Hello. Here’s the set list from tonight’s show. I am sorry about last week and not being able to show up. In fact tonight, I am still on the set and taped this a few days ago, not wanting to miss the show again.
For the next show, we will be having your favorite guest, Heidi. It’s going to be great no matter what. I hope you liked tonight’s show. I think there’s a good set of tunes here. Until next time.

HenryMagic Michael – Millionaire: Apparently Magic Michael owns/owned a magic shop. His vocal is cool but what made me buy the single is the fact that the Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette-era Damned is his band on this single. Ward/Scabies/Sensible are his very capable backing unit. I don’t know if it’s good, all I know that I like it and have been playing it for years and can’t think anyone has put this on the airwaves in a long time so here it is!

The Deadbeats – Kill Hippies: I sent away for this single from an ad in Slash Magazine. The Dangerhouse comp. CDs don’t have this song on them so I took it off the single. Geza X was in this band, he was cool. There’s a great page on Dangerhouse, the great label that released this record. It’s got great info on all the bands. Now, THAT was a label. http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/dangerhouse1.html

Captain Beyond – Raging River of Fear: From the first Captain Beyond album. Dez from Black Flag turned me onto these guys. The first album and their second Sufficiently Breathless are awesome I think and the third one, Dawn Explosion is good too. They’re all back in print and easy to find. There’s a cool 2CD bootleg called The Completer that you see now and then. I got that one in Japan in 1992 or something. Here’s a cool site on Captain Beyond, past liking their music, I don’t know a great deal about them. http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aprilskies/65/

The Saints – Demolition Girl: This version is from the Live at the Hope and Anchor 2LP set. I have never owned this record. I taped this from Ian MacKaye and made a CD of it. The Saints only have one cut on this record but listen to it! What a band! Their first two albums (I’m) Stranded and Know Your Product and all the singles around both are great stuff. You can get all this on CD really easy. I got a letter from a fellow last week recommending I play Demolition Girl by the Saints and recommended the single version and I knew this was the time to play this one.

Iggy Pop - Bang Bang: Man, they played this one to death on KROQ when it was a single. The Party album is good, it finally came out again, all remastered, so did Soldier. Two great records. Great song, great lyric. Have you ever heard the song he did for the Black Rain soundtrack called Edge of the Night? Really cool. We’ll get to that one. If you ever get a chance, check out the video for that song. AWESOME.

Air Miami - I Hate Milk: From the Me. Me. Me. album on Teenbeat. I am huge fan of Mark Robinson and his cool label. Mark has a great indie label and is very prolific. He has had several bands and he’s on a lot of Teenbeat stuff. Flin Flon, Unrest, Olympic Death Squad and his solo stuff. I listen to him a lot. I’ve been playing his Tiger Banana album a lot recently as well as Flin Flon’s A-OK album. The Air Miami stuff is great. Check their site if you get a chance. This is to me, one of the great and real American indie labels. http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/

The Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong: I have this on a few different rock and doo wop comp. CDs. I don’t know anything about the Cellos, I just think the song sounds cool.

Brian Wilson – Good Night Irene: From the amazing A Vision Shared tribute to Guthrie and Leadbelly CD. Someone wrote in asking if I had heard Little Richard doing Good Night Irene. The question made me remember that I had not played anything off the Vision Shared CD. It’s so cool hearing Brian Wilson doing this. The CD is out of print I think but it’s worth checking out, Dylan and Springsteen are on it.

Swell Maps – Steven Does: With their LP A Trip to Marineville you got a free 7” EP that has this song on it. Sab from Iron Cross played me the song once at Dischord House in the early 80’s and I thought it was great and he gave me the 7”. I have not heard a great deal of Swell Maps stuff. Not the easiest stuff to find but I think some of the albums are out on CD now but it’s hard to tell if they’re in print. Nice discography page with info can be found here: http://www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk/jowe/swell.htm

Die Haut with Nick Cave – Pleasure is the Boss: This is off the Burnin’ the Ice album by Die Haut. I got this when it came out. It immediately went out of print and even got bootlegged to supply the demand. I was talking about the crime this great LP being out of print with Engineer X the other day and he told me that it had just been re-issued on CD. I got it and it sounds great. Die Haut is a German instrumental band that used to open for the Bad Seeds a lot. They had releases out but they were hard to find, at some point, they started making records with guest singers of indie renown like Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave. I think there’s a Die Haut guy or two in the Bad Seeds now. I saw Die Haut the first time in 1987 in Hamburg I think it was. Great band. This Burning the Ice LP has some of my favorite Cave vocals. Truck Love and the Stowaway are amazing. I can’t play them on the radio because he cusses too damn much and I don’t want to put beeps in someone’s music if I can avoid it.

White Boy – I Could Puke: White Boy was a local DC band, late 70’s-early 80’s. They made a few singles. The band was basically a father and son team. Jake Whip, the son on guitar and vocal and dad, Mr. Ott on vocals. It’s Ott you hear singing on the classic I Could Puke. I got this single right after it came out.

Charlie Harper – London Barmy Army: The b-side to Talk is Cheap. We’ll play that one soon. I was living in my car in 1980 and at night I would play my one speaker tape deck to keep myself company. I didn’t have many tapes and one mix tape was in there all the time and Barmy Army, Talk is Cheap, Good from the Bad by the Skunks, Lion Share by the Germs was on there. I forget what else. Whenever I play the Charlie single, I remember those days. As most of you know, Charlie Harper is the singer of the UK Subs. Those first four Subs albums are must-haves I think. This song can be found as a CD extra on the UK Subs Diminished Responsibility album. That’s my favorite Subs album. http://www.uksubs.co.uk/

Sham 69 – If the Kids Are United: This was a big single for Sham 69. Those singles and the first few albums, Tell Us the Truth, That’s Life and Hersham Boys are really great in my opinion. Myself and a carload of DC types went up to NYC to see them play in late 79 I believe it was. I know Ian was in the car, I think Nathan Teen Idles was in there as well. The Reds opened, I remember that. I remember that Stiv Bators came out to sing with Jimmy Pursey on the encore. I think it was this song. Ian and I hung out with Jimmy after the show and that was really cool. I thought this would be a cool song to play after the Charlie Harper song since he sings it at the end.

Tilt – Arkade Funk: A great 12” from the Washington DC Go-Go scene. It’s basically Trouble Funk having some fun in the studio. You don’t see this too often on vinyl. It pops up here and there on G0-Go compilation CDs.

Skrewdriver – You’re so Dumb: The singles and the All Skrewed up LP are punk perfection. Then it all went horrible wrong when the band started spouting the worst White Power crap and went into the blind world of racism. This song is from the Better Off Crazy/You’re so Dumb single. There’s a pretty interesting interview with the band’s drummer: http://www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk/jowe/swell.htm that’s a good read. The band’s singer, Ian Stuart is one of the scariest people I have ever seen. The singles and LP give no hint of what was to come.

Black Light Panthers - What Planet? Planet What!: Brendan and Guy from Fugazi kill it in this very cool song. Hard to find 12” on Peterbilt. There’s another song of theirs, Hey! Hey! Hey! that we’ll get to at some point.

Suicide - Be Bop Kid: Great song off the 2nd Suicide album. You can tell that Vega and Rev have a soft spot for doo wop and rock. Suicide and moments on some of Vega’s solo stuff go this direction, remember awhile ago when we listened to Vega do Be Bop A Lula? Cool.

Chuck Dukowski / WM3 Benefit Album - What I See: Another track off the Rise Above CD. Great song written by Dukowski and cool to hear him sing it.

Fugazi - Do You Like Me: From the great Red Medicine album. Some of you have written in about why I have not played any Fugazi. It’s because it’s such a no brainer that I wanted to get to some other stuff first, it’s not because they aren’t a great band. I remember I was in NYC working with a band I had signed and we had a night off. Fugazi was playing at Irving Plaza and of course we went. They opened with this song and just ripped it. Great band. I seem to remember the Soul Asylum guy trying to get backstage and getting dismissed. There’s no bad Fugazi records. http://www.dischord.com/

Dillinger – Cocaine in My Brain: This is probably Dillinger’s best known track. He’s done a lot of good stuff though. If you liked this track, you might want to check out his album of the same name or check out a new best of CD called Ultimate Collection. It’s cheap and has a lot of good stuff on it. I saw some used ones on Amazon.

The Valves - Ain't No Surf in Portobello / The Machines – You Better Hear: These were singles I bought years ago and never knew much about the bands. If I were going to give you info on these bands, I would just be taking it from the punk77 site as this is the place I go to get info on some of the more obscure bands. http://www.punk77.co.uk/ is the place to go for info on all these bands.

Generation X – Ugly Rash: There, I did it! I played Ugly Rash. I thought that was such a cool Generation X song, I never understood why they didn’t issue this song and its two other versions when the Kiss Me Deadly album was released on CD. Perhaps Billy Idol doesn’t like the songs. I think it’s great.

Henry Thomas – Bull Doze Blues: This is the song Canned Heat STOLE lick for lick and called Goin’ Up the Country and gave Thomas no credit. What a bunch of bums. There’s a CD on Yazoo that has all Henry Thomas’ songs. It’s called Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929. It’s in print and easy to find. Yazoo is a GREAT label. Fishing Blues and Railroadin’ Some, along with Bull Doze Blues are my favorite on this CD but it’s all really good. I have one Henry Thomas LP, it’s called Ragtime Texas on Herwin Records. I think I found it in Sweden a few years ago. Here’s a good page on the man: http://www.cascadeblues.org/History/HenryThomas.htm

Joseph Spence – Out on the Rolling Sea: The great player from the Bahamas! Many years ago, I was given the Happy All the Time album and that was it, I was hooked. I have never heard anything like him. Listening to him got me checking out all the island recordings made by Alan Lomax and pretty much anything else I could find in the way of calypso. There’s so much cool stuff from the islands. Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, Lord Invader, Neville Marcano the Growling Tiger, all kinds of great compilations as well. Here’s a Spence discography site: http://www.wirz.de/music/spencfrm.htm and a cool page about him: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Esmithcj/cjsbvoi2.html

Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire: This is an alt. version from the Sun Sessions box on Bear Family out of Germany. The pre-song chatter is worth its weight in something, not sure if gold would be the material that would be thrown on the scale.

UK Subs Keep on Runnin’ (Til You Burn): One of my favorite UK Subs songs. It was a single. You can find it as a CD extra cut on the UK Subs Diminished Responsibility CD. I think that CD is a must have.

The Controllers – Electric Church: From the Tooth and Nail comp. LP. Not the easiest LP to find. I got mine when it came out many years ago. Some cool stuff on it. Negative Trend, U.X.A., The Germs. This is my favorite Controllers song along with a song on one their singles called Slow Boy. Great LA band from back in the Day.

The Fall – Hit the North: Great single from the Fall’s Beggar’s Banquet period. There’s no bad Fall songs.