Smashin' Transistors: Recent Episodes
Dale Merrill
There were a handful of occasions to celebrate the first week of May. Cinco de Mayo. Kentucky Derby.
The Friday of that week is one of the most important holidays for many people from my homeland. Yes, I am talking about Michigan. And, yes, I am talking about the birth of Rockin' Robert Seger, born 177 years ago on May 6th.
It's not an official holiday in the state but let's put it this way. If you are in a crowd of people and something like Katmandu comes on and you don't let out a giant Woo! or Yeah!, the crowd will look at you like you are some sort of malcontent and most likely an apostate of the Mitten State.
What you'll hear:
Kim Weston – Soul On Fire Tha Retail Simps – Summertime The Neckbones – Eyeful The Drin – Move To Extinction -words from your host- Mr. and The Mrs. – Fukkkopps Loop – Isochrone Henry Flynt and the Insurrections – Go Down The Pinstripes – Fish On Land -words from your host- The Crawlies – Get On Down Sundog Summit – Whiskey Woman Jeremy Scott – Your Ice Cream’s Gonna Melt One Day Ian Hunter – Just Another Night -words from your host- Clinic – Miracles The Salem Trials – Shutting Down Pylon- Dub Dom and the Wizards – Heavenly Sweet Little Skin Wrapped Skeleton -words from your host- Jug and the Bugs – Hurrying Shawn David McMillen – Kick Off Your Shoes Waylon Thornton – Amnesiac Amber Boardroom The Saints – This Time -words from your host-
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"Still on this side of the daisies" is now my new favorite response when asked how the day is going.
Not sure if it's an actual southern colloquialism but a sassy Chapel Hill lady well into her eighth decade of living said that to me recently when I asked her such a question. I found it quite poetic.
What you'll hear:
Waylon Jennings – Stop The World (and Let Me Off) Julie Doiron – Et Mom Amour Nick Lowe – Mary Provost Jeremy Scott- What Am I Talking About -words from your host- Headkicker – The Law The Drin – For The Tsarina Ify Jerry Krusade – Everybody Like Something Good The Crawlies – Way It Goes -words from your host- Toe Ring – Staring At The Sun Spiritualized – The Mainliner Song Print Head – Slippin’ ADULT. – Fools (We Are) -words from your host- Star Party – Shot Down Mudhoney – You Got It Reaper’s Gong – Bed Of Mutilation Jon Spencer and the Hit Makers – Junk Man -words from your host- Tha Retail Simps – 25 Step Program Sonic Chicken 4 – Shalalalove Lifters – Stop Holding On to Me The New Lime – Ain’t Got No Soul -words from your host-
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Except it's not really gold in color. It's more of a weird bright yet sickly yellow. And it falls from the skies before doing the things it does in the earth.
The seed plants of the US southeast have started have gone all on their yearly horndog already. Time to open the windows up to let the air in but only for a very short time. The gymnosperms don't give a damn where the goops of reproduction land.
If you landed on this post through googlin' The Pollening, I guess it shows some of my SEO tools are still sharp. Now just don't go up hoarding the facial tissues for yourself, ok?
What you'll hear:
XTC – Beattown Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones – Winter Palace Gino and the Goons – I’m Your Man Tha Retail Simps – Rock n’ Roll -words from your host- Air Vent Dweller – Heat Wave Minor Threat – Screaming At The Wall Crash The Superyacht – Like A Rash The Statics – Can’t Get Enough -words from your host- Green/Blue – Bad Looks Zurich Cloud Motors – ‘56 Chevelle Kalemaris - Frk. Arm & Dr. Konto Hélène Barbier – You Little Nothing -words from your host- Power Flower – Whippet Schizos – Gross CIA Debutante – No To A Mirror Siouxsie and the Banshees – Trophy -words from your host- Honey Radar – Plum Scouts Exek – (I’m After Your) Best Interest NicFit – Flux The Persuaders – I Ain’t Your Daddy -words from your host-
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Here it is a new year. It's been since last year that Smashin' Transistors sent out a broadcast transmission. The work/life/the record company thang/world in general imposed exile is over. Never had any PTO available to use for it anyhow so I knew I'd be back. Just took a bit
What you'll hear: Teenage Boatpeople – My Friends Know Too Much The Notwist – Exit Strategy To Myself Gentleman Jesse – Compass Bat Fangs – Talk Tough -words from your host- Lappen – Nachtschweiß Rearranged Face – Menaced Assassin Ivy Green – I’m Your Television Power Supply – Let’s Do This and Let’s Do That -words from your host- The Mary Veils – Rowhome The Cowboy – Galaxy Jam Honey Radar – Sunrise Alphabet Smirk - Step -words from your host- M.A.Z.E. – Her Smile Is Fake Dom and the Wizards – Outlaws and the Cops MARV – Con Moto Brute Spring – Into Ribbons -words from your host- Helene Barbier – Unbolted Cover R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day - Hands In The Dark 208 – Red Cat Dale Hawkins – Tornado
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We got our Thanksgiving turkey a week or so ago. Kept it in the freezer until last night. For those who may know, the Smashin' Transistors digs share space with the Mr. Ripperpotamus; the figurehead of Bancroft Records.
If there is one thing that dude obsesses over, it is turkey. Every time we go to the kitchen, he reminds us that there is a turkey defrost in the fridge. Tomorrow, he will set of camp in that very kitchen and remind us every ten minutes that there is a turkey cooking in the oven. We will not get any peace until some slivers of it are in his belly.
Then he will sleep for ten hours.
Barry Jones – Turkey Walk Rearranged Face – Lonely Elevator Les Fille de Illighadad – Innsegh Innsegh The Byrds – What’s Happening -words from your host- Heavenly Blue – Shoplifter The Pops – Heart Attack The Control Freaks – Don’t Trust Print Head – Sick -words from your host- Rat Columns – It’s Your Time (To Suffer) Lil Ugly Mane – Benadryl Submarine Sweeping Promises – Out Again Power Supply – I Got Feelings Too -words from your host- The Courettes – I Can Hardly Wait The Hot Blood – Something Is Bringing My Baby Down Wayne, Pat and Keith – I’m Tired Of You Satan Shop Regulars – Mischief -words from your host- Chemical Bank – In Cop Land Fairyport Convent – High and Stoned Bluez Blues Lawyer – Scenic Route The Living End – Turkey Stomp -words from your host-
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There were a couple of super duper lottery jackpots recently. I admit to throwing a couple of bucks down here and there on the "big ones" a time of two a month. I kinda got outta hand this October as I drop a total ten bucks over the month on playing the numbers.
I'd rather be not out of the ten bucks but what's two bucks a shot on a dream, right?
Often on time or two a week I am at the Circle K down the road from my house, I end up being behind a lady in her eighties who likes to read off her numbers to who is ever behind the counter. Since we seem to be in the store at the same time, we've come to this agreement. She knows I am on my way to work, so she often lets me go in front of her so I can be on my way.
I was behind her the other day and she turned to me, waving a 3x5in spiral notebooks and looking into my eyes. "Do you know what this is?"
"You keep notes in it, right?"
"Yes." she darted back in a much exasperated tone. "What kind of notebook?" "A dream book?" I've seen my share of them. My grandma kept one. All her friends at the plant where they made luggage racks for GM all kept one.
The Dream book is pretty much where you write down combinations of numbers that may feel lucky. the come in different forms, sizes and schemes. Most prosperity churches run some sort of elaborate and convoluted merchandising racket based on the dream book model. They're just keeping in the tradition of the old radio barkers of "the lord". It's an easier, flashier swindle nowadays but snake oil is still a same formula.
We were both masked but her eyes gave away a friendly smile. She knew I understood. In a confiding tone, she said "Don't ever keep one of these. It's a bad, bad habit. It's made grow old and I gotta plan for my funeral." "M'am, you are far too feisty to worry about that for quite a long time."
"Your funeral is the last time the people alive you still like will still be around" she pointed her finger at me and looked me straight and sternly into my eyes. "Give them AND only them good last memories. Remember that." Duly noted, mam. duly noted
What you'll hear.
The Fall – Don’t Call Me Darling Worm Reducer – I Don’t Let You Down GG King – Melt On You BANGZZ – I’m Fine Thank You and You -words from your host- Smirk – Minuscule Amounts Bob – Thomas Edison Rolltreppe – Kuhltransporter Fashion Pimps and the Glamazons – LA County Critters -words from your host- Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones – Breakfast In The Afternoon Drag Sounds – Blessed Style Shop Regulars – Put Those Things Away Terminal Babilonia – Thundra Is Coming -words from your host- Meatbodies – Reach For The Sunn Obnox – Molecule Hawkwind – Brainbox Pollution Strapping Fieldhands – The Hand That Plays Calliope -words from your host- Men & Health – Planet Made Of You The Ruins – Take My Love and Shove It Up Your Heart Doms – Model Head Chubby Checker – My Mind Comes -words from your host-
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I'll admit it, I've read a lot of poetry ever the years. Don't quiz me on of it though as it was years ago. Either way, your rock trivia fact for this episode of the Smashin' Transistors podcast is Bryan Ferry cops a line from Dorothy Parker's Resume in All I Want Is You.
Also in this episode you'll hear me say that Michael Beach's Dream Violence album came out on Goner in early 2001, It didn't. It came out early this year.
Vicious Visions - Beat You Fashion Pimps and the Glamazons – Jazz For Johnny Speed Stick – Knots Heavy Metal – Walking The Dog -words from your host- The Lipschitz – Computer Sun Michael Beach – Curtain Of Night Jason Eddie & the Centermen – Singin’ The Blues Smart Shoppers – Strange Vehicles -words from your host- Virvon Varvon – Allergies Midnight Steppers – Bleak Disco Blondie – Union City Blue Leopardo – Hardship -words from your host- Digital Leather – So Warm Roxy Music – Thrill Of It All Fotomatic – Bipolarity Zurich Cloud Motors – Floorboard Occult -words from your host- The Hot Blood – Terrible Idea Three Body Problem – I’ve Got A Stain Weenog – Skull Trap The Pontiac Brothers – It’s Alright At Home -words from your host-
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After well over a year, the pool in my complex finally reopened about a month back. I sing the title of this episode of Smashin' Transistors to the tune of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love every time I amble down to it.
The pool is where I've been spending a lot of my limited free time since. I attempted to work on this episode a few times poolside but someone would always ask me if I was recording a podcast. And is a true-crime podcast.
"Maybe true crimes against music" I've replied winkingly.
I also told someone I am doing a podcast where I am breaking down the Monkees Pool It album, dedicating an episode to every song on the album. But that would mean I'd have to listen to the whole album. I heard it enough at a place I was working when it came out. The people in charge of the stereo were really into that and Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation. I lived my true crimes against music already, man!
The thing is though, I am hanging out at the pool to be in the pool. Y'know, being like Mick Jagger in the jam Summer Romance or something. Not working on a podcast. For those who were on the edge of their seat waiting for the next Smashin' Transistors transmission, I apologize if you completely fell off the chair waiting.
What you'll hear
Jesse Floyd – Satan’s Wife Birds Of Maya – Please Come In Crash The Superyacht – Summer Solstice Vintage Crop- No Praise -words from your host- Pale Horsey – Overlord A Place To Bury Strangers – End of The Night Spider Bags – Long White Desert Rose Heather The Jerk – Hot -words from your host- Adam Pettis – Dark Road Violent Change – Open Space Rolling Stones – Moonlight Mile Eric Nervous - Motivation -words from your host- Lysol – Can’t Win Mononegatives – Deep Pockets Dirtbombs – Alleys Of Your Mind Mesh- Traveler -words from your host- Virvon Varvon – Nothing To Prove The Freakees – The Middle Strapping Fieldhands – Why Did You Fly Tom T. Hall – That’s How I Got To Memphis -words from your host-
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Starting the next dance craze is not an easy task. I looked into it and studied all the angles. My spirit got broken though after many friends pointed out that though my intentions of making one happen may be pure, eventually, the line dance crowd would appropriate it.
"Wait. People still line dance?"
"Yes," I was informed. "And now they do it to Kid Rock."
That killed whatever idea I had for trying to get a new dance craze starting right then and there.
What You'll Hear:
The Split Ends – Rich With Nothing Body Shop – Elevator Fire Engines – Everything’s Roses Nick & the Nod – Com ID -words from your host- Mini Skirt – With Your Hands Toby King – Itch & Scratch Tin Foil – Power Pointer Can Kicker – Desire -words from your host- Leopardo – Tell Me Bangzz – Love Dream Syndicate – Some Kinda Itch Blowers – Exterminate -words from your host- Chemical Bank - The Inconsistent Isaiah Owens – If It Wasn’t For The Lord Red Krayola – Green Of My Pants The Scientists – Naysayer -words from your host- OK Satan – I Don’t Care
M.A.Z.E. – Spread The Disease Germ House – Bottled At The Source Clock DVA – Relentless -words from your host-
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If a craft brewery run by hardcore Springsteen enthusiasts, you know they make an IPA called Dankness On The Edge of Town. The bigger question though is if they're torn between naming their Mexican lager Rosalita or saving it for the Sangria flavored hard cider they are working on. Are they thinking of making a sour called Gose It All Night? During the Christmas season, would you be game to try their peppermint stout called Candy's Room? Also, if they brew one called JungleLambic are the raspberries REALLY were grown underneath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light?
What you'll hear Let’s Active – Ornamental Kneeling In Piss – I Love My Echo Chamber Fun Time Objects – Bug Eyed Mary Bell – Some Friendships Are Meant To End -words from your host- Worm Reducer – The One To Me Mononegatives – Today’s Adult Country Teasers – Mosquito Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones – With All Due Respect -words from your host- Christopher Alan Durham – Gratiot Crawl Stereolab – Stomach Worm Mdou Moctar – Taliat Print Head – Crushin’ Memories -words from your host- Lousy Sue – Damaged The Sueves – Stare Chuck Bernard – Send For Me Rexxx- Lost Caus -words from your host- Qlowski – All Good Iceage – Dear Saint Cecilia Personality Cult – Brazen Magazine- Believe That I Understand -words from your host-
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One summer weekend in northern Michigan years ago, I ate breakfast at a Bob Seger themed diner. Pretty much just a few Seger album covers framed and on the wall and an autographed photo signed by Alto Reed. The menu items did not have any Seeg related puns. Just regular breakfast item names.
They missed the boat on not naming something Kat-ham-du.
What you'll hear. Gaunt – Insangel Zurich Cloud Motors – Trails Of No Return Giant Sand – Searchlight Midnight Steppers – Diamonds On The Golden Road To Hell -words from your host- The Sueves – Mop Bucket Daughter Bat and the Lip Strings – No Excuse For You Spiritual Mafia – Hybrid Animal Red Asphalt – Phone Call From God -words from your host- Mononegatives – Trauma Cabaret Voltaire – The Set Up Delilah Holliday – Feel JSBX – Lovin’ Machine -words from your host- Collate – Genesis Fatigue Nick & the Nod – New Content Piranhas - Blinking Light Germ House – Final Touches -words from your host- Reigning Sound – A Little More Time Smirk – Violent Game Lousy Sue – Rats Blue Cheer – Just A Little Bit -words from your host-
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I have not worked in a retail setting in over twenty years. I kept good with continuing out of it. Well, until late 2020 that is. Not by choice and hopefully it is just temporary but bills gotta get paid, y'know. I forgot how churlish the general public can be. The pandemic seems to make the off-their-rocker types get even more cross.
Compulsive Gamblers – Bad Taste
Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones – Burn To Run Califone – Wade In The Water Lewsberg – Through The Garden -words from your host- TJ Cabot and thee Artificial Rejects – On Off Smirk – Eyes Conversing Purrses – Wrong Tide Church Mice – Babe, We’re Not A Part of Society -words from your host- Bobby Would – So To Say Savoy Motel – Smooth Operator Frank and the Hurricanes – I See A Ghost Celebrity Handshake – Civilized People -words from your host- Penza Penza – Why Do We Care About Anything Sex Tide – Medical Board Psychedelic Furs – Mr. Jones Iceage – Vendetta -words from your host- M.A.Z.E. – Psycho Eyes Warm Exit – Crocodile In My Brain Caution – Buy My Life Mott The Hoople – Honaloochie Boogie -words from your host-
"A head fulla dust." Such a line has been a lyrical adumbration since at least the early 20th century. Though they aren't most likely talking about pollen, that such yellow dust is into its yearly ubiquitous showing. It's a way of life. Literally really. Trees, bees and everything that flowers. Things required to breathe and eat. Keeping hankies handy.
The Gordons – Right On Time Tin Foil – Loiter GG King – Epoch Rock Teenage Head – Picture my Face -words from your host- Chris Brokaw – Periscope Kids Zurich Cloud Motors – Worry About the Hubcaps Later The Bassholes – Born To Die Tizzi – All Day I Work For Little Money -words from your host- The Stools – Half Track Mind Patois Counselors – Let Beauty Be Section 25 – Girls Don’t Count Bumbo's Tinto Brass Band – Chewing Mom’s Blouse -words from your host- Gen Pop – My Apartment Midnight Steppers – Lost In Dust Smirk – Blind TV Freaks – Capital Eye -words from your host- TOADS – Another Year Spiritual Mafia – Smiles Purrses – Hey Girl! the dBs – Tearjerkin’ -words from your host-
There was a spell there towards the end of the last century, that if you wanted to prove how punk rock your attitude was, you would suffix whatever the name of the project was with a "'77."
It quickly became a running joke with some friends I hung out with. Taco Bell '77. Camel Lights '77. I'll be there around seven '77. I don't get paid til Friday '77 and so on.
It cracked us up for a couple months.
It was not a running joke with everyone I hung out with though. One evening, I was hanging out with some other group of friends. They were starting a band and were looking for a name.
"Dude! You should call yourself Apostrophe 77!" I blurted out. From the looks on their faces, you could tell they thought it was brilliant. "Yes, that's perfect. That's when punk rock really started. If people see our name on a flier, they'll know we play punk rock!"
"Yeah, that the joke, man. It lets people know you are (air quotes) PUNK FREAKIN' ROCK, BRO!"
"So, wait," one of them said in a puzzled tone "You weren't serious?"
I think the band lasted a few practices and maybe a basement party. That's a standard punk rock story. they didn't use the name.
There are no songs from '77 in episode 77 of the Smashin'' Transistors fake radio show.
What you'll hear: Tilahun Gessesse – Alegntaye Flying Saucer Attack – Present Midnight Steppers – The Method Singer Frankie Traandruppel – Hooray For The Frown -words from your host- Smarts – Cling Wrap Pensioner – The Night Boris – Furi A Feast Of Snakes – Know Your Name -words from your host- Astute Palate – A Little Proof Neil and Crazy Horse – Barstool Blues The Lice – Daymare Town Feeling Figures – Never in Time -words from your host- ISS - (Met)forming Cathedral – Suicide Asteroid Sex Tide – Scorpion Chris Brokaw – The Heart of Human Trafficking -words from your host- Chronophage – Talking Android Eat Girls – All The Lovers Are Gonna Leave and Die Lavender Flu – Rake The Face Angst – Somethings (I Can’t Get Used To) -words from your host-
Recently, the guy I worked with showed up in the shop with a wool cap on. Coming through the door he said "I tell ya, man. It sure was cold enough to get the toboggan out. I thought I misplaced it."
"The snow has already melted. What good is a toboggan without it?" I asked. He looked at me like I was loony. "For the cold, man!"
After a few hours of mental images of the ol' rock dog having the time of his life shooting down hills on a big wooden sled, I realized he was talking about his hat. You (and me) may know it as a toque.
What you'll hear:
Ian & Sylvia – You Were On My Mind Honey Radar – United Fox Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Radio Waves Gen Pop – Bright Light People -words from your host- TOADS – Not A Life Obnox – Cut Me A Switch Monoshock – Model Citizen (Nitroglycerine) Savoy Motel – Crossword Puzzle -words from your host- Patois Counselors – Probably No One Chronophage – Destiny Falls MARV – Stingray The Cowboys – Saintlike Said -words from your host- Itchy Self –Playing MTV Jessie Mae Hemphill – Black Cat Bone Dana Hatch – Fast Freddie Toeheads – Screw Loose -words from your host- LAMPS – Horse Cow Dog Pig Mud City Manglers – Armstrong Park Astute Palate – Loose Wings Swell Maps – Border Country -words from your host-
No diamonds for number seventy five. In this year, it not even Cubic Zirconia. It might even be Moissanite.
Some solid sounds though.
What you'll hear:
Eric’s Trip – Daylight Kaleidoscope – Deaths of Despair Penza Penza – Wunder City David Nance – This Side Of The Moon -words from your host- Quintron and Miss Pussycat -You Make It Weird Twinkeyz - Sweet Nothing Gen Pop – Pixel Glow Exploding Flowers – Far, But Never Gone -words from your host- Hank Wood and the Hammerheads – Strangers Lamps – Chest Mud City Manglers – One Of These Days Stonewall – Outer Spaced -words from your host- Patois Counselors – Give Me Voltage Lavender Flu – Romelas Guardian Singles – Midnight Swim Itchy Self – Reprobate -words from your host- The Smarts – Golden Arches Don Cherry – Degi Degi ADULT. – Human Wreck Shadows Of Knight – I’ll Make You Sorry -words from your host-
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Like all thing this year, Halloween is pretty much canceled. No Butterfingers. No Baby Ruth's. No Snickers. No good candy at all.
Yeah, 2020 is like going to every door and getting a nickel or a Brach's Candy Corn Treat Pack.
What you’ll hear
Yvonne Fair – Say Yeah Yeah Cherry Cheeks – No Ticket Oh Sees – Toadstool Pussy Cat – La la lu -words from your host- Brandy – Text Home Wire – Fly In The Ointment Zurich Cloud Motors – For The Beyond Horribly Wrong – The Living Nightmare -words from your host- The Stroppies – Sad Sorry Soul Nick Allison and the Player’s Lounge – Move Along The Pastels – Crawl Babies Era Bleak – Era Bleak -words from your host- Shark Toys – Black The Toeheads – Jane Doe #59 Public Eye – The Door Is Always Closed Henry Fiat’s Open Sore – I Don't Know -words from your host- Optic Sink – Dumb Luck CCR Headcleaner – Sweets Satanic Togas - Panic Room The Freeze - Halloween Night -words from your host-
Smashin' Transistors radio play of the foklore favorite Will-o'-the-wisp will not be heard tonight. In it's place, we present you this special program.
Tompall Glaser – Pass Me By No Age – Turned To String Brigid Dawson & the Mothers Network – The Fool Hobocop – Walking Around Stoned -words from your host- Sweeping Promises – Cross Me Out Fun Time Objects – Autocratic Generator The Stroppies – Holes In Everything CCR Headcleaner - Oxygen -words from your host- Brick Head – Fed Up T. Rex – The Slider MARV – Unruly Garden Obnox – Avalanche Grave -words from your host- The Cowboy – Jellyroll Violent Change – Dreary Example The Leather Nun – Jesus Came Driving Dame – Cicadas -words from your host- Fertile Scum – Life in Dirt Satanic Togas – Customer Service SPK – Contact The Calico Wall – I’m The Living Sickness -words from your host-
Did we even have a summer? No gatherings in backyards or beaches. No beer in garages in with pals. The days turn to gold. They grow few.
What you'll hear:
Girls At Our Best – Getting Nowhere Fast
Flat Worms – Market Forces Krystian Quint – Rain Photogenic – Destroyer -words from your host- The Dirts – Going Nowhere The Charles – Motorcycle Protomartyr – Modern Business Hymns Loop – Torched -words from your host- Lifters – Bird Island Summer Girls The Hunches - Your Sick Blooms Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Day Breaks, Night Heals Paik – Strange Familiar -words from your host- Moving Objects – I Wanna Be Your Man X - Lipstick Devil Town – Rumble Honey Bucket – Furniture Days -words from your host- Sweeping Promises – Falling Forward Home Blitz – Final Decay Mudhoney – Good Enough Creedence Clearwater Revival - Potterville -words from your host-
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In the wilds of Michigan’s Thumb, the sounds of the night bugs were mostly crickets. In my new surroundings of North Carolina’s Triangle, there are crickets as well but also many katydids. And for an added attraction right now, we got the cicadas too. There are a lot of trees surround the digs I dwell. Hearing all of the night bugs going on at once here is a three drone band bill where they are doing some sort of concept set about spaceships landing in a lush green forest.
Though I did not record this episode outside to capture some of those sounds, I seriously did consider it. Perhaps I even will some time down the road.
What you’ll hear:
Jefferson Airplane- Greasy Heart
Obnox – Return Fire Medium Medium – Further Than Funk Dream
PR Shake – Dust
-words from your host-
Personality Cult - Weigh Down The Zone V – I Cannot Lie
Hobocop – Home Connect Celebrity Handshake – Don’t Wanna Talk About It
-words from your host- Sonic Boom – Things Like This (A Little Bit Deeper)
Clock DVA – White Cell Cool Greenhouse- Life Advice KeiyaA – RectifiYa -words from your host-
Fun Time Objects – Emergency Action
The White Wires – Stayed Up Late Ghoulies- Genetic Flaw
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages -words from your host-
Gimmick – Hiball Zip It – Gatormouth
RMFC - Reader The Pretenders – Mystery Achievement
-words from your host-
You know like how around Christmas time, people find those video loops of fireplaces or winter villages and show them on TV screens. Is there one for summer of burgers on the grill? Maybe with the sounds of people laughing and beers being open as the audio track.
Given how enough morons (following the path of their King Moron) in this country refuse to follow some simple procedures to overcome a pandemic, it may be the closest we can get to having a real backyard barbecue with friends and family for a long time.
What you'll hear:
The Parliaments – All Your Goodies Are Gone
Royal Trux – Platinum Tips
Duende - Boss Radio
Glen Garrison – City Of Sin
-words from your host-
Primo! – The Present
Vacation – Shelled Pagan
Obnox – She (Was About That Life)
Bardo Pond – Don't Know About You
-words from your host-
CB Radio Gorgeous – Babylon
The Worms – Breeding Ground
No Age – War Dance
Writhing Squares – Sonic Control
-words from your host-
Goldie Dawn – What's Inside (Never Dies)
The Boys - Soda Pressing
Personalty Cult - Circles
The Romantics – A Night Like This
-words from your host-
Cherry Cheeks – Motivator
Neutrals – No 82
Cretin Girls – Happiness
Secret Mammals – She Likes To Run
-words from your host-
Summer hasn't officially arrived here in the USA but things have gone well over the boiling point in recent weeks. Much of it stems back from a minority of idiots walking in line behind the most moronic of carnival barkers, in hopes that clocks would be set back to more ignorant times.
The healing and fixing process is going to be a long and arduous one but it can be done. We just have to push a little harder for progress against those wishing they could be even more reactionary minded than they currently are.
This episode of Smashin' Transistors offers no solutions to the woes. There's some great sounds in it though.
What you'll hear:
The Kinks – Brainwashed Pizzicato 5 – It's A Beautiful Day The Cowboys- The Beige Collection Hang Nail – Waste Time -words from your host- Porno Glows – Constant Abject State Necessary Evils – Man From Mars Hobocop – Clone Of A Clone Little Peppy and the Bare Existence – Since You're Gone -words from your host- Bobby Would – Get Off My Bus Dead Meadow – Let's Jump In Loose Koozies – Slow Down Time Tyler Keith – In The Parking Lot -words from your host- Don Howland – Sleep In Cars Vacant Gardens – Open Air King Brothers – Super X Red Red Meat – idiot Sun -words from your host- Obnox – Scenicide Laffing Gas – Attitude PR Shake - Rituals Poison Idea – The Badge -words from your host-
Congrats to the graduated. Hang on tight. This ride keeps getting bumpier.
What you'll hear.
Blind Boy Fuller – Wires All Down
Devil – Walk Alone
Tyler Keith – Take Me Home
Cheap Trick – Stiff Competition
words from your host
Zip It – Candycorn
Guilty Razors – Hurts + Noises
Mark Vodka Group – All That You've Done For Me
Deaf Aids – Do That Again
words from your host
The Dirts – Prisoner Of Love
Simply Saucer – Electro Rock
Country Teasers – Points Of View
Zurich Cloud Motors – Sunrise Over Milepost 327
words from your host
Hallelujah – Pink Socks
Nazis From Mars – Cosmic Break Up
Datenight – Not Myself Today
Pat and the Pissers – Operator
words from your host
The Worms – Bad Smell
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Nicotine Stain
The Drags – No Matter What Shape (Your Head Is In)
The Pretty Things – Midnight to Six Man
words from your host
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Still have plenty to do before everything is settled in as these are topsy-turvy times, but this is the first episode done in the new digs. Everything made it all in one piece for the most part. Lots of things that were to be put in action are now on hold. Been through it before but still most strange days indeed.
What you'll hear:
RL Burnside – Going Down South
DANA – Chaos Promo
Dale Hawkins – Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
Toeheads – Anna
-words from your host-
Zurich Cloud Motors - Motorola Radio
Factrix – Center Of A Doll
Vacant Gardens – Sunlight on Dry Grass
Beauticians – Indecision
-words from your host-
Vanity – A Seat At The Table
The Feelies – The High Road
The Cowboys – The Human Puzzle
Dusty Mush – The Fog
-words from your host-
The Beeps – The Fire
Pink Drone – Sleeper
Hot Legs – Neanderthal Man
Famous Logs In History – Spoiler Alert
-words from your host-
Porno Glows - On and On
Duende! - Because The Thorn
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads – Tomorrow
Lemon Fog - Summer
-words from your host-
Seems I sold my house at the right time but absolutely the wrong time to move. Thing is though, we have to vacate this place and have already have our place in another state waiting.
Seems if there wasn't absurdity, it would not be my life.
We've been following the quarantine rules to a T. But next week we've gotta be "that guy" and drive across four state lines. Ugh.
What you'll hear:
Carl Carlton – Drop By My Place Vanity – We're Friends Devil Town – It's Real Gino and the Goons – Summer Sun -words from your host- Hallelujah! - Minipony Unsane – Black Book Musclegoose – Who Ate All Of Dilbert's Grapes The Cowboy – Reach The Beach -words from your host- The VertiGos – Kiss Me Good Night The Great Scots – That's My Girl (Rotten To The Core) Legumes Sex – Your Shiny Car Clark Hutchinson – Best Suit -words from your host- The Dirts – Can't Stand You (She Said) Quad Super Six – Floating Absolutely Rubber Blanket – Log Off Section 25 – Inspiration -words from your host- The Neutrals – Half Shut Knife Mark Vodka Group - Dreaming Foster Care – Smart Gas Mudhoney – Here Comes Sickness
The world is in a emergency. The country is being led by a fraud. We're all in this together people. Try not to be a jerk.
What you'll hear:
Mekons - I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own) Current Affairs – Worlds In Crisis Florida Brothers – Chicken Bucket Silver Apples – Gypsy Love -words from your host- Phone Jerks - Rubberhead Sherwin – Elusive Railroad Jerk – Riverboat Knickers – Old Ladies Summer -words from your host- Coke Asian – City Block Oh! Dirty Fingers – Love Trilogy Movietone – Useless Landscape Lavender Flu – Mow The Glass -words from your host- Nick Normal – Conversation Piece Kool and the Gangbangers – Hang Up The Phone The Mammals – Expanding Heart Nasal Boys – Hot Love -works from your host- Vacation – Tricks In The Big Cat Trade Laughing Gas – On Your Own Resource Network – Fast Fashion Throbbing Gristle – Convincing People -words from your host-
Let's say you're dj'ing a party and you play "Hellraiser" by Sweet. If a person turns up their noise about it in anyway, ask that person to leave the party because they don't like to have fun.
What you'll hear:
Sweet – Hellraiser Enchanters – High Heeled Roller Skates Demolition Doll Roads – Maverick Girl Product Placement – Eyes In My Head -words from your host- Vanity – Anticlimax Blue Cheer – Believer The Shitdels – To And fro En Attendant Ana – The Light That Slept Inside -words from your host- En Kernigan Band – Put It Out Billiam – Party Pooper Lavender Flu – Barbarian Dust Stonefield – Morning Hours -words from your host- The Cowboy – From The Grave Sex Church - Growing Over The Gonks – I'm The Lonely Night Driver The Roves - Hey Little Man -words from your host- Fake Rays – The Pits Toeheads – Glue Factory Red Mass – Devil In Disquise The Rain Parade – This Can't Be Today -words from your host-
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is most likely best know for his more joyful and genial poems. The one he wrote for the shortest month of the year, Afternoon In February, as not one of those though. As a matter of fact, it was about death.
Amid the grayness of the skies and all the things wrapped in it though here in the Great Lakes, slogging through it has to be done. Putting together another episode of this fake radio show a bit like setting a fire at such times for yours truly.
What you'll hear: Dirty Filthy Mud – The Forest Of Black Quintron – Birthday In Tunisa Maia Jade and the Uggos – Bozo The Beauticians – Mental Hygene -words from your host- Red Mass – Young Lover the Ponys – Little Friends Confusion - Gino & the Goons – Wrote You A Letter -words from your host- Martyr Privates – Peeling The Shade The Scaners – X Ray Glasses On The Mirrors – She Smiled Wildly Pimpono Ensemble- Gliding -words from your host- The Cavemen – Guess I Know It's True Poison Joy – Not Known Dandee Lions – I Have Been Woke Bad Weed – Bye Bye Baby -words from your host- The Get-Alongs – Nickel City Brick Distributor -Another Personality Match Factory – Naive Gang Of Four – Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time -works from your host-
A new decade has dropped and it's rolling at a furious pace for your truly (here's a lot why) but I'm gonna do what I can to make sure you loyal listeners can get at least one of the fake radio shows a month until everything settles.
20/20 – Under The Freeway
Comet Gain – Werewolf Suit
Bad Weed – Down, Down, Down
The Moodists – The Disciples Know
-words from your host-
The Beauticians – Donna
Tubeway Army – Are You Real
Schizos – Driller
Obnox – Red I
-words from your host-
Martyr Privates – Blak Light
Postman – Fitted Wool Blankets
Human Switchboard – Fly In
Dadar – Get Away
-words from your host-
Fatal Figures – X Minus One
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones – Lemon Chiffon
The Plastic Shoelaces – Bigger Heads
The Cheater Slicks – Another Stab
-words from your host-
Zurich Cloud Motors -
Gone Wrong – Shut Down
Warm Exit – Gloom Sauce Is Going To Take You Out
The Skinnies – Out Of Order
Minor show note: The Comet Gain album is called Fireraisers Forever! and not as I absentmindedly called it Firestarters Forever! I believe I may have called it the latter in a previous episode too. I know that is not the name of the album though my brain for some reason keeps telling me to call it that.
What a taxing year it's been. We somehow did out best and made it through even if likely we're worse for the wear. This whole Keep On Keepin' On thing ain't easy all the time.
The next year has plenty of roller coaster rides ahead. Hold on tight. We need ya around!
What you'll hear: Sandy Sarjeant - Can't Stop The Want Kool and the Gangbangers – I Don't Wanna Go Outside VISION 3D - Fan Il Globo - Mirabella -words from your hot TV Crime - Wild One The Only Ones – Out In The Night Toy Trucks - Schoolbus Goodnight Loving – Land Of 1000 Bars -words from your host- Zurich Cloud Motors – A Hair Raising Memory Spray Paint - Alcohol Surface Cochonne – Body Bag Match Factory – All The Same -words from your host- Mononegatives - Transient Reality Dow Jones & the Industrials – Set Yourself On Fire Foster Care – Rack Brain Iggy and the Stooges – Shake Appeal -words from your host- Solarized -Is This Where I Beg for the Prosthetic Leg Midnight Mines - Double Attack PP Rebel - Where The Quiet Go Teenage Fanclub - December -words from your host-
Anyone else taking bets until one of the coots in the family quotes memes as fact during this holiday season. With it Thanksgiving this week, the odds making are about to happen.
What you'll hear:
Flesheaters – River Of Fever Cochonne – Horror-Scope Dan Melchior – Hey Ya Birthday Party – Figure Of Fun -words from your host- Program - Show Me Micheal Yonkers – Boy In The Sandbox Bobby Would – Bad Man (Not I) Automatic – Strange Conversations -words from your host- Mononegatives – Friend Accessories Dana – Pork Pie Saint Rangers – Returning En Attendant Ana – Somewhere And Somehow -words from your host- Warm Leather – Vocabulary Foster Care – No Respect Connie Voltaire – Animal Farm Perfect Buzz - My Apologizes -words from your host- Toy Trucks – Questions The Cult OF Lip – Walking Gino and the Goons – She Can Take It the Metros – Hot Wired -words from your host-
Boxes and cartons.
Figuratively and literally as both have a song about them in this episode. Appropriate as chipping away at sorting and packing, pitching and keeping for the relocation plan set for 2020.
That, and as a cat owner, they always dig boxes.
What you'll hear:
Ian Hunter – Just Another Night Jack Oblivian – Girl On The Beach Parsnip – Lift Off the Go – Can't Rely On It -words from your host- Lousy Sue – Firma Jean Neutrals – Motorcycle Cop Marmalade Psyche – Compassionate Leave Gong Gong Gong – Some Kind Of Demon -words from your host- Trampoline Team - Release Glaxo Babies – Police State Slumb Party – All The Boxes Bobby Would – Luna -words from your host- Comet Gain – Bad Night At The Mustache Zurich Cloud Motors – Plenty Of Moons To Spare The Hussy – Better Stuff CR DICKS- Skate 2 Die -words from your host- Opossums - Worried Vivian Girls – Mistake Dot.Com – Bugg Boy Fire Engines – New Things in Cartons -words from your host-
This episode of the Smashin' Transistors fake radio show may try to entice you to take a psychedelic trip. If you chose to purchase a ticket, pack some condiments cuz your listening lobes will get deep fried!
What You'll Hear:
The Painted Ship – She Said Yes Vision 3D – Suel Ce Soir Spray Paint – Fleshy Boy Cereal Killer – You Punk Scene Suck It DANA – Cupid -words from your host- Gino & the Goons – Hit & Run The Hentchmen – It Don't Take But A Few Minutes Dan Melchior Group – Police Dog Buck Owens – Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass As Jaguatiricas – Boy Lixo -words from your host- The Control Freaks – She's The Bomb Robot Assassins - Your Special Message Lousy Sue – Sneaky Snake Speed Babes – We Sell Your Soul The Freakees – Poser -words from your host- Resource Network – Halifax Mortuary Celebrity Handshake – This Is Real Life Slump – Trip Sitter Atomic Eater – Alien Eyes Cabaret Voltaire – Here She Comes Now -words from your host-
After getting home from week one day last week, I decided to put some records on and play them loud. I stepped out to my yard for a sec and my old biker neighbor decided to strike up a conversation with me about the dangers of "really hard drugs."
What you'll hear:
Muffs – I Need You Psychedelic Speed Freaks CR Dicks – The End Julie's Haircut – Emerald Kiss Phillip Cochran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble – Unity -words from your host- Odgens – Plastic Ave Dan Melchior Group- Plz LuvYrself Parsnip – Too Late Truman's Water – Your Boss Pere Ubu- Heart Of Darkness -words from your host- The Hussy – Cornflakes The Runaways - 18th Floor Girl Slump - Desire Death Drifter Kool and the Gang Bangers – He's A Rat Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes – Little Witch -words from your host- Comet Gain - The Institute Debased Vision 3D – Fannick Nip Drivers – Hick In The Movie Rocket 808 – Rocket 808 T. Rex – Rapids -words from your host-
Summer ended this weekend. That means it is time for a bunch of boomers to quote a lyric from "Night Moves." Talking smack about Bob Seger really seems to bum them out.
What you'll hear:
the Cars – Since You're Gone Honey Radar – Magnesium Blow Out Opossums – Love Machine Redd Kross – What's A Boy To Do Fat Tulips – Where's Clare Grogan Now? -words from your host- Musk – Animal Husbandry USA/Mexico – Shoofly the Au Pairs – Domestic Departure Disco Junk – Outta Melbourne Pscience – Atomic Clock -words from your host- Vivian Girls – Sick Psychedelic Horseshit – Portals Thigh Master – Mould Lines Dana – El Sicko the Bruthers – I Just Had To Laugh -words from your host- the Control Freaks – Hate List Celebrity Handshake – Religion On The Outside Depression Breakfast – Type Strapping Fieldhands – In The Pineys Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End -words from your host-
The last long weekend of the summer is upon us. Getting out and taking part of it may involve annoyances. Combat such things with a brand new episode of the Smashin' Transistors fake radio show.
What you'll hear:
Eagle - Pack Up the Failures - Why? Thin Lizzy - Sha La La Golden Pelicans - Pink Motels Science Man - Weaponizer
- words from your host-
Deadbeat Beat - The Box Laika – Honey In Heat Powerplant – True Love Black Tamborines High Fives Ron Berry – I'll Give You My Love
- words from your host-
Oh Sees - The Experimenter Miles Grayson – Stunk In The Mud Celebrity Handshake – Prehistoric Claw Mononegatives - Swell Maps – Secret Island
- words from your host-
Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes Hey Bombshell Resource Network Post Traumatic Stress Gun Fight Judy and the Jerks – Dumpster time Tyvek – We're Back The Yips – 1000 Percent Fox
- words from your host-
On a scorcher of a summer day recently I had the thirst for a pop. A really sugary one. A Faygo Red Pop or Rock-n-Rye was on my mind. The party I stopped in didn't carry any Faygo. Is that even legal in the state of Michigan?
What you'll hear:
PP Arnold - if You Think You're Groovy Connie Voltaire - Picture Book Pscience - Chance Encounter Dream Boogie - Shanghai Nights Homer - Taking Me Home
Tyvek - I've Not Thought Once Butterglory - Rivers Mope Groves - Pictures Of The Moon Psychedelic Speed Freaks - Lawless The Los Hot Quesos - Bugs
Cement Shoes - Me Have No Brain The Natural Man Band - Working Nights Srei Sothear & Sin Sisamouth - Power Of Her Eye Pinch Points - Stainless Steel Musclegoose - Mr Pibb goes to Washington
The Cool Greenhouse - Cardboard Man Johnny Ill - One Year Plan Eggy - Machine Communications The Bambies - Echo Joe Hebert Band - I Don't Want To Be A Preppy
Like a heatwave. Amid the one we had the past week, one way to keep cool was to find a big shade tree to sit under and put together a fake radio show. Or, at least, portions of one. That's what we did for a bit here at ol' Smashy T's. Anything misstated on this episode is the from wooziness from sunspots.
Naked Raygun - Metastasis
Christian Fitness - The Brain Is Not A Lever
Urochromes - Style
Lincoln Street Exit - Time Has Come Gonna Die
Rhy Bloodjoy - Aphrodite's Mirror
-words from your host-
Johnny Ill - Hamtramck Island
75 Dollar Bill - There's No Such Thing As A King Bee
Honey Radar - Instant Furniture
Dream Boogie - Boy Can Dream
The Haunted - 8 O'clock This Morning
-words from your host-
No Bails - We Sk8
Powerplant - People of the Sun
The Space Lady - Born To Be Wild
Euromilliard - Élève modèle
Trampoline Team – False Friend
-words from your host-
Primitive Hands – Unseen Love
Mountain Babies - Shapeshifter
Scrap Brain - Migraine
Mononegatives – 5 Minute Future
Bad Seeds - Sick & Tired
-words from your host-
Summertime and the, ummm, grass is longer. The snakes are more active because of it. Be sure to have a hammer and a jackknife handy at all times. What you'll hear: Squirrel Bait – Sun God Protruders – Tax 101 Nots – Built Environment Franky Shampoo and the City Creatures - Talk To Me Major Stars – Out In The Light -words from your host- Straight Arrows - 21st Century Lassie – Go West Prince – Manic Monday M.A.Z.E. - Human Brain Eric Nervous and the Beta Blockers – Nailed To The Wall -words from your host- Aborted Tortoise – 20 XX The Zits – Can't Get Smart Primitiv Parts – bad vibes Ice Baths – Auster Salem 66 – Across The Sea -words from your host- Pinch Points – Spelt Out Petite League – New York Girls The Lice – So Bourgeois Rose City Band – Fear Song Radio Birdman - Snake -words from your host-
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Though I like to think I am reasonably well-read, sometimes my brain will go off in some direction where I think something that is probably a well-worn colloquialism (or a line from a David Lynch film) is actually just a lyric from some cheesy pop country song of the 1990s.
What you'll hear: Cigaretz - Scared Of Girls Toeheads – Grad Registators – Panic Action Smart Hearts – You Beat Me To It Rose City Band – Fog Of Love -words from your host- Kool 100s – Bogus Journey American Gorilla – Forsaken All Others Richard Vain – Castles Gun Club- Thunderhead Jack Oblivian – Scarla -words from your host- Protruders – No Stone Big Quiet – Pull The Thread The Fall – Wings Urochromes – Trapped On Planet Isolation Party – Disassociator -words from your host- Wolfmanhattan Project – Silver Sun Fabulous Fairies - Telephone Bikini Gorge – Cat In The Flat Georgia Asphault - Burn Again 13th Floor Elevators - Dust -words from your host-
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The 50th episode of Smashin' Transistors! That makes us gold, right?
What you'll hear:
The Beaubeins – Times Passed Hash Redactor – Open Invites To The Caves Red Mass – Show Me The Money Lassie – Deposit Bottles The Shifters – John Doe's Collegue -words from your host- The That's Thats – More Wolfmanhattan Project – Now Now Now Crosscut Sores – Dead Hit The Staches – Fake Stomach Ache Public Interest – Passing Glances -words from your host- Science Man – Love Potent TAD – High On The Hog Hello Hooray – Cherries Light The Way Clinic- Flying Fish Jack Oblivian – Good Time Bad Girl -words from your host- Toeheads – Going Steady Isolation Party – Sleeves Andy Human & the Reptoids – You Like Your Job The Dandelion – Message From The Fire The Rationals – Leaving Here -words from your host-
"I got a truck that'll mess you up."
'Round here, those words aren't said much. The looks flashed from people in such trucks say it without even uttering a word. The Kid Rock CD they have blasting out the truck while giving such a stare is used as some sort of punctuation of the point.
What you'll hear:
Paul McCartney-Eat At Home
Spiritualized – Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go
Rubber Room – Chemical Imbalance
Writhing Squares – Bloodborne Hate and Black Book Mass
Functional Blackouts – Looking Good On The Way Down
-words from your host-
The Cowboys – Some Things Never Change
Altered Images – Forgotten
Gil Bronx Orchestra – Haunted House
Richard Vain- Punks Inbred
Mumzees – Initial Decay
-words from your host-
The Stools - Don't Need Nothing
The Higher State – Ten Clear Petals
Long Hots – Nickel and Dime
Eleventh Dream Day – Teenage Pin Queen
Public Interests – Flies In The Cemetary
-words from your host-
Abjects – The Storm
Hash Redactor - Bad Advice
Pussy Galore – Kill Yourself
Gong Gong Gong - Siren
Steve Treatments – Hooked On A Trend
-words from your host-
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The calendar is full of rumors. The Vernal Equinox corroborates.
What you'll hear.
Can - I'm So Green Cameo - Alligator Woman Obnox - Find My Way Celebrity Handshake - It Takes All Kinds of Bones Murderer - Tomorrow The World Is Yours -words from your host- Red Mass - Crooked DANA - Cupid Cold Feet - Buried in a Hole Primitiv Parts - Internet Ice Baths - Replacer -words from your host- The Writhing Squares - Steely Eyed Missile Man Martha and the Muffins - Paint by Number Heart Andy Human & The Reptoids - Autism 4 2 Straight Arrows - Headache The Cowboys - Wet Behind the Eyes -words from your host- Midnight Mines - Innocent Sorcerers Low Life - Rave Slave Wingtip Sloat - Gizzard Jett The Yolks - Get Back Let's Active - In Between -words from your host-
In this episode of Smashin' Transistors, you may experience some touched minds. You for sure will witness them being lost and racked. What you'll hear: Waylon Jennings - One of My Bad Habits Vanity - Glad To Not Nutrition - Leave Me Gino and the Goons - She Was Crushed Bauhaus - The Dive -words from your host- Phylums - Stung Chronophage - She Paid the Ultimate Price Blondie - Picture This Wingtip Sloat - Stars Bailed Out Cid Campeador - Ella No Sabe Que Existo -words from your host- Headroom - New Heaven Timmy Vulgar's Genetic Armageddon - Food Swamp Matchbox - Metaphysical composition The Thingz - Lost My Mind The Drags - Allergic Reaction -words from your host- Royal Trux - Year of the Dog The Yardbirds - Rack My Mind Dry Cleaning - Phone Scam David Nance Group - When I Saw You Last Night Jackie Shane - Comin' Down -words from your host- You can also subscribe to the Smashin' Transistors show on Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Radio Mutation and Spotify.
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Every winter I swear it's the most schizophrenic one we've had weather wise ever. This year it truly seems to be true. And February is hardly half over and it seems longer than its ever been too. A permanent change of scenery is on our to-do list indeed
Servings of sound help daily travels through a grey expanse though.
What you'll hear on this episode:
Bohemian Vendetta - Like Stoned Timmy Vulgar's Genetic Armageddon - Suction Cup Hands Pram - Bewitched Mope Grooves - Moving Dot Qlowski - Golden Boy
-words from the host-
Heavy Metal – Gasmask Factory Murderer - Juicy Fruit Dream Flying Saucer Attack - Make Me Dream Tim Presley's White Fence - Neighborhood Light Long Hots - Die Die Die
-words from the host-
Obnox - Off Ya Ass Al Doum & the Faryds - Satieva Cold Cream - First They Came Beyond The Implode - Midnight Adventures Parsnip - Winter
-words from the host-
Graveblocker - Get Hit Andy Human & The Reptoids - Echo Pedal Chronophage - Dance to Guitar Vanity - You Can't Have Both Kathy Heidiman - Sleep A Million Years
-words from the host-
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Did you make any resolutions for the new year? Mine is to try to never act like Veruca Salt. There's an attention loving blob in this country who acts that way enough for an entire planet already.
What you'll hear: Lotti Golden - Get Together (With Yourself) Natural Man & the Flamin' Hot Band - Song About Your City Gargoyle Sox - Pink Little Playhouse Young Skulls - We're Gone Public Enemy - You're Gonna Get Yours -words from your host- Bad Sports - Living With Secrets The Mark Vodka Group - Shadow Of Your Former Self Priors - At Your Leisure Wire - Once Is Enough Donkey Bugs - Three Times Fast -words from your host- Hecks - The Thaw No Age - Soft Collar Fad Schizos - I'm Not a Sicko There's a Plate in My Head Royal Trux - White Stuff Rats - Turtle Dove -words from your host- Jackson Politick - Psycho-mania Ten High - Ursula Cheater Slicks - Another Stab Junkpile Jimmy - Priest of Set Halo of Flies - Headburn -words from your host-
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How do we end the year Smashin' Transistors fake radio show style? Episode 44 might be it but don't hold me to it until 11:59 pm on December 31st, ok?
What you'll hear: A Certain Ratio - All Night Party Rex Wonderful & The Silk Sheets - Mimosas A Moms - Modern Noise Rhys Bloodjoy - Reflections Of A Girl Neo Neos - It's Just That Easy -words from your host- The Resource Network - Fix my Hair Brandy - Horse Chorus The Shifters - Straight Lines Metropak - Run Run Run the Cult of Lip - Dream -words from your host- U-Nix - Nerve Obnox - Wake And Quake Indian Jewelry - Lost My Sight School Damage - Meeting Halfway Spiritualized - The Morning After -words from your host- Ten High - Skin Crawlers The Unholy Two - Zero Tolerance Dome - Say Again Sadie - Skull Rock Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator -words from your host-
Many across the nation will be in a serious tryptophan coma on Thursday. Like every year, I hope to be out of mine come Sunday though for Grep Cup viewing.
What you'll hear on episode 43
Blacktop - Blazing Streets The Unholy Two - Moscow Doomsday Cloud Movietone - Mono Valley Roxy Music - Editions of You Mauvais Genre - Pour Toi -words from your host- Leon Gardner - Farm Song Jon Spencer - Hornet Suburban Homes - Magazine Remember Sports - Up From Below Gino and the Goons - Early Retirement -words from your host- Timmy's Organism - Wall Of Grey Celebrity Handshake - Television Lips O. Rex - Califawnia Girls Crescent - Lightbulbs In The Trees Missing Pages - Long Way Down -words from your host- U-Nix - Liberal Hardcore Johnny Notebook and the Blue Screens - Go Bust Urochromes - I'm Gonna Confront Ya Pinch Points - Jelly Brain The Prats - Disco Pope -words from your host-
Sizzle. They say ya gotta sell it. Hard sell tactics are not a strong point for yours truly. I can guarantee that there's plenty of sizzling soundwise on this latest episode of Smashin' Transistors.
Bathe in the hiss!
What you'll hear.
Fly Ashtray - The Man Who Stayed In Bed All Day Mountain Movers - My Eyes Are Always Heavy Obnox - Enter The Hater J.C. Heavy - Do What You Like Beauticians - Mouse or Man David Nance Group - 110 Blues Monokultur - Äckel Rocket 808 - Digital Billboards Little Walter Trio - Bad Actin' Woman Water Trash - Fine Rex Wonderful & The Silk Sheets - Humidity The Pink Noise - House Of Cards The Randoms - ABCD Jon Spencer - Wilderness Brandy - Throw Out My Kitchen Mary Bell - Be a mom Lysol - Chemical Reaction Terrestrials - Teenage Waistband Latex Bride - Puppet Head Cows - Mine
Autumn makes hints of its arrival but never says exactly when. It may a subtle entrance. It can also crash down brazenly.
What you'll hear in this October installment
Necros - Peer Pressure Pious Faults - Field Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Petrified Forest Ruby Karinto - Chikotan P-Model - Art Mania -Words from the host Brandy - Life Jail Gen Pop - Din Stereolab - Revox George Brigman - I've Got to Know Terrestrials - Rings -Words from the host- School Damage - Isn't Easy The Uniques - You Ain't Tuff HONG! - Maruk Purling Hiss - Passenger Queen Violence Creeps - Ford Go Bikes -Words from the host Warmest Winter - We Should Go Out Tonight Hawkwind - Lost Johnny Siouxie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling Mope Grooves - Here Comes Another One Television Personalities - The Glittering Prizes
Staring out into the lake may cause hallucinations. A sure sign that's happening when you understand the voltaic incantations.
What you'll hear:
The Pop Group - Words Disobey Me Obnox - Captain Blackeye Roy Montgomery with Liz Harris- Landfall The Lavender Flu - Dream Cleaner The Deltrons - Tonya
-Dale talks-
Mudhoney - Paranoid Core The Fatback Band - Wicky Wacky Donkey Bugs - The Example Pious Faults - Longevity Giant Sand - Black Venetion Blinds
-Dale talks-
Spiritualized - On the Sunshine Primo - Ticking off a List Teenage Fanclub - Critical Mass Seance Sisters - Rabid Moon Boyracer- Denatured
-Dale talks-
Daytime Drugs - Beethoven Was A Bore Mope Grooves - Last Seen Flasher - Who’s Got Time? Brian Eno - Third Uncle Jerry Reed - Guitar Man
-Dale talks-
With August humidity comes agitation. To cool it means oscillations. The whirring can be hypnotic. It can also be an irritant.
What you'll hear:
Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors Midnight Mines - Stations Pram - Ladder to the Moon Counter Intuits - Vietnamese Lighter Musical Linn Twins - Rockin' Out The Blues -words from your host- Cruelster - Why Did They Do That to Me Back Then Marc Riley With The Creepers - Teacher Travel Parsnip - Parsnip - It Couldn't Be True Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds The Love-Birds - Kiss and Tell -words from your host- Caveman & Bam Bam - Let's Start A Fire Cement Shoes - Fruity Funhouse Lysol - TEENAGE TRANCE Obnox - Broke Socialite Ragtime Frank - Shake 'Em -words from your host- Donkey Bugs - Men in High Heels Section 25 - It Don't Get Arndales - Half Thrash ADULT. - Irregular Pleasure Chrome - The Monitors -words from your host-
It's high summer here in the land of Smashin' Transistors. Much to do. Sometimes too much.
Somehow though, episode 38 managed to get done in a somewhat timely fashion.
Set your ears upon the following: Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma
Shark Toys - Confusion Ma Holos - Celebrity Boots The Three O'Clock - I Go Wild En Attendant Ana - (Not) So Hard -words from your host- The Resource Network - Psychographics Psychlops Eyepatch - Melting Flowers Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Feed Me Magnetic Rain New Order - Procession Rose Mercie - Spring and Fall -words from your host- The Liquids - Talking On The Phone The Mistreaters - How Much for the Women? Howlin' Wolf - Who's Been Talkin' John Wesley Coleman - Breaking Up Crazy School Damage - Scump Damage 2 -words from your host- Outer Spacist - Push Dumb Vision - The Fall Water Trash - Guess The Lavender Flu - Like A Summer Thursday The Yankee Dollar - City Sidewalks -words from your host-
The fish have been biting but adulting has kept me away from finding out for myself. Hell, I've only been to the beach twice this summer.
In this episode 37 there are some Aussies contorting a mid 70's Adult Contemporary smash, the Buzzcocks, a couple things that cop the Buzzcocks, punk-psych, space-punk, bong-gazers andoodles more.
What You'll Hear:
Superhelicopter - Rock 'n 'roll Nightmare
Daytime Drugs - Space Station Blues
Compulsive Gamblers - Quit This Town
Carol Jones - Don't Destroy Me
The Lavender Flu - Leaking Past
-Your host speaks-
Slowcoaches - Found Down
Circle Jerks - Operation
Dead Meadow - Nobody Home
Patois Counselors - Terrible Likeness
Tang Soleil - Canadian Son (To Terry Jacks)
-Your host speaks-
Germ House - Crawl Into the Past
Outer Spacist - Gyrfalcon Flight
Rose Mercie - The End of Love
The Shifters - My Little Town
Country Teasers - Points of View
-Your host speaks-
Trash Knife - Locked Out
Liquids - Not Fun
Buzzcocks - Love Battery
Lassie - Zegway Cop
Elton Motello - Pogo Pogo
-Your host speaks-
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The term “Space Force” popped up in the news again a bit this week. All I keep picturing is some lame comic book published by Harvey or Charlton Comics. Either that or one of those comic books some kid down the block gave you and the story ends up having a "Come visit our Sunday School and get saved" message.
A better ending would be where the villain is a brand named squatter and he gets hurled towards the sun. Sure, the universe will smell really gross for a little while after he is burnt to nothing but ash. Then we can clean up and move forward again.
What you'll hear:
Electric Eels - Cyclotron Germ House - Bedroom Walls The Eyes - I'm Rowed Out. The Sueves - Drifting Raspberries - Tonight -words from your host- School Damage - Scump Damage 3 Josef K - The Angle Chronophage - 13th Ward Solex - Peppy Solex Jon Spencer - Do The Trash Can.mp3 -words from your host- Private Sector - Survival (Is Killing Me) Johnny Tyler - Devil's Slate Counter Intuits - Edge Construction Paper - Edge of the Sidewalk Kid Chrome - Pall Mall 100's -words from your host- En Attendant Ana - This Could Be Dead Meadow - I'm so Glad Shark Toys - Maze Gino and the Goons - Watch You Shine The Cramps - Mystery Plane -words from your host
Did pop music's king have has Kool-Aid dosed with psychedelic compounds for the purposes of animated film when he was a child?
What happens when a son discusses proto-punk history with his dad?
Are those questions answered? That is for all of us to surmise. Let your eardrums chew on the sounds of episode 35 of the Smashin' Transistors podcast and gather for yourself what they concluded?
What you'll hear:
Nikki Sudden - Channel Steamer Iceage - Pain Killer Patois Counselors - The Modern Station Times New Viking - New Times, New Hope T-Model Ford - Can't Be Touched -words from your host- Gen Pop - No Identify Set-Top Box - Company Time Wooden Shjips - Red Line Vertigo - Smoked Glass Traps - Super Protected -words from your host- Outer Spacist - Peripheral Visions The Total Rejection - Party Seven Füxa - Our Lips Are Sealed Jackson 5 - I'll Bet You The Mystery Girls - Quit Your Flying Around -words from your host- Red Mass - Rat Race Gallery Night - Young Love Doesn't Last Sonic's Rendezvous Band - City Slang Pineapple RnR - Rain Cage Spacemen 3 - I Love You
-words from your host-
This weekend is Memorial Day Weekend. In Michigan, it marks the unofficial start of summer. "A Bob Seger free weekend" is probably against the law to declare in this state on such a weekend (or any weekend for that fact.)
I bet right now there are weird uncles, creepy dads and dirty grandfathers making some ultimate 3 day weekend Bob Seger mix to celebrate with while they scorch hot dogs and then serve them on a paper plate with the American flag printed on them.
I will hopefully avoid such situations this weekend. Oh. and don't waste your time or mine commenting stuff like "but the System ruled, dude." Yeah, I know they did. I grew up here and have heard Bob everyday of my life so I am well aware of that. Just for one day though, it would be nice to not hear any Silver Bullet Band anywhere, y'know?
In other words, you will not hear anything from the Seeg' in this episode of Smashin' Transistors. It could be worse. Y'know, like an ALL Kid Rock weekend.
What you will hear:
Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - Deep Surf
Deadbeat Beat - Bar Talk
Todd Rundgren - Couldn't I Just Tell You
The Lice - He's the Chair
Subsonics - You Got Eyes
-words from the host-
En Attendant Ana - Night
Carlton Melton - Way Back When
Bad Habit - The Garden
The Sueves - The Button
Razorbumps - Workin' Bees
-words from the host-
Wire - Map Ref 41 N 93 W
Iceage - The Day The Music Dies
Silver Apples - I Have Known Love
Hookups - Go Find It
Gen Pop - Din
-words from the host-
Gasoline - I Just Low
Jessie Fortune - Too Many Cooks
Patois Counselors - Last Heat
The Hecks - In The Dirt
The Mo-Dettes - White Mice
-words from the host-
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No glass line tanks here but in episode "33" we do tender premium noise for your enjoyment as a tribute to your good taste.
What you'll hear:
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Don't Cry No Tears
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones - Bloody Nights at the Hotel Bar
The Total Rejection - Vampire Cats (Itches)
Flaming Lips - Kim's Watermelon Gun
Speeding Motorcycle - Like Forever
-words from your host-
Perverts Again - Get You Out Of College
Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Make Out Fade Out
Paint Thinner - Glistening Dots
Flying Saucer Attack - A Silent Tide
Yves Bernard - Dérapage Ethylique
-words from your host-
The Sueves - Never Been to the Beach
The White Wires - In My Bed
Honey Cone - Stick-Up
Gino and the Goons - Glory Days Gone
The Roamin' Togas - Bar The Door
-words from your host-
Iceage - Take It All
The Psychedelic Furs - Flowers
ISS - Soft Youth
Stiff Love - Up In Your Room
Red Cross - Annette's Got The Hits
-words from your host-
It's a few weeks shy of May. The weather has been insisting it is still late February.
This episode sets a raging blaze of sonic heat.
What You'll Hear
- Brides - Pushed Around
- Silver Abuse - Idi Amin’s Tortoise
- Carlton Melton - Electrified Sky
- Gary Wrong Group - Heroin Beach Serpents Attack
- The B-52's - 52 Girls (1978 7'' Version)
- -words from the host-
- LASSIE - Modern Vacation
- En Attendant Ana - Time
- Index - Fire Eyes
- Warm Bodies - Love O' Clock
- Cruz Somers - Sit & Stare
- -words from the host-
- Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - How'm I Supposed To Wake Up In The Morning
- The Fabuletts - Can't Stay Away
- Choke Chains - Galactic Overlord
- The Resource Network - Albatross
- Pram - Bewitched
- -words from the host-
- Clone Defects - Not as Good as Gold
- The Total Rejection - Licking Furniture (You'll Find Me On The Left Side)
- The Monsieurs - High School Star
- Drags - Not So Good Luck Charm
- Dow Jones and the Industrials - Can't Stand The Midwest
- -words from the host-
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Let Smashin' Transistors ruin Easter Dinner with the family for you. We've got sleaze, lust, blasphemy and a whole lot of other sins in static and noise. Some of it even goes POP!
Mary Jane Hooper - I've Got What You Need
Krozer - Pink Stuff
Thomas A Edison Electric Band - Name Of The Game
Obnox - I Climbed A Mountain
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars
-words from your host-
Caveman and Bam Bam -Starting A Dance Craze
Isley Brothers - Keep On Doin'
American Breakfast - Ice Cream
Neo Neos - Give Me a Chance
Dan Melchior - Another Oil Spill
-words from your host-
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - It's Lonely In This World All Alone
Lassie - Tiger In My Tank
En Attendant Ana - In The End
Supercrush - I've Been Around
Bailter Space - Splat
-words from your host-
Rik & the Pigs - Rat's Behind
Heavy Lids - T.V. States
Control Test - Abuso
Heavy Metal - Today Is The Day Before Tomorrow
CH3 - Catholic Boy
-words from your host-
Raised on skin flicks and backwoods hootch? Maybe. Hot cars and cold hearts? Possibly.
The key is in the ignition. It gets gripped then turned. The bumpy roadtrip starts. Out of our minds and into space. A bunch of stops will be made in Austraila along with some others. One in my hometown too (maybe.)
What you'll hear
Syd Barrett - No Good Trying The Stallion - Nobody's Home Black Sandwich - Subscription Garb Day Creeper- Secrets Casual Burn - Decline Thigh Master - Pity Run The Mark Vodka Group - I Just Have To Get Her Off My Mind Doug Mcdade & Purple People - I Wanna Do It. TV Creeps - Is This Real? Moonwalks - Plastic Eno Psychlops Eyepatch - Sleeptalker High Rise - Wipe Out The Cobras - I Wanna Be Your Love The Living Eyes - Horseplay SCRAP BRAIN - Vindictive Parsnip - Seeing Red Charlie Reed - Love Hangover Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - The Woman With The Invisible Necklace David Nance - I'm A Loser The Lee Vi's - I Don't Know
I've never lied about my age.
I was referenced to as a proto-Gen X'r recently.
It might even stick.
What you'll hear:
Margie Singleton - Jesus Is My Pusher Golden Boys - Rotary Phone Tin Foil - Tomorrow Again Beachwood Sparks - Sister Rose Bad Habit - Foggy Eyes Fernando & The Teenage Narcs - Heavy Metal Narcs Rik & the Pigs - (Baby I'm) Electric Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation The Monsieurs - I Will Run The Number Ones - Long Way To Go Electric Orchids - Strange Men Call Me Sweetheart The Liminanas feat. Anton Newcombe - Istanbul Is Sleepy The Futurians - Abandon Base Wet Hair - Dear Danae The Dole - New Wave Love The Hentchmen - Flash Flood The Living Eyes - International Fashion Heavy Lids - Creep Creep Straight Arrows - Out & Down The Move - Flowers in the Rain
Our last edition of this thing ended with a song by the 28th Day. This edition is the 28th one. Also, this one is being posted on the 28th day of the month. I'm gonna remember to use the number the next time I play the Powerball.
Mott the Hoople - Sweet Angeline Dale Beavers - Train Comin' Round The Bend Sex Tide - I Was So Wrong Fatal Figures - Skin Split En Kernaghan Projekt Experience Banned 1997 - Loves Ack The Hentchmen - Restart My Heart Kuromi - Eyeliner Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Hot Head Headroom - How to Grow Evil Flowers Tropical Trash - Your Place In The Chain Magic Cigarettes - Getaway! The Mark Vodka Group - Big Time Rocker Corner Boys - Joke (Of The Neighbourhood) Heavy Metal – Use Your Skull Shitstorm - Nervous Comet Gain - Fists in the Pocket Sloan - 500 Up City Yelps - We Like The Hours Jackson Politik - Habit The Fall - Jawbone And The Air-Rifle
“You keep living like that you'll be lucky to see thirty.”
“Oh, you're all such squares. I'm gonna live to be a very old man!”
And so the conversation went with so many family members as a youth. When they come over to visit now they just ask me to turn the music down because it is too damn noisy and say they swear that I'll never grow up.
They're still all squares.
There's a few quiet moments in this, the 27th episode of the Smashin' Transistors show. You can still play all of it really loud though if you wish.
Chris Bell - Get Away
Mountain Movers - Vision Television
The Telescopes - Silent Water
Parsnip - Nigella
First Base - This Guitar Of Mine
Lumpy And The Dumpers - Boling River
Electric Wizard - Necromania
Necessary Evils - Lost My Baby
Klazo - The Race
Laughing Hyenas - Hell's Kitchen
Wireheads - Protein Dealer
Color TV - Night After Night
Turn To Crime - Can't Love
Aquarian Blood - Funeral Moon
Tony Joe White - Whompt Out On You
The Proper Ornaments - Stereolab
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Reflectors
Crescent - Willow Pattern
Jackson Politick - I Am A Raver
28th Day - Dead Sinner
Neck snappin' snares, tube driven wiggles, horn haunted & haughty, jangle weedy and ramblin', machines whirlin' and brain cell torching hiss. It's time for another episode of Smashin' Transistors!
Here's What You'll Hear True West - Steps to The Door Seance Sisters - Hammer of Witches Honey Radar - Please Call Me Frogman The Sulks - Ain't Life Funny ISS - It's A Chore Strip Kings - Slow Panic Chain & the Gang - Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight 23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito gSp - Life Eraser Bloody Show - Open Fire Krypto-Narcs - Plastic Bag Red Transistor - Not Bite En Kernaghan Projekt Experience Banned 1997 - Things Are Constantly Changing Tracy Lee Summer - You Are Gone Dion Lunadon - Reduction Agent Obnox - I Hate Everything Prom Nite - No Motivation The Golden Boys - So Cowboy Jimmy Minor - Satan's Chauffeur
Episode Twenty five of this fake radio show slash mix tape! That entitles this thing to some silver right?
Here's what you'll hear. The Plastic Cloud - Face Behind The Sun Psychic Ills - Might Take A While Obnox - Woe Is Me Kid Koala - 2 Bit Blues The Stallion - In the Flesh The Choir - It's Cold Outside Razz - I Wont Fade Teevee Fuzz - Jamboree The Vaselines - Poison Pen Belly Jelly - On Your Own The Golden Boys - Lonely Girls Cheap Trick - Baby Loves To Rock Bloody Show - Psychic Witch Lumpy And The Dumpers - Hair On The Inside Stone Garden - Oceans Inside Me Klazo - Restrictions The Seculars - Calm You Down Little Richard - Ooh my soul The Chrome Cranks - Desperate Friends AC/DC - Riff Raff