RAVE-UPS Class Tramp EP (Fun Stuff) 1984 Town + Country (Fun Stuff) 1985 The Book of Your Regrets (Epic) 1988 Chance (Epic) 1990
At the time they were being touted as the next big thing to erupt from the LA club scene, the Rave-Ups were working in the mailroom and warehouse of A&M Records. Although launched by singer/guitarist Jimmer Podrasky in Pittsburgh, the group on the 1984 EP was a quartet he assembled in California. Class Tramp is a mighty impressive debut: a hook-laden six-song rocking pop collection that reveals Podrasky as an inventive, commercially minded songwriter with a wealth of ideas and a fresh lyrical perspective. Richly multi-tracked guitars, crisp rhythms and easy-to-like vocals buttress original tunes that deftly sidestep power pop and other pigeonholes. (…)
I’ve been browsing this great blog for some time, but don’t think I’ve ever wrote about Excavated Shellac before, although I’m sure it made at least one of my sadly now neglected blogroll roundup reports. He’s hit the wall that many of us have hit before where time management between our real-life and web-life becomes unmanageable:
I have to level with you, wonderful readers of this blog, and confess to you: I am tired. Since the site’s inception two years ago, I have transferred, cleaned-up, written about and researched 113 individual 78s from my collection, week after week with only an occasional interruption. (…) So, as you may have guessed, I will have to decrease the amount of posts on Excavated Shellac to 1 or 2 a month. That way, I will still be able to deliver a piece of music as well as writing/research that means something to me, and hopefully to you too. I feel I’ve earned it with the regularity, uniqueness, and quality of what I’ve provided so far, but I do feel guilt.(…)
Nothing to feel guilty about, JW! Your posts and shares have been nothing short of fascinating. One or two posts a month are still most welcome.
And don’t the labels on old 78 records look beautiful?
That’s right, it’s time once again to remember our Mothers. Of course we mean The Mothers of Invention. Frank Zappa’s seminal band of renegade freaks and musical experimentalists. Bizarre and hilarious indigenous “folk” music, borne of the denizens of the streets of 1960s Los Angeles and El Monte.
And this year, KBOO’s annual all-night FREAK-OUT begins when some of you are still up! Join us FRIDAY, MAY 8TH from 8:00 pm until 6:00 am. Featuring rare live performances, “incidents”, interviews, and special Mothers gifts for those who decide to become a MEMBER of Community Radio KBOO during the broadcast.
That’s on KBOO, 90.7 FM, in Portland and streaming on the web at kboo.fm/listen
I have had this LP for a number of years and have managed to insert tracks into many a mix (last week’s show being a recent example) and have been planning to rip it to CD.
Looks like Groove Grotto already did it last year, saving me the trouble.
Go get it. It’s hilarious. The professional sounding stentorian delivery of the announcer is great as he attempts to decode this often Southern accent-inflected slanguage. I especially dig the lexicon where certain key words like Go Go Juice and Motion Lotion (euphemisms for gasoline – if you’re curious) are used. This is all – of course – left wide open to sampling and cutting up. It’s a little rough to take in a single sitting, but for sampling or mixing, there’s nary a dull spot to drop the needle on.
It also has a foldout chart that deciphers the so-called Ten Code and has an even more comprehensive and hilarious slang reference chart (would you believe that truckers were actually calling The FCC The Friendly Candy Company? I don’t.).
It’s an amazing LP and you owe it to yourself to Hören mit Schmerzen. (listen in pain)
Last night I payed tribute to the recently departed J.G. Ballard, with sounds, interview clips and songs either directly influenced by his writing or sounds coming from the Ballardian world, currently in progress.
We also revisited the Autobahn Suite that featured the Ballardian Crash theme that I mixed live on the air at KBOO last September.
Ballard’s essays and even his fictional novels read like a report on the pathology of modern society.
The common themes of alienation and dehumanization running through his work has not only influenced a generation of writers and musicians, but have also been internalized by mainstream society and can be seen in television programs viewed by people who will never know his name or read any of his books. It’s apparent in the many successful television shows featuring forensic police work in explicit detail and programs almost entirely devoted to vehicular mishaps.
It’s like he never left us.
Play: Download (1 hr. 59 mins., 164 megs @ 192kbps)
Sound quality’s a bit dodgy, due to a technical glitch. Sorry. Playlist (in rough order):
Walter Murch – What’s Wrong? – THX-1138 OST
J.G. Ballard – Future Now Interview
Boyd Rice – Invocation – Music, Martinis and Misanthropy
Throbbing Gristle – Exotica – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
J.G. Ballard – Fresh Air Interview
Throbbing Gristle – Beachy Head – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Alp – Disk Drive, Kettle, Washing Machine – At Home With Alp
Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition – Closer
The Normal – Warm Leatherette – TVOD 7″
David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car – Low
John Foxx – Underpass – Metamatic
Hawkwind – High-Rise – PXR5
The Units – High Pressure Days – Digital Stimulation
Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Substitute Flesh – Sound-On-Sound
Tubeway Army – Down In the Park – Replicas
Radiohead – Airbag – OK Computer
Sonic Youth – In the Kingdom #19 – EVOL
Kraftwerk – Autobahn (live) – Amsterdam 1976
Kraftwerk – Autobahn – Autobahn
Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet – Autobahn
Gary Lucas – Autobahn (live)
Sid Davis Productions – Drivers Ed : Driving Tips
DMV Driver’s Education – Drivers Ed : Behind the Wheel
Chevrolet Corp. – Drivers of Tomorrow (narr. by Jimy Stewart)
Sid Davis Productions – Drivers Ed : Speeding (music by Louis Barron!)
J.G. Ballard – Crash! 1971 film (Dir. Harley Cokliss)
Isolrubin BK – The Dynamics Involved In An Injury (…) – Crash Injury Trauma
Doodah, Inc. – Part 95, Breaking a Channel – How to CB
Isolrubin BK – Extensive Fissured Skull Fractures (…) – Crash Injury Trauma
Doodah, Inc. – The Ten Code, CB Terms, part one – How to CB
Isolrubin BK – Cranio-Facial Absorption (…) – Crash Injury Trauma
Sleep Chamber – Warm Leatherette – Warm Leatherette/Fetish 7″
Casual Contemporaries – How2CB – Best of Casual Contemporaries
Throbbing Gristle – Hamburger Lady – D.O.A.: 3rd and Final Report
Wendy Mae Chambers – The Star Spangled Banner
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THESE ANIMAL MEN (Come on, Join) The High Society (UK Hi Rise) 1994 (Hut USA/Vernon Yard) 1995 Too Sussed? EP (Hut USA/Vernon Yard) 1994 Taxi for These Animal Men EP (UK Hi Rise/Virgin) 1995 Accident & Emergency (UK Hut) 1997
The minute an English toddler caught sight of the Sex Pistols on British television and registered a subconscious thought (“that rock’n'roll swindle fing looks easy i bet i can get away wif that when i get older”) somewhere between its noodle and nappy before reinserting its thumb and crawling off to do something more pressing, Britain was doomed to endure an endless series of young bands determined to top the wanton exploits and arrogant posturing of their predecessors. Self-appointed stars from the Manic Street Preachers to Primal Scream to Radiohead to Oasis have provided the United Kingdom (and parts beyond) with colorful Clockwork brats on parade, generating news stories, obnoxious interviews and, occasionally, some good — if rarely original — music.(…) Read whole entry
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Since 1974, Trouser Press has been covering the Other Music beat and currently resides on the web at www.trouserpress.com
I will be posting a random link from Trouser Press on every Tuesday until I just flat out forget.
Walter Murch/George Lucas – What’s Wrong? – THX-1138 OST
Francis Dhomont – Frankenstein Symphony
Laurie Anderson – D. Miller – You’re The Guy I Want To Share My Money With
Grotus – Good Evening – Slow Motion Apocalypse
Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop – Rocky Mountain Shakedown
Carl Crack – Mein Geist Ist Dein Geist – Ltd. 005 Black Ark
Blaine L. Reininger – Ich Will Music – Glossolalia
Eon – Fear is the Mindkiller (Sir Billy Remix)
Cabaret Voltaire – Neuron Factory – Plasticity
Pylon – Gravity – Gyrate
Pylon – Danger – Gyrate
Zen Guerrilla – Cold Duck – Trans State in Tongues
Current 93 – Lucifer Over London – Lucifer Over London 12″
Die Kreuzen – Pain – Die Kreuzen
Die Kreuzen – Sick People – Die Kreuzen
Ennio Morricone – A Gringo Like Me – Gunfight at Red Sands
Ralf Paulson – Bonanza (in German)
Petula Clark – Downtown (in German)
Dusty Springfield – Wishin’ and a Hopin’ (in German)
Wax Audio – Pink Jack – Mashed in Plastic
RIAA – Eraserhead Serenade – Mashed in Plastic
Gregory Jacobsen – Dance of the Retarded Girl Slumped Sideways – School of Ritualistic Errors
Gregory Jacobsen – Birthing Mr. Teratoma – School of Ritualistic Errors
John Zorn – Almadel – The Crucible
John Zorn – Shapeshifting – The Crucible
John Zorn – Maleficia – The Crucible
John Zorn – 9 x 9 – The Crucible
Artichoke – Anarchy in the UK – Never Mind the Bullocks
Jim Larrance – Flood Tape – Best of No Soap Radio
The Children’s Starlight Chorus – E.T., I Love You – E.T., I Love You and Other Extra-Terrestrial Songs
This show aired on April 16th, 2009 on WSU’s KOUG.
UPDATE FROM COMMENTS:
Cheers for playing a couple of tracks from Mashed in Plastic, gentlemen! Myself and the other three gents of 1086 Productions appreciate the play.
If your listeners would like to check out the rest of the album, we’d definitely encourage them to do so: www.mashedinplastic.co.uk
And great show too. After having this show brought to our attention and giving it a full listen, we’ll definitely be checking into future shows. Solid work.
Cheers!
Alan Black
1086 Productions
Thanks, Mr. Black, and Bob Bless the crew of the good ship 1086!
I previously blogged about MiP here.
The results are in and we’re proud to announce that we’re making radio at the college level.
That’s right, folks. Kill Ugly Radio can now be heard every Thursday evening from 5pm to 7pm (Pacific time) on WSU Vancouver’s The KOUG.
I’ll be playing strange sounds and outré ambiences live over the
internet-o-tubes and right into your family room, den, servant’s
quarters or wherever you have a home computer. I do so enjoy home
computing. Don’t you?
I will have archives and playlists at this blog within 48 hours.
I Twitter, for those of you who also twit at twitter.com/richXXIII
The WSU’s KOUG is Vancouver, WA’s only non-commercial radio station.
Last night I payed tribute to the recently departed J.G. Ballard, with sounds, interview clips and songs either directly influenced by his writing or sounds coming from the Ballardian world, currently in progress. 
