The Echoes Dot Com 4 Podcast

• Something new:  DEVO, Fresh It’s Fresh DEVO! Get it? OK, when I first started this podcast in late Winter, it was fresh and new. And now two weeks after the album came out, it’s still fresh and it’s still DEVO. And the album is great!
• Something classic: DEVO, Mecha-Mania Boy A B-Side from New Traditionalist that popped up on my iPod. I said, what is this? I do not remember this song at all! It’s super quirky fun.
• A mashup: DEVO, I’m a Girl U Want (The Monkees vs. Devo)-The Illuminoids OK, I’ll admit it, I just Googled for a mashup and found this. It’s not bad at all. And the Illuminoids are a fantastic bunch of remixers and mashupers!
• Live: DEVO, Gut Feeling (Slap Your Mammy) This may be my favorite song on their first album. It captures all of their early punky rage, and a fair bit of their musicianship as well.

So three months after finishing the ‘cast, I can finally publish it!

• Something new:  Metric, Help I’m Alive I disovered this via Sirius radio.  Metric = (Garbage – Butch Vig)/softer vocals. And they are from Canada, eh?
• Something classic: Propaganda, Jewel It seemed that in ’84-’86 Zang Zumb Zuum  Records could do no wrong.  Frankie Goes To Hollywood and The Art of Noise were on ZTT and in the summer of ’85 I was already a fan. So one day at the record store a guy who knew I was into Synth Pop says “You’ve got to see this.” It was a beautiful double gatefold 7″ single of a Propaganda song, Jewel. He played it and I fell in love with it.  Then he played the b-side: this evil sounding deconstruction of Jewel, called Duel. The other female vocalist sung it.  Truly twisted.  I got the single and then later the CD and to this day it’s one of my favorite albums.  Sadly, like the rest of ZTT from that era, Propaganda fell apart.  When they reformed later (with a new singer… an American, while the rest of the band is German) I discovered David Gilmour played on a track.  Very odd.
• A mashup: Mash2Mix Shut Up Your Delight (The Ting Tings vs. Sugarhill Gang vs. N.E.R.D. vs. Chic)This is a pretty good example of a mashup for those who are not familiar with the genre. Most mashups (or bootleg or bastard pop) take the lyrics from one song and play it over the music of another.  Usually there’s some remixing, edit, and other sampling going on.  This one is just slightly over the top with all aspects of the genre. Enjoy.
• Live: Kate Bush with David Gilmour, Running Up That Hill The story of this track is that it was recorded live at the Secret Policeman’s Third Ball in March 1987. Kate Bush performing live (which is extremely rare in the first place) with David Gilmour riffing the keyboard part. There was an album/CD released from the show back in the day. I remember holding it in my hand several times. Apparently, these many many years later, it’s way out of print and I didn’t have any part of it all at all.  The video of the performance is easily found on YouTube.

Welcome to my test post of the Podcast.