Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Happy Show! - 4/27/09

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

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Birmingham UK Show - 4/20/09

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

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Liverpool Show - 4/13/08

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

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Instrumental Show - 3/30/09

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

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Big Songs Show - 3/16/09

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

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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

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

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Shoegaze Show - 3/2/09

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