Kosmik Radiation Radio - Jun 17, 2011 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Beatles "Revolver" 1966 (UK)

You know it's my birthday, and Paul McCartney's too yeah! One of the best albums Sir Paul was ever involved with was this gem from his little quartet from Liverpool. This was their seventh UK album in an amazing five years (though Capitol records chopped their LP's up to make ten albums for the US market -- the original American release of Revolver lacked three songs from the UK version and was a mere twnty-eight minutes long!) Their most high-tech recording to date, Revolver was the key transitional record in The Beatles' career, as R&B-based old fashioned rocking & rolling began to be replaced by something more . . . psychedelic.
The Beatles stopped touring around the time this album came out, and they never performed many of these songs outside the studio. Instead they started making promotional films (early "music videos"), such as this one for "Rain", a classic non-album B-side also from 1966. The A-side of that single was "Paperback Writer", one of their many international #1 hits. Next here's Paul years later performing one of his classic tunes from Revolver, "For No One". McCartney's second official solo album from 1979 (most of his records from the 1970's were technically by his band Wings) has just been reissued as a deluxe CD/DVD, and includes another #1 hit "Coming Up" (with a particularly memorable pre-MTV video). And here's "Silly Love Songs", a flashback to the hazy 1970's when Paul McCartney & Wings were one of the biggest bands on the planet.

2nd Bonus CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Sonic Youth "Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star" 1994 (USA)

Since it's my annual birthday show, I always throw in a second bonus Classic Album of the Week. Sonic Youth may be my favorite band that I've actually followed during their career (as opposed to groups like The Beatles, whom I love, but they broke up before I was even born!) A notoriously arty underground "noise rock" band founded in the early 1980's, SY achieved a certain degree of fame during the "grunge" era of the early and mid 1990's. This underrated gem from 1994 is my favorite of their albums from the period when they were "popular".
This was the first Sonic Youth album in over a decade for which they did not tour (bassist Kim Gordon was pregnant at the time), and so most of the songs on this album have rarely if ever been performed live. But they did play "Bull In The Heather" on Letterman, and here's a concert performance of "Starfield Road".

(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request
(L) = Busking for pledges live in the studio (guitars, voices & keyboard by Dave 3000 & Brad Harkins)

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
The Beatles	Birthday	The Beatles (White Album)	1968	UK
Wings (Paul McCartney)	Hi Hi Hi (live)	Wings Over America	1976	UK
Paul McCartney	Coming Up	McCartney II (N - deluxe reissue)	1979 (2011 Hear Music/Concord)	UK
Paul McCartney	Every Night	McCartney (N - deluxe reissue)	1970 (2011 Hear Music/Concord)	UK
	Cripple Creek Ferry (Neil Young) / 30 Century Man (Scott Walker) / Million Dollar Bash (Bob Dylan)

The Beatles	Here There And Everywhere	Revolver CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1966	UK
The Beatles	For No One	Revolver CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1966	UK
The Free Design	Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)	You Could Be Born Again	1968	USA
Claudine Longet	Good Day Sunshine (Beatles)	The Look Of Love	1967	France/USA
Earth Wind & Fire	Got To Get You Into My Life (Beatles)	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (original motion picture soundtrack)	1978	USA
Sebadoh	Yellow Submarine (Beatles)	The Freed Man (bonus track on 2005 CD reissue)	rec. 1980's	USA
Bongwater	Love You To (Beatles)	Double Bummer	1988	USA
	She Said She Said (Beatles) / Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles)

	The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys (Traffic) (R)
Traffic	The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys (R)	The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys	1971	UK
Redbone	Already Here (Brujo)	Already Here	1972	USA

Sonic Youth	Winner's Blues	Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star 2nd Bonus CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1994	USA
Thurston Moore	Space	Demolished Thoughts (N)	2011 (Matador)	USA
Sonic Youth	Tokyo Eye	Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star 2nd Bonus CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1994	USA
Hush Arbors	Water II	Hush Arbors	2008	USA
Sonic Youth	Sweet Shine	Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star 2nd Bonus CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1994	USA

The Feelies	Time Is Right	Here Before (N)	2011 (Bar/None)	USA
Meat Puppets	Hour Of The Idiot	Lollipop (N)	2011 (Megaforce)	USA
Second Family Band	Egesta Of Nandi (part two - excerpt)	Nandi	2010	USA

Sheep Fiends	Strange New Worlds	2001: An ARP Odyssey	2001	USA
Sheep Fiends	Stan The Shirker (Slight Return)	Numerolostrology (N)	2011 (self release)	USA

Neil Young	Walk On	On The Beach	1974	Canada
Miles Davis	Frelon Brun	Filles De Kilemanjaro	1968	USA
Frank Zappa	Black Napkins	Zoot Allures	1976	USA

The Baseball Project (with Craig Finn from The Hold Steady)	Don't Call Them Twinkies	Vol. 2: High And Inside (N)	2011 (Yep Rock)	USA