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  • Strange Wonderful

    Strange Wonderful

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, every Wednesday morning airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, a few billion notable sea creatures, and literally trillions of bacterium. Yes, every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of these songs via terrestrial radio giant CHLY 101.7 FM at 8am PST on Wednesday.

    The particular music which makes up this week’s signal-shower is very dear to me. Some of it is strange. Some of it is not. All of it is wonderful.

    Special mention goes out to someone named Ashton Freeman, on whom I have fervently mortgaged my home in order to place irresponsible bets on their imminent musical success.

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour on Wednesday February 3rd, 2021

    The tracks

    • Jack Stauber – The Ballad of Hamantha
    • Jack Stauber – Dead Weight
    • Jack Stauber – Gettin’ my Mom on
    • Circles Around the Sun (feat. Neal Casal) – Saturday’s Children
    • The Beatles – Octopus’s Garden
    • Guttermouth – Lemon Water
    • The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    • Ashton Freeman – Part of Me
    • Ashton Freeman – Where You Need Me Most
    • Ashton Freeman – Empty Handed
    • Ashton Freeman – You Make Me Happy
    • Girlpool – Before the World was Big
    • The Dead Milkmen – Lydia, The Tattooed Lady
    • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Science Fiction/Double Feature

  • 60 minutes of 60’s music

    60 minutes of 60’s music

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, an hour of music from the 1960’s era of changing sounds.

    Rock and roll in its purest form was gradually overtaken by pop rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which had grown in popularity

    Wikipedia

    Wrapping up the collection is a set of 4 tracks by Canadian artists, for, y’know, CANCON.

    Here is the file

    • Donovan – Clara Clairvoyant
    • Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
    • Jefferson Airplane – Today
    • Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
    • The Zombies – She’s Not There
    • The Animals – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
    • The Yardbirds – For Your Love
    • Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Were Made For Walkin’
    • Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
    • Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic
    • T. Rex – Mambo Sun
    • Shuggie Oats – Sweet Thang
    • Link Wray – Rumble
    • The Surfaris – Wipe Out
    • The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko
    • The Band – Ophelia
    • Joni Mitchell – California
    • Buffy Sainte Marie – Universal Soldier
    • Gordon Lightfoot – Big Steel Rail
  • Three Sets, No Frets

    Three Sets, No Frets

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, we hear three distinctive sounds over the course of the program. Notably, the second set features five of my favourite tracks from the brand new (substantial! 27 track) album Reaching For the Sun by San Fransisco band Burnt.

    The file

    The Tracks

    • Frances Forever – Space Girl
    • Wabie – Hey Lover!
    • The Hip Abduction – Higher
    • Alex G – Sarah
    • Burnt – Pink Pearl
    • Burnt – Stovepipe
    • Burnt – Bolo the Kelp Rider
    • Burnt – Raindrops
    • Burnt – True Love Never Chain
    • The Greyboy Allstars – How Glad I Am
    • Fatboy Slim – Put It Back Together
    • MGMT – Congratulations
    • ALO – Cowboys and Chorus Girls
    • Skookum Sound System, Csetkwe Remix – Heyoka Crisis
  • Dark Moon, Bright Tunes

    Dark Moon, Bright Tunes

    On this episode of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, music, music, music.

    This will be the final week of fundraising on behalf of CHLY to secure a spot as a community partner with The Discourse Nanaimo. Click here to make a donation.

    Here is the program file

    • Badbadnotgood – The Chocolate Conquistadors
    • Pa Salieu, Mahalia – Energy
    • Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Leventille Road March
    • Ramsey Lewis – Cry Baby Cry
    • Dorothy Ashby – Action Line
    • Sufjan Stevens – Come on!
    • Timber Timbre – Grifting
    • Blondie – Once I Had a Love (Redux)
    • Vulfpeck – Aunt Leslie
    • Darondo (Feat.The Park) – 2012
    • Little Dragon, Moses Sumney – The Other Lover
    • Leenalchi – Tiger is Coming
  • Spastic Fantastic

    Spastic Fantastic

    We’re all over the place on this week’s Sweet and Sour Variety Hour!

    Get into it!

    Here’s the file

    Tracklist

    • Susumu Yokota – Traveler in the Wonderland
    • Susumu Yokota – Song of the Sleeping Forest
    • Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi
    • Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira
    • Dip in the Red Pool – On Retinae, West Version
    • Video Age – Hold On (I Was Wrong)
    • Abram Shook – Machinery
    • Moondog – Do Your Thing
    • Jake Xerxes Fussell – Raggy Levy
    • The BeachBoys – Vegetables
    • Les Paul & Mary Ford – Smoke Rings
    • Les Paul & Mary Ford – How High the Moon
    • Rosemary Clooney – Come On-A My House
    • Sonny Clark – Junka
    • Chris Bear – Gatsby Intro
  • Jess Best 2020

    Jess Best 2020

    I present on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, favourite songs of 2020 put together by my friend, Jess. Thanks to the magic of modern technology, I’m able to poach her content just as ruthlessly as if she hadn’t runned off to Newfoundland.

    Dat der file

    • Grimes – Delete Forever
    • Sevdaliza – Oh My God
    • Blake Mills – Vanishing Twin
    • Fiona Apple – Heavy Balloon
    • Adrianne Lenker – anything
    • Luluc – Emerald City
    • Waxahatchee – Fire
    • Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night
    • Braids – Young Bucks
    • Taylor Swift – seven
    • Sparks – Self-Effacing
    • Agnes Obel – Island of Doom
    • U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars
    • Clem Snide – Roger Ebert

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