The Friday Night Parkdale Special

The FNPSl: Episode 30 - Big Band (10-09-2020)

On this week's show, I explore the big band sound, and muse about what exactly shoo fly pie is.
The Ink Spots - If I Didn’t Care
Don Vorhees Orchestra - Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Ray Noble - The Very Thought of You
Glenn Miller - In The Mood
Nat King Cole - On The Sunny Side of The Street
Dinah Shore - Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
Dean Martin - Ain’t That A Kick In The Head
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - Fly Me To The Moon
Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea
Dean Martin with the Dick Stabile Orchestra - Sway
Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
Billy Eckstine - Blue Moon
Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo
Nat King Cole - I Could Have Danced All Night
Ella & Satchmo - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Sammy Davis Jr. - I Ain’t Got Nobody
Harry James - It’s Been A Long, Long Time
Dean Martin - That’s Amore
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - Pennies From Heaven
Louis Armstrong - A Kiss To Build A Dream On
Billie Holiday - All of Me
Sammy Davis Jr. - I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Ray Charles - It Had To Be You
Count Basie & Tony Bennett - I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things
Ella & Satchmo - The Nearness of You
Bing Crosby & John Scott Trotter - I’ll Be Seeing You
Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By

The FNPS: Episode 29 - A Birthday Episode (10-02-2020)

On this week's show, another birthday episode, this time for a friend.
Massive Attack - What Your Soul Sings
Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Placebo - Kings Of Medicine
Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty
Electric Guest - Oh Devil
Zaz - Je Veux
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
George Harrison - What Is Life
Lera Lynn ft. Shovels & Rope - Wolf Like Me
Emancipator - Lionheart
UNKLE ft. Ian Astbury - Burn My Shadow
Jesus & Mary Chain - Gimme Hell
Tech N9ne ft. Kiddo A.i. - Til I’m Gone
Cannibal Ox ft. Space, Swave Sevah & Elohim Star - Thunder In July
Serena Ryder - Wolves
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
Cigarettes After Sex - Affection
Wolf Alice - Bros
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
Underworld - Nylon Strung
Diane Birch & The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Atmosphere
Peter Murphy - I’ll Fall With Your Knife

The FNPS: Episode 28 - A Brief Overview of Ragtime (10-02-2020)

On this week's show, I take a look at the roots of ragtime and its evolution
 
Antonin Dvorak - Humoresques (no.7) 
John Philip Sousa - King Cotton
Ben Harney - You've Been a Good Old Wagon
Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin - The Entertainer
James Scott - On The Pike
Jelly Roll Morton - Jelly Roll Blues
Joseph Lamb - Sensation
Debussy - Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Scott Joplin - Pineapple Rag
Lyons & Yosco - Spaghetti Rag
James P. Johnson - Twilight Rag
Irving Berlin (Bessie Smith) - Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Original Dixieland Band - Tiger Rag
James P. Johnson - Carolina Shout
Zez Confrey - Kitten on the Keys 
James P. Johnson - Charleston 
Jelly Roll Morton - Kansas City Stomp
Django Reinhardt - I’ll See You In My Dreams
Willie “The Lion” Smith - Harlem Joys
Jelly Roll Morton - Blackbottom Stomp
Phil Baxter - If I Had You And You Had Me
Blind Blake - Southern Rag
Phil Baxter - I Ain’t Got No Gal Now
Fats Waller - Ain’t Misbehavin’
Blind Boy Fuller - Rag, Mama, Rag
Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
Willie “The Lion” Smith - Finger Buster

The FNPS: Episode 27 - The Fall Equinox (09-25-2020)

This week's show is much more laid back than the last few weeks' shows. With the change of the seasons, I felt like putting together a set of songs that reflected that shift.
Dusty Springfield - Summer Is Over
EMVY - End of Summer
David Sylvian - September
Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Skin
Chicane ft. Justine Suissa - Autumn Tactics (End of Summer Edit)
Donna Summer - Autumn Changes
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Iron & Wine - Autumn Town Leaves
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys - When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall
Agnes Obel - September Song
bearbare - falling leaves
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Sweet September Morning
Andrei Krylov ft. Lana Ross - Autumn Sunrise over Montreal
Ella & Satchmo - Autumn In New York
Hall & Oates - Fall In Philadelphia
Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
Marianne Faithfull - Flaming September
Milo Greene - Autumn Tree
Olafur Arnalds - Autumn Day
The Vines - Autumn Shade
Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong

The FNPS: Episode 26 - Bring Me My Clutching Pearls! (09-18-2020)

This episode comes on the heels of the release of Cardi B & Megan THEE Stallion's collab, "W.A.P.", and all the breathless double-standard criticism and judgment that dogged them. On tonight's show, songs primarily by women, expressing sexual agency in a way that their contemporary society found offensive, across time and genres.
Salt ‘n’ Pepa - Let’s Talk About Sex
Lady Gaga - Lovegame
Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy
Sinead O’Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me)
20 Fingers & Gillette - Short Dick Man
Consolidated & The Yeastie Girls - You Suck
Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away
Liz Phair - Flower
Madonna - Justify My Love
Kellis - Milkshake
Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
Lil Kim ft. Sisqo - How Many Licks
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna, & Foxy Brown - What’s Your Fantasy (remix)
Beyonce - Blow
The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
The Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
Olivia Newton John - Physical
Colbie Calliat - Bubbly
Loretta Lynn - The Pill
Kitty Wells - It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Bessie Smith - I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl

The FNPS: Episode 25 - Riot Grrrls & Other Bad Bs (09-11-2020)

After being on the receiving end of some creepy street harassment, I got riled up and put this show together. It's all songs by women who have had enough of men's crap. There will be a lot of swearing, just as an fyi.
Mecca Normal - I Walk Alone
Bif Naked - The Gross, Gross Man
War on Women - Broken Record
Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless
The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
Le Tigre - On Guard
Slant 6 - What Kind of Monster Are You?
The Regrettes - Ladylike/WHATTA B*TCH
The Coathangers - Shut The F*ck Up
Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One
Petrol Girls - Touch Me Again
The Shiverettes - Dead Men Can’t Catcall
L7 - Sh*tlist
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Bratmobile - What’s Wrong With You?
Chicks On Speed - Mind Your Own Business
Tacocat - Men Explain Things To Me
Kitten Forever - Get Loud
Lady Pills - Eat Them
Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
Lunachicks - Bad Ass B*tch
Lily Allen - Hard Out Here
Peaches ft. Feint - I Mean Something
Emilie Autumn - Fight Like A Girl
TLC - No Scrubs
Miss Eaves - Fuccboi Salute
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Lady Gaga - Free Woman

The FNPS: Episode 24 - History Told Through Song, pt.2 (09-04-2020)

I collected so much good material last week that I couldn't help but do a second episode of songs based on real events. Well, mostly--Barrett's Privateers is likely more legend than reality, but...shhhh.
Depeche Mode - Agent Orange
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Ohio
Tom Robinson Band - Long Hot Summer
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Audioslave - Wide Awake
Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot
The Vaccines - Radio Bikini
System of a Down - PLUCK
Rammstein - Wiener Blut
Nazareth - My White Bicycle
Tragically Hip - Fifty-Mission Cap
Bastille - Pompeii
Jack’s Mannequin - Platform Fire
The Albion Band - The Gresford Disaster
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Boomtown Rats - I Don’t Like Mondays
Johnny Cash - Wreck of the Old 97

The FNPS: Episode 23 - History Told Through Song, pt.1 (08-28-2020)

On this week's show, it's all songs that tell stories about real historical events. Music, history, and politics, all in one go!
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn
Gordon Lightfoot - Black Day In July
Ill Wind - LAPD
Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie
Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark - 88 Seconds In Greensborough
Peter Gabriel - Biko
Simple Minds - Belfast Child
Mary Chapin Carpenter - 4 June 1989
Rush - Heresy
Iron Maiden - Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Bruce Springsteen - Roulette
Dan Fogelberg - Face The Fire
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
Bastille - Four Walls
10cc - Rubber Bullets
The Box - L’Affaire Dumoutier
Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
Peter Katz - The Fence
The Unthanks - The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3

The FNPS: Episode 22 - The Filthy 15 And Friends (08-21-2020)

On this week's show, I get into the history behind the Parental Advisory stickers that began showing up on albums in 1990. This goes allllll the way back to the early days of the Satanic Panic in the 80s, the formation of the PMRC in 1985, and the creation of a list of songs that were considered the worst offenders, AKA The Filthy 15. As a post-meal sorbet, we round out the show with some songs lashing back at the PMRC, in particular, one former Vice President's wife. Tipper Gore would hate this episode ^_^
Prince - Darling Nikki
Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls
Judas Priest - Eat Me Alive
Vanity - Strap on Robbie Baby
Motley Crue - Bastard
AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love Into You
Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It
Madonna - Dress You Up
WASP - Animal
Def Leppard - High n’ Dry
Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven
Black Sabbath - Trashed
Mary Jane Girls - In My House
Venom - Possessed
Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
Dead Kennedys - I Kill Children
Danzig - Mother
Ice-T - Freedom of Speech
Alice Donut - Tipper Gore
Cinderella - Shelter Me
Warrant - Ode To Tipper Gore
Furnaceface - Tipper Gore

The FNPS: Episode 21 - Red Skies (08-07-2020)

This week's show is more personal; I process some grief over two heartbreaking incidents that got tangled together.
Chicane - Red Skies
Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Hiroshima Remix)
Peter Gabriel - Washing of the Water
Seabound - Watching Over You (Haujobb Remix)
Kevin Kerrigan - Perseids
sleepmakeswaves - Into The Arms of Ghosts
Rollins Band - Liar
Pet Shop Boys - It Couldn’t Happen Here
HEALTH & Perturbator - BODY/PRISON
Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
MUNA - After
Eurythmics - Shame
IAMX - Sorrow
Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip - You Will See Me
clipping. - Body & Blood
Emilie Autumn - One Foot in Front of the Other
Sia - I’m Still Here
The Staves - Sadness Don’t Own Me
Joy Williams - Ordinary World
In-Flight Safety - Surround