Music Time! “Non-Synth” Edition 10/22/16

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So it’s 3:30 in the morning and I’m still up. I’m tired, but my legs are bothering me (nerves from my car wreck and subsequent back surgery) and I’m out of meds. So I’m drinking alcohol as that helps calm the nerves down (I wish we had medical marijuana in Texas as that would really help).

In the meantime… some music. Most of the times I concentrate on synth-based music (Electro, EBM, Futurepop, Synthpop, Synthwave, etc), but tonight I’m going to tell MediaMonkey to ignore all those genres and play non-synth music.

I saw this band in Birmingham, Alabama a few years ago when they played with IAMX.

ARTIST: Feeding Fingers
SONG: Mouth Filled With Sand
ALBUM: Wound in Wall
YEAR: 2006

ARTIST: Black Tape for a Blue Girl
SONG: One Last Breath
ALBUM: A Chaos Of Desire
YEAR: 1991

ARTIST: Peter Murphy
SONG: Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
ALBUM: Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
YEAR: 1986

ARTIST: Cocteau Twins
SONG: Love’s Easy Tears
ALBUM: Love’s Easy Tears EP
YEAR: 1986

ARTIST: The Mighty Lemon Drops
SONG: Sympathise With Us
ALBUM: Rollercoaster: The Best Of The Mighty Lemon Drops
YEAR: 1997 (album)

ARTIST: Pop Will Eat Itself
SONG: Token Drug Song
ALBUM: The Looks Or The Lifestyle
YEAR: 1992

Check out Lush’s new Blind Spot EP as well!

ARTIST: Lush
SONG: Leaves Me Cold
ALBUM: Gala
YEAR: 1990

Some of my favorite songs by The Cure are their B-sides!

ARTIST: The Cure
SONG: I’m Cold
ALBUM: Join the Dots – B Sides & Rarities (1978 – 2001)
YEAR: 1979 (song)

Perhaps one of the most underrated post-punk bands around!

ARTIST: Romeo Void
SONG: Never Say Never
ALBUM: Benefactor (2006 Remastered Reissue)
YEAR: 1982

ARTIST: Siouxsie And The Banshees
SONG: Nightshift
ALBUM: Juju
YEAR: 1981

Don’t forget to check out Head Carrier, the new album by The Pixies!

ARTIST: The Pixies
SONG: Head On
ALBUM: Trompe le Monde
YEAR: 1991

Yes, that’s Robert Smith from The Cure singing!

ARTIST: The Glove
SONG: Perfect Murder
ALBUM: Blue Sunshine
YEAR: 1983

ARTIST: The Dead Milkmen
SONG: The Pit
ALBUM: Bucky Fellini
YEAR: 1987

ARTIST: Kate Bush
SONG: The Dreaming
ALBUM: The Dreaming
YEAR: 1982

ARTIST: The Charlatans UK
SONG: When The Lights Go Out In London
ALBUM: Simpatico
YEAR: 2006

Before a lot of people got introduced to Bjork in the 90’s, quite a few of us were listening to her in The Sugarcubes!

ARTIST: The Sugarcubes
SONG: Traitor
ALBUM: Life’s Too Good
YEAR: 1988

And some help from Kate of The B-52’s…

ARTIST: REM
SONG: Shiny Happy People
ALBUM: Out of Time
YEAR: 1991

ARTIST: Ministry
SONG: N.W.O.
ALBUM: Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: Gene Loves Jezebel
SONG: Screaming For Emmalene
ALBUM: Promise (Special Edition)
YEAR: 1983

Had the pleasure of finally seeing the P’Furs in Austin last year!

ARTIST: The Psychedelic Furs
SONG: Blacks – Radio
ALBUM: Psychedelic Furs
YEAR: 1997

ARTIST: For Love Not Lisa
SONG: Slipe Slide Melting
ALBUM: The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
YEAR: 1995

ARTIST: The Smiths
SONG: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
ALBUM: Singles
YEAR: 1995 (album)

Music Time! 3/20/16

Time to put MediaMonkey on shuffle again and see what comes out. Remember, I do this in the hopes of introducing people to new bands. So if you hear something you like, go buy their CD and go to their local shows!

Originally done by Bauhaus, this is a really good cover that adds more electronic to the song.

ARTIST: You Shriek
SONG: Bela Lugosi’s Dead
ALBUM: Bela Lugosi’s Dead
YEAR: 1993

ARTIST: Lush
SONG: Superblast!
ALBUM: Spooky
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: Rupesh Cartel
SONG: Another Damage
ALBUM: The Disco And The What Not
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Mental Discipline
SONG: Shine On Me
ALBUM: Constellation
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: Dirty Vegas
SONG: Changes (Julien Nolan And Red-Eye Remix)
ALBUM: Electric Love (Special Edition)
YEAR: 2011

ARTIST: Stabbing Westward
SONG: Save Yourself
ALBUM: Darkest Days
YEAR: 1998

ARTIST: The Smiths
SONG: Hand In Glove
ALBUM: The Smiths
YEAR: 1984

ARTIST: Thermostatic
SONG: Close Your Eyes
ALBUM: Joy-Toy
YEAR: 2006

ARTIST: Deine Lakaien
SONG: Forest
ALBUM: Forest Enter Exit
YEAR: 1993

ARTIST: Midnight Oil
SONG: Antarctica
ALBUM: Blue Sky Mining
YEAR: 1990

ARTIST: Decoded Feedback
SONG: Technophoby
ALBUM: Overdosing
YEAR: 1996

Not all of my friends liked this album by E&B because Ian wasn’t the lead singer for this album. Don’t get me wrong, I love Ian’s vocals, but this album was equally good musically and I liked the vocals on this one as well.

ARTIST: Echo and the Bunnymen
SONG: Flaming Red
ALBUM: Reverberation
YEAR: 1990

ARTIST: Aural Vampire
SONG: Mad Sports
ALBUM: Zoltank
YEAR: 2010

ARTIST: In My Rosary
SONG: Eternal Clock
ALBUM: Under the Mask of Stone
YEAR: 1994

ARTIST: Le Cassette
SONG: Here I AM
ALBUM: Left to Our Own Devices
YEAR: 2014

ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys
SONG: Tonight Is Forever
ALBUM: Please – Further Listening 1984-1986 (Special Edition)
YEAR: 1986

ARTIST: 10,000 Maniacs
SONG: A Campfire Song
ALBUM: In My Tribe
YEAR: 1987

ARTIST: John Foxx
SONG: Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers
ALBUM: The Golden Section
YEAR: 1983