Moving into our fourth month of COVID-19 induced restrictions and “shelter in place” recommendations, I think a lot of people are getting a little frisky. So here’s two hours of tunes that could be considered either entirely appropriate or entirely inappropriate for the situation, depending on your point of view.
Music
Music is a necessity. Though I focus mostly on alternative/industrial/EBM/electronic styles, my tastes are eclectic and wide-ranging.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.06
Week sixteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.30
Week fifteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.23: Bombtime!
I’ve apparently fallen into the habit of doing some sort of themed set every third week. This week started when I realized how many songs I had with “bomb” in the title, and decided to see what I could do with that….
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.16
Week thirteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.09
Week thirteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.02: Birthday Edition
A rare pre-planned set; I selected this set of tracks just because tomorrow’s my birthday and these are some long-time favorites that I wanted to play. Back to the usual unplanned randomness next week!
- Shakespear’s Sister, Stay
- Peter Murphy, I’ll Fall With Your Knife
- Soft Cell, Seedy Films
- The Normal, Warm Leatherette
- Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)
- Lo-Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed, Battle Flag (Radio Edit)
- The Cardigans, Erase/Rewind
- Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up (12)”
- The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones, Kiss (Art of Noise)
- Figures on a Beach, Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) (Remix)
- LaTour, Allen’s Got A New Hi-Fi
- Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Extended)
- DJ Tripp, Express This Way
- The Azoic feat. Seabound, Obsession
- Sunscreem, Love U More (A Version)
- Pet Shop Boys, It’s a Sin
- DJ Wüdi, Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999
- Information Society, Going, Going, Gone (Razed in Black)
- Psychic TV, I.C. Water
- Diane Birch, This Corrosion
- Marilyn Monroe, Happy Birthday to JFK
Happy May Day
You hear that sound, the rain is coming down
It says there’s a ripeness setting in
The children spin around ’til they crash into the ground
Singing “Welcome Home Forever Once Again”And when you hear the spirit’s call
There ain’t no use to fight
And if you want to reap tomorrow, you better sow your seed tonight
You better sow your seed tonightYou feel that fire lift your body higher
An old, old dance is growing here
Better kiss me soon while the blossoms are in bloom
Or you might just have to wait another yearAnd when you hear the spirit’s call
There ain’t no use to fight
And if you want to reap tomorrow, you better sow your seed tonight
You better sow your seed tonightYou feel that beet, come on, move your feet
Old man winter’s dead and gone
There’ll be wiggling of the toes, there’ll be taking off of clothes
There’ll be silly naked dancing on the lawnAnd when you hear the spirit’s call
There ain’t no use to fight
And if you want to reap tomorrow, you better sow your seed tonight
You better sow your seed tonight
— Jason Webley, “May Day”
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.04.25
Week eleven of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.04.18
Week ten of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.