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Saturday February 5th, 2022 with Steve Kirkland
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Better Living Through Desperation
EELS - Extreme Witchcraft - 2022, E Works

(And The) Pictures In The Sky
MEDICINE HEAD - 7-inch A-side - 1971, Dandelion

Certainty
BIG THIEF - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - 2022, 4AD

Best Kiss
The EXBATS - Now Where Were We - 2021, Goner

God Bless
The BODINES - 7-inch A-side - 1985, Creation

Satisfy
BLISS FIELDS - Slowly, Forever - 2022, Acrobat Unstable Records

Dream Sequence I
PAULINE MURRAY and the INVISIBLE GIRLS - Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls - 1980, Illusive

Begins Goodbye
EVEN AS WE SPEAK - V.A.: Under the Bridge - 2022, Skep Wax

Birth
TANYA TAGAQ - Tongues - 2022, Six Shooter

Scribble (instrumental)
FRED FRITH & DARREN JOHNSTON - Everybody’s Somebody’s Nobody - 2016, Clean Feed Portugal

One With Nature
AL DOUM & the FARYDS - Freaky People - 2021, Black Sweat Records Italy

Oulhin
BOMBINO - Deran - 2018, Partisan Records

Tally’s Tune (Musical Bed)
RANDY BACHMAN - Axe - 1970, RCA Victor

Zarahemblen (instrumental)
RANDY BACHMAN - Axe - 1970, RCA Victor

Shake
CRIME CELLAR - Night Lust (ep) - 2022, self-released

Love Hope
PiL - That What Is Not - 1991, Virgin

Flaw in the Design
HOME FRONT - Think of the Lie (ep) - 2022, La Vida Es Un Mus

Frankie Teardrop (Suicide cover)
UNKNOWN CELBRITIES - V.A.: Suicide – Tribute to Iconic New York Legends - 2014, Unknown Pleasures Records France

The Tree with the Lights in It
HIGH PLACES - High Places - 2008, Thrill Jockey

Bad Tattoo
KARATE - Karate - 1995, Southern Records

Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover)
KAY HANLEY - V.A.: Just Like Heaven (sdtk) - 2005, Columbia

He’s Dead She’s Alive
IGGY POP - Préliminaires - 2009, EMI/Virgin

Louie Louie (comp: Richard Berry)
The STOOGES - Heavy Liquid (Box Set) - 2005, Easy Action, recorded in 1972

Nice Day to Go to the Pub
The COSMIC PSYCHOS - I Love My Tractor - 2013, Pitshark Records

Tally’s Tune (Musical Bed)
RANDY BACHMAN - Axe - 1970, RCA Victor

The Last Living Rose
P.J. HARVEY - Let England Shake – Demos - 2022, Island

I Am Locust (instrumental)
The MAG SEVEN - The Future is Ours if You Can Count - 2006, End Sounds

Barracuda (Standells cover)
TONY VALENTINO - Digital single - 2022, Big Stir

Davey Kane
JAMIE WEBSTER - Moments - 2022, Modern Sky UK

MacArthur Beach Park (Richard Harris, Martha & the Muffins covered)
CRUMB - V.A.: I Found That Essence Rare – The Sounds of Beauty - 2022, the beautiful music, recorded c. 2005

Rock Your Baby (George MCrae cover)
LUNA - Tell Me Do You Miss Me - 2019, Double Feature Records

Hunk’o’Funk
PETE ROCK (Jimmy McGriff remixed) - Diggin’ on Blue - 1999, Fabulous Records/Blue Note

Invocation (spoken word) [over] Utamu (instrumental)
MTUME UMOJA ENSEMBLE - Alkebu-Lan: Land Of The Blacks - 1972, Strata-East

Half Liquid (instrumental)
BLACK FLOWER - Magma - 2022, Sdban Ultra

Tally’s Tune (Musical Bed)
RANDY BACHMAN - Axe - 1970, RCA Victor

Vanity Of Wings
IRENA HAVLOVÁ, VOJTĚCH HAVEL w CAPELLA ANTIQUA E MODERNA - Marnost Křídel / Vanity Of Wings - 1996, Zona

Interactive CKCU

Steve Kirkland (host)
Comments welcome. So are listeners who simply listen.

6:04 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
... and Good on you for that

6:12 PM, February 5th, 2022

mike
was walking and listening through the honking told them to honk for new energy instead irony of freedom in ignorance there yet beautiful misplaced ifreedom though utterly misconstrued by all hope first, then maybe a step towards freedom from tyranny of ignorance

6:19 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
I will simply listen but might comment also if I have something to say and a thanks to you Steve for the usual abd unusual Saturday evening music

6:20 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
mike, may we all be free of -- and from -- the tyranny of ignorance

6:22 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Wally, you're welcome... one listener's unusual is another's usual... both make for a great mix

6:24 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Mr. JC (if you're tuned in) message me re your plans for the AFCON Final tomorrow

6:29 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
The Bodines song took me back to when they supported New Order in Ottawa at the Congress Center and in my opinion they put on a much better show

6:35 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Can't remember if I saw that show or whether it happened before I moved here, Wally

6:42 PM, February 5th, 2022

m p
freedom is only a word derived from our idea of , to be our own god we need ideas, ever so eh, how about president gas by (artificial) furs always an escape for everythings best there be always

6:44 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
m p there is plenty in (y)our present circumstances to escape from, and radio can soundtrack that particular freedom

6:49 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
The last track before the hour (c. 6:57PM EDT live/57:00 On Demand), after the Suicide cover, is the HIGH PLACES

6:58 PM, February 5th, 2022

Louisa
You wouldn't happen to have a Peace Tower Carillon cover version of Neil Young's Heart of Gold?

7:05 PM, February 5th, 2022

Louisa
This Iggy Pop Cover is reminding me of an EP from 2011 The Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High.

7:08 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Louisa, no, unfortunately, not for this episode anyway. But Thanks for asking/suggesting, will keep that in mind.

7:08 PM, February 5th, 2022

Benoît
Louisa: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

7:08 PM, February 5th, 2022

Benoît
Louis Louis: such a dirty, dirty song. It was contended when i was a kid. Never proven. I think it was demonstrated at some point that the lyrics (in the original version) were basically unintelligible.

7:11 PM, February 5th, 2022

B
He's dead, she's alive is listed twice, but Louis Louis isn't there.

7:13 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Interesting, Benoît. The song is soooooo primal it doesn't need to have a verbal message, grunts or words, either would make it work

7:16 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
B, Editor-in-Chief, I thank you (again).

7:16 PM, February 5th, 2022

B
Ah, McArthur('s) Park! Long listed as one of the most hated songs EVER, probably because it was so popular, so long-winded, and so...

7:33 PM, February 5th, 2022

B
I mean, who leaves a cake out in the rain?

7:33 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
What a brilliant idea to blend McArthur Park with Echo Beach 👏👌👍

7:37 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
B, I never heard MacArthur Park in my youth, so neither hated nor loved it when I did, but cool that it was recorded by Richard Harris, who I first discovered as an actor, in A Man Called Horse

7:38 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Wally, yes, very creative.

7:39 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
There is an excellent skit on SCTV where Richard Harris is doing the song but it goes on forever and every time they think it's going to end it starts up again

7:40 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
Kudos to Dean Wareham for tackling George McRae

7:41 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
Here it is on YouTube https://youtu.be/I8JlQNIvIfI

7:41 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
I'll have to look that SCTV skit up, Wally. Thanks

7:41 PM, February 5th, 2022

Louisa
George McCrae You Can Have it All has been in heavy rotation for me this winter - so enjoying this Luna cover George is the best.

7:42 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
I quite like this version of Rock You Baby 👏👏👌

7:42 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
The Crumb cover is quite rare and although it was originally done for a radio session, it was lost and never released and sadly the main guy Derrick Dalton passed away in 2008 so it was difficult to get permission to include it on our sampler till I was able to locate and contact his widow in Ireland to get permission. So glad it's finally available for people to hear.

7:47 PM, February 5th, 2022

Steve Kirkland (host)
When did Crumb record that Wally?

7:57 PM, February 5th, 2022

Wally
Around 2005 but I'm not 100% certain of exact date

8:03 PM, February 5th, 2022

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