We Pod Econo (Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries)

AND introducing...our first ever miniseries! WELCOME TO WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene. And today we start that journey with the legendary...BLACK FLAG. We’re joined by artist/comedian/podcaster Branson Reese to explore Black Flag’s heavy history and the life of legendary intense guy Henry Rollins.

Check out Branson’s book of comics, Hell Was Full: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hell-Was-Full/Branson-Reese/Hell-Was-Full/9781620107430
And I implore you, listen to Branson’s amazing DnD podcast Rude Tales of Magic: https://www.rudetalesofmagic.com/

Songs in Order:
Television - Little Johnny Jewel
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
Black Flag - Rise Above
Black Flag - TV Party
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Three Nights

And Introducing

#86 BLACK FLAG! (ft. Branson Reese)

And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Two: The Minutemen! We’re joined by Max & Doug of the Chicago-based indie label Hausu Mountain to talk mersh, gigs, fliers, corndogs from Pedro and all things jamming econo.

Follow @HausuMountain on twitter. 
Hausu Mountain on bandcamp: https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/
Hausu Mountain website: https://hausumountain.com/
That Prolaps release Doug mentions is indeed sick, check it out: https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-cycle-pt-1-vernal-birth

Songs In Order:
Minutemen - Sickles and Hammers
Minutemen - Fascist
Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Minutemen - The Anchor
Minutemen - Jesus and Tequila
Minutemen - Corona
Minutemen - The Glory of Man
Minutemen - King of the Hill
Unknown Instructros - Out in the Cold
Minutemen - History Lesson - Part II

#87 MINUTEMEN! (ft. Hausu Mountain)

And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Three: Mission of Burma! We’re joined by author Rob Sheffield to talk Boston excellence, Zines, radio, Clown Night, and the Horrible Truth About Burma!

Follow @robsheff
And find all his work at Rolling Stone here: https://www.rollingstone.com/author/rob-sheffield/

Songs:
Mission of Burma - Peking Spring
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach For My Revolver
Mission of Burma - That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Mission of Burma - Treme Two (Live, ‘83)
Mission of Burma - 2wice

#88 MISSION OF BURMA! (ft. Rob Sheffield)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Four: Minor Threat! We’re joined by Street Fight Radio’s Bryan Quinby to talk hardcore, straightedge, punk houses, DIY and all things Minor Threat:

Check out Street Fight Radio: https://www.streetfightradio.com/
And of course, the P.O.D.Kast: https://thepodkast.libsyn.com/

SONGS:
Teen Idles - Get Up and Go
Monkees - Stepping Stone
Minor Threat - Straight Edge
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Minor Threat - Salad Days

#89 MINOR THREAT! (ft. Bryan Quinby)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Five: Husker Du! We’re joined by culture critic Steven Hyden to set the Land Speed Record of podcasting and do the Dü.

Check out Steven’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/Steven-Hyden/e/B01H0F6IDU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
And check out his writing on Uproxx: https://uproxx.com/author/steven-hyden/

Songs in order:
Hüsker Dü - Gilligan’s Island
Hüsker Dü - New Day Risingl (Live 1987)
Hüsker Dü - It’s Not Funny Anymore
Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips
Hüsker Dü - Something I Learned Today
Hüsker Dü - I Apologize
Hüsker Dü - The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
Hüsker Dü - Books About UFOs
Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer
Hüsker Dü - The Baby Song
Hüsker Dü - Crystal
Hüsker Dü - Standing In The Rain

#90 HÜSKER DÜ! (ft. Steven Hyden)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Six: The Replacements! We’re joined by Felix Biederman to examine the self-sabotaging career of one of the greatest American bands-that-couldn’t.

Songs:
The Replacements - Something to Dü
The Replacements - Kids Don’t Follow
The Replacements - Willpower
The Replacements - Take Me Down To The Hospital
The Replacements - I Will Dare
The Replacements - Androgynous
The Replacements - Swinging Party
The Replacements - Bastards of Young

#91 THE REPLACEMENTS! (ft. Felix Biederman)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Seven: Sonic Youth! We’re joined by Texas Monthly’s Paula Mejia to take a look at the original NYC cool kids of 80’s rock, as well as come up with some great ideas of our own.

Check out Texas Monthly’s series on the singer Selena: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/celebrating-selena/

SONGS
Glenn Branca - Lesson #1 for Electric Guitar
Sonic Youth - Burning Spear
Sonic Youth - (She’s In A) Bad Mood
Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69
Sonic Youth - Expressway to yr. Skull
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot

#92 SONIC YOUTH! (ft. Paula Mejia)

And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Eight: Butthole Surfers!  We’re joined by NPR World Cafe’s Raina Douris to take a look at the Texas-tinged acid-fried world of these genuine rock n roll maniacs, smash the fire cymbal, and commit a little Culturcide along the way.

Check out World Cafe here: https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/
And check out Blind Eye Sees All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW0mXU2mkgo

Songs
Butthole Surfers - Butthole Surfer
Butthole Surfers - The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey Oswalds Grave
Butthole Surfers - Lady Sniff
Butthole Surfers - Creep in the Cellar
Butthole Surfers - American Woman
Butthole Surfers - Gary Floyd/Sweet Loaf (Live, Atlanta, May 15 1987)
Butthole Surfers - Sweet Loaf
Butthole Surfers - The O-men
Culturcide - Bruce
Butthole Surfers - Jimi
Butthole Surfers - John E. Smoke
Butthole Surfers - Who Was In My Room Last Night?

#93 BUTTHOLE SURFERS! (ft. Raina Douris)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Nine: Big Black! We’re joined by our returning Albiniologist Bryn Nieboer to talk all things Big Black, from Cables to Kerosene, and hopefully figure out once and for all what Steve Albini’s deal is.

GET TIX TO THE FRQNCY1 FEST HERE: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1
Check out Bryn’s band STAY INSIDE here: https://stayinside.bandcamp.com/album/viewing

SONGS:
YouTube user tiergrinder - Roland TR-606 Drumatrix
Big Black - Dead Billy
Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol
Big Black - Cables
Big Black - The Big Payback
Big Black - Racer X
Big Black - Kerosene
Big Black - My Disco
Big Black - Bad Penny

#94 BIG BLACK! (ft. Bryn Nieboer)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Ten: Dinosaur Jr.! We’re joined by Time Crisis and Mountain Brews’ Jake Longstreth to take a look at Dinosaur Jr., the band that pushes volume, epic guitarmanship, and toxic interpersonal relationships to the absolute limit.

GET TIX TO THE FRQNCY1 FEST HERE: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1
Check out Jake’s band Moutain Brews here: https://mountainbrews.bandcamp.com/

SONGS IN ORDER:
Deep Wound - I Saw It
Dinosaur Jr. - The Leper
Dinosaur Jr. - Poledo
Dinosaur Jr. - Sludgefest
Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
Dinosaur Jr. - I Ran Away
Dinosaur Jr. - Crumble
Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way

#95 DINOSAUR JR. (feat. Jake Longstreth)

AND introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Eleven: FUGAZI! Back in DC, Ian MacKaye is looking for something new out of hardcore. Enter Rites of Spring frontman Guy Picciotto, who along with Ian, Joe Lally and Brendan Canty form Fugazi, not only a post-hardcore powerhouse, but an ethical lodestar, and revered bastion of integrity. Josiah and Sam of the 155Pod join us to discuss.

Go to https://155pod.com/ for all things 155pod!

And GET YOUR FRQNCY1 TIX at https://frqncy.live/frqncy1

SONGS:
Rites of Spring - For Want Of
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - Merchandise
Fugazi - Epic Problem

#96 FUGAZI! (ft. Josiah Hughes & Sam Sutherland)

AND introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Twelve: MUDHONEY! For the last leg of our trip, we turn to the Pacific northwest to cover Mudhoney, Sub Pop records, the origins of “Grunge”, a little subset of a subset of post-hardcore that probably won’t amount to much anyway. To do so we’re joined by Mark Yarm (not Marc Arm!), the author of “Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.”

Check out Mark’s work at InputMag: https://www.inputmag.com/profile/mark-yarm-19450961
Including his work on this new piece on the king of Pokemon card collectors: https://www.inputmag.com/features/king-pokemon-cards-charizards-gary-haase-profile

Songs:
Mr. Epp and the Calculations - Mohawk Man
The Thrown Ups - Eat My Dump
The Thrown Ups - Bucking Retards
Mudhoney - Touch Me I’m Sick
Mudhoney - You Got It (Keep It Out of My Face)
Mudhoney - Mudride
Everett True feat. Kurt Cobain - Do Nuts
Mudhoney - Here Comes the Sickness
Mudhoney - Good Enough
Mudhoney - Kill Yourself Live

#97 MUDHONEY (ft. Mark Yarm)

AND introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, FINISHING today with Chapter Thirteen: Beat Happening! We’re talking Calvin Johnson, K Records, and exploding the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the corporate ogre with our guest Maria Sherman!

Check out Maria’s book on Boy Bands here: https://www.blackdogandleventhal.com/titles/maria-sherman/larger-than-life/9780762468904/

SONGS
Supreme Cool Beings - Our Advice To You
Beat Happening - Look Around
Beat Happening - Our Secret
Beat Happening - Bad Seeds
Beat Happening - Midnight a Go-Go
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Beat Happening - In Between
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend
Beat Happening - Hot Chocolate Boy
Dub Narcotic Sound System - Banana Meltdown

#98 BEAT HAPPENING! (ft. Maria Sherman)

AND introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We’re joined by the Michael Azerrad, the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to discuss the book’s legacy, DIY in the 21st century, and #RockCriticLaw. Then, Chris and Molly share some final thoughts on our first miniseries, pitch some movie ideas, share listener mail, and talk future programming.

Thanks for listening everybody, it’s been a blast.

The instagram music review zine thing I mention can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/__antiart__/

Thanks to Lil Tupperware for the outro music: https://soundcloud.com/user-491229571/american-woman-nmv-lil?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing