Feb 19, 2019 · playlists

Mixtape :: Picturebook

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 10pm

I’m not going to deny the synesthetic appeal of songs with words about pictures, but there is something additionally poignant about the mood created that seems to stand out. The images called forth serve a variety of purposes, from the reminiscent to the hedonistic, but just like your family album, the whole thing works out because it has to.

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Song	Artist	Notes
Picture Book	Young Fresh Fellows	Originally by the Kinks
Your Picture	King Leg	Opening on the LSD tour not long ago
The Postcard	Dopo Yume	It's a specific sound
Smile For The Camera	Datarock	from Gabba Gabba Hey
— • BREAK • —
Photograph	Camper Van Beethoven	Originally by Ringo Starr
Pictures Of Matchstick Men	Status Quo	Hallucinations galore
Photograph	A Giant Dog	Very X
Pictures Of Lily	The Who	An important use of pictures
Postcard	Niños Con Bombas	Explosive polka
— • BREAK • —
Wishing	Ito-k	Originally by A Flock of Seagulls
The Missing Person's Waltz	Chaz & The Motorbikes	featuring the tremendous talents of Charlie Chesterman
Picture of the Future	Treat Her Right	It will haunt you
Baby Pictures	Elvis Costello + The Attractions	Gets to the point
— • BREAK • —
Centerfold	Against All Authority	Faster is better
Turning Japanese	Skankin' Pickle	More wanking music!
Foreign Picture Books	True Love	Try to decipher the captions
Postcard	Uncle Tupelo	A big bang of music
Click, Click, Click, Click	Bishop Allen	Closing out the Picturebook Mixtape

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Picture Book

Tonight’s show started off with Picture Book, a one-hour mixtape of songs dedicated to the captured image, whether it be a personal snapshot or an exotic postcard. The rest of the night was the usual Mixtape territory, closing out with my latest inexplicable favorite, International Sangman.

The Famous Polka + Balkan Fever

It was a day of jet-setting, starting in the dark hours of morning, and it wasn’t going to be over until the studio light went off. To keep up the energy levels, we presented a double-header of a special, first an hour of The Famous Polka, featuring songs titled after real (mostly) people, and following that two hours of Balkan Fever, with music that was far from exclusively Balkan but all fed into that manic two-step non-stop feeling.

Noodle Soup

The journey to the island had been placid, cutting through the postcard-blue waters on the kite hydrofoil like an experienced tailor shearing fine cloth for a new suit. Things were a bit more complicated now that they were at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. The horologist consulted the mission notes, which simply stated “remove all anachronistic displays.” The historian, fearing seasickness, had taken a pill and was now having a comically adverse reaction that rendered them useless for these judgements. A security guard eyed them warily, but perhaps they could turn the situation to their advantage by playing up the effects as excessive inebriation.

Cattails

The catamarine knifed silently upstream, its passage discernible only as a faint twin wake on the surface of the river. Up ahead, the sonar array was already picking up the turbulence from the Mbocaruzú falls, the staccato warning pings slicing neatly between the Mozambique big-band swing being piped into the earpieces. In their individual pods, the cartographer and the miner reviewed their maps, surveys, and orders. Up ahead, behind the rushing down-flow of the water and completely out of sight, a set of steel doors silently opened and awaited the pair’s arrival.