Here's the playlist from the Industrial Strength Blend on 5/9/93. This is my show on KZSU, 90.1 FM, on Saturday night (technically Sunday morning) from midnight to 3AM.
A sound bed (background music for talking) is indicated by "BED:".
Artist: Cut: Album:
BED: The Orb Blue Room Twitch Volume 9
Sharkbait Big Rallies Crushits
Coil Further Back & Faster Love's Secret Domain
Shriekback New Man Go Bang!
BED: The Orb Blue Room Twitch Volume 9
Mercury Rev The Hum is Coming 10" single
From Her
P Children Slow Blue Bite Documentation 87'-'92
Baron, Berne & Roberts Hong Kong Sad Song Miniature
BED: J.K. Randall Mudgett: Monolgue for Computer Music (collection)
a Mass Murderer
Ani Difranco My I.Q. Puddle Dive
David Bowie Fill Your Heart Hunky Dory
Robyn Hitchcock & Serpent at the Gates Respect
the Egyptians of Wisdom
BED: Barry Vecroe Synthesisms Computer Music (collection)
Holy Water Superistition Highway 7" single
John Mayal Mail Order Mystics Wake Up Call
The Shamen Boss Drum Boss Drum
BED: Gabrielle Roth The Calling Bones
& the Mirrors
This Mortal Coil Acid Bitter & Sad This Mortal Coil
Negativland I Am God Free
Hot Tuna I See the Light Phosphorescent Rat (request)
BED: Gabrielle Roth Dolphin Bones
& the Mirrors
Cop Shoot Cop Migration Ask Questions Later
Illusion of Safety Historical Pt. 1 Historical
Rova Floater From the Bureau of Both
BED: Gypsy I Trance You Twitch Volume 9
The 45 minute uniterrupted Set, on the theme: Music for Libertarians
Peter Gabriel D.I.Y. Peter Gabriel
Vapors Civic Hall Magnets
KMFDM Money Money/Bargeld (CD single)
Peter Tosh Legalize It Legalize It
Malcom X "by any means Wisdom of Malcom X
necessary"
Movement Ex Freedom Got a 12" single
Shotgun
Broken English Klik Who's the Gangsta Broken English Klik
Nuclear Renaisance One Down Day After
Yeastie Girlz FCC Yeastie Girlz 7"
Bongwater Obscene & The Power of Pussy
Pornographic Art
Beatles Tax Man Rock n' Roll Music
Clock DVA Black Angel's Death Breakdown 12" single
Song
Frazier Chorus Anarchy in the U.K. Twitch Volume 1
Killbilly Don't Tread on Me 7" single
Young Disciples Freedom Road to Freedom
BED: Coil Answers Come in Dreams Snow EP
Raw Fusion Throw Your Hands in 12" Single (request)
the Air
Not too bad a job this show, even if I couldn't get a hold of a
copy of Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" to finish up my "Music for
Libertarians" set.
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A breakdown of the reasoning behind the Music for Libertarians set:
Peter Gabriel D.I.Y. Peter Gabriel
"D.I.Y." means "Do it Yourself", as in "If you want to have some control/
you've got to keep it _small_/ D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself)"
Vapors Civic Hall Magnets
My favorite track by the folks who brought you "Turning
Japanese". A beautiful song about someone peddling jam on the
street by the civic hall being hassled by the police "And my home
made jam/And my trust in man/lies broken by the Civic
Hall/_Civic_ _Hall_..."
KMFDM Money Money/Bargeld (CD single)
An industrial track to keep my industrial fans happy, with the
inspiring chorus "one for the money/two for the show/it's three
to get ready/now _go_ kids GO!" (which unfortunately I'm sure
they intended sarcastically). The lines about people so sleazy
they'll do anything for money like dealing drugs worked fairly
well as a lead-in to:
Peter Tosh Legalize It Legalize It
Overplayed and a bit obvious, but it fits too well to skip it.
Reggae about legalizing marijuana.
Malcom X "by any means Wisdom of Malcom X
necessary"
The end of the famous speech about the importance of self-defense.
Movement Ex Freedom Got a 12" single
Shotgun
Hard hitting rap/hip-hop about the right to bear arms. You can't
be free without a shotgun.
Broken English Klik Who's the Gangsta Broken English Klik
Heavily political hip-hop, talking about the various kinds of
crap the police get away with, each example followed by the
refrain "So who's the gangsta?" Cops considered as just another
gang.
Nuclear Renaisance One Down Day After
Begins with a reading of the first ammemdment, and the lyrics
"One down... what next? The whole bill of rights?". Competent
female vocal folk singing, but the backing music is such
over-produced schmalzy crap I couldn't bring myself to play the
entire song.
Yeastie Girlz FCC Yeastie Girlz 7"
Rap about the FCC's role as a censorship agency. "We wish the
FCC would go away!"
Bongwater Obscene & The Power of Pussy
Pornographic Art
Sarcastic song about how hot and sexy all that "pornography" is
on display in every traditional art museum.
Beatles Tax Man Rock n' Roll Music
Another old and obvious pick, but how could I skip it? Name
another rock and roll song about the evils of high taxes...
Clock DVA Black Angel's Death Breakdown 12" single
Song
Vaugely incoherent old Velvet Underground song, with a constant
motif of "choice": "free to choose/choose to go..." Possibly
supposed to be about suicide, but in the context I'm placing it
here, you're supposed to be thinking about leaving an oppressive
situation, e.g. a location with high taxes... (Why a cover
rather than the original? Well I *really* like Clock DVA, and
this is a chance to slip in another "industrial" song to keep the
i-heads satisified.){
Frazier Chorus Anarchy in the U.K. Twitch Volume 1
Very soft, mellow version of the old Sex Pistols song. If you
pay close attention, the lyrics are making more of a
chaos=anarchy connection, but the lines "...I thought it was the
U.K./Or just another country..." shows the right level of
contempt for nations and nationalism.
Killbilly Don't Tread on Me 7" single
Nice light weight rockabilly/country. "In the land of the brave
and the free/ Don't tread on me." Self-explanatory.
Young Disciples Freedom Road to Freedom
Slow, jazzy vocals all about the need for freedom.