Boogiepop Does Not Smile

living in a post-69 love songs vol. 1 world

I'm tired and I don't really have anything interesting to say right now.

I guess it's time to give you two weeks notice before the Valentine's Day show (it'll be on the 13th). That's the one where I play all the mushy love songs. Sweetest Day is the one where I play all the breakup songs.

So, if you have a cute love song that you want to hear on the 13th, post it on one of the comments links.

Here's the show, with an extra 30 minutes of college radio-y goodness:

1/30/06 Part 1
1/30/06 Part 2

Edit: Links were broken. Once again, I'm indebted to Kevin for pointing them out to me. I just forgot a couple of letters in the filenames.

playlist for january 30, 2006

Galaxie 500 "Moonshot" Peel Sessions
REM "Driver 8" Eponymous
Sebadoh "Open Ended" Harmacy
Beat Happening "Indian Summer" Jamboree
Camper Van Beethoven "I Love Her All the Time" Camper Van Beethoven II & III
Camera Obscura "Eighties Fan" Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
The Raincoats "No Side To Fall In" The Raincoats
Fugazi "Shut the Door" Repeater
The Gossip "Listen Up!" Standing in the Way of Control
Patti Smith "gloria" Horses
Saint Etienne "Sun in My Morning" Tales From Turnpike House
Frequent Flyer "Reach For the Sun" Frequent Flyer
Dennis Driscoll "Moon Patrol" Voices in the Fog
parks and recreation "Break Into Song!" parks and recreation
Jens Lekman "You Are the Light" When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
Cornershop "Funky Days Are Back Again" When I Was Born for the 7th Time
The Diskettes "As It Happens" Weeknights at Island View Beach
Colin Clary "twee ball" demo
Apples In Stereo "Stream Running Over" The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
All Girl Summer Fun Band "Later Operator" All Girl Summer Fun Band
jammypants "412 love" making mistakes
jammypants "drastic conclusions" left out
the haircuts "umbrella day" it's always better when we're together
Galaxie 500 "Submission" Peel Sessions
Pants Yell! "Your Favorite Fairgrounds" Songs For Siblings
data Panik "Cubis" Cubis/Sense Not Sense 7"
The Advantage "DUCKTAILS-Moon" elf-titled
Minibosses "Kid Icarus" Brass
The Capricorns "Nintendo Song" In the Zone
Olivia Tremor Control "Fireplace" Singles and Beyond
Neutral Milk Hotel "Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone" On Avery Island
Ponies in the Surf "Casey" Ponies on Fire
Saint Etienne "A Good Thing" Tales From Turnpike House
Magnetic Fields "Epitaph for My Heart" 69 Love Songs Vol. 2
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham "Moonshot" L'Avventura

Edit: I forgot to mention in this post that the show is starting at 8:30 next week, instead of the usual 9 a.m. starting time. Bart has to leave a half an hour early. Any suggestions on what I should do with the additional half hour?

fitzgerald has got the straightedge

I feel stupid for not figuring out that "Bloody Stumps" is an anti-smoking song and not just a song about amputation. Elizabeth is a genius just for figuring that out.

I hate to do this, but I have to ask one more time if people are downloading the shows on here and if y'all think I should keep putting my shows on the site. The reason for this is that it's been almost a year since I started doing this, so it's almost time to re-register the boogiepopdoesnotsmile.com domain name? So, I'm going to ask again for all the people who download the show to post a comment below and represent.

I forgot to play the Advantage's Ducktails [sic] track. Whoops! I'll try again next week.

Here's another stab at MySpace whoring... Add me as your friend on MySpace and instantly qudruple your indie cred! My MySpace URL is http://www.myspace.com/boogiepopdoesnotsmile.

Finally, I'll tell you more about the transmitter difficulties when we figure out what's wrong and how to get it fixed.

Here's the show:

1/23/06 Part 1
1/23/06 Part 2

In case you didn't hear already, the station is operating at 10% power due to some technical problem. If you can't pick up the station, you can either try listening at wcsb.org, or you can wait until later when I post the archive.

playlist for january 23, 2006

Minibosses "Megaman 2" Brass
14 Year Old Girls "Ballad of Rockman" Strategy Guide
Tender Forever "Hot" The Soft and the Hardcore
data Panik "Sense Not Sense" Cubis/Sense Not Sense 7"
The Advantage "MEGAMAN II-Stage Select + Metal Man" elf-titled
jammypants "theme song"
jammypants "thoughts while knitting" left out
Saint Etienne "Milk Bottle Symphony" Tales From Turnpike House
The Pancakes "Etienne" Sofa #1
Fitzgerald "Bloody Stumps" Raised By Wolves
Colin Clary "i'm glad you like my songs, Liz!" demo
Colin Clary "boogiepop rocks!" demo
Moog Cookbook "More Than a Feeling" Plays the Classic Rock Hits
Sleater-Kinney "More Than a Feeling"
The Gossip "Yr Mangled Heart" Standing in the Way of Control
Ponies in the Surf "New Century Program" Ponies on Fire
Frequent Flyer "Paris Blue" Frequent Flyer
Duplex "Salad Song" Ablum
Calvin Johnson "When You Are Mine" Before the Dream Faded
Nirvana "Sliver" Sliver-The Best of the Box
Dressy Bessy "Carry-On" SoundGoRound
Tiara "We Learned From the Best" Chained to the Crown
The Twilight "It's Such a Drag" demo
Harry and the Potters "Fred and George" Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock!
The Frogs "Psychedelic Eyes"
Rose Melberg "The Time Has Come" It's on her MySpace
The Gossip "Coal To Diamonds" Standing in the Way of Control

so, what's the radio equivalent of a "hallraker"?

So, yeah, the big story today was how a lot of the Internet audience dropped off when I played the Minibosses doing "Super Mario Bros. 2". I was surprised. I thought everyone played that game. And how could anyone not love the part where they do the cave theme. The drumwork on that part is just so amazing!

And then, near the end of the show, I played some stuff by the Advantage (the other big video game cover band--we just got their CD at the station) and ended with the Minibosses doing "Punch Out".

Here are the links so you can listen to all the drama for yourself:

1/16/06 Part 1
1/16/06 Part 2

Also, you can still listen to the whole 2005 singles countdown. The links are in the post below today's playlist.

playlist for january 16, 2006

Minibosses "Super Mario Bros. 2" Brass
jammypants "drastic conclusions" left out
The Haircuts "it's in the stars" it's always better when we're together
Ponies In the Surf "Little Boy Lost" Ponies On Fire
The Softies "Heart Condition" It's Love
The Softies "It's Love" It's Love
Tullycraft "Every Little Thing" Disenchanted Hearts Unite
data Panik "cubis" cubis/sense not sense 7"
bis "i'll get you back" intendo
Amy Kasio "I Am the Man" Lick My Key
Tender Forever "Every Monday" The Soft and the Hardcore
Tender Forever "Make Out" The Soft and the Hardcore
Sonic Youth "Bone" Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Luna "La Poupee Qui Fait Non" pop romantique
The Twilight "Walking Down the Street"
PINE*am "mackerel sky" Pull the Rabbit Ears
Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re "Fish Cakes" Pregnant Fantasy
The Shins "One By One All Day" Oh, Inverted World
Tiara "Green & Grey" Chained to the Crown
Churchbuilder "vespa" Patty Darling
Fitzgerald "Bloody Stumps" Raised By Wolves
jammypants "danielle pittner!" left out
My First Keyboard "Hey Friend!" U.S. Pop Life Vol. 5
data Panik "Rulers of the State" (download from data Panik website)
Mew "Am I Wry? No"
The Advantage "CONTRA-Alien's Lair & Boss Music" elf-titled
The Advantage "CASTLEVANIA-Intro + Stage 1" elf-titled
Minibosses "Punch Out" Brass

the not-so final countdown

Okay, since a couple more people have shown interest (and I'll assume there are at least a couple of others who either ambivalent or have just been silent about it for whatever reason), I've done that recreation of the missing part of the first part of the 2005 countdown which I was offering to do. I don't talk on it, but you do get the robot voice announcing the songs.

By the way, I didn't put Sleater-Kinney (#29) on there, so you're still missing the first part of that song. Oh well, it's Sleater-Kinney, so you shouldn't have any trouble getting that song if you really want it.

Anyway, here are all the links for the countdown shows:

Part 1 (1/2/06)
#57-42
#41-30 (recreated, just added)
#29-24

Part 2 (1/9/06)
#23-9
#8-1

And also, for your convenience, here's the entire list of the top 57 singles of 2005:

57. The Maybellines "Autumn, September" A La Carte
56. buttersprites "Dog Food" buttersprites
55. Lou Barlow "Round -N- Round" EMOH
54. R. Shand "U Wanna Be a Grip" U Wanna Be a Grip single
53. Burka Band "Burka Blue"
52. Miss Mary "Silly Boy, Don't Be So Sad" Ready 2 Pop
51. Florida "The Girl On the Escalator"
50. Elekibass "All the People Come, Let's Get Down" Welcome Wonderful World
49. Saturday Looks Good To Me "I Don't Want to Go" I Don't Want to Go/Disaster 7"
48. Red Pony Clock "Hayward Gurlzz" Tunes from Terrace Towers
47. Electric Grandmother "Bob Saget Marches On" Pee Sells... But Who's Buying?
46. Maria Taylor "One For the Shareholder" 11:11
45. Palomar "Stay Out Late" Palomar 3.5
44. Bunnygrunt "Nobody Rides For Free" Karen Hater's Club
43. Marbles "Out of Zone" Expo
42. Elliott the Letter Ostrich "Pink Dracula" Blood Cape
41. the evens "around the corner" the evens
40. Ed in the Refridgerators "The Pope Song (Historically Accurate Version)" Get Excommunicated
39. New Grenada "Nerd Alert" Parting Shots
38. Land of Ill Earthquakes "Long Winter" Land of Ill Earthquakes EP
37. kanda "list" all the good meetings are taken
36. The Dirty Moons "Dreaming" Asaurus Records EP Club #10
35. Pants Yell! "Tram #7" Asaurus Records EP Club #10
34. The Brunettes "The Record Store" Mars Loves Venus
33. The Wiggins "Johnny" Greatest Apes
32. Scotland Yard Gospel Choir "I Know a Girl" i bet you say that to all the boys
31. Apples In Stereo "Liza Jane" Dimension Mix
30. The Mathletes "I Hate Bright Eyes (Battle Rhyme)" Jest and Earnest
29. Sleater-Kinney "Modern Girl" The Woods
28. Tender Forever "Tender Forever" The Soft and Hardcore
27. The Snow Fairies "The Stone Pony" get married
26. Snow Machine "Birmingham" Snow Machine
25. The Gossip "Standing In the Way of Control" Standing In the Way of Control 12"
24. Colin Clary and the Magogs and Friends "Good Vibrations" You Already Have Way Too Many CD-Rs
23. Colin Clary "8 Kisses" Sweater Weather or Not, These Are the Songs I Got
22. The Helper T-Cells "The Complete Beginner's Guide to Liking Bugs (and Loving It)" Songs For People Who Like BUGS
21. Minibosses "Ninja Gaiden" Minibosses/Penny Winblood split CD
20. The Sour Grapes "Business Casual" No More Drama
19. Weird War "Girls Like That" Illuminated By the Light
18. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players "Look at Me" Look at Me b/w Don't You Know What I Mean
17. Kidz Bop Kids "Float On" Kidz Bop Vol. 7
16. The Diskettes "12345" Weeknights at Island View Beach
15. Calvin Johnson "Rabbit Blood" Before the Dream Faded
14. Jens Lekman "What you mean to me" USA October 2005 Tour EP
13. The Blow "Pile of Gold" PDX POP NOW!
12. Fitzgerald "Bloody Stumps" Raised By Wolves
11. Pony Up! "Matthew Modine" Pony Up!
10. Dressy Bessy "Electrified" Electrified
9. Ladytron "Destroy Everything You Touch" Witching Hour
8. The Icicles "Sugar Sweet" A Hundred Patterns
7. Dream Bitches "Other People's Mothers" Sanfransisters
6. The Smittens "Stop The Bombs" A Little Revolution
5. Of Montreal "The Party's Crashing Us" The Sunlandic Twins
4. Duplex "Salad Song" Ablum
3. Orenda Fink "Invisible Ones Guard the Gate" Invisible Ones
2. Cars Can Be Blue "Abortion" All the Stuff We Do
1. Tullycraft "Every Little Thing" Disenchanted Hearts Unite

"uh uh uh oh"--the most astute words of wisdom uttered in 2005

Right after the show today, Elizabeth (from Cool Chick #59, one of the other shows on this station) called to ask about that Mirah song that I played, and said it was the greatest song she ever heard. In her entire life. And I didn't include it on the countdown (and yes, that version was released this year, on the same compilation as that Blow song that I put in the countdown). Whoops.

Anyway... At that Tullycraft show last summer, I talked to one of the members of Tullycraft (I forget which one... it wasn't Sean or Jenny, I know that), and he said that after he recorded Jenny's vocals for that song, he just kept listening to them over and over again. I don't know, there's just something mesmerizing about those "uh uh uh oh" vocals.

And today, I'm officially retiring "Matthew Modine" and "Abortion". I was going to play other songs by the respective artists in place of them, but I thought that would be lame. So, I just decided to pull out "Matthew Modine" one more time, as well as risk things with a censored version of "Abortion". I'm very sure that I covered my ass with the way I censored those songs, so no one had better lodge any complaints against them. But yeah, in this delicate political climate, I'm going to have to play it safe, so I'm not playing those songs over the air again.

To be honest, though, I'm not going to be that sad if I get kicked off the air. I don't know if this show is really going anywhere, or if people are heeding my unique take on the world of music. I think it would further the cause of twee more if I started my own band, got as big as Kiddo, and played shows with all the great twee bands whenever they come to Cleveland. That way, I could get people to come to see my band, and then stay for the Smittens or whatever other great band might be brave enough to come here.

Anyway, I need to go now, so here are the MP3s for today's show. By the way, the offer to restore the songs that went missing from last weeks MP3s due to that CD recorder malfunction is still on the table. If a couple more people say that they want it, I'll re-record those songs and post up a new MP3 here. Anyway, here's today's show:

1/9/06 Part 1
1/9/06 Part 2

playlist for january 9, 2006

Part 2 of the 2005 No Money Mark Memorial Year-In-Review Countdown

23. Colin Clary "8 Kisses" Sweater Weather or Not, These Are the Songs I Got
22. The Helper T-Cells "The Complete Beginner's Guide to Liking Bugs (and Loving It)" Songs For People Who Like BUGS
21. Minibosses "Ninja Gaiden" Minibosses/Penny Winblood split CD
20. The Sour Grapes "Business Casual" No More Drama
19. Weird War "Girls Like That" Illuminated By the Light
18. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players "Look at Me" Look at Me b/w Don't You Know What I Mean
17. Kidz Bop Kids "Float On" Kidz Bop Vol. 7
16. The Diskettes "12345" Weeknights at Island View Beach
15. Calvin Johnson "Rabbit Blood" Before the Dream Faded
14. Jens Lekman "What you mean to me" USA October 2005 Tour EP
13. The Blow "Pile of Gold" PDX POP NOW!
12. Fitzgerald "Bloody Stumps" Raised By Wolves
11. Pony Up! "Matthew Modine" Pony Up!
10. Dressy Bessy "Electrified" Electrified
9. Ladytron "Destroy Everything You Touch" Witching Hour
8. The Icicles "Sugar Sweet" A Hundred Patterns
7. Dream Bitches "Other People's Mothers" Sanfransisters
6. The Smittens "Stop The Bombs" A Little Revolution
5. Of Montreal "The Party's Crashing Us" The Sunlandic Twins
4. Duplex "Salad Song" Ablum
3. Orenda Fink "Invisible Ones Guard the Gate" Invisible Ones
2. Cars Can Be Blue "Abortion" All the Stuff We Do
1. Tullycraft "Every Little Thing" Disenchanted Hearts Unite

Brian Jonestown Massacre "God Is My Girlfriend" We Are the Radio
Mirah "While We Have the Sun" PDX POP NOW!

data panik

Remember the pop group, Bis? Sure you do. You must have at least heard the end theme to the Powerpuff Girls.

Anyway, all three members of Bis (plus two other guys I've never heard of before) started a new band last year called "data Panik" (yes, that's a lowercase "d" and capital "P"). And I just downloaded all their songs.

I'm very happy with what I hear. I'm very happy to say that it's a step back for the three former leaders of the Bis Nation. And that's very good because most people didn't like the form into which Bis had evolved near the end of their career, which produced the somewhat boring and strictly electronic Return to Central. I'm very glad to see that they have now reembraced the genre-hopping and upbeat style which was what their fans appreciated them for in the first place. (And they actually started playing guitars again!)

While they've decided to stop calling themselves Bis and added two new members, it clearly sounds like they've de-evolved into their Social Dancing-era form. Even though they sound like their old selves, I do agree with the name change because it probably wouldn't work if they tried to go back to the youthful teen-c schtick of their early material with which the Bis name is most associated.

So far, they've released one 7" (UK-only) with two songs. If you don't want to go through the trouble of physically importing it, you can buy it as an MP3 download from the data Panik site. Each song costs .99p (that's in British pounds), which converts to about $1.70. Yes, that might be too much for one song, but it's cheaper than importing the actual 7" (which costs $10 with the shipping and handling). And besides, the former members of Bis deserve that money for actually going in the correct direction with their musical careers. Yay for data Panik! Boo for Return to Central!

Besides that, they have two demo songs that you can download for free (go to the "media" section of the site). If you like those, you have to get the songs from the 7".

And, in other news...

If you read the post below, you'll see that a weird malfunction occurred while I was recording my latest show, causing me to lose much of the second hour. I'm very unhappy about it because it was the first part of the big end-of-year countdown and I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to hear these great songs. So, here's the deal: I could recreate the missing part of the second hour and post the MP3 online here. All that I'd have to do is record the missing songs and add the robot voice announcing the position of each song on the countdown.

But I'm not going to do it unless I know that people want me to and will actually download it. So, if you want me to do it, post comments below requesting that I do it. If I get enough requests, I'll do it. So, don't hesitate. Just click on the comments link and post if you want to hear it. Okay? Okay.

:(

When I tried recording the second hour of the show today, the disc somehow got corrupted, and so I just haven't been able to retrieve any audio from it. Thanks to some stupid error that I can't explain, I'm missing songs 41 through 30 on the countdown. Fuck!

I do have the whole first hour of the show, and then songs 29 to 24, so you can hear those at least. I could reconstruct the missing portion of the second hour and upload it, but I'll only do that if people ask.

Anyway, happy new year!

Here's Part 1 of the 2005 No Money Mark Memorial Year-In-Review Countdown:

1/2/06 Part 1
1/2/06 Part 2

Tune in next week for the 2nd and final part of the countdown!

playlist for january 2, 2006

Part 1 of the 2005 No Money Mark Memorial Year-In-Review Countdown

57. The Maybellines "Autumn, September" A La Carte
56. buttersprites "Dog Food" buttersprites
55. Lou Barlow "Round -N- Round" EMOH
54. R. Shand "U Wanna Be a Grip" U Wanna Be a Grip single
53. Burka Band "Burka Blue"
52. Miss Mary "Silly Boy, Don't Be So Sad" Ready 2 Pop
51. Florida "The Girl On the Escalator"
50. Elekibass "All the People Come, Let's Get Down" Welcome Wonderful World
49. Saturday Looks Good To Me "I Don't Want to Go" I Don't Want to Go/Disaster 7"
48. Red Pony Clock "Hayward Gurlzz" Tunes from Terrace Towers
47. Electric Grandmother "Bob Saget Marches On" Pee Sells... But Who's Buying?
46. Maria Taylor "One For the Shareholder" 11:11
45. Palomar "Stay Out Late" Palomar 3.5
44. Bunnygrunt "Nobody Rides For Free" Karen Hater's Club
43. Marbles "Out of Zone" Expo
42. Elliott the Letter Ostrich "Pink Dracula" Blood Cape
41. the evens "around the corner" the evens
40. Ed in the Refridgerators "The Pope Song (Historically Accurate Version)" Get Excommunicated
39. New Grenada "Nerd Alert" Parting Shots
38. Land of Ill Earthquakes "Long Winter" Land of Ill Earthquakes EP
37. kanda "list" all the good meetings are taken
36. The Dirty Moons "Dreaming" Asaurus Records EP Club #10
35. Pants Yell! "Tram #7" Asaurus Records EP Club #10
34. The Brunettes "The Record Store" Mars Loves Venus
33. The Wiggins "Johnny" Greatest Apes
32. Scotland Yard Gospel Choir "I Know a Girl" i bet you say that to all the boys
31. Apples In Stereo "Liza Jane" Dimension Mix
30. The Mathletes "I Hate Bright Eyes (Battle Rhyme)" Jest and Earnest
29. Sleater-Kinney "Modern Girl" The Woods
28. Tender Forever "Tender Forever" The Soft and Hardcore
27. The Snow Fairies "The Stone Pony" get married
26. Snow Machine "Birmingham" Snow Machine
25. The Gossip "Standing In the Way of Control" Standing In the Way of Control 12"
24. Colin Clary and the Magogs and Friends "Good Vibrations" You Already Have Way Too Many CD-Rs