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DoublePlusGood

Dec 22, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

SOLSTICE SONGS

Ring out the Winter Solstice with some music to keep the long cold winter night at bay!

5:03 PM		Jethro Tull Ring Out, Solstice Bells Songs from the Wood Chrysalis 1977 "Now is the solstice of the year Winter is the glad song that you hear"
5:06 PM		Art Bears Moeris Dancing Hopes and Fears Rē Records 1978
5:12 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- lizbot prances in a snowy wood
5:12 PM		Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly (RED) Southern Lord 2020
5:24 PM		Sufjan Stevens The Winter Solstice Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas Asthmatic Kitty 2006
5:27 PM		Anna Meredith Anno, Four Seasons: Embers (Winter) Anna Meredith ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi Moshi Moshi Records 2018
5:29 PM		David Byrne Locks and Barges David Byrne Lead Us Not Into Temptation Thrill Jockey 2003 from the soundtrack to "Young Adam"
5:31 PM		Settled Arrows Pink Trees N Pink Trees 2022 Philly band with Empress Mars on vocals, piano, keyboard & Roger A. Martinez on upright bass, viola, + engineering, mixing, mastering Released 1 day before the Winter Solstice
5:36 PM		Nick Drake Time of No Reply Time of No Reply Hannibal 1986 posthumous collection of b-sides and rarities
5:38 PM		Molly Drake Breakfast at Bradenham Woods The Tide's Magnificence: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake Fledg'ling 2018 Nick Drake's songwriting/piano-playing mom
5:40 PM		Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day Safe Inside the Day Drag City Records 2008
5:46 PM		Dalis Car Cornwall Stone The Waking Hour Beggars Banquet 1984
5:52 PM		Depeche Mode Waiting for the Night Violator Warner Records 1989
5:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:05 PM		Renaissance Ashes Are Burning Ashes Are Burning Capitol Records 1973
6:16 PM		Air Le voyage de Pénélope Moon Safari Parlophone (France) 1998
6:19 PM		Belle and Sebastian A Space Boy Dream The Boy With the Arab Strap Jeepster Recordings Ltd 1998
6:23 PM		Chapman Pond Music The Cold Song Sounds of the Solstice Chapman Pond Music 2020 a cover of Klaus Nomi's The Cold Song, which itself is taken libretto in Henry Purcell's 1691 semi-opera "King Arthur, or The British Worthy"
6:25 PM		King Crimson Moonchild (Including "The Dream" and "The Illusion") In the Court of the Crimson King Island 1969
6:27 PM		The Tiger Lillies Alone with the Moon The Brothel to the Cemetery Misery Guts Music 1996 "Searching for sunlight, there in your room. Trolling for one light, there in the gloom You dream of a better day, alone with the moon."
6:31 PM		David Bowie Sunday David Bowie Heathen Iso/Columbia 2002
6:36 PM		Anna Meredith & Scottish Ensemble Anno, Four Seasons: Solstice (Light Out) (Winter) Antonio Vivaldi ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi Moshi Moshi Records 2018
6:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- lizbot's cold metal flanks reflect the bright winter sun
6:42 PM		Nick Drake Black - Eyed Dog A Treasury UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2004
6:45 PM		Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes Paix Catherine Ribeiro Paix Philips 1972
7:01 PM		PJ Harvey Catherine PJ Harvey Is This Desire? Island Records 1998
7:05 PM		Jack Bruce Rope Ladder to the Moon Songs for a Tailor Polydor Records 1969
7:08 PM		Chavela Vargas Luz de Luna Lamento Borincano DCD - International 2019 Mexican singer especially known for her renditions of traditional rancheras
7:11 PM		Dory Previn Moon Rock (Live) Live At Carnegie Hall Zonophone 1973
7:15 PM		John Maus Hey Moon John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Ribbon Music 2011
7:19 PM		The Magnetic Fields Lovers from the Moon The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
7:23 PM		Sasha V Wait for the Winter Future Winters 2021 Philly-based self-described "QTPOC fair-weather goth"
7:26 PM		Thousandth Cave Isolated Winter of Solitude and Despair Ancient Hearsay
7:31 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- lizbot lets the darkness envelop her
7:31 PM		Miriam Makeba Ring Bell, Ring Bell Miriam Makeba Pata Pata Reprise 1967
7:34 PM		Jethro Tull Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow Coronach Chrysalis 1986
7:42 PM		Paul McCandless Winter Bourne Between Friends
7:45 PM		Anna Meredith Anno, Four Seasons. Winter: Low Light ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi Moshi Moshi Records 2018
7:49 PM		Art Bears The Winter Wheel Winter Songs Recommended Records 1979
7:52 PM		Jethro Tull Fire at Midnight Songs From The Wood 1977
7:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:57 PM		Björk Solstice Biophilia Nonesuch 2011

Chat is archived.

Happy Winter Solstice! Good Yule!

Merry Kringle.

Hi DTO!

I love the techno-babble on this intro. 🤖

Man, the station didn't switch over to my broadcast until 5:03! Was worried for a minute there!

Perfect opening song! 🔔

Hi Christine! Thanks!

🌝

Enjoying the extra minute of daylight today

I love this song. Unsurprisingly, Jethro Tull has more than one wintery yule song

Hi Lizbot, ǝɹnɔsqO ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐᗡ, & all

Hi Carlos! How did you spend your precious minute of light? I thought about summer

My extra minute was used in watching Argentina beat France for the 5th time!!🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Top of the Pops video of JT performing this song in 1976: https://youtu.be/RFScfq8Wlq8

@Carlos - Ah! Excitement-packed minute! I am so far enjoying the long nights, but talk to me in late January or early February, when I tend to start getting impatient with winter

@Christine - Nice! Gotta love Ian Anderson's prancing

They are miming the song, but still very entertaining.

Is this a solstice song?

Besides Tull, I am not aware of any other solstice songs.

@DTO - Not gonna be super-literal. Although many of the songs today do mention the winter solstice, many do not but convey a wintery/cold/long night feeling, at least in my mind!

Happy Solstice! Good evening all!

I was at Longwood Gardens in Chester County yesterday and visited their organ, which made me think of this piece, which reminds me of shimmery bright winter sunlight on snow.

Hello Addie! Happy [one-day-belated] Solstice! I spent the solstice walking in a very large series of gardens. How about you?

Hi Addie🐍🐍!

Hi Liz and feels like a Nightmare Before Christmas

Hi Lizbot! Hi all!

Sounds like she might have studied with Steve Reich.

This sounds like somebody's smoking the pot.

I feel like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, etc had to have some winter solstice songs.

@lizbot had a super solstice dinner by candlelight! We didn’t burn a Yule log this year as last year Z got weirdly attached to the log and was sad when it burned.

Of course, may not fit anyway..

Hi Christine!! The snakes got crocheted cozies for solstice!

Hello Ossy! haha, a bit!

Hi Rofflestomp!

Really enjoyed that tremendous Anna Von Hausswolff piece.

@DTO - A bit of entrancing repetition, yes

@ Lee, yeah , I wouldn’t be surprised. But I am not aware of any.

@Lee Chandler - Likely! I will see...

@Addie that sounds like the coziest gift for the sneks.

I think I heard that song last year, it's crystal magical

@Addie - Aw! I saw the snake cozy photos and they are the Best Thing!

@DTO / @Lee - It seems like their purview, but will have to dig around to see if any mention solstice or thematically work in some way!

This is the radio debut of this Settled Arrows song

Hope this works…here’s a link to the snake in a cozy! https://flic.kr/p/2o7obGj

That David Byrne composition suits today's mood: mournful, introspective and a little discordant.

Aww! 💚💙🐍@Addie

@Christine - I love a lot of his soundtrack work. Yeah, today's rainy overcast day calls for something like that.

@Addie - I love that robin's egg (snake egg?) blue color against the cream-colored snek skin!

I was on the ferry from Victoria, Vancouver island to Vancouver on the mainland during the moment of the Summer stolstice and it went form Zero to Hippie in a heartbeat. Very cool.

Settled Arrows sounding pretty good!

The piano on that Settled Arrows song is so pretty. That's a Philly band whose members have cool solo projects as well

Thanks for putting them on my radar.

@Lee Chandler - That song was just recorded and made available on Wednesday! WPRB debut!

I know this song mentions April, but I don't care because it captures a chilly morning and I wanted to play Nick and his mom back to back!

@Rofflestomp - Beautiful! I love that area. My uncle and cousins lives in the Pacific NW. Last time I was up that way was during the solar eclipse of August 2017, near the path of totality

That is some farm to table recording!

@Christine - No problem! Glad you enjoyed it. They are on bandcamp

Baby Dee 💜

@Lee Chandler - ha!

@Rofflestomp - When I was a kid, we used to take those Washington ferries and we missed the last one outta Orcas Island and had to crash in a weird hippie commune that rented out beds because the only motel was booked solid. I got the worst flu of my teen years in that place, sleeping across from a woman who sounded like she was coughing up a lung. I ended up sleeping the second half of the night in the rental car, but the germs had already invaded me!

Lizbot, Sweet, I have yet to catch a totality. Bucket list item. I was in Vancouver for a Lunar eclipse with a blood red moon and of course the radio played Black-hole Sun. LOL It was just too good. I the Pacific NW.

Oh no! the hippie hostel!

@Rofflestomp - Yeah, that place had a "hot tub" that was just a mud pit

@Rofflestomp - The main thing I remember from that early 90s Pacific NW trip when I was in high school was being SO SICK on the ferries and lying down on their benches. Before I got sick, I was psyched to spot some orcas. I've heard that area's orca population has sadly dwindled drastically in recent years

Mud pit doesn’t sound too bad, I mean, considering other mediums it could have been.

OMG! lol Big nope and a pass for sure. If you ever get out to the islands again check out the docks. There are shrimp swimming around the piers!

A friend of mine live out there and once the ferry shuts down for the night your just stuck.

@Rofflestomp - For the summer 2017 eclipse we ended up in Portland, so NEAR the path of totality, but not completely in it. The roads were absolutely overrun with people driving south from Portland to be in the path of totality and hotels were full, gas stations in small towns ran out of gas, a buncha people got stranded! I remember being on the waterfront and then SECOND it ended, all those paper eclipse glasses were littering the ground everywhereQ

@Lee Chandler - ha, true! It was not a very inviting mud pit, though!

I’m psyched because I’m supposed to be in the totality path next time around!

@Rofflestomp / Lee - During that same 90s Washington state/Oregon/Victoria/Vancouver trip we took a ferry to San Juan Island to learn about the most pointless war ever: The Pig War, and even visited the pig war fort. This is what happens on family vacations when your parents are both teachers!

I love Bainbridge Island's art museum, though. Hands down, best WA ferry island!

Traveling by ferryboat to an island where you have to be back at the dock by a certain time or else be stuck on the island all night adds a certain excitement. At least we thought so when we hiked around Isle au Haut that time (part of Acadia National Park only accessible by boat).

That is way sad about the glasses issue. I stayed on Drain Bramage Island when I fist moved up there. I love that ferry too!

Hello all!

I wonder if Jon will be playing Frosty The Dopeman/ Rapist/ Crackhead? Probably not.

🐌🎄🎅

Lol, Number 6

Lizbot, Drain Bramage is the response to people who call the island Brain Damage Island, and there are a lot of them in Seattle proper. The view at sunset on the ferry is top shelf, and many musical ensemble folk will just play for a few trips. The best.

Hey #6!

2 Ramones set!!!! My badgering has finally paid off..will still have to se alarm for the Am set

Ashes Are Burning!!!

And hello everyone

@Carlos - haha, for years Jon kept talking about how he ALMOST had enough Ramones/Ramones-inspired holiday songs to warrant 2 sets, and now we can bask in the glory of double Ramones!

Hi Rob from Maryland!

@Christine - that island script writes itself!

Two Ramone sets at a predetermined moment. lol

@Rob from Maryland - Long Live Haslam

Hello Number 6!

Hi Lizbot!

@Christine - snaildartha tends to coincide with my drive to my parents' house. I hope that's the case again this marathon!

I hope so @Lizbot

@Lee, I recommend visiting Isle au Haut to anyone who is in the area. Half of the island is Acadia National Park, and the other half is privately owned, but there is no hotel, services, etc.

Jon put a link up to the Little Drummer Boy on the home page and I clicked on it and had to back out. It's just so worth the wait.

@Christine - I love Acadia. My parents adore Maine and my uncle mike used to run a community theater in Belfast, ME, so we'd drive up there and stay with him and then go hiking. The most stranded we ever got in Maine was way up near Baxter State Park, out on a peninsula only accessible by canoe, after a lengthy hike, which was preceded by a drive up a logging road. We stayed at my dad's friend's electricity-less, plumbing-less cabin.When we tried to leave, we found our car smashed by vandals

This part of the song feels ceremonial

Youtube has a bunch of x rated Christmas songs that would get us all in trouble.

There is always such a crazy line for the last ferry of the night on Bainbridge Island, but we've always made it on even though it felt like we wouldn't!

It could be called Ewtube.

@#6. I used to hide the mojo Nixon Christmas cd from my kids when they were young

@Addie - Awesome! Wait...when is the next solar eclipse?

@Rofflestomp - I met a girl on the Bainbridge ferry who lives on the island but goes to high school in Seattle and has a crazy long commute from bus to ferry to another bus every morning

@Lizbot, yea, it used to be 2am, so no last call at the blues bar. :(

Dark Side of the Christmas Tree is another old x rated fav.

@Number 6 / Carlos Ramone - haha, he'd have to make some edits if he played those!

Edits take all the fun out of them.:)

@Lizbot, that Maine adventure has got some Stephen King-type darkness at the end. Unsettling!

@Number 6 - I always lol when I hear "Santa Je T'aime" from Fred Schneider's ridiculous Christmas album, "Destination... Christmas!" It's not explicitly dirty, just implied, and the Santa voice kills me

@Christine - Not to mention the crunchy burned up bats the fell out of the cabin's oil lamp when we first got there!

@Christine - and the eerie sounds of the loons on Lake Pemadumcook

Isle au Haut - added.

@Number 6, Could their be a dark side of the stream though?🤔 Don't know how that all works with the FCC. lol

LOL!

😱 @Lizbot

@Rofflestomp - There's no dark side of the stream, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.

@Christine - I learned then the origin of the term "loony"!

@Lizbot, Wow, I am surprized she did not go to High School on the Island. It's got more money per capita only behind Mercer Island, where Bill Gates lives, so it's got excellent resources. :)

Oh classic. 🌕🧚‍♀️

Oh wow. This is a blast from my past…

Nice!

Hi Tyler B!

@Addie - unexpectedly finding yourself in the court of the crimson king again?

this is an edited version!

Lizbot, I concur with the darkness.

I remember having this song in my head the whole time I was reading Alister Crowley's book Moonchild.

@Rofflestomp - Oh, I know Bainbridge is quite fancy, but she attended some magnet (or whatever they call it) magnet school there. She was chatty!

@Rofflestomp - "There" as in Seattle

I’m loving the show tonight, and this is one of my favorite Bowie songs, thank you for playing it.

Hey Pethie! Thanks! yeah, I love Sunday. It's a perfect song

@Lizbot. Yes, commuting over to Seattle vs attending on the island.

Good for her then though.

After three dentist appts within three months, a combined total of nine hours & 25+ shots of anesthetic, a pesky, elusive wayward nerve was finally numb long enough to fill a tiny little cavity. That’s the magic of the Winter solstice.

At least Freeform playing Frosty the Snowman tonight

@Lee Chandler - Ah, mazel! I have been in Dental Hell and can relate all too well. I am that person that usually needs more local anesthesia than most!

Liz

@Ossy - I am picturing Frosty the Snowman free-forming. Maybe he's forming himself out of snow, and then improvising some music

Yeah, with that Karen girl by his side!

Frosty does do the best hat trick in the bizz.

Like Olaf and the snowman enemy from Kirby named Chilly!

Hey Lizbot! Howdy chat crew!

@Ossy - I noticed the last time I showed my kid that Frosty special that Karen looks a bit like Alvin the Chipmunk with a blonde wig!

That B&S track made me wanna dig out the Looper cd

Hi DSM!

@DSM - haha, I remember that Looper gig at I think it was TLA when that first album came out

Heya DSM!

good evening Roffle!

oh wow @Lizbot, didn't imagine they toured that project!

Loving this moody muse

@DSM - I was living in Bryn Mawr for school and I took the R5 a lot back then to get to shows. Stuart David and his wife Karen played one of the many shows I saw around that time that heavily featured loopers playing audio samples on stage!

So many nostalgic vibes this evening!

@DSM - They did! I liked The Geometrid album too, but Up a Tree was the best

Liz - Now that you mentioned it, Karen does kinda look like Alvin with blonde hair,lmao. She kinda looks like a daughter of Princess Aurora in modern times imo. Cute!

Love the Alvin song, that b 101.1 plays every holiday season and Dave screams ALVIN!!!!!!! LOL and scary!!!

@DSM - Ah, it WAS indeed the TLA! Found the date - Jul 21, 1999!

@DSM - I liked Up a Tree Again best from that debut album, but "Dave the Moon Man" would've worked with the Space Boy Dream song, as far as Stuart David moon-themed songs!

@Addie - Yeah, moody teen Liz listened to quite a bit of Nick Drake!

@Ossy - haha, I have to dig up that Chipmunks at 16 Speed project again for a different show. I love that thing!

@Rofflestomp - Glad you're enjoying it!

Definitly nailed the Solstice with cool vibes. :)

That's rad Lizbot. I played up a tree album so much when it came out.

Catherine Ribeiro def has some solsitce vibes

Evenin' Lizbot!

Speakong of Liz, that Dave looks like Prince Eric (Little Mermaid)

@Rofflestomp - Thnks!

Flawless solstice mood tonight 🌠

@DSM - Same! I even played those Gentle Waves Isobel Campbell albums a bunch when they came out. I was such a Belle & Sebastian obsessive

@Ossy - oh yeah!

@DSM / Christine - thanks!

Hello Ambrose!

Good evening :)

TAndy in the house!

Hi TAndy!

That was a nice song to wake up to

@TAndy - Happy to help you usher in the night/waking hours!

I love the changes in that Dory Previn song and that crazy crescendo ending!

Someone uploaded the first ever Magnetic Fields concert (at a small venue in Cambridge), incorrectly billed as Magnetophone by local papers, and Stephin Merrit was doing lead vocals on all the early first two album songs instead of Susan Anway (as heard on that Lovers from the Moon song)

I like the sound of Sasha V. Never heard them before!

@Christine - Glad you enjoyed Sasha V! Great performer who has been in various bands/projects in Philly for 2+ decades

Glad to hear Sasha and Thousandth Cave!

@George - Sasha V rules

Miriam Makeba 💜

@Christine - loooove Mama Africa!

@ todos en el chat..feliz navidad..muy buen programa..gracias Liz

feliz navidad, Carlos!

Jethro strikes again!

¡Muchas gracias Carlos! ¡Feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo!

@Addie - Watch out for flying flutes!

Hello Richard Lyons!

*ducks*

@Addie - What can I tell you? The breakdown of Winter Solstice songs is 80% new age, 15% metal and 5% prog!

great show, Lizbot! Hi all :). Love the cozy, Addie!

Songs from the Solstice wood

Thanks, Richard Lyons!

Wow, didn't realize Miriam played, few minutes ago

Listening to bouree makes me realize its tune is not dissimilar to Van Morrison's Moondance

Oh glad you scrolled back and found it, Richard Lyons!

I’m certainly not complaining about flute jams, @lizbot! I adore them.

snort!

ding!

Ian Anderson covering his own Boureé from JT’s Stand Up! More snorting and whistling…

Hi Wesley!

@Wesley - Snortin' & Whistlin': The Ian Anderson Story

@Wesley- but let's not forget prancing like a wild Puck

When Jethro Tull won a Grammy in 1988 in the "Hard Rock/Metal" category for Crest of a Knave, they jokingly responded by putting an ad in Billboard magazine that said, "the flute is a heavy, metal instrument."

@Christine - Ha! It's all relative!

Liz - You heard or seen the Beauty and Beast ABC play, last Thursday, of it's 30th anniversary?

@Ossy - I have not! Might check it out soon!

It's now on Disney plus and Hulu, for people that haven't seen it, and it's pretty good!

@Ossy - Adding it to my list of stuff to watch with Hattie during winter break!

Hi Ms Bot! Always enjoyed how one of the “articles “ in the newspaper contained in the LP cover of Thick As A Brick referred to him as “One-legged flautist” Ian Anderson.

Dagmar's vocals capture the bitter chill!

@Wesley - haha! The worst traffic I ever got stuck in going through the Lincoln Tunnel while there was an accident in the tunnel, I managed to listened to ALL of Thick As a Brick parts 1 AND 2!

Dare me to play more Jethro!

Has Ian recovered his singing voice? I remember a tv interview from years ago where he said he can speak but his singing voice was gone after so many years of touring…

haha, I have played all the Tull I can for the coming months, I believe!

BOT! 🤖

Hi Jimboo!!

Welp, Ms Bot went and found more Jethro Tull!

@Wesley - I dunno, BUT I'm still mad about the Tull show that never was (for me, anyway) when I lost the old-fashioned paper tickets you used to get in the mail and I scoured my house and gave up. This was maybe 2007

@Wesley - No one objected!

With this playlist, we are renewed. Thank you, Lizbot!

Happy holidays everyone! Thanks for this winter show, Lizbot!

I feel very prepared for cozy season now.

I'm too old to rock and roll and too young to die!

And stay warm this weekend!!!

Tull is absolutely an autumnal/winter band.

Stay socked and gloved fire warm on the cold Christmas day and New Years day, Liz.

Thanks for the music this evening! The past hour did a lot to get some stress off my mind before having to get ready for work 💙

Thx Lizbot!

Stay warm everyone!

SAVE THE WRENS!!

Thanks, Lizbot. 🫥

My Off The Rails Crazy Christmas Show will be airing at 1 AM, including Santa Lost A HO, and many more, until then, BCNU!

@Wesley - I worked with a guy many years ago who barely ever spoke at work, and then one day, Jethro Tull came on the radio and he stopped what he was doing, got a distant look in his eyes, and then just grunted "mmmm, FLUTE"

Geez, so many open tabs and bookmarks to dig into. My WPRB folder over-flowith. That's my rating system, and this show was top notch. Thanks Lizbot! Wish George and Hattie a Merry Christmas for me an have a great season time.

Nestle into the ice ❄️

@Wesley - The wren, the wren is the king of all birds and on St. Stephen's Day he gets caught in the furze!

Another solstice song! Excellent!

@Number 6 - Nice!

Good night everyone! Have a festive weekend!

Thanks for hanging out everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday and hopefully see you here on the 29th!

wow 8! thanks Lizbot!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanx Ms Bot! Good evening everyone, and HAPPY FESTIVUS!!

Is the air dead?? I am not hearing anything after my show!

“I got a lot of problems with you people.”

not hearing anything here either, FM

don't hear anything online

lol Wesley

Yes, dead air on the stream.

damn! I'm just still playing music since the next show didn't start but it's not going over the air

It’s me. I mentioned Festivus and a Krampus attacked the streaming doodad.

Play YAZ ‘Winter Kills’!

Very nice show, DJ LizBot! Cheers!

Hi Malcontent! Thanks!

Are airwaves STILL dead?!

yeah

hmmm, now an ID is playing again...That's not coming from me