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KCRW Broadcast 821
Dec 29Tap to summarizeFanatic! It’s our last show for the year. Engineer X, Engineer Am-Rock and I would like to thank you so much for tuning in. We hope we kept things interesting and that you will stay with us as we go fanatically into 2025. Just my opinion, but I don’t think there’s ever been a time when music wasn’t essential to getting through the challenges life throws at us, seemingly at every turn. That being said, I think music becomes more of an asset in certain times. It keeps us inspired, curious and encouraged. I have no crystal ball for this kind of thing but it very well could be that we will be leaning on music pretty hard next year. Good thing for us, there’s a lot of good music to be heard and we’re going to listen to a lot of it. We hope you’ll find tonight’s show to be a good soundtrack for whatever you’re up to as 2024 draws to a close. Yesterday, Engineer X and I started putting the finishing touches on our first show for next year. It’s going to be a great one. Until then, keep jamming and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry Hour 1 Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice - Escalator Man / Reality Continuals- First Of Many Popsicles / Continuals David Bowie - The Secret Life Of Arabia / “Heroes” Snooper - On Line / Split W/ Prison Affair Ekko Astral - Head Empty Blues / Pink Balloons Pere Ubu - Life Stinks / The Modern Dance Naked Roommate - Successful Friend / Pass The Loofah Gyasi - Sweet Thing / Here Comes The Good Part Freak Genes - Reflective Surface / Delirik The Prids - Tell You Nothing / I Only Care About You And Me Kosmetika - Fish / Luxury Jay Reatard - Greed, Money, Useless Children / Blood Visions 1-800 Mikey - Japan / Digital Pet Hunger Anthem - Bloodsucker / Lift The Serfs - Outsider / Primal Matter Osess - Pixelated Moon / Sorcs 80 Dee Dee Ramone- Sheena Is A Punk Rocker / Greatest And Latest The Fall - Time Enough At Last / Code: Selfish Quix*o*tic - Ice Cream Sundae / Mortal Mirror Omar Souleyman - Rahat Al Chant Ymme / Erbil Hour 2 Tófa - Revenge / Mauled Dinosaur Jr. - Been There All TheTime / Beyond The Jesus & Mary Chain - Subway / The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities Jealous Yellow - Purple Crayon / Czech Vampires XYZ – Bubblegum / XYZ Cosey Mueller - Falsches Ding / Soft Core Deerhoof - +81 / Friend Opportunity Mark Stewart + Maffia - High Ideals And Crazy Dreams / Learning To Cope With Cowardice Devo - Shrivel Up/ Are We Not Men? Bloods - What Do I Care / Rice Is Nice Vol.2 Mixtape Corker - Wiring / Hallways Of Grey Bat Fangs - Turn It Up / Bat Fangs Joy Division - Failures / Substance Prison Affair - Celebrate Your Death / Demo IV Wire - Mannequin (mono) / Pink Flag Autobahns - Loss Of The Rights / First LP Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Live At Woodstock
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Jan 19, 2025Tap to summarizeFanatic. I hope you had a good week. Hopefully the winds that have been feeding the fires in Southern California are pulling back and allowing firefighting personnel to make advances against the flames. One of our listeners has lost his home. This is his gofundme.com page. There are people who are unfortunately politicizing this catastrophe. Please do not lose sight of the hard fact that a lot of good people are suddenly without a home to live in, a school to go to or much else but the clothes. This is not the time to point fingers. Clean up, restoration, and the other heavy lifts will be costly and take years to complete. Fanatic, as you’re probably well aware, days ago, we lost the great film director David Lynch. I had the good fortune to be in one of his films and to have visited with him on many occasions. Our conversations were always fascinating, ranging from music to art to whatever else was on his mind. My manager, Heidi reminded me that years ago. She and I did a podcast of me recounting stories from being with David. I thought you might like to hear it, so here’s the address. We have a tremendous gathering of tunes for you tonight. Hopefully, you’ll have a really great time listening. Have a good weekend, play as much music as you can until we meet again next week and stay Fanatic. –– Henry
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Jan 12, 2025Tap to summarizeFanatic. I hope no matter where you are that you’re safe and in good condition. I can’t explain how sorry I am for what has been lost. We hope you enjoy tonight’s gathering of tracks. Thank you so much for tuning in. Be safe and stay Fanatic. –– Henry Hour 1 Buzzcocks- Promises / Singles Going Steady The Damned - Turkey Song / Machine Gun Etiquette 25th Anniversary Edition Devo - Turn Around / Freedom Of Choice Anno - Joy In The Face Of Something / Anno Joy Division - Insight / BBC Recordings Metal Urbain – Panik / Anarchy In Paris! Khana Bierbood - Jai Yak Jai Marn / Monolam The Jesus & Mary Chain – Fall / The Complete John Peel Sessions Melt-Banana - Puzzle / 3+5 Naked Roommate - Broken Whisper / Pass The Loofah Wire - Just Don't Care / Behind The Curtain: Early Versions 1977 & 78 Gyasi - Snake City / Here Comes The Good Part Cherry Cheeks - Alone / Cherry Cheeks Kosmetika - Kicks / Pop Soap The Fall - Firey Jack / Early Singles Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice / These Boots Kilynn Lunsford - No Disabuse / Custodians Of Human Succession Eric Dolphy - Hat And Beard / Out To Lunch Hour 2 1-800 Mikey - Story / Digital Pet The Gun Club - Devil In The Woods / Keats Rides A Harley Le Butcherettes - Tunisia / Don't Bleed Cosey Mueller - Trotzstadt / Soft Core Surapon - Ding Dong / Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol. 02 Satanic Togas - 1998 / Illusions /1998 7” MC5 - The American Ruse / The Big Bang! Best Of The MC5 Chain & The Gang - Livin' Rough / Best Of Crime Rock Otoboke Beaver - Monmon Katto Saizensen / Okoyashu!! Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down / Shake 'Em On Down 1959 Parliament - Side Effects / Chocolate City Des Demonas - Arthur Lee Bomb Squad / Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! Bratmobile - In Love With All My Lovers / Ladies, Women And Girls Adaptors - Trust In Technology / TV Dinner #27 Niney & The Soul Syndicate - Kingsgate Version / Sledgehammer Dub - Observer Style Michel Gonet - Warm Moments / Futura The Scientists - You Only Live Twice / When Worlds Collide Olimpia Splendid - Häpeän Huilut / Olimpia Splendid
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Jan 5, 2025Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope you had a great week and that no matter where you are, the weather is not too severe. Here we are, together again in a new year. It’s not for me to talk about an upcoming release before a band or label does but I know for sure there are some really good records coming out this year and we will definitely be checking them out. We hope you dug last year’s shows and look forward to keeping the music happening all through this year. These are some of the records I checked out over the last few days. Chain And The Gang – Live At Third Man Iggy Pop And James Williamson – Kill City (2024 limited blue vinyl pressing) David Bowie Bow – “Heroes” The Prids - I Only Care About You And Me Otoboke Beaver - Okoyashu!! David Boring - Unnatural Objects And Their Humans The Cult Maniax – Where Do We All Go I’ve been listening to the tracks for tonight’s show over the last few days and I think we’ve struck a good balance. We hope that you enjoy the tunes and thank you so much for taking the time. Until next week, be well and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry
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Dec 22, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope you had a great week and had a chance to listen to some music. I’ve been playing a lot of those very cool Stooges rehearsal compilation LPs. A lot of the tracks overlap but I don’t mind. I think it’s these records that show how great this band was. My Girl Hates My Heroin Rubber Legs Till The End Of The Night Heavy Liquid Wild Love Fanatic Denise steered me to a very cool record called Versions Of Modern Performance by a band called Horsegirl. The vinyl just arrived. Good record. We’ll start tracks soon. Tonight we’re going to listen to a new track by Dax Riggs. It’s been a long time since this very talented musician put out any music. As far as I know, there are two tracks available from his upcoming release, 7 Songs For Spiders which comes out in late January of next year. Really looking forward to this one. The Czech Vampires album by Jealous Yellow Is really good. Tonight’s track by Agender is from their upcoming album due next year. I haven’t heard it yet, but I’m looking forward to it. Here’s info on the track we’re playing tonight. Hopefully, you’ll find tonight’s show to be a good soundtrack for the weather you’re in. Engineer X and I are putting the finishing touches on next week’s show and will soon send it to Engineer Am-Rock. Thanks for listening and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry
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Dec 15, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope you had a great and music-filled week. For the most part, I’ve been tied to my desk doing a lot of scanning, proofreading, editing, and writing. I’ve also been able to get some records played. These are but a few. Naked Roommate – Pass The Loofah The Stooges – Rubber Legs The Stooges – Heavy Liquid The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette David Bowie – “Heroes” Joy Division – Alternative Still Joy Division – Misplaced Snooper / Prison Affair – split 7” Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance If you’ve ever heard the excellent Black Flag Jealous Again 12” EP, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the vocals of the great Ron Reyes. His family is facing some immense challenges right now. You can find out more here. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-mom-fight-stage-4-mantle-cell-lymphoma Engineer X and I have just put the finishing touches on next week’s show. We’ve got a track from Girl Tones in the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vOSkn1E3oQ We hope you enjoy tonight's show. Thank you so much for tuning in! Until next week, keep smiling in defiance and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry Hour 1 David Bowie - Joe The Lion / “Heroes” Roxy Music - Editions Of You / For Your Pleasure Gun Club - Black Train / Fire Of Love 1-800 Mikey - Rental Girlfriend / Digital Pet Einstürzende Neubauten - Jet'm / Kollaps 999 - Subterfuge / Separates Cosey Mueller - I Am Soft / Soft Core The C.I.A. - Content / Surgery Channel The Stooges - Real Cool Time / The Stooges Kosmetika - Mne Nadoeli / Illustration Prison Affair - Last Meal / Demo IV Billy Prager and His Caravans - Do It Bop / Automatic Bop - Volume 2 Des Demonas - Psychic Bloc / Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! The Green Child - Easy Window / Look Familiar Bratmobile - Affection Training / Ladies, Women And Girls Deerhoof - Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back / Offend Maggie The Son Of P.M. - Klong Yao / The Shadow Music Of Thailand Discharge – A Look At Tomorrow / Why The Fall - Winter (Hostel-Maxi) / Hex Enduction Hour Devo - Mr. B's Ballroom / Freedom Of Choice Hour 2 Snooper - Company Car / Split 7” w/ Prison Affair Le Butcherettes - Boulders Love Over Layers of Rock / Cry Is For The Flies Alan Vega - Why Couldn't It Be You? / Station Liz Lamere - Strike / One Never Knows Martin Rev - Jacks And Aces / Strangeworld Autobahns - Tellin' Ya / First LP! Laut Fragen - Zeit / Age Of Angst Shove - Fire / Agency Corker - Molotov / Falser Truths John Inzane Olson - One / Exported Presence "Inhabited Ceilings" Billy Eckstine - Caravan / Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best Of The M-G-M Years Screensaver - Static State / Expressions Of Interest Guerilla Toss - Human Girl / Human Girl Black Eyes - On The Sacred Side / Black Eyes Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice - Collapse / Remember The Future? Vol.1 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze / The Singles Collection El Guapo - Pick It Up / Fake French The Fall - Winter 2 / Hex Enduction Hour Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' / Those Funky 70's
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Dec 8, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope you had a great week. I’ve been checking out some good records. Sun Ra - Inside The Light World (Sun Ra Meets The OVC)Corker - Falser TruthsJoy Division - Live At Malvern Winter Gardens April 5th 1980David Bowie – “Heroes”Heather The Jerk - Not Very MotorcycleMolly Nilsson - Un-American Activities Heather The Jerk who hails from Madison, Wisconsin has a new cassette and download release which came out yesterday called Not Very Motorcycle, which is really good. We’ll start tracks the week after next! I just got this 7” of Kim Salmon. Anything he does is worth checking out to me. I think we’ve got a good show for you tonight. Soon, we’ll be starting tracks from some of the bands on the Damnably label as well as those two cool songs from Girl Tones. Sorry not to get a track from the new Des Demonas record in this week but we will be back on the case next week. As you’re probably well aware, most of the new bands were listening to on the show you can find very easily on Bandcamp. We hope you enjoy tonight’s show! Until next week, keep the music on and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry
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Dec 1, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I understand that the Thanksgiving holiday can sometimes be intense for some people who have to gather with members of their family who they might have strong disagreements with, spend hours with them, ending with a grand meal set at a table before all parties are allowed to stagger away fuming and go back to their respective dwellings. The angry parties, all swearing vengeance, promise to do it all over again around this time next year. Sounds crazy to me but humans are highly complex creatures. Tonight’s show is ever so slightly conceptual. If you notice, Generation X tracks start both hours. We are doing this because it is Billy Idol's birthday. Happy birthday, Billy! I did some great listening over the last few days, here are a few of the records I checked out. Sun Ra – Ra To The Rescue Eric Dolphy – Out There Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound Corker – Hallways Of Grey Boris / Coaltar Of The Deepers 12” Doe St – Doe St J Mascis - What Do We Do Now Joy Division – Pictures In My Mind Des Demonas – Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned – Music For Pleasure Iggy Pop – The Idiot The new Des Demonas album Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! came out yesterday. It’s really good. https://intheredrecords.com/collections/store/products/des-demonas-s-t-copy Cool bands you might never have heard of but are easily checked out on Bandcamp. David Boring https://davidboring.bandcamp.com/album/unnatural-objects-and-their-humans-remastered-2020-2 Otoboke Beaver https://otobokebeaver.bandcamp.com/album/okoshiyasu-otoboke-beaver-remastered-2018 Xiaowang https://xiaowang.bandcamp.com/album/kachakacha Drinking Boys And Girls Choir https://band-dbgc.bandcamp.com/album/marriage-license Say Sue Me https://saysueme.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-were-together I really like the lyrics of Old Town All of these bands are on the Damnably label out of the UK. Worth checking out. We’ll be getting tracks from these bands into upcoming shows. https://damnably.bandcamp.com Fanatic, tonight’s show I do believe is a happening mix of new and old that you’ll hopefully find enjoyable. Taleen Kali’s cover of Cupid Come by My Bloody Valentine is really good. We’re playing a track from the new Des Demonas album, a cool live version of the great Roland S Howard channeling Billy Idol’s classic track White Wedding and we finish the show with David Bowie doing Wild Is The Wind from Station To Station which I think is one of his greatest vocal performances. And somehow the Misfits and the Gun Club also found their way into the show as well. You can chalk that up to good planning. We wish Billy Idol the happiest of birthdays and hope you have a great time digging tonight’s show. Until next week, keep finding humor in situations you previously couldn’t imagine it existed and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry Hour 1 Gen X - Dancing With Myself / Kiss Me Deadly False Start - Bikini Kill / Reject All American Devo - Blockhead / Duty Now For The Future Lothario - G.E.N.E / Hogtied XYZ - It Ain't Fair / Artificial Flavoring Taleen Kali - Cupid Come (My Bloody Valentine cover) / dl Prison Affair - I'm Leaving Broken / Demo IV Miles Davis - Générique / Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud Ekko Astral - Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between L'enfant And Eastern Market / Pink Balloons Street Sweeper - Don’t Wait / New The Adverts - Back From The Dead / Punk Singles Collection Des Demonas - Obsession / Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! The Fall - Mess Of My / Complete Peel Sessions: 1978-2004 Kosmetika - Eighty Four / Illustration Kraftwerk - It's More Fun To Compute / Computerwelt Rowland S. Howard - White Wedding / Mandarin Club 18 June 18 2005 The Misfits - Teenagers From Mars / Box Set Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Datura (Memorials remix) / Remezcla Hour 2 Generation X - Night Of The Cadillacs / Valley Of The Dolls Conrad Schnitzler - Blau Bonus / Blau Control Top - Tooth / Control Top Khana Bierbood - Fi Rak Senae-ha / Monolam Lost Sounds - Soon This Tomb / Black Wave Delivery - New Alphabet / Force Majeure Mr. Teenage - The Loser / Automatic Love The Gun Club - The Breaking Hands / Mother Juno Pôle - Osiris / Kotrill Autobahns - Tellin' Ya / First LP! The Jesus & Mary Chain - Lowlife / The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides And Rarities Aus - 1000 Umdrehungen / Aus Kuupuu - Pahan Lintu / Lumen Tähden Oog Bogo - Culprit / Plastic Iggy Pop - Baby / The Idiot David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind / Station To Station
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Nov 24, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope you had a most excellent up-to-here with music week since we last got together on the radio. I’ve got my sleep cycle under a fair bit of control. I’m up early and have all or most of my desk work done by early evening, which allows me to get some records played every night. The listening has been tremendous. Jealous Yellow – Czech Vampires LPSnooper / Prison Affair split 7”Abi Ooze – RIP 7”Satanic Togas - Illusion / 1998 7”Des Demonas - Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! McGinty, the finder of great music sent me a link to this cool band Girl Tones Again video.Fade Away video.I can’t find a way to download the songs yet. I listened to this record last night, really good. Jealous Yellow – Czech Vampires The new Des Demonas album Apocalyptic Boom! Boom! Comes out next week. It’s great. I think for tonight we’ve struck a good balance and hopefully you’ll find the grouping of tunes to be a good soundtrack to whatever you’re doing. We always aim for the cool mixtape feel. Engineer X and I have finished next week’s show, our first for Fanatic December 2024. I listened to all the tracks back yesterday and I think it will be a great way to start the month. There’s nothing to fear, just things to do. Until then, take incredibly good care of yourself, fill the air with music and STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry
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Nov 17, 2024Tap to summarizeFanatic! I hope your week was buoyant and full of music. I’ve been getting in good vinyl sessions after work every single night. It’s been Joy Division bootlegs, the Bratmobile reissues, Station To Station, The Idiot, Machine Gun Etiquette, Music For Pleasure, the Cramps Live at Max's Kansas City bootleg and some of the more recent Wolf Eyes albums, to name but a few. The listening has been premium. Or as the Necros used to say, “choice!” The new Des Demonas LP Apocalyptic Boom Boom! is coming out at the end of the month on In The Red and it’s really good. We’ll start tracks from it later this month. https://intheredrcords.com/collections/des-demonas/products/des-demonas-s-t-copy Every once in a while, an old person can do what a young person does and not look ridiculous. Listening to music is one of those things. I think music is one of the better deals we humans ever got. In fact, maybe it’s the best. Maybe we should invest as much of our time in health, music, art, and culture as we can and leave the mediocre content to the squares. Just an idea. Fanatic, we hope you will find tonight’s selection of tunes to be an excellent soundtrack no matter when or how or from where you’re listening. We cannot thank you enough for taking the time to tune in. I’m about 100% sure you have quite a few options so it means a lot that you’re checking out the show. Just yesterday, Engineer X and I put the finishing touches on next week’s show and it’s a great one. We hope you’ll dig what we’ve got lined up for you tonight. Until next week, remain healthy, defiant, curious and of course STAY FANATIC!!! –– Henry Hour 1 Iggy Pop - The Passenger / Lust For Life Kraftwerk - Computerwelt / Computerwelt Scott Walker - The Girls And The Dogs / Sings Jacques Brel Einstürzende Neubauten - Aufrecht Gehen / Kalte Sterne The Fall - It's The New Thing / Live At The Witch Trials (CD extra track) Barbiturates - Double Happiness / Shades Ekko Astral - Buffaloed / Pink Balloons Freak Genes - Deliria / Delirik Autobahns - Ciapa Male / First LP! Omar Souleyman - Don't Wear Black - Green Suits You Better / Highway To Hassake The Green Child - Private Laugh / Look Familiar Cherry Cheeks - Gone / Cherry Cheeks Wire - A Flat Ten / Red Barked Tree Bratmobile - Cheap Trick Record / Ladies, Women And Girls Kosmetika - Opaque / Illustration Edward Hazelton - Hard Rock Is My Pillow / One String Blues David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself / Bowie At The Beeb Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man / Conjure Man Les Vampyrettes - Menetekel / Les Vampyrettes 12” Hour 2 Sex Mex - We're So Nice (Now) / Sex Mex '23 Eggy - Begin At The End / With Gusto Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata / Pata Pata The Beatles - I Am The Walrus (mono) / Magical Mystery Tour Jackie Lomax - Is This What You Want? / Is This What You Want? Split System - The Blues / Vol. 2 Robert Sotelo & Mary Currie - Dream States / Dream Songs Ruts DC - Psychic Attack / Music Must Destroy Prima Donnas - Yr. So Cool / Drugs, Sex And Discotheque Chain And The Gang - For Practical Purposes (I Love You) / Music's Not For Everyone Joy Division – Shadowplay / Unknown Pleasures Prison Affair - Quizás / Split w/Snooper Terrible Truths - See Straight / Terrible Truths Slim Gaillard - Atomic Cocktail / Cement Mixer Putti Putti The Prize - One Day At A Time / The Prize / The Unknowns Split Birthday Party - Kewpie Doll / Junkyard The Open Mind - The Magic Potion / The Psychedelic Snarl Ornette Coleman - Check Out Time / Love Call
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