Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Self Help Radio 090622: Excitement!


The theme of this week's show was excitement & I wondered "Is a show about excitement by definition an exciting show?"  The answer is probably no, but I was excited to think I could make an exciting show just by making it about excitement.

Not being the excitable sort, I was probably the wrong person to host a show about excitement (also I'm not all that exciting) but here it is & here we are.  In addition to songs about excitement, being excited, excitation, & exciting things, I talked to four people who were excited about specific stuff - carnivals, rescuing exotic animals, renaissance fairs, & paintball, to be exact.  & also a song about being excited was ruined live in the studio.  Now doesn't that all sound exciting?

Listen to the show on the KBOO web page.
Or listen to the show on the Self Help Radio web page.
(You'll need a username - SHR - & a password - selfhelp - but you can download the show if you want!)
Everything happened on the show - the songs & the airbreaks - are detailed below.

Are you excited?

Self Help Radio Excitement Show
"Excitement" Ivor Cutler _A Flat Man_
"Excitement" Chris Stamey _It's A Wonderful Life Containing Instant Excitement & More_
"Excitement" Admiral Tibett _Excitement_

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

"I Get So Excited" The Equals _First Among Equals: The Greatest Hits_
"I'm Not Getting Excited" The Beths _Jump Rope Gazers_
"Mr. Xcitement" They Might Be Giants _Mink Car_
"Miss The Excitement" Maria Bamford _The Burning Bridges Tour_
"So Excited" B.B. King _Completely Well_

interview with Trevor Jarvis - who's excited by carnivals

"Sad, Free, Excited, & Empty" The Hepburns _How The Fallen Are Mighty_
"So Excited" Cola _Deep In View_
"Something Exciting" Patsy _In A Briefcase_
"Get Excited!" Pizza! _We Come From The Swamp (Tenth Anniversary Edition)_
"So Exciting" Quando Quango _Pigs + Battleships_

interview with Charlotte Twill - who's excited by rescuing exotic animals

"The Exciting Life" Julie London _London By Night_
"Too Excited" Tilly & The Wall _O_
"So Excited" Ranking Roger _Radical Departure_
"Excitable Boy" Warren Zevon _Excitable Boy_
"Don't Get Excited" Bottom & Co. _Rock Bottom_

interview with Sir Ossus Of The River - who's excited by renaissance fairs

"You Excite Me, Baby" Big Charles Green _Wild Life (& All About Love)_
"I'm So Excited" John Lee Hooker _I'm John Lee Hooker_
"Wild & Exciting" Earth & Fire _Earth & Fire_
"Don't Get Excited" Graham Parker _Squeezing Out Sparks_
"Excited (feat. Anita Lane & Kid Congo Powers)" Die Haut _Head On_

interview with Serena Williams (no relation) - who's excited by paintball

"Five Get Over Excited" The Housemartins _The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death_
"Excitement" Hard-Fi _Killer Sounds_
"I Get Excited" Mija _Desert Trash_
"Excited Ones" Guided By Voices _Crystal Nuns Cathedral_
"I Get So Excited" Ian Hunter _Ian Hunter_

Ned Dry & Captain McCheese ruin the Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"

"It's So Exciting" The Exciters _The Leiber & Stoller Story, Volume 3: Shake 'Em Up & Let 'Em Roll - 1962-1969_
"The Exciter" The Reputations _Electric Power_
"I Get Excited" David Ruffin _So Soon We Change_
"Exciting" Marc Sadane _Exciting_
"Excited" The Meditations _Ghetto Knowledge_

conclusion & goodbye

"What's The Most Exciting Thing" Moondog _Moondog 2_
"Excitation" The Rear Exit _Crystalize Your Mind_
"So Excited" The Incredible Kidda Band _Too Much, Too Little, Too Late!_
"Excitement = Change" I'm So Hollow _Emotion / Sound / Motion_
"Nullerregung" Schwarze Bewegung _Schwarze Bewegung_
"Excitement" The Production Club _Excitement_
"Exciting Cut" Illicit Experiment _Early Works_

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