Ballrooms of Mars - Episode XIII: Un Pueblo Unido

Ballrooms of Mars expresses its solidarity with the public workers' unions of Wisconsin that have been shamefully stripped of their bargaining rights. This episode is dedicated to those working to restore these rights.

If you have the means, please donate what you can to help recall the Republican state senators in Wisconsin who cynically exploited parliamentary procedure to attack American public workers.

My stand with Wisconsin public workers = $

Now put away your wallet and bust out your dancing shoes, because this episode is a barn-burner...


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Setlist

Intro:
The Almanac Singers - "Roll The Union On"

Michael:
Calvin Harris - "Limits"
Calvin Harris - "Ready For The Weekend"
Destroyer - "Blue Eyes"

Jud:
The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor - "Is All I Need?"
Greg Vandike - "All Of The Girls"
The Messengers - "I Turn In (To You)"

Peter:
Eddie Murphy - "Party All The Time"
The System - "Don't Disturb This Groove"
Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait"

Michael:
Toro y Moi - "Low Shoulders"
Memory Tapes - "Graphics"
Washed Out - "Belong"

Jud:
39 Clocks - "Shake the Hippie"
39 Clocks - "Aspettando Godot"
39 Clocks - "What Never Happened"

Peter:
Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band - "The World (Is Going Up In Flames)"
Aloe Blacc - "If I"

Michael:
Dinosaur Jr. - "In A Jar"
My Bloody Valentine - "Lips Like Sugar"
Cocteau Twins - "Cicely"

Jud:
The Monks - "We Do Wie Du"
39 Clocks - "78 Solider Dead"

Peter:
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 - "Promise Of A Fisherman"
José Roberto - "Crioula Multicolorida"
Jorge Ben - "Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)"

Outro:
Billy Bragg - "There Is Power In A Union"

Ballrooms of Mars - Episode XII: Laying Down Arms

As BoM marks its first dozen shows, we agreed that for all of our record-spinning firepower, it's time to melt the guns. We're trading in our mp3-shooters for audio diplomacy: the ultimate act of musical disobedience.

What are we talking about? Just look out your window, friend. It's a mad world outside. Might as well log in, BoM on, and tune the rest out...because those fuckers are crazy.


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Setlist

Intro:
Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"

Peter:
The Yardbirds - "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"
Led Zeppelin - "The Ocean" (Live)

Michael:
The Style Council - "My Ever Changing Moods"
Simply Red - "Holding Back The Years"
The Blow Monkeys - "Digging Your Scene"

Jud:
39 Clocks - "DNS"
LiLiPUT - "Die Matrosen"
Trio - "Drei Mann Im Doppelbett"

Peter:
Bill Nelson - "Do You Dream In Colour?"
Bill Nelson - "Flaming Desire"

Michael:
Steely Dan - "Peg"
Washed Out - "Feel It All Around"

Jud:
Devo - "Booji Boy's Funeral"
Guided By Voices - "A Portrait Destroyed By Fire"

Peter:
Kanye West - "All Of The Lights"
Das Racist - "Rappin 2 U"

Michael:
10cc - "Somewhere In Hollywood"
10cc - "Silly Love"

Jud:
Guided By Voices - "Trap Soul Door"
Guided By Voices - "Trampoline"
Guided By Voices - "Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)"
Guided By Voices - "Wished I Was a Giant"

Outro:
Waylon Jennings - "Baker Street"

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"