Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Self Help Radio 072721: A Flat Show

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A flat show! What nonsense is this?  I'll have you know we've spent many a Self Help Radio exploring a theme which is a word, thank you very much!  & "flat" is a word with so many meanings!  It can mean smooth-surfaced, it can mean deflated, it has a musical meaning & it's what they call apartments in the UK & down under.  What a word!  & certainly worthy of a radio show!

It can also mean "stale" & so any mean criticism of the show is built right in.  You're welcome.

The show can be listened to now & anytime at both the Self Help Radio website & at the KBOO website.  I don't want you to prefer one over the other, but the one at the SHR website doesn't cut off the last song.  Lots of stuff happens during the show, the details are below.

Most episodes of Self Help Radio are like me falling flat on my face.  & this one is no exception!

Self Help Radio's Flat Show
"Flat" Pere Ubu _Waiting For Mary (What Are We Doing Here?)_
"Flat" Difference Engine _Breadmaker_
"Flatness" Melkbelly _Pith_

introductions & definitions - featuring the Definition-O-Tron 3000!

"The Flat Feet Floogie" Slim & Slam _Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher_
"Flat Feet" Sammy Masters _Rockin' Red Wing_
"Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)" Hank Ballard _Sexy Ways: The Best Of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters_
"Flatfoot Sam" Elmon Mickle _Elko Blues Vol. 1_
"Flat Foot Boogie" Albert Macon & Robert Thomas _Blues & Boogie From Alabama_

interview with Flat Folk Society founder Cornelius Brown

"My Boy Flat Top" Dorothy Collins _Get Happy!_
"Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top" Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers _Bongo Fury_
"(No One Listens To You When You've Got) Flat Hair" Mikrofisch _Masters Of The Universe_
"Flat-Chested Girl" Miles Dethmuffen _Clutter_
"Flat Girl" Chai _Pink_

our favorite librarian Carole stops by to talk about books about flat things

"Flat Tire" Albert King _The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 3 (1972-1975)_
"Flat Tire" Dale Watson & His Lone Stars _The Truckin' Sessions_
"Flat Tire" Dean Jones featuring The Felice Brothers _Rock Paper Scissors_
"Flat Tire" V.V. Lightbody _Make A Shrine Or Burn It_
"Flames & Flat Tires" Squirrel Flower _Planet (i)_

a discussion of flat affect Gary's anatomy teacher Dr. Fontanelle Phalange interrupts!

"Shaky Flat Blues" The Pointer Sisters _That's A Plenty_
"Flat Of Angles" The Fall _Dragnet_
"Harry's Flat" Wreckless Eric _The Donovan Of Trash_
"The Girls In The Flat Upstairs" Martin Newell _The Off White Album_
"Flat 19" The Merton Parkas _This Is Mod Volume 4: Modities_

a discussion of the book Flatland

"E's Flat Ah's Flat Too" Charles Mingus _Blues & Roots_
"Flatland, Part I" Ruth Golding _Flatland_
"Flatland" November Group _November Group_
"Flatland" Black Wine _Hollow Earth_
"Flatland" Rudy Ray Moore _Dolemite The Soundtrack_
"Le Plat Pays (The Flat Country)" Jacques Brel _Infiniment_
"The Flats Of Irony" Dear Nora _There Is No Home_

idioms with the word "flat"

"In The Flat Field" Bauhaus _In The Flat Field_
"Cleveland, The Flats" Allen Ginsberg _The Lion For Real_
"Flat Hand" Freakwater _Springtime_
"Tennessee Flat-Top Box" Johnny Cash _The Essential Johnny Cash_
"Flat On My Back" The Visitors _Miss_
"Flat On My Back" LA Tool & Die _Fashion For The Evildoer_

conclusion & goodbye

"Get Flat" Paul Blake & The Blood Fire Posse _Nice Up Dancee: The RAS Tapes 2_
"Flat Side" Museum Of Love _Life Of Mammals_
"Flat Line" Elk Bell _Republica d'fantAsia_

* "Flat Tire" by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

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One note: this is the blog's 2700th post.  I wish I could've done something more special!  Oh well.

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