Rhubarb Cake, 6/8/00, 9 AM-noon on WFMU

hosted by Douglas

suddenly everything is covered with light

this show is archived here--listen!

background: Peter Brötzmann Sextet: Nipples

Undertones: Here Comes The Summer
Future Bible Heroes: Real Summer
Yo La Tengo: The Summer
   may it be the real one for all of us

reading: Sandra Cisneros: The Earl of Tennessee

Joe McPhee: Shakey Jake
   awesome revolution-jazz-funk from 1971
Kaleidoskop: Für Euch
   let's hear it for German hip-hop!
Noonday Underground: When You Leave
Boudewijn De Groot: Prikkebeen
   classic Dutch psych-pop (as in, Dutch people know the song)

Modest Mouse: Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
   from their forthcoming album, kicks like early PiL
Brise-Glace: In Sisters All And Felony
   kicks like it's chasing the Mouse's tail
Belle & Sebastian: The Model
   has been stuck in my head for three solid weeks
Blek Ink: Random Strike
   transitional music (for a film)
Beans: Nude Paper
   is it me, or did he get the title from "The Nude Paper Sermon"?
Grenadine: Gillen (Except Sometimes)
   Mark Robinson's absolutely confident right arm

A BRIEF HISTORY OF "THE POPCORN":
The Dapps Featuring Alfred Ellis: Bringing Up The Guitar
James Brown: Use Your Mother
James Brown Plays & Directs: The Popcorn
James Brown: You Got To Have A Mother For Me

James Brown: Mother Popcorn, pts. 1 & 2
Vicki Anderson: Answer To Mother Popcorn (I Got A Mother For You)
James Brown: Lowdown Popcorn
Hank Ballard: Butter Your Popcorn

Recitation By Hank Ballard
   from JB's Get On The Good Foot album, but... oh, you have to hear it
James Brown: Mashed Potato Popcorn
Bill Doggett: Honky Tonk Popcorn
James Brown: Popcorn With A Feeling

James Brown: Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn, pts. 1 & 2
Bobby Byrd: I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone)
Maceo and the Macks: Parrty

Solex recorded live in session 5/27/00 (engineer: Diane Farris)
   The Burglars Are Coming!
   Randy Costanza
   Snappy & Cocky
   Escargot!
   Oh Blimey!
   Athens, Oh.
   Pick Up
   The Cutter

Tocotronic vs. Console: Freiburg V3.0
   upgrade and aftereffects
Carnival Of Coal: Maniac
   as in, dancing with an AXE like she's never danced before
Red Asphalt: Red Asphalt
Big Dipper: Making Plans For Bison
   he realizes that "extinction" has to have four syllables
Jerry Jones: Compared To What

Big Flame: Cubist Pop Manifesto
   it's only made manifest if you can make yourself understood
Beige: The Great Krautrock Swindle
   if Can records could be imprinted on paper and then laundered...
Big Stick: Drag Racing
   another kind of summer anthem
Land Of The Loops: The Warm Glow Of Waltham
   featuring my new Thursday buddy Trouble!

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