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Martin Hannett Show - 7/20/09

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

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

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

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

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

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