Daddy Goes Dancing with Mommy-O: Transmission 433, 2018 November 14

This is better, and worse. Lady Catharsis finally makes it to the studio, where we are joined by pitching co-host Jeff and the criminally uncredited Kristi, who did not have the benefit of a microphone. We actually earned money on this night, which is novel. My mother was Mrs. Moneybags, though other listeners pitched in on that front as well, to save me a bit of embarrassment. There was a good feeling on the night, as opposed to the barely contained desperation of the previous week.

I can't help but feel that this episode is a bit unfocused, musically, though. Granted, when I invite Lady Catharsis into the studio, we are always in the Listening Parlour, and I generally feel like the more I get my way, the better my show is (hmm). It certainly wasn't a wall-to-wall "Legends Night" like last week's episode, and it definitely sounds less exciting than the "flutes and synthesizers" Jeff promises on his own program, "Radio Nomadics." I have to say I simply don't like Mariachi El Bronx, that Jeff embarrasses me (without meaning to) by pronouncing "toque" "correctly," and that "Metronomic Underground" is not a happy song. ("Thieves Like Us" is.) All that said, the "ragged segues" I predicted really didn't come to pass, and for the most part things went more smoothly than planned. "Striving for Excellence in Content and Technique?" Sometimes we get there.

 

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 November 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Anar (Instrumental)" | Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat | Mdou Moctar Meets Elite Beat In a Budget Dancehall | Boomarm Nation
2. "You Know I'm No Good" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
3. "Let's Have a Party" | Psychotik Tanks | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
4. "Daddyo Loves Mommyo" | Tommy Duncan | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family
5. "No Bulbs" | The Fall | The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route to... | Beggars Banquet
6. "Jack The Ripper [Acoustic Version]" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides and Rarities | Mute
7. "You Don't Know What Love Is" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
8. "Birdie Song" / "Dreams and Light" | The Wolfgang Press | Queer | 4AD
9. "Revolution Girls" | Mariachi El Bronx | Mariachi El Bronx | ATO Records / White Drugs
10. "Si Firmi O Grido" | A Certain Ratio | Mickey Way (The Candy Bar) | Factory
11. "Buzz" | Throwing Muses | The Season Sessions: Fall | CASH Music
12. "All Fall Away" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
13. "Tarantula" | Colourbox | Breakdown (Second Version) | 4AD
14. "Metronomic Underground" | Stereolab | Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology | Rhino
15. "Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)" | New Order | Murder | Factory Benelux

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