The Electric Egg Nog Acid Test (Interplanetary Christmas Psych-tacular #2)

Playlist

1. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht- Ponderstone
2. Elvis Herod's Christmas Treat (edit)- Elvis Herod
3.  Last Christmas- Eaters
4. Santa Dog- The Residents
5. Psycho- Thirsty Dave's Western Caravan
6. Santa Came on a Nuclear Missle- Heather Noel
7. Flying Machine (for Christmas)- Flo Price
8. The Night Before Xmas- Andre Williams
9. Snowflakes and Frozen Lakes- Baby Pac Man
10. Merry Christmas- Glass Boy
11. Groovy Christmas- The Groove Academy
12. Santa Claus is Coming to Town- Joseph Spence
13. Spiritual March- Delphine Dora
14. In Exelsior Vaginalistic- The Flaming Lips
15. The Meaning of Christmas- Ergo Phizmiz

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Well, I've put together the most demented Christmas music podcast for all you kids on Santa's naughty list and Satan's honor roll. At times you may find that listening to this episode is like wearing a bad Christmas sweater. At times it may seem like there's something stronger than rum in the eggnog this year. A number of tracks come courtesy of the Free Music Archive, including Ponderstone, Elvis Herod, Eaters, Glass Boy, Delphine Dora, and Ergo Phizmiz. "Santa Dog" was the Residents' 1st single, released in 1972 and reportedly sent as a Christmas present to Richard Nixon. "Psycho" is a Christmas twist on the sick and brilliant Leon Payne ballad, which you might know from Elvis Costello's cover. "Santa Came on a Nuclear Missle" is one of the more infamous products of American Song Poems, a business that turned amateur songwriter's lyrics into studio-produced pop gems. (Not the most infamous, though. That title would have to belong to John Trubee.) The sci-fi cheese of Flo Price's "Flying Machine" and the saccharine song from the Baby Pac Man book come via the great collector of weird holiday records, Andy Cirzan. If you liked this episode, you'll want to check out his yearly compilations. Andre Williams is doing his usual thing, giving us an X-rated Xmas tale, while the Groove Academy provides pure Afrobeat bliss. Bahamian folk guitarist Joseph Spence delivers an incomprehensible version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and The Flaming Lips finally take Santa's nuclear sled into space with a chilly tune from Christmas on Mars.

Merry Christmas, Space Cadets! 

Interplanetary Interlude #10: Subliminal Seduction

Playlist

1. Listen Carefully- The Poetics
2. Group Autogenics 1- The Books
3. Strange and Unproductive Thinking- David Lynch
4. Excerpt from The Medium is the Massage 1- Marshall McLuhan
5. The Law of Repetition- The Tape-Beatles
6. Brainwash- Flipper
7. Excerpt from The Medium is the Massage 2- Marshall McLuhan
8. Right for the Job- The Tape-Beatles
9. Excerpt from The Medium is the Massage 3- Marshall McLuhan
10. Deeper- The Tape-Beatles
11. Atomic Clock/Chart #3- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
12. Group Autogenics 2- The Books

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Music from the Black Hole

This movie was a flop but I remember loving it as a wee raylad. Maybe it was the music.

And if there's something here faintly familiar for indie heads,

Episode #18: Foreverfloating

This is the epicsode I was planning for Interplanetary Music's first anniversary, but we're, ahem, a little behind schedule. Space travel is timeconsuming you understand. Fair warning, this is 5 hours long. 5 hours of brilliance and glory.

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Playlist

1. Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space- Spiritualized
2. Clouds- The Stark Reality
3. Variations on Canon in D Major: 1) Fulness of Wind  2) French Catalogues- Brian Eno
4. Untitled 1- Love Cult
5. Rhubarb- Aphex Twin
6. Soliloquies for Lonely Suburbs- Jacques de Villiers
7. Djed- Tortoise
8. Some Things Cosmic- Angel Olsen
9. Lullaby- Raymond Scott
10. Peace Piece- Bill Evans
11. Gymnopedie #1- Erik Satie
12. Fingerbib- Aphex Twin
13. Wonder Wheel- Future Home
14. To the Shore- Flying Saucer Attack
15. Drifting Concepts- Glaze of Cathexis
16. Pluto the Planet- Mary Lattimore
17. Deep Blue Day- Brian Eno
18. Cloud Song- The United States of America
19. Little Miss Echo- Raymond Scott
20. Dreams of Ai- Paneye
21. Spiritual- Tom Verlaine
22. The Sky is Bleeding- Maxim Engl
23. Catatonia- Techno Animal
24. Variations on Canon in D Major: 3) Brutal Ardour- Brian Eno
25. Disintegration Loop 1.1- William Basinski

Monster Masque: An Interplanetary Music Nightmare

Back from the grave, but not yet out of the crypt. Don't forget to check out last year's horrorshow.

Playlist

1. It's Halloween- The Shaggs
2. Look Out, There's a Monster Coming- The Bonzo Dog Band
3. Night of the Vampire- The Moontrekkers
4. The Mummy's Bracelet- Lee Ross
5. Flesh That Walks- Savage Republic
6. I Knew a Jew Named Frankenstein- Sun City Girls
7. Werewolf- The Holy Modal Rounders
8. Monster Cocktail- Les Maledictus Sound
9. The Spider and the Fly- Wicked

[Transmission from Saturn]

10. Please, Mr. Gravedigger- David Bowie
11. Crazy Bones- The Four Freshmen
13. Now I'm a Spook- The Spooks
14. Giorno di Neve
15. What's He Building in There?- Tom Waits
16. Jack the Ripper- Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages
17. Ripper Territory- Whitehouse
18. Son of Sam- The Poetics
19. I Need Your Head- Hasil Adkins
20. Night Stalking- Jealousy

[Transmission from Saturn]

21. Proserpina's Gardens- Magdalena Solis
22. The Closet- Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
23. Excerpt from XS- Rhys Chatham
24. Thriller!- Pere Ubu
25. A Hanging- Swans
26. Triumphatus Sad- Jacula
27. I Wake Up and I See the Face of the Devil- Diamanda Galas
28. La Nina de Hiroshima- Aguaviva
29. Dominus Sathanus- Burzum
30. It took the Night to Believe- Sunn O)))
31. The Sexy Midnight Torture Show- Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
32. Gate of Solomon (Beast Version)- Beherit
33. Black Magic Rituals and Perversions- Electric Wizard
34. Burn the Flames- Roky Erickson

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Mary Lattimore, "Pluto the Planet"

Via Dublab.

Debussy, "Preulude to the Afternoon of a Faun"

After Beethoven, the two most important composers of the 19th century are Wagner and Debussy. The later two explored chromaticism in similar but distinct ways. Ok, enough pedantry: