Sklugoo Speaks robertcday

Sklugoo Speaks to a machine intending to ask it all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of being a machine but is unsurprised (meditation does that for you) when the machine turns the table and asks Sklugoo about the experience of being a small, green meditating frog sat on a windowledge with two disciples, both being chickens.

In future times, we will wonder how we could have been so naive and flippant in the face of the machine. In future times, we will try this again and hope we don't provoke the machine to rage against Sklugoo.

Wish us luck (and hope it's enough).

I don't know if you've noticed, but Sklugoo is a little obsessive and compulsive. All the labels have to be right. The first series all had one-word titles; the second had two words so guess how many words are in each of the titles of the fifth series. Yup: five. So when he saw that this episode was originally conceived as The Must Hear Show he had to find a better word. Essential is that word, although, on reflection, Compulsive might have been better. Still, what is done has been gone and done.

Are these popular songs? Sklugoo guesses so (in some circles). Are these good songs? Pff. What is good? Are these some of Sklugoo's favourite songs from over the years? Heck yeah! And if you have any respect for a small, green meditating frog then you gotta get with the programme.

Tune in, listen up and wind down to this setlist:


The Jam - Start!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
Prince & The Revolution - Kiss
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
Primal Scream - Loaded
Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels
Radiohead - Creep
Beck - Loser
TLC - Waterfalls
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Fugees - Ready or Not
Blur - Song 2
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Aimee Mann - Save Me
Eminem ft. Dido - Stan
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Coldplay - Fix You.

Goth Music is what they did back when rock became too tame and punk a little too scarey. So thinks Sklugoo, your favourite small, green meditating frog, and so it must be so.

This show is all about that kind of music and features such luminaries as Sklugoo chatting up a storm and a whole slew of people singing songs and playing guitars and drums as fiercely as their young bones would allow. What's not to enjoy?

Enough chat, here's the setlist for the show:


The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Cramps - The Way I Walk
Spear Of Destiny - Liberator
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
The Mission - Wasteland
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane
Public Image Ltd - Rise
The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
The Stranglers - Peaches
The Cure - The Holy Hour
The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now?
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
Xmal Deutschland - Mondlicht
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.

Just when you thought Sklugoo could deliver no more wonderful music (and chat (don't forget the chat)) into your lives he remembers that he didn't just record 8 episodes of this series, he recorded 12!

This one is, as is says on the label, about ambient music. I'd tell you what that is but I'm guessing that you're smart and know already.

If, on the other hand, you've never come across this lovely, laid-back genre then consider this to be your introduction.

Here's the setlist for your reading (and listening) pleasure:


Portishead - Roads
John Williams - Jaws (Main theme)
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
Coldplay - Trouble
James Blake - Radio Silence
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
The Cure - A Forest
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Faithless - Insomnia
Björk - Possibly Maybe
Ex:Re - Romance
Usher - Crash.

Hope you enjoy. Heck, skip that; I'm convinced of it!

You wouldn't think Sklugoo could be moody could you, what with him having such a bright and sunny smile plastered across his green and lovely face?

Well, he's not.

But these songs are.

Not that you won't love them, because you will. They will warm the cockles of your heart to such an extent that you'll want to peck away at this episode as if you're a blackbird that's found a mince pie in the back garden.

Yeah, I know - it doesn't make that much sense to Sklugoo either, but it keeps the flow of conversation moving on.

Here's the setlist for your delectation:


Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
Japan - Ghosts
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Enya - Boadicea
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Japan - Nightporter
David Sylvian - River Man
Nick Drake - River Man
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Air - La Femme D'Argent
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
The Velvet Underground
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black.

Sklugoo does music. You gotta have gotten the gist of this by now this being the seventh episode of the series.

This is a set that ... sigh ... it's music that will mellow you out if you're a little too hyper and cheer you up if you're way, way down in the dumps, so what's not to love?

It starts with that piece of music you might have heard from The Matrix called ... but why bother telling you when you have the whole setlist at your fingertips here:


Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Robert Plant - Big Log
Jace Everett - Bad Things
Bauhaus - She's In Parties
Shakespears Sister - Stay
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Ultravox - Vienna
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Stanlow
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
John Murphy - In the House, in a Heartbeat
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time We Say Goodbye.