WFMU: Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 2, 2003

Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 2, 2003

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September 2, 2003: Take this Labor Day and shove it

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	New	Approx. start time
I slept like ass last night. Which makes no sense because I spent the entire day out and about, riding shotgun on a Jersey voyage that took me to old hangouts near n' dear to my heart in exotic places like Trenton, Princeton, and New Brunswick.
Too bad none of that helped me sleep more than a winky, then fumbling through this radio show (my first attempt at monkeying with the Accuplaylist system, which I'm delighted to call a stunning success), and then coming home to make a needlessly complicated dinner involving both vegetables and bratwurst. (I have this stupid theory that eating something bad for you can be cancelled out by eating something good for you in the next bite. Which is how I completely grossed out a friend of mine by once having a glass of soy milk with a cheeseburger.)

V3	Another Exterminator Eaten by Bugs	Psychic Dance Hall	The late Jim Shepard's magnum opus, if you ask me. His suicide = the loss of a true creative genius -- the kind of guy who cut right through all the baloney and said things that really needed saying. For a few weird minutes in the mid 90s, bands like V3 got major label record deals that flopped, but resulted in amazing albums that are now available in bulk for a buck or two the whole world over. This song's not on that record, but if you ever see "Photograph Burns" anywhere (and you will, believe me) pick it up.
Meat Puppets	Up on the Sun	Up on the Sun			0:05:48 Pop-up)
Swell	Get Higher	Bastards and Rarities: 1989-1994		*	0:09:44 Pop-up)
Mars Ill	Alpha Male	Backbreakanomics		*	0:13:51 Pop-up)
Laughing Clowns	Sometimes (I Just Can't Live with Anyone)	Tales from the Australian Underground 2xCD	compilation		0:17:51 Pop-up)
Mick Jagger	Lucky in Love	She's the Boss	Mick has some serious girlass going on in the picture on the back of this record. I wish I could blame my use of the world "girlass" on someone else, but alas, I think I just made it up.		0:21:53 Pop-up)
Ron and Candy	Plastic Situation	Inner City Sounds	compilation	*	0:26:34 Pop-up)
					0:36:25 Pop-up)
					0:36:27 Pop-up)
Lifesavas	It's Over	Spirit in Stone		*	0:36:47 Pop-up)
Styrenes	Anything	We Care, So You Don't Have To	I think I want this song played at my wedding. Which is odd, because it's a song about doubting everything. But still -- what a sentiment, and who better to put it forth than former Pagans screamer Mike Hudson. A pity he's no longer involved with the band.		0:41:17 Pop-up)
Emory Swank	Center City	7"			0:44:25 Pop-up)
Joey Ramone	Maria Bartoromo	Don't Worry About Me	I remember walking past CBGB's a few days after the WTC attacks, and thinking that I was, in some weird way, glad that Joey had died before it happened because the shock probably would've caused the guy to check out even more prematurely than he did. An FMU hit from last year which I totally forgot about until just now.		0:48:31 Pop-up)
Sans Pression	Pas le choix de Foncer	Repliques aux Offusques		*	0:52:08 Pop-up)
Townes van Zandt	Gypsy Friday	In the Beginning		*	0:56:30 Pop-up)
Brother JT	Shine Like Me	Hang in there, Baby		*	0:59:37 Pop-up)
Kinks	King Kong	Kink Kronikles			1:03:45 Pop-up)
					1:18:36 Pop-up)
Dizzee Rascal	Fix up, Look Sharp	Boy in Da Corner	Video for this song available here. Thanks, Jon!	*	1:14:39 Pop-up)
Hello	Another School Day	Velvet Tinmine	compilation		1:18:13 Pop-up)
Nina Hagen	I'm a Believer	Best of Rodney on the ROQ	compilation		1:21:00 Pop-up)
Boogie Boys	Fly Girl	Street Jams Part Two: Hip Hop from the Top	I know I've waxed endlessly about how important and influential the old WBLS and KISS-FM DJs like Mr. Magic, DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout were to my early hip hop edification, but it would be remiss of me not to again point out that this song is a personal mixtape fave from that era. Bonus points distributed for Dial-a-Joke reference. Yo, 976 prefix represent!		1:25:05 Pop-up)
Holy Rollers	What You Said	Fabuley			1:30:33 Pop-up)
Naked Raygun	Home	Raygun... Naked Raygun			1:32:55 Pop-up)
British Sea Power	Remember Me	The Decline of British Sea Power		*	1:35:43 Pop-up)
Otto	Pelo Engarrafamento	Indica Brazilica	compilation		1:38:56 Pop-up)

					1:48:11 Pop-up)
Half Japanese	Day and Night	Greatest Hits			1:48:23 Pop-up)
Pretenders	The Phone Call	Pretenders			1:50:55 Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	Uncorrected Personality Traits	I Often Dream of Trains			1:53:18 Pop-up)
Stars as Eyes	Falling Picture	Loud New Shit		*	1:54:59 Pop-up)
King Geedorah	Next Levels	Take me to your Leader	w/ MF Doom	*	1:59:37 Pop-up)
Kyuss	Hurricane	...And the Circus Leaves Town	Now THAT'S a riff.		2:03:25 Pop-up)
Deep Purple	Bird has Flown	Deep Purple			2:05:42 Pop-up)
Dalek	From Mole Hills	From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots			2:11:21 Pop-up)

The Stalin	???	Killed by Death #5	I need more Japanese punk rock in my life. This kind, not the kids with the synths and the gizmos. If anyone can find the GISM LP for me, I'll sing the karaoke song of your choice while wearing a cowboy hat and flip flops and/or be your best friend.		2:26:26 Pop-up)
Spacemen 3	Revolution	Playing with Fire	re-issue	*	2:28:28 Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Cheap Sunglasses	Deguello			2:34:12 Pop-up)
Gaunt	Spine	7"	I think this is one of truly perfect punk rock songs of the last 10 years. (Actually, I believe this song is now 11 years old, but never mind about that now.)		2:38:59 Pop-up)
Citizen 23	Janie Got a Black Eye	Homework Vol. 9	compilation	*	2:42:43 Pop-up)
Joe Pop-O-Pie	World-O-Morons	Joe's Third Record	Another classic period piece. Oh Joe, where have you gone.		2:44:10 Pop-up)
Fannypack	Smack it Up	So Stylistic	"Killing me soft, Roberta Flack it up" = inspired genius.	*	2:47:03 Pop-up)

Millie Jackson	My Heart Took a Licking but it Kept on Ticking	Funk Soul Sisters	compilation	*	2:54:07 Pop-up)
Nomeansno	Humans	Worldhood of the World as Such			2:56:14 Pop-up)

Artist

Track

Album

Comments

New

Approx. start time

I slept like ass last night. Which makes no sense because I spent the entire day out and about, riding shotgun on a Jersey voyage that took me to old hangouts near n' dear to my heart in exotic places like Trenton, Princeton, and New Brunswick.

Too bad none of that helped me sleep more than a winky, then fumbling through this radio show (my first attempt at monkeying with the Accuplaylist system, which I'm delighted to call a stunning success), and then coming home to make a needlessly complicated dinner involving both vegetables and bratwurst. (I have this stupid theory that eating something bad for you can be cancelled out by eating something good for you in the next bite. Which is how I completely grossed out a friend of mine by once having a glass of soy milk with a cheeseburger.)

Another Exterminator Eaten by Bugs

Psychic Dance Hall

The late Jim Shepard's magnum opus, if you ask me. His suicide = the loss of a true creative genius -- the kind of guy who cut right through all the baloney and said things that really needed saying. For a few weird minutes in the mid 90s, bands like V3 got major label record deals that flopped, but resulted in amazing albums that are now available in bulk for a buck or two the whole world over. This song's not on that record, but if you ever see "Photograph Burns" anywhere (and you will, believe me) pick it up.

Meat Puppets

Up on the Sun

0:05:48 Pop-up)

Swell

Get Higher

Bastards and Rarities: 1989-1994

0:09:44 Pop-up)

Mars Ill

Alpha Male

Backbreakanomics

0:13:51 Pop-up)

Laughing Clowns

Sometimes (I Just Can't Live with Anyone)

Tales from the Australian Underground 2xCD

compilation

0:17:51 Pop-up)

Mick Jagger

Lucky in Love

She's the Boss

Mick has some serious girlass going on in the picture on the back of this record. I wish I could blame my use of the world "girlass" on someone else, but alas, I think I just made it up.

0:21:53 Pop-up)

Ron and Candy

Plastic Situation

Inner City Sounds

compilation

0:26:34 Pop-up)

0:36:25 Pop-up)

0:36:27 Pop-up)

Lifesavas

It's Over

Spirit in Stone

0:36:47 Pop-up)

Styrenes

Anything

We Care, So You Don't Have To

I think I want this song played at my wedding. Which is odd, because it's a song about doubting everything. But still -- what a sentiment, and who better to put it forth than former Pagans screamer Mike Hudson. A pity he's no longer involved with the band.

0:41:17 Pop-up)

Emory Swank

Center City

0:44:25 Pop-up)

Joey Ramone

Maria Bartoromo

Don't Worry About Me

I remember walking past CBGB's a few days after the WTC attacks, and thinking that I was, in some weird way, glad that Joey had died before it happened because the shock probably would've caused the guy to check out even more prematurely than he did. An FMU hit from last year which I totally forgot about until just now.

0:48:31 Pop-up)

Sans Pression

Pas le choix de Foncer

Repliques aux Offusques

0:52:08 Pop-up)

Townes van Zandt

Gypsy Friday

In the Beginning

0:56:30 Pop-up)

Brother JT

Shine Like Me

Hang in there, Baby

0:59:37 Pop-up)

Kinks

King Kong

Kink Kronikles

1:03:45 Pop-up)

1:18:36 Pop-up)

Dizzee Rascal

Fix up, Look Sharp

Boy in Da Corner

Video for this song available here. Thanks, Jon!

1:14:39 Pop-up)

Hello

Another School Day

Velvet Tinmine

compilation

1:18:13 Pop-up)

Nina Hagen

I'm a Believer

Best of Rodney on the ROQ

compilation

1:21:00 Pop-up)

Boogie Boys

Fly Girl

Street Jams Part Two: Hip Hop from the Top

I know I've waxed endlessly about how important and influential the old WBLS and KISS-FM DJs like Mr. Magic, DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout were to my early hip hop edification, but it would be remiss of me not to again point out that this song is a personal mixtape fave from that era. Bonus points distributed for Dial-a-Joke reference. Yo, 976 prefix represent!

1:25:05 Pop-up)

Holy Rollers

What You Said

Fabuley

1:30:33 Pop-up)

Naked Raygun

Home

Raygun... Naked Raygun

1:32:55 Pop-up)

British Sea Power

Remember Me

The Decline of British Sea Power

1:35:43 Pop-up)

Otto

Pelo Engarrafamento

Indica Brazilica

compilation

1:38:56 Pop-up)

1:48:11 Pop-up)

Half Japanese

Day and Night

Greatest Hits

1:48:23 Pop-up)

Pretenders

The Phone Call

Pretenders

1:50:55 Pop-up)

Robyn Hitchcock

Uncorrected Personality Traits

I Often Dream of Trains

1:53:18 Pop-up)

Stars as Eyes

Falling Picture

Loud New Shit

1:54:59 Pop-up)

King Geedorah

Next Levels

Take me to your Leader

w/ MF Doom

1:59:37 Pop-up)

Kyuss

Hurricane

...And the Circus Leaves Town

Now THAT'S a riff.

2:03:25 Pop-up)

Deep Purple

Bird has Flown

Deep Purple

2:05:42 Pop-up)

Dalek

From Mole Hills

From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

2:11:21 Pop-up)

The Stalin

???

Killed by Death #5

I need more Japanese punk rock in my life. This kind, not the kids with the synths and the gizmos. If anyone can find the GISM LP for me, I'll sing the karaoke song of your choice while wearing a cowboy hat and flip flops and/or be your best friend.

2:26:26 Pop-up)

Spacemen 3

Revolution

Playing with Fire

re-issue

2:28:28 Pop-up)

ZZ Top

Cheap Sunglasses

Deguello

2:34:12 Pop-up)

Gaunt

Spine

I think this is one of truly perfect punk rock songs of the last 10 years. (Actually, I believe this song is now 11 years old, but never mind about that now.)

2:38:59 Pop-up)

Citizen 23

Janie Got a Black Eye

Homework Vol. 9

compilation

2:42:43 Pop-up)

Joe Pop-O-Pie

World-O-Morons

Joe's Third Record

Another classic period piece. Oh Joe, where have you gone.

2:44:10 Pop-up)

Fannypack

Smack it Up

So Stylistic

"Killing me soft, Roberta Flack it up" = inspired genius.

2:47:03 Pop-up)

Millie Jackson

My Heart Took a Licking but it Kept on Ticking

Funk Soul Sisters

compilation

2:54:07 Pop-up)

Nomeansno

Humans

Worldhood of the World as Such

2:56:14 Pop-up)

Mike Lupica: Playlist from September 2, 2003

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