Celebrating the addition of The Night Shift to BlasphuphmusRadio.com, I decided to join Miss Rikki & Tunacan Jones via astral projecting for a succinct hour of OG coldwave and shenanigans. I was really excited that Miss Rikki let me play a much larger role in this episode than the last time I was on this show, and as we DJed our favorite new and old goth treats, we also got to have an incredible time just shooting the shit with regards to our mutual spooky tastes.
If you are new to The Night Shift, and are wondering what this show is all about, then this is a really good episode to start with. If you enjoy this program, then you should check out The Night Shift tumblr, where you can find all the previous episodes. You can also start podcasting this program, too, adding regular new episodes to your aggregator of choice.
This show was a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy it too.
Episode 022
01.) The Prisoner * No Tears
02.) Shivers * Zola Jesus
03.) Lust For Death * Foetus
04.) No Escape * Cabaret Voltaire * Mix Up
05.) Monoton * She Past Away
06.) God’s Hotel * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
07.) Bite Me – Blood Moon * Velton Ray Bunch
08.) Magic * Alien Sex Fiend * Open Head Surgery
09.) Give Me A Sign * File Not Found
10.) No More Ghosts * Neuroticfish
11.) Tick Tock Blues * Manual Sex Drive
Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II
# Track * Artist * Album * Label
01.) * * Sounds To Make You Shiver
02.) The Durrow Book * Dead Voices on Air * Piss Frond * Invisible Records
03.) Hurricane Fighter Plane * Alien Sex Fiend * The Impossible Mission * Passport Records
04.) You Know What You Are [Excerpt] * Ministry * The Land of Rape and Honey * Sire Records
05.) Stigmata * Ministry * The Land of Rape and Honey * Sire Records
06.) Tragedy For You [Neurodancer] * Front 242 * Tragedy For You 12″ * CBS Records
07.) Dissonance * Legendary Pink Dots * Nemesis Online * Soleilmoon Records
08.) Performance * Tones on Tail * Pop * Beggars Banquet Records
09.) Teenage Lightning 2 * Coil * Love’s Secret Domain * Wax Trax Records
10.) Monitor * Siouxsie And The Banshees * Juju * Polydor (UK) Ltd.
11.) Money Is Flesh * Swans * Greed / Holy Money
12.) * * Haunted House
13.) Holy War * Lords of the New Church * Lords of The New Church * IRS Records
14.) Chosen * Moth Hunter * Dust
15.) Suzy Q * Sheep On Drugs * Greatest Hits * Smash Records
16.) Eyes of Nature * Swans * Various Failures
17.) Church * Skinny Puppy * Bites
18.) Convulsion * Skinny Puppy * Too Dark Park * Universal Records
19.) Spasmolytic * Skinny Puppy * Too Dark Park * Universal Records
20.) I Hate You [Excerpt] * Christian Death * “I Hate You” b/w “All The Love” 12″ * Prophets Records
21.) Love’s Secret Domain * Coil * Love’s Secret Domain * Wax Trax Records
22.) Slavestate * Godflesh * Slavestate
23.) Trick Or Treat * Download * Charlie’s Family * Metropolis Records
24.) Blind * Swans * Various Failures
Nearly everyone of a certain age range has a little bit of Goth lurking in their past. And by Goth, I’m not talking about the modern conception thereof: ridiculous make-up, yards and yards of black clothing, smoking cloves and doing all of the spooky dances you can think of when you find a DJ that will play a healthy dose of Skinny Puppy. To me, Goth music has been best when it isn’t so much about fashion, but about a certain sound. It took me a long time to come to terms with this, and this was compounded by people I knew in the past who were more about the fashion and less about the music. During this hour, I try to feature bands that I think got it right.
Were you to ask me about Goth music even a few years ago, I would have rolled my eyes, laughed, and told you a story about certain ex-roommates I’ve had to deal with. But something happened when I finally listened to Joy Division, and soon enough all sorts of spooky music was beginning to bubble to the surface of my records. I would be hard pressed to identify myself as a Goth, by any stretch of the definition, mostly because I tend to laugh at everything, wear way too much brown, and quote “Weird Al” a little more often than the av-er-age bear. But I have to admit, there are overcast days and lonely evenings where there is nothing better in the world than wine and Cocteau Twins, and on those days, you will find me in full-batcave mode. When I put my mind to it, I can take brooding to hitherto unparalleled depths.
I’m sure there will be many of you who will challenge some of the selections I’ve picked for this show, and to that I have no real response other than: I don’t see you making an effort. While all the artists I picked for this show many not be cob-web-clearing dance moves, roots-re-dying, excessive eyeliner wearing Goth bands, I picked songs that I felt sustained the mood I was going for. I promise: if you didn’t know The Flaming Lips were the band, would it really bother you that much? Listen to the show first, then tell me where I went wrong.
This show featured a special guest, Anonymous 2, a new KPSU volunteer that I was training during the broadcast. Hopefully they will soon become publicly known, so I can refer to them by their real name, but in the meantime all I can say is that they will be on the air soon enough, and I have a feeling they will bring you exactly the kind of show you will need to hear, provided you are a radio listeners, and are tired of listening to crap when you tune the dial away from KPSU. Stay tuned for more information concerning that.
This show was also the second 2010 Pledge Drive show for Blasphuphmus Radio, and with that in mind, I did a lot of promotion during this show. KPSU is funded by PSU, but we also depend heavily on listener donations to make sure that we can operate. (Without them, we wouldn’t be on the air.) Even though the show is over, it is not too late to donate money. Just got to kpsu.org, and you can donate money electronically. And, my previous offer still stands: anyone who makes a cash donation to KPSU (because they heard it on my show) will receive a compilation CD called Good Morning Portland, featuring live music by artists that performed In-Studio at KPSU. You cannot hear these recordings anywhere else, and in some cases, only on my show. It’s one of the cool things that we offer to listeners of our show because we care, and hopefully you do, too.
That does it for us this week. See ya in seven.
Rock Out With Your Goth Out
# Track * Artist * Album * Label
01.) Man On Ladder * Nickname: Rebel * Offset Needles Radius VS. Nickname: Rebel * Wow Cool Records
02.) She’s Lost Control * Joy Division * Unknown Pleasures * Rhino/Wea Records
03.) Spellbound * Siouxie and the Banshees * Juju * DGC Records
04.) Some Kinds Of Geishas * Nitebrite * 23 March, 2007 In-Studio Performance * Blasphuphmus Radio
05.) See the Leaves * The Flaming Lips * Embryonic * Warner Bros. Records
06.) Print Through * Nickname: Rebel * Offset Needles Radius VS. Nickname: Rebel * Wow Cool Records
07.) It’s Not You * The Cure * Three Imaginary Boys
08.) Graveyard * Public Image Ltd. * Second Edition * Warner Bros. Records
09.) Romantic Space Dream * The Human Genome Project * 17 September, 2004 In-Studio Performance * Blasphuphmus Radio
10.) Steel Worker * Big Black * Lungs * Touch and Go Records
11.) Quarter Inch Jack * Nickname: Rebel * Offset Needles Radius VS. Nickname: Rebel * Wow Cool Records
12.) Blood Bitch * Cocteau Twins * Garlands * 4AD Records
13.) Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) * The Birthday Party * Junkyard * 4AD Records
14.) Reincarnation Blues * Grails * Doomsdayer’s Holiday * Temporary Residence Records
Mid-Valley Mutations 