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Quick Radio Update

2009-03-11T09:47:00.002-04:00

For any interested parties, I'll be sitting in during Ampersand Theater tomorrow night (Thursday, March 12) from 10-11:30 PM. If you want to make any requests or call in to congratulate me on whatever amazing things I'll be playing, the phone number is 401-863-9277. For people in the Providence area, you can tune your dial towards 88.1 FM and for anyone with an internet connection you can stream it live here.

Sound of Confusion WMUA Finale 01/19/09

2009-01-23T17:38:00.002-05:00

The final Sound of Confusion at WMUA studios goes out with it's head held high in an all-out airwave audio assault. People from the past check in to offer their congratulations and good riddances, most notable of all being Hollywood terror Jonathan Lipnicki and the dreaded return of the Providence, Rhode Island duo of Matt and Mike Darshner, better known as the River City MIDI Committee. If your ears weren't bleeding through their [literally] screaming covers of "Closing Time," "Disarm," "Jumper," or "Good Riddance," then their rip-roaring hip-hop remake of No Doubt's "Don't Speak" will come as a welcomed treat for the ears. Comedian Kenny Starr checks in from Obama's inauguration and Redman appears to have wound up in a sticky situation in Thailand. Links to download all these calls as well as the final show in its entirety follow.

"So what would happen was like Hard Nutz would play a song and then they'd have to serve ice cream to all the people who were there."
- Kenny Starr

Sound of Confusion - Kenny Starr Checks in From Obama's Inauguration

"I guess the Redman's reputation precedes himself."
- Redman

Sound of Confusion - Redman Calls in From a Thai Prison

"YOU HAD ME AT YOU DIE NOW!!!"
- Jonathan Lipnicki

Sound of Confusion - The Wrath of Lipnicki

wet - like a sprinkler
is that your friend? i must have her
my chain is tangled in my chest
i have to see you breast to breast

i don't speak, you don't speak
we don't speak, they don't speak
he don't speak, she don't speak
on your knees you're a nasty freakk

choice: greater or lesser
girl you sidechain my compressor
ride like i ride the fader
you're the luke to my darth vader
- River City MIDI Committee

Sound of Confusion - The Return of the River City MIDI Committee Pts. 1-3

Sound of Confusion's Final Show Part 1 and Part 2

As an added bonus, an associate producer from Late Night with Conan O'Brien called in to the WMUA program "Sweet Baby Lou and the Reverends of Funk" the following day to present the show and station with lawsuits.

"If [Barack Obama] can get the economic green machine going, then I'm all for it."

Sound of Confusion - Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky Presents WMUA's "Sweet Baby Lou and the Reverends of Funk" Show With Lawsuits

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:07:07 - Breeders, The - Divine Hammer - Last Splash - 4AD
20:10:20 - Velvet Underground, The - I'm Set Free - The Velvet Underground - Polydor
20:13:39 - Deerhunter - Cryptograms - Cryptograms - Kranky
20:35:52 - Big Star - Take Care - Third/Sister Lovers - Rykodisc
21:12:44 - Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes - Hissing Prigs in the Static Couture - Touch and Go
21:12:58 - Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day - Today is the Day EP - Matador
# 21:33:26 - Harvey Milk - Goodbye Blues - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
21:41:28 - Magnetic Fields, The - Lonely Highway - The Charm of the Highway Strip - Merge
21:58:43 - Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus - The Perfect Prescription - Taang

Upcoming Sound of Confusion Reminder

2009-01-16T18:05:00.002-05:00

As you're gearing up for the weekend don't forget to keep the energy level full throttle well into Monday because next week's Sound of Confusion show will be my last at WMUA. There will be no going out like a loser on Monday. I'll be the winning horse at the racetrack that gets put down for blowing out all its legs down the home stretch. Don't miss it!

Sound of Confusion with Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist Live In-Studio 01/12/09

2009-01-13T01:32:00.005-05:00

This week's special in-studio guest was Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist. Dr. Chocobo runs an advice column online, which apparently gives advice to those in need assuming they're big video game freaks. Attempting to upstage Dr. Chocobo's in-studio session was call-in Kenny Starr, supposed Bill Clinton joke expert. Have you determined what your personal hell is? If you haven't, consider a comedian that only tells dated 1997-98 Bill Clinton sex scandal-era jokes.

"I was about to make my big break a few years ago, but I got upstaged at a Friar's Club Roast by Cloris Leachman. You know, she told some very salacious jokes about Brian Dennehy's prostate condition which just really, you know, put the damper on what I was about to do which was, you know, 20 minutes of Clinton."
- Kenny Starr

Sound of Confusion - Kenny Starr

"Has your boss asked you to do something that goes against your core ethos such as burning a village of innocents?"
- Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist

Sound of Confusion - Dr. Chocobo, Worthologist, Live at WMUA's Studio

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
# 20:13:53 - Fucked Up - Son the Father - The Chemistry of Common Life - Matador
# 20:14:19 - Magnificents, The - Ring Ring Oo Oo - Year of Explorers - Mush
20:19:59 - Matt Besser - My Four Supervisors - May I Help You (Dumbass) - UCB
# 20:23:46 - Truman Peyote - Heavy Forestation - Whitehaus US Family Record Sampler Volume 2 - Whitehaus Family
# 20:31:17 - Harvey Milk - Motown - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
21:13:48 - No Age - Teen Creeps - Nouns - Sub Pop
21:18:41 - Paramore - When It Rains - The Final Riot! - Fueled by Ramen

Sound of Confusion's Famous Zaireeka Radio Experiment 01/05/09

2009-01-06T23:31:00.006-05:00

The first Sound of Confusion of the year was the can't miss radio show of 2009. With four CD trays at my disposal, I did the unthinkable: play the Flaming Lips four-Disc masterpiece Zaireeka over the radio. Hearing a mixdown on headphones is great, but physically hearing all four discs simultaneously playing through a set of headphones is mind-melting. On top of that, my friend Steve Binson called up to the show after his girlfriend broke up with him. The conversation is below and lets just say he had the breakup coming.

Sound of Confusion - Steve Binson and the Do Sho Ramin

*Note*: for whatever reason the show was not recorded properly so there are unexplained chops and breaks in the recording that will sound off.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:07:42 - Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Matador
20:10:58 - Joe Pesci - Take Your Love and Shove It - Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You - Sony
20:24:27 - Flaming Lips, The Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:25:35 - Flaming Lips, The - Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:33:11 - Flaming Lips, The - Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:38:41 - Flaming Lips, The - A Machine in India - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:49:14 - Flaming Lips, The - The Train Runs Over the Camel But is Derailed by the Gnat - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:55:43 - Flaming Lips, The - How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
20:58:43 - Flaming Lips, The - March of the Rotten Vegetables Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
21:05:27 - Flaming Lips, The - The Big Ol' Bug is the New Baby Now - Zaireeka - Warner Bros.
21:44:19 - Young Marble Giants - N.I.T.A. - Colossal Youth - Domino
21:44:35 - Portishead - We Carry On - Third - Mercury
# 21:50:25 - caUSE co-MOTION! - Which Way is Up? - It's Time! - Slumberland
21:51:11 - Pointed Sticks - Part of the Noise - Part of the Noise - Sudden Death
* 21:58:55 - Marked Men, The - Fix My Brain - Fix My Brain - Swami

Sound of Confusion Special New Year Notice!

2009-01-02T18:11:00.003-05:00

Make sure to turn on your mp3 stream and radio dials to 91.1 FM WMUA this Monday from 8-10 PM because something special is happening. I've threatened to do this before and it's finally happening. That's right, I'm taking over the four CD players in the studio and playing The Flaming Lips '97 4-disc opus Zaireeka in its entirety. In fact, I recommend streaming live from the WMUA website and listen live on the radio to hear the album twice, albeit one having a 7 second delay. Or make your own Parking Lot Experiment with it.

Sound of Confusion and Year-Ending Mayhem!

2008-12-30T01:56:00.002-05:00

Back for the winter session, racking up threats from call-ins right and left. An initial Harold Ramis bashing with Caddyshack's Danny Noonan, Michael O'Keefe, gives way to a heads up on the upcoming Jonathan Lipnicki directed flick The Circumsizor. And DJ Jammin' Jake calls in to tell us about his sad state of affairs.

"Desire, being the root of suffering, you call me Rimpoche right now."
- Michael O'Keefe

Sound of Confusion - The Circumsizor

Sound of Confusion - The Fall of DJ Jammin' Jake

Sound of Confusion and the End-of-the-Year Holiday Extravaganza 12/16/08

2008-12-16T01:00:00.004-05:00

I was unable to play all of my favorite records from the year due to receiving the following call-ins: DJ Jammin' Jake on prank call patrol, former Anthrax drummer/singer Joey Belladonna reminiscing about his krell war stories and finally Benny Byrd, a 43 year old pedophile that talks like an 8-year old. These call-ins along with the setlist and my favorite records pointlessly placed in numerical order below.

Sound of Confusion - The Pride of DJ Jammin' Jake

Sound of Confusion - Benny Byrd, Pts. 1 and 2

Sound of Confusion - Santa's Bringing Coal to Hell This Year

Sound of Confusion - Benny Byrd, Pt. 3

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:04:32 - Zach Hill - Dark Arts - Astrological Straits - Ipecac
# 20:08:47 - Kanye West - Coldest Winter - 808s and Heartbreaks - Roc-A-Fella
20:11:36 - Magnetic Fields, The - The Nun's Litany - Distortion Nonesuch
20:14:21 - Eat Skull - Puker Corpse - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze
20:16:30 - Sic Alps - Massive Place - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze
# 20:39:19 - Parts and Labor - Little Ones - Receivers - Jagjaguwar
# 20:43:14 - Marnie Stern - Prime - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That - Kill Rock Stars
# 20:47:07 - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - I Get So Excited - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Douchemaster
20:50:02 - High Places - The Storm - High Places - Thrill Jockey
# 21:02:54 - Fucked Up - Golden Seal - The Chemistry of Common Life - Matador
21:03:31 - Deerhunter - Never Stops - Microcastle - Kranky
21:06:54 - Earles and Jensen - Bleachy and the .99 Cent Big Bufords - Just Farr a Laugh Vols. 1 & 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever - Matador
21:52:23 - Torche - Pirahna - Meanderthal - Hydrahead
21:53:42 - Why? - A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under - Alopecia - Anticon
21:56:07 - Dan Friel - Appliances of Bremen - Ghost Town - Important
21:57:56 - Harvey Milk - Death Goes to the Winner - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydrahead

My favorite records of 2008, top to bottom and likely subject to change:

1. Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town
2. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
3. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4. Why? - Alopecia
5. Boris - Smile
6. Breeders - Mountain Battles
7. Torche - Meanderthal
8. Earles and Jensen - Just Farr A Laugh Vol. 1 & 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever!
9. Deerhunter - Microcastle
10. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
11. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull
12. High Places - High Places
13. Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Gentleman Jesse and His Men
14. Bun B - II Trill
15. Oneida - Preteen Weaponry
16. Sonic Youth with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow - Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
17. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That
18. Parts and Labor - Receivers
19. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ
20. Clark - Turning Dragon
21. Growing - All the Way
22. Eat Skull - Sock to Death
23. Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks
24. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
25. Zach Hill - Astrological Straits

Sound of Confusion and If It's Old Enough to Breed, It's Old Enough to Bleed 12/08/08

2008-12-09T22:39:00.002-05:00

Double dipping of phone-calling mayhem. An interview with Big Willie Lacagnin, the future owner of a puppy cam puppy, reveals horrifying events taking place in Nevada.

Sound of Confusion - If It's Old Enough to Breed, It's Old Enough to Bleed

DJ Jammin' Jake calls in to discuss his hot new radio show on the East Coast.

Sound of Confusion - DJ Jammin' Jake Talks About His Career Retrospective

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:04:07 - Robert Evans - Rosemary's Baby Excerpt - The Kid Stays in the Picture
20:17:41 - Scott Walker - Black Sheep Boy - Scott 2 - Fontana
20:21:01 - Boris - Floor Shaker - Statement/Floor Shaker 7" - Southern Lord
# 21:05:04 - Parts and Labor - Mount Misery - Receivers - Jagjaguwar
21:05:22 - Gluons - Sue Your Parents - Local Anesthetic - Smooch
# 21:08:58 - Don Caballero - Slaughbaugh's Ought Not Own Dog Data - Punkgasm - Relapse
# 21:15:43 - caUSE co-MOTION! - This Just Won't Last - It's Time! - Slumberland
21:35:39 - Indian Jewelry - West Alabama - Fake and Cheap - Deleted Art
21:40:01 - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Highland Crawler - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Douchemaster
# 21:49:00 - Red Eyed Legends - Libido Incognito - Wake Up, Legend - File Thirteen
# 21:56:21 - School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light - Alpinisms - Ghostly International

Sound of Confusion on last.fm

2008-12-05T15:04:00.001-05:00

So if you go to last.fm and do a search for "sound of confusion" you'll find the first result leads to all of the current phone calls that have been placed on the show up to this point available for full stream.

Sound of Confusion full-streams. Catch It!

Sound of Confusion and DJ Jammin' Jake and the Sound of Snoozin' 12/01/08

2008-12-01T23:46:00.002-05:00

Imagine this scenario: a no talent guy named Jake shows up to do his DJ training, proceeds to play awful music, host a segment called "Hottie or Nottie" and then gets picked up by some major radio station on-air. ONLY IN AMERICA DOES SUCH INSANITY HAPPEN!

Sound of Confusion - DJ Jammin' Jake and the Sound of Snoozin'

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
# 20:06:26 - Kanye West - Love Lockdown - 808s and Heartbreaks - Roc-a-fella
20:10:39 - A-Trak - Mastered (feat. Lupe Fiasco)
# 20:17:01 - Gang Gang Dance - House Jam - Saint Dymphna - Social Registry
20:21:34 - Urban Legends - The World is Strange - Of Old Lost Days - Contraphonic
20:25:15 - Unwound - We Invent You - Leaves Turn Inside You - Kill Rock Stars
20:48:36 - The King Khan & BBQ Show - Treat Me Like a Dog - What's for Dinner? - In the Red
# 20:49:05 - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - All I Need is You - Gentleman Jesse and His Men - Douchemaster
20:54:27 - Les Savy Fav - IC Timer - Rome EP - French Kiss
20:54:47 - Iggy Pop and the Stooges - You're Pretty Face is Going to Hell - Raw Power - Columbia
# 21:00:38 - Crystal Stilts - The Dazzled - Alight of Night - Slumberland
21:19:50 - Coolio - Fantastic Voyage - It Takes a Thief
21:20:56 - Phil Collins - Susidio - No Jacket Required
21:27:32 - Juvenile - Back That Thang Up
21:52:53 - Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
21:53:28 - Asobi Seksu - Strawberries - Citrus - Friendly Fire Recordings
# 21:57:09 - Vertical Slits - In No Sense - Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp - Siltbreeze

Sound of Confusion and Doritos Extreme Foie Gras 11/24/08

2008-11-24T23:28:00.003-05:00

Daryl Diggins, employee of the Doritos corporation, calls in to advertise some of their newest food products on-air. The inner lining of my stomach is threatened.

Sound of Confusion - Doritos Extreme Foie Gras

As an added bonus, below is an excerpt of my one man act "Charles in Charge"

Sound of Confusion - Excerpt from the One Man Act "Charles in Charge"

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label

# 21:10:13 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Chen/The Arousing - Dawn of the Cycads - Cuneiform
21:11:46 - Sunburn - Halfway Train - Halfway Train/Cloudbreath 7" - Sonic Bubblegum
21:48:50 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Kicking Against the Pricks - Homestead
21:50:43 - Creston Spiers - Yesterday's Parade Yesterday's Parade 7" - Southern Shelter
21:53:44 - Witchypoo - You Belong to Me - Groaning Machine 7" - Kill Rock Stars
# 21:54:38 - Jay Reatard - See Saw - Matador Singles '08 - Matador
21:59:21 - Mummies - Out of Our Tree - Out of Our Tree 7" - Estrus

Sound of Confusion and the River City MIDI Committee 11/17/08

2008-11-17T23:29:00.007-05:00

Opening the phones line begat Providence, Rhode Island travesty-of-a-band River City MIDI Committee for tonight's listeners. Interview below.

Sound of Confusion - River City MIDI Committee

"Marcy Playground did much more good for the music community than Leonard Cohen ever did. Whoever wants to listen to that guy unless they're on the verge of killing themselves? But when I hear 'Saint Joe on the School Bus,' dude, my heart fills with musical notes!"
- Mark Darshner, member of River City MIDI Committee

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release
* # Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label
20:08:26 - Breeders, The - Safari - Safari EP - 4AD
# 20:08:48 - Fucked Up - Days of Last - The Chemistry of Common Life - Matador
20:13:17 - Harvey Milk - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men - Reproductive/Chunklet
# 20:18:36 - Benoit Pioulard - Ahn - Temper - Kranky
# 20:21:13 - caUSE co-MOTION! - Only Fades Away - It's Time! Singles & EPs 2005-08 - Slumberland
# 21:11:10 - Growing - Green Flag - All the Way - The Social Registry
* 21:11:45 - Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala - Secretly Canadian
# 21:16:04 - All the Saints - Sheffield - Fire on Corridor X - Touch and Go
21:19:20 - Erase Errata - Cruising - Nightlife - Kill Rock Stars
# 21:27:00 - Zach Galifianakis - Up in Them Guts - Zach Galifinakis/Ted Leo 7 - Chunklet
21:35:23 - Joan of Arc - Fleshy Jeffrey - Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain - Polyvinyl
21:35:58 - Daniel Johnston - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievience - Discovered Covered: The Late Great Daniel Johnston - Gammon
# 21:46:46 - Vertical Slits - My Hands Don't Sleep - Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp - Siltbreeze
# 21:50:01 - Deerhunter - Operation - Weird Era Cont. - Kranky
# 21:54:45 - Marnie Stern - Prime - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That - Kill Rock Stars
21:58:33 - Low - Last Snowstorm of the Year - Trust - Kranky

Things I Didn't Like 10 Years Ago But Like Now #5

2008-11-13T17:54:00.001-05:00

Sushi

Sound of Confusion and the Audacity of Nugs 11/10/08

2008-11-10T22:57:00.002-05:00

I'm hitting an unfortunate hot streak of people calling in and physically threatening me. This week during my Obama Victory Celebration, no less, Fraternity pledge Redman searches for items in his Rush scavenger hunt. Potential hilarity, sadness, liver damage and threats on me triumphed.

Sound of Confusion - The Audacity of Nugs

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played Artist Song Title Album Title Label

20:07:04 - Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Vs. - Matador
20:07:35 - Radiohead - Kinetic - Pyramid Song - Capitol
20:14:13 - Chuck Harrod and the Anteaters - They Wanna Fight Teenage Riot - Atomic Passions
20:14:27 - Portuguese Joe - Teenage Riot - Teenage Riot - Atomic Passions
# 20:15:42 - Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night - Slumberland
20:40:43 - Dinosaur Jr. - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - Time Between: A Tribute to the Byrds - Imaginary
# 20:40:54 - Parts and Labor - Satellites - Receivers - Jagjaguwar
* 20:41:10 - Battles - Dance - B EP - Dim Mak
# 20:49:37 - Grails - The Natural Man - Doomsdayer's Holiday - Temporary Residence
20:55:41 - R.T. & The Pot Lickers - Sticky Pig Feet - Whip It On 'Em - Candy
20:58:24 - Billy Childish and Thee Headcoats - 409 - Smiles, Vibes, and Harmony: A Tribute to Brian Wilson - DeMilo
21:01:14 - Tyvek - Frustration Rock - Summer Burns EP - What's Your Rupture?
21:26:07 - Coathangers, The - Tonya Harding - The Coathangers - Rob's House Records
# 21:26:41 - Brightblack Morning Light - Hologram Buffalo - Motion to Rejoin - Matador
21:31:43 - Deerhunter - After Class - Living Bridge - Rare Book Room
21:39:59 - Clipd Beaks - Hoarse Lords - Hoarse Lords - Lovepump
# 21:45:00 - Squarepusher - A Real Woman - Just a Souvenir Warp
21:48:09 - Mirah - Cold Cold Water - Cold Cold Water EP - K
# 21:53:12 - Times New Viking - Call & Respond - Stay Awake EP - Matador
# 21:55:56 - Gang Gang Dance - Blue Nile - Saint Dymphna - Social Registry
# 22:00:38 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Transformation of Oz Dawn of the Cycads - Cuneiform

Sound of Confusion Fund Drive Special 11/03/08

2008-11-03T23:12:00.003-05:00

Tonight I had the unfortunate pleasure of interviewing David Lovering, lead member of Reyven and The Quetzalcoatls, in an attempt to cajole people into donating to the station for our annual Fund Drive. Download the interview in mp3 format below:

Sound of Confusion - David Lovering and The Quetzalcoatls

"David Lovering says: donate."

-David Lovering

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:05:49 - Flaming Lips, The - Bad Day [Aurally Excited Version] - Clouds Taste Metallic - Warner Bros.
20:08:52 - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand - Parents Just Don't Understand - Jive
20:17:21 - Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming - Painful - Matador
20:21:34 - Les Savy Fav - We'll Make a Lover of You - Fading Vibes/We'll Make a Lover of You - Suicide Squeeze
20:28:25 - Supersystem - Defcon - Defcon 12" - Touch and Go
#20:32:14 - Gang Gang Dance - House Jam - Saint Dymphna - Social Registry
20:36:46 - Funkadelic - Super Stupid - Maggot Brain - Westbound
#20:58:26 - Zach Hill - Dark Art - Astrological Straits - Ipecac
21:01:00 - Earles and Jensen - The Party Doctor - Just Farr a Laugh Vol. 1 &2 - Matador
21:08:30 - Busy P - Rainbow Man - Ed Banger Records Vol. 2 - Ed Banger
21:09:41 - Hooters, The - And We Danced - Nervous Night - Columbia
21:12:15 - King Khan & The Shrines - Land of the Freak - What Is?! - Hazelwood
21:19:11 - Hall and Oates - Private Eyes - Private Eyes - RCA
#21:19:25 - Parts and Labor - Mount Misery - Receivers - Jagjaguwar
#21:49:43 - Fucked Up - Crooked Head - Chemistry of Common Life - Matador
21:54:10 - These Are Powers - You Come With Nothing - Terrific Seasons - Hoss
21:57:06 - Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman - Out of the Blue - Jet
21:57:56 - Jay Reatard - Painted Shut - Matador Singles '08 - Matador

Sound of Confusion 10/27/08

2008-10-27T23:45:00.003-04:00

I did actually receive a request during the show. It was for something called "classic guitar with strategically placed fart noises." Of course I played grindcore instead.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:04:27 - Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos - I Am the Cosmos - Ryko
20:09:31 - Clockcleaner - Divine Hammer - Babylon Rules - Load
20:10:49 - Breeders, The - We're Gonna Rise - Mountain Battles - 4AD
#20:19:09 - Gang Gang Dance - Bebey - Saint Dymphna - Social Registry
#20:23:50 - Gang Gang Dance - First Communion - Saint Dymphna - Social Registry
20:27:34 - Viva Voce - So Many Miles - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out - Barsuk
#20:36:17 - Vertical Slit - A Lesson in Logic - Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp - Siltbreeze
20:44:06 - Dan Friel - Seven Sisters - Sunburn EP - Velocirecords
20:53:53 - When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - The Triumphant Spirit of the Olympics - Snacks - Emperor Jones
20:57:04 - 7 Year Rabbit Cycle - Cariboo - Animal People - Free Porcupine Society
21:00:50 - Serena Maneesh - Beehiver II - Serena Maneesh - Playlouder
#21:05:22 - Growing - Green Flag - All the Way - Social Registry
21:12:04 - Selmanaires, The - All I Really Want to Know - Here Come the Selmanaires - International Hits
#21:19:05 - Richard Pinhas and Merzbow - Merzdon/Heldow Kills Animal Killers - Keio Line - Cuneiform
#21:30:50 - Vivian Girls - Such a Joke - Vivian Girls - In the Red
21:32:44 - Black Lips - Not a Problem - Let It Bloom - In the Red
21:35:14 - Rubber City Rebels - Such a Fool - Re-Tired - White Noise
#21:38:19 - Jay Reatard - Hiding Hole - Matador Singles '08 - Matador
21:40:52 - Vue - Girl - Vue - Sub Pop
#21:48:52 - Crystal Stilts - Graveyard Orbit - Alight of Night - Slumberland
#21:52:13 - Wire - Mekon Headman - Object 47 - Pink Flag
#21:55:28 - High Places - A Field Guide - High Places - Thrill Jockey
#22:00:29 - Love is All - Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night - What's Your Rupture?

Sound of Confusion 10/20/08

2008-10-21T10:17:00.001-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:03:11 - Replacements, The - Alex Chilton - Pleased to Meet Me - Sire
20:05:21 - Dirtbombs, The - Leopardman at C & A - We Have You Surrounded - In the Red
#20:08:36 - Times New Viking - Pagan Eyes - Stay Awake EP - Matador
20:18:14 - Harvey Milk - Get It Up & Get It On - The Pleaser - Reproductive/Chunklet
20:18:59 - Reindeer Section - Tout le Monde - Y'all Get Scared Now, Ya Hear! - Bright Star
20:23:43 - John Cale - Helen of Troy - Helen of Troy - Island
#20:29:48 - All the Saints - Farmacia - Fire on Corridor X - Touch and Go
20:34:24 - Prefects, The - Going Through the Motions - Amateur Wankers - Acute
20:44:47 - Lightning Bolt - The Faire Folk - Ride the Skies - Load
#20:53:03 - Cheap Time - People Talk - Cheap Time - In the Red
20:54:32 - Liars - Leaving My Old Life Behind - Liars/No Age Split 7" - Hand Held Heart
20:57:34 - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According to Plan - Hear is on Our Side - Secretly Canadian
#21:01:37 - Love is All - Give It Back - A Hundred Things to Keep Me Up at Night - What's Your Rupture?
21:14:36 - Indian Jewelry - Lesser Snake - Invasive Exotics - Monitor
21:16:38 - Little Claw - The Empty Mirror - The Worlds Lousy With Ideas Vol. 6 7" - Almost Ready
21:17:24 - Comets on Fire - Dogwood Rust - Avatar - Sub Pop
#21:24:13 - Duchess Says - Rabies (Baby's Got the) - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs - Alien8
21:27:45 - Thurston Moore - Cherry's Blues - Psychic Hearts - DGC
21:35:20 - Retribution Gospel Choir - Somebody's Someone - Retribution Gospel Choir - Caldo Verde
21:39:31 - Red Monkey - Bloody Mary - Gunpowder, Treason and Plot - Troubleman Unlimited
* 21:40:21 - Bardo Pond - Despite the Roar - Dilate - Matador
21:47:40 - Little Killers, The - She Don't Love Me - A Real Good One - Gern Blandstern
21:58:39 - Ill Ease - The New You - All Systems A-Go-Go - Cochon
#21:58:58 - Ponytail - G Shock - Ice Cream Spiritual - We Are Free

Sound of Confusion 10/13/08

2008-10-15T17:23:00.002-04:00

If you call into the show and badmouth the previous DJ for giving you a headache and then request some calmer rock music by George Winston(????), you can bet on it that I'm going to agree to the request but play Pig Destroyer out of spite.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:08:49 - Iggy Pop - Sixteen - Lust for Life - Virgin
20:09:12 - Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO) - XO - Dreamworks
20:09:54 - Unwound - October All Over - Leaves Turn Inside You - Kill Rock Stars
20:17:27 - Pig Destroyer - Jupiter's Eye - Phantom Limb - Relapse
#20:20:28 - Jay Reatard - It's So Useless - Singles 06-07 - In the Red
20:21:28 - Cul de Sac - Death Kit Train - Ecim - Strange Attractors Audio House
20:28:10 - Sonic Boom - Rock 'n' Roll is Killing My Life - Spectrum - Silvertone
20:34:49 - Jonathan Richman - When We Refuse to Suffer - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild - Vapor
20:41:09 - Low - Lazy - I Could Live in Hope - Vernon Yard
20:48:07 - Wooden Shjips - Loose Lips - Loose Lips 7" - Sub Pop
#20:56:27 - Clinic - Lee Shan - Funf - Domino
20:58:00 - Public Image Ltd. - Swan Lake - Metal Box - Virgin
21:09:54 - Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine - Shattered Shine 7" - Feathery Tongue
#21:14:36 - Sic Alps - Gelly Roll Gum Drop - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze
21:15:05 - Q and Not U - A Line in the Sand - No Kill Beep Beep - Dischord
#21:17:36 - All Girl Summer Fun Band - Everything I Need - Looking Into It - Agsfb
* 21:21:58 - Pop Group, The - She is Beyond Good and Evil - Y - Radar
21:34:11 - Ponys, The - Virus Human - Laced With Romance - In the Red
21:34:33 - Sleater-Kinney - Buy Her Candy - Dig Me Out - Kill Rock Stars
21:34:46 - Snowden - Like Bullets - Anti-Anti - Jade Tree
21:39:30 - Measles Mumps Rubella - Fountain of Youth - Fountain of Youth - Troubleman Unlimited
#21:47:31 - Marnie Stern - Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and Tha - Kill Rock Stars
* 21:52:02 - Cut City - Statues - Cut City EP - GSL
21:57:35 - Memphis Goons, The - Bring the House Down - Teenage BBQ - Shangri-La

Things I Liked 10 Years Ago But [Inexplicably Still] Like Now #1

2008-10-11T01:46:00.002-04:00

Females

Sound of Confusion 10/06/08

2008-10-07T12:44:00.003-04:00

After having a bad day I decided to purposefully throw in the worst radio show I possibly could. This included streaming songs off people's iTunes, spinning Allen Ginsberg at 45 RPM, simultaneously playing songs and sticking the microphone up to my Macbook speakers and playing Frank Stallone's "Peace in Our Life" off of Youtube.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:06:59 - Yo La Tengo - Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass - Matador
20:14:55 - Dan Friel - Desert Song - Ghost Town - Important
#20:18:51 - Urthquake - The Last Known Address - The Last Known Address 7" - Spooky Tree
20:28:47 - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Liz Ward's Totally Awesome Tunes - someone's iTunes stream
20:32:29 - Fred Schnieder - It's Time to Kiss - The Shake Society - Warner Bros.
20:37:06 - Sandra Bernhard - Almost Torture - I'm Your Woman - Mercury
20:41:10 - Allen Ginsberg (at 45 RPM) - Refrain - Fuck Dance This is Art - Island
#20:47:58 - Deerhunter/TV on the Radio - Nothing Ever Happened/Lover's Day - Microcastle/Dear Science - Kranky/Interscope
21:02:41 - Rachel Sweet - Party Girl - ...And Then He Kissed Me - Columbia
21:03:09 - Leonard Cohen - Master Song - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia
#21:13:45 - Marnie Stern - The Package is Wrapped - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and Tha - Kill Rock Stars
21:17:20 - Maureen Tucker - Pale Blue Eyes - Life in Exile After Abduction - Dutch East India Trading
#21:23:08 - All Girl Summer Fun Band - Something New - Looking Into It - Agsfb
21:26:58 - Sparks - Funny Face - Whomp That Sucker - RCA
21:30:34 - God Bullies - Act of Desire - Mama Womb Womb - Amphetamine Reptile
#21:45:05 - All the Saints - Fire on Corridor X - Fire on Corridor X - Touch and Go
21:50:18 - Harvey Milk - Death Goes to the Winner - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
#21:59:18 - Eat Skull - Puker Corpse - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze

Things I Didn't Like 10 Years Ago But Like Now #4

2008-10-02T13:07:00.003-04:00

Onions

Sound of Confusion 09/29/08

2008-09-29T23:58:00.001-04:00

Tonight I managed to get enough people to call in and donate the $700 billion necessary to save Wall Street. Thanks little America!

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:05:59 - Oneida - Sheets of Easter - Each One Teach One - Jagjaguwar
#20:17:02 - Love is All - Darling Nikki - The Covers EP - What's Your Rupture?
#20:25:43 - Digital Leather - Hologram - Sorcerer - Goner
#20:29:27 - Wire - Are You Ready? - Object 47 - Pink Flag
#20:34:36 - Jow Jow - Song for Silent Movements - X-Plural-Us - Mystra
#20:39:01 - Marnie Stern - The Crippled Jazzer - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and Tha - Kill Rock Stars
#20:46:22 - Deerhunter - Twilight at Carbon Lake - Microcastle - Kranky
20:52:37 - Sonic Chicken 4 - Creature in a Picture - Sonic Chicken 4 - In the Red
20:57:27 - Romeo Void - Present Tense - Never Say Never EP - Columbia
21:00:57 - Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping? - Middle Earth Masters - Cuneiform
#21:09:35 - Walkmen, The - On the Water - You & Me - Gigantic
21:13:06 - Urthquake - Bend - 15 Years of Fury - Spooky Tree
21:24:10 - Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea - The Destroyed Room - Geffen
#21:55:01 - Get Laid - Corpse Brigade - Get Laid 7" - self-released
#21:55:12 - High Places - The Storm - High Places - Thrill Jockey

Dmusing #6

2008-09-26T00:13:00.004-04:00

It's awkward as hell and it seems like Beck is trying real hard to hold his own with Thurston, but dammit MTV you could be molding some good people if you ummmmm played music again?!?!?!

Things I Didn't Like 10 Years Ago But Like Now #3

2008-09-25T00:09:00.001-04:00

Salsa

Sound of Confusion 09/22/08

2008-09-24T13:06:00.001-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:04:58 - Built to Spill - I Would Hurt a Fly - Perfect From Now On - Warner Bros.
20:06:49 - Harvey Milk - Mothers Day - Special Wishes - Troubleman Unlimited
20:15:50 - Advantage, The - Ninja Gaiden - Mine Shaft - The Advantage - 5RC
#20:22:37 - Abe Vigoda - Dead City/Waste Wilderness - Skeleton - Post Present Medium
#20:24:49 - Racebannon - Sister Fucker - Acid or Blood - Southern
#20:33:11 - Ten Kens - Bear Fight - Ten Kens - Fat Cat
#20:37:02 - Sapat - Fante - Mortise and Tenon - Siltbreeze
20:45:25 - Gang Gang Dance - Glory in Itself/Egyptian - God's Money - The Social Registry
20:51:20 - Adult. - Hand to Phone (Cordless Mix) - Resuscitation - Ersatz Audio
20:58:02 - Zongamin - Serious Trouble - Zongamin - Flesh
20:59:53 - Various - Hater - The World is Gone - XL
#21:07:55 - High Places - Vision's the First... - High Places - Thrill Jockey
#21:11:24 - Zach Hill - Iambic Strays - Astrological Straits - Ipecac
#21:16:31 - Don Caballero - Awe Man That's Jive Skip - Punkgasm - Relapse
#21:20:33 - Melvins, The - The Smiling Cobra - Nude With Boots - Ipecac
21:29:32 - Roky Erickson - Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play - You're Gonna Miss Me - Restless
21:32:04 - Mountain Goats, The - Family Happiness - The Coroner's Gambit - Absolutely Kosher
21:35:47 - My Disco - / - Paradise - Stomp
21:43:27 - Pylon - Cool - Gyrate Plus - DFA
21:43:44 - Poni Hoax - LA Murder Motel - Poni Hoax - Tigersushi
* 21:47:11 - Bloc Party - Luno - Silent Alarm - Vice
#21:51:09 - Love is All - I Ran - The Covers EP - What's Your Rupture?
#21:54:34 - Vivian Girls - Damaged - Vivian Girls - In the Red
#22:01:38 - Sic Alps - Massive Place - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze

Things I Didn't Like 10 Years Ago But Like Now #2

2008-09-22T12:49:00.002-04:00

Homemade macaroni and cheese

Sound of Confusion 09/15/08

2008-09-16T00:31:00.002-04:00

Local bliplord Eric Hnatow had the honor of being the first ever in studio performance during one of my shows. Two Erics with mustaches transmitting sexy over the airwaves. Do NOT NOT NOT miss the show this Friday.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
20:12:05 - Wire - Ex Lion Tamer - Pink Flag - Pink Flag
20:12:23 - Indian Jewelry - Lesser Snake - Invasive Exotics - Monitor
#20:12:40 - Creston Spiers - The Time Has Come - Yesterday's Parade 7" - Souther Shelter
#20:17:55 - Eat Skull - Alarms - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze
#20:19:50 - Steinski - The Payoff Mix - What Does It All Mean? - Illegal Art
20:29:13 - Monade - Un Express - Socialisme ou Barbarie - Drag City
20:31:27 - Creeping Nobodies - Red Weather - Augurs & Auspices - Deleted Art
20:43:42 - Eric Hnatow - LIVE IN STUDIO - NO ALBUM! LIVE DUMMY! - AWESOME
21:25:04 - Dan Friel - Buzzards - Ghost Town - Important
* 21:25:44 - Mouse on Mars - Sui Shop - Audiotacker - Thrill Jockey
* 21:33:11 - King Crimson - Red - Red - EG
#21:40:11 - Zach Hill - Toll Road - Astrological Straits - Ipecac
21:48:02 - Thurston Moore - Hang Out - Psychic Hearts - DGC
#21:49:59 - Au - Are Animals - Verbs - Aagoo
21:53:32 - Ho-Ag - Invitation to a Beheading - Pray for the Worms EP - Hive 35
#21:59:41 - Marie "Queenie" Lyons - Your Key Don't Fit It No More - Soul Fever - Vampisoul

Things I Liked 10 Years Ago But Don't Like Now #1

2008-09-11T13:35:00.001-04:00

The Godzilla Soundtrack.

Sound of Confusion 09/08/08

2008-09-10T21:19:00.003-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

Breeders, The - Divine Hammer - Last Splash - 4AD
Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters - Monkey Man - Bent, Batty & Obvious - Torture Oh No!
Sonic Chicken 4 - Girl66 - Sonic Chicken 4 - In the Red
Electric Prunes - I Had to Much to Dream (Last Night) - Nuggets - Elektra
# Bug, The - Freak Freak - London Zoo - Ninja Tune
Burning Star Core - Rehearsal Excerpt - Mes Soldats Stupides - Centoph
# Zach Hill - Dark Art - Astrological Straits - Ipecac
Replacements, The - We're Coming Out - Let It Be - TwinTone
* Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? - Singles Going Steady - IRS
# Eat Skull - Puker Corpse - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze
Built to Spill - Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else) - Perfect From Now On - Warner Bros.
Them Two - Am I a Good Man - Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label - Numero Group
# Creston Spiers - Yesterday's Parade - Yesterday's Parade 7" - Southern Shelter
Red Krayola - Transparent Radiation - Parable of Arable Land - Decal
Torche - The Last Word - Torche - Robotic Empire
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Smokescreened - X-Plural-Us - Mystra
Brightblack Morning Light - Friend of Time - Brightblack Morning Light - Matador
* Today is the Day - The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself - Live Till You Die - Relapse
Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night? - Independent Worm Saloon - Capitol
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You - A Place to Bury Strangers - Killer Pimp
# Sic Alps - Quai des Orfevres - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze
# Jay Reatard - Feeling Blank Again - Singles 06-07 - In the Red

Things I Didn't Like 10 Years Ago But Like Now #1

2008-09-08T17:19:00.002-04:00

Mustard

Sound of Confusion 09/01/08

2008-09-02T10:46:00.002-04:00

New time and day, 8-10 PM on Mondays. Prime time. Also, I've decided that anytime people make MOR requests I'm going to say I'll play it, but just play grindcore or something instead. Seriously, you're hearing Fugazi and Creston Spiers and people think No Doubt fits in with the show format?

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Labe

20:06:56 - Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus - Singles - Taang
#20:09:24 - Stereolab - Vortical Phonotheque - Chemical Chords - 4AD
20:12:37 - Kaito U.K. - Should I - Band Red - spinArt
20:25:58 - Can - Halleluwah - Tago Mago - Spoon/Mute
* 20:36:23 - Black Sabbath - The Wizard - Black Sabbath - Warner Bros.
20:44:27 - Wrens, The - 13 Months in 6 Minutes - The Meadowlands - Absolutely Kosher
20:50:57 - ...Worms - Track 1 - ...Worms - Marriage
* 20:53:04 - Sunny Day Real Estate - 5/4 - LP2 - Sub Pop
20:57:22 - Fugazi - Life and Limb - The Argument - Dischord
21:00:32 - Creston Spiers - Three is a Magic Number - Live at the Caledonia 5/1/08 -
#21:07:54 - Dan Friel - Ghost Town Pt. 2 - Ghost Town - Important
21:14:32 - Matmos - Hashish Master - Supreme Balloon - Matador
21:21:11 - Four Tet - Hands - Rounds - Domino
21:22:12 - Future Bible Heroes - Lonely Days - Memories of Love - Slowriver
#21:29:13 - Walkmen, The - In the New Year - You & Me - Gigantic
21:34:58 - Stars of the Lid - Don't Bother They're Here - And Their Refinement of the Decline - Kranky
21:45:10 - Sparklehorse - Dog Door - It's a Wonderful Life - Capitol
21:50:56 - Neptune - The Lighthouse - Patterns - Self-Released Records
#21:54:15 - Vivian Girls - Damaged - Vivian Girls` - In the Red
#21:58:47 - Experimental Dental School - Whale Drone - Jane Doe Loves Me - Cochon

Sound of Confusion 08/27/08

2008-08-28T10:30:00.001-04:00

Dinner Special #2 - Oneida's Preteen Weaponry in its entirety. I already have 2 more lined up in my head that will take multiple hands to pull off.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:02:48 - Magnetic Fields, The - Yeah! Oh, Yeah! - 69 Love Songs - Merge
#22:05:15 - Eat Skull - Punk Trips - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze
22:08:36 - Thurston Moore - Frozen Gtr - Trees Outside the Academy - Ecstatic Peace!
22:17:11 - Monks - Shut Up - Black Monk Time - Infinite Zero Archive
22:20:11 - Ex, The - Things Most People Think - Mudbird Shivers - CrossTalk
22:23:04 - Harvey Milk - The Anvil Will Fall - My Love is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be - Yesha
#22:31:56 - Sapat - Lonely and Free - Mortise and Tenon - Siltbreeze
* 22:44:08 - Electric Light Orchestra - Mama... - ELOII - Epic
#22:51:38 - Steinski - Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop) - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective - Illegal Art
22:56:12 - Kano - It's a War - The Kings of Techno - BBE
#23:05:12 - Oneida - Preteen Weaponry Pts. 1-3 - Preteen Weaponry - Jagjaguwar (Tonight's Dinner Special)
23:48:58 - Epsilons - Drunk on Love - Killed 'em Deader 'n a Six Card Poker Hand - Retard Disco
#23:51:11 - Jay Reatard - I Know a Place - Singles 06-07 - In the Red
23:52:54 - Makers, The - I'm Your Big Man - All-Night Riot - Estrus
#23:54:49 - Sic Alps - Mater - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze

The Limits of Internet

2008-08-25T21:53:00.000-04:00

THERE IS TOO MUCH AMAZING

Dmusing #5

2008-08-23T01:41:00.000-04:00

There's a unique feeling that transpires when looking at a place you once lived in being deconstructed. Abandoned. Left for dead. Re-imagined as an empty space. It helps to have old soul music playing in the background.

Sound of Confusion 08/21/08

2008-08-21T13:27:00.000-04:00

Tonight I spontaneously introduced a new element to the Sound of Confusion: Eric's Dinner Special! Tonight's was playing the entirety of Sonic Youth's new SYR 8 release, which, as WMUA DJ Rich of Cosmic Slop called in to note, is really fucking great.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:04:54 - Sebadoh - The Freed Pig - III - Homestead
#22:05:39 - Sic Alps - Gelly Roll Gum Drop - U.S. EZ - Siltbreeze
22:08:07 - Out Hud - Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. - Kranky
#22:22:25 - Deerhunter - Oh, It's Such a Shame - Jay Reatard/Deerhunter Split 7" - Matador
22:26:40 - Quasi - I Never Want to See You Again - Featuring "Birds" - Up
22:30:17 - Sonic Chicken 4 - Creature in a Picture - Sonic Chicken 4 - In the Red
22:32:53 - Six Finger Satellite - Do the Suicide - Paranormalized - Sub Pop
22:35:45 - Studio - West Side - Yearbook 1 - Information
#22:49:21 - Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke - I've Got My Eye on You - DFA/BubbleTease
22:54:36 - Death Set, The - Listen to This Collision - Worldwide - Counter
#22:56:04 - Cheap Time - Living in the Past - Cheap Time - In the Red
#22:58:23 - Eat Skull - Shredders on Fry - Sick to Death - Siltbreeze
#23:03:55 - Sonic Youth - Ander Sider Af Sonic Youth (feat. Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow) - SYR 8 - SYR (Tonight's Dinner Special)

Sound of Confusion 08/13/08

2008-08-14T11:02:00.000-04:00

My Two Weeks Notice show. Only two more Wednesday shows before I move on to bigger and better things. However, on a positive note, I believe I've found the perfect vocal break backing track, Wu-Tang Clan's "Shame on a Nigga." Jay-Z's "Takeover" was strongly considered.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:01:23 - Clockcleaner - Divine Hammer - Babylon Rules - Load
#22:06:00 - Digital Leather - Styrofoam - Sorcerer - Goner
22:10:03 - Mogwai - Dial: Revenge - Rock Action - Matador
22:18:11 - Serge Gainsbourg - Melody - Histoire de Melody Nelson - Polydor
22:25:46 - Trey Told 'Em - All of the Other Songs Remixed - Love and Circuits - Cardboard
22:30:43 - Neon Boys, The - That's All I Know (Right Now) - Spurts: The Richard Hell Story - Rhino
22:36:12 - Scharpling and Wurster - Philly Boy Roy - The Art of the Slap - Stereolaffs
22:57:59 - Sonic Chicken 4 - Girl66 - Sonic Chicken 4 - In the Red
#23:05:15 - Dan Friel - Ghost Town Pt. 1 - Ghost Town - Important
23:11:44 - Magik Markers - Axis Mundi - Boss - Ecstatic Peace
* 23:14:51 - Talking Heads - Cities - Fear of Music - Sire
23:21:00 - Hella - If I Were in Hella I Would Eat Lick - Homeboy - 5RC
#23:34:54 - Jay Reatard - All Wasted - Singles 06-07 - In the Red
23:36:44 - Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are the Space Invader - Prinzhorn Dance School - DFA/Astralwerks
23:41:40 - Mono - Yearning - Gone - Temporary Residence
#23:58:16 - Big Big Bucks, The - Formal Affair/Casual Dress - Rabbit Rabbit EP - S/R

Dmusing #4

2008-08-10T01:39:00.000-04:00

Thank you statcounter for providing me with this Keyword Analysis search stat that someone apparently did:

fucing girls eraq

Dmusing #3

2008-08-09T01:20:00.002-04:00

Sure, hating on pitchfork is easy, but a quick glance through their 2002 (and earlier even) top 50 albums shows some redemption. i mean clearly, the top 20 is going to be filled with major indie label artists, but [just to name a few] acid mothers temple, dj/rupture, hot snakes, isis, mclusky, walkmen, enon, and liars, many of which were definitely not their best albums, still has some "good old days" nostalgia. shit, if it hasn't been done, pfork top 50 albums pools could become the new betting pool.

Dmusing #2

2008-08-08T01:34:00.001-04:00

I will never consider myself an expert of football, but all I've ever known about football began and most likely end with Brett Favre. My entire bloodline is Wisconsin-tied, and spending at least part of my childhood in Northern Michigan was enough to ingrain some interest in the sport, where I was told the area was split 50/50 Packers/Lions. No joke, that man to me is, was, and always will be the embodiment of how I could ideally perceive the game- as fun. Watching a brief clip of him on the ESPN website, I saw a man who wanted to play for one team and one team only. The thing was, the team didn't want him. It's not sports, but that's still personal rejection.

I hope the Jets are a good rebound, Brett.

Sound of Confusion 08/06/08

2008-08-07T01:30:00.000-04:00

You will notice a large section devoted to In the Red Records releases. The following email excerpt I sent to In the Red is how they were obtained:

Hi,

King Khan told me to tell you guys that you need to send us some promotional stuff because I gave him and the Shrines LSD last night. If this doesn't happen I'm going to kill King Khan before they hit the stage tonight in Boston.

Kids, let that be a lesson to you. Just threaten record labels.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

22:06:43 - Wire - The 15th - 154 - Pink Flag
#22:11:39 - Boris - You Were Holding an Umbrella - Smile - Southern Lord
#22:20:14 - Melvins - The Kicking Machine - Nude With Boots - Ipecac
22:24:10 - Funkadelic - Super Stupid - Maggot Brain - Westbound
22:27:43 - Wizardzz - Glimpse of the Hidden City - Hidden City of Taurmond - Load
22:30:27 - Juanita Rogers & Lynn Hollings with Mr. V's Five Joys - Teenager's Letter of Promises - The Singles - Evidence
22:39:48 - Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey - Fluorescent Grey EP - Kranky
22:44:05 - Gowns - Cherrylee - Red State - Cardboard
#22:50:41 - Diplo - Epistemology Suite 1: Don't Fall - You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts - Ninja Tune
* 22:57:29 - Justice - Genesis - † - Vice/Ed Banger
#23:07:36 - Sonic Chicken 4 - Sexiest - Sonic Chicken 4 - In the Red
#23:10:14 - Cheap Time - Trip to the Zoo - Cheap Time - In the Red
23:14:30 - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The - Son of Sam - Juxebox Explosion - In the Red
23:17:38 - King Khan & BBQ Show, The - Waddlin Around - The King Khan & BBQ Show - In the Red
#23:19:54 - Vivian Girls - Damaged - Vivian Girls - In the Red
#23:21:52 - Jay Reatard - It's So Useless - Singles 06-07 - In the Red
23:29:44 - Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Part 2 - Satori - Radioactive
23:40:20 - David Bowie - Memory of a Free Festival - Space Oddity - Rykodisc
23:47:35 - Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life - Chromophobia - Kompakt

Dmusing #1

2008-08-02T02:15:00.000-04:00

I've had a chance to listen to all three versions* of Smile by Boris and I've come to the conclusion that there needs to be a refund given to anyone that purchased the Southern Lord CD version. The Japanese and SL vinyl both had it right to start the album off with "Statement" (different versions, but same overall engaging effect), whereas the SL CD version starts off with the absolute buzz-kill, not to mention poorly mixed, "Flower Sun Rain." And the mixing on the SL CD version is just beyond reprehensible. Some tracks just get cut off like it's nobody's business.

*I don't even want to know what the $400 dollar vinyl version wrapped in fox fur sounds like**.

**Yes I do.

SoC NOTICE

2008-07-29T15:47:00.001-04:00

I will not be doing my show tomorrow night. Instead, WMUA's Mayhem in the AM host Jeanine and I are trading time slots. So if you have the wherewithal to get up at 6 AM and listen to me spin till 8 AM, more power to you.

Sound of Confusion 07/23/08

2008-07-24T01:53:00.000-04:00

Not my proudest show by a long shot. Wasn't feeling it going into it and when I couldn't find the new Matmos album I just lost all interest. I played long songs and played this flash game. Have I mentioned yet how little good music has come out so far this year? I might be able to count the good ones on both hands, maybe.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

22:03:30 - Harvey Milk - Rock and Roll Party - The Pleaser - Relapse
22:28:27 - Fucked Up - Year of the Pig - Year of the Pig - What's Your Rupture?
22:28:51 - Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy - The Campfire Headphase - Warp
#22:36:49 - Abe Vigoda - The Garden - Skeleton - Post Present Medium
22:42:32 - Yann Tiersen - La Dispute (3rd Eye Foundation Remix) - I Poo Poo on Your Juju - Merge
22:47:15 - Happy Dragon-Band, The - In Flight - The Happy Dragon-Band - Fiddlers
22:51:32 - They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul - Flood - Elektra
22:59:39 - Relay - Half of - Type/Void EP - Bubblecore
23:03:12 - Cunts, The - I've Got Problems I Can't Explain - Oh No It's the Cunts! - Disturbing
23:05:05 - Oneida - Up With People - Happy New Year - Jagjaguwar
23:12:28 - 120 Days - I've Lost My Vision - 120 Days - Vice
#23:23:47 - Death Set, The - Super Zero - Worldwide - Counter
#23:28:08 - Mudhoney - Tales of Terror - The Lucky Ones - Sub Pop
23:32:35 - Ruins - Warrido - Vrresto - Magaibutsu Limited
#23:36:41 - Syclops - Naoka's F - I've Got My Eye on You - DFA/Bubbletease
#23:42:56 - Indian Jewelry - Swans - Free Gold! - We Are Free
23:52:35 - Marnie Stern - Letters From Rimbaud - In Advance of the Broken Arm - Kill Rock Stars
23:54:59 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - In a Hole - Psychocandy - Blanco y Negro

Saccharine

2008-07-23T00:22:00.000-04:00

i remember when this was played senior year of college, being drunk 2 years and trying my damnedest that drunk night to find this video online to no avail. AND I FINALLY FOUND IT.

danny devito's facial expressions through it are directly responsible for causing me to seek out "it's always sunny in philadelphia," with great results.

Sound of Confusion 07/17/08

2008-07-17T13:31:00.000-04:00

Play the 30+ minute Scharpling and Wurster "The Gorch" bit? Sure, why the hell not.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:03:55 - Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man - Pioughd - Rough Trade
22:11:42 - Gang Gang Dance - Oxygen Demo Riddim - RAWWAR EP - Social Registry
22:18:14 - Envy - Further Ahead of the Warp - Insomniac Doze - Temporary Residence
* 22:24:56 - Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Bone Machine - Island
#22:27:23 - Giraffes? Giraffes! - When Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme - More Skin With Milk-Mouth - Love in Heat
22:33:29 - Warlocks, The - So Paranoid - Heavy Deavy Skull Lover - Tee Pee
#22:43:53 - No Age - Eraser - Nouns - Sub Pop
22:44:18 - Videohippos - Rider - Unbeast the Leash - Monitor
22:48:07 - Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes - Strip Mall Glass - The Witch's Dagger - GSL
#22:51:59 - Boris - My Neighbor Satan - Smile - Southern Lord
23:04:13 - Scharpling and Wurster - The Gorch - Chain Fights, Beer Busts and Service With a Grin - Stereolaffs
23:39:21 - Blood Circus - Lime Green - Primal Rock Therapy - Sub Pop
23:42:13 - Tyvek - Air Conditioner - Summer Burns EP - What's Your Rupture?
#23:44:45 - Joan of Arc - If There Was a Time #1 - Boo Human - Polyvinyl
23:48:24 - Von Sudenfed - The Young, The Faceless and the Godes - Tromatic Reflexxions - Domino
#23:54:36 - Melvins - Billy Fish - Nude With Boots - Ipecac

Sound of Confusion 07/09/08

2008-07-10T13:30:00.000-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:05:29 - Vaselines, The - Sex Sux (Amen) - The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History - Sub Pop
22:11:05 - Out Hud - Dear Mr. Bush, There Are Over 100 Words for Shit and Only 1 for Music. Fuck You, Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again - Kranky
#22:30:35 - Cloudland Canyon - Krautwerk - Lie in Light - Kranky
#22:32:58 - Notwist, The - On Planet Off - The Devil, You + Me - Domino
22:42:06 - Takako Minekawa - Maxi On! - Maxi On! - Emperor Norton
22:44:28 - Think Dog - Can't Begin to Be Happy - Dog Days - Normal
#22:50:06 - J. Spacemen - Paris Beach - Mister Lonely: Music From a Film by Harmony Korine - Drag City
22:51:01 - Minutemen, The - The Glory of Man - Double Nickels on the Dime - SST
22:53:47 - Dudley Corporation, The - Maybe I... - In Love With the Dudley Corporation - Absolutely Kosher
#22:56:46 - Sic Alps - Making Plans - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut - Animal Disguise
#23:05:31 - Torche - Across the Shields - Meanderthal - Hydra Head
23:08:41 - Crystalized Movements - Slid - Revelations From Pandemonium - Twisted Village
23:13:18 - Sonic Youth - Tom Violence - Evol - Geffen
23:16:18 - Just a Five - Fly Your Flag, Son - Spanish Time - Sickroom
23:24:52 - Milkshakes, The - Run Chicken Run - Showcase - Braineater
23:25:18 - These Are Powers - Nubians on Franklin Ave - Terrific Seasons - Hoss
* 23:31:58 - Johnny Cash - Hurt - American IV: The Man Comes Around - American
#23:36:08 - Melvins - The Smiling Cobra - Nude With Boots - Ipecac
23:40:04 - This Moment in Black History - Are Lipps Our Inc. - Midwesterncuttalistick - Version City
#23:42:08 - Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Pt. 2) - Ghost Town - Important
23:48:05 - Cub - A Party - Betti-Cola - Mint
#23:50:08 - Abe Vigoda - Bear Face - Skeleton - Post Present Medium
#23:54:39 - Harvey Milk - Death Goes to the Winner - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head

Sound of Confusion 07/02/08

2008-07-09T13:28:00.001-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:03:15 - New Order - Ceremony - Substance - Qwest
#22:11:14 - Boris - No One Grieves - Smile - Southern Lord
22:19:43 - London Sinfonietta - Aphex Twin - Prepared Piano Piece 1 - Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters - Warp
22:22:00 - Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Texas - Leap Second Neutral - Cuneiform
22:26:43 - Breeders, The - Oh! - Pod - 4AD
22:32:59 - Oneida - Sheets of Easter - Each One Teach One - Jagjaguwar
22:49:24 - 13th Floor Elevators - Don't Fall Down - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - WEA
#22:54:29 - Free Kitten - Erected Girl - Inherit - Ecstatic Peace
23:03:04 - Spacemen 3 - Starship - Transparent Radiation EP - Taang
23:17:08 - Tinklers, The - Mutations - Casserole - Shimmy Disc
#23:18:23 - Sebadoh - Happily Divided - Bubble & Scrape - Domino
* 23:20:54 - Man Man - Tunneling Through the Guy - Six Demon Bag - Ace Fu
#23:30:19 - Syclops - NR17 - I've Got My Eye on You - DFA/BubbleTease
23:35:45 - Pantha Du Prince - Moonstruck - This Bliss - Dial
#23:47:45 - M83 - Highyway of Endless Dreams - Saturdays = Youth - Mute
23:48:09 - Studio - Origin (Shake You Down by the River) - Yearbook 1 - Information
#23:52:05 - War on Dugs, The - Barrel of Batteries - Wagonwheel Blues - Secretly Canadian
#23:55:38 - Black Angels, The - Doves - Directions to See a Ghost - Light in the Attic

The Most to Least Talented People

2008-07-07T15:01:00.000-04:00

Compiled by the fine callers of The Best Show on WFMU's Hard Hat Radio.

Orson Welles
The guys from Pixar
Cohen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
TIE - Von Lmo and Robert Johnson
Roky Erickson
John Cale
David Bowie
Mick Collins
Mark Arm
Edgar Wright
Charles Barkley
Wayne Gretzky
Will Ferrell
LeBron James
Larry David
Mark Robinson
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Chris Rock
Gene Wilder
Shigeru Miyamoto
Nick Cave
Wolfman Jack
Jay Reatard
TIE - Tom Bosley and Bruno S.
Ice-T
Benny Hill
Mo Rocca
Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana
TIE - The Two Coreys and Vincent Gallo
Ray Manzarek
John Landis
TIE - Harmony Korine and Michael Bay
Dr. Demento
David Crosby
Jared Leto
Rachael Ray
Kevin Costner
Brett Ratner
David Peel
Lee Freeman
Robert Englund
Frank Zappa
Damien Hirst
Fred Durst
Insane Clown Posse
Carlos Mencia
Ted Nugent

Sound of Confusion 06/25/08

2008-06-26T11:10:00.001-04:00

First SoC with backing music playing during vocal breaks. Will see how that goes for future shows.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:03:51 - Suicide - Shadazz - Suicide [2nd Album] - Mute
22:10:09 - Coathangers, The - Parking Lot - The Coathangers - Rob's House Records
22:11:49 - Om - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead - Pilgrimage - Southern Lord
#22:18:45 - HEALTH - Triceratops (Acid Girls RMX A) - DISCO - Lovepump
#22:24:51 - Monotonix - Deadly Weapon - Body Language EP - Drag City
22:26:08 - Lamps - U.S. Core Complete - Lamps - In the Red
22:36:40 - Clockcleaner - Caliente Queen - Babylon Rules - Load
#22:40:52 - Bum Kon - Slow Death - Drunken Sex Sucks - Smooch
22:44:34 - Ween - Mutilated Lips - The Mollusk - Epic
22:49:08 - Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Eve, Mary, and Juliett - L'Autre Cap - K
22:50:49 - Fennesz - Made in Hong Kong - Endless Summer - Editions Mego
* 22:56:24 - TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - Touch and Go
* 23:02:35 - Tranzmitors - Do I Really Want to Know - Tranzmitors - Deranged
#23:05:42 - Lemuria - Fingers - Get Better - Asian Man
23:08:04 - Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Half) - Broken Social Scene - Arts & Crafts
23:12:35 - To Kill a Petty Bourgoisie - With Brass Songs They'll Descend - The Patron - Kranky
#23:15:09 - Silver Jews - Open Field - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - Drag City
23:17:50 - Triffids, The - Wide Open Road - Born Sandy Devotion - Domino
#23:24:58 - Torche - Grenades - Meanderthal - Hydra Head
23:29:05 - Lightning Bolt - Forcefield - Ride the Skies - Load
#23:31:42 - Dan Friel - Desert Song - Ghost Town - Important
23:34:25 - Bracken - Heathens - We Knew About the Need - Anticon
#23:39:47 - Harvey Milk - Decades - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
#23:48:11 - Eddie Bo - Something You Got - In the Pocket With Eddie Bo - Vampi Soul
#23:53:53 - Russian Circles - Campaign - Station - Suicide Squeeze

Sound of Confusion 06/18/08

2008-06-19T02:30:00.000-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

22:03:47 - The King Khan and BBQ Show - Too Much in Love - What's for Dinner? - In the Red
#22:11:01 - Harvey Milk - Death Goes to the Winner - Life...The Best Game in Town - Hydra Head
22:17:59 - Kinski - Semaphore - Kinski EP - Sub Pop
22:24:53 - Made Out of Babies - Mandatory Bed Rest - Coward - Neurot
#22:33:25 - Giraffes? Giraffes! - A Quick One, While She's Away - More Skin With Milk-Mouth - Loves In Heat
#22:42:47 - Breeders, The - We're Gonna Rise - Mountain Battles - 4AD
22:53:28 - Yoshimi and Yuka - Ha Wa ii Na - Flower With No Color - Ipecac
#22:53:39 - Torche - Fat Waves - Meanderthal - Hydra Head
22:57:55 - Bleachers, The - Invitation - Suspicion - Village Industries
23:02:32 - Magik Markers - Taste - Boss - Ecstatic Peace!
#23:07:07 - Joan of Arc - Insects Don't Eat Bananas - Boo Human - Polyvinyl
23:09:06 - Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It? - Singles Going Steady - IRS
23:18:01 - Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus - Silver Tongued Sisyphus EP - Kranky
23:29:57 - Burning Star Core - The Emergency Networks Are Taking Over - Operator Dead... Post Abandoned - No Quarter
#23:41:22 - Detroit Cobras - Funnel of Love - The Original Recordings: 1995-97 - Munster
#23:42:52 - CPC Gangbangs - Gone Black - Mutilation Nation - Swami
#23:51:49 - Spiritualized - Sweet Talk - Songs in A & E - Fontana
#23:52:07 - Free Kitten - Help Me - Inherit - Ecstatic Peace!
23:54:32 - Creeping Nobodies, The - Concrete - Sound of Joy - Blocks Recording Club

Steel Wool Tissue

2008-06-18T11:12:00.000-04:00

Well, you've done it, you cold-hearted, emotionless technology. You made me cry. Might as well start taking over the human race.

Sound of Confusion 06/11/08

2008-06-12T00:25:00.000-04:00

It's currently Torche and Dan Friel for album of the year.

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label

22:04:09 - Yo La Tengo - Sudden Organ - Painful - Matador
22:11:46 - Gentlemen Jesse & His Men - Connection - Chunklet Magazine Whirlyball 7" - Chunklet
22:14:19 - Magnolia Electric Co. - Lonesome Valley - Fading Trails - Secretly Canadian
#22:16:18 - Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Pt. 2) - Ghost Town - Important
#22:25:14 - Torche - Across the Shields - Meanderthal - Hydra Head
* 22:26:03 - Hold Steady, The - Hot Soft Light - Boys and Girls in America - Vagrant
22:33:41 - Shit Robot - Chasm - Chasm/Lonely Planet 12" - DFA
22:43:40 - Virus Syndacite - Neva - The Sacred Symbols of Mu - Planet Mu
22:45:40 - Shriekback - My Spine is the Bassline (12" Edit) - Disco Not Disco - Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986 - Strut
22:51:31 - Ellen Allien & Apparat - Turbo Dreams - Orchestra of Bubbles - BPitch Control
#22:58:58 - Four Tet - Ribbons - Ringer - Domino
23:05:55 - Clark - Mercy Sines - Turning Dragon - Warp
#23:07:27 - Portishead - We Carry On - Third - Mercury
23:15:01 - Plaid - Scoobs - Peel Session - Nothing
#23:17:13 - Shooting Spires - Sailin' On - Love & Circuits - Cardboard
23:26:49 - Polvo - Everything in Flames! - Shapes - Touch and Go
#23:29:40 - Sic Alps - Microcastle - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut - Animal Disguise
#23:31:56 - Ecstatic Sunshine - Herron - Way - Cardboard
23:39:42 - Built to Spill - Else - Keep it Like a Secret - Warner Bros.
23:45:46 - Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Part 2 - Satori - Radioactive
#23:55:34 - Terrible Twos - I'm So Bored - Terrible Twos - X!

Sound of Confusion 06/04/08

2008-06-05T15:43:00.000-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:05:04 - Mission of Burma - Secrets - Vs. - Ryko
#22:10:27 - Breeders, The - No Way - Mountain Battles - 4AD
22:12:53 - Sleeping People - Growing Sand - TRR100 Thankful - Temporary Residence
22:19:09 - First Nation - Female Trance - First Nation - Paw Tracks
#22:22:11 - Retribution Gospel Choir - Somebody's Someone - Retribution Gospel Choir - Caldo Verde
22:29:53 - Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave - Master of Reality - Warner Bros.
#22:32:59 - Opeth - Heir Apparent - Watershed - Roadrunner
22:41:28 - Noxagt - Coefficient Ascender - Noxagt - Load
22:46:37 - Boris with Michio Kurihara - Sweet No. 1 - Rainbow - Drag City
22:57:55 - ????????? - ?????????? - Live at M5 - ??????
23:10:12 - Yo La Tengo - We're an American Band - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Matador
#23:18:40 - Cloudland Canyon - You & I - Lie in Light - Kranky
#23:24:55 - Indian Jewelry - Pompeii - Free Gold! - We Are Free
#23:30:36 - Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild - Vapor
23:31:07 - Flying Luttenbauchers, The - Infektion - Infection and Decline - Troubleman Unlimited
23:35:59 - Bomboras, The - War of the Satellites - Head Shrinkin' Fun - Geffen
23:37:57 - Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Warner Bros.
23:44:54 - Edith Frost - Charley's Girl - Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils - Drag City
23:48:18 - Rebuilding the Rights of Statues - Boys in Cage - Cut Off! - Tag Team
#23:51:40 - Creeping Nobodies, The - Sacrosanction - Augurs & Auspices - Deleted Art
#23:56:40 - Dan Friel - Desert Song - Ghost Town - Important
#23:59:32 - No Age - Here Should Be My Home - Nouns - Sub Pop

Sound of Confusion 05/28/08

2008-05-29T17:19:00.001-04:00

* denotes a request, # denotes a new release

Time Played - Artist - Song Title - Album Title - Label
22:03:42 - Modern Lovers, The - Old World - The Modern Lovers - Sanctuary
#22:08:10 - Dan Friel - Buzzards - Ghost Town - Important
22:10:40 - Darker My Love - Summer is Here - Darker My Love - Dangerbird
22:14:54 - Big Business - Another Fourth of July... - Here Come the Waterworks - Hydra Head
#22:18:33 - Witch - Eye - Paralyzed - Tee Pee
22:24:41 - Mark Sultan - Warpath - The Sultanic Verses - In the Red
22:25:54 - Dragons, The - Cosmosis - BFI - Ninjatune
22:29:48 - Damon and Naomi - Turn of the Century (with Michio Kurihara) - Song to the Siren: Live in San Sebastian - Sub Pop
22:35:25 - Swirlies - Sunn [Drunk in Your Sled Version] - Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music - Taang
#22:44:48 - Creepings Nobodies, The - Your Likeness - Half Saboteur EP - Blocks Recording Club
22:49:58 - Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Atomic Rotary Grinding God - Electric Heavyland - Alien8
#23:10:34 - Autechre - fwzE - Quaristice - Warp
23:12:34 - Dark Meat - In the Woods - Universal Indians - Cloud Recordings
23:17:31 - Jay Reatard - In the Dark - In the Dark 7" - Squoodge
#23:18:29 - Sic Alps - Love is Strange - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut - Animal Disguise
23:19:53 - Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - I Gave You - Superwolf - Drag City
#23:25:23 - Boris - Message - Smile - Diwphalanx
#23:44:17 - Russian Circles - Campaign - Station - Suicide Squeeze
23:44:42 - Baroness - The Birthing - Red Album - Relapse
#23:45:58 - Neptune - Blue Glass - Gong Lake - Table of the Elements
#23:48:47 - Spiritualized - You Lie You Cheat - Songs in A & E - Fontana
#23:55:24 - Earth - Hung From the Moon - The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - Southern Lord

Sound of Confusion 05/21/08

2008-05-28T18:49:00.000-04:00

First official SoC show. Unfortunately the playlist entry wasn't working, so I had to write it down.
* is a request, # a new release

Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus - The Perfect Prescription - Taang
# Indian Jewelry - Hello Africa - Free Gold! - We Are Free
Various Artists - Exterior Grooves - Radio Algeria - Sublime Frequencies
Akimbo - Roman Coins - Navigating the Bronze - Alternative Tentacles
Future of the Left - The Lord Hates a Coward - Curses - Too Pure
# Lucky Dragons - Very 2 - Dream Island Laughing Language - Marriage
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag - Wanna Buy a Bridge? - Rough Trade
# Matmos - Mister Mouth - Supreme Balloon - Matador
# Breeders - German Studies - Mountain Battles - 4AD
# Boris - My Neighbor Satan - Smile - Southern Lord
Oneida - Changes in the City - Secret Wars - Jagjaguwar
Kashmere Stage Band - Take Five - Texas Thunder Soul: 1968-1974 - Stones Throw
# Thee Oh Sees - Visit Colonel - The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In - Tomlab
Isis - Not in Rivers, But in Drops - In the Absence of Truth - Ipecac
* Shellac - Disgrace - Terraform - Touch and Go
* LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum - Sound of Silver - DFA
# Sic Alps - Bells (w/ Tremolo and Distortion) - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut - Animal Disguise
# Bum Kon - Nancy Reagan Fashion Show - Drunken Sex Sucks - Smooch
Stars of the Lid - Dust Breeding (1.316)+ - Avec Laudenum - Kranky
# Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Pt. 2) - Ghost Town - Important

Whirlwind

2008-02-04T14:52:00.000-05:00

from jules and jim. if you've never seen it, please do.

his work is done

2008-01-14T23:33:00.000-05:00

meant to postthis a few days ago but didn't
monks member dave "day" havlicek died a few days ago, he was the wild banjo player, youtube for clips.
as a fan, i found monk alum eddie shaw's message very poignant

Two days before the birthday of his hero, Elvis - Dave Day of the Monks suffered a heart attack and massive brain injury. He has been taken off the life support system today. His work is done.

that phrase- "his work is done" is very kurt vonnegut. rip

tippy tie

2008-01-11T18:51:00.001-05:00

way lateon this,but the studio yearbook 1 album is terrific. kinda can-gone-dfa* in the good ways. samesies with the boriswithmichokurihara. for those unaware, i'm on radio dj sabbatical cuz currently finishing a mastersdegree before my statute of limitations expires is moreimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmportant. you wouldn'tunderstand.

*post-post ed. note: should've mentioned a slightly new-wave reincarnated outhud. come back. also, the wire (hbo show not the band) is amazing, thoughthe band is that too. wastedthe minimal vacation time watching all seasons .

bestofs

2007-12-15T00:09:00.000-05:00

Albums I can actually place in some definitive, album of the year order

1. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Here's how I know this is my favorite album of the year
a. Of the top 16 tracks played on my last.fm tracker, 12 are the tracks on cryptograms. and that does not count the number of vinyl plays i got.
b. I purchased both CD and vinyl versions of the release, something I almost never do. I think the last one was for Ghostface's Fishscale.
d. I can fully support sad-bastard/my-life-sucks lyrics from a frontman that has Marfan syndrome.
c. It was the best album of the year.

2. Low - Drums and Guns
The "I'm Sick to Death of Low" sticker that came with the album was quite fitting for my impression of the band. I just have never "got" Low. It sounds like a lot of the Low faithful are not too keen on this album because it doesn't "sound like Low." Sometimes change is good. That's why I still listen to Yo La Tengo and Liars. Folks, Low can't keep making albums with Mimi Parker's rhythm section and Sparhawk's plodding Open G guitar forever. Also, how is it that Dave Friedman has managed to have his hand in two of my favorite albums of the past three years that were both by bands I never cared for beforehand (the other being Sleater Kinney The Woods)?

3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
This really just highlighted how shitty Hail to the Thief actually was.

Albums that i cannot, but are all pretty worthy

liars - liars
love of diagrams - mosaic
gui boratto - chromophobia
no age - weirdo rippers
parts and labor - mapmaker
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
a place to bury strangers - a place to bury strangers
prinzhorn dance school - prinzhorn dance school
baroness - the red album
robert wyatt - comicopera
stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

egon

2007-08-20T12:16:00.000-04:00

very tempting

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/act/398745849.html

Did you feed and dress yourself this morning? I didn't.

2007-08-15T11:38:00.000-04:00

I don't like Skittles, but this commercial has made my day. The best part is at the beginning when he gives a pitiful expression when asked to touch a stapler.

i am a wicked child

2007-08-10T10:43:00.000-04:00

My sister is stopping through Amherst on the way to visit some old friends in Vermont. Last night I used her computer to look up directions to the bus terminal and noticed she hadn't signed out of her facebook account. Playful profile edits ensued.

Keep in my mind my sister is a sweetheart and, like all of the family brood, was raised in a barn. So I played her some Patton Oswalt comedy and she ate it up. It reminded me of when teenagers first discover pornography. Just giddy and wrong. She also seemed to like King Khan & The BBQ Show.

Foodz 1.1

2007-08-06T00:31:00.000-04:00

Potato and Leek Soup - Exactly as it's described. It's a modified version of what I read online and in several books. The main and probably key idea I stole was the inclusion of a roux. It gives the soup a really great level of richness. I included carrots for additional flavor, which wasn't called for. At the end I added fresh chopped scallions to counter the other flavors, to which I enjoyed.

Recipe is as follows:

6-7 yukon gold potatoes (or other I guess) scrubbed clean and cubed in 1-inch chunks
3/4 lb. of carrots (I used baby carrots) in biteable size
3 leeks chopped in 1-inch pieces
1 cup heavy cream
3 tbsp butter, melted
1/2 cup of flour
6 quarts of water
3/4 tsp of dried thyme (or whatever the fresh equivalent is)
salt and pepper
green onions (optional)

1. Put the water. potatoes, leek and carrots in a large pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 15-20 minutes, or until it looks like a well-combined mixture. You know, it just looks delicious. While this is boiling make the roux by combining the melted butter and flour to make a paste. Try not to eat the butter flour, tempting it may be.

2. Turn down to a simmer and add the thyme and roux. Add salt and pepper to taste. At this point the soup should look fairly thick. Not thick enough! In a blender or food processor, place batches of the soup in and blend it up real good. Put your focus on the carrots. They make nice orange speckles in the soup, resulting in bonus presentation points. You don't have to blend the entire batch of soup, unless you're anti-chunk (which makes you a nazi).

3. At this point the soup is souper (wordplay! lame.) thick. Add the cream and call it a day. Serve and put some chopped green onion on top if you like. Serve with a classy beer. Like Miller High Life.

Crude Brood

2007-08-01T21:06:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty excited about the Atlanta Braves acquisition of Mark Texeira from the Texas Rangers, though it's definitely bittersweet they had to part with the fun-named Jarrod "Salty" Saltalamacchia** (pronounced salt-ala-mock-ia). And on top of that they just released Julio Franco, who has a lot of love from the Atlanta Braves fanbase. He was going to be a bench player, but the 48 year old can play ball a lot better than some of those other reserves out there who are half his age. It's a shame they couldn't get another starting pitcher, but to be fair there was really nothing good to trade for this year. I'm seeing a tight race in the NL East this year, especially if the Phillies keep raking.

With that out of the way, here's this weeks playlist which got a great deal of audience participation this week. Four requests, which I believe ties my personal best as well as people calling in with compliments. I think this is definitely a better route than threatening your listeners by playing the same song nonstop. Probably my favorite song I played during the show was Margo Guryan, which reminds me of some of the Isobel Campbell sung Belle and Sebastian tracks. Second favorite was the Shooting at Unarmed Men. Yay malicious McLusky offshoots.

*'s are the requests

Deerhunter - Strange Lights - Cryptograms - Kranky
Finest Dearest - Making a Sound - Off Sides - S/R
Public Image Ltd. - Swan Lake - Second Edition - Warner Bros.
Black Dice - Smiling Off (DFA Remix) - Smiling Off - DFA/Astralwerks
Fog - The Last I Knew of You - Ditherer - Lex
Selmanaires, The - Let's Go There - Here Come the Selmanaires - International Hits
Devo - Mongoloid - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Warner Bros.
Dry Bread - Words to My Song - Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay - Numero Group
Pulp - Babies - His 'n' Hers - Island
Shape of Broad Minds - Let's Go (feat. MF Doom) - Blue Experience EP - Lex
Artanker Convoy - Ejector - Cozy Endings - The Social Registry
*Guided by Voices - Everywhere With Helicopters - Universal Truths and Cycles - Matador
Shellac - Be Prepard - Excellent Italian Greyhound - Touch and Go
Stereo Total - The Monster - Fields and Streams - Kill Rock Stars
Guryan, Margo - Sun - 25 Demos - Oglio
Don Caballero - Room Temperature Lounge - Singles Breaking Up - Touch and Go
Shooting at Unarmed Men - All Hail Sergio - Yes! Tinnitus! - Too Pure
*Saint Etienne - Erica America - Good Humor - Sub Pop
*Rogue Wave - Bird on a Wire - Descended Like Vultures - Sub Pop
*Stereolab - Cosmic Country Noir - Margerine Eclipse - Elektra
Channels 3x4 - Boys - Christian Girls EP - Summer Lovers Unlimited
Justice - New Jack - Cross - Vice/Ed Banger
Royal Fingers - Test Driver - Wild Eleki Deluxe - Del Fi
Young Marble Giants - Posed by Models - Peel Session - Domino
Cinematic Orchestra, The - Familiar Ground - Ma Fleur - Ninja Tune
Rubinoos, The - No More Where She Came From - Paleophonic - Varese Sarabande
1990s - Enjoying Myself - Cookies - Rough Trade
Rondelles, The - T.V. Zombie - Shined Nickels and Loose Change - K
Unrest - Winona Ryder (xx Version) - B.P.M. (1991-1994) - Teenbeat

**Amazingly spelled correctly on first attempt.

Shark Infested Sea

2007-07-25T17:26:00.000-04:00

Nothing fun to report this week. Only, the station several weeks ago received several 12" from Summer Lovers Unlimited, a label I was not familiar with. Quick research showed that the Crystal Castles were on the label, who I think are great. Short story shortened, they release a some good, quick electro. I'd recommend checking out Dandi Wind and Channels 3x4. The Dandi Wind track played during the show is my particular favorite. Additionally, a caller liked it enough to call in and get info on them.

McLusky - She Will Only Bring You Happiness - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire - Too Pure
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages - Til the Following Night - It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek - Razor + Tie
Epsilons - Problems - Killed 'Em Deader 'n a Six Card Poker Hand - Retard Disco
Ponys, The - She's Broken - Celebration Castle - In the Red
Specific Heats, The - My Secret Agent Days are Numbered - Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination - Total Gaylord
Simian Mobile Disco - State of Things - Simian Mobile Disco EP - Interscope
Fisk Industries - We Saw Orion - EPs and Rarities - Mush
Boards of Canada - Open the Light - Music Has the Right to Children - Warp
Kalkbrenner, Paul - Der Berserker - BPitch Control Compilation 2002 - BPitch Control
Digitalism - I Want I Want - Idealism - Astralwerks
Stop Die Resucitate - Bad Night [Instrumental] - Bad Night 12 - Summer Lovers Unlimited
Dandi Wind - Balloon Factory - Break the Bone and Suck the Marrow From It EP - Summer Lovers Unlimited
Channels 3x4 - Plastic - Christian Girls EP - Summer Lovers Unlimited
Von Sudenfed - Flooded - Tromatic Reflexxions - Domino
Battles - Rainbow - Mirrored - Warp
This Moment in Black History - Are Lipps Our Inc. - Midwesterncuttalistick - Version City
Five Mod Four, The - Poor Old Soul - Whiskers - Contraphonic Music
Spiritualized - Cop Shoot Cop... - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Arista
Mutants, The - New Drug [Version Two] - Fun Terminal - White Noise
Pissed Jeans - Secret Admirer - Hope for Men - Sub Pop
Fibonaccis, The - Somnambulist - Repressed: The Best of the Fibonaccis - Restless
Japanther - Summer Hills - Master of Pigeons - Menlo Park
Meat Puppets - Vultures - Rise to Your Knees - Anodyne
Maximum Joy - Stretch - Unlimited (1979-1983) - Crippled Dick Hot Wax

July 17th Playlist

2007-07-19T18:22:00.000-04:00

A pretty bland playlist for the week, mostly because my mother was visiting and she said she was going to listen. With that kind of parental pressure I just couldn't touch anything that seemed too "hardcore" for her ears. Before the show, the entirety of Les Savy Fav's Go Forth LP was played instead of automation.

Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox - Six Demon Bag - Ace Fu
Costello, Elvis and the Attractions - Uncomplicated - Blood and Chocolate - Rykodisc
Can - Flow Motion - Flow Motion - Spoon/Mute
Make Up - Gold Record Pt. I - Sound Verite - K
El Perro del Mar - God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get) - El Perro del Mar - Control Group
Oneida - Thank Your Parents - Happy New Year - Jagjaguwar/Brah
Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home - Ma Fleur - Ninja Tune
Parts & Labor - Brighter Days - Mapmaker - Jagjaguwar/Brah
Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Matador
Schnauss, Ulrich - Medusa - Goodbye - Domino
Eluvium - Prelude for Time Feelers - Copia - Temporary Residence
Clorox Girls - Flowers of Evil - J'aime les Filles - Byo
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays - The Peel Sessions - Strange Fruit
Justice - Stress - Cross - Vice/Ed Banger
Tortoise - Whitewater - A Lazarus Taxon - Thrill Jockey
Dynamics, The - Ice Cream Song - First Landing - Hacktone
Artichoke - Anarchy in the U.K. - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by Artichoke - Greeen
Arab Strap - There is No Ending - The Last Romance - Transdreamer
Animal Collective - Baleen Sample - Prospect Hummer EP - Fat Cat
Six Parts Seven - Awaiting Elemental Meltdown - Casually Smashed to Pieces - Suicide Squeeze
Spoon - Eddie's Ragga - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Merge
Comet Gain - The Fists in the Pocket - City Fallen Leaves - Kill Rock Stars
Sultan, Mark - Mortal Man - The Sultanic Verses - In the Red
Ponys, The - Pose Psychotic - Turn the Lights Out - Matador

July 10th Playlist

2007-07-11T17:20:00.000-04:00

What you're looking at below is my very failed attempt at trying to get a ton of requests (and therefore, listener satisfaction) by having them call in and request or else the same Flaming Lips cover of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" play on loop. In the studio I don't have to hear what's going out over the air, I can just play whatever I want to hear without the audience hearing it. They however are stuck with it. Unless they're smart enough to realize they can change the dial- which is exactly what I'm guessing they did. The Flaming Lips song was actually played a lot more often, I lost count towards the end of the first hour. It did give me a chance to read the new issue of Fader and listen to Can's Delay 1968 EP and Dinosaur Jr.'s Bug, the latter of which for some inexplicable reason I had never heard.

On a positive note, when I come into the studio, usually a half hour before my show starts, it's been running on automation, generally consisting of prerecorded sets done by station members. Most of the time it's playing jazz, world music, or interviews on social issues. Now I just flip that off and put a full record on. Last week it was disc 3 of the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs and this week was Jay Reatard's Blood Visions. See I don't totally hate the listeners.

The *'s denote the requests and the first and last tracks were my picks.

Ponys, The - Sad Eyes - Laced With Romance - In the Red
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
*Gang of Four - Natural's Not in It - Entertainment! - Rhino
*Pop, Iggy - Lust for Life - Lust for Life - Virgin
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
*Jefferson, Blind Lemon - Peach Orchard Mama - Blind William Jefferson - Mildstone
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Flaming Lips, The - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Fight Test EP - Warner Bros.
Measles Mumps Rubella - Lighter's Out - Zusammen Mit Motown/Lighter's Out 7" - M'alady's

2007 Summer Jam

2007-07-09T15:30:00.000-04:00

I think it's time to declare it, something that's never been done in the history of my life- have an official BTP summer jam.

Cut Copy's "Hearts on Fire." Here's the song in a nutshell: take everything musically wrong/corny about the 80s, run it through a sieve, toss what doesn't make it through into a blender with some post-P,C,L New Order singles and you get this banger. Those keyboards, the "oh oh-ah's," the blatant New Order guitar outro rip, it's all magic.

Some other 2007 bangers over at BTP currently:

Van Halen - I'll Wait (80s coke jams need to make a comeback)
King Khan & The BBQ Show - I'll Never Belong (or anything In the Red related)
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt (where the hell was I last year to miss this punk-pop gem?! Answer: over-saturating myself with CSS)

hype machine it if you don't have it.

If this gets read by someone else, be aware that the 91.1 WMUA Blog will probably be the more interesting read in terms of music input (read: snobbery). However, like this one, both are currently in their pre-natal stages. Conception has occurred, and what you're looking at is probably the equivalent of an ultrasound 12 weeks in. It looks ugly as sin, but you can just make out the gender.

Foodz 1.0

2007-07-08T20:00:00.000-04:00

And so it begins-

Hobbit Food- Biscuits, roasted chicken parts and roasted vegetables (leeks, onions, carrots, potatoes and garlic)

Asparagus and Zucchini Pasta w/ Creamy Goat Cheese Sauce- aside from that, there's basil in it

Beans and Rice w/ Cornbread- Yum. There's red pepper, grape tomatoes and onion in that. Simple.