OFF: "Space Does Not Care" Play-list 11/03

[K Henderson]

Incredulously, AndyGee states the non-obvious...

>perhaps if you played a few things that maybe people aren't so familiar
>with, or more importantly 'exclusives' that can't be heard elsewhere - it's
>more work for you but you should get onto the bands and labels, get them to
>donate music that isn't on CD or album, and if they're worried about it
>being recorded for download

You *must* be kidding.  OK, maybe you're thinking from the perspective of an
internet listener from a very narrow niche audience.  Which perhaps might
even be partially valid?  I dunno, a college radio station usually doesn't
have a transmitter that sends out a signal farther than you can hit a
three-iron.  So perhaps a majority of Chuck's listeners are indeed of the
internet variety? In any case, ostensibly this is a radio show, for radio
listeners in a country (the United States) that claims Britney Spears and
Michael Jackson as its most talented entertainers.  I hardly think that a
track by a guy (Chris Mead - Guild Navigators) I know from around here in
central Ohio that handmade a few CDR's for himself and ten other guys hardly
qualifies as 'familiar.'  :)

Of course, that's not a representative example of what Chuck plays mostly,
but I wouldn't believe for an instant that even the 200 (or so) folks on
this list, who are undoubtedly some of the most knowledgable music fans in
existence, is particularly familiar with a *majority* of this stuff.  I
mean, a quick count tells me that I have 15 of the 27 albums in the list
below.  I doubt seriously there are three people on this list that have
more.  And you and John McIntyre are probably two of them.  And now that I
think about it, Jerry K. is the third.  :)

Well, whatever, I guess it all depends on what the point of doing the radio
show for Chuck really is...if he was trying to give this sort of music some
visibility in an otherwise barren wasteland of 'alternative' music and
hiphop, and perhaps turn on a few young folk that might have heard a Sigur
Ros or Spiritualized tune or two and catch the common 'space-rock' drift
from his show, then I think playing the 'less' obscure might be the ticket.
It seems as though he tries to do some of both.  Although for the life of
me, I couldn't say what one track from the list of 27 would be considered
the 'most popular.' The Motorhead, HW, UFO, and Can tracks are hardly
'standards'.  I would guess 'Sinner' by JP (of all these, this was the one
that I knew at the youngest age)
or perhaps 'Hallo Gallo' because of the recent rerelease and the
'popularity' of Neu! retro-tributizing amongst the post-rock set.

So, I can say with some certainty that if I were driving down the road
(which I don't do much at all anymore) and turned on the radio (which I
certainly couldn't do since my car lacks one that operates) to any station
above 90.0 on the FM dial (i.e., US commercial radio) and heard *ANY* track
from this list (barring "Sinner", which would nonetheless be very unusual) I
would probably lose control and drive off the road from shock.

Grakkl (FAA), who hopes that Allan "Bud" Selig suddenly realizes that he's
completely lost his mind and that there ain't one baseball fan on this earth
that thinks that we need to repeat the Cleveland Browns fiasco with my
Minnesota Twins.

>> 11/3
>>
>> 1.Cul de Sac-- "China Gate/Sakhalin" (China Gate; Thirsty Ear)
>> 2.Mushroom-- "Antonioni's Groove" (Iamaphotographer; Plain)
>> 3.Gong-- "Other Side of the Sky" (Angels Egg; Decal/Charly)
>> 4.Capt. Beefheart/Magic Band-- "Moonlight on Vermont" (Trout Mask Replica;
>WB)
>> 5.Frank Zappa-- "For Calvin <And His Next 2 Hitch-hikers>" (Grand Wazoo;
>> Rykodisc)
>> 6.Neu!-- "Hallo Gallo" (ST'd, Astralwerks)
>> 7.Can-- "Mother Upduff" (Unlimited Edition; Mute/Spoon)
>> 8.Faust-- "Mamie is Blue" (So Far; Collector's Choice...and that new box
>set)
>> 9.Guru Guru-- "Der Elektrolurch" (ST'd/Spaceship: Best of Pt. 2;
>Cleopatra)
>> 10.Camel-- "Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider" (Mirage; Janus)
>> 11.Magma-- "HHAie" (Live; Jaro)
>> 12.Sproton Layer-- "Up" (With Magnetic Fields Disrupted; New Alliance)
>> 13.Wallenstein-- "Relics of Past" (Mother Universe; Spalax)
>> 14.Motorhead-- "Vibrator" (ST'd; Attic)
>> 15.Hawkwind-- "Brainbox Pollution" (1999 Party Live '74 Chicago; EMI)
>> 16.U.F.O.-- "Prince Kajuku" (Space Metal; Nova)
>> 17.Robert Calvert/Maximum Effect-- "Ned Ludd" (Live 3/11/86 Carlysle)
>> 18.Twink/Plasticland-- "Seize the Time" (You Need a Fairy Godmother;
>Midnight)
>> 19.Judas Priest-- "Sinner" (Sin After Sin; CBS/Columbia)
>> 20.Anubian Lights-- "Skinless Kiss" (Rare/Remix CD-R)
>> 21.Scattered Planets-- "Landing Pad" (Drinking w/Aliens)
>> 22.Guild Navigators-- "Ghost of the Cosmonaut" (Phase 1: '91-'97)
>> 23.Nik Turner-- "Thoth" (Transglobal Friends/Relations; Transparency)
>> 24.Spacious Mind-- "Cave Song" (Organic Mind Solution; Garageland)
>> 25.Shay-- "Conversation in the Cathedral" (Dreamers and Stalkers)
>> 26.Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch-- "Silencio" ("Mullholland Drive"
>> Soundtrack; BMG)
>> 27.Muz-- tracks 1-6 (Banana in Portugese; Tekito)