Sonic Overload 1/17/11

I’m recording this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and, as always, begin the show with a snippet of a King speech. This year, once again, it’s from King’s “Beyond Vietnam” address, given a year before his assassination. And, as I always want to point out, there was a lot more to King than just “I Have A Dream.” He came out against the Vietnam War and increasingly addressed income disparity in this country.

I had a give and take on one of my Facebook threads with a right-wing nemesis. He claims himself to be an independent, moderate on social issues but conservative on others. That’s a distortion—he’s basically bought into the whole Fox News/Beck/Limbaugh et al nonsense. And he always brings up the fact that King was a Republican. Which is true—King addressed the Republican convention in 1952. Why? Because it was the southern Democrats who were the racists holding back desegregation and hostile to civil rights. Eventually, the “Dixie-crats” gravitated to the Republican Party. I asked the guy if he thought King would be a member of the current-day Republican Party but didn’t really get an answer. I’ll answer it for him—I seriously doubt it. What King preached would be excoriated by the right wing. Glenn Beck would castigate him as a believer in social justice, someone who is a danger to this country.

Please watch this four minute video of King’s speech that I excerpt on the show...

Sonic Overload 1/17/11

TRACK 1

STEPMOTHERS-Where Is The Dream? (Posh Boy)

7 SECONDS-I Have A Dream (BYO)
BLIGHT-The Dream Was Dead (Touch & Go)
PINKERTON THUGS-One Day (VML)
LIFE CRISIS-Warstarters (Get Revenge)

PMRC-SWAT (Motorchest)
BRAIN FLANNEL-So Dim (Grave Mistake)
RETAINERS-Teenage Regrets (Fashionable Idiots)
JEHOSAPHAT BLOW-I Wanna Smash Your Love (Donkeysick)
WINNING LOOKS-Gone (Waiting)
LE FACE-Tylenol Killer (Dead Beat)

DESCARADOS-Desiumbra (Stonehenge)
HERO DISHONEST-Like A Moth To A Flame (IfSociety)
PATH OF DECAY-Honour Killings (Ha-Ko Bastards)
TRAPDOOR FUCKING EXIT-Run Idiot Run (No Idea)

TRACK 2

GIT SOME-Trixie Loves Misty (1-2-3-4, Go!)
TOTAL ABUSE-Eastern Thoughts (Deranged)
FULL SPEED AHEAD-Overload (Manic Ride)
FUCKED UP-What Could’ve Been (Deranged)
JAWS-I Did This All Myself (MSI)

HUL-Dode Fisk (Hjernespind)
LOS VIOLADORES-Viejos Pateticos (Umbral)
RABATZ-Helden (self-released)
K-JELL-Struggle and Break Through (October Party)

SKEPTIX-Traitor (Captain Oi)
STATE CONTROL-Permanent Damage (Rodent Popsicle)
IRON CROSS-You’re A Rebel (GMM)
SUSPECTS-Mind Control (Torque)
ETA-I Got Problems (DeadAlive)
CLASSACTION-Stop Making Punk Rock Suck (Rodent Popsicle)

TRACK 3

CELIBATE RIFLES-The More Things Change (What Goes On)
BRIARD-Finndisc (Johanna)
VIDIOTS-I Get Around (Rivers Digital Press)
DEAN DIRG-Do It Right (Dead Beat)
STITCHES-Heartache (TKO)

FUNERAL ORATION-Nothing Sacred (Diehard)
TEENGENERATE-Do You Wanna Know? (Wild Wild)
CRIMSON SWEET-No Hot On Cold (On/On Switch)
TYVEK-Pricks In A Car (In The Red)
COLA FREAKS-Slukket (Hjernespind)

TEMPEST-Justice (Heretic)
CRUDE-Human Breaker (La Familia)
LIP CREAM-Grasser (Terror Shock)
VALVONTAKOMISSIO-O (Finn)
FASHION-Swells (Yibbida Yibbida)

TRACK 4

CROWD-Modern Machine (Posh Boy)
SKULLS (Los Angeles)-Victim (Bomp)
SKULLS (Vancouver)-Fuck You (from “Last Call: Vancouver Independent Music,” Zulu)
ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS-Fuck You (Stiff)
JOHNNY & THE SELF-ABUSERS-Saints & Sinners (from “Punk Lost & Found,” Shanachie)
NEO-Tran-Sister (Jet)

WEDDING PRESENT-Go Out And Get ‘Em Boy (Reception)
JOSEF K-Drone (Domino)
JAH WOBBLE-Betrayal (Blue Plate)
FIRE ENGINES-Candyskin (Domino)

HOWARD WERTH-Obsolete (Dangerhouse)