Razorcake Podcast #35: With Todd and Daryl
Okay, I’ll talk a little shit. About 98% of radio sucks. And I’m not talking, specifically, of genres – most of which I don’t abide by – but of a specific channel’s repetition of playing the same three hundred or so songs over and over and over. I’m no dummy. They do this so you go and buy a specific record. They do this so listeners get into a “comfort zone of familiarity”; playing songs that are equivalent to an aural well-worn couch. Well, that, and advertising dollars and listener demographics. (Okay, so we’re dummies when it comes to catering to a “target audience.”)
Hey, I’m as loyal as the next person. I’m also totally prejudiced to certain bands and types of punk rock, but there is just such a deep catalog of available songs that it’d be dumb and lazy to play the same songs again and again. It’s in this spirit that we present our thirty-fifth podcast. Daryl and I tag team through plenty of just-released songs and pepper in some stuff that gets played at HQ, years after its initial release.
Daryl and I went round two with our joint podcasts. We swap off our "rock blocks."
Thanks for listening.
-Todd
Tracklist:
The Bananas “Brand New Animals” (Recess)
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Something’s Wrong “Mama Said” (Other)
Harum Scarum “The Marry-Age Meets the Kiss of Death” (Hex)
The Estranged “Vilified” (Dead Ideas)
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Candian Rifle "The Body Is a Temple" (Fashionable Idiots)
Black Bear "We Fight with Our Flesh" (Rumbletowne)
Vile Nation "Nothing to Lose" (Cowabunga)
Closet Fairies "Tight Lip" (AOTU)
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The Heathers “Miss Matched Parts” (Tumble and Trip)
Young Fit Males “Graduation Day” (Self-released)
Sugar “A Good Idea” (Ryko)
The Libyans “Welcome to the Neighborhood” (Shock To The System)
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Henry Fiat’s Open Sore "Me Tarzan, You Korak" (Alien Snatch)
Dillinger Four "An American Banned" (Mutant Pop)
Ringers "First Time Long Time" (Snuffy Smiles)
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River City Tanlines "Whenever I Rot" (Dirt Nap)