons de Panurge - Coming Together (Opus One)

Bourema and female choir - Alphagai - Anthologie de la Musique du Niger (Ocora)
Jimi Tenor - Beach Boy - Organism (Sire)
Ricardo Eddy Martinez - Tamba Iya - Si, Para Usted: "The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba" (va) (Waxing Deep)
Nobody presents Blank Blue - All the Shallow Deep - From L.A. With Love (Milan)
    behind DJ: Yuka Honda - The Last One to Fall Asleep - Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)

John McLaughlin - Binky's Beam - Extrapolations (Polydor)
Pacific Gas & Electric - Are You Ready? - 7" (Columbia)
Brenda Lee - Too Many Rivers - (originally Decca 7")
Professional Beach Melodians "Uhuru no. 2" - Shake It - Money No Be Sand (Original)
    behind DJ: Yuka Honda - You Think You Are So Generous ... But It's the Most Conditional "Anything" I've Ever Heard - Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)

The Move - Fields of People - Shazam (A&M)
Charles W. Dunn reads Sir Gawain & The Green Knight - Early English Poetry (Scholastic)
     with Morton Subotnick - Sidewinder - Vol. 2: Electronic Works (Mode)
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Miss Anne Elk - Monty Python's Previous Record (Charisma/Buddah)
Moses Mchunu - Ohwahilahe - Indestructible Beat of Soweto (va) (Shanachie)
    behind DJ: Yuka Honda - Night Driving - Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)

Richie Havens - San Francisco Bay Blues - Mixed Bag (Verve)
Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This? - 7" (EMI)
Maxine Brown - Funny - 7" (Wand)
George Gershwin - Lookin for a Boy - Funny Face (World Record Club)
Hypnotuba - Small Systems - Loosed (self-released)
Tujiko Noriko - Machi No Kakera (Girl Meets Boy) - Shojo Toshi + (Mego)
    behind DJ: The Artie Schroeck Implosion - Younger Girl - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Brian Wilson and Andy Paley - In My Moondreams - Pulp Surfin' (va) (Del-Fi)
Alberta Hunter - Always - Amtrak Blues (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Orchids - I Will Call You - Major Force (va) (MoWax)

no show tonight, 20 May 2010

(picture found here)

No show this week :(

Too many plates spinning in the air.

Busy Doing Nothing : 13 May 2010

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

13 May 2010 | Shouting to someone

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

Zeljko Kerleta - Camel Walk - Space Runner (Cosmic Sounds)
S. Janaki - Unakkum Enakkum - Doob Doob O'Rama (va) (Normal Records/QDK Media)
Japanese Cast - Where Do I Go? - Hair (cast album) (RCA Japan)
Dolly Mixture - Treasure Hunt - Demonstration Tapes (Dead Good Dolly Platters)
    (info on Dolly Mixture here; download here)
    behind DJ: The Artie  Schroeck Implosion - Amy's Theme - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Silver Apples - Walkin' - The Garden (Whirlybird)
The Artie  Schroeck Implosion - Summer in the City - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)
Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin', Billy - A Good Thing Lost (What Are? Records)
Shang Shang Typhoon - Waves and Wind - 2 (Sony Music Japan)
Miracles - Don't Let It End ('Til You Let It Begin) - box (Motown) orig Tamla 1972
Beatles - And I Love Her - A Hard Day's Night (United Artists)
    behind DJ: Gopi Krishan - Dance Music - Rocky (soundtrack) (Polydor)

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys w the McKinney Sisters - Blue Skies - The Tiffany Transcriptions (Kaleidoscope)
Gerry & The Pacemakers - It's Gonna Be Alright - Ferry Cross the Mersey (United Artists)
Jack Jones - The Race Is On (originally Kapp 7")
The Kadillac Lobster - Spooky - Cover Songs (no label)
Fountains of Wayne - I Want You Around (4-track demo) - Out-of-State Plates (Virgin)
    behind DJ: The Artie  Schroeck Implosion - Didn't Want to Have to Do It - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Bob Hunds 115th Song - Jag rear ut min sjal! Allt skall bort!!! (I'm putting my soul up for sale! Everything must go!!!) (Silence)
Brazilian  Cast - Where Do I Go? - Hair (cast album) ()
Death Praxis - Bum Steer - Mystery (Tzadik)
Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass - All Too Soon - Again (Pablo)
Kutiman - Someday (featuring Soon by DadaSarah) - Kutiman Mixes YouTube
    behind DJ: Hoagy Carmichael - How Little We Know - home recordings (Flyright)

Dolly Mixture - Understanding - Demonstration Tapes (Dead Good Dolly Platters)
Marshall Crenshaw - Not For Me - self-titled (Warner Bros.)
The Clash - Cheapskates - Give 'em Enough Rope (Epic)
Billy Meshel - Today Has Been Cancelled - The Love Song of A. Wilbur Meshel (ABC Probe)
Andy Kaulkin - All My Good Is Gone - Six Foot Seven and Rising (Bong Load)
    behind DJ: The Artie  Schroeck Implosion - Six O'Clock - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Original Broadway Cast - Where Do I Go? - Hair (cast album) (RCA)
The Free Design - Love Does Not Die - There Is a Song (Ambrotype; Light in the Attic)
O*N*T*J - Jose - Jose (Benten)
Holy Modal Rounders - The Whole World Oughta Go On a Vacation - Good Taste Is Timeless (Metromedia; Sundazed)
Little Eva - Up On the Roof - Complete Dimension Recordings (West Side)
Dolly Mixture - Grass Is Greener - Demonstration Tapes (Dead Good Dolly Platters)
    behind DJ: The Artie  Schroeck Implosion - You Didn't Have to Be So Nice - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Busy Doing Nothing : 6 May 2010

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

6 May 2010 | Language dissolve

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

Brian Eno & John Cale - Lay My Love - Wrong Way Up (Opal/Warner Bros.)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cosmic Surfin' - Yellow Magic Orchestra (A&M)
Robert Israel - Match Game Theme (DJ Riko remix)
Meters - 9 'Till 5 - Cissy Strut (Island)
Cibo Matto - Sci-Fi Wasabi - Stereotype A (Warner Bros.)
    behind DJ: The Artie Schroeck Implosion - Amy's Theme - A Spoonful of Lovin' (Verve)

Jorge Ben - Xica da Silva - Africa Brasil (Philips)
Zani Diabate & The Super Djata Band - Super Djata - self-titled (Mango)
Ui - Sunny Nights - Answers (Southern)
Machito - Tea for Two - Mucho Macho (Pablo)
Feelies - Raised Eyebrows - 7" (Rough Trade)
Asobi Seksu - Strings - Citrus (Friendly Fire)
    behind DJ: Stereolab - Blaue Milch - Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchester: Warp Back To Earth 66/99 (va) (Bungalow)

Bartlebees - Nobody's Lonesome for Me - Urban Folk Legends (Little Teddy)
The Split Level - Can't Complain - self-titled (Dot)
Carmen McRae - My Very Own Person - Portrait of Carmen (Atlantic)
Bob Dorough - The Crawdad Song - Just About Everything (Focus)
Dino, Desi & Billy - I'm a Fool - (originally Reprise 7")
    behind DJ: Morricone - Un altro mare, from Vergogna schifosi - Eviva! Morricone (Avanz)

Pere Ubu - Breath - Cloudland (Fontana)
Clouddead - Pop Song - Ten (Mush)
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man - Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)'
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - At First She Starts - Once in a Blue Moon (Topic)
Quasi - The Curse of Having it All - The Sword of God (Touch and Go)
    behind DJ: Evgeny Grinko - Woody Allen - Cinematic Melodies (found on the Free Music Archive)

The Jeremiah Jones Intervention - Middle Man - Pure in My Room (self-released)
Daniel Johnston - Blue Clouds - The What of Whom (Stress cassette)
Catherine Howe - Up North - What a Beautiful Place (Numero)
Lola Albright - Straight to Baby - Dreamsville (Columbia) (found here)
Lal & Mike Waterson - Shady Lady - Bright Phoebus (Trailer)

Minisnap - In a Dream - Bounce Around (Magic Marker)
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play - (originally Columbia/EMI 7")
The Quest - 26 Miles - Love Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music (va) (QDK Media)
    behind DJ: Geroge Martin - Ringo's Theme (This Boy) - A Hard Day's Night (soundtrack) (United Artists)