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Thought I was coming down with the flu this week – but I BEAT IT! I CAN DO ANYTHING! Therefore, songs about men of respect, men of power. Men. * Petra Haden – Superman Theme – Petra Goes to The Movies * Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet) – Big Science * Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again – Boy Child * Johnny Cash – Sam Hall – American IV * Standard Oil Company – I Love A Salesman – Single * Frank Black – Man Of Steel – Songs In The Key Of X * The Blanks – The Six Millions Dollar Man – Riding The Wave The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

What’s the show about this week? THAT’S what it’s about. * They Might Be Giants – Mysterious Whispers – Apollo 18 * Cheap Trick – Magical Mystery Tour – Greatest Hits * Gary Numan – Down In the Park – Premier Hits * Residents – God’s Magic Finger – Wormwood * Lene Lovich – Writing On the Wall – Stateless * Tom Waits – What’s He Building – VH1 Storytellers * Dramarama – Questions? – Cinema Verite * Baby Ray and the Ferns – How’s Your Bird? – Cucamonga Years * The Who – Hall Of The Mountain King – Sell Out The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

As promised, Dark Meat returns! Songs about food and drink are running the show this week, a welcome change from the usual songs about protein powder and exercise! Chow down, boozehound. * ? – Dance the Slurp * They Might Be Giants – Drink! – Mink Car * Talking Heads – Stay Hungry – More Songs About Buildings and Food * Jonathan Coulton – Pizza Day – Thing A Week 3 * Tom Waits – Warm Beer and Cold Women – Nighthawks at the Diner * Dave Frishberg – Sweet Kentucky Ham – Dave Frishberg * Candypants – Dishy – Candypants * Brigitte Bardot – Bubble Gum – Best of Bardot * Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach – Happy Days Sweetheart The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

As a gift, we bring you an extra five minutes of Christmas Cheer, DarkMeat style! Look, I’d be lying if I said I put some thought into this one, but it’s got the virtue of a lotta kick-ass holiday music. Play it at your family gathering! After all, you want to put up with those losers forever? * The Ventures – Frosty The Snowman * Don Smith – Black Christmas * Candypants – The Happiest Time Of The Year * Dean Martin – Baby, It’s Cold Outside * Les Brown & His Band of Renown – The Nutcracker Suite * Boney M – Oh Christmas Tree * Renzo Cesana – I Bought You Violets * Maynard Williams – Christmas Dream * Kay Starr – (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag * Ray Anthony – Christmas Kisses * Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

Dark Meat takes a look at the big fella, the man upstairs, Your Daddy. God. Some of these songs are kind of irreverent but just relax will ya? Anybody who thinks God doesn’t have a sense of humor has never, ever been in love. * Elvis Costello – God’s Comic – Spike * The Residents – Godsong – Fingerprice * They Might Be Giants – Kiss Me Son Of God – Lincoln * Tom Waits – God’s Away On Business – Blood Money * Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill – (A Deal With God) – Hounds of Love * Tin Machine – Under the God – Tin Machine * Super Furry Animals – God! Show Me Magic – Fuzzy Logic * XTC – Dear God – Skylarking The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

Well, it’s another bad love show. Lord help me, I cannot keep away. This one delves into a particular kind of relationship, as clumsily alluded to in the title. * Brendan Benson – Bad For Me – What Kind Of World * Ben Folds Five – Mess – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner * Blood, Sweat and Tears – I Can’t Quit Her – Greatest Hits * The Bobs – Valentino’s – My I’m Large * Jack Jones – Wives and Lovers – The Impossible Dream * The Flowers – Confessions – Fast Product – Mutant Pop * Duran Duran – I Don’t Want Your Love – Greatest * The Dresden Dolls – Good Day – The Dresden Dolls (Looks like I missed doing a show last week, and I didn’t even NOTICE it until now! Such is the holiday season with its trips to Las Vegas and Mammoth Mountain and what have you. Hope you managed without depressing music!) The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

Yay! Four-day weekend! Which means, actually, 3 day week. This one is not my best work, frankly, but it’s a nice half-hour of Thanksgiving music so just stop your whining and enjoy it. You’ll feel better once you’ve eaten. * They Might Be Giants – Dinner Bell – Apollo 18 * Filter – Thanks Bro – Songs In The Key of X * John Lennon – Cold Turkey – Shaved Fish * The Cowsills – Indian Lake – The Best Of The Cowsills * Randy Newman – The Great Nations of Europe – Bad Love * Colorblind James Experience – Wedding At Cana – Why Should I Stand Up? * Johnny Cash – I Am A Pilgrim – My Mother’s Hymn Book The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

You know, the host of this show has always felt that as far as style and mood go, we’ve never done better than that five-year period just after World War II. The men wore suits with hats, the women were tough, and everybody was simultaneously elated and deeply traumatized by the war. I almost wish I’d been alive then, only I’d be too old to be cranking out nonsense like this week after week. Though of course, I am anyway. Anyway, let’s call the genre for this show podcast noir; and keep your shoes shined fellah. * Janelle Monáe – BaBopBye Ya – The ArchAndroid * Rupert Holmes – Brass Knuckles – Widescreen – The Collector’s Edition * Harry Nilsson – As Time Goes By – All Time Greatest Hits * Pink Martini – Amado Mio – Sympathique * Stan Ridgway – Peg And Pete and Me – Mosquitos * The Asteroids Gallery Tour – The Golden Age – Fruit The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

No theme to speak of this week, though I take a kind a stab at “trains” and “an eternal abiding evil”. Title from an Amon Duul II lyric. That song is nuts man. Anyway, it’s still a great show. GREAT! * Brian Eno – I’ll Come Running – Another Green World * Amon Duul II – Explode Like A Star – Hijack * They Might Be Giants – Reprehensible – Long Tall Weekend * Residents – The Sold Out Artst – Gingerbread Man * The Who – 5:15 – Quadrophenia * Pat Boone – Crazy Train – In A Metal Mood * Lou Reed, John Cale – Work – Songs For Drella * Lene Lovich – 1 In A 1,000,000 – Stateless The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

Happy Halloween, if you’re listening to this in the four hours between the time I post it and the end of the holiday, as determined by Pacific Daylight Standard Time! If it’s after Halloween, then enjoy what is just another show about death. Whatevs, music is music. And as always, don’t forget to badger your friends into listening. * Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Agents of Fortune * Talking Heads – Heaven – Stop Making Sense * Paul Simon – The Afterlife – So Beautiful or So What * The Velvet Underground – The Black Angel’s Death Song – The Velvet Underground and Nico * Dead Can Dance – I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Toward The Within * Urban Inbreed – It’s Gonna Be Death – 20 Sorrows * Where the Wild Roses Grow – Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads * Leonard Cohen – Who By Fire – New Skin For the Old Ceremony The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

You know, most podcasters don’t make it to episode 3, so this should be looked at as quite an achievement. Dark Meat, Episode 300! I decided that the best thing to do with this milestone (aside from labeling it “milestone”) was to make it as typical a show as I could. I’m playing the artists I play all too often; and I picked Bad Love as my theme, because it’s my favorite. And I tell you, I had forgotten how much I enjoy a Bad Love show. I was literally laughing with joy a couple of times during the show. You won’t hear it because the mic wasn’t live. If you guess which two songs I laughed during, I’ll send you a prize. Probably a DVD. We can negotiate titles later. First correct guess wins! * The Dresden Dolls – Missed Me – The Dresden Dolls * Sugarplastic – Sheep – Bang, The Earth Is Round * Dilator – Allison – Middle-Aged-Angst * Candypants – Cherry Picker – Candypants * They Might Be Giants – They’ll Need A Crane – Lincoln * Stan Ridgway – Classic Hollywood Ending – Snakebite * John I’m Only Dancing – David Bowie – Singles Collection * The Mountain Goats – No Children – Tallahassee The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

It’s weird that I’m doing a drug show — drugs terrify me. I’m a little squeamish about taking ASPIRIN, for pete’s sake. Still if you’re not taking something yourself then you know someone who is. Hope you can use this half hour to alter your own brain chemistry for free, with no permanent side effects. If not, try listening on acid. * Liz Phair – Mothers Little Helper – Desperate Housewives Soundtrack * The Kinks – Harry Rag – Something Else * Maynard Williams – I Need You – Ten Songs * Talking Heads – Drugs – Fear Of Music * Bitter:Sweet – Drink You Sober – Drama * The Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict – Singles Going Steady * Stan Ridgeway – The Coffee Song – The Way I Feel Today * Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne – The Royal Scam * Amy Winehouse – Rehab - Back To Black The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

This week it’s a rerun from 2010 as I prepare for the Simi Valley Ghost Walk - avoiding direct references to ghosts, monsters, or the grim reaper but still remaining as spooky as hell. You’re welcome! * Esquivel! – Harlem Nocturne * Devo – Shrivel Up * White Stripes – I’m Slowly Turning Into You * Jonathan Coulton – Bacteria * Gram Rabbit – Dirty Horse * Amboy Dukes – Journey To The Center of Your Mind * Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – Spectral Beings * Beatles – Blue Jay Way * Velvet Underground – The Gift (note: listen for special spooky bonus track!) The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

I am exhausted this week, having gone out to see movies every night at the Cinerama Dome. I’m too tired to build a show around that even! So instead, a bunch of songs. Enjoy ‘em otherwise I got nothin’. * Amon Duul II – Explode Like A Star – Hijack * The Lady Rachel – Kevin Ayers – Joy Of a Toy * Jonathan Coulton – Creepy Doll – Thing A Week Four * Cowboy Copas – True Love – Songs That Made Him Famous * Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man – I’m Your Man * Randy Newman – I Want Everyone To Like Me – Bad Love * Lou Christie – Lightning Strikes – 20 Songs Of Lou Christie The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.

It took me a few songs, but I hit upon the theme of love this week. (Also I tried to keep it all within the sixties and seventies, but a certain milk-centric project derailed THAT plan) So thrill to artists I don’t often play on the show! If you have a lover, listen with him/her/it; if you have no lover you’ll probably enjoy the Gang of Four song. Don’t forget, spread the word about Dark Meat! I command you to repost this podcast. Make me famous and I swear to God I’ll drag you along in my wake! * P J Proby – Whatever Will Be Will Be – I Am P J Proby * Fat Mattress – Future Days – Fat Mattress * Harry Nilsson – Daybreak – Son of Dracula * The Stylistics – Break Up To Make Up – Body Talk: Moonlit Nights * Gang Of Four – Love Like Anthrax – Fast Product/Mutant Pop * The Free Design – I Found Love – You Could Be Born Again * White Gold And The Calcium Twins – Is It Me or Do You Love My Hair – The Best I Can Give is 2% * The Who – Love, Reign O’er Me – Quadrophenia The show is sponsored today by iPrint Technologies! Click on the logo now, and login with the name “krause” and the password “daniel” to get mighty fine deals on ink and toner, even printers.