And it's real life at the same time

8.20.07
THEME: A Selection of Current Favorites

Sometimes it's just easier to recall where we were, who was there, or what refreshments were served. So I will. Wine popped back up this week, perhaps it's that impending fall chill in the air. But wait one of them's a white, an Alta Vista Torrontes 2006 joined by a Coppala Rosso Classic, 2005. A couple of Sierra Nevada seasonal ales, 2006, also made an appearance. But food and drink are not what you're here for.

A couple of artists I wrote down so not to forget: The Black Heart Procession, Swell Maps, The Saints, and you know, sometimes Billy Joel just brings a tear to your eye but who can forget him.

Leslie, back for good, brought new stuff she'd purchased a few weeks back at Harvey's. Her set was so inspiring that Ryan and I had to stop by ourselves yesterday and pick up a stack of vinyl goodness. And with a record show this weekend too. How naughty. Ryan will be out of town though on Sunday so at least he has an excuse.

This weeks favorite quote from the back of an album cover, "Hear msuic that makes you feel burned alive on an alter of flame". From Jack o' Fire, 10" I believe.

Next week record club is going on a ride. It'll be an Emotional Rollercoaster.

When the lights have lost their glow you cry, cry, cry

8.6.07
THEME: Breaking Up

Back to Beverly's to conclude the last week's short lived romance and featuring some post Art Hop & Hornet show Chex Mix. My Hemingway daiquiris were a little off though still refreshing, I thought, on yet another muggy Michigan Monday. But enough about the food and weather.

Honestly I don't remember too may specific highlights, the whole thing must have been so emotionally draining. One bit of of wisdom did survive: Don't by any Garth Broker, it will only disappoint you. Not sure what that had to do with breaking up, but he does appear to have a bit of musical lineage must be quite the charitable guy. Perhaps it was the George Harrison appearance that caused his name to pop up.

For this weeks trivia, Paper of Pins is apparently a folk song though my brief research didn't turn up its age. Lyrically it seams a rather fitting considering the evening's context. Scroll down to the last few verses.

Next week: Midnight Confessions. Maybe we'll find out where it all went wrong.

Woo Who?

7.30.07
THEME: How to Woo ______ (blank)

So for those who were wondering, and who wasn't, this weeks theme was apparently inspired by this line from Days of the Week night "Sassy, how to woo Michelangelo". Don't ask, I'm not really sure although I believe it is a reference to the defunct cult fave teen magazine. Beverly wanted a slightly more abstract theme for the upcoming week and well, I guess we just sort of sat back and watched what happened.

It was a reunion week of sorts with Kirsten in the house, hopefully for good, and far surpassing that old adage about "the test of a true woman is how good she cuts a nut cake". Erick was back from the depths of Ohio, and Malcolm made it in from the Windy City with an ever inspired set of Freudian cover art. Oh yeah, Leslie was here too. Beverly put in a cameo as her time these past few days has been devoted to her upcoming show, August 3rd, and sure to be good.

So who did we woo? Winona Rider, so long as it's not under water; anyone who appreciates a good vinyl sourced mix tape; me; you; Sigmund; and any number of standard movie couples whose scenes were visualized as the soundtrack played.

What exactly does it mean to woo? The first definition I found is To seek the affection of with intent to romance. Merriam-Webster is a bit more forceful with the words, To sue for the affection of and usually marriage with. The root appears to be Middle English wowen, from Old English wOgian transitive verb.

Anyhow, perhaps we're not quite ready for marriage yet or maybe we're just a little romantically challenged. Next weeks theme is Breaking Up. We'd considered Sexy Music but it just didn't seem appropriate so soon after all this wooing and besides, I'd just played the Chipmunks.

Sunday, Monday, Record Club

7.23.07
THEME: Days of the Week

Another summer of record club continues to move lazily on... With Leslie still sequestered on the East Coast and Erick elsewhere for his first ever absence, this past Monday was a more intimate affair. But fear not, although physcially elsewhere Erick was present in both spirit and vinyl having had the forsight to drop off a mini-set with Beverly prior to his departure. It was noted, however, that his selection of Bowie's 1984 did contain some decidedly disco strings.

Aaron hosted, graciously supplying Touaqa and coctail peanuts. It was a pleasant surprise that Kirsten stopped in, drawn, no doubt, by the sirenesque sounds drifting over the park. Several songs, both in the genera of the blues, featured the words Stormy and Monday in their titles. Mondays must have a particular reputation. Aaron played a second Electrelane album, thouroughly impressing me again and this time I remembered to write down their name.

And finally a wee vocabulary lesson arising from the evening:

• Antonym - A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word
• Homonym - One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
• Synonym - A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

Next weeks theme will be How to woo ______. With blank being some famous, well know, or at least know to us, entity. And Ryan, no hard feelings on the cats.

Don't Believe Everything Your Read

7.16.07
THEME: Lies



Whilst sitting around the turntable thoughts and conversation tend to drift. Where they go, and how they get there, are sometimes more clear than others. Do you suppose any of the following to be true?

• Pauly Shore will play Dave in the new Chipmunks movie.
• Tusk is the White Album of the '70s.
  
• When Tusk first came out everyone hated it.
• GnR sounds good at 45 RPM. (Better even than Def Leppard?)
• Kevin Seconds can pack five years of lies into 30 seconds.
• She's living for her car, church, & volleyball.
• When people historians study the early 1980s and red leather fashion talk will first turn to a) The Romantics or b) Loverboy.
  

Not unlike unlike sands through an hourglass next weeks theme is Days of the Week.

Squaring the Circle

7.9.07
THEME: Circles & Squares

Tonight Record Club tackled one of the great problems of Classical Geometry. It was a bold undertaking as Kalamazoo found itself in the grips of a midsummer heat wave but everyone did a bang up job interpreting the theme in their own way.

Most everyone chose a preferred shape with a cameo appearance by the other. Aaron chose circle featuring cover art while the Leslie/Pat duo reciprocated with squares and/or rectangles. Erick made Tuaca coladas and Kirsten quite. Actually she's just taking some time off for technical reasons. At least that's what we keep telling ourselves. She will be missed even though "She never liked us anyways so who gives a shit", said Ryan with tears in his eyes.

Next weeks theme is lies. Or lies and the lying liars that tell them. Apparently weather's introduced a little angst this week, or at least a touch of plagiarism.

Hey Good Lookin'

7.2.07
THEME: Cosmetology

Yeah, it's been a few weeks now with no updates. Bad record club blog-master. At least people noticed.

I've lost my notes from this night but if found I'll update. As memory serves Leslie was back in town from D.C. and hosted the evening's festivities while Beverly enjoyed the company of her extended family. I forgot that I'd wanted to bring the Smurfs and I believe all of Eric's albums featured photographs of the artists playing guitar. There were lots of songs about hair.

Theme for the following week is/was circles & squares inspired I believe by a comment on how everything has come full circle.

The Flowers Cover Everything

6.24.07
THEME: Numerology and Flora

Some things just go together naturally. And other's are a bit more challenging. Like numbers and plants. Or nachos and pop.

For those of you not in the know, four is the first solid number. There are also four watches in the day and four quarters of the moon. I've read that four is the largest number of objects that we (you, me, humanity) can observe and instantly know the quantity of with out counting, grouping, or some other conscious process. Apparently this is open to debate however.

Kirsten returned safely from Mexico and brought gifts for all. Malcolm I dare say you're in luck. Pat too brought "stuff" and Leslie joined us both by live phone and voicemail.

Anyone wondering how to spend some YouTube time might consider the following. Sorry, the Catch/Eat a Muppet does not appear to be available. Kate does transition rather nicely from the bass/veil motif to some sort of Flashdance/battle elf theme in the selected video but please, branch out and experience their other offerings as well. There is one more that I wrote down but can't read my writing, the closest I can figure is Porcupine Truck.

• Kate Bush - Babooshka.
• Genesis - I know what you like (in your wardrobe).
• Terror in Tiny Town.

Next week's theme is Cosmetology. It should prove difficult to select the evening's highlight album cover. I'm sure we're all looking forward to the challenge.

Are you talking to me?

6.18.07
THEME: Interpersonal Communications

Breaker One-nine, did y'all happen to catch last nights record club? If not you missed a serious knowledge transfer. Ryan learned us all real well on both direct and indirect channels and methods verbal and non. I for one think he deserves an A+ and not only for his amazing presentation.

As summer draws near, we approach the equanox and the temperatures start to rise our minds turn to the bounty that is Michgan's agricultural splender. I hear that this past week's warm spell has been good for our grain crops and now that it has broken with heavens have provided rain it should be a good year. We shall see, following a dicussion on the number of seeds found within the blueberry fruit next weeks theme was born, Numerology & Flora. You can count on it growing into something good...

Totally Random Record Club

6.10.07
THEME: Totally Random Record Club

I didn't play Tchaikovsky this week, but I did take notes.

Each member selected 10 albums by a (pseudo) random method. Some closed their eyes and grabbed, others pulled caps down over their heads and spun around, I rolled dice. Once we got to Leslie's we all drew names and proceeded to painstakingly and entirely unrandomly compile a set from our selected associate's offerings.

The order was (picker -> player):
Erick -> Hagen
Ryan -> Erick
Beverly -> Leslie
Hagen -> Beverly
Leslie -> Ryan

This was the eve of Leslie's departure to DC for a three week stint and we wish her well. Due to her plan of participating by proxy, and Ryan's educational pursuits for this summer, next week's theme will be Interpersonal Communication. We'll talk about it then.

I forgot

6.3.07
THEME: I Forgot.

So much fun was had at karaoke that I guess no one could be bothered to think into what the future, and the next week's theme, might hold. By now though I really have forgotten who played what so no cool picture this week. Boy it sure is hard following in Malcom's footsteps.

Next week is (and was) Totally Random Record Club. But that's another post.

Everybody is a Star

5.27.07
THEME: Record Karaoke

Sorry I've been slacking on this blogg, I've been busy moving and such. But dont worry, soon I'll be giving it up completely. Unfortunately with this afore mentioned move, I will not be able to attend the great kalamazoo record club regularly. It is sad, and I will miss them dearly. Hopefully someone else will pick up the blogg torch, and I'll still be able to tune in.

That aside, record club was blowing up the spot this week at the all vinyl sing along! We played lots of instrumental stuff and added our own "singing," with some amazing results. I had to cut the mp3 up into smaller chunks for the sake of saving some space on your ipod. I also added the hit single from the evening, the acapela version of the classic "boogie in your butt." featuring Hagen and Leslie and beat boxing by Ryan. There were a couple guests, Pat Something who sang some fiery numbers, and his buddy who we mistakenly thought might be a good MC. Great performances all around. Listen for Kirsten's amazing slur on "Licking Stick," and Hagan's weird Bobby Macfaren solo. Lots of good soul music in there, thanks to one amazing record by Willie Mitchell, brought in by Erick. Lots of beatles in there too... Ryan cleverly panned out the vocals from those old records (dont try to adjust your stereo). Enjoy the mahem. Hopefully Hagen will post some photos from the evening soon.


Farewell for now,
Malcolm


karaoke1.mp3

karaoke2.mp3

karaoke3.mp3

boogie.mp3

Montana Bound

4.23.07
THEME: Places

Sadly, no one had the album pictured above, but there were quite a few montana themed songs at our "farewell to brennan/places-theme" night. Unfortunately, i forgot to plug in my laptop, and the battery died at the tail end of the night, so some of the music was lost... i'm not sure how much, but i think it was some of hagens set and all of brennan's(sorry). Anyway, for those unaware, brennan is about to embark on a journey to montana, where he'll be spending the next 6 months, possibly more. Sad to see you go, brennan. May the voice of waylon jennings echo in your thoughts, and guide you down the path of righteousness. BTW, the onion did an amazing column called "Ask The Voice-Over From The Dukes Of Hazzard"


Next week we're going to get physical with the theme "anatomy"

later,
Malcolm

versions.mp3

(next weeks theme: anatomy)

Raisins in the Sun

4.9.07
THEME: Versions and Versions

Covers and variations on songs this week. I'm too lazy to write anything right now. (If any fellow club folk want to jump in and write stuff, please do.)

Next week we're playing all those records you see in any thrift store.

Malcolm

versions.mp3

(next weeks theme: thrift store staples)

What's the Score?

4.2.07
THEME: Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film

So, everyone got together and we listened to music and imagined films that accompanied the music. In order of appearance: "The Super-8 Films of Hagen, co-starring Hagen", "A new wave teen romance by Ryan","The life, loss, and redemption of an ordinary man by Erick", "It's Hard to be a Pusher by Leslie", "A metamorphic journey to the country by Beverly", "Alfie 2, the trials of a philandering pizza delivery boy by Aaron", "A southern gothic vampire tale by Kirsten", "The secret exploits of Margaret Thatcher's gay son by Malcolm".

Didn't bother plugging in the mixer this week, so there's some dead air and crummy transitions.. sorry. Next week we're hearing double with multiple versions of songs. See you then,

Malcolm

imaginary score.mp3

(next weeks theme: songs in multiple forms)

Cover Me

3.27.07
THEME: Cover Art Connections

A smaller crowd this week, but no less exciting, as we gazed at connecting covers at the record club. So, we were all asked to bring a pile of records with a theme that links the cover art. We had some good stuff to look at(hopefully Leslie will post some photos soon) and we had good stuff to listen to too. Hagen brought in a color spectrum of covers, while Leslie stuck to pastels. Eric had many hats on his covers, while Ryan had many flags. I brought lots of cut out figures on white fields, and Beverly brought in all hand drawn covers.

Forgot to bring a mic this week, and one of the turntables is broken, so it's a very minimal podcast this week. The theme next week is "soundtrack to an imaginary film." Everyone has to bring a set of music that would be used to score a movie that we might produce. Expect lots of inspiring end credits music.

See you then,
Malcolm

The cover connection.mp3

(next weeks theme: soundtrack to an imaginary film)

Hard N' Heavy with marshmallow

3.19.07
THEME: Light & Dark

We got to meet Leslie's mom and experimented with the sound effects built into the mixer, including a laser gun and a bomb, at last nights record club. It was Light & Dark, Birth & Death, Mom & The Bomb, Bom & The Momb. Sorry, i'm trying to sound like chris in the morning from northern exposure. Anyway, lots of good music was heard. The podcast is a little quieter then usual (still getting used to the new mixer technology) except for the Isley Brothers song that i had to crank because it really is THE jam. Listen for mark's exciting laser gun song on the podcast too. Next week's theme is chose your own cover art sub-theme. Meaning, all the album art of each set will have common thread connecting it.

I realize that now that the on air personality has been eliminated, there's no real way to get the track listing online. Bev has been keeping track, and if you really want to get the list you might get in touch with her and convince her to give it to you.

Till next week,
Malcolm

Light & Dark.mp3

(next weeks theme: the cover art connection)

Everybody makes out

3.12.07
THEME: Make out with Leslie night

It's too nice outside for me to write much today. Plus, Leslie advised me not to reveal too much about the nights proceedings, as they were of a personal nature.

No MC this time around, and there's some nicer transitions because of a new mixer courtesy of Ryan. Enjoy the podcast. Next week we explore the battle between light and dark.

Enjoy,
Malcolm

Make out with leslie.mp3

(next weeks theme: light and dark)

1 Year and Counting

3.5.07
THEME: The 1st Year's Best

This evening marked the one year anniversary of the Kalamazoo Record Club, and we celebrated with lp shaped cookies and t-shirts made by Bev and Les and lots of great tunes that were previously introduced over the past year. The theme challenged us to repeat our best sets of the past year, and it proved to be a memorable and breathtaking journey into our rich shared musical past. I missed a few of those early dates, so it was a particular joy to hear Hagen and Aaron spin such gems as the Ewok Celebration(sung in ewokese), the Fame song and some other tracks first played at the soundtrack theme night. We got to see some great visual aids(sorry we don't have pictures, but trust me they were cool.) Beverly spun her homemade disco light and we jammed out to some ABBA, and Leslie palyed some stuff while we watched bugs form and fight in Microcosmos.

All and all, some great music on the podcast. Again I apologize for the obnoxious and yet boring rants between songs. It's really sad that I haven't improved as an MC. I'm hoping Larry King will die soon, and his ghost will come to me at night and give me tips. I'm 98.9% positive that next week we'll have two turntable and no microphone, and the sounds will flow more freely. The theme next week is "make-out with leslie night." We're bringing all music by artists we think that Leslie Grossman would be compelled to make-out with, if given the opportunity. I'm gonna have to dig out some Ted Nugent.

Till then,
Malcolm



download best of the year.mp3

(next weeks theme: make-out with leslie night)

I'm a Big Fat Idiot

2.26.07
THEME: Make-Up Theme Night

Oops, I deleted the show! I'm not sure how it happened, but my laptop ran out of disc space and i didn't capture last-nights show. Sorry. It was a pretty good one too. There was lots of speaking in tongues, drinking and driving, latin food, motown, other towns, short songs, and more. I promise it won't happen again. And maybe I'll fix my record player by next week and we'll have that mixer thing going on. In the meantime, I was thinking about a possible future theme, "Dead in 06." A tribute to the music folk that passed away in 2006. I found this list on wikipedia... i think it would be a good night of music, even if it was all just James Brown and Syd Barrett. BTW, I noticed that Gene Pitney died last year. Isn't it a pity...


2006 Deaths:

January 1 — Bryan Harvey, American singer-guitarist of House of Freaks, 46
January 6 —
Lou Rawls, American soul singer, 72
Alex St. Claire, American drummer of Captain Beefheart, 64
January 11 — Markus Löffel, German disc jockey, 39
January 19 — Wilson Pickett, American singer, 64
January 27 — Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter and producer, 56
January 30 — Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, American guitarist of Poison Idea, 47
February 2 — Bill Cowsill, American singer-gutarist of The Cowsills, 52
February 3 — Romano Mussolini, Italian jazz pianist, 78
February 10 — Jay Dee, American hip hop producer, 32
February 15 — Anna Marly, French singer-songwriter, 88
February 22 — Anthony Burger, American gospel music pianist, 44
March 7 — Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer and guitarist, 66
March 10 — Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano, 75
March 13 — Geoffrey Wilkes, bassist of The Orange Jam Conspiracy, 18
March 23
Pío Leyva, Cuban singer of the Buena Vista Social Club, 88
Cindy Walker, American country singer-songwriter, 87
March 25
Buck Owens, American country singer and guitarist, 76
Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress, 62
March 26 — Nikki Sudden, English singer-songwriter, 49
March 27 — Pete Wells, 48, guitarist of Buffalo & Rose Tattoo
April 5 — Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter, 65
April 11
June Pointer, American singer of Pointer Sisters, 52
Proof (DeShaun Holton), American rapper of D12, 32
April 24
Erik Bergman, Finnish composer of classical music, 94
Bonnie Owens, American country singer, 76
April 28 — Ben-Zion Orgad, Israeli composer, 80
May 1 — Big Hawk, American rapper, 36
May 5 — Naushad, Indian composer, 86
May 6 — Grant McLennan, Australian guitarist and songwriter of The Go Betweens, 48
May 10
Soraya, Colombian-American singer, 37
John Hicks, American jazz pianist, 65
May 13 — Johnnie Wilder, American singer of Heatwave, 56
May 15 — Cheikha Rimitti, Algerian singer, 83
May 18 — Andy Capps, American drummer of Built to Spill, 37
May 19 — Freddie Garrity, English singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 69
May 23 — Ian Copeland, American music promoter, 57
May 25 — Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska and reggae performer, 64
June 1 — Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress, 62
June 2
Johnny Grande, American keyboardist of Bill Haley & His Comets, 76
Vince Welnick, American keyboardist of Grateful Dead, 55
June 6
Billy Preston, American soul keyboardist, 59
Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist, 54
June 12 — György Ligeti, Hungarian composer, 83
June 20 — Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist of Kool and the Gang, 57.
June 27 — Eileen Barton, American singer, 76
July 3
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, American mezzo-soprano, 52
Jack Smith, American singer, 92
July 7
Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding-member of Pink Floyd, 60
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Irish singer and guitarist of The Bothy Band, 54
July 8 — June Allyson, American actress, singer and dancer, 88
July 9 — Milan Williams, American keyboardist of The Commodores, 58
July 13 — Ade Monsbourgh, Australian jazz musician, 89
July 16 — Malachi Thompson, American jazz trumpeter, 56
July 17 - John G. Blowers, Jr., swing era drummer, 95
July 22 — Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter, 82
July 31 — Rufus Harley, American jazz bagpiper, 70
August 2 — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German operatic soprano, 90
August 3 — Arthur Lee, American guitarist and vocalist of Love, 61
August 4 – Monroe Clark, English-born Violinist, 70
August 16 — Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer of Dissection, 31
August 19 — Joseph Hill, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, 57
August 22 — Bruce Gary, American drummer of The Knack, 55
August 23 — Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpet player, 78
August 24 — John Weinzweig, Canadian composer of classical music, 93
August 27 — Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist for Napalm Death, 37
August 28 - Pip Pyle, English drummer forHatfield and the North, National Health, and Gong, 56
September 3 — Eva Knardahl, Norwegian classical pianist, 79
September 4 — Astrid Varnay, Swedish operatic soprano, 88
September 10 — Bennie Smith, American blues musician, 72
September 13 — Lou Richards, American guitarist of Hatebreed, 35
September 14 — Norman Brooks, Canadian singer, 78
September 19 — Danny Flores, Mexican-American saxaphonist of The Champs, 77
September 20 — Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, 74
September 21 — Boz Burrell, English bass guitarist of Bad Company and King Crimson, 60
September 23 — Malcolm Arnold, English composer, 84
September 30 — Isabel Bigley, American singer and actress, 78
October 14 — Freddy Fender, American singer, 69
October 18 — Anna Russell, UK singer and comedienne, 94
October 21 — Sandy West, American drummer of The Runaways, 47
October 23
Lebo Mathosa, singer, 29 (car accident)
Leonid Hambro, pianist, 86
October 26 — Rogério Duprat, composer, 74
November 1
Jason DiEmilio, guitarist (The Azusa Plane), 36
Buddy Killen, record producer and founder of Dial Records, 73
Silvio Varviso, conductor, 82
November 3 – Paul Mauriat, orchestra leader, 81
November 8 – Basil Poledouris, film composer, 61
November 10 – Gerald Levert, singer, 40
November 17 - Ruth Brown, US singer, 78
November 21 - Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist, 91
November 22 - John Allan Cameron, folk musician, 67
November 23
Betty Comden, lyricist partner of Adolph Green, 89
Anita O'Day, jazz singer, 87
November 24 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter, 56
November 25 - Valentín Elizalde, Mexican banda singer, 27
November 30 - Shirley Walker, film composer, 61
December 2 - Mariska Veres, singer with Shocking Blue, 59
December 6 - Darren Brown, AKA Wiz, former frontman of Mega City Four, 44
December 8 - Martha Tilton, US big band singer, 91
December 9 - Georgia Gibbs, US singer, 87
December 11 - Homer Ledford, bluegrass musician, 79
December 13 - Robert Long, singer and TV presenter, 63
December 14 - Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records, 83
December 16 - Pnina Salzman, pianist, 84
December 18
Scott Mateer, US songwriter and disk jockey, 46
Daniel Pinkham, American composer, 83
December 22 - Dennis Linde,Songwriter "Burnin' Love", "John Deere Green" and others
December 23 - Ken Fischer, Amplifier technician and innovator, 61
December 25 - James Brown, American singer, 73
December 27 - Pierre Delanoë, French lyricist, 88


Think about it. Next week's theme is "The Best I've Been," which is a chance for us to repeat our best sets of the year.

later,
Malcolm


(next weeks theme: the best i've been)

Shout-Outs to Our Peeps

2.19.07
THEME: Hey Record Club, This Song's for You
MC: Malcolm, Etc.

Everyone was touched and moved by all the thoughtful tributes paid this evening. Tributes, that is, to all the lovely folks that make the record club what it is, as the theme was "us", the record club. Some highlights included Bev's ELO pulled from the flames(Eric abandoned the album at the r.c. record swap), Ryan's Dischord 01 Teen Idles single, my all glockenspiel set, Kenny Rogers, and all of my many alter egos played throughout the night. Next week, there will be a bunch of themes going on, as we'll be recycling all the old themes, and anyone who wasn't able to participate in those theme's will be given a second chance. So absentees and late-comers, pick yourself a theme and get to work. Next week we'll get it together and have a mixer too, so hopefully we wont be subject to my awful jokes and banal musings. By the way, my real alter-ego is that of albino Jamaican dancehall superstar Yellowman!



Zungguzungguguzungguzeng!,

Malcolm

download record club tributes.mp3

(next weeks theme: themes we missed)

No Singing

2/12/07
THEME: Instrumentals
MC: Malcolm

A full house at this week at the record club, and the podcast returns. No vocals on any of the music as the theme is "instrumentals." Some nice music and sub-themes all around. Joined this time around by another new member, Chafe Hensley who brought an all Lungfish set with him. Beverly played only traditional music of the Orient, and I brought a bunch of somewhat agitating film music.

Some technological advancements might transpire this week. Brennan should be working some sort of magic on the podcast and there will be chapters and such. And hopefully, Ryan will be bringing a mixer and turntable next week, and we'll have seem-less song play! This will end the need for all the foolish banter, which I'm sure will be missed, but hopefully will make the podcast a more manageable download. We'll be returning next week with vocals and an odd theme that may leave some listeners bewildered, "Record Clubber, this song is for you" (Brennan had a better title, but i forget it). These are songs that will bring to mind the members of the Kzoo Record Club (if you know them). Sounds pretty elitist to me, but it should prove to be an interesting night.

Stay tuned,
Malcolm

download instrumentals.mp3

(next weeks theme: record club)

For Want of a Cable

A different week, a different venue, different stereo. What's it all mean? Mostly that you, dear reader, don't get to listen to this weeks record club. We had a fun theme in "Obscenities, implied or otherwise". There were two Prince tunes played, some Nine Inch Nails, Circle Jerks and Nina Simone as well. I played a set completely comprised of comedy tracks, which included local legend Elmer Fudpucker Senior. We also said hello to new record clubber -- Ryan Nelson, who provided one of the Prince tracks, as well as some well-received Berlin. Kirsten rounded out the evening with a fun balanced set which included a great Cyndi Lauper track off of "She's so Unusual".

Next weeks theme -- "Instrumentals", should be pretty open to interpretation, hopefully inspiring a few sub-themes. We'll do our damnedest to get the podcast back up and rolling so we stop getting all of that hurtful, nasty email. In lieu of a podcast, I put together a few "Obscene" album covers for your enjoyment. It's not the same, I know, but cut me a little slack, ok?

Who's the Boss?

1.29.07
THEME: Cities & Towns
MC: Adam

Many tuneful stabs at this weeks theme, Cities & Towns. Some highlights included Leslie's all Springsteen set, Bev's all NY set, Erick's "Kalamazoo," and MC Adam Smith trying to talk 90's gangsta. I also got to play "albaquerque"(sp) by Neil Young, which i think has the funniest chorus ever. Props to Adam for his fine work on the mic, though he did use some fowl language. Which brings us to next weeks theme, "adult content"(think parental advisory stickers) There was some debate about having some sort of post modern record club night where all the songs are about record club...but that was nixed... maybe another night. So all the music next week is for adults only, and may be hard to get online... and seeing as i will be out of town, might not be recorded anyway.

The order of this week's sets was thus: Adam, Beverly, Kirsten, Leslie, Brennan, Mark, Erick, Hagen, and Malcolm.


Enjoy,
Malcolm


download Cities & Towns.mp3


(Next week's theme: adult content)

BY THE POWER OF ZEUS!The Kzoo Record Club is online.

1/22/07
THEME: Mythology
MC: Malcolm

Alright, this is the first official broadcast, podcast, bloggcast of the Kzoo record club. We're still working out the bugs, so sorry for any poor sound quality, excessive dead air, and any other glitches. I was MC-ing, so let me also apologize for all the bad jokes and idiotic banter.

For those unfamiliar with the Record Club, every week we choose a theme and play a bunch of vinyl that has something to do with that theme. This week it's mythology. All the music has some reference to mythology, legend, tall tales, stuff like that. Attending and "spinning" this weeks record club were(in order of appearance): Malcolm, Erick, Aaron, Leslie, Beverly, Hagan , Brennan, and Adam.

Enjoy,
Malcolm

podcast no longer available

(Next week's theme: Cities & Towns)