Saturday, May 10, 2014

Call me at nine, OK?

My little phone isn't the state of the art.
It can't download any apps.
The poor piddly thing just isn't that smart
For any of that kind of crap.

But the reason I keep it, why it's best of all:
No matter where, I can still make a call.

9:00
1. WonderPets The phone is ringing (0:40)

Yes, tonight's set is all about the telephone. What a wonderful device!

3. Astrud Gilberto - The telephone song (1:52)
4. Heather & Thunderbirds - I call your name (1:57)
5. Needles - Just on the Phone (2:15)
6. Christine Lavin - Don't Ever Call Your Sweetheart By His Name (2:22)
7. Captain Beefheart - Call On Me (2:37)
8. Blondie (1999) - Hanging on the Telephone (2:18)
9. Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation (1:55)
10. Natacha Snitkine - Le Jeu Du Telephone (2:11)
11. John Rydgren - A Beautiful Girl/Music To Watch Girls By (3:39)
12. Nino Ferrer - Le telephone (2:47)
13. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man. (1:59)
14. Pomplamoose Music - Lady Gaga Telephone (2:11)
15. telephone baby ~ johnny otis & marci lee (2:14)
16. George Harmonica Smith - Telephone Blues (3:04)
17. The Pretenders - The phone call (2:33)
18. New Classic Singers - Call Me (2:22)
19. The Fall - Telephone Thing (4:10)
20. Sleater - Kinney - Call the Doctor (2:33)
21. Marc André Hamelin - Valse Irritation d'après Nokia (Ringtone Waltz) (0:51)
22. The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band (2:33)
23. William Loose - Angel On The Phone [from "Supervixens"] (2:36)
24. X - Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not (2:28)
25. Phone Calls from the Dead Meat Beat Manifesto (3:13)
26. Phoenix - Long Distance Call (3:08)
27. Coldcut - My Telephone promo (1989) (3:42)

And now, I'm going to play Pasta's new favorite song. We were swapping videos back and forth and here it is!

10:00
29. Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul (4:16)
30. My Robot Friend - Why Won't You Call Me Back? (3:09)
31. Frank Zappa - You Didn't Try to Call Me (3:19)
32. love and rockets - the telephone is empty (3:59)
33. Jim White - Phone Booth in Heaven (7:09)
34. ELO - Telephone Line - (Acoustic) (4:14) Everyone who heard this track loved it. It is lovely.
35. Glenn Miller - Ring, Telephone, Ring (3:27)
36. Glenn Miller - The Call Of The Canyon (3:22)
37. Fats Waller - I'd Rather Call You Baby (3:00)
38. Combustible Edison - Call of the Space Siren (4:26)
39. Sarah Vaughan - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (2:26)
40. Ben Webster - Did You Call Her Today? [Excerpt] (6:28)
41. Johnny Guitar Watson - Telephone Bill (1980) (4:38)
42. Bootsy Collins - What's A Telephone Bill (6:01)
43. call me back - ive got to take a savage fax (2:45)

On the Information Society CD "Don't Be Afraid", the final track was a puzzle. Labelled "White Roses 1.0 300 8-N-1," it consisted of 55 seconds of modem noise. The tones could be decoded by anyone who picked up on the hints in the track title - 300 baud, 8 bits, No parity, 1 stop bit. After that, and a few more steps, you could get the following track.

11:00
45. Information Society - White Roses (7:21)
46. Scott Merrill - Call from the Grave (3:24)
47. James Blunt - Telephone (Moon Landing 2013 album) (3:26)
48. Dengue Fever - Tiger Phone Card (3:36)
49. Weird Al Yankovic - Callin' In Sick (3:46)
50. Kraftwerk - The telephone call (3:48)
51. Steve Goodman - You Never Even Call Me By My Name (4:05)
52. Cowboy Bebop - Call Me Call Me (4:42)
53. Rose Murphy - Busy Line (2:48)
54. Lali Puna - Call 1-800-fear (3:21)
55. Tom Waits - Please Call Me, Baby (4:25)
56. Beck - Cellphone's Dead (4:47)
57. Girls In Hawaii - birthday call (5:21)
58. Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West (5:59)
59. Barrington Levy - On The Telephone (6:19)
60. The Orb - Terminus (11:16)