All selections by Frank Zappa unless otherwise noted.
Silicon Teens - Chip 'n' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)
Peaches En Regalia - Hot Rats (Ryko)
Apostrophe - Apostrophe (zappa.com)
Camarillo Brillo - Overnite Sensation (zappa com)
I'm The Slime - Saturday Night Live, 12-11-76 (with Don Pardo)
George Duke - Old Slipper (FZ on guitar) - Feel (MPS)
Bob Guy - Dear Jeepers - Rare Meat (produced by Zappa, 1963) (Del-Fi)
Burt Ward - Boy Wonder, I Love You! - 7-inch (MGM)
Dead Girls of London - outtake with Van Morrison on vocals
Call Any Vegetable-Eddie Are You Kidding - Just Another Band From LA (zappa.com)
Black Napkins - Palladium, New York, Oct 28-31 1977
The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - The Artisan acetate (1969)
PSA - Hi, Wanna Die? (Put speed down) - The Do It Now Foundation
Cosmik Debris - SUNY Binghamton (now Binghamton U.), 10-29-72
FZ - Mr Green Genes - Meat Light (zappa.com)
When The Lie's so Big > Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk - Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY 3-17-88
Farther O'Blivion (Join the March) - Stockholm 8-21-73
Frank Zappa - Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy - FZ-OZ (zappa.com)
Murder By Numbers - Broadway The Hard Way (Ryko)
Frank Zappa - What's The Name of Your Group (1971) - 7-inch (Barking Pumpkin)
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
BARTLEMANIA! Annual Frank Zappa special! December 30, 2021 & January 1, 2022 (WRFI) and January 2, 2022 (WBDY-LP)
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Bartlemania! - Special program in memory of professor Trevor Pinch. Studio and live music by his band, Electric Golem.
Silicon Teens - Chip 'n' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)
J. Robert Lennon, Trevor Pinch & James Spitznagel - Swarm 2 - Swarm 123&4 (https://plus-ultra.bandcamp.com/album/swarm-123-4)
Electric Golem - What Watson Doesn't Know - Sky Snails (https://periphery.bandcamp.com/album/sky-snails)
Electric Golem - live at Anabel Taylor Hall - Dec 7 2013 (excerpt)
Electric Golem - Bag Of Parts - Golemology (Level Green)
Electric Golem - Science of the Jungle - live at Jungle Science Gallery Binghamton - 5-Sep-14
Malcolm Cecil & The Electric Golem - One Thousand Pulses, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, July 17 2010
- Various Artists/Home Patterning (https://periphery.bandcamp.com/album/home-patterning)
Electric Golem - Heart Of The Golem - live at the Carriage House, Ithaca, NY, March 24, 2019
Electric Golem - Snake Toes - live at State of The Art Gallery, Ithaca, August 20, 2011
J. Robert Lennon, Trevor Pinch & James Spitznagel - Swarm 4 - Swarm 123&4 (https://plus-ultra.bandcamp.com/album/swarm-123-4)
Electric Golem was Trevor Pinch and his close friend, James Spitznagel.
Trevor Pinch obituary: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/12/pioneering-professor-trevor-pinch-dies-69
More information about Electric Golem and Trevor Pinch: https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/06/24/so-amplifies-the-electric-golem-trevor-pinch-and-james-spitznagel/
More information about Malcolm Cecil: https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/history-of-giant-stevie-wonder-synth-tonto-752161/
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
BARTLEMANIA! December 16 & 18 (WRFI) and 19 (WBDY-LP), 2021
Another reporting-style playlist. Back to usual format next time!
23:00:00 3:14 Silicon Teens Chip 'n' Roll Music For Parties Mute
23:03:14 2:20 The Monkees Circle Sky (live) Head (CD reissue) Rhino
23:05:49 3:48 John Cale Barracuda The Island Years Island
23:09:45 2:48 Johnny Cash & June Carter Jackson Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter Columbia
23:12:02 6:20 Hawkwind Space Is Deep Doremi Fasol Latido One-Way
23:18:53 3:42 Sly & Robbie His Imperial Majesty Dub Transmission Specialists Burning Bush
23:22:29 8:25 Grace Jones She's Lost Control (12-inch mix) Compass Point Sessions Island
23:30:39 6:42 Jah Pelikaho KYLYN 21st Century Dub ROIR
23:37:47 5:06 Mad Professor Rat Race It's a Mad Mad Mad Professor RAS
23:42:46 3:04 UB40 Present Arms In Dub Present Arms In Dub Virgin
23:45:46 5:18 Ofra Haza Im Nin'alu Yemenite Songs Globe Style
23:50:55 7:03 Coldcut Not Paid Enough Coldcut's Cut Outs A Moment of Your Time
00:00:49 5:35 Double Dee & Steinski Voice Mail-The Sugarhill Suite What Does It All Mean? Illegal Art
00:06:22 16:43 Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Equalisation of Trouser and Pant Opposite People MCA
00:23:24 18:42 Spirit Free Starship (alternate) Plays Starship Numero
00:42:11 10:38 Peter Nothnagle New Snow Switched-On Eugene Numero
00:52:49 5:11 Neil Nappe Nova (excerpt) July Audion
Wednesday, December 08, 2021
BARTLEMANIA!, December 9 & 11 (WRFI) and 12 (WBDY-LP)
It's reporting time again, so this week's and next week's playlist will look kind of funny. Normality returns afterward! Anyway, ALL-NEW program this week!
23:00:00 3:14 Silicon Teens Chip 'n' Roll Music For Parties Mute/Sire
23:03:14 4:57 The United States of America The Great American Metaphysical Circus United States of America Sundazed
23:08:21 2:43 The Slits Instant Hit Cut Island
23:11:00 3:57 John Foxx Underpass Metamatic Edsel
23:15:13 3:10 Louis Armstrong & His Hot 7 Wild Man Blues The Best Of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings Columbia
23:18:20 4:56 John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat Drifter Hooker 'N' Heat BGO
23:23:42 3:48 F'loom Just for a Few Minutes F'loom private pressing
23:27:28 7:23 Doctor Seuss Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs And Ham & Yertle The Turtle Buddha
23:35:26 15:44 Colosseum Lost Angeles Colosseum Live Sequel
23:51:34 6:36 The Nice America America-The BBC Sessions Receiver Records
00:00:26 19:14 Ash Ra Tempel Freak 'n' Roll Join Inn Spalax
00:19:42 25:55 Finite Element Binary Approach (live) (Remaster) not on album finiteelement.bandcamp.com
00:46:07 11:53 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells, Part 1 (excerpt) Tubular Bells Virgin
Thursday, December 02, 2021
BARTLEMANIA! December 2 & 4 (WRFI) and 5 (WBDY-LP), 2021
This is an encore presentation of Bartlemania.
Silicon Teens - Chip 'n' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)The Magnetic Fields - '97- Eurodisco Trio - 50 Song Memoir (Nonesuch)
Tackhead - Bop Bop - Power Inc Vol 1 (Blanc)
Nazz - She's Goin' Down - Nazz (Rhino)
Nirvana - Endless, Nameless - Nevermind (Geffen)
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - The Closet - No New York (Antilles)
Procol Harum - Salad Days (Are Here Again) - Procol Harum (Salvo)
The Doors - CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD - Waiting For The Sun (40th anniversary reissue)(Elektra)
Jack Nitzche - Number 6 - Three Piece Suite (Rhino Handmade.1)
Perigeo - Firefly Mystery - La Valle Dei Templi (RCA)
BRIAN! - Into Dust - Chasms of Color & Thought (https://brianbassoon.bandcamp.com/)
Finite Element - Aftermath - House of Cards (https://finiteelement.bandcamp.com/)
Bogo Lasik - Ithaca NY-August 11 2021