We rule, all others drool

Here, so that all may look upon and envy, the cool kids who played the game, (and because I have nothing cogent or scintillating to say other wise), is the awesome play list(s) of SwimClub Radio Volume 1.
For those who may have just tuned in; the idea was to make a disc of ones all time favouritest or most representative of ones musical soul at this time, to intrigue and edify the other players.

I think that worked quite well. The disparity is fascinating to me. I love that.

I also find it really interesting that of the ones that didn't have a particular theme like DJ Barry's did, the two artists that made two different lists were, David Bowie and Siouxsie Sioux. That is just odd. Although had I had just a smitch more room Donovan would have also been in that category with his song "Ferris Wheel". I suppose technically Frank Black also made that distinction as he is represented both with The Catholics and The Pixies. So that is four artists who can make the interesting slide between so many different tastes.

DJ Barry's disc was really, really cool for me as I never heard a single thing on it previously. I really tripped out on "Las Lomas de New Jersey". I also liked "Patricia" a lot. It is ultimately playable, and I'm thinking it may just be one of the soundtracks for Oliver's 40th birthday dinner next weekend.
DJ Nigel's was really good for me as well, as he is an expert on a whole era of music I completely missed - The '90's. Seems I am always either 400 hundred years, or a decade or so, behind the 8 ball musically. It was only last year that I discovered Bach after all. And it had The Cramps on it, 'nuff said.
DJ UBU's was a study in classics. I think everybody said something about liking the Beachboys tune. I had never heard the John Cale piece before so that was a treat. Albeit as usual with Cale, a challenging one. I had also never heard the Springsteen before and it totally justifies why I am always having to say to people who are music snobbing on him, that they just don't know him from before.
DJ Oliver, I think, (prejudicially of course) just has marvelous musical taste. I can always count on him to keep me pulling forward into the future because as you can see from mine-
DJ Stella's, I have a tendency to stay firmly mired in the late 20th century, especially the 60's, 70's and 80's. So even though I know people have heard my selections (with the possible exception of Flirt) a zillion times, I think my segues and transitions make it all fresh again. At least that was my hope. And I can tell you that it is as good a representation of my musical soul as anyone may ever see. Well except for volume II which I have already been working on!

So without further ado:

Swim Club Radio: DJ Stella Magdalen

1) The Avengers Theme - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
2) What'cha See Is What You Get - The Dramatics
3) Cherry Bomb - Joan Jett
4) Eight line poem - David Bowie
5) Cissy Strut - The Meters
6) Degenerator - Flirt
7) Valleri - The Monkees
8) Think About Your Troubles - Nilsson
9) Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll - Ian Drury
10) The Old Main Drag - The Pogues
11) Mirror In the Bathroom - The English Beat
12) Over At The Frankenstein Place - Rocky Horror Soundtrack
13) Fire - Ohio Players
15) Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
16) Scarecrow - Pink Floyd
17) Soldier’s Things - Tom Waits
18) Spellbound - Siouxsie and The Banshees
20) Five ‘O’ Clock World - The Vogues
21) Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
22) Art-I-Ficial - X Ray Spex
23) Piece Of My Heart - Erma Franklin
24) Is It My Body? - Alice Cooper
25) World Destruction - Time Zone
26) Feeling Good - Nina Simone
27) Salt Of The Earth - The Rolling Stones

Swim Club Radio: DJ Oliver Blades

1) Free Man - Awesome Color
2) Ghost Highway - Mazzy Star
3) Set You Free - The Black Keys
4) Empire - The Black Angels
5) Roi - The Breeders
6) Heart Of Snow - Black Mountain
7) Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies
8) Beyond The Fields We Know - Dead Meadow
9) The Desperate Kingdom Of Love - P. J. Harvey
10) Spaceboy - Smashing Pumpkins
11) Where Eagles Have Been - Wolfmother
12) Looking Out A Mirror - The Ponys
13) There Is An End - The Greenhornes
14) Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs
15) Theresa’s Sound World - Sonic Youth
16) Introduction 17) Frustrating Sound - Radio Moscow
18) Different Stars - Trespassers William

Swim Club Radio: DJ Nigel Patel

1) Vampeeee 2) Silver Turkey - Buffalo Daughter
3) 5 Years Ahead of My Time - The Cramps
4) Sister Madly - Crowded House
5) From Chapel Hill - Tam Hart
6) Dean’s Dream - The Dead Milkmen
7) Feeling Numb - The Fall
8) Chip Away Boy - Frank Black & The Catholics
9) Pop Scene - Blur
10) Together - Suede
11) Tether - Indigo Girls
12) Thoughtforms - Lush
13) Walk Out - Matthew Sweet
14) Must Believe - Sarah Dougher
15) Burn-Up - Siouxsie and the Banshees
16) I Don’t Wanna Be Your Man - Sherman Electric
17) Your Stripes - Buffalo Tom
18) Two Beads At The End - Minute Men
19) Cowbirds - Throwing Muses
20) Light Years - Sloan
21) Nightmare Stampede - Split Enz

Swim Club radio: DJ Barry

1) Buenos Hermanos - Ibrahim Ferrer
2) Caballo Viejo - Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban
3) El Divorcio - Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
4) Guanqanco‘ Callejero - Ibrahim Ferrer
5) Jaguey - Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
6) La Luna En Tu Mirada - Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban
7) Las Lomas de New Jersey - Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
8) Mil Congojas - Ibrahim Ferrer
9) No Puedo Freinar - Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
10) Oye El Consejo - Ibrahim Ferrer
11) Patricia - Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban
12) Perfume de Gardenia - Ibrahim Ferrer
13) Secret Love - Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban

Swim Club Radio: DJ UBU

1) Ghost Song - The Doors
2) Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
3) Captain Hook - John Cale
4) High Heeled Sneakers - Jerry Lee Lewis
5) Pineola - Lucinda Williams
6) No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen
7) Laughing - Pere Ubu
8) Insight - Joy Division
9) We Are All Prostitutes - The Pop Group
10) (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
11) Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
12) We Are The Dead - David Bowie
13) Catch The Wind - Donovan
14) ‘Til I Die - The Beach Boys
15) Chicklets - The Patti Smith Group

Sweet News

Well, I should be finishing my take-home final for Philosophy Of Religion but, somewhere around Bertrand Russell, I kept getting interrupted. So I finally just started working on the Swim Club Radio compendium.
There is some REALLY interesting and cool and heretofore unknown stuff there you guys!
And the good news is, everything is entered, about half burnt, and it will just take some futzing around to do the inserts right. Then we will have it accomplished!
So, since I have officially stopped procrastinating, look for your compendium soon!

“Chills run up and down my spine”

O’ man! I am sitting here trying to write a ten page research paper on “Miracles, revelation and the nature of personal reality”, MLA style, for my Philosophy of Religion class.
I actually have had the TV off all day, as there was not one, single, thing worth turning it on for (since I missed Soul Train) today! So I thought I would run a little music on the iTunes since I’m working on the computer anyway. Well, the best thing on my iTunes right now is the Swim Club Radio comp I made for ya’ll. On it goes, and now I can’t concentrate on David Hume’s arguments “Against Miracles” for nothing!

I fricking love this comp!!!

I must think I’m a bloody genius. It makes the hair raise up on my arms to hear it, because every song on it, I love down to the very roots of my toenails.

So because I am being torturously slow with it anywise, because I’m trying to flippin’ graduate and maintain my GPA simultaneously here! I’m going to give you a couple of mischievous hints:
It starts with The Avengers Theme, it ends with Salt Of The Earth. The in-between is cuts from the likes of Nina Simone, X-ray Spex, Afrika Bambaata, John Lydon, Nilsson, The Vogues and Flirt.
Does that wet your whistle?

I need to give some serious time to the ones from you’all that are new to me as well... I can’t wait to really learn something new (as soon as I’m done learning all this other new stuff for grades.)

Edit: I had to switch to Chopin Nocturnes to be able to get any work done

Swim Club radio

So here’s what I think I will do about this “Swim Club radio” project. I’m thinking that, if Mr. B doesn’t mind, I will go ahead and move forward with it, getting the local folk their copies, and then catch him up as well as everyone else who played our lovely game, when he is ready for his piece to go into play.
Everyone ok with that?