BROADCAST #25
AIR DATE: 06-19-07

Here it is, Fanatics! I hope you all dug the show tonight. I thought that Team Doyobi track was really cool and I hope to find more of their music soon. Be sure to check out next week’s show of all covers, the 2nd of four all covers broadcasts we’re doing this year on the show. If you missed this show and want to hear it, please check the rebroadcast times and get it while it’s hot! Until next week, thanks for listening and STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

For you Fanatics who can’t live without hearing this show again or if the original broadcast time is too hard on your sleep cycle here’s the re-broadcast schedule: USA: Fridays: 0200 – 0400 hrs. PST / UK: Fridays: 1000 hrs. – 1200 hrs. / Continental Europe: Fridays 1100 hrs. – 1300 hrs. / Australia: Fridays 2100 hrs. – 2300 hrs.

UK Subs – Endangered Species: Sitting in the Helsinki Finland airport, waiting to go to Sweden, working on this broadcast. Tonight’s track is from the 5th UK Subs album called Endangered Species. I never spent enough time with this album. When it came out in 1982, I was no longer near my records as they were living in at Dischord House and I was all over the place with Black Flag. It came out when I was on the move and I had a copy on tape that I didn’t play enough. It’s only in the last few years that I have returned to it. It’s an interesting album, very much the rock with a lot of experimentation. That was the tour I saw them on I guess, December 1981 in Leeds when we were on the bill with them and The Damned a lot of other bands. I wish I could but I can’t remember all the songs they played that night. I remember Countdown and Warhead for sure but the rest, I really don’t remember. I should ask Ian, he was at that show as well and has a good memory for things like that. I remember the audience was crazy when they played. Nick Garratt, Subs guitarist extraordinaire has done a very cool bio that details the history of the band’s early days. In the bio, Nick considers Endangered their best album. I always thought that was interesting because I don’t agree at all. I have been listening to the first four studio albums for the last few days, figuring out what it is that changed with the sound and the playing. The first two studio album, Another Kind Of Blues and Brand New Age feature the rhythm section of Pete Davies on drums and Paul Slack on bass. They either quit or were let go after the Crash Course live album was recorded. After that, the new boys came in, Alvin Gibbs on bass and Steve Roberts on drums. They are great, don’t get me wrong but they play very differently than Davies and Slack and the difference is huge. With the new members, you basically get a more Metal / Rock thing happening. Also, on the Diminished Responsibility and Endangered Species albums, there is pronounced low end on the drums and bass along with more riff rock on the part of Mr. Garratt and the songs sound more thrown together than crafted like the previous releases. I really like Diminished and play that one all the time but it’s sludgier than what came before it and that sound seems to harm the band’s attack more than anything else. This is magnified on Endangered I think. I think the band really had an amazing sound on the Brand New Age album and all the singles around it, especially the She’s Not There EP. When I saw them play, it was the Roberts / Gibbs line-up and it was fantastic. I sure wish I could have seen the previous line-up though.

The MC5 – The American Ruse: From the Back In the USA, the band’s 2nd album. It’s a great song, this album’s full of them but the thing that has always bugged me about this album is how the band was so sanitized and tamed by the studio on this, their first studio album. Jon Landau, the producer is a big part of why this album got its teeth removed. He’s perhaps more well-known for being Springsteen’s manager and also the one making the Born In The USA album the weak 80’s bitch that it is. MC5, Springsteen good, Landau bad.

The Novas - The Crusher: The Crusher was a wrestler named Reggie Liskowski and The Novas released this in 1964. What a vocal delivery!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Deanna: From the band’s Tender Prey album. I played this one over and over when I got it. I was at a radio station that had an advance of the Mercy Seat single and they played it for me and I was amazed. This album is good all the way through. This album was one of my favorite listens in my headphones when we were all seated in little rows on those box vans on our early tours of Europe.

Team Doyobi – Magic Johnson: From the Chihuahuas And Chinese Noodles comp. CD. I bought this CD comp. for a track by The Sisterhood Of Convoluted Thinkers and was happy to find out there was some other really interesting music on the CD. Team Doyobi, from what I’ve read are Christopher Gladwin and Alexander Preverett and they set themselves apart by using vintage gear to generate their sounds. I have only heard one track by this duo but I will check out more and bring it in when I get it. I liked this track because it was so lo-tech.

The Rivingtons - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow: I remember hearing this on the radio somewhere in my youth and only heard it again on this series I picked up in England years ago called The Golden Age Of American Rock And Roll Vol. 06, it’s 9 volumes in all, unless I missed something somewhere. I figured there would be some great stuff on the set and it would be a good resource and I was right. The Rivingtons had two “hits” to their name, this song and another called The Bird’s The Word. If you listen to next week’s show, you will get an idea as to why we listened to this one tonight.

Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again: From a compilation CD called Play. It seems like a cool CD, a portion of the proceeds go to The Vera Project in Seattle: http://www.theveraproject.org/ and The Patricia M Sitar Center For The Arts in DC http://www.sitarartscenter.org/. Both benefit young people. What’s there not to like about that? You get tracks from The Channels, Mudhoney, Georgie James (John Davis of Q And Not U) and a Soccer Team track that I was really curious about, having played their album so much. I spend so much time sniffing paint, I forgot how I found out about this record. Perhaps I read it on The Soccer Team page on the Dischord site, that’s probably it. Anyway, the CD arrived the other day and I have only played this one song so far but I will get to the rest and we’ll get at some more of this thing later on.

The Clash - Safe European Home: From the band’s 2nd album Give 'Em Enough Rope. This is the Clash album I have listened to the least I must say. It’s not a bad album at all but it’s not great as what came before and after. It’s an interesting moment for this band. I don’t know what they were going for on this album. There seems to be a lot of overdubs and too much stuff on each song. I wonder if they were feeling some kind of pressure from the record company to make a record that would appeal to a bigger audience or something because it always sounded to me like the production was at odds with the music on the album. This tour was the first time I saw them live. 02-15-79 at the Ontario Theater. That was a great night, what I can remember of it.

Erase Errata - Other Animals Are # 1: Having really liked the Night Life album of theirs, I got their Other Animals CD and it’s great as well. Night Life is the CD that I found in my box of stuff I pulled off the tour bus last summer when the tour was over. I played and asked Engineer X if he liked them and he said he was indeed a fan and added that they were great live. The more I listen to their records, the better they get. It’s interesting how good the actual music is. Form what I’ve read, they just got together and started cranking it out. You can go to their extremely uninteresting website (they admit that it’s nothing to write home about at the top of the page) and at least get some basic release information. Fair enough.

The Adverts - One Chord Wonders/ Quick Step: The Adverts first ever single, released in May of 1977. We have played a lot of songs by The Adverts, mostly, if not exclusively, the singles. At some point, I would like to play their entire 1st album Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts for you some time. It’s a very heavy album. Perhaps the most lyrically potent of all the UK Punk band’s debut album and also great musically. You can go online and read all about this band and their place in the UK Punk scene. Also, all their music is in print and worth checking out. Tonight’s track was pulled from their singles collection CD on the Anagram label.

The Damned - Fan Club: From the Damned Damned Damned album. Another band that had an amazing first album. Almost thirty years later, I am still listening to this album with great interest. The Damned epitomize the great change that Punk Rock brought to the music scene. It’s bands like The Damned and others that Rock & Roll so sorely needed. Having been brought up with the FM radio and all the big rock bands at the time, it was huge to hear this music for the first time. I had to rethink everything as far as what music meant to me and The Damned were a big part of that and this album in particular. I imagine you have heard this one or are familiar with the band so there’s really nothing I can tell you that you don’t already know.

Orchestre De La Paillotte - Kadia Blues: So the other day, I was at a record store in Finland hoping to find that gem and I saw this three part collection called Golden Afrique. They came in 2CD long boxes with a booklet inside. I made note to check them out when I got back to America. I did and this is the First track from them we have listened to. This is from Vol. 1 and it’s my favorite track on the set. It stands out from the rest, which is all great, by the way but mainly more on the groove and happy vocal thing where this has some mystery and darkness happening with it that is very attractive to me. I looked up this band, hoping to find more but to no avail. You can go online and punch in the album title and read more about the sets. I have not had the chance to hear the other two vols. Yet but I will be getting into it and bringing in some for us to listen to.

PJ Harvey - The Bay: A nice Polly Jean b-side to listen to. The A-side is A Perfect Day Elise from her Is This Desire? album released in 1998. PJ Harvey is so completely impressive to me. The albums are great, the lyrics are raw like you just cut something open.

Kim Salmon & The Business – Dubconnected: The regular version of this song came out on Kim’s album Record, released in 1999. I have been following Kim’s music since I first saw him play in 1989. I had some records of one of his bands, The Scientists but never really concentrated on them. Then I saw Kim when he was in The Beasts Of Bourbon and saw him solo with his band The Surrealists and that was it, I was a fan for life. Recently I was online looking around as I do and saw this single that I didn’t know about so I located a copy and thought I would bring in this cool, out there mix of this song. You may have heard of his new project called SALMON. I just got the CD and will check it out and report back to you.

Archie Shepp - Prelude To A Kiss: From the Fire Music album on Impulse! Records. We have listened to a track from this album before, called Malcom, Malcom-Semper Malcom. This album was released in 1965 and it’s a riot, not in the laughing way, more in the there’s a riot goin’ on kind of way. Shepp was an angry black man in America with a horn and you can feel the heat coming off his records, that’s perhaps what drew me to his music. I heard this album and The Magic Of Ju Ju and that was it. Shepp was one of the players bringing in the new sound along with players like Coltrane. There’s a lot of his music I have not heard and I will be checking it out at some point.

Sex Pistols - I Wanna Be Me: How about that for a segue way?! I love this show. This track was originally a b-side with Anarchy In The UK. I heard it on a 12” or some kind of compilation a little later on and it became one of my favorite Pistols songs, partially because I had not heard it a million times like I had every song on the Bollocks album but past that, it’s a really cool song. I pulled this from the Spunk CD that has a lot of b-sides and stuff. There’s not a bad song on that Bollocks album. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a copy of it.

Yellow Swans - Police Eternity: From the Bring The Neon War Home album. Thanks to Engineer X, I got this album. Almost once a week, he gives me homework assignments, tells me what bands to check out and so I do and for my time and trouble, I am always rewarded. He told me to check this band out so I got this album and really dug it as soon as I heard it. I think I wrote X that night telling him how much I was into it. If you check out the discography of these guys, it’s endless. I only have two of their albums but will definitely check out some other stuff. There are a lot of these “Noise” bands out there these days and I’m no aficionado so I am sure there’s some bullshit but so far, the bands that X has turned me onto have been great.

Brian Eno - Sky Saw: From the Another Green World album. This album came after Here Come The Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and it’s on this album that Eno starts moving towards his more instrumental side that he was to go into immediately afterwards. Fripp and Cale play on this album. Eno released all three of these albums in a little over a year and a half. In a way, the three alums are almost a concept seeing how quickly they were released. He’s amazing, that’s all there is to it.

The Fall - Living Too Late: Originally released on 7” and 12” in summer of 1986. On the 12” there’s a different version of the song called Living Too Long that’s really cool but tonight, we’ll stick with this version. You can hear Living Too Long on The Fall’s Beggar’s Banquet 2CD set called 458489 B Sides. You can hear tonight’s track on the Bend Sinister CD and the 458489 A Sides on Beggar’s. That’s some good listening, those three CDs. The b-sides collection especially. I am sure you are well aware there is a new Fall album out at this time called Reformation Post TLC that I have been avoiding somewhat. We played a song from it a few weeks ago and have not come back to it as yet, we’ll get there. Here’s a site to get some serious information on The Fall: http://www.visi.com/fall/

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Balada Lui Ioan: From the Iag Bari album. I had a feeling you were craving some Romanian music. It was several months ago, someone recommended this band to me after I motioned Ivo Papasov’s album Orpheus Rising. I went to the record store and there it was and so it was meant to be. This is really intense stuff. Everything about it. It’s festive music but played really hard like it’s how the players release all their pain. This is one of the slower numbers and it’s so far, my favorite on the record. This stuff is new to my ears so I don’t know how to listen to it yet to get all there is out of the music yet. Sometimes it takes me awhile. There is a similar beautiful sadness to this music that I found on the Papasov record. The history of these people is rough, some of the roughest the world has known and it comes out in the music. If you go online and look at the cover of this CD, it sells itself. Check it out if you can.

The Ruts - Give Youth A Chance (Blackman's Pinch): From the Criminal Minds CD. This is a cool demo version of the song recorded in what is known as “The Underhill Studio Sessions” done before the band signed to Virgin Records. There are at least two ways to get this version of the song. One is from the Criminal Minds CD that is easy to find and the other that I know of is from the In A Can CD that actually comes in a metal box. I think there was an edition that came in the regular plastic box although I have not seen it. Pretty cool version of this song. Thankfully, guitarist Paul Fox kept his 1/4 mix tapes of the early sessions and that’s why we have these tracks today. Nice one.