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Tales From The Drop Box Episode 195 (2021-07) / Still The Pandemic Episodes, Damn..

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I’m still here! There is not a better way to start the week than with some new tunes. This episode of Tales From The Drop Box explores a very poppy side of the musical world. This week’s episode is really a trip through some neglected pop music that inhabits the multiverse and that is not on any popular radio in the U.S. (for the most part). Episode 195 explores that indie pop genre with some lyrically catchy and somewhat dark themes sprinkled throughout. It is interesting to hear music that is somewhat upbeat and then takes that dark sharp left into the uncomfortable. It’s not all dark as you’ll quickly discover, but then that is the joy of these podcasts – you’ll discover that we like to do it with the lights on!

Here is what you will find in Episode 195 (2021-07):

  1. Nessa Barrett – “I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead” (Pretty Poison)
  2. Sly Withers – “My Bullshit” (Gardens)
  3. Islands – “(We Like To Do It) With The Lights on” (Islomania)
  4. Latewaves – “Too Much” (Hell To Pay)
  5. Juliana Hatfield – “Suck It Up” (Blood)
  6. The Reds, Pinks, and Purples – “Living On Sunday” (Anxiety Art)
  7. Captain Kaiser – “Moscow Mule (The Drover’s Inn)
  8. Sydney Sprague – “Object Permanence” (Maybe I Will See You At The End Of The World)
  9. Why Elephant – “A Pair” (Today EP)
  10. Nasty Cherry – “All In My Head: (The Movie EP)
  11. Longstocking – “Teenage Angst At 27” (Once Upon A Time Called Now)
  12. Adult Books – “Holiday” (Grecian Urn)
  13. The Beaches – “Blow Up” (Future Lovers)
  14. The Stranglers – “5 Minutes” (No More Heroes)
  15. Remember Sports – ” Like A Stone” (Like A Stone)
Tales From The Drop Box Episode 195 (2021-07)

When I think of you I, I get angry and I – I see couples in love, I hope they die I don’t really, I’m not that violent . . .I lost my love on the holiday my drugstore flowers bought with change
the smell of wet leaves in the fireplace . . .

KFR

Tales From The Drop Box Episode 194 (2021-06) / Still The Pandemic Episodes, Damn..

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Well, I’m back again for another week of new-ish fine-ish music. Thanks for the positive comments. I missed you all as well. So, there should be some candy in this week’s episode of Tales From The Drop Box because for some unknown reason there are more pop sounds than usual. So, don’t be alarmed if there is not a plethora of heavy music or you missed your favorite punk rock track. We will get back there at some point but for now,

here is what you will find in Episode 194 (2021-06):

  1. Faded Paper Figures – “She’s Walking Out” (Kairos)
  2. Bull – “Green” (Discover Effortless Living)
  3. Cloud Nothings – “Things I Fucking Like” (April 2021 EP)
  4. Fightmilk – “Hey Annabelle!” (Contender)
  5. Polish Club – “Stop For A Minute” (Now We’re Cookin’)
  6. Acid Dad – “Good Time” (Take It From The Dead)
  7. Ferraro – “Fools Paradise” (Sweet Fever EP)
  8. The Jungle Giants – “Treat You Right” (Love Signs)
  9. Nonagon – “Hack” (They Birds)
  10. Free Throw – “Ocular Pat Down” (Piecing It Together)
  11. Authority Zero – Seas And Serpents” (Ollie Ollie Oxen Free)
  12. LionLion – “Language” (Perspective)
  13. Demolition Doll Rods – “Believe” (Into The Brave)
  14. Eddie And The Hot Rods – “Do Anything You Wanna Do” (Life On The Line)
  15. Maggot Heart – “Lost Boys” (Mercy Machine)
Tales From The Drop Box Episode 194 (2021-06)

Meet me in the club tell me that’s what’s up baby hold on hold on, wait stop for a minute … Well, I’m a lover, girl, I want you to know well, I will treat you right I got your number, babe …

KFR

Tales From The Drop Box Episode 193 (2021-05) / Still The Pandemic Episodes, Damn..

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Well I bet you thought that this podcast had evaporated into the sands of time. It still might, but I’m going to give it a shot. As this is only Episode 5 of Tales From The Drop Box in 2021, and we’ve had several COVID vaccine options in the time I’ve been away, I’m hoping that as things now, after some clusterfuckery, are heading on a positive trajectory. Maybe it was the January 6th insurrection and coup attempt that got me sideways, but I’ll try to get back on track. So, rather than jibber-jabber about nonsense, here is what you came for – nuggets of sonic goodness that will make you want to shake a body part or two.

Here is what you will find in Episode 193 (2021-05):

  1. Neighborhood Brats – “Miss America Pageant” (Confines of Life)
  2. Chubby And The Gang – “Coming Up Tough” (The Mutt’s Nuts)
  3. Jake Bugg – “All I Need” (Saturday Night, Sunday Morning)
  4. Kurt Vile – “Run Run Run” (I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground)
  5. Kenny Hoople/Travis Barker – “Estella//” (Survivor’s Guilt: The Mixtape)
  6. New Candys – “Evil Evil” (Vyvyd)
  7. Social Haul – “The Bayou” (Social Haul)
  8. The Lillingtons – Project 313″ (Can Anybody Hear Me? A Tribute To Enemy You)
  9. Mighty Oaks – “Ghost” (Mexico)
  10. Useless I.D. – “Turn Up The Stereo” (Most Useless Songs)
  11. The Snuts – “Always” (W.L. (Deluxe Edition))
  12. Citizen – “I Want To Kill You” (Life In Your Glass World)
  13. Skeggs – “Fantasizing” (Rehearsal)
  14. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – “Coma Girl” (Assembly)
  15. Halsey – “The Lighthouse” (If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power)
Tales From The Drop Box Episode 193 (2021-05)

Two broken hearts, but I won’t let you go until you are a ghosts to me…Coma Girl was beating with the oil drum gang some fast food fanatic was burning down a burger van . . .

KFR

Tales From The Drop Box Episode 187 (2020-35) / The Pandemic Episodes

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I hope you enjoyed your week after the thanksgiving holiday. I took the week off llast week and perhaps you noticed there was no new episode for you to listen to last week. Perhaps, not. If you did look for something, I hope you went back and gave a listen to something you might have missed. I truly believe this has been a terrific year for new music. In what could have been a truly horrible year (keep reading) the music that is coming out now is pretty freakin’ awesome. Although it would appear that we do not have much to be thankful for this year, your perspective on what has happened this past year as we approach the end of 2020 is truly important. I am truly blessed and thankful I am still here, my family is safe and we are still earning a living. These are simple graces for a difficult year. I am saddened by the horrific loss of life that truly was preventable. There is plenty of blame to go around but that is not the point of this missive.

During Thanksgiving and this Christmas season, I think it is important to reflect upon, and be thankful for, the bounty we still have, individually and as a nation. We are still moving forward making progress on both COVID and the economy will rebound once we have progress against COVID and for those of us who are still battling COVID-19 and a former President of the U.S. I truly am hopeful that we are shortly going to emerge from the tunnel of chaos and death. I am also tremendously thankful to those who fought and are continuing to fight the COVID battle on the front lines including those retail workers, nurses, doctors, scientists, and all those who must risk contracting the virus each day as they perform a variety of tasks necessary for all of us to directly and indirectly survive. My thanks giving this year is truly for them.

I’m not sure where to begin with this weeks episode of Tales From the Drop Box. I was feeling somewhat contemplative as I selected tracks this week, so there is a more mellow vibe even though several of the tracks I think are absolute bangers. A few old favorites pop up this week with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard making an appearance, along with Elvis Costello, Pale Honey, The Kooks and Seahaven.

Here is what you will find in Episode 187 (2020-35):

  1. Doghouse Rose – “Try x 3” (The Harder They Fall)
  2. Baio – “What Do You Say When I’m Not There? (Single – Digital)
  3. Pale Honey – “Bad Thing” (Some Time Alone)
  4. Bad Nerves – “Terminal Boy” (Bad Nerves)
  5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz” (Live In San Francisco ’16)
  6. The Bats – “Field Of Vision” (Foothills)
  7. BRKN Love – “I Can’t Lie” (BRKN Love)
  8. The Brummies – “Automatic World” (Automatic World)
  9. Deeper – “This Heat” (Auto-Pain)
  10. The Flat Five – “Girl Of Virginia” (Another World)
  11. The Kooks – “In Love” (Too Much Is Not Enough)
  12. Seahaven – “Lose” (Halo Of Hurt)
  13. Jam City – “They Eat The Young” (Pillowland)
  14. Elvis Costello – “Secret Service” (The Complete Armed Forces (Super Deluxe Edition))
  15. Lydia – “Back Of Your Room” (I Was Someone Else)
Tales From The Drop Box Episode 187 (2020-35)

You came in hot and I could not believe you know I’m super sensitive and eager to please it’s true I’m such a misty-eyed fool . . . black cards so cold, out of control you like it the truth, it hurts, your blood it burns you like it …

KFR

Tales From The Drop Box Episode 170 (2020-18) The Pandemic/BLM Episodes

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A bit of a throwback episode this week. As the number of days under pandemic increase, so does the length of the list of tracks that are – drop box worthy! America is struggling in getting the Sars-Cov-2 virus under control, and it doesn’t look like there is going to be any coordinated national response until there is new leadership in the White House. Not unsurprising, the President continues to spread lies, misinformation, and misdirection to attempt to deflect from a horrific and catastrophic loss of American lives (154,449 acknowledged deaths as of this date) and from his own failures. (See John Hopkins Coronavirus Center.) As a lesson for our future, should we have one and if American’s are still voting for elected offices, don’t elect morally corrupt lying sacks of crap who are willing to kill you for their own gain. There is hope and it is 93 days away.

Tales From The Drop Box Episode 170 is a musical smack down of diversity, with a new Osees track, a track from the former dBs vocalists Chris Stamey & Peter Holsapple, new Soul Asylum, and X. There is some new-old music from earlier in the year and late last year before the world shut down in response to the pandemic. I’ve thrown in a couple of live tracks in the hope that live shows will someday return. We will survive the pandemic and when we get to the other side, the lessons we are learning each and every day will help form a new world order, hopefully one that is safer, kinder, and forward thinking. This podcast is merely your soundtrack to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Here is what you will find in Episode 170:

  1. Violet Soda – “Don’t Like This Song” (Violet Soda)
  2. Arson Daily – “Bring It All Back Home” (Late Reflections)
  3. Osees – “Blood On Your Boots” (Be Gay, Do Crime!)
  4. Surf Rock Is Dead – “Diabolik” (Existential Playboy)
  5. The Academic – “I Feel It Too (Live at the Iveagh Gardens April 24, 2020)” (Live at the Iveagh Gardens)
  6. The Bar Stool Preachers – “When This World Ends” (Soundtrack To Your Apocalypse)
  7. Chastity – “Flames (Live At The Whitby Courthouse Theater)” (Home Made Satan: Live Addition)
  8. Standup Stacy – “Mirrors” (The Magnificent You)
  9. Aviva – “GRRRLs” (Volume 1)
  10. X – “Alphabetland” (Alphabetland)
  11. The Movement – “Revolt” (Future Freedom Time)
  12. Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – “Black and White” (Our Back Pages)
  13. Soul Asylum – “Hopped Up Feelin’ (Hurry Up and Wait)
  14. Plain White T’s – “Big Bad World” (Big Bad World)
  15. Riverby – “Smart Mouth” (Smart Mouth)
Tales From The Drop Box Episode 170 (2020-18)

It’s a big bad world we’re doing what we can sometimes we fall on our face before we even learn to stand . . . I, I never would hurt you but even if I did you you never would tell me . . life is simple, life is plain fuck the future, stay the same lust for lashes your country’s in ashes.

KFR