Rat Salad Radio • January 18, 2012

Welcome to the new Rat Salad radio blog! Below is the (illustrated!) playlist from this week's show. Looks nice, huh?

Archived playlists are here.

I've been on the air since June 2000, but we only started doing digital playlists in 2005.

Do check out WXDU's website and F*cebook presence too!

	Alkhatiba Zaffouha by Omar Souleyman from the album Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria (Sublime Frequencies) #15 on WXDUs top 100 list for 2007. Very fine!
	Diaspora by The Funk Ark from the album From The Rooftops (ESL)
	Destination Unknown by Eligh + Amplive from the album Therapy At 3 (Legendary) new west coast hip hop with a glitchy electronica flavor. Feat. also Zumbi & The Grouch
	Dear God 2.0 by The Roots (feat. Monsters of Folk) from the album How I Got Over (Def Jam) 2010
	The Mermaid Parade by Phosphorescent from the album Here's To Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans) 2010
	I Want It Back by Pieta Brown from the album Mercury (Red House) new
	Heart-O-Matic Love by Bo Diddley from the album (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD #13 - Mississippi (Oxford American) OA's 2011 comp. Awesome as usual! This tune 1955.
	Way Of Horse & Bow by Black Tusk from the album Taste The Sin (Relapse) Black Tusk headlines the 2nd Annual Bull City Metal Fest, at Casbah Feb 3rd and 4th, sponsored by WXDU! INFO HERE!
	Untitled by The Body from the album Anthology (Corleone) Black Tusk is coming up from Savannah GA, The Body is coming down from Providence, RI ... Lotsa local bands too!
	The Interlocutor by Squirrel Nut Zippers from the album Hot! (Mammoth) 1996
	Out On The Open West by Frank Fairfield from the album Out On The Open West (Tompkins Square) Playing at Haw River Ballroom this Friday night with Cass McCombs. http://www.hawriverballroom.com/
	Riding On Your High Horse by The Wilders from the album The Wilders (Free Dirt) new from KC
	Comfort Series #1 by Ghost To Falco from the album Exotic Believers (Infinite Front) new from Portland OR
	Good Lord, Maketh Me Poor by Michael Nace & The Nace Family from the album The Good Work Of The Dead (Ionik) 2006
	Sad And Blue by Ivy Smith from the album (VA) Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! - Female Blues Singers, Rarities 1923-1930 (Sub Rosa)
	Luvcool by Maria Minerva from the album Cabaret Cixous (Not Not Fun) New from Estonia
	Asheghi Doroughe by Hamid Shabkhiz from the album (VA) Rangarang: Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Pop (Vampi Soul)
	Khaar by Kourosh Yaghmaei from the album Back From The Brink: Pre-Revolution Iran, 1973-1979 (Now-Again) Title means "thistle." The song compares a human to a tiny, worthless, lonely thistle in a huge desert. PHOTO!
	Incense Head by Psychic Ills from the album Hazed Dream (Sacred Bones) new from Brooklyn
	John Is The Last Of A Dying Breed by Rangers from the album Pan Am Stories (Not Not Fun) new from San Fran
	Are You Tired? by Foxymorons from the album Hesitation Eyes (Heatstroke) Texas, 2005
	Shadow On The Stone by Donovan Quinn from the album Honky Tonk Medusa (Northern-Spy) also new from San Fran
	Ledged Up by Odonis Odonis from the album Hollandaze (Fat Cat) new from Toronto
	Middle School Frown by Josh Rouse from the album Nashville (Rykodisc) 2004
	Jeritan Cinta by Terenchem from the album (VA) Those Shocking, Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk, 1970-78 (Now-Again)
	No Fine Lines by Scritti Politti from the album White Bread, Black Beer (Nonesuch) 2006
	Simulacra I by Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason from the album Solaris (Bedroom Community) New collaboration betw. Australian Frost & Icelander Bjarnason. "Re-imagined" soundtrack music for the '72 film "Solaris," adapted from the novel by Stanislaw Lem.