Young Soul Rebel

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

...at least that's how it works out in my experiences. Yes, Communists and Socialists get laid more; I'm still not 100% on how that works out, but it's totally true.

So I've got a new WordPress theme for the site and I've decided that the cast is going to be more 'My Week in Music" — at least until I get bored with that concept. And hey, better start that now then two weeks ago, when it would have been a lot of Leonard Cohen and Rufus Wainwright. Unfortunately, only part of the cast really fits my last week in any specific way, and that is in two ways:

1) after an entire adolesence and young adulthood spent hating Morrissey, I'm starting to like Morrissey. Thankfully, I don't see myself turning into one of those insane pod-persons who seem dead certain that Morrissey Can Do No Wrong, musically or otherwise, but the man's not a terrible songwriter. Of course, as a singer myself, i have to admit that I like Morrissey better as a songwriter than as a singer.

2) I have new Docs. Made in England, Oxblood red, and sized UK6 (U$ Men's 7) -- technically I'm a UK5 wide, but try finding those. Anywhere. Little Boy's section or otherwise.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2009-11-23.mp3[/podcast]
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2009-11-23
Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son
Velvet Underground - European Son
David Bowie - London Bye Ta-Ta
Dexys Midnight Runners - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
Television - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
Franz Ferdinand - Evil and a Heathen
Powder - Magical Jack
Neil's Children - Getting Evil In the Playground
Morrissey - Suedehead
Segue
Madness - Nightboat To Cairo
The Coventry Automatics - Concrete Jungle
Symarip - These Boots Are Made For Walking (Stompin')
Alexei Sayle & Radical Posture - Doctor Marten's Boots

Originally published at Searching for the Young Soul Rebel. You can comment here or there.

And for those of you just tuning in — Vermin is the fluffy cat outside the box; Chunk is the smooth-haired cat inside the box.

And yes, the box is from New Egg, because this house is a house of nerds unsatisfied with off-the-shelf computers. :-)

Originally published at Searching for the Young Soul Rebel. You can comment here or there.

And for those of you just tuning in — Vermin is the fluffy cat outside the box; Chunk is the smooth-haired cat inside the box.

And yes, the box is from New Egg, because this house is a house of nerds unsatisfied with off-the-shelf computers. :-)

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

And now a treat! Two days in a row! This isn't going to happen very often, in the future, but at the time being, it's going to be something I'm doing for the next few weeks, while I upload my archive casts and set-lists from this summer at Direct Hits.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2006-07-17.mp3[/podcast]
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2006.07.17
The Tape-beatles - Grave Implications
Pizzicato Five - 20th Century Girl
Rip Rig & Panic - Storm In the Reality Aslyum
Gavin Friday & Cillian Murphy - Sand
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
Twiggy - Beautiful Dreams
Don Fardon - I'm Alive
The Flaming Hands - I Belong to Nobody
The MC5 - I Can Only Give You Everything
The Spiders - Why Don't You Love Me?
The Chesterfield Kings - 99th Floor
The Cigarettes - Valium World
Jonathan King - Let It All Hang Out
The Revillos - Where's the Boy for Me?

Please note that the track by "The Spiders" is by the Amerikan group, not the Japanese one. The Spiders was also the first band of the artist who would later become known as Alice Cooper; The Spiders was a rhythm & blues band that I'd compare to The Rolling Stones or The Pretty Things.

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

OK, I know I promised something both yesterday and today, but in all seriousness, yesterday and today was filled up with me doing shit for my band — my actual band, the one I sing for. In fact, until my guitarist got here earlier today for practise, I thought it was still Wednesday.

Now, it turns out that I never actually cast this old archive, I just had the set-list jotted down and I came across it by accident. Yes, I suppose that in theory I could just go get my Direct Hits setlists from this summer and just arrange the music on here, but that would involve transcribing hand-written sets, and this shit is just C&P. I will resume my "twice-weekly until it's all my archives and old sets are posted" schedule next week, when I pick up after the lag from my guitarist getting into the swing of things at uni.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2006-07-24.mp3[/podcast]

The Olympians - Hopeless Endless Ways
The New Hearts - Another Teenage Anthem
The Purple Hearts (60's, Australian) - Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones
The Damned - Morning Bird
Nino Ferrer - Mirza
The Loons - Stumble & Fall
The Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys
Nine Below Zero - Eleven Plus Eleven
Makin' Time - Pump It Up
Franz Ferdinand - Get Up and Use Me
Rip Rig & Panic - Eros, What Brings Colour Up the Stem
Les Cappuccino - Green Onions
John's Children - Just What You Want, Just What You'll Get
Jacques Brel - Jacky

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

OK, I know it's not a new cast, but if you had any idea how long I've been fighting with this website, and how many weeks I had to take off for surgery, you'd be lazy, as well. This has been off-line since late 2007, so unless you're one of the two people who told me they downloaded it, you've probably never heard this before. There's a good even mix of '60s, "Revival" and "that's not Mod!!!".

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Tracklist for 2006-07-10
Auger & Driscoll - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Los Vidrios Quebrados - "Oscar Wilde"
Chris Farlowe - "Paint It Black"
The Bureau - "Looking For Excitement"
Gloria Jones - "Heartbeat"
The Fall - "There's A Ghost In My House"
R. Dean Taylor - "Gotta See Jane"
Squeeze - "Cool For Cats"
David Bowie - "I'm Not Losing Sleep"
Georgie Fame - "Sunny"
Dexys Midnight Runners - "I Love You (Listen To This)"
Spencer Davis Group - "I'm Blue (Gong Gong Song)"
Mari Wilson - "Ecstasy"

PS: There may be an issue with the first song, so if there is, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it. I basically had to make the cast again, cos the volume wasn't fixed and I decided to start doing these as low-fi mp3's, to conserve space.

ETA:
OK, there was definitely an issue with the first track, but I'm backed up on button orders that I really should have done yesterday, so I can't do anything about it right now. Just skip ahead by about 3:33, and I'll get to this tomorrow, after I make some deliveries to my stores.

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

I really don't want to upload this as it is, but I cheated both listeners out on a Wednesday cast last week, and I don't want to pull that shit again this week.

Now, not all of my stuff on LP is backed-up / duplicated on mp3 -- in fact, most of it is not. Hell, most of my CD's aren't simply because I don't have the space. Four songs from my June 10th, 2008 set at Direct Hits are songs I currently have on vinyl only -- in fact, three of them, I thought I had on mp3, but it turned out that I didn't, and the only reason I didn't just download them is because I had a huge crisis last night that was more important than hunting down four songs on slsk.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2008-06-10.mp3[/podcast]

(v) ≠ "vagina"; (v) = song I currently only have on vinyl
(r) = request

The Spiders - Why Don't you Love Me?*
The Bureau - Only For Sheep
(v) Tina Turner - The Acid Queen
(v) The Rolling Stones - Route 66
Makin' Time - Two Coins For the Ferryman
(r) Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
Jacques Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi
Twiggy - When I Think of You
Nino Ferrer - Alexandre
Les Cappuccino - les Filles Madison
Sharon Tandy - Daughter of the Sun
Dexys Midnight Runners - Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache
Eleanor Rigby - I Want to Sleep With You
(v) The Kinks - Well-Respected Man
Mod Fun - 99th Floor
(v)David Bowie - Ching-A-Ling
Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll - Wheel's On Fire
Arthur Brown - Fire

*U$ group, not the Japanese group

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

Yes, a new cast!  No, I still have more Direct Hits sets to load, but crap, I've waited three weeks.  I suppose that I owe both listeners an explanation:

I have medical issues. I have been taking care of these. I also have a band; actually, I have several music projects, but this is my "real band" I'm talking about. As a band member, I have band practise. I also have many other projects that I juggle around, including a novel that needs to be wrapped up and I've found myself taking on a regular blog project and I am just bad at budgeting my time. Really bad. Heinously bad. Still, with practise, I will get better.

So, here's a new 45-minute set, and on Wednesday, I will load more from my Direct Hits archives. I promise. It will be awesome.

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2008-10-25.mp3[/podcast]

The Tape-beatles - Individual Choice
Tiny Tim - The Coming Home Party
Blue Rondo a'la Turk - Change
Gloria Jones - Finders Keepers
The Monochrome Set - Expresso
Nouvelle Vague - Dance With Me
R. Dean Taylor - Back Street
The Fall - Gotta See Jane
France Gall - Jazz A-Go-Go
QYPTHONE - Go-Go Girl
Les Fleur de Lys - One City Girl
The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together
The Small Faces - What'cha Gonna Do About It
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
Mae West - Light My Fire

Originally published at DJ RJ's ModCast. You can comment here or there.

Well, monkeys (all three of you listening to this), I've got a new computer finally settled in, and so the Modcast is back, and to commerate this fact — and the fact that I'm now updating this on Mondays — I've made today's cast a theme!  Whoo!

Yes, I've thrown mood and beatmatching out the window (and I say this as if I ever gave a shit before), to play some of my favourite spooky Mod (and Mod Friendly) songs and Goth covers of Mod (and Mod-friendly) songs, and a few punk covers thrown in, (cos I don't even give a shit about the theme here) and whatever the hell Shakespeare's Sister and Strawberry Switchblade are (cos I bloody well felt like it), cos damnit, I have all this music, and you're just as bored as I am, so you're going to give it a listen now, aren't you?  Aren't you?

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2009-08-17.mp3[/podcast]

Shakespeare's Sister - "Black Sky"
Velvet Underground - "Beginning to See the Light"
Nico - "Roses In the Snow"
The Fall - "Mod Mock Goth"
Slade - "Raven"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Ecstasy (Apple of My Eye)"
The Zombies - "Time Of the Season"
Christine Pilzer - "Dracula"
The Vampires - "My Girl"
Sisters of Mercy - "1969"
Gina X Performance - "Harley Davidson"
Siouxie & the Banshees - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Bauhaus - "Telegram Sam"
Patti Smith - "My Generation"
Jayne County - "Come On Down to My Boat Baby"
Nashville Pussy - "First I Look At the Purse"
Lydia Lunch & Rowland S Howard - "Some Velvet Morning"
The Who - "Boris the Spider"

And before the off-chance that anybody comments, YES, I realise that I don't have "Paint It Black" on there, because I only have it on vinyl, I am not wheeling my record player into my studio, slsk is not cooperating, and I'm impatient — so there you go.

Originally published at Pump It Up! a Revival ModCast. You can comment here or there.

OK, yes, I know I was going to post this yesterday, but eh, shit comes up. Actually, yesterday, I spent most of the day stressing out and goofing off to try and relieve some stress, and I didn't even give the cats their wet food, cos that was just one more stressor in my life, and as much as i love doing this, so is this podcast.

Why so stressed? Because I'm having a book signing for my second novel (the first in what I'm calling "The Mod Stories"), and I'm just anticipating nothing going right. Why? It so rarely does. I mean, already, I can tell I'm in for a real doozy, cos only today, did Lindsay tell me that my name has been added to the poster 9and this event has been secured since January, and was supposed to happen in July, but hey, last minute scheduling conflicts are like the Father Dougal to my Father Ted).

That said, if you're stuck in or (gods forbid) plan to be in the Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti, Michigan (U$A), area this Thursday, 27 August 2009, then come down to (or rather up to) The Heidelberg Club Above for Direct Hits, the area's only Mod / Trad Skin / Retro night — in fact, it's the only one I know of until you get to either Chicago or New York City. This month, the Big Event is "Bomb Pop Boutique" and will feature a gallery of local artists, a mini fashion show from The GetUp Vintage Clothing on State Street in Ann Arbor, and yours truly, hawking his second novel and selling his top-quality crap. All copies of the novel will come with a CD-R of next week's Modcast (most of which I consider to be "themes" for various
characters), a set of buttons for the novel, and a hand-written coupon for $4 off my first novel (e-mail me for details).

[podcast]http://modcast.sexyhobbitsuperstar.com/wp-content/uploads/modcast/2009-08-25.mp3[/podcast]

2009-08-25
The Tabe-beatles - All's Right With the World
Nouvelle Vague - Come On Eileen
Brian Auger Trinity - In & Out
Mari Wilson - Beat the Beat
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
The Singles - The Most Beautiful Girl
B-52s - Strobe Light
Art Brut - Direct Hit
The Chesterfield Kings - Outside Chance
Revillos - Voodoo
The Love Me Nots - Dark City
Van Morrison - Ro Ro Rosey
The Jam - English Rose
Style Council - Long Hot Summer (Club Mix)