A Head Full of Quandry and a Mighty, Mighty Thirst

I love my radio friends

There are many ways to cope with the lingering spectre of depression. One way would to stay up all night listening to six billion songs in a single evening, imagining to oneself how the songs will fit together,for example: how will the end of this Bird York song fade into the beginning of this Joan Wasser tune?

Pretty damn well, it turns out. If you don't believe me, download the podcast and hear for yourself. If you do believe me, download the podcast and enjoy it.

What I'm trying to say here is: download the podcast.

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: AUG. 6th 2011

(Originally aired on WRIR 97.3 FM. )

The Kinks- Preservation (Single)

This is a nearly-unknown Kinks track...a very un-Kinks-like groove rocker with very Kinks-y timeless lyrics.

Booker T. Jones- Progress

You can get the awesome compilation CD that this soulful tune is taken from here, for FREE.

Joni Mitchell- Don't Interrupt The Sorrow

Ah, Joni. This song is nothing short of brilliant. The title of this post is taken from it.

Bird York- Bought A Gun

"By the time I'm eleven, I'll be a man"

Joan As Policewoman- Nervous

Had a couple callers on this one, they loved it and they should, it is awesome...I have been a huge Joan Wasser fan for years...why is she not totally fucking famous yet?

Sparks- I Can't Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song

"And only you and only you, my love"

Of Montreal- An Eluadarian Instance

This band is better than a million circuses.

Kalliopi- Summer Is Over

She's from Greece. Things are tough in Greece right now, hopefully there's some solace in music.

Nouvelle Vague- Making Plans For Nigel

XTC cover.

Tom Waits- Make It Rain

"Sharpen my knives on my mistakes"

Amy Winehouse- Fuck-Me Pumps

Add Amy to my list of unattainable post-mortem crushes; Voltairine DeCleyre, Clara Bow, and Amy Winehouse.

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald- Frim Fram Sauce

Oooo tasty.

Rare Earth- Is Your Teacher Cool?

Depends on the lesson.

The Stranglers- The Sweet Smell of Success

Funkadelic- Funky Dollar Bill

Jimi Hendrix- Message of Love

Miles Davis- Spanish Key (single edit)

Michelle Malone and Band du Soliel- Cortez the Killer

Awesome live cover of classic Neil Young song...Michelle Malone is the real rocking deal.

Jennings- Surrender

New album coming soon!

Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Cloudy Eyes

Atomic Rooster- Devil's Answer

Roxy Music- Three and Nine

John Cale- Taking It All Away

Brian Eno- The True Wheel

David Bowie- Blackout

Man, this song is about best thing that ever happened to my ears, ever.

Astronauts of Antiquity- Breakthrough

Misty Boyce- Be A Man

I like the way the title of this song doesn't say what you probably think it does...but if she was a man, she couldn't sing like she does. And that would be a bummer, 'cause she sings great.

A-Infos: A Listener's Quick Guide To Downloading

Like most other honest art forms, live radio is a dying one. Not that radio is necessarily an 'art form', but it should be. My own show is a semi-improvisational stream-of-consciousness musical journey of juxtaposticated schizixpression that doesn't claim to be fair or balanced, but I do tend to let you interpret things as you will. If I stopped to explain what I was doing, my show would consist of a lot more talking and a lot less music.And who wants to listen to that?

But sometimes some explaining is helpful...as in explaining how to get one of the consarned A-Infos podcasts to download so you can take The New Breakfast Snob with you on your nano-drive gadget and listen to it in the privacy of your own head.

Well, you could start at the Show Archive Page:

1) Click the tiny little Podcast button (circled in red w/arrow)

2) Something very much like the window below will appear. Choose a bookmark location of your preference (I used my toolbar for an example) and click 'Subscribe'.

You should see the new Podcast icon (circled in red) appear on the toolbar (or wherever you've saved it). Click the icon and a menu of all the available podcasts for the show will appear:

Click on the show that catches your eye. (Note that you can also do this from the main archive page on the left of the screenshot.). You will be taken to a page for that individual episode:

Scroll Down to the bottom. The target is circled and has a big red arrow pointing to it. Aim and click. Your file should start downloading after that.

If you think that the steps above are a lot of work, you should try putting together two hours of music each and every week, announcing it live on the radio, recording it, uploading the recording, writing out the playlist and compiling the technical manual that goes along with said podcast.

On second thought, don't try that. Just download and enjoy the tunes.

Podcast here...

THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB JULY 30 2011

Sparks- Intro/I've Never Been High

Amy Winehouse- Amy, Amy, Amy

Edwinn Starr- Who Cares If You Are Happy Or Not? (I Do)

F&M- Another Closing Number

Jennings- Surrender

Gong- Digital Girl

Steve Hillage- Searching for the Spark

Goldfrapp- Strict Machine

Bird York- Prozac Day

Area 27- Human Alien

Hawkwind- To Love A Machine

Pink Floyd - Summer '68

Jimi Hendrix- Sunshine of Your Love

The Fierce and the Dead- 10'x 10'

Jeff Beck- Loose Cannon

Green Man- Cold Blows The Wind

Clannad- Battles

Rare Earth- When I Write

Funkadelic- Super Stupid

Hot Tuna- Extrication Love Song

Joan as Policewoman- Furious

The Whispering Tree- So Many Things

Stefanie Seskin- Your Own Road

Misty Boyce- Razor

Garbage- #1 Crush

John Cale- Heartbreak Hotel

HuDost- Salome