Speed Of History

Since I just noticed that this song in this weeks show somehow got mangled and I won’t be able to fix it until tonight I am uploading the video in the meantime.

Banned by the BBC!

09.28.2008 Speed of History Show 146

Playlist:

The Homosexuals - Astral Glamour
The Kinks - Lola (Live)
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
David Bowie - Queen Bitch
The Rolling Stones - Cocksucker Blues
Pete Townshend - Rough Boys
The Germs - Forming
Husker Du - In A Free Land
The Dicks - Saturday Night At The Bookstore
The Big Boys - Fun Fun Fun
MDC - Dead Cops / America’s So Straight
Tom Robinson Band - Glad To Be Gay
Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Tubeway Army - Jo The Waiter
Wire - 12XU

09.21.2008 Speed of History Show 145

Playlist:

Charta 77 - The Day The Bank Collapsed
Asta Kask - Hjarndod
Asta Kask - Landsplikt
Asta Kask - Inget Ljus
Asta Kask - Psykiskt Instabil
Asta Kask - Sex Komplex
Ebba Gron - Profit
Liket Lever - Levande Begravd
Kriminella Gitarrer - 36 Patroner
Rude Kids - Raggare Is A Bunch Of Motherfuckers
Naked - War Machine
Disrupter - Stonehenge
Kronstadt Uprising - AD ‘84 Holocaust
Legion Of Parasites - Sea Of Desecration
Bad Brains - How Low Can A Punk Get
MDC - Pay To Come Along
DI - Going To Lebanon
Frontline - Survive
Black Flag - Scream
Big Black - Colombian Necktie
Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
Narcoleptic Youth - Banks Go Bust

Check out the “Austin” video.

This month’s column is going to be very short.  I had started to write up three different columns, the first about my personal politics, the second about punk rock music in the 90’s and the third a mish-mash of my hatred of work segueing into some things like the Long Emergency and Green Anarchy.  Obviously none were finished and this has gone on too long so I am just putting something up here.

1.    My controversial column from last month has attracted quite a few aspiring young fascists.  I don’t know what interest my new found following of racist noise musicians and street artists will find in all the far left punk I play or my monthly ramblings though.  I, most likely, will write something sometime in the future that will garner the same kind of attention, but I am not promising anything.

2.    When I downloaded that NF comp No Surrender so I could play the ABOVE THE RUINS song in the show following the Neo-folk column it was in 64kbps.  Almost all of the racist or fascist music I have ever downloaded, things like Boots And Brace / Voice Of Britain or that Japanese RAC comp Werewolfen, have been in similar shitty bitrates.  Skinheads don’t know how to rip mp3s.

3.    I am now officially an internet tastemaker.  I have been getting quasi-spam emails of “play my band on your podcast” from a number of different bands of varying quality.  It’s not going to happen.  Sorry folks.

4.    MRR is working on creating an online database of all of their reviews.  I have volunteered my services.  Mindlessly importing review data into the appropriate database fields is, oddly enough, right up my alley.  Hopefully this will all pan out and I will have a played an important part in putting up what is going to be an absolutely indispensable resource.  Fingers crossed.

5.    I normally hate living in the future, as I call it, but /b/ hacking Palin’s email is just the type of thing that makes me love it.  This is shit right out of all the near future cyber punk style sci-fi I have read and I can’t get enough of it.

6.    I am already dreading trying to put together a “Best” of 2008 show.  So little of what has come out this year has done much of anything for me.  The ESTRANGED and THE YOUNG OFFENDERS are the only two bands that come to mind immediately.  I know I have a few months left, but I would hate to have to fill the show up with, well, filler.

7.    I skipped last weeks show because I was riding bicycles in Philly.  I plan to start riding a lot more.  Hopefully we will have a long temperate fall so I can and hopefully this won’t cause me to skip more shows.

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09.07.2008 Speed of History Show 144

Playlist:

Funeral Oration - The Wishing - Shadowland
Blitz - Criminal Damage
Blitz - Into The Daylight
The Violators - Government Stinks
The Violators - Crossing Of Sangsara
T.S.O.L. - Property Is Theft
T.S.O.L. - Walk Alone
Middle Class - Insurgence
Middle Class - A Blueprint For Joy
Bauhaus - Dark Entries
Dali’s Car - The Judgement Is The Mirror
Love And Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag
Peter Murphy - Final Solution
The Damned - New Rose
The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby
The Damned - Smash It Up Pts. 1-2
The Damned - The History of the World (Part 1)
Sisters Of Mercy - Adrenochrome

08.31.2008 Speed of History Show 143

Playlist:

The Vapors - Cold War
Wire - Mr. Marx’s Table
Wat Tyler - History Of The Soviet Union Pt. 1 (October)
Wat Tyler - History Of The Soviet Union Pt. 2 (Civil War, Isolation & Starvation 1918-1923)
Frugelknaben - Lenin Zombies
Amdi Petersens Arme - Stalinjugend
AD1984 - The Russians Are Coming
Hated Youth - Fuck Russia
Fear - Bomb The Russians
Angelic Upstarts - I Don’t Want To Fight The Soviet
The Cybermen - Cybernetic Surgery
The Cybermen - Where’s The New Wave
The Cybermen - Hanging Around
The Cybermen - I Can’t Help It
The Cybermen - You’re To Blame
The Cybermen - It’s You I Want
Statues - Husbands And Wives
Fucked Up - Son The Father
Jay Reatard - Fluorescent Grey
Measure (SA) - Means To An End
Crisis - Back In The USSR