WAFFLES!

Teenagers! YOUNG PUNKS! Matt and Marisa rail against the younger generation while playing songs about ’em, with Marisa going on a deep dive into one of her favourite musical sub-sub-subgenres: the “death discs” of the ’50s and ’60s, spinning splatter platters featuring all sorts of teens dropping like (teenaged) flies.

WAFFLES theme :: Teen Titans

Piano Concerto :: Alma Deutscher

Smells Like Teen Spirit (short) :: Willie Nelson

Smells Like Teen Spirit :: Patti Smith

Sugar Mountain :: Neil Young

The Suburbs :: Arcade Fire

Teenage Cats :: Hawksley Workman

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven :: Love & Rocket

Teenage Kicks :: The Undertones

Teenage Kicks :: Ron Ron Chou

Suzanne :: Bruce Springsteen

Black Denim Trousers & Motorcycle Boots :: The Diamonds

Patches :: Dickey Lee

Dead Man’s Curve :: Nash the Slash

Greg! The Stop Sign!! :: TISM

Teenage Exorcists :: Mogwai

U Smile :: Justin Bieber 800x slower

Seventeen :: Ladytron

At Seventeen :: Tara McLean

Drunk Teenagers :: Joel Plaskett Emergency

Miss Teen Wordpower :: The New Pornographers

Teenage Lobotomy :: The Ramones

First, it’s WAFFLES! Second, we have a theme. Third, it’s ordinal numbers! All the way up to hundredth (at least), it’s a new take on numbers from the first name in music/talk variety!

WAFFLES theme :: Teen Titans

Fourth Dance :: Kronos Quartet

Second Cup of Coffee :: Gordon Lightfoot

First We Take Manhattan :: Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah :: Leonard Cohen

In Need of Medical Attention :: Joel Plaskett

First of May :: John Southworth

Third of May/Odaigahara :: Fleet Foxes

First Song :: Andrew Bird

They Might Be Giants :: Another First Kiss

Second Best :: Barenaked Ladies

20th Century Fox :: The Doors

21st Century Digital Boy :: Bad Religion

Third Uncle :: Bauhaus

Firsts :: Richard Buckner

First Few Desperate Hours :: The Mountain Goats

4th of July :: X

First Time :: Carly Rae Jepsen

Fourth Dimension :: Lights

Second Chance :: Caribou

The Fifth Horseman :: Prefab Sprout

Second Nature :: Rush

The First Five Times :: Stars

First Transmission :: Earthling

Somebody left the WAFFLES! out in the rain! Well, no. But we do cover all sorts of songs about Cake, while never getting around to the actual band Cake. Sorry, Cake! You’re a great band!

WAFFLES theme :: Teen Titans

Cakewalk :: Oscar Peterson

I Like Pie, I Like Cake, But I Like You Most of All :: California Ramblers

Bile Them Cabbage :: Hank Williams

Ladies of the Canyon :: Joni Mitchell

All the Pretty Little Horses :: Holly Cole

Children’s Corner: Golliwog’s Cake Walk :: Claude DeBussy

MacArthur Park :: Shirley Bassey

Cake and July :: Joker’s Daughter

Chocolate Cake :: Crowded House

Saturdays :: Nelly Furtado

We Hovered with Short Wings :: Cowboy Junkies

Still Alive :: Jonathan Coulton

Piece of Cake :: Barenaked Ladies

Atop a Cake :: Alvvays

The Lookahead :: The Tragically Hip

Baker Baker :: Tori Amos

You Just Have to Be Crazy :: Grant Lee Buffalo

The Life and Soul of the Party Dies :: Carter the USM

I Love You (But You’re Boring) :: The Beautiful South

Here on Earth (I’ll Have My Cake) :: Crash Test Dummies

Lay Lady Lay :: Ministry

Cake v. Pie :: Paul F. Tompkins

The Light From a Cake :: Camper Van Beethoven

Cakes and Ale :: The Silly Sisters

Bastille Day :: Rush

North! South! East! West! Which dumb Saturday morning show do you like best?

It’s the cardinal directions as WAFFLES! covers the four points of the compass, with songs revealing Morrissey’s grim future as a horse-and-nun-murdering member of the Smiths, Marisa’s very (non-)controversial fave The Church album, the tremendously literal modern classical music of Jeremy Peyton Jones, and much more!

WAFFLES theme :: Teen Titans

North South East West :: Jeremy Peyton Jones

Go West :: Bill Frissell

East of the Sun & West of the Moon :: Diana Krall

West African Safari :: Sir Victor Uwaifo

Whispers of the North :: Gordon Lightfoot

Easy Money :: Old Man Luedecke

Is It Really So Strange :: The Smiths

I Think the Answer’s Yes :: The Beautiful South

Northern Piano :: Ultraworld

Western Skies :: Blue Rodeo

Northern Wind :: City and Colour

Going South :: The Wolfgang Press

Go West :: Pet Shop Boys

Go West :: Steen Jorgenson

The North :: Stars

The Black Light :: Calexico

Western Sky :: American Music Club

East West North South :: Japandroids

Moving East :: Jimmy Rankin

Helpless :: Neil Young

North, South, East, and West :: The Church

Compass :: Zella Day

Going South :: Nils Lofgren

It’s trash week on WAFFLES! Matt holds the fort solo and talks about some of the environmental initiatives around town, including an illegal dump cleanup organized by an eco-friendly clothing company, an upcoming town hall on the Green New Deal, and the astonishing number of dog poop collecting companies you can find around K-Town.

Music this week:

Ein Klein Nachtmusic / Spring :: Landfill Harmonic

Long Trip Home (from Trash) :: Antonio Pinto

Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Live) :: Bruce Cockburn

Lovers in a Dangerous Time :: Barenaked Ladies

My Heart Is A Piece Of Garbage Fight Seagulls! :: Geoff Berner

The Garbage Man Can :: The Simpsons

Abracadabra Trash :: yuk

Piece of Crap :: Neil Young

Trash Heap Blues :: Jerry Nelson (Madame Trashheap)

and we can lie between :: Undine, Junkyard Opera

When I Take Out The Garbage At Night :: Mount Eerie

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout :: Shel Silverstein

Careless :: Sarah Harmer

The Day We Saved The World :: Sarah Slean

I Love Trash :: Steven Tyler

Wasted Love :: City and Colour

Common Trash :: METZ

Trash :: Robyn Hitchcock

Fantasy Trash Wave :: Tobacco

Leaves, Trees, Forest :: Dan Mangan

Consequence :: Cory Weeds

Dance Yrself Clean :: LCD Soundsystem

Take Out The Trash :: They Might Be Giants

Madonna Trash :: Future Peers

Wasted Daylight :: Stars

Friend of the show Jeremy returns, and the theme is blades! From the cabaret origins of Mack the Knife to the sprawling prog majesty of Rush, from a backing out of a decision to try to out-Karl each other to getting Peterborough rock legends Them Blades back together, and even working the Green New Deal into the mix, this is an epic set of songs about blades… on the cutting edge of radio, indeed!

Songs this show:

WAFFLES! :: Teen Titans

Switch Blade :: Duke Ellington

Mack the Knife :: Keith Gerron

Mack the Knife :: Oscar Peterson

Asylum :: Danel Lanois

Razor Love :: Neil Young

King of Swords :: Ashley Summers

Liquid Swords :: The GZA

Thousand Knives :: Ryuchi Sakomoto

My Old Jacknife :: Ladyhawk

The First Cut is the Deepest :: Sheryl Crow

Gossip :: Them Blades

Dealing with the Roster :: Junkie XL

Heartbeats :: The Knife

Armour & Sword :: Rush

The Knife :: Maggie Rogers

Always Keep an Edge on your Knife :: Corb Lund

Swordfishtrombone :: Tom Waits

Spondee :: Matmos

Executioner Blues :: Do Make Say Think

Friend of the show Garrett Elliot returns, talkin’ Science!! and Science Rendezvous, as the annual event returns to Kingston. Science music from Philip Glass through William Shatner (covering Thomas Dolby) as we talk science, photography, school board politics, and more!

WAFFLES! :: Teen Titans

For Science! :: Chicago Symphony

Einstein on the Beach – Entrance :: Philip Glass

Sicence Is Real :: They Might Be Giants

The Scientist :: Johnette Napolitano

The Scientist :: Willie Nelson

Canadian Inventions :: Russel MacKenzie

La Science du Coeur :: Pierre Lapointe

Science :: Folly & the Hunter

Banting’s Imparted Years :: Tim Blais

Diabetes :: Wilford Brimley

The Art of Walking :: Blockhead

She Blinded Me With Science (Extended) :: Thomas Dolby

She Blinded Me With Science :: William Shatner

Science :: Ice Cream

Science of Dichotomies :: Casper Skulls

So Far I Have Not Found The Science :: Soul Coughing

Science Friction :: XTC

Natural Science :: Rush

Science Friction :: Orbital

Weird Science :: Oingo Boingo

May the Fourth be with you! Adam Walker joins Matt for a half-Star Wars, half-local-heroes edition of WAFFLES!, with a first hour focusing on May the Fourth be With You and (increasingly) weird takes on Star Wars in music; the second half on Homegrown 2019, with local bands taking the forefront and rocking their way to another great fundraiser for local music instrument lending library Joe’s M.I.L.L.