Kosmik Radiation Radio - Dec 9, 2011 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
BeBop Deluxe "Modern Music" 1976 (UK)

BeBop Deluxe was a band that defied easy categorization -- they were born in the age of glam rock, but always had a distinctly progressive bent. By the mid-70's the band was sporting short haircuts and neckties in defiance of mid-70's fashion trends for rock stars, and their last batch of albums seem to prefigure the coming "new wave" movement. Which is to say, BeBop was a band ahead of its time (a lot of their late 70's songs sound like they could have been early 80's hits). The main brain behind BBD was always the guitar virtuouso Bill Nelson, a figure who has been compared to the likes of Hendrix, Eno and Zappa. Modern Music was the band's 4th of five studio albums, and it's tempting to call it their most futuristic album, except they all are!
Here's a cheesy fan video for the "Modern Music" suite which is the centerpiece of this album. I think BeBop's catchiest song ever was "Panic In The World" from their final album Drastic Plastic of 1978 (but doesn't it sounds "totally eighties"?) More classic rockers from their oeuvre include "Fair Exchange" and "Blazing Apostles", which often led to 10 more minutes of jamming in concert. After Bebop broke up at the end of the 70's, Bill Nelson briefly led an electro-pop outfit called Red Noise before heading in a more low-profile instrumental direction: here's Bill Nelson today.

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
Wild Flag	Black Tiles	Wild Flag (N)	2011 (Merge)	USA
Baby Woodrose	No Other Girl	Love Comes Down (N - reissue)	2006 (2011 Bad Afro)	Denmark
Psychic Ills	Incense Head	Hazed Dream (N)	2011 (Sacred Bones)	USA
Wooden Shjips	Lazy Bones	West (N)	2011 (Thrill Jockey)	USA
Radio Moscow	Little Eyes	The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz (N)	2011 (Alive Natural Sound)	USA

BeBop Deluxe	Modern Music -> Dancing In The Moonlight (All Alone) -> Honeymoon on Mars -> Lost In The Neon World -> Dance Of The Uncle Sam Humanoids -> Modern Music (Reprise)	Modern Music CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1976	UK
BeBop Deluxe	Panic In The World	Drastic Plastic	1978	UK
BeBop Deluxe	Fair Exchange (live)	Live! In The Air Age	1977	UK
Bill Nelson's Red Noise	Out Of Touch	Sound-On-Sound	1979	UK

Mr. Free And The Satellite Freakout	Thrillorgy pt. 2	Guru Gaga (N)	2010 (Bloat)	USA
5-Track & Zlicious	Complaint	Floating Others (Duets) EP (N)	2011 (Cosmic Primitive)	USA
Dead Luke	Endless High	Meanwhile...In The Midwest (N)	2011 (Moon Glyph)	USA

Datashock	Müff-Busters (live)	Taramöpskäsefuss (N - cassette)	2010 (Earjerk)	Germany

Boris	Track 3 (title in Japanese)	New Album (N)	2011 (Tearbridge)	Japan
Thee Oh Sees	Chem-Farmer	Carrion Crawler / The Dream (N)	2011 (In The Red)	USA
The Bevis Frond	Speedboat	The Leaving of London (N)	2011 (Woronzow)	UK
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	Spazz	Mirror Traffic (N)	2011 (Matador)	USA
Eddy Current Suppression Ring	Wet Cement	So Many Things (N - compilation of singles and odd tracks)	2010 (2011 Goner)	Australia
Duchess Says	Subtraction of Obedience	In A Fung Day T! (N)	2011 (Alien 8)	Canada (Quebec)

Cranium Pie	Rememberrr	Mechanism (Part 1) (N)	2011 (Regal Crabomophone)	UK
Master Musicians of Bukkake	In The Twilight of Kali Yuga / Illuminating the Ten Directions - Mahur	Totem III (N)	2011 (Important)	USA
Dead Skeletons	Get On The Train	Dead Magick (N)	2011 (Cargo)	Iceland
Neotopia	Marrakech	unreleased track from artist's website (N)	2010 (self release)	UK

Solus 3	Pumori	Corner Of The World (N)	2011 (Solus 3 Recordings)	UK