WEBVTT 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.740 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence. Welcome 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:09.140 to Pop Rocks Radio. As always, I'm your host, 00:00:09.179 --> 00:00:12.539 Bijan. Are you ready for a riot? That's what 00:00:12.539 --> 00:00:14.839 we have coming your way with this week's rock 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.199 and roll cult classic, Ladies and Gentlemen, 00:00:17.339 --> 00:00:20.460 The Fabulous Stains. Oh yeah, and we have some 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:23.390 damn cool music for you as well. Speaking of 00:00:23.390 --> 00:00:25.929 which, this is a band that I've missed, and I'm 00:00:25.929 --> 00:00:28.370 so glad they're back. This is the Wellingtons 00:00:28.370 --> 00:00:30.230 from Melbourne, Australia, with their first new 00:00:30.230 --> 00:00:32.390 music since their album End of the Summer in 00:00:32.390 --> 00:00:36.070 2017. Here they are with She Still Loves Me. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.939 Portland's own Dharma Bums from their 1988 album 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:10.160 Haywire on Pop Llama Records. The band was a 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.160 fixture here in Seattle until they disbanded 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.839 in 1992. Their frequent opening act in their 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.500 heyday was a little band called Nirvana. In fact, 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.660 Courtney Love said she met her future husband 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:25.920 Kurt Cobain at a Dharma Bum show. Thanks for 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.519 joining us here at Pop Rocks Radio. I am excited 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.120 about this week's movie of the week because it's 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.240 a movie that many of us probably watched on late 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.680 night cable back in the day, whether it was at 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.680 a sleepover or we were grounded and stuck at 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.939 home. No, you don't have to do that every time. 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.240 Before we get to that, let's kick off the set 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.600 with the most Australian band ever, Hard-Ons. 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:51.220 This is their new single with a title that is 00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:53.379 also something we all probably heard that same 00:05:53.379 --> 00:05:56.079 night we were grounded. This is You Disappointed 00:05:56.079 --> 00:15:07.500 Me. We closed out that set with Eddie Money and 00:15:07.500 --> 00:15:11.580 Think I'm in Love off 1982's No Control. I caught 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:14.159 this video on the MTV Classic station the other 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:18.080 day and heard it with new ears, 40 -plus years 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.740 on. What a great piece of guitar pop. Before 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:24.299 that, we had Mr. Money's good friend Paul Collins 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:26.580 with Hang On to Yourself from the new Jem Records 00:15:26.580 --> 00:15:30.139 David Bowie tribute album. In Paul Collins' memoir, 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.820 I Don't Fit In, he talks about how Eddie Money 00:15:32.820 --> 00:15:36.279 was a supporter early on. He has a simple dedication 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.620 to him at the end of the book. He says, we wouldn't 00:15:38.620 --> 00:16:11.500 be here without you. Lou Adler pointed a camera 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:13.620 at a small American ache and called it, Ladies 00:16:13.620 --> 00:16:16.980 and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. It's a country 00:16:16.980 --> 00:16:19.779 of empty factories and full ashtrays, where the 00:16:19.779 --> 00:16:21.600 adults day drink and tell you that they were 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.220 better at being young than you'll ever be. Welcome 00:16:24.220 --> 00:16:26.600 to Reagan's morning in America, if you were the 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:30.059 ones that got left behind. Diane Lane plays Corinne 00:16:30.059 --> 00:16:32.679 Burns, a desperate, unemployed teenager who fronts 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.139 the band The Stains with her sister and her cousin. 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:37.549 When she meets an interviewer who asks her how 00:16:37.549 --> 00:16:39.649 her apathy and cynicism will serve her as she 00:16:39.649 --> 00:16:41.909 grows older, she blinks and repeats his question 00:16:41.909 --> 00:16:44.610 back to him as if the words made no sense. She's 00:16:44.610 --> 00:16:46.710 not planning on growing older. She's planning 00:16:46.710 --> 00:16:49.690 to detonate. Corinne Burns? What are you going 00:16:49.690 --> 00:16:53.629 to do? My name is not Corinne Burns. Oh, what 00:16:53.629 --> 00:16:58.610 is it? It's a Third-Degree Burns. The film follows 00:16:58.610 --> 00:17:01.149 the stains and their rise to stardom that starts 00:17:01.149 --> 00:17:03.070 on their trip around the country in a dilapidated 00:17:03.070 --> 00:17:05.609 bus. propelled to the stage on the strength of 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:08.410 three rehearsals and an idea. The headliners 00:17:08.410 --> 00:17:10.690 are the Metal Corpses, a washed -up rock band 00:17:10.690 --> 00:17:12.890 barely held together by drugs and memories of 00:17:12.890 --> 00:17:16.490 the glory days. The Stains, well, they are terrible. 00:17:16.789 --> 00:17:19.589 They can barely play their instruments. Corinne 00:17:19.589 --> 00:17:22.049 refuses the promoter's leather jumpsuits, spikes 00:17:22.049 --> 00:17:24.349 her hair, steps out in a see -through blouse, 00:17:24.349 --> 00:17:27.410 and spits one song like a dare, calling out the 00:17:27.410 --> 00:17:30.329 bullshit around her. It's not virtuosity, it's 00:17:30.329 --> 00:17:33.109 agency. You can watch it take root, especially 00:17:33.109 --> 00:17:35.230 with the women in the audience, like a switch 00:17:35.230 --> 00:17:37.589 that's getting flipped. We're the stains and 00:17:37.589 --> 00:17:39.970 we don't put out. She said things that I've always 00:17:39.970 --> 00:17:43.730 wanted to say and I haven't been able to. Agency 00:17:43.730 --> 00:17:46.589 here also means opportunism. Sometimes uncomfortable, 00:17:46.990 --> 00:17:50.529 always unapologetic. Corinne takes the song by 00:17:50.529 --> 00:17:52.230 the other band, The Looters, and makes it her 00:17:52.230 --> 00:17:55.390 own. She flips a tragic tour overdose into momentum 00:17:55.390 --> 00:17:57.940 for the band. and the newswoman covering the 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:00.640 story weaponizes it to step past her male co 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.859 -anchor and into a bigger seat. For the women 00:18:03.859 --> 00:18:06.359 in this film, the message is clear. They don't 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.279 ask, they act. Around the edges, the film keeps 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.160 reminding us that this isn't pretend. A pregnant 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.359 teen numbing morning sickness with pills and 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.000 booze, a promoter hustling to bail out a friend 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.500 from prison, a singer talking about a father 00:18:20.500 --> 00:18:22.240 who called him dumb because he couldn't read. 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:25.480 For these people, music isn't a lifestyle, it's 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.269 life. The film boasts a great cast. Joining Diane 00:18:29.269 --> 00:18:32.089 Lane is Christine Lahti, a young Ray Winstone. 00:18:32.309 --> 00:18:34.809 That guy plays angry better than anyone, I swear. 00:18:35.210 --> 00:18:38.069 Fee Waybill of the Tubes, and Paul Cook and Steve 00:18:38.069 --> 00:18:40.730 Jones of the Professionals, and some other band 00:18:40.730 --> 00:18:43.170 I can't remember the name of right now. And there's 00:18:43.170 --> 00:18:46.329 even Paul Simonon of The Clash. A young Laura 00:18:46.329 --> 00:18:49.170 Dern is also in the band. She plays Jessica McNeil, 00:18:49.269 --> 00:18:51.630 who ditches Jessica and rechristens herself Peg, 00:18:51.869 --> 00:18:54.730 a .k .a. Dizzy Heights. Because in this world, 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:58.369 names are armor. Much is said in the film and 00:18:58.369 --> 00:19:01.029 in reviews about this talentless band being elevated 00:19:01.029 --> 00:19:04.009 due to hype and nothing more. But are they talentless? 00:19:04.549 --> 00:19:06.650 The Stains aren't trying to change the world. 00:19:06.789 --> 00:19:08.769 This is the world they've been handed, and it 00:19:08.769 --> 00:19:11.730 pisses them off. Not only can they play the game, 00:19:11.849 --> 00:19:14.410 they can play it better than anyone else. Ladies 00:19:14.410 --> 00:19:17.529 and gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is available 00:19:17.529 --> 00:19:20.789 on all these streaming platforms, so pick a good 00:19:20.789 --> 00:29:06.559 one. What's all this? We started that set with 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.819 The Goods from Oakland with Hear Me Off Their 00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:12.420 2023 self -titled EP out on Dandy Boy Records. 00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:15.859 You also heard Beta Trip with their new single 00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:19.119 On My Mind. And we closed out that set with The 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.099 Pandoras with In and Out of My Life in a Day 00:29:22.099 --> 00:29:27.539 from 1986's Stop Pretending. One thing that I 00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:30.480 can say that I'm good at is I can write pretty 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.890 good melodies. Some artists chase trends. Dom 00:29:33.890 --> 00:29:37.210 Mariani writes songs. From The Stems to DM3 to 00:29:37.210 --> 00:29:40.470 Datura4 to his solo work, melodic, loud, and 00:29:40.470 --> 00:29:43.710 permanently stuck in your head. Check out the 00:29:43.710 --> 00:29:45.470 full interview on the Pop Rocks Radio YouTube 00:29:45.470 --> 00:29:54.490 channel or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, 00:29:54.609 --> 00:29:56.349 so remember when I mentioned about Paul Cook 00:29:56.349 --> 00:29:59.430 and Steve Jones from the film? Well, after that 00:29:59.430 --> 00:30:01.930 other band they were in broke up. They formed 00:30:01.930 --> 00:30:04.170 the band that is our featured artist this week, 00:30:04.529 --> 00:30:11.089 The Professionals. After the breakup of the Sex 00:30:11.089 --> 00:30:15.130 Pistols, okay, I said it, and some fits and starts 00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:18.390 along the way, the classic lineup of Cook, Jones, 00:30:18.769 --> 00:30:21.150 Paul Myers, and Ray McVeigh took shape as The 00:30:21.150 --> 00:30:24.009 Professionals. Virgin released the band's first 00:30:24.009 --> 00:30:26.230 full -length album, I Didn't See It Coming, in 00:30:26.230 --> 00:30:28.950 1981, even though the band had been releasing 00:30:28.950 --> 00:30:33.170 singles since 1980. This next song was the single 00:30:33.170 --> 00:30:36.150 that accompanied that release. This is The Professionals 00:30:36.150 --> 00:34:23.739 with The Magnificent. The band had recorded this 00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:27.300 next song with original bassist Andy Allan. But 00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:29.739 after Allan sued the band and the label for neither 00:34:29.739 --> 00:34:33.760 crediting him or paying him, small detail, the 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.360 professionals recorded the track with their new 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.579 bassist, Paul Myers. Also from I Didn't See It 00:34:39.579 --> 00:39:14.119 Coming, this is Kick Down the Doors. With the 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.320 release of their album came a tour of the UK 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.199 and of the US, but the US leg of the tour got 00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:21.260 cut short after three of the band members were 00:39:21.260 --> 00:39:24.480 injured in a car accident. After they recovered, 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:26.519 they did make it back to the States, but by that 00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.099 point, Jones and Paul Myers were knee-deep in 00:39:29.099 --> 00:39:33.059 addiction and the band finally split. This is 00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:35.820 another track off that album, the last full album 00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:38.619 of material for the band for nearly 35 years. 00:39:39.079 --> 00:43:19.300 This is Payola. Hey! Hey! The band reunited in 00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:22.039 2015 without the participation of Steve Jones, 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:24.480 though when they released their new album in 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:27.579 2017, it was apparently with Jones' full blessing. 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.820 Age may have softened some of the edges of this 00:43:30.820 --> 00:43:34.179 album, but not by much. This next track may even 00:43:34.179 --> 00:43:36.699 be a Power Pop song, with the emphasis, of course, 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:39.960 on power. I always think that punk and Power 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:42.679 Pop are like the cousins Samantha the blonde 00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.440 and Serena the brunette in the TV show Bewitched. 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:48.519 with Samantha as Power Pop and Serena as Punk. 00:43:48.820 --> 00:43:52.219 They are strikingly similar because in the show, 00:43:52.219 --> 00:43:55.019 they were played by the same actress. But Serena, 00:43:55.059 --> 00:43:58.320 of course, was a little more dangerous. From 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.280 2017's What in the World, this is Going Going 00:44:01.280 --> 00:47:32.670 Gone. Those guys are a machine. Nearly 50 years 00:47:32.670 --> 00:47:35.210 in, Steve Jones and Paul Cook still crank out 00:47:35.210 --> 00:47:37.690 loud, snotty rock and roll that remembers exactly 00:47:37.690 --> 00:47:40.550 where it came from. And yeah, they're currently 00:47:40.550 --> 00:47:42.750 out on tour with that other little band on their 00:47:42.750 --> 00:47:45.909 resume, the Sex Pistols. If the Metal Corpses 00:47:45.909 --> 00:47:49.090 from the film are the cautionary tale, calcified 00:47:49.090 --> 00:47:51.449 and missing the moment, the professionals are 00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:54.650 the counterexample. Every cut is a declaration 00:47:54.650 --> 00:47:57.349 that rock and roll, at its finest, doesn't rest 00:47:57.349 --> 00:48:01.010 on its laurels. It reloads. It finds a riff to 00:48:01.010 --> 00:48:04.849 light the fuse, and it has to kick. Well, that's 00:48:04.849 --> 00:48:07.469 it for this week's featured artist. If you have 00:48:07.469 --> 00:48:09.469 an artist you'd like to see us feature on the 00:48:09.469 --> 00:48:12.989 show, drop me a note at bijan, that's B -I -J 00:48:12.989 --> 00:48:17.929 -A -N, at poprocksradio .com. They are punk rockers. 00:48:18.369 --> 00:48:21.389 The new craze, they tell me. They're heroes, 00:48:21.650 --> 00:48:25.389 not the nice, clean Rolling Stones. You see, 00:48:25.530 --> 00:56:14.400 they are as drunk as I am. You're building We 00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.639 closed out that set with the band Hormones from 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:19.179 Melbourne with their single If I Was Your Girl. 00:56:20.219 --> 00:56:22.760 Before that, we had Lunison, a band we played 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.340 on the show before that was Name 3 Songs 00:56:25.340 --> 00:56:28.440 from their new album Fakepink. And we kicked 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.179 off that set with The Riff Randall's with When 00:56:31.179 --> 00:56:34.860 You Go from 2007's Doublecross. Fitting discovery, 00:56:35.139 --> 00:56:37.300 someone saw my YouTube trailer for Rock and Roll 00:56:37.300 --> 00:56:40.000 High School and said, you need this. And they 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:43.420 were right. Here's Milky, the marvelous milking 00:56:43.420 --> 00:56:46.659 cow. It's fun to milk her, gonna do it right 00:56:46.659 --> 00:56:50.460 now. She drinks the water when we pump her tail. 00:56:50.699 --> 00:56:53.699 She's raising her head, it's milking time now. 00:56:53.980 --> 00:56:58.199 Her pretend milk is a feeling of pale. She drinks 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:02.079 water, I guess pretend milk. Milky, the marvelous 00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:06.219 milking cow. Milky, the marvelous milking cow 00:57:06.219 --> 00:57:08.739 with pretend milk tablets. She's new from Kenner. 00:57:09.610 --> 00:57:12.349 You know, I love the 70s, but man, they were 00:57:12.349 --> 00:57:16.670 weird. More to come here on Pop Rocks Radio, 00:57:17.010 --> 00:57:20.630 but first, a word from our sponsor. But, since 00:57:20.630 --> 00:57:23.869 we don't have a sponsor, it's really just a word. 00:57:24.789 --> 00:57:27.150 Hey, this is Bijan from Pop Rocks Radio, just 00:57:27.150 --> 00:57:29.369 here to remind you that if you like the music 00:57:29.369 --> 00:57:32.389 you're hearing here, on the radio, or streaming 00:57:32.389 --> 00:57:35.429 somewhere online, do the artist a solid and buy 00:57:35.429 --> 00:57:38.550 that music. For most artists, streaming is not 00:57:38.550 --> 00:57:40.769 much of a source of income, so if you really 00:57:40.769 --> 00:57:43.369 want to support them, go to their shows, buy 00:57:43.369 --> 00:57:47.050 their merch, and pay for that MP3. If you love 00:57:47.050 --> 00:57:50.230 what you hear, support what you love. Okay, back 00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:53.550 to the show. This is Toronto's own Carmen Toth 00:57:53.550 --> 00:57:56.150 with a single from her forthcoming album, Fix 00:57:56.150 --> 00:57:59.030 the World, due out on October 7th. This is Pretty 00:57:59.030 --> 01:08:33.420 Dresses. That was the 1981 Another Dandy Boy 01:08:33.420 --> 01:08:36.619 Records Band from the Bay Area. That was their 01:08:36.619 --> 01:08:39.479 latest single, Soft Goodbye. Before that, we 01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:41.960 played Andy Lampert from Rhode Island with another 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.659 song about a train. He also fronts the aptly 01:08:45.659 --> 01:08:51.420 named Andy Lampert Band. Ah, some things never 01:08:51.420 --> 01:08:54.600 change. Hey, everybody, an old man's talking. 01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:01.680 Grandpa's the name. Did you know? this tree dates 01:09:01.680 --> 01:15:32.539 back to frontier time That was the artist McCormick 01:15:32.539 --> 01:15:35.220 from the UK with his latest The Girl I Knew Before. 01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:39.000 Before that, we had the band Absolute Losers 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.500 from Prince Edward Island. That was At The Same 01:15:42.500 --> 01:15:44.899 Time from their upcoming album In The Crowd. 01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:48.460 That is due out on September 26th on Toronto's 01:15:48.460 --> 01:16:15.170 We Are Busy Bodies label. And with that, we have 01:16:15.170 --> 01:16:17.369 come to the end of another episode of Pop Rocks 01:16:17.369 --> 01:16:20.470 Radio. If you like what we're doing here, make 01:16:20.470 --> 01:16:23.250 sure to like and subscribe. Check us out on YouTube 01:16:23.250 --> 01:16:25.550 and anywhere else you waste your time online, 01:16:25.850 --> 01:16:31.369 we'll be there too. This is the band Sugarbomb 01:16:31.369 --> 01:16:35.130 with Hello from their 2001 album Bully. And this 01:16:35.130 --> 01:16:38.649 is Bijan from Pop Rocks Radio. Be good, be weird, 01:16:38.729 --> 01:16:40.050 and we'll see you next time.