Category: Mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #34 – The One Hit Wonder now available on Yé Yé’s mixcloud is filled with songs writen in the longest running greatest hit: Pachelbel’s Canon = Canon in D Major that has been going strong for 342 years and counting.
You can hear the wonders of Johann Pachelbel’s creation everywhere on the 14 songs played, as well as in the opening and closing excerpts of the Canon in itself and even in comedian Rob Paravonian’s rant.
The songs are as “diverse” and diverse as Vitamin C’s Friends Forever (Graduation), Go West sang by Village People, and Pet Shop Boys, Vampire Weekend’s Step, Oasis’ Don’t Look Back in Anger, The Who’s Pictures of Lilly or Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized. Once you hear it, you cannot unhear this long lasting one hit wonder.
Monday, November 7th 2022,
3h-4pm
Running Time: 59m04s
Tracklist:
01 – Pachelbel – Canon In D Major (excerpt)
02 – Rob Paravonian – Pachelbel Rant (2006)
03 – Vitamin C – Friends Forever (Graduation)
04 – Village People – Go West
05 – Belle and Sebastian – Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying
06 – The Who – Pictures of Lilly (2019 Stereo Remix_ Remaster)
07 – Vampire Weekend – Step
08 – Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger
09 – Aerosmith – Cryin’
10 – Ralph McTell – Streets of London
11 – Petula Clark – Don’t Sleep in the Subway
12 – Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
13 – David Bowie – All The Young Dudes
14 – The Beatles – Let It Be (Remastered 2009)
15 – Pet Shop Boys – Go West
16 – Pachelbel – Canon In D Major (excerpt)

All previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #33 – The Upcoming can now be found on mixcloud. It is comprised of 17 ecletic mostly upcoming or new songs and some re-releases or older long out of sight songs.

There’s Nelson’s Camera by The 1981, Blood In The Snow by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Kill Those Years by Harry Howard, N.Y.C.A.W. by Gwenno, Will You Follow Me Home? by Meg Baird or Instinct Dwelling by Guided By Voices. And more, of course.

Monday, October 24th 2022, 3-4pm
Running Time: 60.02.41

Tracklist:
01: The 1981 – Nelson’s Camera
02: Arctic Monkeys – Body Paint
03: Aisle Knot – Help Me, I’m Alone
04: Bill Callahan – Coyotes
05: Favourite People – Divine Symmetry
06: Field Medic – I Had a Dream That You Died
07: Glassreel – Last Good Advice
08: Guided By Voices – Instinct Dwelling
09: Gwenno – N.Y.C.A.W.
10: Harry Howard – Kill Those Years
11: Holden Brown and the Wishes – The Graveyard Gate
12: Hot Hot Heat – Bandages
13: L.A. Salami – Peace Of Mind
14: Meg Baird – Will You Follow Me Home?
15: The 1975 – Looking For Somebody To Love
16: The Orchids – I Never Thought I Was Clever
17: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Blood In The Snow

All previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/

The Autumn Is Here edition and so is Amazing Songs & Other Delights #32 now on mixcloud. The 16 chosen songs don’t directly have to do with Autumn as in having Autumn on the title or so, more with having what to me is an Autumnal feeling.

Monday, October 10th 2022
Running Time: 62m08s

Tracklist
01 – Arkadia Jazz All-Stars – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (feat. Buster Williams & Carl Allen ) (Duke Ellighton original)
02 – António Vale da Conceição – Love Is The Storm
03 – Billy Childish & The Singing Loins – Pocahontas Was Her Name
04 – Blache – Garbage Picker
05 – Charlie Megira – Fear and Joy
06 – Cream – World of Pain
07 – David Bowie – Breaking Glass
08 – Francie Moon – Everything Goes
09 – Heavenly – I Fell in Love Last Night
10 – Japan – Canton (Live from Hammersmith Odeon, 1983)
11 – Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – Footnotes On The Map (Live From Green Note)
12 – Miguel Feraso Cabral – Indo Por Ali Longe
13 – Taylor Kingman – Heaven Ain’t Hiding
14 – The Shins – The Celibate Life
15 – Weyes Blood – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
16 – Wolf Manhattan – Five Years

All previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #31 – The Heroin Diaries can now be listened to at Yé Yé’s mixcloud.

The Heroin Diaries is the name of one of Nikki Sixx ‘s (Motley Crue’s bassist) memoirs.

The 16 songs on the tell it in my place the trials, struggles, sorrows and losses from heroin addiction that so many friends, acquaintances, neighbours, people I work with, strangers and, of course, musicians and other artists who paid the price for.

When I start reading through my 80s diaries I was surprised to find so many around me using it. Surprised in the sense I had totally forgot about it. Also, by then, and again now, Porto had a serious heroin addiction problem. In recent years I’ve had a few less than cool encounters with people asking me where to buy heroin and the likes because when you’re “strung out on heroin” all you think about is beetlebum, chasing the dragon, brown sugar since she’s a cruel mistress.

Monday, September 26th, 3-4pm
Running time: 60m

Tracklist:
01: James Brown – King Heroin
02: Bert Jansch – Needle of Death
03: Blur – Beetlebum
04: G.G. Allin – Carmelita (Warren Zevon’s cover)
05: John Lennon – Cold Turkey
06: Johnny Thunders – Alone in a Crowd
07: Mão Morta – Lisboa
08: Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done
09: Sixx A.M. – Life Is Beautiful (acoustic)
10: Phillip Lynnot – Solo In Soho
11: The Black Crowes – She Talks To Angels
12: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under Thee Bridge (ITune Sessions)
13: The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers (From The Vault – The Marquee – Live In 1971)
14: The Stranglers – Golden Brown
15: The Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man
16: The Dandy Warhols – Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

All previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #30 that airs on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app) can now be found on mixcloud.

Running time: 60m15s
Monday, Setembre 12nd, 3-4pm

Tracklist:
01: Plankton Wat – Hidden Path
02: Catherine Campbell – Wild & Free
03: Population 5 – When The Sun Comes Up At Night
04: Pete Astor – Time On Earth
05: The Bobby Lees – Ma Likes To Drink
06: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – Withering Field (excerpt)
07: Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Edge Of The Edge
08: Carmons – Melody Love Story
09: Vulcões Semi Porreiros – Let Me Down
10: Skyway Man & Andy Jenkins feat. Molly Sarlé – Nothing No. 1
11: Blues Art Band – Keep It Cool
12: Guided By Voices – Alex Bell
13: Old Fire – Don’t You Go ft. Bill Callahan
14: Suede – She Still Leads Me On
15: The Lone Ranger – Santa Eulália
16: La Chinaca – Juegos Malosos

All previous shows:
http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #27 – The Anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travelers is now listenable at @ Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud. Tracklist below the text.

The Anniversary edition is comprised of songs and instrumentals symbolizing both parts of the programme’s name: songs & other delights (instrumentals and everything else that is not a song, song). The songs are either premieres When Joe Came By written by Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem) and I, Santa Eulália by The Lone Ranger (João Diogo Zagalo’s – of Silver&Scout – solo project), It’s a Feeling You Can’t ide by Bill Rivers plus a handfull of songs chosen by the show guest over the year and a few other friends that they either though I would like or match me.

The instrumentals are a trove of wonders. Purpose created ones, from the vaulst ,still unrealed, reWorks, premieres and a jazz classic. Alex FX, Francisco Silva & Paulo Miranda, João Diogo Zagalo, Paulo Navarro, Sci Fi Industries, Hidden Horse, digei de bairro (Pedro Tenreiro), Carlos Fortes, myself and Donald Byrd provide those.

(here the Astro Travelers are: Alex FX, Amândio Barbosa, António Cunha, Bill Rivers, Carlos Fortes, Dana Detrick, Daniel Blaufuks, Francisco Silva, Fred Somsen, João Diogo Zagalo, João Kyron Branco, Julian Hayr, Luís van Seixas, Paulo Miranda, Paulo Navarro, Pedro Mesquita, Pedro Tenreiro, Rui Pimenta)

Monday, May 23rd 2022
Running Time: 60:18:04
Tracklist:
01 – Alex FX – Spirits to Enforce
02 – Bill Rivers – It’s a Feeling You Can’t Hide
03 – Francisco Silva & Paulo Miranda – Belvedere Fragment #1
04 – Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By (mixed by Paulo Miranda)
05 – João Diogo Zagalo – Delay Blues
06 – Raquel Pinheiro – Imaginary Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (from the work in progress The Imaginary Series)
07 – The Lone Ranger – Santa Eulália
08 – Orange Juice – Rip It Up (Pedro Mesquita)
09 – Paulo Navarro – Ghost
10 – The Rolling Stones – She’s A Rainbow (2017 Remaster – Stereo) (António Cunha)
11 – Hidden Horse – Baelam Wakes reWork
12 – The Folk Implosion – Natural One (Rui Pimenta)
13 – Sci Fi Industries – The Line R38
14 – Emmaline Twist – Desperate Measures (Dana Detrick)
15 – Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor (Remastered) (Amândio Barbosa)
16 – Swans Way – Soul Train (Julian Hayr)
17 – digei de bairro – ferramentas nº2
18 – Bill Callahan – Riding For The Feeling (Fred Somsen)
19 – Carlos Fortes – Talvez Vá
20 – The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Daniel Blaufuks)

[painting: Sunflowers by Richard Alton Carter]

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #25 is The Bernard Butler edition.

It pairs with The Steve Albini edition that was broadcast a fortnight ago. From Suede to Bert Jansch through Duffy, Black Kids, Mark Eitzel, Pet Shop Boys and Bernard’s latest collaboration with Jessie Buckley (Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler with songs written and played by Bernard in a 1950s Gibson tuned in DADGAD ) the show has 17 songs – one of them the same, I’m Tired in its original 1998 vocals and its 2021 vocals that I particularly relate to – that showcase Bernard’s work as a songwriter, guitarist, producer. When considering which photo to use to illustrate this post Victoria Wai’s photo of Bernard in Gosford, this past January come to mind.

For me the photo has several meanings, triumph over adversity, defiance, gratitude, humbleness, laying oneself bare, as the way Bernard played his song in December 2021 and early 2022, which requires both vulnerability and strength.

Like with Steve Albini I’ve learned a lot from Bernard and felt inspired by him. Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem) and I even put some of Bernard’s collaborative songwriting ideas and tips to good use and wrote a collaborative song. Since, again, I don’t want to write the longest post ever, I’ll let the songs speak for themselves. And, yes that famous 1961 cherry red Gibson ES-355 features in several of them.

Monday, 25th April 2022
Running time: 01:14:08

Tracklist:
01 – Bernard Butler – I’m Tired (1998 Original Vocals)
02 – Ben Watt – Forget with Bernard Butler and David Gilmour (live Islington Assembly Hall 19.05.2014
03 – Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler – Sabotage (Looks so Easy)
04 – Bert Jansch – I Cannot Keep From Crying (Traditional)
05 – Black Kids – Listen to Your Body Tonight
06 – Duffy – Stop
07 – Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – The Eagle & The Dove
08 – Mark Eitzel – The Road
09 – McAlmont & Butler – Back for Good (Take That cover for 1 Love by NME & War Child, 2002)
10 – Natalie McCool – Thin Air feat. Bernard Butler
11 – Pet Shop Boys – Burning the Heather (radio edit)
12 – Sam Lee – Lay This Body Down with Bernard Butler and Mara Carlyle (Live at Rak Studios)
13 – Suede – Where The Pigs Don’t Fly
14 – Teleman – 23 Floors Up
15 – The Venus in Furs – Bitter-Sweet (Roxy Music cover)
16 – Trans – Thinking About a Friend
17 – Bernard Butler – I’m Tired (2021 vocals)

All previous shows:
https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ |https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

[photo: © Victoria Wai]

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #24 the Steve Albini edition can now be listened to on Yé Yé’s radio mixcloud. Of the many records recorded by Steve Albini or those of his bands, I selected 17 songs. The result is a not so obvious “produced by Steve Albini” choice.

Monday, 11th April 2022
Running time: 60:01:55

Tracklist:
01 – Big Black – The Model (Kraftwerk cover)
02 – Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – Heart In Your Hand
03 – Jarvis Cocker – Fuckingsong
04 – Shellac – Dude Incredible
05 – Nina Nastasia – Moves Away
06 – The Auteurs – Child Brides
07 – Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
08 – Slint – Pat
09 – Hugh Cornwell – Totem & Taboo
10 – Boss Hog – Duchess
11 – Man or Astro man – A Simple Text File
12 – Smog – I Break Horses
13 – The Sadies with Neko Case – Cowhand
14 – Pixies – Cactus (Remastered)
15 – Palace Music – Stablemate
16 – P.J. Harvey – Missed
17 – Cinerama – Starry Eyed

All previous shows:
https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

The first season of the year is the last to be covered on Amazing Songs & Other Delights since the show started in late May 2021. Obviosuly, it is called the Spring edition. The songs either are Sping song, in the sense Spring is part of the title or lyrics, or have a Spring feeling to it. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 – The Spring edition include Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover o Antônio Carlos Jobim’s Águas de Março – see tracklist. There are also a few instrumentals and genres range from jazz to indie rock.

Monday, March 28th, 2022, 3-4pm
Running Time: 01:06:22

Tracklist:
01 – Air – All I Need
02 – Belle & Sebastian – Here Comes The Sun (Beatles cover, live at BBC sessions)
03 – Blur – Parklife
04 – Zeca Afonso – Cantigas de Maio
05 – Chet Baker – Look For the Silver Lining ( Jerome Kern & B.G. DeSylva song)
06 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Is This Love
07 – Django Reinhardt – Swingtime in Springtime
08 – Einstürzende Neubauten – The Garden
09 – Everything But The Girl – Blue Moon Rose (2012 Remaster)
10 – The Jasmine Minks – Time For You
11 – Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
12 – Lord Furon – Fool For Love
13 – Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies
14 – Pete Yorn – June
15 – Rufus Wainwright – Rebel Prince
16 – Simon & Garfunkel – April Come She Will
17 – The Feelies – Original Love
18 – The Mike Flowers Pop – Wonderwall @ TOTP (Oasis’ cover)
19 – Tranglomango – Macelada (Beira Baixa traditional song)
20 – Tony Carreira – Les Eaux de Mars feat. Helene Segara (Antônio Carlos Jobim’s cover)

All previous shows:

https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

I went shopping and arrived home with a bag of new songs and a couple of instrumentals. Therefore, Amazing Songs and Other Delights #22 – The a Bag of New Songs edition. It is now available on Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud with 19 new delights to be listened to. This show is also the debut of Amazing Songs & Other Delights intro and outro which are quite distinctive, morse code upon an instrumental track.

Monday, 14th March 2022, 3-4pm.
Running Time: 58:64
Tracklist:
01 – Bart Davenport – It’s You
02 – Cameron Undy – Magnolia
03 – Corte – Monte
04 – Saint Jordy – Change
05 – The Monochrome Set – Really In The Wrong Town
06 – The Senior Service feat. Rachel Lowrie – Seasons of My Mind
07 – Zebra Libra – Collide
08 – Orange Dots – I Thought I’d Become This Mask
09 – King Garbage – Piper (Single Version)
10 – No Monster Club – Save The Circus
11 – Eve Adams – A Walk In The Park
12 – Lomma – T. Hanks
13 – Los Dangers – González
14 – Simon Love – I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You)
15 – Jonathan Richman – This Is One Sad World
16 – Junk Drawer – Tears In Costa
17 – Kamikaze Palm Tree – Flamingo
18 – Metronomy – Things Will Be Fine
19 – Stridulum – Chasm

All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/