"I'm Rich As Old Croesus When I've Got Ten Pieces"

Kokning cover art by Kim Hiorthey, 2010.

Cheers to Five Alarm Funk, the exceptional 10-piece funk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, currently touring Canada. They chewed up the Phog Lounge last Wednesday. People who couldn't get in were watching through the front window and grooving out in the cold and damp on the sidewalk. Inside was extremely funky, foggy, and fun.

The Snark playlist for TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011.
(Artist/SONG/Album, etc.)
  
Five Alarm Funk -- GORILLA -- Voodoo Hairdoo (2008, Five Alarm Funk)
Fat Freddys Drop -- ROADY -- Based On A True Story (2005, Kartel)
  
Bjorn Torske -- LANGT FRA AFRIKA -- Kokning (2010, Smalltown Supersound)
DePedro -- NUBES DE PAPEL -- Nubes De Papel (2010, Nat Geo)
Phelps & Munro -- NOTHING TO SEE HERE -- Invaderism: Round Trip Mars Presents A Ten Year Celebration (2010, Round Trip Mars)
Type Monkey Type -- SMOOTH LIKE CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER -- CJSW: Now With More Music (2011, CJSW)
  
Mr. OK feat. Larose -- YAYA -- Men Mwen (2011, Mr. OK)
Five Alarm Funk -- KING ARTHUR'S COURT -- Five Alarm Funk (2006, Five Alarm Funk)
Toots & the Maytals -- BAM BAM -- Trojan Calypso Box (2002, Trojan) [orig. 1966]
  
Louise Bennett -- CH-CHI BUD -- Jamaican Folk Songs Sung By Louise Bennett (1954, Folkways)
The Minotaurs -- NOTHING NEW -- The Thing (2010, Minotaurs)
Crissi Cochrane -- DARLING, DARLING -- Darling, Darling (2010, Crissi Cochrane)
The Bees -- WINTER ROSE -- Every Step's A Yes (2010, Fiction Records)
  
Johnny Green & His Orchestra feat. Fred Astaire -- I'D RATHER LEAD A BAND -- The Essential Collection [orig.1936]  {Hear dancing on the radio!}
Five Alarm Funk -- PAYDAY -- Anything Is Possible (2010, Five Alarm Funk)
Franco et l'O.K. Jazz -- BAILA MI CARABINE -- Franco et l'O.K. Jazz (196?)
The Budos Band -- BUDOS DIRGE -- Budos III (2010, Daptone)
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra -- I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEART (AND THROW AWAY THE KEY -- Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah! (1994, Sony) [orig. Columbia]
Alton Ellis -- AFRICAN DESCENDANTS -- Studio One Funk (2004, Soul Jazz) [orig. 197?, Coxsone]
  
Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frissell -- LÁGRIMAS MEXICANAS -- Lágrimas Mexicanas (2010, Eone)

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Sherlock's Older, Smarter Brother...

pg.95 of Sleeveface: Be The Vinyl, compiled by Carl Morris & John Rostron.
Artisan/Workman Publishing, 2008.
Photo by Gunnar Bangsmoen.
bob hund, Stenåldern kan börja, Bob Hund Förlag, 2001.

   
Hey! Thanks to cool NewZealand label ROUND TRIP MARS for the free download of Invaderism, a compilation featuring new and unreleased tracks from their roster of green-faced geniuses.

The Snark playlist for TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011.
(Artist/SONG/Album, etc.)
  
Ancient Astronauts -- ANTI-POP SONG -- Into Bass And Time (2011, ESL Music)
Wanda Jackson -- DUST ON THE BIBLE -- The Party Ain't Over (2011, Nonesuch)
   
Five Alarm Funk -- FACE RIOT -- Anything Is Possible (2010, Five Alarm Funk)
Fujiya & Miyagi -- TAIWANESE BOOTS -- Ventriloquizzing (2011, Yep Rock)
Magic Plants -- I'M A NOTHING -- Essential Pebbles, Volume 2 (????)
Dugong -- PANDEMONIUM, EQUILIBRIUM WALK WITH ME -- Iceberg 2011 (2011, Dugong)
   
Ska Cubano -- CHISPA TREN -- ¡Ay Caramba! (2006, Cumbancha)
Willie Wright -- JACKIE'S SONG -- Willie Wright: Telling The Truth (2011, Numero) [orig. 1977]
Casiokids -- MIN SISTE DAG -- Top stemning på lokal bar (2010, Polyvinyl)
Lee Gaul -- NOTHING AT ALL -- Some Primitive Recordings (2006?, Lee Gaul)
   
Mycroft Holmes -- SIDESHOW VIEWING -- Invaderism: Round Trip Mars Presents A 10-Year Celebration (2010, free download at Round Trip Mars Bandcamp page)
The Wave Pictures -- NOTHING CAN CHANGE THIS LOVE -- If You Leave It Alone (2009, Moshi Moshi)
bob hund -- GRÖNT LJUS ÅT ALLA -- Folkmusik för folk som kan bete sig som folk (2009, bob hund)
Mr. OK -- MEN MWEN -- Men Mwen (2011, Mr. OK)
   
Sonia Wieder-Atherton -- DANSE -- Chants Juifs Pour Violoncelle Et Piano (2010, näive)
Wab Kinew feat. isKwé -- GIVE IT UP -- Manitoba Music 2011 (2011)
Ike & Tina Turner's Kings Of Rhythm -- STEEL GUITAR RAG -- I Like Ike! The Best Of Ike Turner (1994, Rhino) [orig. 1961, Sue]
The Psychic Alliance -- TRI-SCARE-A-TOPS -- CJSW: Now With More Music (2011)
Jonathan Richman -- O MOON, QUEEN OF NIGHT ON EARTH -- O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth (2010, Vapor)
   
Five Alarm Funk -- WATERBOAT -- Voodoo Haircut (2008, Five Alarm Funk)
   
Thanks for listening!

FIVE ALARM FUNK is coming to Phog Lounge on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9th, 2011!

gorilla vs. shark: who do you root for?

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Did He Say Toga Party?

He did -- out in the quad: Davinder said toga party.  That's double-secret probation for you, young man!

The Snark playlist for TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010.
(Artist/SONG/Album, etc.)

Patrizia & Jimmy -- TRUST YOUR CHILD, PART 1 -- The ABCs of Kid Soul (2007, Numero)
Casiokids -- GRØNT LYS I ALLE LED -- Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar (2010, Polyvinyl)

Fat Freddys Drop -- SHIVERMAN -- Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW (2009, The Drop)
[due to CJAM's live remote broadcast outside at the University of Windsor's Welcome Week for students, we needed an extra six minutes or so to sort out some technical snags... therefore: it had to be more Freddys!]
Fat Freddys Drop -- BOONDIGGA -- Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW (2009, The Drop)

Johhny West -- IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, REDEFINE SUCCESS -- My Hellhound Crooked Heart (2010, ind)
Alerth Bedasse & Chin's Calypso Sextet -- MUSSU & JOHN TOM -- Take Me To Jamaica: The Story of Jamaican Mento (2008, Pressure Sounds)
The Sundry Light -- JUNE BUG -- Neferiu Records: Tendown (2010, Neferiu)
The Ceejebs -- ETI UFOK -- The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (2010, SoundWay)
Cibelle -- MAN FROM MARS -- Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel (2010, Crammed Discs)
Five Alarm Funk -- ZENITH ESCALATOR -- Anything Is Possible (2010, ind)
Dubmatix -- CHAMPION SOUND -- Atomic Subsonic (2006, 7 Arts Entertainment)
Vern Blair Debate -- SUPER FUNK -- Texas Funk: Black Gold from The Lone Star State, 1968-75 (2002, Now-Again)
Tony Jackson Group -- FORTUNE TELLER -- Mod Club Party (2005, Mojo)

[CJAM's volunteer coordinator Sarah Morris interviews the "Welcome Week" activities coordinator outside in the windy quad.]

King Cobb Steelie -- BUSY BEE -- Destroy All Codes (2004, Outside Music)
Bombay Bicycle Club -- OPEN HOUSE -- I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2010, Arena Rock)
The Black Seeds -- SLINGSHOT -- Solid Ground (2009, Easy Star Records)

[Sarah Morris interviews the "Shinerama 2010" coordinator outside in the quad.]

Prince Conley -- I'M GOING HOME -- The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68 (2003, Atlantic) [orig. 1962]
The Birds -- LEAVING HERE -- Mod Club Party (2005, Mojo) [orig. 1965, Decca]

[Sarah Morris interviews a frosh.]

Ratatat -- DRUGS -- LP4 (2010, XL)

Thanks for listening!  And special thanks to CJAM's Sarah Morris for stepping up to the mic and assisting a very displaced Snark.