Hello again. Wonderful to be here.....here's this past weekends playlist. It was an interesting show for me. Just kind of went with what I wanted to hear at that very moment, and a great show evolved. Very eclectic in the end. I'm not going to do this every week, but there are a lot of links to websites in this playlist. These links are for more info...let me know if you like? I hope they all work. FIRST OFF....REALLY GOOD NEWS!!!! KRTU is now (FINALLY) being streamed over the net!!! So if you live far off you can listen to my show and all the others they broadcast. Go to www.krtu.org and click on the "Listen to KRTU link". You will need the LATEST version of Windows Media Player. If you get an error, just hit the download Windows Media Player button, download it and re-install the player. You shouldn't get an error though. There may a time in the future where I will put up a web site with links to stream my shows on demand....but for now you'll have to listen to it live. Just a reminder, my show is on from 1 A.M. (usually 1:10 A.M) to 4 A.M. Friday nights/Saturday mornings. Tune in..... Two more links very important links: http://hometown.aol.com/orbfile23/myhomepage/index.html is my site with some links of it's own. Here's a link you may want to save, because it offers free music. http://home.satx.rr.com/music4listeners/Mpeg3%20of%20the%20week/ It's my Mpeg3 of the week, and it's set up by me. There should be a new song for your downloading pleasure each and every week. Music For Listeners 09/29/01 1)Salaryman-"Rather" From the vinyl LP 'Salaryman'. www.salaryman.org 2)Mercury Rev-"Nite and Fog" From the CD 'All is Dream'. I've been playing this one a lot. With good reason.....it's an amazing song. Go to http://www.nme.com/NME/External/Features/Features_Interview/0,1420,43265,00.htmlcan and you can watch a fabulous video for this song. Also www.mercuryrev.com for interesting info on the band. 3)The Flaming Lips-"A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" From the CD 'The Soft Bulletin'. www.flaminglips.com 4)U2-"Gone" From the vinyl LP 'Pop'. I didn't know that they were playing in Austin until the day after tickets went on sale. I'm pretty upset about that....I'm holding all of you responsible for not telling me sooner. Just kidding... www.u2.com Great website!!!!! 5)Richard Ashcroft-"C'mon People (We're Making it Now)" From the CD 'Alone with Everybody'. www.richardashcroft.co.uk Not really anything new....but info never the less. http://the-raft.com/theverve for a great Verve site. 6)Fear of Pop-"Fear of Pop" From the CD 'Fear of Pop'. Ben Folds first side project. For more info on it: www.epicrecords.com/EpicCenter/custom/artistupdatefan.taf?artistid=1056 7)Ben Folds-"Fred Jones Pt 1." From the CD 'Rockin' The Suburbs'. After seeing him live last week, this has become a great favorite off of the new album. www.benfolds.com has great info on the making of the video for Rockin' the Suburbs, and you can listen clips of the record as well. www.benfoldsfive.com is fun too. 8)Bono and the MDH Band-"Dancin' Shoes". From the Soundtrack to Wim Wenders Motion Picture "The Million Dollar Hotel". Still I recommend this film to be watched.....letterboxed if possible. www.milliondollarhotel.com I love this site...and it's message board. Hi Lemon!!! 9)Orbital-"Oi! (Live)" From the MTV Dance Kickoff webcast. Original appears on the new album 'The Altogether'. It's a 2 CD set in America folks, so go get it! www.loopz.co.uk is awesome. Lots of music to download. 10)The Beatles-"Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only)" From the vinyl LP 'The Beatles Anthology 2'. Awesome strings only version. Sounds terrific. Finally there is a Beatles website...and it's cool and informative as well. www.thebeatles.com Check out the "Penny Lane" video game. Good fun. 11)Spain-"She Haunts My Dreams" From the CD 'I Believe' www.saghaug.no/spain A band I found through the film "The End of Violence". Very laid back acoustic stuff. 12)The Charlatans-"Up to Our Hips" From the CD 'Up to Our Hips'. One of the best songs the band ever made. AMAZING!! www.thecharlatans.net Super site, with tons of info and a great discography. Anyone want to send me to England in December. The Charlatans and James are playing the same week in Dec. 13)Chomsky-"Laughing" From the CD 'Onward Quirky Solders'. Super super!!! www.chomsky.com has the best message board. The people, for the most part, are actually smart there. There are also links to buy the album because it's impossible to find unless you live in Dallas, Austin, or Memphis?????? But this album if you like great catchy tunes. I haven't played this album to anyone that didn't like it afterwards. 14)Chomsky-"Mason" From the CD 'A Few Possible Selections for the Soundtrack of Your Life'. Their first album which was my favorite album of 1999. http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/139/chomsky.html has 7 songs from this debut album that you can download for FREE!!!! 15)XTC-"Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)" From the CD 'Black Sea'. Great stuff! Here's a great fan site: www.chalkhills.org Here's the band's site. http://www.tvtrecords.com/artists/?art_id=173 which has all of entire CD's they recorded for TVT Records for download. It's in Windows Media, but it's FREE, and they sound great!!!!!!! TVT has tons of free music on their site. One of the best places to get entire albums for free...of course you can make CD's from Windows Media files though. 16)Blur-"Magpie" B-side from the CD single to "Girls and Boys". www.blur.co.uk and it's link to the old site are a great resource for info and news about this great band. The last set of music was for Glen Reynolds. As I do, he loves Blur and XTC. 17)Built to Spill-"The Weather" From the CD 'Ancient Melodies of the Future'. This album gets better and better the more I listen to it. http://www.builttospill.com/dotcom/main.html is a great source for the history of the band. www.builttospill.com is the newer site from Warner Bros. 18)James-"Go to the Bank" From the CD 'Whiplash'. Really drivin' song. www.jamestheband.com is really nice. 19)Orb-"Promis" From the CD 'Cydonia'. www.theorb.com hasn't been updated in a while, but is still a good place for pictures and links to other sites. These are my two favorite Orb links though. www.pompano.net/~albryan/orbknow.html gives more info than even I knew about this band. A great source for sample spotting too. www.orbcydonia.com is super cool. Look around this site...It's a puzzle of sorts, there are lots of hidden things in the "orbsaursus", so surf wisely. There are cool music loops there too. If that's not enough. www.badorb.com is really really cool as well. BadOrb is a record label set up by Orb founder Alex Patterson. These sites are extremely cool if you like the Orb in any context. 20)Aphex Twin-"Pulsewidth" From the CD 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92'. www.aphextwin.nu is the best place to start. Even for big fans like me it has tons and tons of neat stuff including fan remixes and tons of pictures. http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/afx/index2.html has a bunch of loops...this way you can get an idea of what he sounds like. Then after you do that, you still won't know what he sounds like. lol. www.drukqs.net has some clips for download. 'Drukqs' is Aphex Twin's new album. 21)Swervedriver-"Expressway" From the vinyl LP '99th Dream'. www.swervedriver.com 22)The Wedding Present-"California" From the CD 'Hit Parade 1'. Played as one year ago this week I arrived in California. Geez time sure flies. www.westnet.com/weddoes Best site for lyrics, news and such. 23)Madredeus-"Guitarra" From the CD 'Ainda'. The soundtrack to Lisbon Story. Another Wim Wenders film. This band is Portuguese and really nice to listen to in the morning. Most of their sites are in Portuguese. http://go.to/madredeus is one of the few English sites I've found. Let me know if you find anymore. 24)Not Drowning Waving-"Walk" From the Motion Picture Soundtrack to "Proof". The first film I saw Russell Crowe in. http://welcome.to/followthegeography has the best discography I've found for the band. Some nice pictures too. There's not too many site for the band, as they've been disbanded for almost 7 years. 25)Katherine Whalen's Jazz Squad-"Just You, Just Me" Solo project of Squirrel Nut Zippers singer. Amazing voice. No official site but here's a good review: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/whalen_katherine/katherine-whalens-jazz-squad.shtml The Squirrel Nut Zippers have a site though: www.snzippers.com 26)Spiritualized-"Stay With Me" From the CD 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space'. This band never fails to please. There isn't a bad album by them. They have a great new album called 'Let it Come Down', and a super awesome web page designed by Hypnosis media Which is the company behind all those cool Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Catherine Wheel album covers.....and that's just naming a few. http://www.spiritualized.com/ is where you should go. 27)Brian Eno-"Unfamiliar Wind" From the CD 'Ambient 4: On Land'. www.brianeno.com is an official page, but there's not much there but a neat picture. http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/ has a lot of info and a good discography. 28)"The 3 A.M. Recording" An album that I haven't heard all the way through in a while. Tonight's album is by one of those bands in the late eighties that brought up the question, "Why isn't this band being played on MTV?" "Why didn't I know of this band before?" In the late eighties I used this question a lot. It's basically what led me to doing this show. I've always loved music, but when I started to find that there was quality music out that that was not getting played, that's when I started to dig deeper into music. This was the true "alternative". The "alternative" to what was "popular". In the nineties, "alternative" BECAME the "popular". Which doesn't make any sense to me at all, and I don't use that term anymore for that reason. (How can it be "alternative" when it's popular?) The Smiths were a band that I found through an old friend named Erika. (She also introduced me to Oingo Boingo, and Violent Femmes for that matter.) Back in the year of 1988, she made me a tape, (that I still have), about two months after The Smiths decided to split ways. Morrissey went on to a huge solo career, and guitarist Johnny Marr first went to the Pretenders to be their new guitarist. He also began to write music for other groups and singers including some great work with the late Kirsty Maccoll. Then as a change of direction he began to play with band The The, and then going on to co-found the project Electronic with Bernard Sumner of New Order. In the nineties The Smiths did achieve a huge cult status, and now they are as big as Depeche Mode and New Order as that genre goes. Morrissey may have achieved most the fame through the nineties, and his voice is one of the best out there. He also maybe one of the best lyricists of the past 20 years, however, Marr is the backbone of The Smiths. You can never mistake his melodies and his smooth guitar chords. I'm sure, all of you have heard one of his songs and you just didn't know it, because everything he touches turns to gold. He wrote about 99 percent of the music for the Smiths. Morrissey did sing and write all the lyrics, and then he was incredibly talented with it too. If Johnny Marr is the backbone of The Smiths, Stephen Patrick Morrissey is the pelvis. The sex appeal, (if you like males that prance with baggy shirts, sideburns and a standing hair-do), and a voice that can hit notes that most women wouldn't even try. His lyrics are sometimes heart warming, but mostly sullen. Sometimes they are just rude, and sometimes they are just absolutely farcical. As a big fan of Oscar Wilde, his lyrics also usually bled out the best tongue and cheek satire and wit around. "Very witty Wilde" Needless to say, their rhythm section was incredible too. Deep bass by Andy Rourke and pounding beats of Mike Joyce. They were an all around talented band. It's hard to even pick out any one of their albums as their best, but tonight's record is, more or less, their classic. I may play a couple of other albums by them in the future, (like their self-titled is a pure masterpiece for instance), but I thought we would go the more popular route for once, and play their most praised album. The fabulous 1986 recording 'The Queen is Dead' by The Smiths....all the way through. "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt. Now I know how Joan of Arc felt...as the flames rose to her roman nose, and her Walkman started to melt" Here's a good fan site for The Smiths and Morrissey. http://shoplifters.morrissey-solo.com I can't believe I found a link for every band I played this week. You may want to save this mail, as you can come here in the future if you're bored or have the want to find out more info on the things I play. Please let me know if you liked the links, or if you found them annoying. Peace, Michael This show was recorded and is available for download. Remember www.krtu.org for your listening pleasure. 1:10 A.M.-4 A.M. Friday nights/Saturday mornings for M.F.L.