Smashin' Transistors

You know like how around Christmas time, people find those video loops of fireplaces or winter villages and show them on TV screens. Is there one for summer of burgers on the grill? Maybe with the sounds of people laughing and beers being open as the audio track.  Given how enough morons (following the path of their King Moron) in this country refuse to follow some simple procedures to overcome a pandemic, it may be the closest we can get to having a real backyard barbecue with friends and family for a long time. What you'll hear: The Parliaments – All Your Goodies Are Gone  Royal Trux – Platinum Tips Duende - Boss Radio Glen Garrison – City Of Sin -words from your host- Primo! – The Present Vacation – Shelled Pagan Obnox – She (Was About That Life) Bardo Pond – Don't Know About You -words from your host- CB Radio Gorgeous – Babylon The Worms – Breeding Ground No Age – War Dance Writhing Squares – Sonic Control -words from your host- Goldie Dawn – What's Inside (Never Dies) The Boys -  Sod

Summer hasn't officially arrived here in the USA but things have gone well over the boiling point in recent weeks. Much of it stems back from a minority of idiots walking in line behind the most moronic of carnival barkers, in hopes that clocks would be set back to more ignorant times. The healing and fixing process is going to be a long and arduous one but it can be done. We just have to push a little harder for progress against those wishing they could be even more reactionary minded than they currently are. This episode of Smashin' Transistors offers no solutions to the woes. There's some great sounds in it though. What you'll hear: The Kinks – Brainwashed Pizzicato 5 – It's A Beautiful Day The Cowboys- The Beige Collection Hang Nail – Waste Time -words from your host- Porno Glows – Constant Abject State Necessary Evils – Man From Mars Hobocop – Clone Of A Clone Little Peppy and the Bare Existence – Since You're Gone -words from your host- Bobby Would – Get Off My Bus Dead Meadow – Let's Jump In Loose

Congrats to the graduated. Hang on tight. This ride keeps getting bumpier. What you'll hear. Blind Boy Fuller – Wires All Down Devil – Walk Alone Tyler Keith – Take Me Home Cheap Trick – Stiff Competition words from your host Zip It – Candycorn Guilty Razors – Hurts + Noises Mark Vodka Group – All That You've Done For Me Deaf Aids – Do That Again words from your host The Dirts – Prisoner Of Love Simply Saucer – Electro Rock Country Teasers – Points Of View Zurich Cloud Motors – Sunrise Over Milepost 327 words from your host Hallelujah – Pink Socks Nazis From Mars – Cosmic Break Up Datenight – Not Myself Today Pat and the Pissers – Operator words from your host The Worms –  Bad Smell Siouxsie and the Banshees – Nicotine Stain The Drags – No Matter What Shape (Your Head Is In) The Pretty Things – Midnight to Six Man words from your host  Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at  Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram Things are tight everywhere. Become a Patron!  

    Still have plenty to do before everything is settled in as these are topsy-turvy times, but this is the first episode done in the new digs. Everything made it all in one piece for the most part. Lots of things that were to be put in action are now on hold. Been through it before but still most strange days indeed. What you'll hear: RL Burnside – Going Down South DANA – Chaos Promo Dale Hawkins – Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town Toeheads – Anna -words from your host- Zurich Cloud Motors -  Motorola Radio Factrix – Center Of A Doll Vacant Gardens – Sunlight on Dry Grass Beauticians – Indecision  -words from your host- Vanity – A Seat At The Table The Feelies – The High Road The Cowboys – The Human Puzzle Dusty Mush – The Fog -words from your host- The Beeps – The Fire Pink Drone – Sleeper Hot Legs – Neanderthal Man Famous Logs In History – Spoiler Alert  -words from your host- Porno Glows -  On and On Duende! - Because The Thorn Hank Wood and the Hammerheads – Tomorrow Lemon F

Seems I sold my house at the right time but absolutely the wrong time to move. Thing is though, we have to vacate this place and have already have our place in another state waiting. Seems if there wasn't absurdity, it would not be my life. We've been following the quarantine rules to a T. But next week we've gotta be "that guy" and drive across four state lines. Ugh. What you'll hear: Carl Carlton – Drop By My Place Vanity – We're Friends Devil Town – It's Real Gino and the Goons – Summer Sun -words from your host- Hallelujah! - Minipony Unsane – Black Book Musclegoose – Who Ate All Of Dilbert's Grapes The Cowboy – Reach The Beach -words from your host- The VertiGos – Kiss Me Good Night The Great Scots – That's My Girl (Rotten To The Core) Legumes Sex – Your Shiny Car Clark Hutchinson – Best Suit -words from your host- The Dirts – Can't Stand You (She Said) Quad Super Six – Floating Absolutely Rubber Blanket – Log Off Section 25 – Inspiration -words from your host- The Neutrals – Half Shut Knife Mark Vo

The world is in a emergency. The country is being led by a fraud. We're all in this together people. Try not to be a jerk.  What you'll hear: Mekons - I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own) Current Affairs – Worlds In Crisis Florida Brothers – Chicken Bucket Silver Apples – Gypsy Love -words from your host- Phone Jerks - Rubberhead Sherwin – Elusive Railroad Jerk – Riverboat Knickers – Old Ladies Summer -words from your host- Coke Asian – City Block Oh! Dirty Fingers – Love Trilogy Movietone – Useless Landscape Lavender Flu – Mow The Glass -words from your host- Nick Normal – Conversation Piece Kool and the Gangbangers – Hang Up The Phone The Mammals – Expanding Heart Nasal Boys – Hot Love -works from your host- Vacation – Tricks In The Big Cat Trade Laughing Gas – On Your Own Resource Network – Fast Fashion Throbbing Gristle – Convincing People -words from your host-

Let's say you're dj'ing a party and you play "Hellraiser" by Sweet. If a person turns up their noise about it in anyway, ask that person to leave the party because they don't like to have fun. What you'll hear: Sweet – Hellraiser Enchanters – High Heeled Roller Skates Demolition Doll Roads – Maverick Girl Product Placement – Eyes In My Head -words from your host- Vanity – Anticlimax Blue Cheer – Believer The Shitdels – To And fro En Attendant Ana – The Light That Slept Inside -words from your host- En Kernigan Band – Put It Out Billiam – Party Pooper Lavender Flu – Barbarian Dust Stonefield – Morning Hours -words from your host- The Cowboy – From The Grave Sex Church - Growing Over The Gonks – I'm The Lonely Night Driver The Roves - Hey Little Man -words from your host- Fake Rays – The Pits Toeheads – Glue Factory Red Mass – Devil In Disquise The Rain Parade – This Can't Be Today -words from your host-

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is most likely best know for his more joyful and genial poems. The one he wrote for the shortest month of the year, Afternoon In February, as not one of those though. As a matter of fact, it was about death. Amid the grayness of the skies and all the things wrapped in it though here in the Great Lakes, slogging through it has to be done. Putting together another episode of this fake radio show a bit like setting a fire at such times for yours truly. What you'll hear: Dirty Filthy Mud – The Forest Of Black Quintron – Birthday In Tunisa Maia Jade and the Uggos – Bozo The Beauticians – Mental Hygene -words from your host- Red Mass – Young Lover the Ponys – Little Friends Confusion - Gino & the Goons – Wrote You A Letter -words from your host- Martyr Privates – Peeling The Shade The Scaners – X Ray Glasses On The Mirrors – She Smiled Wildly Pimpono Ensemble- Gliding -words from your host- The Cavemen – Guess I Know It's True Poison Joy – Not Known Dandee Lions – I Have Been Woke

A new decade has dropped and it's rolling at a furious pace for your truly (here's a lot why) but I'm gonna do what I can to make sure you loyal listeners can get at least one of the fake radio shows a month until everything settles. 20/20 – Under The Freeway Comet Gain – Werewolf Suit Bad Weed – Down, Down, Down The Moodists – The Disciples Know -words from your host- The Beauticians – Donna Tubeway Army – Are You Real Schizos – Driller Obnox – Red I -words from your host- Martyr Privates – Blak Light Postman – Fitted Wool Blankets Human Switchboard – Fly In Dadar – Get Away -words from your host- Fatal Figures – X Minus One Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones – Lemon Chiffon The Plastic Shoelaces – Bigger Heads The Cheater Slicks – Another Stab -words from your host- Zurich Cloud Motors - Gone Wrong – Shut Down Warm Exit – Gloom Sauce Is Going To Take You Out The Skinnies – Out Of Order   Minor show note: The Comet Gain album is called Fireraisers Forever! and not as I absentmindedly called i

What a taxing year it's been. We somehow did out best and made it through even if likely we're worse for the wear. This whole Keep On Keepin' On thing ain't easy all the time.  The next year has plenty of roller coaster rides ahead. Hold on tight. We need ya around! What you'll hear: Sandy Sarjeant - Can't Stop The Want Kool and the Gangbangers – I Don't Wanna Go Outside VISION 3D - Fan Il Globo - Mirabella -words from your hot TV Crime - Wild One The Only Ones – Out In The Night Toy Trucks - Schoolbus Goodnight Loving – Land Of 1000 Bars -words from your host- Zurich Cloud Motors – A Hair Raising Memory Spray Paint - Alcohol Surface Cochonne – Body Bag Match Factory – All The Same -words from your host- Mononegatives - Transient Reality Dow Jones & the Industrials – Set Yourself On Fire Foster Care – Rack Brain Iggy and the Stooges – Shake Appeal -words from your host- Solarized -Is This Where I Beg for the Prosthetic Leg Midnight Mines - Double Attack  PP Rebel - Where The Quiet Go Teenage Fanclub - D

Anyone else taking bets until one of the coots in the family quotes memes as fact during this holiday season. With it Thanksgiving this week, the odds making are about to happen. What you'll hear: Flesheaters – River Of Fever Cochonne – Horror-Scope Dan Melchior – Hey Ya Birthday Party – Figure Of Fun -words from your host- Program - Show Me Micheal Yonkers – Boy In The Sandbox Bobby Would – Bad Man (Not I) Automatic – Strange Conversations -words from your host- Mononegatives – Friend Accessories Dana – Pork Pie Saint Rangers – Returning En Attendant Ana – Somewhere And Somehow -words from your host- Warm Leather – Vocabulary Foster Care – No Respect Connie Voltaire – Animal Farm Perfect Buzz - My Apologizes -words from your host- Toy Trucks – Questions The Cult OF Lip – Walking Gino and the Goons – She Can Take It the Metros – Hot Wired -words from your host-

Boxes and cartons. Figuratively and literally as both have a song about them in this episode. Appropriate as chipping away at sorting and packing, pitching and keeping for the relocation plan set for 2020. That, and as a cat owner, they always dig boxes. What you'll hear: Ian Hunter – Just Another Night Jack Oblivian – Girl On The Beach Parsnip – Lift Off the Go – Can't Rely On It -words from your host- Lousy Sue – Firma Jean Neutrals – Motorcycle Cop Marmalade Psyche – Compassionate Leave Gong Gong Gong – Some Kind Of Demon -words from your host- Trampoline Team - Release Glaxo Babies – Police State Slumb Party – All The Boxes Bobby Would – Luna -words from your host- Comet Gain – Bad Night At The Mustache Zurich Cloud Motors – Plenty Of Moons To Spare The Hussy – Better Stuff CR DICKS- Skate 2 Die -words from your host- Opossums - Worried Vivian Girls – Mistake Dot.Com – Bugg Boy Fire Engines – New Things in Cartons -words from your host-

This episode of the Smashin' Transistors fake radio show may try to entice you to take a psychedelic trip. If you chose to purchase a ticket, pack some condiments cuz your listening lobes will get deep fried! What You'll Hear: The Painted Ship – She Said Yes Vision 3D – Suel Ce Soir Spray Paint – Fleshy Boy Cereal Killer – You Punk Scene Suck It DANA – Cupid -words from your host- Gino & the Goons – Hit & Run The Hentchmen – It Don't Take But A Few Minutes Dan Melchior Group – Police Dog Buck Owens – Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass As Jaguatiricas – Boy Lixo -words from your host- The Control Freaks – She's The Bomb Robot Assassins - Your Special Message Lousy Sue – Sneaky Snake Speed Babes – We Sell Your Soul The Freakees – Poser -words from your host- Resource Network – Halifax Mortuary Celebrity Handshake – This Is Real Life Slump – Trip Sitter Atomic Eater – Alien Eyes Cabaret Voltaire – Here She Comes Now -words from your host-

After getting home from week one day last week, I decided to put some records on and play them loud. I stepped out to my yard for a sec and my old biker neighbor decided to strike up a conversation with me about the dangers of "really hard drugs." What you'll hear: Muffs – I Need You Psychedelic Speed Freaks CR Dicks – The End Julie's Haircut – Emerald Kiss Phillip Cochran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble – Unity -words from your host- Odgens – Plastic Ave Dan Melchior Group- Plz LuvYrself Parsnip – Too Late Truman's Water – Your Boss Pere Ubu- Heart Of Darkness -words from your host- The Hussy – Cornflakes The Runaways - 18th Floor Girl Slump - Desire Death Drifter Kool and the Gang Bangers – He's A Rat Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes – Little Witch -words from your host- Comet Gain - The Institute Debased Vision 3D – Fannick Nip Drivers – Hick In The Movie Rocket 808 – Rocket 808 T. Rex – Rapids -words from your host-

Summer ended this weekend. That means it is time for a bunch of boomers to quote a lyric from "Night Moves." Talking smack about Bob Seger really seems to bum them out. What you'll hear: the Cars – Since You're Gone Honey Radar – Magnesium Blow Out Opossums – Love Machine Redd Kross – What's A Boy To Do Fat Tulips – Where's Clare Grogan Now? -words from your host- Musk – Animal Husbandry USA/Mexico – Shoofly the Au Pairs – Domestic Departure Disco Junk – Outta Melbourne Pscience – Atomic Clock -words from your host- Vivian Girls – Sick Psychedelic Horseshit – Portals Thigh Master – Mould Lines Dana – El Sicko the Bruthers – I Just Had To Laugh -words from your host- the Control Freaks – Hate List Celebrity Handshake – Religion On The Outside Depression Breakfast – Type Strapping Fieldhands – In The Pineys Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End -words from your host-

The last long weekend of the summer is upon us. Getting out and taking part of it may involve annoyances. Combat such things with a brand new episode of the Smashin' Transistors fake radio show. What you'll hear: Eagle - Pack Up the Failures - Why? Thin Lizzy - Sha La La Golden Pelicans - Pink Motels Science Man - Weaponizer - words from your host- Deadbeat Beat - The Box Laika – Honey In Heat Powerplant – True Love Black Tamborines High Fives Ron Berry – I'll Give You My Love - words from your host- Oh Sees - The Experimenter Miles Grayson – Stunk In The Mud Celebrity Handshake – Prehistoric Claw Mononegatives - Swell Maps – Secret Island - words from your host- Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes Hey Bombshell Resource Network Post Traumatic Stress Gun Fight Judy and the Jerks – Dumpster time Tyvek – We're Back The Yips – 1000 Percent Fox - words from your host-

On a scorcher of a summer day recently I had the thirst for a pop. A really sugary one. A Faygo Red Pop or Rock-n-Rye was on my mind. The party I stopped in didn't carry any Faygo. Is that even legal in the state of Michigan? What you'll hear: PP Arnold - if You Think You're Groovy Connie Voltaire - Picture Book Pscience - Chance Encounter Dream Boogie - Shanghai Nights Homer - Taking Me Home Tyvek - I've Not Thought Once Butterglory - Rivers Mope Groves - Pictures Of The Moon Psychedelic Speed Freaks - Lawless The Los Hot Quesos - Bugs Cement Shoes - Me Have No Brain The Natural Man Band - Working Nights Srei Sothear & Sin Sisamouth - Power Of Her Eye Pinch Points - Stainless Steel Musclegoose - Mr Pibb goes to Washington The Cool Greenhouse - Cardboard Man Johnny Ill - One Year Plan Eggy - Machine Communications The Bambies - Echo Joe Hebert Band - I Don't Want To Be A Preppy

Like a heatwave. Amid the one we had the past week, one way to keep cool was to find a big shade tree to sit under and put together a fake radio show. Or, at least, portions of one. That's what we did for a bit here at ol' Smashy T's. Anything misstated on this episode is the from wooziness from sunspots.  Naked Raygun - Metastasis Christian Fitness - The Brain Is Not A Lever Urochromes - Style Lincoln Street Exit - Time Has Come Gonna Die Rhy Bloodjoy - Aphrodite's Mirror -words from your host- Johnny Ill - Hamtramck Island 75 Dollar Bill - There's No Such Thing As A King Bee Honey Radar - Instant Furniture Dream Boogie - Boy Can Dream The Haunted - 8 O'clock This Morning -words from your host- No Bails - We Sk8 Powerplant - People of the Sun The Space Lady - Born To Be Wild Euromilliard - Élève modèle Trampoline Team – False Friend -words from your host- Primitive Hands – Unseen Love Mountain Babies - Shapeshifter Scrap Brain - Migraine Mononegatives – 5 Minute Future Bad Seeds - Sick

Summertime and the, ummm, grass is longer. The snakes are more active because of it. Be sure to have a hammer and a jackknife handy at all times.    What you'll hear: Squirrel Bait – Sun God  Protruders – Tax 101  Nots – Built Environment  Franky Shampoo and the City Creatures - Talk To Me  Major Stars – Out In The Light  -words from your host-  Straight Arrows - 21st Century  Lassie – Go West  Prince – Manic Monday  M.A.Z.E. - Human Brain  Eric Nervous and the Beta Blockers – Nailed To The Wall  -words from your host-  Aborted Tortoise – 20 XX  The Zits – Can't Get Smart  Primitiv Parts – bad vibes  Ice Baths – Auster  Salem 66 – Across The Sea  -words from your host-  Pinch Points – Spelt Out  Petite League – New York Girls  The Lice – So Bourgeois  Rose City Band – Fear Song  Radio Birdman - Snake  -words from your host- Get even more Smashin' Transistors action at  Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram   Smashin' Transistors gladly accept tips!!

    Though I like to think I am reasonably well-read, sometimes my brain will go off in some direction where I think something that is probably a well-worn colloquialism (or a line from a David Lynch film) is actually just a lyric from some cheesy pop country song of the 1990s. What you'll hear:  Cigaretz - Scared Of Girls  Toeheads – Grad  Registators – Panic Action  Smart Hearts – You Beat Me To It  Rose City Band – Fog Of Love  -words from your host-   Kool 100s – Bogus Journey  American Gorilla – Forsaken All Others  Richard Vain – Castles  Gun Club- Thunderhead  Jack Oblivian – Scarla  -words from your host-  Protruders – No Stone  Big Quiet – Pull The Thread  The Fall – Wings  Urochromes – Trapped On Planet  Isolation Party – Disassociator  -words from your host-  Wolfmanhattan Project – Silver Sun  Fabulous Fairies - Telephone  Bikini Gorge – Cat In The Flat  Georgia Asphault - Burn Again  13th Floor Elevators - Dust -words from your host-  You can also subscribe to the Smashin' Transistors show on