Fashionable to Varying Degrees: Transmission 90, 2014 January 1

Our first episode of 2014 is the final installment in "the messed up episodes," a long string of mistake-prone shows that had something to do with something. As I write this, the insanity of holiday season has passed and I'm now more or less on a one-live-program-per-week schedule. My mental state is very different from what it must have been when I did this one. As with many shows between Thanksgiving and the first week of the new year, I find myself asking, "which one was this?"

Why, it was the broadcast featuring Alvin Lives in Leeds, an underrated comp from which I didn't play nearly enough. So sorry, 14 Iced Bears! Love you guys. It's also the last transmission featuring the "Listening Parlour"--for a while. Getting songs out of Lady Catharsis is sometimes like pulling teeth. She is a reluctant DJ on a good day, and the days aren't always good. Anyway, she'll be back whenever she wants. We've still got some BIG THANGS to do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 January 1, 2100-2300:

1. "New Energy (Live Through It)" | Daniel Avery | Drone Logic | Because
2. "Summer Nights" | 14 Iced Bears | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Revolution" | The Dub Club | Foundation Come Again | Stones Throw
4. "No Respects Rev." | The Fall | Re-Mit | Cherry Red
5. "Stacie" | Moin | Murphy | Blackest Ever Black
6. "Earthen Gate" | Fuzz | Fuzz | In the Red
7. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" | Lush | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Second Spine" | No Joy | Pastel and Pass Out | Kemado - Mexican Summer
9. "Fantasy" | Earth, Wind & Fire | Earth, Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits | Columbia - Legacy | "Listening Parlour"
10. "Mikroorgasmen im Morgentau" | Dominik Eulberg | Ein Steuckchen Urstoff | Traum
11. "Simple Pleasures - Om Unit Remix" | Reso | Tangram Remixed | Civil
12. "Wanderin' Star" | The Perfect Disaster | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Chrome Duck" | Quasi | Mole City | Kill Rock Stars
14. "Eliza" | Anna Calvi | One Breath | Domino
15. "Lucarne" | Ozka | Tiny Pleasures - Part II | Wolfskuil
16. "Hinotori - Single Edit" | Rovo & System 7 | Hinotori | G-Wave
17. "Endourban" | Black Rain | Protoplasm | Blackest Ever Black
18. "Delivered" | Raccoon Fighter | Zil | Papercup
19. "Le Freak" | Corn Dollies | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Flora" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
21. "Stay Golden" | Tristesse Contemporaine | Stay Golden | Record Makers
22. "Tears at the Grand Ole Opry" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family | "Listening Parlour"
23. "I Feel Love" | Crocodile Ride | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Medicine Man" | Baby Washington | Move On | Fryers
25. "As Goes the Sun" | DJ Yellow & Flowers & Sea Creatures | Black Label 105 (No One Gets Left Behind) | Compost Black

next time: la musique fait la force. Enjoy la musique! --kid catharsis