AFS v. 340 ~ Free-Form Rock & Roll

This week in AFS...

* 24 flavors of free-form rock & roll
* all hail the quotable Matt Z!
* Greasy Pop hits!

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SWEET TOMMY BAND | Space Station Control/Beatniks | The World of Science 2x7" | New Beatniks 1981
SROS LORDS | The End | Evil Spawn 7" | Urinal Cake *new
JOHNNY ILL BAND | It's the Future | Ask All the Doctors Urinal Cake *new
THE KNOCKS | Traffic Jam | v/a: Chloroform | Mangrove 1996
FIFI & THE MACH III | Chu Chu Li'l Baby | split 7" w/ Bum | 1+2 1994
TONIGHT | Animal Call | 1978 7" | Freaked Out Frequencies 1998
THE HECK | I Need It | The Heck R.I.P.S. 7" | Rebelabel 1998
SUPERSNAZZ | Uncle Wiggly | Uncle Wiggly 7" | Get Hip 1995
SUNSHINE SUPER SCUM | Native Son, Rising Star | Two Reactions 7" | Siltbreeze 1997
CHURCH POLICE | The Oven is My Friend | v/a: Not So Quiet on the Western Front | Alternative Tentacles 1982
CULTURCIDE | The Heart of R'N'R (is the Profit) | Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America | no label 1986
EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE | Stairway to Royalties | v/a: Noise Kills Punk Dead | Opulence! 1999
CYBORG | Tom's Jones | v/a: Noise Kills Punk Dead
BRUTUM FULMEN | Quartet for Plastic Toy Horns | v/a: Noise Kills Punk Dead
CULTURCIDE | Nothing / Plague/Disco | Year One | C.I.A. 1982
SHOCKHEADED PETERS | Blue Rosebuds [Residents] | v/a: Devastate to Liberate | Yangki 1985
MOUNTAINS & RAINBOWS | Indian | Knock Me Out 7" | Cass 2007
THE LOST DOMAIN | Indian War Whoop II | Blondes Chew More Gum | Negative Guest List *new (orig 1995)
DEMO-MOE | Unlimited Capacities | Demolish NYC | Maldoror 1988
CHEATER SLICKS | Bruno's Night Out/My Position on Nothingness | Guttural Live 2010 | Columbus Discount *new
PRIMEVILS | Whipping Tree | Chicken Factory | Greasy Pop 1987
THE LIZARD TRAIN | When the Acid Drops | Thirteen Hour Daydream 12" EP Greasy Pop 1986
EXPLODING WHITE MICE | Dangerous | A Nest of Vipers | Greasy Pop 1985
SCREAMING BELIEVERS | Faith | Communist Mutants from Space | Greasy Pop 1985
GARGOYLE SOX | Evil Exhibition | As the Master Sleeps... | Manster 1985
FOR AGAINST | Autocrat | Echelons | Independent Project 1987
MAD 3 | King Pyramid | Jack the Violence | Time Bomb 1996
MAGNETIX | Comme des Bètes | Drogue Electrique | Slovenly *new

AFS v. 339 ~ 9000 Robots/See You're a One of 'Em!

This week in AFS...

* Captcha'd tracks!
* new-wave saxophones!
* fresh serving of The Pizzas!
* plenty of songs for doing "the robot"!

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THE FLESH LIGHTS | Waves | Bummer Bitch split 7" w/ Naw Dude | 12XU *new
THE PIZZAS | We Don't Hafta Do Anything Anymore | 7" | Sacrament/Phono Select *new
OBN IIIs | If the Shit Fits | The One and Only | Tic Tac Totally *new
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING | Boy, Can I Dance Good [The Pagans] | So Many Things | Goner *new
HEAVY TIMES | Erase the Sun | Jacker | HoZac *new
GLITTER WIZARD | Sacrifice | Solar Hits | Archers Guild *new
NOTHING PEOPLE | Commit/Compromised | Smells Like Metal | Captcha *new
GA'AN | Arms They Speak | Black Equus | Captcha *new
POINT LINE PLANE | Deep C | self-titled | Xeroid/Sincere Brutality 2003
BRONZE | Wits | The Rouge Became picdisc 7" | World Famous in SF 2011
ZURICH | Sugar Sugar | v/a: Life is Beautiful...So Why Not Eat Health Foods? | New Underground 1983
ROBERT DERBY | Dancin' | I'm Normal | Cachalot 1980
THE R's | Hanging on the Cross | Monopolylogic High Fiderlity 7" | Quanta 1979
NORMAN SALANT | Accidents (Club Version) | Accidents 7" | Alive 1981
THE DEADBEATS | Brainless | Kill the Hippies 7" | Dangerhouse 1979
THE PLEBS | Payday | v/a: Life is Ugly...So Why Not Kill Yourself? | New Underground 1982
BPEOPLE | M.P.C.D. | You at Eight 7" | I.R.S. 1981
JUNGLE NAUSEA | Uniform | untitled 12" | Inner Mystique 1982
NORMAN SALANT | Sax Talk | Sax Talk | C.D. Presents 1984
RICHARD BONE | The Quantum Hop | v/a: Survival...Mind & Matter/Megamix | Survival 1983
DRINKING ELECTRICITY | Breakout | v/a: Survival...Mind & Matter/Megamix
BALACLAVAS | Wrong Side of the Bars | Snake People | Dull Knife *new
CONTREPOISON | ...Until Next Morning | ...Until Next Morning | Avant! *new
XENO & OAKLANDER | Corrupt | Sets & Lights | Wierd *new
SCRAPS | Cave | Classic Shits | Bedroom Suck *new
MATTRESS | Bad Times | Eldorado | Malt Duck *new
YOUNG GODS | Did You Miss Me? | self-titled | Wax Trax 1987
YOUNG GODS | Long Route | L'Eau Rouge - Red Water | Play It Again Sam 1989 *request
FOETUS CORRUPTUS | Slut/Prayer for My Death | Rife | Rifle 1988

...or you could do this one!



Surprised we don't hear more about this Robert Derby fellow....I'm Normal is really quite good!

AFS v. 338 ~ Curiosity is My Specialty

This week in AFS, we tie together...

* How I kick ass at Scrabble
* The lyrics of Colin Newman
* The sport of cricket
* The British sense of humo(u)r (or lack thereof)


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WOUNDED LION | Relaxation is my Specialty | IVXLCDM | In the Red *new
WAX IDOLS | Hitman | No Future | HoZac *new
BAD INDIANS | The Path Home | The Path Home 7" | Ginkgo *new
TOTAL CONTROL | Nervous Harvest/For Lease | split 12" w/ Thee Oh Sees | Castle Face *new
RANK/XEROX | Drips | self-titled | Make a Mess *new
COLIN NEWMAN | Don't Bring Reminders | Not to | 4AD 1982
COLIN NEWMAN | Don't Bring Reminders | A-Z (CD bonus track) | Restless Retro 1988 (orig 1981)
YU | The Big Picture | We Are Yu 7" | A Home Production *new (orig 1982)
THE EX | Kachun-k Pschûh | Joggers & Smoggers | Ex Records 1989
THE FALL | God-Box | The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall | Beggars Banquet 1984
CIRCLE X | Underworld | self-titled EP | no label 1979
NOTHING PEOPLE | Gut Wind | Smells Like Metal | Captcha *new
MONOSHOCK | Cryptozoological Disaster | Walk to the Fire | Blackjack 1995
CCR HEADCLEANER | Diamonds Arn't Forever [sic]/Ups vs Downs | self-titled CS | Gnar Tapes *new
FAR-OUT FANGTOOTH | Red Hawk Desert | Pure & Disinterested | Siltbreeze *new
DEAF WISH | Freeze the Sound | self-titled | Radio Records Melbourne *new (orig 2007)
THE WIPERS | No One Wants an Alien | Over the Edge | Rabid Cat 1983
BUICK | The Moon is Not a Yellow Sow | Sweatertongue | Lather 1992
POLVO | In the Hand in the Sieve | split 7" w/ Erectus Monotone | Merge 1992
ROBERT WYATT | Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road | Rock Bottom | Virgin 1974
PETER HAMMILL | Modern | Vision | Charisma 1978
THE DEAD C. | Angel | The Sun Stabbed 7" EP | Xpressway 1988
DIADAL | Tundra Snake Song | v/a: Color in Absence Sound | Hell's Half Halo 1999
MONOSTAT 3 | You're a Nice Computer Fuck | v/a: Color in Absence Sound
TEMPORAL PAIN | Waves Hit | More to Come 8" flexi | Eva-Tone 1983
PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT | Strife/Meridian | East Fork/North Fork | Monorail Trespassing *new
SCORN | Far in Out | Gyral | Scorn 1995
TECHNO ANIMAL | Atomic Buddha | Demonoid 12" EP | Grand Royal 1997

I recently was playing Scrabble (well, Lexulous) with some British bloke, and I scored a double-triple-word-score after he placed a 7-letter bingo word--"QUARREL"--down the right side of the board, leaving me the opportunity to place "WICKETS" across the bottom row and into the corner so that the "S" pluralized his singular word on the triple-word-score. This move scored 114 points, so halfway through the game, I had his score doubled. In the chat box, he accused me of cheating: "How would an American like you know that word?" I thought I'd humo(u)r him and say "We yanks are a quarrelsome nation, don'tcha know!?!", but he wasn't having it, so he specifically asked how I know about wickets. I told him that I knew it was a cricketing term, and he replied "Surely you just Googled that". It was then that I had to explain this true story.

I first learned of this word at age 14 when I bought my very first CD...a copy of Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fisk/Not to on Restless Retro. It struck me as sounding very English, so I looked it up in the unabridged Oxford Dictionary at the Travis Air Force Base community library. I tried my home reference first, but it wasn't in there! Another thing I remember from that day at the library....I cracked open the World Book Encyclopedia to try 'n figure out what the sport of cricket was all about.

He must not have believed my story because he quit the game.

Isn't it funny where music leads you sometimes?

"Don't Bring Reminders"

Everything they say seems so insubstantial
A word of caution
Take care of what you got
It didn't come cheap
I mean look at the choices
Afoot of life (???)

Don't bring reminders, let them all rock and roll
It's very insubstantial
I got you a first class booking
Take the ticket, hit the wicket

We've come to see what's left of you
What's left of you, what's left of you
We want to see what's left of you
What's left of you, what's left of you

You've been had
If you think that it had
Any relevance to you
Anyway

--Colin Newman