Greatest radio spot I've ever heard...

[Anders]

Given the crappy job I have of having to watch sports events and then give my belligerent opinionated view of it and get paid to do so I do a bit of travelling and occasionally listen to the radio when I'm sick of my tapes and CDs...

Tonite on the way back from the Warriors V Eels NRL match, I tuned into Radio Hauraki, an old staple....

They have this guy called Barry Jenkins who used to host a very TV music show in the late 70s/early 80s here in NZ called 'Radio With Pictures. 20+ years on, he does his 2-hr radio spot on a Sunday nite playing pretty much the same stuff as he did then...even brings his own records along... :Yep:

This is what he played in the hour it took me to drive from Sth Auckland to Hamilton....

The Mekons
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Husker Du
Big Country
The Fall
Wire
The Clash
Devo
Stiff Little Fingers
Bad Brains
The Dead Kennedys
David Byrne
XTC

.... now I know 98% of u here will go .. "The fuggin who??!! :nooo: :shrug:

But I also know there's at least 3 of you guys - if u r still around here - who will join this sad old man in doing as I did all the way home and go :Yep: :spotting: :Yep:

 

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Not familiar w/ all of those acts. But do enjoy David Byrne and Devo.

Whip it! Ah...whip it good!

 

[fatdaddycool]

Dude,
There is an old post somewhere about favorite songs and I posted

Souixsie and the Banshees -The Passenger which I feel is one of the best yet most obscure songs ever. I also loved her when she eventually formed the Creatures of which the song PLUTO is absolutely classic. It is a dark, haunting song that increases its pace as the song goes on, a must listen!

Dead Kennedys- Now who can't like Holiday in Cambodia
You'll work hard with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day

Devo-the obvious

Clash- Londons Calling, great song

Husker Du-brings back lots of memories formed from members of Bauhaus

David Byrne-much better with the Heads

never a big fan of Big Country or XTC, although I thought the bass player from XTC did well to leave and join My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

Yeah I am a huge music buff and have a pretty extensive collection of music from Johnny Lee Hooker to The Cramps, remember them?
The Godfathers to Black Sabbath as a matter of fact I am listening to Ten Years After-Recorded Live right now and if any of you have not heard this LP please do yourself the favor and get it

 

[Anders]

:Yep:

fatdaddy - me too a music nut; ran various music stores for 5 years before switching trades, have an LP/CD collection that is kinda large ... even paid for some of them

Don't think u r quite on track with Husker Du there though ... came from Minneappolis with Bob Mould and Grant Hart the main men.....from memory, Bauhaus were Poms - Pete Murphy their main man was also in Wah! and The Crucial Three with Julian Cope from The Teardrop Explodes I think... Daniel Ash and David J were in Bauhaus too from my fading memory..

Can't remember XTC's bass player joining the TKK either - Barry Andrews did join Robert Fripp's League of Gentlemen and then formed Shriekback...anyone remember "All Lined Up"?

The Cramps undoubtedly rock... u gotta have a copy of "rockinnreelininaucklandnewzealand"

Who woulda thunk that both Poison Ivy and Lux Interior would have come from Akron, Ohio like Mark Mothersbaugh huh...

Don't like The Passenger much meself, Iggy Pop cover....much preferred 'Christine" and "Happy House" ...

ah, sometimes I think I'm more nuts about music than I am sports betting - if that's possible dance2

 

[Myron]

Not sure I understand this thread but the best radio show ever IMO was Doctor Demento. Unfortunately they don't play it anymore

 

[Blitz]

I heard Doctor Demento recently as I was scanning radio stations... brought back a lot of memories!!

 

[Snake Plissken]

The Clash is good stuff

 

[Hoops]

Did they play, "In A Big Country" by Big Country...lol. Celtic rock!


Yeah, Husker Du wasn't formed from any previous band. It was Mould's first band. After they split he did some solo work, formed Sugar, and is now back on his own.

 

[Anders]

Hoops - sure did! LOL!

Always LMFAO when I think about an article I read on Stuart Adamson, Big Country's main man - formerly of The Skids - and he was grumbling about every interview he did he was asked "So how do you guys get to make your guitars sound like bagpipes?"

LOL! Like there was anything else to talk to him about

Have all Husker Du's stuff on vinyl - seminal....also loved Mould's "Workbook" album and Sugar's 1st album...Grant Hart's 1st solo album ain't bad either

 

[JT]

Favorite shoe of mine is Jim Ladd's show. Lord have mercy!

Like The Clash alot and Big Country some. Others not really into.

 

[redsfann]

Ahh, the memories..

Ahh, the memories..

of my crazy college days come rushing back when I see a set list like that one, Anders.

Seeing as Husker Du, The Replacements and Soul Asylum all called Minneapolis home in the early 1980s all three bands were regular visitors to Iowa City were I spent many a night in the front row of the clubs they played in drunk off my ass and pogoing to the Post-Punk songs of some of the greatest bands of that time.

Hoops-

finally got around to picking up Wilco's newest-- IMHO, it may be their best work to date. Its been getting a lot of airplay at my house-- so much so that my wife is threatening to make the disc disapear..LMAO

Always had a thing for Siouxsie Sioux, too....

 

[pplargo]

Have not thought about those bands in a long time

Only ones I don't remember are:
The Mekons
Wire
& Stiff Little Fingers

nice to be reminded sometimes

 

[Hoops]

Redsfann- Yep, I think Tweedy has established Wilco as America's best current band. He reinvents himself with each new album he makes, starting with 'Being There'. What is amazing is that when he was in Uncle Tupelo, he was second fiddle to Jay Farrar, who was a musical genius at that point. Now Tweedy has evolved light year from who he was and Farrar is a shadow of himself.

If you did know this, sorry for repeating it, but 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' was shot-down by the big wigs at Reprise Records (an AOL/TimeWarner company). They told Tweedy it was a 'career killer' and wasn't commercially viable. He told them to stuff it, held the album for almost a year, let fans download it off their website, and finally Nonesuch, a smaller/indie label, picked-up the album six months later and finally released it. Oh, Nonesuch is also part of AOL/Time Warner...lolol.

 

[fatdaddycool]

O.K.
my mistake I honestly thought Mould ...well nevermind sorry, also in reference to My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult off of "confessions of a Knife" it references him to XTC, not sure probably drunk when I read it will re-read it again tonight.........but most likely will be tanked then too as my divorce was final today.
Don't have the cd of the cramps you mentioned I do however have the "sugarcubes" cd. Always liked f*cking in rythym and sorrow! Hell of a cd! How about Terence Trent Darby's Introducing the Hardline......you like it?

 

[Anders]

fatdaddycool - yup, that Sugarcubes album is particularly awesome "today is her birthday, she's smoking cigars..." :spotting:

hadn't thought about that TTD albumm in a looong while....I remember playing that quite a bit when I got my first pt-time job working in a record store; it was a classy debut...wtf happened to him :shrug:

Hoops - Jeff Tweedy is indeed a genius....my 6yo boy and 4yo girl love singing to Wilco..

"She's a jar
with a heavy lid
my pop quiz kid
a sleepy kisser
a pretty war
with feelings hid
you knwo she begs me
not to hit her"

dance2

 

[redsfann]

Hoops-

Hoops-

No, I was not aware of that bit of info about Tweedy and the band. Thanks for the update. I also agree about Jay Farrar since the unfortunate falling-out within Uncle Tupelo, which was a real bummer since that band was/still is a big fav of mine as well.
Toss in The Jayhawks and some of the various line-ups that these guys played in and you have the makings of a rockin' record collection.........

Anders--

You even started on my tapes you promised me? Didn't think so........ :shrug: :thefinger :nono: :moon:

 

[Anders]

Redsfann - how dare u question my incompetence :fingerc:

My incompetence knows no bounds!!

As of last nite, I stole Merryn's The Wiggles tape to tape over because u refused to pay the 85 cents initial outlay I demanded :spotting:

BTW, Keri says she'll send the nude pics if u send the bearskin rug - don't have bears here in NZ u dolt

Today's fave band is: The Go-Betweens

Oz band based around Robert Forster and GW McLennan, who have both since put out some dance2 solo stuff with McLennan's "Watershed" the bees' knees...