Heddy heddy ho!
 
Michael here...boy this weeks show kicked ass.  I had a lot of fun with it.
 
Music For Listeners 08/04/01
 
 1)Inspiral Carpets-"Dragging Me Down"  From the CD 'Revenge of the Goldfish'.
 2)The KLF-"Stand by the JAMs" 12" version (Lead Vocals:"The First Lady of Country" Miss Tammy Wynette) 
 From the "Justified and Ancient" CD single.  Tammy said that this one of her favorite all time projects.  
It's even on her retrospective.
 3)Chomsky-"00:15:00 to Rock"  The first single from what should be my favorite album of the year, the 
about to be released "Onward Quirky Solders".  Out at the end of the month.  I've waited 2 
years for new material from the Dallas band.
 4)The Murder City Devils-"Dancing Shoes"  From the vinyl LP 'Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts'.
 5)Frank Black-"Whatever Happened To Pong?" & "Headache"  Two from his second solo album, 'Teenager of the Year'.
 6)Fleetwood Mac-"The Ledge"  From the vinyl LP 'Tusk'.
 7)Can-"Halleluwah (Halleluwa Orb Mix)"  From the appropriately titled remix CD 'Sacrilege'.
 8)James-"English Beefcake"  From the CD 'Pleased to Meet You'.  Again, no U.S. release is planned, so get this one on import folks.
 9)Ben Folds-"The Ascent of Stan"  From the about to be released CD 'Rockin' the Suburbs'.
10)The Charlatans-"You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty (Morning Becomes Eclectic Live Version)"  From the KCRW M.B.E. website.  
Awesome site!!  Loads of great music with great sound for a change.  Studio version 
found on the forthcoming CD 'Wonderland'.
11)Aphex Twin-"On"  From the CD single for "On".  Great video for this one.
12)Built to Spill-"In Your Mind"  From the CD 'Ancient Melodies of the Future'.
13)Bedbug-"Misadventures of an Orange Daisy Towel"  From the CD 'Happiest of Hours'.  
Austin band that I saw last weekend with Chomsky.  They impressed me so much I had to ask for a CD.  
Nice 'n' good pop for your ears.
14)Valve-"Cornerstreet"  From the CD 'Valve E.P.'  Another Dallas band.  I saw them with Chomsky two years ago.  
Great stuff full of catchy hooks.
15)The Wedding Present-"Lovenest"  From the CD 'Seamonsters'.  Machine gun drums...produced by Steve Albini....who is 
working with the Breeders on their new album coming out early next year.
16)R.E.M.-"Burning Down"  From the vinyl LP 'Dead Letter Office'.  Left over track from the Reckoning sessions.  
It would have made Reckoning an even better album, if that's possible.  Out to yecats...of course.
17)Air-"Radio #1"  From the CD '10,000 HZ Legend'.
18)The Magnetic Fields-"Asleep and Dreaming (Morning Becomes Eclectic Live Version)"  
Also from the KCRW M.B.E. website.  Studio version found on the 3 CD album '69 Love Songs'.
19)Spiritualized-"Shine A Light"  From the classic CD 'Lazer Guided Melodies'.
20)Knife in the Water-"Sent You Up"  From the CD '...Plays One Sound and Others'.  Great Austin band.  
K.I.T.W. and Trail of Dead are two of the more popular bands from A-Town right now.
21)Falconer-"Primary"  From the ultra-rare CD 'Falconer'.  Only released in Germany.  
A great sample of a baby on this song makes it so incredibly cute, you have to smile.
22)The Future Sound of London-"Slider"  From the CD 'ISDN'.  Features a great sample from "Aliens".  "Not bad for a human".
23)The 3 A.M. Recording. "Security..." June 1992 was a very changing time in my life.  
A lot of things happened in that month in particular that changed the way I thought about a lot of things.  
I first saw my present all time favorite movie "Wings of Desire" in that month.  
I also realized that I wanted to make ambient music at that time, mainly because 
I also became a big fan of one of my favorite bands in that month.  Jeff Smith was already a big Orb fan.  
Since he was working at Hogwild at the time, he had tonight's recording the week that it came out on import.  
The Friday night of that week, I walked into what was to be (when I moved in with Ross and Jeff a year later), 
my room and first heard "Towers of Dub".  "What is that?", I said.  It sounds so thick, and wow it's trippy as hell".  
This was the first time that I realized that I was listening to the Orb.  
Which now is one of the biggest musical influences in my life ever.  
(I've always been a big Pink Floyd fan, and the Orb are basically Pink Floyd with beats.)  
To Jeff's dismay, I took about 70 minutes of his time the next day to tape his $24 CD, for free.  
I then listened to the tape over and over until and it later became my favorite album of 1992.  
The U.S. version of the album came out on Election Day and I remember finding out that Bill Clinton was the new 
President the minute I walked in the door from buying it.  Again, to Jeff's dismay, it had extra songs that the 
import didn't have.  I'm glad I waited.  If I would have never heard this album, my life would be so different now.  
I, for sure would have never met my good friend Sarah, her sister Jean, and their wonderful family.  
I would have never been moved by some of the best music that my ears have ever experienced.  
Ambient music was born for me in that month, almost 15 years after Brian Eno coined the phrase, "Ambient".  
Tonight's recording is gratefully dedicated to my friend Jeff Smith.  I might have heard the Orb some other time, 
because they are that good, but I wouldn't have heard them then.  There are loads of musical items that I introduced to him, 
but I deeply thank him for playing the Orb for me first.  Tonight, in it's entirety, here is one of the best 
albums ever made, 'U.F. Orb', by The Orb.  This album also goes out to the Orbgirl.........for being just that.  :o)  
"These things keep popping up don't they....the camera's pan up to the audience, and we're on TV.  
We're actually on TV, and I'm waving and waving.  I'm on TV, and it's just great!"  
 
Thanks for it all!!!
 
Peace and hugs,
Michael
 
 
This one was recorded and is available.