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Two great tastes that taste great together, power pop and punk. Or, pop punk for short. I hesitate to call this a pop punk show but definitely leans in that direction. If you like those original pop punkers The Ramones, or Nikki & The Corvettes or The Go-Gos or The Muffs, Green Day, The Presidents of the United States, The Fastbacks, and so on then you are going to dig this week's show.
Vista Blue -- I Don't Know Where Dr. Frank Lives (2016) The Dollyrots -- Save Me (2016) Tacocat -- Crimson Wave (2014) The Tuts -- 1982 (2016) Dollsquad -- Rock-N-Roll Boy (2006)
Suacy Yoda -- Wonton (2010) Dirty Fences -- 2X2 (2016) The Malakas -- Cigarettes And Heroin (1999) General Tso's Fury -- Cereal Time (2015)
Bare Wires -- Runaway Hear (2009) Blink-182 -- She's Out Of Her Mind (2016) The Pink Tiles -- State Of The Nation (2015)
Wiseguys -- Invalids (1996) The Riptides -- Shit Outta Luck (2009) Somerdale -- Coolest Kid In The Room (2016)
I'm not so over 2016, especially all the good music it delivered. I've got 18 great songs from 18 great bands on today's show. How good was 2016? So good none of these also really great bands made that cut: Men of North Country, Vista Blue, Teenage Fan Club, The Darts, Flat Five, Madness, Seven Long Years, The Q, The Posies, The Eddies, Charles Bradley, James Hunter, Explorers Club, Fashionism, The Zolas, Nick Pride & The Pimptones, Dustaphonics, The Regrettes, Eli Paperboy Reed, Girl Ray, Dogtooth, The Ace, Plan-B, The Fleshtones, The Julie Ruin. Stunning isn't it?! Here's to 2017 being able to deliver as much great tunage.
Tommy & The Rockets -- Here Comes Summer
The Zags -- Sick Stereo
The Lash Outs -- Validation Song
The Kickstand Band -- Stay Inside
Pale Lips -- (You Make Me) Wanna Be Bad
The Well Wishers -- Impossible To Blame
French Boutik -- Je Ne Suis La
Hurry -- Under Her Thumb
Trolley -- Crying All The Time
The Soul Snatchers -- Use It Up
Quantic & Flowering Inferno -- 1000 Watts feat. Christopher Ellis
Lack of Afro -- Walk In The Sun feat. Professor Elemental
Cais Soder Funk Connection -- One Of These Days
ABC -- Singer Not The Song
Weezer -- (Girl We Got A) Good Thing
Green Day -- Still Breathing
B-Movie -- San Francisco
The Monkees -- Good Times
If ever a year demanded a wake it's 2016. Have we ever felt more deeply the loss of so many cultural icons from Muhammad Ali to George Michael (hey I still love Wham's first album, so there!), Garry Shandling to Garry Marshall. It was just a shitty year for the touchstones of Gen X, the people we grew up with. The defacto mom who raised us, Florence Henderson, to the defacto royalty, Princess Leia, who was a role model to even us boys. So many writers, actors, singers and storytellers, too many to count and seemingly more than most other years for some reason.
So, here's the wake, my and Mary Queen of Cosmos take on celebrating the end of the year, wherein we play a few songs, raise a few drinks, and remember all of those who now leave us only with those memories.
First rule of 2017? Don't talk about 2016.
Mary Queen of Cosmos recommends some additional reading/listening:
GuyClark -- The songwriter's songwriter, Texas-born. A master story-teller. Hard-living, hard-loving, hard-working, he died in May at the age of 74. Rolling Stone beautifully eulogizes him much more eloquently than I ever could.
Jim Carroll -- The People Who Died
David Bowie -- I'm Afraid of Americans
Guy Clark -- Walkin' Man
Sharon Jones -- Without A Heart
Al Caiola -- Temptation
Alan Brown Set -- Mr. Pleasure
Mose Allison -- You're Mind Is On Vacation
Prince - Paisley Park
Tribe Called Quest -- Can I Kick It?
Earth, Wind & Fire -- September
Inspiral Carpets -- This Is How It Feels
The Untouchables -- City Gent
The Specials -- Enjoy Yourself
David Bowie -- Lazarus
It's not Christmas yet, so no Christmas songs this week. You'll get a full dose of that stuff on Christmas eve when DJ Ken from The Shingles joins me for the 10th Annual Modcast Office Christmas Party.
It's time to get back out in the garage for some pounding, driving, hard rock-n-rolling. From yesteryear to this year here's a whole modcast packed with great garage rock.
Fuzzy Vox -- Distracted (2016)
Echoes Of Carnaby Street -- Baby Doesn't Know (1966)
The Blues Magoos -- Pipe Dream (1967)
The Traits -- Nobody Loves The Hulk (1969)
Quik -- I Can't Sleep (1967)
Acid Drops -- She Laughed Out Loud (1987)
The Crawdaddys -- You're Gonna Need My Love Someday (1981)
The Lyres -- Busy Body (1984)
The Miracle Workers -- Flashing Red Light (1984)
Green Telescope -- Make Me Stay (1986)
The Shoutless -- I Tell No Lies (1984) Kaz Mirblouk -- The Narrows (2016) The Blind Owls -- Unwanted Men (2016) The Regrettes -- Hot (2016) The Pinheads -- Wildfire (2016)
"We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster." It worked for Steve Austin, and I'm hopin' it works for me. I'm going in for a hip replacement so I can get back to dancing, back to scootering and, just back to it all in general. This modcast is better, stronger, faster and totally hip.
One year, 6 months, 27 days and 16 hours ago that 'nasty' woman announced her bid to become president in 2016. That means we've suffered through 829440 minutes of hearing about her effing e-mails. It wasn't much later that an orange hot air balloon slithered down that escalator and started the whole world laughing. Funny thing is, no one's laughing anymore. But it's all over now, except the screaming and shouting and suing.
So, turn on your least favorite cable news outlet whether it be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, turn the sound down on the tube and way up on your stereo system. With no talkin, just rockin' here is Mr. Suave's Electile Dysfunction Election Night Special playlist. Sort of like a soundtrack for your breakdown.
I'm Mr. Suave and I approved this playlist.
1 The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night 2 The Temptations - Ball of Confusion 3 Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction 4 La-La-Lies - The Who La 5 The Vipers - Telling Those Lies 6 The First Steps - Anywhere Else But Here 7 The Rainyard - Beyond the Pale 8 The Guess Who - American Woman 9 Pretty Things - Mr. Evasion 10 The Jetty Boys - Mr. Negative 11 Slickee Boys - This Party Sucks 12 Buzzcocks - Oh Shit! 13 Mad Parade - Real Horror Show 14 Oingo Boingo - Capitalism 15 Devo - Freedom of Choice 16 The Riptides - Shit Outta Luck 17 The Ruts - Babylon's Burning 18 The Clash - White Riot 19 Agent Orange - A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad 20 The Offspring - Stuff is Messed Up 21 X - We're Desperate 22 The Ramones - I Wanna be Sedated 23 Steve Adamyk Band - Election Day 24 The Cute Lepers - The News is Always the Same 25 The Darling Buds - You've Got to Choose 26 The Diodes - Shape of Things to Come 27 The Grays - Both Sides Now 28 Scissor Sisters - Running Out 29 The Addicts - Stop the World I Wanna Get Off 30 The Chambers Brothers Time has Come Today 31 Mountain Goats - (I am Going to Make it through) This Year (if it Kills Me 32 David Bowie - Changes 33 Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come 34 The Doors - The End
This week's show is focused on Britpop's leading ladies. The boys of Britpop have got their due over the years, but in my opinion the ladies are all too often forgotten. So here they are in all their musical glory.
Kenickie -- Punka (1996)
The Audience -- I Know Enough ( I Don't Get Enough) (1998)
The Darling Buds -- Think Of Me (1988)
The Flatmates -- Happy All The Time (1985)
Velocette -- Get Yourself Together (1999)
Republica -- Drop Dead Gorgeous (1996)
Sleeper -- Delicious (1995)
Sleeper -- Lie Detectors (1996)
Dubstar -- No Morscrite (1997
Echobelly -- Car Fiction (1994)
Fluffy -- I Wanna Be Your Lush (1997)
Salad -- Drink The Elixir (1995)
Elastica -- Waking Up (1995)
Lush -- Hypocrite (1994)
The Popguns -- Living In Sin (1991)
