Sonic Overload 12/27/10--Best of 2010

Welcome to the best of 2010 show. Not a countdown, not in any particular order although the final set features my favorite records of the year (once again, not in any particular order). No social commentary, no roundup of world or cultural events, just the music. I’ve covered that ground quite a bit over the past year (and before that). There are a lot of regressive attitudes and sentiments in the air and it was reflected at the ballot box this year, for one thing, as the Republicans regained the House. The next two years are going to be so much damned fun, aren’t they?

I’m glad to see 2010 come to an end for any number of reasons, some of them personal, but it wasn’t a completely horrific year. While recording this show, I realized that a lot of good to great music did come out and that certainly provides a soundtrack to help me (and hopefully you guys/gals) maintain some sort of sanity. To provide a release. Recording this show definitely provides a release. And we’re all alive and, hopefully, the bastards haven’t completely ground us down.

Happy New Year!

Sonic Overload 12/27/10

TRACK 1

FOLDED SHIRT-15 Year Old Kids (Fashionable Idiots)

BILL BONDSMEN-Disaster Prone (Local Cross)
WHITE WHALE-We’re Dead (self-released)
REGULATIONS-Catholic Love (Deranged)
VIOLENT ARREST-State’s Evidence (Boss Tuneage)
SHITTY LIMITS-Selling Point (La Vida Es Un Mus)

MALE NURSES-Red White Blue (Deranged)
BOSTON STRANGLER-If I Was You (demo)
BLOODKROW BUTCHER-Nigh (Total Fucker)
DRY HUMP-Let Down (Shogun)
GERM ATTAK-Life In Exile (Loud Punk)
KVOTERNINGEN-Ett Svek (Feral Ward)

TYVEK-Future Junk (In The Red)
TELECOMMANDE-Telecommande (demo)
NINPULATORS-Lust Under Cover (demo)
INSERVIBLES-Yo No Se (Shogun)
HOMOSTUPIDS-The Donovan (Chop Chop Chop) (Fashionable Idiots)
LOGNHALSMOTTAGNINGEN-Nya Lognhalsar (Local Cross)

TRACK 2

SCEPTRES-Flatline Generation (Dire)
ARCTIC FLOWERS-Slouching Towards Bethlehem (self-released)
AUTISTIC YOUTH-Disciple (Dirtnap/Black Water)
DEFECT DEFECT-Stolen Ground (Residue)
NUCLEAR FAMILY-Believer’s Voice Of Victory (Loud Punk)

ACID REFLUX-Time To Move (No Way)
COLA FREAKS-Sniper (Hjernespind)
PATH OF DECAY-His War (Ha-Ko)
DISPARO-Miseria Y Hambre (Stomp)
SUNSHINE SS-Destination Oblivion (Death Agonies and Screams)

CEREMONY-Moving Principle (Bridge Nine)
THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY-Photonegative (Smog Veil)
RED RED RED-New Action (Big Neck)
TUBERS-High Tide It’s Inside (No Idea)
TRACTOR SEX FATALITY-Fail (Big Neck)

TRACK 3

HERATYS-Pelkkoo Pahoinvointia (Not Enough)
CIVIL VICTIM-They’re Coming For You (Loud Punk)
PYROKLAST-Wrong Side Of The Law (Profane Existence)
PAHAA VERTA-Kirje Intimate (Paha Tukka Elama)
ANTI-YOU-H-Bomb (Six Weeks)
RENEGADES OF PUNK-Same Old Shit (Thrashbastard)

FLAG OF DEMOCRACY-Glimmerglass (Motherbox)
MOOSHINE-2Hell2Nite (demo)
HOLY SHIT!-Put A Band Aid On It (Criminal IQ)
ZERO ZERO-Watch Out (demo)
CATBURGLARS-Banger (Criminal IQ)
GENBAKU ONANIES-Maelstrom (Trippin’ Elephant)

LIBYANS-A Common Place (Sorry State)
CONVERSIONS-Projectiles (Ride The Snake)
VILE BODIES-Monetization (demo)
PINKO & THE ACTION BOYS-Walker, Taliban Ranger (self-released)
CONFINES-Phoning It In (Labor Of Love/Side Two)
MURDER-SUICIDE PACT-Heavy Hand (demo)

TRACK 4

SECRET PROSTITUTES-Gadis Materialistik (Bad Hair Life)
RED DONS-Pieces (Deranged)
THE ESTRANGED-Lunacy (Dirtnap)
THE ENERGY-Destroy Imagination (Team Science)

MANIPULATION-Violence (Fashionable Idiots)
VAASKA-Destruye (Hardware)
DOUBLE NEGATIVE-In Patient Out (Sorry State)
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING-Anxiety (Goner)
YOUNG OFFENDERS-Black Hands (Deranged)

EMBRACE-End Of A Year (Dischord)