Remembering the All-Ohio Show
Somebody (does the name Ian Wying sound right?) has been posting a lot of iMixes on iTunes lately, and so it came to be that I handed in a list of songs for an iMix centered around my old radio show on the University of Dayton's Flyer Radio. It ran on Sundays (in a variety of time slots) from Fall '00 to Spring '03. It was a good show -- it even was named "Specialty Show of the Semester" at one point. They said we had "great energy." By we, I mean the revolving cast and crew of the show, which including Timmay, Blairman, and our resident vibologist (vibrologist?) Dr. Burky, Master of Vibology. Anyway, it was kind of fun to make a list of songs I used to play, even though iTunes didn't have them all. With the help of the aforementioned Herr Wying, here's my attempt to post the iMix to the Blog for your perusal:
A lot of these songs (the Mulchmen song, for example) remind me of greasy ham and cheese omlettes, if only because the first timeslot for the show was the "hangover slot" (aka 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday mornings). We would grab a KU breakfast then take it up to the radio station on the second floor. A lot of times the door was locked because the guys before us (in the "super-hangover slot") never really ever showed up. It wasn't until I was given the door code a few weeks into the semester that we were able to go on the air regularly. Onetime Timmay and I didn't realize the clocks had changed, and so we showed up an hour early to do the show. It wasn't until Dr. B showed up an hour later that we realized we would be doing a three hour show. Those really were the days.
Anyway, I like the mix. The only thing it's missing is the bands that aren't on iTunes and our on-air banter. "Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox" probably opened 95% of the shows, and I think we played "Flying Pizza" on 95% of the shows as well. You'll notice a lot of longer songs on the mix. That's because I would get lazy -- it was easier to cue up three CD players (which is what we had at the station) with three songs that were 4+ minutes long than have to keep putting 2 minute songs on over and over. For this reason, Devo's "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" was a favorite, as was the 7 1/2 minute version of the Electric Eels' "Flapping Jets" (which is brilliant and epic in every regard anyway).
Other favorites that aren't included: Pufftube's version of "The Boys of Summer"; Braniac's "Go Freaks Go"; Death of Samantha's "Coca Cola & Licorice"; and the New Salem Witch Hunters' "Summer's Here At Last" or "Last Patrol." Throw in Gem's "Nothing But the Quiet Now" and the Easter Monkeys' "Splendor of Sorrow" for good measure as well. Oh yeah, and I used to play a lot of Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments' Bait and Switch album as well.
I guess there's a lot of good Ohio music. I had tons of stuff to play back then (and it was always cool getting calls from the Dayton bands--or their friends--after I played one of their records), and there's still a lot of cool stuff going on in the Buckeye State.
