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S6E255 - The Bevis Frond 'Little Eden' with Mick Hans Oct 22, 2022

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If you are unfamiliar with British rock band The Bevis Frond and its founder, singer/multi-instrumentalist Nick Saloman, you have some serious catching up to do. Releasing glorious pop/punk/psyche records at a feverish pace since the late 80s, they could quite possibly be England's best kept indie-rock secret. OG fan and Chicago resident Mick Hans brings us their latest release, 2021's 'Little Eden', a psychedelically-hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure pop melodies and beautifully-observed English melancholy.

Songs featured in this episode: He'd Be A Diamond - Juliana Hatfield Three/Teenage Fanclub/Mary Lou Lord; Born In Chicago - Pixies; Splendid Isolation - The Bevis Frond; Positive Vibrations - The Soft Boys; He'd Be A Diamond - Teenage Fanclub; Raisans - Dinosaur Jr; Fortune Teller - Sugar; Everyone Rise, You Owe Me, They Will Return, Find The Mole - The Bevis Frond; The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle - The Sex Pistols w/Edward Tudor-Pole; Do Without Me, The Man In The Garden - The Bevis Frond; Autumn Almanac - The Kinks; As I Lay Down To Die, Cherry Gardens, There's Always Love, Little Eden, Here Come The Flies - The Bevis Frond; Youth Of America - The Wipers; Pasted All Over - The Bevis Frond; Lights Are Changing - Mary Lou Lord; My Own Hollywood, Dreams Of Flying - The Bevis Frond

S6E254 - The The 'Dusk' with Marcia Potts Oct 15, 2022

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While many fans of British band The The (aka Matt Johnson) might immediately point to earlier albums Soul Mining or Mind Bomb as proof-of-concept, this week's guest Marcia Potts brings us 1993's 'Dusk' to consider. With a crack band - including guitarist/harmonicist Johnny Marr - in tow, Johnson's songs of lust, love and a blacker-than-black worldview hit all the right notes, and it's a lush, provocative ride from start to finish.

Songs featured in this episode: True Happiness (this way lies) - The The (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2018); Like A Hurricane - Roxy Music (Live from Arenes de Frejus France, 1982); Uncertain Smile, Heartland, I Saw The Light - The The; The Headmaster Ritual - The Smiths; True Happiness (this way lies), Love Is Stronger Than Death, Dogs Of Lust - The The; Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; This Is The Night - The The; Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths; Slow Emotion Replay, Helpline Operator, Sodium Light Baby - The The; Come - Prince; Lung Shadows, Bluer Than Midnight, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2018) - The The

S6E253 - The Geraldine Fibbers 'Butch' with Todd Nolan Oct 08, 2022

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Our old pal Todd Nolan from Nashville Tennessee brings us a barn-burner of an album this week. The Geraldine Fibbers' sophomore - and final - record, 'Butch', is a weird, wild amalgamation of alt-country, punk, Appalachian fiddle music, speed metal and anything/everything in between. Anchored by the raw, poetic story-songs of Carla Bozulich and stellar musicianship of the band - including guitar-God Nels Cline - it's ultimately Carla's gravely, angelic voice that seals the deal.

Songs featured in this episode: California Tuffy (Live, Paris TV) - The Geraldine Fibbers; The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash; Devil's Johnson - Ethyl Meatplow; Lilybelle - The Geraldine Fibbers; Drove Up From Pedro - Mike Watt; California Tuffy, Toybox, I Killed The Cuckoo - The Geraldine Fibbers; Time of the Preacher - Carla Bozulich; Trashman In Furs - The Geraldine Fibbers; Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground; Swim Back To Me - The Geraldine Fibbers; Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday; Seven Or In 10 - The Geraldine Fibbers; Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac; Claudine, Folks Like Me, Pet Angel, Butch - The Geraldine Fibbers; Marquee Moon - Television; Arrow To My Drunken Eye - The Geraldine Fibbers; Man-Size Sextet - PJ Harvey; You Doo Right, The Dwarf Song, Heliotrope - The Geraldine Fibbers

S6E252 - New Model Army 'Thunder and Consolation' with Markus Reuter Oct 01, 2022

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For the official start of our SIXTH season, musician/composer/producer/instrument designer Markus Reuter brings us an album that grabbed onto his psyche as a teenager in Germany and STILL captivates him over 30 years later: 'Thunder and Consolation' by Bradford, Yorkshire band New Model Army. Led by singer/songwriter Justin Sullivan, the band creates hard-to-classify musical soundscapes that perfectly compliment Sullivan's biting lyrics about navigating one's family, finding your tribe and coming to terms with the often harsh realities of human nature: "These tracks stretch out before me - the ones you left behind What I want and what I feel - it's yours, yours, not mine"

Songs featured in this episode: Green and Grey - New Model Army (Live Köln, 2006); River of Things - Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis); Tentacles - Stick Men; 51st State, 125 MPH - New Model Army; Schubert Ständchen (Serenade) - Peter Schreier; Ambition, Love Songs - New Model Army; Layla - Derek and the Dominos; Lovesong - The Cure; I Love The World, Vanity, Stupid Questions, 225, Inheritance, Green and Grey, Green and Grey (Live Rockpalast, 2006), The Ballad of Bodmin Pill, Family, Family Life, Vagabonds - New Model Army; 51st State of America - The Shakes; Archway Towers - New Model Army; One Cut Suffices - Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis)

S5E250 - Gastr del Sol 'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly' with Joe Tunis Sep 24, 2022

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This week's guest Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo) once again guides us into the world of post-rock, with Chicago-by-way-of-Kentucky band Gastr del Sol and their 1994 Drag City release 'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly'. Like many of their adjacent bands - Slint, Tortoise, Bastro...etc - the music on this mysterious record is often hard to define. It's a strange, evocative amalgamation of unconventional guitar virtuosity, subtle tape-work and occasional forays into full-on math rock that's definitely not for the timid.

Songs featured in this episode: Wedding in the Park - Gastr del Sol; Queasy Stream - Pengo; Sun God - Squirrel Bait; Breadcrumb Trail - Slint; Shoot Me A Deer - Bastro; A Watery Kentucky - Gastr del Sol; Rain On Tin - Sonic Youth; History and Repetition - Bill Orcutt; Four Violins (excerpt) - Tony Conrad; Sunflower River Blues - John Fahey; Wedding in the Park, Work From Smoke - Gastr del Sol; Glass Museum - Tortoise; Parenthetically - Gastr del Sol; Wird - Codeine; Every Five Miles - Gastr del Sol; Boilermaker - The Jesus Lizard; Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye, Is That A Rifle When It Rains? - Gastr del Sol; Horizontal Hold - This Heat; Jacking The Ball - The Sea and Cake; The C in Cake, The Wrong Soundings - Gastr del Sol; What's He Building? - Tom Waits; The Wrong Soundings, Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw The Light Come Shining 'Round and 'Round) - Gastr del Sol

S6E251 - Bonus Mixtape Episode with Cheetah Chrome Sep 21, 2022

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For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. From growing up in Cleveland listening to rock-and-roll radio like CKLW out of Detroit to his mom unwittingly turning him on to The Stooges, it was a super-fun conversation with a true punk rock legend! Cheetah's mixtape: 1. Jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones 2. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles 3. 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians 4. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf 5. Good Morning Little School Girl - Ten Years After 6. Long Way To Go / Halo Of Flies - Alice Cooper 7. 1969 - The Stooges 8. Bad Girl - New York Dolls 9. Heroin - The Velvet Underground 10. Search and Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges 11. Hey Boys - The Dictators 12. Time - Tom waits 13. Anthem - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band *Other songs featured in this episode: Sonic Reducer, Down In Flames, Ain't It Fun - Dead Boys; Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones (It's Alive); I'm Going Home - Ten Years After (Live at Woodstock); B.B On Mars - Alice Cooper; Down In Flames - Rocket From the Tombs; Did You See Her Eyes? - The Illusion; Stay With Me - The Dictators

**episode artwork: Cori Elba (On PlanetWeird)

S5E249 - Echo & The Bunnymen 'Ocean Rain' with Corey duBrowa Sep 17, 2022

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For Liverpool UK band Echo & The Bunnymen's fourth release, 1984's 'Ocean Rain', they went all-in. Recorded primarily in Paris with a 35-piece orchestra, Ocean Rain is a dazzling collection of songs writ large with sweeping string arrangements and inspired - at times restrained and at times ferocious - playing /singing by band members Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. This week's guest Corey duBrowa went all-in as well, as he joined Rob to unpack this splendidly deranged musical masterpiece.

Songs featured in this episode: The Killing Moon - CHVRCHES/Pavement/Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs; Oregon Ducks Fight Song; Guiding Light - Television; Here I Go - Syd Barrett; Read It In Books - Echo & The Bunnymen (John Peel Session, August 1979); Some Other Guy - The Beatles (Live at the Cavern Club, August 1962); The Back Of Love (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 1984), Never Stop, Silver, Nocturnal Me, Crystal Days, The Yo Yo Man - Echo & The Bunnymen; Is She Weird? - Pixies; New Slang - The Shins; Waiting For The Sun - The Doors; Thorn Of Crowns, Thorn Of Crowns (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 2008) - Echo & The Bunnymen; BAD - U2 (Live Aid 1985); The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen; Space Oddity - David Bowie; Seven Seas - Echo & The Bunnymen; Andmoreagain - Love; My Kingdom, Ocean Rain, It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Echo & The Bunnymen;

S5E248 - Dag Nasty 'Can I Say' with Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine) Sep 10, 2022

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This week's guest, Tim Hinely (founder of Dagger Zine and editor of 'Where The Wild Gigs Were: A Trip Thru America's Legendary Underground Music Venues') brings us the debut album by legendary Washington D.C. band Dag Nasty. Originally released in 1986 on Dischord Records, 'Can I Say' is a blistering collection of masterfully-played, intelligent punk tunes about looking inward and moving forward. Turn. It. Up!

Songs featured in this episode: Under Your Influence - Dag Nasty; In My Role As A Professional Singer and Ham - Rat Bastard (Mark Eitzel cover); The Godfather, Justification (with Shawn Brown) - Dag Nasty; Kids of the Black Hole - Adolescents; Unafraid - Alloy; Ohio is for Lovers - Hawthorne Heights; Values Here, One To Two - Dag Nasty; I Don't Care About You - Fear; Circles - Dag Nasty; Suburban Home - Descendents; Thin Line, Justification, What Now, I've Heard - Dag Nasty; Attitude - Bad Brains; Under Your Influence, Can I Say - Dag Nasty; Celebrated Summer - Husker Du; Never Go Back - Dag Nasty; Love's My Only Crime - Laughing Hyenas; 100 Punks - Dag Nasty (Generation X cover)

S5E247 - 'That Work Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Bonus Episode Sep 05, 2022

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For Labor Day 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite work-related songs. It's an impressively eclectic list, with surprisingly NO Bruce Springsteen songs! (although he IS referenced several times throughout the episode) "There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing If together we don't stand There is power in a Union" - Billy Bragg

Songs featured in this episode: Career Opportunities - The Clash with Luke and Ben Gallagher; Finest Worksong - R.E.M.; Paid In Cigarettes - Hot Snakes; Working Girl - The Members; A New Career in a New Town - David Bowie; The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince; Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon; Working Class - The Defibulators; I Hate My Job - Butthole Surfers; Graveyard Shift - Uncle Tupelo; Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton; 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford; Heigh Ho - Tom Waits; Hey! Hey! It's Friday! - Black Snake Halo; Those Men In White Coats - The Diagram Brothers; Working Man - Rush (Live, All The World's A Stage); Bell Boy - The Who; The Working Hour - Tears For Fears; Clockout - Devo; Don't Wanna - All Hits; King Of Ska - Desmond Dekker; Piss Factory - Patti Smith; Factory - Wall Of Voodoo; Vacation - The Go-Go's; The Magnificent Seven - The Clash; There Is Power In A Union - Billy Bragg; Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nNnCUcgjmmazidSIi4HIr?si=ed59362cff114198

S5E246 - The Legendary Pink Dots - 'The Maria Dimension' with Allan and Barb Vest (doubleVee) Sep 03, 2022

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Formed in London in 1980, The Legendary Pink Dots - led by core members Edward Ka-Spel and Phil Knight - are an uncategorizable experimental avant-rock band with over 40 albums to their credit. This week's guests, Oklahoma City husband-and-wife duo Allan and Barb Vest (doubleVee), join us to discuss their 1991 album 'The Maria Dimension', a uniquely compelling collection of neo-psychedelic tunes that sound like they were intercepted from an interplanetary radio broadcast hosted by Syd Barrett and Hawkwind.

Songs featured in this episode: Home - The Legendary Pink Dots; When Dawn Comes Tonight - doubleVee; As Long As It's Purple and Green - The Legendary Pink Dots; Dark Globe - Syd Barrett; Disturbance - The Legendary Pink Dots; Chromosome Damage - Chrome; Pennies For Heaven - The Legendary Pink Dots; In The Square - The Pretty Things; The Third Secret, The Grain Kings - The Legendary Pink Dots; The End - The Doors; Flaming - Pink Floyd; The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder', Belladonna - The Legendary Pink Dots; My Impression Now - Guided By Voices; People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band; A Space Between, Evolution, Cheraderama, Expresso Noir - The Legendary Pink Dots; The Question's Closed - doubleVee

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