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-     We glady accept tips! Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at    Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr.   

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Smashin‘ Transistors 84: You might as well live

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-   We glady accept tips! Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at    Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr. 

Smashin‘ Transistors 83: Take Your Shirt Off And Throw It In The Pool

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-     We glady accept tips! Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at    Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram

Smashin' Transistors 82: How To Start The Next Dance Craze?

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- We glady accept tips! Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at    Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram      

Smashin' Transistors 81: Dankness on The Edge Of Town

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-   We gladly accept tips!   Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram

Smashin' Transistors 80: Weather and Wonder and Wondering Whether

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-

Smashin' Transistors 79: Churlishness Prevalent

"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-  

Smashin' Transistors 78: Blanketed In Yellow Dust

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-  

Smashin' Transistors (Apostrophe) 77

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- 

Toque to Toboggan

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 – DaylightKaleidoscope – Deaths of DespairPenza Penza – Wunder CityDavid Nance – This Side Of The Moon-words from your host-Quintron and Miss Pussycat -You Make It WeirdTwinkeyz - Sweet NothingGen Pop – Pixel GlowExploding Flowers – Far, But Never Gone-words from your host-Hank Wood and the Hammerheads – StrangersLamps – ChestMud City Manglers – One Of These DaysStonewall – Outer Spaced-words from your host-Patois Counselors – Give Me VoltageLavender Flu – RomelasGuardian Singles – Midnight SwimItchy Self – Reprobate-words from your host-The Smarts – Golden ArchesDon Cherry – Degi DegiADULT. – Human WreckShadows Of Knight – I’ll Make You Sorry-words from your host-    Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at  Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram

Smashin' Transistors 75: Zircon and On and On

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 hearYvonne Fair – Say Yeah YeahCherry Cheeks – No TicketOh Sees – ToadstoolPussy Cat – La la lu-words from your host-Brandy – Text HomeWire – Fly In The OintmentZurich Cloud Motors – For The BeyondHorribly Wrong – The Living Nightmare-words from your host-The Stroppies – Sad Sorry SoulNick Allison and the Player’s Lounge – Move AlongThe Pastels – Crawl BabiesEra Bleak – Era Bleak-words from your host-Shark Toys – BlackThe Toeheads – Jane Doe #59Public Eye – The Door Is Always ClosedHenry Fiat’s Open Sore – I Don't Know-words from your host-Optic Sink – Dumb LuckCCR Headcleaner – SweetsSatanic Togas - Panic RoomThe Freeze - Halloween Night-words from your host-

Smashin' Transistors 74: Nothing But Candy Corn in the Treat Bag

 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-  

Smashin' Transistors 73: The Bacillus is Pumpkin Spiced?

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-   Tips are always appreciated. Especially in the currently job hunting times.   Become a Patron!Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at    Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram 

Smashin' Transistors 72: And the days grow short

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 FireMedium Medium – Further Than Funk Dream PR Shake – Dust -words from your host- Personality Cult - Weigh DownThe Zone V – I Cannot Lie Hobocop – Home ConnectCelebrity Handshake – Don’t Wanna Talk About It -words from your host-Sonic Boom – Things Like This (A Little Bit Deeper) Clock DVA – White CellCool Greenhouse- Life AdviceKeiyaA – RectifiYa-words from your host- Fun Time Objects – Emergency Action The White Wires – Stayed Up LateGhoulies- Genetic Flaw Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages-words from your host- Gimmick – HiballZip It – Gatormouth RMFC -  Reader The Pretenders – Mystery Achievement -words from your host- 

Smashin' Transistors 71: Orchestrations of Night Bugs

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- 

Smashin Transistors 70: Virtual Charcoal Briquettes

Music from around the world, around the block and many decades

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