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[ModCast for 2009-11-23] Go Red, Get Head

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

...at least that's how it works out in my experiences. Yes, Communists and Socialists get laid more; I'm still not 100% on how that works out, but it's totally true.

So I've got a new WordPress theme for the site and I've decided that the cast is going to be more 'My Week in Music" — at least until I get bored with that concept. And hey, better start that now then two weeks ago, when it would have been a lot of Leonard Cohen and Rufus Wainwright. Unfortunately, only part of the cast really fits my last week in any specific way, and that is in two ways:

1) after an entire adolesence and young adulthood spent hating Morrissey, I'm starting to like Morrissey. Thankfully, I don't see myself turning into one of those insane pod-persons who seem dead certain that Morrissey Can Do No Wrong, musically or otherwise, but the man's not a terrible songwriter. Of course, as a singer myself, i have to admit that I like Morrissey better as a songwriter than as a singer.

2) I have new Docs. Made in England, Oxblood red, and sized UK6 (U$ Men's 7) -- technically I'm a UK5 wide, but try finding those. Anywhere. Little Boy's section or otherwise.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2009-11-23.mp3[/podcast]
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2009-11-23
Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son
Velvet Underground - European Son
David Bowie - London Bye Ta-Ta
Dexys Midnight Runners - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
Television - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
Franz Ferdinand - Evil and a Heathen
Powder - Magical Jack
Neil's Children - Getting Evil In the Playground
Morrissey - Suedehead
Segue
Madness - Nightboat To Cairo
The Coventry Automatics - Concrete Jungle
Symarip - These Boots Are Made For Walking (Stompin')
Alexei Sayle & Radical Posture - Doctor Marten's Boots

Behold! The Box of Wonder!

Originally published at Searching for the Young Soul Rebel. You can comment here or there.

And for those of you just tuning in — Vermin is the fluffy cat outside the box; Chunk is the smooth-haired cat inside the box.

And yes, the box is from New Egg, because this house is a house of nerds unsatisfied with off-the-shelf computers. :-)

Behold! The Box of Wonder!

Originally published at Searching for the Young Soul Rebel. You can comment here or there.

And for those of you just tuning in — Vermin is the fluffy cat outside the box; Chunk is the smooth-haired cat inside the box.

And yes, the box is from New Egg, because this house is a house of nerds unsatisfied with off-the-shelf computers. :-)

TIT FUCK BLOODY PIPES

It pisses me off to no end to listen to 18 year old titfags ( no offence if youre a titfag in real life or consider yourself as such and/or are affiliated to titfags, i don't personally have anything against titfags, this is merely to express my well, disgust to a broader audience of people ) reciting all their big named influences and hipster scum indie credibility-giving list of people they used to listen to while they were still in their mothers womb. Bull.Shit.

I didn't start listening to good music until i was starting to hit my 20ies. How could i have? German radio played the 80ies still and my mothers entire CD collection consisted of Mariah Careys debut, Whitney Houston A-Z and Michael Jacksons discography... there, that's my base. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Obviously it made me crave punk as soon as i realized that 1-2-3 ( maybe even -4) music could make sense in my head when i was about 14. But where to get it from?

The whole internet downloading community still consisted of me, my first girlfriend and some obscure heavy metal lover off of a Buffy forum called Marduk, who, fortunately had a server and would let me and said ex girlfriend trade single mp3s via his uploading space if we'd promise to take it down instantly after uploading and downloading. Thing is,uploading and downloading didn't then consist of click-click-save, cool. I used to leave post it notes on my PC screen in vibrant neon colors ( matching the 80ies theme on the radio ) yelling "DO NOT SHUT DOWN.I AM DOWNLOADING!". It would take approximately take about 4 hours for a song to make it to my computer. One lousy Muse song would take such an effort and anxiety inducing "god i hope the connection stays up and mom sees the note" ( or also: If anyone wants to use the fucking phone line while this is downloading i'll shoot myself! ) thought process, when you finally had the "BING" sound telling you that you could now, perhaps, after restarting your computer listen to this one Muse song your girlfriend wants you to listen to , it would mean the world.

What most people forget attacking illegal downloaders also is that this was like taping stuff off the radio. Which was entirely legal. I know that quality has improved and internet rates have improved but hey, go us, we've evolved. By ourselves, no one paid us to do that. It's what people are supposed to do. Sorry that's pissing you off.

So yeah i didn't get to listen to entire Pixies records or the Sex Pistols entire discography until youtube and things took over. Something undreamable 8 years back. Unless the CD would be a fiver in the leftover bin at the record store there was no fucking way me or any of my broke ass 15 year old friends would get to listen to a full album. Back then you got a 20 bucks record as a christmas gift and listened to it for 10 days straight until New Years was over. Cause lets face it New Years was just as shit back then as it is now, except you had your friends with you and one bottle of bubbly whine was enough to get you shitfaced - and hey, you had that new CD to upload and slowly send over ...one track every day.

We were all broke too. None of us worked and if we did we would pay stuff like clothes for it.Or a row of 5 bucks CD's.What it did to me though is that i have such a craving for music at this point that i want to hear as much as i can, that i do spend every dime i have on shows and merch and yes, CD's, vinyls even.

And i honestly doubt any of those titfags listened to an entire Sex Pistols CD when they were little. Yeah, you're indie band is cool i'll download their shit and i might go see you next week at the Koko and snicker at your skinny jeans but unless you're one of those rich hipster scum kids you can go suck it and listen to that Mariah debut in your moms living room drawer.

ModCast Archive: 2006-07-17

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

And now a treat! Two days in a row! This isn't going to happen very often, in the future, but at the time being, it's going to be something I'm doing for the next few weeks, while I upload my archive casts and set-lists from this summer at Direct Hits.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2006-07-17.mp3[/podcast]
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2006.07.17
The Tape-beatles - Grave Implications
Pizzicato Five - 20th Century Girl
Rip Rig & Panic - Storm In the Reality Aslyum
Gavin Friday & Cillian Murphy - Sand
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
Twiggy - Beautiful Dreams
Don Fardon - I'm Alive
The Flaming Hands - I Belong to Nobody
The MC5 - I Can Only Give You Everything
The Spiders - Why Don't You Love Me?
The Chesterfield Kings - 99th Floor
The Cigarettes - Valium World
Jonathan King - Let It All Hang Out
The Revillos - Where's the Boy for Me?

Please note that the track by "The Spiders" is by the Amerikan group, not the Japanese one. The Spiders was also the first band of the artist who would later become known as Alice Cooper; The Spiders was a rhythm & blues band that I'd compare to The Rolling Stones or The Pretty Things.

ModCast Archive: 2006-07-24

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

OK, I know I promised something both yesterday and today, but in all seriousness, yesterday and today was filled up with me doing shit for my band — my actual band, the one I sing for. In fact, until my guitarist got here earlier today for practise, I thought it was still Wednesday.

Now, it turns out that I never actually cast this old archive, I just had the set-list jotted down and I came across it by accident. Yes, I suppose that in theory I could just go get my Direct Hits setlists from this summer and just arrange the music on here, but that would involve transcribing hand-written sets, and this shit is just C&P. I will resume my "twice-weekly until it's all my archives and old sets are posted" schedule next week, when I pick up after the lag from my guitarist getting into the swing of things at uni.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2006-07-24.mp3[/podcast]

The Olympians - Hopeless Endless Ways
The New Hearts - Another Teenage Anthem
The Purple Hearts (60's, Australian) - Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones
The Damned - Morning Bird
Nino Ferrer - Mirza
The Loons - Stumble & Fall
The Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys
Nine Below Zero - Eleven Plus Eleven
Makin' Time - Pump It Up
Franz Ferdinand - Get Up and Use Me
Rip Rig & Panic - Eros, What Brings Colour Up the Stem
Les Cappuccino - Green Onions
John's Children - Just What You Want, Just What You'll Get
Jacques Brel - Jacky

ModCast Archive: 2006-07-10

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

OK, I know it's not a new cast, but if you had any idea how long I've been fighting with this website, and how many weeks I had to take off for surgery, you'd be lazy, as well. This has been off-line since late 2007, so unless you're one of the two people who told me they downloaded it, you've probably never heard this before. There's a good even mix of '60s, "Revival" and "that's not Mod!!!".

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2006-07-10.mp3[/podcast]
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Tracklist for 2006-07-10
Auger & Driscoll - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Los Vidrios Quebrados - "Oscar Wilde"
Chris Farlowe - "Paint It Black"
The Bureau - "Looking For Excitement"
Gloria Jones - "Heartbeat"
The Fall - "There's A Ghost In My House"
R. Dean Taylor - "Gotta See Jane"
Squeeze - "Cool For Cats"
David Bowie - "I'm Not Losing Sleep"
Georgie Fame - "Sunny"
Dexys Midnight Runners - "I Love You (Listen To This)"
Spencer Davis Group - "I'm Blue (Gong Gong Song)"
Mari Wilson - "Ecstasy"

PS: There may be an issue with the first song, so if there is, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it. I basically had to make the cast again, cos the volume wasn't fixed and I decided to start doing these as low-fi mp3's, to conserve space.

ETA:
OK, there was definitely an issue with the first track, but I'm backed up on button orders that I really should have done yesterday, so I can't do anything about it right now. Just skip ahead by about 3:33, and I'll get to this tomorrow, after I make some deliveries to my stores.

Modcast Archive: Direct Hits setlist for 2008-06-10

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

I really don't want to upload this as it is, but I cheated both listeners out on a Wednesday cast last week, and I don't want to pull that shit again this week.

Now, not all of my stuff on LP is backed-up / duplicated on mp3 -- in fact, most of it is not. Hell, most of my CD's aren't simply because I don't have the space. Four songs from my June 10th, 2008 set at Direct Hits are songs I currently have on vinyl only -- in fact, three of them, I thought I had on mp3, but it turned out that I didn't, and the only reason I didn't just download them is because I had a huge crisis last night that was more important than hunting down four songs on slsk.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2008-06-10.mp3[/podcast]

(v) ≠ "vagina"; (v) = song I currently only have on vinyl
(r) = request

The Spiders - Why Don't you Love Me?*
The Bureau - Only For Sheep
(v) Tina Turner - The Acid Queen
(v) The Rolling Stones - Route 66
Makin' Time - Two Coins For the Ferryman
(r) Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
Jacques Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi
Twiggy - When I Think of You
Nino Ferrer - Alexandre
Les Cappuccino - les Filles Madison
Sharon Tandy - Daughter of the Sun
Dexys Midnight Runners - Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache
Eleanor Rigby - I Want to Sleep With You
(v) The Kinks - Well-Respected Man
Mod Fun - 99th Floor
(v)David Bowie - Ching-A-Ling
Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll - Wheel's On Fire
Arthur Brown - Fire

*U$ group, not the Japanese group

Modcast for 2008-10-25

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

Yes, a new cast!Â No, I still have more Direct Hits sets to load, but crap, I've waited three weeks.Â I suppose that I owe both listeners an explanation:

I have medical issues. I have been taking care of these. I also have a band; actually, I have several music projects, but this is my "real band" I'm talking about. As a band member, I have band practise. I also have many other projects that I juggle around, including a novel that needs to be wrapped up and I've found myself taking on a regular blog project and I am just bad at budgeting my time. Really bad. Heinously bad. Still, with practise, I will get better.

So, here's a new 45-minute set, and on Wednesday, I will load more from my Direct Hits archives. I promise. It will be awesome.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2008-10-25.mp3[/podcast]

The Tape-beatles - Individual Choice
Tiny Tim - The Coming Home Party
Blue Rondo a'la Turk - Change
Gloria Jones - Finders Keepers
The Monochrome Set - Expresso
Nouvelle Vague - Dance With Me
R. Dean Taylor - Back Street
The Fall - Gotta See Jane
France Gall - Jazz A-Go-Go
QYPTHONE - Go-Go Girl
Les Fleur de Lys - One City Girl
The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together
The Small Faces - What'cha Gonna Do About It
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
Mae West - Light My Fire

2009-08-17 -- Ruadhan J McElroy: Wayward Ex-Goth

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

Well, monkeys (all three of you listening to this), I've got a new computer finally settled in, and so the Modcast is back, and to commerate this fact — and the fact that I'm now updating this on Mondays — I've made today's cast a theme!Â Whoo!

Yes, I've thrown mood and beatmatching out the window (and I say this as if I ever gave a shit before), to play some of my favourite spooky Mod (and Mod Friendly) songs and Goth covers of Mod (and Mod-friendly) songs, and a few punk covers thrown in, (cos I don't even give a shit about the theme here) and whatever the hell Shakespeare's Sister and Strawberry Switchblade are (cos I bloody well felt like it), cos damnit, I have all this music, and you're just as bored as I am, so you're going to give it a listen now, aren't you?Â Aren't you?

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2009-08-17.mp3[/podcast]

Shakespeare's Sister - "Black Sky"
Velvet Underground - "Beginning to See the Light"
Nico - "Roses In the Snow"
The Fall - "Mod Mock Goth"
Slade - "Raven"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Ecstasy (Apple of My Eye)"
The Zombies - "Time Of the Season"
Christine Pilzer - "Dracula"
The Vampires - "My Girl"
Sisters of Mercy - "1969"
Gina X Performance - "Harley Davidson"
Siouxie & the Banshees - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Bauhaus - "Telegram Sam"
Patti Smith - "My Generation"
Jayne County - "Come On Down to My Boat Baby"
Nashville Pussy - "First I Look At the Purse"
Lydia Lunch & Rowland S Howard - "Some Velvet Morning"
The Who - "Boris the Spider"

And before the off-chance that anybody comments, YES, I realise that I don't have "Paint It Black" on there, because I only have it on vinyl, I am not wheeling my record player into my studio, slsk is not cooperating, and I'm impatient — so there you go.