v/a - nasty habits: live on 88.9 wers

label: corrosive recordings
released: 2002

back in the earlier part of the 90s i'd been living in iowa. just outside of davenport. you may remember me making references to a radio show i'd listen to back then called OFF THE BEATEN TRACK. it's pretty much the SHINY GREY MONOTONE origin story. back then the radio was somewhat worth listening to. and on this particular evening (it was a friday) it was about 11:00 and i was hanging out down on the left side of the dial. just scanning along. and then i came across the slightest hint of a death metal grunt through some static. i listened closely. i even squinted my eyes. and there it was. cannibal corpse. cannibal fucking corpse on the radio. and i fiddled and fiddled and fiddled with the dial until things came in a bit more clearer. and then came danzig. and then came carcass. and then came slayer. it turns out that i'd happened upon a show being broadcast out of st. ambrose university in davenport. and the show was either called BEDSLAM or BEDLAM. i'm not really sure. though i like the BEDSLAM assumption better. this was the sort of station that the weather dictated. depending on how clear it was outside and whatnot. so i'd started tuning into that as well. friday night belonged to BEDSLAM/BEDLAM and sunday night belonged to OFF THE BEATEN TRACK.

funny story: you were able to call in and make requests and if they had it AND it was deemed proper by the FCC it would get played. which is funny that the first thing i'd heard out of them was "hammer smashed face" by cannibal corpse. and on this particular night i'd become fixated on danzig's LUCIFUGE album (as you all should be) and i was calling in multiple requests for songs off of it. and they played every single one. after the fourth request the dj was making mention of the upcoming songs and whatnot and was all like "and here's another danzig. he must be sitting at home bored.". good times.

funny story II: this one involves OFF THE BEATEN TRACK. i was calling in to make a request but was trying to remain quiet enough as to not be neard by anyone else in the house. i'd requested a white zombie song (i can't remember which though it was more than likely something off of LA SEXORCISTO.). i hadn't said it loudly enough for the person on the other end of the phone. "no. we don't have any white slavery.". so i said "i should hope not." and hung up as i didn't know what to say after all that. good times.

yeah.
the radio used to be fun to hang around with.

this is a compilation of music performed by bands on the radio.
this station coming out of emerson college in boston,ma.

1 - haste - two final words
2 - origin - lethal manipulation
3 - eighteen visions - she's a movie produced masterpiece
4 - shadows fall - of one blood
5 - knut - el nino
6 - cephalic carnage - invertus indica
7 - unearth - one step away
8 - god forbid - amendment
9 - poison the well - nerdy
10 - all that remains - from these wounds
11 - candiria - mathematics
12 - killswitch engage - numbered days
13 - the dillinger escape plan - cleopatra's sling
14 - unlisted cephalic carnage track

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