Karmic debt accrues, I feel, when I sit in on another DJ's time slot. I wonder if anyone else feels this--it strikes me as odd now that I've sat down to write about it. The DJ has requested a substitute, so I'm not depriving them of anything. Might someone else have wanted this time? There's always a chance, but most of our vacated slots go unclaimed, despite public perception that I take them all. (It's true that I'm on a particular mission in calendar year 2019, but I'm trying to do only one of these appearances per month.) Still I feel that I don't belong here--a recurring theme of late, as it happens--and so my being here must come with a cost.
There are some really terrible segues in this hastily assembled program, namely Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Jon K, whose songs were too good to leave out but nonetheless didn't "fit" (hmm--ed). I also did poorly with whatever I played from the Hugs for Chelsea benefit, except maybe the track by Priests. Jello Biafra was especially jarring, but then again when is he not? (In a strange bit of symmetry, Manning has been released from prison and then promptly sent back in since this program aired, so you should really buy that comp.)
I've also been in kind of a work-life funk since this program's airing (might it go back farther than that? I'm not sure) and have found it difficult to write and post, and I guess that too is part of my debt. Also, because I have been stuck, I have listened to this episode countless times at the gym and am fully tired of several tracks herein. But you'll just have to make guesses about that.
Surely Ranking Roger's death on this day was not part of my personal punishment, but it hurt all the same. I have, in middle age, come to see The (English) Beat as a lesser entity than The Specials, but in high school only the mod kids (one of whom I could never hope to be) liked Mr. Hall and co., whereas all the theatre kids like me were in thrall to I Just Can't Stop It. This one in particular pleases me because the band's influences are on full unapologetic display. I saw many social media "tributes" around this time bizarrely linking to Dave Wakeling showcases, and am proud to say that "Rough Rider" was one thing I got completely right on this weird evening.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 26, 2100-2300:
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Cruising Altitude Departure 30, 2018 December 8
Songs About Bad People: Transmission 436, 2018 December 5
C'mon Queenie, Let's Get With It: Transmission 435, 2018 December 1
I Make My Own True Crooked Way: Transmission 434, 2018 November 28
U_D_M Detour 34, 2018 November 17
Daddy Goes Dancing with Mommy-O: Transmission 433, 2018 November 14
Feels Like Murder But That's Alright: Transmission 432, 2018 November 7
Cruising Altitude Departure 29, 2018 November 3
No More Worlds Like This, No More Days Like That: Transmission 431, 2018 October 31
U_D_M Detour 33, 2018 October 27
People Differ in an Absolutely General Way: Transmission 430, 2018 October 24
A Love Like Ours Is Rare: Transmission 429, 2018 October 17
We'll Be the Pirate Twins Again: Transmission 428, 2018 October 14
There's Always Danger in Your Dreams: Transmission 427, 2018 October 10
Sardonicus Keeps Smiling Till the End: Transmission 426, 2018 October 3
You Broke the World That You're Not Long For: Transmission 425, 2018 September 26
Can I Be You, I Don't Want To Be Me: Transmission 424, 2018 September 19
Dare To Live in Your Body: Transmission 423, 2018 September 12
Hold Onto Your Darkness: Transmission 422, 2018 September 5
If Your Heart's Strong, Hold On: Transmission 421, 2018 August 22
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