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From "Music And Your Mind: Listening With A New Consciousness," by Helen L. Bonny and Louis M. Savary

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Joint Group Howl - Christmas Throwdown
Dec. 13th, 2003
880 Davenport
8:00 PM – 3:00 AM
Attendees in order of rotation: Jay, Jon D., Adam (later), Jon F., Jeremy, Beau

- Christmas Round #1 -
1. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – Snoop Dogg
2. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love
3. Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
4. Soulful Christmas – James Brown
5. Run Run Rudolph – Chuck Berry

6. Back In The U.S.S.R. – Ramsey Lewis
7. I’ve Been Tired – The Pixies
8. Twist and Crawl – The English Beat
9. Back With A New Batch – The Stubborn All-Stars
10. Move On – CoCo
11. 99 Problems – Jay-Z
12. Rid Of Me – P.J. Harvey
13. Haul Away / Six Months on a Leaky Boat – Split Enz
14. Miss Teen Word Power – The New Pornographers
15. One Single River – Bob Dylan and The Band
16. It’s So Different Here – Rachel Sweet
17. Some Velvet Morning – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
- enter Adam -
18. Sacrifice – Sinead O’Connor
19. Memphis Soul Stew (live) – King Curtis
20. My Soul Is A Witness – The Blind Boys of Alabama
21. Porterville – CCR

- Christmas Round #2 -
22. Christmas In Hollis – Run DMC
23. Christmas Is – Run DMC (most cynical Christmas song ever)
24. Santa Claus Is Back in Town / Blue Christmas (live) – Elvis
25. Silver Bells – Booker T. and the MGs
26. Christmas Reggae – Bob Marley
27. Fairytale of New York – The Pogues

28. Arnold Schwarzenegger Killing Montage
29. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (live DVD) – Led Zeppelin
30. Now – Daniel Johnston
31. Bo Diddley – Buddy Holly
32. Pirate Cowboy – The Deadly Snakes
33. Keep On Growin’ – Derek and the Dominoes
34. The Preacher – Bobby Womack
35. Wasted – Black Flag (0:51 – shortest Howl track ever?)
36. TV Party – Black Flag
37. Guitar Town – Steve Earle
38. Small Town Murder Scene – The Fembots
39. Track ‘A’: Solo Dancer – Charles Mingus

- Christmas Round #3 -
40. Christmas Time Is Here – Vince Guaraldi
41. White Christmas – Otis Redding
42. Santa Claus – The Sonics
43. All I Want For Christmas Is You – Carla Thomas
44. Christmas At The Zoo – The Flaming Lips
45. Surfin’ Santa – Lord Douglas Byron

46. Let ‘Em In – Wings
47. That’s Not Me – The Beach Boys
48. Embryonic Journey – Jefferson Airplane
49. Graceland – Paul Simon
50. Bul Ma Min - Orchestra Baobab
51. Stormy – The Meters
52. Stinging Bea – Mel Brown
53. Grace – Supergrass
54. Revolution Blues – Neil Young
55. Plastic Jesus – Paul Newman (clip from Cool Hand Luke)
56. In The Pines – Bill Monroe
57. Your Love (Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher) – Jackie Wilson
58. Alone Again – Pipi Skid (video, dir. Jay)
59. Freedom Is A Word – Terrence Stamp (clip from The Limey)
60. I Plead Guilty (To An Obsession With You) – Miracle Beard
61. I Love The Way You Move – OutKast
62. Hello Carol – The Gladiators
63. In A Station – The Band

Friday, November 14, 2003

Joint Group Howl - One Long Song Meets Train Tunes
Nov, 14th, 2003
888B Queen St. E.
Players in Order of Rotation: Jer, Beau, Adam, Deans, Jon D. Jon F.

- Train Round -
1. Doc Watson - Ridin' That Midnight Train
2. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mystery Train
3. Lee Scratch Perry - Mule Train
4. Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans
5. Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
6. Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line
- End Train Round -
7. Waco Brothers - Big River
8. Mike Ness - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
9. Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine (best Canadian song of the night)
10. Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart
11. Outkast - Hey Ya
12. Superfriends - Just Say So
13. Inbreds - Prince
14. Dawn Penn - No No No (bleakest Reggae ever)
15. Sam Cooke - I'll Come Running Back To You
16. Fugazi - The Argument
17. Blur - Coffee and TV (DVD music video)
18. Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor - Fit As A Fiddle (DVD film excerpt from Singin' In The Rain)
19. Jane's Addiction - Three Days (EPIC #1 - 10:48)
20. The Shaggs - Wheels
21. Circle Jerks - When The Shit Hits The Fan
22. Gray Matter - Oscar's Eye
23. John Lee Hooker - Don't Turn Me From Your Door
24. Stevie Wonder - Race Babbling
25. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
26. Carla Thomas - I Like What You're Doin' To Me
27. Shonen Knife - Concrete Animals
28. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Y Control
29. Byrds - Eight Miles High (Live) (EPIC #2 - 16:07)
30. Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (EPIC #3 - 13:04)
31. Jon Spenser Blues Explosion - Dig My Shit
32. Led Zeppelin - C'mon Everybody/Something Else (DVD live concert medley in lieu of an epic)
33. Toots and the Maytals - Louie Louie
34. Miles Davis - Spanish Key/The Theme (EPIC #5 - 17:32)
- Exit Jer -
35. Elliot Smith - Needle In The Hay
36. Lee Dorsey - Get Outta My Life
37. Lyrics Born - Send Them
- Exit Jon F. -
38. Ween - Vallejo (EPIC #6 - 30:48)
39. Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor - Radiation Ruling The Nation
- Exit Deans -
40. Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin'
41. John Holt - The Tide Is High

Exant All.

Saturday, October 25, 2003

Music Night - Two Man Non-Acoustical Jam
October 25th, 2003
8:30 PM – 1:15 AM
612 Huron St.

Order:
Jer
Beau

1. Johnny Cash- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2. Elvis – That’s Alright
3. Sonny Hall and the Echoes - My Big Fat Baby
4. The White Stripes - I Want To Be the Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart
5. The Constantines - National Hum
6. The Go-Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed
7. The Hidden Cameras - Ban Marriage
8. The Shaggs – It’s Halloween
9. Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket (video)
10. Lyrics Born - Send Them
11. Atmosphere - Guns and Cigarettes
12. The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
13. The Isley Brothers - Take Me in Your Arms
14. Elvis - Wearing That Loved On Look
15. The Sadies – Wearing That Loved On Look
16. Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
17. Louie Armstrong - You Rascal You Medley
18. John Holt - The Tide is High
19. Ethiopians – Culture
20. Dawn Penn - No No No
21. Dave Hillyard - Duppy Conqueror
22. Stereolab - One Note Samba / Surfboard
23. Neu- Track 1
24. The Louvin Brothers – Pitfall
25. Beck and Emmylou Harris - Sin City
26. Quannum MCs - Blue Flames
27. The Coup – Lazy Muthafucka
28. The Rolling Stones - Down the Road Apiece
29. The Mod Scene - Track 4
30. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
31. Le Tigre - Bang Bang
32. Naughty by Nature - Hip Hop Hooray
33. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Sun Don’t Shine in the Ghetto
34. Rod Stewart - Tommorow is Such a Long Time
35. Led Zeppelin - Traveling Riverside Blues
36. The Band - The Weight
37. ?
38. Johnny Cash – Busted (Live)
39. The Fembots - Small Town Murder Scene
40. Stereolab - Captain Easychord
41. Manitoba - Every Time She Turns Round
42. The Gift of Gab - Rhyme Like a Nut
43. Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
44. The Shaggs – Wheels
45. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Coast To Coast
46. The Band - Chest Fever
47. Go Home Productions - God Save Madonna
48. The Louvin Brothers - My Baby’s Gone

Saturday, August 16, 2003

Music Listening Night - August 16th, 2003
Post-Blackout Breakdown

800 Davenport Road
8 p.m - 2 a.m.
In order of appearance: Beau, Adam, Jer, Jon D., Jon. F

1. Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
2. Ain't No Woman Gonna Make a George Jones Outta Me - Daniel Johnston
3. Tennessee Stud - Doc Watson
4. It's So Hard to Wait - Buffalo Springfield
5. Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
6. It Makes No Difference - The Band (Live on DVD)
7. The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana (Live Unplugged)
8. Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
9. Heckler Spray – Pavement
10. Lucille - Little Richard (Live)
11. Drive - Wedding Present
12. Strychnine / (What's So Funny About) Peace Love and Understanding - Flaming Lips
13. Jailbreak - AC/DC
14. Having a Party - Ted Hawkins
15. What’d I Say (Parts I & II) - Ray Charles

Break Time

16. We Got the Beat – The Go Gos
17. Needles and Pins – The Ramones
18. Pretty Good Looking For a Girl – The White Stripes
19. Tired of Sex – Weezer
20. I Say Love - Isley Brothers
21. Something's Got to Give - Beastie Boys (DVD)
22. Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues) - James Brown
23. Johannesburg - Gil Scott Heron
24. If the Lord Wasn't Walking On My Side – Elvis
25. Twenty Flight Rock - Paul McCartney
26. Yesterday's Papers – The Rolling Stones
27. Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me) - Flaming Lips
28. I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
29. Four Days Gone - Buffalo Springfield
30. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
31. Evangeline - The Band w. Emmilou Harris (Live on DVD)
32. Jack-ass – Beck
33. Supergood – The Boredoms
34. Glass Museum – Tortoise
35. Live It Up (Part I & II) - Isley Brothers
36. Positively – Hepcat
37. Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
38. Dreader Than Dread - Honey Boy Martin
39. Substitute - The Who (Live on DVD)
40. Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Break Time

41. Monkey Man - Rolling Stones
42. Air Near My Fingers – The White Stripes
43. Declare, Guerre, Nucleaire – The Hives
44. Psycho – The Sonics
45. Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
46. Fraulein - Jimmy Webb
47. Suck A Cariboo's Ass - Wesley Willis
48. The Letter U and The Numeral 2 – Negativland
49. Sunday Morning Coming Down – The Handsome Family

Exit Jon F.

50. Jamaica Fashion – Calypsonians
51. Glory Glory Hallelujah - Rev. Robert Wilkins
52. Daddy Sang Bass - Flatt and Scruggs
53. Gloryland Way - Jerry Lee Lewis (Live)
54. So What’cha Want (Cypress Hill remix) – The Beastie Boys
55. The Phuncky Feel One - Cypress Hill
56. Get Up - The Coup
57. Cables - Big Black (Live)
58. Plastic Surgery – Saloon
59. Not Alone Anymore - Travelling Wilburys
60. Kid, You'll Move Mountains – Manitoba
61. Rock and Roll Star - Oasis (Live)

Random Notes:

* All participants have seen Sloan play live.

* Beau wishes to stress that he only played “Monkey Man” again because Jon D. was dissing it.

* Two songs have been played over Simpsons credits.

* Jon F. was dancing at one point, but I can't recall to which song.

* Jailbreak is perhaps the most rocking song ever.

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Joint Group Howl West
Furby and Broadway, Winnipeg
July 20th, 2003

Attendees:
Pat
Steve
Jay

1. Watch The Closing Doors - I.R.T.
2. Tell Me The Truth - Jon Hendricks
3. It's My Beat - Sweet Tee
4. Good Morning Sunshine - Melvin Van Peebles
5. Solid Slider - Tatsuro Yamashita
6. Break It Up - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity
7. Louie - Allen Toussaint
8. Baby, Baby - Gilberto Cruz
9. Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley - Lee Dorsey
10. Jade East - Ramsey Lewis
11. You Never Know What You Got - Me & You
12. Disneyland - Miss Masia
13. Paine - Freddie Foxxx
14. They Get Down - Lloyd Price
15. The Sound - King Britt featuring Cherrywine
16. A Real Mutha For Ya - Johnny Guitar Watson
17. Do You Smoke Galoise Cigarettes? - Kamayatsu Hiroshi
18. Chains and Things - B.B. King
19. Right On Be Free - Voices of Harlem
20. Funky and Some - The Last Word
21. Misstra Know-It-All - Stevie Wonder
22. Can't Stop Worryin', Can't Stop Lovin' You - Jimmy Cliff
23. Spoonie Is Back - Spoonie Gee
24. Harlem Blues - Phineas Newborn Jr.

And then Pat put on a record called "Breaks For Days" by DJ Paul Nice, and nobody stopped it. It was a really good record.