The Other Ben: 5/2

Posted: May 2, 2008 by bshanks in Playlists

SOTD: No Age | Sleeper Hold | Nouns | Sub Pop | CD 08

The Valley | Boom Theory | s/t | s/r | CD 08
The Scientists | Nitro | Swampland: Birth of the Scientists | Cherry Red | CD 08
Hallelujah The Hills | Cataloging Candys Demise | Prepare to Qualify | Reverse the Tape Decks | CD 08
Supersuckers | High Ya! | La Mano Cornuda | Sub Pop | CD 94 request
No Age | Sleeper Hold | Nouns | Sub Pop | CD 08

Foals | Two Steps Twice | Antidotes | Sub Pop | CD 08
Sarandon | Remember Mavis | Kill Twee Pop | Slumberland | CD 08
Beat Happening | Bewitched | Jamboree | K | LP 88
The Heys | Brighten Up My Day | Young Bored and Broke | 4 West | CD 08
Sweet | Fox on the Run | The Collection | Cstle | CD 03

The Homostupids | track A2 | The Edge EP | P Trash/Radio 81 | 7″ 08
Leatherface | New York State | Fill Your Boots | Roughneck | LP 90
Fleas and Lice | Lie to Myself | Recipes for Catastrophes | Rodent Popsicle | CD 01
The Queers | I Will Be With You | Bowery Collection | MVD | CD 08
Mr. T Experience | Alternative is Here to Stay | And The Women who Love Them | Lookout | CD 02
Be Your Own Pet | Heart Throb | Get Awkward | Ecstatic Peace | CD 08

The Penetrators | Teenage Lifestyle | Bad Woman | Slovenly | CD 08
Superchunk | Seed Toss | Live at WMBR | 2/4/91
Pomegranates | Appreciations | Everything Is Alive | Lujo | CD 08
Jesu | Star | Silver | Hydra Head | CD 06
Pelican | Lost in the Headlights | City of Echos | Hydra Head | CD 07

Fallen Leaves | Wednesdays With You | Its Too Late Now | Parliament | CD 08
The Pezband | Stop! Wait a Minute | Laughing in the Dark | Passport | LP 78
Chameleons | Perfume Garden | What Does ANything Mean? Basically | Statik | LP 85

Cheap Time | People Talk | s/t | In the Red | CD 08
Hüsker Dü | Dead Set On Destruction | Candy Apple Grey | LP 86
The Mooney Suzuki | Everything’s Gone Wrong | Bowery Collection | MVD | CD 08
Jerry’s Kids | Lost | Is This My World | XClaim | LP 83
The Replacements | Shape Up (Demo) | Radio Sampler | Rhino | CD 08 [request]
The Knockout Pills | That’s Why | s/t | Dead Beat | CD 03
The Tim Version | W.H.A | Decline of the Southern Gentleman | No Idea | CD 08

The Chumps | Not Guilty | The Problem With Saxaphones | Afterburn | CD 08

Joanie – 5/01/08

Posted: May 1, 2008 by Joanie in Playlists

SOTD: The Homostupids | track A2 | The Edge EP | P Trash/Radio 81 | 7″ 08

The Black Hollies | Running Through my Mind | Casting Shadows | Ernest Jennings | CD 08
Jook | King Kapp | Different Class | RPM | CD ’73/05
Kiss | King of the Night Time World | Destroyer | Casablanca | LP ’76
The Matches | Point me Toward the Morning | A Band in Hope | Epitaph | CD 08
The Homostupids | track A2 | The Edge EP | P Trash/Radio 81 | 7″ 08
Pegboy | Not What I Want | Strong Reaction | Touch & Go | LP ’91
The Queers | Monster Zero | Bowery Collection | MVD Audio | CD 08
Adrenalin OD | Something About Amy Carter | Cruising with Elvis in the Bigfoot’s
UFO | Buy Our Records | LP ’88
Fleas & Lice | Delirium Tremens | Recipes for Catastrophes | Rodent Popsicle | CD 01
Superchrist | Poison | Back and Black | Bestial Onslaught | CD 08
Be Your Own Pet | Zombie Graveyard Party | Get Awkward | Ecstatic Peace | CD 08 (Joanie SOTD)
The Service | Mine | Download, Dig It or Die comp | Pravda | CD 08
Joe Therrien Jr & The Sully Trio | I Ain’t Gonna be Around | The Raging Teens comp | Norton | CD ’92
Alkaline Trio | Into the Night | Help Me EP | Epic | CD 08
The AKA’s | Dead Flowers Forever | Everybody Make Some Noise | Metropolis | CD 08
Adam & the Ants | Stand and Deliver | Adam Ant Antics in the Forbidden Zone | Epic | CD ’81/90
The Come n’ Go | Wonders Never Left Our Minds | Something’s Got to Give | – | CD 08
The Fallen Leaves | Repetition | It’s Too Late Now | Parliament | CD 08
David Bowie | Fill Your Heart | Hunky Dory | RCA | LP ’71
Defiance, Ohio | Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop | The Fear The Fear The Fear | No Idea | CD 08
Mission of Burma | Weatherbox | Vs. | Matador | CD ’82/08
Antidote | Back in Year Zero | Back in Year Zero | Rodent Popsicle | CD 03
Terror | Keep Your Distance | Bowery Collection | MVD Audio | CD 08
Token Entry | Birthday | Jaybird | Hawker | LP ’88
The Tim Version | Where the Wildmen Are | Decline of the Southern Gentleman | No Idea | CD 08
Rick Springfield* | I’ve Done Everything for You | Working Class Dog | RCA | LP ’81
The Mooney Suzuki | In a Young Man’s Mind | Bowery Collection | MVD Audio | CD 08
The Hate Bombs | Like it that Way | Here Comes Treble | 360 Twist | LP ’97
Coma in Algiers | Sooner than Later | s/t | – | CD 08
Triple Thick | Livin the American Dream | Give Away | – | CD 08
The Trash 5 | Get Trashed | The Lucid Dreams of Dr. Seed | Ballagroove | CD 08
Pagans | One Night with You | The Blue Album | Smog Veil | CD ’88/08
The Explosion | The Ideal | Flash Flash Flash | Jade Tree | CD 00
The Chumps | I Don’t Wanna Be | The Problem with Saxophones | Afterburn | CD 08
The Fall | Couldn’t Get Ahead | s/t | PVC | 12″ ’86
Die Die Die |Maybe: Definitely | Promises Promises | SAF | CD 08
The Legend | Where oh Where is Mother | Fallout | CD ’69/08
The Black Box Revelation | Cold Cold Hands | Set Your Head on Fire | Beverly Martel | CD 08
Boston Chinks | Hey Boy | EP | Goner | 7″ 08
Destructathon | Consume with Incisor | Aloha Jihad | Thrashachusetts | CD 08

Joanie – 4/30/08

Posted: April 30, 2008 by Joanie in Playlists

Dirty Sister | Russian Hands, Roman Fingers | s/t | Cock Energy | LP 08
Big Chief | Blow Out Kit | Drive it Off | Get Hip | LP ’91
A Global Threat | Social Quarantine | Earache/Pass the Time EP | Rodent Popsicle | CD 02
The 4 Skins | One Law for Them | History Of | Taang | CD ’81/03, req
The Wretched Ones | Done with You | Make it Happen | Headache | CD 07
Intelligence | Guys | Boredom & Terror | Omnibus | CD 04
Bunnydrums | On the Surface | On the Surface EP | Funk Dungeon | 12″ ’84
The December Sound | Maker | s/t | – | CD 08
Dead or Alive | I’m Falling | single | Inevitable | 7″ ’80
Crime | Lookin for a Clue | Exalted Masters | Crime Music | LP 07
Destructathon | Consume with Incisor | Aloha Jihad | Thrashachusetts | CD 08
Cop Shoot Cop | Heads I Win, Tails You Lose | White Noise | Big Cat | CD ’91
Johnny + the Self Abusers | Dead Vandals | Chiswick Good Clean Fun comp | Ace | CD ’77/95
Cococoma | [Tryin to] Read my Mind | s/t | Goner | CD 08
The Heys | Friday Night | Youngbored&broke | 4 West | CD 08
The Wild Seeds | Come Outside and Play | Life is Grand | Seed | LP ’84
Smoke or Fire | Cops & Drugs | Above the City | Fat | CD 05, req
Housewife | Pick Up Your Pistols | Triangulation | Domestic Junkie | CD 08
Restarts | Koyaanisqatsi | Outsider | Rodent Popsicle | CD 08
Better than a 1000 | Motivation | Just One | Revelation | CD ’97
Sycduck | Cow Eater | Don’t Do It comp | Spin Out | CD ’97
Dead in Custody | Sick of Your Face | Infected with Rage | Insurgence | CD 08
Fifth Angel* | Cathedral | Time Will Tell | Epic | LP ’89
Henry Rollins | Followed Around | Hot Animal Machine | Texas Hotel | LP ’87, req
Hot Water Music | Take It as it Comes | Till the Wheels Fall Off | No Idea | CD 08
Murphy’s Law | Rage | Back with a Bong | Profile | LP ’89, req
Inner Terrestrials | PI | X | Rodent Popsicle | CD 08
Tenement | Morning Mouth | EP | – | CD 08
Foals | Hummer | Antidotes | Sub Pop | CD 08
The Ettes | Pay Up | Look at Life Again | – | CD 08
Cockney Rejects | Power and the Glory | We are the Firm | Castle | LP ’86
Buff Medways | Breakdown | XFM Sessions | Damaged Goods | CD 08
Man Afraid | Hope You Choke | Complete Discography | Half Mast | CD 00
The Cute Lepers | Nervous Habits | Can’t Stand Modern Music | Blackheart | CD 08
Be Your Own Pet | Zombie Graveyard Party | Get Awkward | Ecstatic Peace | CD 08
Louis XIV | Sometimes You Just Want To | Slick Dogs and Ponies | Atlantic | CD 08
Velvet Night | Freak Show | s/t | Fallout | CD ’70/08

Ben – 4/29/08

Posted: April 29, 2008 by ben in Playlists

I’m posting this a month late, and have no idea what my sotd was… But I doubt you’re reading this anyways.

Russian Circles | Youngblood | Station | Suicide Squeeze | CD 08
Wipers | When it’s Over | Box Set | Zeno | CD 02
Tangiers | The Coast Guard | The Family Myth | Frenchkiss | CD 04
Foals | Balloons | Antidotes | Sub Pop | CD 08
Pomegranates | Appreciations | Everything is Alive | Lujo | CD 08
Magneto | Isa | Sounds Like Space | Swingline | CD 06
Constantines | Credit River | Kensington Heights | Arts and Crafts | CD 08
No Age | Kappo | Nouns | Sub Pop | CD 08
Bum Kon | Fighting Yourself | Drunken Sex Sucks | Smooch | CD 08
Bad Brains | Sacred Love | I Against I | SST | LP 86
Cheap Time | Falling Down | s.t | In the Red | CD 08
Oxford Collapse | Co-op City | s.t | Hot Chubb | CD 02
Defiance, OH | The Years, The Fears, The Sleep | The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | No Idea | CD 08
Duchess Says | Melon | Antologie des 3 Perchoirs | Alien 8 | CD 08
Guns of Detroit | Caligula’s Sister | Monsterattakes | Ionik | CD 08
Helms | There is no “I” in Team… | Secret Doors | Plants and Brains | CD 06
Urge Overkill | Stull (Part 1) | Stull | Touch and Go | 10″ 92
Bad Dudes | Suez | Eat Drugs | Retard Disco | CD 08
The Black Keys | Remember When | Attack and Release | Nonesuch | CD 08
Housewife | Sex and Violence | Triangulation | x | CD 08
The Replacements | Shape Up | Radio Sampler | Rhino | CD 08
The Blakes | Vampire | s.t | Light in the Attic | CD 07
Television | Friction | Marquee Moon | Elektra | LP 77
Dead Meadow | What Needs Must Be | Old Growth | Matador | CD 08
The Bell Rays | That’s Not the Way it Should Be | Hard Sweet and Sticky | Anodyne | CD 08
Swell Maps | The Helicopter Spies | Jane From Occupied Europe | Secretly Canadian | CD 89/04
Squirrel Bait | Rose Island Road | Skag Heaven | Homestead | LP 86
The Queers | Love Love Love | The Bowery Collection | MVD Audio | CD 08
Planes Mistaken For Stars | Knuckle Hungry | We Ride to Fight!!! | No Idea | CD 08
We March | Take Over the Reigns | Creator/Destroyer | Non-Prophet | CD 08
The Valley | Death Star Gunner | s.t | x | CD 07

4/25: A Little Late!

Posted: April 25, 2008 by bshanks in Playlists

Sorry guys! I thought I had posted this last week. I guess I never hit the “publish” button. But, in the spirit of better late than never, I present it to you now anyway.

Hum | Iron Clad Lou | Electra2000 | Cargo | CD 93
Witches | Mutated | Paralyzed | Tee Pee | CD 08
Tim Version | Murder | Decline of the Southern Gentleman | No Idea | CD 08
Restarts | Intelligent Design | Outsider | Rodent Popsicle | CD 07
Sweet Zeros | Rehab | Lil Devil Records | 7″ 08

Foals | Balloons | Antidotes | Sub Pop | CD 08
Oxford Collapse | Please Visit Your National Parks | Remember the Night Parties | Sub Pop | CD 06
Ho-Ag | Into the River | The Word From Pluto | Hello Sir | CD 06
Big Bear | untitled 1 | s/t | Monitor | CD 05
Neptune | Grey Shallows | Gong Lake | Radium | CD 08

Big Dipper | You’re Not Patsy | Supercluster | Merge | CD 08
Chumps | Gorgo | The Problem With Saxaphones | Afterburn | CD 08

June of 44 | Pale Horse Sailor |
Replacements | Hey Good Lookin | Radio Sampler | Rhino | CD 08
Enon | Colette | Grass Geysers… Carbon Clouds | Touch and Go | CD 07
Be Your Own Pet | Heart Throb | Get Awkward | Ecstatic Peace | CD 08
Clinic | Shopping Bag | Do It | Domino | CD 08
Cheap Time | People Talk | s/t | In the Red | CD 08
Boris | Hama | Amplifier Worship | Southern Lord | CD 08
Bell Rays | One Big Party | Hard, Sweet, and Sticky | Anodyne | CD 08
Breeders | German Studies | Mountain Battles | 4AD | CD 08
Mountain Goats | Lovecraft in Brooklyn | Heretic Pride | CD 08
Raveonettes | Sad Transmission | Lust Lust Lust | Vice | CD 08

Nothing But Enemies | No Apologies | Mental Damage | Welfare | CD 08
Government Issue | On the Screen | s/t | Positive | LP 86
Slapshot | Chip on my Shoulder | Back on the Map | Taang! | LP 86
Scared of Chaka | Lie and a Cheat | Tired of You | Sub City | CD 99
Trash 5 | I Gotta | The Lucid Dreams of Dr. Seed | Ballagroove | CD 08
Parts and Labor | Repair | Stay Afraid | Secretly Canadian | CD 06
Pagans | She’s a Cadaver | Blue | Smog Veil | CD 08
Jonathan Richman | Old World | Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild | Vapor |CD 08