Today’s episode is filled with darker tunes, including the new track from The Jesus and Mary Chain and Australian legends The Church. If you remember Nass Zuruck from LA, now we have a different band formed by the same members called Eyelidss. Otherwise, we have a slew of new artists: Billiam from Melbourne, AU, Jessica Bodreaux from Portland OR, Negative Gears from Sydney, GEO from Netherlands, Siouxsie and the Skunks from Italy, Vaccines from London UK and Graveyard of the Pacific from Seattle WA.
Warsaw – Transmission
Billiam – Animation Cell
Jessica Boudreaux – Back Then
La Luz – Close Your Eyes
Eyelidss – Tainted
Negative Gears – Room With The Mirror
Fernando Perdomo – Optimist Prime
GEO – So Many Ways
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Discotheque
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Church – Amanita
Siouxie & the Skunks – All I Want
Fire Engines – Everything’s Roses
The Vaccines – Heartbreak Kid
Graveyard Of The Pacific – Patterns
Guru Guru – Bo Diddley
Mannequin Pussy – Nothing Like
Wim Wenders had a movie called “Three American LPs”. Today’s show is about a different set of three American albums that came in 1984. It’s incredible that those are three consecutive releases by one label (SST), in one year and two of them came out as double albums on a same day. Yet, these three are probably the greatest albums of the American underground rock and in my personal opinion, quite possibly three best albums in the entire history of rock’n’roll. At least, such was the influence on the little old me. Today we hear three 20ish minute excerpts from each of those albums and then we explore some covers that other bands made as a tribute to the songs from these three albums. Actually, it’s really strange that there’s not more covers of the songs from this album, given how much they mean to many people who enjoyed exactly 40 years ago. We are listening to Meat Puppets II, Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime and Husker Du’s Zen Arcade.
Minutemen – History Lesson Pt II
Minutemen – Viet Nam
Minutemen – Two Beads at the End
Minutemen – Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth
Minutemen – One Reporter’s Opinion
Minutemen – Retreat
Minutemen – Corona
Minutemen – The Glory of Man
Minutemen – The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
Minutemen – This Ain’t No Picnic
Minutemen – June 16th
Husker Du – Something I Learned Today
Husker Du – Never Talking To You Again
Husker Du – Chartered Trips
Husker Du – Somewhere
Husker Du – One Step At A Time
Husker Du – Pink Turns To Blue
Husker Du – Newest Industry
Husker Du – Monday Will Never Be The Same
Husker Du – Whatever
Meat Puppets – Lost
Meat Puppets – Plateau
Meat Puppets – We’re Here
Meat Puppets – Climbing
Meat Puppets – Oh Me
Meat Puppets – Lake of Fire
Meat Puppets – The Whistling Song
Minutemen – Lost
Jawbox – It’s Expected I’m Gone
Foofighters – Never Talking To You Again
Nirvana – Plateau
Nirvana – Lake of Fire
Today we hear the new music from the legendary California bands X and The Bellrays. Speaking of California, Petrified Max has a new single as well. French actress Emmanuelle Seigner joins forces with Velvet Sunset for some new tunes. Over in Australia, we introduce I Do You Do Karate and check out the new music from Straight Arrow and Gabriella Cohen. Arizona’s Gabrien Naim Amor is also back with the new music. London band The Clientele is back with the new track as well. We close the show with a tribute to Damo Suzuki of Can.
Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
The Bellrays – Hard Drive
Velvet Sunset with Emmanuelle Seigner – You Look Cool
Emmanuelle Seigner – Such A Hard Time
X – Left & Right
X – Face In The Moon
Straight Arrows – Walkin Thru My Mind
Shake Some – Every Little Noise
Christoper Peifer – Only a Breakdown
Gabriel Naim Amor – Amorsonic
The Clientele – Trains In The Night
Leigh Gregory – Swimming to the Light
Jackie DeShannon – Hydra
Gabriella Cohen – Hydra
I do You do Karate – Peanut Carter
The Lemonheads – No Backbone
Phranc – Old in LA
Petrified Max – She Draws Eyes
Can – Spoon
Can – Halleluwah
Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki
Neo-psych review today with the latest tunes by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol from Chicago, Karkara from Toulouse in France, Frankie and the Witch Fingers from Los Angeles, California, The Telescopes from UK, Eggy from Melbourne, Australia, Sanam from Beirut, Lebanon and a collaboration between Fernando Perdomo and Matt Tecu. Johnny Casino from Spain does a killer cover of the Byrds classic Eight Miles High.
Dusseldorf – La Dusseldorf
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Dusseldorf Boogie
Karkara – The Chase
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Empire
Johnny Casino – Eight Miles High
The Telescopes – (In The) Hidden Fields
Eggy – Open Field
Sanam – Bell
Fernando Perdomo + Matt Tecu – Tiny Spies
Podcasting from Cleveland, Ohio. Broadcasting on Radio Kragujevac, every Sunday from 4-5pm (Central European Time). Streaming on Rock XS every Thursday at Midnight (Eastern European Time).
