The Console Drive - Show #7 - 11/29/2010

And now your predictable play list for today. .

Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
Air Supply - Lost In Love
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Canned Heat - On The Road Again
Eric Clapton - Promises
Supertramp - Gone Hollywood
Yes - Starship Trooper
Pink Floyd - On The Run
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Percy Faith - Yesterday
Little River Band - Lady

Closer filler song: Booker T and The MGs - Crusin'

At least I didn't play The Alan Parsons Project today :)..

The Console Drive - Show #6

Playlist for today's show

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Marrakesh Express
Judy Collins - How Are Things In Glocca Morra?
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
Goblin - Tirrasegno
The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Boz Skaggs - We're All Alone
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes
Bread - Everything I Own
The Mudlarks - Who Wrote The Book (Booouhk) Of Love
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios
Andy Williams - Music To Watch Girls By
Gordon Lightfoot - Beautiful
Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well

Typical self indulgent playlist, I know, especially with the repeated plays of The Alan Parsons Project and Goblin.

I am a big fan of instrumental music, particularly music used as themes for local newscast 'intros' and 'outros'. Frank Mills' 'Music Box Dancer' was once used for what was then WNGE Nashville Channel 2's (now WKRN) news theme back in the 70's and 80's.

To prove that this was the case, here's a YouTube clip where Frank Mills actually performed the song live at the end of a Channel 2 newscast (played over a backing track, of course).

Note how the news anchors walk up to the piano in appreciation. Priceless.

The Console Drive - Show #5 - 11/14/2010

Playlist for today's show. .

Marz - The Pop Song
The Who - Bargain
Optiganally Yours - Down
The Police - Oh My God
The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire
Charlie Hayden/Pat Metheny - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Andre 3000 - Prototype
Firefall - Strange Way
Steely Dan - Sign In Stranger
Heatwave - Groove Line
Hall And Oates - One On One
The Crusaders - Serenity

You probably won't notice much difference in the audio quality, but we edited today's show using the public beta of Adobe Audition for Mac OS X. I used the iZotope multiband processor 'Broadcast' setting for the final mix.

For many years, we've used Cool Edit Pro on the Windows platform with great success. So far, AA for Mac OS X seems solid as a rock, with a few new features added for a quicker work flow. I particularly like the 'scrub' function, although I hate having to click twice to move the cursor back to the position from where I desire audio playback on sound clips.

I hope the price won't be too high when it goes final, 'cause I want a copy of it.

The Console Drive - Show #4 - 11/08/2010

Back after reairing an old show from last week due to an unforeseen emergency.

Playlist for today's show

Bert Kaempfert - Wonderland By Night
J.J. Cale - Magnolia
Donald Fagen - New Frontiers
The Doobie Brothers - Ukiah
10cc - I'm Not In Love
Glenda Collins - Something I've Got To Tell You Baby
Fabio Frizzi - Track 5 from 'Zombi 2' Soundtrack
Tipsy - Mr. Excitement
Supertramp - Oh Darling
Eric Clapton - Black Rose


And yes, I know, something completely different. .

John Oswald - Plexure (Full)

Got into John Oswald, especially his Plunderphonic CD, back in my MTSU days. Used to play it to fall asleep by, a massive deconstruction of pop tunes of the late 80's (the album was released in '89).

Once again, seek, consume, enjoy. .

Rebroadcast of Show #3 - 11/01/10

Due to an emergency, I had to rebroadcast last week's show this week. New program up for next week, so stay tuned. .