Here's the playlist for Part 7 of Unfinished Business, our ongoing 1980s post-punk series, which was broadcast on Saturday, November 15, 2014:
Psychic TV - "Godstar (1985 7" Version)" Alternative TV - "Victory"
Mekons - "Empire of the Senseless"
The Three Johns - "Teenage Nightingales to Wax"
The Ex - "Human Car"
The Skodas - "Everybody Thinks Everybody Else is Dead Bad"
Futurisk - "Army Now"
Music For Pleasure - "The Human Factor"
Thomas Leer - "International (1978 7" Version)"
The Membranes - "Muscles"
Judy Nylon - "The Dice"
Lene Lovich - "New Toy"
B-Movie - "Nowhere Girl"
Polyrock - "Like Papers On a Rack"
Television Personalities - "Godstar"
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Earlier this year, we kicked off a mini-series called Destroy All Music, which is dedicated to early U.S. punk and hardcore music (some from the late 1970s, but mostly from the 1980s). The recurring series' primary focus is on more lesser-known and obscure artists from the era (i.e., no Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Germs, Dead Kennedys, et al). We also strive for no duplication across shows, meaning each set features a completely different list of bands/artists. Part 1 was broadcast back in January, followed by Part 2 in April and a spin-off Youth Crew Hardcore set, also in April.
Although our attention has been focused elsewhere in recent months, we've steadily been putting aside songs for future installments of Destroy All Music. In fact, we have enough music mapped out for at least another two hour-long playlists, not including this week's third installment. So, keep your ears open for more Destroy All Music in the coming months. In the meantime, here's the playlist for Part 3 of Destroy All Music, which was broadcast on Saturday, November 8, 2014:
Agent Orange - "Bloodstains"
7 Seconds - "Here's Your Warning"
Reagan Youth - "Reagan Youth"
D.I. - "Reagan Der Fuhrer"
M.D.C. - "John Wayne Was a Nazi"
Wasted Youth - "Fuck Authority"
Born Against - "Resist Control"
D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) - "Busted"
Visual Discrimination - "Badge Happy Cop"
Afflicted - "Here Come the Cops" Dicks - "Hope You Get Drafted"
Gang Green - "Kill a Commie"
Toxic Reasons - "War Hero"
Naked Raygun - "Surf Combat"
Bl'ast! - "Surf & Destroy"
The Vandals - "I'm a Fly"
Youth Brigade - "Sound & Fury"
Government Issue - "Teenager in a Box"
Agression - "Intense Energy"
Malignant Growth - "Hopeless"
Adrenalin O.D. - "White Hassle"
RKL (Rich Kids on LSD) - "Feelings of Hate"
YDI - "Enemy for Life"
Negative Approach - "Friend or Foe"
Poison Idea - "Pure Hate"
Bad Attitude - "Kill You"
The Mad - "I Hate Music"
No Milk On Tuesday - "Killing Myself With Drugs"
The Simpletones - "I Like Drugs"
Crucial Youth - "Caffeine"
Murphy's Law - "Sit Home and Rot"
Vatican Commandos - "Things Are Not the Same"
Beastie Boys - "Egg Raid On Mojo"
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Here's the playlist for this year's annual Halloween show, which was broadcast on Saturday, November 1, 2014:
Comateens - "The Munsters Theme"
The Cramps - "Zombie Dance"
The Damned - "Born to Kill"
T.S.O.L. - "Silent Scream"
Misfits - "Ghouls Night Out"
Scratch Acid - "Cannibal"
Redd Kross - "Linda Blair"
Nomeansno - "It's Catching Up" Christian Death - "Skeleton Kiss"
Nick Cave & The Cavemen - "I Put a Spell On You"
X - "The Hungry Wolf"
The Flesh Eaters - "See You in the Boneyard"
Destroy All Monsters - "Vampire"
Dead Moon - "Graveyard"
Alex Chilton, Alan Vega & Ben Vaughn - "The Werewolf"
Jonathan Richman - "Vampire Girl"
X Men - "Do the Ghost"
The Revillos - "Jack the Ripper"
Wesley Willis - "Vampire Bat"
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A lot of planning goes into our annual Halloween show, and there's always a ton of extra music that doesn't make the final cut. Here's a half-hour bonus Halloween mini-set that was broadcast on Saturday, October 25, 2014:
Joy Division - "Dead Souls"
Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
Alice Cooper - "Welcome to My Nightmare" The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"
Robyn Hitchcock - "My Wife and My Dead Wife (Live)"
Lou Reed - "Halloween Parade"
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It was Diana's birthday. She hand-picked some of her all-time favorite songs and artists. Here's the playlist for Diana's birthday show, which was broadcast on Saturday, October 25, 2014:
Slowdive - "Slowdive"
Ride - "Like a Daydream"
My Bloody Valentine - "You Made Me Realise"
The Cure - "10:15 Saturday Night"
Beat Happening - "Red Head Walking"
Make-Up - "Blue is Beautiful"
Further - "She Lives By the Castle 2"
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Open Heart Surgery"
The Telescopes - "To Kill a Slow Girl Walking"
Chapterhouse - "Die, Die, Die"
Sonic Youth - "Shadow of a Doubt"
Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
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Here's the playlist for Part 3 of The Synth Show, our synth music mini-series that began back in August. This set focused more heavily on the darker and harder aspects of 1970s-1990s synth music: synth-punk, noise rock, glitch, industrial, and avant-garde rock. It was broadcast on Saturday, October 18, 2014:
Soft Cell - "Sex Dwarf"
Misfits - "Cough/Cool"
The Jesus Lizard - "Rabid Pigs"
Six Finger Satellite - "Rabies (Baby's Got the)" Brainiac - "Go Freaks Go"
The VSS - "Crawling in Place"
Men's Recovery Project - "They Found My Naked Body by the River"
The Locust - "Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle"
Atari Teenage Riot - "Speed"
kid606 - "Two Fingers in the Air Anarchy Style"
Suicide - "Frankie Teardrop"
Tuxedomoon - "Egypt"
The Residents - "Picnic Boy"
Negativland - "Christianity is Stupid"
Babyland - "Burning Up"
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Continuing our focus on 1990s indie/underground rock scenes, this week we turned our attention to Chicago. Rather than focus heavily on a few genres or labels (as we did with our recent D.C. and Olympia shows), we tried to cover a wide range of the Windy City's musical styles and scenes/communities. We purposefully skipped the city's alt-rock heroes of the day: Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Wilco, et al. And there were a lot of great bands that we didn't have time to include: Tar, The Coctails, Red Red Meat, Mekons, pretty much all the emo/post-hardcore bands apart from Cap'n Jazz. But we were able to include a number of personal favorites (Trenchmouth, Lake of Dracula, Los Crudos, Assembly Line), as well as feature a mini-set of artists from Chicago's terrific "now wave" noise rock scene of the mid-1990s.
Here's the playlist for our Saturday, October 11, 2014, broadcast:
Shellac - "Wingwalker"
Tortoise - "Cornpone Brunch"
Gastr del Sol - "Is That a Rifle When it Rains?"
The Sea and Cake - "Flat Lay the Water"
Joan of Arc - "Post Coitus Rock"
Trenchmouth - "The Volcanic Action of My Soul"
Assembly Line People Program - "New Minds"
Jaks - "Fidgecake & Pismire"
Los Crudos - "Crudo Soy!"
Charles Bronson - "Chicago"
The Jesus Lizard - "Nub"
Ministry - "TV II"
Bobby Conn - "United Nations"
U.S. Maple - "Letter to ZZ Top"
Flying Luttenbachers - "Fist Through Glass"
Scissor Girls - "Vamps, Here!"
Lake of Dracula - "Blues Fantastique"
Cap'n Jazz - "Basil's Kite"
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Beat Happening - "Tiger Trap" Frumpies - "Be Good"
Bangs - "Vintage Piranha"
The Need - "Crush"
Heavens to Betsy - "Terrorist"
Excuse 17 - "The Drop Dead Look"
Sleater-Kinney - "You Ain't It"
Nirvana - "Aneurysm"
Seaweed - "Deertrap"
Screaming Trees - "Who Lies in Darkness"
Fitz of Depression - "Sitting in a Room"
Young Ginns - "Cemetary"
The Halo Benders - "Canned Oxygen"
Lois - "Press Play and Record"
Pell Mell - "Blacktop"
Melvins - "Night Goat"
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We've been spending the early part of this Fall semester exploring 1990s U.S. indie/underground rock through the lens of various cities and local scenes. Last week, we listened to the Washington, D.C., indie-pop scene, with a focus on the TeenBeat, Slumberland, and Simple Machines record labels. This week kicks off a pair of shows exploring 1990s music from the other Washington - the State of Washington. And in particular, its capital city of Olympia. Although Seattle and "grunge" garnered most of the mainstream press headlines during the early/mid-1990s, the much smaller Olympia - just about an hour south of the Emerald City - was one of the country's hotbeds of indie rock and DIY punk. Not only was Olympia home, at least for a time, to everyone from Bikini Kill to Nirvana, but it was also host to two of the defining record labels of 1990s underground rock: K and Kill Rock Stars.
Here's the playlist for Part 1 of our 1990s Olympia series, which we're titling The International Pop Underground's Hometown. It was broadcast on Saturday, September 27, 2014:
Beat Happening - "Fortune Cookie Prize"
Bratmobile - "Cool Schmool"
Unwound - "Nervous Energy"
Karp - "13 Ways to a Cavity"
Bikini Kill - "Feels Blind"
Dub Narcotic Sound System - "Monkey Hips and Rice"
The Go Team - "Bikini Twilight"
Some Velvet Sidewalk - "Big City Plans"
Long Hind Legs - "Kicking Giant"
Kicking Giant - "This Song"
Satisfact - "Unswitched"
Mocket - "Spark Plug"
Witchypoo - "The Reaper Song"
Lync - "Two Feet in Front"
Modest Mouse - "Dukes Up"
godheadSilo - "Master of Balance"
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