Tough Kids Love Sad Songs: Transmission 404, 2018 April 25

Now that I've got my Morrissey rant out of the way, I can settle back into my routine. "This was a solid program," and so on. But sometimes the mundane is the truth. This was a solid program. Segue-wise, I probably lost my way somewhere in the middle, but Superpitcher seemed to settle me. 15-minute songs [or whatever] will do that.

But, you know, I can't escape The Smiths no matter what I do. As I've written elsewhere, they are the reason any of this matters to me. But for a time in the late 80s I must have thought that I'd outgrown them, or they embarrassed me, or I was grieving them, or something. At any rate I "moved on" and where did I go but to Felt and the Cocteau Twins, both represented here on this broadcast.

Cocteau Twins broke my heart, and I have chronicled that, sort of, but it wasn't political. I will never be able to quit them unless I discover that one of them hates black people, or something. [I hope I'm not inviting any revelations here.]

I brought Felt into my life at a crucial time. I had of course heard "Primitive Painters" on the radio plenty of times, and I played it plenty of times, as "trendy Sacramentans" [which I ultimately became] were apparently prone to do. But I bought Poem of the River after a harsh telling-off from someone I thought was a friend, and in that moment of vulnerability it was just right. Lawrence struck me, even then, as a more interesting, less problematic Morrissey. Please god don't let him be a Brexiteer or have a thing for Hitler.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Der Konig 1-4" | Nackt | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
2. "Online Seance" | The Sprawl | EP 2 | The Death of Rave
3. "Crystal Ball" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
4. "Ode: Springtime and Summer" | Marsmobil | Fairytales of the Supersurvivor | Compost
5. "Four Faces" | Golden Teacher | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
6. "Taken" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
7. "Julia's Call" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
8. "The City Looks Beautiful from up Here" | Roche | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
9. "Liquid Lucite" | Johnny Jewel | Digital Rain | Italians Do It Better
10. "Dial up to the Palace" | Gary Safe | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
11. "Skinhead #2" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
12. "Listen in to the Heart" | Calendar Crowd | Perfect Hideaway | Dark Entries
13. "The City Hangover" | The Cyclist | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
14. "Electric Town" | Benoit B | Japonaiserie | Berceuse Heroique
15. "Happenings" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
16. "First Day" | Peder Mannerfelt | The 3D Printed Songbook | Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
17. "Micaela" | Leonardo Martelli | Menti Signole, Vol. 2 | Antinote
18. "Worldwide Sunshine (In Yr Heart Not the Sky Dub)" | Coyote Clean Up | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
19. "Duvalierism (u)" | German Army | More Bitter Fruit | Discrepant
20. "Kills v. Lies" | Efrim Manuel Menuck | Pissing Stars | Constellation
21. "Earth Wart" | Sam de la Rosa | Earth Wart | Mannequin
22. "Together" | Jupiter Jax | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
23. "Candy In Bed" | Fuzzy Feeling | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Punky Reggae Party" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 12 | Hippie Dance
25. "My Love Paramour" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
26. "Wild Mountain Thyme" | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | Adios Señor Pussycat | Violette
27. "The War Against Intelligence (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
28. "Theta v3 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

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