My apologies for the lack of a playlist this Thursday, but due to intermittent issues with MIT's internet service the control room connection was down and I was unable to do my usual online routine. That's also why the archive isn't available for the Oven Buster Blaster Stuffer Thanksgiving special. Oh well, it was a show best heard live anyway. To make up for it, here's another mix to help evade 30 minutes of your day.

Dizzy on the Deck

That Ghost / Her Space Holiday / Arliss Parker / Frida Hyvonen / Juliette Commagere / School of Seven Bells / The Hush Now / The Decemberists

The decision to pick up wet leaves in relatively warm weather last weekend has paid dividends as I'd prefer that set of cirmcumstances to picking up dry leaves in sub-freezing temperatures. The mulcher spews a fine dust that permeated the fibers of my jeans so tightly that the power of tide could not separate the two. Let's hope a more forceful application of colorful chemicals are able to wrest away the brown patches that make it look like I've been voluntarily wading ankle deep in a dirty brown river. Perhaps this herky jerky mix of nuts and bolts will engender a similarly disquieting feeling of knowing where you've been but not why it left such an impression.

The Grand Prize

Max Tundra / Skeletons / Three Second Kiss / The Wolverton Brothers / Final Fantasy / Telepathe / Gang Gang Dance / Starvin Hungry

On November 20, 2008 these were the playlist selections for the Breakfast of Champions show on WMBR Cambridge MA.

(08:00 - your presence is requested)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - "Rattlesnakes"
Scott Walker - "Mathilde"
Pulp - "Babies"

(08:15 - soylent green is people)
Keren Ann - "Lay Your Head Down"
Kings of Convenience - "Failure"
Sibylle Baier - "Tonight"
Tracey Thorn - "Simply Couldn't Care"
Alps - "Hallucinations" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week take me away)
Devendra Banhart - "When The Sun Shone on Vetiver"
Devendra Banhart - "Hey Mama Wolf"

(08:45 - calgon is comfort food)
Mark Kozelek - "Bad Boy Boogie"
The Bathers - "If Love Could Last Forever"
The Music Lovers - "This World vs. The Next World"
Misty Roses - "Into The Sky"

(09:00 - new music is nourishing)
Misty Roses - "Into The Sky"
Winterpills - "Burning Hearts"
Fennesz - "Perfume For Winter" (concert report music)

(09:20 - after the concert report)
Max Tundra - "Nord Lead Three"
Pretty & Nice - "Wandering Eye"
Of Montreal - "Wicked Wisdom"
Telepathe - "Chrome's On It"

(09:40 - art is a battle with many survivors)
State Shirt - "Fell Out Of The Sky"
Her Space Holiday - "The New Kid Revival"
The Soft Hands - "I Hope So"
El Guincho - "Cuando Maravilla Fui"

(09:55 - wave bye-bye)
Tobacco - "Hairy Candy"

Thanks for looking it over, the archive has all WMBR programming over the past two weeks available for your listening pleasure.

I've been compiling the tracks for the end of year favourites mix and a few wordless pleasures always find their way into the sequence, so this seems like an appropriate time to dedicate another edition to instrumentals.

Another Bright Nothing

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid / Alps / Helios / Mogwai / Jonas Reinhardt / The Present / Pierre Vervloesem / Pnuma Trio

Playlist for post-fundraising hangover edition of WMBR's Breakfast of Champions show, November 13th, 2008.

(08:00 - vaguely noodles)
Frida Hyvönen - "Birds"
Juliette Commagere - "Overcome"
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - "Sally, Don't You Cry"

(08:15 - fawning sunset honors)
Mogwai - "The Sun Smells Too Loud"
That Ghost - "Top Shelf"
Longwave - "No Direction"
The Present - "Symbols On High" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Unrest - "When It All Comes Down"
Unrest - "Bavarian Mods"
Unrest - "Make Out Club"

(08:45 - release the hounds)
Three Second Kiss - "This Building Is Loud"
The Wolverton Brothers - "Dead Horse"
The Lines - "Have A Heart"

(09:00 - more new music if you needed it)
Cobra Verde - "Wildweed"
The Kickbacks - "Going Out To Get Home"
Grampall Jookabox - "The One Thing"
Johann Johannsson - "The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!)"

(09:20 - a few to tie us up)
Love Is All - "Give It All"
The Rosebuds - "Bow To The Middle"
Friendly Fires - "Jump In The Pool"

(09:30 - Joe Carducci interview)
The Dogs - "Younger Point Of View"

After a vigorous day of yardwork quite frankly all I'm looking forward to is a short nap. This particular mix tries to bridge the gap between manic and smooth quite gracefully, with an equal number of successes and failures. Of course the final judge of their relative merits is you!

Is The Night Too Long

The Dears * Love Is All * The Little Ones * +/- * The Sea and Cake * Margot and the Nuclear So & So's * Mascott * Copeland

This fundraising week I'll keep the on-line playlist on the track-blaster website since it's a wee bit easier than doing two of these things as once. For those who would like to donate between the hours of 8AM and 10AM just call 617-253-8810. Or feel free to use the web pledge and select Breakfast of Champions Thursday as your favorite show. Either way I'll make sure to get you the 2008 edition of the Favorites compilation. A sure hit with small dogs and indigenous fauna, tested on prisoners so you know it's safe for children.

A wee bit late, but here's the playlist. Note that on fundraising week I break between each song so not much witty to add here.

Broken Social Scene - "Stars And Sons"
Girl Talk - "Like This"
The Shangri-Las - "Heaven Only Knows"
Killdozer - "Knuckles The Dog (Who Helps People)"
Hell On Wheels - "Heard You On The Radio"
Thin Lizzy - "She Knows"
Say Hi To Your Mom - "Sad, But Endearingly So"
The Cavedogs - "La La La"
Prefab Sprout - "Appetite"
Smog - "A Hit"
Tweeds - "I Need That Record"
Chromatics - "Running Up That Hill"
Andre Previn - "Executive Party Dance"
The Dismemberment Plan - "The Face of the Earth"
Peter Laughner - "Sylvia Plath"
Laura Veirs - "Drink Deep"
The Nerves - "Hanging on the Telephone"
Vitalic - "My Friend Dario"
Menomena - "The Pelican"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Since Yesterday"

As you may have heard us mention over the past few weeks WMBR's fundraising season is coming up, with Thursday the 6th playing leadoff for the BoC crew. As always anyone who donates during the two hour span of the program will receive a personal thank you from myself, namely the traditional 2CD best of. Fret not if you don't listen live, just donate through WMBR's website within the next two weeks and select Breakfast of Champions Thursday as your favorite show - the CD set will appear with any premiums you select. Thanks as always for listening and supporting the station. Oh and before I forget ... here's a mix!

Free And Forgetful

Pivot / Manhattan Love Suicides / The Knew / Crystal Stilts / Parts & Labor / Eleanoora Rosenholm / Fight Bite / Juliana Hatfield