Joint Group Howl East #2
February 11th, 2003
Featuring Messrs. Steve and Jay
Order: Steve. Then Jay.

1. Teach Me Tonight - Oscar Peterson
2. Listen Here - Gene Harris
3. Cienfuegos Tiene Su Guaguano - Ibrahim Ferrer
4. T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) - Nite Blues Steel Band
5. Feel Like Jumping - Marcia Griffiths
6. Jesus is Waiting - Al Green
7. No More Blues (Live) - Terry Callier
8. How High the Moon (Live) - Ella Fitzgerald
9. Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra
10. I Can't Write Left-Handed (Live) - Bill Withers
11. Mace and Grenades - Hugh Masekela
12. Higher Ground - Eileen McIlroy
13. Stepping Out - Joe Jackson
14. We're Going to be Friends - The White Stripes
15. Inner City Boundaries - Freestyle Fellowship w/ Daddy-O
16. Methods - Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf
17. Wild Pitch - Chill Rob G
18. Crumbs on the Table - D-Nice
19. Run to the Sun - The Neptunes
20. Rob Swift vs. Rahzel (15 minutes long so Steve gets two selections)
21. Blaze the Breaks - Cashless Society
22. Happy Medium - Horace Silver w/ Andy Bey
23. Live from the Plantation - Mr. Lif
24. Six Figures and Up - The B.U.M.S.
25. Brains 'n Brawn - Hip Hop Wieners
26. People Make the World Go Round - Shirley Scott
27. 6 Days - DJ Shadow
28. Canceled Check - Beck
29. Waiting for the Band - Nicky Hopkins
30. Hudson Bommer - Harry Conick Jr. Trio
31. Mississippi Goddamn (Live) - Nina Simone
32. High Jazz - Jazzanova

Sez Jay: A good time was had...by ALL.

Music Night - Saturday, January 18th, 2003
880 Davenport Road
Attendees (in play order):

Turner
Deans
Beau
Adam
Jon D.
Jon F.

1. Television: Marquee Moon
2. Sonic Youth; Chapel Hill
3. Stone Roses: Begging You
4. Vaselines: The Day I Was A Horse
5. Cream: Crossroads (live)
6. Bobby Bland: Don't Cry No More
7. Duane Eddie: Sugar Foot Rag
8. Rolling Stones: Round and Round
9. Lee Dorsey: Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further
10. Muddy Waters: Tom Cat
11. Bobby Timmons Trio: Easy Does It
12. Slick Rick: Venus

Guilty Pleasures Round One
13. Kim Wilde: Kids in America
14. Tears for Fears: Pale Shelter
15. Queen and David Bowie: Under Pressure
16. Tommy James and the Shondells: Crimson and Clover
17. Original Broadway Cast: Theme from Oklahoma
18. Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop

19. Wilco: Not for the Season
20. Guided By Voices: The Closer You Are
21.Moondog: Symphonie #6 (Good for Goodie)
22. Ween: Tear for Eddie
23. Ray Charles: I Can't Stop Loving You (excerpt from DVD of Metropolis)
24. Beach Boys: Feel Flows
25: Interpol: New York City
26. Fugazi: Last Chance for a Slow Dance (video, live)
27. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
28. The Diamonds: The Stroll
29. Bob Dylan: I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine
30. Zombies: Care of Cell 44

Guilty Pleasures Round Two
31. Blink 182: All the Small Things
32. Van Halen: Unchained (live)
33. Electric Coconut: Moldy Old Dough
34. Sir Mix A Lot: Put 'Em On The Glass
35. Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
36. Jimmy Buffet: Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw?

37. John Prine and Iris Dement: In Spite of Ourselves
38. Nirvana: Penny Royal Tea
39. Johnny Cash: Mr. Garfield
40. Bob Dylan: Clothesline Saga
41. Cornershop: Good To Be Back On The Road Back Home
42. The Meeters: Funky Miracle
43. Charles Mingus: Haitian Fight Song
44. Flaming Lips: Mountainside
45. Elvis: Marie's The Name (His Latest Flame)
46. Elvis: You Were Always on My Mind
47. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee: Who-ee, Who-ee
(Exit Jon F.)
48. New Pornographers: The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
49. Joy Division: Novelty
50. Lee "Scratch" Perry: People Funny Boy
51. Aisha Kandisha's Jagging Effect (?): Zin
52. The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset
53. Nirvana: Here She Comes Now
54. Sonic Youth: Expressway To Yr Skull (live video)
55. Stereolab: The Seeming and the Meaning
56. Tom Waits: That Feel
57: Neil Young: Out On The Weekend

Final Round: Guilty Pleasure Battle
58. Cheryl Crow: Soak Up The Sun
59. Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear The Reaper
60. Fun Lovin' Criminals: Scooby Snacks
61. Paul and Paula: Hey Paula
62. Suede: The Drowners

Once again, some real gems; even the guilty pleasures are mostly bearable, and thankfully nobody was driven from the house in shame. Sadly, I missed Beau's comment on the Kraftwerk tune, which was likely quote of the night.

Music Listening Night aka Joint Group Howl
Live & Unreleased in the November Snow
16 November, 2002, 9:00 p.m. - 3 a.m.
Boulton Hall, 199 Boulton Ave., Toronto
Selectors: Jon D., AGP, Beau, Ron, Deans, Turner, Jon F. (12:30 onward)

1. (Jon D.) John Lennon & Friends - Blue Suede Shoes (live in Toronto, 1969)
2. (AGP) Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps - Blue Jean Bop (live at the Sportitorium, Dallas, Texas, ca. 1958)
3. (Beau) The Who - My Wife (live in San Francisco, 1971)
4. (Ron C.) The MC5 - Ramblin' Rose (live in Detroit, 1968)
5. (Deans) Iggy Pop (w/David Bowie) - TV Eye (live, mid-70s, maybe Berlin)
6. (Turner) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) (live)
7. Ramsey Lewis - The "In" Crowd (live)
8. Count Basie - I Ain't Got Nobody (live at Carnegie Hall, NYC, 1938)
9. The Band - The Weight (live, Last Waltz show, DVD)
10. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Latex Solar Beef/Willie the Pimp, Part One (live)
11. The Kinks - You Really Got Me (live)
12. Kiss - Rock & Roll All Nite (live)
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (live in Oakland, CA, 1970)
14. The Yardbirds - Smokestack Lightning (live)
15. Montego Beach Hotel Calypsonians - Maintenance (live, presumably at the Montego Beach Hotel, early '60s [?])
16. Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (live)
17. Miles Davis - Don't Blame Me (live radio broadcast, France, 1960)
18. Radiohead - Killer Cars (live radio broadcast, Vancouver, 1996)
19. Underworld - Two Months Off
20. Ananda Shankar Experience & State of Bengal - Jungle Symphony (live)
21. Up Bustle & Out - Hip Hop Barrio
22. Weezer - Tired of Sex
23. Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball
24. Frank Black & The Catholics - End of Miles
25. Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All (live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien)
26. Neil Young - The Old Laughing Lady (live, 1993)
27. Beastie Boys - Shadrach (live, DVD)
28. Ron Cunnane & Mary Pierce - Tender Bubbles (live under a waterfall in Guatemala, 2001)
29. The Replacements - Like A Rolling Pin (live)
30. Jeff Tweedy - Yesterday (live at the Lounge Ax, Chicago, 1998)
31. Beau exits (due to cookie/beer/smoke/peanut butter cup-enduced nausea) w/ Cyril Neville – Gossip
32. Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica
33. The Monotones - Book of Love
34. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
35. Husker Du - Eight Miles High
36. Nirvana - You Know You're Right
37. (Jon F. enters w/) Stevie Wonder - Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away
38. Pixies – Gigantic (live in Holland, 1990)
39. Die Haut (w/Lydia Lunch and Kid Congo Powers) - Parts Unknown (live)
40. Soviet Army Chorus & Band - You Are Always Beautiful (live)
41. Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
42. Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You (live acoustic)
43. Phish - Gin 'n' Juice (live)
44. The Stranglers - Golden Brown (live)
45. Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman
46. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman (live in England, 1966)
47. Jane's Addiction - Sympathy for the Devil (live)
48. Radiohead - Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box (live at Molson Park, Barrie, 2001)
49. The Flaming Lips - She's Gone Mad
50. Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero
51. Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsys) - Machine Gun (live)
52. Rites of Spring - End on End
53. The Strokes - New York City Cops
54. The Sonics - Psycho (live)
55. Neil Young – Winterlong
56. Hawkwind - Earth Calling/Born to Go (live)
57. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (live)
58. Cheap Trick - Surrender (live at Budokon)
59. Elvis Presley - That's Alright (live, 1968 comeback special)
60. Guided By Voices - Glad Girls
61. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird (live)
62. The Clash - Straight to Hell (live)
63. Phish – Farmhouse

House lights up

Discovery of the Night - The Montego Beach Hotel Calypsonians, a resort-hotel house band good enough to convince several in attendance they were hearing an early Wailers track

Most Powerful Live Band Ever - The Who (still)

Peak Energy Level - Freebird, which claimed the host's German Wine Festival pint glass (for a worthy cause)

Line of the Night - Jon D., who said "I'm gonna pull a Robert Plant and go to the bathroom during the solo" during "No Quarter," and then did

New Precedents - highest number of media used (CD, LP, minidisc, cassette, DVD); longest song ever played ("No Quarter"); first song ever played that was written and recorded by one of the attendees (Cunnane's "Tender Bubbles"); first song ever played that featured an on-stage reference to one of the attendees (Turner, Radiohead's "Packt Like Sardines")

Music Night: November 11th, 2002
Attendees: Jay and Steve, later joined by Bryan of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aka B+.
Theme: None.
Mood Alterants: Unfortunately, only beer. Does living in Japan count as a drug?
Song Choice Order: Jay/Steve initially, later Jay/Steve/B+.

1. Airport - Wet Willie (Jay)
2. What You See Is What You Get - The Dramatics (Steve)
3. Bad Weather - The Supremes
4. I Love You - Weldon Irvine featuring Don Blackman
5. Have You Been Making Out Okay? - Al Green
6. I Don't Care Who Knows It - Andy Bey w/ Duke Pearson
7. Mack the Knife (Live in Berlin) - Ella Fitzgerald
8. No Tiene Telarana - Havana Mood
9. Evil Vibrations - The Mighty Ryders
10. Hold it Down - 4Hero
11. Sexy Boy (Beck remix) - Air
12. Cristo Redentor - Donald Byrd
13. Release - Saul Williams
14. This Happening - Jaki Byard and Michael Marcus
15. Money Don't Matter 2Night - Prince
16. I've Had a Little Talk - Horace Silver featuring Andy Bey
17. Ocean Within - Saul Williams and KRS-One
**********Enter B+************
18. Already Gone - Peace (Steve)
19. Tread Water - Rusty P's featuring Imani (B+)
20. Hoe Blow - Necro (Lapeyre)
21. We Get Ill - Schooly D
22. - Ugly Duckling
23. B-Boy Punk Rock 2001 - The X-ecutioners feat. Everlast (includes the skit "Who Wants to Be a Motherfuckin' Millionaire?")
24. The Chicken - The JB's
25. It's Over Now - Kool Keith
26. Osaka Tales - Living Legends
27. Green - Fink
28. Fire In The Middle - Nightmares on Wax
29. Hypocrites - Bob Marley
30. Send Us to Zion - The Abyssians
31. Baby, I Don't Like Your Clothes - Har Mar Superstar
32. The Hiatus - Diamond D
33. Super Hoe - Boogie Down Productions
34. Wined and Dined - Syd Barrett
35. What Goes On - The Velvet Underground
36. Capricorn - Cannonball Adderly
37. Refuse to Lose - Non-Phixion
38. Coffee - Odd Squad
39. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Richard Davis
40. Mayday on the Front Lines - MC Ren
41. Seinfeld - Jeru the Damaja
42. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Frank Sinatra
43. Twice The First Time - Saul Williams
44. Love Me Or Leave Me - Nina Simone
45. Les Fleur - Minnie Ripperton
46. Bionic Oldsmobile - Analog Brothers
47. Inside My Love - Minnie Ripperton
48. Old Man - Neil Young
49. Freddie's Dead (Instrumental) - Curtis Mayfield
50. Give Me Your Love - The Sisters Love
51. Beautiful Night - Prince Paul
52. Deception (Don't Let Money Change You) - Blackalicious

It was a good night. The wierdest moment of the night was when we couldn't for the life of us figure out if the Air/Beck remix should be at 33 or 45 rpms. And I got a chuckle from Bryan when I said that Neil Young's "Old Man" contained "gangsta banjo".

My favourite song title of the night was certainly "Baby, I Don't Like Your Clothes". Both Saul Williams and Kool Keith got played three times, although only Minnie Ripperton got played twice in the same round, which I believe has only happened previously with Ween.

Best song...hard to say. I've Had A Little Talk by Andy Bey was mind-blowing. Steve,I'll tell you this much: the best one-two combo was BDP chased by Syd Barrett. Or Jeru followed by Sinatra.

Music Listening Night
(a.k.a. Howl, a.k.a. "A Parade of Pure Gems" - Ron C.)
21 September, 2002
ca. 8:30 p.m. to ca. 2:30 a.m.
Venue: Jon F.'s on Dupont
Participants: Jon F., Jon D., Deans, Beau, Turner, Ron (ca. 11:00), AGP (ca. 11:30)

Playlist (title/artist):
1. (Jon D.) Flow - Teenage Fanclub
2. (Turner) Pearly - Radiohead
3. (Beau) Stinging Velvet - Neko Case
4. (Deans) Down on Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company (vocals: Janis Joplin)
5. (Jon F.) Old Man River - The Ravens
6. She's A Woman - The Beatles (live at Budokon)
7. Changes - Jimi Hendrix (vocals: Buddy Miles)
8. In the Evening - Led Zeppelin
9. Complete Control - The Clash (live)
10. And She Was - Talking Heads
11. No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
12. Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III - Cornershop
13. Stand Together - The Beastie Boys
14. We Can Get Down - A Tribe Called Quest
15. Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5
16. These Days - Nico
17. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part I - The Flaming Lips
18. Rum Boogie - Eddie Baxter
19. Mutual Slump - DJ Shadow
20. Cissy Strut - The Meters
21. Full Grown - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
22. Loud Mouth Lucy - Chuck Willis
23. It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons - Sam Cooke (medley)
24. Tattoo - The Who (live)
25. Don't Pull Your Love - Sam & Dave
26. Unreal is Real - Chavez
27. Love Burns - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
28. Blue Flames - Quannum MCs
29. Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones
30. Born Fighter - Nick Lowe
31. Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth
32. (Ron C. enters w/) Search and Destroy - The Stooges
33. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
34. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - The Louvin Brothers
35. Two Beats at the End - The Minutemen
36. Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles (Rick Rubin remix)
37. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
38. Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
39. Listen to the Ocean - Nina & Frederik
40. Come In Out of the Rain - Parliament
41. Nightshop - Fugazi
42. Give It Up - The Isley Brothers
43. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
44. (AGP enters w/) (Blue Yodel) T for Texas - Jimmie Rodgers
45. Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
46. Sam Stone - John Prine
47. Lovenest - The Wedding Present
48. Celebrated Summer - Husker Du
49. You and Your Sister - Chris Bell (with Alex Chilton)
50. Summertime Rolls - Jane's Addiction
51. Angeline - PJ Harvey
52. Fillmore Jive - Pavement
53. Palo Alto - Radiohead
54. Shoulder Holster - Morcheeba
55. Pull My Strings - The Dead Kennedys
56. Johnny Two Bad - The Slickers
57. I'm Sticking With You - The Velvet Underground
58. Alright - Ween
59. Nena - 99 Red Balloons (English lyrics)
60. Nwahulwana - Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique
61. I Can't Help It - Jackie Wilson
62. Is It Like Today? - World Party
63. Heptones Gonna Fight - The Heptones
64. Falling Elevators - MC 900 Ft. Jesus
65. How Does It Make You Feel - Air
66. Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
67. Go Now - The Moody Blues
68. Disorder - Joy Division
69. You Are My Sunshine - Ray Charles
70. Shake A Tail Feather - The Torquays
71. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
72. Candy Floss - Wilco
73. Nihilist Assault Group - Stereolab
74. Here Comes A Regular - The Replacements
75. That Drivin' Beat - Willie Mitchell
76. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - Dave Barker
77. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
ENDUT! HOCH HECH!

Visual gag of the night: Beau's "REALLY HEAVY SOUL" record, in light of Deans' plaintive cry of "No more heavy soul, please!"