HOTNS 5: featuring The Karate Kids

The Karate Kids (of Austin) stopped by KVRX to sing some Stephin Merritt songs with Karate Kid lyrics. See if you can find all the karate references! (Think: dojo, Miyagi, wax on and wax off.) All four kids dressed up as Daniel-san, and one of them was wearing an extra leg and a pair of arms to allow him to stay in Daniel's famous jump kick pose while still playing guitar. Hiya!

The Karate Kids "Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"
The Karate Kids "Meaningless"
The Karate Kids "Miyagi Had a Dojo"

HOTNS 4: Featuring CBA/Cry Blood Apache

This week's Valentine's Day show was a lot of fun, thanks to Hans, Pahn, and Kaspar of Cry Blood Apache. They brought a CD of sampled/mashed-up Magnetic Fields covers that sound like they're being performed live on the air. "Give me a little more reverb and echo on these vocals... little more... yeah" Very clever. We all had a great time, especially during the Hans Hinrich Valentine's Day giveaway extravaganza, which was The Complete Runner, a special supplement to Runners' Magazine.

1. The Magnetic Fields "Absolutely Cuckoo"
2. The Magnetic Fields "Love Is Lighter Than Air"
3. Cry Blood Apache "Fido"
   
4. The Magnetic Fields "If There's Such A Thing As Love"
5. The Magnetic Fields "World Love"
6. The Magnetic Fields "I Don't Believe You"
7. The Magnetic Fields "Lovers From The Moon"
8. Cry Blood Apache "The Things We Did and Didn't Do"
   
9. Ilene Graff "They Were You"
10. House of Phallus "And Then He Kissed Me/ and the He Frisked Me"
11. The Magnetic Fields "Punk Love"
12. Cry Blood Apache "How Fucking Romantic"
13. The Magnetic Fields "The Saddest Story Ever Told"
14. The Magnetic Fields "Love In The Shadows"
15. The Magnetic Fields "The One You Really Love"
16. Cry Blood Apache "[Song Inspired By] Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits"
17. The Magnetic Fields "I'm Sorry I Love You"
18. The Gothic Archies "Ever Falls the Twilight"

HOTNS 3: featuring Nick Hennies of the Weird Weeds

fun show this week. nick hennies--the drummer from local experimental rock band The Weird Weeds--brought his acoustic guitar and played a couple of stephin merritt songs. especially impressive is nick's performance of "reno dakota", given the fact that stephin has said that it was one of the most difficult songs on 69 love songs to record, and nick nailed it in on his first go. other notes: i've adopted "absolutely cuckoo" as my intro theme song and "ever falls the twilight" as my outro song. Don't fall in love with me yet, we've only recently met:

1. The Magnetic Fields "Absolutely Cuckoo"
2. Stephin Merritt "Maria Maria Maria"
3. Future Bible Heroes "Memories Of Love"
4. Mission Giant "San Diego Zoo"
5. Nick Hennies (live) "All My Little Words"
   
6. The Magnetic Fields "Born on a Train"
7. The Gothic Archies "City of the Damned"
8. The Magnetic Fields "Josephine"
9. Nick Hennies (live) "Reno Dakota"
   
10. The Magnetic Fields "Asleep And Dreaming"
11. Nico "Chelsea Girls"
12. The Gothic Archies "In The Reptile Room (from The Reptile Room)"
13. Stephin Merritt "Shall We Sing A Duet?"
14. John Guilt "underwear"
15. Future Bible Heroes "But You're So Beautiful"
16. Ladytron "Open Your Heart"
17. The Gothic Archies "Ever Falls the Twilight"

In the summer windows, out through winter doors,
ever falls the twilight on our jagged shores...

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