Radio What Wave Playlist January 18/2021
1. Gruesomes….What Wave…..from Mr Garager’s Neighbourhood 1989
2. Creatures Of Condition….Thin Boys…from their recent Uniforms Of Opposing Sides release and from Windsor Ontario.
3. The Versions….Island….from their recent Calling Lucifer release and from Chile
4. Aqua Barons….Spy Romance…from their recent Extreme Guitar Conditions release and from Greece
5. Long Day Journey….Sickle Showdown…from his recent Mini Themes For Motion Pictures Featuring The Exciting Sounds Of Fuzz Unlimited. From Hamilton Ontario.
6. The Ventures….Them From Wild Angels…from the Guitar Freakout release and from 1967. One of the very first albums I bought as a kid….49 cents at the local K Mart as it was mono and everyone wanted stereo records back then. I didn’t care (or know the difference) as I had a foldup record player.
7. Spit Jr….Destination April….recent release and from London Ontario.
8. Randall Pee Coltrane….Self Medicated Man…..from his upcoming The Gnu Normal release and from Barrie Ontario.
9. Ballantynes….Sickos….from their Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church release from 2013 and from Vancouver.
10. Mandala…..Love-itus…..from their Classics release and originally from 1968, way before J Geils had the hit.
11. Brian McMahon….NYDNY….from his 17 Volts release from 1996 and Brian was in the Electric Eels outta Cleveland.
12. Jon Lee and the Checkmates….Porkchop….from 1967 and came out on Sparton, so it was pressed right here in London, Ontario. This is the start of our tribute to Michael Fonfara who passed away recently.
13. Lou Reed….Kill Your Sons….from the 1974 Sally Can’t Dance release that Michael played keyboards and was Lou’s band leader for several years.
14. Lou Reed…Baby Face…. As above.
15. Rhinoceros….Apricot Brandy….from their first album from 1968. Micheal was keyboardist in this combo.
16. Rhinoceros….Just Me….from their 1970 Better Times Are Coming release.
17. Rough Trade….Take Me….from their 1976 Direct To Disc release and Michael was arranger and keyboardist.
18. Chris Houston….Einstein’s Brain’s In Hamilton….from a 2013 7” upon which Michael played keyboards. Got to see Michael Fonfara several times at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton over the years.
19. Chris Houston….Right Stuff….from his Hazards Of Glitter release
20. Magic Christian….Let’s Shake….from the 7” from 2012 that was recorded in Hamilton with Dave Rave, Gordie Lewis and Michael along with Magic Christian.
21. Chris Murphy….Happy Guy….from his Blowin’ The Horn release and features Michael as keyboardist, producer and songwriter on this one. Chris Murphy is from right here in London Ontario.
22. Doug Varty Band….Misfit….from his 2012 Feel Free release and from London Ontario. Doug was inducted into the London Music Hall Of Fame a couple years ago.
23. Celibate Rifles….God Squad….from their 1983 Sideroxylon release and from Australia.
24. Sporting Bachelors….In The Garage….from their 1990 Love Letters To Johanna release.
25. Funk E. Fred and Origin…..played the intro to this 1982 cassette that came out of London Ontario. Don’t know much about the band, they did play live a couple times and Chris Meloche did the electronics for the project. Any additional info appreciated.
26. UIC….Morocco….from their recent FM Hill release and from Toronto.
27. Muck and the Mires….Mint Condition….from their recent Greetings From Muckingham Palace release.
28. Sorels….She’s In A Gang….from their 7” from last year and some new recordings should be here for next week’s show. Winnipeg garage/bubblegum combo.
29. The Poles….CN Tower….from Toronto and on a 1977 7”.
30. Wire….Reuters….from their 1977 Pink Flag release.
31. Michael Yonkers Band….Boy In The Sandbox….from Microminiature Love on Subpop Records that was a collection of his recordings.
32. DOA….America The Beautiful….from the 1978 release and this is a 1982 demo of this timely song.
33. DOA….Liar For Hire…from the 1978 release.
34 Subhumans…. Mindless Tough Guy Act….from the New Dark Age Parade release.
Thanx to all that took the time to give a listen! And Big Thanx for all the comments, messages, emails, letters, phonecalls and smoke signals!!
Next week a trib to Sylvain Sylvain, Phil Spector and Tim Bogert.