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Self Help Radio this week is showing its age. Yes, at an elderly thirteen years old, it has taken to grumpily mounting a rocking chair on the front porch, a wine cooler in one hand, the other hand balled up into a fist, ready to hurl invectives at cars going even one half-mile over the speed limit on the road in front of its house.
But it isn't just speedy drivers that has irked this show. No, it's the fast pace of the modern world - its internet, its power lunches, its frantic afternoons at the gym fast-forwarding through streaming media on smart phones - that has gotten the show's dander up. Didn't know a radio show could have dander? You learn something new every day!
The result is this week's episode: slow down! An imperative sentence said again & again & again with the hopes that, maybe, just maybe, someone out there could slow down a tiny bit. Slow down & see the world at its regular speed. Fall back into the regular vibrations.
Once the show was over, of course, everything would naturally accelerate again.
You can relive the futile attempt to slow things down whenever you have a space two hours at the Self Help Radio website. To slow you down, a password & username will be required. That information is on the front page. The show is in two leisurely parts. The songs played are below.
Self Help Radio will now be going down slow.
(part one)
"Slow Down" Anita O'Day _The Complete Anita O'Day Verve/Clef Sessions_
"Slow Down Baby (Russell Jacquet, vocals)" Illinois Jacquet _The Chronological Classics: Illinois Jacquet 1947-1950_
"Slow Down" Lou Mac _Rockin' At Midnight At The Parrot Club_
"Slow Down" Larry Williams _Loud, Fast, & Out Of Control: The Wild Sounds Of 50s Rock_
"Slow Down" The Cochran Brothers _Eddie & Hank: The Cochran Brothers_
"Slow Down Sandy" Eddie Quinteros _Rockin' On Broadway: The Time/Brent/Shad Story_
"Slow Down" Gus Jenkins & Orchestra _Jericho Alley Blues Flash! Blues In Los Angeles 1956 - 1959_
"Slow Down Brother" Ferlin Huskey & His Hush Puppies _Out & Out Rockabilly_
"Slow Down Heart" The Temptations _Emperors Of Soul_
"Slow Down" Tammi Terrell _The Essential Collection_
"The Merry-Go-Round Is Slowin' You Down" The Surprise Package _The Other Me 7"_
"Slow Down" Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge _Breakaway_
"Slow Down" Taboo _Violators: The No Future Years_
"Slow Down" Maduu _Bombay Beats, Vol. 1_
(part two)
"Slow Down" The Feelies _The Good Earth_
"Slow Things Down" The Soup Dragons _Hang-Ten!_
"Slow Down" Blur _Leisure_
"Slow Down" Dump _I Can Hear Music_
"Hold On, Slow Down" Earlimart _Treble & Tremble_
"Slow Down" The Jordans _Katydid_
"Slow Me Down" Aberfeldy _Young Forever_
"How Do You Slow This Thing Down" Gothic Archies _The Tragic Treasury: Songs From A Series Of Unfortunate Events_
"Slowing Down" Blank Dogs _Under & Under_
"The Steady Slowing Down Of The Heart" Lloyd Cole _Cleaning Out The Ashtrays: Collected B-Sides & Rarities 1989-2006_
"Slowing Down the World" Savages _Adore Life_
"Slow It Down" The Frank & Walters _Greenwich Mean Time_
"Slowdown" Peter Murphy _Ninth_
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