HSN Broadcast History


90 7/17/04 Wayback Excursion #3 The sounds of WWII, both sides of the Atlantic. The big band sounds of Glenn Miller cut with news programming from the period. With visits to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. And don't forget Tokyo Rose. playlist **
89 7/10/04 Surf's Up! More tunes for summer. Crack open a beverage and prepare for high-energy sand and surf. Hang eleven! playlist -
88 7/3/04 The Eyes Have It* The eyes. Seeing. Vision. playlist -
87 6/26/04 Just Don't Care* Just don't care, don't do that. Don't, don't, don't. playlist *
86 6/19/04 The Return of The F-Word* Any excuse to use the F-word. Including a heartfelt number from Eric Idle to the FCC. Hardcore Hootenanny! playlist **
85 6/12/04 The Feline Euphemsim* Cats, yes, but mostly pussy. And other gynocological references. Can your pussy do the dog? playlist **
84 6/5/04 No Holds Barred* Conflict and competion: wrestling, fighting, duels, etc. Mano-a-mano pursuits. playlist **
83 5/29/04 The Grilling Season* Kicking of the Memorial Day weekend. Summertime and the living is easy... playlist **
82 5/22/04 Cavalcade of
Covers #6*		 Another helping of covers that will confound and amaze. Special emphasis on taking the piss out of the 60s. playlist **
81 5/15/04 Hey, Hey, Baby,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah*		 The wonderous and ponderous utterances that pass themselves off as lyrics. La la la. Hey! Yeah! Oh!, etc. playlist **
80 5/8/04 Wayback Excursion #2* Picking up where the last excursion left off (roughly 1984), and gradually rolling back the years. playlist **
79 5/1/04 May Day Show* The REAL labor day. Work and labor with a lefty bent and just a hint of Cold War Nostalgia. playlist **
78 4/24/04 Chicago Stylee #2* More slices of home town rocking, both the high profile and the osbscure. A feature segment with Naked & Shameless (interview and live performance). playlist **
77 4/17/04 The Rock and Roll HMO* Doctors, hospitals, and non-recreational medication. playlist *
76 4/3/04 The Big Band and Harcord Show* Two great tastes that really shouldn't be tasted together... but hey, this Hootenanny Saturday Night!!! playlist **
75 3/27/04 Way Back Excursion #1* We start in the here and now and slowly roll back the years as the show progresses. 20 years in two hours playlist **
- 3/20/04 [ cancelled ] illness... -
74 3/13/04 This Is A Public Service Announcement ...with Guitars! Music mixed with real PSAs, old and new, sure to inform and delight the listener. . . playlist **
73 3/6/04 We Are 138 ... and other nubmers. playlist **
72 2/28/04 Herr Doktor Selektion Herr Doktor, locked in the Crimson Beard Mediavualt[tm]... vat selektions vill he make? playlist **
71 2/21/04 Savant Rock #2 More music that transcends the expected possibilities of the music maker. That place where a direct connection between artist and muse is channelled despite limitations in talent, physical ability, sanity, etc., that would normally preclude such a connection. playlist **
70 2/14/04 Ladies Night #3 Testosterone-free zone hosted by Virtual V. Music with a heavy female presence. playlist **
- 2/7/04 [ no show ] Drinking tequila in a warmer incline... -
69 1/31/04 Show #69
(two things going on at the same time)		 Thing One: Matt's Monkey Mix -- A long-overdue set concerning monkey references. Monkey stuff, including apes, and other rock and roll animals. Better duck for this one. You never know what's being thrown at you.

Thing Two: Potpourri of Indie Bonus Tracks -- the infamous previously unrelesed album left-overs, compilation fodder, etc.

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68 1/24/04 Fly Me To The Moon Space. That proverbial final frontier. The moon, outer space, and travel thereto. Tunes that are out of this world. Far out. playlist **
- 1/17/04 [ no show ] - -
67 1/10/04 Kill! Kill! This Is Pop! The word "kill" -- killing, murder, death, etc. playlist **
66 1/3/04 It's Not A Gang, It's A Club! Sharpen your switchblades and post a guard -- black leather fashions and hip beats for troubled youths... ask me, don't tell me, daddy-O! playlist **
65 12/27/03 Armageddon Not just the end of this year, but of all years. Plenty of cold-war nostalgia, ICBMs, and nuclear holocausts. War, pestilence, death, and all that good stuff. In Technicolor. playlist **
64 12/20/03 Generation Xmas Tired of holiday mall music? Quick cuts, parodies, soundbites, and other oddities. All designed to bludgeon you until the aural holiday hell has been purged. [no playlist] *
63 12/13/03 Cavalcade of Covers #5 Another helping of "interpretatoins"... Inspired reinventions, reprehensible cash grabs, revolting novelties, and good old-fashioned punk rock trashings. playlist **
62 12/6/03 Modern World #2 Amphetamine-driven energy and coolness from the not-quite-punk bands of the late 70s. Mod revival, ska, and other "new wave" era coolness (before the synthesizers and make-up got out of control). playlist **
61 11/29/03 Modern World #1 Reverb, coolness, and other amphetamine-driven sounds from the mid sixties. What Hootenanny Saturday Night would have been playing just before the Summer of Love. Watch R&B mutate into proto-psychedelia with no hippie aftertaste. . . playlist **
- 11/22/03 - Cancelled due to illness -
60 11/15/03 Art Bergmann The anatomy of a small-time legend. The story of Art Bergmann's journey from obscurity to obscurity. What fresh hell is this? playlist **
59 11/8/03 Sick In The Head Insanity. Words like "Crazy" and "Psycho" and other such things. From the killers to the merely loony... as long as it's got a good beat and you can wear a straight jacket to it. playlist **
- 11/1/03 [ no show ] Out of town. Might get some electronic DJs to fill in. -
58 10/25/03 You've Goth To Be Kidding The 2003 Halloween show... dark, depressing, and haunting music by bands that all vehemently deny being goth bands. Many with good reason. But a good seasonal mix nonetheless. playlist **
57 10/18/03 Going Somewhere?* The word "go" -- going, getting away, and a few places got to... playlist **
56 10/11/03 WTF? Stuff that makes you go "What the fuck?" Surprisingly rocking early efforts by future lightweights. Band wagon jumping atrocities. Oddities and curios that nearly defy description. playlist **
55 10/4/03 B-side Babies Nothing on earth is finer than the joy of spinning an ace 45. Except perhaps the secret joy of finding some hidden sweetness after you flip her over... Interesting b-sides from the 7" vinyl 45s housed in the Crimson Beard Audiovault[tm]. Rarities, oddities, and other surprises. playlist **
- 9/27/03 - Freestyle with guest host Dick Danger. -
54 9/20/03 Soundtrack for Espionage What J and VO would listen to while sneaking around in the dark, planting bombs and assassinating the bad guys. Plenty of creepy cool and a big dose of reverb-laden guitars. Cocktails, tuxedos, sunglasses at night, all while executing prefect judo moves in dusty third-world countries. And just a hint of cold war nostalgia. playlist **
53 9/13/03 Whhrs and Beepz! Electronic and other sound based music, some of it straight ahead, some of it pushing the boundaries of what might be called music per se. Odd and interesting cross-mixing. PLUS: given the recent passing of Johnny Cash, an obviously important icon to HSN, the first half hour will be a quick sampling of the man in black's entire career. playlist **
52 9/6/03 Chicago-style A wide range of styles coming out of the city that works. Legends and complete unknowns, old and new -- as long as it has Vienna nuclear green relish on it. Also featured: some of the magic legacy left us by the late and irreplaceable Wesley Willis. playlist **
51 8/30/03 Cavalcade of Covers #4 Back by popular demand! More cool and strange "interpretations" of other people's songs. We're even going to break out that 14 minute version of "The Lord's Prayer" that Siouxsie and the Banshees put out in 1979... playlist -
50 8/23/03 HSN 5-0 Our 50th show! J spins 50 great tracks to commemorate show number 50. Songs that fit our initial mission to provide a soundtrack for the time spent before going out on a Saturday night (pysching up and getting primed), while occassionally bring some random weirdness or provoking shows. With an effort to be topical but never forget that it's time to party. playlist -
49 8/16/03 Emergency Blackout Broadcast and Elvis Easter Celebration J and VO were in Detroit for the Stooges reunion when the lights went out. These are the songs we thought of while listening to "news" radio and trying to get the hell out of Michigan while we still had enough gas to get us the hell out. Also: break out the fried peanut butter and banana sandwhiches, coz it's Elvis Easter, bayba. playlist -
48 8/9/03 Number 9... Number 9... Number 9... Forced freshness! The ninth track from a selection of albums randomly pulled from the Crimson Beard Mediavault[tm]. playlist -
47 7/19/03 Brought To You By The Letter "M" If Sesame Street is good enough to have their show sponsored by the letter "M", then, dammit, Hootenany Saturday Night can be sponsored by the letter "M". Artists whose name start with "M". playlist -
46 7/12/03 Punk Rock Double Feature Featuring two great punk rock movie soundtrack albums played in their entirety: Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) and Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984). playlist -
- - [ no show ] A regular soap opera of events keeps RLR off the air... -
45 5/24/03 Hyphenabilly Rocka-psycho-punka-sludga-whatevera... Alterno bastard children of hepped up county music pumped through more reverb than your mama can handle (and I know your mama). Feature segment on the Cramps after 9pm, daddy-o. playlist -
44 5/17/03 Words and Music Like the inevitable colliding of chocolate and peanut butter, instrumental madness crossed with spoken word pretentiousness, therein mixing two great tastes that taste great together. [ no playlist ] -
- 5/10/03 [ no show ] J and VO are out of town. -
43 5/3/03 Ladies Nite #2 Virtual V gives the ladies their props. Music by or featuring women. Male strippers until 9pm. MC Skidd Wong drops by. playlist -
- 4/26/03 [ no show ] Unavoidable cirumstances. -
42 4/19/03 Drugs in my Pocket Heroin. Codeine. Pills of countless varieties. Weed. Acid. Glue. playlist -
41 4/12/03 Cavalcade of Covers #3 Another installment of odd and interesting cover versions. From misguided madness, to genius reworkings, to total thrashings, it's just loads of people playing other people's intellectual property... playlist -
40 4/5/03 Rock!!! Not so much the music as the word. playlist -
39 3/29/03 What Goes Around... ... comes around. Songs with karmatic themes, songs of revenge, circulatiry in general. playlist -
38 3/22/03 Back in the Saddle HSN is back! Back in the Saddle again... and strangely, we find US Forces back in the saddle again -- in Iraq. -
- - [ no show ] Station black out during move to new clandestine facility afloat in Lake Michigan. -
37 11/23/02 Savant Rock Savant rock, roughly defined, is music made by people who don't really have any business making music but in some way make something brilliant either in spite of or on account of their utter lack of talent; it's beyond being so bad that it's good, it's a case of someone finding a direct conduit to their primal muse. From the merely insane to the completely handicapped, for those who are about to rock, Hootenanny Saturday Night salutes you! -
36 11/16/02 Hopelessly Devoto To You #2 The truth about de-evolution, the synthpap and the weird early demos. No spudboys. **
- 11/9/02 [ no show ] [ station black out ] -
35 11/2/02 Monster Chiller Horror Theatre Late night movie dialog with requisite rock and roll soundtrack. **
34 10/26/02 Goth Night Pre Halloween obviousness Nephilim. ASF. SOM. GLJ. (to abbreviate just a few...) -
33 10/19/02 Hopelessly Devoto To You #1 Howard Devoto. Pete Shelly. Other oddly and endly related odds and ends. -
32 10/12/02 Revolutionary Disco The assess of the masses hardly united when "thinking-man's disco" began to leak out of the UK in the early 80s. Gang of Four and others. **
31 10/5/02 Do You Remember? Hüsker Dü (Sweedish for "Do You Remember?") pioneered a new style of american hardcore, fusing folk and psychedelic elements into full-throttle speed punk. The result was breath-taking and heart-stopping. Also, Bob Mould and Grant Hart's post-Hüsker Dü work. -
30 9/28/02 Standards Rule Paul Weller. Almost entirely devoted to his band The Jam (1977-82). One of those interesting figures who's immeasurable impact on music in England has kept him in the British limelight for 25 years, yet he's barely a footnote on this side of the Atlantic. -
29 9/21/02 Psycho Ex-girlfriend Stalkers. Fatal attractions. The soundtrack for the brush-off that never ends, intercut with real-life answering machine messages left by real-life psycho ex-girlfriends. -
28 9/14/02 Cavalcade of Covers #2 More odd and interesting cover versions, good versions of songs you hate and bad versions of songs you love! -
27 9/7/02 Putting the Boot In... The world of bootleg recordings. Not to be confused with pirate recordings (see this history or this zappa-oriented Q/A for background info). So, it's going to be a night of lesser-quality live performances and demo tracks interesting as rarities and curious for fans of particular bands.

Selections from the Crimson Beard Audiovault[tm] and the LGO Archive (cheers and fanx, gov) 		-
26 8/31/02 "X" Marks The Spotlight A look at one of the best American bands ever. Punk and traditional influences. Emphasis on the early records produced by Ray Manzerek of the Doors. And some other shenanigans... **
25 8/24/02 Clearance Rock J and VO return from the coast with a mountain of discs rescued from the notch bins of San Francisco. Treasures and travisties alike. As low as 5 for $1. As much as $3. -
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8/17/02		 BEST OF... Pre-programmed bits of previous shows while J and VO are out on the west coast. -
21 7/27/02 The Clash and Cash A mix of the man in black and the only band that matters. Visiting the entire breadth of both catalogs. -
- 7/20/02 [ no show ] [ cancelled due to a transmitter malfunction ] -
20 7/13/02 U.S. 99.1 Red Line radio poses as a country station with subersive intent. Reverence for the beauty and emotion in great country music and scathing parody of amer-o-fied county culture. And lots of dirty dittys to get them soccer marms calling the FCC. Ye-haw!

It turned out to be a good night to be US 99.1... Atmospheric conditions had us cheek to cheek with US 99, so the chances of being heard by US 99 listeneres was in maximum effect... 		**
19 7/6/02 Punk Primer #2 West Coast Über Alles. 1978-85. The shaping "American" hardcore. -
18 6/29/02 No Speekee Engrish! Rock and other music from around the globe. NONE of it sung in English. Virtual O speaks foreign languages in his same dumb accent. From Edith Piaf to Nina Hagen. Asian alt-rock. And a special message from Celine Dion. *
17 6/22/02 Blah, blah, blah... More talk and less rock. Poetry, comedy, rants and ramblings. Spoken word and the occassional trickle of incidental music. -
16 6/15/02 Ladies Night! Virtual V hosts 2 hours of music by women. No cover for the ladies. Male strippers until 9pm. -
15 6/8/02 The Super Satanic Spectacular Terror in all its demonic forms. Horror soundtracks and sound effects, creepy rock music, and a backwards masking feature. Erad uoy fi netsil! *
14 6/1/02 Americana Acoustic leanings. Twang. Reverb. Bluegrass instruments. Whiskey. Remorse. Farming. And just a touch of jazz. Old school, new school, and no school. Pioneers and acoustic punks. Distinctly american flavors, from urban streets to dusty back roads. **
13 5/25/02 Punk Primer #1 UK punk 1976-82. Plenty of anarchy and then some. -
12 5/18/02 Goodbye to Cait The music of Elvis Costello. -
11 5/11/02 Glitter, Glam, and Proto-punk The totally half-baked excess of the early 70s. Especially the English bands, but many American lunatics as well. -
10 5/4/02 Plan 9: Best of HSN* A collection of moments from the first nine shows. The same lame thing a commercial station does when the host is out of town. **
9 4/27/02 It Came From Canada! No, it's not a horror film. Main focus will be early punk/alt rock efforts from the great white north (yeah!), but also with visitations from newer snowbiters (yeah?) and some examples of canadian rock and roll atrocities (boo!) -
8 4/20/02 Jazz + Porn
in Mix-O-Rama		 Jazz and Porn together in wonderous MIX-O-RAMA[tm]. Cool Jazz, hot sex, and dumb movie dialog. Cocktails and amyl nitrate, stat! The broadcast components will be hard-panned so you can adjust the levels of jazz and porn from your own radio! Offended by jazz? Simply adjust your stereo balance to remove the unwanted element! Sweet!

note: MIX-O-RAMA requires a stereo receiver. 		**
7 4/13/02 Is that you, Onan? Songs which can be taken as "dirty" if you happen to have a dirty mind. Onanism and other delights. Preceeded by a timely freedom-of-speech segment in answer to a recent content controversy at the station. **
6 4/6/02 Ideal For Living* The music of Joy Division from the Warsaw demos to the launching of New Order. One of modern rock's most unique and influential bands, JD emerged out of the Manchester punk scene of the late 70s and evolved into an entity all their own--dark, emotional, and silmultaneously atmospheric and intense. Shortly before their first tour of the US, frontman and lyricist Ian Curtis hung himself, leaving a small, yet extraordinary, body of work. *
5 3/30/02 Rockabilly Madness! Set the wayback machine for the 50's daddy-O! Reverb-drenched rockers for all you hep cats. The legends and the lesser-knowns. Crack a beer* and get ready for your upper lip to twitch! Sponsored by Pepsi, Lucky Stike, Halo shampoo, and other assorted 50s products.

*Hootenany Saturday Night reminds you not to drink and drive unless you're drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon! 		**
4 3/23/02 Retro New-Wave
Sock Hop		 There's a specially sealed vault in the deepest depths of the Crimson Beard Media Vault[tm] where the aborted attempt to construct a youth culture for the 80s lays dormant. Uptempo "futuristic" fluffy kitch. Self-consciously weird. Not too weird though. Safely weird. Virtual O and J Roger will be sporting skinny ties. Snorting poppers and cocaine. Spinning nerdy high school classics from 1978-85. -
3 3/16/02 Cavalcade of Covers A collection of cover versions; good, bad, and ugly. Punk thrashings of old pop songs, big band arrangements of hair metal, and other oddities. The stuff that B-sides and novelty records are made of... -
2 3/9/02 "Fuck"* Lots of music from all genres that incorporate the "F-word" with a special celebrity guest co-host! Spreading the love like a Singapore whore with all the finesse of a sailor waiting to finish his GED. -
1 3/2/02 Iggy Pop Is Dog* Virtual O will trace Iggy's history from his days as leader of the seminal Stooges though his rebirth as the Godfather of punk and new wave icon to recent (although modest) commercial success. -
*plus Hootenany After Hours after 10 p.m. - **archive of show exists - *partial archive exists 


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