Flashlite #607

Warfrat

        Friction, rust, salt air, lust
        Passion in its final heat
        Real life with its final cheat
        California’s falling falling…
                …into the ocean

        100 Flowers, 1983

We have a very special show today. Vitus Matare of Warfrat Grammophon sent us a new compilation record entitled Son of Warfrat Tales, Last Notes From Pompeii. The original release was scheduled for 1990 and it was intended to be a souvenir for the bands that hung out at Lyceum Recordrs in California. Vitus put together this comp to help raise money for the rent at Lyceum, but only a few cassettes were copied back in 1990. 30 years later, 300 copies of a CD were printed, so I guess it’s still a bit of a souvenir! But it’s really great to hear this album. We use it as a guide to remind ourselves of some other truly important compilation records that defined the 80s underground and they are very much related to Son of Warfrat Tales. Original Warfrat Tales from 1983 is an obvious one to refer to. This album introduced to the world a stunning list of Los Angeles bands that in many ways shaped the 80s rock scene. Another related compilation that we’re going back to in this show is Keats Rides A Harley and the Happy Squid Sampler both from 1981 that predate Warfrat Tales. These were organized by the members of Urinals. All these, augmented with great extra material, are available on the secondary market as CDs (although maybe not so easily). Since Son of Warfrat Tales contains slightly newer bands, we also refer to the legendary Radio Tokyo Tapes organized by Ethan James (criminally, still not reissued…) And finally, Vitus says don’t forget Hell Comes to Your House (Bemisbrain 1981)… no we won’t! Finally, big thanks to Vitus for sending us this new, ultra rare disc!

The Last – Try To Rise;
Danny And The Doorknobs – Wooden legs With Real Feet;
Danny And The Doorknobs – Melody
100 Flowers – Reject Yourself;
100 Flowers – From The Fire;
Trotsky Icepick – Yolanda Won’t You Give Me A Job;
Leaving Trains – Jalama;
Leaving Trains – Leaving Train;
Leaving Trains – Virginia City;
Leaving Trains – Creeping Coastlines Of Light;
The Ringling Sisters – 56 Reasons To Go Downtown;
Devil Squares – Red And Blue;
Question – Head On Straight;
Question – Brand New World;
Question – Shall Be Love;
Carmaig De Forest – Blank Verses;
Carmaig De Forest’s Deathgrooveparty – One More Time;
Chainsaw Pop – It Doesn’t Get Any Better;
Action Now – I Want You;
Human Hands – Hypnotica;
Human Hands – Jimmy Loop;
The Dream Syndicate – Lucky;
House of Freaks – Barn Burning;
The Last – Brand New Drug;
The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here.

Flashlite #606

Parlor Walls

Welcome to the new episode! We have some good new music for you all. We start off with Transit Method over in Austin, TX who has a new record. Motorpsycho from Sweeden continue a string of annual releases with All Is One LP. The Most from Southington, CT is a new introduction, as well as Ridiculous Trio from Chicago. Ridiculous Trio are a brass trio that has some unusual new versions of Stooges music. Another new introduction is from St. Louis, Missouri: David and Jake Maness, or otherwise known from The Maness Brothers. Hard-Ons from Australia are back with heavy sound. Lastly, we play a loooong track by Fernando Perdomo, which sort of binds the show from the beginning to the end and holds it like super glue.

Transit Method – Cannibals;
Motorpsycho – The Magpie;
Hedvig Mollestad – A Stone’s Throw;
Parlor Walls – Spinning Gold;
The Maness Brothers – Tupelo;
Little Albert – Outside Woman Blues;
Fernando Perdomo – A Circle Appears to Guide Me;
The Most – First Frost;
A Burning Bus – Platform;
Maggot Heart – Justine;
Hard Ons – Made To Love You II;
The Ridiculous Trio – T.V. Eye;
Wylder Ratttz – T.V. Eye.

Flashlite #605

Bully

Straight forward rock’n’roll episode today. From two corners of Canada, we greet Dangereens and Dead Ghosts. From the West of the US, we have a new, really good tune from David Nance, new album from L.A. Witch trio and Feral Ohms new single. On the East of the US, Germ House is here with the new album. Nick Waterhouse covers The Seeds and we pay a tribute to their guitarist Jan Savage who passed away on August 8th.

Hayvanlar Alemi – News of the World;
Feral Ohms – I Fall;
Dead Ghosts – Blackout;
Bad Sports – Cardboard Suits;
David Nance – Poison;
David Nance – When The Covers Come Off;
L.A. Witch – I Wanna Lose;
L.A. Witch – Drive Your Car;
Gyasi – Sugar Mama;
Apache – Wild Life;
Husker Du – Diane;
Germ House – Nothing Is Like They Wanted;
Dangereens – Streets of Doom;
Black Lips – Dishonest Man;
Leaving Trains – Payday;
Lyres – I’ll Try You Anyway;
Nick Waterhouse – Pushin’ Too Hard;
The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard;
The Seeds – Rollin’ Machine.

Flashlite #604

Bully

Today we start off with a track from the new album for Alaicia Bognano’s Bully. Then we introduce Tough Age from Toronto. Also, new to us are Manarays from Brisbane and Beans from Melbourne. Australians, of course. Then. We have two solo musicians hiding between the band names. Tommy Marolda is The Toms and Dishelved Cuss is Nick Reinhart. Schizophonics have a new single covering Roxy Music and Trotsky Icepick is back yet again with another new release. They are so prouctive in the past year and a half and it’s to everyone’s delight! We dedicate this episode to Martin Birch, an extraordinary music producer and engineer who passed away on August 9th this year.

The Fluid – Big Brother;
Bully – Let You;
Tough Age – Possession;
Petrified Max – Hole in the Sky;
Trotsky Icepick – End Effected;
Manarays – Troubled by the Moon;
Zana – Sweeta;
Electric Light Orchestra – Nightrider;
The Toms – One Man Girl Parade;
Beans – Stride;
Queen – You’re My Best Friend;
The Z-Boys – Too Slow;
Roxy Music – Re-Make Re-Model;
The Schizophonics – Re-Make Re-Model;
Disheveled Cuss – Oh My God;
W/Jayne County and The Electric Chairs – Man Enough to Be a Woman;
Faces – Bad’N’Ruin;
Jeff Beck Group – Spanish Boots.