Aside from the usual weather-related grumblings, February has been a rather fun-filled month for us here at Free Form Freakout: we celebrated our 9th year of doing the weekly Thursday show, we put together what we hoped would be an all-inclusive Valentine’s Day-themed show, and we found in Blank Realm’s Grassed Inn an album we can both rally behind. On top of that, we got to see Neutral Milk Hotel perform live in what we can honestly say was unexpectedly terrific. Here’s how things have went down on the weekly show over the past three weeks.
FFFreakout #398 (Aired on 2/6/14):
The Fall “Psykick Dance Hall” from Dragnet
Ghost to Falco “Born to Win” from Soft Shield
Rodd Keith “The Explosion of Holden 22 Mine” from Black Phoenix Blues
Orange “Sad Joy” from In The Midst Of Chaos
Jandek “I Know the Times” from You Walk Alone
Sebadoh “License to Confuse” from Bakesale
Circuit des Yeux “Nova 88” from Overdue
The Beakers “Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution” from Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution
The Beatles “All My Loving” from With the Beatles
The Beatles “Til There Was You” from With the Beatles
Beck “The Golden Age” from Sea Change
Blur “You’re So Great” from S/T
David Bowie “Heroes” from Heroes
The Jesus & Mary Chain “Come On” from Stoned & Dethroned
Johnny Cash “One” from American III: Solitary Man
Joy Division “Warsaw” from Heart and Soul boxset
FFFreakout #399 (Aired on 2/13/14):
Blank Realm “Bulldozer Love” from Grassed Inn
CS Yeh “Starts With A Look” from Transitions
Tall Dwarfs “We Bleed Love” from Fork Songs
Coil “Love’s Secret Domain” from Love’s Secret Domain
ESG “My Love For You” from Come Away With ESG
Patty Waters “Why Is Love Such a Funny Things” from Sings
Nina Simone “Since I Fell For You” from Sings the Blues
Ornette Coleman “Embraceable You” from This Is Our Music
Al Green “I’m Still In Love With You” from I’m Still In Love With You
Bob Dylan “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” from Blood On The Tracks
The Blues Brothers “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” from The Blues Brothers O.S.T.
Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine” from Ain’t No Sunshine: The Best of Bill Withers
The New Standards “Love Is the Law” from S/T
The Beatles “For No One” from Revolver
Louis Prima “Nothin Is Too Good For Me & My Baby”
FFFreakout #400 (Aired on 2/20):
The Birthday Party “Wildworld” from The Bad Seed E.P.
Roied Petchsiam “Lam Plearn Kiew Sao” from Theppabutr Productions: The Man Behind the Molam Sound 1972-75
Vibracathedral Orchestra “Stole Some Sentimental Jewelry” from Tuning to the Rooster
The Holy Modal Rounders “Give the Fiddler a Dram” from The Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2
Blank Realm “Back to the Flood” from Grassed Inn
DNA “Egomaniac’s Kiss” from No New York
Can “Moonshake” from Future Days
Grow Horns “Fake Crystals Hang From Tree Limbs” from The Grass Cross
Devo “Beautiful World” from Greatest Hits
Devo “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (Booji Boy version) from Greatest Misses
Devo “Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA” from Duty Now For the Future
The Clash “Ghetto Defendant” from Combat Rock
Elliott Smith “Son of Sam” from Figure 8
Frank Zappa “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” from Apostrophe (‘)
Junior Murvin “Police & Thieves” from Police & Thieves