Pump It Up! a Revival ModCast

 

 Modcast for 2008-10-25 [45:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (16)

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.

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

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.

 

 Modcast for 2008-06-10 [42:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (15)

(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

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.

 

 Modcast for 2006-07-24 [38:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (18)

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

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.

 

 Modcast for 2006-07-17 [39:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (13)

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.

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!!!”.

 

 Pump It Up! Modcast for 2007 July 10 [41:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (13)

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.

To both people who remember last year’s podcast experiment on my regular blog, well, long story short, I’ve revised it and here’s the newest incarnation!

Unless otherwise stated in advance, this will be update every Monday at about Noon EST(GMT-0500). Today is an exception, I’ll update that in a jiffy. Another upcoming exception will be Monday, June 9th, as I will be in Chicago — that week’s update will be on Wednesday, June 11th, some time before 2pm.

Unless otherwise noted, all podcasts are original set-lists, though if I DJ’d during the past week, I’m probably going to be lazy and just upload that one.