V/A - Shiny Grey Monotone Radio - Show 2

Label: N/A
Year: 2012

Man, I said I was going to get all these old radio show playlists back up on the blog...and...well...a month goes by and here we are just now getting the second installment up. Yeesh. Talk about falling asleep at the wheel.
Sorry?
Regardless, all is forgiven when you hit "play" on this hour's worth of Grade A Top Quality music. As with all of these volumes, the idea is to walk the listener through a sampling of what it is we do here (there, and everywhere). So, the discerning connoisseur will no doubt appreciate the roller coaster ride of varying perspectives on noise rock, whilst your girlfriend will continue to berate you for subjecting her to this horrid crap (just a bit of slight sexism between friends...I kid, I kid).

The bands:
Arcwelder
Ikara Colt
Oneida
Vineland
The Liverhearts
Brainiac
Colossamite
C Average
Daisy Cutter
Luca Brasi
Zeni Geva
Pearls & Brass
Smoke and Smoke
Theory Of Ruin
Calvin Krime
Drunk Tank
Head Of David
Whores.
Cutthroats 9
Cop Shoot Cop

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bodychoke - cold river songs

released: 1998
label: purity

do you like swans?
do you like early cop shoot cop?
do you like skinny puppy?
do you like swans?
do you like fall of because?
do you like neurosis?
do you like the birthday party?
do you like swans?

i don't have all day for this.
i have places to be.
ok.
fine.
i just have one place that i need to be but your mom isn't home yet.

DL

protomartyr - under color of official right

released: 2014
label: hardly art

do you like idles?
do you like mission of burma?
do you like wire?
do you like post 2006 fucked up?
do you like early talking heads?
do you like protomartyr?
do you like pina coladas?
do you like getting caught in the rain?

DL

dysrhythmia - live from the relapse contamination festival

released: 2004
label: relapse records


once upon a time relapse records had themselves a little festival in in philadelphia,pa back in 2003. it went on for 2 days. bands with names like: alabama thunderpussy and burnt by the sun and high on fire and neurosis and pig destroyer and today is the day also played (though not in alphabetical order. i mean...who would play that kind of show? that would be madness.)

and then there was this band.
dysrhythmia.
they're a 3 piece instrumental band from philadelphia.
they're a bit of a jazz fusion band perhaps.
they'd fit quite nicely next to your don caballero and behold...the arctopus (whom the current bass player is a member of as well) and mogwai and your russian circle and your king crimson albums.
yeah.
they're decent.
you shouldn't really need to know all that much more about them.
just give this a listen.
quit being a sissy.
this isn't like the time i told you to go and check the breaker box in the basement.
i don't even own that leather outfit anymore.

DL

hammerhead / godheadsilo - split

released: 1993
label: oxo records

it's hammerhead.
it's godheadsilo.
it's 2 bands that you like.
it's good for you.
it's not so good for your speakers.

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kylesa / victims - split

released: 2012
label: deathwish

you probably already know who kylesa are/were.
they've got one song here and it sounds as if it could've been released on their SELF-TITLED album.
you probably already know who victims are.
if'n not: they're a hardcore band from sweden.
they've got two songs here and one of them is a cover of a kylesa song that can be found on their SELF-TITLED album.
notice a recurring theme here?
kylesa's SELF-TITLED album is kick-ass.
end of story.

DL

v/a - gilman street block party

released: 1993
label: none

i know what most of you are probably thinking right about now....

"green day? green day?! what the fuck?! green fucking day?!"

i know.
green day.
but some of you have to admit that you were down with some older green day.
i'm talking everything up to and including DOOKIE.
it's ok.
i'll admit to liking DOOKIE.
yeah.
i heard it.
and yes.
rancid is there as well.
truth be told: i've never been a fan of rancid.
and it's fun so say "hey. the clash." when someone is listening to them.
truth be told: i've never been a fan of the clash either.
not even "rock the casbah" or "london calling".
it's just not my thing.
but with all of that being said: neurosis is on this.
and if neurosis can tolerate all of that so can you.
there you go.
that's the determined smile i like to see.
actually....
are you sure that you don't have to go to the bathroom?

1 - neurosis - self-doubt
2 - operation ivy - officer
3 - green day - sweet home alabama (lynyrd skynyrd cover)
4 - green day - eye of the tiger (survivor cover)
5 - green day - rock you like a hurricane (scorpions cover)
6 - rancid - hyena
7 - crimpshrine - bricks
8 - crimpshrine - my friend
9 - stikky - on the way up
10 - isocracy - rodeo

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testament - low

released: 1994
label: atlantic records

it's chuck billy's birthday today.
happy birthday,chuck.

i've been a fan of testament since high school. my first foray into testamantland was via HEADBANGERS BALL and the video for "souls of black". and then there was that kid in high school that was all into the metals. he'd helped it along by lending me some tapes. yes. tapes. THE NEW ORDER and PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH and SOULS OF BLACK. he'd also loaned me a vhs copy of megadeth playing "hangar 18" on THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW. that was crazy. i'd even seen the band living colour play "cult of personality" on THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW. the audience had no fucking idea what was happening. after having seen that of course i automatically went out and purchased a pair of orange skin tight shorts. but that's another story for another time.

i'm not really sure as to the reasoning behind my initial purchasing of this album.
maybe it was the cover art as i was a fan of dave mckean.
yeah.
i was really into comic books at the time.
you need to search out ARKHAM ASYLUM: A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH.
and yes i know that it's a graphic novel.
shut up,nerd.
you gonna eat that?

moving on.

maybe i'd just picked it up because it was testament.
you don't know.
you weren't there.
just go and look at the security camera footage.

after having bought it it rarely left my walkman.
it had everything i needed in my life at the time.
grizzly bear vocals and kick-ass drumming.
and speaking of the drumming....
john tempesta.
fuck you,rob zombie.
you didn't know what you had there.
yeah.
just use some electronic sounding drums instead of awesomeness.
it's like asking gene hoglan to play ac/dc covers.
yeah.
you don't get that do you,nerd?
maybe i'm the nerd.
shut up.

and yes.
even though i wasn't going to mention it the guitar playing was kick-ass as well.
i'm a fan of james murphy.
go and listen to death's SPIRITUAL HEALING.
go and listen to disincarnate's DREAMS OF THE CARRION KIND.
ok.....

i've always appreciated the fact that testament haven't given up their on their roots.
yeah.
i'm looking at you metallica.
you should've called it a day after AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
i'm looking at you megadeth.
you should've called it a day after RUST IN PEACE.
i'm looking at you slayer.
you should've called it a day after SEASONS IN THE ABYSS.
but that's another rant for another time.
and besides....
you know i'm right.
you,the reader.
anthrax?
what about them?
anthrax are decent.
i even like the john bush albums.
fun fact: once upon a time i got a stripper to do her thing to the song "gridlock". it was pretty impressive. and that is how i met your mother,kids.

DL

the instrumental music of helmet: 1992 - 1997

released: 2003

this was released as a promo.
it's made up of songs from the MEANTIME and BETTY and AFTERTASTE albums.
now you can be page hamilton.
but.
and there's always a but.
page hamilton gets to be you.
are you prepared for that sort of thing?
all kinds of kooky wacky hijinks could ensue.
maybe your parents like him better than you.
maybe your friends like him better than you.
maybe your gram gram likes his pancakes better than yours.
maybe he gets you put on some sort of a watch-list.
are you ready for that?
all you have to do is sign this piece of paper and then for the next 7 days you're not allowed to be you no matter what happens.
now i know what you're thinking....
maybe i could go in and ruin up page hamilton's life.
sure.
maybe you could.
but maybe things have already put in place to stop that from happening.
didn't think about that,huh?
no one will believe you.
you've already signed the contract.
and at the sound of the buzzer we're ready to begin....

1 - in the meantime
2 - ironhead
3 - give it
4 - wilma's rainbow
5 - milquetoast
6 - tic
7 - overrated
8 - pure
9 - like i care
10 - driving nowhere
11 - birth defect
12 - broadcast emotion

DL

faith no more - the real thing mystery bag

released: 1989
label: slash/reprise records

happy 30th,THE REAL THING.

the album that dared to ask "what is it?".

DL