#338 with Russ Van Cleave

Summary: Oh, man. ADD/C was right. Busy days, indeed. I finally found enough spare minutes to crank out another podcast. No particular format or theme here – just another grouping of enjoyable tunes that have been floating their compressions and rarefractions across the air molecules in the vicinity of my stereo. I am struck – having now looked at this list – by the fact that the oldest song on here dates back to about 1981 and only one other song here was recorded in the ‘80s, i.e. this is a relatively recent collection of jams compared to what I usually whip together. Times are weird and gettin' weirder. –Russ Van Cleave To download the file to your computer, right click the link below and select "save target as..." It's a hefty file, so it may take some time to download to your computer. To play the file without downloading (it depends on your computer's configuration for playing music files), just click it. Your media player should recognize what to do with an mp3. (If it doesn't, you're on your own.) RAZORCAKE PODCAST #338 If you have any problems or helpful suggestions you can contact us through the website here. In the subject put “Podcast.” Hope you enjoy listening. Tracklisting: The Doughboys, “I Remember” from Whatever(MTL) --- Hard-Ons, “Throw It In” from Love Is a Battlefield of Wounded Hearts(Taang!) Bombsite, “Planted Seeds” from V/A No Slow…All Go! (The Daggers / Half-Mast) French Exit, “When There's a Fork in the Road, Take It” from Guts & Black Stuff (It's Alive) --- ADD/C, “Itch” from Busy Days (Mauled By Tigers / Plan-It-X South) Pete Shelley, “Homosapien” from Homosapien(Uh-Wrist-Ah) Small, “Toastmaster” from Chin Music(Alias) --- The Draft, “Wired” from In a Million Pieces (No Idea) Action Patrol, “Tube” from 1993-96: On Patrol (Whirled) Rivethead, “Thirty Miles Down” from City Sound Number Five (Blood Of The Young) --- Ye Olde Buttfuck, “Special News” from The Burden of the Southern Future(Raw Sugar) The Y, “Rubik's Dude” from Sooo… Intense(Soooo Intense) Dark Rides, “Dance for Rain” from Dark Rides (Do Ya Hear We) --- Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer, “Redemption Song” from Unearthed(Universe Aluminum) Doughboys: I know I started another recent podcast off with a Doughboys song awhile back, but I just couldn't help it. While I would consider Home Again to be their best record, I felt that this song from their first LP would be a good opening rocker for this installment. I'll try and bring everything full circle eventually in future podcasts with some Asexuals and All Systems Go!, but probably not before we branch off into some Big Drill Car and M.I.A. Hard-Ons: This is one of the best songs from what I would consider to be the best Hard-Ons record. Whenever life has got you down, just remember that the most successful independent band ever to come out of Australia is named after a slang word for male erections. Bombsite: I just saw a review of a release from this classic MPLS band in the last Razorcake. Apparently, Bombsite has just released a collection of sorts, so I had to pull this gem out of the archives. I first heard these guys on theNo Slow…All Go! Comp. I bought that comp at behest of the merch guy at the first D4 show I saw and it turned me on to a bunch of great MPLS bands: Man Afraid, Code 13, The Salteens, Dirt Poor and, of course, these guys. French Exit: Continuing with the Razorcake theme, I decided to play a song from one of the featured bands from the last issue. Some kind soul at Razorcake HQ dropped this CD in with my subscription renewal and I've been rockin' it ever since. ADD/C: ChattanoogaRockCity! A cut from the highly recommended Busy Days LP. Pete Shelley: I