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Music History for your skull - one album at a time. New episode every Tuesday.
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A galley pisser and a tighty-whitey wearer meet in a record store in Athens, Georgia and form R.E.M. They begin their thirty year gentle-rock quest with Murmur - a deep-track treasure considered a Rosetta Stone to all indie-rock that followed.
Released during the height of the Grunge Hunx Dynasty - Dirt remains one of the coolest albums of the 1990s - an absolutely heroic effort by Jerry Cantrell. Dirt was Alice In Chains' brief view from the top before beginning the inevitable slalom down smack mountain.
A dispatch of wonderful garage sleaze from France made by a Boogie Chitz supergroup consisting of The Limiñanas, loose-of-mind Anton from Jonestown and Emmanuelle Seigner - the GILF wife of creepo director Roman Polanski.
Even as the musical tide was shifting from the Golden Oldies Era to the Classic Rock one in 1963, the radio was still filled with snappy sing-alongs regardless of genre. You had to go to the jazz rack for exploratory action - and even in that world the gently-cosmic lounge swing of Moon Gas is one of a kind.
Somewhere is the only release by Gum Country - a side project of the guitarist from artisanal grunge band The Courtneys. Infectious 1990s shoegaze rockery for the present day slacker - it's hard to believe an album this catchy can be so obscure. A 'blind listening' treasure to the fullest.
We enter the world of Kosmische Musik thru the psychedelic soundscapes of Manuel Göttsching's Ash Ra Temple. Starring Rosi was the fifth and final Ash Ra LP - and it's definitely the sonic outlier of the batch - the only one that comes close to a traditionally-tracked rock record. This of course is only noticeable once you've actually sampled the first four - which we will do.
Given the MTV buzz and debutantal boom the Bangles experienced during the second half of their run, it's easy to forget their debut LP is a bonafide hitless alt-rock classic. All Over the Place reminds us that the Bangles were a really cool Paisley Underground band before the Egyptian pantomimes and Prince lil' purple penis pageantry.
During summer 1972 - in between the end of a historic European run and a tour schedule that would have the band zipping around the country for the rest of the year, the Grateful Dead made a stop in Oregon to help their old friends Chuck and Sue Kesey save their small yogurt company from financial collapse. Great show choice Bana.
A young guitarist named Maximiliano Chavez experiences a flash of divinity when he discovers the Wah-Wah guitar pedal in mid-1960s Peru and assembles Los Orientales de Paramonga - one of the cornerstone bands of Peru's psychedelic Chicha scene. Fiesta en Oriente was the band's second album - and the only one they recorded for the understatedly-historic Infopesa Records.
The most exhilarating rock album of the nineties came from the guitar and mouth of one of the most lovable heroes of the college rock eighties. Five years after the end of Hüsker Dü and without record label support, Bob Mould formed Sugar and found his melody on their debut album Copper Blue in 1992 - a ten-track treasure buried in plain sight amongst the chaotic Hair to Grunge Hunk transition of power.
A hobbyist Sikh devotional singer and her three sons create the first ever Asian-infused electronic dance album in England at their kitchen table in the Punjabi-populated London suburb of Southall in 1982. The record sat in obscurity until this year when Naya Beat resurrected and reissued the magic for our consumption.
A solid discog you could hold in one hand - Dead Kennedys managed to make some awesome rock and roll while simultaneously defying music industry promises and pee-pee tugs. We're gonna nip thru the whole DK catalog but go HARD on Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys number three - where the San Francisco-ness of Jello and the gang shines thru a little more than their perky punk past.
The first music ever recorded in the multi-track format in Ethiopia came about from a Swedish national living in Addis Ababa who offered use of his four-track recorder to a group of Ethio-Jazz workhorses named Ibex Band. The Ibex boys welcomed the opportunity and set up shop in the empty ballroom of a hotel. For two days they made magic that would lay dormant for close to fifty years before a formal release this past April. What a gift.
If you've ever listened to or bought this album because of (Don't Fear) The Reaper - then you were in for a big surprise upon the initial neck-to-nut - All five members of the BÖC each sing lead on at least öne of the ten tracks of Agents of Fortune. Nine other nuggets that sound nothing like the Reap - or each other - but somehow flow with flawless cohesion. An awesome classic rock record that remains buried in plain sight. And we're also gonna try and answer a question that no one seems to ask - who are Blue Öyster Cult?
After a decade of missionary work in Singapore, Sister Irene O'Connor returns home to Australia and unleashes her one true miracle - a 12-song lo-fi/high-spirit psyche-pop classic called Fire of God's Love.
Only a year removed from chaining themselves to the walls of the One-Hit WonderDome with Happy Together, jaded L.A. fun boys The Turtles stopped listening to their handlers and created an underrated thematic classic centered around fictional bands performing songs of various genres popular at the time. Battle of the Bands is a gold nugget mined from one-hit hindquarters. And it must be celebrated.
A group of working-class Bergen County Italians transform into zombie male strippers and form one of the coolest bands ever. This self-titled compilation (a.k.a. Collection I) was released by Glenn Danzig himself three years after the band broke-up, but it's the best single disc appetizer offering of the Misfits original run.
This week's ep is up early because myself, Jose and Bemba have to travel to Mexico for business. 1970's David Bowie is one of the greatest musical runs ever - but we begin with the Bowie's never-before-told quest to create his 1983 midlife crisis pop manifesto - Let's Dance.
Ry Cooder, one of classic rock's greatest journeymen convinces Malian legend Ali Farka Touré to forget about his rice farm for a month to create one of the coolest albums ever under the 'world music' categorical tag.
Years before getting the indie gold star with Before Today, Beverly Hills trust fundie Ariel Rosenberg recorded a couple hundred cassettes-worth of home made pastiche psychedelic bacterium while in high school and college. Loverboy was the fifth LP extracted from this low-fi/highly-invigorating cassette cache. It's my favorite of Phase I Ariel Pink - probably because it's the only one I own on vinyl. Also - we play Cupid and pop the cherry on the Cryofab Rejuvenation Machine II.
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