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Dark Meat 267: Happy Valentine’s Day

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:39:05 +0000

I hope you don’t think it unromantic of me, but my Valentine’s Day show is all about sex. Not just sex, but the sleaziest kind I can conjure up. Come to think of it, I hope you do think it unromantic of me. God forbid we should be on the same page with this.

(PS, as a kind of unofficial sequel to last week’s show, we got some TMBG again. And WAAAY unromantic TMBG at that)

* Dick Hyman – Topless Dancers of Corfu
* Siouxie And The Banshees – Peek a Boo
* Stan Ridgway – Can’t Stop The Show
* The Davenports – Hi-Tech Low Life
* Avenue Q – The Internet Is For Porn
* B-52s – Love Shack
* They Might Be Giants – S-E-X-X-Y
* Peaches – You Love It
* Beatles – Sexy Sadie
* Monkees – Goin’ Down

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Dark Meat 266: HB, TMBG

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:07:45 +0000

John Linnell and John Flanesburgh, two smart alec guys named John from New York, have been making music under the name They Might Be Giants for the last 30 years. Finally, the recognition they deserve! Go deep, deep into their catalog with these disturbing tunes.

All Songs Performed and Written by They Might Be Giants
* Space Suit
* Older
* Dig My Grave
* Exquisite Dead Guy
* Turn Around
* Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
* Dead
* She’s An Angel
* Hide Away Folk Family
* Your Own Worst Enemy
* A Self Called Nowhere
* The Bells Are Ringing

Dark Meat 265: Those Fabulous Foreigners

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:47:51 +0000

I admit this is an American prejudice of mine, but I kind of think of Rock and Roll as our thing. It takes a particular magic to crank that stuff out, and sometimes when that magic is gone, you can hear the difference. It’s subtle, sure, but people who sing in English when it’s not their native language are at a clear disadvantage. This week, some examples.

* Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (Single Edit)
* Pizzicato Five – The Girl From Ipanema
* Claudine Longet – Jealous Guy/Don’t Let Me Down
* Amon Duul II – Archy The Robot
* The Forum – The Time Is Now
* Hedwig And The Angry Inch – Wicked Little Town
* The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age
* Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach
* Kat Power and Karen Elson- I Love You (Me Either)

Dark Meat 264: Under The Circumstances

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:38:17 +0000

Dear lord, I can weather any personal difficulty except computer trouble. Sadly, that’s the kind of trouble I’ve been having the last two weeks, and it’s makin’ me insane. Basically I can’t keep iTunes open for very long, or it crashes the system. This show is put together in an iTunes-proximate environment, which makes it very hard to assemble under these conditions. Basically I picked the songs from my hard drives, remembering the titles and free-associating. Which is kind of what I do normally but for pete’s sake this is nuts! Anyway, enjoy the show kids.

* Gary Neuman – Remind Me To Smile
* Sparks – There’s No Such Thing As Aliens
* Soul Coughing – Unmarked Helicopters
* Tubes – Space Baby
* David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
* Rolling Stones – Mother’s Little Helper
* Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug
* Husker Du – Love Is All Around
* Kinks – Juke Box Music

Dark Meat 264: “__________” New Year

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:53:36 +0000

Look, I’m not into this whole telling-you-what-to-want thing. Have whatever New Year you think is best. With that in mind, songs that see the future in both a positive AND negative light, plus one that doesn’t even address the subject.

* Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
* Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon
* Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
* Residents – Boxes Of Armageddon
* ELO – Mr. Blue Sky
* Tubes – Talk To You Later
* Papas Fritas – We’ve Got All Night
* Wink Martindale – Peace In The Valley
* They Might Be Giants – Cloisonné

Dark Meat 262: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:55:30 +0000

It’s the annual Xmas show! Like that thing that Santa lugs around it’s a mixed bag that contains a little of everything. Also, it defies the laws of physics.

* Ventures – Frosty The Snowman
* Harry Nilsson – Cuddly Toy
* Lena Lovich – New Toy
* ? – Dear Santy
* Les Brown and His Band Of Renown – The Nutcracker Suite
* Dandy Warhols – Little Drummer Boy
* Dancer, Prancer and Nervous – Happy Reindeer
* Al Caiola And Riz Ortolani – Holiday On Skis
* Claudine Longet – I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
* Maynard Williams – Christmas Dream (From THE ODESSA FILE)

Dark Meat Special: Brandy

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:52:30 +0000

I had a whole show half done when my computer crashed, but this Dilator track was lying around. So that’s what you get this week!

Funny true story… I sung this at a friend’s birthday last month, and I was going to preface it with a gag: “Anybody here ever with the band Looking Glass? No? Okay, go ahead (nod to sound guy)”. But when I asked it, a guy who used to play bass for Looking Glass said “Yeah!”. You can’t win in this town.

Dark Meat 261: The End of Some Worlds

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:25:44 +0000

I wanted to put together another apocalypse show but I seem to have used up all the best material in my previous 2 or three shows. Rather than repeating everything, I’ve come up with this solution – mostly songs about personal, little Apocalypses, or L’illypses. I coined a term! Possibly, THE LAST ONE I’LL EVER COIN.

* Human League – Circus Of Death
* Eno – Blank Frank
* Oingo Boingo – Goodbye, Goodbye
* David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
* Buzzcocks -Something’s Gone Wrong Again
* Scott Walker – The Plague
* Arch Obler – Chicken Heart

My Funny Valentine, Acapella

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:34:03 +0000

Conceived, recorded and published within a half hour! That counts for something, right?

Dark Meat 260: Schwing!

podcast@darkmeat.name (Daniel K.) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:03:41 +0000

This week, as we start bloating ourselves up for the holiday season (yes, you know you’ve only just started) I want to examine the concept of beauty and how men react to it. If you’re a woman, enjoy the show because you won’t be hearing stuff like this again until Mid February.

* David G Moore – The Look Of Love
* They Might Be Giants – You Probably Get That A Lot
* The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park and Other Things
* White Stripes – You’re Pretty Good Looking
* Be Bop Deluxe – Beauty Secrets
* Leonard Cohen – Came So Far For Beauty
* David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
* Sugarplastic – Polly Brown
* Billy Nayer Show – The Girl With the Vagina Made of Glass**
* Jack Jones – Wives And Lovers

**Caution: contains the word “vagina”