Hi - who is the punk/hardcore band on the intro of Part 3 of the Rights vs. Government podcast? It's a really great track.

Here's more information about the music featured on recent productions!

5-27-09:

Sonia Sotomyoooooor with the Perry Mason Theme

Radio Birdman - "Xeno Beach" (the greatest Aussie band so far, cats!)

5-30-09:

Fu Manchu - "Strato Streak"

Electric Frankenstein - "Coolest Little Monster"

6-1-09:

Witch - "Rip van Winkle"

The Wolfmen - "Two Eyes" (with Daler Mehndi, India's top male vocalist) Here's some info on them: http://www.music-news.com/ShowReview.asp?H=The-Wolfmen&nReviewID=3260&nT...

and

http://www.thewolfmen.net/#

Oh, and then I added a little Youtube Meme, a Japanese tune called "Dan Jo, Dan Jo"! So funny.

6-3-09:

TIMMY! with the Red Rockers' shlock fest, "China". Uggggh!

The Psychedelic Furs - close of "Dumbwaiters", my flavor-it song.

6-5-09:

DMZ!!! - "Cinderella" GET ALL DMZ DISCS!

THE SONS OF HERCULES!!! - "Snake People" ("I seen the light, a-shine in their eyes...") What a great song about Satan worshippers. Look for all the discs by the Sons, and count on a new one soon! They are AWESOME! Straight outta Austin, baby!

6-7-09:

Ministry - "Just Like You", off "Twitch", which was heavily influenced by Front 242 and the German Industrial Music scene.

Ministry - "We Believe", again, from "Twitch", which came out around 1985, and was pretty much the inspiration for "Pretty Hate Machine", which you can tell when you listen to this song.

6-8-09:

The Grassy Knoll: "Conversations with Julian Dexter"

The SHORT FUSES!!!!!: "Planet of the Bass" -- Oh, man. Miss Georgia Peach. Met her in 2001. Still trying to catch my breath after witnessing her on stage and talking to her after the show at the Vegas Shakedown. Their disc, "Get the Hell Down" is one of the most intense, hardest rocking productions ever made. She is a phenomenon, and stunningly attractive. Take a look:

http://www22.brinkster.com/theshortfuses/index.html

6-10-09:

Electric Frankenstein - "Get off My Back!"

The SONS of HERCULES! - "Reason to Live" "Iiiiii waaaant youuuu toooo... I want you ta BE MY RESON TO LIIIVE!!!"

Their lead singer has the best screams since Roger Daltry, man.

6-11-09:

Puffi Ami Yumi: "Hi-Hi! Puffy Ami Yumi Show" - A little J-Pop to get out there. Those ladies are hot, too.

DANKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!------>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "TIME HEALS NOTHING"

(so right, Danko, so right...) www.dankojones.com Love the arrangement of the bass and the guitar playing off each other. The drums keep it tight, then let it all open up, as Danko says, "I know I'm gonna live through this, and when the wound in my back heals... I'm comin' to get you. I'M COMIN' TO GET YOU!"

"On the day I find you, the sun will shine, the birds will sing, everything will feel right, and I'm comin' to get you, I'm COMIN' TO GET YOU!"

6-12-09:

The Horrors - "Count in Fives" Nice blokes from across the pond. These guys actually know Cthulu, baby. Just watch "Sheena is a Parasite" on Youtube to see!

Gang of Four - "Anthrax"

"Love will get you like a case of Anthrax, and that's something I don't want to catch..."

BE SEEING YOU!

Thanks for throwing Ministry in there. I think my heart stopped momentarily when I played the podcast and instantly recognized the song. Also I noticed you mentioned the influence on Pretty Hate Machine. Al from Ministry worked with Trent Reznor in 1000 Homo DJs, but you probably already knew that.

im paitently waiting for a little DEVO, el g. how 'bout some "Freedom of Choice"?

okay - 6-20 show @ 36 minutes in.... anyone know the music?

Howdy!

Glad you noted that song! It's one of my favorites! It's "Strato-Streak", off "In Search of...", by the mighty FU MANCHU! Amazing stuff they've created. I love their cover of BOC's "Godzilla". If you like them, get the first disc by Witch, and think about Mastodon, too. Very cool.

What I really love about "Strato-Streak" is that on the opening, the first guitarist is soooo adept using the waa-waa, and has a sense of timing that's uncanny. When a band hits it that precisely, I can only liken it to a fast-break in basketball (BTW, "Baseketball" is a really funny movie by the guys hehind "Southpark" - check out the "ribbon for awareness" gag).

The thing about that Fu Manchu opening is the way he pumps the waa-waa right at the first few seconds, and then as they roll into the "so long" lyrics cycle, he lets off, and then the waa-waa picks up again, and as they approach :55, the band gives him free rein to hit it sooo freakin' hard, and he sustains this building rhythmic style that goes and goes until he gets one last link to the beat, and then he immediately swithces it off at :55! Amazing!!! I figure some people outside these circles could care less, or probably don't even notice, but that single moment in the song is remarkable. It's like hearing the flange on the drums in "Kashmir", or the speed-up of the sax in the solo of "It Goes On" by the Furs. Ingenius. That, to me, is the kind of thing that separates average music and good music: brains, creativity and instinct combined in an unrelenting seizure of the tools of music or lyricism.

I just started running again, after twelve yeas of being unable to do it due to injury, and that Fu Manchu disc really assists in pumping the adrenaline! Buy it where you can find it, the whole thing is awesome.

-- G Manchu!

This isn't a music question, but it is something you played during a break so it kind of fits here. In Pt. 2 of the Obama financial regs pod there was an orange juice substitute commercial that was freaking hilarious. Where did that come from?

AHHHHHH! Yeah! You have EXCELLENT taste! I also wonder if anyone recognized it!

It's a favorite from an album by National Lampoon, called "That's Not Funny, That's Sick!", and it also includes great bits on Mr. Rogers, the "Stereos N' Such" ad (with Christopher Guest -- famous for his stint on the classic "$20,000 Pyramid", of course, or, maybe not -- and Bill Murray), and a great bit with Bryan Doyle Murray where he's an announcer for a women's gymnastic competition. As they'd say in "Teen Girl Squad", SOOOO good!

That one was on the disc, and I have it on tape, and had downloaded it from Lime Wire, but lost it in my now infamous HARD DRIVE CRASH of 2009! I then thought, "hold on, sugarpop, it's gotta be on YouTube!" and it is!

Just put in "orange juice" and national lampoon, and you'll find it. It's also probably available at itunes!

I love the way the guy gets that folksy-old-man-who-is-mystified intonation down juuuuust right! And it was first released when there was surge of new mix-it juice drinks, and the whole "now with more pulp" thing coming around. It was great!

Hasta!

G!

Quick question here-  The 6-20 show... who is playing at the end of the pod?