toyranch's Podcast

No Wave music came out of New York City in the years 1976 - 1980. Often when I hear the term "post-modernist" it conjures thoughts of something contrived and soulless, but No Wave is as contrived as a group of cavemen standing in a circle pounding rocks together, and retains the primitive fury you would expect from cavemen pounding rocks, too. No Wave is perhaps the ultimate post-modern expression. I think of it as the "end" of music, in that everything else is the middle and No Wave is the end. After the No Wave era was finished, the artists all left the end and joined the middle. Some of them stayed out on the edge, while others came right to the center. In this 2 hour program, we FOCUS ON No Wave and the music No Wave musicians have made since the No Wave era.

Red Alert - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Egomaniac's Kiss - DNA
Burning Rubber - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
I Can't Stand Myself - Contortions
Helen Forsdale - Mars
3E - Mars
Try Me - Beruit Slump
Orphans - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Design To Kill - James White and the Blacks
Africa - John Gavanti
Contort Yourself - Contortions
You and You - DNA
The Closet - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Cairo - Mars
Blonde Redhead - DNA
Throw Me Away - Contortions
N.N. End - Mars
Why - Plastic Ono Band
Mundo Civilizado - Arto Lindsay
Revelry - Don King
La Marcha Del Dragon - RAEO
Dizzy Spells - Ikue Mori and John Zorn
Invisible Man - Dark Day
Lazy In Love - Eight Eyed Spy
Too Many Creeps - Bush Tetras
Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls
Smoke - Convolution
Knives Down The Drain - Lydia Lunch
Tight Turn - Raybeats