Music For Listeners 02/12/2011

1) Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the CD 'The Sounds of Science: Beastie Boys Anthology'.
2) Jerry Reed-"The Bandit"  From the vinyl soundtrack to the motion picture "Smokey and the Bandit".
3) Glasvegas-"Euphoria, Take My Hand"  From the download single for "Euphoria, Take My Hand".
4) PJ Harvey-"The Words That Maketh Murder"  From the brand new vinyl 7" single for "The Words That Maketh Murder".
5) Low-"Try to Sleep"  Free download on the bands website and to feature on the forthcoming CD 'C'mon'.
6) Autolux-"The Bouncing Wall"  From the brand new vinyl 7" picture disc single for "The Bouncing Wall".
7) The Dodos-"Black Light"  From the forthcoming CD 'No Color'.
8) Smith Westerns-"Imagine Pt 3"  From the brand new CD 'Dye It Blonde'.
9) Blanche Hudson Weekend-"Union Square Blackout"  From the brand new CD compilation for 'Reverence Severance and Spite - Singles compilation'.
10) The Feelies-"Should be Gone"  From the forthcoming CD 'Here Before'.
11) Generatioanals-"Green Leaf"  From the bands forthcoming CD 'Actor-Caster'.
12) The Middle East-"Jesus Came to My Birthday Party"  From the brand new vinyl 7" single for Jesus Came To My Birthday Party".
13) Clinic-"Bubblegum"  From the brand new vinyl 12" single for "Bubblegum".
14) Cold Cave-"The Great Pan is Dead"  From the forthcoming CD 'Cherish the Light Years'.
15) Chapel Club-"Surfacing"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Surfacing".
16) Tom Williams and the Boat-"Got Older"  From the brand new EP 'See My Evil'.
17) Vision of Trees-"Sometimes it Kills"  From the brand new vinyl 12" single for "Sometimes it Kills".
18) A Classic Education-"I Lost Time (Vision of Trees Remix)"  From the vinyl 12" double pack for the EP 'Hey Stranger'.
19) Summer Camp-"It's Summer"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Round the Moon".
20) The GO! Team-"Yosemite Theme"  From the brand new CD 'The Rolling Blackouts'.
21) Toro y Moi-"Still Sound"  From the forthcoming CD 'Underneath the Pine'.
22) Cloud Nothings-"All the Time"  From the brand new CD 'Cloud Nothings'.
23) Belong-"A Perfect Life"  From the forthcoming CD 'Common Era'.
24) Sea of Bees-"Marmalade"  From the CD 'Songs for Ravens'.
25) Dry the River-"New Ceremony"  Free download off the NME daily download.
26) Jonquil-"It Never Rains"  From the CD 'One Hundred Suns'.
27) The Strokes-"Under Cover Of Darkness"  From the forthcoming CD 'Angles'.
28) Dinosaur Pile Up-"Mona Lisa"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Mona Lisa".
29) Tapes 'N Tapes-"Desert Plane"  From the brand new CD 'Outside'.
30) Mumford and Sons-"Nothing Is Written"  From the vinyl 7" single for "The Cave".
31) "The Mid-Morning Recording"                   Thievery Corporation-'The Mirror Conspiracy'
Listening to this album as it is being broadcast this morning really takes me back to the beginnings of our program. This album came out in 2000, and our radio show was only about a year old at that time. As I was already a fan of this band from their first release, a promo copy of this CD made it's way into the KRTU studion, and I played it and played it, and then played it some more. It was certainly one of my favorite albums of that year, and now songs are played from it almost nightly on KRTU airwaves. Another interesting memory of this album was every now and then, I would work as a sound mixer for local theater productions. This is always an album that I would grab to supply the best intermission music. Not offensive to the older crowd, slightly jazzy, slight soulful, and very hip to those in the know. I'm super glad that I've seen this group twice in concer, and if you haven't, you really should. This their second release, is an amazing album. It's really a classic of the downtempo genre. "Line up the target.....focus on sight. Straight to the center....infrared light" - Michael - MFL
32) James-"Sayonara"  From the CD 'Wah-Wah'.