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Appreciation: Joni Mitchell

 

An hour’s selection – a complete joy to discover and share – of Joni Mitchell avoiding the ‘hits’ and instead dipping across albums and decades to reveal some astonishing inventiveness and singularity. Absent: material from the late 70s to early 90s, where selector Mark Amery, found very little that reached the standard in this hour. A second hour is planned.

TRack listing:
overture-cotton avenue 1977 don juan’s reckless daughter
Talk to me 1977 don juan’s reckless daughter
blue 1971 blue
raised on robbery 1974 court and spark
no apologies 1998 taming the tiger
the jungle line 1975 the hissing of summer lawns
the last time I saw richard 1971 miles of aisles
night in the city 1968 joni mitchell
rainy night house 1970 ladies of the canyon
Coyote 1976 Hejira
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire 1972 For the Roses
Come in from the cold 1991 night ride home
turbulent indigo 1994 turbulent indigo
I don’t know where I stand 1969 clouds
amelia 1976 hejira
twisted 1974 court and spark

Appreciation – The Kinks

There can be, I have found, few harder yet more enjoyable tasks in putting together an hour of radio than The Kinks. Selecting great songwriting and playing from 30 abundant years. Appreciation on Paekakariki 88.2FM avoids the two hours of hit records they created and instead dig deep into 16 of their 24 studio albums, beginning in 1964 and ending in 1994. Here’s the track listing and show below.

 

revenge kinks 1964
something better beginning Kinda Kinks 1964
so long Kinda Kinks 1965
I’m not like everybody else b-side sunny afternoon 1966
House in the country Face to face 1966
fancy face to face 1966
david watts something else 1967
death of a clown something else 1967
mr pleasant b-side 1967
all of my friends were there We are the village green 1968
starstruck We are the village green 1968
Australia Arthur 1969
20th century man Muswel Hillbillies 1971
Complicated life Muswel Hillbillies 1971
God’s children Percy 1971
sitting in my hotel room Everybodys in Show Biz 1972
juke box music Sleepwaker 1977
the hard way Schoolboys in Disgrace 1977
Moving Picture Low Budget 1979
better things Give the people what they want 1981
Do it again Word of Mouth 1985
Living on a Thin Line Word of Mouth 1985
Scattered Phobia 1992

Appreciation: Bill Calahan aka Smog

Recorded June 2017

running the loping 6.56 a river aint too much love 2005
cold blooded old times 3.5 knock knock 1999
sycamore 4 woke on a whaleheart 2007
our anniversary 5.35 supper 2003
I feel like the mother of the world 3.08 a river aint too much love 2005
dress sexy at my funeral 4.3 dongs of sevotion 2000
Universal Applicant 4.1 apocalyse 2012
lets move to the country 3.07 knock knock 1999
vessel In vain 4.18 dead man walking 2004
the sing 4.32 dream river 2013
Ex-con 3.2 red apple falls 1997
rococo zephyr 5.44 sometimes I 2009
teenage spaceship 3.3 knock knock 1999
Lapse 5.38 Chris Knox tribute 2009

Appreciation – Outkast

MCMC and Mark Amery present an hour of the astonishing hip-hop meets every genre under the Southern US sun of Outkast, swerving away from the hits until the very end. An introduction to one of the finest musical forces through the 90s and noughties.

Appreciation – The Chills

As The Chills ride out on a NZ tour that brings them to Paekakariki for the first time, Appreciation on Paekakariki 88.2FM provides an hour of selections on audio demand running roughly chronological over 35 impressive melodic years. But rather than the ‘heavenly pop hits’ I dive deeper into the catalogue to expose the wealth and scope of Martin Phillipps’ songwriting and musical vision. Heavier on the ballads and the darker sense of haunting of the individual and society, as still beautifully expressed in their fine new album Silver Bullets. Apologies for the occasional desk cock-ups. Its live recorded radio from the Paekakariki School Murder House peeps! Mark Amery

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