Jello Biafra - High Priest Of The Harmful Matter

Disc 1:
1. Intro - Love American Death Squad Style
2. Talk On Censorship

Disc 2:
1. Tales From The Trial

Jello Biafra has been a big influence on my life recently. His spoken word albums (I think he's up to 8 of them now) are pretty much all dedicated to spreading information that you might not have otherwise heard. While it's sometimes entertaining, his mission is not to entertain. He is an artist on a mission to challenge the listener. He receives news sources from all over the world, often times from very obscure places and I'm not even exactly sure how he does it, but it all comes together in very powerful messages. One of his most-covered topics is of the utmost importance on this album: CENSORSHIP. It sounds like the kind of thing that's saved for the 1950s, but that's if you're to believe that everything they say on the news is true and that we have a "liberal" media. This is really just the tip of the ice berg for his work, I encourage you to go out and buy his albums and become challenged. He cites a lot of his information on the album, so you can even check up on most of the information he presents if you think he's exaggerating or lying. The "Tale From The Trial" segment is in regards to the Dead Kennedys album "Frankenchrist," being put on trial under the recently put-in-place obscenity laws thanks to Tipper Gore and the PMRC. It was the first (and maybe only) album to ever be prosecuted under that law, and he walks you through the entire process from start to finish, and even if you're only mildly interested in underground music it's a fascinating listen. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Red London - This Is England and Sten Guns In Sunderland EP

This Is England
1. CND
2. Guitars And Crime
3. Windward Drifter
4. Clubland Rock
5. Red Alert
6. Where I Was Born
7. Bric-A-Brac Youth
8. No War No Hate
9. Kill A King
10. Posers Retreat
11. Durham Boys
12. Production Line
13. This Is England (part 2)

Sten Guns In Sunderland EP
14. This Is England
15. Soul Train
16. Revolution Times

I'm going to get this out of the way: this is not a very good album. So I have a different motive in posting this. Let me explain. These are the first two releases by the band, put onto one CD. It contains the indisputable punk rock classic "CND." That song has shown up on a LOT of punk compilations. I loved it then, I love it now. So, naturally, I wanted to hear more. I went looking for more Red London for a while with no luck whatsoever. I eventually found a greatest hits compilation of theirs, but the first thing that struck me was the "CND" was not on it, which was odd, but then I listened to it and it sounded like a whole different band. I may be mistaken, but I think it's a collection of work that the band (with a different singer) did on a label they were on later in their career. So NONE of this early work is on their greatest hits CD. Through much effort, I finally found this CD, and...... I didn't like it. The singer, who I liked so much on the opening song, ended up annoying the hell out of me. The guitar work is the best part about it, but no other songs are quite on the level with that classic track. So I'm posting this for any of you curious about what Red London sounded like during "CND" era, and saving you the trouble of looking any further than right here, so you will know that they did, unfortunately, suck. I do dig the song "Red Alert," though. So get it HERE.

Simon and Garfunkel - Live 1969

1. Homeward Bound
2. At the Zoo
3. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
4. Song For the Asking
5. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
6. Scarborough Fair
7. Mrs. Robinson
8. The Boxer
9. Why Don't You Write Me
10. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
11. That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine
12. Bridge Over Troubled Water
13. The Sound Of Silence
14. I Am A Rock
15. Old Friends/Bookends Theme
16. Leaves That Are Green
17. Kathy's Song

Recently released, I believe, through Starbucks. It may seem superfluous, especially if you've heard a live album of theirs before, but the performances on here are absolutely dynamic. This is the tour promoting their (at the time) not-yet-released "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, so the crowds are hearing many of the songs for the first time. The audience reactions, especially to the title track, are priceless. They're exactly what you'd expect from hearing such amazing songs for the first time. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children

1. 3rd Generation Nation
2. I Won't Look Back
3. I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy
4. Flame Thrower Love
5. Son Of Sam
6. Tell Me
7. Big City
8. Calling On You
9. Dead and Alive
10. Ain't It Fun

Unfortunately, this phenomenal album was overshadowed by its predecessor, even though this album is just as good. Also, it was soon after they recorded this album that they fizzled out and Stiv Bators would soon be no more. This has songs that should've become punk rock standards ended up being confined to an album that was given little attention and had almost no international distribution. This is one of my most-listened to punk rock albums, and I pass it on to you. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Barack Obama - Live in Muncie, IN (04/12/2008)

Okay, I'll admit this one is a bit unorthodox, but I'm a big fan of Obama, and I think he is the best hope for our country. Not necessarily that he's the best guy for the job, but he stands a damn good chance of getting in, and I think he will genuinely work to make this country better. He came and spoke a few times in Indiana, where I live, and I was at this particular event. It also happened to be a damn good speech. I was very pleased to be able to shake his hand. Give it a listen RIGHT HERE!

Where, oh where, has Nargo gone?

Does anyone have any idea what happened to Nargo The Bort's blogs. He had a bunch of them, with the most and some of the best bootlegs, including live concert footage, that you could find anywhere. I checked up on his blogs a couple of weeks ago and every single one of them are gone and he has yet to reply to my e-mail which I sent over a week ago.

Where is our beloved Bort?

In any case, I will re-post some or many of the bootlegs I found on his blog, as many of them are very good and/or rare. I downloaded somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 of them.

I hope he has not gone for good, he was one of the best. And if he is, well... another one bites the dust, I suppose. I guess it's up to people like me and my fellow bloggers to carry the torch. That is, if protesters in France don't go on a rampage and steal the torch from me.

Radiators From Space - "Television Screen" single & TV Tube Heart

"Television Screen" single
1. Television Screen
2. Love Detective

TV Tube Heart
1. Television Screen
2. Prison Bars
3. Great Expectations
4. Roxy Girl
5. Press Gang
6. Contact
7. Sunday World
8. Electric Shares
9. Enemies
10. Ripped and Torn
11. Not Too Late
12. Blitzin' At the Ritz
13. Party Line

From the original Irish punk scene came the band that would include a young Phillip Chevron who would later join the legendary Pogues. This is very good, underrated stuff. Enjoy! Get it HERE!

The Fall - The Unutterable

1. Cyber Insect
2. Two Librans
3. W.B
4. Sons Of Temperance
5. Dr. Buck's Letter
6. Hot Runes
7. Way Round
8. Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun
9. Serum
10. Unutterable
11. Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes
12. Hands Up Billy
13. Midwatch 1953
14. Devolute
15. Das Katerer

After a period went by in the 1990s where the quality of the work by Mr. Smith was not quite up to standard, people were saying that The Fall had lost their edge and had no more creative momentum. Some even predicted the end of The Fall entirely. Then this album came out and basically ripped to shreds all naysayers who said that the good days of the band were over with. This album, out as recently as 2000, just goes to show that Mr. Smith still has it in him to blow us away when we least expect it. Get this amazing piece of work RIGHT HERE!

George Carlin - Back In Town

1. Abortion
2. Sanctity of Life
3. Capital Punishment
4. State Prison Farms
5. Farting In Public
6. Familiar Expressions
7. Free-Floating Hostility

One of the best comedians of our time in top form here. I've listened to a lot of his stuff, and this is the album I keep coming back to, hands-down my very favorite. The "Abortion" bit is classic, the "Sanctity of Life" bit is absolute brilliance, and you'll laugh so hard you'll cry during his "Free-Floating Hostility." Enjoy! Get it HERE!

The Fall - Fall Heads Roll

1. Ride Away
2. Pacifying Joint
3. What About Us
4. Midnight Aspen
5. Assume
6. Assume Reprise
7. Blindness
8. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
9. Bo Demmick
10. Yawanner
11. Clasp Hands
12. Early Days of Channel Fuehrer
13. Breaking the Rules
14. Trust In Me

Another hotly-debated album as to how good it is. I can understand those who don't like it, it doesn't measure up in artistic virtuosity like The Unutterable... but then again, what does? This is not The Fall trying to blow anybody away with amazing lyrics or particularly amazing music, this is a pop album in its essence. Not your typical pop album, this is pop music done Fall style, which essentially makes it unplayable on mainstream radio, despite how catchy or wonderful it really is. I happen to be one that loves this album and makes no apology for it. I love The Fall when they blow me away like they do with Live At The Witch Trials or The Unutterable, but I also love The Fall just trying to have fun like with The Marshall Suite or this album. So get up and get into it, but first get it RIGHT HERE!