18 August 2008

Radio Wowsville 8/17/08: "This Time Around"

Tonight, on Radio Wowsville, we discussed WTJU's upcoming 2008-09 Fall Season. Yes, "Battle of the Network Stars" is back... there is a rumored exhuming of Blind Lemon Pledge in the offing... Nick Rubin is tanned, rested and ready... and we have an impressive roster of newly-minted broadcasting recruits on tap, such as this cool guy Orion that sat in on tonight's show and punched buttons and cued records. The only problem? Nobody liked our new WTJU slogan idea, to replace "The Sound Choice in Central Virginia." 
       You be the judge. Here it is: 
      "There is a netherworld. Inside that netherworld is another netherworld. Inside that second netherworld, you'll find a secret passageway where a sonic paradise awaits you, a land of aural goodness that will transfix you and coat your ears with ecstasy. A special place that will make you want to jump up and down on large sand dunes and try to catch the sun in your hands. But don't. The sun is hot. It can burn you. But that's us. That's WTJU 91.1 FM. Just hang a right at the second netherworld. Careful with the sun. Charlottesville."  
      Maybe next season?

1. "Starman" — Dewey Cox (John C. Riley)
2. "How Big Am I?" — Rogers & Clarke (Beatty & Hoffman)
    "Ishtar is not that bad a movie, in fact it might be some kind of a masterpiece!"Don (before the Funny Wagon came to get him)
4. "Three Women" — Stereolab
    From the 'Lab's excellent new Chemical Chords CD, due out this week. 3 Women is also the title of one of Robert Altman's most interesting and enigmatic films. Coincidence????!!! Yeah, probably.
5. "Captain Easychord" — Stereolab
6. "Eleanor Rigby" — The Third Wave
7. "Joe Public" — The Rutles
     "Some people want to do crazy things to Amphibians..."
10. "Surfin' Bird" — The Trashmen
11. "Sha Boom Bang" — Brother Zee and the Decades
12. "It's Love" — Chris Knox
     You might know this best as a Heineken jingle. Actually, Knox — a former member of New Zealand's Tall Dwarves — recorded this pop jewel back in 2000 as the opening track of his Beat CD.
13. "Flying Carpet Ride" — Cub
14. "Gorilla Rock" — The 11th Hour
    Thanks to new WTJU deejay Orion — soon to debut afternoons on the 'teej — for throwing this into the Wowsville mix. 
17. "Free Range" — The Fall
18. "Stayin' Alive" — Jonathan and Darlene Edwards
19. "Love Me" — Bee Gees
     We had to cleanse the palette with the real thing.
20. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" — The Monkees
21. "This Street" — Marshall Crenshaw
22. "Goodbye Holly" — The Left Banke
23. "Something On Your Mind" — Karen Dalton
24. "That Wave" — XTC
      Then...
25. "Tipitina" — Prof. Longhair
26. "In The Land of Make Believe" — Dusty Springfield
    ... a two-fer played in honor of the late Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler, who passed away on Friday at the age of 91.  
27. "Put Records Back in the Record Shop" — Coo Coo Rockin' Time
28. "52 Girls" — The B-52s
    Miss Olivia just had to hear this one. 

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