Sonic Nightmares #4

2008-02-01

Sonic Nightmares

’80s Garage Revival, Pt. 2

Hosts: Gringo Starr & Reverend Beat-Man

Just when you thought you had enough, Reverend Beat-Man and Gringo Starr from Voodoo Rhythm Records serve up another steaming helping of the ’60s garage revival of the 1980s! You’ll be shocked as your hosts spin long-lost tracks like “Curanderos” by The Vietnam Veterans, “I Can’t Stand This Love” by Plan 9 and weird nuggets such as “Rebellion” by The Daisy Chain!! This show is guaranteed to grow out your mullet in one easy hour completely free of charge! These shows are dedicated to the memory of Paula Pierce, Greg Shaw, Wendy Wild, Mike Ball, and Scott Burton.

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14 reactions to “Sonic Nightmares #4”

  1. Tom-Tom

    Great Show! Cheers!

  2. Gringo Starr

    Thanks for the comment, man! Keep listening it’s habit forming.
    Cheers,
    Gringo.

  3. Lazy White Boy

    Amazing Show! I love it
    Long Live to Voodoo Rhythm!
    Bottoms Up Guys!

  4. Michael

    Hi Gringo and Beatman,
    just discovererd all this real cool podcast stuff and especially sonic nightmares. Great stuff, really a pleasure to listen and discover new stuff an on the other side remember stuff from the 80´s revival. Can you tell me where the Sting Rays song is on and what´s its name. Have most of their output but never heard this one before
    Rock on , Cheers Michael

  5. George

    i searched for something like this for years, without knowin it ! now i know THIS STUFF IS AMAZING! thank you guys! kepp on. greetings from germany

  6. George

    sorry one more: is there a tracklist availible? thx

  7. admin

    PLAYLIST:
    The Untamed Youth – Some Kind Of Fun – Norton
    The Daisy Chain – Rebellion – Music Maniac
    The Pandoras – It Felt Alright – Rhino
    The Pandoras – I Want Him – Closer
    The Brood – Why Don’t You Call? – Skyclad
    The Beguiled – Psychotic Girl – Dionysus
    Sting Rays – I Want My Woman – Big Beat
    Crimson Shadows – It’s Cold – Mystery Scene
    The Outta Place – We’re Outta Place – Midnight
    The Vipers – Nothing For Today – Battle of the Garages II/ Voxx
    Plan 9 – I Can’t Stand This Love – Voxx
    The Sick Rose – She’s Got – Eclectic
    The Huns – Subterranean Homesick Blues – Hit Records
    Yard Trauma – Some People – Voxx
    Exploding White Mice – Pipeline – Greasy Pop
    The Vietnam Veterans – Curanderos – Music Maniac
    The Wylde Mammoths – All The Birds Are Gone – Mystery Scene
    Link Protrudi and the Jaymen – Black Widow – Music Maniac
    Thee Fourgiven – Yeah – Battle of the Garages III/Voxx

    TECHNICAL NOTES: Gringo said ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ 198 times. Beat-Man
    returned home safely after the show without being accosted by Hip-Hop
    kids. Our apologies for the distortion at various stages throughout the
    podcast the cause being Swiss government surveillance equipment aimed at
    our studio.

  8. beat-man

    this Sting Rays song is on this big beat compilation called ‘these cats aint nothing but trash’ pretty cool one with cannibals milkshakes link wray..

  9. John

    thanks for playing our track on your cast. we were the least well known Huns, probably because the band was over before the record came out. anyway, to answer Michael, I Want My Woman by the Sting-rays first appeared on the 1983 Big Beat comp These Cats Aint Nothing But Trash. I think it’s also on their retrospective CD. the Huns were from iowa but played with the Sting rays a few times in London.. not to be confused with the 70s Huns from Texas, or any of the various 60s or current bands called the Huns. And the Sting-rays – not to be confused with any 60s Sting-rays or the 90s surf band…

  10. beat-man

    no way from iowa ? didn’t know that… i still remember when i was buying ths record back then..i though i buy a rockabilly record.. couse it stands gene vincent on it.. ha ha ha… and then it was even better as i expected.. great record by the way.. still on my record player sometimes and spin it on my dj sets as well and kids dancing to it again…

  11. John

    Yeah any band from Iowa has to move somewhere … we went to London for six months, played some trash gigs, made a record, and split up…..good times. Sorry about the rockabillly mix up – we had to put someone more famous on the cover in order to get you to notice!

  12. beat-man

    ha ha ha.. yea i do that all the time….
    you guys have other bands now ? or went funamental christins..i think iowa is famous for that right ?, i’m swiss.. i don’t know exactly… i remember driving trou iowa and could not buy alcohol… and i had the pizza already ordered.. damn.. ha ha ha

  13. kopper

    You couldn’t buy alcohol in Iowa? Weird. Maybe it was too late at night? Who knows… but alcohol is legal there. There are a lot of dry counties (where you can’t buy alcohol) in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and a few other states, but none there. Fundamental Christians are everywhere, though, not just Iowa. Actually, the southern U.S. has the highest population of them (Southern Baptists). At least Iowa isn’t as backwards as some states… remember, Iowa was the first primary that Barack Obama won, so it ain’t all that bad. Also, Iowa is where one of the greatest ’60s punk bands (GONN) was from!

  14. John

    When I first got to Iowa (1980) , you could only buy alcohol (outside of bars, I mean) in state-operated liquor stores. You would get served by someone wearing a uniform that looked just like a police uniform – they had badges, but no guns…. That changed shortly after and you could buy booze in the shops….It’s not really all that conservative, compared to other rural areas in the US – just kind of “farmy” – but I haven’t been back in 18 years, so kind of out of touch.

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