Sorry If I Give You PTSD: Transmission 527, 2020 May 20

More sandwich-making: the first few songs of this program provide me with comfort on a chilly fall evening in the Northeast, provenance be damned. Listening to the program I don’t really care where the songs came from, whether the artists are dear to me, whether I cared enough to buy actual records by any of these people, and so on. It’s an enjoyable listen, and at the end of the day do we care about anything else? I honestly don’t know.

The Handle > Throwing Muses segue works surprisingly well. Shades of what I like to call old magic. The Fall > Thundercat was also not as bad as it should have been.The lovely Walt Thisney track transforms beautifully into Fever 103°. I am making the good stuff happen!

The program doesn’t really sound “like me” until Loraine James, about half an hour in. I would say this isn’t a great use of my precious airtime–measured against the potential for self-expression–but it wasn’t really “airtime” in the depths of whatever, so does it matter?

Re. Loraine James–far be it from me, a walking cautionary tale in so many ways, to tell anyone how to manage their grind. But I found Lorraine James’s music at around this time because she’d uploaded an entire album-plus as a “name your price” download on Bandcamp (RIP btw) and here we are, a few years later, with me having just about everything she’s released on vinyl in my collection. IDK, seems like that strategy helps people get into your music? (It’s the same with KMRU, though his music does not appear on tonight’s program.)

Anyway, the “broadcast” is happening “under considerable duress,” I say, but I no longer have any idea why. Blessed forgetfulness, it has relieved me of the knowledge of why this week was worse than average.

“I hope it isn’t too much to ask that you stick with me,” I add. You know, I am really down on myself and I need to stop being that way. It WAS a fine evening, half of hour 1 and almost all of hour 2 were perfectly good.

BOMBAST playlist, 2020 May 20, 2100-2300:

• "Pills" | Starry Eyed Cadet | Join A Comp! | fadeawayradiate
• "Fun of the Fair" | The Room in the Wood | We're the Martians, Now | A Turntable Friend
• "Jetpack" | The Superweaks | Don't Stand So Close To Me: A Lame-O Compilation For Self Isolation | Lame-O Records
• "Underground" | Your Gaze | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
• "In Yr Face" | Slum of Legs | Slum of Legs | Spurge
• "Forest Fire" | Day & Dream | Shelter | Sunday
• "You're Not An Island" | 6TH CROWD | Avoid The Void | self-released
• "ALB19 20" | Loraine James | FYAI Demos + Ditched Album | self-released
• "Mhmm" | Handle | In Threes | Upset The Rhythm
• "Dark Blue" | Throwing Muses | Sun Racket | Fire
• "Find A Way Back" | Ultramarine | Interiors | Real Soon
• "Saiditzoneza" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
• "Bahia" | Ranil | Stay Safe & Sound Ranil Selection !! | Analog Africa
• "Steel-Belted Radials" | The Billows Burn Bright | The Billows Burn Bright 2015​-​2020 | self-released
• "Sleeping Buffalo" | Doomsquad | Spandrels Vol 2 | self-released
• "The Bad Stuff" | The Fall | Reformation Post T.L.C. [reissue] | Cherry Red
• "Funny Thing" | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder   
• "Grail Overfloweth" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands [reissue] | 4AD
• "Man in a Bar" | Harry Stafford | Gothic Urban Blues | Black Lagoon
• "Love You So Bad" | [Ezra & Sam & Jamie Riotto at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, 5-19-2016] | Ezra Furman | To Them We'll Always Be Freaks | self-released
• "Uninspired" | The Max Levine Ensemble | Don't Stand So Close To Me: A Lame-O Compilation For Self Isolation | Lame-O Records
• "Mirror to sky" | Whalt Thisney | Quiethism | Kahvi Collective
• "Leaving the Club" | Fever 103° | Right between before and after | self-released
• "Rudy Feller" | Sector Libertad | ITALIA 90' | Virtual Soundsystem
• "Same Mistakes 2020" | Jackson Veil Panther | Same Mistakes | self-released
• "Principles Unknown" | Rer Repeater | Mutual Aid 2020 | Bokeh Versions
• "Lolaphone" | The Mystery Plan | Zsa Zsa | Ten Millimeter Omega
• "RunComeTest" | SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL | RunComeTest EP | Bokeh Versions
• "Free Chant (Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi)" | African Head Charge | Songs of Praise [reissue] | On-U Sound
• "I'm a Suspect" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
• "Evil Empire ft. Ben Vince" | Jay Glass Dubs | Epitaph | Bokeh Versions

we all dance into the fire

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