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
Today we review the best in new blues and roots rock. We hit it off with the latest single from Daddy Long Legs. Then we introduce an Italo-Spanish duet SirJo Cocchi and Balta Bordoy. We check in with Eden Brent from Geenville, MS and Seth Lee Jones from Tulsa. Madeleine Peyroux is back with the new album and so are Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – their second collaboration. We introduce Kyshona from Nashville and check in with Z-Boys a jammy trio from Newport RI.
Bassholes – Broke Down Engine
Daddy Long Legs – End Times Boogie
SirJo Cocchi & Balta Bordoy – Tell Me
Funkadelic – Contusion
Eden Brent – Getaway Blues
Seth Lee Jones – All That I Ask
The Reverend Shawn Amos – Back to the Beginning
Cody Dickinson – Can’t Feel At Home-converted
Z-Boys – Shoreline Access
Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk
Madeleine Peyroux – Life is Fine
Rainer – Life Is Fine
Kyshona – Waitin’ on the Lawd
Dave Alvin – Broke Down Engine
Dave Alvin – A Apolitical Blues
Little Feat – A Apolitical Blues
Our show today is dedicated to Dave Sweetapple, one of the kindest people in rock’n’roll that I had pleasure meeting. Unfortunately, news comes to us that he passed away earlier this month, leaving his family and friends inconsolably sad. Towards the end of the show, we pay a special tribute to him with some of the most interesting tunes that he was on. We also hear new music from Leeroy Stagger and Dangreens from Canada, Richard Duguay from LA, Kenny Michaels from Chicago, Reduced from UK and Shivas from LA. Over in Australia we check out the newest from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Volcanics from Perth.
Sweet Apple – I Surrender
Leeroy Stagger – Count To Ten
Richard Duguay & The Beautiful Decline – Reunion
The Scientists – Hell Beach
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Mirage City
The Volcanics – Saturday Night
Crickle – Nothing In Your Eyes
Kenny Michaels – Must Be This New Love Of Mine
Dangereens – Fly By Nighter
Liquor Store – We Buy Gold
Reduced – Get Through To You
The Shivas – Just Like Water
Witch – Soul of Fire
Heavy Blanket – Moon Is
Sweet Apple – I’ve Got A Feeling
Sweet Apple – Dead Moon
Well tempered international episode today with catchy tunes from Dahlmans from Norway, Hillbilly Moon Explosion from Switzerland, Nice Biscuit from Brisbane Australia, Color Green from LA, Meringues from Canada. And new music from LA’s Beachwood Sparks and La Luz, Bonny Doon from Detroit and Rat Columns from Australia.
Nancy Sinatra – In Our Time
The Dahlmanns – Lucky
Beachwood Sparks – My Love, My Love
Beachwood Sparks – Sister Rose
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion – Sometimes Late At Night
Nice Biscuit – Rain
La Luz – San Fernando Shadow Blues
La Luz – News of the Universe
Bonny Doon – Clock Keeps Ticking
Las Nubes – Silhouetted Man
Rob Griffiths – Helliday
Color Green – God In A $
Plunderers – Strange Affection
The Meringues – Shambles
Rat Columns – Galilee
Rat Columns – Ashes Of A Rose
Cody Dickinson – Homewrecker
Grace Cummings – Something Going ‘Round
A nice episode today with brand new music from Guided By Voices, Buffalo Tom, Kelley Stoltz and Kevin Gordon. Cody Dickinson, son of Jim and one of the Dickinson brothers from North Mississippi Allstars is shining in today’s show with a incredibly playful new album. We introduce a new duet The Bird And The Bee from LA. Also from LA, Habibi has a new album. New York City’s Josephine is back with a catchy new album and new band Josephine Network. Twisted Teens are mysterious band that showed up out of nowhere. For now all I can say, I dig it!
Kim Simpson – Tour De France
Buffalo Tom – Helmet
Cody Dickinson – Worldwide-converted
Christopher Peifer – Nowhere Fast
Fifty Foot Hose – God Bless the Child
The Bird and The Bee – Teenage Nervous Breakdown
Habibi – Do You Want Me Now
The GTO’s – Circular Circulation
Slapp Happy – The Drum
Kevin Gordon – Simple Things
Kelley Stoltz – La Fleur – 03 – Hide in a Song
The Lemon Twigs – Rock On (Over and Over)
Makki Jones – You Attentiion Please
Josephine Network – Valerie
Esmé Patterson – Out The Door
Reverend Horton Heat – One Time for Me
Demoni – Session 9
Guided By Voices – Fictional Environment Dream
Twisted Teens – Marionette
Chris Church – Underground Again
Garage extravaganza today leading with three rockers from Spain The Gagarins, F.A.N.T.A and Boston Babies. Down in Oceania, we check out Better Vics and Soul Movers from Australia and The Cavemen from New Zealand. Mochines are here from Boston, Bad Beats are from Vancouver and Martin Savage comes from the UK with his Jiggerz.
Split System – Hold It
The Gagarins – Space Cocktail
The Cavement – Without You
The Judges – The House Always Wins
The Ramones – You Should Never Have Opened That Door
F.A.N.T.A. – Jorge y Maria
Corrupted Ideals – Ignite It
Lava Fangs – Make Up Your Mind
The Mings – Timebomb
The Soul Movers – You-Turn
Boston Babies – Mullets y Cigarrilos
The Sleeveenss – Full Dollar
Deniz Tek – Blood From A Stone
Bitter Vics – Lonesome Rider
The Mochines – This is Rock and Roll
The Liqorice Experiment – Man of Action
Zerodent – Headshot
The Bad Beats – Drive Slow
Martin Savage And The Jiggerz – On The Run
Alien Nosejob – The Executioner
Ladrones – Todo Me Fascina
Franky Says
Power pop edition today with new albums from legends Redd Kross, Arizona faves The Resonars and Mo Troper over, introducing Christopher Peifer in New York and Highway Patrol in Germany. Plus checking in with Shannon and The Clams, LA’s Sofia Bolt, Ohio’s Andy Gabbard and Bad Moves from Washington. Nicole Atkins collaborates with Hamilton Leithauser on her new tune.
Mo Troper – Jumbotron
Mo Troper – Bleach
Christopher Peifer – Anywhere
anonymous – time
Redd Kross – Play My Song
Redd Kross – Candy Coloured Catastrophe
Shannon and The Clams – Oh So Close Yet So Far
Shannon and The Clams – It’s Gonna Go Away
The Resonars – Fell Into a World
The Resonars – Gold To Blue
Highway Patrol – My Friend Jack
Fendahlene – Anyone Who’s Anyone
Andy Gabbard – Home Suite
Andrew Gabbard – Real Time
Bad Moves – Let The Rats Inherit The Earth
Bad Moves – Toward Crescent Park
Nicole Atkins – Maybe Tonight
Nicole Atkins with Hamilton Leithauser – A Little Word
Sofia Bolt – Martini
Sofia Bolt – Waves
Blues and roots rock special today with new music from Mesas’s Little Albert, R.L. Burnside’s son Cedric, Sam Morrow from Texas and Bywater Call from Canada. Introducing Irish child prodigy Murieann Bradley, Japanese septet Bloodiest Saxophone in collaboration with Crystal Thomas. Michelle David and The True-tones from Amsterdam is also new to us. One of the highlights today is Delta 21, blues band from Vinkovci, Croatia, lead by Igor Djeke (ex Disciplina Kicme).
fIREHOSE – vastopol
Delta 21 – Titty Twister
Little Albert – Still Alive
Little Albert – Outside Woman Blues
anonymous – death rattle blues
Sam Morrow – Straight and Narrow
Cedric Burnside – Love You Music
North Mississippi Allstars with Cedric Burnside – Catfish
Charlie Parr – Ten Watt
Muireann Bradley – Vestapol
Bywater Call – Holler
Bywater Call – Go Alone
The Hypos – My Kind Of Party
Bloodest Saxophone with Crystal Thomas – Mailman’s Sack
Michelle David & The True-tones – That Is You
The Amplifier Heads – They Came To Rock
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
Most of the artists we feature today gravitate around the University of Lafayette in Louisiana. This is a place dedicated for preservation of cajun and zydeco culture in Louisiana, and a place where many musicians happily experiment with their French-spoken heritage. So, today, we feature Corey Ledet with his new record, Louis Michot with his solo record and a gorgeous album with Lost Bayou Ramblers and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Ann Savoy gathered her recording in the last couple of years and had them published by Smithsonian. A bunch of bands from several parishes around Lafayette recorded really fun French versions of classic rock songs, and that’s also scattered around the playlist. Louisiana heritage isn’t just cultivated in one small area of Louisiana, but all around the world. So we check out new music from Joe Le Taxi in Wales, Baton Rouge’s Le Roux covered CCR, The Carnivals joined forces with Becky Lynn Blanca to sing about New Orleans and Robert Finley plays his swamp blues up in the North of Louisiana.
Malfecteurs – Wooly Bully
Corey Ledet – Alon kouri laba
Joe Le Taxi – Zydeco – Bernadet
Anders Osborne – Le Grande Zombie
BeauSoleil – Le Jig Creole
Louis Michot – Le cas de Marguerite
Ann Savoy – Triste Samedi A Hurricane Song (A Sad Saturday)
BeauSoleil – Ca Me Rend Fou
Al Berard Et Les Filles – Tout Les Jour Tout Les Soirs
Le Roux – Lookin’ Out My Back Door
The Carnivals – M’amuser Avec Mon Ami (with Becky Lynn Blanca)
Leyla McCalla – Tree
Brass Bed et Feufollet – Des promesses
Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra – Granny Smith
Robert Finley – What Goes Around (Comes Around)
Feufollet – Le Bord Du Chemin
Lilli Lewis – Ciel Éternel
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.
