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PCA Radio Show 5.30.17

This week’s show starts a month-long focus on kids...first up: we looked this week at adult songs suitable for children. From John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” to Bjork’s “It’s Oh So Quiet,” to Billy Joel’s “Lullaby,” it’s a really great collection of music.

In case you missed it, you can check it all out at

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

Coming up next week: what one or two songs do you think must be part of a kid’s musical education? Let me know.

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Great article by PopMatters.com

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Looking For Help Writing A Story

I Have Just Started Writing A Story Called "Son Of Iwagakure" And I'm Looking For Help To Write It Since I Don't Have A Whole Lot Of Time To Do It Myself, So If Anyone Can I would be Grateful If Anyone Could Help Edit and Continue The Story While I'm In The Hospital. This damn Corna thing Ain't The Move Right Now

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s0YToAD4L8YwvYfRBQeGBIMzYY73PO9a

So In This Folder I have The First Chapter Almost Complete, Again Any Help Is Appreciated.

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PCA Podcast, 11.27

Almost our last show at KTEQ (our big Christmas show next week will be our last). Some tributes to the PCA, some tributes to all of you who have listened to the PCA over the years. 

In case you missed any of the goodness, you can find it at...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

I hope you’ll join us next Tuesday for a Christmas extravaganza, and that you’ll continue to listen once we���re just a podcast.

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PCA Podcast 11.13

Most of you have probably heard by now, I’ll be leaving KTEQ in early December and heading to a new life in Arkansas. Two shows still to go though:

First up, I thought maybe you might make suggestions for songs that remind you of me in some way. That’s in 2 weeks, 11/27.

Then there’s the big Christmas show the first week of December, 12/4.

Make sure to tune in for both.

Also, I could use some help...what should become of the PCA radio show/ podcast? The Facebook page will certainly continue, and I thought I might look for a similar station to house me in Little Rock, but I’m not sure if those of you out there actually want a PCA show. Should I try to keep it going? Would a podcast only version be worthwhile? Shorten the format? I want to know what YOU think.

Oh, and there was a show this week, and not a bad one either, all about the top 10 political songs. As always, you can check out anything you might have missed at...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

And in case I haven’t said it lately, thanks for listening all these years!

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PCA Podcast 10.30

Get your halloween on with our special edition of the PCA!

J pored over hundreds of thousands of songs and put together an amazing playlist...it begins with some fun and games, but then two dark stories unfold, one after the other, in musical form. Think of it as back-to-back Halloween concept albums. 

Don’t forget too that you’ve got more week to catch up on last week’s episode, which featured an in-depth interview with Christy Tidwell and Laura Kremmel on the best horror films of all time. 

Catch up on all the fun at 

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

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Ten Songs to Prepare to Listen to Life

You could be forgiven for having forgotten about Culture Club over the last several years. The band’s last proper album, Don’t Mind if I Do, dropped nearly twenty years ago, and it’s been even longer since the band’s true glory days, when they ruled the world with their first two albums, Kissing to be Clever (1982) and Colour by Numbers (1983). The band have a brand new album out October 26, Life,  and a shiny new single -- “Let Somebody Love You” -- that’s doing well in the charts. Now seems like as good a time as any to revisit the group’s best work, to relive the mark they made on the music industry.

Oh...and you can expect a full review of the new album early next week!

10. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?: If you’re going to take a tour through Culture Club, you might as well begin at the beginning. Part of what made Boy George so appealing was the irony of his perpetual broken heart juxtaposed with his larger-than-life personality. How could someone with his hair and makeup always seem so wretched and misused, so plaintive? In “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” he’s torn between the “fire” burning in his heart and the “words that burn.” But the metaphor of heat is only a front for the fragile personality that lies beneath, the one that wonders “How Can I Be Real,” and who wants only to “choose my color find a star.”  Heavy reverb and some echo effects in the bridge help cement our pity for his character.

9. More than Silence: From the beginning, shuffle to the end: follow Culture Club’s earliest hit with their most recent track, “More Than Silence,” which comes from the abortive album Tribes, an album that was shelved in 2014, but which, rumors suggest became the foundation for the upcoming Life. Here, a more mature George reflects on his earlier self with some degree of weary wisdom. The moves remain the same: “You play a cold game,” he tells his lover. Yet here he owns his own emotional trauma, accepting he is the “wounded soul,” crying “bi-polar tears.” Bonus points here for a strong ending guitar solo from Roy Hay, who spent most of his time in the 80s blending rather than starring.

8. Mistake Number 3: One of the prettier songs in Culture Club’s catalog, “Mistake Number 3” fuses two sorts of heartache, the kind we feel over lost loves and the deeper kind we feel when the world has let us down. The title refers to the possibility of a third world war, and the album it comes from, the band’s third -- Waking Up With the House on Fire -- follows a pattern of new wave artists turning to less materialistic and more global concerns (see Band Aid in 1983 and Live Aid the following year). In addition to this gem, Waking Up contains the minor hit “War,” which makes its case more overtly. Here, over heavy synthesizers that manage to shimmer rather than oppressing, George sings, “How cynical are people?” Though “you can stand them on their own,” “they will fall to pieces.”

7. Love is Love: “Love is Love” finds Boy George in full romantic mode, focusing on the positive side to relationships. While in a song like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” heartbreaks seems everywhere, here the world is all sunshine and smiles: “Love is everywhere you go.” The straightforward emotion of that sentiment is balanced by an easy going track that touches Culture Club’s roots in soul music and features strong, if understated, 70s-inspired guitar work from Ron Hay.

6. Miss Me Blind: Culture Club’s first album, Kissing to be Clever presented George as a hapless character when it comes to love; the follow-up album, Colour By Numbers offered an altogether different hero, one who sits on top of the world. That attitude is readily apparent in “Karma Chameleon,” but it can be found scattered throughout the album, as here, where George plays the gracious figure who tells his lover not to leave: “you’ll miss me blind,” he warns. Yet he’s also eager to graciously welcome his lover back: just “grab my golden hand,” he offers like a god, and “I’ll teach you” all you need to know about love.

5. Victims: More than any other of the band’s songs, “Victims,” is all George, an anthem featuring his rich vocals primarily backed with piano until near the middle it builds with chorus and  a pounding drum beat into full ensemble. One of Culture Club’s most lyrically sophisticated songs, it finds solace in loneliness by seeing that we’re all victims in one way or another. The metaphor of the marionette that weaves its way through the song adds an extra layer of pathos to this plea for solidarity among all of us who feel despair.

4. I Just Wanna Be Loved: Though it didn’t produce either the buzz or the hits of Culture Club’s early work, their 1999 album, Don’t Mind if I Do showed off a more mature quartet. Something of the uneven energy is missing of course, but that is replaced by a sense that this is a band at the top of their game, in complete control of what they’re doing. The lyrics of “I Just Wanna Be Loved,” suggest that, with the speaker owning his own faults: I “want to beg you baby, but I’m much too proud to shout.” Self-knowledge comes hand-in-hand with another piece of wisdom: the desire for stability: “Fortunately I got wise this time.” Love isn’t about excitement -- “I don’t want to fight” -- but rather about making peace.

3. Karma Chameleon: Everyone knows “Karma Chameleon,” one of the essentials of the 1980s. That has a lot to do with the song’s musical elements. It manages to capture both the soul and reggae elements Culture Club fused together so well. The lyrics are full of that energy missing from the later “I Just Wanna Be Loved.” In this case, the speaker admires for the ever-changing bad boy, knowing all the while his feelings will only lead him to heartache. For now, before everything tips over into chaos, love spreads itself out like a fan of colors. “Every day is like survival,” but there’s something magical in that. Judd Lander’s harmonica work rises above it all, giving the song its distinctive sound and reminding us to be playful in the face of our fears.

2. Church of the Poisoned Mind: In many ways “Church of the Poison Mind” feels like a follow-up to “Karma Chameleon.” The sentiment in the lyrics is much the same: the lover here both” used and made my life so sweet.” The harmonica blends perfectly as well. What gives “Poisoned Mind” the edge is a slower beat and some wicked bass work from Mikey Craig. Karma Chameleon feels like a party; with those three opening bass notes, “Church” feels like a statement.

1. Time (Clock of the Heart): It’s no secret that most of George’s lyrics were driven by his tempestuous relationship with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. By all accounts Moss struggled with the public nature of his relationship to George, and in particular his celebrity identity as a homosexual. George’s lyrics throughout the Culture Club cannon vacillate between a sort of idol worship of Moss, an attempt to accept the instability of their relationship, and feelings of crushing defeat when that relationship frequently fell apart. Both “Karma Chameleon” and “Church of the Poisoned Mind” capture the high energy of being on the edge of that relationship, balancing precariously between emotions, but no song perfectly captures that sense of balance like “Time (Clock of the Heart).” As George sings plaintively, time makes other “lovers feel that they’ve got something real.” The speaker here longs for that feeling, and literally begs his lover to give it to him, but at the same time he shrugs the pain away and revels in the love of the moment. He’s both trying and failing to accept the time-worn truism of “Better to have loved and lost.” Craig’s bass line creates a solid foundation while a sweet synthesizer and Hay’s jangling guitar create a sweet counterpoint in which the balance of voices is almost as heavenly as that of the emotions.

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PCA Podcast 10.23

Fun show last night...great interview with Drs. Christy Tidwell and Laura Kremmel. Not only did they reveal their 10 favorite horror films, but they offered some really in-depth thoughts on the subject of horror generally...not to be missed.

Later, we picked up on last week’s topic -- top 10 rock hall of fame snubs. Along the way we answered such questions as “Who is Captain Beefheart anyway, and why does he matter if no one’s heard of him?” and “Why do I have so much trouble relating to the Smiths.” 

Check out all the warm goodness at...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

AND, don’t forget!!!! Dr. J’s spooky Halloween spectacular airs next week at the normal time -- 6-9 p.m. -- on KTEQ FM, Rapid City.

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PCA Podcast 10.16

If you’ve always wanted to listen to the show, but were afraid of having to slog through an entire 3 hours, do I have an episode for you! 

My music source -- Youtube -- was abruptly cut off last night in the middle of the show. Managed to get through about an hour and ten minutes worth of discussion and music relating to the rock and roll hall of fame. 

Next week’s show will feature a very entertaining discussion of horror films by two of our stars here at the School of Mines -- Christy Tidwell and Laura Kremmel. But I think there will be some time left over to revisit this topic and finish up the list. 

In the meantime, if you want to hear the beginning, you can find it as always at...

 http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

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PCA Podcast 10.2

This week’s show focused on the best documentaries of all time. We also took a little time to pay tribute to Sting on his 67th birthday and to The Replacements’ album Let it Be. All that AND great 80s music. 

In case you missed any of the fun, you can catch up at

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

Next week: album covers?

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PCA Podcast 9.25

This week’s podcast makes for a tough listen. The music’s amazing, but a bit of a downer. Top 10 most depressing songs ever, and I thought I’d just fill the rest of the show out with all your “depressing” suggestions that didn’t make the list. Make sure you’re in your happy place before you start! As always, you can find it in podcast version here...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

And join us next week for an all new edition of the PCA with an all new top 10!

Tuesday nights, 6-9 on KTEQ, FM.

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PCA Podcast 9.4

This week’s podcast is up and raring to go...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

We spend some time thinking about the best female stand-up comedians, listen to some great 80s tracks, and hear new music from Culture Club and Steve Perry.

All are welcome!

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PCA Podcast 8.14

Last night we revisited the first few hours of MTV from way way back August 1, 1981. A mixed bag of music, a mixed bag of videos, but a moment that deserves to be remembered. 

Check out the podcast version at...

http://matthewkadkins.podomatic.com/

And don’t miss next week’s show, the first of a new school year!