Sinko Music Podcast

119: Summer

2009-07-03T01:00:00.000-04:00

1. Belle & Sebastian - Song For Sunshine
2. Art Brut - Soundtrack of the Summer
3. Weezer - Island In The Sun
4. Neutral Nation - Bad Music Beach
5. The Queers - This Sandal Shit

118: Los Angeles

2009-06-26T01:00:00.003-04:00

1. Frank Black - Los Angeles
2. Missing Persons - Walking in L.A.
3. People Under The Stairs - The L.A. Song
4. Jurassic 5 - Lausd
5. X - Los Angeles

117: This is Boston

2009-06-19T01:00:00.002-04:00

...and the surrounding neighborhoods.

1. The Standells - Dirty Water
2. The Allstonians - Brighton Memories
3. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bridges, Squares
4. Dropkick Murphys - For Boston
5. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - They Came to Boston

116: Short & Raw

2009-06-12T01:00:00.000-04:00

Rick MacDonald provides this week's guest podcast, the shortest Sinko ever...

The 5 tunes I have selected are as follows:

1. Monster X - Drug Culture
I'm actually not sure of the song title since my cousin borrowed my CD, but this band was quite awesome. I saw them in a church basement sometime in 1995, the walls shook.

2. Man Is The Bastard - Autopsy of Authority
3. Crossed out - Homegrown
These 2 bands were part of the infamous early 90's West Coast powerviolence movement...boy that sounded cheesy! About as raw as it gets.

4. No Comment - Life
I think this is my favorite song of all time. REALLY.

5. Napalm Death - Suffer (live)
I never really understood why these guys were supposed to be legendary or groundbreaking. But you gotta love this one.

115: Doc Hopper Covers

2009-06-05T01:00:00.001-04:00

In addition to their original songs, Doc Hopper was a great pop-punk band with a penchant for doing cool covers from any genre. Here's a sampling...

1. Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel)
2. Sunny Girlfriend (The Monkees)
3. Head Over Heels (The Go-Go's)
4. Fan Mail (The Dickies)
5. I Love You (Black Flag)
Bonus: Juicyfruit Theme

114: Shapes

2009-05-29T22:04:00.000-04:00

1. Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles
2. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
3. The Hives - Square One Here I Come
4. Man Or Astro-man? - (Trapezoid)
5. Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

113: Internal Organs

2009-05-22T01:00:00.002-04:00

1. Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart
2. Wire - Kidney Bingos
3. Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung
4. Jawbreaker - Gutless
5. Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts

112: Work

2009-05-15T01:00:00.000-04:00

1. The Futureheads - First Day
2. Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week
3. Sicko - On The Clock
4. James Brown & Marva Whitney - You Got To Have A Job (If You Don't Work, You Don't Eat)
5. Bloquera - Back To The Grind Again
Bonus: A Song To Help You Keep Your Job

111: Red

2009-05-08T01:00:00.001-04:00

1. Mission Of Burma - Red
2. XTC - Red
3. Rancid - Red Hot Moon
4. Reverend Horton Heat - Big Red Rocket Of Love
5. Minor Threat - Seeing Red

110: Phones

2009-05-01T01:00:00.000-04:00

Leave a message after the tone...

1. Beck - Cellphone's Dead
2. Bad Brains - She's Calling You
3. R.E.M. - Star 69
4. Rival Schools - Travel By Telephone
5. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Dial Up

109: Black Flag Covers

2009-04-24T01:00:00.001-04:00

1. Sinkhole - Jealous Again
2. Pennywise - Don't Care
3. The Pink Lincolns - Depression
4. Good Riddance - My War
5. Chuck D. & Henry Rollins - Rise Above
Bonus: Futurama - TV Party

108: Black Flag

2009-04-17T01:00:00.000-04:00

I prefer the earlier days of Black Flag before they slowed things down, but I tried to touch on a bit of their entire career. Also, the intro to "Nervous Breakdown" is one of the best of all time, so there you have it.

1. Nervous Breakdown
2. I've Heard It Before
3. What I See
4. Wasted (live)
5. Wound Up

107: Steps

2009-04-10T01:00:00.001-04:00

Guest podcaster Craig Rousseau takes us one step beyond through thirty-two footsteps...

1. Madness - One Step Beyond
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
3. Violent Femmes - 12 Steps
4. Elvis Costello - 13 Steps Lead Down
5. They Might Be Giants - 32 Footsteps

Photo credit: gordasm

106: Planets

2009-04-03T01:00:00.003-04:00

Yes, I know Pluto isn't a planet anymore; call me old school. Plus it's a good song, so let's just go ahead and use it...

1. Chisel - The Mutable Mercury
2. Man Or Astro-man? - Destination Venus
3. Bad Religion - Fields Of Mars
4. Les Savy Fav - Pluto
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Tales Of A Scorched Earth

105: Guns

2009-03-27T01:00:00.001-04:00

Liz Quilty brings us this week's guest podcast: "I've rediscovered Belly these days, so am starting there, and I just ticked off the rest. A sort of negative theme -- guns -- but all good songs!"

1. Belly - Slow Dog
2. The Clash - Guns of Brixton
3. Prince - Sign o' the Times
4. The Beatles - Happiness is a Wam Gun
5. Liz Phair - Divorce Song

104: Fours

2009-03-20T01:00:00.000-04:00

1. DJ Hurricane & The Beastie Boys - Four Fly Guys
2. The Clash - Four Horsemen
3. Wire - Four Long Years
4. Kitchens Of Distinction - 4 Men
5. Aphex Twin - 4

103: Squarepusher

2009-03-13T01:00:00.002-04:00

Squarepusher is drum & bass artist/jazz bassist Tom Jenkinson, and hopefully you enjoy chaotic beats as much as I do...

1. Theme From Ernest Borgnine
2. Come on My Selector
3. Vic Acid
4. Hello Meow
5. Delta-V

102: Songs That Kick In

2009-03-06T01:00:00.002-05:00

Guest podcaster Bill Keaggy describes his theme: "Songs that start quiet, then get loud. Can be hard to do that without being cheesy."

1. Earlimart - Fakey Fake
2. Slint - Nosferatu Man
3. The Stooges - Gimme Danger
4. Doves - The Cedar Room
5. Radiohead - All I Need

101

2009-02-27T01:00:00.002-05:00

#-0-# songs.

1. Down By Law - Life Rules 101
2. The Rolling Stones - Flight 505
3. The Beatles - One After 909
4. 101'ers - Letsgetabitarockin
5. KMD - 808 Man

photo credit: twicepix

100

2009-02-20T01:00:00.004-05:00

Somehow I managed to do one hundred episodes of Sinko! (You can browse them all here...)

1. Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash
2. Blur - End Of A Century
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - 100 Million
4. Man Or Astro-man? - 100 Individual Magnets
5. The Cure - One Hundred Years

Photo credit paolo.r

99: Hard Time

2009-02-13T01:00:00.000-05:00

More songs about time...a little harder than last time around.

1. Built To Spill - Mess with Time
2. Buzzcocks - Time's Up
3. Green Day - All The Time
4. Beastie Boys - Time For Livin'
5. Husker Du - Indecision Time

98: Served with Curry

2009-02-06T01:00:00.003-05:00

Guest host John Refford brings us this week's episode, describing it this way: "Okay, so for some reason I went with an Arabian, Middle Eastern, Eastern European flavor...or something."

1. Firewater - This is My Life
2. Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
3. Southern Culture on the Skids - Camel Walk
4. Rocket from the Crypt - Turkish Revenge
5. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Howhywuz, Howwhyam (live from the Middle East)

97: Cities

2009-01-30T01:00:00.000-05:00

1. Thes One - Gate City Savings And Loan
2. Jan & Dean - Surf City
3. The Clash - The City Of The Dead
4. Elliott Smith - Fear City
5. David Bowie - Suffragette City

96: Endoskeleton

2009-01-23T01:00:00.003-05:00

This week's episode is a little heavier than usual, thanks to guest host John LaTour.

1. The Misfits - Skulls
2. Anthrax - Skeletons in the Closet
3. The Mountain Goats - Dinu Lipatti's Bones
4. Mastodon - Crystal Skull
5. The New Pornographers - The Bones of an Idol

95: Change

2009-01-16T01:00:00.000-05:00

1. Tears For Fears - Change
2. Skankin' Pickle - Make A Change
3. De La Soul - Change In Speak
4. Sugar - Changes
5. Bad Religion - Change Of Ideas