A special Relative Frequency this time round featuring lunar based songs from outer space. Moon themed classics from Thin Lizzy, Talking Heads and ELO sit awkwardly alongside more unusual recordings from the likes of Elias Rahbani, Tri Atma, Pulp, K Barre, Tiny Tim, Wreckless Eric and, of course, Joey Moon.

At this time of year, rather than bore you with a seasonal or xmas themed selection of music I thought I’d bore you all with this instead. Many moons ago (about a year actually), I had way too much time on my hands, and started the moonshine enduced  Wired To The Moon facebook group. The intention was to try and get friends to suggest their favourite videos, songs, pictures and general lunar themed nonsense to create the perfect almoonac of moon tunes. There’s now 200+ moonmbers and nearly 100 moon tunes:

First we take Moonhatten.
Then
We
Take
Ber
lin.

Moony thanks to all the lunartics who’ve joined in on the moonsense so far. And now, at long last, I’ve put together a moon-mix of my personal favourites. Surely the Radio Magnetic station moonager has better things to do with his time you would think. You’d probably be right:

These are the words that I moonifest.

Tracklist

1. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Moonlight In Glory
2. The RAH Band – Clouds Across The Moon
3. Tri Atma – Yummy Moon
4. Mahogany Rush – Moonwalk
5. Elias Rahbani & His Orchestra – From The Moon
6. Padded Cell – Moon Menace (Part II)
7. The Field – I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet
8. Delorean – Moonson
9. K Barre – Right By The Moon
10. Wooden Shjips – Shrinking Moon For You
11. Thin Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight
12. Talking Heads – Moon Rocks
13. Joey Moon – Angelica
14. The Field Mice – Missing The Moon
15. Pulp – Someone Like The Moon
16. The Waterboys – Whole Of The Moon
17. Arthur Russell – This Is How We Walk On The Moon
18. Joya Landis – Moonlight Lover
19. ELO – Ticket To The Moon
20. Tiny Tim – Livin’ In The Sunlight, Lovin’ In The Moonlight
21. Wreckless Eric – Walking On The Surface Of The Moon

Suggested further cyber perusing/reading/listening/looking:

mooner-industries.de
apeonthemoon.com
ferventmoon.com
myspace.com/lunaflicks