March 27, 2019 Playlist
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In other Japanese rock news, the first Haru Nemuri concert footage of 2019 has arrived online, including this powerful festival performance in front of the biggest, most enthusiastic crowd I've seen her with so far. Also, she has a new song out in collaboration with the band Prune Deer. Plus, this fun mash-up of her 2018 "Kick in the World" single with the MC5 classic "Kick Out the Jams" (how big a Haru fan am I? I was the 20th person on Earth to view that last one, which still has less than 100 views!) Also, we lost one of the major musical figures of the last half century - the incomparable SCOTT WALKER (Noel Scott Engel) has passed at age 76. I didn't pay tribute on the show this week, because I have featured his music so regularly over the years - in fact, I just played his 2014 classic album on the previous show and mused on the air that it had been a couple years since we've heard from him and he might not make any more records (curse my powers of prophecy). But the press release from his label did reveal the first hint of personal biography from this notoriously reclusive artist: Scott was survived by a "partner", daughter and granddaughter. |
| Artist | Song | Album | Year | Country |
| Rare Earth | (I Know) I'm Losing You (The Temptations) | Ecology | 1970 | USA |
| The Flock | Lighthouse | Dinosaur Swamps | 1970 | USA |
| Black Oak Arkansas | Collective Thinking | Early Times | rec. 1969, rel. 1974 | USA |
| Black Oak Arkansas | Plugged In & Wired | Back Thar 'n' Over Yonder | 2013 | USA |
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| Guided By Voices | Questions Of The Test | Zeppelin Over China (N) | 2019 (GBV Inc.) | USA |
| Jack White | Corporation | Boarding House Reach (N) | 2018 (Third Man) | USA |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Acarine | B-side single (N) | 2019 (ATO) | Australia |
| Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock + Tobacco from Black Moth Super Rainbow) | Tuesday | Malibu Ken (N) | 2018 (Rhymesayers) | USA |
| Matmos | Fanfare For Polyethylene Waste Containers | Plastic Anniversary (N) | 2019 (Thrill Jockey) | USA |
| DAOKO | Sunnyboy-Rainygirl | Shiteki Ryokou ("Welcome") (N) | 2018 (Toy's Factory) | Japan |
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| BABYMETAL | Gimme Choko!! ("Give Me Chocolate") | BABYMETAL CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK | 2014 | Japan |
| BABYMETAL | Onedari Daisakusen ("Beg Dad For It") | BABYMETAL CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK | 2014 | Japan |
| BABYMETAL | U.ki.U.ki Midnight ("Hilarious Midnight") | BABYMETAL CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK | 2014 | Japan |
| BABYMETAL | The One | Metal Resistance | 2016 | Japan |
| REOL | Seimeisen ("Lifeline") | Gokusaishiki ("Vividly Colored") | 2015 | Japan |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu | Serious Hitomi ("Serious Eyes") | Pika Pika Fantajin ("Sparkly Fantasy People") | 2014 | Japan |
| DMBQ | So The Word Of Good Spread | KEEENLY (N) | 2018 (Drag City) | Japan |
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| Scopions | Drifting Sun | Fly To The Rainbow | 1973 | Germany |
| Black Sabbath | Children Of The Sea | Heaven & Hell | 1980 | UK/USA |
| Sheep Fiends | Ronnie James Dio | Blowing Away (N) | 2018 (self release) | USA |
| Rainbow | Black Sheep Of The Family (Quatermass) | Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow | 1975 | UK/USA |
| The Once & Future Band | Brain (Watching My Eyes) | Brain EP | 2014 | USA |
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| Aphrodite's Child (Vangelis) | Loud, Loud, Loud / The Four Horsemen / The Lamb | 666 | 1972 | Greece |
| Vangelis | Nucleogenesis part 1 & 2 | Albedo 0.39 | 1976 | Greece |
| Vangelis | Dervish D | Spiral | 1977 | Greece |
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| Tomita | The Harp of the Ancient People with Songs of Venus and Space Children (Prokofiev) | The Bermuda Triangle | 1979 | Japan |
