My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions are broadcasted on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app) first and third Monday of the Month 3-4pm (London time), respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics edition title comes from a series of coincidences, synchronicities. As well as of waking up to thick, misty days. The kind you would think yourself in the Scottish Highlands, or, according to the legend, the foggy day Arthur and D. Sebastião will return. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Act II: Prelude – Die Zeit ist da (excerpt) 02: Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven 03: Paus – Ficamos Por Aqui 04: Roxy Music – Avalon 05: Loreena McKennitt – The Lady of Shalott (Live) 06: Queens Of The Stone Age – In the Fade 07: José Cid – A Lenda D’el Rei D. Sebastião 08: Opeth – In The Mist She Was Standing (excerpt) 09: Paraorchestra – The Killing Moon (with Brett Anderson and Charles Nodier) 10: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand 11: Mcalmont & Butler – Although 12: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Kingdoms of Rain (live Mark Lanegan 60th celebration) 13: Crown Lands – Lady Of The Lake 14: Einstürzende Neubauten – Stella Maris 15: Die Among Strangers – Lancelot & Elaine 16: Rowland S. Howard – Autoluminescent
Monday 5th, instead of my Amazing Songs & Other Delights there will be a repetition of Set A Light – Lester Bangs Special, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Set A Light is a Rui Pimenta, aka my radio husband, ideato be conceive and taken to task by the two of us. For a million reasons called life, for now, there’s still only this Lester Bangs Special. I think this show deserves to be re-listened to, at least, a million times
People connected to music who are aware of Lester and his work, often say “We need a new Lester Bangs”, or “Lester Bangs would be necessary” and I think to myself “Yes, but proverbial but, I would like to see how it would play out.” Lester was larger than life, rulesless, didn’t give two flying figs. I agree music writing needs no one, but a few Lesters. I also think it may be a tumbling of the music world as we currently know it, a music world mostly forgotten that music writing isn’t always loveliness.
I created the radio programme as a soundtrack to accompanying dialogues from Cameron Crowne’s film Almost famous in which Bangs is which Lester Bangs is magnificently played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Along with existing songs, I came up with typewriter noises, superimposed on This Are a Few Of My Favourite Things played by John Coltrane, a small piece of my favourite youtube found version of John Cage 4’33” before Black Sabbath’s Planet Caravan, turning both into a single song and more.
Lester Bangs wrote for Creem, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and other publications. The show captures Lester uniqueness and rawness. You can read my original text for the programme here.
Tracklist: 01 – Almost Famous – Introducing Mr. Lester Bangs 02 – Lester Bangs – Let It Blurt 03 – Almost Famous – if you like Lou Lester Bangs to William Miller 04 – Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side 05 – Almost Famous – do you take drugs Lester Bangs to William Miller 06 – John Coltrane – This Are A Few of My Favourite Things & Typewriter 07 – Almost Famous -an assignment Lester Bangs to William Miller 08 – Silence (from John Cage’s 4’33) & Black Sabbath (Planet Caravan) 09 – Almost Famous – honest Lester Bangs to William Miller 10 – Teenage Jesus And The Jerks – I Woke Up Dreaming – (from the No New Work LP, 1978, compiled and produced by Brian Eno) 11 – Lester Bangs – About Music 12 – Roxy Music – Just Like You 13 – Birdland with Lester Bangs – Textbook Case 14 – Lester Bangs – on Beatles Nostalgia (1981) 15 – John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth 16 – Lester Bangs and The Delinquents – I Just Want to Be a Movie Star 17 – Almost Famous – women Lester Bangs to William Miller 18 – Blondie – Little Girl Lies (Live at El Mocambo, Toronto, August 3rd, 1978 – FM Radio Broadcast) 19 – Count Five – Psychotic Reaction 20 – The J. Geils Band – So Sharp 21 – Almost Famous – unmerciful Lester Bangs to William Miller 22 – MC5 – Borderline (live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom) 23 – Almost Famous – starry eyes Lester Bangs to William Miller 24 – R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 25 – Scott B. Sympathy – Lester Bangs Stereo Ghost 26 – Almost Famous – the day it ceases to the dumb it’s the day it ceases to be real Lester Bangs to William Miller
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