Archive for September, 2010

Dark Meat Leftovers: Listen Now, Dilator

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Uncomfortably local band Dilator steals the show today.  This is a rerun of the 100th episode, and the Dilator boys thank you for your support. Songs are originals except where a writer is noted; don’t tell the writer because they’ll ask for money.

* Dilator – Worse Than It Seems
* Dilator (Ridgway) – Can’t Stop The Show
* Dilator (Costello) – Allison
* Dilator – Completely Invisible
* Dilator (Bowie) – 5 Years
* Dilator – Jimmy Crack Corn
* Dilator – Alienated
* Dilator – The Object Of Your Desire
* Dilator (Holmes) – Timothy
* Dilator – Next Year

Dark Meat 207: The Music Of Food Be Love

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Somebody commented, apropos of nothing, that she wanted a show about dieting. And you know what? Forget it. I don’t know about other people’s music collections but in mine, there just ain’t enough songs there. Maybe if I got more George Harrison… anyway, no dieting. But GLUTTONY, now that’s a show.

* Joe Jackson – More Is More
* The Who – Heinz Baked Beans
* Dilator – Jimmy Crack Corn
* Duran Duran – Hungry Like the Wolf
* Bob Peck – Nam Daer Bregnig
* Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach
* Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard
* Brian Wilson – Vegetables
* The Tubes – Sushi Girl
* Colorblind James Experience – Wedding At Cana
* Jethro Tull – Lick Your Fingers Clean

Dark Meat 206: The Quiet, Man

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Crank it up! Seriously, crank it up, because these songs are pretty quiet and you’ll miss a lot of it if you don’t.

* Stan Ridgway – Deep Blue Polka Dot
* Kevin Ayers – Yes I Do
* Nick Drake – Things Behind The Sun
* Leonard Cohen – A Singer Must Die
* Candypants – Slayer
* Harry Nilsson – Without Her
* Chris Martin – Yellow
* David Lynch – Dark Night Of The Soul

Dark Meat 205: Looks Great!

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Beauty actually IS, by some definitions, skin deep. So why knock yourself out digging? Instead, dig THESE knockouts!

* Sparks – I Wish I Looked A Litte BetterDetails just make it uglier
* Rupert Holmes – Phantom Of The Opera
* The Forum – I Like What I See
* OMD – Genetic Engineering
* Siouxsie and the Banshees – Ornaments Of Gold
* Laurie Johnson Orchestra – Baubles, Bangles and Beads
* Hole – Doll Parts
* Dave Frishberg – Marilyn Monroe
* Duran Duran – Girls On Film
* David Bowie – The Prettiest Star
* Kinks – Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Dark Meat Ephemera – The Return of Categories

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

So a year or two ago I installed a WordPress update which completely obliterated the categories that I pose under.  For example, there is an extensive selection of shows about Bad Love and I would categorize those under “Love.”  I thought they were gone forever.

Last night I realized that somewhere along the line of updates, I gained the ability to edit the categories again. That is, all the old categories were still there, just their names were blank. So all the old episodes were still categorized, only I had no idea under what. So I renamed the categories as 1, 2, 3 and so on, then I sorted the episodes by category. There would be say, four episodes under #6. I’d look at the songs and say, hmmm, what do these things have in common? Aha! Holidays!

So the categories are back even though in about half the cases, I’m only guessing at what the hell I was thinking. What does this mean to you, the listener? Nothin’ probably. But if you’re interested in only episodes about Death, you can find them more easily now. Not as easily as Death will find you, unfortunately, but that’s not my department.