Autumnal, And Isn’t It? Transmission 86, 2013 December 22

This set finds me in full snark--bitching about unseasonably warm weather and dropping obscure references to behind-the-scenes kerfuffles. Vintage stuff. And a nice, current set--as I am figuring out, I really do prefer these over the short-notice "retro" programs. I enjoy sensing that a given show could only have happened right about now, which probably explains why I've avoided pre-recorded or "evergreen" episodes.

Doing this program produces some emotional peaks and valleys, which seems predictable enough--at any rate, someone should have been able to predict it. Happily, this transmission feels like a peak. I played this through a proper hi-fi, just now, and thought: "the person who did this show was good." So I have that going for me.

I did manage to disappoint a friend of Lady Catharsis, though, who tuned in at 6pm under the mistaken impression that she would hear a little Chilean-American girl and instead got Echo & The Bunnymen (as best I can figure)--"it might not have been metal, but it was some scratch masculine angry music." Similarly, Carlos of the "Alcance Latino" crew and I were chatting during the waning minutes of my show--his program, beginning at 7pm, would play host to the aforementioned youngster, by the way. Carlos looked up at the speakers for a moment as "Hittite Man" played, and asked, "Who is this?" If you enjoy these podcasts, I think I can safely presume that your life in music has been somewhat like mine, and you can guess at his tone of voice. You've heard this question, and that tone, thousands of times. [Sigh.] Kristin Hersh was right--good music isn't for everyone.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 22, 1700-1900:

1. "Superconductor" | Gregor Tresher & Petar Dundov | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
2. "Pablo's Lament - Youth Dub Mix" | Suns of Arqa | Ancient Temples EP | Mariko
3. "Night City.Tokyo - London Version" | Black Rain | Protoplasm | Blackest Ever Black
4. "Nightvision" | §un §pells | βunβet - Live at the Chanticleer 5/30/13 | Bandcamp self-release
5. "Joachims Kalimba" | Dapayk & Padberg | Smoke | Mo's Ferry
6. "Pulse Locker" | John Tejada | Pulse Locker EP | Palette
7. "Autumnal" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
8. "Peppermint Pig" | Cocteau Twins | Peppermint Pig | 4AD
9. "All That Jazz" | Echo & The Bunnymen | Crocodiles | Korova
10. "Lost Methods" | Etch | Old School Methods | Keysound
11. "Egyptian Shumba - Alternate" | The Tammys | Egyptian Shumba | Jazzman
12. "Elefantenhaut" | Schneider TM | Guitar Sounds | Bureau B
13. "Conduct" | The Durutti Column | The Return of the Durutti Column | Factory Benelux
14. "Dewsbury Severance" | Call Super | Black Octagons | Houndstooth
15. "The Quarterdrawing of the Dog" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Tinderbox | Geffen
16. "Light, Raking" | Polvo | Siberia | Merge
17. "Capsize Recovery" | Senking | Capsize Recovery | Raster-Notion
18. "Hittite Man" | The Fall | Re-Mit | Cherry Red
19. "The 'Priest' They Called Him" | William S. Burroughs / Kurt Cobain | The "Priest" They Called Him | Tim / Kerr | "Physical Evidence"
    

next time: zoo zoo dweet. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

ps How does one get through the 80s without knowing Echo & The Bunnymen?