tis the season for bells and whistles

this one was a special one, the culmination of all our monday mornings here at WVKR, the cream of the crop, a real gem, the star on the christmas tree, the Shamash of the menorah, etc. it's the LAST SHOW of 2007, and we pulled out all the stops for YOU! we've got christmas, we've got more christmas, we've got hanukkah, we've got holidays, we've got winter, snow, ice, noreasters, we've got elves, profanity, bells, whistles, mariah, more christmas, themes coming out the wazoo!!!

join DJ phantasma, DJ pizza party and DJ chicken pot pie in the most aurally fixating, wonderful-tastic, and seasonally festive show of 2007! this is no ordinary show. we're talkin sing-alongs, shout-outs, sirens and lots of other things that start with S!

please sir, you'd like some more? **download no longer available**
RING A BELL/GIVE MONEY TO SALVATION ARMY

holiday wish/play list:

"all i want for christmas is you" (DJ pizza party remix intro) - mariah carey
"this christmas song" - alvin & the chipmunks
"winter wonder land" - animal collective
"this christmas song" - ravonettes
"what's this?" from the nightmare before christmas - danny elfman
"the ice storm" - the go! team
"fuck the pain away" - peaches
"holiday" - celebration
"out cold" - brad laner
"jesus christ came to me in a dream" - ariel pink's haunted graffiti
"belgian beer and catholic girls" - siberian
"little girl blue (postal service remix)" - nina simone
"baby's bible" - hank (from david shrigley's worried noodles compilation)
"noreaster cheer" - prefuse 73
"let's boogie to the elf dance" - sufjan stevens (listener request!)

"jolly jolly jolly ego" - dirty projectors [RECORDING STARTS SOMEWHERE IN HERE!]
"sunny xmas day" mick turner/tren brothers
"snowy meadows II" - samara lubelski
"dreidl-bells" - DJ flack (listener request!)
"sub-zero" - snoozer
"brand new year" - bre loughlin
"handjobs for the holidays" - broken social scene
"cutting ice to snow" - efterklang
"snowflake music" - mark mothersbaugh
"elf" - gabby lala
"frosti" - björk
"last christmas" - parenthetical girls
"have yourself a merry little christmas" - bright eyes (feat. ariel, frances & kelly)
"exploding snowhorse" - the octopus project
"all i want for christmas is you" (reprise, radio station dance party version) - mariah carey

that's it, 2007! join us NEXT YEAR at a NEW TIME! THURSDAYS 6-8 AM! ding ding ding ding diiinnggg

5 on a Joyride!

we watched the sunrise from the breathtaking view inside the air studio again this monday morning. special thanks to dj mishmash for lending us his aux cable when we were in a tight one. we were one man down, but two thumbs up!

we had our first listener request in weeks! there are also some extra (extra cute of course) bloopers, and dj perspective needs to learn to back off the mic.

serve yourself up a 5th helpin' of bells & whistles: **download no longer available**

RING A BELL/HIT A TIN CAN WITH A MALLET
DJ aerial perspective
DJ pudding snacks/shark attack
[DJ flu shot]

master list
"window" - the album leaf
"granular bastard" - apparat

[RECORDING STARTS HERE]

"partymadchen gefoitert" - stereo total
"sad song" - psapp
"les jours tristes (instrumental) - yann tiersan
"you can have it all" - yo la tengo
"things against stuff" - danielson
"je t'aime trop" - naughty naughty nurses
"sandy" - caribou
"angels on the balcony" - jeremy jay
"oscillate wildly" - the smiths
"I" - six organs of admittance
"green room tea time" - alexis gideon
"you aren't moving to chicago" - she is so beautiful/she is so blonde
"baby comes around" - ariel pink's haunted graffiti
"the happy sea" - colleen
"holding" - persephone & her cellar babies
"when you were my baby" - the magnetic fields
"clouds through sparrow's eyes" - skygreen leopards
"cherish (madonna cover)" - prayers
"i am john" - loney, dear
"everyone's in love with you" - david byrne
"sandy feat" - high places
"someone great" - lcd soundsystem
"millie christine" - wussy

[RECORDING CUTS OUT HERE]

"fever of the beat" - the vandelles
"oh, sweet consequence" - cars & trains

[RESUME!]

"peppermint patty" - owls
"sugar pill" - ambulance ltd.
"que honda guero (gameboy/homeboy remix)" - beck
"o what a beautiful dream" - elf power
"off the rails" - the notwist
"bizarre love triangle" - new order

Bells to the wall! Show #4!

yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!
4 am was as sweet as ever. our download is in 2 parts this week, make sure you catch it all. click it and check it!: **zip file no longer available online. commment if you want to recieve it via a semi-underhanded exchange**


RING A BELL, SKIP CHINESE CLASS
DJ congestion/post-post-nasal drip
DJ butterpad
[DJ snivles/burnin' fever!]

the trax:
"sogg" - amina*
"china" - celebration*
"light works" - j dilla
"wham city" - dan deacon
"mirador" - efterklang
"at death, a proclamation" - phosphorescent
"glue of the world" - four tet
"throckmorton/haggard/mekons" - bonnie "prince" billy
"fair friend" - abe froman
"noah's arc" - cocorosie
"beaten thursdays" - prefuse 73
"maple leaves" - jens lekman
"born on the cusp" - american analog set
"singing in the rain" - mint royale
"kidz are so small" - deerhoof
"whatcha doin" - phil elverum & nick krgovish from 'david shrigley's worried noodles'
"birthday" - the sugarcubes
"like a prayer" - lavender diamond from 'through the wilderness: a tribute to madonna'
"the youth" - MGMT [recording cuts out in the middle of this]

"happy ending" - manitoba

[back in business]
"some sort of overture" - cars & trains
"ominous cloud" - broadcast
"fair weather friends" - daedalus
"tomato synthesizer" - boredoms
"clowne towne" - xiu xiu
"rest easy/age kindly" - lymbyc systym
"swarming (radio edit)" - efterklang
"the only moment we were alone" - explosions in the sky

*these songs are quiet because butterpad didn't have the volume up all the way on the laptop. again, low tech = totally endearing, right?

Prep your oven for the 3rd installation!

back & swinging & ringalinging!

you have to hear this new batch of twinkles and chimes! featuring our newly recorded show i.d., shoutouts galore, and some obvious (yet charming) bloopers.

catch (...almost...) all 120minutes of tinklely bliss here: **zip file no longer available online. commment if you want to recieve it via a semi-underhanded exchange**

RING A BELL, EAT A TURKEY
DJ dewey decimal
DJ skullcap
DJ pat wallace

11/19 playlist:
"bros" (edit) - panda bear

[RECORDING STARTS HERE]

"ice" - the microphones
"high noon" - dj shadow
"slogan" - blonde redhead
"adeau maria fulo" - os mutantes
"surf music pt. 1" - skeletonbreath
"wrong turn" - david pajo
"find out" - brad laner
"gemini (birthday song)" - why?
"this is where we are" - ravens & chimes
"end of the world" - shocking pinks
"hide ya face reprise (reminder version)" - prefuse-73
"R.A.T.L." - spenking
"mangia amore" - marsmobil
"i heard you moved away" - mosnter bobby
"cato as a pun" - of montreal
"the song is the single" - BARR
"could have easily made the maple story soundtrack" - goodbye enemy airship
"the companion" - the mary onettes
"sirens" - hop along queen anslies
"bur oak" - the bowerbirds
"you're still in my heart" - please quiet ourselves
"blue mountain" - espers

[RECORDING CUTS OUT HERE WHILE WE CHANGE CDS- low-tech = cute?]

"westbound blue" - castanets
"the plot" - white rabbits

[BACK IN ACTION!]

"my whole life story" - holy shit
"what goes on" (beatles cover) - sufjan stevens
"this old machine" - coconut records
"strange things will happen" - the radio dept.
"this must be the place (naive melody)" (talking heads cover) - the arcade fire

SECOND show! we're pros now!

show number 2 aired this beautiful moonlit morning. a special thanks to all of our listeners!
miss us again? no need to panic! we're comin atcha with another hour of pre-recorded bells and whistles ecstasy. take some!

check out this zip file: **zip file no longer available online. commment if you want to recieve it via a semi-underhanded exchange**

brought to you by your friends:
DJ Bipolar Bear
DJ Whale Rider
(DJ Get-Well-Soon had a fever)

today's prix fix playlist:

"green grass of tunnel" - múm
"lorelai" - cocteau twins
"man is not a bird" - broadcast
"fireworks" - animal collective
"salvese quien pueda (four tet remix)" - juana molina
"swimmin" - naughty naughty nurses
"shift (alternate version)" - grizzly bear
"take time" - the books
"mon menage a moi" - edith piaf
"pretty tick" - prints
"le fever" - loney, dear (dedicated to dear Frances)

[THIS IS WHERE THE RECORDING STARTS]

"toka toka" - black dice
"i saw the bright shinies" - the octopus project
"heart it races (remix)" - architecture in helsinki (listener request!)
"papa legba (pops staples vocals version)" - talking heads
"marmalade fires" - múm
"with the lights out we sing" - aloha (listener request!)
"this aching deal" - shocking pinks
"soft pyramids" - q and not u
"butter and eggs" - gabby lala
"i gaer" - sigur ros
"brace yourself" les savy fav
"pollen" - mirah
"days" - she is so beautiful/she is so blonde
"loose lips" - kimya dawson
"the beginning after the end" - stars
"center of gravity" - yo la tengo
"i think it's beautiful that you are 256 colors too" - black moth super rainbow

first show!

our first show aired this past monday, november 5th. the recording of the first hour got a little botched, but the second hour is shipshape and included in this post as a zip file. so if 4am wasn't your cup of tea this week, click it and check it!
**zipfile no longer up for download, comment if you would like to recieve it via a totally underhanded x-change***
(click the link, click "download," save it to your computer, when it finishes downloading, click "open," then "extract files," and then they're all ready to start rocking your itunes!)

RING A BELL/SAVE A LIFE,
DJ triple bypass
DJ frodo baggins/marshmallow madness
DJ toast mistress/covered wagon/pleather sandals

p.s. extra special thanxx to sebastian, david, zach, kevin, veronica, grace, and mom for tuning in!

the playlist:
"crayon" - manitoba
"hong kong garden" - siouxsie & the banshees
"cracked lcd" - ladytron
"come on petunia" - the blow
"yeti" - caribou
"a quai" - yann tiersen
"your heart on your sleeve" - colleen
"the mending of the gown" - sunset rubdown
"snow tip cap mountain" - the octopus project
"they made frogs smoke 'till they exploded" - múm
"stephanie says" - the velvet underground
"guyamas sonora" - beirut
"the city, the airpot" - loney, dear
"easier" - grizzly bear
"wolfenswan" - japanther
"big milk" - dan deacon

[THIS IS WHERE THE RECORDING STARTS]

"drool" - black dice
"stasis" - julian fane
"i'm tongue-tied" - the magnetic fields
"jynweythek ylow" - aphex twin
"the races" - the bird and the bee
"it's not up to you" - björk
"underland" - sleeping people
"like a call" - architecture in helsinki
"bees bein' strugglin'" - the octopus project
"blessed brambles" - múm
"grass" - animal collective
"atmosphere" - joy division
"cellphone's dead" - beck