And in the end . . .

Hey, looks like tomorrow will be my last show of the summer, so I thought I might feature "last songs" -- the best last songs on albums. Got any suggestions?

Back to the Afrofuture

I had asked for some assistance with an Afrofuturist set from my friend Mike, but he didn't get back to me in time (in truth I gave only a couple of days). But after the last show he sent me a list of 103 songs I could use! So I needed to revisit it.

I mostly used his setlist. I made specific rules for which songs I would use (play them in order, don't play an artist I did last week, only one song per artist, etc.) and then through the rules out the window once I became desperate to find the next track. I need to work on my music sleuthing skills -- I often find bands I like to be in between two categories -- seems like Funkadelic should be in Rock and Parliament in Soul/R+B? Or what about the folk rock I like -- which category? What is experimental and what is electronic? I often wish we could just categorize all music together alphabetically and be done with it.

So here's my setlist for my July 17 show, which is basically all Mike:

Brides of Funkenstein	Mother May I?
The Jackson Five	Dancing Machine
Sly and the Family Stone	Spaced Cowboy
Miles Davis	Sanctuary
Alice Coltrane	Radhe-Shyam
Herbie Hancock	Ostinato (Suite for Angela)
McCoy Tyner	fly with the wind
Lee Scratch Perry & Full Experience	Disco Devil
King Tubby	African Roots
Culture	Black Starliner Must Come
Earth Wind & Fire	Fantasy
Herbie Hancock	Rockit
Model 500	Milky Way
Newcleus	Jam On It
Digable Planets	TIme & Space (A New Refutation Of)
bernie worrell	flex
De La Soul	Transmitting Live From Mars
theesatisfaction	eathseed
janelle monae	BabopbyeYa
DJ Spooky	Anansi's Gambit
Flying Lotus	Do The Atral Plane
zomby	mozaik
Flying Lotus	Computer Face/Pure Being
Funkadelic	Electric Spanking of War Babies
Funkadelic	Eulogy and Light
Marvin Gaye	A Funky Space Reincarnation
labelle	black holes in the sky
blood sweat and tears	ride captain ride
TV on the Radio	Satellite
Sun Ra	Astro Black

Afrofuturism?

This picture of Minneapolis-based funk band Flyte Tyme inspired me to try to investigate the genre of Afrofuturism in music. But, while I really wanted this band to be the weird underground brothers of Parliament-Funkadelic, turns out this was just their awesome Halloween costumes, circa 1980.


Only really did a surface look at a few artists who would fit in the Afrofuturist category, before moving onto other things on my July 10 show. 

Here are  the ten songs I picked . . .

Sun Ra	Space is the Place
Parliament Funkadelic	Mothership Connection (Star Child)
Axiom Funk	Pray My Soul
Flyte Time	It's The Things That You Do
Starship Commander Woo Woo	Master Ship (excerpt)
Shuggie Otis	XL-30
Curtis Mayfield	Future Shock
Guitar Red	Disco From a Space Show
Dr. Octagon	Earth People
Deltron 3030	Mastermind

Next week? I dunno!

Journey Through the Setlist

The Orb	Slug Dub
Bill Fay	Garden Song
Roots of Oak	Donovan
XTC	Summers Cauldron
Genesis	I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Animal Collective	Grass
Ashra	Sunrain
Forest	Bluebell Dance
Linda Perhacs	Chimacum Rain
The Move	Flowers in the Rain
Arbouretum	Waxing Crescents
Vashti Bunyan	Glow Worms
Barclay James Harvest	Pools of Blue
Agalloch	Odal
Beau Brummels	The Wolf of Velvet Fortune
The Strawbs	Witchwood
The Bevis Frond	Cries from the Inner Marshland
Genesis	Stagnation
Pressurehed	Bluff Creek, and Beyond
King Crimson	Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds)
Farflung	Silver Shrooms
Chad VanGaalen	Monster
Edward Ka-Spel	Swamp Thing/Simone Is/Red Letters/Katha
Blur	Swamp Song
The Bogmen	Englewood
Mermen	Blue Xoam
Pink Floyd	Obscured By Clouds
Dungen	Satt Att Se
Roberty Wyatt	Sea Song
Amorphous Androgynous	Opus of the Black Sun
Hawkwind	Time We Left This World Today
The Beatles	Across the Universe
Tom Lehrer	We Will All Go Together When We Go

Journey Through the Inner Marshland

Tune in tomorrow (July 3, 2014) to wcbn.org noon-3 p.m. EST to hear the latest Boojum Pudding show. This week I'm inspired by various British folk, psychedelic and progressive rock songs (though not exclusively) to create a fantastical journey from the home garden over green hills through forests and swamplands and finally to the sea. We might even meet some monsters, which may or may not be metaphorical. In fact the entire journey may in fact be an elaborate analogy. But for what? FOR WHAT?

Still looking for suggestions, so send them in. Many thanks to Mike and Dave who've helped me with the playlist.


Remember: The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.