haha so called because it has several main dishes!

the first part was a salute to Barak Obama

1. Will.I.Am et al.-Yes we Can

2. Michael Franti and Spearhead-The Barack Obama Song

3. Bruce Springsteen-Working on a Dream

The next part featured the Derek Trucks Bands new LP “Already free” we played it in its entirity. Buy this album…or else. so all these are by the DTB:

4. Down in the Flood (cover of bob dylan and the band)

5. Something to make You Happy

6. Maybe This Time

7. Sweet Inspiration

8. Don’t Miss Me

9. Get What you Deserve

10. Our Love

11. Down Don’t Bother Me

12. Days Is Almost Gone

13. Back Where I Started

14. I Know

15. Already Free

and for the final course we played the vinyl album “Canadian Pacific” by  George Hamilton IV.

its from the civl library so i dont have a tracklisting, it would probably be hard to find anyways, if you have one, post it here!

anyways, see you tomorrow for “It Lead up to Led: Led Zeppelin Behind the Music”

“Music is Love”

Peace

Paul

Hey Guys, sorry it’s been a while but I’m back and I’ll have two shows updated on here. Also don’t forget that tomorrow is another great show. This week: “It Lead to Led: Led Zeppelin Behind the Music”

So the january 10th show was all about break up songs.

starts off with two songs about things that happen after relationships ie. nostalga and arguements about who gets what!

1. Grace Potter and the Nocturnal’s- Toothbrush and My Table

2. The Barenaked Ladies- The Old Apartment

The next few are the sad ones. they i got dumped and i feel like total shit. the songs you listen to and eat a tub of ben and jerry’s(girls) or get hammered and get into barfights(guys) or hey,either one.

3. Joni Mitchell-River (p.s. bonus sad points for this being a break up at Christmas song…oh Joni, you have been hurt…who hurt you? who hurt you?)

4.The Dire Straights-Romeo and Juliet

5. The Travelling Wilbury’s-Congratulations

6. The White Stripes-You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket (heartbreaker line: “You search in your mind for something clever to say…don’t go away” what a perfect way to capture that helpless feeling when you are trying to make her9or him) stay but just cant find the words…ouch, again)

These songs about being broken up with, but a break up that gives you strength

7. Colin James-Why’d You Lie

8. Fleetwood Mac-The Chain

9. Billy Talent-The Ex

10. Johnny Cash-Hurt (you might not think of break ups when you hear this song, and i dont think Cash intended that feeling, but trent reznor, its writer sure did. I would have played the NIN version but, man it kinda blows, especially when you have Johnny cashs truly killer version)

11. Flight of the Conchords-I’m Not Crying

Ok, here’s the empowering songs that involve you doing the breaking up! the first bunch are all kinda angry break ups or empowering break ups.

12.  Solomon Burke- Get Out Ma’ Life Woman

13. Alanis Morrisette-You Oughta know (oh yes, we went there. p.s. did you know: the band for this song consists of Flea on bass, Dave Navvaro on guitar and Taylor Hawkin on Drums (Foo Fighters))

14. Over-The Birthday Massacre

15. Cake- I Will Survive

16. The Who- I Can See for Miles

17. Marvin Gaye- I Heard It Through the Grape Vine

18. The Beatles- If I Needed Someone (the ultimate i’ll call you, don’t call me) (also think Yesterday and many more from the beatles)

19. Bob Dylan-Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.

20. The Racontuers- Top Yourself (also off the same album…many shades of black)

21. Death from Above 1979- You’re Lovely (But You’ve Got Problems)

22. Hot Hot Heat-Goodnight, Goodnight

23. The Guess Who-No Time

24. Led Zeppelin-That’s the Way (also bae I’m Gonna leave you and about a million other by zep)

25. The Eagles-Already Gone

26. Janis Joplin-Bye, Bye Baby

27. The Rolling Stones-The Last Time

so that wraps up our show, but as i have already mentioned there are tons of other break up songs out there, pick your favourite…

…tell us yours here!

“Music is Love”

Peace

Paul

hey guys, hope you all enjoyed this weeks show, and if you haven’t heard it yet, then you should grab the podcast quick, it was a gem!

This weeks theme was looking back at the last year of music. first thing i have to say is that, in doing this show, i have realized how lucky we are to be alive right now in this thrilling time for music. There is lots of great new music, as well as new classics from old favourites. All this combined with the ability to get your hands on any of the already fantastic music from past decades and you have one hell of a bank to fill an iPod with, or make a cd library or a record collection or…well you get the point.

this brings me to the second note: there was a lot to get to for this show and inevitably we couldn’t play everything. so in lieu of another mammoth three hour show, i’m going to post link on here to some of the music we didn’t get to play tonight.

enjoy.

1. Led Zeppelin-Good Time, Bad Times

(we played this classic in honour of some of the great reunion shows and tours that were un leashed on the world in 08 ( and late 07). The Police, Van Halen and of course Led Zeppelin. This song is what they opened their concert with and it is very fitting since it opens with the line “In the days of my youth i was told what it meant to be a man, now I’ve reached that age i try to do it the best i can”. Almost as if the song was written just for that show!)

2. AC/DC-Stormy may day

3. Guns and Roses-Scraped

4. Radiohead- Bodysnatchers

(a killer tune, however, not released in 08, this album still made a huge splash in the past year, not tomention the fact that radio practically owned the festival scene this last summer. practically…)

5. Weezer-Troublemaker

6. Beck-Gamma ray

7. The Offspring-You’re Gonna Go far, Kid

8. The Trews-Hold me in your Arms

9. The Trews- Burning Wheels

10. Sam Roberts-Love at the End of the World

11. Crystal Castles-xxzxcuzx me

12. Crystal Castle- Crimewave

13. LCD Soundsystem-Big Idea

14. MGMT-Electric Feel (probably the biggest buzz bad of 08, the artic monkeys for this year)

15. MIA- Paper Planes ( i know, i know , not technically from 08 but what song was played more this year? pineapple express launched this song into the mega hit realm. lets face it..it deserves it an excellent use of the riff from the clash’s “straight to hell”, killer beats, wicked rhymes and hook that can’t be beat. And that wicked use of the firing gun had every wigga out there practicing their ghetto posturing…not even in a way that was that lame either…)

16. My Morning Jacket-Aluminum Park

17. the Virgins- rich girls

18. Death Cab for Cutie- Cath…

19. Kinds of Leon- Sex on Fire

20. The Racounteurs-Consoler of the Lonely

21. The Black keys- Remember When (side B)

22. White Denim- I can tell

23. white Denim- All You Really Have to Do

24. Coldplay- Cemeteries of London

25. Michael Franti and SpearHead- Life in the City

26.  Cat Power- I Believe in You (Bob Dylan Cover)

27.  Jack Johnson- Same Girl

28. Marc Broussard-Must be the Water

29. Laura Izibor- Shine (Live at the crawdadddy)

30. John Mayer Trio- Bold as Love (live cover of Jimi hendrix)

That wraps up what we played on the show. Now as for awesome songs/bands from 2008 I think you need to lend an ear to the following bands:

Metallica was another band that put out a big comeback, i not a giant metallica fan, but if you  even have a hint of metalhead in you, you’ll eat this up here’s Metallica “The Day That never Comes”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErdJpg1ECg

typical metallica, but if you like them youll love this, very master of puppets era of them.

two oldies that put out great new songs:

john mellencamp-troubled land:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLDNcak67w

jackson Browne-Time the conquerer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAvR5h9kyw&feature=related

the monotonix, a crazy band from israel, we saw this very show, it got shut down in 13 minutes flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEHu-QAgNE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2lT1aJQgo

in the down home section we have mudcrunch, tom petty’s old band) who put out their first ever LP, here with “Lover of the bayou”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7F-a05aQI

and old crow medicine show with “alabama high test” which is more or less a banjo-fied version of subterranian homesick blues with differentish lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2BFj4_kgM

stephen malkmus and jicks busted out a solid effort this year with a bonafide indie supergroup, fielding members of pavement and sleater-kinney.

here’s “Dragonfly Pie”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1uEjaL6blE

The hits were a great breakout from mission BC, theyre always here: check them out! this is called “wind me up” This is them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EBbhNqGeyE&feature=related

dont forget another great bc band: the pack AD this is anither show that we were at, i shared my JD with Maya (the drummer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FhDVLglUTs

final bands, and two more that were discovered via concert:

Black mountain another show we saw is below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wu8jlFVz2M

the green hour band opened for them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRF9T4BGY4&feature=related

its kinda a crappy vid for sound….

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=180635427

here’s their myspace

anyways, it been quite a year in music, hey it was also the first year of the electric church!

were looking forward to another great year in the church, we look forward to seeing our congregation grow…

spread the word… www.civl.ca, listen live online or download the podcast and remember

music is love

peace

paul

Hey guys, the past two weeks have been hectic and i have had little time to write out the playlists for the EC.

they were both pretty random shows though, the first was the christmas show, with a bunch of rock and roll Christmas tunes and last week was a “hangover special” basically us just throwing on a bunch of music because we din’t really have much of a theme.

so if you were or are listening to the show and were or are wondering what a song was or have any comments, just give us a shout here and i’ll fill you in.

Peace

“Music is Love”

paul

hi guys, the final week of the protest series, a month -long saga…

this week we focused on modern bands who are creating a new golden age of protest music, we started with the living end and things got even better from there…

…weird things happening in the studio though, i think the bilding is infested with zombies!!

1. The Living end- Have the Forgotten

2. The Offspring- the Kids Aren’t Alright

3. Garth Brooks- We Shall be Free

4. Sum 41- Welcome to hell

5. Sum 41- We’re All to Blame

6. System of a Down- War?

7. System of a Down- The Prison Song

8. system of a down- BOOM!

9. System of a Down- BYOB

10. System of a Down- Goodbye Blue Sky (live cover of Pink Floyd)

11. Metric- IOU

12. A Perfect Circle - Counting bodies like sheep to the rythmn of the war drum

13.  Kanye West- Diamonds from Seirra Leone

14. MIA- $ 20

15. John Mayer- Waiting on the World to Change

16. Gogol Bordello- 60 Revolutions

17. Michael franti and Spearhead- Yell Fire!

18. Michael Franti and Spearhead- Light up Ya Lighter

19. The Cops- Mega Suicide

20. The Cops- Cold Crushin’

21. Sam Roberts- Stripmall Religion

22. Sam Roberts- Detroit ‘67 

23. The Trews- Gun Control

24. Bright Eyes- When the president Talks to God

25- The White Stripes- The Big three Killed My Baby

26- The White Stripes- It’s My Fault for being Famous

so that concludes our month long look at protest music, although this series may be over, expect to hear more protest sings in the future on the electric church, as it is something that comes up in other shows as well and has in the past. Including “I ship out tomorrow baby: the electric church goes to war” which aired in early november, also check out our earth day show which aired in late april. Check them our streaming on www.civl.ca or download them as a podcast from the site. in fact, download all of our shows from the site and take them with you, tell a friend, let them listen in, spread the good word of the EC.

share the love (as david crosby says “music is love”)

oh…and long live rock!

peace

paul

alright Ladies and gents,

first things first, Grahame was away for the show this week, but he will return next week and as promised he’s got some ’splanin’ to do! Hopefully i did an ok take on the show by myself.

here’s the tracklist for the week, which took us from the end of the 70’s, through the eighties and into the early 90’s where we saw the dawn of a new golden age of protest music. (remember the trend had died down by the mid seventies and through the 80’s) we start out with two killer tracks from the Clash. Things get heavy and so do the lyrics, so there’s a little disclaimer.

1. The Clash-Straight to Hell

2. The Clash- Guns of Brixton

3. Bruce Springsteen- War (Live)

4. Bruce Springsteen- The Ghost of Tom Joad (Read the book “Grapes of Wrath” where the character comes from! Also check out rage against the machines (heavy) cover)

5. Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA

6. The Ramones- My Brain is hangin’ Upside down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)

7. U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday

8. N.W.A.- F*ck Tha Police

9. Public Enemy- Fight the Power

(the featured artist for this protest episode was Rage Against the Machine, who helped start the new golden age of protest music, which has lasted until current day (with the exception of a few lulls))

10. RATM (rage against the machine)- Take the Power Back

11. RATM- Settle for Nothing

12. RATM- Know Your Enemy

13. RATM- Wake Up

14. RATM- Township Rebellion

15. RATM- People of the Sun

16. RATM- Vietnow

17. RATM- War Within a Breath

18. Nirvana- Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

19. Pearl Jam- Do the Evolution

20. Anti-Flag- Their System Doesn’t Work for You

21. Axis of Justice- Speak on It

that’s it for the track list. Two quick notes. I had to cut “World Wide Suicide” by Pearl Jam, but it is a great criticism of the Bush administration so check it out.

also, Axis of Justice (in response to “axis of evil”) is a really cool story that includes many of the big names in music today. for more reading, check out the wikipedia entry which is good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_justice

and check out their website at:

http://www.axisofjustice.org/

a sad note, since we are speaking of protest singers. lets not forget to mention one of the greats. Odetta, a prominent civl rights singer died recently. She was an inspiration to Bob Dyla, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen among other protest singers. Not to mention the fact that she inspired millions worldwide to act in the name of justice. RIP Odetta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta

Ok that’s all for this week, as always comments are appriciated and welcome. next week in the conclusion to our month long feature of protest music. We call it “Carrying the Burning Flag into the Future”

Peace

Paul and Grahame

ok part starts out at the end of 1969 and takes us to the end of the 70’s we also see the end  of the golden age of protest rock and the rise of apathy and of course the rise of punk!

1. John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance

2. John lennon- Imagine

3.  Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun

(featured Artist- Neil Young)

4. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Ohio

5. neil Young- Alabama

6. Neil Young- Southern Man

7. neil Young- War Song

8. Neil Young- Let’s impeach the president

9. five man electrical band- signs

10. Joni Mitchell- Big yellow Taxi

11. The Who- Young man Blues

12. The Guess Who- Hand Me Down World

13. The Guess Who- Share the Land

14. Black Sabbath- War Pigs

15. Marvin gaye- What’s Goin On

16. Cat Stevens- Peace Train

17. Peter Tosh- Legalize It!

18. Bob Marley- Get Up! Stand Up!

19. The Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK

20. The Sex Pistols- God Save the Queen

21. Johnny Paycheck- Take This Job and Shove It!

yikes! i lot of different genres there…reggae, punk, metal, folk, country even!

what suprizes lay in wait next week? We follow protesting from 1980-about 1992. we’ll hear from rage against the machine, bruce springsteen, the clash, the ramones and…U2????

stay tuned to the Electric church. this saturday from 6-8pm on civl radio at www.civl.ca

long live rock!

Hey guys, sorry this is late, but as you may have guessed…the EC is putting out it’s first full fledged series, and this one is gonna be a month long! so here’s part 1’s playlist from november 22, i’ll also post part 2. part 3 is this saturday.

1.  Woody Guthrie- Dust Bowl Blues

2. Woody Guthrie- This Land is my Land

(each part in this series we will feature one band  or artist that is a prominent protester, this week was Bob Dylan)

3. Bob Dylan- Masters of War

4. Bob Dylan- Blowin’ in the Wind

5. Bob Dylan-The Times they are a changin

6, Bob Dylan- Only a Pawn in their Game

 7. Bob Dylan-With God on Our Side

8.  Bob Dylan -Hurricane

9. Bob Dylan - Maggies Farm

10. Phil Ochs- I ain’t gonna March no more

11. The Beatles- Taxman

12. The Beatles-Revolution

13. janis Ian- Society’s Child

14. The Kingston Trio- Where Have All th Flowers GOne?

15. Peter, Paul and Mary- Where have All The Flowers Gone?

16. Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction

17. Buffalo Springfeild- For what it’s Worth

18. Country Joe and the Fish- I Fell Like Im Fixin To die rag (vietnam song) (live at woodstock)

19. Country joe and the fish- The bomb song (live at monterey pop 67)

20. James brown- (Say it Loud) I’m Black and I’m Proud

21. Gordon Light foot- A Black day In July

22. Jefferson Airplane- Volunteers

23. CCR- Fortunate Son

24. MC5- Kick Out the Jams

this is going pretty much chronologially, and brings us up to 1969, next week we will hear from John lennon, neil young and marvin gaye, not to mention the sex pistols!

Well looks like this is the first official blog from the EC camp.

I’m just gonna give you guys a tracklist for the episode which was a rememberance day special (4 days late..true) so we focused on songs about war, not protest songs (that’s next week, conveiniently!), but song which paint the picture of the battle feild and how it affects people. Take a look at the tracklist and you’ll get the picture.

1. The Band-The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

2. Glenn Miller-American Patrol

3. Pink Floyd-Another Brick in the Wall pt. 1

4. Led Zeppelin-The Battle of Evermore

5. Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms

6. Bob Dyaln-Chimes of Freedom

7. Eric Clapton-Knockin’ On Heavens’ Door (Bob Dylan Cover, Live at Inglewood Forum, CA)

8. Jimi Hendrix-Izabella

9. The Doors-The Unknown Soldier

10. Alice in Chains-Rooster

11. CCR-Run Through the Jungle

12. Bruce Springsteen-Blood Brothers

13. Muse-Soldier’s Poem 

14.Billy talent-In The Fall

15. Coldplay-Violet Hill

16.Guns and Roses-Civil War

17. Neil Young-Living With War

18. Neil Young-Roger and Out

19. The Eagles-Long Road Out of Eden

I also read the poem “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wildred Owen

here’s a link for your reading pleasure:

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html

also check out “The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner”, and everyone’s favourite “In Flanders Feilds”

finally, I would look into the series “Band of Brothers” which is probably the best war film( well series) I’ve ever seen.

Well, make sure you tune in next saturday at 6PM for “Ban the EC!: Protest Rock”

Peace!

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