It's been relatively slow musically the last couple of weeks. Not too many shows that I had to be at and not too much in the way of new music to get me excited. Today's post features the Portland band Quasi, comprised of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss. Their new album "When The Going Gets Dark" continues a solid string of releases over the last 13 years. It had been a while since I saw them play, but was able to catch them about 2 weeks ago here in Portland before they left on a West Coast tour.
The show reminded my of one of my favorite Quasi songs "The Curse Of Having It All." I guess this song would be considered a deep album cut and more obscure, that would be if their whole catalog weren't already considered reasonably obscure. This song is unusual in that it is one of the few that Janet sings lead. They played it live and it brought back a song that I hadn't listened to in years. It's a simple song, just vocals, drums, and keyboards (actually, a very typical Quasi arrangement). The second song is from the new album is my favorite on the record.
I haven't been doing such a great job of posting all the new music that's being played and added to the playlist. LOTD now has a playlist of about 2000 songs. When I started broadcasting about 4 years ago, the playlist started at about 800 songs. I add new music to the playlist in two ways. Newly released music is added to a rotation such that a new song gets played at every top of the hour. I add both new and old music to the standard playlist and it has grown steadily over the years. The roots of LOTD are in the early to mid 80's post punk era. Lately, I've been thinking that I've really been diluting out that older music as new stuff is added. I like to mix the old and new and that's what this station is about for me. However, when I listen, there is now less Replacements, Husker Du, old R.E.M., etc. proportionately in the mix. I'm thinking that I may have to go back and more of the old favorites.
Here's a partial list of the new music that's been airing on LOTD over the last couple of months.
1. Calexico Cruel
2. Calexico Bisbee Blue
3. Calexico Panic Open String
4. Calexico Letter To Bowie Knife
5. Calexico All Systems Red
6. Centro-matic Covered Up In Mines
7. Centro-matic Calling Thermatico
8. Centro-matic Patience For The Ride
9. Centro-matic Triggers And Trash Heaps
10. Destroyer Rubies
11. Destroyer Painter In Your Pocket
12. Destroyer 3000 Flowers
13. Dirty Pretty Things Deadwood
14. Dirty Pretty Things Bang Bang You're Dead
15. Dirty Pretty Things Blood Thirsty Bastards
16. Dirty Pretty Things Gin & Milk
17. Dirty Pretty Things You Fucking Love It
18. Dirty Pretty Things Wondering
19. Dirty Pretty Things Last Of The Small Town Playboys
20. The Flaming Lips My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
21. The Flaming Lips The W.A.N.D.
22. Graham Coxon Standing On My Own Again
23. The High Violets Love is Blinding
24. The High Violets Cool Green
25. The High Violets Want You
26. The High Violets X-Tasy
27. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness The Ghost
28. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Lights
29. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness We Choose Faces
30. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness If It Was Me
31. Jon Langford Workingman's Paalace
32. Jon Langford Invisible Man
33. Jon Langford All Roads Lead Back to Me
34. Jon Langford Gold Brick
35. Jon Langford Tall Ships
36. Jon Langford Lost in America
37. The Minus 5 Out There On The Maroon
38. The Minus 5 My Life As A Creep
39. The Minus 5 With A Gun
40. The Minus 5 Cemetery Row W14
41. The Minus 5 Cigarettes, Coffee & Booze
42. The Minus 5 Bought A Rope
43. Mission Of Burma 2wice
44. Morrissey I Will See You In Far Off Places
45. Morrissey You Have Killed Me
46. Morrissey In The Future When Alls Well
47. Norfolk and Western A Gilded Age
48. Norfolk and Western Watch The Days Slowly Fade
49. Norfolk and Western We Were All Saints
50. Parks & Recreation The Perfect Love
51. Parks & Recreation La La La La La
52. Parks & Recreation Maybe The Moon Knows Something
53. Parks & Recreation Flat On Her Back
54. Quasi Alice the Goon
55. Quasi The Rhino
56. Quasi I Don't Know You Anymore
57. Quasi Peace and Love
58. The Raconteurs Hands
59. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldier
60. The Raconteurs Intimate Secretary
61. The Raconteurs Store Bought Bones
62. The Rifles Repeated Offender
63. The Rifles Peace and Quiet
64. The Rifles When I'm Alone
65. The Television Personalities My Dark Places
66. Tommy Keene Warren In The 60's
67. The Wedding Present Interstate 5 (Extended Version)
68. The Wedding Present Always The Quiet One
69. The Wedding Present I'm From Further North Than You
70. The Wedding Present Ringway To Seatac
71. The Wedding Present It's For You
72. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gold Lion
73. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cheated Hearts
74. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Dudley