Last show ...

This was my last show on WMFO. After 10 years of broadcasting, the Taste the Floor show is no more. Thanks for all the memories!

June 19 playlist
Jesus & Mary Chain – The living end
Lou Reed – Vicious
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Primal Scream – Rocks
Terence Trent D’Arby – She kissed me
Sex Pistols – Pretty vacant
Catherine Wheel – I want to touch you
The Who – Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
The Beach Boys – God only knows
The Rolling Stones – Respectable
The Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
Opium Den – Blind
The Knack – My Sharona
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
New Order – Age of consent
Echo & the Bunnymen – Nothing lasts forever
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg bop
The Monkees – She hangs out
Adorable – Favourite fallen idol
The Replacements – Kiss me on the bus
The B-52’s – Strobelight
Psychedelic Furs – Into you like a train
Blur – Slow down
Radiohead – Bones
The Black Crowes – Sometimes salvation
INXS – Listen like thieves
U2 – Walk on
The Beatles – The long and winding road

Playlist for June 5
Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
Rolling Stones – Slave
Annette Farrington – I don’t want it
Blur – Out of time
The Electromagnetic – Charlie
Betty Dylan – Poison kisses
Radiohead – There there
Eurythmics – Love is a stranger
Michele Marie – The sea is calling
Feathermerchants – Temporary
Jessy Moss – Pick a card
J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers – Unforgivable
Dean Martin – Return to me
Eyes like knives – Sleep a while
Screaming for Emily – I kiss the earth
Mary Lorson & Billy Cote – E guitar
Turnerjoy – Home
The Kills – Cat claw
Amy Rigby – Are we ever going to have sex again?
X27 – Me
The Salteens – Damn you
Mike Shupp – This time
S PRCSS – Spring garden drive-by
Kaito – Try me out
Gemma Hayes – Let a good thing go
The Deathray Davies – The girl who stole the Eiffel Tower
Benna – Simple days
Folksongs for the afterlife – Death by Melody

Playlist for May 22
Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
Blur – Out of time
The Curtain Society – Marigold girl
Echo & the Bunnymen – I want to be there when you come
Ladytron – 17
Feather Merchants – Heartbreak beat
The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in pink
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Warren Zanes – Everybody loves you
MC Honky – The object
Bif Naked – Choking on the truth
Faux Jean – Sugar sure is sweet
Kaito UK – Should I
Isaac Hayes – Walk on by
Annette Farrington – Dive
Lunargirl – Somehow
I Love You – I love you, I do
Ballast – College girl
Sarah Rabdau – Light up
The Electromagnetic – 21st Century
J. Neo & the Content Providers – Fiscal year zero [charge of the lite brigade]
Benna – Half a girl
The Deathray Davies – Gone against the tide
Mary Lorson & Billy Cote – Dug a hole

Just a few shows left ...
The schedule change at WMFO prompted me to think that I was going to not be doing my show during the summer. However, I will be continuing to broadcast the Taste the Floor radio show on WMFO until the end of June. My next show will be May 22. I will also be on the air June 5 and June 19. After that, I don't know since I will be moving. Thanks again for listening!

Playlist for May 1
Quick thank you to Warren Zanes formerly of the Del Fuegos who chatted for a little while this afternoon. Go check him out at the Middle East on Wednesday, May 14 and check out his great CD "Memory Girls" on Dualtone.

Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
The Beatles – Day tripper
Lava Baby – Sex junkie
The Del Fuegos – When the news is on
Sarah Fimm – Virus
Ian McCulloch – Sliding
Outerstar – Every moment
The Electromagnetic – Charlie
Ringo Starr – Missouri loves company
The Beatles – Paperback writer
Will Hoge – Hey tonight
MC Honky – The object
Lava Baby – I got you
Neil Young – Cinnamon girl
The Stratford 4 – She married the birds
Lou Reed [with Laurie Anderson] – Call on me
Edwyn Collins – Never felt like this
Lisa Germano – Paper doll
Burtonia – Cardboard riot
The Psychedelic Furs – Heartbreak beat
Generation X – Ready steady go
The Replacements – Kiss me on the bus
The Fleshtones – Hard lovin’ man
King Crimson – The great deceiver
Pamela Richardson – Through the window

Natural Toy's Jeff Kauppi plays Taste the Floor and promotes his new CD, "Are we here yet?", February 2003.

Jeff from Natural Toy stops by April 17 ...
Be sure to tune into the Taste the Floor on WMFO 91.5 FM on Thursday, April 17 for our special guest Jeff Kauppi from Natural Toy who will be coming by to play some tunes.

April 3 playlist
Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste the floor
Lavababy - Sex junkie
Sarah Fimm - Lioness
Warren Zanes - Sidewalk sale
Rolling Stones - Little T&A
Absinthe Blind - Walls covered in hope
I Love You - Watch you try
Butthole Surfers - The bong song [by request]
The Knee-hi's - Teenage blues
Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women - Jet aircraft
The Silent Kids - Lost in the petrified forest, The Bering Sea
Will Hoge - Be the one
I Am Spoonbender - Remove - installer
Calla - Peter the killer
Morris 8 - Dead man's body
Gary Numan - Down in the park [live]
The Coral - I remember when
The Stratford 4 - 12 months
The Me Decade - Echo Beach
Judah Johnson - I'm in a dangerous place
Howe Home - Felonious [by request]
Jo Alexis - Mercy
The Cynics - Making deals
The Brilliant Mistakes - The girl you left behind
Reckless Daughter - Dizzy
Ballast - College girl
Kim Fox - Ladybug
MC Honky - Hung up
Alaska - Lost the gold

Tracks by Susan & the Surftones and 808 State were played in between sets.

March 20 playlist
Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste the Floor
Jello Biafra - Die for oil
Midnight Oil - Read about it
Psychedelic Furs - President gas
The Electromagnetic - Charlie
Judah Johnson - I'm in a dangerous place
Chumbawamba - Jacob's ladder [Not in our name]
Reckless Daughter - Dizzy
Rolling Stones - Shattered
Velvet Underground - Foggy notion
Cass McCombs - Not the way
Fairview - I wrote you I would
The Stratford 4 - When the ocean meets the eye
The Brilliant Mistakes - Stupid love song
Subsonics - Stars
Lorna Hunt - Mystery reconstruction
Absinthe Blind - The break [It's been there all this time]
Sarah Fimm - Virus
Alice Bierhorst - At sunset
Calla - Strangle
Interpol - Say hello the angels
Gary Numan - Me, I disconnect from you [live]
Rye Coalition - Communication breakdance

Playlist for March 6
Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
The Curtain Society – Marigold girl
The Strokes – Last nite
The Rolling Stones – When the whip comes down
Natural Toy – James Earl me
Absinthe Blind – Ease the curtains down, Brave
Warren Zanes – Hey girl
The Be Good Tanyas – The junkie song
Mimi Rock – New York
Live on Release – Don’t leave me alone
Judah Johnson – In the can
Jo Alexis – Let’s stay up
Burndiscoburn – Problems replacing problems
Sarah Fimm – Lioness
Slut ‘Em Go – 6 glorious spine tingling minutes of S’EG!
Heavy Duty Felt – Christina says
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Still in love
Cramer – When I’m dead, my dearest
Emily Easterly – Concrete floor
Calla – Monument
Louie Fontaine – Don’t like techno [I like rock]
Lou Reed with Antony – Perfect day
Stiffed – He looks good
The Stratford 4 – She married the birds
Gary Numan – Down in the park, Are ‘friends’ electric? [live]
Susan & the Surftones – Pete Gunn
Ripley Caine – The mouse and the cat
Robin Lane & the Chartbusters – She wants you back
The Mediums – So glad
Reckless Daughter – So tired

Playlist for Feb. 20
Jesus & Mary Chain – Just like honey
I Love You – Watch you try
For Against – Outside a heart
Absinthe – Walls covered in hope
Grain – Secrets
Baby Grand – Rue the day
Jo Alexis – We got the go
The Charms – Marianne
The Volta Sound – See the light in someone else
Warren Zanes – Have you once recalled the days?
Black Dice – Seabird
George Harrison – Rising sun
Calexico – Not even Stevie Nicks
The Clean – Side on
King Missile – Jesus was way cool [Millennium edition]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – He wants you
The Booze Explosion – Felicity
Ripley Caine – Labor Day
Jesse Malin – Wendy
The Wheelies – Breath until morning
The [International] Noise Conspiracy – Bigger cages, longer chains
Alice Bierhorst – Spring
The Delgados – All you need is hate
All Mighty Senators – Giant steps

Playlist for Feb. 13:
Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg
Paul Westerberg/Grandpa Boy – Silent film star
Absinthe Blind – Shields
Lou Reed – Romeo had Juliette
Warren Zanes – Scrapbook
Alex Maws – Scraps of paper
For Against – Fuel
The Out Crowd – Reptile
Paul Weller – A bullet for everyone
Mark Dwinell – Hazy, rushing
The Wheelies – All talk
Natural Toy/Jeff Kauppi – James Earl Me, The Jodie Foster song, Somebody, Frying pan of love [by request], Women love to like me [but they don’t like to love me]
Capital City – I’ll think of something
The Volta Sound – The ride
Baby Grand – Lost
Lorna Hunt – Do the living
Live On Release – I’m afraid of Britney Spears
Johnny Marr & the Healers – Down on the corner
Cosmo Vitelli – Party day
Sarah Lentz – Boomerang
Tatu – How soon is now
Dance Disaster Movement – I want your sass

Natural Toy play Taste the Floor show!
Check out my ATT home page for a pic of Jeff Kauppi of Natural Toy strumming his guitar on the Taste the Floor show today [http://home.attbi.com/~radiotony/wsb/]. Jeff played three tunes, one requested by a caller no less.

Natural Toy visits WMFO Feb. 13
Singer/songwriter Jeff Kauppi of Natural Toy will be on this week's Taste the Floor show scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. He will be strumming some tunes and we will be checking out some songs from the new Natural Toy CD.

Playlist for Jan. 30
Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Within you, without you
Lou Reed w/The Blind Boys of Alabama – I wanna know [The pit and the pendulum]
Lou Reed w/Ornette Coleman – Guilty
Ride – Seagull
Natural Toy – Sidewalks
For Against – Medication
The Volta Sound – Henri Chinaski
The Ramones – Beat on the brat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Machine
Kennedy – If tomorrow never comes
Sunstorm – Mojave’s town
Echo & the Bunnymen – Supermellowman
Glenn Tilbrook – This is where you ain’t
Andy Hunter – Go
Capital City – This town won’t be the same
Yo La Tengo – Nuclear war
The Soft Boys – I love Lucy
Vendetta Red – Three chord Valentine
Alex Maws – Miss me when I’m gone
Warren Zanes – Hey girl
Furniture Music – Dating game
Baby Grand – Star
The Race – It looks like a circle but it’s really a spiral
Sometimeswhy – Making strange
Byrne – Waiting for winter, Sleeping giant
Wes Cunningham – Only you know

Tony subs for "On the Town" Jan. 29
Here is the playlist for the On the Town show
Fooled by April – Don’t want you around
Sarah Fimm – Virus
Gigolo Aunts – Mr. Tomorrow
Warren Zanes – First on the moon
16 Years of Grace – Your whore
Thalia Zadek – Candy says
Torrez – The girls will haunt you
Magic 12 – Radiowave
Sugabomb – Titties
Robin Lane & the Chartbusters – She wants you back
Charlene – Shoot yr. life
Lunargirl – Sunday is mine
The Dubnicks – Falls apart
The Crybabies – Fool of me
Flash in Blue – Rule of the fathers
The Pixies – Planet of Sound
The Kitty Kill – Taken
Freezepop – T DJ
Alex Maws – Scraps of paper
All the Queens Men – Alive [remix]
Beth Boucher – Gimme some time
Clem Snide – Nick Drake
[The Tint – live set]
I Love You – Watch you try
Amber Spyglass – Catalyst groove
The Curtain Society – Marigold girl
Natural Toy – Women love to like me [they don’t like to love me]
The Figgs – Sit and shake
Labb – Fourteen hour date
Blake Hazard – Saint Sebastien
Capital City – White hands
Default Outfit – Masquerade
Grubstake – Silent song

Gladshot return to WMFO to promote their show at The Kendall Cafe, Janurary 2003.

Taste the Floor show playlist for Jan. 16, 2003
Extended version Jan. 16
Jesus & Mary Chain – Taste the floor
Rolling Stones – Slave
Warren Zanes – Sidewalk sale
Hello Defective – Getting started with stereo
Furniture Music – Dawn had hopes
Bluebird – Falling back to earth
Graig Markel – Hello hello
New Order – Blue Monday remix
The Voltasound – You’re nobody’s girlfriend
Franki Baaz – Carry on
Sybarite – The fourth day
The Belles – You can’t have it all
For Against – So long
Chumbawamba – Jacob’s Ladder [Not in my name]
Tara Jane O’Neil – Just Calling, Juno
The Ramones – Do you remember rock n’ roll radio
Ride – Vapour trail
Gladshot – Running past Rosetta, The reckoning [live], He dreams alone
Polara – Jetpack blues
Natural Toy – James Earl me
Sarah Lentz – All right
Oneida – People of the north
Primal Scream – Autobahn 66, Detroit risk
Bic Runga – Election night
Alex Maws – Patricia
Sarah Fimm – Virus
16 Years of Grace – Your whore
Charlene – Shoot yr. life
Six Pence None the Richer – Don’t dream it’s over
The Donnas – You wanna get me high
Lava Baby – Sexual Junkie
The Lack Loves – Starspangledsatellites
Black Dice – Seabird, Things will be the same
Ikara Colt – Belgravia
The Gunthries – Terrible thing
M. F. McAdam – Magnets & Batteries
Joan of Arse – The states are in the gallery sharpening their oars
The Flaming Lips – Can’t get you out of my head [live]
Invisible Downtown – My sins
Living Daylytes – Wake up call
The Plimsouls – Million miles away
Baby Grand – Exile
Bettina Covo – Tropic of Capricorn
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Bang
Ice T – The lane [EVA remix]
Dead Kennedys – Pull my strings
The Knack – My Sharona, Art war
Jason Bowers – The sunshine
AM – Inthecity, NY
Faux Jean – Chartreuse skirt
Moodroom – Vivid blurry
The Pretenders – Fools must die
Camper Van Beethoven – Sara
Operation Makeout – Lost, unwanted … but still nice, Take the rains
Fooled by April – Nobody knows
Flash In Blue – Steamy summer

Thursday, January 02, 2003
Posted 7:13 PM by anthony
Taste the Floor show playlist for Jan. 2, 2003

Because Tufts University students were not in session, I had a double show this week. The first half of the show, I played my "Tops for 2002" set, selected tracks from the list at the very bottom of this post. After that, I pulled a bunch of new music from the bins and rocked out for an extra two hours in an "Extended Version" set. The lists of tracks and selections are below.

Playlist for Jan. 2 …
Jello Biafa – …And Gore made us want to Ralph
Ride – Drive blind, Taste
The Voltasound – You’re nobody’s girlfriend
Jason Bowers – The sunshine
Lisbeth Scott – Push the river
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin remix
Sixpence None the Richer – Don’t dream it’s over
Glenn Tilbrook – One dark moment
Dana Glover – Thinking it over
Sarah Lentz – Angel
The Dudley Corporation – Stutter
The Stereo – Pay no attention
Emily Sparks – Spring
Alex Maws – Spellbound
Kennedy – The Scott Sterling extreme sports challenge
Cober – Hear lies
Longwave – Pool song
Ethos – Drive us
Faux Jean – Nature
Voyager One – Wires
Watsonville Patio – Tijuana internet chick
Lily – Spaceship
We Ragazzi – I want you 2 love me so much
Fooled By April – Nobody knows
Strangelight – Stained glass
Thalia Zedek – Candy says
Rainer Maria – Alchemy
Shimmer Kids – Like candy, like poison
Amber Spyglass – Catalyst groove
Abilene – Twisting the trinity
Torrez – There are some places you should leave and never go back to
All the Queen’s Men – If we let go [remix]
Chao – Gotta go

Wednesday, January 01, 2003
Posted 10:39 AM by anthony
“Taste the Floor” Radio Show Tops in 2002 list
Here are some of the best music releases of the last year which I have featured on my radio program heard every other Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. on WMFO 91.5 FM in Medford.

The Apples in Stereo — “Velocity of Sound” — A great pop album filled with big hooks and crunchy guitars. Every song on here is a winner and I was happy to play many of them. I only wish I got to see them live when they played the Roxy.
Astroblast — “This Will Help You on Your Way” — Some of the best noise pop/space rock out there from this Texas-based band. The songs are uplifting and dynamic, the effects are loud, and Jenn is a charm. I hope to hear more from this band in the future.
The Black Watch — “Lovestruck” track — A great pop tune. Period.
Bratmobile — “Girls Get Ready” — I fell in love with this riot grrl trio back in the old days when they released the “Kiss & Tell” single. Years later, they are still churning out beautiful, blasting lo-fi punk. Excellent.
Chao — “Gotta go” track — A show closer for weeks and weeks.
Maggie Connell — “The Luxury of Sadness” — This one is hard to describe but it is an absolutely brilliant record. Maggie is a jack of all trades on this one and masters many different styles of music from performance art rock to pure pop.
Devil Doll — “Queen of Pain” — Oh my, oh my. Where the hell did this come from? Colleen Duffy sings her heart wrenching — yet rocking — tunes of loves won and lost in almost every style imaginable. So often in this industry, you hear someone with real talent or a knack for a hook but they never get anywhere. Someone please, don’t let this girl waste away on the Sunset Strip!
The Flaming Lips — “Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots” — A very mellow collection and not as good as past efforts from these purveyors of acid punk. However, anything by The Flaming Lips is still better than most bands out there.
Gladshot — “Relic” — Very good power pop from this NYC duo who drove all the way up to Boston to play my show in March. See the Web site for a quick pic. This one has nice strumming, nice humming, and nice keyboards. A gem.
Goo Goo Dolls — “Gutterflower” — Okay, so music snobs don’t like this band and some are probably surprised to see this CD here. But the Goo Goo Dolls are one of the only good mainstream bands around today. This hook riddled record is a lot of fun.
Grandpa Boy a.k.a. Paul Westerberg — “Mono” — While his “Stereo” release gave us many of the heartfelt Westerberg tunes we have come to love, the Grandpa Boy disc of this two CD set was the smash-em-up kind of stuff that made us fall in love with Westerberg in the first place!
Tami Hart — “Trapped in your blood” track — This is what punk was supposed to be about.
Blake Hazard — “Little Airplanes” — North Shore label Kimchee Records put out some of the best local stuff this year. Blake’s “Little Airplanes,” guided by lo-fi guitar guru John Dragonetti a.k.a. Jack Drag, was a stellar pop record. Can hardly wait to hear the next one.
Jabberpony — “So Far” — This New Jersey quartet plays jazzy folk pop with nice vocals and do-it-yourself attitude.
Lava Baby — NYC-based new wave pop quintet’s “Big Muff” was released twice last year and received airplay both times. A very enjoyable album.
Lords of Acid — “Scrood Bi U” track — A trivial masterpiece. Sluts rule.
Mary Lorson & Saint Low — I loved the first two Madder Rose records which I played to death when they came out. The new release from Mary Lorson was a bit on the moodier side but still exciting and pleasurable.
Jana McCall — “Slumber” — A very mellow but stimulating album from a former member of the punk band Dickless. A surprisingly beautiful collection of tunes.
Merrick — “Merrick” — Great indie pop record from the daughter of a guy from Little Feat. This record is much better than anything her dad’s band did. Unfortunately, the band broke up recently.
Midnight Oil — “Capricornia” — Probably the last release with amazing front man Peter Garrett but keeping with the fine Oil's tradition of full melodic structures and powerful prose.
Mistle Thrush — “Drunk with You” — After a short hiatus with lineup changes and bouts with labels, the Thrushies burst back onto the Boston scene with this collection of great songs. Well worth the five year wait.
Josh Rouse — “Feeling no pain” track — A numbing jaunt into pop bliss.
27 — “Animal Life” — Maria Christopher was one of Boston’s mesmerizing talents in The Dirt Merchants. Fronting 27, she is mature, poetic, and masterful. They have everything you could possible want in a band. The album was so good I decided to play the whole thing in its entirety on one show.
Wilco — “Heavy metal drummer” track — Quirky reality seeps in again and commercial radio belatedly picked up on this band. A great single.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” EP — Almost as powerful a debut as The Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Psychocandy” back in 1985. Almost, that is.