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Saturday March 1st, 2025 with Steve Kirkland
... to a different (ear)drum

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This Is Your Ultra Mantra: Twiddly Dee/Dreams Are Your Friends/We Don't Go Back
The NoMen - Ultra Mantra - 2024, Topplers/NoMen RecordsdNoMen Recordsd New
Life's a Killer Dog
JESSE RAE - 10-inch ep - 1993, On-U Sound
Vivian Left Me
The NATIVE CATS - The Way On is the Way Off - 2023, Chapter Music
Scared to Dance
The SKIDS - Scared to Dance - 1979, Virgin
Heaven (Talking Heads cover)
Q LAZZARUS - Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture) - 2025, Sacred Bones, recorded in 1991 New
Nostalgia for Now
MOON UNDER WATER - First Quarter - 2021, botheration
Jesus
BILL CALLAHAN'S SMOG - The Holy Grail - Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session ep - 2025, recorded in 2001 New
Leave Me Alone
LOU REED - Original Album Classics (Bonus Track on Coney Island Babby disc) - 2008, RCA, recorded in
Frenchette
DAVID JOHANSEN - David Johansen - 1978, Blue Sky
Sunset Key Melt (Musical Bed)
TIM HECKER - Shards - 2025, Kranky Canadian New
A Bomb in Wardour Street
The JAM - All Mod Cons - 1979, Polydor
Fountains (The Nils cover)
The WELL WISHERS - Covered - 2017, self-released Canadian
Under a Plastic Bag
REAL SICKIES - Under a Plastic Bag - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Waiting for You (D.O.A. cover)
RANCID - V.A.: No Escape from What You Are (D.O.A. Tribute) - 2024, Sudden Death Canadian New
Throw Her in My Face Again
A.N. - Digital Single - 2024, self-released Canadian New
Rock Hard
SUZI QUATRO - Rock Hard - 1980, Dreamland Records
Massacre
THIN LIZZY - Johnny the Fox - 1976, Vertigo
Southern Man (Neil Young cover)
MARSHA HUNT - Attention! Marsha Hunt! - 1973, Fontana Canadian
A Line in the Sand
The BLACK FRAME SPECTACLE - Grady Sessions IV - You Don't Know - 2025, self-released Canadian New
We're Comin' Out
The REPLACEMENTS - Let It Be - 1984, Twin TOne
Sunset Key Melt (Musical Bed)
TIM HECKER - Shards - 2025, Kranky Canadian New
Poder
TONY ALLEN & LaBOA - LaBoa Meets Tony Allen - 2025, Comet Records
The Talking Drum (instrumental)
KING CRIMSON - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - 1973, Atlantic
Song for David Berman
JOHN VanDERSLICE - Dagger Beach - 2013, tiny telephone
Did You Think Things Could Ever Get This Bad?
SISSY SPACE ECHO & The INVISIBLE COLLABORATORS - From a Land of Glass Without Mirrors - 2023, Next Phase - Normal Records
Pretty Vacant (live) (Sex Pistols cover)
LADY SOVEREIGN - Public Warning - 2007, Def Jam Recordings
Touch of Evil (instrumental)
RAN BLAKE - Film Noir - 1980, Arista
Sunset Key Melt (Musical Bed)
TIM HECKER - Shards - 2025, Kranky Canadian New
Interactive CKCU
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hello and Thanks for joining me... that's your invitation to drop an interactive comment...

6:06 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC
Good evening Mr Steve! Cooking while listening.

6:07 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC
BTW: is the volume lower this week so far, or is it at my end?

6:08 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
The music will be cooking along with you, Dave. As for the volume, my best suggestion is for you to monitor and adjust at your end...

6:12 PM, March 1st, 2025
Benoît
Hi!

6:13 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Benoît!

6:15 PM, March 1st, 2025
mk
Happy March

6:28 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
and to you too mk!

6:33 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
I was wondering when that New York Dolls guy would show up!

6:43 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Wonder no more, B!

6:55 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
Coming back to Johansen (and guessing lot), I'll suggest that his making it to that ripe old age is pretty damned good for someone who (and here's the presumption) probably went through various excesses in his stage musician's life. Damn! The stage punk cross-dressing, at the time, too!

7:09 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
(and guessing A lot)

7:10 PM, March 1st, 2025
PeterB
COOL cover of Southern Man! Owned, not replicated. As i am prone to say, sure take lots of nerve to even try to cover a powerful classic!

7:15 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
B, DJ he was one of two members of The Dolls whose excesses were markedly held in check relative to the other three, and he rose above the ashes of that band to carve out a decent career.

7:15 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
Thanks Steve.

7:19 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
I agree PeterB, a unique interpretation!

7:19 PM, March 1st, 2025
P
And i just figured out DAVID JOHANSEN is RIP. If asked about anyone in Dolls I woulda guessed long since done... Good on 'im. Life well burned.

7:21 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC.
Internet sound is out

7:33 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC.
Radio is marginally better. Could be a very long slow build up though.

7:34 PM, March 1st, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Actually, it's not Dave, the (near)silence is part of the King Crimson track, and in honour of the recently deceased percussionist Jamie Muir, I didn't edit out the beginning.

7:35 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
My radio feed hasn't varied (that I've noticed) since 6:10 or so.

7:36 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC.
I'm going for the latter because I just realized it's King Crimson's Talking Drum

7:36 PM, March 1st, 2025
mk
R.I.P. Jamie...

7:36 PM, March 1st, 2025
Dave JC.
Yep, sorry Steve....panicky today. Nice one

7:41 PM, March 1st, 2025
mk
I have a vanderslice cd somewhere.. have to re-listen

7:46 PM, March 1st, 2025
B
SISSY SPACE ECHO = Sissy Spacek? How could it not be?

7:56 PM, March 1st, 2025