Let Me Show You How Sweet It Could Be: Transmission 438, 2018 December 19

This episode finds me "by my own" for once, and I'm in a weird state. I looked forward to this "Bombastic Complication" as it had been fun the last time I tried it, which was (gulp) five years ago. I was flying solo then, too. But the thing about worsening depression is that you literally become numb, I guess, unable to experience joy. More on this in an upcoming diary entry. At any rate, I am audibly missing Lady Catharsis, moaning out loud about her absence. Elsewhere I am haunted by the ghosts of bad segues, and I lament mistakes that never happened. Apparently I need a caretaker.

Not to say that the episode was free from the usual errors--I biff the segue leading into "Float On," as apparently Alvin Lives (In Leeds) carries some kind of curse that acts upon me. I seem flabbergasted that 1998 was two decades ago, which could be an awakening, or just symptomatic of something. I credit Lux Interior for curating Beat from Badsville, but not Ivy Rorschach, which is a bad look. I could probably have chosen more "adventurous" tracks at the expense of some of the "sure things." Speaking about Bo Diddley in the present tense was intentional, though, because he does live forever.

Onward and upward!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 19, 2100-2300:

1. "5-8-6" | New Order | The Peel Sessions - The Sampler | Strange Fruit
2. "Monkey Jazz" | Ian O'Brien | The Rebirth of Cool Seven | Island
3. "Straight A's In Love" | Peter Shelley | Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute to Johnny Cash | Red Rhino
4. "Float On" | The Close Lobsters | Alvin Lives (in Leeds) | Midnight Music
5. "Service With a Smile" | The Kuf-Linx | Beat From Badsville Vol. 2 | Stag-O-Lee
6. "Bo Diddley Is A Lover" | The Liverbirds | Girls With Guitars | Ace
7. "Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa" | Nana Kinomi and Leo Beats | Nippon Girls (Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-69) | Big Beat
8. "Road Close (Dance Dub)" | Tony Allen | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
9. "Polyacid Blue" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
10. "Praying for a Cheaper Christmas" | Swinging Buildings | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Brand New Life" | Young Marble Giants | Winters Of Discontent - The Peel Sessions 77-83 | Strange Fruit
12. "Swamp Gas" | The Space Walkers | UFO on Farm Road 318 | Trailer-Park
13. "Your Jolly Giant" | Nubile G & The Spurious Wizz | Death of Vinyl | DOVe
14. "Agadez Fatimata" | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
15. "Bina" | Os Jovens Do Prenda | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
16. "You Thought I Was Dead" | Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate | Pay It All Back Vol. 3 | On-U Sound
17. "Love & Fire" | Ruts DC / Mad Professor | dub or die vol:2 | ROIR Europe - Danceteria
18. "Leaves in the Wind" | The Project | The Zulu Compilation | Zulu
19. "Raindance" | The Past Seven Days | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
20. "Baby Honey" | The Pastels | Different for Domeheads | Creation
21. "Crawdad" | The Colonials | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Volume 1 | Crypt
22. "Slaughter" | Mark Brodie and the Beaver Patrol | Hang 10: Volume One | Shredder
23. "Time's Up" | Buzzcocks | Short Circuit Live at the Electric Circus | Virgin

Justify the tears I've cried

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