Here’s a rundown of what has been happening on the weekly Free Form Freakout show over the past, well, three months or so. If you’re ever interested in listening to these shows and can’t catch them at the 2:00 p.m. time slot on Thursdays, they are archived and streamable on the Free Form Freakout page over on the KMSU website for two weeks after they are aired.
FFFreakout #745 (Aired on 2/11/21)
- The Notwist “Where You Find Me” from Vertigo Days
- Moor Mother & billy woods “Rapunzal” from Brass
- Jaimie Branch “Jump Off” & “Theme 001” from Fly or Die
- Colin Fisher “Monadic Mirror” from Reflections of the Invisible World
- Space Monkeys “Serenity” from Southeast of Saturn
- Craig Smith (Satya Sai Maitreya Kali) “Swim” from Apache/Inca
- Michael Hurley “Blue Navigator” from Blue Navigator
- Codeine “Barely Real” from Barely Real EP
- Rob Noyes “Magic On Television” from Arc Minutes
- Moondog & the London Saxophonic “Bird’s Lament” from Sax Pax for a Sax
- Ghédalia Tazartès “Quasimodo Tango” from Diasporas
- Mount Kimbie “Meter, Pale, Tone” (feat. King Krule) from Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
- The Rosebuds “Cape Fear” from Life Like
- Pylon “Read A Book” from Gyrate
- Clara Engel “Baby Alligators” from Hatching Under the Stars
- Herbie Hancock “Doin’ It” from The Best of Herbie Hancock
FFFreakout #744 (Aired on 2/4/21)
- Family Fodder “Der Leierman” from Savoir Faire: The Best of Family Fodder
- A. Hutchie “Potion Shop” from Potion Shop
- Grex “Beepocalypse” from Everything You Said Was Wrong
- Lothar and the Hand People “What Grows On Your Head” from Machines Amherst 1969
- Refrigerator “Speedway” from How You Continue Dreaming
- Booker T. & The MGs “Tic-Tac-Toe” from The Best of Booker T. & The MGs
- Deerhunter “Pensacola” from Monomania
- Coil “Panic” from A Guide For Finishers: A Hair of Gold
- The Fleshtones “American Beat ’84” from It’s Super Rock Time!
- Fatboy Slim “Going Out Of My Head” from The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder
- The Fall “Victoria” from The Frenz Experiment
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood “Two Tribes” from Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
- Firewater “Ponzi’s Scheme” from The Ponzi Scheme
- Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” from Tusk
- Funkadelic “Can You Get To That” from Maggot Brain
- Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” from S/T
FFFreakout #743 (Aired on 1/28/21)
- Spectacle “She Doesn’t Believe” from Southeast of Saturn
- Grex “The Other Mouses” from Everything You Said Was Wrong
- Prized Pig “Toothless Tom” from PPEP 7″
- Styrofoam Winos “School in the Morning” from S/T
- Frank & The Hurricanes “Dreamed About You” from Love Ya Love Ya
- Country Joe & The Fish “Section 43” from Electric Music for the Mind and Body
- Meg Baird “Do What You Gotta Do” from Dear Companion
- The Incredible String Band “Puppies” from Wee Tam
- Pumice “Necklace On A Necklace” from Table
- Sun Ra “The Eternal Sphynx” from Crystal Spears
- Samba Negra “Long Life Africa” from La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980
- The XX “Chained” from Coexist
- Magnetic Fields “My Stupid Boyfriend” from Quickies
FFFreakout #742 (Aired on 1/21/21)
- Styrofoam Winos “Stuck in a Museum” from S/T
- His Name Is Alive “The Wolf Put His Mouth On Me” from Xmmer
- Portishead “Hunter” from Third
- The Green Child “Tony Bandana” from Shimmering Basset
- Ryuichi Sakamoto “Bibo No Aozora” from Smoochy
- Ferrante & Teicher “El Cumbanchero” from Duo Pianos
- Tom Zé “Ogodo, Ano 2000” from To Calm A Nation of Savages
- Dewey Cox “Starman” from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- George Harrison “Blow Away” from S/T
- Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” from Idiot Prayer
- Jeff Tweedy “Gwendolyn” from Love Is the King
- A Tribe Called Quest “Can I Kick It” from People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
- Iggy Pop “I’m Bored” from New Values
- AC/DC “Realize” from Power Up
FFFreakout #741 (Aired on 1/14/21)
- Michael Brecker “Cabin Fever” from Tales from the Hudson
- Asher Gamedze “Hope in Azania” from Dialectic Soul
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Blues March” from Moanin’
- Canned Heat “My Mistake” from Living the Blues
- Frank & The Hurricanes “Balsam Blues” from Love Ya Love Ya
- Makaya McCraven “Dadada” from Universal Beings E & F Sides
- Karl Evangelista w/ Alexander Hawkins, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Trevor Watts “Player Piano” from Apura!
- Michael Gregory Jackson “Ballad” from Clarity
- Jessica Pratt “As the World Turns” from Quiet Songs
- Matt “MV” Valentine “Before It’s Gone” from Blazing Grace
- Giuseppi Logan Quartet “Dance of Satan” from Quartet
- Wooden Wand “Sacrificial” from Clipper Ship
- Makaya McCraven “The Way Home” from Universal Beings E & F Sides
FFFreakout #740 (Aired on 1/7/21)
- The Green Child “Low Desk/High Shelf” from Shimmering Basset
- Caribou “New Jade” from Suddenly
- Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes “A Night in NY” from Heritage of the Invisible II
- Horse Lords “People’s Park” from The Common Task
- Olympus “Rotting in my Room” from Caucus
- Woods “Before They Pass By” from Strange To Explain
- The Heliocentrics “Space Cake” from Telemetric Sounds
- The White Stripes “Jolene” from Greatest Hits
- Travis “Waving At The Window” from 10 Songs
- Old 97’s “The Dropouts” from Twelfth
- Hum “Waves” from Inlet
- The Just Brothers “Sliced Tomatoes” from The Best Northern Soul Album
- Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine” from Live at Carnegie Hall
- Ween “I’ll Be Your Johnny On the Spot” from The Mollusk
- Bob Dylan “Father of Night” from New Morning
- The Beatles “I’ll Cry Instead’ from A Hard Days Night
FFFreakout #739 (Aired on 12/31/20)
- Yves Tumor “Gospel For A New Century” from Heaven To A Tortured Mind
- Destroyer “It Just Doesn’t Happen” from Have We Met
- Sleeper & Snake “Lock Up The Loose” from Fresco Shed
- Adrianne Lenker “Anything” from Songs and Instrumentals
- Lithics “Hands” from Tower of Age
- Patois Counselors “The Galvanizer” from The Optimal Seat
- Andersens “The Light It Turns To Rain, The Rain It Turns To A River, The River Turns To Snow” from There Is A Sound
- The Reds, Pinks, & Purples “I Should Have Helped You” from I Should Have Helped You 7″
- Paul McCartney “Long Tailed Winter Bird” from McCartney III
- Gorillaz “Aries” from Song Machine Season One
- Kelley Stoltz “Team Earth” from Ah! (etc)
- Bruce Springsteen “I’ll See You In My Dreams” from Letter To You
- Fiona Apple “Shameika” from Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- William Shatner “Common People” from Has Been
- Chet Atkins “Tiger Rag” from Country Legends
FFFreakout #738 (Aired on 12/24/20)
- Bee Balm Fields “Holiday Cheer”
- Superchunk “Child’s Christmas in Wales”
- Joe Tougas & Ann Fee “Single King”
- Anthony Pasquarosa “White Christmas”
- John Fahey “It Came Up a Midnight Clear”
- The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping”
- Lindsey Buckingham “Holiday Road”
- She & Him “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
- Louis Prima “Pennies From Heaven”
- Yogi Yorgesson “I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas”
- Bob Dylan “Must Be Santa Claus”
- Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”
- The Singin Dogs “Jingle Bells”
- Otis Redding “Merry Christmas, Baby”
- Clarence Carter “Backdoor Santa”
- The Wavebenders “Deck the Halls”
- Squirrel Nut Zippers “Hot Christmas”
- Wayne Newton “Jingle Bell Rock”
- Mel Blanc “The Hat I Got For Christmas Is Too Beeg”
FFFreakout #737 (Aired on 12/17/20)
- Optic Sink “Exhibitionist” from S/T
- Magnetic Fields “Castle Down a Dirt Road” from Quickies
- The Windbreakers “All That Stuff” from Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-87
- Dancing Hoods “Puppet Dancing” from Hallelujah Anyway
- The Beets “Go Away” from Spit in the Face of People Who Don’t Want To Be Cool
- Samba Negra “Long Life Africa” from La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980
- Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” from The Bo Diddley Collection 1955-62
- Grateful Dead “New Speedway Boogie” from Workingman’s Dead
- Paul McCartney “Find My Way” from McCartney III
- X “Los Angeles” from Los Angeles
- The Roger Sisters “Zero Point” from Yes New York
- Xray Spex “Oh! Bondage Up Yours!” from Germfree Adolescents
- Paul McCartney “Winterbird/When Winter Comes” from McCartney III
- Pete Yorn “China Girl” from Music for the Morning After
- ZZ Top “Waitin for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago” from Tres Hombres
FFFreakout #736 (Aired on 12/10/20)
- Harold Budd “Juno” from The Pavilion of Dreams
- Harold Budd & Andy Partridge “Hand 20” from Through The Hills
- Magnetic Fields “(I Want To Join A) Biker Gang” from Quickies
- Hagerty-Toth Band “2D Girl” from Qalgebra
- HP Lovecraft “It’s About Time” from HP Lovecraft II
- Low “Just Like Christmas” from Christmas
- Little Gold “Living Under Books” from Wake Up & Die Right
- A.F. Jones “Rake” from A Jurist For Nothing
- Stereolab “Diagonals” from Dots & Loops
- Wilco “We’re Just Friends / Yee Haw” from Summerteeth (box set)
- The Replacements “Can’t Hardly Wait” (alternate version) from Pleased To Meet Me
- John Lennon “God” from Gimme Some Truth
- John Lennon “Nobody Told Me” from Gimme Some Truth
- The Dirty Knobs “Sugar” from Wreckless Abandon
FFFreakout #735 (Aired on 12/3/20)
- St. Vincent “Actor Out of Work” from Actor
- Wren Kitz “Shrouds” from Early Worm
- Nesey Gallons “Old Echo” from Eyes & Eyes & Eyes Ago
- Bill Callahan “Protest Song” from Gold Record
- Bobbie Gentry “Mississippi Delta” from Ode to Billie Joe
- Anthony Pasquarosa “Have Yourself” from Magic and Warmth at Christmastime
- Endless Boogie “Mighty Fine Pie” from Full House Head
- Ela Orleans “Something Higher” from Lost
- Mac Blackout “Revolutionary Tide” from Love Profess
- The Beatniks “Une Femme Nést Pas Un Homme” (Aphex Twin Mix) from Aphex Twin: 26 Mixes for Cash
- Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes “A Night in NY” from Heritage of the Invisible II
- Carla Thomas “Something Good Is Going To Happen To You” from The Greatest Mod & Northern Soul Album
- Spirit Fest “Honest Bee” from Mirage Mirage
- Alice Coltrane “Journey in Satchidananda” from Spiritual Jazz XII: Impulse!
FFFreakout #734 (Aired on 11/26/20)
- Thelonious Monk “Monk’s Point” from Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings 1962-1968
- The Reds, Pinks, & Purples “Your Parents Were Wrong About You” from You Might Be Happy Someday
- Horrid Red “Divine Names” from Radiant Life
- Start “Where I Want To Be” from Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-87
- Great Plains “When Do You Say Hello?” from Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-87
- David Nance “When the Covers Come Off” from Staunch Honey
- McCoy Tyner “Groove Waltz” from Spiritual Jazz XII: Impulse!
- David Byrne & St. Vincent “Dinner For Two” from Love This Giant
- Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood “Tired of Waiting For You” b/w “Some Velvet Morning”
- Arlo Guthrie “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, Part 1” from Alice Restaurant Score
- Los Straitjackets “I Feel Fine” b/w “Time Is On My Side”
- Arlo Guthrie “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, Part 2” from Alice Restaurant Score
- Los Straitjackets “Time Is On My Side” b/w “I Feel Fine”
- The Fleshtones “Hooray For Santa Claus” from Hooray for Santa Claus 7″
- Tones On Tail “Go!” from Night Music
FFFreakout #733 (Aired on 11/19/20)
- Mikal Cronin “Is It Alright” from S/T
- David Nance “The Merchandise” from Staunch Honey
- Little Gold “My Favorite Mess” from Wake Up & Die Right
- Gunn-Truscinski Duo “Valley Spiral” from Soundkeeper
- Makaya McCraven “Kings and Queens” from Universal Beings E & F Sides
- The Roots “Datskat” from Do You Want More?!!!??!
- Drunk Elk “Factotum Vague” from Under Neon Lights
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Bellbottoms” from Orange
- The J.B.’s “The Grunt” (Parts 1 & 2) from Funky Good Time: The Anthology
- Public Enemy “Fight the Power” from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Theme to “Good Times” from Tube Tunes Vol. One: The 70’s
- New Order “Way of Life” from Brotherhood
- Hall & Oates “I Can’t Go For That” (12″ version) from H20
- Rhinoceros “Apricot Brandy” from Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 3
FFFreakout #732 “Neil Young Day Sponsorship” (Aired on 11/12/20)
- Neil Young “Mr. Soul” from Decade
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Cowgirl in the Sand” from Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Trasher” from Rust Never Sleeps
- Neil Young “Vampire Blues” from On The Beach
- Neil Young “Roll Another Number (For the Road)” from Tonight’s the Night
- Neil Young “Human Highway” from Hitchhiker
- Neil Young “Rockin’ in the Free World” from Freedom
- Neil Young “Walk With Me” from Le Noise
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Bandit” from Greendale
- Neil Young “Unknown Legend” from Harvest Moon
- Neil Young “Like A Hurricane” from Unplugged
- Neil Young “After the Goldrush” from After the Goldrush
FFFreakout #731 (Aired on 11/5/20)
- Patois Counselors “Don’t Stop the Rattle” from The Optimal Seat
- Naked Roommate “Fake ID” from Do the Duvet
- The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” from Psychocandy
- Julee Cruise “I Float Alone” from Floating Into the Night
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland “River Dream” from Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
- Cooper-Moore & Ed Pettersen “Ain’t No Grave” b/w “On Easter Morn He Rose”
- Glorias Navales “Sabres” from Presenta El Blues de Istvan
- U2 “The Wanderer” from Zooropa
- Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” from What’s Going On
- Bruce Springsteen “Rainmaker” from Letter To You
- The Psychedelic Furs “President Gas” from Greatest Hits
- The Rolling Stones “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix) from Goat’s Head Soup
- Gorillaz “Chalk Tablet Towers” (feat. St. Vincent) from Song Machine Season One
- Lou Reed “Perfect Day” from Transformer
FFFreakout #730 (Aired on 10/29/20)
- Patois Counselors “The Galvanizer” from The Optimal Seat
- Quietus “Reflex of Purpose” from Volume Five
- Hand Of Food “Chelo’s By The Sea” from Swimming Mindlessly
- Bill Callahan “Ry Cooder” from Gold Record
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band “Zig Zag Wanderer” from Safe As Milk
- Chic “Good Times” from Risqué
- Lee Field “Let’s Get A Groove On” from Let’s Get A Groove on
- Bo Diddley “Diddy Wah Diddy” from The Bo Diddley Collection 1955-62
- Eli Paperboy Reed “Cut Ya Down” from My Way Home
- The Suburbs “Monster Man” from Ladies and Gentlemen, The Suburbs Have Left The Building
- Harry Nilsson “I’d Rather Be Dead” from Son of Schmilsson
- Bruce Springsteen “Ghosts” from Letter To You
- Tom Petty “Leave Virginia Alone” from Wildflowers & All the Rest
- Gorillaz “Strange Times” (feat. Robert Smith) from Song Machine Season One
- The Beatles “Money” from With The Beatles
FFFreakout #729 “KMSU Fall Pledge Drive show” (Aired on 10/22/20)
- Dick Diver “Calendar Days” from Calendar Days
- Doug Tuttle “Only In A Dream” from Peace Potato
- Mountain Movers “This City” from Pink Skies
- Sunwatchers “Love Paste” from Oh Yeah!
- David Nance Group “Poison” from Peaced and Slightly Pulverized
- Oksun Ox “Dreamboat Screams Up the River of Blood” from I Don’t Care I Already Told You
- Magnetic Ghost “Reality Distortion Field” from Pixels
- Private Anarchy “H.A.” from Central Planning
- Budokan Boys “Rip U” from So Broken Up About You Dying
- Patois Counselors “Making Appointments” from Proper Release
- Obnox “Young Neezy” from Savage Raygun
- Bo Diddley “Hey Bo Diddley” from The Bo Diddley Collection 1955-62
- Bo Diddley “Roadrunner” from The Bo Diddley Collection 1955-62
- Naked Roommate “Mad Love” from Do the Duvet