Out With The New, In With The Old.
(Special Is This Music? coverage for Hogwash while he’s out of town. Originally broadcast on 28 December 2008 on KPSU.)
This is a 60 Minute audio essay about the Holiday Season, with music, sound effects, voice-overs, and a few commercials. For those of you who have never heard the kind of shows I do, this is an excellent introduction to my radio style, and a wonderful hour of holiday sounds for those New Year’s parties around the corner. (Token mentions of X-Mas were, sadly, unavoidable.) Consider this my holiday gift to the city of Portland, and anyone else I forgot to get a gift for. Sorry.
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smegma | Happy Holidays | It’s Finally Christmas | Tim Kerr Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma_(band) |
| Christmas Decorations | Closer To Carpet [Excerpt] | Communal Rust | Community Library Records | http://www.community-library.net/artist_christmasdecorations.htm |
| The Breeders | New Year | Last Splash | DGC Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breeders |
| Sparks | Thank God It’s Not Christmas | Kimono My House | Island Records | http://www.allsparks.com/ |
| The Ventures | Sleigh Ride | The Ventures’ Christmas Album | Razor & Tie Records | http://www.theventures.com/ |
| Pickwick Records | Side A [Excerpt] | Sounds To Make You Shiver | Pickwick Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickwick_Records |
| Bobby “Boris” Pickett | Monster Holiday | The Original Monster Mash | Polydor Records | http://www.themonstermash.com/ |
| Christmas Decorations | Closer To Carpet [Excerpt II] | Communal Rust | Community Library Records | http://www.community-library.net/artist_christmasdecorations.htm |
| Donovan | A New Year’s Resolution | Open Road | Repertoire Records | http://www.donovan.ie/ |
| Cara Stewart | New Year’s Song | The American Song Poem Christmas | Bar/None Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem |
| Dick Kent | A New Year’s Dawning | The American Song Poem Christmas | Bar/None Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem |
| Men’s Recover Project | New Year’s Party In A Sweltering Apartment | Bolides Over Basra | Load Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Recovery_Project |
| Dead Milkmen | Christmas Party | Someone Shot Sunshine | Jerrock Records | http://www.deadmilkmen.com/ |
| The Who | Christmas [Excerpt] | Tommy | Polydor Records | http://www.thewho.com/ |
| Raymond Scott | New Year’s Eve In A Haunted House | Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights | Columbia Records | http://raymondscott.com/ |
| Austin Rich | The Cremation Of Sam McGee by Robert Service | 12/23/98 Broadcast: The Church Of Blasphuphmus (Not Jesus) Hour | KWVA Radio | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service |
| Austin Rich | White Sound Effects Christmas | 12/23/98 Broadcast: The Church Of Blasphuphmus (Not Jesus) Hour | KWVA Radio | http://kwva.uoregon.edu/ |
| The Residents | Seasoned Greetings | Meet The Residents | Ralph Records | http://www.residents.com/ |
| Weezer | Holiday | Weezer | DGC Records | http://www.weezer.com/ |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio | Hark The Harold Angel Sing | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Fantasy Records | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Guaraldi |
| Negativland | It’s All In Your Head [Excerpt] | 02/24/05 Broadcast: Over The Edge | KPFA Radio | http://negativland1.netfirms.com/ote/ |
“Out With The New, In With The Old.” This week, Austin Rich covers for Hogwash to bring you “Be That Song?” Today’s show featured an audio essay regarding the Holiday Season, and makes a great introduction to the kind of show I’ll start doing on January Sixth, 2009, when Blasphuphmus Radio premieres on KPSU. Tune in at 3 PM, won’t you?
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And here’s a 2008 broadcast that will also go over well as you watch the odometer kick over.
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