Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:02pm Uncle Michael:

Rock me, Joe.

12:03pm common:

good day!

12:05pm riff randell toronto:

Finally have a day off for this!

12:08pm AJ:

Hey Joe!!! Been a few weeks for me. Let's rock!!! I've been working like crazy. Soundtrack to the day. Cheers!

12:09pm AJ:

New Kid Congo is so good!

12:12pm common:

good call, joe!

12:13pm Joe B:

Greetings everyone! thanks for tuning in!

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12:14pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Send The Plastiques Samantha's Hoof & Mouth performance. She'll show them how it's done!

12:15pm Joe B:

new kid congo a contender for album of the year that is for sure

12:16pm Cecile:

this is great

12:16pm Bambi Kino HQ:

Olympics! BK does "Shimmy Like Kate" aka "Shimmy Shimmy" aka "Shi**y Shi**y"!

12:18pm wdd:

really good kid congo show last night in seattle. included she's like heroin to me and sex beat.

12:19pm KP:

Dave Davis & Joe B. on a Sunny Afternoon

12:19pm Cecile:

I saw him with the Knoxville Girls. That was a fine, if short-lived band.

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12:19pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Not released in 1964? Same thing we blame stuff on today: the Republicans!

12:20pm Todd-o-phonic:

Olympics cut steals the show on that comp!

12:21pm Joe B:

Knoxville Girls played the record fair one time, on a double bill with demolition doll rods!

12:21pm Uncle Michael:

Fox Sisters for the win.

12:21pm Cecile:

nice!

12:23pm wdd:

knoxville girls was also the last time i saw him. ninetynine or so, i think.

12:23pm SmokinJ:

Swingin'!

12:23pm Flower5000:

Yet another fantastic start to my Monday. Work today is actually tolerable thanks to Three Chord Monte ... Thanks Joe Belock! You Rock!

12:24pm doctorjazz:

This James Hunter sounds like it could have been played in any juke joint in the 60's, fun.

12:28pm Sissophonic Cheryl:

Kool & the Gang Way!

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12:29pm Ken From Hyde Park:

James Hunter on Michael Shelley - www.wfmu.org...

12:35pm V Priceless:

Hey Joe!

12:49pm Parq:

Dear God, how many versions of this song *are* there? This may very well be more covered than any Porter or Gershwin song.

12:50pm Joe B:

NOT ENOUGH!

12:53pm Parq:

JB, no argument from me there.

12:53pm V Priceless:

somebody could do half a show with 'Stranded In The Jungle' covers....

12:57pm Cecile:

and big daddy's take on Lionel Ritchie's "all night long" in a Stranded in the Jungle arrangement.

12:58pm Cecile:

www.youtube.com...

1:00pm Cecile:

two minutes in.

Marred by limp 80s production, but pretty funny.

1:04pm Cecile:

but man, how did anyone get a good sound in the 80s?

1:04pm Eugene:

Other Music is closing: www.nytimes.com...

1:05pm Marc Francis:

@Eugene: Damn. Another one bites the dust.

1:07pm Eugene:

Glad they're keeping the label going at least.

1:08pm Mick:

@Eugene Saw that a little while ago: so. not. ok. @Marc, yes: *another* one...

1:10pm Cecile:

This world keeps getting suckier and suckier

1:10pm Cecile:

well they're still opening them up in Minneapolis.

1:13pm herb.nyc:

Gulp, no Other Mudic?

1:20pm JakeGould:

R.I.P. Other Music. Now what do people go to the East Village for? To “do brunch” and that’s it? www.nytimes.com...

1:20pm JakeGould:

@Eugene: Props to you. Just saw your link; didn’t know you posted it. Why doesn’t someone create a mobile music/CD/record store van?

1:22pm Todd-o-phonic:

One more song in either of the first 2 sets and Lenny Kaye would have run out of fingers.

1:22pm Parq:

Damn, outright closing, not even moving to Brooklyn. If they ever tear down the Flatiron Building, I'm not even going to know what city I'm in any more.

1:23pm Michael 98145:

... Never get tired of listening to Bob Mould

1:24pm JakeGould:

@Parq: If you want to get upset at humanity in NYC nowadays, get off the Price Street R train stop and just deal with the humanity/tourists. Makes you wish—no pun intended—the real 3 card monty folks were back on the street.

1:25pm Parq:

Jake Gould, the East Village is now party central for the recent-college-grad types -- the Bros and Besties, as I call them. Every other business down there is a bar that caters to the college-tee-shirt crowd.

1:26pm Parq:

And what's happened to Broadway south of Houston? Don't get me started.

1:31pm Marc Francis:

On Friday I played a Spaceshits/King Khan & BBQ/King Khan & Shrines/Almighty Defenders run during my set. They've created such a great world of music...

1:32pm Joe B:

not to mention a confusing discography with the several versions of this album, tie your noose, etc.

1:35pm Sissophonic Cheryl:

Love this Feels cut! Chatted with them in Austin a year ago, the nicest people!

1:36pm Joe B:

SCB Management, always workin it!

1:36pm JakeGould:

@Parq: I recently walked through the East Village on a Friday night to see how bad it is… It’s wretched. Dude bros and sorority sisters dressed as hos.

1:39pm Marc Francis:

@Joe B: Oh shit, I never realized there were different versions and even album covers. Weird.

1:41pm Joe B:

at least 3 that i know of, not to mention some tracks appearing on different albums, sometimes in same versions, sometimes alternate versions or mixes

1:41pm V Priceless:

wow - phantom tollbooth - nice

1:42pm Sissophonic Cheryl:

Wow

1:42pm geezerette:

Fucking great set!
Hey everybody,I feel your pain regarding loss of record stores,landmark historical buildings,diverse local bottom-up underground culture etc,. We lost Tower Records on Sunset Strip and now the Strip itself. Ugly big box "Dwell" style houses are replacing entire neighborhoods as if dropped from U.F.O.s overnight. It's a world wide phenomenon too;got friends in Europe,same there.

1:42pm Michael 98145:

my favorite Heart song

1:42pm Polyus:

Pfft, no Michael Derosier, no peace.

1:43pm Michael 98145:

@geezerette, same up here in the upper left corner

1:43pm Dominick:

HAW!

1:43pm Todd-o-phonic:

Wonder if Heart fan Rex and The Fool's Paradise Faithful are enjoying this cover.

1:44pm Fox (Rā-chul):

Hullo everyone.

1:47pm Dean:

@geezeretee: Book Soup's still there, though, right? Damn, Tower occupied *two* stores on Sunset Strip, the main store to the north and the Classical Annex across the street. I remember meeting Cheap Trick and the Ramones at the main store a billion years ago.

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1:47pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Neat old stuff closing sounds a lot like the SoDoSoPa development in South Park, Colorado. southpark.cc.com...

1:49pm geezerette:

@Michael 98145: Friends in London say the new thing there is houses as deep under earth as they are tall. One floor below street level and several more above. Senseless! Same plan of covering entire plot with house,no setback from street.

1:51pm Michael 98145:

we are experiencing Anarchy for Developers (tm)

1:56pm geezerette:

@Dean: Yep,Book Soup still there and safe for now.
The Last Bookstore in DTLA is good and Alias Books in Atwater Village. Uphill battle but some little victories. Culture's pretty homogenous though. Cherish the bright spots!

1:58pm Dean:

Last Bookstore gets press to this day. I worked in DTLA for some time, but before LB, I believe. Never had a chance to visit it. Downtown has largely improved since I left.

2:00pm Nate K.:

@Geezerette, bummed to hear this about the Dwell houses. I've always liked LA's architecture.

2:07pm Dean:

Speaking of architecture, it looks like the Hennessey + Ingalls bookstore moved from the west side to east of downtown.

2:10pm herb.nyc:

NYTimes had a Fairway Vs Fancy article, about trend(oid)s in NYC. Ugh.

2:12pm geezerette:

Oh the DT of Al's Bar days was definitely MUCH rougher!
@ Nate K: Yeah,L.A.,like N.Y., had it's own architecture and culture. There are still a lot of little "Spanish Colonial" buildings but reaching the tipping point in wrong direction. We had a film based culture and it was funny! You could walk down almost any street and see a Normandy Castle next to a Spanish Mission next to an English Tudor... It was all make believe and studio influenced,charming.
@Dean:East of DT is the current hot spot and it's really great.

2:19pm Tim 07030:

Hi Joe! Just tuning in, glad I haven't missed 'Video Violence'!!

2:19pm Polyus:

One day I will suck it up and lay down the $ for this Matrix Tapes set.

2:20pm geezerette:

Matrix Tapes, soooooo good!

2:21pm Joe B:

damn Tim I forgot all about that!

2:21pm Joe B:

I'll wait until the complete Lou Reed albums box comes out later this year!

2:22pm Dean:

Rougher, yes, but also boring as all get-out! Not counting Al's Bar--which was home away from home--signs of life emerged with MOCA, the Green Umbrella series at Japan America Theater, and Gorky's.

2:22pm Michael 98145:

@geezerette: www.laconservancy.org

2:22pm Cheri Pi:

Daydrinking from home packing up house, think you could slide on I Gotta Move by Thee Headcoatees?

2:22pm Tim 07030:

Marking my calendar, Joe.

2:24pm KP:

Awesome

2:26pm Cecile:

so dean, you're saying a city got a little nicer and by that token more interesting? This fraidy-cat tourist is happy to hear that.

2:31pm Polyus:

What is this Lou box you guys are speaking of? Like, the entire discography?

2:31pm Cheri Pi:

What city are talking aboot C$?

2:32pm Cecile:

Dean was talking about L.A., I think.

2:32pm Dean:

That's a good way to put it, Cecile. I always thought LA could be nice, if you hung out at the right places, Al's Bar among them. But downtown was dreary and "edgy" at once. The east side was predominantly warehouses just south of Union Station. When Al's closed in 2002, I think, an artist neighborhood began to appear, and evidently it has flourished. Meanwhile, there is still a Skid Row closer to the center of downtown.

2:33pm geezerette:

Many breakfasts at Gorky's! Vickman's & Phillipe's too. I actually liked the roughness and emptiness after twilight and on Sundays. I loved driving around in that empty industrial wilderness. The sky was huge. It was kind of like an urban desert.

2:34pm Cheri Pi:

Gotcha, never been

2:35pm Cecile:

me either, but it's nice to know.

2:36pm Cecile:

geezerette, have you been to Detroit?

2:36pm Cecile:

that's how it was in the 80s. Very deserted.

2:36pm Cheri Pi:

I know some Cincinnatians who live it there!

2:37pm Dean:

I remember a business trip to St. Louis a few years ago. I stayed downtown, which was rough and empty a la L.A., geezerette.

There's L.A. and L.A. It's just huge. You could spend a long weekend exploring the downtown area, but you'd be miles from, say, Hollywood or other parts west or east. Took me forty years to get used to the place. Then I left.

2:37pm geezerette:

Here's the thing;there were artists down there from the mid to late 70's onward and you could get huge studio space for well under a buck a foot. Get a lot of work done that way.

2:38pm Dean:

Friend of mine is the sister of David Amico, one of those artists at the time.

2:39pm Michael 98145:

All this LA talk is makin me want to hear some Plugz, Dils and the Alley Cats

2:39pm Cheri Pi:

GERMS too

2:40pm Dean:

I was thinking a couple days ago of Kommunity FK, whom I heard at Beyond Baroque. They might still be playing around.

Lord, the Germs. Nothing better, except maybe a triple bill with Screamers and Weirdos.

2:42pm Michael 98145:

Saw the Screamers at the Whisky once; will never forget that night

2:42pm Cheri Pi:

Got to see the Weirdos in Cincy in the 80s! Or maybe early 90's

2:42pm geezerette:

@Cecile:
@Cheri Pi:
Tourist tip,martinis at Musso&Frank's in Hollywood. Been there since 1919,Chaplin drank there. Strange old American menu. It's a time machine if you want it to be. Phonebooths fer Chrissake! :c)

2:44pm Cecile:

I totally want to go to Musso's. I am a big martini and red meat fan.

2:44pm geezerette:

David Amico still shows with Ace. Nice guy.

2:44pm Dean:

Damn right, Musso & Frank martinis.

2:45pm Cecile:

they are legendary. And they look so good when I see them on TV.

2:46pm FernandoBelmondo:

Hi Joe! Check in late but it sounds like it might be the best 1/2 hour of rock and roll of the week.

2:46pm Cheri Pi:

Make mine a dirty one, the dirtiest in the coop.

2:47pm geezerette:

Musso's waiters are incredible old school pros.

2:48pm geezerette:

Joe! This show!
(:c)

2:48pm Dean:

I think the best martini I ever had, though, was at Celestino Drago's eponymous restaurant on Wilshire Blvd. On the sweet side, but beautiful.

2:51pm Cheri Pi:

The best martini I had was in Austin in the early 90's, I'll never forget it

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2:54pm David Shortell:

Have the Del Shapiros been to the US?

2:54pm thatpatsmith:

love this New Pornos song

2:54pm Joe B:

Thanks everybody! been a blast! sorry for not keeping up with the comments, see youse next week

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2:56pm David Shortell:

If only Phil Collins had passed his Bugaloos audition, we might've been spared Genesis and his solo career!

2:10am John from CDA:

Was the song from the Bugaloos for Uncle Michael?

8:18am george faulkner:

The Rabies single was released in 1981

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Giuda	My Lu	Speaks Evil		2015		0:00:00 Pop-up)
Little Murders	High School	Stop plus singles 1978-1986	Off the Hip	1980/2009	have to remember to segue from this to Only Life by the Feelies one day	0:03:53 Pop-up)
Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds	We Love You	La Arana es la Vida	In the Red	2016	new favorite album. Psych Furs cover	0:06:35 Pop-up)
The Traditional Fools	Layback	Fools Gold	In the Red	2008?/2016	early Ty Segall band	0:10:23 Pop-up)
The Plastiques	All Day All Night	Plastiques	Trash	2005	hope they gave ray davies a partial writing credit!	0:11:54 Pop-up)
The Olympics	So Mystifying	various - Kinked! Kinks Songs and Sessions 1964-1971	Ace	1964/2016	how the hell was this not released in 1964?	0:14:34 Pop-up)
Dave Davies	Susannah's Still Alive	Something Else	Castle		Dave solo single, but a Kinks track, Castle reissue bonus cut	0:17:19 Pop-up)
The Fox Sisters	Right Hip Pocket	Under the Stars		2015	rochester NY	0:19:27 Pop-up)
The James Hunter Six	Satchel Foot	Hold On!	Daptone	2016	check his appearance on the Michael Shelley Show from earlier in 2016	0:21:49 Pop-up)
The Id	Hey Little Chevy			1982		0:24:17 Pop-up)

Tough Shits	Action Breeze	7"	Oops Baby	2016	PHILLY STYLE	0:36:32 Pop-up)
Audacity	Previous Cast	Hyper Vessels	Suicide Squeeze	2016		0:38:56 Pop-up)
Massenger	Fools	Peeling Out	Burger	2016		0:41:34 Pop-up)
Justin Trouble	No Love	7"	Munster	1980/2016	1980 johny thunders co-write/production	0:46:35 Pop-up)
The Apostles	Stranded In the Jungle	various - A-Square (Of Course)		1968/2008		0:48:43 Pop-up)
Los Salvajes	Soy Asi	various - Algo Salvaje: Untamed Beat and Garage Nuggets from Spain Vol. 2	Munster	1966/2016		0:51:13 Pop-up)
Thursday's Children	You Can Forget About That	various - Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets From International Artst Records	Charly	1967/2008		0:53:53 Pop-up)
Chris Bolger	Souls Turn Blue	No Promises		2016		0:55:44 Pop-up)
Tommy Keene	Laughing In the Dark	Laughing In the Dark	Second Motion	2015		0:59:13 Pop-up)
The Britemores	On the Radio	s/t	Jett Plastic	2016		1:04:11 Pop-up)

Parquet Courts	One Man No City	Human Performance	Rough Trade	2016		1:14:31 Pop-up)
Bob Mould	Voices In My Head	Patch the Sky	Merge	2016		1:20:49 Pop-up)
Coo Coo Birds	I Want You	Mexican Cowboys		2015		1:24:29 Pop-up)
The King Khan & BBQ Show	Mind. Body & Soul	s/t	Goner	2005		1:25:37 Pop-up)
Feels	Close My Eyes	Feels	Castle Face	2016	produced by ty segall	1:30:59 Pop-up)
Ty Segall	Candy Sam	Emotional Mugger	Drag City	2016		1:34:44 Pop-up)
Fuzz	Red Flag	Fuzz II	In the Red	2015		1:38:04 Pop-up)
Phantom Tollbooth	Barracuda	remastered sampler		1988		1:40:49 Pop-up)

Orb	First and Last Men			2016		1:52:37 Pop-up)
The Bo-Weevils	Stormy World	s/t 2 CD comp	Off the Hip	1995/2007	90s Australian rockers	1:57:29 Pop-up)
Flotation Device	Front Pocket	Play It	Mystery Lawn Music	2016		2:01:59 Pop-up)
The Rabies	(My Girl's A) Hologram		Presidential	2016?		2:05:26 Pop-up)
Thee Tsunamis	Teenage Dreams	Saturday Night Sweetheart	Magnetic South	2015		2:07:46 Pop-up)
Velvet Underground	I'm Waiting For The Man (Version 1)	The Complete Matrix Tapes	Universal	1969/2015		2:16:01 Pop-up)
The Trolleyvox	Jean Jacket	Your Secret Safe/Luzerne		2007		2:25:09 Pop-up)

The On and Ons	Better Not Give Me Grief	It's the On and Ons Calling ...	Citadel	2015		2:35:28 Pop-up)
Pete Donnelly	Can't Talk At All	When You Come Home		2012	The Figgs at Monty Hall May 21 with the upper crust!	2:41:48 Pop-up)
Bettie Serveert	Had2byou	Oh, Mayhem!	Palomine	2012		2:41:54 Pop-up)
Kurt Baker Combo	Motion Devotion	7"	Hidden Volume	2016		2:43:19 Pop-up)
The Del Shapiros	Have You Seen	Sangre con Tomate	Screaming Apple			2:46:45 Pop-up)
The 427s	The Score	Mavericks	Stingray Sounds	2015		2:48:10 Pop-up)
The Bugaloos	It's New To You			1970		2:50:51 Pop-up)
The New Pornographers	My Rights Versus Yours	Challengers	Matador	2007		2:53:54 Pop-up)

May 9, 2016

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