Friday, April 9, 2010

Songs The Lyres Taught Us Volumes 1 - 3 (Podcasts)



If there’s one thing I miss the most from my teenage days, is my radio shows.

I grew up on a small town (some may call it village) about 2 hours distance from Athens, where rock n’ roll music was (and still is) something of a joke to most people. Even the kids who claimed their selves as “rockers” they had really nothing in common with the music I played on air or listened to on my home stereo. As a matter of fact, most people in Greece they still believe that “rock” music is crap like Led Zep, Dire Straits or the Doors (yaaaack!).

Maybe they had a point. I always used to support the prospect (in the likes of mujaheddins) that ‘rock’ and ‘rock n’ roll’ have huge differences between them. I mean, name me one, just one similarity of people like Benny Joy or the Flamin’ Groovies or even the Rolling Stones and people like the Fleetwood Mac or Genesis or Eric Clapton…? Lemme give you the answer. NONE! ABSOLUTELY NONE!

Anyway, don’t know ‘bout your cities but in mine (Athens Greece) in the year 2010 there are just two radio stations wearing the ‘rock’ label and of course they play constantly crap music (again!) like the Muse or whatever MTV stupid jerks push (you know some squares with more hair stylists on their arsenal than guitars).

And that does where fill the gap the podcast sites and the blogs! God bless their little digital heart, they bring you the most primitive, raw and ass shakin' sounds from the past till now with just one click for download! And the better thing is that you can save them on your HDD, load them whenever you want on your i-pods (or whatever portable music machine you own) and listen to a radio show a hundred times with the ability to go back and forth and hear repeatedly a song!

There are lots of them but the one address you really have to type on your browser’s address-bar is:

http://www.garagepunk.com/podcastjukebox.html. 

And let the party begin!

I recently discover a show called ‘THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW’.


It’s hosted by a guy named (what else?) Mal Thursday who's probably an old member of the garage punk savages the Malarians.


 Among many of his great podcasts, I discover three at the moment under the title: 

"Songs the Lyres Taught Us"!


What you get (yaaasss!) it’s three hours of the original versions made known or just covered (with awesome results) by the magnificent Lyres! There are some more that go deeper on the DMZ days! These three "broadcasts" made draw up my old Lyres and DMZ albums and re-create the feeling I had 15 years back when all I needed was just one dive by the pickup’s needle on the records' body.


Truly exceptional songs, one by one! 

Take a listen (or more...) to these first and hopefully during the oncoming weekend I'll post some Lyres and DMZ stuff.
Cheers!


The SHOWS:

Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 1





Playlist:
LYRES: Baby (I Still Want Your Lovin')

TOMMY TUCKER & THE ESQUIRES: Don't Tell Me No Lies
THE YO-YOS: Gonna Find a New Love
THE TEDDY BOYS: Jezebel
THE JESTERS OF NEWPORT: Stormy
THE HANGMEN OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: Stacey
DRUSALEE & THE DEAD: Lily
THE LIVING ENDS: Self-Centered Girl
RICHIE'S RENEGANDES: Baby It's Me
THE ROADRUNNERS: I'll Make It Up to You
THE SCAVENGERS: But If You're Happy
DALE & THE DEVONAIRES: Never Be Free
THE SYN: Grounded
THE OUTSIDERS: Sun Going Down
THE ALARM CLOCKS: No Reason to Complain
THE SONICS: Cinderella
THE HANGMEN: What a Girl Can't Do
LYRES: The Way I Feel About You (Live WERS-FM '83)


Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 2

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Playlist:
LYRES: Nobody But Me
MICKEY & THE CLEAN CUTS: Soapy
JOLLY GREEN GIANTS: Busy Body
MR. LUCKY & THE GAMBLERS: Take a Look at Me
THE SONICS: Skinny Minnie
THE STANDELLS: Little Sally Tease
SANDY SARJEANT: Can’t Stop the Want
THE ARTWOODS(?): Can’t Stop the Want
COPS & ROBBERS: You’ll Never Do It Baby
THE BEEFEATERS (BYRDS): Boston
THE BUCKINGHAMS: Don’t Want to Cry
HIM & THE OTHERS: She’s Got Eyes That Tell Lies
JOHN'S CHILDREN: Jagged Time Lapse (BBC)/ Go Go Girl
PETE BEST COMBO: The Way I Feel About You
NEW COLONY SIX: I Confess
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: If You Want My Love
PHIL & THE FRANTICS: Pain
MYSTIC TIDE: Stay Away/Running through the Night
WANDA JACKSON: Let’s Have a Party
ESQUERITA: Gettin’ Plenty Lovin’
OTIS REDDING: Security
BOBBY ROBERTS & THE RAVE-ONS: How Can I Make Her Mine
THE SEVENS: Seven
THE OUTSIDERS: I Love Her Still, I Always Will
THE KINKS: Love Me Till the Sun Shines
LYRES: Stormy









Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 3





Playlist:
LYRES: Tired of Waiting
THE KINKS: Never Met a Girl Like You Before (BBC)
THE SONICS: Louie Louie
THE WAILERS: Since You’ve Been Gone
THE CUSTOMS: Long Gone
THE JAY JAYS: Shake It Some More
THE WAILERS: Swing Shift (bed)
THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS: She Told Me Lies
CLASSIC RUINS: Geraldine
LOVE: Signed D.C.
THE ROLLING STONES: Stoned
SAM THE SHAM & THE PHAROAHS: Ring Dang Doo
DION: Feeling No Pain
THE SEARCHERS: Sick and Tired
THE PRETTY THINGS: You’ll Never Do It Baby
THE OUTSIDERS: Teach Me to Forget You/Touch
IT’S THEM: Baby (I Still Want Your Lovin’)
THE HUMAN BEINGS: Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby
OTIS REDDING: Love Man
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK, & TICH: Here’s a Heart
LES COPAINS: Baby Give Your Love to Me
QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS: Don’t Give It Up Now


3 comments:

  1. Actually the original versions of Skinnie Minnie was Bill Haley & the Comets, the original Let's Have A Party was Elvis (pre-Wanda, but the Lyres do the Riverias arrangment), Sick & TIred was originally done by Chris Kenner, Ain't That Lovin' You Baby by Jimmy Reed, Geraldine by the Ole Miss Downbeats, Gettin' Plenty Lovin' by the Gardenias (as My Baby's Tops w/Ike Turner's band, two years before Esquerita's version), Little Sally Tease by Don & the Goodtimes, Louie Louie by Richard Berry, then the Wailers w/Rockin' Rob Roberts.

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  2. Thanks for putting on these Jim! Some of them are too classics to not know who were the original takes but i never knew for example that "Gettin' Plenty Lovin'" was recorded later by Esquerita and first by the Gardenias...By the way, do you know if all of the Gardenias recordings have been ever compiled on a single record? I must got'em and never saw anything...? Thanks for visiting this space!

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  3. Volume Four is due on Monday.

    @The Hound: I don't always play the "original" versions. I played Dion's version of "Feeling No Pain" instead of the Del Satins, and three different versions of "You'll Never Do It Babe." You're also thinking of a different "Geraldine."

    Mal T.

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