#410: From the Land of the Subhuman Drones (w/ guest host Gray Powell)

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!1111one

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Walter Brennan	Blue Jay Yarn	Stories of Mark Twain	From the WFMU Blog
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack	The theme song that's guaranteed 100% vuvuzela-free
Stars	I Died So I Could Haunt You	The Five Ghosts		*
Joanna Newsom	In California	Have One on Me		*
The Lost Fingers	Careless Whisper	Lost in the 80's
Tom Waits	Step Right Up	Small Change
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Pen Argyl	Forty Fort
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
The Aquabats	Canis Lupus	The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Dog Eat Dog	Polka Party!
Eels	Dog Faced Boy	Souljacker
The Beatle Barkers	Day Tripper	The Beatle Barkers
Jim's Big Ego	Cat Named Boogers	Titanic
The Pernice Brothers	We Love the Stage	Goodbye, Killer		*
Chumbawamba	The Devil's Interval	ABCDEFG
Stereo Total	Babyboom Ohne Mich	Baby Ouh!		*
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Ask the Elephant!	Between My Head and the Sky
Uryu Akiha	Fureguransu	In the Souk		*
She & Him	Thieves	Volume Two
Laura Veirs	Make Something Good	July Flame
Yo La Tengo	My Little Corner of the World	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Fiery Furnaces	Teach Me Sweetheart	Bitter Tea
of Montreal	Disguises	The Bird who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower
Okay Paddy	Gas Money	The Cactus Has a Point	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Ted Leo & the Phamacists	Woke Up Near Chelsea	The Brutalist Bricks
Black Francis	Captain Pasty	Bluefinger
The Flaming Lips	Powerless	Embryonic
The Like	Walk of Shame	Release Me		*
Caribou	Hannibal	Swim
New Young Pony Club	Dolls	The Optimist
The New Pornographers	Up In the Dark	Together
The Apples in Stereo	Wings Away	Travellers in Space and Time
They Might Be Giants	I Can Hear You	Factory Showroom
Television Personalities	Walk Towards the Light	A Memory is Better Than Nothing		*

What did we learn on today's programme?

• Vuvuzelas are really annoying
• There are actually people out there who defend New Jersey
• Vuvuzelas are really, really annoying.
• Pet Turtles are among the things that cannot be taken on an airplane. Apparently, a little girl might smuggle a bomb on-board in its shell or something.
• Seriously, I'm downright amazed that nobody at the World Cup has had one of those infernal plastic horns shoved up their you-know-what already.
  

#409: What the %&*@ is a "Cyber Sabor"? (w/ guest host 500,000 Vuvuzelas)

Yes, that's right, 500,000 vuvuzelas. Those annoying buzzing things that drive you crazy when attempting to watch the World Cup. Well, more crazy than just the total lack of any sort of action in the game whatsoever. Oh, and the completely random officiating. Aaaand the fact that the referee can pretty much end the game whenever he feels like it. Are you guys sure this isn't professional wrestling?

Artist	Song	Album	Comments	New?
Dokaka	Larks' Tongues in Aspic II
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The Like	Wishing He Was Dead	Release Me		*
Television Personalities	People Think That We're Strange	A Memory is Better Than Nothing		*
Pernice Brothers	Jacqueline Susann	Goodbye, Killer		*
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	Ativan Eyes	The Brutalist Bricks
Eels	Lilac Breeze	Hombre Lobo
The New Pornographers	Silver Jenny Dollar	Together		*
De Novo Dahl	Marketplace	Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound
of Montreal	Forecast Fascist Future	The Sunlandic Twins
Sam Chalpin	Batman	My Father the Pop Singer
Yo La Tengo	The Room Got Heavy	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Polyphonic Spree	Running Away	The Fragile Army
New Young Pony Club	Dolls	The Optimist		*
The Apples in Stereo	Hey Elevator	Travellers in Space and Time		*
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
Elvis Costello	Down Among the Wines and Spirits	Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Robyn Hitchcock	Television	Spooked
Joanna Newsom	Baby Birch	Have One on Me		*
Laura Veirs	Summer is the Champion	July Flame
Tom Waits	Dirt in the Ground	Glitter & Doom Live
Sufjan Stevens	Movement I - In the Countenance of Kings	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mostly Other People Do the Killing	Little Hope	Forty Fort
They Might Be Giants	Withered Hope	The Else
Uryu Akiha	Mizutama Doresu	In the Souk		*
The Bird and the Bee	Ray Gun	Ray Guns are Not Just the Future
Jim's Big Ego	Everything Must Go	Free*
The Flaming Lips	When You Smile	Clouds Taste Metallic
Silver Apples	Whirly-Bird	Silver Apples
David Byrne and Brian Eno	Life is Long	Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Bell X1	Amelia	Blue Lights on the Runway
Visqueen	Centerfield	Play	Roman Grecco "Sorta-Theme-Continuation, even though it was continuing from last week's show, and it wasn't really a theme, anyway" Moment.
The Baseball Project	Past Time	Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Morning Glory	Piano Man	Magical Mystery Tour
Puffy AmiYumi	Red Swing	Nice
The Aquabats	The Ballad of Mr. Bonkers	The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of DEATH!

What did we learn on today's programme?

• ABC News announcers don't know anything about video games.
• God is apparently an art critic.
• There is now a dating website for people who are too obsessed with Apple products to functionally participate in a relationship.
  
• It would be incredibly amusing if said dating website were Flash-based.
  

The Great College Radio Labor Dispute of 2010

On this week's programme... we're locked out of the WUSR studios! Tune in, as we play absolutely no music, discuss no stupid news stories, play no instructional films for defunct camera manufacturers featuring decrepit actors, and almost certainly don't ramble on with Brian Carpenter for forty-five minutes! It's all happening right now on WUSR - playing your ex fave song!

In the meantime, while the University and Union lawyers duke it out over who's paying for the Chinese take-out, here's a special web-only edition of the Magic Miku Moment, in which we feature the musical stylings of former WUSR Jazz director Mark Webb^H^H^H^H^H^H Sorry, wrong moment. *ahem*, The musical stylings of Japan's computer-generated vocal diva Miku Hatsune.

This week, we're featuring a remake of one of my favorite tracks from the "Miku Hatsune is Murdering Improving the 1980's" genre, a cover of "Heaven is a Place on Earth", originally by Belinda Carlisle (whoever that is), by YouTube user initializedee. This version uses the recently released "Miku Append" libraries, which feature a wider range of vocal tones to work with. Also, initializedee seems to have acquired an animation budget with this one:




(Though I still like the goofy, minimalistic animation (okay, okay, lack of animation) of the original better)

Lock photo by Darwin Bell

#408: Cranial Impacts and their Influence on Human Vocalisation (w/ guest host The Stig)

In the case of the Scrantonian accent, this only proves what we've suspected all along, henna or no?

Artist	Title	Album	Comments	New?
Vincent Price	Nishika 3D Camera (part two)
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno)	Tank!	Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
The New Pornographers	Valkyrie In the Roller Disco	Together		*
Joanna Newsom	Baby Birch	Have One on Me		*
Yo La Tengo	More Stars Than There are In Heaven	Popular Songs
Stephen Malkmus	No More Shoes	Face the Truth
King Crimson	Lark's Tongues in Aspic III	Three of a Perfect Pair
Sonic Youth	Antenna	The Eternal
The Apples in Stereo	Nobody But You	Travellers in Space and Time		*
Wilco	Wilco (the Song)	Wilco (the Album)
	Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation)
James Kochalka Superstar	Fascist Bikes	Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly
They Might Be Giants	Dirt Bike	John Henry
LK	Tandem Bikes	vs. the Snow
New Young Pony Club	Stone	The Optimist		*
Bit Shifter	The World Has Turned and Left Me Here	Weezer - The 8-bit Album
YMCK	Anotoki	Cloclo Made in Japan
Role Model	Showroom Dummies	8-bit Operators: A Tribute to the Music of Kraftwerk
Hot Chip	Wrestlers	Made in the Dark
Devo	One Dumb Thing	Pioneers who Got Scalped: The Anthology
of Montreal	Du Og Meg	Icons, Abstract Thee EP
The Fiery Furnaces	The Philadelphia Grand Jury	Widow City
The Flaming Lips	The Ego's Last Stand	Embryonic
Sufjan Stevens	Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns	The BQE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Bad Plus	Feeling Yourself Disintegrate	For All I Care
Uryu Akiha	Yubisakino Hachimitsude	In the Souk		*
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down	Fixed It!	Know Better Learn Faster
Talking Heads	Making Flippy Floppy	Remain in Light
The Pillows	Ride on Shooting Star	FLCL Soundtrack No. 3	Roman Grecco Theme Continuation
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	Bartomelo and the Buzzing of Bees	The Brutalist Bricks
Art Brut	Slap Dash for No Cash	Art Brut vs. Satan
Bell X1	How Your Heart is Wired	Blue Lights on the Runway
Television Personalities	How I Learned to Love the...Bomb	Yes Darling, But Is it Art?
Bonzo Dog Band	The Trouser Press	The History of the Bonzos
Elliott Smith	Somebody That I Used to Know	Figure 8

What did we learn on today's programme?

• The hardest part of beekeeping is engraving your state hive ID number onto each individual bee.
• It turns out that the best thing you can possibly do with a Chia Pet is just eat the damn thing.
• ... until next month, when the same doctors will invariably discover that doing so is somehow linked to at least sixteen different forms of cancer.
• The key to good impersonations? A reallly good whack to the head.
• You should definitely avoid eating bath goods, no matter how much they're made to resemble desserts.