Radio What Wave Playlist March 8/2021
- Gruesomes….What Wave….from Mr. Garager’s Neighbourhood 1989.
- Long Day Journey….Swingin’ Cycle…from their latest, Mini Themes For Motion Pictures Featuring the Exciting Sounds Of Fuzz Unlimited and from Hamilton Ontario.
- Byrds….8 Miles High…from the Never Before release from 1987. At the time, this was an unreleased version, it’s probably been on a coupla box sets since.
- Higher State….Come Winter Rain….from a brand new 7” on Lost In Tyme Records out of Greece. This is the UK combo that have many releases under their belts.
- Misunderstood….Children Of The Sun….from the Complete Recordings 1965-1966 and liner notes provided by Ugly Thing’s Mike Stax, so you know it’s completist. Still remember the first time hearing this song on a Cherry Red comp in the early 80’s and it really stuck in my noggin’.
- Jeremy Porter and the Tucos….Put You On Hold….from their recent Candy Coated Cannonball and from the Detroit area. They’ve been through town a coupla times and always put on great shows! This song has some early/mid 70’s Stones vibes that I really dig.
- Merinuks….King Merinuk….from their recent EP, just called Merinuks and from Hamilton Ontario. This is an ode to comic artist Darren Merinuk who has done countless record and CD covers as well as many fanzines and even his own comic for a short time.
- Forbidden Dimesion….Mars Is Heaven…from their self titled release from 1993 and from Calgary. Had to play this as it’s somewhat timely.
- Evil Farm Children….Straight’n’Narrow….from their 2006 Knuckle Duster release and from Ottawa. This trio made many appearances here in London and they were always fun, entertaining shows!
- Good2Go….Boots….unreleased demo from this Ottawa combo.
- Long Day Journey….Two Wheels and an Open Road….from Mini Themes For Motion Pictures Featuring the Exciting Sounds Of Fuzz.
- Scarlet Drops….Luck….unreleased demo and from Ottawa, detecting a pattern here? SD made a couple appearances on What Wave compilation cassettes.
- Andy Butler and the Isolators… Down In The Basement….from their recent high tech recording sessions.
- Ugly Beats….Take A Stand….from their Take A Stand release from 2007 and from Austin Texas. Caught them a few years ago at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton, a place I’m really going to miss once this pandemic mess is over.
- Owl Farm…Slip and Slide….from their 2004 Don’t Stop release and from Kingston Ontario.
- Ultra 5….My Only Desire….from their 1992 House O’Fun release and from NYC. There were pictures of their London Ontario gig from 1992 on the RWW FB page.
- Outta Place….Dirty Old Man….from the brand new Prehistoric Recordings release and this is demos and live from 1874, just prior to signing with Midnight Records. It had me pulling out my Outta Place records for a listen and man, those teenagers were great back then!
- Jason and the Nomads….Earthquake….from his 2006 Warp Speed Ahead release and from London Ontario.
- UIC…FM Hill….from the recent FM Hill release and the start of our look at bands/artists that use horns during recording and/or when playing live.
- MC5….Skunk….from their 1971 High Time release.
- Will The Circle….Spadina….from a 2008 self titled release and from Toronto. This is Gerry Smith’s project (he was in Tyranna, Wayouts and more) and I’m not sure if that’s a sax or guitar making that background noise as there’s little documentation with this one.
- Shuffle Demons….Spadina Bus…from their 1986 Spotnicks release and kept on that Spadina Bus theme.
- Fleshtones….Child Of The Moon….from their recent Face Of The Screaming Werewolf and their 22nd album!! Got to see these guys a few times when they had the horn section and it always added so much to the overall sound.
- Graham Parker…White Honey….from his Howlin’ Wind release from 1976. Got to see Graham and Brinsley Schwarz a couple years ago at This Ain’t Hollywood as an acoustic duo.
- Condition….The Boogie Man….from their Red Hot and Blue release from 1986 and from Montreal.
- Tell It To Sweeney…The Countess….recent download from this London Ontario combo.
- Saints….Know Your Product….from a 1978 7” and from Australia. It was quite a shock when first hearing the second Saints album and there were a lot of horns on it, way different than what everyone was expecting at the time. And it stands up so well today, in fact the first 2 albums are among my faves of that late 70’s time period.
- X Ray Spex….Underground (Let’s Submerge)….from their 1978 Germ Free Adolescents release. One of the few first wave of so called punk bands that featured a full time sax player.
- Rocket From The Crypt….Heart Of The Rat…from a compilation called Little Steven Presents the Coolest Songs In The World Volume 7.
- Barrence Whitfield and the Savages….Walking With Barrence….from their debut release from 1984 and from Boston.
- Jerry Jerry And the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra….Pushin’ For Jesus…from their Battle Hymn Of The Apartment from 1987 and from Edmonton/Montreal.
- The Move…. California Man….from The Best Of The Move and originally a 7” from 1972. Later, Cheap Trick covered it and got a fair bit of radioplay with their version.
- David Bowie….Sorrow….from the 1973 Pinups release and one of the first songs I’d hear by Bowie on the radio.
- Roxy Music….Editions Of You….from their 1973 second album. Locally this was covered by The Zellots.
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