Modcast #437: It's Later Than You Think (Halloween, 2019)

Halloween is here, mostly on time even if later than you think. And DJ Ken is back with his annual corn maze of music, this time around going old school, new school, and all cool. Do the trick or treat and enjoy yourself.

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Panic! At The Disco - It's Almost Halloween (Single, 2008)
Damned - Street Of Dreams (Phantasmagoria, 1985)
No More Kings - They're Coming To Get You Barbara (III, 2014)
Actionslacks - When Evil Comes Around (Actionslacks,2012)
Muck & The Mires - Creep You Out (Cellarful of Muck, 2011)
Plasticsoul - All Died Pretty (Therapy, 2017)
Riverdales - Squirm (Invasion USA, 2009)
Interrupters (with Tim Armstrong) - Phantom City (Say It Out Loud, 2016)
Baked A La Ska - Calling All Ghosts (Skalloween, 2019)
Blondie - Die Young Stay Pretty (Eat To The Beat, 1979)
Police - Murder by Numbers (B-side of "Every Breath You Take", 1983)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Talking Heads 77, 1977
Joy Division - Dead Souls (Still, 1981)
D.I. - Punk Rock Suicide (On The Western Front, 2007)
D.O.A. - Bring Out Your Dead (We Come in Peace, 2012)
Vista Blue - I'm Gonna Be You for Halloween (Tricks and Treats, 2019)
Dean Friedman - Death To The Neighbors (Squirrels In The Attic, 2005)
Connection - (It's A) Monsters' Holiday (Single, 2017)
Robbie Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died) (Country Love Songs, 1996
Chris Price - Suicide (Homesick, 2012)
Fats Waller - Abercrombie Had A Zombie (Fats Waller 1940-1941, 1998)
Guy Lombardo - Enjoy Yourself (Decca Records 24825, 1949)

Yolanda Montes Tongolele - Mambo de la Muerte

Halloween is here and the treat bag is loaded with Modcasts!

Halloween is upon us!

THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN MODCAST
Modcast #437: It's Later Than You Think (Halloween, 2019)
DJ Ken is back with his annual corn maze of music, this time around going old school, new school, and all cool. Do the trick or treat and enjoy yourself.

Ever year about this time DJ Ken hunkers down in his basement lacing his candy with some serious vinyl and carving his annual Halloween Modcast. Here's ELEVEN razorblade free bagfuls of halloween musical goodies! That's right 11 halloween modcasts hosted by DJ Ken from The Shingles.  Links below.

Modcast #107: Monsters A-Go-Go! (2008)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2008/10/halloween-modcast-107-monsters-go-go.html

Modcast #144: Something Wicked This Way Comes (2009)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2009/10/modcast-144-something-wicked-this-way.html

Modcast #181: Monsters Rule O.K. (2010)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2010/10/modcast-181-monsters-rule-ok.html

Modcast #216: No Costume, No Candy (2011)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2011/10/annual-halloween-modcast-216-no-costume.html

Modcast #249: Rest In Peace (2012)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2012/10/modcast-249-rest-in-peace.html

Modcast #283: How Do the Dead Come Back? (2013)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2013/10/modcast-283-halloween-special-2013-how.html

Modcast #311: Death Is A Lonely Business (2014)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2014/10/welcome-to-annual-halloween-modcast.html

Modcast #341: Dig My Own Grave ( Halloween 2015)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2015/10/halloween-is-upon-us-which-means-it-is.html

Modcast #372: And When I Die (Halloween 2016)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2016/10/modcast-372-and-when-i-die-halloween.html

Modcast #395: DJ Ken's 10th Annual Halloween Modcast #395: Back From The Dead (2017)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2017/10/dj-kens-10th-annual-halloween-modcast.html

Modcast #417 Death Is Amongst Us (Halloween 2018)
http://www.mistersuave.com/2018/10/modcast-417-death-is-amongst-us.html

Modcast #436: Alexa can you hear me?

If you have an Alexa, or any digital assistant, you know how musically inept it can be. Mary Queen of Cosmos, one of the biggest abusers of Alexa ever, joins me as we set out to prove just how horrible Alexa's musical prowess really is when it comes to mod friendly music.

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Graduate -- Acting My Age (1980)
The Truth -- Spread A Little Sunshine (1985)
The Strypes -- What A Shame (2013)
Selecter -- On My Radio (1980)
English Beat -- Twist And Crawl (1980)
Madness -- Bed & Breakfast Man (1979)
The Specials -- Enjoy Yourself (1980)
White Stripes -- We're Going To Be Friends (2001)
Would Be Goods -- The Camera Loves Me (1988)
Brilliant Corners -- Growing Up Absurd (1985)
Archie Bell & The Drells -- I Can't Stop Dancing (1968)


Under The Influence: 2 Tone Ska



Doris Day -- Enjoy Yourself (1950)

Modcast #435: Lean Into It

Here we go again with Modcast #435, packed with great music as always.

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The Truth -- Keep On Keeping On (2019)
Pale Lips -- Mary-Lou Sniffin' Glue (2016)
The Control Freaks -- I Hate Your Face (2019)
Sour Ops -- Tinder Flame (2019)
Dollyrots -- Do You Love Me (2019)
Right Here -- More Delusions (2019)
The Not Amused -- Punks In Parkas (2016)
Slumberjet -- (Theme From) Our Street (2019)
Seazoo -- Throw It Up (2019)
The Safes -- Universal Heartbeat (2019)
The Embryos -- Wake Up Screaming (2019)
TV's Daniel -- Maybe We'll All Die (2019)
Redd Kross -- The Party Underground (2019)
Eli Paperboy Reed -- Burn Me Up (2019)

The Not Amused


The Dollyrots -- In Your Face


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Modcast #434: Blast Off!

Here comes another full show of cool new music, got some power pop, some psychadelic garage sounds and a whole set of the ladies.

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The Decibels -- Hey Emily (2018)
Ray Paul -- I Need Your Love Tonight (2019)
Nick Eng -- It's Alright (2019)
The Jeanies -- I Think You're The Wrong one (2014)
David Brookings & The Average Lookings -- That Girl's Not Right (2019)
Sleeper -- Paradise Waiting (2019)
Whenyoung -- The Others (2019)
Bleached -- Hard To Kill (2019)
In Deed -- Don't Need, Don't Care (2019)
Genya Ravan -- He Got Me (Whe He Got His Pants On) (2019)
The Premonitions -- Give Back What You Take (2019)
The Recalls -- Choose One (2019)
The Total Rejection -- 15 Miles Out Of My Mind (2019)
The Night Times -- Watch Your Step (2019)
André M -- The Downtown Shuffle (2019) (pre-order)


Ray Paul & RPM -- Brokenhearted (Live 1979)


Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Can't You Feel My Heartbeat


The Decibels -- Radio

Modcast #433: Done Messing Around

No more messing around, just bringing you a great music mix. Some new stuff. Some old stuff. And, it is all fun stuff.

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Cromm Fallon -- Out of Control (2019)
Shanda & The Howlers -- She Don't Want A Man (2017)
Bee Bee Sea -- Be Bop Palooza (2019)
The Speedways -- Seen Better Days (2019)
Subculture -- The Kids Don't Dance (2019)
Car City -- Foolish Pride (2019)
The Embrooks -- Don't Look at Me (2019)
Jim Basnight -- Best Lover In The World (2019)
Ex-Teens -- The New Victorians (2019)
Translator -- Gravity (1985)
The Chemicals -- Out Of My Mind (1984) (Check out Meanbean's other reissues)
The Crows -- Don't Play Around (1980)
The Reputations -- I Believe You (1980)
The Rousers -- Magazine Girl (1979)
The Laissez Fairs -- Redundant Beacah (2019)

Shanda & The Howlers -- Blue Eyed Trouble



The Speedways -- They Don't Know

Modcast #432: Blues in the Beginning

Everyone knows that jazz and soul played a big part in the early mod scene, and so of course did the blues. Mostly white British youth became enamored of delta blues belted out by black American musicians in the mid to late '50s. The sounds of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Lightning Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson swamped London music clubs. A first wave of older players latched on to the music like Alexis Korner, Zoot Money, George Fame, Cyril Davies and Graham Bond. These early blues adopters took other younger musicians under the collective wings and mentored the future stars of the British invasion in rhythm & blues such as Long John Baldry, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Manfred Mann, Eric Burdon, Rod Stewart and more. It was these stars that the early mods embraced and turned into the icons of their burgeoning teen music scene. This then is the blues in the beginning of the mod era.

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Cyril Davies & His R&B All Stars -- Country Line Special (1962)
Davie Jones & The King Bees -- Liza Jane (1964)
George Fame & The Blue Flames -- Do The Dog (1963)
The Steampacket -- Baby Baby (1965)
The Artwoods -- If I Ever Get My Hands On You (1964)
Spencer Davis Group -- Midnight Train (1964)
Them -- Don't Start Crying Now (1964)
The Rolling Stones -- I'm A King Bee (1964)
The Kinks -- Bald Headed Woman (1964)
The Who -- Daddy Rolling Stone (1965)
The Yardbirds -- A Certain Girl (1964)
The Birds -- Next In Line (1965)
The Pretty Things -- Big City (1965)
Downliners Sect -- Tiger In Your Tank (1966)

The Birds - That's All I Need You For (cameo in The Deadly Bees 1966)


Mick Jagger talks about Cyril Davies


Eric Burdon, Stevie Winwood, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Rod Stewart (Steampacket) - I Feel Alright


Them - Here Comes The Night clip

Modcast #431: Jerry Dammers' Bootcamp

In 1980 musical currents were steeped in punk, post-punk, power pop, and new wave. The Specials were riding high off the success of their debut album, and founder Jerry Dammers pushed the band to immediately record a follow-up, More Specials. But rather than continue the DIY, punked up ska and reggae they had mastered on their first LP, Dammers pushed for doing something entirely different, something new and contrary to the popular sounds of the era.
[Updated June 2025. For more modern exotica check out Modcast #582: Modxotica.]

In an interview in mid-1980 Dammers said: "It's time for 2-Tone bands to begin getting experimental. Some of the home-grown ska has started to become a cliche. We've got to start all over again." So he drove The Specials in hard left turn creating an album of easy listening, exotica, lounge music. And young mods like yours truly ate it up.

We didn't realize we were cutting our teeth on lounge music and that it was training us up for the coming cocktail revolution of the 1990s. There's no doubt that Jerry Dammers trained mods to like lounge, exotica, tiki and other incredibly strange music that we embraced decades later. So who are the people Jerry really trained? Who are the graduates of Jerry Dammers' Bootcamp? DJ Ken from The Shingles joins me in highlighting a few of Dammers contemporaries and his musical progeny.

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The Specials - Holiday Fortnight (1980)
Beautiful South - Tonight I Fancy Myself (1990)
Colourfield - Thinking of You (1985)
Blur -- To The End (La Comedie, feat. Francoise Hardy) (1995)
Everything But The Girl - I Must Confess (1984)
Animal Nightlife - Love Is Just the Great Pretender (1985)
Buster Poindexter - Knock 'em Down Whiskey (1994)
Combustible Edison -- Blue (1994)
Love Jones -- Alcohol & Little Pills (2011)
Madness - Return of the Las Palmas 7 (1980)
English Beat -- Can't Get Used To Losing You (1980)
Supergrass -- Coffee In The Pot (2005)
Style Council -- Luck (1985)
Jerry Dammers -- Riot City (1985)

Jerry Dammers interview 2014


"It would never have happened without Jerry Dammers. It was Jerry Dammers made all that happen." The Specials / Jerry Dammers (2 Tone)


Paul Morley talks to Jerry Dammers