dirtywork's Podcast

The forces of radio & podcasting form together like an indie rock Voltron and take over the airwaves for 4 hours of Best of 2011 goodness, featuring the top selections from Omar Goodness (@omarsonics), Denis A (@denisdirtywork) and Paul Lafond (@AGDFAirplay). Also a special Top 5 from our field reporter, spiritual consultant and self-proclaimed "Blipster" Nana (@Nanada) as we do "Nana Knows Best of 2011".

Do it!

It's been a while since I posted one of these podcasts, so without further ado, feel free to eavesdrop on this little gem from this week. We have Mr. Paul Lafond from A Good Day For Airplay in the CJLO Studio, and he brings us MANY amazing new tracks on which to dine. Also there are lots of chuckles, laughs and inappropriate comments throughout the broadcast, so tune in and crank up.

Welcome to this week's episode! It's filled with more-than-just decent tunes and better-than-average talk spots.

This week we are joined by Omar Goodness from Hooked On Sonics, who is doing some "real work" while participating in Dirty Work. We talk about the Gala, our Twitter accounts, favourite albums and I make a few flubs about times and places.

Here are the tracks we played. Press that play button now, will ya?

Telekinesis! - 50 Ways
Sonic Youth - Sleepin' Around
!!! - Heart of Hearts`
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Five Year Plan
The Joy Formidable - Buoy
Fucked Up - Blaze Of Glory
White Lung - Wild Failure
Method Man - Retro Godfather
D-Sisive - Wannabe (feat. Pink Eyes of Fucked Up)
TV On The Radio - Wear You Out
The Dears - Blood
Bear In Heaven - Drug a Wheel (High Places Remix)
Colin Stetson - Judges
Foo Fighters - Miss The Misery
The Establishment - The Consumer
True Widow - Night Witches
Women - Untogether
Gang Of Four - Do As I Say
Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths
Amusement Parks On Fire - In Our Eyes

A fine show it was, featuring:

Suuns - PVC
True Widow - Wither
Does It Offend You Yeah? - Wrestler
Telekinesis! - Car Crash
Pixies - Debaser
The Two Koreas - Diamond Geezers
The Joy Formidable - The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie
White Lung - Viva La Rat
PS I Love You - Butterflies & Boners
K-os - Crabbuckit
Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure
Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning
Royal Bangs - Grass Helmet
Gang Starr - Ex Girl To Next Girl
Cursed Arrows - Strip Joint Roundabout
Wye Oak - Holy Holy
Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
Autolux - Plantlife
Braids - Lammicken
Trans Am - Arcadia
Say Hi - Sister Needs A Settle
Wintersleep - Drunk On Aluminum

Here's what we played:

The Dears - Stick w/ Me Kid
Queens of the Stone Age - How To Handle a Rope
The Kills - DNA
Cursed Arrows - The Madness of Crowds
True Widow - AKA
Drive Like Jehu - Caress
Mos Def - Brooklyn
Say Hi - Dots On Maps
Women - Black Rice
Sonic Youth - Self-Obsessed And Sexee
The Establishment - The Consumer
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Radiohead - Bloom
Eric's Trip - Allergic to Love
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
Sloan - Sensory Deprivation
Does It Offend You Yeah? - The Monkeys Are Coming
Handsome Furs - Handsome Furs Hate This City
Buck 65 - Lipstick
Yuck - Rubber
The Presets - Are You The One?

With the changes in weather, we can't help but be affected. This week's episode is filled with changes in musical weather. All the songs play with tempo in some way or another. Enjoy!

Here's what we're playing:

Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up
Death From Above 1979 - Losing Friends
Pavement - Embassy Row
Suuns - Marauder
Blur - Trimm Trabb
Dan-e-o - Don't Cry
KRS-One - I Got Next / Neva Hadda Gun
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
Wintersleep - Danse Macabre
Arcade Fire - Black Wave / Bad Vibrations
True Widow - Bleeder
M83 - Asterick
Foo Fighters - How I Miss You
ManyMental Mistakes - Cinq
Queens of the Stone Age - Song for the Dead
Broken Social Scene - Its All Gonna Break
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
Women - Drag Open
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Eric's Trip - Hourly
The B-52s - Rock Lobster

Hello Friends!

In this episode, we play some fresh produce mixed with some old canned goods from the back of the cupboard. We gab about upcoming CJLO events, the Oscars etc.

Enjoy. Here's your playlist.

The Besnard Lakes - This Thing
Justice - Stress
The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O.
Japandroids - Press Corps
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
DD/MM/YYYY - White Lies
The Establishment - In The Frame Of Light
Sebadoh - Beauty Of The Ride
Nine Inch Nails - All The Love In the World
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
The Solids - Generic Dogs
Colin Stetson - Judges
Mos Def - Ghetto Rock
Yuck - Georgia
PS I Love You - Get Over
Simian Mobile Disco - Tits & Acid
The Joy Formidable - The Magnifying Glass
Les Savy Fav - Calm Down
Elevator to Hell - The Cloud
Mogwai - How To Be A Werewolf

This episode is your balanced blend of brand spankin' new tracks with your established indie classics. There are moments not to be missed in this week's offering, so would you kindly press play? Not convinced yet? See track listing below:

PS I Love You - 2012
Radiohead - Morning Mr. Magpie
Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix
Pavement - Blue Hawaiian
Big Sugar - All Hell For A Basement
Indian Jewelry - Hello Africa
The Dears - Omega Dog
Say Hi - Devils
Suuns - Gaze
True Widow - Minor It Down
Trans Am - Arcadia
Women - Drag Open
Handsome Furs - Radio Kaliningrad
Ume - The Conductor
TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose
Dan-e-o - The Real Deal
The Establishment - Give Up
Mother Mother - Chasing It Down
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Joy Formidable - Buoy
Pixies - Tame
The Kills - Black Balloon
Weekend - Age Class

This one's a keeper. We're celebrating one year of Dirty Work in style with friendly guests and filthy tunes of the new and classic variety. Enjoy!

We are short on time this week, but we jam pack the hour long show with a lot of choice content. There's a Valentine's Day Request for a Catherine Wheel song(!), there's a J Dilla tribute(!!) and of course we close off with eight minutes of new Mogwai(!!!). Yes, there are a lot of things about this short & sweet broadcast for you to cast your own parenthetical excitement.

Details, details:

Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu
Suuns - Up Past the Nursery
Catherine Wheel - Fripp (by request)
Arcade Fire - Modern Man
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
...and now your Dilla tracks
Dan-e-o - Locked
A Tribe Called Quest - The Pressure
J Dilla - Reckless Driving
...and now we finish strong
Mogwai - You're Lionel Richie

This week's episode features local Montreal art punk heroes ManyMental Mistakes who stopped by the studio earlier for some noise and a chat with yours truly. The session brings you four tracks -- "Birthday", "Death Proof", "CCC" and my personal fave, "Kill Kill Kill". After the session, we have a good 20 minute interview with ManyMental Members Eva (Guitar Vocals), MJ (Drums) and Sylvain (Bass, Vocals). These are cool kids who deserve your time and your ears.

The second hour of the show eases into the usual fun blend of guitar swells, samplers and big beats of the human & robotic varieties. You know how we do. Enjoy the noise!

Sonic Youth - Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
Women - Penal Colony
Method Man & Redman - 1, 2, 1, 2
White Lung - Wild Failure
Crocodiles - Mirrors
Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons
Pixies - Gouge Away (Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live)
Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up
Does It Offend You Yeah? - Battle Royale
Duchess Says - Black Flag
Suuns - Sweet Nothing
Bambara - Clouds Around Our Feet

This week is the swan song to my moustache. I didn't grow it because of whatever month it is and I didn't keep it long (because quite frankly, I look like Yanni after a bender and a bad haircut). It was a side effect of a beard that I finally clipped off and I only kept it because my wife (for some ungodly reason) likes the sleazy insurance salesman from 1974 look.

OK, so aside from 'Stache Chat, this is also a show where we have an unplanned segment called "The Ivory Tower" featuring my friends Lachlan Fletcher and Omar Goodness joining in for a chat about music criticism. I also rant for a few minutes about the state of the state of Arizona.

It's packed with music to go along with the smack talk, featuring this list of jams:

Nirvana - Mr. Moustache
Suuns - Sweet Nothing
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
Imperial Teen - Ivanka
Kardinal Offishall - Ol' Time Killing
Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
The Robots - The Cape
Jurassic 5 - Whats Golden
Hot Panda - Evil Nature
OK Go - White Knuckles
Les Savy Fav - High And Unhinged
PS I Love You - Facelove
Wolf Parade - Cloud Shadow on the Mountain
Holy Fuck - Echo Sam
Amusement Parks on Fire - Flashlight Planetarium
The Joy Formidable - Austere
Chad VanGaalen - Frozen Energon
Mogwai - Rano Pano
Trans Am - Naked Singularity

Welcome to a new year! We will use this opportunity to close the e-book on 2010, celebrating my fave moments of last year, some just plain amazing and others slightly tainted by douchebags. We'll take you through a year where I was Superchunk's roadie, Random Recipe's improv rhythm section and got to get the minor scoop on a music hero from my teen years.

Stories are better with a soundtrack, and here is this episode's sonic collage:

Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Q-Tip - Go Hard
Dan-e-o - Last Minute
Pavement - Grounded
PS I Love You - CBEZ
Japandroids - The Boys Are Leaving Town
White Lung - Viva La Rat
Young Prisms - Eleni
The National - Afraid of Everyone
Play Guitar - Sleep Standing Up
Freedom or Death - Back For More
Eric's Trip - Alone And Annoyed
Suuns - Arena
Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants
Random Recipe - Dangerous
Superchunk - Everything At Once
Cursed Arrows - Run Forever
Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up
Autolux - Plantlife
MIA - Born Free

The Top Ten Albums of 2010 are presented to you, countdown-style. Two tracks from each are given as standout examples and in the middle we talk it up. Pay close attention to the disgust we scare up with Number 7. You've been warned.

With us for this episode are Omar Goodness and The Electric Ant.

For the record, here's my list if you wanna play along at home:

Top Albums of 2010

1. Autolux – Transit Transit
2. The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
3. The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
4. Meta Gruau – Tendre et Mauve
5. The Robots – Hey Buddy, Dummy
6. Crocodiles – Sleep Forever
7. Women – Public Strain
8. Suuns – Zeroes QC
9. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II
10. Les Savy Fav – Root For Ruin

Let's Not Forget:
White Lung – It's The Evil
Blood Red Shoes – Fire Like This
OK Go – Of The Blue Colour of the Sky
PS I Love You – Meet Me At Muster Station
RJD2 – The Colossus

Swing and a Miss:
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Wintersleep – New Inheritors

This episode is the "go home" holiday episode. It features the stellar play list below.

The Duke Spirit - Victory
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Japandroids - Racer-X (Big Black Cover)
Suuns - PVC
The Hook Up - Dialtones
Guided By Voices - Portable Men's Society
Sylvie - Instruments of War
The Robots - Shudder Boxin
Young Prisms - Eleni
Jurassic 5 - Remember His Name
!!! - Dear Can
Queens of the Stone Age - Everybody Knows You Are Insane
Blood Red Shoes - Follow the Lines
Indian Jewelry - Too Much Honkytonking
PS I Love You - Facelove
Eric's Trip - Alone and Annoyed
The Kills - Love Is A Deserter
Hot Panda - Evil Nature
Play Guitar - Celebration
Les Savy Fav - Poltergeist
Gab Gotcha - Humility
A Tribe Called Quest - Word Play
White Lung - Loose Heels
My Bloody Valentine - Come In Alone

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