Ballrooms of Mars - Episode XI: From A Newly Unveiled Undisclosed Location

By its very nature, BoM must always be on the move lest we unwittingly grant our enemies some kind of tactical advantage through a random unforced error. Therefore, BoM has wisely decided to relocate, if only briefly, in a move designed to test our broadcast mobility in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, as well as give another BoMrade a chance to host.

Peter has graciously stepped up to the plate...

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Setlist

Intro:
Jay & The Americans - "Do I Love You?"

Jud:
The Association - "Enter The Young"
The Association - "Never My Love"
The Association - "Everything That Touches You"

Peter:
Sam Cooke - "Bring It On Home To Me"
Bobby "Blue" Bland - "Honey Child"
Joey Gilmore - "Do It To Me One More Time"
Laura Lee - "Mama's Got a Good Thing"

Michael:
Kenny Burrell - "All Of You"
Kenny Burrell - "Soul Lament"
Kenny Burrell - "Midnight Blue"

Jud:
The Beau Brummels - "Don't Talk To Strangers"
The Buckinghams - "Kind of a Drag"
The Grass Roots - "Heaven Knows"
The Classics IV - "Stormy"

Peter:
Sean Paul - "International Affair"
Tanya Stephens - "It's a Pity"
Major Lazer feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold - "Hold The Line"

Michael:
Joe Henderson - "Inner Urge"

Jud:
The Beau Brummels - "Nine Pound Hammer"
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - "Hammer Song"
Minutemen - "Sickles and Hammers"
Caribou - "Hello Hammerheads"

Peter:
Three Times Dope - "Joe Familiar"
The Pharcyde - "Oh Shit"

Michael:
Bill Evans - "How Deep Is The Ocean?"
Bill Evans - "Stairway To The Stars"

Outro:
Whiskeytown - "Empty Baseball Park"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode X: A Very Scary Halloween

There is nothing more frightening than witnessing the death of your own childhood, and so you can imagine our collective horror when we learned of the passing of one of our own...the Sony® Stereo Cassette Walkman™:





We dedicate this Halloween BoM to scary monsters and buried, antiquated technology...

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Setlist
Intro:
RJD2 - "The Horror"

Michael:
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Fright Night (Nevermore)"
Robyn Hitchcock - "Trams of Old London"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Death To Everyone"

Peter:
P.F. Sloan - "Halloween Mary"
The Dream Syndicate - "Halloween"

Jud:
Ethel Waters - "Jeepers Creepers"
Ray Noble and His Orchestra - "Midnight, The Stars and You"
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - "Happy Trails"

Michael:
Ferlin Husky - "Phantom 309"
Kris Kristofferson - "To Beat the Devil"

Jud:
Carl Belew - "Am I That Easy To Forget"
Bob Atcher - "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes"
Kinky Friedman - "We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You"

Peter:
The B-52's - "Planet Claire"
Magazine - "Because You're Frightened"
The Ramones - "Chain Saw"

Michael:
Fairport Convention - "Matty Groves"
Maddy Prior & June Tabor - "The Grey Funnel Line"
The Pogues - "A Pair of Brown Eyes"

Peter:
Ultravox - "Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead"
The Clash - "City Of The Dead"
The Cramps - "Human Fly"
Toto Coelo - "I Eat Cannibals"

Jud:
Scratch Acid - "Owner's Lament"
Scratch Acid - "Monsters"
Lightning Bolt - "13 Monsters"
The Vaselines - "Monsterpussy"

Outro:
Henry Cowell - "The Banshee"

Corrections (from JR):

1. Apologies for mistakenly mentioning in my introduction that Ethel Waters "died on Halloween", when she was in fact born on Halloween, in 1896. I corrected this later in the broadcast.
2. I fucked up my mention of Bob Atcher "being born" on Halloween in 1912, when in fact he died on Halloween in 1993. Whoopsie-daisy.

miniBoM1: A Very Special Episode

We're dropping a very different kind of BoM tonight, as some Ballrooms of Mars members have far more busy lives than the remaining members can currently claim. (Godspeed, Michael.)

As a result, a solid two-thirds of BoM gathered its energies and recorded a Very Special Episode - a "MiniBoMlet" as it were...despite that the total recorded length has nothing "mini" whatsoever about it.

(Note to selves: Cut the chatter.)

We dedicate this episode to the King of Rock & Soul, a true mountain of influence to all those under his shadow:



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Setlist
Intro:
Solomon Burke - "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love"

Jud:
Patrinell Staten - "Little Love Affair"
Soul Swingers - "Brighter Tomorrow"
Black On White Affair - "Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother"
Cold, Bold & Together - "Somebody's Gonna Burn Ya"

Peter:
Hank Ballard - "From The Love Side"
The Female Preacher, Lyn Collins - "Think (About It)"
Bobby Byrd - "I Know You Got Soul"

Jud:
Allen Toussaint - "Southern Nights"
Glen Campbell - "Southern Nights"

Peter:
Gene Clark - "One In a Hundred"
Gene Clark - "Full Circle Song"
Gene Clark - "From a Silver Phial"

Jud:
Boys Next Door - "After A Fashion"
Birthday Party - "Scatterbrain"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Stranger Than Kindness"

Peter:
David Bowie - "Word On A Wing"
Roxy Music - "All I Want Is You"

Jud:
The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"
The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"
Melvins - "Creepy Smell"

Peter:
Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"
The Broken West - "On the Bubble"
Jason Falkner - "I Live"

Outro:
Solomon Burke - "If You Need Me"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode IX: Revolution 9

The Ballrooms of Mars crew is back from a bit of globetrotting, and we hope you'll allow us to indulge ourselves as we genre-hop through a variety of sounds and moods during the Autumn Equinox.

This is All For You.

Love,

BoM


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Setlist
Intro:
Oran "Juice" Jones - "The Rain"

Jud:
Judas Priest - "Living After Midnight"
Anvil - "School Love"
Accept - "Balls to the Wall"

Michael:
Blu & Exile - "Simply Amazin' (steel blazin')"
Blu & Exile - "Greater Love"

Peter:
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Zig Zag Wanderer"
The Groupies - "Primitive"
The Chocolate Watchband - "Sweet Young Thing"

Jud:
Hugh X. Lewis - "This Makes Us Even"
The Bobby Fuller Four - "Don't Ever Let Me Know"
The Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?"
Magnetic Fields - "(Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy"

Michael:
Joe Henderson - "You Know I Care"
Archie Shepp - "In a Sentimental Mood"

Peter:
Scott Walker - "Get Behind Me"
Tommy James - "Draggin' The Line"
Smith - "Baby It's You"

Jud:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Breathless"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "We Call Upon The Author"
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - "Happy Land"

Michael:
Little Brother - "Two Step Blues"
Little Brother - "Away From Me"
Little Brother - "All For You"

Peter:
The Byrds - "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better"
The Byrds - "She Don't Care About Time"
Gene Clark - "Tried So Hard"
Dillard & Clark - "Why Not Your Baby"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode VIII: Unleashing the Love

Summertime is for lovers, which may help explain BoM's absence during most of this hottest-summer-on-record-in-the-making.

--Not that we don't love; we indeed love too much. We've been loving so much during these last few months, in fact, that we routinely - and sadly - ran out of time to drop our semi-monthly BoM.

But we're back, and we like to think that we're keeping good company...


...even if it's not entirely true.


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P.S. - Don't call it a comeback!


Setlist
Intro:
Love - "Bummer In The Summer"

Peter:
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "Summertime"
The UMC's - "Blue Cheese"

Jud:
The Bobby Fuller Four - "Let Her Dance"
Phil Seymour - "Let Her Dance"
Pere Ubu - "The Modern Dance"
Black Sabbath - "St. Vitus Dance"

Michael:
Neil Young - "Revolution Blues"
Neil Young - "On the Beach"

Peter:
Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes"
Stereolab - "Wow & Flutter"
Dum Dum Girls - "Jail La La"

Jud:
The Dwight Twilley Band - "I'm On Fire"
John Paul Young - "Where the Action Is"
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - "Midnight Moses"

Michael:
The Beach Boys - "All I Wanna Do"
The Beach Boys – “’Til I Die”
The Beach Boys - "Surf's Up"

Peter:
Bomba Estéreo - "Cosita Rica"
Roots Manuva - "Witness Dub"
Robyn - "Dancehall Queen"

Jud:
Kai Winding - "Time Is On My Side"
Howard Tate - "Ain't Got Nobody To Give It To"
Irma Thomas - "The Hurt's All Gone"

Michael:
John Prine - "Way Down"
John Prine - "Angel From Montgomery"
John Prine - "Mexican Home"
John Prine - "Far From Me"

Ballrooms of Mars give June a miss (updated)

hi·a·tus (h-ts)

n. pl. hi·a·tus·es or hiatus

1. A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break: "We are likely to be disconcerted by . . . hiatuses of thought" (Edmund Wilson).

2. Linguistics A slight pause that occurs when two immediately adjacent vowels in consecutive syllables are pronounced, as in reality and naive.

3. Anatomy A separation, aperture, fissure, or short passage in an organ or body part.

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[Latin hitus, from past participle of hire, to gape.]

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hi·atal (-tl) adj.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

It's an overrated month, anyway. But we shall return.

Update: July sucks, too.

The Official Potato Chip of Episode VII

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode VII: Cross-Training

Cross-training (also known as conditioning) refers to training in different ways to improve overall performance. It takes advantage of the particular effectiveness of each training method, while at the same time attempting to neglect the shortcomings of that method by combining it with other methods that address its weaknesses - e.g., effectively combining distance-running, pop, krautrock, rap, electronic and hip-hop.

Proper conditioning in preparation for the BoM7-Produkt includes Kraftwerk:



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Setlist
Intro:
Toy Love - "Don't Ask Me"

Michael:
Iron Maiden - "The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner"
Belle and Sebastian - "The Loneliness of a Middle-Distance Runner"

Peter:
Teenage Fanclub - "Sparky's Dream"
Guided By Voices - "Glad Girls"
The Broken West - "You Can Build an Island"

Jud:
Cluster - "Zum Wohl"
Neu! - "Neuschnee"

Michael:
George Harrison - "Beware of Darkness"
Galaxie 500 - "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste"

Peter:
Cymande - "Fug"
Funkadelic - "Nappy Dugout"

Jud:
Ten and Tracer - "Yellows Home"
Dan Deacon - "I Will Always Have Juice Today"
Christ. - "Skylab One"

Michael:
Devendra Banhart - "Freely"
Ron Sexsmith - "Right About Now"
Palace Music - "West Palm Beach"

Peter:
People Under The Stairs - "The Double K Show"
DJ Vadim featuring Abstract Rude - "Soundcatchers"
De La Soul - "Simply"

Jud:
King Kong Ding Dong - "Hot Train"
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - "Track 03"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode VI: Stripped Down, Naked & Outside (aka For Mom)

We kick off springtime in the Northwest, recording BoM on location.

That is, in the backyard.

Production quality reflects our natural surroundings, so please bear with road noise, air traffic, birds, neighbors, and as always, us.

And Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there.

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Setlist
Intro:
Zero Boys - "Mom's Wallet"

Jud:
Ernie K-Doe - "Mother-In-Law"
Funkadelic - "Music For My Mother" (1969 version)
Sparks - "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth"

Peter:
Gang Starr - "Much Too Much (Mack a Mil)"
Digable Planets - "Borough Check"

Michael:
Jay-Z - "Empire State of Mind"
Jay-Z - "D'Evils"
Jay-Z - "Politics as Usual"

Jud:
Silvio Rodríguez - "Canción del Elegido"
Hannes Wader - "Trotz alledem (Daß sich die Furcht in Widerstand wandeln wird)"
Hans Söllner - "Hey Staat!"

Peter:
The Bats - "Made Up In Blue"
The Chills - "Heavenly Pop Hit"
Chris Knox - "Half-Man/Half-Mole"

Michael:
The New Pornographers - "If You Can't See My Mirrors"
The New Pornographers - "Streets of Fire"
The New Pornographers - "Myriad Harbour"

Jud:
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - "In The Pines"
Flatt & Scruggs - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
Rusty York & the Kentucky Mountain Boys - "Banjo Breakdown"
Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers - "Pitkin County Turnaround"

Peter:
The Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"
The Chords - "Something's Missing"
The Rich Kids - "Ghosts of Princes In Towers"

Michael:
Broken Social Scene - "7/4 (Shoreline)"
Broken Social Scene - "Art House Director"
Broken Social Scene - "Forced To Love"

Update
An Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law Lounge Pilgrimage
(fulfilled April 30, 2010)

As if New Orleans sleeps...

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode V or "I Bet You They Won't Play this Podcast on the Radio"

Podcast fünf (V) is currently undergoing a facial and mixdown treatment, and shall be available for full public presentation shortly.

Update

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Lest we forget those who trod before us:


Setlist
Intro:
Monty Python - "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio"

Peter:
Earth, Wind & Fire - "Bad Tune"
Diamond and The Psychotic Neurotics - "Feel The Vibe"

Michael:
João Gilberto - "De Conversa en Conversa"
João Gilberto - "Ela E'Carioca"
João Gilberto - "O Sapo"

Jud:
Gene Pitney - "I'm Gonna Be Strong"
Tim Rose - "I'm Gonna Be Strong"
Tim Hardin - "Black Sheep Boy"
Fred Neil - "Blues On The Ceiling"

Peter:
Shabba Ranks - "Respect"
Louie Rankin - "Typewriter"

Michael:
Erykah Badu - "Window Seat"
Sade - "Soldier of Love"

Jud:
The Boswell Sisters - "Rock & Roll"
Wild Bill Moore - "Rock & Roll"
The Velvet Underground - "Rock & Roll"

Peter:
Rick James - "Bustin' Out"
Parliament - "One Of Those Funky Things"

Michael:
John Lewis & Sacha Distel - "Dear Old Stockholm"
The Bill Evans Trio - "Nardis"

Jud:
Exhorder - "Anal Lust"
EyeHateGod - "Godsong"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode IV née "Zits Behind the Hits"

All legal challenges have been crushed, but a few nagging technical hurdles must be cleared before we can post our April 1st episode.

No foolin'.

We appreciate the patience of our fan.

Update
Technical hurdles overcome.

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Setlist
Intro:
Huey Lewis & The News - "Heart and Soul"

Michael:
Destroyer - "Your Blood"
Destroyer - "Crystal Country"
Destroyer - "What Road"

Peter:
Bill Lloyd - "Lisa Anne"
Richard X. Heyman - "Monica"
Matthew Sweet - "We're The Same"

Jud:
John Farnham - "You're the Voice"
AC/DC - "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)"

Michael:
Cass McCombs - "What Isn't Nature"
Cass McCombs - "Meet Me Here At Dawn"
Cass McCombs - "Wheel Of Fortune"

Peter:
Clefs Of Lavender Hill - "Stop--Get A Ticket"
The Left Banke - "She May Call You Up Tonight"
The Mamas & The Papas - "I Saw Her Again"

Jud:
Hawkwind - "Assault & Battery Part 1"
Amon Düül II - "Sleepwalker's Timeless Bridge"

Michael:
Bobby Hutcherson - "Black Circle"
Bobby Hutcherson - "Summer Nights"

Peter:
The First Edition - "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"
Sagittarius - "My World Fell Down"

Jud:
Louis Armstrong - "Potato Head Blues"
Pete Fountain - "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode III (Gui's Lament)

R.I.P. Alex Chilton.

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Setlist
Intro:
Big Star - "Daisy Glaze"

Jud:
The Replacements - "Within Your Reach"
The Dubliners - "On Raglan Road"

Michael:
Nicolai Dunger - "Blue from Death"
Baby Grandmothers - "Somebody Keeps Calling My Name"

Peter:
Sly & The Family Stone - "Dynamite"
The Temptations - "Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)"
The Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today"

Jud:
Lee Dorsey - "Working In The Coalmine"
Devo - "Working In A Coalmine"

Peter:
New Musik - "Sanctuary"
The Cars - "It's All I Can Do"

Michael:
The Moles - "What's The New Mary Jane?"
Snailface - "Drug School"

Jud:
Joseph Falcon - "Allons A Lafayette"
Dennis McGee - "Mon Chère Bébé Créole"
Iry LeJeune - "J'ai Ete Au Bal"

Peter:
A Tribe Called Quest - "Scenario" (remix)
Mos Def - "Do It Now"

Michael:
Gal Costa - "Cinema Olympia"
Gal Costa - "Saudosismo"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode V (aka: Episode II)

We really need to standardize our episode versioning...I'll attempt it now:

This is definitely known as Episode II. (See below for update)

BOOM. Done.

PS -- There's talk of uploading set lists for each episode individually. We shall see, no?

PPS -- We'll also start streaming soon. This shall happen, yes?

PPPS -- UPDATE (17 AUG 2010)

We got bucked by Mediafire, so we're even more exiled now than ever before.

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Setlist
Intro:
T.Rex - "Ballrooms Of Mars"

Peter:
Harry Nilsson - "Jump Into The Fire"
Badfinger - "Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch/Should I Smoke"

Jud:
Irma Thomas - "Breakaway"
Ernie K-Doe - "Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta"

Michael:
Rufus & Chaka Khan - "Sweet Thing"
Bee Gees - "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You"

Peter:
Tracey Ullman - "They Don't Know"
Voice Of The Beehive - "I Say Nothing"

Michael:
My Bloody Valentine - "Moon Song"
The Beach Boys - "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"

Jud:
Professor Longhair - "Boyd's Bounce"
Fats Domino - "The Fat Man"

Peter:
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - "Go With The Flow"
Jurassic 5 - "Jayou"

Jud:
Jelly Roll Morton - "Sweet Substitute"
Karen Dalton - "Sweet Substitute"

Michael:
Gil Scott-Heron - "We Almost Lost Detroit"
Sun Ra - "Nuclear War"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode IV

A New Hope.

This is the first of published Ballrooms of Mars podcasts. Episode I, really. Confusing, we know...

PS -- UPDATE (17 AUG 2010)

Mediafire effed us. New download/streaming location:

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Setlist
Jud:
Wire - "The 15th"
Television Personalities - "A Sense Of Belonging"

Michael:
Erik Satie - "6 Gnossiennes"
Family Fodder - "The Big Dig"

Peter:
ESG - "U.F.O."
Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half-Steppin'"

Jud:
Ghost Digital - "Bank"
Cluster - "Caramba"

Peter:
The Velvet Underground - "I Found A Reason"
Cat Power - "I Found A Reason"

Michael:
The Human League - "Being Boiled"
Talk Talk - "New Grass"

Ballrooms of Mars (Self-Referential)

Watch Ballrooms of Mars trailer:



...then listen to Ballrooms of Mars podcasts.

...then watch Ballrooms of Mars trailer.

...then listen to Ballrooms of Mars podcasts.

...then watch Ballrooms of Mars trailer.

...ad nauseum.