Saturday, February 16, 2013

Don't Stop!


Don't!  Keep going!  If you stop, you'll die!  Well, maybe not die.  But.  Don't stop!  Don't stop!

Okay, you can stop & listen to the 'Don't Stop' show, which is now available on the Self Help Radio website.  If you can't stand still for long, you can access the two parts directly: part I is here & part II is here.  List of songs below.

Don't stop listening!

(part one)

"Don't Stop, Don't Don't Stop, Don't Stop, Don't Stop" Wobbly _Wild Why_
"Don't Stop" The Orioles _The Jubilee Recordings_
"Don't Stop" Horace Andy _The Wonderful World Of Horace Andy_

"Don't Stop" Alex Chilton _A Man Called Destruction_
"Don't Stop" The Rolling Stones _Forty Licks_
"Don't Stop" The Frank & Walters _Beauty Becomes More Like Life_
"Don't Stop" The Stone Roses _The Stone Roses_

"Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow (William Clinton)" Oscar Brand _Presidential Campaign Songs, 1789-1996_
"Don't Stop Believin'" Petra Haden _Guilt By Association_
"Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" The Embarrassment _Heyday 1979-83_
"One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" Big Maybelle _The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story_

"Don't Stop Loving Me" Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys _San Antonio Rose_
"Don't Stop - I Like It! (with Hal Lone Pine)" Betty Cody _The Successful Hillbilly Era Of Betty Cody_
"Don't Stop Kissing Me Goodnight" Sheb Wooley _That's My Pa_

(part two)

"Don't Stop The Music" George Jones _Cup Of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years_
"Please Don't Stop Loving Me" Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton _20 Greatest Hits_
"Don't Stop Now" Roy Hall _Roy Rocks_

"Don't Stop Dancing (To The Music)" The Bar Kays _Gotta Groove_
"It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)" The Isley Brothers _Step Back & Boogie_
"Move Your Feet" Junior Senior _D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat_
"Don't Stop The Night" Momus _Don't Stop The Night_

"Don't Stop Now" The Encounters _Don't Stop_
"Don't Stop" Larry Trider _Teen Town USA, Vol. 4_
"Don't Stop" The Parting Gifts _Strychnine Dandelion_
"Don't Stop Loving Me Baby" Flying Machine _Flight Recorder_
"Don't Stop" The Dodos _No Color_

"A River Don't Stop To Breathe" Múm _Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know_
"Don't Stop" Pocketbooks _Waking Up EP_

Friday, February 15, 2013

Whither Don't Stop?

This day has not stopped, or else I would have stopped to tell you HEY!  Today is Self Help Radio day!  The theme today is "don't stop" & please don't stop me if you think you've heard this before, because I am not stopping now.

Listen!  On the air in Lexington, Kentucky, from 4 to 6 pm, on the 88.1 fm frequency.

Listen!  Online anywhere at WRFL dot fm, also from 4 to 6 pm because the stream is in real time.  Really!

Oh no!  You read this blog entry later than 6pm on February 15, 2013.  What the hell can you do?  You can listen!  But from a file downloaded at the Self Help Radio web site.  (That's not ready as I write this - since I haven't even done the show yet!)

This blog post may be stopping but Self Help Radio today don't stop!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Preface To Don't Stop: Do Stop

I have been thinking about things that I wish would stop, he said.

Like what, she said.

Wars.  Poverty.  Hunger.  Reality television shows, he said.

It seems like those things continue, she said, because there's money in them.

Someone makes money from poverty & hunger? he asked.

You're so naïve, she said.

Happy Valentine's Day, he said.

Happy Valentine's Day to you, she said.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Revenge Of Kid Stupids

So what if that stupid kid called me didn't learn how to tie his shoes until third grade?  Is third grade really nine years old?  What the hell happened before that?  Untied shoes!  Shoes tied so tightly that they couldn't be untied!  Poor stupid kid stupids!

What about stupid kids in the snow?  Did they really say today while there was some snow but it wasn't sticking did they really say:

Stupid kid: We should make a snowman.
Another stupid kid: There's not enough snow.  There's also rain.
Stupid kid: We should make a rainman.

Stupid kid stupids unaware of Dustin Hoffman movie!

Why sit alone in your advancing age thinking about how stupid you were anyway?  You were a kid & kids (except for Mozart) are pretty stupid.  It's only because so many adults are stupid adults that kids are tolerated.  Otherwise something would be done.  To make stupid kids not so stupid.

Or else what could be done?

Goats Yelling Like Humans

Yes.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Love Is...


It's the annual Self Help Radio Valentine's Day show!  As usual, a detailed & methodical pseudoscientific exploration of a theme - this one is finishing the sentence "love is..."  What is love?  Is it a rose, a stranger, the drug, a heat wave, a gamble, a fiction, a hurting thing, or the sweetest thing?  As you'll discover, the answer is yes!

You can listen to the show right now & even on Valentine's Day & probably for like a year after it (& still never really know what love is) at the Self Help Radio website.  Should you need instant gratification, you can listen to the two parts of the show by clicking either part one or part two.  While love is strange & might well be a mystery, there's no mystery about the songs on this week's show - they're listed below!

Happy Valentine's Day!

(part one)

"Love" The Dream Academy _A Different Kind Of Weather_
"Love Is" A House _The Way We Were: The Best Of A House_
"Love Is A Rose" Neil Young _Decade_

"Love Is A Stranger" Eurthymics _Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)_
"Love Is A Shield" Camouflage _80s Precious Little Diamonds_
"Love Is Lighter Than Air" Magnetic Fields _Get Lost_
"Love Is Blue" Hangman's Beautiful Daughters _Dreamworld 1985-1987_

"Love Is The Drug" Hot Rats _Hot Rats_
"Love Is Like" Strange Fate _Sigh Cry Die: 29 Garage Rock Tales Of Woe & Despair From The Sixties_
"Finding Out True Love Is Blind" Louis XIV _The Best Little Secrets Are Kept_
"(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" The Jam _Setting Sons_
"Love Is All Around" Hüsker Dü _Eight Miles High_

"Love Is Strange (Take 4)" Mickey & Sylvia _Love Is Strange_

(part two)

"Love Is A Gamble" Johnny Mathis _Rhythms Of Broadway_
"What Is Love" Judy Mackenzie _Judy_
"Love Is A Merry-Go-Round" Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra _Charlie Barnet 1937 - 1939_
"Love Is... 1968" Beaumont _This Is Beaumont_

"Love Is A Sign" The Go-Betweens _16 Lovers Lane Acoustic Démos_
"Love Is The Answer" Even As We Speak _Feral Pop Frenzy_
"Is That Love" Squeeze _East Side Story_
"Love Is The Slug" Fuzzbox _We've Got A Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It_
"Sweetest Thing" U2 _Where The Streets Have No Name_

"Love Is Red/Green" Tender Trap _Film Molecules_
"If That's What Love Is" Television Personalities _Constrictor Collector Series 7"_
"Love Is A Fiction" Shirts _Street Light Shine_
"Love Is Like A Bullet" Shoes _Shoes' Best_

"Love Is Everywhere" Pharoah Sanders _Love Will Find A Way_
"Love Is A Hurting Thing" Toussaint McCall _Nothing Takes The Place Of You_
"Love Is Not A Game" Sam E. Solo _Big City Soul, Vol. 1_