RADIO BROADCAST #800
08–03–24
Fanatic! I can never be sure where these notes find you. Where I am is consistently hot day after day, although a few hours ago, I noticed some of the trees outside were starting to shed their leaves, in perhaps the slightest of insinuations of the season coming to an end. August is a peak month for listening to music! At least in the part of the world I live in, it is summer’s crescendo.
I’ve found that often something I’m anticipating isn’t as good as the thoughts I have about it, where the actual thing wasn’t nearly as good as how I’d pictured it. The food in the advertisement is always better looking than what hits the table. I think advertisers understand the human mind creates the advertised version, all the while knowing the actual isn’t going to be nearly as good. We’re at once a highly complex species but also often surprisingly open to suggestion.
I’ve really come to enjoy anticipating things even though I know it’s probably best to be “in the moment” as much as possible. The imagination is without limit. The real world holds nothing but limits.
One of the reasons I really like August is because it makes me think about September, which is the start of my three favorite months of the year. So, I enjoy the relentless heat of August as best I can, knowing September is only days away. I might prefer thinking about September than actually being in September. I’m not saying September, October and November are letdowns, it’s just that I’m really enjoying thoughts of autumn and the cooling temperatures while the weather is stuck on the simmer setting. By the time the temperature actually starts dropping, I’ll pretty much have forgotten how damn hot it is at present. This is one of the reasons I try to listen to music seasonally, in an effort to get as much as possible out of time and place. I enjoy the long sunsets, knowing the cycle of early darkness (which I far more prefer) is on the way. Wow. That took a lot of words. Not sorry!
Last week I told you my new book, Stay Fanatic!!! Vol. 4 had come back from the printer. I really hope you get a chance to check it out. You can get it right here.
https://www.twothirteensixtyone.com/
We have five Saturdays together in August. Soon we’ll be coming to the end of our visits with Charles M. Bogert and his frogs. One of the reasons we start our summer shows with a track of his, is because they sound cool and I relate to this great herpetologist and his mission to document the sounds of frogs and toads in North America. He was in his own way a fanatic.
For tonight, we’ve prepared what you’ll hopefully find to be a compelling warm-to-hot weather soundtrack. It’s the mix tape feel we were after and I think we got it.
Have a great night of listening, a music-filled and carefully hydrated week upcoming and STAY FANATIC!!!
–– Henry
Hour 1
01. Charles M. Bogert + - Mating call of Squirrel Treefrog / Sounds of North American Frogs
02. Mark Robinson - Putting Up Good Numbers / Tiger Banana
03. Air Miami - World Cup Fever / Me. Me. Me.
04. Unrest - Cath Carroll / Perfect Teeth
05. Dion Lunadon - Out In My World / Memory Burn
06. UK Subs - Ice Age / Diminished Responsibility
07. The Chefs - Food / TV Dinner #18
08. Kosmetika - Reward Risk / Luxury
09. David Bowie - Look Back in Anger / Lodger
10. The Fall - C'n'C Hassle Schmuck / Complete Peel Sessions: 1978-2004
11. Joy Division - No Love Lost / Substance
12. Buzzcocks - Breakdown / Time's Up
13. Nightshift - Sure Look / Homosapien
14. Devo - Untitled (1976) / Art Devo 1973-1977
15. These Immortal Souls - Hide / Get Lost (Don't Lie!)
16. Poom Puwarin - Tai Por Karm Bar / Luk Thung! The Roots Of Thai Funk
17. Memo PST - Blue Cellophane / Memo PST
18. XYZ - The Song Is Wrong / 5 Stars EP
19. Super-X - Could've Been / Super-X
Hour 2
01. Straight Arrows - Peakin / Surface World
02. The Stooges - Real Cool Time / The Stooges
03. Liz Lamere - King City Ghost / One Never Knows
04. Program - Live Without / It's a Sign
05. Drinks - Cheerio / Hermits On Holiday
06. Deerhoof - This is God Speaking / Offend Maggie
07. The Sonics - He's Waitin' / Psycho-Sonic
08. The Cramps - New Kind Of Kick / Bad Music For Bad People
09. The Forbidden Five - RFD Rangoon / 60 Songs From The Cramps Crazy Collection
10. Neutrals - Wish You Were Here / New Town Dream
11. Jack Name - The Runaway Girls / Fabulous Soundtracks
12. Black Bats - Hidden Sands / Stay Dead
13. The Misfits - Ghouls Night Out / 12 Hits From Hell
14. Gee Tee - Out Tonight / Prehistoric Chrome
15. Alien Nosejob - Maggie / New Centre Of The Universe, Vol. 3
16. Parsnip - L.O.N.E. / Behold
17. Heather The Jerk - I Don't Mind / Cable Access TV
18. Alan Vega + Gregg Foreman - Too Many Teardrops (Jim Sclavunos remix)
19. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (mono single mix) / White Light / White Heat
20. The Silversound - Wolf / The Silversound