December 28, 2021
The second week of Carl’s living room. We are listening to vinyl LP tracks in no particular order or plan, just playing tracks as if we were sitting together listening to records. Two bands I have know about for ages but never really checked out are back-to-back: Sharks and Love Spit Love. The former is Chris Spedding and Andy Fraser, and the later is Richard Butler post The Furs. A few weeks ago in the alphabetical 7″ series we hear 4 Skins and Golden Starlet. Here they appear from non-7″: 4 Skins from a 12″ (their only other release) and Golden Starlet from the anthology LP. We have 3 instances of famous folks outside of their normal orbits. Big Star’s Alex Chilton in a New Orleans cover band, Mark Sandman playing outside of Morphine in Hypnosonics, and Duff McKagan in pre-G’n’R band The Living. Robert Gordon has Tish & Snooky doing background vocals on The Catman (an ode to Gene Vincent), and a couple of unknowns (Mother Trucker and Noah) pull their weight with the company they sit in. Good stuff.
Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page
| Artist | Song | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Chilton and Hi Rhythm Section | Big Boss Man | Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street | Omnivore Recordings |
| Bob Mould | Baby Needs a Cookie | Blue Hearts | Merge Records |
| BMX Bandits | Do You Really Love Me ? | Star Wars | Last Night From Glasgow |
| Love Spit Love | Friends | Trysome Eatone | Real Gone Music |
| Sharks | Snakes And Swallowtails | First Water | MCA Records |
| Dr. John, The Night Tripper | Loop Garoo | Remedies | Get On Down |
| Eighth Route Army | Daily Beat | Nihilist Olympics | 1 Dimensional Records |
| 4 Skins | (I Said) Ugh! | White Neighborhood | Beatnote Records |
| Tav Falco | La Brigantessa | Club Car Zodiac | Org Music |
| The Feelies | Original Love | Crazy Rhythms | Bar/None Records |
| Robert Gordon | The Catman | Rock Billy Boogie | RCA |
| Golden Starlet | Hot Stuff | Token Gadgy | Paroxysm |
| Gruntruck | Tribe | Push | Real Gone Music |
| Jesse Hector | It’s You | It Ain’t Easy 1992-1996 | Just Add Water |
| The Higsons | Run Me Down (instrumental) | Run Me Down | Two-Tone Records |
| Artist | Song | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hypnosonics | Rub It In | Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions | Modern Harmonic |
| Jaklin | Look For Me Baby | Jaklin | Morgan Blue Town |
| The Paul Collins Beat | On The Highway | Another World (The Best Of The Archives) | Alive Records |
| NRBQ | You Can’t Change People | Dragnet | Omnivore Recordings |
| Nervous Eaters | Last Chance | Eaterville #2 | Penniman Records |
| King’s X | Smudge | Please Come Home…Mr. Bulbous | Svart Records |
| Neon Christ | After | 1984 | Southern Lord |
| The Living | Two Generation Stand | 1982 | Loosegroove Records |
| The Lipstick Killers | Shakedown USA | Strange Flash – Studio & Live ’78-81 | Grown Up Wrong! |
| John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers | The Same Way | A Hard Road | Sundazed Music |
| Mother Trucker | Rock N’ Roll Lady | Mother Trucker | Sundazed Music |
| Jobriath | Ooh La La | Creatures Of The Street | Elektra |
| Noah | We Wanna Be Free (Demo) | Brain Suck | Guerssen |
| The Legendary Pink Dots | Blacklist | The Golden Age | Metropolis |