My Radio Volume 54 2022 Review

 My Radio Volume 54 2022 Review

Highlights from my soundtrack of 2022. The things that I'm proud to say I'm listening to. Music I found, artist that repeatedly deliver. Things my kids suggested. Records my friends shared. Music that stuck with me.

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My Radio Volume 51

 

 The past year has done a lot of damage to us all. Music is always a good escape. When looking back with the mission of deciding my favorite releases, I found myself a little overwhelmed by the amount of things I got into this year. I am a little embarrassed to admit that Spotify and Facebook suggestions proved to be successful in getting my attention many times. While I am annoyed at the amount of times Facebook promotes things to me that I already bought and Instagram likes to show me $100 dollar shirts that I will never buy. Social media has been successful in adding more music to my attention.

Below are ways to experience my 2020 in music. The Spotify link is not complete. A lot of cool things are not represented in its library. I prefer Bandcamp as a definite hero for the underdogs.

 

Zip File:

MyRad51

Spotify:

Spotify 

My Radio Volume 49

My Radio Volume 49

A Mix of music released in 2019. 

Go buy the full lengths. 

Support the artists.

Tell your friends. Turn it up.

Spotify didn't have everything but...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F804a866Elj3avUEqgnjX?si=dvD2VXaMTMCFl7gfDCfQrg


Zip Options

Full Playlist
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ipcffw4psojw8xk/MyRad49.zip/file


Edited for CD
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wrzvsgsxaqacp2l/MyRad49CD.zip/file

My Radio Volume 47

A collection of favorite tunes released in 2018.

Reasons that I find to keep smiling.

Zip File

The Mix above was created to fit on a CD but there was sooo much more that came out in 2018 that I compiled this extended ,bonus, are you sure you had enough of last year, super mix.

Super Mix Zip File

My Radio Volume 44

A mix of recent interests

and tracks off recent releases that are interesting.

ZIP File

FULL MIX MP3

hmmmm?

My Radio Volue 43

My Radio Volume 43

A mix of my musical highlights for 2017.

New releases, new discoveries, old hang ups that I put to disc to accompany a record party at Broken Tree on 12-16-2017. It is then and there that I will expand my obsession with good records (and bourbon).

Broken Tree will be featuring chili, cornbread and Tom and Jerry cocktails.

mmmmmmm. good

NO PIZZA WILL BE SERVED AT THIS EVENT

Zip File (multiple mp3's):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2d68mzl2vbzn5no/MyRadioVolume43.zip

MP3 (one long mp3):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4tn8ovl5a8m8oau/MyRadioVolume43.mp3

My Radio Volume 42

New Releases, New Discoveries and Some of my Ongoing Favs.

zip folder

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vlyu5o9gnmn5z53/MyRad42.zip

single mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8g9x0o2ajj6yd0i/My_Rad_42_2016.mp3

My Radio Volume 41

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Instead of a listing of my top 2015 releases like all those other

music nerds, I made a comp of my 2015 musical fixations. This

mix consists of new releases, new discoveries and a few

things that carried over from last year.

Link to a .zip file:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5k3247157w3bjny/myrad41.zip

My Daughter made a Mix

I prompted my daughter to make a mix for a local mix exchange party. Throughout the year she has been telling me about some cool bands that she has been finding and I thought that she should share. I'd like to say that her mother and I are responsible for her good taste, but maybe just by my bitching about the mainstream of twaddle radio, she has been influenced to find her own things. -Proud Parent


Link to a Zip file:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/tti6bnszzabtl2k/brokentreemixtapeexchange.zip

My Radio Volume 40

I made this for my wives 40th birthday party. We met

in the 90's at all ages shows and I regularly stalked her

at the restaurant she worked at. I eventually won her
heart. This mix consists of two discs featuring
selections from the current soundtrack of our lives
together. Bands we saw, moments we had.

 I can't tell, it's a secret.

Disc One zip file

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5y7cabw6wi3y84h/MyRad40Disc%21.zip

Disc Two zip file

http://www.mediafire.com/download/073248j6j40eo3n/MyRad40Disc%21i_20.zip

Disc One single mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/mymc6sl4mu8gjgw/MyRadioVolue40Disc%21.mp3

Disc Two single mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/7pwfe4gwrf607ra/MyRadioVolue40Disc%21i.mp3

Track List

http://www.mediafire.com/view/z2p94co71zh6w9d/MyRad40tRaCkLiSt.txt

My Radio Volume 39

Variety, dudes.

This month's DJ: Brody "I Don't Really Want A DJ Name" Maag

Upon booking DJ IDRWADJN, a robotic winged creature was summoned from the campus apiary, outfitted with a GoPro and sent forth bearing a request for a playlist summary. The creature was not heard from again until a company team-building outing to Chuck E Cheese, where it was found wearing a yellow wig, cheerleading uniform and GoPro and erratically wielding a tambourine. Footage from the long-dead camera included a video of DJ IDRWADJN standing on his well manicured lawn and holding a series of posterboard cards that read as follows:

"I will be playing the dark wave, power pop, punk, rock, underground, alt noize from my lifetime. ...Injecting some classic rockin', blues-y, soul oldies that are embedded in music history. Not many love songs will be played, more tunes speaking of life, awareness, opinion, injustice, heartbreak, and sarcasm. Sometimes these same topics are represented in a love song but don't be confused. This will be an uprising, an enlightenment over a drink or a slice of pizza, an inspiration spoken through a voice that is the music. Tomorrow may be a better day but this evening will be soundtracked to reach bestestness. Join me."

He was wearing a plaid short sleeve snap button shirt and cut off shorts that came to rest just above the knee. Lookin good.

My Radio 39 was created from the playlist below.

zipped file with separate mp3's

one mp3 of the mix

playlist

Trans Am - S/T side one tracks two thru six

Crunt - Black Heart

NRBQ - Rocket Number Nine

The Who - So Sad About Us

The Barbusters - Light of Day

Bill Haley and His Comets - Dim, Dim the Lights

Big Harp - Bar All The Doors

Fountains Of Wayne - Please Don't Rock Me Tonight

Parkay Quarts - Everyday It Starts

Scratch Acid - Cannibal

Cemetery - The Fan and the Bellows

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait

Yellow Ostrich - Marathon Runner

AC Newman - On the table

Husker Du - Sorry Somehow

Sun City Girls - Damcar

Hammerhead - Global Depression

Protomartyr - Come & See

Iggy Pop -  Funtime

Joy Division - Means To An End

Pere Ubu - Final Solution

PJ Harvey - Reeling

Redd Kross - Burn-Out - Charlie

Spades - We Sell Soul

Avengers - We Are The One

Reagan Youth - Reagan Youth

Vibrators - Into The Future

Billy & Lillie & Lucky - Ladybug

Eagles of Death Metal - Bad Dream Mama

Edgar Broughton Band - Gone Blue

Go - Tired of the Night

Kyuss - Gloria Lewis

Oblivians - Guitar Shop Asshole

Powersolo -  boom babba do ba dabba

The Rockin' Rebels - Wild Weekend

Easybeats - Friday On

Slade - Them Kinda Monkeys Can't Swing

Paybacks - If I Fell

Velvet Underground - Beginning To See The Light

Portishead - Humming

Turn to Crime - Can't Love

Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love

Siouxie and the Banshees - Christine

Pop - Down On The Boulevard

Little Richard - Jenny Jenny

Lyres - I Really Want You Right Now

Minutemen - Sickles and Hammers

No Means No - Two Lips, Two Lungs and One Tongue

Obits - Besetchet

Mission of Burma -  Eyes of Men

Desert Sessions - Avon

Male Gaze - Early Surgeon

Daed Kcis - Hatred Owns the City

Cure - The Walk

Television - See No Evil

Toms, The - Wasn't That Love in Your Eyes

Turn to Crime - Without a care

Ella Jenkins - A Little  Green

MC5 - Tonight

Subsonics - New Monkey Boy

Mark Lanegan - Come To Me

Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot

Kelley Stoltz - Down by the Sea

PA#9 - A Years Supply Of O2

Esquivel! - Dark Eyes

Capt. Beafheart - Clear Spot

Nerve City - Junkyard

Chris Ligon - Poop Ghost

Taste - Same Old Story

Ray Charles - You Be My Baby

Wailers - Beat Guitar

Wolf People - October Fires

Wire - Lowdown

Stooges - I Need Somebody

Roy Loney -  I Love It

Supercharger - Way  Out

Nerves -  Working Too Hard

Frank Black and the Catholics - I Want Rock & Roll

Easybeats - Lisa

Doctors Of Madness - Bulletin

Will Butler - Son Of God

Ty Segall - The Connection Man

Tijuana Hercules - When The World Was Flat

Billie And De-De & Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band - James Infirmary

New Bomb Turks - Bullish on Bullshit

Crime - Hot Wire My Heart

Bill Haley -  R-O-C-K

The 5 Royales - Think

Spoon - Rent I Pay

Sloan - Carried Away

TSOL - Madhouse

Boys - Baby,  Its You

Victims - She's So Hot

Damned - Hit or Miss

Randy Newman - Have You Seen My Baby

Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover

Big Boys - We Got Your Money

Trans Am - Ballbados

Los Diplomáticos ‎– 19 Exitos Bailables Vol. II - side one

My Radio Volume 38

single mp3 no breaks

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/q233t34inaiamwa/MyRadio_Volume38.mp3

compressed file 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/w5r4r4vwszgbvkw/MyRad38.zip

depending on your player playback may have breaks in tracks. making it not so radio.

Nora Hate

"My favorite part of Nora Hate was the curse of no comparison.

Not that we had no influence, but they were vast , vauge and

sorted. This never did us any good in the real world, but In our

fantasy we were the rulers. No one sounded like us no one

abused the structure of song or the setiment of a love song quite

like us." Brody said.

Nora's Story
In 1991 Chad Belvill, Brody Maag & Justin Bloominstock  were playing together in the Creeps. They wrangled up Chad Trone and started Nora Hate. The band was named after a run down VW Bug that took them to practice. Chad B. decided to move to the East coast soon after. Before leaving he had replaced himself with Brian Berg, a guy from Arlington Heights that he knew. Brian was singing in Nora Hate for the second show? It was the second show at the Washington VFW in 1992 that really sparked Peoria's underground music scene for the 90's.

I think that line up of Nora Hate only played two or three more times till Justin moved on. Only one song remained after the line up change.
-1991 Practice Link
Chris Cowgil was lured from his 6 string to fill in Justin's spot on bass. Brody and Brian moved in with their friend Derrick. The three of them took shelter in an odd little house on Fredonia christened Fredomia High. That was the new home base for the band. Nora Hate hosted the first show at Airwaves Skatepark, which turned into the place to play in Peoria, sharing the floor with The 3Boyfriends, Terata, Frozen at Sea, Dollface, The Dave Moe Band, Resin and many others. The band was bringing in a lot of other Illinois bands. Hundreds of people came to those shows. So many different types of music played together. It was a mess of a party and everyone got into everything.

 

In 1992 the Corn Jam cassette was released. Corn Jam was recorded in Canton, IL with Ed Carper.

 

 

 

 

 

-1992 Corn Jam 

 

In 1993 they put together Stacey Looes Shakey. The record was also recorded at Ed's in Canton, this time with the help Matt Shane from Dollface and finished with Paul Adams for the final mix. A special gift lived in each release, like the surprise received in a Cracker Jacks box. The prizes were hand picked by each cassette's assembler. ....thanks Julie, Kim and Gared

-1993 Stacey Looes Shakey

Around this time, Nora Hate was invited by the Neptunes to make a little trip to the Smile Coffee in Davenport. This was captured by the owner.

Nora Hate at Smile Coffee   -   The Neptunes at Smile Coffee

1994 saw Nora Hate visiting Picture Perfect Studios in Bellevue, IL to record 3 songs for the Naked Bums "Now Playing in Peoria" Comp. Only two were used.

Chris got a house with Dave and "Pete" in Peoria. Nora Hate would relocate to that basement. Mostly playing shows downtown at the VFW that John Wright/Naked Bums would put on.

Brian had finished school at Bradley and moved back North. He was traveling down for shows and the occasional practice. To keep him up to date they got Jeremy Kerner and his 4-Track over to capture the current batch of songs they had going on. This would be the last product Nora Hate never released.....until 2014

-1996 Denoted

Brody Maag Hits - I Need Electricity

What I did in 2013

by Brody Maag Hits

Full release with art and stuff:

I Need Electricity

if you just need:

Lyrics, Info and Credits

Dave Moe - Twistin' 'N' Twangin'

 

 

 

 

An instrumental masterpiece laced with revved up engines, moonshine, and apple pie. An Americana dream resting in the sweet history of days past. Sit with Dave accompanying your Hi Fi and listen as he twangs the night away.

Dave Moe - Twistin' 'N' Twangin' 

The Dave Moe Band

A soaring squelch of an over driven 6 stringed
axe. Able to slay any rock mongrel with beats

and bass.The first introduction of The Dave Moe Band

exploded into my eardrums with excitement. With the

bearer of this vessel I also explored frightening realms

of mind altering chemicals. Issuing flames that filled

up a room as the music played on. Empowered by the

grooves we boasted. Like joyful children we moved

our discovery outside to show our crowded sprawl.

The next attempt shot fire that soared up to the sky to

bully the moon. If ears could smile!

1992 4-Track

1993 it's the Dave Moe Band

Recorded with Chris Anderson
Featuring Dave Moe, Dave Van Kley, Ryan Geddes, Nick Bursett