Modcast #108: Listen to the Boom

Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World, have I got a treat for you (and you thought Halloween was over and there were no more treats!). Actually two treats: a couple of live tracks I bagged last week at The Sonics appearance at the Paramount in Seattle on Halloween night. Known as the boom heard 'round the world, the band was booming all right.

It was the legendary garage rockers first show in their native Northwest in 35 years. Still, they didn't miss a beat pounding out 90 minutes of original, blistering, garage punk. The rest of the show pays homage with lots of Sonics influenced, ballsy, sixties sounding, trash punk. Another Northwest garage group, Girltrouble, opened the show. These guys (and girl) have been playing for 25 years and in these parts are nearly as legendary as The Sonics themselves. The rest of this show is loud and fast, so turn up your computer speakers, your iPod, your stereo or whatever and enjoy.

• The Sonics -- Strychnine (Live Halloween 2008)
  
• Girl Trouble -- The Joker
  
• The Fall-Outs -- She's Out There
  
• The Fuzztones -- Ward 81
  
• The Mooney Suzuki -- Yeah, You Can
  
• The Hives -- Main Offender
  
• The Cynics -- Comin' Round My Way
  
• The Fleshtones -- American Beat
  
• The Standells -- Barracuda
  
• Naz Nomad & The Nightmares -- Action Woman
  
• The Sonics -- The Witch (Live Halloween 2008)

Girl Trouble - My Hometown


Questions? Requests? Are you in a mod band? Were you in a band a way back when? Spread the love and send me some MP3s and I'll work them into a future show. E-mail me at mailto:rob@mistersauve.com.


Naz Nomad - I Can't Stand This Love Goodbye



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(Halloween) Modcast #107: Monsters A-Go-Go!

Halloween 2008: Monsters A-Go-Go!

Be afraid, be very afraid. Ken from The Shingles is at the controls of the modcast this week and if that doesn't scare you, nothing will. Get haunted.

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• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Phantom of The Opera (Are A Drag, 1999)
  
• The Damned - Wait For The Blackout (Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987, 2002)
  
• Colourfield - Pushing Up Daisies (Virgins And Philistines, 1985)
  
• Bobby Fuller Four - Wolfman (Never To Be Forgotten: The Mustang Years, 1998)
  
• The Woggles - Dracula's Daughter (Monster Party 2000, 2000)
  
• Dead 60s - Ghostfaced Killer (The Dead 60s, 2005)
  
• The Slackers - The Mummy (The Question, 1998)
  
• Deadbolt - Billy's Dead (Voodoo Trucker, 2000)
  
• Swamp Zombies - Creeps (Scratch and Sniff Car Crash, 1990)
  
• The Ghastly Ones - Ghastly Stomp (A-Haunting We Will Go-Go, 1998)
  
• Eddie Angel & The Omega Men - Frankie's Groovy Monster Boots (Monster Party 2000, 2000)
  
• Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk (Legacy of Gene Miller, 1995)
  
• R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House (Essential Collection, 2001)
  
• The Kinks - Wicked Annabella (Village Green Preservation Society, 1968)
  
• Ethel Ennis - Mad Monster Party (Mad Monster Party: Official Motion Picture Soundtrack (1998)

Video clip from "Mad Monster Party" - The Mummy!:

Modcast #106: You're Wondering Now

It's a good day indeed when you can say that Stereolab is back, and back with a pop passion that they haven't had for some time. I saw them on Friday night here in Seattle, the first time I've ever seen the band live. Absolutley incredible show, incredible because for me it was like seeing a totally different band. I went in knowing full-well of the band's eclectic past. Their sound over the years has twisted around like a tornado throwing out bits of space age bachelor pad music, bossa nova enahnced electronica, sweet sixties lounge, and synthesized soul. I expected a more cerebral show. But I was greeted with a band driven by a drummer setting an insane pace and what at times was as hard and rocking as any punk show I've ever seen. The songs were the same, the intensity was dialed up, and there was a very clear rock and roll core there that doesn't always show up on their albums. It was delightful. All that to say that this week's modcast opens with a track from Stereolabs new release, runs on along and closes with another new release from London's Supernovas, a band that is on a self-proclaimed mission to trigger a new mod revival. It's a good show that I think you'll enjoy.

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• Stereolab - Daisy Click Clack
• Amy Winehouse -- You're Wondering Now
• The Pepper Pots -- Be My Baby
• The Equals -- Police On My Back
• Spencer Davis Group -- Somebody Help Me
• Yellow Balloon - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
• The Mob -- Give It To Me
• The Dilettantes -- Ready To Go
• Fred Leslie's Missing Link -- Pinball Count
• The Groovy Cellar -- Of All The Girls In The World
• The Supernovas -- City Of Smoke

The Supernovas -- Ace Face

The Groovy Cellar -- When You Fly Away

From the Vaults: Modcast #38 Mod, Rock, & Soul

Once more into the vault my friends, once more into the vault. Step back in time, to a time when the modcast was young and fresh. Step back to 2007. I've opened up the vaults and dusted off a classic modcast that I think you'll enjoy. Again.

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Modcast #38 complete with a little soul and a lot of rock and roll.

• The Mosquitos -- Put Your Foot Down
• The Machine -- Nobody Wants You
• The Equals -- Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys
• The Untouchables -- I Spy (For the FBI)
• Straight Up -- One Out All Out
• The Rakes -- 22 Grand Job
• Dirty Pretty Things -- Doctors & Dealers
• The Cogburns -- Rollers Rip
• The New Breed -- Unto Us
• Yardbirds -- Drinking Muddy Water
• Risk -- Should Have Known Better

Bonus Video: Here's "Left, Right & Center" by Lord Large, featuring vocals by Dean Parish. Interestingly, this song was penned by a young, teen-aged Paul Weller, well before his days with the Jam, and shows the obvious influence of soul music at a time when you would have thought he was more focused on power-pop bordering on punk. Of course the soul influence would resurface on later Jam albums. Lucky for us we have this now.



E-mail me at rob@mistersuave.com

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Modcast #105: I Wanna Be A Mod

What a week. If you're a financier you've been on a wild ride. And if you're not, well you've probably been watching it all from the comfort of your couch -- if you still have one.

Suddenly there is lots of cool new music flooding the markets, the scene is topsy turvy with recent and still to come releases. Next week alone will see a brand new album from Oasis, as well as new mod jazz outfit Trio Valore Inc. And you are going to your first little taste of both on this week's modcast. Also on tap this week is new stuff from Raphael Saadiq, the Private Jets, Brazillian sensation Ari Borger, and Secret Beauty Cream. So as not to overdose on the new drugs, I dug through the suave music vault and have dusted off some old faves from the likes of The Unclaimed and the Goldstars. You can check out some cool bonus videos on the modcast homepage at www.mistersuave.com from Ari Borger and Trio Valore.

No doubt, the wildness isn't over. So, buckleup kids because I'm going to take you on your own wild ride right now.

• Oasis -- Bag It Up
  
• Private Jets -- I Wanna Be A Private Jet
  
• The Nice Outfit -- This Time Next Year
  
• The Goldstars -- Babblin' Brook
  
• Trio Valore Inc -- Dam Square
  
• Ari Borger Quartet -- Soul 61
  
• Raphael Saadiq -- 100 Yard Dash
  
• The Excessories -- Punk Rock Boy
  
• The Unclaimed -- The Sorrow
  
• The Del-Monas -- Lies
  
• Secret Beauty Cream -- Attitude

Questions? Requests? Are you in a mod band? Were you in a band a way back when? Spread the love and send me some MP3s and I'll work them into a future show. E-mail me at mailto:rob@mistersauve.com.

Trio Volare - Paint It Black (Live)


Ari Borger Quartet - Progama do Jô


The Del-Monas -- I Feel Like (recorded in 1986 especially in French for Belgian TV)


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Modcast #104: Your Big Sister Said You Ain't Never Been Cool

This week's show is a little longer than usual but it's worth it. Got a great big strong soul vibe going. With the new soul revival in full swing it seems there's always new --and old-- stuff to discover and enjoy. Got a great live track from JTQ, some new stuff from the Upper 5th and Buttonup among other things -- such as Lucky Soul, who is fast becoming one of my favorites. One other especially nice treat here is the new track by Adrian Holder, former front man for The Moment. He's putting together a new album and if it's anything like what you can get a taste of on his Myspace page then it will be one hell of a release. Mod on, kids, mod on.

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• Swing out Sister -- I'd Be Happy
  
• Adrian Holder -- Ordinary Lover
  
• The Upper 5th -- Best Be On My Way
  
• Trolley -- Your Big Sisters Said
  
• Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators -- If This Ain't Love
  
• Lucky Soul -- Aint Never Been Cool
  
• Buttonup -- Turn It Up To Bring It Down
  
• The New Mastersounds (feat. Dionne Charles) -- Looking For An Answer
  
• Gene Drayton Unit -- Teenage Kicks
  
• The James Taylor Quartet -- I Feel The Earth Move
  
• The Strike -- You Can Forget It

Let me know how I'm doing and what you think. E-mail me at rob@mistersuave.com.

Bonus Videos

New Mastersounds -- Carrot Juice


Lucky Soul -- Add Your Light to Mine

From the Vaults: Modcast #23 Solid Suave Mod Sounds

Once more into the vault my friends, once more into the vault. Step back in time, to a time when the modcast was young and fresh. Step back to October of '06. I've opened up the vaults and dusted off a classic modcast that I think you'll enjoy. Again.

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Welcome to episode #23 of Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World. This week I've got The Friday Club, Elastica, Too Many Crooks and Raymond Lefever and His Orchestra among others. This week's mod lineage starts with Blondie, to Elastica to The Sounds. And if you don't know The Sounds, then track down their albums. They're a Swedish rock act that pretty much recreates the look and feel, if not exactly the sound, of Blondie, right down to their platinum blonde lead singer. Below is the video for their song Hit Me, which is strikingly similar to Blondie's 1976 video for X-Offender.

Shel Naylor -- One Fine Day

Joe Jackson -- I'm The Man

Linda Lyndell -- What A Man

Friday Club -- Window Shopping

Blondie -- X-Offender

Elastica -- Waking Up

Sounds -- Song With A Mission

Too Many Crooks -- Too Many Crooks

The Untouchables -- Mandingo

Critical Mass -- You Wanna Brawl

Raymond Lefevre -- Le Gendarme Pop

If you have any questions be sure to e-mail me at rob@mistersuave.com

The Sounds -- Hit Me


Blondie -- X-Offender (1976)


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Modcast #103: Back in the Saddle Again

Here in the states the Labor Day weekend signifies the end of summer; the final three-day holiday that will be spent working around the house; the last of summer vacations; and a return to work-a-day and school schedules. That means me gettin' back to regularly producing the modcast.

Putting the show together proved to be harder than usual. I had a roster of songs to play but wasn't feeling it. I tossed 'em out and put together a completely new show. It was an excellent decision, and resulted in an excellent set of songs as I'm sure you'll agree. This week's show is packed with great music - as usual. You'll get a taste of new sounds from The Anydays and Andre Williams, as well as some older stuff from the Shambles, Yard Trauma, and more.

Questions? Requests? E-mail me at rob@mistersauve.com. Mod on.

• Smash – I beg you on my knees
• Kwyet Kings – Radiated by your charm
• The Shambles – Fire
• Yard Trauma – Sanity
• Andy Lewis – Soul Chancer
• The Kittens – Ain’t No Mor Room
• Andre Williams – I Don’t Need Mary (Juana)
• The Anydays – Rollercoaster
• The Tangerines – Rock N Roll Girl
• The Dovers – I Could Be Happy
• The Brakes – Hold Me In The River

The Anydays -- I Feel Free


Andy Lewis -- Tell Me Once Again You Love Me



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