RADIO HELSINKI #11

Radio Helsinki Listener! I hope you’re ready for a great evening of listening. I thought we would do something somewhat conceptual at the top of the show. I’m making reference to the first seven songs. All of the tracks were released by one label: SST Records. SST is perhaps best known for releasing albums by Black Flag. The label was owned by two of the band’s members, Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski. For the first half of the 1980’s, SST had one of the best rosters in American Independent music. Beside the bands we’re playing at the top of the show, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and Soundgarden all released records on SST. The label lost some of those bands and their catalogs over the years. You might have to consult a lot of lawyers as to the exact reasons why. It’s safe to say that things didn’t always end on the best of terms with bands and SST. One of the greatest records SST released was by the band who starts our show, the Stains. I got to see them play a few times and they were never anything less than amazing and scary. The line up that’s on the album were cool guys but some of the members could get a little crazy and some of their friends were extremely intense. I think it was the first time I saw them, in 1981, during the show, the singer pulls out a large can of beer out of his trench coat pocket, holds it up and asks the audience, “Anyone want a beer?” Of course, a sea of arms starts waving. The singer, throws the can downward and hard. There is no way it’s not going to hit someone. I cannot say for sure exactly who was hit or where but the can seemed to bounce off someone and disappear. I had never seen anything like that happen from the stage. A few males at the front started moving towards the stage to get at the singer. That’s when one of the Stains crew casually walks from the side of the stage, towards the front and displays part of the large kitchen knife he has in his waistband. The men in the audience backed away. In 1984, Black Flag took the Meat Puppets out on tour as the opener. Not only did they have a ton of their own songs, they had what seemed to be an inexhaustible supply of cover songs. No matter how many times you watched them play, they were often able to pull out a song that completely took you by surprise. One night they did a bunch of Black Flag songs. The next night, some Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. My favorite moment of Meat Puppets covering a song was when I saw them play in San Diego, California in 1985 I think it was. They played Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix, from the Axis: Bold As Love album. I don’t know how often they played it but I can only remember seeing them play it that one time. Incredible. Not to brag but what the hell, I was lucky to see Hüsker Dü a number of times. Talk about a band you wouldn’t want to go on after (which I had to do more than once) they were one of the best live bands I have ever seen. Almost all the songs in our first block are available but for some reason, the Stains album remains out of print. I don’t know what’s up with that but whatever the problem is, someone should fix it. It’s one of the most hectic records ever made. It’s a classic waiting to be! I take very good care of my test pressing. Okay, now I’m bragging.

I’m in my office, listening to all the songs that we’re playing on this show. The band Tilt, is a side project of Trouble Funk, the mighty Go-Go Funk band from Washington DC. One of the greatest bands to ever come out of the DC area. I have been listening to them since around 1981 when I first heard them on the radio. I would recommend any of the early Trouble 12”‘s and their must-hear Straight Up Go Go Live 2LP set. It’s as good as music gets. I would like to know how many times I’ve played that one.

I have no idea how much you drill down into the music or these notes but you might have noticed that we are playing a lot of singles on this show. The 7” is my favorite mode of music delivery. Many of them become obscure almost as quickly as they’re released and often the band becomes lost in the mists of time. It’s one of the first things that grabbed me about record collecting. One of the songs we have on the show, track #28 by the Skunks, has a pretty cool story. None other than Pete Townsend saw them play, signed them to his Eel Pie label and put out the record in a run of 2000. It’s not all that hard to find but think of how easy it would have been for you to have lived your entire life without hearing this song and how better off you will be after you hear it.

One of the things I find most fascinating about records, beyond how great the music can be, is how the actual record can become almost an extension of yourself. After you have moved a bunch of times and the years pile on, and you have somehow been able to hold onto a few of these records, it shows you that not only does the music have meaning in your life but the actual object is cool as well. Track #29, They’re Back Again, Here They Come, by the Cigarettes, is such a great song. Ian MacKaye and I were at the record store one day and Ian got the record, I think because the cover looked cool. This song ended up on so many of my Punk Rock mix tapes. Years later, while trying to learn more about the record and the band, I found out there were two pressings, the first had a red label with silver lettering and the other was black with silver lettering. Ian and I both had the second pressing. It took a couple of years but I eventually found a first pressing. Why? It’s not like I needed it, I just thought it was cool to be able to check out both of them. About fifteen years ago, a 2LP set of Cigarettes music came out. I have never seen much information about this band, which makes them all the more interesting to me.

Rarely is a thing just a thing. It’s usually a lot of things. That’s one of the reasons I am always looking around for records, because there’s always something more to know. Also, it’s just good now and then, to shut up and let the music do the talking! I hope you enjoy all these tunes. The last show is next week. It went fast!  –– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. The Stains - Sick And Crazy / The Stains
02. The Minutemen - Joe McCarthy’s Ghost / Paranoid Time EP
03. Saccharine Trust - We Don’t Need Freedom / Pagan Icons
04. Würm - I’m Dead / single
05. The Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun / Up on the Sun
06. Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All / single
07. Saint Vitus - Look Behind You / The Blasting Concept (SST Records comp.)
08. The New York Dolls - Subway Train / New York Dolls
09. The Mad – Hell / We Love Noize
10. Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht (Zitternd) / Halber Mensch
11. The Simpletones – California / I Have a Date
12. Eddie and the Subtitles - American Society (single version) / single
13. The Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers / Bad Brains
14. Squatweiler - Hot For Teacher / promo CD
15. Bo Diddley - Say Man / Best Of
16. Tilt - Arkade Funk / 12”
17. Tex Rubinowitz - Rock & Roll Ivy / It’s Rare Doo Wop Vol. 6
18. The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf (Hot House Studios, NYC Feb. 1979) / All Tore Up
19. Roky Erickson - The Interpreter / Gremlins Have Pictures
20. The Rondelles - Please Shut Up / The Fox
21. Dog Chocolate - Plastic Canoe / Snack Fans
22. Dad Jokes - Party Goblin / Hopeless Vacation
23. R.I.P. Chix - Tempura Nights / Rice Is Nice Vol. 2 Mix Tape
24. Laurels - Changing The Timeline / Plains
25. Holland – Stampstain / Your Orgasm
26. Spittin’ Teeth – Destruction / tape
27. The Middle Class – Situations / Out Of Vogue EP
28. The Skunks - Good From the Bad / single
29. The Cigarettes - They’re Back Again, Here They Come / Will Damage Your Health
30. Public Image Ltd. - Swan Lake (Monitor Mix) / Metal Box (2016 re-issue)

RADIO BROADCAST #437 08-13–17

Fanatic! Up quite early and in the office. Listening to all the tracks for the show. You know me, Fanatic, I always like what we’ve put together. 

The show last week with Mike Patton was really cool, right? He texted me yesterday and said he had a great time. We will have to get him back on the show sometime. He’s a busy man, so it might take awhile.

If you were curious about anything we listened to last week, the new notes, with all the songs we played are now up.

Not knowing where you’re listening from, I don’t know what weather you’re presently enduring. Los Angeles is typically hot. It’s been making for great night time listening. The last few nights, it’s been Keiji Haino, Coltrane, Crystal Fairy, James Chance to name but a few.

A lot of great music to look forward to this year and we’re on it as best we can. 

Find shade and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Boris – Kagero / Dear
02. Guerilla Toss - Skull Pop / GT ULTRA
03. The Fall - New Facts Emerge / New Facts Emerge
04. Tim Presley - Solitude Cola / The Wink
05. Pikacyu-Makoto - I’ll Forgive / Galaxilympics
06. Male Gaze - Pale Gaze / Miss Taken
07. Dinosaur Jr. - I Walk For Miles / Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
08. Nymphs - Wasting My Days / Live At The Viper Room
09. Shag - Stop And Listen / Trash Box
10. Terry - Give Up The Crown / Remember Terry
11. Crystal Fairy - Under Trouble / Crystal Fairy

Hour 2
01. The Nation Of Ulysses! - Love Is A Bull Market / 13-Point Program to Destroy America
02. David Bowie - African Night Flight / Lodger
03. Iggy Pop - In The Lobby / Post Pop Depression
04. Sea-Saw - I Found A Time Compressor / Magnétophone
05. Ris Paul Ric - Daft Young Cannibals / Purple Blaze
06. Jeich Ould Chighaly – Wezin / Wallahi Le Zein!! 
07. Cabaret Voltaire - Messages Received / The Voice of America
08. Ex-Cult - Sid Visions / Midnight Passenger
09. The Misfits - Spook City, USA / Box Set
10. Fugazi - Two Beats Off / Repeater
11. Alan Vega - Motorcycle Explodes / IT
12. Brian Eno - Sky Saw / Another Green World
13. Chihei Hatakeyama - White Light / A Long Journey
14. Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost / Live In Greenwich Village

RADIO HELSINKI #10

Radio Helsinki Listener! It’s 0713 hrs. on August 02, here in Hamburg, Germany. I’m here for three shows at the Wacken Festival. This will be my fourth time performing at this festival. The first show is this evening. I’m looking forward to it.

Yesterday morning, I listened to all the songs that we have set up for this show, it sounded great but there was a part of it that was slightly distracting and the culprit was our first song, Look Back In Anger from David Bowie’s Lodger album. On September 29, a box set of Bowie’s music, called A New Career In A New Town 1977-1982 will be released. It looks great from start to finish but the part of it that has me the most excited is a remix of Lodger by the great Tony Visconti, who co-produced Lodger the first time around. I can’t wait to hear what Mr. Visconti is going to do with these tracks. What was it about the album that compelled him to undertake this, especially without David Bowie being in attendance? Could it be that the first time around, there were things he wanted to try that Bowie didn’t? Tony Visconti is one of the most talented producers there has ever been. Not to push any rocks around, but I would say that without him, the Bowie albums he was involved with, including Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, wouldn’t be as sonically challenging and supreme as they are. Bowie/Visconti are one of the greatest collaborative pairings in modern music. For this show, we are listening to the original version of Look Back In Anger. It’s not as if anyone’s sending me an advance copy of the box set. I do, however, plan on being in Los Angeles on that day and will be walking into the record store minutes after it opens in an effort to secure a copy. This is easily in the top three 2017 releases I’m looking forward to the most. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to hear it until near the end of the year, schedule being what it is but it will give me something to look forward to.

At 1800 hrs. today, I will be onstage in front of however many HMP’s (Heavy Metal Punters) will show up to the tent I’ll be in. I don’t know why I have been invited to this festival so many times and asked to do multiple nights but I’m grateful. I think festivals are great on so many levels. To me, the music part of it is one of the minor aspects of the overall. I am not trying to put too long a tail on the end of this but I think that it’s a great idea that thousands of young people gather in one place a couple of days a year for a summer or two and experience not only music but each other and by doing so, become further culturalized. Perhaps my idea of the festival is quite lofty but I think they could prevent future wars, cut down on domestic violence and make things better going forward. The festival environment is temporary. I don’t think anyone could live comfortably thrown together with so many others day after day but if you think about it, in relocation camps, people are in them for so long, families are started. I think people + music is about as good an equation as I’ve ever known.

For the next few days at the Wacken Festival, well over seventy thousand people will be in attendance, no matter what the weather brings, to get down with an almost nonstop assault of loud music. I think it’s great that music has that kind of power. What if, after learning about community from being at music festivals, all those people say no to their government the next time it tries to push them into a pointless war without end? (Sorry, you’ll have to keep in mind where I come from.) A bunch of people who are so into music, they come from all over the world to rock out? This is definitely my kind of place. I’ll let you know how the first show went tomorrow. To be continued. 0750 hrs.

August 03. 0907 hrs. The first show went well and I’m looking forward to getting back out there again this evening. Last night, as I was walking through the hotel lobby, I ran into three members of the UK Subs, one of my favorite bands of all time. It is a unit that has endured for literally decades and the line up has changed, with vocalist Charlie Harper being the constant. Bass player Alvin Gibbs, who has been in and out of the band since the Diminished Responsibility album in 1981. When I was in Black Flag, we did a show together in December of that year in Leeds, UK. I hadn’t seen Alvin in a long time. He’s a great guy. One of the cool things about the festival environment, you run into a lot of people, some you might not have seen in years.

August 04. 0750 hrs. In the breakfast room, amidst a lot of bands and crew members. Every time I’m at this festival, I stay at this hotel. It’s become a bit of a ritual, even down to trying to get the same table here. I remember sitting here a year ago, watching Mike Monroe of Hanoi Rocks walking around the lobby, looking around for the rest of the band. Earlier that morning, Sami Yaffa was two tables to my left. Yesterday’s show was a good time. Last one is tonight and then I’m on two flights back to Los Angeles

If you’re wondering about track 05, which features the vocal stylings of Spadefoot toads, it’s from Mr. Bogert’s rippin’ 1957 release Sounds of North American Frogs. You have to put this album in context to understand what a going-against-the-grain release this was. Remember, this was the same year that Chuck Berry’s Rock and Roll Music and Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up. Imagine the pressure these two Titans felt when Smithsonian Folkways dropped this frog / toad sonic assault! A chartbuster for sure. Believe it or not, the album went into multiple pressings! No way, you say? Way! It gets even better. A few years ago, I was at Smithsonian Folkways headquarters in Washington, DC. As I was walking down a hallway, I spotted a promo poster for this album on the wall. I damn near passed out. The person who was showing me around was slightly amazed I was aware of the album and maybe a little freaked out at my great enthusiasm at seeing the promo poster. I have searched online for one but have thus far come up empty. I told the man that I had been using tracks from it in my radio shows for years. This is when he told me there were outtakes from the album. Unreleased frogs! No way! To this day, still knocks me out. You might not believe this but it’s true—he sent them to me. Score! My research has led me to conclude there are three different pressings of this album on LP and a recent re-issue on CD. Perhaps for an upcoming Record Store Day, the box set will come out with the outtakes. How amazing would that be?

Cool that we have both Ty Segal and Iggy Pop on this show. Remember last week, when I told you that I was hoping to catch both of them at the FYF festival? I did it. I see Ty play any chance I get, he’s never anything less than great but this time around, he was amazing. Not to be missed. For this show, we have a relatively obscure Ty track from the Our Boy Roy tribute to the great Roy Orbison where Ty rocks Pretty Woman, but not before we hear Roy Orbison doing what in my opinion, is one of his most memorable vocals, on the song Life Fades Away. This was part of the Less Than Zero soundtrack. Who wrote the song? Glenn Danzig. How cool is that?! This album also has Slayer performing a version of Iron Butterfly’s In A Gadda Da Vida, which totally smokes.

As you hopefully conclude, two things: I can write way too much about music, and that we have a great show lined up for you. There is no other way to go. If you like the last track, where Ginger Baker sits in with Fela, the rest of the record is that good. Until next week!

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. David Bowie - Look Back In Anger / Lodger
02. The Damned – Rabid / Chiswick Singles
03. The Pink Fairies - Do It (single edit) / Never Never Land
04. Sex Pistols - Just Me (I Wanna Be Me) / Spunk
05. Frogs (+ Charles M. Bogert) - Chorus of Spadefoot Toads / Sounds of North American Frogs
06. Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning / Siren
07. Buzzcocks - Are Everything / Singles Going Steady
08. Paiboon - Yom Pha Barn Norn Pahwaa (Satan’s Nightmare) / Thai Beat A-Go-Go Vol. 01
09. Free Time - Blue Pillow / In Search of Free Time
10. Dick Diver - Percentage Points / Melbourne Florida
11. Ris Paul Ric – Colonialism / Purple Blaze
12. Le Butcherettes - Your Weakness Gives Me Life / Cry is for the Flies
13. HTRK – Ha / Marry Me Tonight
14. Prince Jammy - Jammy’s Not a Fool / Fat Man Presents : Dub Contest
15. Cloudland Canyon - Where’s The Edge / An Arabesque
16. The Adverts - Television’s Over / Singles Collection
17. The Ausmuteants - New Planet / Band of the Future
18. De La Soul - Plug Tunin / 3 Feet High and Rising
19. Tom Waits - Sea Of Love / Sea of Love Soundtrack
20. The Ramones - The Return of Jackie and Judy / End of the Century
21. Roy Orbison - Life Fades Away / Less than Zero Soundtrack
22. Ty Segall - Pretty Woman / Our Boy Roy
23. The Minutemen – Afternoons / Bean Spill EP
24. Wire - Three Girl Rhumba / Pink Flag
25. Iggy Pop - I’m Bored / New Values
26. Trouble Funk - Say What / Singles collection       
27. Scorpions - Hell-Cat / Virgin Killer
28. Fela Kuti - Let’s Start / Fela with Ginger Baker

RADIO BROADCAST #436 08-06–17

Fanatic!  hope you enjoyed our visit with Mike Patton. We talked afterwards and he had a blast and asked if he could come on the show again some time. Of course, we thought that was a great idea, so get ready for that. 

Below are all the tracks that we got to. Mike is interests in a lot of different music. He and I have had some great conversations over the years. A few of the songs we played on this show, I have found the full albums and will get some of the tracks into upcoming shows.

Thanks for putting up with us and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. The Bad Brains - Pay To Cum / single
02. Tom Jones – Thunderball / 20th Century Masters Series
03. Young Fathers - Rain or Shine / White Men Are Black Men Too
04. Quincy Jones - Rack ‘Em Up / The Pawnbroker
05. Terveet Kadet – Brutaali / Lapin Helvetti
06. Dead Cross - Seizure and Desist / Dead Cross
07. Jacques Brel - La chanson de Jacky / Ces Gens-là
08. Tom Dissevelt - Whirling (Sonik R-Entry) / Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Phillips Research Laboratories 1956-1963
09. White Noise - Love Without Sound / An Electric Storm
10. Charlie Parr – Cropduster / Roustabout
11. Messer Chups - Tremolo From the Crypt / Heretic Channel
12. João Gilberto - Astronauta (Samba Da Pergunta) / Personalidade

Hour 2
01. Funkadelic - I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody’s Got A Thing / Funkadelic
02. Die Kreuzen - All White / October File & Die Kreuzen
03. Adriano Celentano – Ventiquattromila Baci / La Mia Storia Vol. 1
04. Conlon Nancarrow - #49c / Studies For Player Piano Vol. 5
05. Dion McGregor - Food Roulette / The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor
06. Basil Kirchin - Primitive London 1 / Primitive London
07. Chet Baker - The Thrill Is Gone / Chet Baker Sings
08. Nino Rota - Pin Penin / Casanova
09. The Cosmic Rays w/Le Sun Ra & Arkestra - Bye Bye / The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1

RADIO HELSINKI #09

Radio Helsinki Listener! As I have told you before, I write the notes for our shows in advance. Right now, it’s July 21, 2133 hrs., PST. It’s hot out. I am listening to Machine Gun Etiquette by the Damned and as always, it’s a perfect night time play. As I usually do, right before I settled in to write these notes, I listened to all the songs for this show, earlier. I think we have a great line up.

This is the start of what could be an incredible weekend of live shows. Tomorrow night, I will be at a venue called Zebulon, where Fushitsusha the brain damaging trio that features one of my favorite guitar players, Keiji Haino, will play a three hour set. That’s right, three hours. They are set to go on at 2130 hrs. and play until 0030 hrs. Once it starts, there is no way I’m leaving until it’s over. I have never seen Keiji Haino live and I am very excited. Three hours is a long show but I bet this won’t be happening again any time soon, so I’m in for the long haul. I will eventually get back to the house, fall out for a few hours and then get ready to go to the FYF, a yearly festival here in Los Angeles. I will be going to the backstage area with Iggy Pop’s band. I am hoping they want to get there a little early because before Iggy (The Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Rock and Roll) goes on, Ty Segall will be on the same stage. If I’m lucky, I will be able to catch Ty before Iggy. That would be amazing. No matter what, it’s going to be a great time.

One of the many great things about records is coming back to them. Sometimes, I go for years without hearing a record that I like. I’m trying to hear new stuff all the time and at this point, there are a lot of records I may never get back to again. Now and then, like when you’re hungry for a certain thing, you want to hear a certain record. If you’ve been listening to our show, you know that I’m a fan of Ian Svenonious, the man of many bands. I think we’re getting around to a fair amount of them but not all. One of his early releases, with his band The Nation Of Ulysses, is an album called 13-Point Program To Destroy America. It came out on the Dischord label in 1991. I liked this album as soon as I heard it. Besides a song here and there for radio shows I have been putting together for warm weather listening this year, I have not listened to the record from start to finish for a long time. I have played it twice in the last few days and am fighting the urge to put it on as soon as the Damned album finishes. It’s a great one. There is something you’ll find in a lot of the Washington DC area bands, they’re usually intelligent. It shows in everything from the lyrics and music to the layout of the records. Nation of Ulysses is a perfect example of this. They were sharp, young and idealistic. I think 13 Point Program sounds better than ever. A few years ago, Dischord Records remastered their catalog and unsurprisingly, they did an amazing job.

It’s a Friday night and I’m alone in a room with the record player on. It’s really all I need. This is been my kind of scene since I was young. People are great but a room full of music is, to me is a perfect situation.

The Damned album finished and now, I’m listening to the last solo album by an amazing artist that we have on our show this evening, track 21, Alan Vega. This legend in his own time artist passed away last year. Several months before he died, he recorded what would be his last solo effort, an album called IT. Not knowing the exact release date, I didn’t put a track from it into this show because I didn’t want get in front of the release. I have had the album for almost two years and have been waiting anxiously for this record to come out. I don’t know how much you know about Alan. He was one half of the legendary duo Suicide. Both he and the other member, Martin Rev recorded and released solo efforts with great frequency. IT is easily in the top three of Alan’s solo work. In a way, it’s like Bowie’s Blackstar, where both artists left some of their best work for last. Alan’s music is incredibly intense. That’s the only way he went at art. He was either on all the way, or he didn’t show up at all. I saw the last Suicide show in London two summers ago and they were completely hectic. What a night. Alan and Martin started the show by each doing a solo set and then came out for a Suicide set. It was an incredible night. Right now, I’m on my second listen to IT on vinyl. What a record. I became friends with Alan over the years and he was one of the nicest people I have ever met. Whenever I hung out with him, I was there but at the same time, kind of not there, just in awe of the man. I am sure that Alan’s solo work isn’t for everyone but if you find yourself digging the song you hear on this show, Sneaker Gun Fire, the rest of the album it came from, Deuce Avenue is as great. If you can find the US edition of the CD, I put that out, it has an extra track, called Whacko Warrior, an outtake from the Deuce sessions.

I’m not one with any hatred for the human race but I will say that we are an incredibly strange bunch and I have found that records are a great alternative to going out and getting frustrated with the comings and goings of people. I get along with my records really well. It’s such a great relationship we have. In a switch, I am now listening to a collection of Conrad Schnitzler, released on the excellent Bureau B label called Filmmusik 1. I just got this as well as the second volume. You wouldn’t be doing yourself any wrong by checking out his work. Thankfully, he made a lot of records for us. I’m no expert but I’ve heard a lot his work and there’s not one release that wasn’t worth the time. Right now, it’s just me and Mr. Schnitzler. The music is incredible.

We have been together now for about two months, gathering once a week to check out some music. I hope the shows have been compelling enough to get you to return every week. Beyond that, I hope that I have sent you to the record store at least once. Consider all of these tracks an introduction to something. With music, one record leads you into another and into another and after awhile, you’re running out of room. What a great problem to have!

We only have a few more weeks together and then we’re all on to other things. This is a great show we have here, starting with one of the best songs ever. The Idiot is one of my favorite albums. Many years ago, I was like a lot of other people in small bands, perpetually broke. It was all I could do to stay fed, much less get any records. I had a cassette of a few songs from The Idiot. It took me a long time to finally get my own copy and once I did, it became one of my favorites. I see Iggy play whenever I can and when he plays a track off this album, it always makes me happy. Track 20, the great Boozoo Chavis. He played one night in New York City. I lived only a few blocks from the venue. I think it was the S.O.B’s. I was hoping he would play Dog Hill, that’s one of my favorite songs of his. He did! It was so great. Damn, that was like twenty one years ago. He’s gone now and was lucky to see him play. Another reason why records are so great. They allow us to zoom around time. You put on the right record and you are right there. This Schnitzler record is incredible. Too bad I don’t have more shows with you, there is so much more I want you to hear. Until next week, I hope you like the music we have gathered for you on this show.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Iggy Pop – Funtime / The Idiot
02. Doctor Mix & The Remix - No Fun (single A side mix) / Wall of Noise
03. The Viletones – Rebel /single
04. Redd Kross - Annette’s Got The Hits / The Best Of Rodney On The ROQ
05. John Cale – Chickenshit / Animal Justice
06. The Vibrators - Judy Says . . . / single
07. UK Subs - Perfect Girl / Punk Singles of the UK Subs
08. Melt-Banana - Aquatic Bee / 13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994-1999)
09. Shapes - Wot’s For Lunch Mum? (Not Beans Again!) / Songs for Sensible People
10. Glaxo Babies - Who Killed Bruce Lee / Dreams Interrupted
11. I Jog and the Tracksuits – Redbox / 7” Up!
12. Spizz - Cold City / Where’s Captain Kirk?
13. Newtown Neurotics – Hypocrite / Punk Singles Collection
14. Crisis – Frustration / Holocaust Hymns
15. Tumbleweed - Captain’s Log / The Waterfront Years 1991-1993
16. Slim Gaillard - Yip Roc Heresy / Laughing In Rhythm: The Best Of The Verve Years
17. Crushed Butler - High School Dropout / Uncrushed
18. The Planet The - Physical Angel / Physical Angel
19. Black Randy & The Metro Squad - Down at the Laundrymat / Pass the Dust, I Think I’m Bowie
20. Boozoo Chavis - Dog Hill / Boozoo Chavis
21. Alan Vega - Sneaker Gun Fire / Deuce Avenue
22. Soccer Team - Dinner With Derelicts / Real Lessons in Cynicism
23. La Hell Gang - So High / Thru Me Again
24. The Need / Let Them Eat Valium / single
25. Japandroids - Wet Hair / Japandroids
26. Adverts - Back from the Dead / Singles Collection
27. Electric Eels – Agitated / The Eyeball of Hell
28. The Fall – Kimble / Complete Peel Sessions
29. Performing Ferrets - Dut Dut Dut / No One Told Us
30. The Mob - Shuffling Souls / Let the Tribe Increase
31. Dum Dum Dum - Dum Dum Dum / Messthetics Greatest Hits
32. Deerhoof - We Do Parties / Breakup Song
33. The Mae Shi – Forecasting / HLLLYH
34. Television - Marquee Moon / Marquee Moon

RADIO BROADCAST #435 07-30–17

Fanatic! Before anything else, Mike Patton will be our in studio guest next week. He’s bringing in all the music. I will post the track listings after the show. I have heard all the tracks and it’s going to be one of the coolest shows we have ever done.

We have great new tracks on our show! Terry, The Fall, Pikacyu-Makoto, Mikey Young, Alan Vega, Waxahatchee and Boris.

What a great weekend last week. Saturday night I saw Fushitsusha at Zebulon, that was incredible and then on Sunday at FYF, Ty Segall and Iggy Pop.

I have been looking for footage of the Fushitsusha show online and have found a few fragments. Keiji Haino is in a league of his own. I’ve never seen anything like that. I’m no expert but I think Ty Segall gets better and better. The FYF set was fantastic. Iggy was in great voice and the band was leaning on it. Drummer Matt drove it hard.

I hope you enjoy the line up of tunes we have here. We will be back with you next week with Mike Patton and some really great music.

Stay hydrated and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Terry - Take Me To the City / Remember Terry
02. The Fall - Gibbus Gibson / New Facts Emerge
03. Male Gaze – Pyramids / Miss Taken
04. Sangthong Seesai - Kam Kao (Old Karma) / Thai Funk - Zud Rang Ma Vol.2
05. Air Miami - Afternoon Train / Me Me Me
06. The Blind Shake - Garbage on Glue / Key To A False Door
07. Nation Of Ulysses! - Cool Senior High School (Fight Song) / 13-Point Program to Destroy America
08. Tim Presley - Long Bow / The Wink
09. Cat’s Eyes - The Missing Hour / Treasure House
10. Keiji Haino - Bring To An End / Watashi Dake? 
11. Damaged Bug - Sic Bay Surprise / Hubba Bubba
12. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Lurch / Haunted Head
13. Kim Salmon - Already Turned Out Burned Out (Fast Burn) / My Script
14. Pikacyu-Makoto – Funifunikonefuni / Galaxilympics
15. Dinosaur Jr. - Over It / Farm
16. Mikey Young - Lord Barrel / Your Move Vol. 1

Hour 2
01. Alan Vega – IT / IT   5:01
02. Guerilla Toss - Can I Get The Real Stuff / GT ULTRA
03. Waxahatchee – Silver / Out In The Storm
04. The Weirdos – Cyclops Helicopter / Weird World Vol. 2
05. Savages - Hit Me / Silence Yourself
06. David Nance - Negative Boogie / Negative Boogie
07. Iggy Pop - American Valhalla / Post Pop Depression
08. David Bowie - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) / Blackstar
09. Mouserocket - Alone Again Or / Mouserocket
10. The Julie Ruin - Roses More Than Water / Hit Reset
11. Black Tambourine - By Tomorrow / Complete Recordings
12. The Ruts - Out Of Order / The Crack
13. The Saints - New Centre of the Universe / Eternally Yours
14. Boris – Beyond / Dear

RADIO HELSINKI #08

Radio Helsinki Listener! Hard to believe we are so far into our time together. I hope you have been digging all the music that’s been coming to you on this show.

Inconsequential factoid: Our second track by the Stooges, T.V. Eye, is from the Stooges second LP, Fun House, which happens to be my favorite album. I like it so much, I don’t play it all that often. It is so full on, I find it difficult to put myself through it more than a few times a year. A few hours ago, I was in the almost permanently snarled traffic of Los Angeles, driving north back into Hollywood and passed by 962 La Cienega Blvd., the building where Fun House was recorded in 1970. It’s one of my favorite LA landmarks. Black Flag’s Damaged album was recorded a few blocks away eleven years later. I always thought that was cool.

Whenever I can, I try to check out places where something interesting happened, old venues, locations where bands made records, etc. Living in New York City was great for that. One time, I was standing outside what used to be the Fillmore East, with Wayne Kramer of the MC5. He showed me the exact spot he stood at some point in the late 1960’s trying to keep a fight from starting. Whenever I walk by that intersection, I stand in that spot for a minute and remember that. A couple of years ago, I was in NYC to see Dinosaur Jr. do a week of shows. We were all staying near CBGB’s on Bowery. I hadn’t been inside the building for years. It’s a clothing store now. I walked in and immediately a security guy started watching me. The place had been pretty much gutted of what was there before but the more I looked around, I was able to get my bearings. At one point, I was standing where I had been sitting with Iggy in there one night in the mid 1990’s and remembering that. I looked over from there and stared at the area where I stood with Joey Ramone and watched the Dictators play. It was the last time I saw Joey. I was taking it all in and noticed that everyone in the place was staring at me. Finally, one of the sales people walked over and asked, “Did you play here?” I could tell that he didn’t know me but perhaps he had grown used to seeing grizzled old men doing what I was doing. There is no way they don’t have people from “back in the day” coming in there now and then. Too many amazing shows happened in that place for that not to happen.

One of the things I like about music the most is that there is almost always more to the story, that experiences related to music can run so deep, they can make an incredibly deep impact on your life. This is what I want. I want things to happen to me that leave a mark, that change the way I think, that stay with me for years. Like you, I have had a lot of things happen to me. As far as I can think, the most impactful events of my life have a connection to music. I think I’m lucky that things went this way. I like being a fan. I like getting excited that a new record is coming out, or when I find out something about a band that I had never known before. It keeps things in perspective. There is always more to know, always more to check out.

That’s one of the main points of these shows I put together for you. I’m not trying to say that I’m the holder of great knowledge or anything but hopefully, some of what you hear will be new to you and inspire you to check out more. That’s one of the best deals ever, finding music you have never heard before that you like. Doesn’t matter if it’s new or old. If you haven’t heard it before, it’s new where it counts, right? Music is the perfect, ceaseless turn on. As the great Jim Wilson once said about music, “There’s always more.”

As one does in life, you sometimes come to the end of things. Jobs, friendships, whatever, almost nothing lasts forever, or maintains the same level of relevance as time goes on. I have come to the end of a lot of things. There are things I just don’t do anymore, people I never see and might never see again but the thing that never causes me to lose interest, is music. I have to qualify that. There was a time in the late 1990’s when I was on a major label, where I became so sick of the music industry that I stopped going to record stores. I didn’t listen to much music and mostly read and wrote. This lasted a few months but then I was back. It was mostly disgust with the people I was around. I was getting sick from their overwhelming cynicism and apathy. Things got better. I don’t think that will ever happen again. I would like to think that the music knew I would be back.

Your life is something you show up for. This is how I think of music. I keep showing up, it keeps showing up to meet me. This is why, when I am not trying to expand my musical appreciation by checking out new records, I go back to the ones I have had for decades. Every time I play them, it’s a reminder and reaffirmation of where I come from and what it’s all about. I am from Washington, DC but really, I am from all the shows I went to and all the records I heard when I was living there.

Everyone’s different and registers information in their own way. For me, music is more than music. It’s code, fidelity, a way of being. That is to say, when in doubt, or in complete certainty, put a record on. I hope you dig the show. As I have been writing this, I have been listening to all the tracks. Our last one for the show, Hawkwind’s mighty Orgone Accumulator from their peerless Space Ritual album, is playing right now. Perfect timing!

Until next week, keep it turning.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Radio Pyongyang - Commie Funk? / Radio Pyongyang
02. The Stooges - T.V. Eye / Fun House
03. Olympic Death Squad - Sometimes I Can Breathe / Blue
04. The Fontaine Toups – TFT / TFT
05. The Valves - Tarzan of the King’s Road / single
06. The Sods - R.A.F. / Minutes to Go
07. Exhaustion - Don’t Fly Right / Future Eaters
08. Rebel Yell - Never Perfection / Mother of Millions
09. The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast - The Dumbwaiters / Terrace Industry: M Squared 1980 - 83
10. Trin Tran - Ro-Jo / Dark Radar
11. Frank Zappa + Captain Beefheart - Muffin Man / Bongo Fury
12. David Bowie - Queen Bitch / Hunky Dory
13. Eno, Moebius & Roedelius - Broken Head / After The Heat
14. Silver Apples – Oscillations / Silver Apples
15. ZZ Top - Heaven, Hell Or Houston / El Loco
16. The Models - Man Of The Year / single
17. Traditional Fools - Party At My House / Traditional Fools
18. The Meatbodies - Valley Girl / single
19. The Make Up - I Am Pentagon / Save Yourself
20. The Cramps - Rocket In My Pocket / bootleg
21. The Penetrators - The Break / :30 Over DC
22. The Damned - Ballroom Blitz / Machine Gun Etiquette 25th Anniversary
23. Crystal Castles - Pale Flesh / Crystal Castles III
24. J Mascis – Sameday / More Light
25. Boris – Pink / Pink
26. The Ramones - Life is a Gas / Adios Amigos
27. Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone / single
28. Buzzcocks - No Reply / Another Music in a Different Kitchen
29. Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator / Space Ritual

RADIO BROADCAST #434 07-23–17

Fanatic! New Fall, Mikey Young, Pontiak and Alan Vega tracks on our show.

Just so you know, we are two weeks away from our show with Mike Patton. That’s right, Fanatic, we will be live with Mike Patton on August 6. The man sent me a ton of music and over the last several days, we have been making choices and I think we’re almost there. It’s going to be a great show with some very interesting music. 

I just got my copy of the new Boris album Dear. This one’s not to be missed. Heavy as hell. Sounds amazing. We have a track from it already lined up for next week’s show.

I think I told you that Larry at In the Red Records and I put out a 7” for RSD 2017. If I didn’t, we did. It has two tracks from the legendary band Pure Hell. The resided on an acetate, Wild One and Courageous Cat, tracks found on the Noise Addiction album but recorded before. I got curious to see if there were any still around and looked on Discogs. I found one guy with several of them for cheap. It came out great. If you’re looking to get one, there are some there and some at the Midheaven site I think. Worth checking out and all profits go to the band.

This is another fantastic gathering of tunes, which we hope you enjoy.

Until next week, play more music and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. The Fall - Brillo De Facto / New Facts Emerge
02. Mikey Young - Walking for Pleasure / Your Move Vol. 1
03. Devo - S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain) / Duty Now for the Future
04. Tinariwen - Amassakoul ‘N’Ténéré / Amassakoul
05. Alan Vega – Stars / IT
06. Ex Hex - Waste Your Time / Rips
07. Robert Johnson - Walkin’ Blues / The Centennial Collection
08. Wire - Indirect Enquiries / 154
09. Pontiak – Dirtbags / Dialectic of Ignorance
10. Slayer - Hate Worldwide / World Painted Blood
11. Jiraphand Ong-Ard - Siamese Boxing / Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol. 03
12. Bad Brains – I / Greatest Riffs
13. The Chiefs - Tower 18 / Holly-West Crisis
14. Jimi Hendrix - Burning of the Midnight Lamp / singles collection

Hour 2
01. The Ruts - In A Rut / At the BBC
02. Hawkwind - Master of the Universe / In Search of Space
03. David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself / Bowie at the Beeb
04. Dax Riggs - Truth In The Dark / We Sing of Only Blood or Love
05. Sort Sol - Off Morning / Dagger & Guitar
06. The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet / The Birthday Party
07. The Weirdos - Solitary Confinement / Weird World Vol. 1
08. Black Randy & the Metro Squad - Down at the Laundrymat / single
07. Bloods - What Do I Care / Rice Is Nice Vol. 2
08. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Catsuit Fruit / Gorilla Rose
09. The Cramps - Rockin’ Bones / Psychedelic Jungle
10. The Gun Club - The Great Divide / Pastoral Hide & Seek
11. Le Butcherettes - Take A Step Back / A Raw Youth
12. Parliament - Flash Light / Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome

RADIO HELSINKI #07

Radio Helsinki Listener! The sun is setting in not-nearly-as -blighted-as-Hollywood, Burbank, California. A few minutes from the Warner Brothers and Disney lots. I am listening to the tracks of our show one last time. I have already played this list twice through completely on stationary bikes and elliptical treadmills but I thought I would give it one last pass. Sounding great!

I don’t know if you noticed but our first two tracks have a link. It would be one Kid Congo Powers. He played guitar in the Cramps as well as Gun Club and features on both the Psychedelic Jungle and Mother Juno albums. Kid was not only in the two aforementioned bands but, as you might already know, was a Bad Seed with Nick Cave for years. I have been lucky enough to see Kid in all four bands.

I am sure you’re well aware of America’s present political situation. Is it as bad as it looks? No. Actually, it’s much worse. A lot of the really bad stuff, like what could happen to the environment, water supplies, etc., doesn’t get reported on enough. Media is too busy reporting on a president who sends 140 character messages to his bewildered base, thinking, perhaps that if he keeps them happy, the other 65% of the country will, I don’t know what, really but that’s where it’s at—a daily reminder that education is really important and all elections have consequences.

In this time of the low information electorate, a country held down by an angry minority, many of whom couldn’t find Finland on a map and wouldn’t care if you showed them. I pay attention, check the news daily, etc. but what I concentrate on the most is that life is short and one must prioritize. It would be too easy to cut down on the amount of music listened to and follow this tragic chapter in American history obsessively. I did that once, it was called the Bush administration. I read the books, went to countries on the “Axis of Evil”; Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and I found a lot of good people and really bad governments. I also found music. I want to couch that statement, lest you think I’m trying to convince you it was all great. The marching music I heard blasting through bad systems at dawn in Pyongyang was awful but trippy at the time of the morning. Iraq and Iran had some really interesting jams. Looking back, I gave George Walker Bush waaaaay too much time. I will never do that again. Talk about throwing your life out like garbage. It’s all on me, I guess I wasn’t used to being so grossly offended by an administration. Ironically, the current president kinda makes me miss good ol Bush. The point I’m making is, it’s easy to waste your time hanging out with awful people with incredibly bad ideas. Listening to music instead is not some escapist evasion of the brutal machinations of the “real world” as someone like my father would tell you. It is customizing your living environment. If I pay too much attention to comrade Trump and his gang of inept malcontents, I am living on their terms. Won’t do it.

I have no idea as to the standing level of turbulence in beautiful Finland. It is not for me to offer comment. Most of the time, I find it offensive when someone who doesn’t live in a country sounds off on what they think to be said nation’s shortcomings. (That is, of course, unless it’s someone talking about the America in 2017. I reckon the current is the lowest, ripest hanging piece of fruit on the global comedy tree. He serves himself up like a plate of sashimi.) I reckon that anywhere there are humans, there is discontent. This is why I advocate all free minded people try to have easy access to music at all times. I can dig silence now and then but I prefer existence with a soundtrack. When I read about the almost daily, truly cringe worthy embarrassments perpetrated by the comrade-in-chief, I feel as if I’m being partially owned by this slug. The level of being “okay in my own skin” I achieve while listening to music allows me to reclaim myself from whatever factors or forces have sought to drain the life out of me. Again, it’s that idea of transference that music allows. I don’t have music, I have “my music” and with that, things are for the most part, manageable. 

Sorry, back to the show. One of my favorite songs of all time is on this particular show. I direct your attention to track #16, Wrong Treatment by The Four Plugs. I bought it for the cover. I concluded, (and very correctly, I would like to add) that it wouldn’t be anything less than amazing. I have gone all over the internet looking for information on this record and the players behind it. At this point, all I can find is things about me and my pursuit. Several months ago, something interesting happened. I got an email from a man who is writing a book about music from a certain part of England. I honestly forget what part, I think it’s where he grew up. He had seen that I had been looking for information on the Four Plugs. The writer actually found the band, which is one guy, who I guess lived in the area that the book pertains to. He said the guy went into a studio and recorded the songs with a guitar, effects and his voice, hence the “four plugs.” The writer said the man was pretty annoyed that someone was asking him about the record. Apparently, he made the record and stepped away from music. I think the writer said Four Plugs man basically said, “It was a long time ago, sod the past!” and hung up. The writer was surprisingly proprietary about the information. He wouldn’t give me any contact information. I am thinking that once the writer gets his book out, he might loosen up a little. At great risk, I want to interview the Four Plugs guy, or maybe I don’t.

I put the song into the show so you could hear it. I told you the story because I think it makes an interesting point about how we sometimes completely adopt a song or a band, again, that idea of transference. You like the song, so you figure the person or persons making the music will be as you want them to be. It’s often hard to remember that’s not always how people are. And this is one of the many reasons, with great exception, I leave musicians alone and just dig their music. When I am approached by someone who recognizes me, I do my best to super cool because I know what’s at stake.

As I write this, the Nico track, Genghis Khan from her album The Drama of Exile just started. I don’t know if her music is the kind that “grows” on you. I think the best way into her work is as how I first heard her, which was through the first Velvet Underground album. For the most part, her solo work makes her contributions to the VU album seem like pretty pop music. She’s one of the most full on listening experiences there is. In the summer of 1984, I read a book by Victor Bockris called Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story. After I finished, I wanted to hear all the Nico albums. I had never heard a single note of her solo material. Byron Coley, the great writer and all around music maven secured me used copies. One of the first ones he gave me was The Drama of Exile. It has some of the only songs of hers I can put into a warm weather play list. In fact, I just located a pristine copy of her iconic album The Marble Index in mono. I have had it for a couple of months now but won’t let myself play it until this November at the earliest. It’s just not summer listening, in my opinion.

Almost everything comes with a certain amount of drudgery, even this show. By reading these notes, are done with that part. Now, it’s all about letting the music play. I hope you enjoy the show.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. The Cramps- Green Fuz / Psychedelic Jungle
02. The Gun Club - Bill Bailey / Mother Juno
03. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone And Out / 21 Singles
04. Molly Nilsson – City / The Travels
05. Mark Robinson - Tasty Black Licorice / 2003 Teenbeat Sampler
06. Aias – Bali / A La Piscina
07. The UK Subs – Kicks / The Singles
08. The Stooges - Real Cool Time / The Stooges
09. The MC5 – Poison / High Time
10. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Johnny B. Goode
11. Roky – Erickson - I Walked With A Zombie / Live 1979-1981
12. Jay Reatard - We Who Wait / Blood Visions
13. Scott Walker - We Came Through / Scott 3
14. Tel Aviv - We Got The Computers / The Shape of Fiction
15. Romania - We’re On The Radio / Remodel
16. The Four Plugs - Wrong Treatment / single
17. Kas Product - So Young But So Cold / Try Out
18. Raymond Scott - And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon / The Secret 7: “The Unexpected
19. Warm Soda - I Know The Cure / Symbolic Dream
20. White Fence - Arrow Man / For the Recently Found Innocent
21. Family Fodder - Savoir Faire / Monkey Banana Kitchen
22. Lee Perry – Kojak / Dub-Triptych
23. Squatweiler - Should I / Full Bladder
24. Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink - I’m A Spy / Bulb Singles #1
25. Nico - Genghis Khan / The Drama of Exile
26. The Aquarium - White House / Aquarium
27. The Black Eyes - Pack of Wolves / Black Eyes
28. Total Control - Safety Net / Typical System
29. Lowtide – Spring / single
30. The Birthday Party – Loose / Peel Sessions
31. Les Rallizes Dénudés - Ice Fire / France Demo Tape Winter 88 - Spring 89

RADIO BROADCAST #433 07-16–17

Fanatic! A great show lined up! Obviously, I can’t know where you’re listening to this show from but where I am, here in Los Angeles, summer’s furnace is on full . When it’s 80+ at night, you know the next day is going to be brutal. While I’m not interested in baking in the sun, I don’t mind hot rooms at night as long as there’s music. Our summer programming has been forged in these elevated temperatures and will hopefully provide a good soundtrack. We’re making a mix tape here! That’s what it’s all about.

Let’s see, the new Pontiak album is great, so I thought we would start the show with a track from it. The new Alan Vega album, IT is out and so we can finally start playing tracks. I am happy we can get this one going. Alan, as you know, is no longer with us but his music will always be around, and IT is a great piece of work.

I don’t want to forget this. Charles Moothart, who we listen to on the show all the time, has a show coming up at Zebulon on the 17th. I’ve seen Mr. Moothart play a couple of times, he’s not to be missed. The venue is located at: 2478 Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90039. If you were listening last week, you remember that we finished the show with a track from his Dichotomy Desaturated album. Great record. https://intheredrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/cfm-dichotomy-desaturated

Next week’s show is all finished and ready to go.

I hope you dig the show and as always, thanks for listening, and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Pontak - Ignorance Makes Me High / Dialectic of Ignorance
02. David Bowie - Black Country Rock / The Man Who Sold The World
03. Eddie Cochran - C’mon Everybody / Best Of
04. Generation X - Shakin’ All Over / single
05. Yangon Sein Kyi Moe - The Tune Of The First Entertainment / Princess Nicotine
06. Fugazi – Provisional / 13 Songs
07. Wire – Champs / Pink Flag
08. The Sunnyboys - Happy Man / This Is Real
09. Black Sabbath - The Wizard / Black Sabbath
10. Point Juncture WA - Me or the Party / Me Or The Party
11. Unrest - Cath Carroll / Perfect Teeth
12. Joy Division – Digital / Substance
13. Romania - We’re On The Radio / Remodel
14. Soccer Team - Mental Anguish Is Your Friend / 3 Song 7” 
15. Trouble Funk - Say What / Singles

Hour 2
01. Alan Vega – Vision / IT
02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Moon Is In The Gutter / B-Sides And Rarities
03. The Saints - (I’m) Stranded /  (I’m) Stranded
04. Jay Reatard - Can’t Do It Anymore / Watch Me Fall
05. Thee Oh Sees - Head of State / Dog Poison
06. Jimi Hendrix - Villanova Junction Blues / Burning Desire
07. The UK Subs - Perfect Girl / single
08. Cat’s Eyes – Standoff / Treasure House
09. Rain – Rivers / La Vache Qui Rit
10. Melt-Banana - Get the T (Escaping with the Id Card!) / Return of 13 Hedgehogs
11. Scott Walker - Funeral Tango / Scott 3
12. Public Enemy - PE #1 / Yo! Bum Rush the Show
13. The Ramones - Time Bomb / Subterranean Jungle
14. PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta / To Bring You My Love
15. Terakaft - Aima Ymaima / Kel Tamasheq

RADIO HELSINKI #06

Radio Helsinki Listener! Due to schedule, I have to work on these shows well in advance. I went online and looked up what the weather would be like in Finland for July. Hey, I’m trying! Looks like you get a fair amount of rain this time of the year. Hopefully, this grouping of tunes will work for you. I am listening to all the tracks for this show. I have absolutely no idea how any of it will register with you but I’m liking it!

I’m presently in Los Angeles, back from Spokane, Washington for a couple of days now. I don’t know if you have ever been here. It’s a city, built in a desert, hydrated by stolen water. If you ever get the chance, watch the film Chinatown. Los Angeles is entering into one of the especially hellish spells of temperature spikes. Now and then, there is a huge fire that breaks out and the skies fill with smoke. You come out to your car and find it coated in ashes. I’m not one who uses air-conditioning. I don’t mind the heat, strangely, I like it. At some point, around 1400 hrs., the heat feels like it has what could be considered a velocity, like it’s trying to smash everything flat. When it’s like this, for the last several years, I use music from Mali as my soundtrack. I have been there twice for the Desert Music Festival and when it’s hot and dry, the music from Malian greats like Terakaft, Tinariwen, Koudede and Vieux Farka Touré is not only great, but somehow makes sense. Also, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Robert Johnson music sounds especially good when it’s hot.

Being on location in Spokane almost every day didn’t allow me to listen to nearly as much music as I wanted to, so I’m going to do my best to make up for lost time. I know that music should be enjoyed but as well, I want to maintain high numbers of records played. This is one of the reasons I keep a list. It’s easy to acquire records but getting them listened to can be challenging. I’m not in competition with anyone, not even myself, I just think that the more music I listen to the better. Also, I think it’s weak to get records and just put them on a shelf and speculate on that time when all will be as it should and you’ll have time to listen. It’s why so many box sets and multiple LP sets sit unheard for years! Some nights, I pull out the 5 LP box of whatever it is and decide that tonight is the night and get into it. Totally works.

It is this effort to keep moving forward with listening, to keep breaking through to new sounds that makes it difficult to allow for time to check out music I’m more familiar with. It is too easy for me to listen to the same ten records over and over but I don’t want to deprive myself of the opportunity to listen to music that is so close to me that it’s part of my genetic code. I think I’m pretty good at keeping the ratio of unheard to previously heard in check so I’m always moving forward. I know it’s a strange topic but I think it’s important to become more and more eclectic as you go, to the point to when someone asks you what kind of music you like, the answer is either really long, going from genre to tangent to too much information to where it’s almost impossible to say. That’s kinda where I am at this point. I just say that I like music a lot and that I’m nothing but a fan. I have heard a lot of people answer this question with, “All kinds of music.” How would you possibly know? That’s right up there with the person who tells you they “know a lot about music.” That’s like saying you know the exact weight of every rain drop that falls past your window during a storm. I would rather remain a humble student. This keeps me open minded and always ready for next turn on. A lot of old bastards like me will tell you that somehow, it was all better when they were young and bands these days don’t really have much to offer. I’m so glad I have not fallen into that trap. The truth is, there are so many great new bands and albums happening every year, it’s all you can do to keep up. It’s a great problem to have.

I have said this many times and I will say it to you: music is humankind’s greatest hit. Scientific and medical breakthroughs are fantastic, all the great inventions that people have been able to come up with to make things better (like records and playback systems) are all well and good but for me, it’s music that is “our” most incredible creation. It makes sense of life. “What is the meaning of life?” is one of the more daft questions ever asked. It has a simple answer: only what you make it. That’s it. Before you die, and you will, you have to find something to do with the time or the time will find something to do with you. Music is almost revenge on this existential blah of life. Music is humans throwing themselves into a moment with everything they have. They are, if they are any good, living for these moments without consideration of anything else but making it the most complete representation of the idea they were trying to put across. This is why an appreciation of Jazz music is so important. Say you put on a record, like A Love Supreme by the Coltrane Quartet or Raw Power by the Stooges, you’re getting the absolute to-the-wall efforts of these people. It’s hyper reality. This is one of the reasons we go to see bands play and listen to records over and over, because these moments are better, more real than regular moments at the workplace or in traffic. It’s also why so many people are let down when they meet someone in a band they admire and find them to be not nearly as amazing as they were when they were playing. You want them to be as incredible as the music but that’s the thing, the music is great, the people who play it just have the ability to get it out of themselves. This is why, whenever I can, I avoid meeting musicians. I’m happy to buy the record and go to the show and leave it there. Meeting them is cool, I guess but it’s nothing I go out of my way to do. I reckon if they’re any good, the music they make is destroying them and there’s nothing I can do to help besides cheering between songs and going to the record store when they have a new release. In a way, they are condemned. This is why I listen to music more than I hang out with people. I’m not someone who dislikes members of my species, quite the opposite, but with great exception, I would rather listen to a good record, alone in a room than be in a room with another person, even if there’s music playing.

It is, however a great thing when you can enjoy music with someone else. Some of my earliest fond memories are hanging out with Ian MacKaye, listening to music. Forty plus years later, we still do it and it’s still great. When I was younger, I used to hang out with people a lot more than I do now and listening to music was a big part of that. It was the music that brought us together. I wouldn’t have met most of these people if it wasn’t for Punk Rock. Now I listen alone but sometimes think of those people. When I listen to certain records, it’s like the songs open a door and the memories, at least versions of them, come back very clearly. The music is exactly the same, so the reference point is static but life changes you, so in a way, the song doesn’t always remain the same if you’re hearing it differently. In this way, even music from decades ago can be in the present. That’s one of the most interesting aspects of music. The music isn’t old, you are. The idea of something being eternal is a little much for me but there is something that’s almost surreal about the fact that this September, Jimi Hendrix will have been gone for forty seven years but when you put the record on, he’s right there in the room with you. That you can do that and listen to the past for hours at a time has never failed to trip me out.

You see, fantastic Radio Helsinki Radio listener, this is why I write these notes, so I don’t waste your time during the show saying all this. Imagine waiting for me to finally shut my mouth just so you can hear a song! No way!

It’s a great gathering of music we have set up for you here. Like I said last week, if you find yourself curious about anything you heard, the internet is bursting with information and free listens.

As far as someone you might not be familiar with but who is really worth checking out, I direct you to track #30. Ulaan Khol is one of the outlets of the very talented Steven R Smith. If you go to his site, you can check out his music. Just my opinion, there isn’t one record he’s done that’s not worth checking out and I believe I have heard them all. If I haven’t, it’s not for a lack of trying. Mr. Smith is an extraordinary musician. If you like what you hear on this show, you might enjoy going further.

Thank you for listening. I am grateful for the opportunity to put all of this together for you.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Ramones - I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement (mono) / 40th Anniversary Edition
02. The Clash - Janie Jones / The Clash
03. Pseudo Existors – Pseudo Existence / Stamp Out Normality
04. Dillinger - Cokane In My Brain / Ultimate Collection
05. Electric Wizard . We Hate You / Dopethrone
06. Jaguar Love – Jaguar Warriors / Hologram Jams
07. The Germs - Lexicon Devil / Germs Complete
08. Ween – Shamemaker / La Cucaracha
09. David Lynch – Movin’ On / Crazy Clown Time
10. The Fall – Smile / Perverted by Language
11. The Panik - Modern Politics / Short Sharp Shock
12. The Stooges – Doojiman / Raw Power (Legacy Edition)
13. The Saints - This Perfect Day single version / (I’m) Stranded (box set edition)
14. The Scientists - Frantic Romantic / A Place Called Bad (compilation)
15. The Sunnyboys - Alone With You / Sunnyboys
16. Slug Guts - Old Black Sweats / Playin’ In Time With the Deadbeat
17. Cold Meat - Praying to the Gaps / Jimmy’s Lipstick
18. Jonny Telafone - The End / Jonny Telafone
19. POW! - Back On The Grid / Crack an Egg
20. The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator / Live 81-82
21. Shinki Chen - Freedom of A Mad Paper Lantern / Shinki Chen
22. Maniacs - You Don’t Break My Heart / Vortex Live
23. UK Subs - You Can’t Take It Any More / Brand New Age
24. Ex Hex - You Fell Apart / Rips
25. Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer / Young Loud and Snotty
26. Guerilla Toss - A Pig Who Feeds / 367 Equalizer
27. Hawkwind – Motorhead / Warrior On The Edge Of Time
28. Hisato Higuchi - Girl Sister / She
29. Clarinette - Time - Before And Time After / The Now Of Then
30. Ulaan Khol - In Tar / Ending / Returning
31. My Cat is an Alien - The Dance Of Oneirism / The Dance Of Oneirism

RADIO BROADCAST #432 07-09–17

Fanatic! I am listening to the tracks for our show right now. It’s my 2nd time through, now that it’s done. Even though I have spent hours listening the tracks, there is something that I really like about hearing it all together. It’s like when you spend hours making a mix tape and even though it took forever, you still want to sit through it all one more time. That’s what I’m doing.

We would like to thank VUM for letting us have access to a new track of theirs. Here is how to find all things VUM: https://vummusic.bandcamp.com. The new track is so cool.

Also, we are rolling out a track from Mikey Young’s new album. It’s great. I hope you dig the track. We’ll be getting most of, if not all of this one. If Your Move Vol. 1 is any indication of where he’s going with his music, I can’t wait to hear Vol. 2.

A few days ago, the force that is John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees and Damaged Bug was over at my office. I interviewed him for Esquire Magazine. Seems that the man has at least one fan over there. I believe it comes out in their August issue. Just my opinion, I think the interview went great. John is very sharp and extremely funny. He’s also quite all there and forthright. I turned over the audio to the editor over there, so I don’t know what parts he will pull for the piece. I will be writing up an intro and if that goes through, then it’s all done. Thee Oh Sees have a new album, Orc, coming out at the end of next month. It’s great. We’ll be getting right into it as soon as the label gives us the green light to turn tracks loose to you.

I hope you dig the show. Next week’s show is all done. Get ready for our first visit with Alan Vega’s last album, IT. Alan never pulled punches and this album is Vega v. Abyss. Alan won, of course.

Until next week, stay hydrated and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Guerilla Toss - Betty Dreams Of Green Men / GT ULTRA
02. La Hell Gang - Last Hit / Thru Me Again
03. POW! - Cyberattack #3 / Crack An Egg
04. Tim Presley - Underwater Rain / The Wink
05. The Minutemen – Warfare / The Punch Line
06. Soccer Team - Problems With Prolonged Youth / Real Lessons In Cynicism
07. Dick Diver - Percentage Points / Melbourne, Florida
08. Ausmuteants - Come Home With Me / Band Of The Future
09. Chain & the Gang - Why Not? / Best of Crime Rock
10. Don Cherry - Awake Nu / Complete Blue Note Recordings
11. Mi-Gu – Feelings / Pulling From Above
12. Dillinger - Eastman Skank / Bionic Dread
13. The Lurkers - Time Of Year / Fulham Fallout
14. Generation X – Kleenex / Generation X
15. Pure Hell - No Rules / Noise Addiction
16. Mikey Young – Socks / Your Move Vol. 1

Hour 2
01. VUM - Heaven Underground / new track! 
02. Dee Dee Ramone - Hop Around / Hop Around
03. The Rites of Spring - Persistent Vision / End On End
04. Melt-Banana - Dead Spex / 13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994-1999)
05. The Scientists - This Is My Happy Hour / single
06. Frank Zappa – WPLJ / Burnt Weenie Sandwich
07. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - Let’s Go! / Haunted Head
08. The Razors – Razors In The Night / Dirty Thirty
09. HTRK – Ha / Marry Me Tonight
10. The Ruts - Savage Circle / The Crack
11. Ty Segall – Pan / Sentimental Goblin
12. Damaged Bug - Mood Slime / Bunker Funk
13. Crystal Fairy – Chiseler / Crystal Fairy
14. CFM - Dead Weight / Dichotomy Desaturated

RADIO HELSINKI #05

Radio Helsinki Listener! Your humble host, Henry Rollins here. I hope you have been listening to the last four shows and they have brought you to show #05 and these notes.

I keep a fairly busy schedule. I try to be as active as possible. I need to work in advance as much as possible. To be on the safe side of things, I make these notes several days in advance. It’s Friday, June 23rd. I am in Spokane, Washington, still. My hitch working on the television show that has had me here for the last two weeks wrapped a few hours ago and at 0445 hrs. tomorrow, I will be heading to the airport and back to Los Angeles.

One of my favorite aspects of listening to music is the idea of ritual. As I have explained in previous notes, I listen to music seasonally but there are some records I play all the time, no matter what time of the year it is. For instance, as I write this, I am listening to one of my favorite albums of all time, Machine Gun Etiquette by the Damned. I got it as soon as it came out in late 1979. We all had the two singles that came out before the album. The Love Song EP with Love Song / Noise, Noise, Noise / Suicide and the Smash It Up / Burglar single. These were big records in the small Washington DC music scene I was in. MGE didn’t disappoint. All these years later, it still sounds great. I do my best to listen to it every Friday evening, no matter where I am or what I’m doing. I think there is something really cool about coming back to a certain place or in this case, a certain record, again and again.

One of the things that has never failed to trip me out is the simple fact that the music on a record doesn’t change, meanwhile, you do. It is not a unique experience to listen to a song and suddenly be transported back to a different time but the power of that has always fascinated me. I’m not interested in living in the past but I think it’s an interesting way to check in with yourself by listening to a record you’re familiar with. There is a certain degree of transference that occurs when you hear an album enough times. The music, in a way, becomes yours.

I have said more than once that one of the best ways to evaluate someone is to check out their record collection. That might seem to you like a superficial way to judge their character but I think it can be a very accurate roadmap by which to understand someone. My record collection, when I look at it objectively, leaves me no other conclusion than I’m an obsessive/train spotter type who needs to get out more often. Fair enough.

I never thought that my record collection made me a better or more interesting person but I am 100% sure they have made my life better and more interesting. Great records are collections of brilliance somehow captured forever. I don’t think I will ever do anything better than a Charlie Parker solo, so I reckon it’s a good idea to have a lot of his music at the ready.

A Friday evening is one of the best chunks of time I have ever known. It requires a great soundtrack. Many years ago, when I was in school, I was unable to enjoy it. I hated every part of it. Friday when the last class was over, I was out of there as fast as I could. I had 48 hours away from the gulag. Immediately, I wanted to hear music. In those days, my favorite Friday post school listens were Led Zeppelin II and IV. As bad as my record player was, they still sounded great. Perhaps this gets to the point I wanted to make. Sometimes the music is more than music, more than a reference of time and place, it is a part of life that exists in all tenses. It is past, present and future. It is yours and whoever else who it touches. It is a filter or a lens through which to assess your existence. I’m not trying to be high minded, I think I’m onto something here. When I listen to the Scary Monsters album by David Bowie, it’s so burned into my mind, I will get through both sides and realize that I don’t remember much of what it sounded like. It would be like trying to describe the sound of your breath. I have played Raw Power by the Stooges so many times, I don’t know if I can tell you why it’s good. It would be like trying to explain to you what it’s like to be alive. Nothing in my life has come close to the greatness of music. I never liked making it or playing it live nearly as much as I like being a listener.

Just so you know, when I put together the shows for our twelve broadcasts, even though I knew the shows were going to air on Wednesday, I had Friday on my mind when I made them. Life is short and often quite mundane. Look at the country I live in. Great place with extraordinarily bad leadership. There isn’t much I can do about that besides vote and do my best not to get caught in the crossfire. In this environment, music is an essential asset.

And this, Radio Helsinki listener, is why I like putting together radio broadcasts. It is an opportunity to create a two hour occurrence, using found sounds, communicating with people I might never meet and being able to make things better for that duration of time.

Hopefully this is what has been achieved with this gathering of songs. It is a mixture of old and new. Over the twelve weeks we are together, I tried to keep the mix slightly geared towards music that might be in rearview. I figured you are up to date on what’s happening now and it might be useful to hear some music you could end up liking that would compel you to dig down and do some searching. There are plenty of new tunes mixed in but I thought that as a concept, this would be an interesting way to go.

I’m willing to bet that you are plenty internet efficient and if you like anything you hear on the show, you can always go online and learn more. In a way, that’s what a big part of these twelve broadcasts are, a set up for further exploration, discovery, epiphany and enjoyment. I hope this is the case. Until next week, thank you for listening and reading this.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program
RADIO HELSINKI #05

01. Negative Trend - How Ya Feelin’ / Negative Trend EP
02. The Beastie Boys - Egg Man / Paul’s Boutique
03. Wire - Lowdown / Pink Flag
04. Devo - Social Fools / B Stiff EP
05. Chain & The Gang - The Logic of Night / Best Of Crime Rock
06. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image / single
07. Deadboy & The Elephantmen - How Long The Night Was / We Are Night Sky
08. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (mono) / White Light/White Heat
09. Joy Division – Disorder / Unknown Pleasures
10. Buzzcocks - Airwaves Dream / Singles Going Steady
11. Kikagaku Moyo - In a Coil / Stone Garden
12. Funkadelic - Super Stupid / Maggot Brain
13. The UK Subs - I.O.D. / Another Kind of Blues
14. Thug - Dave’s Back From Outer Space / Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way
15. Eater - Outside View / single
16. Flin Flon – Darlings / Dixie
17. Rain - That Time Of Year / La Vache Qui Rit
18. Dee Dee King - Mashed Potato Time / Standing in the Spotlight
19. Fats Waller - Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece Of Pie / Last Years (1940-1943)
20. Olivia Neutron-John - Death-Tango / download from site
21. Bark Bark Bark – Haunts / Haunts
22. Jack Name - Do the Shadow / Light Show
23. Trin Tran - Dark Radar / Dark Radar
24. True Widow – Theurgist / Avvolgere
25. Desmond Dekker - 007 (Shanty Town) / The Original Hits
26. Angie - Breathing In Blue / Free Agent
27. CFM - Lethal Look / Dichotomy Desaturated
28. Teledetente 666 - A Chaque Ville sa Folle / Karen
29. Pumice - Tonight The Kids Sleep In The Car / Worldwide Skull
30. Suiix – Planet / download
31. The Ruts - It Was Cold / The Crack

RADIO BROADCAST #431 07-02–17

Fanatic! Have you been clocking the heat?! Good grief, it makes music sound so good. I just got back from Amoeba with some records, so I am ready for the weekend. Have you ever at the last minute when you’re at the counter at Trader Joe’s, thrown a Toblerone into your basket? I did that today at Amoeba. I found a used copy of Like A Virgin on CD for six bucks. I haven’t heard this record for like thirty years. Listening now. The drums are like getting pulled over by ten cop cars!

So glad we are able to roll out a track from the new Mikey Young album. I think it’s his best work yet.

July is going to be great for music. Next week, new VUM in hour 2, the week after, we unleash new Alan Vega from his last album, IT. I have been sitting on these tracks for damn near two years. Can’t wait for you to hear this album. 

You know what I always say in these notes— that we have another great show. Well, it’s true! I always listen down to all the tracks in one go to make sure there’s nothing dragging and this one passed the test. It’s perfect weather for the Russell Street Bombing album. We haven’t listened to that one for awhile.

I started work on next week’s show yesterday. I will resume later today and see where the heat takes me. We hope you dig the show and that you listen to it at least twice.

Stay hydrated and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Isaac Hayes - Theme From ‘Shaft’ / Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2
02. Jimi Hendrix - Freedom / Cry of Love
03. Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To / Black Rose
04. Discharge - Protest And Survive / Protest And Survive
05. Partyline - Girls Like Me / Girls With Glasses
06. Mikey Young - Walking for Pleasure / Your Move Vol. 1
07. Russell Street Bombings - Give Us Away / Russell Street Bombings
08. Bat Rider - Homie Gnomie (Clean) / Why We Can’t Be Together
09. Dick Diver - New Start Again / New Start Again
10. Squatweiler - Should I / Full Bladder
11. Levitations – Mallorca / Typical Girls Vol. 2
12. Pel Mel - No Word From China / Tales From the Australian Underground
13. Jaguar Love - Don’t Die Alone / Hologram Jams
14. Mikey Dread - Bond Street Corner / single
15. Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster / Floating Coffin

Hour 2
01. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Waves Over Shadows / Balance
02. Mdou Moctar - Iblis Amghar / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai
03. David Bowie - I Can’t Explain / Pin Ups
04. Doctor Mix and the Remix - I Can’t Control Myself / Wall of Sound
05. The Minutemen - Fake Contest / What Makes a Man Start Fires?
06. Holland – Tranquilizer / Drums
07. UK Subs - Bomb Factory / Brand New Age
08. Cedell Davis – Propaganda / When Lightnin’ Struck the Pine
09. Tom Waits - The Return Of Jackie And Judy / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
10. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Drop Dead Baby / Reverse Shark Attack
11. Dinosaur Jr. – Budge / Bug
12. Julee Cruise - The Swan / Floating Into the Night
13. HTRK – Sweetheart / 12” 
14. Teledetente 666 - Monsieur Marcaille Is Watching You / Karen  
15. TV-Resistori – Intiaanidisko / Summer and Smiles of Finland
16. Pontiak - This is Living / Living

RADIO HELSINKI #04

Radio Helsinki Listener! Before anything else, thank you for checking out the shows I have put together for Radio Helsinki.

I make radio shows twelve months a year for KCRW FM in California, so I am used to coming up with lists of tracks for all times of the year. Putting together radio shows is one of the best tasks I have ever taken on. It never gets boring, never feels like a “job” or drudgery laden obligation. That being said, without a doubt, warm weather is my favorite time of the year to make a radio show. Elevated temperature, while sometimes makes sleep difficult, I think, inspires the imagination and allows sound to bloom in the mind. While I have no information to support this idea, while it is only an opinion, I think that air in the warmer months of the year transports music better. To be succinct, I think music sounds better in warm weather.

Radio Helsinki Lister, what you have here with this particular show, is my current favorite of our shows so far. As I usually do, I am writing these notes to you as I listen to the show, and I must say, I am really enjoying it. I am willing to bet that I felt the same way about last week’s show when I was listening to it, and will feel about next week’s show. It’s not the worst contradiction to be caught in.

Our show starts with a track by the Bad Brains. At this point, I don’t think this band needs any introduction. Not only did the they have a major impact on me and others in the small Punk scene in Washington DC, where I come from, but in time, would permanently impact the world of Independent music.

The first time I saw the Bad Brains play was on June 24, 1979 at a venue called the Bayou when they opened for the Damned. If you have ever had the experience of a show truly changing the way you thought about things, you know hard to forget that can be. 1979 was a year, perhaps the year where I realized I that music, one way or another, was going to be the major element in my life that would influence anything else I would do going forward. Even if I just ended working in the same office building for the rest of my life, it was going to be a life understood through the filter of music. WARNING. GETTING TOO FAR AFIELD ALERT: Not to get too far afield, but 1979 was the year I graduated from school and was fully turned loose into the wilds of the adult world with all its risk and consequence. The only thing that had prepared me was hundreds of hours spent working minimum wage jobs that taught me well how tough things were going to be for me. Music was a primary asset in pushing back against the hard knocks I knew were coming my way. Incidentally, I was right about the knocks and right about music being the right thing to have at the ready. Anyway, this show was the first time I ever saw the Bad Brains. I knew of their existence but didn’t know what to expect when they hit stage. Absolutely nothing in my life musically prepared me for their set. I remember that they being the opening band, played in front of a crowd a fraction of the size that would greet the Damned a little over an hour later. The dance floor was basically, empty. Those who were there, for the most part, hung back. Myself, Ian MacKaye, and a few others went right up to the front and checked them out. Song after song, they seemed to reinvent music and redefine what it could be. Later, when I staggered out of the venue, two songs from their set were lodged in my mind. I didn’t know their titles at the time, but they were Why’d You Have To Go and Pay To Cum. It was the latter that was the source of our conversation as we made our way back to our cars. We simply couldn’t comprehend what had happened in the approximately two minutes that it took for the band to perform it. We didn’t understand what the singer was saying but more importantly, how he was saying it. Later that year, the band released a two song 7” with Pay To Cum and Stay Close To Me. It is this version with which we start the show. It is ninety three seconds of unbelievability.

I thought it would be perfect to go into Transmission by Joy Division right after the Bad Brains, thinking that I had to put in a song that was so good on every possible level, that it could stand up to the track that came before. There is no better band than Joy Division. There are bands absolutely as good and bands you might like better, of course but when you really consider what’s has been brought to bear over the decades of released music, Joy Division is on the same level of brilliance of any band or artist you can think of. I absolutely understand that you might disagree and that’s perfectly fine with me but we both know who’s right. This BBC version of Transmission is interesting, without the production touches of Martin Hannett or the frenzied delivery that Joy Division was unable to avoid in live performances. If you have never checked out live recordings of Joy Division, you have not heard a fraction of what this band could do. The studio albums are great. Live, from what I have been able to hear, never having actually witnessed one of their shows, the band was one of the most intense groups to have ever been on any stage anywhere. I am no expert but have heard every live Joy Division recording, authorized or otherwise, that I have been able to locate and none of them are anything less than mind-blowing.

Not to drag you through a song-by-song analysis, (which would be fun to do but I don’t seek to capitalize on your time too much) but our third track, I Am Seeing UFOs, features one of the more obscure Joey Ramone vocal performances. Joey rarely shows up on other band’s records. This was Dee Dee, an ex-bandmate but it’s a rare occurrence nonetheless. Like many of Dee Dee’s songs and Joey’s vocals, it’s a great one. The album that holds this track, Zonked, also has a song called Bad Horoscope that features a great performance by an absolute genius, one Lux Interior, another person who didn’t often stray from his own camp.

The Birthday Party, a band with no bad songs, had obvious respect for the Stooges. At different times, covered Loose and Fun House with some frequency, but from my collection of live tapes, included a live version of Little Doll from the Stooges’ first album far less times. I have been able to find one time the band performed this song and wow is it a great version. I thought we should check it out.

I don’t know if you noticed, but there are a lot of bands from Australia in this batch of tunes. No specific reason besides that it would seem that every third person in Australia happens to be in a band and is really good. The last time I was there, in September of last year, I found so many records, Road Manager Ward had to get an extra suitcase to get them back to Los Angeles. Not old records, although I found a few, but new music by bands that are happening right now. Ever since I started making trips to Australia in 1989, I have been continually knocked out by the sheet tonnage of great music that consistently comes out of there. If you at all like any of the Australian tunes you’re hearing on this show, please explore further. I promise you a break from so much Australian songs next week but will warn you that we will be once again dipping into the canon of Dee Dee Ramone.

As I write this to you, I am on location, working on a television show. It’s a night off, which is useful, considering the last two days were fight scenes that took hours to complete. I have been in a lot of them while working on shows over the years and have learned a few things so I don’t get too dented up but nonetheless, getting knocked around is part of it and I am feeling it today. I am using music as pain relief. Works every time.

I don’t know about you but listening to music never gets boring and rarely a day goes by where I don’t get something listened to. Few things in life work as well. I hope you dig these tunes. Next week’s show is all done and delivered. Please tune in if you can.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum / single
02. Joy Division – Transmission / BBC Recordings
03. Dee Dee Ramone - I Am Seeing UFOs
04. Egg Hunt - Me And You / Egg Hunt
05. Unrest - Cath Carroll / Perfect Teeth
06. Ty Segall - The Crawler / Manipulator
07. Birthday Party - Little Doll / November 06 1981 Eindhoven Holland
08. Russell Street Bombings - Give Us Away / Russell Street Bombings
09. X Ray Spex - I Can’t Do Anything / Germ Free Adolescents
10. Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening / Black Rhythm Happening
11. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – WPLJ / Burnt Weeny Sandwich
12. The Julie Ruin - I Decide / Hit Reset
13. Teen Idles - Trans Am / Dischord 100
14. Antelope - Wandering Ghost / Reflector
15. Minced Meat - The World’s Got Everything In It / Leather Donut
16. The Mark of Cain - Walk Away / Ill at Ease
17. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - King Tubby’s Key / Freedom Sounds In Dub
18. Straight Arrows – Breakdown / Rising
19. Dinosaur Jr.- Tiny / Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
20. Buzzcocks - Whatever Happened To / Singles Going Steady
21. Ex-Cult - Hollywood Heatseeker / Negative Growth
22. Arndales - Holiday Inns / Dog Hobbies USA
23. Terry - Tippy Toppy / single
24. Ausmuteants - Freedom of Information / Order of Operation
25. Supersystem - White Light / White Light / A Million Microphones
26. Wand - M.E. / Golem
27. Scott Walker - Next / Scott 2
28. The Panik - Modern Politics / Short Sharp Shock
29. Butch Willis & the Rocks - The TV’s From Outer Space / Repeats
30. Kraftwerk – Dentaku / Computer World
31. Puce Mary - Everything Stays the Same / Success

RADIO BROADCAST #430 06-25–17

Fanatic! I have a day off from rolling and tumbling on set. With the power of the two ibuprofen tablets I took an hour ago to neutralize the effects of getting tossed around like a near sixty year old ragdoll and long visits to the gym, I am able issue these notes. I am listening to the tracks for our show and I must say, I do believe we’ve done it again.

I know, I know, it might only be a radio show to you, Fanatic but to me, it’s much more. It’s a chance to check in, from anywhere in the world, and hop onto the same page for a brief period of time and dig humankind’s bestest creation. The fact that you can be in Germany,  Australia the United States or damn near anywhere else and hear the show is as cool as it gets. This is why so much care goes into making the show.

It’s been surprisingly hot where I’ve been. I’ve been getting in listening opportunities when I can. The hours I am keeping are pretty demanding and after work, I’m not good for much.

Knowing I wasn’t in the shot today, I worked late last night on the press release for Alex Cameron’s next album. I really don’t write these things so when I got past a thousand words, I stopped and sent it to Secretly Canadian for advice, lest I be running too far afield. They wrote back and said they liked what they read but it had to be less words. I think I’m going to finish my crazy version for fun and send the label a severe edit. I don’t know if I’m at liberty to talk much about the album, which comes out later in the year. I will say that is incredible.

There are some GREAT records coming out this year. We will get first crack at them and I will do my best to get the tracks to you either before the album comes out or within a few days.

For now, dig this fantastic dip into the sea of tunes. As I am writing this, the Miles track is playing. Love it!

Listen up and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Eddie Kendricks - Keep on Truckin’ / 70’s Gold
02. Living Eyes - All in Good Time / Living Large
03. King Tubby & Prince Jammy - A Heavy Dub / Dub Gone 2 Crazy : In Fine Style 1975-1979
04. Jay Reatard - Searching For You / Singles 06-07
05. Metal Urbain – Futurama / Anarchy In Paris!
06. Fugazi - Latest Disgrace / Red Medicine
07. Die Cheerleader - Pigskin Parade / Son Of Filth
08. The Stooges - 1969 (alt vocal) / The Stooges
09. X Ray Spex – Identity / Germ Free Adolescents
10. The Intelligence - I Hear Depression / Fake Surfers
11. Beasts Of Bourbon - El Beasto / Black Milk
12. Miles Davis - Au Bar Du Petit Bac / Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud
13. Aias – Moto / A La Piscina
14. Ramones - It’s a Long Way Back to Germany (UK b-side) / Rocket to Russia (CD extra track) 
15. Ex-Cult - Mr. Investigator / Negative Growth
16. These Are Powers - Twin Remains / Taro Tarot

Hour 2
01. Cat’s Eyes - Girl in the Room / Treasure House
02. Cellular Chaos - Re-make/Re-model / Cellular Chaos
03. Boys Next Door - Somebody’s Watching / Door Door
04. Sort Sol - Off Morning / Dagger & Guitar
05. Anton Bruhin - Congo / Von Goldabfischer
06. POW! - Sugi Walks / Hi-Tech Boom
07. Midnite Snaxxx - No Time To Spend / Typical Girls Volume 2
08. The Calico Wall - Flight Reaction / Trash Box Vol. 3
09. Dax Riggs - Thing In A Jar / Velvet Songs For Golden Skulls
10. Misfits - TV Casualty / Static Age
11. Deerhoof - Mothball The Fleet / Breakup Song
12. Erase Errata - Tax Dollar / Nightlife
13. Soccer Team - Friends Who Know / Real Lessons in Cynicism
14. Mark Robinson - Tasty Black Licorice / 2003 Teenbeat Sampler
15. PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta / To Bring You My Love
16. Joy Division - Failures / Substance 1977-1980

RADIO HELSINKI #03

Radio Helsinki Listener!  Here we are, back together again for show number three. You hung in for the first two, don’t let apathy sing its teeth into your enthusiasm. Including this show, we have another ten opportunities to rock out this summer here on Radio Helsinki. This is a marathon, not a sprint. One show a week, come on now, you can do it!

As I write this, I am on location, working on a television show. I have been out here for about two weeks and have one more to go. In this environment, my listening options are limited. As I often find myself living on tour busses and hotels, I have learned keep the quality of playback as high as possible. Some of my gear is as follows:

The Dash7 portable speaker system by Soundmatters. I never travel without this. You can plug it into your laptop, phone or other listening device. Sounds incredible and has a self-contained battery that holds a charge for hours. It features a USB connector for easy recharging. An incredibly smart piece of gear. You can go to the Soundmatters site to learn more.

To increase the playback quality, between the sound source and the speakers, be it the Dash7 or headphones, I use a Shure SHA900, which accomplishes digital to analog conversion excellently. The difference in quality is not subtle. Great piece of gear. I use this all the time, even when I am just listening in headphones.

While it’s not a turntable and tube amps, these components improve listening to a great degree. I am presently ensconced in a coffee place near the hotel. I am checking out a play list of tunes I listen to on the weekend, mostly tracks that I am very familiar with. I am using an iPod, going through the SHA900, and into a pair of SRH1540 headphones, again, by Shure. They are bulky but whenever I can afford the space in my pack, I bring them along. For long installations such as the one I’m on now, they are mandatory gear.

As always, this show is all about the music. We start our show with a track from Iggy Pop, the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Rock and Roll. The title track from one of his most memorable albums, Lust for Life. I thought we should start with this particular tune because when I was making the show, knowing where it was going, I remembered a show in Seinäjoki, June 6, 1996 where I watched Iggy and his band play this song. Iggy invited the audience to come onstage and join him. Unsurprisingly, the security staff was less that pleased with the idea of people climbing over the barricade and onto the stage. They did their best to minimize the flow. Iggy reminded the security personnel whose show it was and beyond making sure no one was injured on their way to the stage, security let audience members pass. Soon, the stage was full of people, which was dressed for the band that would be headlining, right after Iggy’s set. You have probably heard of them, they are called the Cure. The stage, in preparation for the main event, had flowers in pots and vases, stored on the side, with which to adorn the stage. I bet it would have looked really swell. I say would have because almost as soon as Iggy saw them, he started smashing them. The Cure’s road crew weren’t happy about that but I saw a couple of them laughing. Neither were they all that stoked when they saw Iggy kick some of the footlights attached to the front of the stage, breaking them. The celebrants onstage with Iggy, took their cue from the man and started breaking some of the flower pots themselves. Soon, the stage was covered in crushed flowers, shattered pottery and soil. Iggy had passed the mic off to someone and had found a way to become partially covered with the potting soil, as well as start bleeding from somewhere on his chest. The overall effect was pretty amazing. Iggy killed it that night. He is one to never miss. I have seen him play four times this year. 

Later that evening, at the hotel, I met Hanoi Rocks singer Mike Monroe. I had been a fan of the band for many years and it was very cool to meet him. I figured we could afford to listen to one of my favorite Hanoi tracks as well.

Radio Helsinki Listener, I have to steady myself while checking out this evening’s playlist. It’s one amazing track after another. What I have attempted to do, over these twelve shows, is to not only drop in many of my longstanding favorites of course, but also, to mix in artists that are making music right now, touring right now, and releasing great records right now. Three of which I would like to bring your attention to.

The first is Le Butcherettes, fronted by Teri Gender Bender, also known as Teresa Suarez, is not to be missed. She not only has Le Butcherettes, who are great but as well, she is in a band that we listened to on our first show called Crystal Fairy with Buzzo and Dale of the Melvins and Omar of At the Drive-In, the Mars Volta, and yet another band called Bosnian Rainbows. There is not one record she has been a part of that I think should go unheard. I have only seen her with Le Butcherettes. Both times, they were awesome. I ran into her and Omar in Mexico City weeks ago, backstage at an Iggy show. Teresa said she will hopefully be working on a new Le Butcherettes record at some point this year.

The second is an Australian named Alex Cameron. The man is singular as he is talented. I am frustrated that I cannot play you any tracks from his upcoming album. It’s coming out after our time together is over on the Secretly Canadian label. I have been working on a press release for the album, so I was lucky to get a chance to hear it weeks ago. I have never heard anyone like Alex. Scott Walker meets a David Lynch film?! The track we rock on this show is from a record he released a couple of years ago called Jumping The Shark. It’s a concept album about a has-been, trying to make a come-back. It’s hilarious and serious at the same time. If you go online and look, you can check out the video for the song we are playing on our show. I think within a few seconds you’ll get it. I saw him live a few weeks ago. One of the coolest shows I have seen in ages. This man is not to be missed!

The third is one Ian Svenonious. Please, never miss anything released by this guy. He of The Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Cupid Car Club, David Candy, Weird War, The Scene Creamers, The Felt Letters, XZY, and for the last few years, Chain and the Gang. Another one of those artists who has been around for many years and thankfully, quite prolific. This year, without surprise, he will have at least two records out. The first of which, The Best Of Crime Rock, came out recently on the excellent In The Red Records label. It’s not for me to talk about what other stuff Mr. S has lined up for later this year as it’s parade but I have heard some of what is to be and I can’t wait to hear the rest. We rocked XYZ last week, The Felt Letters the week before and on this show, it’s a Chain track from the Minimum Rock n Roll album, released in 2014.

Otherwise, our selection hopefully hits enough corners of the record store to keep things interesting.

Information on all of the bands and artists we’re listening to on our show here is easily found online, so if you want to hear more and find out more, that’s entirely up to you. I hope you dig the tunes and hopefully listen at least two more times!

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Our Program

01. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life / Lust For Life
02. The Misfits - Static Age / Static Age
03. New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy / New York Dolls
04. Hanoi Rocks - Taxi Driver / Self Destruction Blues
05. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Kill Surf City / Barbed Wire Kisses
06. Q and Not U - Soft Pyramids / Different Damage
07. Le Butcherettes - Take A Step Back / A Raw Youth
08. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - It’s All Square / So Many Things
09. Alex Cameron – Mongrel / Jumping the Shark
10. Cat’s Eyes – Drag / Treasure House
11. Mi-Gu - The Drummer and the Dancer / Pulling From Above
12. Generation X – Kleenex / Generation X   2:07
13. Empire - Electric Guitar / Expensive Sound
14. Chain and the Gang - Mum’s the Word / Minimum Rock n Roll
15. Rowland S. Howard - Breakdown / Teenage Snuff Film
16. The Alan Vega Trio - The Werewolf / Cubist Blues
17. Kim Salmon - Already Turned Out Burned Out (Fast Burn) / My Script
18. Marnie Stern - Year of the Glad / The Chronicles of Marnia
19. Wire - Map Ref. 41ºn 93ºw / 154
20. Killing Joke – Change / Killing Joke
21. Dillinger – Ragnampiza / Bionic Dread
22. Astral Skulls – Landing / Contact-Light
23. Avarus - Mars On Paljastanut Salaisuutensa / Ruskeatimantti
24. Pharmakon – Autoimmune / Bestial Burden
25. Uton – Pilkahduksia / Ummet Ja Lammet
26. Jimi Hendrix - 3rd Stone From The Sun (mono) / Are You Experienced

RADIO BROADCAST #429 06-18–17

Fanatic! Another week, another great show all lined up for you. I am on location, doing some acting work. I put this show together right before I left. A lot of our sonic allies for their place on our stellar roster.

I have a lot of rehearsal to do before my early rise tomorrow, so I will have to keep this short. We hope you dig the show and we’ll be back with you next week with more jams.

Keep the music playing and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01. Generation X - Your Generation / K.M.D-Sweet Revenge Xtra
02. The Ruts - Babylon’s Burning / The Punk Singles Collection
03. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Lurch / Haunted Head
04. Lost Sounds - Future Touch / Future Touch
05. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Subway / The Power Of Negative Thinking
06. POW! - Color The System / Crack An Egg
07. Lone Ranger - Fist To Fist Days Done / single
08. The UK Subs - C.I.D. / The Singles 1978 – 1892
09. Le Butcherettes – Tonight / Sin Sin Sin
10. XYZ - Where Do You Come From? / XYZ
11. Serge Gainsbourg - La Bas C’est Naturel / Couleur Café 
12. Black Eyes - On the Sacred Side / Black Eyes
13. The Fall - Couldn’t Get Ahead / This Nation’s Saving Grace
14. Skoodle-Dum-Doo & Sheffield - Gas Ration Blues / Rare Country Blues Vol. 02
15. HTRK - Kiss Before The Fall / Marry Me Tonight
16. David Bowie - Because You’re Young / Monsters To Ashes
17. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets / Here Come the Warm Jets

Hour 2
01. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision / The Image Has Cracked
02. Wire - I Am The Fly / Chairs Missing
03. Alan Vega – Fireball / Alan Vega
04. The Ooga Boogas - Neon Sunset / The Booga Box
05. Parliament - Red Hot Mama / single
06. Lucifer - It’s Lucifer! / Lucifer
07. The Sonics - Shot Down / Psycho-Sonic
08. Dizu Plaatjes - Outalo Ntsintsi / Ibuyambo
09. The Stooges - Down On The Street (single version) / Fun House re-issue
10. Flin Flon - Medicine Hat / Teenbeat 20
11. La Sera - Never Come Around / La Sera  
12. Dog Chocolate - Be a Bloody River / Snack Fans
13. The Dictaphone - Exit Timelines / Tp Hss
14. Hierophants – Stress / Parallax Error
15. Don Cherry - The Thing / Where’s Brooklyn? 
16. Cigarette - Well Round / Gush
17. Point Juncture WA – Candyland / Me Or The Party

RADIO HELSINKI #02

Radio Helsinki Listener! Here we are, back together again. It’s not like I can ask you what you thought of last week’s show, but I hope you liked it enough to come back again this week.

At this point, it was months ago that I was asked to make these shows for you. Twelve shows is a lot of work that takes a lot of time. There was no pay offered and none asked for. So, why did I sign on to put together these shows on top of the one I make for KCRW FM in California? Because to me, it’s always worth taking the opportunity to spread music to other people. I think music is humankind’s greatest achievement. The more you listen, the better things are.

When I was young, I understood early on that I wasn’t fitting in with other kids at school. I couldn’t keep up in class and wasn’t good at sports. I wasn’t picked on all that much, nor was I excluded, I just wasn’t a part of things. For a few years, it bugged me. I wanted, or thought I wanted to be part of a group of people, to have a lot of friends. It’s a natural instinct and not a bad one. I could tell that it wasn’t going to happen and that I was one of those “strange kids” that you can find in any mass of kids. Somewhere around sixteen years of age, I had found one or two people at school to hang out with and that was okay but mostly, I worked at jobs and hung out on my own. In a way, I had a semi-adult lifestyle. After school, I would go to a store to work, where I was given responsibility. I handled money, had the keys to the place, etc. I liked it and I liked making my own money and not ever asking my parents for an allowance.

It was with this money that I bought records. It seemed to me the best possible thing to do with my earnings besides saving. You could play a record over and over and in a lot of ways, they were better than friends.

Luckily, when I was young, I became best friends with a guy name Ian MacKaye. This is the same one you might know from Minor Threat and Fugazi. We both lived in the same neighborhood and liked music. We would hang out in each other’s rooms listening to music and whenever we could, go to record stores.

In the late 1970’s we heard bands like the Clash, the Damned, and the Ramones. Having previously checked out shows by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Van Halen, needless to say, this music was hitting us in a completely different way. The shows were so different than arena shows. We go right up to the font and really feel it. This is when we became totally music obsessed. Ian started playing in a band that eventually called themselves the Teen Idles and he co-founded Dischord Records, which released the Teen Idles Minor Disturbance EP in 1980.

Besides going to as many shows as we could, we would listen to hours of music. Listening to vinyl was one thing but the mix tape became one of the single most important pieces of music media we had. Vinyl had to be listened to in a room. We were in cars, at skate ramps or places where there was no turntable, so we all became tape makers. We would spend hours working on them. I still have almost all of my mix tapes from almost forty years ago, as does Ian, and they still sound great. It’s amazing what a stable medium they are. It was while making tapes that I got the idea you could communicate via what songs you put on the tape and in what order. I became fascinated by how order and variety could affect the listening experience. Also, the ability to really personalize the overall, was irresistible to me.

The ultimate version of all this was radio. To be hanging out with an unseen listener, who was out there somewhere, I figured that had to be one of the coolest jobs ever. I am sure a lot of my references are arcane or at least old but there was a film, very much worth checking out, called released in 1973 called American Graffiti. I watch it every several years and in my opinion at least, it holds up quite well. The legendary disc jockey Wolfman Jack had a cameo that knocked me out. You can watch some of his scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99z-H_NEccU. I thought this was the job of jobs. All alone in the middle of the night, connecting the dots way out there in the darkness. In the film, he seemed almost like a phantom. That’s what I wanted to do.

Being in a band sometimes affords you a lot of opportunities. In the 1980’s, I was asked to take over radio shows on college stations and at one point, started training at a station called KCRW, where I got instruction from Deirdre O’Donoghue. She was incredible. We became very good friends and stayed that way until she passed away in 2001. In 2004, I was offered a weekly show at a station called Indie 103.1 FM. This place was too good to last. Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols had a show, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, Rob Zombie, we all had a great time. The station closed down in 2009. About a week later, I got a call from some station called KCRW, asking if I wanted to bring my show there. That’s where I’ve been ever since.

I really like making radio shows. So, this is why I said yes when I was asked. Hell of a long explanation, right? Well, now you know.

The best possible part of all this is, if you look below, we have some fantastic music to listen to. I am able to brag about this part freely because I had nothing to do with any of the greatness of this music, I just put it in front of you. I’m just merely the arranger, in the smallest of small print.

It probably wouldn’t surprise you that almost all of these bands and songs have stories. The records themselves are often rare and I acquired them from points all over. You should see Road Manager Ward and I on tour. We hit records stores all over the world. We are dragging vinyl back from every damn where. All the music we will be listening to in our almost three months together is a product of an obsession with music and the full knowledge that there is great stuff to be found anywhere from any year. All you have to do is be open minded and you are greeted by the universe of music. It is a very, I mean very good place.

Should you become curious about any of the tunes, the internet, your local records store and sites like Discogs, are your friends.

I keep scrolling down and looking at the list of songs. Damn, this is a great one! Until next week, thank you for listening.

–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi
Our Program

01. Stooges - Down On The Street / Fun House
02. The Cramps - Five Years Ahead Of My Time / How To Make A Monster
03. Ivan - Real Wild Child / The Golden Age Of American Rock ‘N’ Roll - Vol. 6
04. The Weirdos - Life Of Crime / Weird World Vol. 1
05. The Tuff Monks - After the Fireworks / single
06. Suicide - Ghost Rider / Suicide
07. The Saints - (I’m) Stranded / (I’m) Stranded
08. Black Tambourine - By Tomorrow / Complete Recordings
09. The Gun Club - Nobody’s City / Mother Juno (re-issue CD)
10. The Calico Wall - I’m A Living Sickness / Trash Box Vol. 3
11. Jah Lion - Soldier & Police War / Columbia Colly
12. The Ruts - In A Rut / Singles Collection
13. Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks / Born Too Loose
14. Pere Ubu - Final Solution / Terminal Towers
15. David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards / Scary Monsters
16. Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things / You’re Living All Over Me
17. Sort Sol – Abyss / Dagger & Guitar
18. The Horrors - Do You Remember / Primary Colours
19. Rites of Spring - Drink Deep / End On End
20. Tim Presley - Underwater Rain / The Wink
21. Damaged Bug - Rubber Lips / single
22. Ooga Boogas - Studio Of My Mind / Booga Box
23. XYZ - Drum Machine / XYZ
24. Panbers – Haai / Those Shocking, Shaking Days
25. Georgie James - Cake Parade / Need Your Needs
26. Lower Plenty - Strange Beast / Hard Rubbish
27. Summer Flake - You Can Have It All / You Can Have It All
28. Sleep - The Clarity / 12”

RADIO BROADCAST #428 06-11–17

Fanatic! This is going to be a great show. I have played it through a few times and it’s sounding fantastic.

My new book, Before The Chop III just came out. Information is on the site.

I have been listening to the three LP Iggy at the Royal Albert Hall set for the last two days. I was at the show and the album brings it right back. If you got to see the tour and want a great document of it or missed the tour and want to hear what you missed, it’s pricey but worthwhile.

There will be some great records out this month. I am looking forward to vinyl of Mikey Young’s Your Move Vol. 1 album.

I hope you dig all these tunes. Next week’s show is in the works and it’s looking to be another one not to miss.

Thanks for checking out these notes and STAY FANATIC!!!  
–– Henry

Twitter: @henryrollins
Instagram: HenryandHeidi

Hour 1
01.Chain & The Gang Certain Kinds of Trash / Best of Crime Rock
02. EL Guapo - I Don’t Care / Fake French
03. The Melvins - Set Me Straight / Houdini
04. White Fence - Arrow Man / For the Recently Found Innocent
05. Buzzcocks - Raison Detre / A Different Kind of Tension
06. Alternative TV - Jane’s Not At Home / Punk Life
07. Swell Maps - Steven Does / A Trip To Marineville (from 7” that came w/original LP) 
08. The Bags – Survive / Dangerhouse Volume One
09. King Tubby - Bad Boy Riddim Dub / Loving Memory
10. Empire – Today / Expensive Sound
11. Twerps - Fern Murderers / Range Anxiety
12. Air Miami - Afternoon Train / Me. Me. Me.  
13. Molly Nilsson - Wounds Itch When They Heal / These Things Take Time
14. Summer Flake – Racecar / Where Do I Go EP
15. Alan Vega - Kung Foo Cowboy / Alan Vega
16. David Bowie - Move On / Lodger
17. HTRK - Bendin’ / Work (Work, Work)

Hour 2
01. Motörhead – Electricity / Bad Magic
02. The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator / Live 81-82
03. The Cramps - Five Years Ahead Of My Time / How to Make A Monster
04. Flowers - Meekshi Manoo / Raks Raks Raks
05. Straight Arrows - Haunted Out / It’s Happening
06. The Ruts - Demolition Dancing / Grin and Bear It
07. Ty Segall - Drug Mugger / Mr. Face EP
08. Young Marble Giants - The Man Amplifier / Colossal Youth
09. The Saints - This Time / Prehistoric Sounds
10. Steven R Smith - Across The Flats / Owl
11. Wire - Used To / Chairs Missing
12. The Skodas - Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad / Avon Calling
13. Hierophants - Hail Stones / Parallax Error
14. Muuttuvat Kasvot – Kaukaisuus / Muuttuvat Kasvot
15. Robert Pete Williams - Graveyard Blues / Legacy of the Blues
16. Bad Brains – I / Greatest Riffs
17. Iggy & The Stooges - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell / Raw Power