Detonation Radio four: Some business with a Black & Tan.
New podcast up now, downloadable in the usual ways, as seen to the right. Tracklisting below, rambling to come later, maybe. No theme, just thrown together from stuff I've been listening to lately. Lazy, I know.
1. Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Hey! Mr. Sky"
2. Alvarius B - "Mister 786": Two tracks from late 2005 releases, both from artists chopping, screwing and recombining traditional American musics for their own rapturous or nefarious purposes. A year or more after the "New Weird America" wave crested, Jackie-O return with, go figure, their best album1; this track reminds me of both "Sympathy for the Devil" and the Velvets' "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" so it's alright by me. Alvarius B, aka Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls, released Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset as a limited vinyl release of 1000 copies, exactly the sort of audience-limiting move that utterly infuriates me. Granted, there are probably only about 1000 people who really need an Alan Bishop solo record2 and most of them will have turntables, but it's principle that I'm talking about. That's right, principle. Anyway, the first time I heard Mr. Bishop solo was on a split with the Cerberus Shoal, who appear later on this very podcast.
3. Disco Inferno - "Second Language": Bomb Squad sampling on a collision course with guitar playing that assumes the aspects of Vini Reilly and The Edge, with morose '90s British vocals providing fuel for the inevitable, unforgettable fire. Title track from one of the five EPs DI released between 1992 and 1994, which collectively outshine their full-lengths and are infuriatingly out of print.
4. Bellafea - "Tara"
5. Cocteau Twins - "Feathers-Oar-Blades": Or, "Just because I don't like Sleater-Kinney doesn't mean I dislike all female musicians."
6. Glitter Pals - "Unleash the Compassion": Title track from EP on the tragically-named and even more tragically-logoed Lovepump United record label.
7. Cerberus Shoal - "Ding": I figure this is where I lose some of you, although I have it on good authority that this track "ownes". Is my including a nearly twenty-minute track on a one hour podcast that is, at best, bi-weekly a sign of laziness or perversity? I like to think that the sheer, nonsensical majesty of the whole thing vindicates me, but you, as always, are free to make the call. From The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B and The Cerberus Shoal split CD.
8. Bruce Haack - "Song of the Death Machine": HAL 9000 sings a creepy lullaby from Bruce Haack's epic religious freakout The Electric Lucifer.
9. Young People - "Where the Streets Have No Name": From a split with Friends Forever. One of my favorite covers ever.
10. Art Gillham - "You May Be Lonesome": I originally stumbled onto Mr. Gillham's work via this wonderful John Kuramoto animation of a Kim Deitch comic strip. Google led me here, from whence I downloaded the track heard here. As far as I can tell, Gillham's work is out of print. Personally I feel like Gillham's voice has more depth than that of the average crooner, but that could be the whiskey talking.
Have a good Friday, dearies.
Edit: Comments added early Sunday morning, keeping warm while the snow does its thing outside.
1 Flags of the Sacred Harp.
2 Although, of course, in a just world there'd be way more.
1. Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Hey! Mr. Sky"
2. Alvarius B - "Mister 786": Two tracks from late 2005 releases, both from artists chopping, screwing and recombining traditional American musics for their own rapturous or nefarious purposes. A year or more after the "New Weird America" wave crested, Jackie-O return with, go figure, their best album1; this track reminds me of both "Sympathy for the Devil" and the Velvets' "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" so it's alright by me. Alvarius B, aka Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls, released Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset as a limited vinyl release of 1000 copies, exactly the sort of audience-limiting move that utterly infuriates me. Granted, there are probably only about 1000 people who really need an Alan Bishop solo record2 and most of them will have turntables, but it's principle that I'm talking about. That's right, principle. Anyway, the first time I heard Mr. Bishop solo was on a split with the Cerberus Shoal, who appear later on this very podcast.
3. Disco Inferno - "Second Language": Bomb Squad sampling on a collision course with guitar playing that assumes the aspects of Vini Reilly and The Edge, with morose '90s British vocals providing fuel for the inevitable, unforgettable fire. Title track from one of the five EPs DI released between 1992 and 1994, which collectively outshine their full-lengths and are infuriatingly out of print.
4. Bellafea - "Tara"
5. Cocteau Twins - "Feathers-Oar-Blades": Or, "Just because I don't like Sleater-Kinney doesn't mean I dislike all female musicians."
6. Glitter Pals - "Unleash the Compassion": Title track from EP on the tragically-named and even more tragically-logoed Lovepump United record label.
7. Cerberus Shoal - "Ding": I figure this is where I lose some of you, although I have it on good authority that this track "ownes". Is my including a nearly twenty-minute track on a one hour podcast that is, at best, bi-weekly a sign of laziness or perversity? I like to think that the sheer, nonsensical majesty of the whole thing vindicates me, but you, as always, are free to make the call. From The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B and The Cerberus Shoal split CD.
8. Bruce Haack - "Song of the Death Machine": HAL 9000 sings a creepy lullaby from Bruce Haack's epic religious freakout The Electric Lucifer.
9. Young People - "Where the Streets Have No Name": From a split with Friends Forever. One of my favorite covers ever.
10. Art Gillham - "You May Be Lonesome": I originally stumbled onto Mr. Gillham's work via this wonderful John Kuramoto animation of a Kim Deitch comic strip. Google led me here, from whence I downloaded the track heard here. As far as I can tell, Gillham's work is out of print. Personally I feel like Gillham's voice has more depth than that of the average crooner, but that could be the whiskey talking.
Have a good Friday, dearies.
Edit: Comments added early Sunday morning, keeping warm while the snow does its thing outside.
1 Flags of the Sacred Harp.
2 Although, of course, in a just world there'd be way more.
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