Newsworthy Ghost Island

Show 20

David R — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:55:52 +0000

1. Paul Simon – Learn How To Fall

2. The Folksmen – Never Did No Wanderin’

3. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Burton’s Kane

4. Serge Gainsbourg – Le Poinçonneur de Lilas

5. Beck – E-Pro (Bad Cartridge Remix)

6. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Tree Surgeon

7. Moxy Früvous – You Will Go To The Moon

8. Nat King Cole Trio – I Wanna Be A Friend Of Yours

9. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Cribbage

10. World Inferno Friendship Society – With A Good Criminal Heart

11. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Wisecracking Celebrity Animals In Space: The Movie!

12. A Light In The Piazza – American Dancing

13. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Mr. Fahrenheit: The Freddie Mercury Story

14. Geggy Tah – Whoever You Are

“Hunting here has become too scarce!”

David R — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:53:36 +0000

In this show:

* No Alex this week. She has the typhus. Boo.

* The boys talk video games, and wax nostalgically about old-timey (to think of it!) adventure games.

* The journalists discuss the far-reaching implications of the Writers’ Guild strike, and how it’s created a very unfortunate Film Drought.

* But film production continues! Reginald builds up the courage to contact the Internet to show us trailers for the aforementioned upcoming Film Drought productions.

* We receive a cryyyyptic letter from the Queene Of The Faeries.

* Is Jimmy Buffet yacht-rock? You decide.

* And hey. Happy Thanksgiving. Give someone you love a hug.

Listen to it here:

Episode The Twentieth

Show 19

David R — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:47:24 +0000

1. The Charms – Cold War

2. The Small Faces – Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass

3. Flanders and Swann – Sounding Brass

4. Tullycraft – The Punks Are Writing Love Songs

5. Desmond Dekker – 0.0.7 (Shanty Town )

6. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Securing The Compound (Sort of.)

7. British Sea Power – Straight Down The Line

8. Afro Celt Sound System – House Of The Ancestors

9. Gentle Giant – I Am A Camera

“Yeah, they’re… they’re poisonous. Fish live in ‘em.”

David R — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:44:58 +0000

In this show:

* David poses as Giacomo Puccini and tells terrible jokes. Dave doesn’t know what an enema is.

* We sing woe for Steve Marriott, who died in a fire.

* What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is it really a smack to the face?

* Alex informs us how she acquired her abs of mithril.

* David talks about Ska, and Dave makes crazy fifth-wave noises.

* Then we are visited by gnomes! Hooray for gnomes and their lovely biochemical ingenuity.

* Part six of THE MONSOON SEASON. (Ooo.)

Check it out here:

Episode The Nineteenth!

Show 18

David R — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:46:22 +0000

1. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part Two

2. The Bobs – You Can’t Do That

3. Warren Zevon – Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

4. Cat Stevens – Moonshadow

5. The Cat Empire – Sly

6. Trio Mocóto – Mocóto Beat

7. Newsworthy Ghost Island – The Moon Race of Aught-Six

8. Dexy’s Midnight Runners -Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)

9. Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Don’t Tell Your Mama, Don’t Tell Your Papa

10. Badly Drawn Boy – Everybody’s Stalking

“Don’t judge me; it’s my birthday suit.”

David R — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:42:28 +0000

OooOooo.

It’s our Very Special Spookytime Episode in anticipatory celebration of Hallowe’en (YES.)! This week, we treat you to something completely new, viz. GHOSTS! (OOO.)

That’s right, folks. In this show:

* Extra-Spooky goodness! We discuss our costumes, and Dave BB and Alex guess at David’s secret costume.

* David tortures the other journalists by singing Styx. He does not regret this in the slightest.

* We are visited by two surprise ghosts! Yay for ghosts. (There is a ghostly wager and a pretty sweet story. Moonmen.)

* We play pretty sweet music.

Episode the Eighteenth

Show 17

David R — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:36:56 +0000

1. Spoon – The Way We Get By

2. Blue Man Group – PVC IV

3. Sufjan Stevens – Holland

4. The Aquabats – Danger Woman

5. Newsworthy Ghost Island – Red Magick

6. Calvin Harris – It Was Acceptable In The Eighties

7. J.E. Borgen – All The Right

“No zombies.”

David R — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:27:49 +0000

In this episode:

* David attempts to convert the nation to boy-liking-other-boy-ness (and threatens potential violence against Bill O’Reilly if Bill comes near his mother)

* We talk about electricity, and burning elephants.

* … Alex and Dave use their Cosby voices

* David references Dinosaur Comics. Again.

But, most importantly:

* WE RECEIVE A MISSIVE FROM SCRUFF MCGRUFF, GOD OF JUSTICE.

Check it out.

Episode The Seventeenth.

Show 16

David R — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:30:15 +0000

1. The Band – Rag Mama Rag

2. DJ Front-a-lot – Indier Than Thou

3. Electric Light Orchestra – Rockeria

4. Andrew Ceglia – I’m Wanting You *

5. Newsworthy Ghost Island – An Exquisite Performance

6. The Beatles – And Your Bird Can Sing (John laughing a lot version)

7. Ani Difranco – God’s Country

8. Eric Burdon – See See Rider

* WARNING – DO NOT LISTEN

Plastromancy and squeaky cheese.

David R — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:28:34 +0000

Hey, hey, hey!

What’s the difference between a parallel-Earth development and a perpendicular-Earth development? … You tell me! I have no clue.

In this show:

* Alex has a lil’ sumthin’-sumthin’.

* … Andrew Ceglia. That … that is all. (Yes, he does, in fact, rock very hard.)

* Alex fabricates cheese curds out of coconut milk

* David R practices the arcane art of plastromancy

* David BB develops experimental organs

* we are awkwardly 13 years old again, and then Alex does a Bill Cosby impression

* Part four of the MONSOON SEASON chronicles

* Alex and DR break, irrepressibly, into song once more.

So listen to the show. YAAAR.

Episode The Sixteenth