Notes for the 11-08-04 Harmony in My Head Show.

Hopefully tonight, I will get a copy of last weeks show and Ill send it to Tony our site guy and hell put it up for download as I am getting a lot of requests. So glad you dug it. I love going off like that. 
I spent a good amount of time wondering how to follow up that one. Cant out do it, cant repeat it. Now that Bush has another term, all the people who voted for him will perhaps over the next four years get burned by the man they voted for. Outsourcing, body count increasing. I wonder what the debt will be in 2008? Where will we be in 2008?!
Friday, I had a day off from the film so I flew to Chicago to DJ at a GQ party. I got to this club at 10 p.m. to play music for four hours. I was excited to do such a long set and I brought some great music. I was about an hour in and having a great time and people were digging it. One of the owners of the club, a gallon of oil in his hair, came over to me and asked if I could not play old music, that is to say, not play fifties music that I was throwing into the mix now and then. I asked him why. He said, We get really good results when we play newer music. When you think about it, he rented the club to GQ Magazine and the music wasnt up to him. Perhaps he should shut the fuck up before someone smacked the ringlets out of his hair. I really wasnt interested in arguing so I just said sure and went back to it. A few songs later, a drunk woman came up and started dragging her index finger across her throat. She yells at me that people are complaining and to stop playing heavy metal. I was in fact, playing Devil Doll by the amazing Los Angeles band X. Of course people were into it so I dont know where this alcoholic was looking. Perhaps shes already dead. Anyway, near midnight, owner boy comes up again and says that I am to take an hour break and come back at 0100 hrs. Again, this isnt his club that evening. I had about had enough of this bitch. It was either smack him and get unceremoniously pounded by his bouncers, take his shit, or what I did. I asked the house DJ, a really cool guy, if he and his co-DJ had it covered and he said yes. I said goodbye and he said I was doing the right thing. I left. Fuck him and his hair. So, I went back to my room, slept a couple of hours and went to the airport and back to LA. What a waste of time that was. Heres the music I brought: 
Personality Crisis  NY Dolls / Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba / The Robots  Kraftwerk / Brothers Gonna Work It Out - Public Enemy / Would - Alice in Chains / Flying Saucer Attack  Rezillos / Jilted John - Jilted John / Hey Fellas  Trouble Funk / Honky Tonkin - Hank Williams / Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder / Synchro System  King Sunny Ade / Catman  Gene Vincent / Ace of Spades  Motorhead / The Wanderer  Dion / Down on the Street  Stooges / Hit the North! - The Fall / EU Freeze - Experience Unlimited / Old Time Music - Al Green / She Shook Me Cold  Bowie / The Passenger - Iggy Pop / She Wants to Rock - Richard Berry / Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash / Pretty Woman  Roy O / Ring the Alarm  Tenor Saw / Friendship Train - Gladys Knight / Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music / Rock the Casbah  Clash / No Rules - Pure Hell / Outdoor Miner  Wire / Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 / California  Simpletones / Ragnampiza  Dillinger / Sheena is a Punk Rocker  Ramones / Yip Roc Heresy  Slim Gaillaird / Dont Play that Song for Me  Drifters / Smash It Up  Damned / Egg Man - Beastie Boys / Chinese Rock  Thunders / CC  Parliament / Suzi Q  Roaring Lion / I Shall Not Remove - Cornell Campbell / Freightrain  Nitro / Hop Around  Dee Dee Ramone / London Girls  Vibrators / No Fun  Dr. Mix and the Remix / Staring at the Rude Boys  The Ruts / Garbage Man  Cramps / Your Electric Guitar  Empire / Oh Bondage Up Yours  X Ray Spex / Devil Doll  X / My White Bicycle  Tomorrow / I Walked with a Zombie  Roky / Plug Tunin  De LA Soul / Good Night Irene  Brian Wilson / Pigskin Parade - Die Cheerleader / Wild About You  Saints / Whatever Happened To?  Buzzcocks / Sea Cruise  Frankie Ford / Fury Things  Dinosaur Jr. / Rock and Roll Highschool  Ramones / King Rocker  Generation X / Dog Hill - Boozoo Chavis / Beware - Louis Jordan / Sonic Reducer  Dead Boys / Louie Louie - Richard Berry / The Look of Love  ABC / Puppies  Ill Kick Your Ass / MTV Girl - Gene Defcon / Monkeyman  The Specials / Batman  Link Wray / I Know You Got Soul  Bobby Byrd / Shes a Wino  Jimmy Rushing / See Me Shining  Buzzkunst / Arkade Funk  Tilt / Mongoloid  Devo / Voo Doo Chile  Hendrix / Shama Lama Ding Dong - Otis Day and the Nights / Roll Call  WKYS / Take Me Back  Lurkers / Christopher Columbus - Fats Waller / Dont Touch that Stereo  Slim / Action Time and Vision  ATV /Running Back - Thin Lizzy / Leader of the Laundromat  Detergents / Last Words  Animal World / Hangin on the Telephone  Blondie / Paco  My Love / Candy  Cameo / Hammered  Alan Vega / Jukebox Babe - Alan Vega / Jah War  The Ruts / Wouldnt It Be Nice (stereo)  Beach Boys / This Magic Moment  Ben E King / Sweet Soul Music  Arthur Conley / Feelin Alright with the Crew  999 / Mamas Gonna Bake Us a Cake  Casual Dots / Bloodstains  Agent Orange / Pretty and the Wolf  Duke Ellington / Charlie Chan  The Sounds / Shattered  Rolling Stones / This Life of Mine  The Lost Souls / Paranoia Carnival  Metal Boys / Israelites  Desmond Dekker / Bootzilla - Bootsy

Of course, most of the songs we have played on this show and you all dug them so I figured its more than enough and it would allow me to have some different directions to go in. Boy, are drunks a pain in the ass! I just dont get it. Obnoxious, blathering idiots. How can you stand yourself? I dont see the fun part. I do get the pain in the ass drunk slipping on the ice and breaking his hip and me erupting into gales of euphoric laughter. That I can get to. Jihad. 

So tonight, what have we? 
Howlin' Wolf - Evil: I remember once, years before many of you were born, KXLU FM asked me to come to the station and play records for a couple of hours. I did. I played this song and had some punk rock bed wetter call me and curse me out. Its cool, I put a fatwa out on him and hes not been heard from since. In an interview, they asked the legendary Sun Studios owner, sam Philips, the guy who recorded Elvis and Jerry Lee, who his favorite artist to record was and he said it was Wolf. 

The Gun Club - Bad America: This is from the long out of print Miami album. Jeffery Lees sister called the other day to tell me that Sympathy for the Record Industry has re-released Miami, The Las Vegas Story and the Death Party EP. Great news for Gun Club fans. Thats one of the great American bands that never got the recognition they deserved. I saw some killin Gun Club shows. I also saw some that were a little drunken but memorable nonetheless. I miss Jeffery. He was an amazing man. Really from another place.

Tomorrow  My White Bicycle: From the Nuggets II box. I have been playing this song in the car all the time and thought you might dig it. I know nothing about the band but it sounds like the singer is Welsh. 

John Cale - Leaving It Up to You: Staying with the Welsh thing, if indeed the Tomorrow guy was, this guy definitely is! John Cale, how cool is this boy-o?! You all know him from the Velvet Underground, of course but hes done some stunning solo records and produced some great stuff as well. John Cale records to check out: Sabotage, Helen of Troy (from where we listening from now, Paris 1919, Honi Soit, the Animal Justice EP, Fragments of a Rainy Season. Some of the best, teeth clenched intense shows I have ever seen were Cale shows. I shook the hand a few years ago in Holland. I can wander into traffic now. 

Extrapolating on the theme, let's get into some Cale produced stuff. 

Stooges - No Fun: First Stooges album. Shows you the power of simplicity. That guitar outro is as good as it gets. 

Nico - We've Got the Gold: From The End. I got this record in 1983 I think. It destroyed me. You know Nico, she was in the Velvet Underground on the very famous first album, the one with the banana on the cover. The band on this album: Phil Manzanera on guitar, Eno on synth, Cale on bass, xylophone, acoustic guitar, synth, organ, marimba, triangles, casaba, glockenspiel, percussion, piano, electric piano. Hello! The band that could eat the world! I like all the Nico records but the early ones like The Marble Index, Chelsea Girl, Desert Shore, this one and one called The Drama of Exile are the ones I listen to the most. I guess it's time to play some Eno!

Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire: From the cant stand it, it's so good Here Come the Warm Jets album. Uh, another line-up from lofty realms Bush will never explore: 
Brian Eno, vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, snake guitar, treatments; Busta Cherry Jones, bass; Simon King, drums; with Paul Rudolph, guitar, bass; Robert Fripp, guitar; Phil Manzanera, guitar; Andy MacKay, saxophones, keyboards; Marty Simon, drums; Chris Spedding, guitar; Bill MacCormick, bass; John Wetton, bass; Nick Judd, keyboards; Paul Thompson, drums; Lloyd Watson, slide guitar; Chris Thomas, bass. If you recon some of these names, you'll see links to Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Roxy Music, King Crimson, etc. Some of you like Eno and don't even know it. Hes the guy who propped up so many of those U2 records. Poor bastard, hopefully they paid him enough to endure those sessions. Jihad, bitch!

Dr. Mix and the Remix - Sister Ray: I done tole ya I wuz a'gonna do it! The Classic Velvet Underground done electro by French guys! Mon Dieu! Run, Bill O'Reilly, Run! 

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair: I know, I know. How come I didn't play something off Starless and Bible Black, USA, Red, Lark's Tongue in Aspic, In the Court of the Crimson King? Why? Because You know all that stuff. The Three of a Perfect Pair album came out in 1984 I believe. I think Davo, Flag soundman, picked it up on cassette while we were in Europe. We played that tape to death. I remember by May of that year, it was ultra-heavy rotation in the van. I don't think theres a bad second on this record. The re-issue has some serious bonus tracks. Been playing this one for twenty years now. 

Black Lipstick - Serpentz: From the Converted Thieves album from your pals at Peek-a-Boo records in Austin TX. I dont know anything about the band. I am listening away steadily at the stack of CDs I ordered from Travis, label owner and Black Lipstick member. These guys sound like they have bumped into a Television or Velvet Underground record somewhere along the way but Im no critic. Cool record. 

Television - Friction: From the legendary Marquee Moon album. This is a must-have rekkid I think. Tom Verlaine, great great guitar player, singer, song writer. This was their first record. The next one, Adventure is great but MM is the one if you had to pick one. Theres some great bootlegs of the band out there. I know Rhino put out the Live at the Waldorf album officially awhile ago and it sounds great. The new edition of MM has extra tracks and sounds amazing. The best way to dig this record is from the vinyl if you can find it. I would have played you the LP version, BUT INDIE 103.1 DOESN'T HAVE A TURN TABLE. 

Suicide - Girl: Let's stay in NYC for a minute. Around the same time Television was treading the boards, so was a runaway genius duo by the name of Alan Vega and Martin Rev. They called themselves Suicide and their self-titled first album is another one of those must-haves. I know we played them last week during our sonic jihad but Im a fan of the band and this is my show. 

The Fall - City Hobgoblins: From a very early Fall single. I havent played this one in a long time and for some reason, the song makes me think of the imagery in the Nikolai Gogol short stories I have been reading and so, with almost presidential power, I disregard exit poll stats and current musical trends and broadcast Manchester Englands mighty export, The Fall! 

Buzzcocks - Time's Up: Manchester is a tough town with a history of great music as well as dire crap like the Happy Mondays. Face it, you were high when you heard them and they might have been good to you then but a door buzzer with a dog barking over it would have sounded good to you as well. This song is from the bands first release, the Spiral Scratch EP. This is before Pete Shelley took over lead vocals and the singing was done primarily by the very amazing Howard Devoto, who went onto further fame with Magazine, Luxuria and Buzzkunst. Thankfully, Mute records have released the EP as well, the enormously cool Times Up album, which is an albums length dose of this line-up. I bought it as a bootleg LP in 1979 I believe. Both CDs are worth checking out. 

One of the radio greats, the BBC?John Peel passed away on October 26th. In honor of this great man, who musicians and their fans owe a considerable debt, we will play some Peel Sessions. As you know, we have listened to Fall Peel sessions, now here?some other bands. 

Ruts - Society: Officially released as the b-side of the Babylons Burning single. We played that one last week during the pre-election sonic Jihad. A great Ruts song, as if there are any bad ones. Are there? No!

Wire - I Am the Fly: The official version of this song is on my favorite Wire album Chairs Missing. Thought my favorite would be Pink Flag didnt ya? 

Birthday Party - Rowland Around in that Stuff: This song was never released on a proper Birthday Party record. The Birthday Party Peel Sessions CD is really great. Another song, Bully Bones is also exclusive to the Peel show. 

The Slits - Love and Romance: September 1977 they recorded this. They were right in the punk rock. They played with all the famous UK bands. The official version of this song is on their famous album titled Cut. Cut was remastered and has some extra tracks now.

Radio Birdman - What Gives: Great Australian band. Off the Radios Appear CD. Came out 1977 or thereabouts. I first heard them hanging out with Ian one day. He played me this song. I dont know a ton about them but have a lot of their stuff. I know they did a re-union tour a few years ago and apparently they were rockin. 

Flipper - Love Canal: A great Flipper single. I did a lot of shows with Flipper in the 80's. What a band. I will never forget hanging outside Target Video in San Francisco with them as Greg Ginn asked them if they wanted to be on SST and the bands singer, Bruce just went off on Ginn. Im paraphrasing, You guys are just punk rock stars and SST is just a small label that wants to be mainstream, etc. It was hard to watch Ginn take it from Bruce. We put them on our bills all the time and SST was a great label and Ginn wasnt in line for that kind of dressing down but that was Flipper. Devastating live band. Their version of Super Freak was incredible. 

Beastie Boys - Cookie Puss: Havent heard this one in awhile. The scratching with the Steve Martin record is brilliant.

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Thanks for listening.