Here’s what has been happening on the weekly FFF show through the holidays and up to this past week: the obligatory holiday-themed show, an extended three-hour fill-in shift, and some 2016 favorites sprinkled throughout. Hope your 2017 is off to a solid start.
FFFreakout #546 (Aired on 1/12/17): Bill Callahan “Footprints” from Woke On A Whaleheart The Intended “Hugeunot” from Time Will Tell The Piranhas “Girls Like It Too” from Static Disaster: The UK In The Red Records Sampler MC5 “Ramblin’ Rose” from Kick Out The Jams The Minutemen “The Red and the Black” from 3-Way Tie (For Last) African Head Charge “Belinda” from Adrian Sherwood presents On-U Sound… Demdike Stare “Desert Ascetic” from Voices of Dust PJ Harvey “The Community of Hope” from The Hope Six Demolition Project Car Seat Headrest “Fill In The Blank” from Teens of Denial Charles Bradley “Changes” from Changes The Rolling Stones “Blue & Lonesome” from Blue & Lonesome Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions “I Took A Slip” from Until the Hunter Radiohead “Burn the Witch” from A Moon Shaped Pool The Avalanches “The Wozard of Iz” from Wildflower M83 “Moon Crystal” from Junk
FFFreakout #545 (Aired on 1/5/17): Thigh Master “Company” from Early Times Johnnie Frierson “Out Here On Your Word” from Have You Been Good To Yourself Son House “Grinnin’ In Your Face” from Father of the Delta Blues Alkibar Gignor “Aniyu” from La Paix Helado Negro “Runaround” from Private Energy Scarcity of Tanks “Quigley Dictum” from Ohio Captives Rake Kash “Mirren” from S/T David Bowie “Lazarus” from Black Star Iggy Pop “Gardenia” from Post Pop Depression M83 “Bibi The Dog” from Junk Childish Gambino “Redbone” from Awaken, My Love! Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” from You Want It Darker The Cactus Blossoms “Powder Blue” from You’re Dreaming
FFFreakout #544 (Aired on 12/29/16: Extended/fill-in edition with David solo): A Tribe Called Quest “Excursions” from A Low End Theory Porest “Terminal Suite” from Modern Journal of Popular Savagery Hayvanlar Alemi “Mavi Sepet” from Guarana Superpower Los Dandy’s “Zinecio” from Lindo Amor Roied Petchsiam “Lam Plearn Kiew Sao” from Theppabutr Productions: The Man Behind… Sun City Girls “Ben’s Radio” from Funeral Mariachi Amos & Crew “True Tears Epitaph” from True Tears Brian Eno “Juju Space Jazz” from My Squelchy Life Clipping “True Believer” from Splendor & Misery General Strike “My Other Body” from Danger In Paradise Group Titan “Cingeneler Masa Yapar Satarlar” from Anatolian Break Dance Bis “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again” from What Are You Afraid Of 12″ Earthly “Wink” from Days Felix Kubin “Atomium Vertigo” from Zemsta Plutona Marc Hurtado & Alan Vega “Juke Bone Done” from Sniper Roy Montgomery “Another David Lynch Thanks, No Ice” from RMHQ Magnetic Ghost “Vanish/Vanishing” from Loss Molecules Ignatz “My Children” from The Drain Maxine Funke “Can’t Make Done” from Lace Fraser & DeBolt “Hey, What’s In It For Me” from This Song Was Borne Russell Hoke “Moonbeams” from A Voice From the Lonesome Playground Jodi “Onda Suave” from Pops De Vanguardia Builders “Heartbeats-a-go-go” from Beatin Hearts Kleenex/Liliput “Beri-Beri” from S/T Pink Reason “Holding On” from Shit in the Garden Lifetones “Distance No Object” from For A Reason The Congos “Congoman” from Heart of the Congos Singers & Players “World of Dispensation” from War of Words The Upsetters “Croaking Lizards” from Super Ape The Flying Lizards “Her Story” from S/T Funkadelic “Funky Dollar Bill” from Free your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow Pascal Comelade “To The Last of Imaginary Solutions” from Rocanrolorama 1974-2016 Heron Oblivion “Beneath Fields” from S/T Cate LeBon “Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows” from Crab Day Moth Eggs “Cartoons” from Adventures Away The Lavender Flu “My Time” from Heavy Air Mark Wynn “The Girl Who Looked Like Bobbie Gillespie” from Singles, But They’re Not… The Pheromoans “In Freefall” from I’m On Nights Graham Lambkin “Community” from Community Woo “Green Blob” from Awaawaa The Savage Young Taterbug “The Paperstud” from Shadow of Marlboro Man David Nance “Unamused” from More Than Enough Foodman “Uoxtu” from Ez Minzoku John Bender “36a2” from I Don’t Remember Now/I Don’t Want To Talk About It Heimat “So Traurig” from S/T Theoreme “Punk Vortex” from L’appel du Midi à midi pile Klara Lewis “Beaming” from Too
FFFreakout #543 (Aired on 12/22/16: Holiday edition): The Free Design “Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas)” John Fahey “Joy to the World” Califone “Silver & Gold” The Misfits “Blue Christmas” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “Ain’t No Chimneys in the Projects” Run DMC “Christmas in Hollis” Lindsey Buckingham “Holiday Road” Prince “Another Lonely Christmas” The Singing Dogs “Jingle Bells” Ice-T “Holiday Rap” The Ronettes “Sleigh Ride” Ramones “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” Edd “Kookie” Byrnes “Yulesville” Hall & Oates “Jingle Bell Rock David Bowie & Bing Crosby “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” Otis Redding “Merry Christmas, Baby” The Border Brass “Deck the Halls Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass “Winter Wonderland Davina and the Vagabonds “Santa Bring My baby Back (To Me)” Peggy Lee “Winter Wonderland”