0:00:01) “My Country’s Calling Me” by Asylum Street Spankers off of What? And Give Up Show Biz?
0:00:50) The Shot Heard ‘Round The World by Ween off of Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
0:03:55) Freedom by Paris off of Sonic Jihad
0:08:25 (Rev. Interruption background music 1. Swinging The Body by Mike Patton off of A Perfect Place Soundtrack)
Welcome yet again, or for the first time, and this is the show fr those Fixated with the Aural and eclectic music, not unlike the interesting clump of songs we just heard. We started it all off with an itty bitty ditty from the Asylum Street Spankers called “My Country’s Calling Me” off their very fun record What? And Give Up Show Biz? And unfortunately the answer for them way yes, yes we will. Then after that we heard Ween take us through a little history lesson with The Shot Heard ‘Round The World from a throughly 90s compilation called Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks where popular bands from the day cover songs from the one TV show. It’s got groups like: Blind Melon, Better than Ezra, Pavement, Lemonheads, Biz Markie, and Moby. It’s a nice album to have, if you’re old and gray like me. And lastly, what you just heard before I started talking at you, was a song called Freedom off Paris’s album Sonic Jihad. A very controversial one at the time, and not just because of the name, but because it came out just a couple years after September 11, 2001 and it had a cover with an airplane crashing into the White House – which, at the time, was still the home of the man who relied the 23rd letter of the English alphabet. King George the Second, the Boy King.
But I digress, as I’m sure you know, because that’s the sort of thing one can’t miss in the United States, today is the anniversary of our Independence Day. The day we relive the glory of our war for freedom, and all those sense, by blasting the night apart with small explosives. And with that in mind, here is George Carlin to explain all about Rockets And Penises In The Persian Gulf.
05) Rockets And Penises In The Persian Gulf by George Carlin off of Jammin’ In New York
06) Die for the Government by Anti-Flag off of Die for the Government
07) (Rev. Interruption background music 2. Lisa by Morphine off of Good)
Friends, humans, countrymen, think you for lending me your ears, and your time. I am Rev. And this is Aurally Fixated, And that, if you couldn’t tell was a happy little number called Die for the Government from the album of the same name by Anti-Flag. And before that, of course, was St. Carlin with an offering off his Jammin’ In New York album. As funny and relevant today as it was back in 1992, under King George the First. Seeing as I blathered so long during the last music break, about cover art and such, I’m going to dive right into the next sound waves and pluck a song from the Tune-Yards. Off their second album, this is a tune called My Country.
08) My Country by Tune-Yards off of W H O K I L L
09) Crime To Be Broke In America by Michael Franti & Spearhead off of Home
10) The Happiest Place On Earth by Desaparecidos off of Read Music / Speak Spanish
11) (Rev. Interruption background music 3. Interlude One by Cunninlynguists off of Southernunderground [Deluxe Edition])
Well dear friends, if you know Conor Oberst from his Indi-folk band Bright Eyes you may’ve recognized his very unique voice singing there with his much more raucous band Desaparecidos. They get their name from a South American word for a person who the government had made disappear. That was from their ill-times and ill-fated first record Read Music / Speak Spanish. They recorded that the same week the World Trade Center buildings were toppled, which sent this country into a jingoist furrier that lasted for… well, ever, maybe. So naturally, the record with its scathing critique of American; materialism, mixing of religions and politics, exploitations of developing nations, and overall greed, it didn’t exactly sell… Anything. But anyway, that was a song called The Happiest Place On Earth. Then before that was Michael Franti and his very first contribution with Spearhead and a song called a Crime To Be Broke In America. A tad different from the love songs and such they’re putting out these days, but, to each their own. And of course we started it all off with the very talented and unique Tune-Yards. And now as song that literally need no introduction.
12) Nations of the World by Animaniacs off of Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs: 16 Original Songs From The Hit TV Series
13) Transcontinetal Bender (Vinyl Master) by The Ford Theatre Reunion
14) We’re From America by Marilyn Manson off of We’re From America
15) War by (hed) p.e. from Only in Amerika
16) (Rev. Interruption background music 4. El Borracho by FireWater off of The Ponzi Scheme)
Whoowh. I hope that testosterone-dripping crescendo wasn’t too much for anyone’s delicate sensibilities. What a strange cluster of songs. How did we get there from the Animaniacs? Well, I’ll tell you, that’s what I’m here for after-all. As you know, we started it all off with one of the Warner Bros. reminding us that there are indeed other Nations of the World. From there we went on a Transcontinetal Bender with the The Ford Theatre Reunion. Dearest listener, I say with all sincerity, that if you don’t have The Ford Theatre Reunion in your life, I pity you, and urge you to change that as quickly as possible. Go get ‘em! I’ll be right here waiting for when you get back. They’re on BandCamp and Patrion… Hun. Come to think about it, Patrion was where I got that last song. I wonder if that mean’s I wasn’t supposed to share it. Oh well, I guess now you’ve gotta go throw you money at them , or something.
Anyway, Transcontinetal Bender got me thinking about how us, Ugly Americans, get rowdy, and drunk, and inconsiderate when we’re traveling, so naturally, Mary Manson’s new-is song… Ok, well it was from 2009, but still long after anyone stopped paying attention. Anyway, the track was called We’re From America. Something my friends and I fairly have to say when we’re abroad, because, well, they can tell. Then came (hed) p.e. to fuck things up with War off their 2004 Only in Amerika. Shit. It’s little wonder David Bowie is Afraid Of Americans.
17) I’m Afraid Of Americans by David Bowie off of Best Of Bowie
18) American by Lana Del Rey off of Paradise
19) Made In America [SD50 B-Boy Mix] by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien off of The Best Of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien [The Elektra Years]: The B-Boy Handbook
20) (Rev. Interruption background music 5. Sisterhood by Langhorne Slim off of When The Sun’s Gone Down)
My, that indeed was one Funkee Homosapien, but we’ll get to that later. Now, I know that I don’t have to tell you that we started that block off with David Bowie with I’m Afraid Of Americans by Bowie, but it seem to easiest way to say that we followed that up with Ms. Lana Del Rey encouraging us all to be as proud as an American. Then after that was Del Tha Funkee Homosapien with another more positive(?) song, as if trying to sooth Mr. Bowie with the B-Boy Mix of Made In America. And, now – this!
20) Please Mr. Columbus Turn The Ship Around by Lou Monte off of The Mixed Up Bull From Palermo
21) Christopher Columbus Digs The Jive by John Drew Barrymore off of The Beat Generation, Volume 1
22) Where Next Columbus by Crass off of Penis Envy
23) (Rev. Interruption background music 6. Ghosts Of A Future Lost by Clint Mansell off of Requiem For A Dream Soundtrack)
Rev. Here again, and for the last time this month, and since I’m pretty sure I’m never going to have a Columbus Day show, I figured this would be a pretty good time to unload some of my Chris Columbus tracks. You know how people throw around the phrase “revisionist history” like it’s a bad thing? But the more you learn about the past, the more you should revise it. In my live we, Americans, have learned that history wasn’t just about the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant maelstrom. And one can certainly hear the difference in those 2 tracks. First we had John Drew (Barrymore) trying to be cool with a bit called Christopher Columbus Digs The Jive from the 1958 movie High School Confidential. And in contrast we ended wit the 1981 punk song by Crass asking Where Next Columbus off of Penis Envy. But I suppose that neither here nor there, nor in-between.
I’m sorry to say that yet again time has come, time to say good by to the Aurally Fixated. And alas it’ll be over a month until we meet again. That’ll be the first Friday in August. But the sorrow of parting can be sweetened, such that, I can leave you with one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. Off the album Our Lady of The Broken Spine, which I couldn’t recumbent more… well, maybe Black River Falls, but there damn close, this is practically perfect in every way Reverend Glasseye singing us Sleep Sweet Countrymen.
24) Sleep Sweet Countrymen by Reverend Glasseye off of Our Lady of The Broken Spine
Bonus) The Expatriate Act by The World/Inferno Friendship Society off of Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1