Wednesday, December 23, 2015

My Radio Boo broadcast (Wednesday 23 December 2015)


Some of my most favorite songs of the period 1995-2015


Listen to the broadcast here:

http://yourlisten.com/lefteris.lalos.7/my-radio-boo-broadcast-wednesday-23-december-2015#


22:00-23:00

01505 - ARCTIC MONKEYS (LP Favourite Worst Nightmare2007)
The song title refers to the number of a hotel room. It's one ot the most popular songs refering to female self-satisfaction ever released (next to ''I Touch Myself '' & ''She Bop'')
Lyrics


02. Are You Afraid? - ROONEY (LP Calling The World2007)
DE # 59
The band was named after the principal in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986)
Lyrics


03Monday Morning 5:19 - RIALTO (LP Rialto1997)
UK # 37, NL # 67
Lyrics


04The Way You Love Me - ARCHIVE feat. SUZANNE WOODER (LP Take My Head1999)
Lyrics


05What's Missing In Your Life - THE ORANGE LIGHTS (LP Life Is Still Beautiful2007)
Paul Tucker, the bands songwriter & keyboard player was a member of The Lighthouse Family.
Lyrics


06Ballad Of A Landlord - TERRY HALL (LP Laugh1997)
No Doubt are co-starring in the video.
Terry was the lead vocalist of:
The Specials (1977-81 /  Ghost Town, 1981)
Fun Boy Three (1981-83 / Tunnel Of Love, 1983)
The Colourfield (1984-87 / Castles In the Air, 1984)
Terry, Blair & Anouchka (1989-92 / Missing, 1989)
Lyrics


07Summerfling - kd lang (LP Invincible Summer2000)
The album quotes Albert Camus: ''In the depth of winter, I found there was within me an Invincible Summer and that makes me happy...  For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger - something better, pushing right back''
Lyrics


08Falling From Grace - THE GENTLE WAVES (LP Swansong For You2000)
Artistic pseudonym for Isobel Campbell (former member of Belle & Sebastian)
Lyrics


09Black Black Heart - DAVID USHER feat. JULIE GALIOS (LP Morning Orbit, 2001)
CH # 45, DE # 82, NL # 87
Former singer of Moist.
The songs chorus samples The Flower Duet (Lakme)  by Leo Delibes (1883)
Julie sings in 2 out of three versions of the song.
rocking version of the song was recorded with Kim Bingham on vocals.
Lyrics


10Black Amour - BARRY ADAMSON (LP King Of Nothing Hill2002)
Barry released one of the most popular instrumentals of the 00s (Saturn In The Summertime1999)
He was a member of:
Magazine
Visage (Fade To Grey, 1980)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Lyrics


11Juxtapozed With U - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (LP Rings Around The World2001)
Welsh band. Singer Gruff Rhys scored a recent hit with ''American Interior'' (2014)
Lyrics


12Maybe - BRAINSTORM (LP Online2001)
The Latvian band came third in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2000 with ''My Star''.
Lyrics


13Cantinero De Cuba - BIG BAND HÖTTING feat. SEMINO ROSSI (LP Best Of... 2005)
Cover version of ''Cantinero De Cuba'' by Sergio y Estibaliz (1985)
The above video was created by parts of the film Chico i Rita (2010)
Lyrics


14Les Courants d'AirGRAND TOURISM feat. TERRY CALLIER (LP Le Surboomer2001)
The song translates ''draft'' in English (ρεύμα αέρα) or as it is used in the song metaphorically ''floating in the air''.
Lyrics



23:00 - 00:00


15Grumpus - LAMBCHOP (LP Nixon2000)
Lyrics


16Evidence - FAITH NO MORE (LP King For A Day / Fool For A Lifetime1995)
UK # 32, AU # 27, NZ # 38, NL # 42
Lyrics


17The Last Good Day Of The Year - COUSTEAU (single1999 / LP Cousteau, 2000)
Lyrics


18Just To Let You Know - CULTURED PEARLS (LP Space Age Honeymoon1997)
Singer Astrid North on Facebook
Lyrics


19Dance Of The Bad Angels - BOOTH & THE BAD ANGEL (LP Booth & The Bad Angel1996)
Tim Booth (lead singer of James) & Angelo Badalamenti
Lyrics 


20Angel - GAVIN FRIDAY (LP Shag Tobacco1995 / OST Romeo & Juliet1996)
Former singer of The Virgin Prunes.
Gavin's other known songs: ''I Want To Live'' (1992) & ''You & Me & World War Three'' (1996)
Lyrics


21Yes Boss - HESS IS MORE (LP Captain Europe2006)
Danish musician Mikkel Hess.
Lyrics


22The Second You Sleep - SAYBIA (LP The Second You Sleep2002)
NL # 95
Lyrics


23Für Hildegard Von Bingen - DEVENDRA BANHART (LP Mala2013)
The song refers to the famous German abbess Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179)
Lyrics


24Just Because I Love You - B.C. CAMPLIGHT (LP How To Die In The North2015)
Lyrics


25Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream2000)
Lyrics


26. Mosque Of Babur - AXON [SND] feat. did Jer iddi M
The song refers to The Babri Masjid, destroyed in 1992.


27The Mystery Of Love - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights1997)
...what you see in me, I will never know...
Lyrics


28The Ocean - RICHARD HAWLEY (LP Coles Corner2005)
Lyrics


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