The Angels Only Look the Other Way: Transmission 259, 2016 January 20

A foul mood has come over me, so please indulge me while I speak of happy golden days of yore. "Friend of Bombast" Jeremy once insisted that I play "Hungarian Love Song" on a radio show at my old station, and steered my parents toward Bloody Nonsense (in my mind still the best Jazz Butcher compilation) when they were feeling a bit squeamish about buying the album that was at the top of my Christmas wishlist that year [link NSFWish; bizarrely I still don't own that one.] So the Jazz Butcher and I go way back.

On two different occasions, I saw the Jazz Butcher perform. One gig was during the Creation years, and another was much later, albeit with the inimitable Max Eider, now back in the fold. We didn't get David J on that night, as promised, but you can't have everything. Now: I didn't track down a copy of Hamburg until a few years after this latter gig, so that concert, while post-"fame" in a way, was the closest I got to experiencing the "glory years" of the band. I personally don't think that the Jazz Butcher without Max Eider is much of a thing at all, although I will say that the 1990 gig did include, pace the gigography, an encore in which the Jazz Butcher was joined by opening act The Blue Aeroplanes (I think there were, like, eighty of them) for a ripping version of "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" (and, IIRC, "Sweet Jane"). That was a good time.

[MEMORY UPDATE] I just recalled what I think is a funny thing. Another "Friend of Bombast," Jen, once rebuffed a cassette of Jazz Butcher songs that I had made for her. "He is too English," she explained. [This, from a Smiths fan!] It got me thinking that there are, I guess, many ways to be English [including the categories "insufficiently English" and "just English enough"], but what I suspect comes off as "too English" is the Oxfordian thing, which, let's face it, only Ride have worn well. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I think this program needs a new feature, because you can never have enough. "Reflections on Rejected Mixtapes" seems like a strong candidate, no shortage of material there.

Anyway, I have a few more "Physical Evidence"-worthy Jazz Butcher records; hopefully the show survives long enough for me to get to them.

On that note, the new WRFI schedule is upon us, and we are staying right where we are, on Hump Night, so prospects are good.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Total War (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
2. "Take Your Ghosts" | The Japanese Girl | Sonic-Shaped Life | Munster
3. "Mandrake Handshake" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Mini Album Thingy Wingy | A Recordings
4. "Cumbia de Giza" | Musette | A Cosmic Serenade | Hapna
5. "Bour Sine" | Le Sourouba de Louga | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
6. "Tied" | Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling | Tongue Tied | Hapna
7. "Rano Pano" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
8. "Victims" | Tropic of Cancer | Archive: The Downwards Singles | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Mon Explication" | Daniel Jacques | Discovery Change (Part 3) | Jadac
10. "Invocation" | Cabaret Voltaire | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Gloss, Pt. 1" | Theo Burt | Gloss | Presto
12. "Completely sun (feat. Jarvis Cocker)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
13. "Resolution (pt. 2 version 2)" | Singers & Players | Revenge of the Underdog | On-U Sound
14. "Warning!" | Peter Scion | Through My Ghost | Huntleys + Palmers
15. "Bath of Bacon" / "Soul Happy Hour" / "Death Dentist" / "Walk with the Devil" / "Rain" / "Roadrunner" | The Jazz Butcher and his Sikkorskis from Hell | Hamburg | Rebel | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Boys in Blue" | Janitor Joe | The Color of Noise | Robellion
17. "Squeeze Up (Part 2)" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
18. "Dance Slow" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
19. "Mudlarks" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
20. "Come On Down and Get Saved" | Today Is the Day | The Color of Noise | Robellion
21. "Magical Journey" | Reckonwrong | Whities 005 | Whities
22. "Sophisticated Girl V.I.P" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
23. "Street Credibility" | Family Fodder | Sunday Girls (Director's Cut) | Staubgold

feel like crawling off somewhere to die

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