Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

Finally breaking free of all the horror, we pivot to parody performer Weird Al Yankovic. Not only do we listen to selections from his new "autobiographical" film Weird, we go back to 1989's UHF. We also prepare you for the 2022 Shindig Finale in Vancouver as CITR's battle of the bands wraps up this Friday. 1. Diedrich Bader: You Don't Know Anything (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story OST, 2022) Legacy 2. Shirley Walker: Main Title (Batman: The Animated Series [limited edition score], 2008) La-La Land 3. Shirley Walker: Gotham City Overture (Batman: The Animated Series [limited edition score], 2008) La-La Land 4. Irene Cara: Out Here on My Own (Fame OST, 1980) RSO/Rhino 5. Irene Cara: Flashdance... What a Feeling (Flashdance OST, 1983) Casablanca 6. Aaron Harry & Trevor Bastow: Video in Industry (Market Leaders, 1983) Bruton 7. Little Simz: Rollin' Stone (Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, 2021) Age 101 8. PinkPantheress: Do You Miss Me? [w.Kaytranada & Phil] (2022) Warner 9. Goblin: Blind Concert (Suspiria O

We're overdue on a listen to Ryuichi Sakamoto so we'll mostly focus on his score to the Netflix anime series Exception amongst other experimental/classical music from 2022. 1. Dixia Sirong: Qatarsea [XLR8R edit] (Di Er EP, 2016) Inner Balance 2. Loscil: Still (The Sails Pt. 1, 2022) Frond 3. Okay Kaya: In Regards to Your Tweet (SAP, 2022) Jagjaguwar 4. Erich Leinsdorf & the Boston Symphony Orchestra: Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee, Movement IV - The Twittering Machine (Stravinsky: Agon & Schuller: 7 Studies on Theme of Paul Klee, 1966) RCA Victor Red Seal 5. [unknown tibetan group]: The Bird's Twitter Contends in Beauty (Popmusic: The Best Music, ?) ? ** I HAVE THIS SOMEWHERE PHYSICALLY IN STORAGE CAN LOOK IT UP 6. Beth Orton: Lonely (Weather Alive, 2022) Partisan 7. Beabadoobee: Broken CD (Beatopia, 2022) Dirty Hit 8. John Williams: Destiny... Canneloni... and the Tale of Viktor Navorski (The Terminal OST, 2004) Universal Classics/UGM 9. Actress: Fragments of a Butterfly's

This mostly moody episode focuses on Blanck Mass' score to the 2021 film Ted K, detailing the life of the feared Unabomber. We also pay tribute to Nik Turner of Hawkwind, queer country pioneer Patrick Haggerty, singer Gal Costa, rapper Takeoff from Migos and composer Norm Chambers. 1. Hawkwind: Master of the Universe (In Search of Space, 1971) United Artists/Liberty 2. Ian William Craig: Sentimental Drift (Music for Magnesium_173 OST, 2022) FatCat 3. Lavender Country: Sweet Shadow Man (Blackberry Rose and Other Songs & Sorrows, 2022) Don Giovanni 4. Gal Costa: Saudosismo (Gal Costa, 1969) Phillips/Dusty Groove 5. Electric Eye: En Bekymringsfri Koloni (Horizons, 2021) Fuzz Club 6. Migos: Stir Fry (Culture II, 2018) Motown/Capitol 7. Norm Chambers: Nocturnal (Mirage Colony, 2022) Soft Profile 8. Norm Chambers: Loop 2 (Calliope, 2022) Hotham Sound 9. Radiant Futur: Unspoken Loneliness (Hypersensitive, 2022) Muscut 10. Squid in Chains: Crowd Life Underground (Sirens of Kyiv [remastered], 2022) Earsa

Alex G's score to the 2021 horror film We're All Going to the World's Fair sorta extends our usual Hallowe'en October theme a bit but the emphasis here is more on indie rock. We also pay tribute to Rodney Graham and Mimi Parker. 1. Sparks: Pacific Standard Time (A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, 2020) BMG 2. Offseason: Snakedriver (2022) self-released 3. UJ3RK5: Naum Gabo (Vancouver Complication 1979, 2005) Pinned/Sudden Death 4. Rodney Graham Band: Walking to Walgreens (Gondoliers, 2017) self-released/The Vinyl Factory 5. Rodney Graham Band: Theme from The Photokinetoscope (Rock is Hard, 2003) self-released 6. Low and Dirty Three: When I Called Upon Your Seed (In the Fishtank 7, 2001) Konkurrent 7. Low: More (Hey What, 2021) Sub Pop 8. Low: Will the Night (Songs for a Dead Pilot EP, 1997) Kranky 9. Shudder to Think: Just Really Wanna See You [w.Mimi Parker] (First Love, Last Rites OST, 1998) Epic/Sony 10. Low & Tomandandy: Half Light [single version] (The Mothman Prophecies OST, 2002) Lakeshore 11. L

Hallowe'en is here as we get vampiric with music by Tara Busch for the 2021 film Jakob's Wife along with music from a recent Italian tribute album to the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. We also talk about the year and film 1922 in this mostly very goth synth episode. Guest host: the ghost of Bobby "Boris" Pickett. 1. Anna Preston: Vampire GF (2021) self-released 2. Roza Terenzi & D Tiffany: Liquorice Skritch (Edge of Innocence, 2022) Delicate 3. Gillian B. Anderson & Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra: Ellen unt Hutters Thema (Hans Edrmann's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror OST, 1995) RCA Victor Red Seal/BMG Classics 4. Pinetop Smith: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Pine Top Blues 10", 1928) Vocalion 5. Ennio Morricone: Autunno 1922 (Novecento: Colonna Sonora Originale del Film, 1976) RCA 6. Mike Patton: No Grave for Mama (1922 OST, 2018) Ipecac/Netflix 7. Mike Patton: Cornfield [Horizontal] (1922 OST, 2018) Ipecac/Netflix 8. Mike Patton: Sweetheart Bandits 2 "We All Get Caught" (1922 OST, 2018) Ipec

Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian composer based in Berlin who plays with a lot of eclectic elements. It's primarily dark electronics, which is highlighted by her score to the 2021 film The Seed, which is this week's profile amidst the slow creep to Hallowe'en horror. 1. Vesa-Matti Loiri: Väinämöisen Laulu (Eino Leino 1, 1978) Gold Disc/Flamingo/Fazer 2. Kristen Roos: Musmusik Till M (Calliope, 2022) Hotham Sound 3. Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (Coal Miner's Daughter, 1970) Decca 4. Cowboy Junkies: Mariner's Song (Sharon Temple Sessions, 2022) Sony 5. Chorchill: Paramedic (Non-Traumatic Events [split w.Phirnis], 2021) Submarine Broadcasting Company 6. Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams: Devil's Daughter (Plastic Bouquet, 2020) New West 7. The Sadies: Message to Belial (Colder Streams, 2022) Yep Roc 8. Clark: The Autumnal Crush (Body Double, 2022) Warp/Throttle 9. Wallgrin: PseudoReligion (Yet Again the Wheel Turns, 2022) self-released 10. L7: Shove (Tank Girl OST, 1995) Elektra 11. Chris Tilto

For your Thanksgiving episode, you get some leftovers. gak's on the road but after August's podcast server outage, he's dug up two lost episodes (615 + 616 from August 2022) and mashed them together into an odd pre-recorded hybrid so podcast listeners can enjoy a condensed version of profiles tied to The Northman, Das Boot & The Neverending Story whilst the radio folks hear less crackle and snap but more pop. Shad: Work [w.Skratch Bastid] (TAO, 2021) Secret City Kuma: Spahn (Buy the Tools You Need with Time, 2022) self-released Charlotte Day Wilson: Wish It Was Easy (Alpha, 2021) Stone Woman Ouri: Fonction Naturelle (Frame of a Fauna, 2021) Born Twice/Lighter Than Air Allumette: Cuvette (Auberge du Soufre, 2018) self-released Eliza Niemi: Walking Feels Slow (Staying Mellow Blows, 2022) Vain Mina Devours & Kellarissa: Change My Mind (2022) Mint Marieth: Karelia (Mennyt Muisto, 2022) self-released Björk: Fagurt Er í Fjörðum (Fossora, 2022) One Little Independent Björk: Mycelia (Fossora, 2022) One Li

October primarily means a horror month in the lead to Hallowe'en but with the Vancouver International Film Festival bringing Michael Abels to town for a talk, we'll profile his score to Jordan Peele's latest scary film Nope. We'll also do the usual film listings, tributes to the recently deceases, acts in town and some Iranian noise in support of protestors. 1. James Devane: Sudden Oak Death (Beauty is Useless, 2022) Umeboshi 2. SUNN O))): Troubled Air (Life Metal, 2019) Southern Lord 3. Mama's Broke: October's Lament (Narrow Line, 2022) Free Dirt 4. TV SETS: Gold October (An Embarrassment of Riches, 2022) self-released 5. The Cyrillic Typewriter: Tell All the Poets (Buzz, 2022) JAZ 6. The Feelies: Raised Eyebrows (Crazy Rhythms, 1980) Stiff 7. The Golden Palominos: Omaha (Visions of Excess, 1985) Celluloid 8. Nick Storring: IV (Music from Wéi, 2022) Orange Milk 9. Friend & Lover: Reach Out of the Darkness (Reach Out of the Darkness, 1968) Verve Forecast 10. Coolio: Fantastic Voyage [Timber mix] (

In tribute to French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), we hear an array of music from his definitive Nouvelle Vague films from the 1960s. We also mark the upcoming National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, finally hear the 2022 Polaris Prize winner and prepare for the 41st annual Vancouver International Film Festival starting later this week. 1. Pierre Kwenders: Coupé (José Louis and the Paradox of Love, 2022) Arts & Crafts 2. Sarah Davachi: Vanity of Ages (Two Sisters, 2022) Late Music 3. Thaïs: Banksy (Tout est Parfait: Acte Deux, 2022) Bravo 4. April March: Californian Fall (In Cinerama, 2022) Une Vie/Omnivore 5. Jack Nitzsche: Last Dance (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest OST, 1975) Fantasy 6. Jasmyn: Green Nature (In the Wild, 2022) Anti- 7. Ivan Martishchuk: Kozachok [Dance Song] (Music of Ukraine, 1951) Ethnic Folkways Library 8. Ummagma: Cretu (Compass, 2019) self-released 9. Sudan Archives: Copycat [Broken Notions] (Natural Brown Prom Queen, 2022) Stones Throw 10. Chvrches: Dea

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), we pay tribute to her as a person whilst wondering what a monarchy means in the 21st century. We'll profile Alexandre Desplat's score to the 2006 film The Queen as we juggle other queens amongst the usual round of other topics, including some Polaris Prize nominee catch-up -- along with a Waiting for Godot moment for a winner that happened well after airtime -- recent Emmy news and other things going wrong around the world in this dense episode. Giddy up, go pony! Regular podcast subscribers: yes, there are 2 missing episodes based on numbering. The station logging server ran out of memory and the appropriate people who regularly look at it were away so down the road, expect a hybridized Ep. 615 + 616 fusion that tries to replicate both chaotic transmissions. What you hear! 1. Quincy Jones: Britannia & Mr Bridger, If You Please Nº2/God Save the Queen (The Italian Job OST: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 2019) Quartet 2. Shandi Sinnamon: Charles in C

In honour of director Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022), we'll profile music from two of his best known films: 1981's Das Boot and 1984's The Neverending Story. We also survey what's left of August as school starts to return. [Podcasts are currently unavailable so bear with us until the server can sort itself out.] 1. Gaten Matarazzo: Never Ending Story (Stranger Things 3: Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series, 2019) Lakeshore/Invada 2. Kuma: Spahn (Buy the Tools You Need with Time, 2022) self-released 3. Q Lazzarus: Goodbye Horses (2013) All Nations/Garvey 4. Yves Tumor: Jackie (The Asymptotical World EP, 2021) Warp 5. Moat Bells: Missed Cues (Forest City Series: Volume 5, 2022) A Person Disguised as People 6. Kamikaze Nurse: Never Better (Stimuloso, 2022) Mint 7. Megamall: Two Faced [live] (Fishbowl Sessions: Live from CITR/Discorder, 2020) CITR 8. Light Blending In: Fire & Air (2022) self-released 9. Shad: Work [w.Skratch Bastid] (TAO, 2021) Secret City 10. Ouri: Fonction Naturelle (Frame of

This week, we profile Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough's score to Robert Egger's Viking-inspired 2022 film The Northman. MP3 forthcoming, pending a good old fashioned podcast server technical investigation. 1. Folklore ensemble of the village of Krivonosovka: Picking Berries in the Forest [Summer Berry Picking song] (Ukrainian Music: Anthology of Folk Music, 2011) Melodiya 2. Biosphere: Transfigured Express (Shortwave Memories, 2022) Biophon 3. Four Tops: Standing in the Shadows of Love (Reach Out, 1967) Motown 4. Lamont Dozier: The Picture Will Never Change (Love and Beauty, 1974) Invictus 5. Lamont Dozier: Blue Sky and Silver Bird (Black Bach, 1974) ABC 6. Teenage Head: Bonerack (Hard Core Logo, 1996) BMG Music 7. Mdou Moctar: Chismiten (Afrique Victime, 2021) Matador 8. Allumette: Cuvette (Auberge du Soufre, 2018) self-released 9. Warpaint: Champion (Radiate Like This, 2022) Virgin 10. Lido Pimienta: Para Transcribir [Sol] (Miss Colombia, 2020) Anti- 11. Alessandro Cortini: Corri (Scuro

Wanna hear a story? As late summer soldiers forth in the northern hemisphere, we'll profile Mica Levi's beguiling score to the 2020 Twitter-based film Zola. We also pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John, Jim Seals from Seals & Crofts and play catch-up on the 2022 Polaris Prize nominees. Are there weird starts to songs and gaps in others? Why yes, sigh. And is there a weird crackle in the audio? Also yes and also sigh. Technology isn't infallible but people are looking into the latter; I have to find rarer and rarer iPods since I don't trust modern things that rely on streaming. [NOT A HAIKU] 1. Willie Hutch: Brother's Gonna Work It Out (The Mack OST, 1973) Motown 2. Ian William Craig: Sentimental Drift (Music for Magnesium_173, 2022) FatCat 3. Olivia Newton-John: Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee (Grease OST: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, 1978) RSO/Universal 4. Olivia Newton-John: Magic (Xanadu OST, 1980) MCA/Jet 5. Electric Light Orchestra: Drum Dreams (Xanadu OST, 1980) MCA/Jet 6. Seals & Crofts: Diamon

In honour of the actress Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022), we'll deep into the first two Star Trek films and their scores by Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner. We also have various summer songs also in mind as we juggle technology and astronomy simultaneously. 1. Bob & Doug McKenzie: Black Holes (Great White North, 1981) Anthem 2. Meco: Star Trek Medley (Music from Star Trek and The Black Hole, 1980) Casablanca 3. Wallgrin: Yet Again the Wheel Turns (Yet Again the Wheel Turns/Psuedoreligion, 2022) self-released 4. Courtney Barnett: Sunfair Sundown (Things Take Time, Take Time, 2021) Mom+Pop/Remote Control 5. Michael Red: Star (Gateways, 2022) Hotham Sound 6. Mitski: The Only Heartbreaker (Laurel Hell, 2022) Dead Oceans 7. The KVB: Sunrise Over Concrete (Unity, 2021) Invada 8. Animal Collective: Zapata Falls (Crestone: Original Score, 2021) Domino 9. Jack J: The Only Way (Opening the Door, 2022) Mood Hut 10. Patrick Holland: The Shame of It All (You're the Boss, 2022) Sinderlyn 11. Aurora Halal: Just Te

For your civic holiday in Canada, BC Day specifically here in Vancouver, this episodes goes 80s chirpiness with selections from Harold Faltermeyer's soundtracks to Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch and a bit of Top Gun. Dollar days are upon us, pray tell. 01. Sally Shapiro: Holiday (Italians Do It Better, 2021) Italians Do It Better 02. Arushi Jain: Under the Lilac Sky (Under the Lilac Sky, 2021) Leaving 03. Universal Togetherness Band: More Than Enough (Saturday Night 7", 2014) Numero Group 04. Charlie Houston: Lately (2022) Arts & Crafts 05. Makoto Inoue: Sunset World (Synthetic Space, 1978) RCA 06. Burna Boy: Ja Ara E (The Lion King: The Gift, 2019) Parkwood/Columbia 07. Sade: Nothing Can Come Between Us [Pomo edit] (2013) self-released 08. FWY! Subdivision (San Clemente, 2012) Moon Glyph 09. Breeze: Bummer (Only Up, 2021) Hand Drawn Dracula 10. Plum: Diamond (Pull Back the Sky, 2022) self-released 11. Jason Zumpano: Falling Forward Again (Village Lights: Piano 2001-2002, 2022) Jaz 12. JayWood: Pray

Plan B is go as gak deals with substantial home music library problems, so we'll dig up Francis & Carmine Coppola's score to the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now and the unused David Shire score that was released a couple years ago. Let's all head up river with our grocery list. 1. UNKLE: UNKLE Main Title Theme (Psyence Fiction, 1998) Mo'Wax/London 2. Marc Sabat: Swing in Sweetest Summer [for Glissando Flute and Electronics] (2013) Plainsound 3. The Sadies: No One's Listening (Colder Streams, 2022) Yep Roc 4. Steve Lacy: Give You the World (Gemini Rights, 2022) L-M 5. Pauline Anna Strom: I Still Hope (Angel Tears in Sunlight, 2021) Rvng Intl. 6. Julia Jacklin: Love, Try Not to Let Go (Pre Pleasure, 2022) Polyvinyl 7. Men I Trust: Hard to Let Go (2022) self-released 8. Boredoms: GO!!!!! [excerpt] (Super Roots Sampler, 2008) Vice 9. PVA: Hero Man (Blush, 2022) Ninja Tune X. À La Mode: Est-ce Qu'on S'aimera (2017) self-released 11. Helena Hauff: Thalassa (@0, 2021) Ahead of Our Time 12. Kali Malo

gak's back after a few weeks in both literal and figurative wildernesses. At long last, we pay tribute to the Greek composer Vangelis (1943-2022) and only some of his synthetic epics. 1. Kraftwerk: Home Computer [2021 single edit] (Remixes, 2022) Kling Klang/Parlophone 2. Ingram Marshall: Prelude/The Bay (Alcatraz, 1994) New Albion 3. Alexandra Spence: Blue Waves (Calliope, 2022) Hotham Sound 4. Marina Herlop: Shaolin Mantis (Pripyat, 2022) Pan 5. Deborah Martin & Jill Haley: Fountains (The Silence of Grace, 2021) Spotted Peccary 6. Nite Jewel: Show Me What You're Made of (No Sun, 2021) Gloriette 7. Ouri: Fonction Naturelle [Joni Void remix] (Reel2Reel2, 2021) Everyday Ago 8. x/o: Chrysalis Wrath (Chaos Butterfly, 2022) Precious Metals 9. VILDÃ: Utsjoki-Disco (Vildaluodda, 2019) Bafe's Factory 10. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: Chocolate Hill (Texas Moon 12", 2022) Dead Oceans 11. Sofia Kourtesis: Juntos (Fresia Magdalena EP, 2021) Technicolour 12. Purity Ring: Unlucky (Graves EP, 2022) The Fellowshi

gak went away to Finland for a few weeks to the only pre-recorded episode made available is Part 9 of our all-ambient series, focusing on mostly Canadian artists for the then-leadup to Canada Day. He doesn't talk over Sarah Davachi for once and there are longer drone pieces in the back half. ProtoU: Somniat Praeterita (Memory Alpha, 2022) Cryo Chamber Museum of No Art: Flight on Carpet (Museum of No Art, 2020) Séance Centre Sarah Davachi: Magdalena (Antiphonals, 2021) Late Music Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann: Red Sky (Mother of Pearl, 2021) Recital Sarah Davachi: Diaphonia Basilica [version] (Figures in Open Air, 2020) Late Music Habalayon: A Day Inside (Forest City Series: Volume 4, 2021) A Person Disguised as People Ben Grossman: Uruzi [The River] (Guelph Tomorrow, 2020) Blunderspublik anthéne: We're Here (Away from Your Shadow, 2021) Home Normal loscil: Century (The Sails Pt. 2, 2022) Frond Temple Volant: Sealestia (Force Field, 2020) self-released Hymns57: On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused M

All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan 2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes 3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic 4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music 5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 6. They Might Be Giants: Moonbeam Rays (Book, 2021) Idlewild 7. "Weird Al" Yankovic: Hardware Store (Poodle Hat, 2003) Volcano/Way Moby 8. Moat Bells: Circles in June (Bones of Things, 2022) A Person Disguised as People 9. Men I Trust: Ante Meridiem (Untourable Album, 2022) Return to Analog 10. Jr. Gone Wild: I Don't Kn

The actor Ray Liotta (1954-2022) was a distinctive force, so amongst various highlights, we'll profile music from Martin Scorsese's 1990 epic Goodfellas and then the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. He did amuse us so. 1. Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi (Next Stop...Soweto: Volume 2, 2010) Strut 2. Jamani Duo: Open Window (Timeline, 2021) self-released 3. Julee Cruise: Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Floating into the Night, 1989) Warner Bros 4. Syl Johnson: Different Strokes (Dresses Too Short, 1968) Twilight/Numero Group 5. Holy Fuck: No Error (Deleter, 2020) Holy Ef/Last Gang 6. Bobby Oroza: I Got Love (The Otherside, 2022) Big Crown 7. Kaina: Blue [w.Helado Negro] (It Was a Home, 2022) City Slang 8. Joe Hisaishi: Mononoke Hime (Symphonic Suite: Mononoke Hime, 1997) Studio Ghibli/Milan 9. Joe Hisaishi: Princess Mononoke Theme [instrumental] (Princess Mononoke OST, 1997) Studio Ghibli/Milan 10. Ludovico Einaudi: Almost June (Underwater, 2022) Decca 11. Ludovico Einaudi: Underwater (Underwat