While Brendan takes a well-earned break, Steve Talbot steps in for this week’s Mod N Soul show – and what a show it is.

The first half is a deep dive into the incredible legacy of Stax Records, the Memphis label that defined Southern soul. Expect classics from Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MG’s, Carla Thomas, and Sam & Dave, plus some lesser-known gems that capture the raw, heartfelt sound that made Stax such a force in 60s soul music.

Following the sad news of Sly Stone’s passing, we pay tribute to his groundbreaking fusion of soul, funk, and psychedelia. 

Of course, it wouldn’t be Mod N Soul without some floor-fillers and sweet soul classics sprinkled throughout – a show full of heart, rhythm and  deep soul.

For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/modnsoul/

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ModnSoul - Steve Talbot* — 17 June 2025

The Chrome G.O.A.T. floats above the noise

riding down the strip the lambo drowned
pussies getting wet when I come round
slidin' to your besties make no sound
I don't need the crest I wear the crown

I just do my best, my best is good
I drop a little heat, you understood
fuckin on the beat, like girls gone hood
if a fucker could a fucker would

I don't need opinions need results
all these motherfuckers mired in faults
rockin to the sound like seismic line
earthquake on it, no more time

pity on your boy, he look like crime
pray for all my homies doing time
that's just jokes that cunt can die
I don't give a fuck if you gone cry

Silly on it yeah, I'm elmer fudd
looking for a bunny I can fuck
snow like the powder that we suck
dollar dollar bills, we roll them up

I don't give a damn about your rules
I make this for the shooters with the tools
I relegate the bitches to the stool
so make it kinda tight, and make it cool

Is this what you like
you like this noise
you always acting shy and acting coy
but it's all a trick it's just like troy

Trojan on my shit i'm going ham
this like diddy all over again
it's too soon, to play that hand
but i'm unreal like alien

jay and ye in paris
i'm in anna faris
it just ain't apparent
i'mma make her parent
i could fuck a karen
with the cellulitis
post on facebook with location
you can come and fight us
I can't take this serious
my shit look delirious
I go fast and furious
coz i'm a bald bicurious
I'm just kidding man
that's my masterplan
rock up to the gala 
with a fuckin ram
coz I am the goat
I make music float
up up in the boat
with some famous dime
she say stadium
why you stay playin' again
I say babe it's coz I'm motherfuckin playin them
like they play my tracks
just to feel the stax
like derevi she be bouncing with the yam
call me super man
Eminem on lock

CHROME G.O.A.T (Prod.OUSHEN)

by Briyan Frederick Baker, Wayne Baker
CC BY 4.0 bfbmusic.com
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP

This was originally written and recorded on 4-track cassette around 1990.

Without You

[Verse 1]
I stare at the ceiling
But then I look away
To talk to the walls
Although they don't have much to say

[Verse 2]
I tell them my secrets
But they don't understand
And they have me surrounded
I've taken all I can!

[Chorus]
Without you
It's not the same 
Without you
My ragged face turns blue
From holding in this pain

[Verse 3]
Girl, I must see you
I cannot sleep at night
Your pillow whispers things to me
Like, "Baby, hold me tight!"

[Chorus]
Without you
It's not the same 
Without you
My ragged face turns blue
From holding in this pain

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]
I was such a dancer
I danced into these flames
I called, but no one answered
I cried, but no one came!

[Chorus]
Without you
It's not the same 
Without you
My ragged face turns blue
From holding in this pain

[Chorus]
Without you
It's not the same 
Without you
My ragged face turns blue
From holding in this pain

[Instrumental]


Without You

SHORT BUS RADIO Saturday Drive-By Classics August 2, 2025

PROUD TO SAY IM OFFICIALLY SOBER WASNT EASY BUT MAKING MUSIC HELPED AND I HOPE IT WILL HELP ANY OF YALL 2 LUV-SZTAX

WHAT'LL HAPPEN

SOBER

NEED NO MORE

INTRO (2 LATE)

CAN'T FOLD

LAST 4EVA

Blind Mime Music (ASCAP) is a Soundcloud for recordings of songs and music written by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB and Tapegerm Collective) and collaborators. Eventually songs will make their way onto Bandcamp albums and stream on all the usual outlets. Briyan has been making songs since junior and high school and these recordings contain 50+ years of material old and new. The music ranges from glitch pop to experimental.

Who said it would be impossible
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