Tuesday, January 27, 2009

American Alternative 80s Show - 1/26/09

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

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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

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

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Boston, Mass Show - 1/12/09

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.) Boston, Not L.A. - The Freeze - 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

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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

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