Artificial Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill part 36

Hello there!

Not strictly a theme this week, although most of the song selection was based on iTunes Genius suggestions. There is a fried food motif that creeps in, though...

Ken Plume runs the pop culture website asitecalledfred.com, and Dana Snyder is an actor who is probably best known as the voice of Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They do the Ken P.D. Snydecast together, and it often turns into a discussion of food. Or Disney. Or Disney food. I edited a couple of episodes until they were just lists of foods, I think it turned out great.

Connie Price & The Keystones

Some of the sounds under the fried food were parts of the Cellutron & The Invisibles track from last week. It's like a 15-minute long track, there are a lot of useful parts. Other stuff I used included beats from DJ Q-Bert & Madvillain, and a track from instrumental band Connie Price & The Keystones. Fun!

MF Doom is the villain of Madvillain. He does not appear on the track.

art by Trevor Knapp Jones at trevorknappjones.com

I started iTunes Genius with my favorite Mountain Goats track, Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton. The stuff it recommended seems like mostly indie rock from the late 90s/mid-2000s.

Destroyer, who I guess is one guy & a bunch of fountains?

I like the Destroyer track it suggested, but I ended up just looping the flute intro and putting it under Stop Podcasting Yourself discussing avocados. Man, I love avocados.

Morgan Brayton also likes avocados.

The cover of the Slint album "Spiderland"

The Slint track was on the soundtrack for the 1995 movie Kids which I had on cassette. I remember it sounding best on my shitty car stereo speakers, driving around with the windows down.

Jonathan Richman is so great. New England is his greatest song, except for all of his other songs. They're all great songs.

 (It's A) Departure is from the album Putting The Days To Bed by John Roderick & the Long Winters. It's the theme song for one of my favorite podcasts, My Brother, My Brother, And Me.

I couldn't resist putting a second Mountain Goats song at the end, a Thin Lizzy cover that takes an odd turn in the middle.

I don't know where this menu is from, but it's pretty old judging from the prices

I'm cutting this short to start working on next week's show, which will be an Exotic Special, as I'll be out of town doing some Tiki stuff for my wife's birthday.

Please leave a comment or reply to this wherever you read it (blog, email, etc.)!

Until next week, enjoy!

- Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill

Alien Activity From The 45th Parallel (edit) - Cellutron & The Invisible (1978)

Ken P.D. Snydecast 229: Mastertaters 9/12/2016

Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats (2002)

Alien Love Call (edit) - Destroy All Monsters (1975)

It's Gonna Take an Airplane (intro looped) - Destroyer (2004)

Stop Podcasting Yourself Episode 443 - Morgan Brayton 9/12/2016

Hardcore UFO's - Guided By Voices (1994)

Stop Podcasting Yourself Episode 443 - Morgan Brayton 9/12/2016

Whistle Space (edit) - Destroy All Monsters (1975)

Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night - The Hold Steady (2005)

Alien Activity From The 45th Parallel (edit) - Cellutron & The Invisible (1978)

Ken P.D. Snydecast 228: Garbage Plate 9/7/2016

Good Morning, Captain - Slint (1991)

Ken P.D. Snydecast 229: Mastertaters 9/12/2016

Alien Activity From The 45th Parallel (edit) - Cellutron & The Invisible (1978)

In The Midnight - Langhorne Slim (2005)   

Ken P.D. Snydecast 229: Mastertaters 9/12/2016

Sticks & Stones - Connie Price & The Keystones (2004)

New England - Jonathan Richman (1976)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the Second - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

Alien Activity From The 45th Parallel (edit) - Cellutron & The Invisible (1978)

Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Two-Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)

Ken P.D. Snydecast 229: Mastertaters 9/12/2016

Eye - Madvillain (2004)

(It's A) Departure - The Long Winters (2006)

Ken P.D. Snydecast 229: Mastertaters 9/12/2016

Beats4jugglers - DJ Q-Bert (1998)

The Boys Are Back In Town - The Mountain Goats (2004)

Artificial Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill Part 35

Hey, folks!

Continuing on with the space invasion theme from last week, this week remember, if the saucer people are destroying the world, it could be a good idea to try and escape by hitching a ride.

Klaatu is the one on the right.

Klaatu is a prog-rock group from Toronto who had a couple of hits in Canada but not much success in the U.S. A lot of their American success is due to a rumor that they were really the Beatles recording under another name. I don't hear it, myself. "Calling Occupants" was covered by the Carpenters in 1977 and became a bigger for them than it ever was for Klaatu.

Not pictured: filter kings, Doritos

Suburban Lawns do another song about psychically contacting aliens. I bet there a lot more of these type of songs. Suburban Lawns were from Long Beach, but they had a practice space a block away from my house.

The Byrds aren't using their psychic abilities I don't think, just regular shouting out to spacemen.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide continues this week. Should I keep going with that? Let me know!

Butch Wilis is a weirdo. Wikipedia calls him "outsider art" and compares him to Roky Erickson.

There are some more space sounds from the ESA Huygens probe, underneath John Hodgman anecdoting about Patti Smith. Effects on everything! I can't leave it alone.

There are a bunch of clips from Hour of Slack #1209, the same X-Day hymns episode I used last week. Some great collage work from Rev. Susie the Floozie. She's the best.

John Cooper Clarke is a "punk poet". That's a thing you could be in the late 70s.


Jean-Jacques Perrey & Harry Breuer close it out with a clip from their 1969 album Happy Moog! I have a bunch of Moog records, they're fun.

Well, that's it for this week. Let me know what you liked by replying to this email, or commenting on the blog.

Enjoy!

 - Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill

Klaatu's debut album was called "3:47 EST" in Canada, but just "Klaatu" in the rest of the world.

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu (1976)

Flying Saucer Safari - Suburban Lawns (1981)

Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds (1966)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Instructions for boarding the saucers - Lonesome Cowboy Dave & Dr. Howll

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

Huygens alien winds descent (2005)

The TV's From Outer Space - Butch Willis & The Rocks (1986)

Judge John Hodgman - Mommy Nearest 9/7/2016

Huygens alien winds descent (2005)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Rev. Susie the Floozie - X-Day Collage-a

The SubGenius Hour of Slack Podcast #1587 9/12/2016 - Strange Podcrusts and The Clintonbot That Refused to Die - no such thing as the internet - Rev. Ivan Stang

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack Podcast #1587 9/12/2016 - Strange Podcrusts and The Clintonbot That Refused to Die - I read that on internet - Rev. Ivan Stang

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Moon #6 & UFOs

By Rocket to the Moon -  Raymond Scott Quintette And The Gene Lowell Chorus – By Rocket To The Moon (1950)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - The Time Travellers - 5 July

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - SubGenius Foundation Answer Phone -  Christian Vs X-Day

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Saint N and Hellena Handbasket: "It's the End of the World"

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - SubGenius Foundation Answer Phone -  Bernard X-Day Call

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Rev. Susie the Floozie - X-Day Collage-a

Alien Love - Research Library (1981)

(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space - John Cooper Clarke (1978)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Rev. Susie the Floozie - X-Day Collage-b

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

Saturn Ski Jump - The Happy Moog! (Jean-Jacques Perrey & Harry Breuer) (1969)

Artificial Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill Part 34

Hey folks!

There's a pretty specific theme going on here this week: the Invasion/Destruction of the Earth by Flying Saucers from Another World!

Fun, right?

The show "The Tripods" was a BBC sfi-fi program from 1984 based on a great series of novels by John Christopher. It was kind of a re-imagining of War of the Worlds, but what would happen if the Martians didn't all die from the flu but instead conquered and subjugated the planet. It was a fantastic show, but sadly was cancelled before it could finish the story.

Television

Venus, by Television, isn't about the planet, rather it seems to be about the statue. You know, the one with no arms?

David Dixon and Simon Jones as Ford and Arthur. Simon Jones was also the radio Arthur.

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favorite things. I encountered its various versions in not quite same order they were created: the radio play first (on BBC 4 in 1978 but I heard it in L.A. on NPR affiliate KCRW a few years later), then the TV show (which was on the BBC in 1981 but I'm not sure when I would have seen it) and then the books (they came second, starting in 1979). There was also a movie, in 2005. They're all fantastic, and I'll be excerpting the radio play in future episodes.

John Darnielle and friend

 The Mountain Goats are mostly just John Darnielle. I'd already chosen this song before I realized that it's actually about a guy getting picked up by a flying saucer. These themes just work themselves out sometimes.

There is a weird buzzing sound under the clip of somebody (Rev. Ivan Stang probably) talking about the "angelic host" coming on July 5th, when "we all have hangovers". I reversed it, and maybe added some other effect, but that is a sound from the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe. Here is a description of the clip:

Audio data collected by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), which includes an acoustic sensor, during Huygens' descent, 14 January 2005.

Radar echos from Titan's surface
This recording was produced by converting into audible sounds some of the radar echoes received by Huygens during the last few kilometres of its descent onto Titan. As the probe approaches the ground, both the pitch and intensity increase. Scientists will use intensity of the echoes to speculate about the nature of the surface.

Neat, huh?

Moon Walk is from a French Library Music composer named Michel Gonet. Music libraries sell music to be used in movies and TV productions. It's also called "production music". Some of the tunes on the Futura album may have been heard in French TV shows, or German commercials, or British movies, all over the place!

Cabaret Voltaire is an early English "industrial" group. I slightly tweaked the track with some echo & delay. I think I also stretched it out a bit, too.

Dallas Frazier went on to write the hit country tune "Elvira" in 1966, but in 1954 when he was 14 he recorded "Space Command", written by local Bakersfield radio host Cousin Herb Henson. I slowed it down and shifted the pitch a bit, I'll post a clip of the original.

In 2005 John Kannberg recorded a soundtrack to the 1960 Walter M. Miller, Jr. novel, "A Canticle For Leibowitz". The book is about the reconstruction of society after a nuclear holocaust, and the journey toward sainthood of a martyred Jewish electrical engineer who worked for the U.S. Army brfore the "Flame Deluge", and worked to keep human knowledge alive afterward.

There are lots of clips this week from Hour of Slack #1209, an X-Day Hymns episode from 2009. X-Day, in the SubGenius religion, is the day the Men From Planet X (or X-ists) wil come on their spaceships to destroy the Pinks and Rupture up the (dues-paying) SubGenii to the Pleasure Saucers of the Sex Goddesses (or Gods). This day, on which the "world" will "end", was prophecied by J.R. "Bob" Dobbs to be July 5, 1998. The fact the the world has not ended yet is taken to be a sign that it isn't actually 1998 yet (due to some Conspiracy trickery, no doubt) so the SubGenius faithful gather every July (at a clothing-optional campground in Ohio) to await the Saucer Men. I've never been.



Next week will be a very similar show, you might even say Part II. You might not, though.

Until then, please leave a comment and let me know how you like it, ok?

Enjoy!

- Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill


'The Tripods' Main Theme - Ken Freeman (1984)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Call me Bob - JayTourney

Venus - Television (1978)

Journey of the Sorcerer - Eagles (1975)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

The Day The Aliens Came - The Mountain Goats (2005)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Stang, Media Barrage 2: July 5

huygens alien winds descent radar (2005)


The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - Hal Robins, DK Jones - ARISE! soundtrack - X-Day1

 Alien Activity From The 45th Parallel - Cellutron & The Invisible (1978)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

Moon Walk - Michel Gonet (1980)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

Space Patrol - Cabaret Voltaire (2003)

Space Command - Dallas Frazier (1954)

There Were Spaceships Again in That Century - John Kannenberg (2005)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009

The original Hitch-Hiker's cast, L-R Douglas Adams, producer Geoffrey Perkins, David Tate (Eddie), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod), Simon Jones (Arthur), Alan Ford (Roosta)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Fit the First - Douglas Adams - BBC Radio 4 (1978)

The SubGenius Hour of Slack #1209 - All-Star New X-Day Hymns and B.O. 6/15/2009 - LeMur: Pause To Destroy

I kinda wanted to highlight how cool Bernie Leadon looked.

 Journey of the Sorcerer - Eagles (1975)