Pirate Cat Radio - Post Punk For Post Punks

Underrated Show - 1/4/10

2010-01-05T08:47:00.000-08:00

These were many of my very favorite bands playing some of my very favorite jams and bands I would also consider vastly underrated in the grand scheme of things. Really, of course, ALL post-punk and new wave music is underrated. Far too often dismissed as style over substance, post-punk was incredibly innovative, diverse, and creative in a way music had not seen before nor has since. That said, there certainly were some bands that managed to persevere and while never completely break through to the mainstream in America, still attracted legions of fans who respect them (The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, etc.). Then there were some that managed to earn the respect of snobby critics too (Devo, Elvis Costello, Joy Division, Talking Heads, etc.) These guys were left off of my underrated show but hopefully know I will always love them too. The bands I featured tonight were ones I felt should have either been recognized as being truly great or at least relegated to more than one-dimensional 80s nostalgia. I know there are those out there who do recognize this and it's been my life's pleasure to be a part of your club. Hopefully history will join us soon.

LINK TO UNDERRATED SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
2.) Duran Duran - The Reflex (good version)
3.) Soft Cell - Chips on My Shoulder
4.) Wall of Voodoo - Call Box
5.) Sparks - Tips For Teens
6.) Modern English - After the Snow
7.) The Chameleons - Perfume Garden
8.) The Stranglers - Golden Brown
9.) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
10.) Blondie - Will Anything Happen
11.) Killing Joke - Land of Milk and Honey
12.) Chelsea - I'm On Fire (live)
13.) Oingo Boingo - Ain't This The Life (live)
14.) Big Country - East of Eden
15.) OMD - The New Stone Age
16.) Gary Numan - M.E.
17.) Japan - Communist China
18.) Ultravox! - Hiroshima Mon Amour
19.) XTC - Are You Receiving Me?
20.) English Beat - Big Shot
21.) Bow Wow Wow - Louis Quatorze
22.) Adam and the Ants - Antmusic
23.) Sisters of Mercy - Andrenachrome
24.) Bauhaus - Dark Entries

2009 Show - 12/28/09

2009-12-29T00:17:00.000-08:00

All songs that came out in the year 2009 but don't hold that against them. Somehow, the heart of post-punk is still beating. New bands are keeping it alive and older bands are becoming rejuvenated and surely this can't last forever so re-catch the wave while you can.

LINK TO 2009 SHOW

Playlist

1.) Mission of Burma - 1,2,3, Partyy! - The Sound, The Speed, The Light
2.) Echo and the Bunnymen - Do You Know Who I Am? - The Fountain
3.) Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill - Summer of Hate
4.) Japandroids - Wet Hair - Post Nothing
5.) Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave - Single
6.) Jay Reatard - Tiny Little Home - Watch Me Fall
7.) Tegan and Sara - Hell - Sainthood
8.) Noisettes - Beat of My Heart - Wild Young Hearts
9.) Phoenix - Lisztomania - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10.) Passion Pit - The Reeling - Manners
11.) Deastro - Kurgan Wave Number One - Moondagger
12.) Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Year of Refusal
13.) The Drums - Let's Go Surfing - It's Summertime
14.) The Mary Onettes - Dare - Single
15.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Hey Paul - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
16.) Julian Casablancas - Glass - Phrazes of the Young
17.) Matt & Kim - I Wanna - Grand
18.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero - It's Blitz!
19.) White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground - To Lose My Life
20.) The Rifles - Romeo and Julie - The Great Escape
21.) Zeitgeist - Track 10 - Zeitgeist
22.) Metric - Stadium Rock - Fantasies
23.) Radio Dept - David - David EP
24.) The Raveonettes - Last Dance - In and Out of Control
25.) The Horrors - Scarlet Fields - Primary Colours

Christmas 2009 Show - 12/14/09

2009-12-15T08:32:00.001-08:00

Yep, a show of all Christmas songs of the punk, post-punk, new wave, glam and alternative persuasion. Coincidentally, Christmas is coming.

LINK TO CHRISTMAS 2009 SHOW

Playlist

1.) TV Smith - Xmas Bloody Xmas - Single
2.) The Fleshtones - I Still Believe In Christmas - Stocking Stuffers
3.) Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) -The Edge of Christmas
4.) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Birthday - Munki
5.) The Raveonettes - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Wishing You a Rave Christmas
6.) T. Rex - Christmas Bop - Messing With The Mystic
7.) Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody - Greatest Hits
8.) Louis XIV - This Christmas - Ice Harvest Soundtrack
9.) Hanoi Rocks - Dead By Xmas - Self Destruction Blues
10.) Beakers - Christmas Letter From Home - Four Steps Towards A Cultural Revolution
11.) Basement 5 - The Last White Christmas - Zero: A Martin Hannett Story
12.) The Vandals - Oi! to the World - Single
13.) D.I. - Mr. Grinch - Punk Rock Xmas
14.) The Reducers - Nothing For Christmas - Redux
15.) The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping - The Edge of Christmas
16.) Punk Xmas - Holly Beth Vincent - Punk Xmas Single
17.) The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas - No Ho Ho: Alternative Indie Christmas Holiday
18.) Ride - Like A Snowflake - Santa's Got A GTO: Rodney on the Roq's Favorite Xmas Songs
19.) El Vez - Feliz Navi-Nada - Punk Rock Xmas
20.) The Pogues - Fairytale of New York - The Edge of Christmas
21.) The Specials - Holiday Fortnight - More Specials
22.) Bob Marley - Sound the Trumpet - Reggae Christmas From Studio One
23.) The Residents - Santa Dog '78 - Santa Dog '78 Single
24.) Cheap Trick - Come On Christmas - Sex, America, Cheap Trick
25.) The Kinks - Father Christmas - Misfit
26.) Blondie and Freddie - Yuletide Throwdown - Flexipop
27.) Fear - Fuck Christmas - The Record
28.) XTC - Countdown to Christmas Party Time - Rag & Bone Buffet
29.) Blink - Christmas 22 - A Map of the Universe
30.) The Pretenders - 2000 Miles - The Edge of Christmas
31.) David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Peace on Earth-Little Drummer Boy - The Edge of Christmas

An Evening With The Cure - 12/7/09

2009-12-08T09:18:00.000-08:00

Yes, an evening to celebrate a decade of great jams that have shaped my entire musical lifetime. My first ever show dedicated to one band and there was only one band I would consider for such a first show - The Cure. To find out why, give it a listen.

LINK TO THE ALL-CURE SHOW

Playlist:

1.) The Cure - A Reflection - 17 Seconds
2.) The Cure - Pillbox Tales - Early Demos
3.) The Cure - I'm Cold - Sav Studio Demo
4.) The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - 3 Imaginary Boys
5.) The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train - Single
6.) The Cure - A Forest - 17 Seconds
7.) The Cure - Play For Today - 17 Seconds
8.) The Cure - Other Voices - Faith
9.) The Cure - All Cats Are Grey - Faith
10.) The Cure - One Hundred Years - Pornography
11.) The Cure - A Strange Day - Pornography
12.) The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers
13.) The Cure - The Dream - Japanese Whispers
14.) The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers
15.) The Cure - Mr. Pink Eye - The Lovecats Single
16.) The Cure - Birdmad Girl - The Top
17.) The Cure - The Caterpillar - The Top
18.) The Cure - Close To Me - Head on the Door
19.) The Cure - Push - Head on the Door
20.) The Cure - The Kiss - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
21.) The Cure - Just Like Heaven - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
22.) The Cure - Plainsong - Disintegration
23.) The Cure - Lullaby - Disintegration
24.) The Cure - To the Sky - Single

No 11/30 show but THIS time, I will be back next week!

2009-12-01T18:59:00.001-08:00

No 11/23 Show - Hopefully Back Next Week

2009-11-24T11:28:00.000-08:00

Rockin' Post-Punk Show - 11/16/09

2009-11-17T07:47:00.000-08:00

While it all falls under rock's nebulous musical umbrella, post-punk music is not know for really "rocking" in any conventional sense. Or is it? No, it isn't but there are more than a few post-punk, punk, new wave, and alternative tracks that I suspect do, in fact, rock. Tonight I played more than a few of those more than a few.

LINK TO ROCKIN POST-PUNK SHOW

Playlist:

1.) The Cure - I'm Cold - Jumping Someone Else's Train B-side
2.) Killing Joke - The Wait - Killing Joke
3.) Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Basic J - The Plan
4.) Love & Rockets - Kundalini Express - Express
5.) Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones - Talk Talk Talk
6.) The Cult - Sweet Soul Sister - Sonic Temple
7.) The Mission UK - Deliverance - Carved in Sand
8.) Sisters of Mercy - When You Don't See Me - Vision Thing
9.) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sidewalking - Barbed Wire Kisses
10.) Alien Sex Fiend - Smells Like... - IT
11.) The Jam - Modern World - This is the Modern World
12.) Blondie - Detroit 442 - Plastic Letters
13.) Generation X - King Rocker - Valley of the Dolls
14.) Billy Idol - Rebel Yell - Rebel Yell
15.) R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - Monster
16.) Pixies - Velouria - Bossanova
17.) Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size - Nothing's Shocking
18.) Depeche Mode - I Feel You - Songs of Faith and Devotion
19.) Joy Division - Failures - Substance
20.) Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust - Swing the Heartache
21.) Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean, Vast Sea - Deep
22.) Andy Partridge - Sonic Boom - Fuzzy Warbles Disc 7
23.) The Smiths - London - Louder Than Bombs
24.) The Ramones - We Want the Airwaves - Pleasant Dreams

***BONUS TRACKS***

25.) Christian Death - Deathwish - Only Theater of Pain
26.) The Superheroines - Chasing Bars - The Whip
27.) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation - Bad Reputation

No 11/9 Show - Back Next Week

2009-11-10T21:55:00.001-08:00

Dia de los Muertos Show - 11/2/09

2009-11-03T08:19:00.000-08:00

The dead came alive, metaphorically, tonight on Post-Punk For Post-Punks as I celebrated many of the great artists who are no longer with us on this day after the Day of the Dead. All bands in which one significant member has passed away in the physical world but will live forever in the musical world.

LINK DIA DE LOS MUERTOS SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Jim Carroll Band - I Want the Angel - Catholic Boy
2.) Big Country - Angle Park (live) - King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents
3.) INXS - Don't Change - Shabooh Shoobah
4.) The Clash - Straight to Hell - Combat Rock
5.) The Cars - Let's Go - Candy-O
6.) The Pretenders - The Wait - The Pretenders
7.) The Replacements - Left of the Dial - Tim
8.) Christian Death - Romeo's Distress - Only Theater of Pain
9.) The Germs - Circle One - G.I.
10.) Sid Vicious - Belsen (live) - Sid Sings
11.) Johnny Thunders - London Boys - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
12.) The Ramones - Swallow Your Pride - The Ramones Leave Home
13.) The Cramps - New Kind of Kick - Bad Music For Bad People
14.) Bob Marley & the Wailers - Waiting In Vain - Exodus
15.) T. Rex - Midnight -
16.) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream - Ziggy Stardust
17.) The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
18.) Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me - Killer Lords
19.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights - Juju
20.) Falco - Vienna Calling - Falco 3
21.) Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse (live) - Urgh! A Music War
22.) The Plasmatics - Want You Baby - New Hope for the Wretched
23.) Echo and the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo - Echo and the Bunnymen
24.) Nico - These Days - Chelsea Girl
25.) Joy Division - These Days - Substance

Spooooky Show 2009 - 10/26/09

2009-10-27T08:33:00.001-07:00

In honor of the upcoming Halloween pseudo holiday and just general spookiness, I dedicated my show tonight to the scarier side of post-punk and its rebellious teenage offspring, goth rock.

LINK TO SPOOOOKY SHOW 2009

Playlist:

1.) .45 Grave - Black Cross - Single
2.) Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Is Dead - Single
3.) Sisters of Mercy - Train (1984 demo) - Wide Receiver EP
4.) Wire - The Other Window - 154
5.) Sex Gang Children - Dieche (12") - Single
6.) Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition - Closer
7.) Neu! - Sonderangebot - Neu 1
8.) Clan of Xymox - Call It Weird - Subsequent Pleasures
9.) Christian Death - Sleepwalk - Catastrophe Ballet
10.) Alice Cooper - Black Juju - Love it to Death
11.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Pure - The Scream
12.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Voodoo Dolly - Juju
13.) Suicide - Frankie Teardrop - Suicide
14.) Einsturzende Neubauten - Feurio! - Hans der Luge
15.) Throbbing Gristle - Tiab Girls - Greatest Hits
16.) Brotherhood of Pagans - Guilty - Goth Box
17.) Public Image Ltd. - Careering - Metal Box
18.) The Cure - The Drowning Man - Faith
19.) Tones on Tail - The Movement of Fear - Pop
20.) Human League - Circus of Death - Reproduction

Also, here's a link to a Halloween show I did back in 2006:

1st HALLOWEEN SHOW FROM 2006

No 10/19 Show - But Back Next Week!

2009-10-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

New New York Show - 10/12/09

2009-10-13T08:45:00.000-07:00

Now it's the city so nice, I did a show about it twice. This time though, it was the new stuff. Bands from the last 10 years that all call New York home. If you don't like new stuff that much, that's okay, most of these guys don't either. Give it a listen by clicking on the link below.

LINK TO THE NEW NEW YORK SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Crystal Stilts - Prismatic Room - Alight of Night
2.) Interpol - Obstacle #1 - Turn on the Bright Lights
3.) Radio 4 - (No More Room For) Communication - New Song and Dance
4.) The Rapture - Echoes - Echoes
5.) Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down - Grand
6.) Santigold - My Superman - Santogold
7.) The Strokes - 12:51 - Room on Fire
8.) Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension - Single
9.) TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me - Return to Cookie Mountain
10.) Fischerspooner - Emerge - #1
11.) LCD Soundsystem - All of My Friends - Sound of Silver
12.) The National - Lit Up - Alligator
13.) The Damnwells - What You Get - Bastards of the Beat
14.) The Bravery - No Brakes - The Bravery
15.) The Walkmen - The Rat - Bows + Arrows
16.) Liars - Freak Out - Liars
17.) The Fever - Labor of Love - Red Bedroom
18.) MGMT - Time to Pretend - Oracular Spectacular
19.) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
20.) Blonde Redhead - In Particular - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
21.) Robbers on High Street - Bring on the Terror - Tree City
22.) Theo & the Skyscrapers - Red Shoes - Theo & the Skyscrapers
23.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control - Fever to Tell

Old New York Show - 10/5/09

2009-10-06T08:51:00.000-07:00

New York, the city so nice, they made up some little rhyme about it. Although maybe not surprisingly, it was during the city's low point that some of the best music to ever come out of any city came out. Starting with the Velvet Underground and continuing through the CBGB's scene in the late 70's, New York is the birthplace of punk and post-punk music as well as the next phase in counterculture, post-hippie. Tonight I played songs from that timeline and just for kicks, recorded the whole thing. You can download it below.

LINK TO OLD NEW YORK SHOW

Playlist:

1.) The Dictators - Baby Let's Twist - Blood Brothers
2.) Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says - Best of the Velvet Underground
3.) Lou Reed - Satellite of Love - Transformer
4.) The New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls
5.) Johnny Thunders - One Track Mind - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
6.) Television - Venus - Marquee Moon
7.) Richard Hell - Love Comes in Spurts - Blank Generation
8.) Talking Heads - Pull Up the Roots - Speaking in Tongues
9.) The Ramones - I Wanna' Live - Halfway to Sanity
10.) Patti Smith - Because the Night - Easter
11.) The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died - Catholic Boy
12.) James White and the Blacks - Contort Yourself - Single
13.) Blondie - Accidents Never Happen - Eat to the Beat
14.) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message - The Message
15.) Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock - Single
16.) Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
17.) The Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps - Boom in the Night
18.) Sonic Youth - Kool Thing - Goo
19.) Cristina - Ticket to the Tropics - Sleep It Off
20.) The Feelies - Original Love - Crazy Rhythms
21.) Mink De Ville - Spanish Stroll - Cabretta
22.) Suicide - Keep Your Dreams - Suicide
23.) The Cramps - What's Inside A Girl? - Date With Elvis
24.) Mumps - We Ended Up - How I Saved The World

The Rarer Bands of Post-Punk Show - Part 2 - 9/14/09

2009-09-15T01:11:00.000-07:00

As Butch Cassidy once said to Colonel Sanders, "I am too drunk to taste this chicken." Or wait, it's "Who are these guys?" Maybe that was to The Sundance Kid. Or maybe he said the chicken thing to him. I honestly don't remember. Was that movie really that good? I don't remember that either. But that kind of factors into my show for this night. It was about the bands and artists we don't remember. Maybe the bands and artists we had never heard of. But a jam playing in the middle of nowhere is indeed a jam and I think the tracks below were all jams, even if forgotten ones.

LINK TO RARER BANDS OF POST-PUNK PART 2

1.) Polyrock - Romantic Me - Polyrock
2.) The Fast Set - King of the Rumbling Spires - Some Bizarre Compilation
3.) Greg Vandike - Clone - Single
4.) The Chords - Something Missing - So Far Away
5.) Easterhouse - Out On Your Own - Contenders
6.) Seona Dancing - More To Lose - Single
7.) The Monroes - What Do All the People Know? - Single
8.) Reeves Gabrels - Jewel - Ulysses (Della Notte)
9.) The Moths - Wild Birds - Games Single
10.) The Loft - Up the Hill and Down the Slope - Single
11.) The Vision - Don't Stop
12.) APB - Something to Believe In - Something to Believe In
13.) Darkness & Jive - Tarzam - Hooked On You Single
14.) The Apollinaires - The Feeling's Gone - The 2 Tone Collection
15.) Graduate - Ever Met A Day - Acting My Age
16.) Flowers - Confessions - Fast Product Compilation
17.) The Embarrassment - Lifespan - Single
18.) Dub Sex - Swerve - Manchester: So Much To Answer For
19.) The Suburbs - Waiting - Single
20.) The Accelerators - Radio Blues - Street To Street: A Liverpool Album
21.) The Beakers - 4 Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution- 4 Steps Towards a Cultural Revolution
22.) The Shivvers - Teen Line - Single
23.) Anorexia - Cats - Messthetics #5: UK '77-81 DIY Punk
24.) Vice Versa - Riot Squad -
25.) Sexbeat - Sex Beat - Young Limbs and Numb Hymns
26.) Zeitgeist - Tar Heart - Zeitgeist

Jazz Influence Show - 8/31/09

2009-09-01T08:58:00.001-07:00

Yes, jazz. While not thought of as a post-punk influencer and rightly not thought of so, a fair amount of post-punk artists, at least at one point in their careers, decided to go a little jazz on us. And why not? It's cool, it's atmospheric and it's exempt from scrutiny. Hopefully this show was also those things too. Download it below and find out!

LINK TO JAZZ INFLUENCE SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Tones on Tail - Happiness - Pop
2.) Jazz Butcher - City of Night - Cake City
3.) Bauhaus - Party in the First Part - Swing the Heartache
4.) Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing - The Idiot
5.) Rip, Rig & Panic - Those Eskimo Women Speak Frankly - God
6.) The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers
7.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cocoon - Kiss in the Dreamhouse
8.) Magazine - Parade - Real Life
9.) Joe Jackson - Cancer - Night and Day
10.) Elvis Costello and Marian McPartland - Almost Blue - Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast.
11.) XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - Skylarking
12.) Depeche Mode - Love In Itself (cocktail jazz version) - B-side
13.) The Motels - Change My Mind - All For One
14.) Au Pairs - Tongue in Cheek - Sense and Sensuality
15.) Talk Talk - Happiness Is Easy - The Colour of Spring
16.) Soft Cell - Secret Life - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
17.) Marc & the Mambas - A Million Manias - Torment and Toreros
18.) Portishead - All Mine (live) - PNYC
19.) Head of Femur - Easy Street - Hysterical Stars
20.) The Monochrome Set - The Man With the Black Moustache - Love Zombies
21.) The Pop Group - Don't Call Me Pain - Y
22.) The Birthday Party - Release the Bats - Hits
23.) ***Guilty Pleasure*** Swing Out Sister - Breakout - It's Better to Travel
24.) Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come On Home - Fine Young Cannibals
25.) Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
26.) Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of the Dream Man - Twin Peaks Soundtrack

Backup Vocals/Overdub Show - 8/17/09

2009-08-18T08:24:00.000-07:00

What I would consider to be many fine examples of backup singing or the use of vocal overdub from the post-punk era or at least, post-mid 70s era. And why I consider that to be a BIG DEAL and why hopefully everyone else should too. Then throw in a little personal, romantic woolgathering and that was my show tonight. Here's the link to listen to it. Well not here, below:

LINK TO BACKUP AND OVERDUB VOCALS SHOW

And this is what I played. Also below:

1.) Psychedelic Furs - Yes I Do - Forever Now
2.) U2 - Out of Control - Boy
3.) Adam and the Ants - Picasso Visitia El Planeta de los Simios - Prince Charming
4.) Alphaville - To Germany With Love - Forever Young
5.) Soft Cell - Entertain Me - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
6.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Melt! - Kiss in the Dreamhouse
7.) The Sugarcubes - Hit - Stick Around For Joy
8.) The Buzzcocks - Whatever Happened To? - Singles Going Steady
9.) Pixies - Where Is My Mind? - Surfer Rosa
10.) The Futureheads - Le Garage - Decent Days and Nights
11.) Barry Adamson - Je T'aime? Moi Non Plus - The Negro Inside Me
12.) R.E.M. - Harborcoat - Reckoning
13.) Blondie - Denis - Plastic Letters
14.) Talulah Gosh - Don't Go Away - Backwash
15.) Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don't Freeze - The Hot Rock
16.) Eagle & Talon - Ice Life - Thracian
17.) Third Sex - At Least I Got Some Cool Clothes - Back to Go
18.) Cocteau Twins - Pandora - Treasure
19.) The B-52's - Rock Lobster - The B-52's
20.) The Clash - Spanish Bombs - London Calling
21.) The Rezillos - Destination Venus - Can't Stand the Rezillos
22.) The Misfits - Night of the Living Dead - Walk Among Us
23.) Human Sexual Response - Andy Fell (live) - Recorded off of video
24.) Heaven 17 - Geisha Boys and Temple Girls - Penthouse and Pavement
25.) Psychedelic Furs - Highwire Days - Mirror Moves

8/10 Show Pre-empted By "No Reservations"

2009-08-10T18:22:00.001-07:00

That's right, our very own Pirate Cat Radio Cafe is going to be featured on the Travel Channel show, "No Reservations" with that Anthony Bourdain dude. I believe he is going to drink our Maple Bacon Latte and we're having a viewing party to celebrate this during my normal shift. I'll be back next week unless someone puts us on another show.

Brian Eno Show - 8/3/09

2009-08-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

It probably is not news to any of you to hear me say that Brian Eno is one of the most important, innovative, and influential musicians alive. Even people living in caves on Mars know this (there are those people, by the way.) Well news or not, tonight's show was all dedicated to music he wrote, performed and/or produced. Enjoy!

LINK TO BRIAN ENO SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Brian Eno - Needle in a Camel's Eye - Here Come the Warm Jets
2.) Roxy Music - Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
3.) Roxy Music - Editions of You - For Your Pleasure
4.) Fripp & Eno - Swastika Girls - No Pussyfooting
5.) Nico - Innocence & Vain - The End
6.) Brian Eno - Blank Frank - Here Come the Warm Jets
7.) Brian Eno - The True Wheel - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
8.) David Bowie - Weeping Wall - Low
9.) David Bowie - Joe the Lion - Heroes
10.) Devo - Space Junk - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo?
11.) Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel - More Songs About Buildings and Food
12.) Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Remain in the Light
13.) David Byrne and Brian Eno - The Jezebel Spirit - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
14.) James Chance and the Contortions - Dish It Out - No New York
15.) Mars - Helen Forsdale - No New York
16.) Ultravox! - My Sex - Ultravox!
17.) Ultravox - Kings Lead Hat - Rare
18.) Bauhaus - Third Uncle - The Sky's Gone Out
19.) U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name - The Joshua Tree
20.) U2 - Zoo Station - Achtung Baby
21.) David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy - Outside
22.) David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones - Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
23.) Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire - Here Come the Warm Jets

No 7/27 Show - Back Next Week!

2009-07-27T20:30:00.001-07:00

Martin Hannett Show - 7/20/09

2009-07-21T08:36:00.000-07:00

Martin Hannett, one of the unsung heroes of post-punk I wanted to sing about but to spare you all the displeasure of hearing me sing, I dedicated a radio show to him instead. He was a demanding, willful producer that worked with a lot of the great bands. More importantly though, he helped create the blueprint for the entire genre in terms of sound and tone and feel. Tonight's show was all about those sounds and tones and feels.

LINK TO MARTIN HANNETT EPISODE OF POST-PUNK FOR POST-PUNKS

Playlist

1.) Buzzcocks - Breakdown - Single
2.) Slaughter and the Dogs - Cranked Up Really High - Single
3.) Jilted John - Jilted John - Single
4.) John Cooper Clarke - Post War Glamour Girl - Disguise in Love
5.) Joy Division - Digital - Substance
6.) Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition - Closer
7.) U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock - Single
8.) The Psychedelic Furs - Soap Commercial - The Psychedelic Furs
9.) Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark - Electricity - Factory Records' Single
10.) Basement 5 - The Last White Christmas - Single
11.) Section 25 - Friendly Fires - Always Now
12.) Crispy Ambulance - Concorde Square - The Plateau Phase
13.) A Certain Ration - Shack Up - The Old and the New
14.) Magazine - A Song From Under the Floorboards - The Correct Use of Soap
15.) New Order - Everything's Gone Green - Single
16.) Stockholm Monsters - Fairy Tales - All At Once
17.) The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer - The Return of the Durutti Column
18.) The Names - Calcutta - Swimming
19.) Wasted Youth - Rebecca's Room - Zero: A Martin Hannett Story
20.) The Only Ones - My Way Out of Here - Baby's Got A Gun
21.) Kitchens of Distinction - Quick As Rainbows - Single
22.) Stone Roses - So Young - Single
23.) Happy Mondays - Lazyitis - Bummed
24.) Joy Division - Shadowplay - Unknown Pleasures

Drums Show - 7/13/09

2009-07-14T08:09:00.000-07:00

Generally, my favorite beatzz and drum sounds from the post-punk era. And like just about everything else, my genre of choice features some of the most interesting, unconventional percussion out there. If you like that kind of stuff, than this is the show for you. If not, well then to hell with ya'.

LINK TO DRUMS SHOW OF POST-PUNK FOR POST-PUNKS

Playlist:

1.) Devo (Alan Myers) - Sloppy - Live: The Mongoloid Years
2.) Joy Division (Stephen Morris) - Colony - Closer
3.) Gang of 4 (Hugo Burnham) - Contract - Entertainment
4.) Fashion (Dik Davis) - Red, Green, and Gold - Product Perfect
5.) The Buzzcocks (John Maher) - Autonomy - Singles Going Steady
6.) The Clash (Topper Headon) - Car Jamming - Combat Rock
7.) Adam and the Ants (Merrick and Terry Lee Miall) - Stand and Deliver - Prince Charming
8.) Killing Joke (Paul Ferguson) - Feast of the Blaze - Fire Dances
9.) Gary Numan (Cedric Sharpley) - Films - The Pleasure Principal
10.) Siouxsie and the Banshees (drum machine) - Lunar Camel - Kaleidoscope
11.) Sparks (David Kendrick) - Eaten by the Monster of Love - Angst in My Pants
12.) The Chameleons (John Lever) - In Shreds - The Fan and the Bellows
13.) Sleater-Kinney (Janet Weiss) - One Beat - One Beat
14.) U2 (Larry Mullen Jr.) - Sunday, Bloody Sunday - War
15.) Modern English (Richard Brown) Life in the Gladhouse - After the Snow
16.) Blondie (Clem Burke) - Dreaming - Eat to the Beat
17.) Missing Persons (Terry Bozzio) - Mental Hopscotch - Single
18.) The Police (Stewart Copeland) - Message in a Bottle - Regatta de Blanc
19.) Bauhaus (Kevin Haskins) - Dark Entries - Single
20.) Bow Wow Wow (Dave Barbossa) - C30, C60, c90 - Single
21.) The Icicle Works (Chris Sharrock) - Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) - The Icicle Works
22.) Dead Kennedys (Ted) - Californa Uber Alles - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegatables
23.) Public Image Ltd (Martin Atkins) - The Flowers of Romance - The Flowers of Romance
24.) Public Image Ltd (Richard Dudanski) - Socialist - Metal Box
25.) The Cure (Lawrence Tolhurst) - The Figurehead - Pornography
26.) Ministry (drum machine) - Breathe - The Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste

Gay Show - 7/6/09

2009-07-07T01:19:00.000-07:00

In honor of Gay Pride Weekend, which was over a week ago, I played all bands with a gay artist or artists or possibly bisexual or in one case, transgendered or in another case, transsexual. These were certainly some important people to the punk/post-punk/new wave/alternative genre but really it is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of music and the tip of Mt. Everest when it comes to entertainment as a whole. As I said several times on the show and now once on this blog, queer peoples' contribution to the arts is something to be truly admired and respected. That was what I tried to do this evening with the show:

Link To Gay Episode of Post-Punk For Post-Punks

Playlist for said show:

1.) Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin - Actually
2.) Husker Du - Friend You've Got To Fall - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
3.) REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Document
4.) Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
5.) The B-52's - Strobe Light - Wild Party
6.) Erasure - Brother and Sister - Wild
7.) Dead or Alive - Give It To Me - Single
8.) The Smiths - Panic - Louder Than Bombs
9.) Tom Robinson Band - Up Against the Wall - Power in the Darkness
10.) The Au Pairs - We're So Cool - Stepping Out of Line
11.) The Gossip - Yr Mangled Heart - Standing in the Way of Control
12.) Joe Jackson - Real Men - Night and Day
13.) Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy - The Age of Consent
14.) Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl - Single
15.) Jayne County and the Electric Chairs - Cream in My Jeans - Goddess of Wet Dreams
16.) Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange Theme - Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
17.) Culture Club - The War Song - Waking Up With the House on Fire
18.) Wham! - Everything She Wants - Make It Big
19.) Klaus Nomi - Three Wishes - Simple Man
20.) The Associates - A Matter of Gender - Peel Sessions
21.) The Housemartins - Hopelessly Devoted To Them - Now That Is What I Call Quite Good
22.) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
23.) Human Sexual Response - Blow Up - In A Roman Mood
24.) Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Twenty First Century Boy - Flaunt It
25.) Fischerspooner - The 15th - #1
26.) The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? - Singles Going Steady

Virgin Records Show - 6/22/09

2009-06-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

While other major record companies had some post-punk and new wave artists signed to their labels, Virgin was really the only one dedicated to the genre. And by doing so, they were able to build a giant corporate empire. Of course there will always be Johnny Haterz out there who are against anything big and corporate but when it comes to Virgin, that is the incorrect opinion to have. Sir Richard Branson, Nik Powell, and Simon Draper, who founded the label, did things the right way and deserve a ton of credit for growing the post-punk/new wave sound and bringing it to our ears. This is their story!

LINK TO VIRGIN RECORDS SHOW

1.) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Part One - Tubular Bells
2.) Sex Pistols - EMI - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
3.) XTC - Science Friction - 3D EP
4.) Althia & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking - Single
5.) Penetration - Don't Dictate - Moving Targets
6.) Magazine - My Tulpa - Real Life
7.) Public Image Ltd. - Memories - Metal Box
8.) The Flying Lizards - Money - The Flying Lizards
9.) The Ruts - Babylon's Burning - The Crack
10.) The Men - I Don't Depend On You - Single
11.) The Human League - Empire State Human - Reproduction
12.) Skids - Thanatos - Days In Europa
13.) Sparks - Beat the Clock - No. 1 In Heaven
14.) Martha and the Muffins - Monotone - Faraway in Time
15.) Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Messages - Single
16.) Nash the Slash - Glass Eye - Children of the Night
17.) The Revillos - Scuba Scuba - Single
18.) John Foxx - Underpass - Metamatic
19.) Japan - Gentlemen Take Poloroids - Genglemen Take Poloroids
20.) Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Penthouse and Pavement
21.) Simple Minds - Oh Jungleland - Once Upon A Time
22.) Rip, Rig, and Panic - You're My Kind of Climate - Single
23.) Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Kissing To Be Clever
24.) D.A.F. - Der Mussolini - Alle Ist Gut
25.) Cabaret Voltaire - Animation - The Crackdown
26.) UB40 - 12 Bar - Signing Off

PS. I didn't play Devo even though they were distributed by Virgin in the UK. The band had verbally committed to both Warner Brothers and Virgin (while stoned in Jamaica) and so the courts had decided that Warner Brothers would distribute them in the US and Virgin in the UK. I guess I just figured being in the US myself, it would be wrong to think that but as I type this, I realize that was stupid. Still a fine collection of songs though.

Great Beginnings Show - 6/8/09

2009-06-09T08:27:00.001-07:00

All songs that start off in some way that I like, which is always nice.

LINK TO GREAT BEGINNINGS SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Joy Division - Dead Souls - Substance
2.) Devo - Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy - Q: Are We Not Men? A:We are Devo
3.) Gang of 4 - To Hell With Poverty - Single
4.) Buzzcocks - Love You More - Singles Going Steady
5.) Squeeze - Slightly Drunk - Cool For Cats
6.) The Police - Invisible Sun - Ghost in the Machine
7.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House - Kaleidoscope
8.) Patty Smith - Rock 'N' Roll Nigger - Easter
9.) The Smiths - What She Said (Live) - Rank
10.) The Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator - Script on the Bridge
11.) The Damned - New Rose - Damned Damned Damned
12.) The Clash - I Fought the Law - The Clash
13.) U2 - Gloria - October
14.) Modern English - Face of Wood - After the Snow
15.) Echo and the Bunnymen - Rescue - Crocadiles
16.) The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Let it Bleed
17.) Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Please Listen to Sirens - First Album
18.) Bauhaus - Double Dare - In the Flat Field
19.) Soft Cell - Frustration - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
20.) The Specials - Concrete Jungle - The Specials
21.) The Cure - All I Want - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
22.) The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK - Never Mind the Bollocks
23.) Dead Kennedys - Bleed For Me (Live) - Urgh! A Music War (Video)
24.) Sparks - My Other Voice - The No. 1 Song in Heaven
25.) Big Country - Porrohman - The Crossing

Misses 2009 Show - 6/1/09

2009-06-02T08:31:00.000-07:00

A little less than a year ago, I returned to the radio with Post-Punk For Post-Punks and a dream. A dream of a free Tibet. Quickly I realized that I needed a new dream so it became instead, doing a weekly radio program in which each week I played only music that fell under a particular theme. I don't always play all the songs I want to play, I just run out of time like any normal person does but tonight's show, I took the opportunity to recap the past year a little bit and play one song from most every theme that I wish I would have played. Of course as always, you can just ignore the above paragraph and listen to a fine mix of songs. Here is the link for said songs:

LINK TO MISSES 2009 SHOW

1.) Boomtown Rats (Happy Endings Show) - Keep It Up - The Fine Art of Surfacing
2.) Radio Birdman (Punk Show) - Aloha Steve and Danno - Radios Appear
3.) Dead Kennedys (Guitar Show) - Holiday In Cambodia - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
4.) Bauhaus (Bass Show) - Kick in the Eye (live) - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
5.) Kim Wilde (2nd Wave Ska Show) - 2-6-5-8-0 - Kids in America
6.) Throbbing Gristle (Spoooky Show) - Hamburger Lady - D.O.A. The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
7.) XTC (Political Show) - Living Through Another Cuba (live) - BBC Sessions 1980
8.) Thompson Twins (Sheffield Show) - She's In Love With Mystery - Single
9.) Sisters of Mercy (Leeds Show) - Andrenachrome - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
10.) The Strangeloves (CoverED Show) - I Want Candy - Sci Fi Lo Fi Vol. 1
11.) Alphaville (Should Have Been Hits Show) - Fallen Angel - Big in Japan
12.) Oingo Boingo (1st Songs, 1st Albums Show) - Little Girls - Only A Lad
13.) Dinosaur Jr. (Boston Show) - Almost Ready - Beyond
14.) Pop Will Eat Itself (C-86 Show) - Black Country Chainstore Massacre -
15.) Camper Van Beethoven (American 80's Alternative) - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
16.) The Rifles (Oh Show) - Fall to Sorrow - The Great Escape
17.) English Beat (Early 60s Influence Show) - Tears of a Clown - What is Beat
18.) The Chamelons (Golden Throats of Post-Punk Show) - Swamp Thing - Strange Times
19.) Wire (Big Songs Show) - Ahead - The Ideal Copy
20.) U2 (Instrumental Show) - Things To Make And Do -
21.) Robots In Disguise (Liverpool Show) - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid - We're in the Music Biz
22.) The Mighty Lemon Drops (Birmingham Show) - Rollercoaster - Happy Head
23.) Cocteau Twins (Happy Show) - Iceblink Luck - Heaven or Las Vegas
24.) The Last (Late 70s Power Pop Show) - This Kind of Feeling - L.A. Explosion
25.) The Cure (Keyboard Show) - The Dream - Japanese Whispers
26.) Blondie (Other Versions Show) - Warchild 12" - Single

Other Versions Show - 5/25/09

2009-05-26T08:38:00.001-07:00

Inspired by one of my listeners, tonight's theme was all about alternate or lesser-known/played/heard versions of mostly well-known post-punk tracks. Download the mp3 below and thank Doc for the great show idea:

LINK TO OTHER VERSIONS SHOW

Playlist:

1.) Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (original fast version)
2.) Psychedelic Furs - Alice's House (original Forever Now recording)
3.) New Order - Temptation (original single) - Single
4.) OMD - Almost (Martin Hannett produced version) - Electricity Single
5.) Ultravox - Herr X (German Mr. X) - Rare
6.) Blondie - Once I Had A Love (original version of Heart of Glass)
7.) Gang of 4 - Guns Before Butter (Peel Sessions version) - Peel Sessions
8.) The Cure - Desperate Journalist (alternate version of Grinding Halt)
9.) U2 - Out of Control (original version)
10.) Sisters of Mercy - Anaconda (surf version)
11.) B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (original, less electronic version)
12.) Devo - Social Fools (fast version) - Jocko Homo Single
13.) The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict (original Howard Devoto vocal) - Time's Up
14.) Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (single version) - Single
15.) The Smiths - This Charming Man (7" single version) - Hatful of Hollow
16.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Overground (orchestrated version) - Thorn EP
17.) Soft Cell - Frustration (Mutant Moments version) - Mutant Moments
18.) Depeche Mode - Photographic (original Some Bizarre version) - Some Bizarre Compilation
19.) Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease (original demo)
20.) Joy Division - She's Lost Control (album version) - Unknown Pleasures
21.) Adam and the Ants - Car Trouble (Parts 1 & 2 - original album version) - Dirk Wears White Sox
22.) The Damned - Feel the Pain (Peel Sessions version) - Peel Sessions
23.) Nirvana - About a Girl (studio version) - Bleach
24.) Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me (album version) - In Color
25.) Roxy Music - Angel Eyes (disco-y version) - Single
26.) Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Product version)
27.) Xymox - No Words (original demo) - Subsequent Pleasures
28.) Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad (Boingo Alive version) - Boingo Alive

Keyboard Show - 5/18/09

2009-05-19T01:01:00.001-07:00

Tonight, I featured the keyboard's significant and notable influence in mainly post-punk and new wave. Tomorrow, who knows so listen to the mp3 from tonight, when all was right within the world.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD KEYBOARD SHOW

Playlist:

1.) The Clean - Tally Ho - Anthology
2.) The Chills - Rolling Moon - Kaleidoscope World
3.) Joy Division - Isolation - Closer
4.) Suicide - Cheree - Suicide
5.) Blondie - In the Sun - Blondie
6.) The Stranglers - No More Heroes - No More Heroes
7.) The Fall - Rebellious Jukebox - Live at the Witch Trials
8.) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Almost - Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark
9.) Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric? - Replicas
10.) Elvis Costello and the Attractions - The Imposter - Get Happy!
11.) Wall of Voodoo - Back in Flesh (live) - Urgh! A Music War
12.) The Last - Slavedriver - L.A. Explosion
13.) The Revillos - Where's the Boy For Me? - D.I.Y. Starry Eyes
14.) The Horrors - Who Can Say - Primary Colours
15.) Jay Reatard - Another Person - Singles '06-'07
16.) Devo - Snowball - Freedom of Choice
17.) XTC - Beatown - Go 2
18.) Dukes of the Stratosphere - 25 O'Clock - Single
19.) Cadallaca - June -n- July - Introducing Cadallaca
20.) ? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears - Cameo Parkway: The Best of ? and the Mysterians
21.) The Kings - Switchin' to Glide - The Kings Are Here
22.) The Modern Lovers - Government Center - The Modern Lovers
23.) Blue Orchids - Flood - The Greatest Hit
24.) Ghostland Observatory - Silver City - Delete.Delete.I.Eat.Meat
25.) Kraftwerk - Computer Love - Computer World
26.) The Stranglers - Walk On By - No More Heroes

Late 70s Power Pop Show - US and UK - 5/4/09

2009-05-05T00:33:00.000-07:00

Not quite punk rock, not quite rock rock, and definitely not butter, an interesting brand of fun-oriented guitar pop found its way into my heart and tonight was about that very sound. I spent the first hour in America, the next hour in Great Britain, and both of them delightfully drunk. Here is the link to all of those things and more:

LINK TO LATE 70S POWER POP SHOW

Playlist:

Part I - America

1.) The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action - Shake Some Action
2.) The Cryers - Shake It Up (Ain't It Time?) - Single
3.) The Rubinoos - Jennifer - Back to the Drawing Board
4.) Cheap Trick - Southern Girls - In Color
5.) The Pop -Down on the Boulevard - The Pop
6.) The Nerves - When You Find Out - One Way Ticket
7.) 20/20 - Giving It All - 20/20 Look Out!
8.) Robert Hazard - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Unreleased Demo
9.)The Knack - My Sharona - Get the Knack
10.) The Plimsouls - How Long Will It Take? - Everywhere At Once
11.) Teenage Head - Ain't Got No Sense - Teenage Head
12.) The Romantics - She's Got Everything - The Romantics
13.) The Shoes - I Don't Wanna Hear It - The Shoes Best
14.) Big Star - In the Street - #1 Record
15.) The Raspberries - I Wanna Be With You - Greatest
16.) The Speedies - Let Me Take Your Photo - You Need Pop

Part II - Great Britain

17.) The Undertones - Get Over You - The Undertones
18.) Graham Parker - Nobody Hurts You - Squeezing Out Sparks
19.) Nick Lowe - So It Goes - Jesus of Cool
20.) The Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me - A Different Kind of Tension
21.) Graduate - Julie Julie - Acting My Age
22.) The Vapours - News At 10 - New Clear Day
23.) The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
24.) The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You - Single
25.) The Jags - Back of My Hand - Single
26.) The 101ers - Keys to Your Heart - The Indie Scene 77 The Story of British Independent Music
27.) Kursaal Flyers - Television Generation - Great Artiste
28.) Joe Jackson - On Your Radio - I'm the Man
29.) The Motors - Forget About You - Approved by the Motors
30.) Eddie and the Hot Rods - Get Across to You - Teenage Depression
31.) XTC - This is Pop - White Music

Happy Show! - 4/27/09

2009-04-28T00:24:00.000-07:00

People often ask me, "Alex, why are you so psyched all the time?" Well it's simple, my friends, I listen to music that makes me psyched. And I listen to it all the time. And I don't just listen. I live it, man. I don't even know what that means but I live it anyway. I put live in italics. Fuck, I might as well put everything in italics. That is how you stay psyched all the time. Tonight I played songs that can help you too be this psyched, while still maintaining your dignity.

LINK TO HAPPY SHOW

Playlist to Happy Show:

1.) The The - Perfect - Soul Mining
2.) XTC - Generals and Majors - Black Sea
3.) The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit - Submarine Bells
4.) Wire - Kidney Bingos - A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck
5.) The Psychedelic Furs - We Love You - The Psychedelic Furs
6.) Billy Idol - The Blue Highway - Rebel Yell
7.) Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver - Ocean Rain
8.) The Smiths - Cemetery Gates - The Queen Is Dead
9.) Sparks - Happy Hunting Ground - Indiscreet
10.) The Housemartins - Happy Hour - London 0 Hull 4
11.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - O' Baby - The Rapture
12.) Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes - Friend Or Foe
13.) Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny - Battle Hymns For Children Singing
14.) The Damned - Drinking About My Baby - The Black Album
15.) The Clash - Hateful - London Calling
16.) Wang Chung - Let's Go - Mosaic
17.) Steel Pulse - Chant A Psalm - True Democracy
18.) Oingo Boingo - I'm On The Outside - Only A Lad
19.) The Jam - Move On Up - Extras
20.) The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods - The Singular Adventures of The Style Council
21.) The Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Singles Going Steady
22.) Tones on Tail - Twist - Everything
23.) The B52's - Songs for a Future Generation - Whammy!
24.) Talking Heads - Wild Life - True Stories
25.) World Party - Way Down Now - Goodbye Jumbo
26.) The Wedding Present - Getting Better - George Best Plus
27.) Morrissey - Let the Right One Slip In - Viva Hate

Birmingham UK Show - 4/20/09

2009-04-21T01:09:00.000-07:00

All music from the city of Birmingham, England for about 2 hours. The big influences there were reggae, claustrophobia, impending doom, and vogue.

LINK TO BIRMINGHAM UK SHOW

Playlist below this colon:

1.) Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
2.) The Au Pairs - Kerb Crawler - Stepping Out of Line
3.) Fashion - Sodium Pentathol Negative - Red Green And Gold Single
4.) Steel Pulse - Harassment - Reggae Fever
5.) UB40 - Madam Medusa (live) - URGH! A Music War
6.) Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie - Dancehall 101, Vol 3
7.) Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television - God Fodder
8.) English Beat - Big Shot - I Just Can't Stop It
9.) Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come On Home - Fine Young Cannibals
10.) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Let's Make This Precious - Too-Rye-Aye
11.) The Bureau - Only For Sheep - Single
12.) Toyah Wilcox - Tribal Look - Toyah Toyah Toyah
13.) The Photos - Barbarellas - Photos
14.) Duran Duran - The Chauffer - Rio
15.) Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize - Sladest
16.) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
17.) G.B.H. - Mania - Punk and Disorderly
18.) The Killjoys - Johnny Won't Go To Heaven - Oh No! It's More from Raw
19.) Suburban Studs - Hit and Run - Slam - The Complete Studs
20.) The Prefects - Barbarellas - Single
21.) Mighty Mighty - Law - NME C-86
22.) Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk? - Spizz Not Dead
23.) Ausgang - Lick - Last Exit: The Best of Ausgang
24.) Swell Maps - Another Song - Post Punk CD 1 - Rough Trade
25.) Felt - I Worship the Sun - Crumbling the Antiseptic
26.) Denim - Fish and Chips - Back in Denim
27.) Go Kart Mozart - Transgressions - Tearing Up the Album Charts
28.) Editors - Blood - The Back Room

Liverpool Show - 4/13/08

2009-04-14T00:37:00.000-07:00

While maybe musically over-rated in some other ways, Liverpool is definitely under-rated as one of the great post-punk cities in the history of the world. I played all Scousers tonight on the show and was as happy as a clam on Cavern Walks. Or just any clam anywhere as they are normally so happy. Here was the link to the show and hopefully happiness:

LINK TO LIVERPOOL SHOW

Below is the playlist:

1.) OMD - The Misunderstanding- Organization
2.) Echo and the Bunnymen - Back of Love - Porcupine
3.) Flock of Seagulls - Messages - A Flock of Seagulls
4.) Elvis Costello - Goon Squad - Armed Forces
5.) The Yachts - Yachting Type - The Yachts
6.) Modern Eon - Euthenics - Single
7.) Wah! Heat - 7 Minutes to Midnight - Single
8.) Ladytron - High Rise -Witching Hour
9.) The Dead 60's - Riot Radio - The Dead 60's
10.) The Accelerators - Radio Blues - Street To Street: A Liverpool Album
11.) Dalek I - The World - Compass Kumpas
12.) The Id - Julia's Song - Street To Street: A Liverpool Album
13.) Jacqui and Jeanette - 194 Radio City - Street To Street: A Liverpool Album
14.) Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
15.) The Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream - Icicle Works
16.) The La's - There She Goes - The La's
17.) The Heart Throbs - She's in a Trance - Cleopatra Grip
18.) The Lightning Seeds - Pure - Cloudcuckooland
19.) The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows - Revolver
20.) The Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit - Incandescent
21.) Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just a Story) - The Greatest Hit
22.) A Shallow Madness - Books - ???
23.) Big in Japan - Taxi - Single
24.) Nightmares in Wax - Black Leather - ???
25.) Dead or Alive - I'm Falling - ???
26.) The Spitfire Boys - British Refugees - Unearthed Liverpool Cult Classics
27.) The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division - A Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation
28.) Ian McCulloch - Faith & Healing - Candleland

Instrumental Show - 3/30/09

2009-03-31T00:40:00.000-07:00

Instrumental Songs are kind of like the scary skeletons. Everybody has one but we rarely think about them. Tonight I played only mainly instrumental tracks of post-punk and a few scary skeletons. Download the madness at:

LINK TO INSTRUMENTAL SHOW OF POST-PUNK FOR POST-PUNKS

Playlist:

1.) Gary Numan - Airlane - The Pleasure Principal
2.) Pixies - Something Against You - Surfer Rosa
3.) The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly - Louder Than Bombs
4.) This Ascension - Intro - Tears In Rain
5.) The Cure - Another Journey By Train - Standing By the Beach B-Sides
6.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Quarterdrawing of the Dog - Tinderbox
7.) Visage - Moon Over Moscow - Visage
8.) The Pogues - Wild Cats of Kilkenny - Rum, Sodomy, and Lash
9.) Alien Sex Fiend - Seconds To Nowhere - Maximum Security
10.) Public Image Ltd. - Socialist - Metal Box
11.) Pigbag - Sunny Day - Post Punk CD 1-Rough Trade Shops
12.) Bauhaus - The Three Shadows Part I - The Sky's Gone Out
13.) Tones on Tail - You, the Night and the Music - Everything
14.) Love and Rockets - Saudade - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
15.) The Chameleons - Silence, Sea, and Sky - What Does Anything Mean Basically?
16.) The Tornados - Telstar - Greatest Ever! 60s!
17.) Devo - Booji Boy's Funeral - Hardcore 2 (1974-1977)
18.) Bow Wow Wow - Orang-Outang - See Jungle! See Jungle!
19.) The Clean - At the Bottom - Anthology
20.) The Replacements - Seen Your Video - Let it Be
21.) Heavens to Betsy - Intermission 247 - Calculated
22.) Depeche Mode - Big Muff - Speak and Spell
23.) Depeche Mode - Nothing To Fear - A Broken Frame
24.) The Buzzcocks - Walking Distance - Love Bites
25.) Orange Juice - Moscow - The Glasgow School
26.) The Pretenders - Space Invader - The Pretenders
27.) The Plugz - Reel Ten - Repo Man Soundtrack
28.) David Bowie - Weeping Wall - Low

Big Songs Show - 3/16/09

2009-03-17T08:40:00.001-07:00

Big songs are simply songs that just feel big. And not even just big, larger than life sometimes. They can be symphonic, soaring, surging, dramatic, powerful, important and evoke a sense of fantasy that is generally missing from adult life. For more on these topics, click on the link below and download away.

LINK TO BIG SONGS SHOW

1.) Big Country - Tall Ships Go - Steeltown
2.) The Alarm - The Stand - The Alarm
3.) The Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator - Script of the Bridge
4.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle - Hyena
5.) New Order - Perfect Kiss - Substance
6.) Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music For the Masses
7.) Tears For Fears - Shout - Songs From the Big Chair
8.) Ultravox - Hymn - Quartet
9.) Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf - Rio
10.) Mew - Snow Brigade - Fringers
11.) Editors - All Sparks - The Back Room
12.) Sisters of Mercy - Dominion - Floodland
13.) Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart - Diesel and Dust
14.) Skids - Masquerade - Days in Europa
15.) A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV - Hunting High and Low
16.) Slade - Run Runaway - Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
17.) Cheap Trick - Dream Police - Dream Police
18.) Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache - Swing the Heartache BBC Sessions
19.) Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express - Trans Europe Express
20.) Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Down in the Park - Replicas
21.) Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights - Once Upon A Time in the West
22.) U2 - New Year's Day - War

Golden Throats of Post-Punk Show - 3/9/09

2009-03-10T00:18:00.000-07:00

The singers of post-punk are the best singers in the world, bar none. Don't believe that good singing has to be a certain way, hitting certain notes, and caterwauling with certain divas on VH1. Singing is about creating a character to your music, something completely unique and distinct but still something people can relate to. That's what post-punk and new wave bands did so well. They'll never get the credit they deserve but they did get a show dedicated to them. Download it yourself from:

LINK TO GOLDEN THROATS OF POST-PUNK SHOW

Playlist:

1.) The Pretenders - Talk of the Town - Pretenders II
2.) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna - Tender Prey
3.) Oingo Boingo - Private Life - Nothing To Fear
4.) Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa - The Dreaming
5.) Soft Cell - Entertain Me - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
6.) Gang of 4 - I Love A Man in Uniform - Songs of the Free
7.) English Beat - End of the Party - Special Beat Service
8.) Duran Duran - Rio - Rio
9.) Shellyan Orphan - A Silent Day - Century Flower
10.) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - Please
11.) The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) -Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
12.) Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan - Urgh! A Music War
13.) XTC - Respectable Street - Urgh! A Music War
14.) The Jam - Town Called Malice - The Gift
15.) The Rubinoos - Hard to Get - The Rubinoos
16.) Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope - Emission
17.) Ultravox - Vienna - Vienna
18.) Joe Jackson - One More Time - Look Sharp
19.) Blondie - Fade Away and Radiate - Parallel Lines
20.) The Stranglers - Nice N' Sleazy - No More Heroes
21.) The Stranglers - Golden Brown - Feline
22.) The Cure - Lovecats - Japanese Whispers
23.) Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk - Heaven or Las Vegas
24.) The Smiths - Frankly Mr. Shankly - The Queen is Dead

***New Stuff Off Of New Music Playlist***

(N) Blitzen Trapper - Furr - Furr
(N) The Electric Lives - We Should Be Believing - The Electric Lives

Shoegaze Show - 3/2/09

2009-03-03T08:39:00.000-08:00

Descending from C-86 and bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and Cocteau Twins, Shoegaze took noise and psychedelia to beautiful new places. Last night I visited some of those places and played all shoegaze music, both from the original scene (late 80s/early 90s) and the more modern day. As the rhyme goes, download the show by following the link below:

SHOEGAZE SHOW LINK

Playlist:

1.) Catherine Wheel - I Want To Touch You - Ferment
2.) My Bloody Valentine - Suesfine - Isn't Anything
3.) Ride - Polar Bear - Nowhere
4.) Chapterhouse - Pearl - Pearl EP
5.) Pale Saints - Babymaker - In Ribbons
6.) The Daysleepers - Big Sleep - Hide Your Eyes EP
7.) Airiel - Sharron Apple - Winks & Kisses: Melted EP
8.) Lush - Scarlet - Gala
9.) Swervedriver - Duel - Mezcal Head
10.) Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon - Crystal Stilts
11.) The Boo Radleys - Lazy Day - Adrenalin EP
12.) Bailterspace - The "W" Song - Tanker
13.) Lilys - Claire Hates Me - In the Presence of Nothing
14.) Black Tambourine - For Ex-Lovers Only - Complete Recordings
15.) Slowdive - She Calls - Morningrise EP
16.) B.R.M.C. - Too Real - B.R.M.C.
17.) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Crushed - Methodrone
18.) The Swirlies - Sleepytime - Cats of the Wild, Vol 2
19.) Galaxie 500 - Leave the Planet - On Fire
20.) Serena Maneesh - Hear Bleed Philharmonic - Fixxations EP
21.) M83 - Don't Save Us From the Flames - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
22.) Moose - Can't Get Enough of You - High Ball Me
23.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
24.) Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Longplaya - Metal Box - 3/1/09

2009-03-02T08:15:00.000-08:00

Last night it was my pleasure to be a guest on the PCR show, Longplaya, along with Mike from Neat Neat Noise. We featured that classic Public Image Ltd. album, Metal Box. Listen to the podcast by following the link below:

METAL BOX PODCAST

Madchester Show - 2/16/09

2009-02-17T00:23:00.000-08:00

A fusion of late 60s psychedelic pop and late 80s acid house dance rhythms, Madchester was the dominant musical force in Great Britain for a fine couple of years. I tried to boil those years down to a fine couple of hours on tonight's show. Download below:

MADCHESTER SHOW LINK

Playlist:

1.) The Stone Roses - Fools Gold - The Stone Roses
2.) Northside - Take 5 - Chicken Rhythms
3.) James - Come Home - James
4.) Charlatans - The Only One I Know - Some Friendly
5.) Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever- Madchester
6.) The Farm - Groovy Train - Spartacus
7.) Inspiral Carpets - She Comes in the Fall - Life
8.) The House of Love - You Don't Understand - The Best of the House of Love
9.) Primal Scream - Slip Inside this House - Screamadelica
10.) Soup Dragons - Mother Universe - Lovegod
11.) The Heart Throbs - Turn Away - Total Abandon EP
12.) Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
13.) Happy Mondays - Hallelujah -Hallelujah Single
14.) Renegade Soundwave - Murder Music - RSW 1987-1985
15.) Blur - There's No Other Way - Leisure
16.) Xymox - Phoenix of My Heart - Phoenix
17.) My Bloody Valentine - Soon - Glider EP
18.) The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? - Best of
19.) Kasabian - Processed Beats - Kasabian
20.) Ocean Colour Scene - Do Yourself a Favour
21.) Intastella and the Family of People - Bendy - Intastella and the Family of People
22.) The Wonder Stuff - Can't Shape Up - Hup
23.) The Stone Roses - Love Spreads - Second Coming

American Early 60s Influence Show - 2/9/09

2009-02-10T01:08:00.001-08:00

Motown, Northern Soul, Girl Group, Doo Wop, Baroque Pop, and Brill Building Pop all had their influence on the sound of punk, post-punk, new wave, and their descendants. Another wonderful case of music making for strange bedfellows and that was the theme of tonight's show. Click on the link to download and its yours for the listening.

American Early 60s Influence Show

Playlist:

1.) The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? - End of the Century
2.) Teardrop Explodes - Reward - Wilder
3.) The Jam - Heat Wave - Setting Sons
4.) Soft Cell - Tainted Love - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
5.) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long - Searching For the Young Soul Rebels
6.) The Redskins - Keep On Keeping On - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
7.) The Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up - Psychocandy
8.) The Raveonettes - Ode To L.A. - Pretty In Black
9.) Elvis Costello - Love For Tender - Get Happy!!
10.) Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Grett Big Kiss - Born Too Loose - The Best of Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
11.) The Clash - I'm Not Down - London Calling
12.) Jo Boxers - Just Got Lucky
13.) The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down - Internationalists
14.) Hal - Play the Hits - Hal
15.) The Wild Swans - Young Manhood - Magnitude (The Sire Years)
16.) Blondie - Denis (Alternate Version) - Plastic Letters
17.) The Fleshtones - I Was A Teenage Zombie
18.) The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again - Someone to Drive You Home
19.) Be Your Own Pet - Becky - Get Damaged EP
20.) Tracy Ullman - Breakaway - You Broke My Heart In 17 Places
21.) Silicon Teens - Let's Dance - Music For Parties
22.) The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me EP
23.) Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind - Colour By Numbers
24.) Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop - Forging Ahead
25.) The Untouchables - Free Yourself - Wild Child
26.) The Undertones - Got To Have You Back - Sin of Pride
27.) Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave - Boingo Alive
28.) The Ramones - Yea Yea (Demo) - Road To Ruin CD

***New Stuff Off Of New Stuff Playlist***

(N) Bloody Snowman - Laughing - Bloodbubbles
(N) The Beige Channel - Wash, Rinse, and Repeat - Auricular Audio Magazine #13
(N) Cecil Otter - 1999 - Rebel Yellow

Ohs, Whoas, and Oohs Show - 2/2/09

2009-02-03T00:36:00.001-08:00

The second best 3 words in the English language and some of the greatest utensils in rock 'n' roll's awesome set of tools. Ohs, whoas, and oohs are like putting bacon on a song and if it's already got bacon on it, like Applewood-smoked cocaine bacon. Have a listen to what I believe are the finest songs ever to "Oh" by following this link below, which in this case is almost like a sausage link:

The Oh Show

Playlist

1.) The Misfits - I Turned Into A Martian - Walk Among Us
2.) The Police - Truth Hits Everybody - Outlandos D'Amour
3.) XTC - Chain of Command - Drums and Wires (cd bonus track version)
4.) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Clockface - Kaleidoscope
5.) U2 - The Sweetest Thing - Streets Have No Name Single
6.) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Need Some Air - Baby 81
7.) The Fratellis - Stacie Ann - Flathead EP
8.) Cut Off Your Hands - Expectations - Shaky Hands EP
9.) The Futureheads - The Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
10.) Ash - Kung Fu - 1977
11.) The Ramones - Oh, Oh, I Love Her So - Leave Home
12.) Buzzcocks - Promises - Singles Going Steady
13.) Kim Wilde - Kids in America - Kids in America
14.) Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
15.) Baltimora - Tarzan Boy - Living in Oblivion
16.) New Order - Temptation - Substance
17.) Erasure - Ship of Fools - The Innocents
18.) Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better - Dream Into Action
19.) Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad - Only A Lad
20.) Graduate - Sick and Tired - Acting My Age
21.) Chelsea - Evacuate - Evacuate
22.) Skids - Melancholy Soliders - Scared To Dance
23.) Fashion - Silver Blades - Silver Blades single
24.) Snowden - Anti Anti - Anti Anti
25.) The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You - The Fine Art of Surfacing
26.) Nothington - Where I Stand - All In
27.) The Cars - Touch and Go - Panorama
28.) Naked Raygun - I Remember - All Rise

American Alternative 80s Show - 1/26/09

2009-01-27T01:50:00.001-08:00

The underground music of the 80's that would eventually define the 90's, that was what my show featured on this very night. Back then, the world for me was divided into 2 kinds of people: people that liked the kind of music I played for this show and people I didn't like. Used to be you could really tell a lot about someone by what they listened to but that doesn't seem as true any more. Or maybe I was just less tolerant in my younger age. In any case, you can download the show from this link:

American Alternative 80s Show

And read the show in text, playlist form below:

1.) R.E.M. - Ages of You - Dead Letter Office
2.) Love Tractor - Broke My Saw - Themes From Venus
3.) Pylon - Precaution - Gyrate
4.) Let's Active - Every Word Means No - Afoot
5.) Rain Parade - I Look Around - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
6.) Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over - The Days of Wine and Roses
7.) Thin White Rope - Eleven - Exploring the Axis
8.) Green On Red - Gravity Talks - Gravity Talks
9.) The Replacements - Take A Ride - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
10.) Husker Du - Celebrated Summer - New Day Rising
11.) The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows - Crazy Rhythm
12.) Sonic Youth - Total Trash - Daydream Nation
13.) The Wipers - Telepathic Love - Is This Real?
14.) Beat Happening - What's Important - Beat Happening
15.) Nirvana - Polly (1989 Demo) - With The Lights Out
16.) Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Doolittle
17.) Mission of Burma - Max Ernst - Signals, Calls, and Marches
18.) Dinosaur Jr. - Kracked - You're Living All Over Me
19.) The Smithereens - Drown In My Own Tears - Green Thoughts
20.) Fugazi - Margin Walker - 13 Songs
21.) Minutemen - Vietnam
22.) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground - Mother's Milk
23.) Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song - Nothing's Shocking
24.) Scratch Acid - El Espectro - The Greatest Gift
25.) Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer
26.) Ministry - Burning Inside - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
27.) Naked Raygun - Soldier's Requiem - Jettison
28.) The Violent Femmes - Add It Up - The Violent Femmes

C-86 Show - The Mix Tape That Started the Genre - 1/19/09

2009-01-20T08:08:00.000-08:00

In 1986, British weekly music publication, New Music Express, released a mail-order mix tape sampler called C-86 featuring 22 fairly new bands that represented a new direction and scene for independent music. While some people, including the NME itself, may dispute how much of a real direction and scene there really was at the release of C-86, it's hard to dispute that this cassette completely changed the face of music in Britain, both right away and in the future. My show tonight was all about the C-86 sound, featuring most of the bands from the original cassette as well as followers and influencees of the movement. Check it out by following the link:

C-86 Show

Here comes that playlist:

1.) The Bodines - Therese - Played
2.) Close Lobsters - Too Bloody Stupid - Foxheads Stalk This Land
3.) Shop Assistants - Caledonian Road - Shop Assistants Anthology
4.) The Flatmates - Happy All the Time - Potpourri: Hits, Mixes, and Demos
5.) Wolfhounds - The Anti-Midas Touch - The Essential Wolfhounds
6.) Getting Nowhere Fast - The Wedding Present - George Best Plus
7.) The Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World - The Subway Organization: 1986 -1989
8.) Primal Scream - Velocity Girl - NME C86
9.) The Pastels - Truck Train Tractor - Truckload of Trouble
10.) (I actually don't know who this band is! If you do, let me know and you'll win a spatula!) - Cold
11.) McCarthy - Keep an Open Mind or Else - The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth
12.) Josef K - Crazy to Exist - Entomology
13.) Orange Juice - The Blue Boy - The Glasgow School
14.) Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill - Let's Get Out Of This Country
15.) Belle & Sebastien - We Are the Sleepyheads - The Life Pursuit
16.) Miaow - Sport Most Royal - NME C86
17.) The Loft - Up the Hill and Down the Slope
18.) Talulah Gosh - Don't Go Away - Backwash
19.) Talulah Gosh - Be Your Baby - Backwash
20.) The Servants - A Sun, A Small Star - Reserved
21.) We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna' Use It - Love is the Slug - We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna' Use It
22.) The Vaselines - Son of a Gun - The Way of the Vaselines
23.) Witness - Sharpened Sticks - NME C86
24.) The Bodines - Skankin Queens - Played
25.) The Darling Buds - Things We Do For Love - Pop Said
26.) The Primitives - Out of Reach - Best of the Primitives
27.) The Manhattan Love Suicides - Things You've Never Done - The Manhattan Love Suicides

ALSO, if you want to hear the C-86 tape in its original, pristine form, you can download it from my site as well by following these here links:

C-86 Side 1

C-86 Side 2

***And here was some new music from our new music playlist****

(N) FM Belfast - Lotus - How To Make Friends
(N) Mochipet - Banana Split = Featuring E. Da Boss & Bicasso of Living Legend - Microphone Pet

Boston, Mass Show - 1/12/09

2009-01-13T01:10:00.001-08:00

Tonight, it was all-Boston radio on Post-Punk For Post-Punks and Boston had a pretty great scene going during the heyday of post-punk that wasn't nearly as well known and publicized as the scenes in New York, LA, and all over Great Britain during that time. Unless of course, millions of you download and listen to my show, which can be acquired via the link below.

Boston, Mass Show

The playlist went down thusly:

1.) Dropkick Murphys - Shipping Up To Boston - The Warrior's Code
2.) The Cars - Since You're Gone - Shake It Up
3.) Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona
4.) Pixies - Debaser - Doolittle
5.) Frank Black - Los Angeles - Frank Black
6.) Mission of Burma - The Set Up - ONoffON
7.) The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls
8.) Gang Green - Rabies - Pre-School
9.) The Freeze - Boston, Not L.A. - American Hardcore
10.) SSD - Boston Crew - Power
11.) Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk - Future Future Future Perfect
12.) The Thrills - (I Don't Want No) Sympathy - N.A.F.I.T.C.
13.) Alpha Romeo - Dangerous Birds - D.I.Y. Mass Ave. - The Boston Scene
14.) The Real Kids - All Kindsa Girls - The Real Kids
15.) Waltham - Cheryl (Come and Take A Ride) - Waltham
16.) The Atlantics - Back in the World - The Atlantics
17.) ***Guilty Pleasure*** Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion - Toys in the Attic
18.) 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry - Voices Carry
19.) The Modern Lovers - Dignified & Old - The Modern Lovers
20.) The Lyres - How Do You Know? - 12 Classic 45s
21.) Human Sexual Response - Andy Fell (live) - Courtesy of www.kinodv.com
22.) The Neighborhoods - No Place Like Home - 12 Classic 45s
23.) The Del Fuegos - I Always Call Her Back - D.I.Y. Mass Ave. - The Boston Scene
24.) La Peste - Better Off Dead - D.I.Y. Mass Ave - The Boston Scene
25.) Dick Dale - Misirlou - Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Greatest Hits
26.) The Maps - I'm Talkin' To You - D.I.Y. Mass Ave. - The Boston Scene
27.) The Cars - Just What I Needed - The Cars

***New Music Off Of New Music Playlist***
(N) Grave Digger - My Blood Will Live Forever - Ballads of Hangmen
(N) The Modern Age Slavery - Purple - Damned To Blindness
(N) Iron Fire - Doom Riders - To the Grave

1st Songs Off Of 1st Albums Show - 1/5/09

2009-01-06T00:24:00.001-08:00

Yessirree, it's a new year and I thought I would celebrate that by remembering old years, when older music was new.

Here's the link...

1st Songs 1st Albums Show

...and...

...here's the playlist in a brand new format:

Public Image Ltd. - Public Image - Public Image
Soft Cell - Frustration - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Depeche Mode - New Life - Speak and Spell
U2 - I Will Follow - Boy
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe - Murmur
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Magazine - Definitive Gaze - Real Life
B-52's - Planet Claire - The B-52's
Blondie - X Offender - Blondie
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night - Three Imaginary Boys
Killing Joke - Requiem - Killing Joke (1980)
New Order - Dreams Never End - Movement
Bauhaus - Double Dare - In the Flat Field
Christian Death - Cavity (First Communion) - Only Theater of Pain
The Chameleons - Don't Fall - Script of the Bridge
Duran Duran - Girls on Film - Duran Duran
The Clash - Clash City Rockers - The Clash (US Release)
Psychedelic Furs - India - The Psychedelic Furs
Adam and the Ants - Car Trouble - Dirk Wears White Socks
Wall of Voodoo - Long Arm - Wall of Voodoo
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - Psychocandy
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It
Morrissey - Alsatian Cousin - Viva Hate
Gang of 4 - Ether - Entertainment!
Buzzcocks - Fast Cars - Music From A Different Kitchen
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Pure - The Scream
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling - The Scream

***New Music From New Music Playlist***

(N) Larytta - Voodoo Things (Difficult Lee) - Difficult Fun
(N) FM Belfast - Tropical - How To Make Friends

2008 End-of-the-Year Ram Jam Spectacular Show - 12/29/08

2008-12-30T01:20:00.001-08:00

Tonight I played the best songs of this year, 2008. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Kronos, the Time Lord.

Here is the link to download the show, in linkabetical order:

2008 Show

And of course the playlist, in playlistabetical order:

Let it All Go - Jay Reatard
Second, Minute, Or Hour - Jack Penate
Daylight - Matt & Kim
Heavy Heart - Ghostland Observatory
Nobody Lost, Nobody Found - Cut Copy
I'm Not Scared - Ladytron
Forever Growing Centipedes - The Faint
Geraldine - Glasvegas
Broke Up the Time - The Futureheads
Second Life - Gang of 4
Endless Summer of the Damned - Bauhaus
All Kinds of Stuff - The Cure
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - The Black Kids
Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
Strobe - Friendly Fires
Magic Doors - Portishead
Want the Candy - The Raveonettes
Wishing Well - Love is All
I Was Mad For You - She & Him
All I Need Tonight (Is You) - Gentlemen Jesse
Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Campus - Vampire Weekend
Magic - Ladyhawke
Century - The Long Blondes
Too Too Too Fast - Ra Ra Riot
What Would Lou Reed Do? - I Am the Heat
People Talk - Cheap Time
Always Wanting More - Jay Reatard

***New Stuff From New Stuff Playlist***

(N) Hard to Detect - Magas - from the album, "Friends Forever"
(N) Qudra - Tangtype - from the album, "Flake Out"

Should Have Been Hits Show - 12/8/08

2008-12-09T08:19:00.000-08:00

All of these songs should have been among each respective artist's greatest of hits. Or at least more popular. Hopefully that will change after people listen to last night's show. Hopefully everything will change and you can point to this very moment in time as the moment you found out who you really are. The link is right below:

Should Have Been Hits Show

Playlist:

The Imposter - Elvis Costello
Telegraph - OMD
Let's All Go - Killing Joke
Picasso Visitia El Planeta de los Simios - Adam and the Ants
Victor - Blondie
Lie to Me - Depeche Mode
Face Up - New Order
Nice 'N' Neat - The Boomtown Rats
In the Future - Sparks
The Olympian - Skids
Controller - Oingo Boingo
Two Swords - English Beat
Call Box - Wall of Voodoo
Burning With Optimism's Flame - XTC
Life in Laralay - Love in Rockets
The Sound of the Crowd - Human League
Don't Talk To Me About Love - Altered Images
Me! I Disconnect From You! - Gary Numan
...And Stones - The Blue Aeroplanes
Everywhere At Once - The Plimsouls
To the Sky - The Cure
Up in Heaven - The Clash
Little Rough Rhinestone - Soft Cell
Inwards - Big Country

CoverED Songs Show - 12/1/08

2008-12-02T00:33:00.001-08:00

On this very night I played the original versions of songs that would one day be covered by our favorite post-punk/new wave/alternative musicianeers. A different kind of show, really. Not your father's post-punk. Although actually, maybe it sort of was. Here's the link for download:

Covered Songs Show

Playlist coming now:

Third Uncle - Brian Eno (covered most notably by Bauhaus)
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie (covered by Bauhaus)
Telegram Sam - T-Rex (covered by Bauhaus)
China Girl - Iggy Pop (covered by David Bowie)
Police on My Back - The Equals (covered by The Clash)
Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin (covered by The Clash)
The Tide Is High - The Paragons (covered by Blondie)
Hangin' on the Telephone - The Nerves (covered by Blondie)
Denise - Randy and the Rainbows (covered by Blondie as, "Denis")
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones (covered by Soft Cell)
What? - Judy Street (covered by Soft Cell)
Head On - The Jesus and Mary Chain (covered by The Pixies)
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - Sparks (covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Dear Prudence - The Beatles (covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel (covered by The Bangles)
Let's Live For Today - The Grass Roots (covered by Lords of the New Church)
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations (covered by Love and Rockets)
Rudy, A Message To You - Dandy Livingstone (covered by The Specials as "A Message To You, Rudy")
Monkey Man - Toots & the Maytals (covered by The Specials)
Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers (covered by Burning Sensations)
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen (covered by The Ramones AND The Cramps)
I Love Rock & Roll - The Arrows (covered by Joan Jett)
The Passenger - Iggy Pop (covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees)
He's A Whore - Cheap Trick (covered by Big Black)
He's Gonna' Step On You Again - John Kongos (covered by Happy Mondays as "Step On")
Ceremony (live) - Joy Division (covered by New Order)
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie (covered by Nirvana)

***New Music Off Of New Music Playlist***

Soberbia - Laxula - off of the album, "X-Ile"
195 Pounds - Nightmares On Wax - off of the album, "Thought So..."

Leeds UK Show - 11/17/08

2008-11-18T08:19:00.000-08:00

Everything tonight was made in Leeds, England. Like Sheffield, Leeds may not be a household name but it is truly one of post-punk's finest cities. You can download its story by following the link below:

Leeds Show

The songs came out like this:

A Rock and a Hard Place - The Sisters of Mercy
Talk About the Weather - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Religious As Hell - March Violets
Deliverance - The Mission UK
Seedy Films - Soft Cell
Time Thief - Pale Saints
Away - The Bolshoi
***Guilty Pleasure*** Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
The Human Factor - Music For Pleasure
Thirteen - !Forward Russia!
I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Pleasure - Girls At Our Best
Singing the Praises - Delta 5
Big Zombie - The Mekons
Damaged Goods - Gang of 4
Head in the Clouds - Ada Wilson and Keep in the Dark
Never Said - The Wedding Present
Giving Ground - The Sisterhood
The War Against Sleep - Cassandra Complex
Jonny Boy - Manhattan Love Suicides
Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion - The Lodger
White Sound - Bill Nelson
Made in Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
He'd Send In The Army (live) - Gang of 4

***New Music Off Of New Music Playlist***

(N) Crazy Dancing - Daedalus - Daly City Records Presents
(N) Powerball - Dandi Wind - (No album title)

Sheffield UK Show - 11/10/08

2008-11-11T10:08:00.000-08:00

Just a steeltown girl (town) on a Saturday (Monday) night. Sheffield UK, an English city that may not get a lot of publicity but certainly has its place in the heart of post-punk as well as modern indie music. I played only bands from Sheffield, spanning from the mid/late seventies to the present day. And you can download them all by following this link:

Sheffield UK Show

Being Boiled - Human League
Pulse Lovers - The Future
Diskono -Cabaret Voltaire
Afterwards - Artery
New Girls Neutrons - Vice Versa
Touch - I'm So Hollow
Where Have I Seen You - They Must Be Russians
All Time Low - 2.3
Red Planet - Comsat Angels
Going Steady - Jilted John
When I See You - The Thompson Twins
Sensorium - Clock DVA
Baby Called Billy - British Electric Foundation
Geisha Boys and Temple Girls - Heaven 17
The Look Of Love - ABC
Heaven is Waiting - Danse Society
Babies - Pulp
***Guilty Pleasure - Or Is It?*** Photograph - Def Leppard
High Strung Chironi - Pink Grease
View From the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys
Fight Music For the Fight - Bromheads Jacket
Lust in the Movies - The Long Blondes
Dear Constable - The Harrisons
Letters - Navvy
Not What It Used To Be - Fury of the Headteachers
Blank Clocks - The Future

Political Songs Show on Election Eve - 11/3/08

2008-11-04T11:30:00.000-08:00

'Twas the night before election and what better way to celebrate than to play politcally-themed songs of the post-punk, punk, and alternative genres? What? I'm seriously asking you. Because I couldn't think of anything better so that is exactly what I did.

Sadly, there was a point in the show where the broadcast abruptly stopped but like any good American, I rolled up my sleeves, opened up a sound editing program, and pasted the rest of the songs left on my playlist to the end of the recording posted on my blog. You can download that recording by following the link below:

Political Song Show

Playlist:

Freedom of Choice - Devo
Government Flu - Dead Kennedys
Capitalism - Oingo Boingo
Armagh - Au Pairs
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
I Got A Right (live) - Adolescents
Butyric Acid - Consolidated
Out On Your Own - Easterhouse
Democracy? - The Damned
Natural's Not In - Gang of 4
Whine & Grine/Stand Down Margaret - The English Beat
Which Side Are You On? - Billy Bragg
Two Million Voices - Angelic Upstarts
Fuck the Tories - Riot Squad
Fuck tha Police - N.W.A.
Summer of '81 - The Vibrators
Living With Unemployment - The Newtown Neurotics
Career Opportunities - The Clash
Reaganomics - D.R.I.
My Country - New Model Army
Alienation - Poison Girls
Burdon of Shame - UB40
Driven To Tears (live) - The Police
I'm A Conservative - Iggy Pop
The Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex
We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
Election Day - Arcadia

Spooooky Song Show - 10/27/08

2008-10-28T08:37:00.001-07:00

Just in time for Halloween and 6 months after Administrative Professionals Day, PPFP delivers a show of songs that may be a little bit frightening, if songs can be frightening. To find out for sure and increase overall awareness, download this link below and download it good.

Spooooky Song Show

Note the tracklist below

Departure - Bauhaus
Burning Skies - Tones on Tail
Lady Shave - Fad Gadget
Mother/Oh Mein Papa - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Overture (excerpt) - Christian Death
Spiritual Cramp - Christian Death
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Holy Hour - The Cure
Martin - Soft Cell
Circus of Dr. Lao - The Future
Clown - Switchblade Symphony
Simple Addictions - Screams For Tina
***Guilty Pleasure - It's back!*** Claire's Horrors - London After Midnight
Memphisto (excerpt) - Depeche Mode
Always Now - Section 25
I Am Misery - Samhain
(excerpt from the film, "The Shining") - Scatman Crothers
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Blundertown - The Birthday Party
Children Write On Missiles - Scarlet's Remains
Holy Hell - Shadow Project
Dead and Buried - Alien Sex Fiend
Hollow Hills - Bauhaus

****New Songs Off Of New Song Playlist****

(N) Professional Eyes - Stripmail Seizures - The Secret To Financial Freedom
(N) Impending Zombie Apocalypse - Git Some - Cosmic Rock
(N) Free Money - Stripmail Seizures - The Secret To Financial Freedom

Ska (and its influence on post-punk) Show - 10/20/08

2008-10-21T11:51:00.000-07:00

All from the 2-Tone ska movement. A movement that was all about racial harmony and dancing so if that's not appealing to you, well, as a very wise man once said, you might be a redneck.

Download the show from this link below. If that doesn't make sense then....you also might be a redneck. This Jeff Foxworthy schtick doing anything for you?

Ska And Its Influence On Post-Punk Show

Here come those songs:

One Step Beyond - Madness
Nite Klub - The Specials
Barnyard Connection - Fun Boy 3
Happy Families - The Piranhas
Lip Up Fatty/Ne Ne Ne Na Na Na Nu Nu - Bad Manners
Pretty Boys - Joe Jackson
Man in a Suitcase - The Police
Harborcoat - REM
Violent Love - Oingo Boingo
Elvis Should Play Ska - Graduate
Too Much Pressure - The Selector
Ruder Than You - The Bodysnatchers
Ranking Full Stop - English Beat
Free Nelson Mandela - Special AKA
Braggin and Trying Not To Lie - Roddy Radiation
Product Perfect - Fashion
Meccanic Dancing (Oh We Go!) - XTC
The General - Untouchables
Tropical Bird - Untouchables
Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
Away - Swingin' Cats
Sea Cruise - Rico
Monkey Man - The Specials
Party At Ground Zero - Fishbone
Talk Is Cheap - The Toasters

***New Stuff Off Of New Stuff Playlist***

(N) Siki Siki Baba - Kocani Orkestra - off of the album "Electric Gypsyland"
(N) Borstal Boys - Ol' Cheeky Bastard - off of the album "Bag of Tricks"
(N) Neascu In Africa - Shrine Synchro System vs. Taraf de Haidouts - off of the album "Electric Gypsyland"

Bass Guitar Show - 10/13/08

2008-10-14T08:40:00.000-07:00

That's right, the great bass players and bass lines of post-punk and in one case, old school rap. The download and subsequent happiness is only a carriage return away.

Bass Guitar Show

And this is what you will hear:

At Home He's A Tourist - Gang of 4 (Dave Allen)
Other Voices - The Cure (Simon Gallup)
Shoot You Down - APB (Iain Slater)
Hypnotic Love Affair - APB (Iain Slater)
Twist and Crawl - English Beat (David Steele)
White Palms - BRMC (Robert Levon Been)
Alice - The Sisters of Mercy (Craig Adams)
The Magnificent Seven - The Clash (Paul Simonon)
Red, Green, and Gold - Fashion (Mulligan)
The National Anthem - Radiohead (Colin Greenwood)
Hungry So Angry - Medium Medium (Alan Turton)
7th Time - Clan of Xymox (Anka Wolbert)
Visions of China - Japan (Mick Karn)
Golly Golly Go Buddy! - Bow Wow Wow (Leigh Gorman)
Disorder - Joy Division (Peter Hook)
Blood and Roses - The Smithereens (Mark Mesasros)
Straighten Out - The Stranglers (Jean Jacques Burnel)
Steam - The March Violets (Laurence Elliot)
Danced (Live) - Toyah Wilcox (Mark Henry)
Tenant - Siouxsie and the Banshees (Steve Severin)
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen (John Deacon)
White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Mellie Mel (original bass line by Richard McGuire)

***New Music Off Of New Music Playlist***

(N) Glue Your Eyelids Together - ADULT. - Anxiety Always
(N) Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

Guitar Heroes of Post-Punk - 10/6/08

2008-10-13T13:59:00.000-07:00

The guitar has many names. The axe. The git box. Well that's really it. Great, distinct, creative, innovative, interesting guitarists have many more names and on this night they finally got their comeupance. Comeupance can be postive!

Download it while it's hot from this internet location:

Guitar Heroes of Post-Punk Show

Still Ill - The Smiths (Johnny Marr)
In the Flat Field - Bauhaus (Daniel Ash)
Not From Where I'm Standing - The Wedding Present (Peter Solowka)
God Forbid - Wild Swans (Jeremy Kelley)
Circus Games - Skids (Stuart Adamson)
Guns Before Butter - Gang of 4 (Andy Gill)
Noise Annoys - Buzzcocks (Steve Diggle)
Up the Down Escalator - The Chameleons (Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding)
Gloria - U2 (David "The Ledge" Evans)
Colony - Joy Division (Bernard Sumner)
Pretty Persuasion - REM (Peter Buck)
I'm Amazed - Pixies (Joey Santiago)
Push - The Cure (Robert Smith and Porl Thompson)
Marquee Moon - Television (Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd)
News of the World - The Jam (Paul Weller)
Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen (Will Sergeant)
Fatman - Southern Death Cult (David Burrows)
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (Billy Duffy)
Into the Light - Siouxsie & the Banshees (John McGeogh)
Friendcatcher - The Birthday Party (Rowland Howard)
Because You're Frightened - Magazine (John McGeogh)
Harvest Home - Big Country (Stuart Adamson)

***New Music Off Of New Music Playlist***
(N) A Crack in the Mask - The Class War - off the album "A Crack in the Mask"
(N) Cocaine - The Compulsions - off the album "Demon Love"