PREFACE: WHERE I GO BANG ON EVERY DOOR

Greetings, True Gamesters, Lolita Nationalists, and other such friends of the Family (and its dearly-missed patriarch above all).  If you found your way here (or read the words at the top of the page), you surely know that this blog is dedicated to the work and life of the great Scott Miller.  The whys and what-fors of the blog will be revealed in short order; until then, I begin by sharing the edition of my radio program (Wednesdays @ 11 pm PT - streams live here) which aired the night of the day his passing was announced; a tribute to the songs Scott Miller wrote, performed, and loved.  (The non-Scott items, as you will see, were all cited in his wonderful, essential book, Music: What Happened?)  I really only scratched the surface of his life's work - I could easily have gone all night and thought seriously of doing so (as it was, I broke about six different broadcast rules in doing this show, but if any one person deserved an honorary act of rebellion, however limp...), but, if you stick around as this thing progresses, you'll see me - well, scratch some more, if nothing else.  More soon - until then, please listen and (hopefully) enjoy...

WOW & FLUTTER, KMUN-FM, ASTORIA, OR, 4/17/13
Part One:
0:00:00 - Preambular blah-blah-blah
0:02:00 - Lacrymose, Semi-Articulate DJ Intro
0:11:12 - untitled (track #1) - the Loud Family (Days for Days, 1998)
0:12:14 - He Do the Police in Different Voices - LF (Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things, 1993)
0:14:44 - Bone Machine - Pixies (see Music: What Happened?, pg. 136)
0:17:45 - The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (M:WH?, pg. 52)
0:19:40 - Non-Alignment Pact - Pere Ubu (M:WH?, pg. 94)
0:23:07 - What in the World - David Bowie (M:WH?, pp. 89-90)
0:25:30 - I've Tried Subtlety - Game Theory (The Big Shot Chronicles, 1986)
0:30:09 - Nice When I Want Something - LF (Attractive Nuisance, 2000)
0:35:30 - Mic Break/Readings From Music: What Happened?
0:42:41 - You Could Make It All Worthwhile - Scott Miller (rec. 1977)
0:45:53 - Sleeping Through Heaven (1990 re-recording) - GT (Tinker to Evers to Chance, 1990)
0:50:01 - Tell Me Something Good - Rufus (M:WH?, pp. 76-77)
0:53:33 - Do the Strand - Roxy Music (M:WH?, pg. 72)
0:57:37 - Re-Make/Re-Model (live, Roxy Music cover) - LF (rec. 2/1/93, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco)
1:01:41 - Inverness (live) - SM and Aimee Mann (rec. 6/28/96, Bimbo's 365 Club, SF)
1:06:12 - Spot the Setup - LF (Plants..., 1993)
1:08:25 - Mic Break/More Readings From M:WH?
1:11:28 - The Waist and the Knees - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
1:17:39 - Rolling With the Moody Girls (GT cover) - Home Blitz (Frozen Track, 2012) (incomplete)


Part Two:
0:00:00 - Rolling With the Moody Girls (GT cover) - Home Blitz (Frozen Track, 2012) (the rest of it)
0:00:36 - You Drive (incomplete)/The Picture of Agreeability - GT (2 Steps from the Middle Ages, 1988)*
0:02:27 - Curse of the Frontier Land - GT (Real Nighttime, 1985)
0:06:00 - untitled (track #11) - LF (Days for Days, 1998)
0:06:16 - The Real Sheila - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
0:09:51 - Look Through Any Window (Hollies cover) - LF (Sing Hollies in Reverse, 1995)
0:12:58 - Back of a Car - Big Star (M:WH?, pg. 78)
0:15:44 - Tearjerkin' - the dB's (M:WH?, pg. 110)
0:19:36 - And Your Bird Can Sing - the Beatles (M:WH?, pg. 42)
0:21:37 - Noise in This World - the (English) Beat (M:WH?, pg. 104)
0:23:50 - New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello and the Attractions (M:WH?, pp. 104-5)
0:25:59 - Screwed Over By Stylish Introverts - LF (Interbabe Concern, 1996)
0:28:49 - All Clockwork And No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal A Dull Metal Humbert / In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants To Be So Full Of Sting / Paul Simon In The Park With Canticle / But You Can't Pick Your Friends / Vacuum Genesis / DEFMACROS - HOWSOMETH - INGDOTIME - SALENGTHS - OMETHINGL - ETBFOLLOW - AAFTERNOO - NGETPRESE - NTMOMENTI - FTHINGSWO - NTALWAYSB - ETHISWAYT - BCACAUSEA - BWASTEAFT - ERNOONWHE - NEQBMERET - URNFROMSH - OWLITTLEG - REENPLACE - 27 - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
0:30:34 - One More for Saint Michael - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
0:34:35 - The Girl With The Guitar (Says Oh Yeah) (written by SM/Michael Quercio) - the Three O'Clock (Arrive Without Travelling, 1985)
0:37:25 - The Second Grade Applauds - LF (Plants..., 1993)
0:40:10 - Home - Roy Harper (M:WH?, pg. 75)
0:43:20 - Suckling the Mender - Cocteau Twins (M:WH?, pg. 137)
0:46:56 - Ulysses - Alternate Learning (Painted Windows, 1981)
0:48:47 - Like a Girl Jesus (GT cover) - Sleepyhead ("Punk Rock City USA" b-side, 1993)
0:52:56 - Never Mind - GT (The Big Shot Chronicles, 1986)
0:55:49 - Last Day That We're Young - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
1:00:57 - Regenisraen - GT (The Big Shot Chronicles, 1986)
1:04:28 - Still Its Own Reward - LF (The Tape of Only Linda, 1994)
1:08:38 - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Johnny Thunders cover) - LF (Never Mind the Camera Crew, Here's the Loud Family promo cassette, 1993; see also M:WH?, pg. 95)
1:13:01 - Together Now, Very Minor - GT (Lolita Nation, 1987)
1:17:28 - Translator ID/DJ Outro (In Which He Tries Not to Cry and Fails Again)



* The first song cut out after about thirty seconds and the second took over. Got a bad set of mp3s - worse than tainted shellfish, I tell ya.