What Are You Listening To?

[Motor City Sonics]

On my January 25th Under The Radar Radio show I am going to feature Dry Cleaning's new album as Pick Of The Week.  They are an English band with a lead vocalist that speaks rather than sings (most of the time).  So the theme of the whole show is going to be TALKING songs.    Where most of the vocalizing is dialogue, rather than singing.   Did this before and it was a fun show to put together.    Do you have any suggestions so this version can be a little different than the last one?   (it doesn't have to be all speaking, but it has to be more speaking than singing).  

 

 

Examples of the first time in 2021 (and many of these will be repeated, it's been five years, it's okay to double up now, it's well beyond my 6 month barrier for older songs)

 

Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies

Dig, Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Comfort Eagle - Cake

Strobe Light - The B-52's

Fit, But Don't You Know It - The Streets

AEIOU Sometimes Y - EBN/OZN

Common People - William Shatner (it's better than you think)

Business Time - Flight Of The Conchords

 Frank's Wild Years - Tom Waits

The Party Broke Up - Was (Not Was)

Popular - Nada Surf

Belong - R.E.M.

I'm Straight (Hippie Johnny) - Jonathan Richman

Screenwriter's Blues - Soul Coughing

Valley Girl - Frank and Moon Zappa

Had some lesser-known stuff  from PINS, TV Preist, The Hold Steady, Sinead O'Brien.    

Might have to include Take Off by Bob & Doug McKenzie this time and maybe This Is The Picture from Peter Gabriel and Laurie Anderson.   

 

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Motor City Sonics

[Biff Mayhem]

11 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Valley Girl - Frank and Moon Zappa

The story of how this came into being is infuriating as a dad of girls and yet amusing the way Moon tells it. Frank was an incredibly talented human and a completely self-absorbed jerk. 

[Hongbit]

12 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

 

Business Time - Flight Of The Conchords

 

Hopefully the show is on a Wednesday.

Also have to assume that Detachable ***** is off the table for radio. 

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Hopefully the show is on a Wednesday.

Also have to assume that Detachable ***** is off the table for radio. 

Yeah,  it sure is.   

 

Back when it was new our station in East Lansing, 92.1 The Edge played that and it played in the Taco Bell on Grand River by campus and that store owner banned our station forever. 

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Hopefully the show is on a Wednesday.

Also have to assume that Detachable ***** is off the table for radio. 

Not on a Wednesday, but it'll be longer than two minutes.