Radio What Wave Playlist April 26/2021
1 Gruesomes…..What Wave…..from Mr Garager’s Neighbourhood LP on OG Records from 1989.
2. Spit Jr…. Put Down That Phone….latest single from this Dashboard Rattler.
3. Simon Chardiet….My Last Dance With You….from his Rockabilly From Rockaway Volume 2. Simon has been through London when he played bass in Heavy Trash. Really dig the doo wop stylings/vocals on this one. Thanx for providing all the songs Simon!
4. Long Day Journey and Bob Bryden…..We Can’t Ask Alice….from their about to be released double album of psych. Double vinyl and CD coming real soon!
5. Long Day Journey…. Main Title Theme….from Mini Themes For Motion Pictures Featuring The Exciting Sounds Of Fuzz Unlimited. A current fave, this one is available via bandcamp.
6. Wasagas….Bluffers Park….from the recent Dance Party A Go Go and from Toronto.
7. Enchanters….Back Stabbers UK…..from the brand new Enchanters 7” and their second single. This one is on Transistor 66 Records out of Winnipeg.
8.TVD….All Day I Dream….from their soon to be released Avec CD and from right here in London. TVD= Timmins + Venno + Dekoker, 3 veterans of the local scene still making great music!
9. Scarlet Drops….Early In The Morning….from the 1990 cassette Moose Power A Go Go and from Ottawa. Love the tension in the male/female vocals that many of the Scarlet Drops tunes has. They were on a couple What Wave compilation cassettes.
10. Good2Go….Boots…..from their Bar-B-Que release and from Ottawa. The bass player, Reg, was the drummer for Scarlet Drops. Played a snippet of Frankie Teardrop by Suicide right after this.
11. Outta Place….Things Are Different Now….from their recent Prehistoric Recordings on Area Pirata. OP were a mid 80’s garage punk combo out of NYC that members, who were teens at the time, went on to other combos….Raunch Hands, Maneaters, Fuzztones, Optic Nerve, Lone Wolves and many others.
12. Hasil Adkins….Punchy Wunchy Wicky Wacky Woo…..recorded live at Chuggies, Hamilton 6/18/1986. This was Hasil’s first time up in Canada and the only time we ever got to see/meet him. Today also marks the anniversary of Hasil passing in 2005.
13 Hasil Adkins….Shake That Thing…. As above. We got to interview Hasil that night, and that would have appeared in What Wave zine back then. And we found out that he really was a hillbilly.
14. Bloodshot Bill….I’ll Know….from his 2006 Trashy Greasy Rockin’ Billy release. Bill was supposed to go on tour with Hasil at the time of his passing.
15. Simon Chardiet….Death Comes Creeping In….from his Whey You Ain’t Got Money You Gotta Work Fast EP.
16. Lew Lewis Reformer….Just Dow What You Want….from the 1979 Save The Wail release. Lew passed away very recently and was an original member of Eddie And the Hot Rods (he left prior to the first LP, but is on a couple of the early singles), played with/did sessions for; Stranglers, Clash Wilko Johnson and many others. He was a harp player in the style of Little Walter.
17. Lew Lewis….1-3- 2-30 3-35…..from a 1980 single on Stiff Records.
18. Rocket From The Tombs….I’m Never Gonna Kill Myself Again….1975 recording from WMMS Cleveland and the start of our look at the beginnings of punk/new wave using the books (there will be 4 or 5 in the series) Another Tuneless Racket by Steven H. Gardener. Each of the bands we play has a chapter in the book. Rocket were the Cleveland starting point for both Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys. Right around here Peter Laughner talks a bit about the recording and emphasizes that anyone can do it.
19. Pere Ubu….Modern Dance…..recorded live at The Edge, Toronto 1/5/1979 and was the last date of a tour.
20. Pere Ubu….Heart Of Darkness…..from Datapanik In The Year Zero and recorded in 1975.
21. Dead Boys…Sonic Reducer….from the Young Loud & Snotty release from 1977.
22. Dead Boys….Ain’t It Fun…..from their We Have Come For Your Children from 1978 and originally a Rocket From The Tombs song.
23. Bizarros….It Hurts Janey…..from their 2nd single on Clone Records, a label they created to release their own and other Cleveland area bands.
24. Bizarros…Laser Boys….as above.
25. Diodes….Rebel Without A Pause….from probably their second ever gig, at Ontario College Of Art from February 1977. This was the original 5 piece lineup with 2 guitar players.
26. Diodes….Behind Those Eyes….1977 demo recorded at Toronto Sounds.
27. Diodes….Child Star….from their debut longplayer from 1977. The Diodes were the first Canadian punk/new wave combo to get signed to a major label and release an album. They are also the only Canadian band in Another Tuneless Racket.
28. Radio Birdman…..live….not sure of the song name but recorded live from 2JJJ Radio March 1976.
29. Radio Birdman….. What Gives….from their 1978 Radios Appear Canadian edition as this song doesn’t appear on the Australian release of the same name.
30. Saints….I’m Stranded….recorded live June 1977 and from a bootleg called Cabaret At The Roundhouse. This show is mentioned in Another Tuneless Racket.
31. Saints….No Time….from their 1977 Stranded release.
32. Little Bob Story…..I Need Money….from a 1976 Chiswick single and LBS are from France. They played the UK many times during the early years of punk/new wave.
33. Little Bob Story….Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood…..from a 1975 7”.
34. Damned….New Rose…..from their 1977 Stiff single.
35. Damned….Neat Neat Neat……another 1977 Stiff single.
36. The Boys….First Time….from a 1977 7” and had to cut this off as regulation time ran out.
Thanx for everyone who took the time to listen, sent an email, message, text, yelled, letter and the smoke signals from Mack!
Next week we play more early UK punk/new wave releases and again try to avoid the obvious and play the tracks you may not have heard.
