Ecoutez — The playlist

So here’s the playlist for my Mefi 2013-2 Swap cd. Linked files are flac (lossless, large, and possibly an issue for non-techie/Windows folks). All tracks downloaded are roughly 450MB so plan accordingly…

  1. Commando Spatial :: Orchestre dirige Jacques Dejean avec Virginie Rodin
  2. Palladium The Hip :: Liz Brady
  3. Fille a la Moto :: Dani
  4. Rouge, Rouge :: Christie Laume
  5. Sept Heures du Matin :: Jacqueline Taieb
  6. Teenie Weenie Boppie :: Frances Gall
  7. Contact :: Brigitte Bardot
  8. Amstramgram :: Isabelle
  9. C’est la Mode :: Annie Philippe
  10. Saperlipopette :: Clothilde
  11. Roller Girl :: Anna Karina
  12. Agatha ou Christie :: Christie Laume
  13. Les Filles C’est Fait
  14. Partie De Dames :: Liz Brady
  15. Ne Poussez Pas Mémé dans les Orties :: Chorus Reverendus
  16. Une Petite Tasse D’Anxiété – Emission Teuf-Teuf :: Serge Gainsbourg avec Gillian Hills
  17. Un Homme et une Femme :: Francis Lai
  18. Zou Bisou Bisou :: Gillian Hills avec Jean Bouchety
  19. Ecoute Mon Coeur :: Ria Barok
  20. Zozoi :: France Gall
  21. Champs Élysées :: Christine Pilzer
  22. La Chanson Bete et Mechante :: Clothilde
  23. Je Suis la Tigresse :: Delphine Desyeux
  24. La Musique et la Danse :: Christie Laume
  25. Bas les Pattes :: Liz Brady
  26. Oublie :: Gillian Hills
  27. Je Sais :: Contacts
  28. Au Secours Aidez-Moi :: Sophie Mansart
  29. C’est pas Prudent :: Alice Dona
  30. Je T’Aime Normal :: Janet et Jean
  31. Un Soir d’Été :: Nelly Perrier
  32. I thought perhaps the effort of throwing this mix cd together might sate the whole ’60s French Femme Fatale thing a little but I think it ended up stoking the fire even more. Doing some of the research turned up a vast number of albums that still need acquiring. I foresee a long day at Kanesville because I have a feeling that there are more than a few of these hiding in the international room upstairs (my hope) or on the main floor. Upstairs because that’s a buck an album whereas downstairs means Tim/Cliff know what they have and it will be priced accordingly.

    If you take the time and download/listen please let me know what you think. Also if you know of more artists or have leads/link, please share them in the comments section. I’m seriously obsessed with this genre right now. Finally, if you’re really interested in an actual physical audio cd (with awesome cover art linked previously) I’m down with sending one out. Just give me a comment/email.

    I miss having my own radio show very much right about now.

Stella’s Christmas Groove

Too early for Christmas music, but not too early to appreciate downloading a fine Christmas album put out by the folks at Stella Atrois. I warn you it is lots o’ Flash but I was also tell you that this is one of the few times that lots o’ Flash is a good thing. A very good thing.

This is the slinky universe I navigate in my head whilst wandering through this mundane one in which I find myself.

Many thanks to David who pointed toward this in the first place.

Our Cornucopia Overfloweth

Another entry in the Millionaire’s Holiday rebroadcast series. This one come from November 20, 2005. The good? There’s music. The bad? There’s no voice over. Or did I get the good/bad mixed up?

At any rate, here’s what I had to say about this broadcast back then:

Gal Friday joins me in studio for the second consecutive week. Many interesting finds are played. Gal Friday runs the board for half an hour or so. Oh, and someone turned off the tuner that was hooked in to my soundcard before we left for the show, so no live podcast. As a supplicatory gift, I did convert most of the raw files to mp3 and created a pseudo podcast for you enjoyment [ Podcast | Direct MP3 Link ]. You get to miss my velvet fog voice and the brilliant weather analysis of Gal Friday, but, on the other hand, you will get to hear the Erotic Aerobics track.

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Wendy Comes To Visit

It’s and oldie, but at least it is something, right? Here’s a rebroadcast of the holiday from November 6, 2005. The show marks my one and only encounter with the National Emergency Broadcast System. Some freak storm came barreling up from Kentucky way and blew the heck out of an otherwise normally freaky Saturday night in Flowertown.

But that’s enough for me. Grab it via the podcast or download the file directly off the Holiday desk-side server. Either way, enjoy yourself and the others with whom you elect to bring in to your proximity.

Harmonic Heroics

Update: 200801231133

Turns out that I cannae read or I cannae type and have propagated this error across my archive, and now to the Internet at large… Eddy Munson is actually Eddy Manson. The album is still Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion. You’ll have to change the spelling in your metadata for each file. I’m leaving well enough alone for now because recreating all of the symlinks after changing the file structure of my archive will suck.


Thing have been quiet on the Millionaire’s Holiday front. For Festivus, I received a USB-enabled turntable which has me rabbiting most of my allotted music time digitizing the vast library of schlock I’ve accumulated. This leaves little time for mixing and matching. On the other hand, the quantities of digital music I find myself surrounded in can only lead to good fun, no? In the meantime, I thought I’d share a little goofiness. Despite the album liner notes indicating the legendary prowess of Eddy Munson Manson, there is nothing I’ve been able to find on the Internet to link to. Google and Wikipedia both try to direct me to Eddie Munson. While understandably more famous, if not more talented, that’s not the Eddy we’re looking for.

Nonetheless, Eddy Munson Manson’s Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion is an album that is chock-a-block with easy listening melody. There is some interesting scoring in a few tracks and this is what makes the album funkular enough for posting.

You can follow the links below to acquire your very own copy of this fine musical offering. Files are encoded in Apple’s “lossless” compression so getting them to work on your machine could prove adventuresome without iTunes installed. If there is hue and cry I’ll transcribe to .wav or something. It’s the file format I’ve settled on for my music archive and it’s easier to symlink into that than manage and store two sets of files if you catch my drift…

Eddy Munson Manson, Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion

  1. Wish You Were Here
  2. Slaughter on 10th Avenue Theme
  3. I Love You
  4. In the Still of the Night
  5. Ciribiribin
  6. Jumping Jack
  7. Old Devil Moon
  8. September Song
  9. La Paloma
  10. Yellow Rose of Texas
  11. Cheyenne
  12. Nellie Bly
  13. Enjoy!