Hello, partygoers!

Well, this is it. The sad moment we knew would come eventually – the final episode of the Listening Party.

But now ain’t the time for your tears – to paraphrase Bob Dylan – we’ve got a show to do! This bi-week, Mary and David read your celebratory – we hope – comments and play some fun Top 5 playlists!

As we pack up the Listening Party rumpus room and put that old beanbag chair back into storage, we’d like to thank everyone who spent time with us here. We hope you know how much we love and appreciate you all!

As always, thanks for listening.

Top 5 Toytown Psych Songs:
1) Manfred Mann – “My Name is Jack” – Fontana Records single b/w “There Is a Man”, 1968 – 26:04
2) Eddy Howell – “Easy Street” – Parlophone Records single b/w “Judy’s Gone”, 1969 – 30:20
3) Keith West – “Sam (from A Teenage Opera)” – Parlophone Records single b/w “Thimble Full of Puzzles”, 1967 – 38:56
4) Noah’s Ark – “Paper Man” – Decca Records single b/w “Please Don’t talk About Yesterday”, 1967 – 45:20
5) Crocheted Doughnut Ring – “Happy Castle” – Deram Records single b-side to “Havana Anna”, 1967 – 1:00:06
Bonus Toytown Psych Song:
6) Broken Toys – “Broken Toys” – Polydor single b/w “Oh Suzanna”, 1971 – 1:05:46

Top 5 New Songs I Wish I’d Played:
1) Juana Molina – “Cosoco” – Halo, 2017 – 1:11:22
2) Once and Future Band – “I’ll Be Fine” – Once and Future band, 2017 – 1:17:28
3) Cassandra Jenkins – “Hard Drive” – An Overview of Phenomenal Nature, 2021 – 1:28:25
4) The Weather Station – “Kept It All to Myself” – The Weather Station, 2018 – 1:37:00
5) Jane Weaver – “Modern Kosmology” – Modern Kosmology, 2017 – 1:44:08

Mary’s Top 5 Phineas and Ferb Songs:
1) Sheena Easton – “When Will He Call Me?” – Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions, 2011 – 1:57:07
2) Vincent Martella – “Watchin’ and Waitin’” – Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions, 2011 – 2:08:40
3) Danny Jacob – “My Nemesis” – Phineas and Ferb, 2009 – 2:14:27
4) Aaron Jacob “Dance Baby” – Phineas and Ferb: Rockin and Rollin’, 2013 – 2:20:48
5) Aaron Jacob – “Funhouse” – Phineas and Ferb: Rockin and Rollin’, 2013 –

Top 5 Old Songs I Wish I’d Played:
1) Alden Shuman – “Ladies in Love” – The Devil in Miss Jones, 1973 – 2:35:01
2) Erasmus Chorum – “Mary Jane” – Chapter 1 Records EP – b-side to “Oh Lord”, The Holy House (on Sunday)”, 1972 – 2:48:40
3) The Us – “How Can I Tell Her” –Nuggets from the Golden State – Dance with Me: The Autumn Teen Sound, 1994 – 2:59:36
4) Robb Kunkel – “O Light” – Abyss, 1973 – 3:06:07
5) Trader Horne – “Here Comes the Rain” – Dawn Records single b/w “Goodbye Mercy Kelly”, 1970 – 3:14:14

Top 5 Goodbye Songs:
1) Mary Hopkin – “Goodbye” – Apple single b/w ”The Sparrow”, 1969 – 3:21:19
2) The Association – “Goodbye Forever” – The Association, 1969 – 3:29:33
3) Peter Sarstedt – “Sayonara” – Peter Sarstedt, 1969 – 3:32:41
4) The Turtles – “Goodbye Surprise” – Turtle Soup bonus track, 2016 – 3:37:28
5) Jeff Buckley – “The Last Goodbye” – Grace, 1994 – 3:41:14

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

The Free Design – “Friends (Thank You All)” – One by One, 1971 – 3:53:32

Want to see those Phineas and Ferb songs? Well, take a gander at these!

Hello, partygoers!

This week Mary and David are still in beautiful Brazil as David goes coconuts for Tropicália!

Yes, it’s the end of our mixtapes portion of the Listening Party as David and Mary continue to celebrate the wild and provocative music of Brazilian political protest music of the late Sixties/early Seventies.

So pull up a palm frond, grab a hunk of sugar cane and join us in the rumpus room where we’re listening to:

1. Caetano Veloso – “Tropicália” – Caetano Veloso, 1968 – 15:42
2. Gilberto Gil – “O Canto da Ema” – Espresso 2222, 1973 – 47:41
3. Jorge Ben – “Ponta de Lanca Africano” – Africa Brasil, 1976 – 1:36:09
4. Tom Zé – “Todos os Olhos” – Todos os Olhos, 1973 – 2:12:59
5. Gilberto Gil – “Bat Macumba” – Tropicália ou Panis e Circenses, 1968 – 2:42:18
6. Gal Costa – Divino Maravilhoso – Gal Costa, 1969 – 2:47:03
7. Jorge Ben – “Força Bruta” – Força Bruta, 1970 – 2:54:25
8. Tom Zé – Quero Sambar Meu Bem – Tom Zé, 1968 – 3:01:39
9. Marcos Valle – Meu Paletó, Nem Gravata – Previsão do Tempo, 1973 – 3:08:18
10. Os Mutantes – “Saravá” – Jardim Elétrico, 1971 – 3:14:16
11. Os Mutantes – “Baby” – Jardim Elétrico, 1971 – 3:18:39

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• Caetano Veloso – “É probido proibir” Phillips single b/w “Ambiente do festival”, 1968 – 37:53
• Gilberto Gil – “Decição” – JS Records b-side to “Vem Colombina”, 1962 – 1:01:19
• Gilberto Gil – “Roda” – RCA Victor b/w “Procissão”, 1965 – 1:06:57
• Gilberto Gil – “Questão de ordem” – Phillips single b/w “A Luta Contra A Lata ou a Falência do Café”, 1968 – 1:15:06
• Caetano Veloso – “Epico” – Araça Azul, 1972 – 1:28:12
• Jorge Ben – “Mais Que Nada” – Phillips single b/w “Por Causa De Você, Menina”, 1963 – 1:46:36
• Jorge Ben – “Si Manda” – Un Bidú: Silêncio no Brooklin, 1967 – 1:57:30
• Jorge Ben – “Take It Easy Brother Charles” – Jorge Ben, 1969 – 2:03:07
• Tom Zé – “Morena” – Correio da Estação do Brás, 1978 – 2:28:53
• Tom Zé – “Má” – Estudando o Samba, 1976 – 2:37:38
• Os Mutantes – “Tecnicolor” – Jardim Elétrico, 1971 – 3:28:43

Thanks for listening.

Department of Corections:
German doesn’t use accents, Dave? Um, yes, it does. Where would heavy metal be without the umlaut, you dumbkopf!

If you would like an uninterrupted version of this mixtape, please go here and [whispers] download it.

Please check out our fellow party goer Ed Draganski’s funtastic designs for show mascot Peanut Duck and, while you’re there, buy a shirt!

Hélio Oiticica’s piece “Tropicália” on display.

Department of Looking Party:
Here is Gal Costa’s appearance at Festival da Record in 1968:

Here is a fun appearance by Gal Costa on a Jorge Ben TV special, coming up out of the audience to sing Ben’s song “Que Pena” with him:

(Sometimes these things are fake, obviously, but Gal Costa actually looks surprised to be called up on stage by Ben, and seems a little hesitant at the beginning. It could all be acting to sell the bit, but I like to think otherwise.)

Here is a complete TV show from 1969 called Jovem Urgente featuring appearances by Os Mutantes and Tom Zé:

So you can skip the reams of Portuguese, here are some time codes:
Os Mutantes – “Panis et Circenses” – 1:04
Os Novos Baianos – “Dona Anita e Dona Helena” – 5:42 (They’re not so great.)
Os Mutantes – “Fuga No.2” – 9:15
Moraes Moreira – “Sou Mais Você” – 13:35 (Tom Zé taught him guitar)
Tom Zé – “A Gravata” – 16:08
Os Novos Baianos -“Curto de Véu e Grínalda” – 21:35
Tom Zé – “No Tempo da Nossa Vavá” – 24:05
Os Mutantes – “Quem Tem Medo de Brincar de Amer” – 27:04
Os Mutantes – “Preciso Encontrar um Amigo” – 33:56
Os Mutantes – “Banha da Lua” – 39:19

Here is the Tom Zé mini-doc that was mentioned during the show:

Hello, partygoers!

We received a really nice gift here in the old Listening Party rumpus room this week. Partygoer Chris Roberts wrote a wonderful song celebrating this very podcast. Mary and David couldn’t have been more pleased (and there may have been some tears, but that’s all were going to say about it). Chris also made a video to accompany the song and we invite you all to check it out – it’s lots of fun!

Now back to your regular podcast already in progress. This week Mary and David go tropic! As in, Tropicália!

Yes, for listener Mike Roth’s final mixtape, Dave interpreted his request for bossa nova as a request for the wild and provocative music of political protest of the late Sixties/early Seventies in Brazil. Is that what he wanted? Was he pleased to get an hour plus of Portuguese-language craziness? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So join us in the rumpus room where we’re listening to:

1. Os Mutantes – “Panis et circenses” – Os Mutantes, 1968 – 12:57
2. Caetano Veloso – “Alegria, alegria” – Caetano Veloso, 1968 – 46:27
3. Gal Costa – “Mamãe coragem” – Tropicália, 1968
4. Tom Zé – “Dói” – Estudando o Samba, 1976 – 1:29:30
5. Gilberto Gil – “Sai do sereno” – Expresso 2222, 1972 – 1:36:15
6. Rita Lee – “De novo aqui meu bom José” – Hoje é o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida, 1972 – 1:43:37
7. Marcos Valle – “O cafona” – Garra, 1971 – 1:52:59
8. Jorge Ben – “Fio maravilho” – Ben, 1972 – 1:58:47
9. Caetano Veloso – “Os árgonautos” – Caetano Veloso, 1969 – 2:01:28
10. Os Mutantes – “Dom quixote” – Mutantes, 1969 – 2:14:25
11. Gal Costa – “Meu nom é Gal” – Gal, 1969 – 2:22:43

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• O’Seis – “Apocalipse” – Continental Records single b-side to “Suicida”, 1966 – 29:54
• Gilberto Gil –“Domingo no parque” – Gilberto Gil, 1967 – 41:47
• Caetano Veloso – “Samba em paz” – RCA Victor single b/w “Cavaleiro”, 1965 – 1:01:27
• Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso – “Coraçâo vagabundo” – Domingo, 1967 – 1:05:15
• Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa – “Sol negro” – Maria Bethânia, 1965 – 1:17:09
• Gal Costa – “Sim, foi voce” – RCA Victor Records, 1965 – 1:22:22
• Gal Costa – “Objeto sim, objeto non” – Gal, 1969
• Chris Roberts – “The Ballad of Sneaky Dragon Listening Party” – self-release, 2021

Here is some footage of Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso being interviewed and then Gil performing “Domingo no parque” at the 3rd Festival of Popular Brazilian Music in 1967:

Here is Jorge Ben performing live in 1972 – the first song is “Fio maravilho” and is well worth a watch:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 496 of the podcast that just won’t eat Quix!

This week: a sleep paralysis sitcom; really get to know Dave; more boobs; heroic haircut; Y: The Last Emperor; original Late Night; let’s repeat that failure; surrogate Letterman; Leno’s giant mistake; Fallon down; brief aside: Giuliani sucks; textbook bullshit; familial meritocracy; competitive synergy; black horror; dumb horror; we recommend: Bo Burnham’s Inside; also, we recommend Hacks; non-elective gap year; current traumatic stress disorder; leave that dead horse alone; stress speaking; personal Slurpees; unmotivated dieting; get rich quick scheme; Chick Talk; go lay an egg; ice-cold reviews; live television; soap opera retcons and memory wipes; mummies can’t talk; more Letterman; comedy farms; boat bashing; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; school sneakers; all by ourselves; catfishing; all of our friends were there; Laraine Newman facts; stealth talent; Carmina Burana one more time; and, finally, let’s end with a smattering.

Question of the week: When you were a kid, what was your late night treat show?
Sub-question: Who was an underrated performer on Saturday night Live?

Two of our listeners went to the trouble of filling our their bracket!!!

Thanks to Louise:

and Nina:

For their Photoshop skillz!

And don’t forget to listen to Dave talk more about Dirty Harry on a new episode of the Dirty Harry Minute podcast entitled Harry Callahan Roast!

Hello, partygoers!

This week Mary and David do the impossible and cover a complete mixtape in one (yes, admittedly long) episode.

Dave was lazy compiling this mixtape and chose all really long songs so we get eight great songs about metronomes, the importance of money for fun, Old English minimalism, pastoral prog, punk prog, fiddlin’ psych, folktronica, and indie pomp.

So join us in the rumpus room where we’re listening to:

1. Stereolab – “Metronomic Underground” – Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1994 – 30:43
2. The Holy Modal Rounders – “Give Me Your Money” – Bird Song, 2004 – 46:04
3. Tortoise – “Gesceap” – The Catastrophist, 2017 – 1:06:43
4. Caravan – “With My Ear to the Ground/You Can Make It/Martinian/Only Cox/Reprise” – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You, 1970 – 1:37:26
5. Television – Marquee Moon – Marquee Moon, 1977 – 1:55:59
6. Fairport Convention – A Sailor’s Life – Unhalfbricking, 1969 – 2:27:58
7. The Beta Band – “She’s the One” – The Three EPs, 1999 – 2:50:50
8. Sufjan Stevens – “Majesty Snowbird” – Live at the Crystal Ballroom (a bootleg – recorded 10/13/06) – 3:10:24

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• Steve Reich – Music for a Large Ensemble – Octet • Music for a Large Ensemble • Violin Phase, 1980 – 1:19:08
• Television – “Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 and 2)” – Ork Records, 1975 – 2:20:25
• The Funky 4 + 1 – “That’s the Joint” – Sugar Hill Records b/w “That’s the Joint (Instrumental)”, 1980 – 3:30:30

If you’d like your own uninterrupted version of this episode’s mixtape, you can find it here!

Please check out our fellow party goer Ed Draganski’s funtastic designs for show mascot Peanut Duck and, while you’re there, buy a shirt!

Hello, partygoers!

Welcome to the 66th episode of your favourite “they play music and then talk about it” podcast!

This bi-week we tackle side two of listener Trevor Lynn’s mixtape. We hear some sunshine pop, sweet demos, religious metaphors, psych lite, a woulda, coulda, shoulda band, down under post punk, and folk weirdos.

So join us in the rumpus room where we’re listening to:

1. The Sundowners – “Edge of Love” – Captain Nemo, 1968 – 12:12
2. Michael Fennelly – “Iris Please” – Love Can Change Everything (Demos 1967-1972), 2013 – 43:31
3. Joan As Police Woman – “Holy City” – The Classic, 2014 – 55:17
4. Turquoise – “Tales of Flossie Fillett” – Decca Records single b-side to “53 Summer Street”, 1968 – 1:05:45
5. Metronomy – “Trouble” – The English Riviera, 2011 – 1:27:34
6. Dwight Twilley – “Baby’s Got the Blues Again” – Tulsa, 1999 – 1:33:49
7. Rolling Blackouts CF – “French Press” – The French Press EP, 2017 – 2:11:49
8. Teenage Fanclub – “Baby Lee” – Shadows, 2010 – 2:20:07
9. Richard Dawson – “Ogre” – Peasant, 2017 – 2:31:19

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• The Sundowners – “Ring Out Wild Bells” – Filmways Records b/w “When the Sun Goes Down”, 1966 – 21:55
• The Sundowners – “Always You (Single version)” – Decca Records b/w “Dear Undecided”, 1967 – 33:01
• Crabby Appleton – “The Other Side” – Crabby Appleton, 1970 – 50:38
• The Brood – “Wrong Way” – The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillet, 2006 – 1:18:33
• The Dwight Twilley Band – “You Were So Warm” – Shelter Records b/w “Sincerely”, 1976 – 1:39:49
• The Dwight Twilley Band – “Sleeping“ – Twilley Don’t Mind, 1977 – 1:48:08
• Phil Seymour – “Then We Go Up” – The Prince of Power Pop, 2017 [originally appeared on Seymour’s self-titled debut album in 1980] – 1:56:55
• Dwight Twilley – “Out of My Hands” – Twilley, 1979 – 2:00:11
• Concrete Brioche – “Newcastle”, 2015

Thanks for listening.

If you would like to hear Trevor Lynn’s mixtape without David’s endless yammering, you might follow this link!

If you enjoyed Trevor Lynn’s song, “Newcastle”, you can find his other songs on Soundcloud!

Please check out our fellow party goer Ed Draganski’s funtastic designs for show mascot Peanut Duck and, while you’re there, buy a shirt!

Hello, partygoers!

Our apologies for a late show this week – a packed weekend and an under-the-weather daughter pushed our recording day forward and cut back on our editing time and the result…was lateness.

But we return with another mixtape – this one made for listener Trevor Lynn. So let’s vie for the overstuffed armchair, but take second best with the wicker rocking chair, and listen to a song from the desert, 80’s alt-rock, San Fran psych-pop, some smarty-pants rock, take a trip to Toytown, visit Ireland, and set the controls for the heart of the BONKERS!

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

1. Calexico – “Not Even Stevie Nicks…” – Feast of Wire, 2003 – 25:07
2. The Replacements – “Favorite Thing” – Let It Be, 1984 – 47:08
3. Deer Tick – “Twenty Miles” – The Black Dirt Sessions, 2010 – 1:18:43
4. Stained Glass – “My Buddy Sin” – RCA Records single b/w “Vanity Fair”, 1966 – 1:25:30
5. The Cortinas – “Phoebe’s Flower Shoppe” – Polydor Records single b/w “Too Much in Love”, 1968 – 1:40:17
6. Sufjan Stevens – “Justice Delivers Its Death” – Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Vols. 6-10, 2012 – 1:56:33
7. Loudest Whisper – “Silent O Moyle” – The Children of Lir, 1974 – 2:08:07
8. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks – “Is This My Happy Home?” – Where’s the Money, 1971 – 2:28:46
9. The Go-Betweens – “Draining the Pool for You” – Spring Hill Fair, 1984 – 2:37:35
10. Cate Le Bon – “What’s Not Mine” – Crab Day, 2016 – 2:52:41

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• Calexico – “Black Heart” – Feast of Wire, 2003 – 40:51
• The Replacements – “Johnny’s Gonna Die” – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, 1981 – 58:06
• The Replacements – “Mr. Whirly” – Hootenanny, 1983 – 1:04:59
• The Trolls – “Walkin’ Shoes” – Peatlore records b/w “How Do You Expect Me to Trust You?”, 1966 – 1:36:11
• Octopus – “Rainchild” – Octopus, 1971 – 1:52:04
• Mary O’Hara – “Silent O Moyle” – Songs of Ireland, 1958 – 2:23:26
• DRINKS – “Laying Down Rock” – Hermits on Holiday, 2015 – 3:02:28

That horrendous Octopus cover:

Here is Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks on the Flip Wilson Show in 1972.

And we haven’t done enough to promote our friend Ed Draganski’s fabulous designs for Listening Party mascot Peanut Duck so go here and buy a T-shirt!

Hello, partygoers! As we head into the final stretch of the Listening Party, we thought we’d take some time to read and comment on your own comments that have been sent into the show over the last few months.

It goes without saying – but we’re going to say it anyway – that the party wouldn’t have been half as fun without your contributions. Your thoughts, opinions, stories, alternate song choices, and jokes have made this podcast a real joy to do.

Of course, it wouldn’t really be the Listening Party without music, and Dave has stepped up big time to offer us four fun Top 5 categories and some truly great songs. We think you’re really going to enjoy it!

Top 5 Hair Songs:
1) The Cowsills – “Hair” – MGM single b/w “What Is Happy?”, 1968 – 06:41
2) Pearly Gates Music – “Gossamer Hair” – Pearly Gates Music, 2010 – 21:24
3) Wimple Witch – “Marmalade Hair” – Tales from the Sinking Ship, 2009 – 29:50
4) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair (Full Version)” – CSN, 1991[1970] – 35:59
5) White Denim – “Mess Your Hair Up” – Workout Holiday, 2008 – 58:09
Bonus Hair Song:
6) Chimera – “The Lady with Bullets in Her Hair” – Holy Grail, 2002 – 1:05:36

Top 5 Train Songs:
1) Five Man Electrical Band – “Private Train” – Five Man Electrical Band, 1969 – 1:14:33
2) Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio – “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Coral Records single b/w “Honey Hush”, 1956 – 1:22:15
3) Cindy and the Playmates – “Don’t Stop This Train” – Kemp Records single b/w “A Portrait of God’s Love”, 1972 – 1:29:44
4) Michael Hurley – “Water Train” – Hi-Fi Snock Uptown, 1972 – 1:40:20
5) The Monkees – “Steam Engine” – Listen to the Band, 1991 [1969] – 1:52:46
Bonus Train Song:
6) The Rising Sons – “2:10 Train” – Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, 1992 – 1:57:12

Top 5 Rodent Songs:
1) No Fun – “Rodents Fair” – Snivel, 1984 – 2:04:15
2) The Kinks – “Rats” – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One [also b-side to “Apeman” from the same album], 1970 – 2:09:33
3) The Monochrome Set – “Mousetrap” – Trinity Square, 1995 – 2:16:23
4) Junior Wells – “When the Cat’s Gone the Mice Play” – USA Records single b-side to “She’s a Sweet One”, 1963 – 2:23:34
5) The Modettes – “White Mice” – The Story So Far, 1982 – 2:27:24

Top 5 Tack Piano Songs (for Ed Draganski):
1) The Mojo Men – “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” – Reprise single b/w “Don’t Leave Me Crying Like Before”, 1967 – 2:43:10
2) The Hollies – “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe” – Evolution, 1967 – 2:52:39
3) Mike D’Abo – “(See the Little People) Gulliver Travels” – Immediate single b/w “An Anthology of Gulliver’s Travels – Part Two”, 1969 – 2:57:02
4) The Bunch – “Spare a Shilling” – CBS Records single b/w “Looking Glass Alice”, 1967 – 3:04:19
5) The Beach Boys – “Heroes and Villains [Alternate version]”, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, 1993[1966} – 3:11:26
Bonus Tack Piano Song:
6) Freddie and the Dreamers – “I Want to Go to the Overworld” – Oliver in the Overworld, 1970 – 3:22:32

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

Tori Amos – “Mr. Zebra” – Boys for Pele, 1996 – 2:39:01
Gary Usher – “Scorpio” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:16:17

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:
The word David was looking for was “spindle” – a record sits on a spindle on a turntable.
The original singer for Manfred Mann was Paul Jones, who would also leave the band for a fitful solo career
As usual, when one extemporizes extensively on a podcast, mistakes are bound to creep in, and David made a big boner biweek: it was Humphrey Lyttelton who recorded the Joe Meek-produced “Bad Penny Blues”, which is said to have inspired “Lady Madonna’. The Black Dyke Mills Band recorded a single for Apple – the Paul McCartney composition “Thingumybob”. Anyway – pretty embarrassing.

Hello, partygoers! It was a lovely, sunny Easter Sunday, but David and Mary couldn’t resist popping into the Listening Party rumpus room for some delightful music and the usual tomfoolery.

And what a lot of music we have this week. You’ll hear girl rock, country psych, pocket prog, commercial pop, and faux feudalism, plus a mini-doc about The Left Banke and Michael Brown. Who could say no?

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

1. The Like – “What I Say and What I Mean” – Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking, 2005 – 16:24
2. The Left Banke – “Barterers and Their Wives” – Just Walk Away, Renée/Pretty Ballerina, 1967 – 25:25
3. The Kingsbury Manx – “Regular Hands” – The Kingsbury Manx, 2000 – 1:16:22
4. Bloomsbury People – “Pioneer Saint of Death” – Bloomsbury People, 1970 – 1:29:53
5. Villagers – “Nothing Arrived” – {Awayland}, 2013 – 1:49:19
6. The Love-Ins – “That’s All She Wrote” – Curtis Bros. Records single b/w “Everything’s There”, 1966 – 1:54:37
7. Rita Lee – “Frique Comigo” – Hojé E O Primiero Dia da Vida, 1972 – 1:59:51
8. Julie Doiron – “Consolation Prize” – I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day, 2009 – 2:07:58
9. Big Star – For You (Fireplace) – Third/Sister Lovers, 1978 – 2:18:47
10. The Tokens – “She Let Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)” – Both Sides Now, 1971 – 2:29:12
11. Olivia Tremor Control – “Holiday Surprise 1, 2 ,3” – Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, 1996 – 2:43:43
12. Fairport Convention – “Now Be Thankful” – Island Records single b/w “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For the 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat from the Straits Of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie”, 1970 – 2:55:34
13. The Fall – “Leave the Capitol” – Slates, 1981 – 3:05:56

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• The Left Banke – “Desirée” – Smash Records single b/w “I’ve Got Something on My Mind”, 1968 – 44:04
• The Left Banke – “There’s Gonna Be a Storm” – The Left Banke Too, 1968 – 48:51
• Montage – “Grand Pianist” – Montage, 1969 – 56:30
• Steve Martin – “Love Songs in the Night” – Buddah Records single b/w “Two By Two”, 1971 – 1:00:48
• Stories – “Take Cover” – Stories, 1972 – 1:04:22
• The Beckies – “On the Morning That She Came” – The Beckies, 1976 – 1:09:00
• Sigmund Snopek III – “Soothsayers Dove” – Virginia Woolfe, 1972 – 1:41:15

Thanks for listening.

If you’d like to hear this mixtape uninterrupted by David and Mary’s scintillating conversation, then follow this link!

Dept of Corections:
Dave misspoke during the show, attributing drums to The Like’s Charlotte Froom. She was actually the original bassist for the group! Apologies all round!

Hello, Party-goers! Welcome back to the Listening Party rumpus room where the beanbag chairs are always waiting!

This week – having finished off our final novelty mix – Mary and David return to the mixtapes of listener Nick Owen for a mix of 80’s indie, psychedelia, alt-rock, art rock, and squelching noises.

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

1. Felt – “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow” – Cherry Red Records single b/w “Fortune” (the 12” single added “Sunlight Strings” – an instrumental remix of “Sunlight bathed the Golden Glow”), 1984 – 15:29
2. The Orange Bicycle – “Last Cloud Home” – Parlaphone Records single b-side to “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You”, 1969 – 34:50
3. Beck – “Rental Car” – Guero, 2005 – 1:14:15
4. Emitt Rhodes – “Love Will Stone You” – Mirror, 1971 – 1:24:58
5. Eldridge Holmes – “Pop, Popcorn Children” – Atco Records single b/w “Cheating Woman”, 1969 – 1:35:55
6. Charlotte Hatherley – “Grey Will Fade” – Grey Will Fade, 2004 – 1:51:05
7. Jana Hunter – “Vultures” – There’s No Home, 2007 – 2:00:35
8. Field Music – “Precious Plans” – Field Music [Measure], 2010 – 2:09:20
9. Lyle Lovett – “Christmas Morning” – The Road to Ensenada, 1996 – 2:17:43
10. Super Furry Animals – “Run! Christian, Run! – Rings Around the World, 2001 – 2:30:02

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• Felt – “Sunlight Strings” – Cherry Red 12” single b-side to “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow”, 1984 – 28:39
• The Robb Storme Group – “Here Today” – Columbia Records single b/w “But Cry”, 1966 – 41:25
• The Orange Bicycle – “Hyacinth Threads” – Columbia Records b/w “Amy Peate”, 1967 – 48:47
• Wilson Malone Voiceband – “Penny Lane” – Funnysad Music, 1968 – 54:44
• Boback. Johns, Malone – “On a Meadow Lea” – Motherlight, 1969 – 59:11
• Wil Malone – “I Could Write a Book” – Wil Malone, 1970 – 1:07:03
• John Butler – “Yes, I Do” – The Loyal Serpent, 1997 – 2:52:25
• The Wackers – “Day & Night” – Shredder, 1972 – 2:58:44
• Gary Usher – “Sagittarius” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:03:23

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:
“Willesden Green” was not a b-side, but instead an album cut from the Kinks’ so-so Percy soundtrack album.

If you’re interested in hearing Sloan’s murderecords singles collection, you can follow this link!

We talked about it during the show so here Emitt Rhodes singing live against a backing track on that show about grey whistle collections:

Hello, partygoers, and welcome back to party headquarters. As always, we appreciate visitors to the Listening Party rumpus room!

This week, Mary and her dad tackle side two of our final novelty song mix tape, and Mary questions her dad’s rather broad definition of a novelty song. Despite some complaints at the beginning of this series, it wasn’t so bad, was it?

It was?

Well anyway, pull up a comfy chair and settle down for some more novel songs!

1. The Chips – “Rubber Biscuit” – Josie single b/w “Oh Little Darling”, 1956 – 13:21
2. Carla Thomas & Otis Redding – “Tramp” – King and Queen, 1967 – 29:29
3. The Parade – “Frog Prince” – A&M single b/w “Hallelujah Rocket”, 1967 – 41:45
4. The Book of Changes – “I Stole the Goodyear Blimp” – Tower Records single b/w “Suddenly I’m Desperately in Love”, 1967 – 48:30
5. Roy Wood – “When Gran’ma Plays the Banjo” – Boulders, 1972 – 59:51
6. Bull Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw’s Orchestra – “Big Ten-Inch Record” – King Records b/w “I Needed You”, 1952 – 1:14:10
7. Bit A’Sweet – “2086” – Hypnotic 1, 1968 (also a single on ABC Records b/w “A Second Time”) – 1:27:22
8. Biff Rose – “Evolution” – Children of Light, 1969 – 1:41:34
9. Sagittarius – “Hotel Indiscreet” – Columbia single b/w “Virgo”, 1967) – 1:47:44
10. The Fugs – “Wet Dream” – Tenderness Junction, 1968 – 2:24:18
11. The Move – “Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (Edit)” – Shazam, 1970 – 2:48:14
12. Wanda Jackson – “Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad” – Rockin’ with Wanda, 1960 – 2:55:07
13. Belle and Sebastian – “I Love My Car” – Jeepster single “I’m Waking Up to Us” b/w “I Love My Car” and “Marx and Engels”, 2001 – 3:04:08

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

• The Devons – “Honda Bike” – Decca single b/w “Free Fall”, 1965 – 1:54:45
• Sagittarius – “My World Fell Down” – Columbia single b/w “Libra”, 1967 – 2:00:55
• The Byrds – “Draft Morning” – The Notorious Byrd Brothers, 1968 – 2:09:21
• Gary Usher – “Virgo” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 2:17:48
• Gary Usher – “Pisces” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 2:20:21

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Freebies:
If you’d like to listen to an uninterrupted collection of novelty songs, you can find Dave’s original mix here.