Sinko Music Podcast

117: This is Boston

...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

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114: Shapes

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

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113: Internal Organs

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

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110: Phones

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

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107: Steps

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

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106: Planets

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

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105: Guns

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

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101

#-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

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97: Cities

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

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96: Endoskeleton

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

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92: What Are You?

1. The Kinks - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
2. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - I'm A Ghost
3. Franz Ferdinand - I'm Your Villain
4. bis - I'm a Slut
5. Special Ed - I'm the Magnificent

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91: Too Much

1. Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business
2. The Police - Too Much Information
3. The Specials - Too Much Too Young
4. Bad Religion - Too Much To Ask
5. Husker Du - Too Much Spice

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89: Making a Sandwich

I'll admit that this is kind of an odd episode this time...

1. Propaghandi - Who Will Help Me Make This Bread
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
3. Phyllis Dillon - Don't Touch Me Tomato
4. Dangerdoom - Mince Meat
5. The Bad Plus - Big Eater

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85: Beatles Covers

Sorry I missed a week; I've just been a bit busy lately. We now return to our regularly scheduled weekly podcast with some Beatles covers.

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
2. They Might Be Giants - Savoy Truffle
3. Samiam - Cry Baby Cry
4. The Ventures - I Feel Fine
5. Ted Leo - I'm Looking Through You

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83: Let's Party

1. Bob Marley - Soul Shake Down Party
2. Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help
3. Bloquera - Fiesta
4. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How To Party
5. Andrew WK - Party Hard

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82: Cars 2

Time to race!

1. Built To Spill - Car
2. Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps - Race With The Devil
3. Man Or Astro-man? - A Mouthful of Exhaust
4. Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
5. Kitchens Of Distinction - Drive That Fast

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81: Ballads

1. Beatles - The Ballad of John and Yoko
2. Green Day - The Ballad Of Wilhelm Fink
3. Rancid - The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny
4. Mission Of Burma - The Ballad Of Johnny Burma
5. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Ballad Of The Sin Eater

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78: Fast Covers

One way to cover a song is to play it faster. Like these...

1. The Kinks - Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry)
2. The Pacers - The Pacers (Pixies: Debaser)
3. Sicko - Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)
4. Goodbye Harry - I Need To Know (Tom Petty)
5. Screeching Weasel - I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash)

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77: Smashing Pumpkins

I'm not a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan, but for some reason I have too many of their CDs. Anyway, here are five Pumpkins songs that have my favorite style of theirs: loud guitars and buried vocals.

1. Pissant
2. Jellybelly
3. The Everlasting Gaze
4. White Spyder
5. Tarantula

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69: Time

1. Joe Jackson - Got The Time
2. The Futureheads - Trying Not To Think About Time
3. New Order - Fine Time
4. Hot Hot Heat - Running Out of Time
5. The Pacers - Out of Time

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62: Wire

Not the band Wire, but simply songs with "wire" in the title.

1. The Meters - Live Wire
2. U2 - Wire
3. Sahara Hotnights - Walk On The Wire
4. Pixies - Hang Wire
5. fIREHOSE - Chemical Wire

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60: Moving

One of the things I dislike most in my life is moving -- I don't like packing, moving or unpacking. I don't like moving myself or helping others move anymore. So I guess it's somewhat odd that I chose this as a topic...

1. The Kinks - I Gotta Move
2. Wire - Start To Move
3. Beastie Boys - The Move
4. The Jam - I've Changed My Address
5. The Smiths - Back To The Old House

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54: Rap Influences

For this episode, I selected some songs that had a large impact on the formation of rap music. From Kraftwerk's influence on electro and funk, Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" (which spawned almost as many DJ's as the Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearance spawned bands), Art Of Noise's sampling, and of course often-sampled beats like "Funky Drummer" and "The Big Beat".

1. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
2. Herbie Hancock - Rockit
3. Art Of Noise - Beat Box
4. James Brown - Funky Drummer
5. Billy Squire - The Big Beat

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53: Rockabilly

This episode follows some rockabilly through the years...

1. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
2. Roy Orbison & The Teen Queens - Go! Go! Go!
3. The Cramps - Aloha from Hell
4. Amazing Crowns - Losing Streak
5. Reverend Horton Heat - Bad Reputation

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52: Guitar Hero Wish List

I recently got Guitar Hero for my birthday, and I'm totally hooked (as a combined music nerd/video game geek should be). I'd have a hard time picking songs I would want to be in the game, but here are five by bands that (I think) have not made it into any of the various versions of GH.

1. The Ventures - Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
2. Bad Brains - I Against I
3. Samiam - Viewpoint
4. Quicksand - Unfulfilled
5. Man or Astro-man? - Interstellar Hardrive

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49: Rickenbacker Guitar

A mix of songs performed using the unique jangly sound of the Rickenbacker guitar.

1. Beatles - Ticket to Ride
2. The Who - I Can't Explain
3. R.E.M. - Wolves, Lower
4. The Romantics - When I Look in Your Eyes
5. The Jam - Start!

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46: Devo Covers

Covers of Devo songs, preceeded by the originals.

1. Devo / Big Drill Car - Freedom Of Choice
2. Devo / Skankin' Pickle - Gates of Steel
3. Devo / Nirvana - Turn Around
4. Devo / Superchunk - Girl U Want
5. Devo / Doc Hopper - Uncontrollable Urge

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44: Last Night

1. Prefuse 73 - Last Night
2. The Cure - A Night Like This
3. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
4. Dick Dale & The Del-Tones - Night Rider
5. The Strokes - Last Night

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42: Sleep part 2

1. The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
2. Belle & Sebastian - We Are The Sleepyheads
3. Radiohead - Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)
4. J Church - Sleep
5. All - Copping Z

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39: Title Tracks 2

Title tracks is the theme again, this time with more of a rock focus.

1. The Beatles - Help!
2. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. The Police - Synchronicity I
5. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

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36: I Can Spell!

Some artists like to show off their spelling skills.

1. The Cure - Fire In Cairo
2. The Kinks - Cadillac
3. They Might Be Giants - S-E-X-X-Y (remix)
4. Elastica - How He Wrote Elastica Man
5. Anti-Flag - Captain Anarchy

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33: Rock Radio

1. Ramones - (Do You Remember) Rock 'n' Roll Radio
2. The Clash - Capital Radio One
3. They Might Be Giants - Greasy Kid Stuff
4. Elvis Costello & The Attractions -
Radio, Radio
5. Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

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27: Weekdays

We covered the weekend back in Sinko #23. Here's the rest of the week...

1. NOFX: Thank God It's Monday
2. Stevie Wonder: Tuesday Heartbreak
3. Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Wednesday Week
4. Asobi Seksu: Thursday
5. Joe Jackson: Friday

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26: Sinko's Back

Hey, Sinko's back with more podcasts! Enjoy the mixes...

1. Rakim: Guess Who's Back
2. Bernard "Pretty" Purdie: Jimmy's Back
3. Prefuse 73: Back In Time
4. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones:
He's Back (live)
5. Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town

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19: Bass-Playing Lead Singers

A friend posed the question: besides Geddy Lee (of Rush), who are some lead singers who play bass? My mind quickly went blank, and after thinking for a little while I got the two other obvious ones: Paul McCartney (Beatles, Wings) and Les Claypool (Primus). Here are four others -- after starting off with the band who caused this issue to be raised in the first place.

1. Rush (Geddy Lee) - Kid Gloves
2. The Police (Sting) - Next to You
3. small factory (Alex Kemp) - Expiration Date
4. NOFX (Fat Mike) - Total Bummer
5. Motörhead (Lemmy Kilmister) - Ace of Spades

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16: Unnecessarily Long Song Titles

Man or Astro-man? alone have some of the longest song titles in music, including "Spectrograph Reading Of The Varying Phantom Frequencies Of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus" and "Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor The Plans To Make One". But I chose a different one, along with four others:

1. Minutemen - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?
2. The Kinks - Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
3. The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
4. Jets To Brazil - "Your X-Ray Results Have Come Back From The Doctor And We Think We Know What The Problem Is"
5. Man Or Astro-man? - Song Of The Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator Stanford University, Stanford, California

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14: Questions Part 2

More questions for you...

1. David Bowie - Life on Mars?
2. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
3. They Might Be Giants - Why Must I Be Sad?
4. The Specials - Why?
5. Public Enemy - Who Stole The Soul?

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10: Trains

Well, a new podcast is well overdue. I decided on this theme while riding the train (if you couldn't have guessed).

1. Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line
2. R.E.M. - Driver 8
3. The Who - 5.15
4. The Allstonians - B-Train To Allston
5. Scotty - Draw Your Brakes

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09: Back to School

Although I did enjoy having my summers off, I'm glad I don't have to go back to school...

1. Chuck Berry - School Days
2. The Jam - Art School
3. Nirvana - School (live)
4. Pixies - U-Mass
5. The Hi-Fives - Class Dismissed

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08: Good Morning

Wake up!

1. Built To Spill - In The Morning
2. The Beatles - Good Morning Good Morning
3. Elastica - Waking Up
4. Jets To Brazil - Morning New Disease
5. Radiohead - Morning Bell

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06: Walk, Don't Run

Written by Johnny Smith, made popular by The Ventures (twice), and covered by many others across different genres. Here's the original, the version everybody knows, and three more.

1. Johnny Smith - Walk, Don't Run
2. The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run
3. Mike Auldridge - Walk, Don't Run
4. Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - Walk, Don't Run
5. Chet Atkins - Walk, Don't Run

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05: Fives

For the fifth podcast of Sinko, it seems fitting that we listen to five songs with the number "five" in their title.

1. Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising
2. Perceptionists - 5 O'Clock
3. Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
4. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - 5ive Gears In Reverse
5. Radiohead - 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)

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03: Drummers

Who doesn't like a good drummer? Sinko podcast #3 listens to five great drummers -- guys who don't just keep the beat but add energy, personality, and subtle fills that I love to hear. These are songs I like to hear just to concentrate on the drums.

1. The Police (Stewart Copeland) - One World (Not Three)
2. Sunny Day Real Estate (William Goldsmith) - Theo B
3. Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Chamberlain) - Cash Car Star
4. Sinkhole (Chris Pierce, who also sings) - Leaner Days
5. The Bad Plus (David King) - And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation

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