Listening to the Higsons
KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am
Sparklehorse
I meant to write the notes for this show sooner than a month after the fact, but travel plans got in the way and here I am struggling for an intro. I can tell you that hearing Sparklehorse take on Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians’ “Listening to the Higsons” for the first time, mere weeks ago, felt like someone became obsessed with the same cassette as I did thirty years ago, but actually got around to letting the hen out.
In this episode: The Apples In Stereo, Ascensions, Beach Fossils, Bethany Cosentino, Blur, Buck Meek, Cage The Elephant, Cassandra Jenkins, Cigarbox Planetarium, The Clientele, The Daktaris, Draag, Eels, Father John Misty, Graham Parker & the Goldtops, Grandaddy, Hobo Johnson, House of Freaks, Howe Gelb + Grandaddy, Islands, Jeff Rosenstock, Joanna Sternberg, Kid Koala, Margaret Glaspy, Meshell Ndegeocello, North Americans, The Orwells, Pale Blue Eyes, Parquet Courts, Paul McCartney & Wings, Pixies, The Promise Ring, Ratboys, Sonny & The Sunsets, Spacewalk, Sparklehorse, Split Enz, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, W.I.T.C.H., Ween, Wooden Shjips
| Song | Artist | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Listening to the Higsons | Sparklehorse | Originally from Robyn Hitchcock + the Egyptians | |
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| 3 | Act Natural | Margaret Glaspy | Wobbling guitars | |
| 4 | My Own City | Bethany Cosentino | An end of summer sound | |
| 5 | Blue Over Blue | The Clientele | Subdued insinuation | |
| BREAK | ||||
| 7 | Haunted Mountain | Buck Meek | A spooky place to live | |
| 8 | Total Entertainment Forever | Father John Misty | It’s neverending | |
| 9 | Broken Bones | House of Freaks | Low-key desperation | |
| 10 | Sister | Pale Blue Eyes | The shoegaze is back | |
| BREAK | ||||
| 12 | Bite My Tongue | Islands | Draw some blood | |
| 13 | And She Was | Talking Heads | Floating into space | |
| 14 | Band On The Run | Paul McCartney & Wings | The original extended mix | |
| BREAK | ||||
| 16 | Last Stretch of the Road | Graham Parker & the Goldtops | Still an original | |
| 17 | Levitate Me | Pixies | Elevator lady | |
| 18 | Extinction | Parquet Courts | Ending it all | |
| 19 | Japanese Buffalo | Cage The Elephant | Manic energy | |
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| 21 | Derek Spears | Grandaddy | Your conscience is singing at you | |
| 22 | E.S.P. | Sonny & The Sunsets | Having a vision | |
| 23 | Rain Dogs | Tom Waits | It's a state of mind | |
| 24 | Super Afro-Beat | The Daktaris | Truth in advertising | |
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| 26 | Numb | Beach Fossils | Crashing out | |
| 27 | Agastopia | Draag | Spooling out chords | |
| 28 | Questions And Answers | The Apples In Stereo | Getting Socratic | |
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| 30 | People Are Toys To You | Joanna Sternberg | We all know one | |
| 31 | Fresh Blood | Eels | Sulking in style | |
| 32 | Six Months in a Leaky Boat | Split Enz | Circumnavigate the globe | |
| 33 | Gouge Away | The Promise Ring | Making it fit better | |
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| 35 | St. Charles Square | Blur | Where it happened | |
| 36 | Hippie Soldier | The Orwells | A juxtapositional person | |
| 37 | She's Weird | Ascensions | Everybody said so | |
| 38 | Now I'm Freaking Out | Ween | Here comes the madness | |
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| 40 | HEAD | Jeff Rosenstock | Trying to keep up | |
| 41 | Waile | W.I.T.C.H. | Mighty mighty Zamrock | |
| 42 | Trouble Is My Beeswax | Cigarbox Planetarium | And beeswax is good | |
| 43 | Subaru Crosstrek XV | Hobo Johnson | Not quite there yet | |
| BREAK | ||||
| 45 | Black Earth, WI | Ratboys | Undulating | |
| 46 | Renaissance of Reconnaissance | Kid Koala | Interlude | |
| 47 | This Purple Child | Howe Gelb + Grandaddy | Waiting in the dust | |
| 48 | It's You | Cassandra Jenkins | Harps a plenty | |
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| 50 | Hot Dub Party | Spacewalk | Turn on the jets | |
| 51 | Lazy Bones | Wooden Shjips | Eating up the miles | |
| 52 | Bleeding Heart Tetra | North Americans | Yonder horizon | |
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| 54 | Virgo 3 | Meshell Ndegeocello | Return to orbit | |
