The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Playlist: Episode 31
The theme for this episode of The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio is pretty straightforward if you listen. It’s comfort songs. You would not necessarily believe that of a playlist that opens with Total Fucking Destruction doing the title-track of an album called To Be Alive at the End of the World, but again, once you listen, it’s actually kind of soothing. There’s a fair amount of instrumental material included, led off by Yawning Man, and I think the part with Vinnum Sabbathi and Forming the Void is probably as heavy as it gets, though that new Elephant Tree track certainly has some roll to it. God damn that’s a good song, not that that’s a huge surprise from those guys.
I haven’t cut the voice breaks for it yet but will do so sometime before this is posted, but I intend to talk a bit about the Om song and my association with their early work and seeing them at SXSW for what I think might’ve been the first time. It was a while ago and it’s hard to remember for a few reasons, but anyway, if I can remember it between typing this and speaking that, I hope to speak to it a bit, because I know that’s not their most soothing stuff by a long shot, but the memory I have of it puts it in that framework for me. Closing with YOB’s “Marrow” was, of course, a given.
Thanks for listening if you do. I hope you enjoy, and if you see this and don’t listen, then thanks for reading. If you’re not reading, well, you’ll never know you were being thanked.
The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at http://gimmeradio.com
Full playlist:
The Obelisk Show – 04.03.20
Total Fucking Destruction | To be Alive at the End of the World | To be Alive at the End of the World* |
Yawning Man | I Make Weird Choices | Macedonian Lines |
Acid King | Center of Everywhere | Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere |
Colour Haze | Peace, Brothers and Sisters! | Colour Haze |
BREAK | ||
Pretty Lightning | Boogie at the Shrine | Jangle Bowls* |
Elephant Tree | Bird | Habits* |
Charivari | Lotus Eater | Descent* |
Tia Carrera | Layback | Tried and True* |
Vinnum Sabbathi | Quantum Determinism | Of Dimensions & Theories* |
Forming the Void | Manifest | Reverie* |
BREAK | ||
Om | Annapurna | Variations on a Theme |
YOB | Marrow | Clearing the Path to Ascend |
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is April 17 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.
Tags: Acid King, Charivari, Colour Haze, Elephant Tree, Forming the Void, Gimme Radio, Om, Pretty Lightning, The Obelisk Show, Tia Carrera, Total Fucking Destruction, Vinnum Sabbathi, Yawning Man, Yob