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Waffles Staff Picks: April 2016 Edition
2016-04-22 10:23:07
Waffles Staff Picks - April Edition


Welcome to the April edition of the Waffles.fm Staff Picks. Please remember we do not look to balance genres or purposely seek out diversity - these are simply albums by bands that we love, and hope that you find something you enjoy as well. Note that each pick may be an individual track, or an entire album (for the purpose of the theme). In every case, however, the entire album will be FL. Thanks to 420billy for the collage. The theme this month celebrates the upcoming Waffles Radio, curated by new mod medicalfools.

Theme: Radio





420billy

Artist: All Night Radio
Album: Spirit Stereo Frequency

Resisted temptation to pick the obvious Radio Song

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izmo

Artist: Wet
Album: Don't You
Track: Deadwater

I discovered this on my favorite radio app, Songza. Songza has been since bought by Google and has been integrated into Google play music. However, in doing so they added advertisements (before there was only a banner ad in the app itself), also several of the playlists I liked are gone, they were playlists created for fictional characters on tv shows. One of my favorites was "Sally's Secret Dorm Party". They also had one for each of the characters on Girls, and each house on Game of Thrones. But anyway, I think I discovered Wet on "Witchy Thug Grrrl Pop". This playlist lives on in Google Play, but they renamed it "Witchy Grrrl Pop", because apparently girls can't be thugs in the corporate world. It actually might have been a different station tho, like maybe it was "Stormy Indie Sirens," but that wouldn't make as good a story.

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nomado

Artist: Eagle-Eye Cherry
Album: Desireless
Track: Save Tonight

Remembering my youth days. Save tonight! Tomorrow I'll be gone.

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condon313

Artist: Yann Tiersen
Album: Les Retrouvailles

In the 2015 Pulitzer winning novel All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr, the radio is a beautiful, invisible energy connecting people during World War II. If the book had a soundtrack, it would have to balance the French and German settings, but most of all, I'd like to imagine it would feature the Ondes Martenot. If you aren't familiar with this strange instrument, the 2013 documentary Wavemakers tells the tale of its invention, rise, and downfall beautifully. Best of all, the instrument was conceived of by a french radio operator during World War I. I believe Tiersen's work, which includes plenty of Ondes Martenot, would be suitable.

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icebox

Artist: Original Broadway Cast
Album: Hedwig and the Ingry Inch
Track: Midnight Radio

To all the strange rock 'n' rollers:
Unassuming indie rocker Stephen Trask hit a monster home run with this soundtrack. And this play is one of the most awesome dealing with the question of identity ever made. There are three different versions of the soundtrack, Oringial off-broacway cast, the movie, and the broadway cast. My favorite is still the original off broadway cast. Midnight Radio is the song at the climax of the story, and while nothing holds a candle to wonderful setting of Aristophanes' wonderfully comic, insightful mythmaking in "The Origin of Love," this is awesome anthemic Ziggy Stardust-esq power pop. Lift up your hands!

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medicalfools

Artist: LL Cool J
Album: Radio
Track: I Can't Live Without My Radio

High caliber ghettoblaster ammo. Allmusic calls it "boisterously aggressive." Immediately following the success of Run-DMC, LL was only 17 years old when he recorded this first album. It also helped launch Rick Rubin's career (his credit on the back cover: "Reduced by Rick Rubin.") Very raw, stripped-down beatbox beats and b-boy lyricism.

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lostsupper

Artist: NOFX
Album: White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Track: Please Play This Song on the Radio

Radio sucks. Here's a song about it.

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pogglywoggly

Artist: Radiohead
Album: Pablo Honey

anyone can play guitar thinking about you

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galador

Artist: Boston
Album: Greatest Hits

I have many fond memories of growing up and listening to the classic rock radio station with my dad, and one of my favorite artists was Boston.

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