Spooooky Show 2009 - 10/26/09

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!

New New York Show - 10/12/09

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

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

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

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

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