Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Recent Episodes
Revolutionary Plastics Hour
Oh, my friends, my good, good friends! What a time it’s been. We apologize for the break in service & would like to assure you that systems will be fully operational again as soon as possible. Meanwhile, here’s the most … Continue reading →
Ghoul afternwhoooooon—it’s the haunted edition of the Revolutionscary Plastics Howl! This week is fundraiser week at the station, so, for your listening pleasure, I’ve eviscerated (without anesthesia!) the chunks of the show that consist of me asking for money, leaving … Continue reading →
This week: a sort of loosely thematic collection of songs about… well, judge for yourself, friends. Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Forty-Four RJD2—Get Off My Spaceship, Bitch – Rose Royce—You Can’t Please Everybody Brooklyn Dreams—That’s Not the Way That Your Mama … Continue reading →
Some awkward novelty rap (ft. Tommy Boy’s Monica Lynch as a sassy Around-The-Way Girl, as well as 3rd Bass’ penultimate release & another Mix-A-Lot gem), some charming country gentlemen, some other assorted items of broadly general interest & that’s a … Continue reading →
As is becoming standard operating procedure, the run-down on the wrap-up is on its way; in the meantime, here’s the music… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Forty-Two Stevie Wonder—Part-Time Lover (instrumental) – Foxy—Lady of the Streets Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Smokey … Continue reading →
Yes: Musical descriptions, lyrical observations & ponderous musings yet to come… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Forty-One Jimmy Spicer—The Bubble Bunch (instrumental) – Evolutionary Control Committee—Rebel Without a Pause (Whipped Cream mix) Chromeo—Needy Girl (Bloc Party’s High School Prom remix) Breakwater—Do … Continue reading →
The usual song descriptions, contextual revelations & rambling nonsense yet to come… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Forty Knuckles O’Toole—The Old Piano Roll Blues – Journey—Any Way You Want It Patrick Juvét—I Love America Giorgio Moroder—Reach Out (ft. Paul Engemann) Class—Get … Continue reading →
Descriptions, anecdotes, meandering nonsense still to come… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Thirty-Nine Tricky with DJ Muggs & Grease—Pop Muzik (M cover) Guido MCs—Bensonhurst, 86th St. DJ Greyboy—To Know You is to Love You (Stevie Wonder cover) Buck Owens & His … Continue reading →
Song info & verbose over-notation to come… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Thirty-Eight Direct Current—Everybody Here Must Party The Main Ingredient—Something Lovely (Stevie Wonder/? Wright) Cher—Bad Love Abigail—Smells Like Teen Spirit (The Guitar Vocal Version) Nile Rodgers—Stay Out of the Light … Continue reading →
Detailed commentary on the way… Revolutionary Plastics Hour: Volume Thirty-Seven Ramones—Judy is a Punk Rocker [end of Brian’s show] – Giorgio Moroder—Valley of the Dolls (from Foxes sdtrk.) – Citizen—You’re So Cool Louise Goffin—Kid Blue Dan Hartman—I Can Dream About … Continue reading →
Okay, I’ve been playing a version of this set for the past three or four weeks; this past week, it actually, finally recorded successfully. So now you can enjoy it! The songs are definitely on the scrappier, punk rock end of … Continue reading →
This episode leaps right out of the gate with a scorching introductory number, courtesy of Honeycone (no idea), called “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show.” it also features disco-ish versions of classic rock tunes (Floyd, Zep, T. Rex & T. … Continue reading →
Okay, this is kind of a Twofer-Tuesday deal. Not only are there back-to-back hott traxx by Ryuchi Sakamoto (featuring Robin Scott of “Pop Muzik” fame, & Iggy Pop of “Iggy Pop music” fame), & a sweet lyrical segue from Billy … Continue reading →
Punk’s not dead, right? I don’t know why you would even say that. What are you, some kinda square? See you at the mall, grandpa! Anyhow, whether or not punk’s dead* is a topic for another day. Today, we’ll be … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since the last one & it may be yet longer till the next one. Thanks for sticking with this. Technical difficulties have gone forth & multiplied, so who knows what the future holds. In the meantime … Continue reading →
Hello again! As you may have noticed, this podcast has been a bit on the quiet side for the last few weeks. I assure you, this has not been due to laziness or apathy on my part, but rather to … Continue reading →
This week’s show has a lot of movie-related stuff going on. I’m not sure why—I swear, it wasn’t intentional (at least, not consciously; what my subconscious does is no business of mine). Songs from cult/popular/crap eighties movies (one each), plus … Continue reading →
Shorter tracklist—longer songs. Vintage Donna Summer. St. Etienne tackle Neil Young (well, less “tackle” than “touch,” to stretch the metaphor), with the assistance of Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez & “Little” Louis Vega. Rick Rubin “ruins” Justice. Tata Vega speeds up Ned … Continue reading →
Staring at the threshold of the Thirties, this latest episode has twentysomething written all over it. It’s still living at home with its parents, it won’t even consider accepting a job where it can’t check its Facebook page at least … Continue reading →
Whuuurrraaaahh, uurrrhhhh, I’m still alive. —Eddie Vedder The above quote is a ham-handed reference to rock stars who die at twenty-seven years of age.* The phonetic approximation of the chorus from Pearl Jam’s biggest hit serves at once to celebrate … Continue reading →
Explanation: The Slow World is where things don’t work as well as they should. It’s a place where difficulty arises in figuring out choices or details or plans that, in our normal, day-to-day lives, require little to no thought. What … Continue reading →
Back again for more nonsense, chicanery, monkeyshines, malarkey, hi-jinks & shenanigans. This week’s crop mixes pop, dance, rap & more. Well, actually, that’s about it. There’s a “block” (I think four songs constitutes a block) of tracks with production by … Continue reading →
Ladies & gentlemen, my Valentine’s Day gift to you: A scrappy mostly-nineties pop-punk beginning (with a garish vinyl fox pass* at the start of song #3, over which I have much chagrin), followed by some B-sides from popular eighties hits. … Continue reading →
This show is characterized largely by what you might call “functional oddity,” a term I just made up to describe songs that would probably fit in just fine as part of any given Revolutionary Plastics Hour, but have the added … Continue reading →
It’s hard to describe this show. It’s partially the result of realizing that I’ve collected a bunch of oddball Christian comedy & spoken word records over time, & partly an expression of my innate contrarianism. It’s not a show that … Continue reading →
Okay, so, sure—I’m hung up on Moroder at the moment. Sue me! Or… check out the first track of tonight’s show & thank me…! All over the map again tonight, starting with disco-inflected dance-pop, moving over to bubblegum-pop & then … Continue reading →
Here’s another weird one.* We start things out with a dash of seventies curmudgeonry, then veer off into the other direction, with a Los Lobos Disney cover (I’ll have to play the Phil Harris original sometime; or even just another … Continue reading →
Welcome back & thanks for dropping by! Won’t you join me as we stay out all night & wake up under a car tomorrow in celebration of the show’s twenty-first episode…? This week’s show has some really fun disco-soul (undertaking … Continue reading →
If I were better at the Internet, this section wouldn’t be here. Or it would look a lot different, anyhow. At the moment, it’s a hodgepodge of all the stuff that’s more conveniently organized in the “Audio” section. So I’d … Continue reading →
Starts out with a couple of protest chants, then smooths things out with some eighties pop. On the heels of a pair of novelty rap gems, a Christian fifties-high-school lecturer gets his point across (backed up by an Earth dirge), … Continue reading →
This one gets off to a very eighties start, then eases into some wackiness. The Negativland song is a classic piece of intellectual property legal-test-caseness, while Penn (of Penn & Teller) Jillette’s track explores the paradoxical theme of being too … Continue reading →
This one’s a sort of duel between the forces of pop vs. punk; you might say it reaches its apex in the World/Inferno track, which combines the two. Or wait, is it the Dictators—or that stellar Superkools song, which sounds … Continue reading →
The second in this pair of new-era soul/R&B-inflected shows; this one plays like the B-side of the first; lots of the same names (Sa-Ra, PPP) &, to my chagrin, a repeated song (Grace Jones). I can only blame my own … Continue reading →
Part One in a semi-advertent duo of shows centering around new-school soul & indie R&B, etc. The first part meshes some of the above with dance-pop from today (Surkin + Chromeo, Bonde Do Role) & yesterday (Human League, with a … Continue reading →
This show ended up with more of a novelty-song focus than I’d intended, but I guess it’s all based on which records I bring, so I can’t really dodge the blamethrower…! Standouts include the Sa-Ra MMW remix, the O’Jay’s glimpse … Continue reading →
This show represents everything I try to do with the Revolutionary Plastics Hour. It’s got some cool newer music (the triumphant Glass Candy opener & the bouncy Shafiq Husayn ear-candy), then some lesser-known tracks by artists that may or may … Continue reading →
This episode centers around story songs. I’ve always appreciated the way a song can tell a story, whether as a broad-strokes character sketch (“Martin,” “Loyola,” “Kiss the Bottle”), an anecdotal glimpse (“Smithers-Jones,” “Shut Your Little Trap, Inc.,” “Kiss the Bottle”) … Continue reading →
This one’s got some of my favorite songs ever; the Finger one’s just brilliant—keeps you waiting the whole time for the chorus, then hammers it. The Saul Williams one is pretty powerful, too—& Bernadette Peters’ version of the Elvis classic … Continue reading →
Yet another mid-week missive; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound & fury & what not, signifying monkeyshines. This week’s episode features music by Sa-Ra Creative Partners, a spectacularly upbeat & catchy number by the Glass Bottle, a … Continue reading →
The “awkward” second show. Not exceptionally polished, but I think it rises above “sophomore slump” territory, anyhow. I wasn’t fully consistent with the show’s current 100% vinyl policy (most of my records were still packed up in storage at the … Continue reading →
Welcome to Episode One.* It went much better than I had any right to expect, given how long it had been since my last radio show (college) & my still-shaky familiarity with the gadgetry. A really fun handful of songs … Continue reading →
Right-click to download any of the tracks, or each release as a .zip file. All tracks 320 kbps MP3, yo. The concluding single: These were the last recordings the High-Steppin’ Nickel Kids made. Recorded … Continue reading →
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx off the original yellow vinyl, yo. .99 cents per copy. Thanks, Bull Moose Music.
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx. Thanks to V/VM; I was going to do this anyway, but his version gave me confidence that it was all going to turn out okay.
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx. This is a song featuring Lou Reed, before he got better known & did that album with Metallica.
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx. White vinyl. Jealous? Make me an offer…* * © Leeway, 1991
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx. A song I recorded onto a tape (remember those?) at the wrong speed; turned out to be the right speed. Finally found another copy of the 10″ & realized a years-long ambition with this version.
Chopped & screwed by xdonricklesx. This version got the Pitchfork stamp of approval, yo.