What’s up, y’all? Here is this week’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s fifth ode to People Under the Stairs. Salute to Thes One, RIP Double K, Forever the P!
Tracklist:
Swan Fever
Step Bacc
Drumbox
Redeemer
My Boy D
Stoned Youth Truth
Bobby in the Hood
Yehaw Partystyles
You Lied
Stars in the House
Death Of A Salesman
Lord Radio & Hale Bop
Double K – Livin’ A Mean One (The New Gangsta Gangsta)
O.S.T (Remix) [feat. Odel]
Listen
Hardcore
Bloquera – Fiesta
Too Much Birthday
The Love
Kaos & Thes
Jamboree pt. 1
Jamboree pt. 2
LA Song (Sensitive Mix)
Roundabouts
After These Messages
Umbrellas (God Forgive Me)
The Aesthetics Crew & L.A. Mike – Timmay!
Sonic Riders
The L.A. Song
The Breakdown
Thes One – Survivor Syndrome (We did it for Mikey)
Thes One – Sparrow
Thes One – Italian Balconies
dan kellar
Waterloo, ON – Waterloo city council voted unanimously to endorse the recent report from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario which found that more than 80,000 people were homes in Ontario in 2024, a rise of more than 25% since 2022.
Beyond the numbers, the report offers ideas to address homelessness by focusing on long-term housing instead of the go-to actions of creating temporary emergency shelters and promoting police backed enforcement of property laws. This show features audio from the January 27th meeting where councillor Vasic and mayor McCabe spoke about the findings in the report, and heard from staff member Sandy Little who created a summary of the report for council. Little notes that the conclusions and recommendations from the report are being investigated at the city and region.
no crap radio survives in new versions.i’ve spent the last dozen years collecting music.
you’re going to hear lots of it.the amazing legacy that brilliant people have given us astounds me.
i’ve been playing music for 45 years and still find new genius in sometimes the simplest melody.
An unbroken language that has defined our humanness.The brilliance of a trumpet player in the 1930’s can be as inspired as a folk singer from the 60s or a dub artist of the 2000s.
I’m running everyday as I have heard Buddha is just over the next hill and I want to walk in his shadow.I earned the karma.
“The fear of death is more to be feared than death itself.”Publius Syrus a roman slave
Every week I promise you music you’ve never heard before along with lots of good stuff from 100 years of recorded sound. To me thelonious monk is the same as moby who’s the same as dylan who’s the same as prince.So… jazz, dub, folk, ambient, ska, punk, reggae and more styles than you’ve ever heard. music that mirrors it’s time.
Short term rentals such as Airbnb or Vrbo rentals will now be limited to an owner’s principal residence in Waterloo. Waterloo city council voted unanimously earlier this month to this change as a response to complaints from neighbours about the rental units as well as to the ongoing housing crisis.
Radio Waterloo spoke with Waterloo mayor Dorothy McCabe for the reasoning for this change, as well as City of Kitchener Manager of Licensing Kristin VanDerGeld to ask if Kitchener staff and council are planning a similar move.
Mayor McCabe said that city staff and council understand that people use short term rentals to supplement their income. She said that she still supports people doing this, but they need to do it in their primary residence, and that this move is an effort to find a balance so that other residents are not negatively impacted by someone’s rental property.
My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. Song clips also available on my Facebook page.
1. The Rolling Stones, If You Can’t Rock Me
2. Uriah Heep, The Magician’s Birthday
3. Scorpions, Top Of The Bill (live, from Tokyo Tapes)
4. Iron Maiden, When The Wild Wind Blows
5. Judas Priest, Burn In Hell
6. Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
7. Arthur Lee, Stay Away From Evil
8. Jethro Tull, With You There To Help Me
9. Blodwyn Pig, San Francisco Sketches (Beach Scape/Fisherman’s Wharf/Telegraph Hill/I’m Falling Out Of The Room)
10. Tame Impala, Elephant
11. April Wine, Slow Poke
12. Savoy Brown, All I Can Do
13. Simon McBride (Deep Purple guitarist), One More Try
14. U2, Surrender
15. Free, Soon I Will Be Gone
16. Blood, Sweat & Tears, Maiden Voyage
My track-by-track tales:
1. The Rolling Stones, If You Can’t Rock Me . . . Energetic rocker with a great mid-song bass break, it’s the opening track on 1974’s It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll album, guitarist Mick Taylor’s last with the band after five fruitful years. He was replaced by Ronnie Wood, who was at least the inspiration if not an uncredited co-writer of the album’s title track, while still in the Faces but inexorably moving into the Stones’ orbit in large measure via his friendship with Keith Richards. The Stones effectively paired this with a rearranged Get Off Of My Cloud during their 1975-76 tours of North America and Europe – available on the 1977 live album Love You Live plus subsequent archival releases – but to my knowledge and research didn’t get back to If You Can’t Rock Me, on its own and well done, until the 2002 Licks tour celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. They’ve since gone 20-plus years beyond that milestone.
2. Uriah Heep, The Magician’s Birthday . . . We begin a hard rock/metal segment of the set with this progressive 10-minutes and change title cut to the band’s 1973 album. The track shifts between mellow verses and powerful, heavy, what I term ‘galloping’ choruses including rat-a-tat drumming and great guitar soloing. The future members of Iron Maiden were obviously listening. We’ll get to Maiden in about seven minutes but first we’ll sting you with Scorpions.
3. Scorpions, Top Of The Bill (live, from Tokyo Tapes) . . . Originally a three and one half minute track on the 1975 studio album In Trance, this is the pile-driving live version, or at least more pile-driving than the studio song, at double the length, from Tokyo Tapes. The live set was released in 1978 featuring early Scorpions slabs of heavy rock/metal before they became more a pop-metal and power ballad hitmaking machine. A 2015 expanded re-release of the live album includes an 11-minute version of Top Of The Bill, recorded on the same tour that yielded Tokyo Tapes. That version is also available on YouTube if not various streaming services.
4. Iron Maiden, When The Wild Wind Blows . . . Eleven-minute epic from 2010’s The Final Frontier album. It’s one of Iron Maiden’s lengthy prog-metal excursions, something the band has always done but increasingly so later in its career. This track is loosely based on the 1982 nuclear war-themed graphic novel I’ve not read, titled When The Wind Blows.
5. Judas Priest, Burn In Hell . . . Dun, dun, dun, dun dun nun . . . hypnotic, ever-building opening guitar riff preceding all, er, hell breaking loose on this, my favorite track from the Tim (Ripper) Owens on lead vocals version of Priest. It’s from the 1997 album Jugulator, the first of two, Demolition in 2001 the other, released during the period singer Rob Halford left to pursue other projects including the short-lived thrash-metal outfit Fight.
6. Judas Priest, Invincible Shield . . . Smokin’, immediate, heavy riff rocking metal title cut from the 2024 album. It’s the fifth Priest studio platter, as Priest continues to pack a powerful punch, no treading water or resting on laurels, since Halford returned to the fold for the 2005 album Angel Of Retribution. I saw the reunion tour with Halford in 2004, before any new album was out, Slayer opened, great show by both bands.
7. Arthur Lee, Stay Away From Evil . . . Total change of direction into this toe-tapping bouncy funky wah wah guitar-laced groove tune from the band Love leader’s 1981 self-titled solo album. “I wrote the song about myself,” Love says in the album’s song-by-song liner notes. “It means just what it says, but then how can you?”
8. Jethro Tull, With You There To Help Me . . . Progressive folk-rock fusion might be how best to describe this track, and most of Tull’s material in general, aside from the first, blues-oriented album This Was. That album was so named because it ‘was’ Tull before the split between Ian Anderson and Tull’s first guitarist, blues-oriented Mick Abrahams, over musical direction. This is from the 1970 album Benefit which I’ve always thought of as a two-fer musical piece, stylistically flowing together with 1969’s Stand Up which introduced guitarist Martin Barre to the Tull team.
9. Blodwyn Pig, San Francisco Sketches (Beach Scape/Fisherman’s Wharf/Telegraph Hill/I’m Falling Out Of The Room) . . . . A multi-part suite, each offering a different mood while blending jazz, blues, and rock elements, from the band Mick Abrahams formed after leaving Jethro Tull. The song even features some flute, a seemingly obvious tip of the cap to Tull. San Francisco Sketches is from Getting To This, Blodwyn Pig’s 1970 release and second album, after debut Ahead Rings Out in 1969. Terrific name, Blodwyn Pig, Blodwyn being a Welsh name meaning fair, or white, flower. The band name was apparently coined by a stoned friend of the band.
10. Tame Impala, Elephant . . . Retro-psychedelic rock, great riff, could have come out in the 1960s but it’s actually from 2012 by the one-person (at least in studio) project Tame Impala, aka Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. I remember my older son mentioning Tame Impala some years ago and I got into the music for a while but, while I like it, it sort of just faded from my playlists until the other day when, rummaging around, I picked up a compilation CD from a 2012 issue of Classic Rock Magazine and, voila. Tame Impala has become worthy of reinvestigation, for me.
11. April Wine, Slow Poke . . . Bluesy ribald subject matter groove tune from the 1975 album Stand Back which featured the hit single Tonite Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love. I was generally more an April Wine compilation collector until the 1977 album Live At The El Mocambo, taken from the famous (or infamous) Toronto club shows April Wine opened for The Rolling Stones, and that April Wine live album is actually where I first heard Slow Poke.
12. Savoy Brown, All I Can Do . . . Lengthy, soulful blues rock track, nearly 11 minutes, from the band’s 1971 Street Corner Talking album. As always, it features the sterling guitar playing of the late Kim Simmonds, who I saw live with Savoy Brown at the 2013 Kitchener Blues Festival.
13. Simon McBride, One More Try . . . Gary Moore-like blues rock ballad, when Moore did blues rock as opposed to his forays into hard rock and metal, and another one I pulled from that Classic Rock Magazine compilation CD I found lying around via which I rediscovered Tame Impala. This is from McBride’s 2012 solo album Crossing The Line. As of 2022, he’s Deep Purple’s new permanent guitarist, having replaced Steve Morse. Morse temporarily left Deep Purple to tend to his ailing wife, who has sadly since passed, with McBride taking over on tour until Morse decided to leave permanently, saying he was ‘handing over the keys to the vault” to McBride who, the always classy Morse added, had ‘nailed’ the Purple gig. That was confirmed by a friend of mine who saw Purple last summer and was impressed by McBride’s playing which had its first studio outing with Purple on the band’s 2024 release = 1.
14. U2, Surrender . . . Great song with a terrific rhythmic groove, from the 1983 album War, U2’s third studio release and one that arguably truly broke them big, featuring such hits as New Year’s Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday. Playing it for the show is a classic case, for me, anyway, of rediscovering a song after not having played an album in ages. As soon as it started I was “oh, yeah, I remember this.” Someone on YouTube put it this way and it would be difficult for me to provide a better analysis, so here’s his: “Every great album has at least one or two songs that weren’t a commercial hit, but add to the feel, acts as connective tissue, and gives an album substance and style. This is one of those songs.” Well put.
15. Free, Soon I Will Be Gone . . . And soon this show will be over, one song to go after this one, a beautiful ballad from the 1970 album Highway as I prepare to hit the road home.
16. Blood, Sweat & Tears, Maiden Voyage . . . A cover of the 1965 Herbie Hancock tune that’s become a jazz standard, blending BS & T’s typical jazz and rock elements and recorded for the band’s 1972 studio release New Blood. The album indeed represented new blood for the band, with lead singer David Clayton Thomas having gone solo although he later returned for a few more 1970s BS & T albums. Clayton Thomas was replaced by R & B singer Jerry Fisher on New Blood and other albums, although Maiden Voyage is an instrumental.
As we gear up to celebrate World Radio Day on Thursday, 13 February 2025, we are excited to invite you to a significant event that underscores radio’s vital role in uniting communities across Canada and beyond. We were thinking you could provide some valuable information and interesting discussion during this event on our live-to-air, syndicated radio show and in-person event.
After last year’s event, the NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International are collaborating once again to bring you an environmentally focused live-to-air broadcast. With this year’s theme being “Radio and Climate Change” we hope to showcase the transformative power of radio in promoting dialogue, fostering cultural diversity, and giving a voice to underrepresented communities.
What to expect
If you’re attending in-person at Carlton University in Ottawa, there will be snacks with radio peers alike and a live broadcast by CKCU‑FM. This is an event that aims to bring industry professionals together, as well as politicians, to showcase the power of radio.
The event will take place at Carleton University from 11:00am to 2:00pm EST on Thursday, 13 February 2025. Lunch will be provided free of charge. CKMS‑FM Radio Waterloo will be simulcasting the event with CKCU‑FM.
How to Participate
Attend in person and be live on air for a quick discussion.
This discussion can touch on the theme “Radio and Climate Change” or another relevant theme to community radio, and our celebration could take 5 to 10 minutes.
If you wish to attend, registration is free, but you need food numbers. Please reserve your spot.
If you cannot attend but would still like to show your support, we ask that you take the time to tune in and show support for your favourite local radio station, campus radio, public broadcast, or a special program that day.
We look forward to seeing you on World Radio Day.
Warm regards,
Barry Rooke
Executive Director NCRA/ANREC
On behalf of NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International
What’s up, y’all? You know the routine — here is what I’ve added to Libretime this week:
Martyrs
Pin Blue Sometime – Single
Rock
No
Sorrows
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Pop
No
Moulettes
Attention – EP
Folk
CanCon
Ariane Racicot
Danser avec le feu
Jazz
CanCon
Jeff Vidov
State of Innocence – Single
Pop
CanCon
The Nathaniel Hardy Project
Moonlight in Baltimore – Single
Soul
No
TizzleBangerz
Mind Going Crazy! (feat. The Nathaniel Hardy Project) – Single
Hip Hop
No
The LAB Inc.
Changes
Pop
No
Newbridge
Howler – Single
Country
CanCon
Glimmerjean & Goode
Rosavelle – Single
Rock
CanCon
Julian Daniel
Northern Lights – Single
Pop
CanCon
Julian Taylor
Tulsa Time – Single
Folk
CanCon
MEGGO
eavesdropper ;; death stories
Folk
CanCon
David Jane
Five & Dime – Single
Alternative
CanCon
ARK IDENTITY
Aeroplane – Single
Alternative
CanCon
Jangus Kangus
Janakita Kirakita/Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Single
Pop
No
La Sécurité
Ketchup – Single
Punk
CanCon
Joni Void
Every Life is a Light
Electronic
CanCon
T. Gowdy
Trill Scan
Electronic
CanCon
Raging Flowers
Tissue Paper – Single
Folk
No
Sarah Segal-Lazar
Anything But Age – Single
Folk
CanCon
Abi Mack
DIRTBAGS – Single
Pop
CanCon
Mike Boguski
Blues for the Penitent [2025 Reissue]
Jazz
CanCon
Mike Boguski
Here’s To Tomorrow – Goodbye to Yesterday [2025 Reissue]
Jazz
CanCon
Fernie
Hopeless Dreams
Pop
CanCon
N Nao
Nouveau Language
Pop
CanCon
Katie James
Chasing the Sky – Single
Folk
No
The Cooper Brothers
That’s What Makes Us Great – Single
Country
CanCon
Tanner Christian Gesek
For My Brothers and Sisters
Ambient
No
kpec3 arrival
reagan – Single
Rock
No
Erik Flaa
Fiesta For My Failure – Single
Alternative
No
Brian Tremblay
In the Tracks of the Black Bear
Folk
CanCon
Athena Nadalin
Kaity – Single
Pop
CanCon
Chick Boyd
2025
Pop
NSFR
CanCon
Ricky Bascom
Right to be Retarded
Hip Hop
NSFR
No
Athena Nadalin
Had to Happen
Pop
NSFR
CanCon
Trena
Hold On – Single
Country
CanCon
Trena
Not the Ring
Country
CanCon
The Fods
The Ineffectuals – Single
Rock
No
The Fods
Shopping – Single
Rock
No
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Ariane Racicot – Avant la tempete
Mike Boguski – 2013-2015
Mike Boguski – Message From Mars
Tanner Christian Gesek – Life is Both
Back Seat Driver – The Mountain
The Nathaniel Hardy Project – Moonlight in Baltimore
Les Canards – Voyage en Italie
Joni Void – Muffin – A Song for My Cat
T Gowdy – Blest Age!
Benjamin Russell – Waves
Abi Mack – DIRTBAGS
Fernie – White Wine
N Nao – Fleuron
Athena Nadalin – Kaity
Athena Nadalin – Taxi Alone
Tilia – Drivers Seat
Thomas Thomas – One Lone Candle
Julian Daniel – Northern Lights
MEGGO – bark, dirt & thistles
Raging Flowers – Tissue Paper
Sarah Segal-Lazar – Anything But Age
Katie James – Chasing the Sky
Brian Tremblay – Where’s the Caboose?
Trena – Not the Ring
Bobby Joe Henson – Jambalaya
Sunday Riot Club – Out in the Sky
Graeme Jonez – Ride or Die
Martyrs – Pin Blue Sometime
Sorrows – Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadow?
Kpec3 Arrival – Reagan
Erik Flaa – Fiesta For My Failure
La Sécurité – Ketchup
Glimmerjean & Goode – Rosavelle
I had a show ready to go, then on Thursday came news that Marianne Faithfull had died. So, my show instead is a tribute to Rolling Stones’ frontman Mick Jagger’s 1960s girlfriend Faithfull who was a great artist in her own right, particularly long after leaving the Stones’ orbit.
That was evident on her return to prominence brilliant 1979 album Broken English which fit with the punk/new wave ethos of that time and was the first in a hot streak trilogy of the albums Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child’s Adventure into the mid-1980s. The Broken English album in particular and subsequent releases featured her, well, broken english by booze, cigarettes and substance abuse voice. It was a far cry from the sweet sounds of her 1960s material like the Stones’ As Tears Go By, such that she came across as an entirely new artist, possessed by the passage of time and life experience as one of character and authenticity.
So, I’m playing the entire Broken English album plus assorted tracks, covers and otherwise, from throughout Faithfull’s career. Additional commentary after the bare-bones list. Song clips also available on my Facebook page.
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
1. Broken English
2. Witches’ Song
3. Brain Drain
4. Guilt
5. The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
6. What’s The Hurry?
7. Working Class Hero . . . John Lennon cover, brilliantly done.
8. Why D’Ya Do It . . . last but not least, the essential centerpiece of the album, a vitriolic rant over a lover’s infidelity.
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9. House Of The Rising Sun
10. The Blue Millionaire (extended 8:23 minute version)
11. A Stranger On Earth
12. Strange Weather
13. Falling From Grace
14. I’m A Loser (Beatles cover)
15. As Tears Go By
16. Intrigue
17. Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin cover)
18. For Beauty’s Sake
19. Sister Morphine (1969 version)
20. Sister Morphine (1979 version)
21. Running For Our Lives
22. Sweetheart
23. Bored By Dreams
24. Truth Bitter Truth
25. Monday Monday (The Mamas And The Papas cover)
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My track tales, outside of the Broken English album already covered:
9. House Of The Rising Sun . . . From 1964, Marianne Faithfull’s take on the traditional song done by so many but arguably most notably by The Animals.
10. The Blue Millionaire (extended 8:23 minute version) . . . A shorter version was released on the 1983 album A Child’s Adventure. This is the extended 12-inch vinyl single later also released on the excellent 2-CD compilation Marianne Faithfull A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology released on Island Records in 1998.
11. A Stranger On Earth . . . A heartfelt, hurtin’ torch song from her 1987 album Strange Weather.
12. Strange Weather . . . And the title cut from that album, similar vein. Among the luminaries on the album: Dr. John and the recently departed Garth Hudson of The Band fame – who I honored last week via a Band song set – on piano and accordion, respectively.
13. Falling From Grace . . . From that hot streak trio of albums I mentioned once Faithfull returned to prominence late 1970s – Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child’s Adventure. This one’s from 1983’s A Child’s Adventure.
14. I’m A Loser . . . Her 1965 cover of The Beatles’ tune, with Faithfull’s then-pristine, beautiful voice carrying it to great effect.
15. As Tears Go By . . . Not her original cover of the song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which became (to them) an unexpected hit, No. 9 on the UK charts, such that they then quickly recorded it as a Rolling Stones track and made No. 6. What I’m playing, though, is Faithfull’s more haunting version from her Strange Weather album, released in 1987.
16. Intrigue . . . From Dangerous Acquaintances, the 1981 followup to 1979’s Broken English and critically panned, relatively speaking, even by Faithfull herself at the time as it apparently was a difficult recording due to conflicts among the various musicians yet . . . How can an album featuring a compelling ‘lost love’ song like this plus others like Sweetheart, For Beauty’s Sake and Truth Bitter Truth be anything but terrific?
17. Reason To Believe . . . Back to 1967 we go for this Tim Hardin classic also memorably done by Rod Stewart on his 1971 album Every Picture Tells A Story.
18. For Beauty’s Sake . . . Up tempo number from the Dangerous Acquaintances album, a track co-written by Faithfull and Steve Winwood of Traffic/Blind Faith and solo fame.
19. Sister Morphine . . . Faithfull’s original 1969 version, co-written with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, later to appear as a Stones’ track on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
20. Sister Morphine . . . And her 1979 version, recorded during the sessions for the Broken English album and later reworked and released in this studio version on the 1998 compilation A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology.
21. Running For Our Lives . . . From the 1983 album A Child’s Adventure, it’s always been one of my favorite Faithfull tracks.
22. Sweetheart . . . Back to Dangerous Acquaintances we go.
23. Bored By Dreams . . . A pulsating rock tune, great drumming by various session players, from Faithfull’s 1995 album A Secret Life.
24. Truth Bitter Truth . . . Another of my favorite Faithfull tracks, from Dangerous Acquaintances.
25. Monday Monday . . . Marianne’s 1967 cover of The Mamas & the Papas’ hit as I look ahead to my Monday show, coming up on February 3, 8-10 pm ET.
Flash Drive with UWDJ is a weekly session showcasing the Disc Jockey talent from the University of Waterloo’s DJ Club! Each week we’ll highlight a different genre presented by a different DJ or music curator, with genres ranging from jungle, to rnb, to dnb, to house/techno, and more! Connect with us at @uwaterloodj on Instagram for more info!
Flash Drive with UWDJ is hosted by Christian Sforza and Sahal Sajeer and airs on CKMS-FM on Fridays from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
An unfortunate truth is that revolution is never a passive act.
Trump wants to not tax tips.So now businesses can pay a lot less and we become the arbiters of a wage slaves existence.It will put billions of moolah into the pockets of our betters.Medieval evil.Gotta give it to ‘em.Old tactics are the best tactics.
Songs of denial.Songs of Redemption. Songs of hope.Some you can dance to.Accapella Nico!
Quote for today
“To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”e.e. cummings
This weeks movie.Straw Dogs.Directed by Peckinpaw with his trademark graphic violence.Mild mannered Dustin Hoffman strikes back at his wife’s rapists but gets caught up in the cycle of insanity of a quiet local English village.Complex interwoven story lines and it begs the question of retribution.
Now you might not think it but I’ve been told I’m a bit abrasive and shouldn’t point out the truth.It’s not my job to make the truth palatable.
This weeks web site recommendation: https://risingtidefoundation.net. featuring the writing of one of the most brilliant women on the net, Cynthia Chung.An astounding range of topics that dissect history and politics into wonderful stories featuring complex interrelationships that resonate through history.You can get her free stuff sent to you or support her sub stack pages.This is the second time I have recommended her work.That’s how good it is.She makes me feel slow and stupid because her writing is so well researched.
Lots of contrariness. Yeah, I’m like that.Don’t care.lkj, phil oaks, an angry lightfoot cover.
A really good opener from a Grammy nominated Memphis based band called Southern Avenue.And i don’t impress easily.Good luck!
southern avenue-rum boogie. (New)
otis spann-i wonder why
ping rose-careful for what you wish for. (New)
phil ochs-in the heat of the summer
hip-black day in july (can)
billy bragg-it says here
lkj-sonny’s letter
p tosh-get up stand up
anthony b-slavery
black uhuru-dreadlock pall bearers
nico-all tomorrows parties
morphine-take me with you
tom waits-sweet little bullet
cesaria evora-sodade
paul simon-further to fly
bruce cockburn-silver wheels (can)
test dept-red dust
idiom colleagues-travels beyond (can)
hula-gelsoming
robyn hitchcock-pit of souls
modern lovers-pablo picasso
-roadrunner
patty smith-rock n’ roll niger
jim carrol-people who’ve died
english beat-tears of a clown
specials-little bitch
ska p-ni fu ni fa. (Spanish)
Bowie
Live your life with unforgiving passion.It’s tough but worth it.
Keep your sense of Humour.
Google is changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.Boy, that looks a lot like 1984 doesn’t it.
Every other Friday afternoon anywhere from 120 to 180 people gather together at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex Community Pavilion to listen to a presentation about someone’s travel story.
The program has been meeting for well over ten years, and in the last few years has really begun to pick up steam with 2400 attendees in 2024.
Radio Waterloo spoke with Sarah Kelly, who organizes the program for the City of Waterloo, as well as long-time participant, volunteer host and presenter Rick Chambers to speak about the program and what exactly is drawing all these people together.
At the tail end of January we are cozying up, appreciating the now, and looking forward to the warmer and brighter days ahead. Tunes to drive, drink hot cocoa, or call up an old friend to.
What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s mix is the 66th All Things Considered — this time, I’m making the case for Grand Analog, the Canadian hip hop band whose small discography contained many a great record — time to get familiar if you ain’t already!
Tracklist:
LMAO
I Play My Kazoo
Get Live and Go
Magnifico
I’ll Walk Alone
Rap Sheet (This Day On) [feat. Saukrates]
The Great Rhyme Dropper (feat. Shad)
Her Daddy (Don’t Like Me)
4am in Parkdale
Electric City (feat. Shad)
Ballad of the Beast (feat. Shad, Len Bowen & DJ Dopey)
Around This Town
Not Enough Mondays/Crunch (feat. Nester Wynrus & Len Bowen)
Mutations (feat. Posdnous)
Human Beans
Mixtapes: the Slow Ride
Love is a Battlefield
Take It Slow (Spaces & Places)
Sittin On Sunday
Trip the Light Fantastic (feat. Maylee Todd & Len Bowen)
Ride On/Oshiya Dub (feat. Clairmont the Second & 2oolman)
Simmer Me Down
People People
Howl (Like Wolves)
Quiet Life (feat. Steven Mulcare)
Light So Bright (feat. Cadence Weapon)
Lion Head
dan kellar Waterloo, ON – During the city council meeting on January 27th, Waterloo policy planner Adam Zufferli presented an update on the city’s plan to reduce the number of parking spaces required for housing developments which include at least 25% affordable housing units.
Fewer parking spaces translates into a smaller footprint of each unit and a lower cost of development. The parking space reduction initiative fits into the city’s affordable housing strategy and is a part of the city’s Housing Accelerator Fund plan that was approved by the federal government in April 2024.
Council voted to receive the report and to instruct staff to “finalize the process, legal agreement template, and monitoring framework for reviewing parking reduction requests for affordable housing units”. Public comments on the plan were due on the day of the presentation and Zufferli mentioned they will be included in the final presentation in a month’s time.
My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. Song clips also available on my Facebook page.
1. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
2. Electric Light Orchestra, Roll Over Beethoven
3. John Mellencamp, Play Guitar
4. John Mellencamp, Serious Business
5. Otis Redding, Satisfaction
6. Ray Charles, Let’s Go Get Stoned
7. Warren Zevon, Bo Diddley’s A Gunslinger/Bo Diddley (live, from Stand In The Fire)
8. Ron Wood & Bo Diddley, Who Do You Love (from Live At The Ritz)
9. The Rolling Stones, Too Tough
10. Pink Floyd, Empty Spaces
11. Pink Floyd, Young Lust
12. Aerosmith, One Way Street
13. ZZ Top, Lowdown In The Street
14. Procol Harum, Long Gone Geek
15. Mountain, Solution
16. Rush, Chemistry
17. Pretenders, Mystery Achievement
18. Van Halen, Up For Breakfast
19. The Black Crowes, Been A Long Time (Waiting On Love)
20. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Ain’t No Sunshine (from Live At The Fillmore 1997)
21. Fleetwood Mac, That’s All For Everyone
My track-by-track tales:
1. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 . . . Everyone knows those first, dramatic notes . . . da na na na! Etc. Depending on version, or excerpt, the piece can go on for half an hour or more, or less. In this case, it’s about six minutes of me having fun throwing a curveball, perhaps, into an otherwise usual rock and roll show but I’ve done it before. As always, it depends on my mood, my thought process at a given time, what I may have been conversing about, reading, watching, listening to, or whatever. Ideas come from everywhere and anywhere. In this case, I was thinking of playing Electric Light Orchestra so then I thought about Roll Over Beethoven, ELO’s cover of Chuck Berry so it then followed that, what the heck, play Beethoven himself. So here we are.
2. Electric Light Orchestra, Roll Over Beethoven . . . The original 8-minutes and change version as it appeared on the ELO 2 album in 1973 when the band was still in its early phases finding its way and experimenting with psychedelic and progressive rock forms, always with an ear to catchy tunes. So, a Chuck Berry cover like Roll Over Beethoven was perhaps an obvious ‘easy’ thing to do, quite successfully; a great hard rocking/prog version.
3. John Mellencamp, Play Guitar . . . “Forget all about that macho shit and learn how to play guitar” the signature line from a great tune from his 1983 album Uh Huh, still in naming transition between early stage name John Cougar then to his actual surname Mellencamp. The album was released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp but in any event nothing truly matters but the music and it’s one of those albums easily listened to, straight through, with not a dud track in the list.
4. John Mellencamp, Serious Business . . . Another from Uh Huh; I couldn’t decide between this and Play Guitar so, I’m playing both.
5. Otis Redding, Satisfaction . . . Otis’s version of The Rolling Stones’ classic, released on his Otis Blue album that came out three months after the Stones’ 1965 hit single. It is, based on available literature, at least somewhat how Keith Richards of the Stones initially envisioned the song as being, complete with horns. Which, interestingly, with the Stones being augmented in concert by various horn sections over the years since, the song has at least somewhat become a hybrid of the original and Redding versions when the Stones play it live. That often depends on where it is in the set. I’ve seen them open with it, playing it ‘straight’ without horns, and seen them close with it in extended almost orchestra versions.
6. Ray Charles, Let’s Go Get Stoned . . . I’ve been in something of a Ray Charles phase of late, likely started when I played Humble Pie’s live version of I Don’t Need No Doctor fairly recently but in any case, always a good time to play something by one of the masters of music.
7. Warren Zevon, Bo Diddley’s A Gunslinger/Bo Diddley (live, from Stand In The Fire) . . . Incendiary stuff, in line with the album title.
8. Ron Wood & Bo Diddley, Who Do You Love (from Live At The Ritz) . . . I hadn’t planned on playing this but when I decided to play Zevon doing Diddley it just seemed to follow that I would or should play Diddley and this version of arguably his signature song, accompanied by the Stones’ guitarist, from the collaborative 1988 album Live At The Ritz.
9. The Rolling Stones, Too Tough . . . Nice riff rocker from the 1983 album Undercover. It’s something of a ‘lost’ album in the Stones’ extensive catalog. The band didn’t tour behind it as the so-called “World War III’ between songwriting principals Mick Jagger and Keith Richards was heating up as Jagger was in process of launching a solo career, splitting his musical focus. That battle went to greater extremes on the subsequent 1986 album Dirty Work which has been savaged by critics and some fans but which I love due to its naked aggression, reflecting band dynamics at the time. More on that, next time I play a song from the Dirty Work album. Suffice it to say that eventually, by the 1990s, all concerned seem to come to the understanding that they could – and did – pursue solo projects without sabotaging the mother ship.
On that score, it’s interesting in The Beatles’ documentary Get Back, there’s a scene where John Lennon and George Harrison are in studio, musing about doing solo albums in parallel with The Beatles. Paul McCartney wasn’t in the room but apparently later said that, had he known of the conversation, he would have been supportive of the idea. It didn’t happen – outside of some members doing experimental music while the band was still together, things like Harrison’s Wonderwall Music in 1968 and Electronic Sound in 1969 or Lennon’s avant-garde experiments with Yoko Ono – so it’s one of those interesting ‘what ifs’ of history. Lennon, Harrison and Ringo Starr did work together on some of each other’s post-breakup solo albums and McCartney joined the others – although not in studio at the same time – on Starr’s 1973 album Ringo.
As for the Stones’ Undercover album, it actually had its share of hits including the top 10 in most countries funk rock title cut plus She Was Hot and the funk rock/rap Too Much Blood. And Too Tough, to me a ‘shoulda /coulda been’ hit that wasn’t released as a single although it did get some radio play.
10. Pink Floyd, Empty Spaces . . . From The Wall, a lead-in into Young Lust, best listened to as a unified piece, as I’m presenting it.
11. Pink Floyd, Young Lust . . . Featuring the immortal line “I need a dirty woman, I need a dirty girl . . . ” Always reminds me of college days in my off-campus apartment when I got home one night to hear my neighbor, apparently impromptu but maybe he was listening to Pink Floyd, cry out “I want a woman!” Apparently, he didn’t have or get one, at least that night.
12. Aerosmith, One Way Street . . . A seven-minute bluesy cut from the band’s self-titled 1973 debut album that featured the hit single Dream On.
13. ZZ Top, Lowdown In The Street . . . Music is, or can be, very much a time and place thing and that’s what ZZ Top’s 1979 album Deguello, from which this track comes, is for me. I had of course known of the band, their various hits to that point like Tush and Le Grange, owned their first compilation featuring those tunes but during college here came Deguello, with hits like I Thank You and Cheap Sunglasses and I was totally sold, prompting me to go back to the individual albums preceding Deguello, with obvious rewards.
14. Procol Harum, Long Gone Geek . . . Heavy rocker was the B-side to the title cut single from the 1969 album A Salty Dog.
15. Mountain, Solution . . . A new track at the time of its release, 1994, on the excellent/comprehensive Mountain compilation Over The Top which has now, according to a magazine I was perusing in my neighborhood record store last Friday, been re-released after going out of print. It’s a worthwhile compilation to pick up or listen to online, showing how Mountain was excellent beyond their best-known hit Mississippi Queen. Solution, the 1994 track in all its heavy guitar glory, is up to Mountain’s established standards.
16. Rush, Chemistry . . . From the 1982 album Signals which featured the hit single Subdivisions. Typical Rush, the song Chemistry, but upon deeper investigation there are musical signs, (maybe that’s why they called the album Signals) in the song of Rush’s impending move into the controversial and divisive to the fan base synthesizer rock phase over the next three albums – Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire.
17. Pretenders, Mystery Achievement . . . Irresistible rocker, great bass line, from the band’s self-titled debut album, 1979. The hits/best known tracks were Brass In Pocket and Precious but it’s one of those albums where every song is superb.
18. Van Halen, Up For Breakfast . . . Perhaps an indication of what may have been but never happened/continued. Up For Breakfast, hard yet melodic stuff from the Van (Sammy) Hagar version of the band was a new track recorded in 2004 along with two others for the 2-disc compilation The Best Of Both Worlds (the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar on lead vocals versions of the band, totally ignoring the ill-fated Gary Cherone-fronted Van Halen III album). The compilation came out in support of a reunion tour with Hagar. I saw the show in July, 2004 in Toronto and it was terrific but it apparently was an illusion of sorts as relationships within the band were fraying thanks to musical differences compounded by guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s assorted drug and personal demons. There’s many interviews available on YouTube with, at least, Hagar’s views on what transpired.
19. The Black Crowes, Been A Long Time (Waiting On Love) . . . Unapologetically derivative of their heroes like Faces, Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones, among others, with the added influence of ‘jam bands’ that the Crowes – originally a hit singles band via songs like Jealous Again and Otis Redding’s Hard To Handle – have long since become in the vein of The Allman Brothers Band and others. It’s terrific music, regardless, that I haven’t played on the show in ages and thus is long overdue, so here we come with this track from the 2009 album Before The Frost . . . Until The Freeze. It was recorded before a live audience at Levon Helm of The Band fame’s Woodstock, New York studio, The Barn.
20. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Ain’t No Sunshine (from Live At The Fillmore 1997) . . . The Bill Withers classic done by Petty and The Heartbreakers on a terrific live album that came out in physical copies in 2022. It’s a great listen as Petty and pals go through their own material but also covers like Ain’t No Sunshine, J.J. Cale’s Call Me The Breeze, the Stones’ Time Is On My Side and Satisfaction, The Byrds’ Eight Miles High and Bob Dylan’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, among others.
21. Fleetwood Mac, That’s All For Everyone . . . And that is indeed all, for this show at least, as we part, until next time, via this cool cut I’ve always enjoyed, from the 1979 album Tusk.
What’s up, y’all? As always — first up, here is what I’ve added to Libretime in the past week:
Benjamin Russell
Waves
Pop
CanCon
Faultlines
Rain – Single
Folk
No
Sunday Riot Club
Out In the Sky – Single
Blues
CanCon
Tilia
Drivers Seat – Single
Pop
No
Seeds of Eden
Never Let Me Down – Single
Rock
CanCon/KWCon
Seeds of Eden
Wish You Were Here – Single
Rock
CanCon/KWCon
Slugs of Mars
Invasion
Metal
CanCon/KWCon
Graeme Jonez
Ride or Die – Single
Rock
CanCon
Darryl Lalach
It’s Groundhog Day – Single
Folk
CanCon
Alexander Bugarija
For You – Single
Folk
CanCon
NERiMA
Reverence – Single
Punk
CanCon
Shane Pendergast
Winter Grace
Folk
CanCon
Brock Geiger
After Later – Single
Alternative
No
Thomas Thomas
One Lone Candle – Single
Pop
CanCon
Dayside & Guffchild
Daddy’s Girl – Single
R&B
CanCon
ERV ELLO
Flight to Heaven – Single
Country
No
Back Seat Driver
The Mountain – Single
Funk
CanCon
Patrick Smith
Pangea: Rebirth
Jazz
CanCon
Jason Carter
In and Out of Time
Classical
No
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
O Listen!
Classical
No
Vampire Slumber Party
Polka King of the Midwest – Single
Punk
No
De Beumb Project
Closer, warmer
Punk
CanCon
Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra
Forest Party
Hip Hop
No
Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra
Noodle
Hip Hop
No
Bobby Joe Henson
Jumbalaya – Single
Country
No
Tom Eaton
Traces – Single
Ambient
No
Jeremy Hines
Long Day (10 Toes Down) – Single
Hip Hop
No
Ron Ledoux Quartet
Views, Visions, & Destinations
Jazz
CanCon
Les Canards
Conichibou
World
CanCon
The OBGMs
SORRY, IT’S OVER
Rock
CanCon
Steve Sandberg Trio
Live at Soapbox
Jazz
No
Emma Gabriel
Patience – Single
R&B
Explicit and Clean Versions Available
CanCon
Amy Blanding with Reckless Burning
Sunbirds – Single
Folk
CanCon
DNA
déjà vu – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
DNA
Ghost – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
DNA
If I Die Young – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
DNA
Let Go – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
DNA
Little Do You Know – Single
Hip Hop
NSFR
CanCon
Dahlia Wakefield
GOODBYE – Single
Rock
CanCon
Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:
Tracklist:
Slugs of Mars – Becoming Rage
Seeds of Eden – Wish You Were Here
You Might Be Sleeping – Springdale
NERiMA – Reverence
Vampire Slumber Party – Polka King of the Midwest
De Beumb Project – No country for old punks
The OBGMs – GET UP
Stonehocker – In Need
Dahlia Wakefield – GOODBYE
Jeremy Hines – Long Day (10 Toes Down)
DNA – Little Do You Know
Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra – Capttalism (feat. Tom Thum, Saro Roro, Rivermouth, Blaq Carrie, & Nima Doostkhah)
Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra – Obscure Thought (feat. Lucie Pegna)
Emma Gabriel – Patience
Dayside & Guffchild – Daddy’s Girl
The Nathaniel Hardy Project – Love Is Just Too Precious
Starbuck – Coldest Night of the Year
Avi C. Engel – Near Snake Island
Danish National Vocal Ensemble – Salmo XLII
Jason Carter – Finlandia
Tom Eaton – Traces
Patrick Smith – Endless Construction (dedicated to Eglinton West)
Ron Ledoux Quartet – UFO 60s
Steve Sandberg Trio – Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Amy Blanding with Reckless Burning – Sunbirds
The Co-Conspirators – Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Darryl Lalach – It’s Groundhog Day
Faultlines – Rain
Alexander Bugarija – For You
Shane Pendergast – Farewell to the Teacup
Icarus Phoenix – Pedantic
Boreal – Snow Falls Down
dan kellar
Waterloo, ON – The Icarus Album, which is the debut work of new classical composer Erik Lankin, is being released today with a listening party and discussion at the Waterloo North Mennonite Church, a place with deep connection to his family. Lankin, who “grew up slowly in Kitchener-Waterloo” and is now based in Montreal, has reinterpreted the myth of Icarus and Daedalus for this album, as a metaphor for losing his father to mental illness.
Lankin says the musicians involved in the project are some of canada’s top classical soloists and neoclassical producers.
In an early review of The Icarus Album, Robin B. James of Igloo Magazine wrote “This amazing work of Erik Lankin creates a new triumph, which I would place high in the pantheon of significant human musical expressions.”
This show features an interview with The Icarus Album composer Erik Lankin. The listening party is a free event which starts at 7pm.
I hadn’t played anything from The Band recently, then this week the group came to mind with the passing, at age 87, of multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson. All of the original members – Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel – are now sadly gone but the music of course lives on. Here they are in all their live glory on the 1972 album Rock Of Ages, followed by some studio tracks by the group to fill out my two-hour slot.
The live album is notable for The Band being augmented by – as Robertson advises in the introduction – something different than the group to that point had tried in the live arena, a horn section arranged by the renowned Allen Toussaint. The result is indeed an album for the ages.
The Band – Rock Of Ages
1. Introduction
2. Don’t Do It
3. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
4. Caledonia Mission
5. Get Up Jake
6. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
7. Stage Fright
8. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
9. Across The Great Divide
10. This Wheel’s On Fire
11. Rag Mama Rag
12. The Weight
13. The Shape I’m In
14. Unfaithful Servant
15. Life Is A Carnival
16. The Genetic Method
17. Chest Fever
18. (I Don’t Want To) Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
Studio tracks:
19. Acadian Driftwood
20. Up On Cripple Creek
21. The Saga Of Pepote Rouge
22. Endless Highway
23. It Makes No Difference
24. Knockin’ Lost John
25. Mystery Train