Amps, Drugs, Harmonium: Transmission 93, 2014 January 8

Bonjour. It seems like we were just here, and I guess we were. Anyway, here is another mixtape. This one represents the beginning of a nice little run [looks like, as I write this, four weeks and counting] of doing the program only as regularly scheduled. [The] BBC Sessions by The Specials serve as our "Physical Evidence" for the evening, and what took so long for that to happen, other than savage, meaningless incompetence, I have no idea. Also, there are birthday tributes to David Bowie and The King.

I never knew that I loved French music so much, but I seem to be playing a lot of it. I remember enjoying Trisomie 21 back in the day, and also Les Thugs here and there, but, mostly, no. However, this "Paink" is not at all bad rock and roll, if you ask me. Maybe it's the under-exposure? Who am I kidding? Of course it's the underexposure, especially the "not having been beaten over the head with the notion that it MEANS something" part of that. What do you know--Greil Marcus was right about something, at least in the abstract. I wonder if actual French people experienced this differently--received notions about the music, I mean, not Greil Marcus.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 January 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Love Machine" | Space Art | Cosmic Machine | Because
2. "Blank Expression" | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Batis" | Rovo & System 7 | Hinotori | G-Wave
4. "Broken Windows" | Warm Gun | Paink: French Punk Anthems 1975-1982 | Born Bad
5. "I'm Free" | Neo Boys | Sooner or Later | K
6. "Ziggy Stardust" | Bauhaus | Ziggy Stardust / Third Uncle | Beggars Banquet
7. "Stereotype" | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"
8. "E.V.A. | Jean Jacques Perrey | Cosmic Machine | Because
9. "Tear You Apart" | No Trend with Lydia Lunch | Heart of Darkness | Widowspeak
10. "Pas vraiment mechant" | Sexe a Pile | Paink: French Punk Anthems 1975-1982 | Born Bad
11. "Belfast" | Swindle | Forest Funk | Deep Medi Musik
12. "Rude Boys Outta Jail" | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"
13. "L'amour naissant III" | Sebastien Tellier | Confection | Record Makers
14. "I Don't Wanna Be a Rich" | Guilty Razors | Paink: French Punk Anthems 1975-1982 | Born Bad
15. "Longshot Kick the Bucket / Liquidator / Skinhead Moonstomp (A Skinhead Symphony in Three Movements) | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Ngwendeire Guita" | The Lulus Band | Kenya Special | Soundway
17. "Threshing Ground" | J-Path | Threshing Ground | Trigram
18. "The And" | Tigerskin | All Those Goodbyes | Dirt Crew
19. "Sea Cruise" | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Tujala Tshibemba" | Joseph Kabasele | Le Grand Kalle: His Life, His Music | Sterns Africa
21. "Incense at Abu Ghraib" / "Amps, Drugs, Harmonium" | Tim Hecker | Virgins | Kranky
22. "Slack Tide" | Shlomi Aber | Slack Tide | Ovum
23. "It's You I Hate to Lose" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Thee Caesars of Trash | Damaged Goods
24. "Killer Man" | Gasoline | Paink: French Punk Anthems 1975-1982 | Born Bad
25. "You're Wondering Now" | The Specials | BBC Sessions | EMI | "Physical Evidence"

next time: a night of multiple motifs. enjoy the music! --kid catharsis