Plastic Passions

This was a playlist constructed from a bunch of the favorite Plastic Passions songs (the precursor to Record Hospital-- it was around until 1983); it ended up being slightly different when we played it on air (and entailed some announcing), but here's how it was originally conceived...



The Cure- "Plastic Passion" (Boys Don't Cry, 1979)

Modern Lovers- "Roadrunner" (s/t LP, 1976)
Pointed Sticks- "Out of Luck" (Out of Luck EP, 1979)
The Rude Kids- "We Got Polar Bears on Our Streets" (Safe Society LP, 1979)

Wipers- "Is This Real?" (Is This Real? LP, 1980)
Avengers- "The American in Me" (s/t EP, 1979)
London Zoo- "Receiving End" (s/t 7", 1979)
Satans Rats- "You Make Me Sick" (You Make Me Sick 7", 1978)

Mission of Burma- "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" (Vs. LP, 1982)
Clock DVA- "4 Hours" (Thirst LP, 1981)
The Del Fuegos- "I Always Call Her Back" (I Can't Sleep 7", 1982)
Urinals- "Ack Ack Ack Ack" (I'm a Bug EP, 1979)

Toxin III- "I Rock I Ran" (Iraq. Iran. (Again) LP, 1982)
The Dicks- "Hate the Police" (Hate the Police 7", 1980)
D.O.A.- "The Prisoner" (Something Better Change LP, 1980)

Rudimentary Peni- "Farce" (Farce EP, 1981)
Dead Kennedys- "Kill the Poor" (Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables LP, 1980)
Black Flag- "Rise Above" (Damaged LP, 1981)

Negative Approach- "Nothing" (s/t EP, 1982)
Minor Threat- "Out of Step (With the World)" (Out of Step LP, 1983)
DYS- "More Than Fashion" (Brotherhood LP, 1983)

Plastic Passions

Four Variations on a Theme

1.

2. WHAT I FEEL, Lydia Davis

"These days I try to tell myself that what I feel is not very important. I've read this in several books now: that what I feel is important but not the center of everything. Maybe I do believe this, but not enough to act on it. I would like to believe it more deeply.

What a relief that would be. I wouldn't have to think about what I felt all the time, and try to control it, with all its complications and all its consequences. I wouldn't have to try to feel better all the time. In fact, if I didn't believe what I felt was so important, I probably wouldn't even feel so bad, and it wouldn't be so hard to feel better. I wouldn't have to say, Oh I feel so awful, this is like the end for me here, in this dark living-room late at night, with the dark street outside under the streetlamps, I am so very alone, everyone else in the house asleep, there is no comfort anywhere, just me alone down here, I will never calm myself enough to sleep, never sleep, never be able to go on to the next day, I can't possibly go on, I can't live, even through the next minute.

If I didn't believe what I felt was the center of everything, then it wouldn't be the center of everything, but just something off to the side, one of many things, and I would be able to see and pay attention to those other things that are equally important, and in this way I would have some relief.

But it is curious how you can believe an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. So I still act as though my feelings were the center of everything, and they still cause me to end up alone by the living-room window late at night. What is different now is that I have this idea: I have the idea that soon I will no longer believe that my feelings are the center of everything. This is a comfort to me, because if you despair of going on, but at the same time tell yourself that what you feel may not be very important, then either you may no longer despair of going on, or you may still despair of going on but not quite believe it anymore."


3. Excerpt from "THE QUEST TO BE FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE" in PROOF I EXIST ZINE, Issue #10

"There are so many people in the world, more and more all the time. And each of us has a tendency to imagine our own lives as being the main story. But I try to imagine myself as a special guest, or a secondary plot line, and think of everyone ELSE as being lead characters...

I try to be a worthy supporting character to whatever plot line they are working through. Not many people keep journals these days, but some weirdos (like me) still do. I value every interaction I have, and in the off chance that the person I'm dealing with keeps a journal, I want them to consider adding me to it. Is that strange and creepy?

Probably. Fuck it though. THere are no small people, no small stories. We are all humans! We are all related, we are all of the same energy. One infinite spider web of connections. It's that whole Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."

4. Download.
psychedelic horseshit - out of control, no. 36
reports - at trailers
caethua - if the river dries up
stereo total - relax, baby be cool
vitor hublot - aller simple
young marble giants - searching for mr right
that ghost - friends in quotations
pens - high in the cinema
the marked men - fix my brain
ok? - earthseed
the thermals - back to grey
best friends forever - I think it would be great
the coathangers - don't touch my shit!
the men - ailment
magic people - fanciful man
foreign objects - fable
the diamond sea - heavy skies
the scissor girls - ambulatory
james chance & the contortions - I can't stand myself
bubblegum octopus - let it snow! (note: merry christmas!)

Halloween cover show

I did this as a radio show for Halloween on Thursday night.



1. Slingshot Dakota- "Waiting Room" (Fugazi)
2. Cheeky- "The Golden Ghost" (Slingshot Dakota)
3. God Is My Co-Pilot- "Out in the Streets" (The Shangri-Las)
4. Crimpshrine- "Tomorrow" (Annie)
5. Dead Dog- "Hate Song" (Daniel Johnston)
6. Holly Golightly- "Box Elder" (Pavement)
7. Thick Shakes- "Your Body Not Your Soul" (Cuby & the Blizzards)
8. The Raincoats- "Lola" (The Kinks)
9. Girls at Our Best!- "This Train" (Woody Guthrie)
10. Screaming Females- "Cortez the Killer" (Neil Young)
11. King Everything- "Backwoods" (Cub)
12. Cub- "Cast a Shadow" (Beat Happening)
13. Chugga Chugga- "The Sign" (Ace of Base)
14. The Aislers Set- "Not Too Young to Get Married" (Bobb B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans)
15. The Softies- "I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Thank God" (Talulah Gosh)
16. Shop Assistants- "What a Way to Die" (The Pleasure Seekers)
17. Hey Girl!- "Always Be My Baby" (Mariah Carey)
18. The Avengers- "Paint It Black" (The Rolling Stones)
19. Mika Miko- "Attitude" (The Misfits)
20. Bratmobile- "There's No Other Way" (Blur)
21. Devo- "Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones)
22. Big Black- "The Model" (Kraftwerk)
23. Minor Threat- "12XU" (The Wire)
24. Das Oath- "Feel Like a Man" (Negative FX)
25. Born Against- "Riding with Mary" (X)
26. Ampere- "Regulator" (Bad Brains)
27. Rorschach- "My War" (Black Flag)
28. Swing Kids- "Warsaw" (Joy Division)
29. Brainworms- "For Want Of" (Rites of Spring)
30. Pygmy Lush- "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (The Ramones)
31. Redwing Blackbird- "What It's Like to Fly" (Ampere)

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Something New

Not a mixtape, but an original collaboration-- just for your listening enjoyment.


Hope you like cats.

Pissed-Off Hardcore

Because I need to compensate for my last two posts...

1. Reagan Youth- "Reagan Youth" (A Collection of Pop Classics)
2. Cut the Shit- "No Control" (Harmed and Dangerous)
3. Surf Nazis Must Die- "I Am Angry" (s/t 7")
4. Turboslut- "Dry" (Order of the Turboslut)
5. Nomos- "The Most Dangerous Game" (demo tape)
6. Punch- "Semantically Challenged" (Eyeless)
7. Aerosols- "Fuck the Pavement" (First EP)
8. Brain Handle- "Oblivian Crud" (s/t LP)
9. Infest- "Where's the Unity?" (Discography)
10. Los Crudos- "Asesinos" (Discografia)
11. Infect- "Puta" (Complete Discography 1998-2003)
12. Cult Ritual- "Hunger Pains" (Second EP)
13. Deathreat- "Elementary Course in Prison Economics" (Partners in Crime)
14. Deep Wound- "Deep Wound" (s/t)
15. Drunks with Guns- "DWI" (Drug Problem 7")
16. Cold Sweat- "Kept In/Chains" (Severed Ties)
17. Solger- "Raping Dead Nuns" (Codex 1980)
18. Violent Society- "I Wanna Know" (Not Enjoyin It)
19. Neon Christ- "Neon Christ" (Parental Suppression)
20. Anti You- "Cut It Out" (Making Your Life Miserable)
21. Acid Reflux- "Customers Fuck Off" (s/t 7")
22. Born Against- "Resist Control" (Our Voice Pro-Choice 7")
23. S.O.A.- "Girl Problems" (No Policy)
24. Gang Green- "I Don't Care" (This Is Boston, Not LA)
25. Career Suicide- "Moron" (Anthology of Releases: 2001-2003)
26. Cardiac Arrest- "Daily Dose" (Life's a Dead End)
27. Limp Wrist- "I Love Hardcore Boys/I Love Boys Hardcore" (Complete Discography)
28. Margaret Thrasher- "The Next Best Thing" (Are You There God?)
29. Chronic Sick- "There Goes the Neighbourhood" (Cutest Band in Hardcore)
30. Social Circkle- "Life Crisis" (I've Got Afflictions)
31. ¡Apeshit!- "Scabs & Scars" (Demo 2)
32. Charles Bronson- "Can't Take This" (Complete Discocrappy)
33. Dangers- "We Broke the P.A." (Anger)
34. Chronic Seizure- "Fatal Lie" (Ancient Wound)
35. Pissed Officers- "Skate Punks Eat Shit" (split with Gerty Farish)
36. Wasted Time- "Leech" (No Shore)
37. The Circle Jerks- "Live Fast, Die Young" (Group Sex)
38. The Freeze- "Broken Bones" (This Is Boston, Not LA)
39. Negative FX- "Mind Control" (s/t)
40. Die Kreuzen- "Think for Me" (Cows and Beer)
41. Slices- "Coping Mechanism" (s/t 7")
42. Walls- Tread on Me (s/t 12" EP)
43. Necros- "Police Brutality" (Conquest for Death + EPs)
44. Black Flag- "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" (Damaged)

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obligatory pop crush mix?

Crushes are the best worst ________?
(ps I totally realize I cheated & used a few of the same songs from last time by accident oh well)



1. Lemuria- "Pants" (Get Better)
2. Heavenly- "Cool Guitar Boy" (Heavenly vs. Satan)
3. Spider and the Webs- "A Kid Named Jay" (Demo Tape)
4. Best Friends Forever- "Eisenhower Is the Father" (Romance Conflict Adventure)
5. The Alkaline Trio- "Clavicle" (Goddamnit!)
6. Bratmobile- "She Said" (Neapolitan Metroplitan 7" Boxset)
7. Pussycat Trash- "Dumb Crush" (The Brat Years: 1992-1995)
8. Lefty Loosie- "For Evan, Wherever I May Find Him" (100 Miles an Hour!!)
9. Tiger Trap- "Super Crush" (s/t LP)
10. Tullycraft- "Mental Obsession" (Old Traditions, New Standards)
11. Jens Lekman- "I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration" (Oh You're So Silents Jens)
12. The Magnetic Fields- "Too Drunk to Dream" (Distortion)
13. The Go-Betweens- "Lee Remick" (78 'til 79: the Lost Album)
14. Beat Happening- "That Girl" (Music to Climb the Apple Tree By)
15. Chugga Chugga- "What's Yer Phone Number?" (s/t 7")
16. The Maybellines- "I Hope You Like Me Too" (s/t LP)
17. Mirah- "Sweepstakes Prize" (You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This)
18. Black Tambourine- "Throw Aggi off a Bridge" (Complete Recordings)
19. The Automaticans- "Audrey" (split 7" with Team Dresch)
20. Vivian Girls- "Second Date" (Surf's Up 7")
21. Screeching Weasel- "You'll Be in My Dreams" (Bark Like a Dog)
22. God Is My Co-Pilot- "Crushing a Girl" (I Am Not This Body)
23. The Blow- "Hey Boy" (Poor Aim: Love Songs)
24. Surprise!

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Songs:Ocean

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4hjnbf

1. Antsy Pants - Big City
2. Best Friends Forever - I Think It Would Be Great
3. Midtown Dickens - The Job Song
4. The Clean - Slug Song
5. Good Luck - Stars Were Exploding
6. Gravy Train!!!! - Hella Nervous
7. One Small Step - Ben & Megan's Song (Revision)
8. The Artisans - Start Again
9. Woods - Twisted Tongue
10. Dear Nora - Hey Tiger
11. Liechtenstein - Stalking Skills
12. Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne
13. The Smiths - This Charming Man
14. Yes Please - Ready Go
15. Lloyd Cole & the 6ths - Human
16. Grouper - Poison Tree
17. El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars
18. Amelia - Comptine d'Une Autre Ete: L'Apres Midi
19. Wavves - Weed Demon