Episode #30 - End Times

1. Song: One of These Days , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Meddle (Capitol)
2. Song: The Long Road To the 4th Dimension , Artist: Psyopus , Album: Ideas of Reference (Black Market Activities)
3. Song: Mantra 2 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
4. Song: The Golden Section , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
5. Song: Granny's House , Artist: Jennifer Gentle , Album: The Midnight Room (Sub Pop)

• Recorded solo by vocalist/guitarist Marco Fasolo after drummer Alessio Gastaldello left the band, Italian group Jennifer Gentle's The Midnight Room lies in contrast to 2005's Valende - darker, spacier, even creepy at times, channeling the spirit of Syd Barrett and '60s psychedelia.

6. Song: The Jogger , Artist: Pissed Jeans , Album: Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
7. Song: Intermission , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Wolf Eyes (Hanson)
8. Song: How Is It Gonna End , Artist: Tom Waits , Album: Real Gone (Anti-)
9. Song: Otterley , Artist: Cocteau Twins , Album: Treasure (4AD)
10. Song: Weightless & Horizontal , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #30 2007-8-18

Episode #12 - The Stranger

1. Song: Fifteen Minutes to Fairvale , Artist: Forcefedglass , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)

• Sample in this track is from Norman Bates in Psycho, a great bit of dialogue. Track name also references the name of the town (Fairvale) in the movie.

2. Song: Aumgm , Artist: Can , Album: Tago Mago (Mute)
3. Song: What's He Building In There? , Artist: Tom Waits , Album: Mule Variations (Anti/Epitaph)
4. Song: Sangue Puro , Artist: Les Georges Leningrad , Album: Sangue Puro (Tomlab)
5. Song: Babylon 90210 , Artist: Christoph de Babalon , Album: Love Under Will (Fischkopf Hamburg)
6. Song: Relevee (Baby Ford Remix) (Mix) , Artist: Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom , Album: Relevee Remix (Astralwerks)
7. Song: She Creatures , Artist: Implog , Album: New York Noise, Vol. 3: Music From the New York Underground 1979-1984 (Soul Jazz)

• Third installment of the New York Noise series focuses on early electronica/minimal synth stuff (think influences on today's darkwave bands, i.e. The Knife). Not sure where'd I'd rank this in terms of the other entries in the series, but probably in a tie for first with New York Noise, Vol. 1. Also features James Blood Ulmer, Martin Rev (Suicide), and Boris Policeband, among others.

8. Song: Jeepers Creepers , Artist: Billie Holliday , Album: Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 (Columbia)

• Plays at the end of the movie with the same name ("Jeepers creepers / Where'd you get those peepers?").

9. Song: Botch Up and Die , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Grist (Cock Rock Disco)
10. Song: N.Y. Flat Top Box , Artist: John Zorn , Album: Naked City (Elektra/Nonesuch)

• R.I.P. Tonic.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #12 2007-4-14

Episode #5 - Attack

1. Song: An Actual Attack , Artist: Negativland , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
2. Song: Listen to the Hiss , Artist: Hell , Album: NY Muscle (Universal International)

• Alan Vega of Suicide contributes guest vocals on this track.

3. Song: Frequency 7 , Artist: Visage , Album: The Kings of Techno (Rapster)

• Off the double CD compilation chronicling the Detroit techno scene. The first disc sets the stage with tracks from The Stooges, Aretha Franklin, and The Temptations, while the second disc also features Arpanet, Kano, Black Dog, Nitzer Ebb, and others.

4. Song: 1.10 , Artist: The Vanishing , Album: Still Lifes Are Failing (Gold Standard Laboratories)
5. Song: Martin , Artist: Soft Cell , Album: The Art of Falling Apart (Sire)
6. Song: Redrum , Artist: Tom Waits , Album: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti)
7. Song: I Put a Spell On You , Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , Album: Murderous Ends, Collaborative Odds (Silver Wolf)

• Bootleg album on the Silver Wolf label; also features covers of Neil Young's "Helpless" and Roy Orbison's "Running Scared", as well as the excellent "The Mercy Seat". This track is a cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins of course, which has also been done by Marilyn Manson and the very underrated Arthur Brown, plus probably some other groups - it seems to be a popular song to cover.

8. Song: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo , Artist: Pere Ubu , Album: Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years (Rough Trade / Mute)

• Too many awesome artists to list on this four-disc set. Just pick this up, seriously.

9. Song: Day of the Lords , Artist: Joy Division , Album: Unknown Pleasures (Qwest)
10. Song: Mining Villages , Artist: Swell Maps , Album: Jane From Occupied Europe (Rough Trade)
11. Song: Prelude - Nightmare , Artist: Arthur Brown , Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Touchwood)
12. Song: Fan Fare - Fire Poem , Artist: Arthur Brown , Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Touchwood)
13. Song: Fire , Artist: Arthur Brown , Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Touchwood)

• First three tracks off this crazy psych album from 1968 (produced by Pete Townsend), the first half of which is a mini-concept album of sorts. "Fire" was Brown's only hit, but that's not to discount the rest of the album, which also features covers of James Brown's "Money" and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell On You". I highly recommend picking this up; I'd grab a vinyl copy if you can find one. If you must pick it up on CD, avoid all the versions save the Touchwood one (which has three extra tracks tacked on at the end, including a mono version of "Prelude - Nightmare"), as the tracklisting for most CD versions is out of Brown's original intended order - extremely important for an album such as this. Interesting side note: I hear grind-spazz-psych-core band An Albatross has covered "Fire" in concert.

14. Song: Wachovia , Artist: Pissed Jeans , Album: Shallow (Sub Pop)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #5 2007-2-24