https://archive.org/details/DocRockavoyEpisode45
Welcome to Episode 45 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I got some new albums recently, used and new, and thought I'd do a new show. We emerged from a brutally cold winter, and it must be over since it's been 70 degrees or so all week. Good time to share some tunes.
I've been re-reading a bunch of punk rock histories of the U.S. and England lately, and it has been interesting thinking about how shitty the period 1975 to 1992 was in the West, with the rise of the New Right and the last gasp of the consensus over the liberal welfare state. It's no wonder punk rock and its offshoots started at that time; kids who graduated high school or college worked shit jobs and had no future, so why not nihilistically tell the older generations to "f*ck off?" The way things are today, I see this coming around again. The youth are our future.
Today I thought I'd put on some new records, like the new Viet Cong disc, which is really exciting, much as The Fall was exciting. I put on this Stiv Bators solo record I found, and he was in the Dead Boys if you don't know. I found my Unrest record, and I forgot how heavy they were. I also put on a few local items, from Sputnik Kaputnik and Twinsmith, two great Nebraska bands of dozens of great bands here. There's also some weird stuff like 9353, Zomes; and Reptile House.
The show is about 98 minutes.
The playlist is: Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Viet Cong; Swervedriver; Lush, 9353; The Pupils; Drive Like Jehu; Come; Thee Hypnotics; Cheetahs; Slant 6; The Dirtbombs; Stiv Bators; Savages; Sputnik Kaputnik; Debris'; Bardo Pond; Zomes; Lungfish; Government Issue; Lungfish; Kraut; Embrace; Kraut; Reptile House; Rites of Spring; Twinsmith; Unrest; Lush; and Articles of Faith.
Thanks for tuning in!
Doc Rockavoy
