The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
A short blues set, a great big love and Talking Heads.What more could you want!
Lots of live tracks tonight.A euro only release of some REM and a live track from Elvis Costello recorded at the Elmo.
Try to think of listening to no crap as being a course in musicology.When you challenge yourself to study it you force yourself to grow.Music is the oldest continuous form of language.The beat of the drum through the primordial night to 360 degree 3D sound through headsets. It has been with us always. A gift of god…
This weeks movie Fahrenheit 451.The original from 1966.Brilliantly shot and a great story.Not so great acting or character development.Dark dystopian aspects of social control that we see happening right now.(They are taking hundreds of books out of libraries and schools in America.)Bradbury was essentially a futurist and he along with Harlan Ellison and Philip K. Dick showed us the reality of now.You can’t say you weren’t warned.
Ten percent of the jobs in Korea are now done by Robots.
Kimmy K just got the first Optimus companion robot.Saw some pictures of this thing getting into a car and making heart gestures with his metal fingers.
Now I’m scared.
The Dropkick Murphy’s for some truth and some punky type stuff to get you dancing.
This weeks web site. https://www.wikiart.org. A fantastic data base of 20th century art.Most of the work is never seen.
Me.nocrapradio@yahoo.com
send tough poetry in a mp3 and I ‘ll try to get it on the air.The time for Mercy has passed.Panic runs Riot and there are no excuses left.
“In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”. e e cummings
elvis costello-radio live
clash-i fought the law
pil-public image
r hell-blank generation
animals-I Ain’t Got You
mainline-shes alright
doors-been down
beatles-yer blues
fleetwood mac-big love
rem-losing my religion
hip-the wherewithal
j cash-hurt
n cave-the one that
j cale-hallelujah
nico-the fairest of the seasons
jimmy cliff-mystery babylon
anthony b-sufferin man
tootsmaytals-in the ghetto
p tosh-walk and don’t look back
j winter-black cat bone
mississippi fred mcdowell-dust my broom
j cotton-buried alive
shirts vs skins-heavens just
bernays propaganda-safe left
subways-shake! shake!
bad religion-punk rock song
dropkick murphys-the gauntlet
broadcast zero-i don’t care
peter gabriel-games without frontiers
talking heads-seen and not seen
bowie-abdulmajid
empty quarter-resurect
Karma is real. pj
Catch regular no crap every friday night at midnight.
You can download some older shows from my dropbox address
1. AC/DC, Let There Be Rock
2. AC/DC, Demon Fire
3. Black Sabbath, Into The Void
4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Sledgehammer
5. Blackfoot, Gimme Gimme Gimme
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Devil In The Bottle
7. Jimi Hendrix, Bold As Love
8. Deep Purple, April
9. Queen, The Hitman
10. Aerosmith, Jailbait
11. Robin Trower, Too Rolling Stoned
12. The Rolling Stones, Tops
13. Joe Jackson, Girl (live)
14. The Beatles, Cry Baby Cry
15. Neil Young, Like An Inca
16. Groundhogs, Split, Parts 1-4
My track-by-track tales:
1. AC/DC, Let There Be Rock . . . Title cut from the 1977 album, Bon Scott still alive and on lead vocals, uncompromising raunch and roll setting the tone for at least the first few songs of the set.
2. AC/DC, Demon Fire . . . One of two tracks – Shot In The Dark the other – AC/DC is playing on its just-begun Power Up tour in support of its 2020 album. A long time between the record release and its supporting tour but lots happened in between: Covid, lead singer Brian Johnson’s hearing issues such that he was replaced by Axl Rose of Guns ‘N Roses on a previous tour – including a period where Rose, with a broken leg, sang from a wheelchair. Kudos to Rose, he did a fine job overall in my view based on available video. Johnson, 77, recovered and alongside lead guitarist Angus Young, 70, AC/DC is still around, alive and kicking by all concert review accounts so far. As for Demon Fire, it’s got a similar funky infectious riff to Safe In New York City from the 2000 album Stiff Upper Lip. That’s a good thing. Are they ripping themselves off? Of course, but that’s AC/DC’s genius – doing variations on a theme for years yet still sounding fresh because discerning listeners know it’s not all the same if one actually investigates the albums, deep cuts and all. Still, Young had fun with that perception years ago:
“I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums (at the time) that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”
3. Black Sabbath, Into The Void . . . Hugely influential metal/doom sludge rock track before there were such categorizations, riding one of guitarist Tony Iommi’s darkest riffs, from Sabbath’s 1971 album Master Of Reality.
4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Sledgehammer . . . Another band revived and on tour. BTO has been on the road since April 1 in Canada playing all the expected hits plus Guess Who tracks from Randy Bachman’s time in the band plus an encore medley of rock and roll from various artists including BTO: Hey You / All Right Now / Rock’n Me / You Shook Me All Night Long / Honky Tonk Women / Get It On (Bang a Gong) / (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction / Old Time Rock and Roll / Hey You (reprise). No Sledgehammer, though, which is of course cool but a fine deep track with combined lead vocals by Bachman and bassist C.F. (Fred) Turner from 1973’s Not Fragile album which featured the hit single You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. BTO wraps up the Canadian leg of its tour in early May before starting a series of US dates in mid-July, running through the summer.
5. Blackfoot, Gimme Gimme Gimme . . . Straight ahead southern riff raunch and roll from 1980’s Tomcattin’ album, fuelled by leader Rickey Medlocke’s guitar and lead vocals. Medlocke was an early, pre-released recordings member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, playing drums on demos, some of which eventually surfaced on the post-plane crash compilation Skynyrd’s First and… Last which was later expanded and re-released as Skynyrd’s First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album. Medlocke rejoined Skynyrd full time, on guitar, for the 1997 album Twenty and has been a core member of the reconstituted band since.
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Devil In The Bottle . . . Speaking of Skynyrd (without Medlocke) . . . A touching tale about demon alcohol from the unplugged 1994 album Endangered Species that featured classic pre-plane crash Skynyrd tracks like Sweet Home Alabama, Down South Jukin’, Saturday Night Special and I Ain’t The One as well as material done by the reconstituted band and a cover of Elvis’s Heartbreak Hotel. At the time of Endangered Species, the group still featured several of the plane crash survivors or previous, pre-crash players in the band.
The lineup: Gary Rossington and Ed King on guitars; Leon Wilkeson bass; Billy Powell piano from the classic-era group plus lead singer Johnny Van Zant, the departed singer Ronnie Van Zant’s brother. I like all Skynyrd stuff. I think – and that’s cool – people who criticize the latter-day group as being nothing more than a tribute band may not have sampled and thus are missing lots of good music but that’s ok and understandable. But if people can’t make the full leap from band version to version, I’d recommend Endangered Species as a possible entry point if one is at all curious.
7. Jimi Hendrix, Bold As Love . . . Title cut to Axis: Bold As Love. There’s no real hook to it, yet it’s completely compelling with of course fine playing by Hendrix and band as you float along on the bed of instrumentation they lay down.
8. Deep Purple, April . . . I had to get this classical/progressive/hard rock piece in before the end of April. It’s from the so-called Mark I version of Deep Purple. The lineup featured Nick Simper on bass and Rod Evans on lead vocals although Evans doesn’t come in until almost nine minutes into this 12-minute track from the third and final album done by Mark I, simply titled Deep Purple. It was released in 1969. An underappreciated, inventive period of Purple.
9. Queen, The Hitman . . . A hard rocker from 1991’s excellent Innuendo album, the last record the band released while lead singer Freddie Mercury was alive and a nod to classic 1970s Queen not only on this song but throughout the record.
10. Aerosmith, Jailbait . . . Sleazy start/stop/start rocker from the 1982 album Rock In A Hard Place. It’s an appropriate album title in that guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford had left a band disintegrating amid drug abuse and other issues. They were replaced by Jimmy Crespo (sessions with Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks and Meat Loaf among others) and Rick Dufay (various sessions). Yet, some quality Aerosmith material was still produced, like this bluesy boozy raunchy rolling track that starts with a wild intro, comes to a stop, then winds up again. Lightning Strikes, which I’ve played before, perhaps too often, remains to me the best track on the album but this rocker isn’t far behind.
11. Robin Trower, Too Rolling Stoned . . . My favorite Trower track from arguably his best album, the 1974 release Bridge Of Sighs. It also serves as an obvious segue to the next band/song.
12. The Rolling Stones, Tops . . . The Stones, wanting a new studio album to tour behind in 1981 but pressed for time, visited their vaults to cobble leftovers into the chart-topping feast that became the Tattoo You album propelled by the hit single Start Me Up. But there’s so much depth to the album including this mid-tempo ballad whose history goes back to 1972 sessions and features great drumming from Charlie Watts and lead guitar from Mick Taylor.
13. Joe Jackson, Girl (from Live Music) . . . No guitars. Piano-driven cover of The Beatles’ cut from Rubber Soul, issued on Jackson’s 2011 live album taken from a 2010 tour of Europe. JJ labeled his band at the time the Joe Jackson Trio, a terrific unit featuring his perennial on bass (Graham Maby) going back to the 1979 debut album Look Sharp! David Houghton, the drummer on Look Sharp! and Jackson’s first few albums and several later ones, is also on board.
14. The Beatles, Cry Baby Cry . . . Haunting yet beautiful track from The White Album, written and sung by John Lennon and punctuated by Paul McCartney’s ‘can you take me back’ coda.
15. Neil Young, Like An Inca . . . How can you not get into, or at least try, a track that starts with the lyric ‘said the condor to the preying mantis’ ? This extended piece from 1982’s off the wall Kraftwerk-like electronic album Trans is actually a curveball within the context of the record, given it’s a ‘traditional’ or conventional-sounding Young song on an otherwise experimental entry. Geffen Records sued Young at the time for not sounding like Neil Young (?!, he obviously should be open to creating as his muse moves him but, understandably perhaps, Geffen would have been expecting Neil Young as folk or grunge Neil Young, not Kraftwerk or whatever). Young countersued in the interests of creative freedom. Both lawsuits were soon dropped and Young received a personal apology from label leader David Geffen for interfering in the creative process. Trans is an interesting album as are all Young’s experiments – albeit not to all tastes – while he was signed to Geffen including Everybody’s Rockin’ (rockabilly) in 1983 and the country album Old Ways in 1985.
16. Groundhogs, Split, Parts 1-4 . . . Time to ‘split’ from the studio via this multi-part title suite from the British blues rock band’s 1971 album. They’re all individual songs, they each ‘end’ on a fadeout and aren’t conventionally connected yet are an overall unified piece.
Kevin Dupuis, People’s Party of Canada candidate for Kitchener — Conestoga came into the CKMS-FM studio for “Meet The Candidate” on Monday 21 April 2025.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
What’s up, y’all? As always, here is what I have added to Libretime in the past week:
Cheyanne Summer
We’ve Got Time
Pop
CanCon
Ostara Project
Roots
Jazz
CanCon
Simon & Paul
Vowels
Punk
CanCon
Alan Pasqua
New Hope
Jazz
No
kpec3 arrival
Greater is HE – Single
Rock / Christian
No
TeethOut
Brittle but Elite
Punk
CanCon
Trivan
Dark Malicious Desire – Single
Metal
No
Ana Marija Sr
‘Moj tajni lutkar’ – Single
Electronic
No
Morten Haxholm
Magnolia – Single
Jazz
No
DEREV
TROUBLED MIND
Rock
CanCon
The Tennessee Cree
Hellbound Train – Single
Folk
CanCon
Brian Sumner
I Used To Love You – Single
Folk
No
NO HAY BANDA & Steven Takasugi
Il Teatro Rosso
Classical
CanCon
Dean Young
Blue Tequila Nights – Single
Country
CanCon
Heather Feather
Happy for You – Single
Pop / Children’s Music
CanCon
Jack Judd
Birdie – Single
Folk
Instrumental also available
No
Vampire Slumber Party
HOLES
Rock
No
Aidan Skira
Control (She’s So) – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
Dear Rouge
Black to Gold (Stripped) – Single
Rock
CanCon
The Bapti$$
Mister 808 – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
Joe Lapinski
Hurt a Bird – Single
Folk
CanCon
Jont
Fingers Crossed – Single
Folk
No
TR3NT
5150 – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Composure – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Different Cities – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Dreams or Nightmares – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Falling From The Sky – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Notice Me – Single
Alternative
CanCon
TR3NT
Pride – Single
Alternative
CanCon
Sam Dickinson
Gemini Duets
Jazz
CanCon
Crossword Smiles
Consequences & Detours
Rock
No
Oliver Lutz
Calamari Fantasy
Jazz
No
Web Web
Plexus Plexus
Jazz
No
Chick Boyd
F*** Don’t Fight Make Love Not War
Pop
NSFR
CanCon
Dual Dialect
Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site
Electronic
No
Museums
IN WAVES – Single
Rock
CanCon
Museums
Sink Your Teeth – EP
Rock
CanCon
Lost Planet Airmen
Forgotten Son – Single
Punk
CanCon
Patche
Boulet – Single
Electronic
No
Bad Bad Joel
Another Day With You – Single
Electronic
CanCon
Armoire
Genre, Emo!
Rock
CanCon
Roy Head
Last Time Around
Blues
No
Takuya Karoda
EVERYDAY
Jazz
No
Sheldon Agwu
Kintsugi
Jazz
No
Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim & Joey Chang
Muzosynth Orchestra Vol. 1
Jazz
No
Dream Brigade
Dream Brigade
Jazz
No
Sohayla Smith
Teenage Dirtbag (Cover) – Single
Country
CanCon
Jay Williams
ABISHAG (Ancient Mix) – Single
Electronic
No
The Legendary Ten Seconds
Ricardian Argosy
Folk
No
Gwynn Davies
Only a Boy When You Needed a Man
Folk
CanCon
Katja T
Lucky Me – Single
Pop
No
REDDSTAR
F33L G00D – Single
Rock
No
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Ostara Project – Dreams and Olive Trees
Sam Dickinson – My Shepherd Collie Baby
Oliver Lutz – SWOOSH
Web Web – Bird’s Lament
Marie Morck – Look for the Silver Lining
Morten Haxholm – Magnolia
Alan Pasqua – I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)
Dual Dialect – Rise like Emerald Serpents
Patche – Boulet
Bad Bad Joel – Another Day Without You
Ana Marija Sir – Moj Tanji Lutkar (feat. N I K O L I N A)
Olivier Loridan – Valentine Theme
Kerrier Collective x wolf peaches – Fake Silence
Alexander Flood – Don’t Wait 4 Me (feat. Kara Manning)
Cheyanne Summer – Do You Love Me?
Sugar Soap – Time to Come Alive
Gardener – Spinning Out
Ribbon Skirt – Wrong Planet
Simon & Paul – Wee Oo
TeethOut – Lifeline II (feat. Madison Regan from Last Good Thing)
Lost Planet Airmen – Forgotten Son
Crossword Smiles – Night Train
TR3NT – Notice Me
Kpec3 arrival – Greater is HE
Kasador – I Don’t Hate You (But I’m Trying)
Sister Ray – Andrew Alexander
Joe Lapinski – Hurt a Bird
Brian Sumner – I Used To Love You
The Legendary Ten Seconds – King in the Car Park
Jont – Fingers Crossed
The Tennessee Cree – Hellbound Train
Dean Young – Blue Tequila Nights
Rachel Kane – Holler at the Wind
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’ – London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, conductor
Gabriel Faure, Les berceaux, Op. 23, No. 1 – Anastasia Kobekina, cello, Azul Lima, Lute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Sonata in C Major, K. 296: III. Rondeau. Allegro – Arthur Grumiaux, violin, Walter Klien, piano
Edward Elgar, Sospiri, Op. 70 – Sol Gabetta, cello, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 / Part Two: No. 39 Aria: “Erbarme dich” (Arr. for Oboe d’amore, Violin, Strings and Continuo) – Lisa Batiashvili, violin, Francois Leleux, oboe, Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Radoslaw Szulc, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach (attributed to), It Is Finished (Es ist volbracht) – King’s College Choir, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, conductor
George Frederic Handel, Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 13 Pifa “Pastoral Symphony” (L. Stokowski arrangement) – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion BWV 245, Part II: No. 39 Chorus: Rest Calm, O Body Pure and Holy (Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine) – King’s College Choir, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, conductor
James Morgan, Juliette Pochin, My Peace I Give You – Poor Clare Sisters of Arundel, Adrian Bradbury, cello, Juliette Pochin, conductor
A mishmash ‘throw stuff at the wall see what sticks’ set, including some leftovers I couldn’t fit into previous shows. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list.
1. Muddy Waters, All Aboard
2. Buddy Holly, Early In The Morning
3. Mott The Hoople, All The Way From Memphis
4. Eric Burdon and War, Blues For Memphis Slim
5. The Band, Back To Memphis
6. Stray Cats, 18 Miles To Memphis
7. Roy Buchanan, Down By The River (live)
8. Alan Parsons Project, In The Lap Of The Gods
9. Alan Parsons Project, Lucifer
10. James Gang, Alexis
11. MC5, Come Together
12. Colin James, I’m Losing You
13. Pearl Jam, Glorified G
14. Peter Tosh, Bush Doctor (from Captured Live)
15. Alannah Myles, Tumbleweed
16. Talking Heads, Gangster Of Love
17. Elton John, You’re So Static
18. Jason and The Scorchers, 19th Nervous Breakdown
19. The Rolling Stones, Baby Break It Down
20. Little Feat, Day At The Dog Races (live, from Waiting For Columbus)
21. Patti Smith Group, Easter
My track-by-track tales:
1. Muddy Waters, All Aboard (from Fathers and Sons featuring Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, Sam Lay and Buddy Miles) . . . You feel like you’re on a train on this one about love lost and maybe regained with someone new, chugging along complete with opening train whistle. Not much more to say beyond my list of who plays on Muddy’s 1969 album, other than it’s great. It was wonderful how, as an elder statesman of the blues by then, Muddy’s ‘sons’ flocked to help him out on albums, including as the decade of the 1970s progressed, Johnny Winter who played on and produced three late period Muddy albums plus the excellent Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters live record.
2. Buddy Holly, Early In The Morning . . . One of those ‘what might have been’ tracks in terms of directions Holly might have taken had he lived. The shuffling rock and roll tune co-written by Bobby Darin of Splish Splash fame and his somewhat regular writing partner Woody Harris was recorded by Holly in 1958 including gospel-tinged background vocals by The Helen Way Singers. Darin did his own version of the song around the same time.
North America album cover
UK album cover
3. Mott The Hoople, All The Way From Memphis . . . We start a mini-Memphis-themed set with this rousing lead cut from the 1973 album Mott, driven by Mick Ralphs’ guitar riff and a sizzling saxophone solo from Andy Mackay of Roxy Music. The song went top 10 in the UK but didn’t chart in North America, although it did get considerable FM radio airplay and is one of the band’s best-known tracks.
4. Eric Burdon and War, Blues For Memphis Slim . . . Extended, 13-minute piece of jazzy funk blues from the April 1970 release Eric Burdon Declares ‘War’. A great meeting of musical minds between the Animals’ singer and the progressive soul and R & B band that resulted in the great single Spill The Wine, from the same album. Eight months later, December, 1970, came The Black-Man’s Burdon album after which the pairing parted ways.
5. The Band, Back To Memphis . . . A Chuck Berry tune that first appeared in a live version on the comprehensive 2-CD compilation To Kingdom Come: The Definitive Collection released in 1989 and now out of print. I’ve long had my copy so I’m good. The track, in studio form and recorded at the time, was later added to expanded releases of The Band’s 1973 covers album Moondog Matinee, where it’s titled Going Back To Memphis.
6. Stray Cats, 18 Miles To Memphis . . . Typically terrific rockabilly boogie by the band, channeling the 1950s, as was their wont, on the 1983 album Rant N’ Rave With The Stray Cats.
7. Roy Buchanan, Down By The River (live) . . . A previously – until 1992’s Sweet Dreams: The Anthology and 2006’s Definitive Collection – unreleased live version by the great blues/rock guitarist of the Neil Young classic originally on Young’s second solo album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, recorded with Crazy Horse.
8. Alan Parsons Project, In The Lap Of The Gods . . . A moody, orchestral prog-rock piece from 1978’s Pyramid with that great album cover, the first of two straight instrumentals, from consecutive albums by the Project.
9. Alan Parsons Project, Lucifer . . . An eerie yet funky and, once you hear the hook, instantly familiar lead track from the 1979 album Eve.
10. James Gang, Alexis . . . What starts as a mellow ballad builds into a guitar showcase for future Deep Purple member Tommy Bolin, who also sings the song, during his period with the James Gang. It’s from the 1973 album Bang, Bolin’s first of two with the group after founding guitarist Joe Walsh and his replacement, Domenic Triano left. After 1974’s Miami album off, too, went Bolin to a solo career and Deep Purple for one album, the 1975 release Come Taste The Band.
11. MC5, Come Together . . . Not The Beatles tune but rather manic Motor City-area mayhem from the punk rock pioneers’ debut album, the live Kick Out The Jams, released in 1969. It was recorded at a late 1968 concert in Detroit.
12. Colin James, I’m Losing You . . . Faithful cover, great guitar, of the John Lennon tune from 1980’s Double Fantasy album. Canadian blues singer/guitarist James’s version came out on his 2003 album Traveler.
13. Pearl Jam, Glorified G . . . This funky and sarcastic diatribe against gun culture wasn’t a single but for my money is one of the best songs on the band’s second album, 1993’s Vs. Many apparently agree since it got enough airplay to make No. 39 on the US Billboard chart.
14. Peter Tosh, Bush Doctor (from Captured Live) . . . Fiery live version of the title cut from Tosh’s 1978 studio album which featured Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on the track and Mick Jagger with co-lead vocals on the single (You Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back, a cover of The Temptations’ 1965 hit they titled Don’t Look Back. The Bush Doctor album came during a period when Tosh, signed to Rolling Stones Records at the time, was often an opening act at Stones concerts. As for Bush Doctor the song, it’s something of a companion piece to the title track from Tosh’s 1976 studio album Legalize It, celebrating in Tosh’s view the health benefits of and calling for the legalization of marijuana.
15. Alannah Myles, Tumbleweed . . . Country-tinged pop-rock tune with Myles’ sultry voice floating over the bluesy guitar riffs. Myles’ self-titled debut album in 1989 gets most of the hype in large measure due to its worldwide hit single Black Velvet. But I find 1992’s Rockinghorse, her second album from which Tumbleweed is taken, equally good.
16. Talking Heads, Gangster Of Love . . . Not Steve Miller’s cover of the Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson song but a rhythmic, worldbeat type track from sessions that produced the albums Remain In Light (1980) and Naked (1988). The band eventually polished and released the song in 1992 on the 2-disc compilation Popular Favorites 1976–1992: Sand in the Vaseline.
17. Elton John, You’re So Static . . . Funky pop rock tune fueled by the Tower Of Power horn section. Catchy stuff, from the 1974 album Caribou.
18. Jason and The Scorchers, 19th Nervous Breakdown . . . An, er, scorching version of the Stones’ hit single from 1966. It was released on The Scorchers’ 1986 album Still Standing. It also appears on the 1998 album Cover You: A Tribute To The Rolling Stones which contains covers of Stones’ songs by artists like Otis Redding (Satisfaction), Linda Ronstadt (Tumbling Dice), Johnny Cash (No Expectations) and Johnny Winter (Jumpin’ Jack Flash) among others.
19. The Rolling Stones, Baby Break It Down . . . Mid-tempo track from 1994’s Voodoo Lounge album featuring a great pedal steel guitar solo from Ron Wood. Another one of those largely unknown – other than to Stones freaks like me – gems that pepper their studio albums, particularly their latter-day releases.
20. Little Feat, Day At The Dog Races (live, from Waiting For Columbus) . . . Twice the length of the six-minute studio track from the 1977 album Time Loves A Hero, this instrumental Weather Report-like jazz fusion jam didn’t appear on the original 1978 release of the classic live album Waiting For Columbus although it was recorded on the 1977 tour from which Columbus came. Day At The Dog Races was one of several bonus tracks from that tour added to a 2002 re-release of the live album.
21. Patti Smith Group, Easter . . . Well, it is Easter weekend – Happy Easter, everyone – so how could I resist playing this haunting, evocative title track to the 1978 album?
There are a two ways you can listen to the station. Of course here at the web site or over over the air at 102.7 FM.We offer many ways you can listen at any time to many programs here through a direct pod cast connection.Many of our programers have archived shows.
We do have a transmitter and tower that basically services the Cambridge to Waterloo corridor.
Our web site services are the most economical way to interact with you as the transmitter and tower requirements are quite a big part of our financial requirements.Up until very recently most radio was concentrated in the over air reception by people at home listening through a big stereo receiver unit.Today of course many people just stream us.Including in their cars.
That actually makes sure you receive a nice signal no matter what the weather or how far you are from the tower.It’s a nice way to see what is available as you can just hit our schedule button and see the full range of great shows we host.Because that factor is becoming such large part of our community engagement we are looking for a web site programmer or web development company to join us.Your expertise can only enhance our own great technical team.We’ve got some great ideas.
Stations these days must be multi layered in what they offer you.Not only do we broadcast the widest range of music anywhere from our vibrant multi-ethnic communities but we also offer shows ranging from financial planning and news to student involvement and theatre.
We need to build our partnerships with not only our listeners but with the business community as well. If you would like to devote some of your skills to help us out, please just email me at nocrapradio@yahoo.com
Simon Guthrie and EricSimon Guthrie, the Green Party of Canada candidate for Waterloo came into the CKMS-FM studios on Friday 18 April 2025 to speak to the voters.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized”.Rajneesh
I try each week to bring you unique songs that reflect the depth of our lives. Doesn’t matter the year or style.That timeless gift of insight in 3:20 minutes with a cold ending.Davis is the same as Dylan.Doc Watson or Jade Warrior.African or German or San Francisco or Bali.We take music with us.Genetic.
Previous no crap is rebroadcast every tuesday 9pm.Lots o’ fun!
I used to have a news segment in my shows.Nope, no more.Realities have finally caught up with my speculations. I hope the robots save us.
layla zoe-disappearing delta
layla zoe-wade in the water
layla zoe-you won’t call
shriekback-this big hush
cure-to wish impossible dreams
nine inch nails-dead souls (Can)
billy boy arnald-lets work it out
dutch mason-i must be crazy (Can)
c gatemouth brown-the peeper
flying neutrinos-mr zoot suit
roomful of blues-gatewalk (Can)
johnny cash-gods gonna cut you down
chris whitley-dust radio (Can)
pearl jam-sirens
catherine wheel-crank
mighty diamonds-pass the dutchie
autoro tappin-breaking up
steel pulse-heart of stone
ljx-rasta rational (Can)
barre philips-mountainscapes
yusuf lateef-nubian lady
weather report-the juggler
nirvana-lithium
hip-luv (sic) (Can)
rem-i’m gonna dj
godfathers-birth, school, life, death
stones-heartbreaker
-street fighting man
My dropbox address if you want to find some old shows
dan kellar
Waterloo, ON – With the launch of “version 2” of the Cycling Guide, Mark Connoly told CKMS News that the app will find “the best available, low stress, cycling friendly routes available” to get a cyclist to a destination. Connolly, who is the executive director of the not-for-profit Cycling Guide Foundation, and a programmer on the project spoke with CKMS News earlier this week.
Cycling Guide is a free app that uses data from the open-source Open Street Maps to create routes to a set destination that favours safe cycling infrastructure. The app will show a cyclist where they may encounter more stressful riding situations through a colour coded system, and allow a user to select the route that best fits their comfort levels.
Version 2 of the app still only provides routes in Waterloo Region and Guelph, but Connolly told CKMS News that it is beta testing in Ottawa, Sarnia-Lambton, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
Jami Hari and Kaden HariJamie Hari, an Independent candidate for Waterloo came into the CKMS-FM studio to talk to the voters on Thursday 17 2025. He was accompanied by Kaden Hari.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
Taking you around the country tonight to bring you some fun Canadian tunes, and a couple non-Canadian ones that just make me feel happy 🙂 Sit back and enjoy!
What’s up, y’all? Here is this week’s Clean Up Hour:
Tracklist:
Mobb Deep – The Start of Your Ending (41st Side)
Run DMC, Pete Rock, & CL Smooth – Down With the King
Lloyd Banks, Swizz Beatz, Fabolous, Ryan Leslie, Pusha T, & Kanye West – Start It Up
TI & Just Blaze – I’m Talkin To You
The Neptunes, The Clipse, & Ab-Live – Blaze of Glory
Eminem – 8 Mile
Tyler, the Creator & ScHoolboy Q – THE DARK STAINS OF DARKESEE LATIFAH PART 6-12 (REMIX)
Ab-Soul – B.U.C.K.O Jr.
Wiz Khalifa & Too Short – On My Level
Curren$y, Harry Fraud, Conway the Machine, & Rome Streetz – Money Magnet
Benny the Butcher & Westside Gunn – Vader
LEP Bogus Boys & Lupe Fiasco – ZOMBIE LAND
Wale – Freedom of Speech
Jack Harlow & 2forwOyNE – SYLVIA
Jack Harlow – ICE
Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR – $PIDERMAN $UPERMAN
Drake, Andre 3000, & Lil Wayne – The Real Her
JPEGMAFIA – Whole Foods
Malci – Tetsuo the Iron Man
Omen & J. Cole – Things Change
Skotch Davis – Don’t 4get 2 Remember
Kid Cudi, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, & Steve Aoki – I JUST WANNA GET
The Away Team, Laws, & Big Remo – Paid
D-Sisive, Birdapres, & Cadence Weapon – The Unknown
Calz – If We Make It
John Wells – whole world burnin down
T-Fire – Say a Prayer
dan kellar Waterloo, ON – Waterloo mayor Dorothy McCabe has joined more than 160 other civic leaders across the country to demand that Canada’s federal and provincial leaders respond to the ” dual threats of tariffs and climate change” by taking bold action on climate initiatives and supporting the national economy.
The demands are presented in a letter released by the Elbows Up for Climate Campaign, a group of elected municipal officials, and argues that the status-quo approaches to climate action is not working. The letter proposes “five bold and achievable ideas the next federal government can implement as soon as it is elected, to tariff-proof our economy and create a jobs boom in every community”
To bring the letter’s demands into a local context, CKMS News spoke with Mayor McCabe, who discussed climate risks in Waterloo Region, actions the city is taking to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and what economic sovereignty looks like in the region.
Bardish Chagger and Mike SchmidtBardish Chagger, Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Waterloo came into the CKMS-FM studio to speak to the voters on Wednesday, 16 April 2025. She was accompanied by her campaign manager, Mike Schmidt.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
This episode of #AltElxn 2025 takes a closer look at bias in the media—what it is, how it shows up in election coverage, and how it affects the way people make decisions. The program explores personal reflections, systemic regulation, training and trust in journalism, ownership and audience perception, and Indigenous perspectives on media and democracy.
This is Episode Two of #AltElxn2025, airing on CKMS-FM at 9:30am on Tuesday, 15 April 2025. #AltElxn2025 is a four episode series syndicated from the NCRA/ANREC and airs on CKMS-FM as part of Meet The Candidate: 2025 Federal Election, weekdays from 9:02am to 10:00am from 7 to 29 April 2025.
Barry introduces himself, the theme of the episode, and acknowledges the support from the Covering Canada Election 2025 Fund.
00:30 – 02:24
Personal Bias Reflection
Barry reflects on his own explicit and implicit biases and shares how his identity and background shape his media lens.
02:24 – 03:21
Overview of C-11 & the CRTC
Context on Canadian media regulation, introduction to Bill C-11 and the role of the CRTC.
03:21 – 04:48
Interview: Bram Abramson (CRTC)
Bram explains the three pillars of Canadian broadcasting and how the CRTC focuses on structural rather than content regulation.
04:48 – 07:50
Interview: Andrew Mrozowski (CUP)
Andrew discusses why he became a journalist, the importance of training and editorial safeguards, and the role of journalism in balancing different truths.
07:50 – 09:07
Commentary: Journalism Schools Closing
Barry reflects on the closing of journalism programs across Ontario and its impact on ethical storytelling.
09:07 – 10:27
Interview: Connie Thiessen (Broadcast Dialogue)
Connie emphasizes the importance of fact-checking, avoiding noise, and resisting influence from advertisers and ownership.
10:27 – 11:58
Commentary: Ownership & Media Trust
Barry introduces the issue of media ownership and how it shapes public trust.
11:58 – 12:30
Continuation: Connie Thiessen
Connie shares personal experience with editorial pressure and stresses journalistic integrity as the foundation for trust.
12:30 – 15:28
Interview: Aya Alshahwany (PIAC)
Aya explores ownership, public media bias perception, and headlines as subtle influencers of narrative framing.
15:28 – 18:45
Interview: Kristin Kozar & Harry Lock (Public Media Alliance)
Kristin and Harry discuss trust in public media, due impartiality, and how selective content consumption distorts perceptions of bias.
18:45 – 25:11
Voice Note: Eden FineDay (IndigiNews)
Eden reflects on colonial systems, Indigenous values, trust in community, and voting skepticism. Powerful closing reflections on who she trusts.
25:11 – 26:19
Final Commentary: Aya (clip)
A final reflection from Aya on the need for healthy skepticism and cross-source reading when facing unfamiliar or challenging narratives.
26:19 – 27:05
Closing Thoughts by Barry
Summary of episode themes: training, trust, media literacy, and the unseen influence of headlines and algorithms.
27:05 – 28:00
Sign-Off
Barry reminds listeners to tune into the live broadcast on April 28 and thanks funders: Public Policy Forum, Rideau Hall Foundation, and Michener Awards Foundation.
Hope you’ve enjoyed the mix so far. Tonight a genius woman named Natalie, tonight a genius woman named Nico, the true cost of wars no end, some real glam from a dinosaur and a wicked cure cover to kick it off.
Internet news report!
Odd truths?
What say of it? what say CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path?
-Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida
This weeks movie recommendation. Children of men.What if time.Catch the allegory in the movie whenshe disrobes and we see she is very pregnant.She is in a barn surrounded by animals.A compelling Jesus reference.It shows what happens when the births stop.Just stop.Hope is lost.
This weeks website https://cynthiachung.substack.com/?utm_source=cross-post&utm_campaign=309240&utm_medium=email. This young women. Connie Chung, is one of the most brilliant writers on the net.You can subscribe through sub stack or get her work emailed to you for free.10 out of 10 on the old no-crap-o’meter.Impeccable research and a prodigious output of diverse topics.
If you want to say thanks to all the crew who keep this joint open 365 days a year, go to our website and hit a button and join us in any way you can.We are your voice.Help us out with fundraising (if you own a bar throw us a dj party or have a dorm pastry sale).Let us know and we’ll get behind your efforts.
Don’t forget I’m looking for some slam poets to give me words of wisdom in a minute and a half.In-fighters only (anger optional). Maybe a man of faith, maybe a man of none.The voice of woman always welcomed.
Ship a couple of mp3s to my mail. nocrapradio@yahoo.com.if it’s to the point I’ll put it on.
gold finger-just like heaven
jam-a bomb in warder st
superchunk-girl you want
rancid-time bomb
clash-garage band
sham69-angels with dirty faces
T rex-jeepster
T rex-get it on
T rex-metal guru
T rex-rip off
chiwoniso-rebel woman
tom diakite-fala
wasis diop-african dream
Pogues-waltzing matida
billy bragg-my youngest son came home today
n merchant-maggy & milly
n merchant-nursury rhymes
good lovelies-the weight
culture-rub a dub style
lkj-cultural dub
yabby u-deliver me from mine enemy
wailing souls-jah give his life
ljx-two chord skankin
p gabriel-red rain
nico-tananore
muslimguaze-bhutto
Philip glass-two songs
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts & analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
~ Thomas Sowell
my regular no crap is on friday nights at midnight
you can download old shows from my dropbox address
Val Neekman and ZackVal Neekman, Independent candidate for Waterloo came into the CKMS-FM studio to talk to the voters on Monday 14 April 2025. He was accompanied by Zack.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily those of the Radio Waterloo Board of Directors, volunteers, sponsors, or advertisers.
All candidates in Waterloo Region were invited by e-mail, the party’s online contact form, or on social media. Some have declined to participate, others have not responded.
A blues rock set, albeit alas limited within the confines of my two-hour slot, to just some of the myriad masters of the genre and only scratching the surface of artists they inspired. The set wound up, as it often does, going in different directions once into it by just letting it flow, resulting in some duplicate tracks – originals and covers – as things evolved but the great thing in a way is, many of the artists ‘left out’ so to speak and not in this set stay in mind for future such shows. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list.
1. Alvin Lee, The Bluest Blues
2. Robert Johnson, Preachin’ Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
3. Mississippi Fred McDowell, You Gotta Move
4. The Rolling Stones, You Gotta Move (from Love You Live)
5. The Rolling Stones, Down In The Hole
6. Keith Richards, Blues In The Morning
7. John Lee Hooker, I Don’t Wanna Go To Vietnam
8. Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, The World Today (from Hooker ‘N Heat)
9. Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker, Gloria . . . (from Van Morrison’s Too Long In Exile)
10. Blind Willie Johnson, It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine
11. Led Zeppelin, Nobody’s Fault But Mine
12. John Mayall, Broken Wings
13. Buddy Guy, Stone Crazy
14. Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, When The Levee Breaks
15. Led Zeppelin, When The Levee Breaks
16. Eric Clapton with Santana, Eyesight To The Blind / Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? (from Crossroads 2 live in the seventies box set)
My track-by-track tales:
1. Alvin Lee, The Bluest Blues . . . Beatle George Harrison on slide guitar on this slow-burner from the Ten Years After frontman/guitarist’s 1994 solo album named, what else, Nineteen Ninety-Four although in the USA it was called I Hear You Rockin’. To quote Lee about Harrison’s contribution, from the liner notes to a Lee compilation released in 2003:
“It’s one of the best slide guitar solos I’ve ever heard. I did a version of it, before George came down, and played my usual mad guitar solo. Then I said ‘George, how about putting some slide on there?’ He did the first solo and he did this beautiful slow, laid back and lifting solo and it made me change my whole attitude. I had to take off more gently from there, rather than blowing at the speed of light. It turned the song into something special for me. George lived down the road, and he was always up for coming over to make music. I loved his slide playing. George had perfect pitch. He was a lovely man and he is sorely missed.” As is Lee, who died in 2013. Harrison passed away in 2001.
2. Robert Johnson, Preachin’ Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) . . . Not as often covered by rock greats as his songs like Crossroad Blues, Ramblin’ On My Mind, Traveling Riverside Blues, Stop Breaking Down Blues and Love In Vain, among others. But this boogie yet haunting tune embodies the crossroads mythology surrounding Johnson having made a deal with the devil, trading his soul for musical mastery.
3. Mississippi Fred McDowell, You Gotta Move . . . A song I, and perhaps many of my age, first heard on The Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers although they’d previously played it during their 1969 American tour and it’s appeared on subsequent expanded re-releases of Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out! , the classic 1970 live album document of that trip. I have McDowell’s earthy, hypnotic version on a few compilations including 2018’s Confessin’ The Blues which was curated by members of the Stones – including cover art by guitarist Ron Wood. The comp features McDowell and many other blues greats from whom the Stones drew inspiration.
4. The Rolling Stones, You Gotta Move, (from Love You Live) . . . I thought I’d go not with the studio version from Sticky Fingers, nor the live version from 1969 but this jam-type sing-along rendition from the Stones’ 1975-76 tour of North America and Europe that appeared on their 1977 live release.
5. The Rolling Stones, Down In The Hole . . . A great original blues from 1980’s Emotional Rescue, almost out of place on an album otherwise infused with disco, reggae and straight-ahead pop-rock songs plus the off the wall but addictive multi-part title track. Down In The Hole, featuring fabulous harmonica from Sugar Blue, was the B-side to the Emotional Rescue single and appeared directly before it in the album track order – jarring, cleverly effective juxtapositions in my book.
6. Keith Richards, Blues In The Morning . . . I suppose I should be playing this up-tempo rootsy rocker featuring that distinctive Richards’ riffing on my Saturday morning show. But . . . that’s just what you’d be expecting. An almost casually tossed off yet compelling piece from Keef’s most recent solo album, the 2015 release Crosseyed Heart.
7. John Lee Hooker, I Don’t Wanna Go To Vietnam . . . The first of three straight songs featuring Hooker on his own or in collaboration with others. A typically hypnotic Hooker groove on this anti-war excursion that still resonates, aside from the specific war it’s discussing, released on his 1969 album Simply The Truth.
We got so much trouble at home
We don’t need to go to Vietnam
Yeah, yeah, there’s a whole lot of trouble right here at home
Don’t need to go to Vietnam
We oughta stay at home, stay out of trouble
I don’t wanna go
I don’t wanna go
Vietnam
8. Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, The World Today (from Hooker ‘N Heat) . . . An extended conversation about conflict, written by Hooker. Minimalist, strikingly almost spoken-word blues from the respective artists’ 1971 collaboration.
9. Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker, Gloria . . . From Van The Man’s 1993 album Too Long In Exile, a terrific, extended version of Them’s Morrison-penned 1965 hit. Two vocal virtuosos in tandem amid intoxicating instrumentation.
10. Blind Willie Johnson, It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine . . . Another one of those, like Mississippi Fred McDowell and The Rolling Stones covering You Gotta Move, where a rock band introduces you to the brilliance of those who inspired them. As Keith Richards of the Stones has said, arguably the greatest compliment one can grant a musician is that they passed it on. In this case, Led Zeppelin took the baton from Blind Willie and transformed his acoustic, spiritual version recorded in 1927 into a powerhouse, rocked up production on the 1976 album Presence, while retaining the essence of the original.
11. Led Zeppelin, Nobody’s Fault But Mine . . . See my thoughts on Blind Willie Johnson.
12. John Mayall, Broken Wings . . . A beautiful if sad ballad, one of my favorite songs by Mayall from one of my favorite of his albums, the 1967 release The Blues Alone. The album title is somewhat misleading, as the album does feature contributions from drummer Keith “Keef” Hartley but it is mostly Mayall – on vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, organ and . . . drums on two tracks although it’s Hartley on this one.
13. Buddy Guy, Stone Crazy . . . Straight slow blues from 1961, drenched in Guy’s great guitar and soulful vocals to the extent that B.B. King anointed Guy, then 25, his heir apparent. It was released on the 1970 compilation I Was Walking Through The Woods, part of the Chess Records Vintage Series and comprised of Guy’s material recorded between 1960 and 1964.
14. Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, When The Levee Breaks. . . Recorded by blues artists and then-married couple McCoy and Minnie (birth name Lizzie Douglas) in 1929, a haunting historical snapshot of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
15. Led Zeppelin, When The Levee Breaks . . . Another one reimagined and transformed by Led Zep, featuring that defining drumbeat by John Bonham.
16. Eric Clapton with Santana, Eyesight To The Blind / Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad ? (from Crossroads 2 live in the seventies box set) . . . A sprawling, fiery finale to the show blending a Sonny Boy Williamson song with a soulful Derek And The Dominos number, from Clapton’s 1975 tour. Santana served as the opening act, joining Clapton on stage for an epic 24-minute encore.