The Mental Nomad Podcast

This is the last episode for at least two weeks, maybe a month or so. I can't go into details right now, but I may be very busy in the next few weeks -- or I may be back the week after next. Time will tell.

Here's what you'll hear today:

Mary Shelley Overdrive: "This Ain't the Summer of Love"
KingGod: "End of Faith"
Satya: "Lost Civilization"
Proclaim: "Drug Wars"
The Unbearable Hand Fate Dealt: "Alpha Dog"
Minton Sparks: "Gypsy"
Tokyo Police Club: "Shoulders and Arms"
Emmylou Harris: "No Regrets"
Noam Weinstein: "Big Babies"
Will Tang: "Everything Changes"

Tracks 7-8 came from the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Tracks 3 and 10 were obtained through the Podsafe Music Network, and track 5 was snagged from GarageBand. Everything else came from CD or was submitted by the artists.

This is Episode 100, but the 100th episode was actually No. 93. Go figure. There is a big announcement in this show, however.

Here's what you'll hear today:

The Mannish Boys: "Low Down Feeling"
Helen Sventitsky: "You and Me and the Goddamn City"
Strangers Die Every Day: "Aperture"
Snooky Pryor: "I Ain't Seen My Baby"
Erin Bode: "Don't Take Your Time"
Ron Thomas and Paul Klinefelter: "Blues for Zarathustra"
You Me & Iowa: "The Song Entire"
theDeadline: "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Howard Jones: "Building Our Own Future"

Tracks 1 and 4-6 were provided by the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Tracks 8-9 came from the Podsafe Music Network, and everything else came from the artists' CDs.

And now, the single most pretentious thing I have done in my misspent life. And considering I was an English major and philosophy minor in college, that's saying a lot. In between the songs today: 99 theses on various aspects of life, from politics to sex to religion to commerce.

Today's episode is tagged Explicit. I don't use a ton of profanity, but the material DOES touch on adult themes. Something to offend and anger just about everyone, but hopefully other things to amuse as well.

Here's what you'll hear today:

Manu Chao: "Politik Kills (Prince Fatty remix)"
Frederic Chopin: "Nocturne in C Minor"
Krista Detor: "Lay Him Down"
Steven Charles Cecil: "Barely Alive in Baltimore"
Kenneth Makuakane: "Landing in Love (Pae I Ke One)"
Gustav Bertha: "Song for the Broken Hearted (demo)"
The Crowd: "Fantasy Girl"
aJt: "Rock Bollywood"
Sharif: "Just Another"
Malamondos: "What You Got On"

Tracks 1-3 were found at the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Track 6 was provided by the artist, and everything else was found at the Podsafe Music Network.

Finally getting around to posting show notes -- sorry about the delay.

Here's what's in episode 98:

The Charlatans: "You Cross My Path"
Sharon Shannon & Mundy: "The Galway Girl (live)"
Somnivore: "These Graves Under the Bay of Bothnia"
Bitter:Sweet: "Waking Up"
Gustav Bertha: "Northern Town"
Sathima Bea Benjamin: "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
AM with Tina Dico: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
Ingrid Michaelson: "Die Alone"
FuzzFaces: "Peste"
Freightrain Jones: "X-Rated Vision"
Bad Religion: "Generator"

Tracks 1-2, 4 and 6 came courtesy of the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Tracks 3 and 5 come from CD, and the remainder of the songs were found at the Podsafe Music Network.

The second half of a look back at songs from episodes that, for whatever reason, got fewer downloads than the arbitrary number that gives me minimal satisfaction. I'm including links to the episodes where these originally aired in hopes you'll give them another look.

Here's what you'll hear today:

Billy Falcon: "Power Windows" (originally featured in episode 75)
Cush: "Little Black Dress" (from episode 46)
Hypertonics: "Don't Marry the One You Love; Marry the One Who Loves You" (episode 37)
Michelle Hotaling: "Take Me Home" (episode 40)
Rob Costlow: "Bliss" (episode 66)
Castaway: "Speedway" (episode 47)
R-Three: "Elsa Green" (episode 27)
Dead Rock West: "Don't Worry About Me" (episode 44)
Rose Fur Coat: "Standing and Hoping" (episode 77)
Vieux Farka Toure: "Ana" (episode 85)
Ainslie Henderson: "Dust" (episode 60)
Douglas Spotted Eagle: "America the Beautiful" (episode 36)

Tracks 6 and 9 were Garageband discoveries, and track 7 came from a CD. Everything else in today's show was found at the Podsafe Music Network.

New stuff next week.

(REPOSTED because of weirdness again with file length.)

This is a companion piece to the "I've Heard That Song Before" episodes: Songs from episodes that, for some reason or other, fell below an arbitrary number of downloads that is the minimum to make me happy. I'll include links to those episodes in hopes you'll give them a look in case you missed out the first time.

Here's what you'll hear today:

The Tony Evans Band, "The Look of Love" (first featured in episode 37)
Angelique Kidjo with Peter Gabriel, "Salala" (PS) (from episode 64)
Charlie Musselwhite, "Harpin' on a Riff" (IODA) (episode 47)
Op-Critical, "Not My America" (IODA) (episode 37)
Holland Boys, "We Become Dust" (episode 26)
Love Spirals Downwards, "City Moon" (episode 53)
Donna Germano, "I Once Loved a Lad" (episode 76)
Helen Sventitsky, "Too Damn Real (Live)" (episode 25)
Mike Doughty, "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" (episode 37)
Curious, "Perfect Girl" (episode 43)
Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, "Moonlight Waltz" (episode 30)
Otis Redding, "Shake (live at the Monterey International Pop Festival)" (episode 40)

Tracks 1, 3-4, 9 and 11 were obtained through the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Track 7 was found at Garageband, tracks 5 and 8 were downloaded at the artists' Web sites, and everything else was discovered at the Podsafe Music Network.

Next week's episode will be the second half of this look back.

HOPEFULLY the last of the shows recorded with the backup system. (I said that three episodes ago, too.)

Here's what you'll hear today:

Steve Earle: "Rich Man's War (Live at Montreaux 2005)"
Benjamin Lapidus: "Ein Kelokeinu"
Sally Shapiro: "Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Remix)"
Jef Stott: "Lamaset"
Nada Surf: "I Like What You Say"
Cassandra Kubinski: "How'd I Get So Lucky?"
Stars: "Midnight Coward"
Sirsy: "Lie to Me"
37Hz: "Be the Change You Want to See in the World"
Benny Benassi: "Satisfaction (Makrolon Remix)"

Tracks 2-4 come via the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Everything else in today's show was found at the Podsafe Music Network.

(REPOSTED to fix the strangeness that caused the episode to start over again at the end of the file. Thanks to Gustav Bertha for pointing that out so quickly.)

Hopefully near the end of the shows recorded with the backup equipment. I apologize in advance for pauses and clicking sounds from the recorder -- there's no way to edit those out on the machine used for this week's show.

Here's what you'll hear today:

Bettye Lavette: "Let Me Down Easy"
Eager to Please: "Two Timin' Lady"
Enigma: "Sadeness (Part 1) (Violent U.S. Mix)"
Yolanda Duke and the Tito Puente Orchestra: "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Bob Mould: "The Silence Between Us"
Tom Waits: "How's It Gonna End"
Juan R. Leon: "El Amor Es Eterno"
Melou: "Step Right Up (Welcome to the Show)"
Rory Gallagher: "Tore Down (Live at Montreaux)"
Carol Duboc: "Sexual Healing"

Tracks 4, 8 and 10 come courtesy of the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Everything else in today's show was provided by the Podsafe Music Network.

Continuing for three more episodes on the minimal production side ... I apologize in advance for long pauses, clicks on the recorder, etc. The machine I'm working with has no sound currently, so I can't edit ... hope to be back on the Mac for the next recordings.

Here's what you'll hear today:

You Me & Iowa: "Dress the Stage"
Sean Costello: "How in the Devil"
Sunspot: "Viking Funeral"
Josh Woodward: "Afterglow"
Constantines: "Hard Feelings"
Vincent Bergeron: "Nostalgie-Euthanasie"
The Afronauts: "Eeeze Now"
Gentlemen Losers: "If We Are Faded"
Jess Pillmore: "Anytime"
Cake: "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle"

Track one was submitted by Glenn at On Target Media -- the band's promotion company -- in advance of the May 6 release of their new album, The Adventures of You, Me & Iowa, and is played with gratitude. The fourth song comes from Josh Woodward's new double album, The Simple Life, which you can download at his site ... name your own price.

Songs 2, 5 and 10 were discovered at the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site. Track 9 is a Garageband discovery; everything else comes courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.

I'm pretty sure I misspoke on the late Sean Costello's label ... his latest album was released by Delta Groove Productions.

And by the way ... this is episode 93, but when you add in the strangely numbered episodes I do now and again on special occasions (not the contest blurbs, but full-length episodes), this is the 100th show. Yay!

Two songs accompany this special announcement:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Weapon of Choice"
Rosey: "It's a Ruse"

Track one comes courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network. Track two was found at the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site.

CONTEST DETAILS

The new contest is a simple drawing: Up to 10 of a very specific prize (street value $6), plus a few people will get CDs provided by artists you've heard before or will hear in the near future.

To enter, just post a reply here: Tell me what you like about the show, what you don't like, what musician you'd like to hear more often, who you'd like to hear less often (if applicable), and if you're feeling really ambitious, name a podsafe musical act I should include in the future. Include your real name and mailing address (which will not be made public).

Names will be drawn at random for the primary prize. The additional prizes will probably go to the responses I deem required the most thought on your part.

The contest ends April 30, and you'll see a reminder once a week until then. So share your thoughts, and you might win some cool stuff.