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The No Show Archive
November 2008
Grated Cheese
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Steve is really cheesed this week. (So what else is new?) It has largely to do with his hatred for pumpkin and all things made of pumpkin and all references to pumpkin. (Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater is his least-loved children’s rhyme, for instance.)
Steve also reminds us that today – the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day – is Misgiving Day on The NO SHOW: a day in which we rue our excesses, our sins of commission and omission, and the overall shallowness of our existence not to mention the gluttony of the recent holiday.
In other business, Steve inducts Mothers of Invention drummer, Jimmy Carl Black, into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis. And since this is the last program in this series, Steve pleads piteously for you to be listening again when he returns on February 7. (He also pleads piteously for a government bailout. We’ll let you know how that goes.)
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Desolation Row” – Bob Dylan
“The Big Cheese” – Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, & Mike Marshall
“Cheese” – The Moldy Peaches
“Cheese Please” – Chris Stapleton
“Samosa – Bobo” – De Red Boyz
“Ice Cream” – The Pixie Chicks
“Are You Hung Up?” – Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
“Who Needs the Peace Corps?” – Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
“Lonesome Cowboy Burt” – The Grandmothers
“Big Leg Emma” – Jimmy Carl Black & The Mannish Boys
“Same Ole Blues” – The Jimmy Carl Black Band
Polyps
Saturday, November 22, 2008
There are some subjects – like economics – that Steve does not want to know a whole lot about. Ignorance may not be bliss, but bliss is more than he hopes for. Simple ignorance is enough in itself. But on other matters, like Charles Darwin’s polyps, Steve wants to know everything there is to know (having himself had bad experiences with polyps). Fortunately, Darwin scholar and channeler, Richard Milner, is on hand to tell all. In other business, we learn that although nothing else is selling, gun sales are running 40% ahead of this time last year. And we induct Miriam Makeba into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis.
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Rockin’ Pneumonia & the Boogie-Woogie Flu” – Johnny Rivers
“Happiness is a Warm Gun” – The Beatles
“Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” – Johnny Cash
“22-40 Blues” – Skip James
“I Feel the Earth Move” – Carole King
“Volcano” – Jimmy Buffet
“Pata Pata” – Miriam Makeba
“The Click Song” – Miriam Makeba
“Laku Tshoni ‘Ilanga,” – The Manhattan Brothers
“Malcolm X” – Miriam Makeba
“The Retreat Song” – Miriam Makeba
Fat-In
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Steve Post can't remember where he left the dead horse he usually beats, so instead he gives us career advice: become a drummer, not an army recruiter. (In his view, that pretty much summarizes the options.) Steve is joined on air by "meta-expert" Israel Danish, who gives Steve an education in plumbing. (Everyone should have a fall-back skill.) And Steve reminisces briefly on the high point of his career, the 1968 Central Park "Fat-In." The music is a rich diet.
PLAYLIST
THEME: "How Long Blues" - Jimmy Yancey, piano
"Dead Horses" - Paul Mateki
"Expert" - Eric Karlstrom
"The Expert" -- Dakota Sid & The Badland Serenaders
"Drinking Wine Spodie-Odie" - Champion Jack Dupree
"Big Fat Mama" - Pinetop Perkins
"Toys R Us" - The Greyboy Allstars
"That Will Just About Knock Me Out" - Nellie Lutcher
"Honeysuckle Rose" - Charlie Parker
"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" - Nat King Cole
"Exactly Like You" - Kay Starr
"My Heart is Crying" - Percy Mayfield
The Winner
Saturday, November 08, 2008
The election is over, and Steve Post is here to remind us that triumphalism is always in bad taste: therefore, it is perfect for The NO SHOW. Steve’s guests – Emily Levine, Paul Krassner, and Marshall Efron – attempt to prevent him from slipping into “post-partisan depression” and strive to plum the existential depths of meaning which the Obama victory portends. The music will get you up on your feet and dancing; well, up on your feet, anyway.
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Hallelujah Chorus” – The Roches
“Happy Days are Here Again” – Ian Whitcomb
“Dancing in the Streets” – David Bowie & Mick Jagger
“Winning” – Santana
“Changes” – David Bowie
“Celebrate the News” – The Beach Boys
“Obama” – DNC
“Undecided Now” – Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys
“You Can All Join In” -- Traffic
“This Land is Your Land” – Woody Guthrie
Nudity, Nakedness and Undress
Saturday, November 01, 2008
This week Steve Post obsesses on nudity, nakedness, undress, and “virtual strip searches” when not going on at length about his historic footnote of a meeting with Richard Nixon, the man he loves to hate. In the course of an hour, Steve manages to offend Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Christians, Jews, and possibly even Buddhists. (Next week he goes after everybody else.) Be listening. He may insult you by name.
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“What the Hell is Simchas Torah?” – Jewmongous
“How Can We Lose?” – Roy Zimmerman
“Ninety Percent” – Roy Zimmerman
“Chasin’ Rainbows” – R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
“Give Him the Shaft” – Richard Nixon and chorus
“If I Had a Friend Like Rosemary Woods” – Bill Horwitz
“Let’s Get Naked” – Joan Osborne
"This Train" -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
“Bernadette” – The Four Tops
“I Can’t Help Myself” – The Four Tops
“Baby, I Need Your Lovin’” – The Four Tops
“Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)” – The Four Tops
