The Show: He wonders why Hitler liked lemon verbena

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 23 September 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • DOJA CAT – Demons
  • REVIVAL SEASON – Everybody
  • MOMUS – The Gatecrasher *
  • CEECHYNAA – Last Laugh
  • JOHN HOLT – Police In Helicopter (Alternate Extended Mix)

[Drifting Off with Joe Pera]

  • RUTH GARBUS – Mono No Aware
  • THE BUG – Annihilated(Force of Gravity)
  • GHOST NOTES – We’re Not Kids Anymore
  • OPEN MIKE EAGLE – mad enough to aim a pyramid at you
  • LOL TOLHURST x BUDGIE x JACKNIFE LEE – Ghosted At Home (featuring Bobby Gillespie)
  • NOBRO – Where My Girls At
  • ZIÚR – Hasty Revisionism
  • SEXTILE – Crash
  • DAS KOOLIES – Katal (Edit)
  • SLATE – St Agatha
  • YUMI ZOUMA – KPR

[Drifting Off with Joe Pera]

  • t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 – 魅惑的な美しさ
  • MAXO – PlayDis! (featuring Zelooperz)
  • EMILIA – Guerrero
  • MOUNT KIMBIE – Boxing (featuring King Krule)
  • THE BUG – Hypnotised(F-cked up)
  • KAP BAMBINO – Hong Kong Garden

[Drifting Off with Joe Pera]

  • DEENA ABDELWAHED – Six As Oil ستة زيت
  • underscores – Locals (Girls Like Us) (featuring gabby start)
  • SPLASHH – All I Wanna Do
  • OVERMONO – Blow Out
  • FIDLAR – Nudge

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: This is the other side, I’m crying

Starting today with one of our favourite Cabaret Voltaire songs “Yashar“, the first of their tunes to use the “70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?” Outer Limits sample.

It was later re-purposed for a 90’s electronica compilation, “Happy Land” culminating, this week, in bewilderment for one or two unsuspecting Taylor Swift fans…

 

The online world needs little excuse for a mash-up, so the Cabaret Voltaylors have already begun.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 15 July 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • CABARET VOLTAIRE – Yashar *
  • DEPECHE MODE – Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix)
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Something Changed
  • JACKIE EXTREME – throat, heart, eyeballs
  • YARD ACT – The Trench Coat Museum
  • THE JAYNETTS – Sally, Go Round The Roses
  • CHERYL JOHNSON – Crock
  • JAY ROCK – Eastside (featuring Kal Banx)
  • THE BUG – Hunted(On the run)
  • MAY RIO – Aspartame
  • JULIE BYRNE – The Greater Wings
  • FLY ANAKIN – Intrepid
  • REVIVAL SEASON – Outernational – Side A
  • J.P. RAGS – Bells of Saint Barbara
  • LUCIA TACCHETTI, SANTIAGO BARRIONUEVO – El Magnetismo
  • SHENSEEA – Talk Truth
  • DOJA CAT – Attention
  • TEFLON – Contraband
  • STEVE REICH, PAT METHENY – Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast
  • THE BUG – Sickness(Slowly dying)
  • NORMAL NADA THE KRAKMAXTER – Dedicado ao sem abrigo esperanca ou quando a esperanca morre
  • BLACK MARKET KARMA & TESS PARKS – The Sky Was All Diseased
  • BLACK BONES – All In Good Time
  • RUBBER BLANKET – Gandy Dancer
  • PINKY ANN RIHAL – Tu Aaja
  • MANDY, INDIANA – Drag [Crashed]
  • OVERMONO – So U Kno
  • OLIVIA RODRIGO – vampire

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Spearmint gum and neat vodka? YEAH! That’ll be great?!

It has been a long time since we plundered Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! for The Joint’s commercial breaks, so repurposing the “definitely not fake ads for fake products” from Office Hours Live on Tim Heidecker’s YouTube channel seems way overdue.

Let’s go full YouTube wormhole and recommend Are Sounds Electrik, especially when they cut up old film footage to create their own promo videos.

A recent favourite of ours is a 1982 single from Ignatius Jones (in today’s playlist) synced with footage from the 1944 film Don’t Take It To Heart .

Only 38 years passed between the release of the movie and the song but it’s now been more than 40 years since the song came out.

Make of that what you will.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 22 April 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • HOLIDAY GHOSTS – Again And Again
  • audiobooks – Milan Fashion Week *
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – True Life
  • FORMA – Dark Street
  • quickly, quickly – Satellite

[OFFICE HOURS – Pocket Horses]

  • AMBER ARCADES – Just Like Me
  • LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS – Halfway Crooks
  • HIT-BOY X NAS – The Tide
  • TYLER THE CREATOR – DOGTOOTH
  • SPECTACULAR DIAGNOSTICS – Class (featuring Curly Castro, Illogic & Defcee)
  • EN ATTENDANT ANA – Same Old Story

[OFFICE HOURS – Hagar’s Haygars]

  • ORIELLES, THE – Tableau 004
  • KING KRULE – It’s All Soup Now
  • IGNATIUS JONES – Like A Ghost (An M & M Mix)
  • JPEGMAFIA X DANNY BROWN – SCARING THE HOES
  • VICTORIA MONÉT – Smoke (featuring Lucky Daye)

[OFFICE HOURS – BidetMate!]

  • KYOTO KYOTO – So
  • LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS – Ricochet
  • BENEFITS – Warhorse
  • redveil & JPEGMAFIA – black enuff
  • AMAARAE – Reckless & Sweet
  • OFF! – Keep Your Mouth Shut

[OFFICE HOURS – SleepCreeps]

  • NOURISHED BY TIME – Daddy
  • ORIELLES, THE – Tableau 003
  • FROST CHILDREN – HI 5
  • TEMPS – bleedthemtoxins (featuring Joana Gomila, NNAMDÏ, Shamir, Quelle Chris)
  • VANESSA WORM – 111 Bare

[OFFICE HOURS – Creamed Popcorn On The Cob]

  • BLACK TREACLE – Echoes
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES & ODESZA – Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix)
  • DROWNED MEMORIES – Fading Away
  • SZA, DOJA CAT – Kill Bill
  • CRIME FRIEND – Luna Miffy Slicer
  • GOAT – Do The Dance (Shit & Shine Rework)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Without music you are all dead.

R.I.P. Lee Scratch Perry

Summer is just around the corner, so what better soundtrack could there be for a weekend of warm sunshine than Scotch Rolex, The Bug, MC Kano and, of course, Benefits?

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 4 September 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • KENJIRO HIROSE – Marine Boy Theme Tune
  • DOJA CAT – Need To Know (Official Live Performance)
  • THE BLOW – I’m Not in Love
  • THE ARMED – ULTRAPOP
  • ALPHA MAID – SUM1
  • THE PARROTS – Lo Dejaría Todo
  • JOSEPHINE SILLARS – Desperate Characters
  • ASYMMETRIC – Turbulence
  • SLEIGH BELLS – Justine Go Genesis
  • PRIMAL SCREAM – Shine Like Stars (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
  • ELEKTRIČNI ORGAZAM – Vi
  • BURNA BOY – Kilometre
  • ANGEL OLSEN – Safety Dance
  • THE FIERY FURNACES – The Fortune Teller’s Revenge
  • MOONCHILD SANELLY – Yebo Teacher
  • SCOTCH ROLEX – Success (featuring Lord Spikeheart)
  • NINA SIMONE – Backlash Blues
  • BENEFITS – Empire
  • FROM NURSERY TO MISERY – My Life In Shatters
  • SAINT ETIENNE – Penlop
  • CAROLINE SHAW & SŌ PERCUSSION – Lay All Your Love On Me (Live)
  • STEFFLON DON & MS BANKS – Dip
  • THE BUG – Vexed (featuring Moor Mother)
  • MC KONO – Il Jini Song Wapi
  • HELADO NEGRO – Outside The Outside
  • SFERRO – Stargazer
  • UNIIQU3 – Microdosing
  • DEATH IS NOT THE END – Gretel
  • MUZI – Fools Love (featuring BlackRose)
  • MUMBLE TIDE – Good 4 Me
  • LURK – Bermuda
  • LEE SCRATCH PERRY & FULL EXPERIENCE – Disco Devil

The Show: Fruit Salad

Cover versions open and close this week’s show.

We kicked off with Frankie Rose’s (almost) note perfect copy of The Cure’s “A Forest”. Always had a soft spot for the original since seeing it performed on Top Of The Pops with the drummer sitting in front of the group. Revolutionary stuff.

On a more sobering note, this recent take on a 41 year old song would equate to The Cure, back in 1980, covering the likes of Glenn Miller or Gene Autry.

And the Wiggles brought the curtain down by going slightly off-piste with Tame Impala’s “Elephant.” At least we think it’s off-piste. We certainly don’t remember the “fruit salad” refrain in the original song.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 17 April 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • FRANKIE ROSE – A Forest
  • JANE WEAVER – Modern Reputation
  • TKAY MAIDZA – Syrup
  • TONI – Another’s Door
  • DREAMER’S HANDBOOK or BOOGIE WOMACK or…  we don’t know – Upstairs
  • THE MALE GAZE – Someday
  • GIRL IN RED – Save Your Tears (P3live:)
  • DOJA CAT – Kiss Me More (featuring SZA)
  • serpentwithfeet – Heart Storm (featuring NAO)
  • VEGYN – So Much Time – So Little Time (featuring John Glacier)
  • MADLIB – Filthy (Untouched)
  • FEA – Mujer Moderna
  • FORD – Eggs Of British Birds
  • TASNEEM – All Your Cousins
  • CRUMB – BNR
  • TONI – Dazed
  • QUELLE CHRIS & THE ALCHEMIST – Iron Steel Samurai
  • beabadoobee – Last Day On Earth
  • KIEFER – Superhero
  • HORSEGIRL – Ballroom Dance Scene
  • so badly – Tell Me
  • A.G. COOK – Today (Dream Mix)
  • DAWN RICHARD – Jacuzzi
  • ANZAHLUNG – This Is Not A Test
  • FREEEZ – Southern Freeez
  • DOSS – Look
  • MARIA UZOR – Get The Boys In The Band
  • LSDXOXO – Sick Bitch
  • JUNGLE – Keep Moving
  • POP UP! – Paradise City
  • BEAK> – Oh Know
  • ENUMCLAW – Free Drop Billy
  • FRED AGAIN.. – Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing) (featuring The Blessed Madonna)
  • TONI – True Lies
  • WIGGLES, THE – Elephant *

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.