Episode #012 – Christmas Cookie Crumbs

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Quartz City Podcast Episode #012 – Christmas Cookie Crumbs

I’ve gotten some requests for a Christmas mix I made years ago and here it is. Just over two hours and will either bring your holidays together or completely blow it apart. Perhaps both.

  1. XTC – “Psychedelic Christmas” [00:00]
  2. The cast of Twin Peaks – “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” [00:33]
  3. Patsy Raye – “Beatnik’s Wish” [04:39]
  4. The Ravers – “Punk Rock Christmas” [07:07]
  5. Tuscadero – “Holidays R Hell” [10:28]
  6. Dead Moon – “Christmas Rush” [13:49]
  7. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Big Yule Log Boogie” [16:35]
  8. Shitbirds – “Christmas Is A Comin’ (May God Bless You)” [18:49]
  9. The Chills – “Christmas Chimes” [21:06]
  10. The Wombles – “Wombling Merry Christmas” [24:06]
  11. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Fat Christmas” [27:23]
  12. Sparks – “Thank God It’s Not Christmas” [28:56]
  13. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – “There’s No Lights On the Christmas Tree Mother, They’re Burning Big Louie Tonight” [34:00]
  14. Mystery Science Theater 3000 – “(Let’s Have) A Patrick Swayze Christmas” [37:43]
  15. John Baker – “Christmas Commercial” [41:05]
  16. Man Or Astroman? – “Frosty The Snowman” [41:46]
  17. The Moog Machine – “O Holy Night” [44:07]
  18. August Darnell – “Christmas On Riverside Drive” [46:54]
  19. Hypnobeat – “Jingle Club” [51:54]
  20. The Raveonettes – “The Christmas Song” [56:31]
  21. The Walkmen – “Christmas Party” [58:41]
  22. Martin Mull – “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” [1:01:51]
  23. Patty Duke and Norman Vincent Peale – “You Can Keep Christmas” [1:04:10]
  24. Half Man Half Biscuit – “All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit” [1:05:54]
  25. Six Million Dollar Man – “Christmas Lights” [1:09:02]
  26. The Flaming Lips – “Christmas At The Zoo” [1:10:46]
  27. Madness – “Inanity Over Christmas” [1:13:50]
  28. Mark Mothersbaugh – “Rudolph The Space Deer” [1:17:40]
  29. The Go Go’s – “I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek” [1:22:01]
  30. Fountains Of Wayne – “I Want An Alien For Christmas” [1:24:26]
  31. Patty Marie Jay – “Space Age Santa Claus” [1:26:44]
  32. Pink Floyd – “Merry Xmas Song” [1:29:22]
  33. The Dickies – “Silent Night” [1:31:26]
  34. Grandaddy – “Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland” [1:33:41]
  35. Katie’s Kitchen – “Cooking A Delicious Holiday Ring Mold” [1:36:33]
  36. James Brown – “Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto” [1:37:15]
  37. Saint Etienne – “I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You” [1:40:13]
  38. Giant Sand – “Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You” [1:42:47]
  39. Thin White Rope – “Christmas Skies” [1:46:16]
  40. Calexico – “Gift X-change” [1:49:15]
  41. Martin Mull – “Santafly” [1:52:17]
  42. The Sisterhood – “Rocking Disco Santa” [1:54:47]
  43. Steve Martin & Paul Simon – “Silver Bells” [1:57:00]
  44. Spectrum – “Santa Claus” [2:01:43]
  45. Assistant Manager of the Haybridge – “Merry Christmas” [2:06:18]

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Episode #011

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Quartz City Podcast Episode #011

  1. L7 – “Baggage” – http://l7theband.com [00:02]
  2. Hookworms – “Radio Tokyo” – http://parasiticnematode.blogspot.com [03:20]
  3. Robi – “Ou suis-je?” – http://robimusic.net [07:20]
  4. Anna Calvi – “Ghost Rider” – http://annacalvi.com [10:16]
  5. Chui Wan – “Berber” – https://www.facebook.com/chuiwanband [12:56]
  6. The Same Old Band – “Done Me Good” – https://exploringspasticinevitable.bandcamp.com [15:41]
  7. On The Wane – “Road And Snow” – https://www.facebook.com/weareonthewane [20:48]
  8. Blonde On Blonde – “Heart Without A Home” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_on_Blonde_(band) [24:26]
  9. Hollow Ox – “2012” – https://hollowox.bandcamp.com [29:50]
  10. The Starlight Run – “Angels Are OK” – https://thestarlightrun.bandcamp.com [34:31]
  11. The Raveonettes – “The End” – http://www.theraveonettes.com [40:45]
  12. The Black Ryder – “Let Me Be Your Light” – http://www.theblackryder.com [44:04]
  13. The Church – “Miami” – http://thechurchband.net [50:05]

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Episode #010

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Quartz City Podcast Episode #010

  1. The Muffs – “Take A Take A Me” – http://themuffsband.blogspot.com
  2. Graham Day & The Forefathers – “Get Off My Track” – http://www.gdandtheforefathers.co.uk
  3. The Love Me Nots – “Don’t Let Him” – http://www.thelovemenots.com
  4. The Maples – “Big City” – http://site.douban.com/themaples/
  5. Tom Vek – “Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)” – http://www.tomvek.tv
  6. The Raveonettes – “Killer In The Streets” – http://www.theraveonettes.com
  7. Hedgehog – “Aspirin” – http://hedgehogrock.com
  8. Ulaan Markhor – “Last Leaf Of The Season” – https://worstward.bandcamp.com
  9. Sophie Cooper – “The Moon Hit Me In The Face” – http://sophiecoopermusic.com
  10. Flavor Crystals – “Mirror In My Mind” – http://www.flavorcrystalsounds.com/
  11. Gate To Otherside – “Don’t Get Emotional” – http://site.douban.com/unexpecteddoore/
  12. The Asteroid #4 – “Going Down” – http://www.asteroid4.com
  13. Superfjord – “The Chandrasekhar Limit” – http://superfjord.tumblr.com

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Episode #009 – Moody drive to The Apple Pan

Wanted a hickory burger, pie, and a coffee from The Apple Pan tonight. Needed a soundtrack.

  1. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – “Sand”
  2. My Bloody Valentine – “Sueisfine”
  3. ZZ Top – “Ten Dollar Man”
  4. Don Fardon – “I’m Alive”
  5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Memory Camp”
  6. Stars Of The Lid – “Gasfarming”
  7. Lhasa – “Anywhere On This Road”
  8. The Lovetones – “Please Don’t Break My Heart Tonight”
  9. Zoviet France – “Pearroc”
  10. Steven R. Smith – “Distance And Passing”
  11. Orchestre Tzigane du Restaurant du Rat Mort – “Les Mains de Femmes”
  12. Scenic – “Angelica”
  13. Carsick Cars – “Silence”
  14. Lee Hazlewood – “My Autumn’s Done Come”
  15. Elliott Smith – “Cupid’s Trick”

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Episode #008

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Quartz City Podcast – Episode #008

And we’re back! No excuses for the delay other than “stuff happened.”

  1. Woodsman – “Loose Leaf” – bandcamp
  2. Venera 4 – “Haunted Summer” – bandcamp
  3. White Noise Sound – “There Is No Tomorrow” – website
  4. The Chocolate Watch Band – “In The Past” – website
  5. No Silver Bird – “Gone” – facebook
  6. Suzy Blu – “Won’t Be The Girl (Grimiss Mix)” – website
  7. Freelovebabies vs Goat Eye Van Kriedt – “When I First Came To Town” – youtube
  8. Peaking Lights – “Beautiful Son” – website
  9. The Mighty Lemon Drops – “No Bounds” – facebook
  10. Larry Williams & Johnny Watson – “Nobody” – discogs
  11. Carsick Cars – “Reaching The Light” – bandcamp
  12. Mike Heron – “Feast Of Stephen” – website
  13. Björn Olsson – “1995” – website

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Episode #007 – 2013

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Quartz City Podcast – Episode #007 – 2013

Twenty-five albums I liked from 2013. No ranking other than I just liked them a lot.

Anna Calvi – “Suddenly” – website
The Knife – “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” – website
The KVB – “I Only See The Lights” – bandcamp
No Joy – “Prodigy” – website
La Luz – “Sure As Spring” – facebook
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – “The In-Between” – bandcamp
The Stargazer Lilies – “Undone” – website
Bardo Pond – “Kali Yuga Blues” – website
My Bloody Valentine – “Only Tomorrow” – website
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Subway” – website
Barn Owl – “Against The Night” – website
Maps and Diagrams – “Tafelstern” – website
Noveller – “Gathering The Elements” – website
Secret Pyramid – “Quiet Sky” – blogspot
Boards Of Canada – “New Seeds” – website
Speck Mountain – “Badwater” – website
Beaches – “Send Them Away” – facebook
Throwing Muses – “Sunray Venus” – website
Bosnian Rainbows – “Red” – bandcamp
Medicine – “Butterfly’s Out Tonight” – facebook
Matthew J Tow – “When I Get To Sydney” – website
Sam Phillips – “Speaking Of Pictures” – website
The Limiñanas – “My Black Sabbath” – bandcamp
Marisa Anderson – “Furnace Creek” – bandcamp
KT Tunstall – “No Better Shoulder” – website

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Episode #006 – Austin Psych Fest 2013

Quartz City Podcast – Episode #006 – Austin Psych Fest 2013

Bass Drum Of Death – “Nerve Jamming” – website
Wall of Death – “Thunder Sky” – Facebook
Young Magic – “Sanctuary” – website
The Soft Moon – “Insides” – website
Spectrum – “Undo The Taboo” – website
Clinic – “Miss You II” – website
The Raveonettes – “Sinking With the Sun” – website
Boris – “Hope” – website
Woodsman – “All Tangled Up” – Tumblr
Dead Skeletons – “Ljósberinn” – website
Silver Apples – “Seagreen Serenades” – website
Gary War – “Grown In Shells” – Facebook
Tamaryn – “While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming” – website
The Laurels – “Manic Saturday” – Facebook
No Joy – “Hare Tarot Lies” – website
The Besnard Lakes – “People Of The Sticks” – website
The Black Ryder – “All That We See” – website
The Black Angels – “Paladin’s Last Stand” – website
Kaleidoscope – “Dive Into Yesterday” – Facebook
The Moving Sidewalks – “Flashback” – website
Goat – “Stonegoat” – Blogspot

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Episode #005

Quartz City Podcast – Episode #005

Loscil – “Endless Falls” – website
Zelienople – “Flurry” – website
Barn Owl – “Pale Star” – website
NEU! – “Seeland” – website
Hedgehog – “Sky Song” – website
The High Violets – “Ciné” – website
The Sirago 17 – “Laetitia” – Bandcamp
Ed Kuepper & The Kowalski Collective – “Skinny Jean” – Bandcamp
Suki Ewers – “Time After Time” – Facebook
o13 – “Ocean” – Facebook
Suzy Blu – “Ten Times” – Tumblr
Paik – “Killing Windmills” – Wikipedia

Links to everyone should be embedded in the file (I’m using the enhanced podcast features in GarageBand)

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Episode #004

No theme this time. Just music…

Hedgehog – “The Burning Sun In The Morning”
Föllakzoid – “99”
Beaches – “New Knowledge”
Sun Dial – “You’re Still Wondering”
Ojos Rojos – “So Wrong”
Steven R. Smith – “Old Skete 11”
Avrocar – “Tetra”
White+ – “silveR”
Matthew J Tow – “Night And Day”

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Episode #003 – The Obligatory Covers Mix

There’s a time when every podcast does a mix of cover songs. This is that time.

The Saints – “River Deep Mountain High”
Luis & The Wildfires – “Digital”
Fireball – “Archangels Thunderbird”
Kinski – “Point That Thing Somewhere Else”
Lumerians – “Chevaux Fous”
Wooden Shjips – “Contact”
Jessamine – “Cheree”
Alphastone – “You’re Not Foolin’ Me”
Denial – “California Dreaming”
Anomy – “TVC 15”
Accelera Deck – “I Believe It”
Band Of Susans – “Ahead”
The Raveonettes – “I Wanna Be Adored”
Britta Phillips – “How You Satisfy Me”

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