February 29th - Brutal Break-up Songs

When I posed the question on my Facebook page "What is the most brutal break-up song?" people thought that I was going through a break-up. I'm not. I have been thinking of break-up songs lately and about the people the songs are ABOUT. It is a private situation that gets made public. Luke Doucet's Broken One is one of the most brutal break-up songs in this regard. That's really how this whole thing got going. So today was all about brutal break-up songs. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion on Facebook and beyond!

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Farideh* - Prison of our love - SYmphony of Chemistry (local)
Lucinda Williams - Joy - Car wheels on a gravel road
Tom Waits - Walk Away - Dead man walking
Xavier Rudd - No woman no cry - Solace
Parachute - Mess I made - Losing Sleep
Mother Mother* - Ghosting - O my heart
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams - Rumours
Serena Ryder* - Blown like the wind at night - Is it ok
Elliott Smith - Somebody I used to know - Figure 8
Cat Power - Good Woman - You are free
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye - Vanilla Sky
Royal Wood* - Acting Crazy (It's a breakdown) - A good enough day

7:00-8:00am
Heartstrings* - Songs about me belle - self-titled (local)
The Sadies* - Loved on look - Tremendous Efforts
Luke Doucet* - Broken One - Broken (and other rogue states)
Ben Sinister* - I'm the one leaving you - On my mind
Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You want that picture - Lie down in the light
The White Stripes - I'm lonely (but I ain't that lonely yet) - Get behind me Satan
The Barenaked Ladies - Break your heart - Rock Spectacle
The Mountain Goats - No children - Tallahassee
Jill Barber* - In perfect time - A note to follow so

February 15, 2012

It's the day after Vday. The day of sale candy, flowers, cards, and red everything. I hope that you all felt loved on this day and that you feel loved every day.

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Jack Johnson - Dreamks be dream - On and on
Royal Wood* - I'm so glad - A good enough day
Jen Lane* - The ral thing - self-titled
Jon & Roy* - Another noon - Another noon
Sixty STories* - Countdown - Anthem Red
Novillero* - The Hypothesis - Aim right for the holes in their lives
The Weakerthans* - Tournament of Hearts - Reunion Tour
Little Miss Higgins* - You turn me on, I'm a radio - Clobber Shop Sessions
Little Miss Higgins* - The Dirty Ol' Tractor SOng - Junction City
Little Miss Higgins* - Bargain! Shop Panties - Across the Plains

7:00-8:00am
Jill Barber* - Never Quit loving you - Chances
Amelia Curran* - Wrecking Ball - Hunter Hunter
The Be Good Tanyas* - When Doves Cry - Hello love
The Waifs - London Still - Up all night
Jason Collett* - Tiny ocean of tears - Motor Motel love songs
Tegan and Sara* - Relief next to me - The Con
Ndidi Onukwula* - Water - No, I never
Sarah SLean* - Get Home - The Baroness
Hawksley WOrkman* - When these mountains were the sea short - Treeful of Staling
The Sadies* - Loved on Look - Tremendous Efforts
Luke DOucet* - Vladivostok - Boken (and other rogue states)
Blitzen Trapper - Love u - Furr
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Who do you love? - Living with the living

February 8, 2012 Playlist! "I can tell we'll never be safe until the walls fall down..."

And every morning chipping away
til the walls fall down

It's February! The month of love. The month of nauseating amounts of hearts and pink and red. I'm not so much a Valentine's day person, except I love love. I love music. I love my family. I love my friends. I love my bonus kids. I love my fitness pal. So love the love, don't love the consumerism that goes along with it.

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Bright Eyes - I woke up this morning with this song in my head - Lua
Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Fashionable People - Ashtray Rock
The New Pornographers* - Letter from an Occupant - Mass Romantic
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King is Dead
Metric* - Help! I'm Alive - Remixes
Penny & the Quartete - You and me - Blue Valentine Soundtrack
Gordon Lightfoot* - Songs for a winter night - Gord's Gold
The Wooden Sky* - Take me out - City of Light EP
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane over the sea - In an Aeroplane over the sea
Josh Ritter - Kathleen (acoustic) - Hello Starling

7:00-8:00am
Wintersleep* - Weighty Ghost - self
Sarah Harmer* - The Ring - I'm a Mountain
Danny Michel* - Midnight Train - Valhalla
Yukon Blonde* - Wind Blows - self-titled
The Zolas* - You're too Cool - Tic Toc Tic
Sloan* - Coax Me - Twice Removed
John K Samson* - Heart of the Continent - City Route 85
The Weakerthans* - One Great City - Reconstruction Site
Marketa Irglova - Your Company - Anar
Plants and Animals* - Bye Bye Bye - Parc Avenue
Okervill River - Our Life is not a Movie or Maybe - The Stage Names
The Sadies* - What's Left Behind - New Seasons

February 1, 2012 Playlist! "When the sun goes down on Cradle Hill and darkness then fills up the sky..."

And memories fill your mind
I hope you do not cry
Look at the stars above
Letting these constant joys of love

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Shotgun Jimmie* - Bedhead - The Onlys
Christine Fellos* - Saturday Night on Utopia Parkway - Nevertheless
Cat Power - Lived in Bars - The Greatest
Rose Melbert* - Cast away the clouds - Cast away the clouds
Scott Nolan* - Open Spaces - Receiver/Reflector
Whitehorse* - Killing Time is Murder - self-titled
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings (featuring Rosanne Cash) - Got you Covered - Kings & Queens
The Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brothers
Sunparlour Players* - Runner - Us Little Devils
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Blitzen Trapper - Love the way you walk away - American Goldwing

7:00-8:00am
The Weakerthans* - Tournament of Hearts - Reunion Tour
Hannah Georgas* - This is Good - This is Good
Mother Mother* - Arms Tonight - Oh my heart
The Wooden Sky* - Take me Out
The Once* - Cradle Hill - Row upon row of the people we Know
The Seahags* - Bare Feet - Gospel (local)
Beirut - A Candle's Fire - The Rip Tide
The Darcys - Black Cow - Aja Interpreted by The Darcys
Eekwol* - Too Sick - Apprentice to the Mystery (local)
Buck 65* - Wicked and Weird - Talkin' Honkey Blues
Liz Phair - Johnny Feelgood - whitechocolatespaceegg
Laura Cantrell - 14th Street - Humming by the Flowered Vine

January 25th Playlist! "So this is the new year and I have no resolutions"

So it's now into Week 3 of the new year. How are your resolutions going? Mine are going pretty good I guess. They had to do with being better with money, going to more concerts, and being on time for my radio show. The last two are the ones that I have the biggest trouble with. Anyway, here's the playlist for this week:

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Jon & Roy* - Little bit of love - Another Moon (2008)
Jill Barber* - Chances - Chances (2008)
Feist* - Secret Heart - Let it Die
The White Stripes - I'm lonely (but I ain't that lonely yet) - Get behind me Satan (2005)
Janis Joplin - Mercedez Benz
Kate Maki* - Strangest Dream - Confusion Unlimited (2003)
Amelia Curran* - Bye Bye Montreal - Hunter Hunter
Maybe Smith* - Treehouse Enthusiasts - Another Murder in the Morning
Josh Ritter - Right Moves - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (2007)
Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year - Transatlanticism

7:00-8:00am
Little Miss Higgins* - Bargain! SHop Panties - Across the Plains (2010, local)
The Be Good Tanyas* - Ootischemia - Hello Love
The New Pornographers* - Little Daisy - Challengers (2007)
Malika Sellami* - Little Daisy - Barefoot Smiling (2011, local)
Arcade Fire* - Modern Man - The Suburbs (2010)
Wolf Parade* - Shine a Light - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
Sloan* - If it feels good do it - Pretty Together (2001)
Cat Empire - Protons, Neutrons, Electrons - Two Shoes (2005)
The Dears* - You and I are a gang of Losers - Gang of Losers (2006)
The Black Keys - Just got to be - Magic Potion (2006)

January 18, 2012 Playlist! "The season rubs me wrong, the summer swells anon"

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water and down by the old main drag

Today's theme is cold... or rather staying out of the cold and trying to keep warm. By theme, I don't really mean that I'm playing cold songs or even songs about cold. This morning I played songs that can keep you warm! Mostly they are fast-tempo songs that can get you going this morning. I hope that I was successful in that endeavour! Stay warm, Saskatoon.

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Metric* - Succexy - Old world underground, where are you now (2003)
The New Pornographers* - Together (2010)
Immaculate Machine* - Dear Confessor - Fables
Wild Strawberries* - Heroine - Heroine (1995)
Peter Elkas* - Sweet Nancy - Wall of Fire (2007)
Julie Doiron* - Spill yer lungs - i can wonder what you did with your day (2009)
Jack Johnson - Bubble Toes - Brushfire Fairytales (2000)
Greg MacPherson* - Bank Robber - Maintenance
Sunparlour Players* - If the creeks don't rise - Hymns for the Happy (2007)
Royal Wood* - A mirror without - A good enough day (2007)

7:00-8:00am
Rose Cousins* - Celebrate - The Send Off (2009)
Henri Faberge and the Adorables* - Favourite Kisses - self titled
Jenn Grant* - Getcha Good - Honeymoon Punch (2011)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King is Dead (2011)
Weezer - Buddy Holly - Blue Album
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Modest Mouse - Float On - Good news for people who love bad news (2004)
The Weakerthans* - Diagnosis - Fallow (1997)
Arcade Fire* - Rebellion (Lies) - Funeral (2004)
Controller.Controller* - History - History (2004, Paper Bag Records)
Jason Collett* - Sorry Lori - Here's to being here (2008)
Blitzen Trapper - Laughing Lover - Destroyer of the Void (2010)
Neil Young* - Old King - Harvest Moon (1992)

January 11, 2012 Playlist!

Some people only listen to the first half of an album. I'm not one of those people. So today I played deep tracks from some of my favourite albums. Songs that don't get a lot of "play" anywhere. Songs that get forgotten. Songs that are buried gems. Sometimes the best things in life aren't right at the front, you have to be patient, dig deeper, and listen.

Artist - Song - Album (year of release, extra information)
* = Canadian

6:00-7:00am
Novillero* - Far from too far - A Little Tradition
The Hidden Cameras* - Silence can be a Headline - Origin*Orphan
Cuff the Duke* - Need You - way down here
Cuff the Duke* - Another day in Purgatory - way down here
The Weakerthans* - Utilities - Reunion Tour (2007)
Ani Difranco - I know this bar - to the teeth (1999)
Liz Phair - Whipsmart - Whipsmart (1994)
Immaculate Machine* - C'mon Sealegs - Fables

7:00-8:00am
Carolyn Mark* - Poisoned with Hope - Nothing is Free
Little Miss Higgins* - Velvet Barley Bed - Junction City
Laura Cantrell - Bees - Humming by the flowered vine
Whitehorse* - Broken - self-titled (Luke Doucet & Melissa McClelland)
The Gruff* - Five Star - A trail of missing thoughts
Heartstrings* - Finland Woods - In a land far away that is fair (local)
Ember Swift* - Out of Air - 11:11 (2011)
Oh my Darling* - Anna K - Sweet Nostalgia
The Once* - A Round Again - Row upon row of the people they know (2011)
Jolie Holland & The Grand Chandeliers - All those girls - Pint of blood
Little Miss Higgins* - Glad your whiskey fits inside my purse (2010, local)