Archive for the ‘Holiday’ Category

Dark Meat 211: Oblique O’Ween

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

The annual Dark Meat Halloween show – this year avoiding direct references to ghosts, monsters, or the grim reaper but still remaining as spooky as hell. You’re welcome!

* Esquivel! – Harlem Nocturne
* Devo – Shrivel Up
* White Stripes – I’m Slowly Turning Into You
* Jonathan Coulton – Bacteria
* Gram Rabbit – Dirty Horse
* Amboy Dukes – Journey To The Center of Your Mind
* Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – Spectral Beings
* Beatles – Blue Jay Way
* Velvet Underground – The Gift
(note: listen for special spooky bonus track!)

Dark Meat Leftovers: Holiday On Ice

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Ghosts! Remember the dead with us here at Chez Dark Meat – remember, they only want to be your friend. Note that it’s a rerun, and it is not, in fact, Memorial Day Weekend.

* Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky
* Haunted Mansion 30th Anniversary – Grim Grinning Ghosts (Excerpt)
* The Specials – Ghost Town
* Ben Folds – Carrying Cathy
* Sugarplastic – Ohio
* Colorblind James Experience – Ride Board
* Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
* Stan Ridgway – Camouflage

Repost Dark Meat Leftovers 40: Freedom Of Meat

Monday, June 30th, 2008

(Reposted to correct file size – this is the whole show!)

It’s Independence Day weekend here at Dark Meat Central. We celebrate the things that make America great: right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the separation of church and state. Those things were great.

Dark Meat 109: Missed The New Year By THAT MUCH

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Hello Dark Meat Fans. I was too busy drinkin’ and partyin’ to get the show out on time for New Years, but I made a resolution to get it out eventually. And now that this is out of the way I only have to lose weight, get a real job, and learn to love.

* Jethro Tull – A New Day Yesterday
* David Bowie – Golden Years
* Blossom Dearie – Figure Eight
* Talking Heads – New Feeling
* Owada – The New Instrumental One
* Duran Duran – Election Day
* Andrew Podos Orchestra – Most Boring
* Bjork – New World
* They Might Be Giants – Older (Live)

Dark Meat Leftovers 34: Greetings, Season, Whatever

Friday, December 21st, 2007

While I’m off gallivanting in Las Vegas this weekend, gather your family around a warm fire and roast their chestnuts as you listen to these songs of Robots, Jesus, and lonliness. I’ll be back with a new show for the new year, unless I throw another rerun at ya.
* Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime
* Ozle Ware – Santa Claus, Bring Me My Man Back
* Wayne Newton – Jingle Bell Rock
* Sugarplastic – Jesus Is His Name
* Ben Folds – Jesusland
* Marilyn Manson – Personal Jesus
* The Kinks – Father Christmas
* Stan Kenton – What Is A Santa Claus
* Candypants – The Happiest Time Of The Year
* David Bowie – Come And Buy My Toys
* Tom Lehrer – Hanukka in Santa Monica
* Nancy Wilson – What Are You Doing New Years

Dark Meat Leftovers 33: Crass Myrhh Item

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

The War on Christmas finally has its first invasion force! Stuff this into your stocking:

* Lonely Hearts Band – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
* Stan Kenton – What is a Santa Claus
* Bob Atcher & the Dinning Sisters – Christmas Island
* The Hollywood Undead – Christmas in Hollywood
* Candypants – The Happiest Time of the Year
* Spooner – The Saddest Time of the Year
* Claudine Longet – I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You
* Epileptic Gibbon w/dwwave – Christmas Credit Card
* Thurl Ravenscroft – You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
* Johnny Mercer – Jingle Bells

Dark Meat Leftovers 28: These Ghoulish Things

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

An extra Dark Meat show to play on Halloween. Enjoy the creepy goodness! If you’re listening after Halloween remember that it’s not just a holiday, it’s something you keep in your heart. Like a parasite.

* Vic Mizzy – The Haunted Organ
* Tokyo Disneyland – Welcome
* Brak – Tales of Suspense
* Frank Zappa and the Mothers – Who Are the Brain Police?
* Randy Newman – I’m Dead (But I Don’t Know It)
* Residents – Lizard Lady
* TMBG – Turn Around
* Captain Beefheart – Dachau Blues
* Bob Peck – Nam Daer Bregnig
* Paul Frees – Welcome
* Kevin Ayers – The Dr. Dream Theme

Dark Meat Leftovers 27: Rites Of Passage

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

We explore the stages of life this week, chiefly adolescence, marriage and death, perhaps because they all have such great parties tied in to them. Watch it flash before your eyes as you hear:

* The Ventures- Hava Nagila
* Laurie Anderson – Beautiful Red Dress
* The Who – Tattoo
* They Might Be Giants – First Kiss
* Bettie Serveert – For All We Know
* Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce
* The House of Love – Who By Fire

Dark Meat Leftovers 16: Meat, American Style

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Darker than the red white and blue… Independance Day is a-comin’ this week, here on the far west edge of the greatest nation to ever make that claim. So let’s sing the praises of all the things that make America the gargantuan loveable monster that it is.
Dilator – Lawyers, Guns and Money

Garbage – The World Is Not Enough
Nice Peter – The Bush Song

Johnathan Pryce – The American Dream
Soul Coughing – Unmarked Helicopters

Brian Wilson – Roll Plymouth Rock

David Bowie – That’s Motivation

Dark Meat 94: Greetings, Season, Whatever

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Photo of Daniel K.It’s the 3rd Annual Dark Meat Christmas Show! Gather your family around a warm fire and roast their chestnuts as we listen to these songs of Robots, Jesus, and lonliness.
* Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime
* Ozle Ware – Santa Claus, Bring Me My Man Back
* Wayne Newton – Jingle Bell Rock
* Sugarplastic – Jesus Is His Name
* Ben Folds – Jesusland
* Marilyn Manson – Personal Jesus
* The Kinks – Father Christmas
* Stan Kenton – What Is A Santa Claus
* Candypants – The Happiest Time Of The Year
* David Bowie – Come And Buy My Toys
* Tom Lehrer – Hanukka in Santa Monica
* Nancy Wilson – What Are You Doing New Years