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Welcome to Episode 17 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I took a week off the podcast, since the heatwave broke and the weather is so nice you can actually go outside. While I was confined to the house, I read the Sunday New York Times more carefully than I usually do, and read this inane article about "Generation X" and "nostalgia." You can pretty much expect that a pop culture writer for the NYT doesn't know much about underground culture stuff, since they all come from Ivy League journalism programs. The only thing I know about "Generation X" was that they were a great British punk band, and that it's a corporate marketing niche for people between 33-44. I didn't have a TV for 15 years, so I never saw the movie Singles, I just read about it in a magazine once?
The writer commented on pop culture recycling, and how this generation is recycling its young adult years, evidenced by the reunion of bands like the Pixies and whatnot, and being into pinball machines and old video games like Space Invaders. I thought it was pretty lame, since it focused mostly on music, and the writer seemed to me the kind that went to boarding school, then an Ivy League College, and learned who Richard Hell and Television were in 2003 or something like that.
There was alot of music published between 1982 and 1991 that this writer manque doesn't know about, since they were probably into either Men Without Hats or Bon Jovi, or some combination of Big Country and A-Ha. Well, I decided I had to roll out the rest of my singles collection to make sure to distinguish between commercial "nostaglia" as this writer would have it, and real uncommodified punk and garage rock. As Craig Steyck said about commercial skateboards circa 1977, "Dogtown wasn't interested in garbagey generic skateboards, it was about innovation." I feel the same about non-commercially published music. Innovative sounds are like artistic modernism, they break new ground. All these albums on the podcast today kind of do that, and nothing has come along since, they are all still viable projects with plenty of space for any younger takers to realize the project.
45 Revolutions Per Minute, and more to come!!
The one highlight today is a 30 minute tune by Bardo Pond, on a split 12" single with Subarachnoid Space, published by an indy label in Australia. There's alot of San Diego and Philly indy punk as well.
The playlist for today is: Jodie Foster's Army, Meat Puppets, Minor Threat, The Putters, Zen Guerilla, Contra Guerra, The King James Version, POD (the Philly one), Pavement, Contra Guerra, Edsel, Emma, Shudder to Think, Reflex From Pain, Rocket From the Crypt, Jawbox, The State, Mothra, Toxic Reasons, Bardo Pond, Swiz, Rocket From the Crypt, Slant 6, The Conrads, Chincilla, Pee, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Helicopter, Government Issue, Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, Strapping Fieldhands, Title Tracks, Mike Johnson, Ashtabula, and Volcano Suns.
A whopping 135 minutes!
Thanks for tuning in!
Cheers,
Doc Rockavoy
Very cool!
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