10/27/06 Show - Classic Goth

The goth that made goth. Classic songs and bands that inspired grown men and women to call themselves Sebastian or Julliphyr and roll around town wearing things like black velvet capes or pirate shirts and do things like sleep in a coffin or hanging upside down in a closet (I knew someone who tried this. I really did). And they took it all 100% seriously. Not a touch of irony. I mean shit, that must have been some good music, right? REALLY fucking good? To make people do shit like that? Or were these people just that fucked up? Or were their other options, mainly conformity, equally lame?

I'm going to say "Yes" to all of those questions but for now, I don't want you to think about Sebastian or Julliphyr. I just want you to listen to download this mp3 below and listen to the show and then steal a car (even if you already have one) and drive west:

Classic Goth Show - Download or be damned

You can read this playlist too. But that kind of spoils the surprise, doesn't it?

Alice - The Sisters of Mercy
Double Dare - Bauhaus
Christian Says - Tones on Tail
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
Faint Heart - The Birthday Party
Naked & Savage - The Mission U.K.
Preacher Man - Fields of the Nephilm
Swamp Thing - The Chameleons
Alice's House - Psychedelic Furs
Persephone - The Cocteau Twins
Simple Addictions - Screams For Tina
Black Cross - 45 Grave
100 Years - The Cure
Jigsaw Feeling - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget
***Guilty Pleasure*** Sexbeat - Sexbeat
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Specimen
Stairs (Uncertain Journey) - Christian Death
Steam - March Violets
Dieche - Sex Gang Children
Wake Up - Danse Society
Call It Weird - Xymox (The Xymox before Clan of Xymox before just Xymox again)
Beating My Head - Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy

***Bonus Tracks!***

Fatman - Southern Death Cult
Pagan Love Song - Virgin Prunes

10/20/06 Show - Halloween

All songs about ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, dracula, blacula, black dracula, black magic, black magic women, witches, the wolfman or wolfmen, zombies, zombie turkeys, bats, monsters that aren't alligators/crocodiles, and the day that is meant to celebrate all of these things - Halloween. Although they do celebrate zombies on Easter. Or at least, Zombie Christ. And I'm not being blasphemous here. Jesus rose from the dead 3 days after crucifixion. That makes him a zombie, brother. Sure, he didn't rum amok and try to eat everybody's brain after he rose from the dead. He probably should have though. I mean, that was pretty fucked up what people did to him. The Christians are all waiting for him to come back again but if I were them, I'd be a little worried about that. It didn't go so well for him the last time he was here. He might still be pissed. He did tell everybody to eat his body and drink his blood though. That was so cool. But does that make us vampires?

It may not be blood and you can't really drink it but if you download the mp3 of last night's show and listen to it, I'm pretty sure Jesus will be happy. I don't really have any reason to believe this but again, given what happened during his last trip to earth, downloading this mp3 certainly can't make things any worse:

Halloween Show - Something Spoooooky to listen to

The playlist might actually make things a little worse though:

Halloween - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Halloween - The Dream Syndicate
Days of Swine and Roses - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Now I'm Feeling Zombified - Alien Sex Fiend
Pet Cemetery - The Ramones
Halloween - Dead Kennedys
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Black Juju - Alice Cooper
Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
Ghost Town - The Specials
Walking With A Ghost - Tegan & Sara
Halloween - The Misfits
Ghost Rider - Suicide
Attack of the Ghost Rider - The Raveonettes
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
***Guilty Pleasure*** Witchcraft - Book of Love
Release the Bats - The Birthday Party
I Was A Teenage Wherewolf - The Cramps
Halloween - Japan
Fashion Zombies - Aquabats
Halloween - Sonic Youth
Trick or Treat - The Groovie Ghoulies
The Ghost In You - The Psychedelic Furs
Halloween II - Samhain
Every Day Is Halloween - Ministry
Shining Theme

10/13/06 Show - Death + I'm Back = Fun

On a Friday the 13th in October, I played all songs about death as a friendly reminder that we will all, one day, be dead. Sure, most people don't want to die and it certainly brings me down to think that sooner or later, it will happen to me too but then I just try to think of all the other people that are also going to die. Then I'm happy again. Teach them to drive too slow in the fast lane.

I also urged listeners to vote No on Proposition 86. Cigarettes are already too damn expensive and it's not like only billionaire fatcats smoke them. You want to tax something more, tax golf. Tax guys who wear polo shirts and tuck them into their Dockers. Tax the latest Sting CD. Just lay off the smokers and tobacco industry for 5 seconds.

And here's an mp3 of the show for your troubles:

Death Show - Post-Punk For Post-Punks

And a playlist too:

Booji Boy's Funeral - Devo
Die, Die My Darling - The Misfits
Wake Up - The Arcade Fire
Someone Got Murdered - The Clash
There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Sometimes, I Wish I Were Dead - Depeche Mode
1963 - New Order
Suicide's An Alternative - Suicidal Tendancies
Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers
The Funeral Party - The Cure
Deathwish - Christian Death
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys
We Are the Dead - David Bowie
Last Rockers - Vice Squad
The Kill - Joy Division
Richard Hung Himself - D.I.
Better Off Dead - Death From Above 1979
Lots Of People Who Died, Died - The Jim Carroll Band
Dead - The Pixies
***Guilty Pleasure*** Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Born To Kill - The Damned
I Die, You Die - Gary Numan
Suesfine - My Bloody Valentine
Seconds - Human League
Bela Lugosi Is Dead ("Live") - Bauhaus
Last Caress - The Misfits

No 10/6 Show Either - But I'll Be Back 10/13!

I was hoping to come back tonight but work and the moon got in the way. I will definitely make it back next Friday though. Friday the 13th, that is. What could possibly go wrong? Of course, now that I've said that, the answer is everything. Shit, I guess I haven't learned anything from the movies. Actually, I did learn one thing. In all of those movies where an animal does something that only people are supposed to do (like when the dog plays on the basketball team, the monkey runs for president, etc.), the animal is always allowed to do this because there was never anything in the rulebook explicitly prohibiting it. No one ever bothers to write down something like, "Rule #47A: No dogs are allowed to participate on the basketball team." They just assume it would never happen.

Well like I've said, I've learned from these movies, so from this day forward, let it be officially known that NO DOGS OR MONKEYS OR ANY OTHER ANIMALS ARE ALLOWED TO DO MY RADIO SHOW, EVEN IF THEY ARE CUTE, EVEN IF THEY ARE LOVEABLE, EVEN IF THEY HELP A YOUNG BOY LEARN A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM WHILE GETTING OVER THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF HIS FATHER AND HIS RECENT, DIFFICULT MOVE TO A NEW TOWN. You read it here. Sorry animals. It's in the rulebook.