The Lonely Bitter HourAs of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. With Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe. |
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Edition #27: Indulge Us - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 14, 2007 It may be Jeronimo Elespe's last show before he goes on hiatus, so he gives himself over to ridiculous temptations--playing even MORE Nick Cave and MORE Johnny Thunders. Co-host Zak Smith catches the mood, playing even MORE girl-fronted hardcore and going grotesquely maudlin with an old G N R tune that nobody likes but him. Playlist 01 Guns N Roses - Yesterdays 02 Nick Cave - Lucy 03 Idiot Savant - Angst 04 Johnny Thunders - It's Not Enough |
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Edition #26: What Could It All Possibly Mean? - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 30, 2007 How come Action Adventure Systems only put out one good song? Why Is Johnny Thunders singing in Spanish? What about "ABC Diablo" - is that supposed to be Spanish? What does "Sozinha" mean? Or for that matter, "Ensam"? And what the hell are "Main Street Eyes"? Hosts Jeronimo Elespe and Zak Smith appear to neither know nor care but they do seem to like their punk rock. Playlist 01 Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera 02 Action Adventure Systems - You'll Pay 03 Iggy Pop - Main Street Eyes 04 ABC Diablo - Absence 05 Ensam - Sozinha |
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Edition #25: What To Do? - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 16, 2007 The songs are full of hate and sorrow. And so are the hosts. That's why it's called the Lonely Bitter Hour. Although for some reason it's only a half-hour. What is to be done? Your hosts Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe sure don't know. Playlist 01 Distillers - Gypsy Rose Lee 02 Meat Puppets - What To Do 03 Sacrilege - The Closing Irony 04 Nick Cave - Weeping Song |
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Edition #24: Painfully Awkward - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 2, 2007 Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe return to the air with their stark, diamond-clear insights into the nature of existence, including a lyrical analysis of yet another unearthed decadent-era Iggy Pop gem. Playlist 01 Blind Willie McTell - Painful Blues 02 Choking Victim - Fucked Reality 03 Iggy Pop - I Won't Crap Out 04 Hiretsukan - Tight NotTouching |
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Edition #23: Entertained and Scared - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 3, 2006 Sean McCarthy and Zak Smith discuss dads, jello wrestling and the unfathomable reasons for the selection of various tracks on this weeks show. Are you not entertained? Are you not terrified? (27 minutes) Playlist Fugazi - F/D Bolt Thrower - Lament Pink Floyd - Ibiza Bar Malady - The World Is A Tomb |
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Edition #22: Unwholesome Imaginings - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 22, 2006 Abandoned by everyone, Zak Smith and Sean McCarthy are left bereft and confused. They find solace in a discussion of the relative merits of different kinds of panties and, as always, in loudness. (28 minutes) Playlist Watch Me Burn - Watch Me Burn Neurosis - Locust Star (Live) El-P - Stepfather Factory |
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Edition #21: Why??? Dear God WHY????? - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 1, 2006 No-one knows. Zak Smith, Jeronimo Elespe, Sean McCarthy and Craig Taylor all try to figure out why everything in the entire world is terrible and horrible. Hear them fail. (30 minutes) Playlist Nausea - Battered Rocket - Break Up Season Graves At Sea - Pariah Sleep - Numb |
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Edition #20: What is A FIP? - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 10, 2006 It's a Fake Internal Pop -- as newly-minted porn star Zak Sabbath explains to co-host Jeronimo Elespe and returning guest artists Sean McCarthy and Craig Taylor. Then things get loud. Playlist Melvins - Matt-Alec Big Business - Off Off Broadway Morbid Angel - Day of Suffering Planes Mistaken For Stars - Thunder In The Night |
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Edition #19: A Sea of Sad Songs with Dave Miko, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 27, 2006 What happens when a punk punks you? You have to kill him. Then you have to write a song about it. Painter Dave Miko helps our hosts sift through a sea of singers, songwriters and sadness. Playlist Eye Hate God - Ruptured Heart Theory Super Nice Guy Sitch - Stuck in Traffic Skarp - Fuck Your Bad Day Nillson - Lifeline To What End - Love Me to Death John Kessel - Bone Cold |
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Edition #18: A Sea of Sad Songs with Dave Miko, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 6, 2006 What happens when a punk punks you? You have to kill him. Then you have to write a song about it. Painter Dave Miko helps our hosts sift through a sea of singers, songwriters and sadness. Playlist Serge Gainsborough - Requiem for an asshole Jack Lewis - The young deer in the woods Tony Green - Punk's punk Cy Amundson - The man opened the door The Settlers - Kill the sound |
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Edition #17: Guests Sean McCarthy & Jeff Lewis, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 16, 2006 Jeronimo Elespe, Zak Smith, Lewis and McCarthy accidentally produce the funniest half-hour of radio anyone will ever hear. Trust us, click the button. Playlist Letherface - How Lonely Uppercut - Misery Tuli Kupferberg - I'm Gonna Kill You If You Sleep With Anyone Else But Me Lou Reed - I'm Mad Zeni Geva - Death Blows |
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Edition #16: Guests Sean McCarthy & Jeff Lewis, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast December 19, 2005 The holidays make paint-slinging hosts Jeronimo Elespe and Zak Smith so depressed they can barely finish a show--so we brought in Anti-Folk overlord Jeff "Lightning" Lewis and rising art star Sean McCarthy to help. They go for a relatively quiet playlist that rips your heart out nice and slow. Playlist Tony Green - I Wish You Had Broken My Heart Jeff Lewis - Anxiety Attack Captain Beefheart - Grown So Ugly Kevin Coyne - Uggy Song Lee Hazlewood - I'm Glad I Never |
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Edition #15: Lonely and Bitter (Arguably) - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 Lonely, bitter artists Craig Taylor and Zak Smith play loud music and argue over whether any of it actually fits the theme of the show. Also, much is made of the problem of using language to express the desire for a bag of Sun Chips. Why are they so fucked up? Playlist Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Comin' Jesus Lizard - Pastoral Fugazi - Promises Dead Boys - Not Anymore Helmet - Bad Mood |
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Edition #14: Fuck 'Em - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 12, 2005 Zak and fill-in guest host Craig "Desperate and Depraved" Taylor discuss form, content, hippies and the semiotic implications of Abominable Snowmen. And also, there is rock. Playlist Geto Boys - Fuck 'Em Swans - You're Not Real High On Fire - Eyes and Teeth Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin Big Black - Tiny, King of the Jews |
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Edition #13: Live From The House of Suffering - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 29, 2005 In this unusually mellow episode, our hosts unleash songs which discuss a girl whose business is death, a "spiritualogic grin", "clockwork dogs", the smell of the earth and, as usual, the feast of masochism and ruin which attends all attempts at human communication. Also, Jeronimo digs up a rare and spectacularly incompetent horror-story from early radio history and Zak asks him why. Playlist Daniel Johnston - A Man Obsessed Bad Brains - House Of Suffering Judson Fountain - Garbage Can From Thailand Buried Inside - Time As Ideology Double Fantasy - We Lie To Each Other Rachel Lipsom - (we don't know the name of the song) |
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Edition #12: Bitter and Then Some - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 8, 2005 WPS1's resident nihilists contemplate the demise of CBGB's and somehow manage to antagonize Peter Luger Steakhouse, the keyboard player from Isis and several prominent members of the art world along the way. Playlist Lydia Mendoza - Que Hiciste Con Mes Besos Converge - Bitter and Then Some Isis - Collapse and Crush Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil Leftover Crack With The Distillers - Muppet NAMBLA Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton |
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Edition #11: A Beginner's Guide to Duende - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 18, 2005 A show of definitions, distinctions, and disputes in which Jeronimo quotes Federico García Lorca and Zak tells the story of the long, dark hall. Playlist Led Zep - Tangerine Ducky Boys - Ballad of the Forgotten Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine Eyehategod - Lack of Almost Everything Tom Waits - That Feel Majority Rule - Burial Suit Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring |
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Edition #10: Prelude to Revenge - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 27, 2005 Screaming well is the best revenge up until the moment you throw fate to the wind and start renting rooms to your ex-girlfriends. Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe wander into these darker considerations alongside discussions of necrophilia, Daniel Johnston at St. Mark's Comics, touching Fishbone, and smoking bones (no relation). Interspersed with illuminating musical sentiments: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance Daniel Johnston - My Baby Cares for the Dead Fishbone - Sunless Saturday Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes Brutal Truth - Collapse |
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Edition #9: No One Cares - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 16, 2005 Zak Smith, Jeronimo Elespe and their guest, artist and author Sean Landers continue their conversation from Edition #8. Playlist Nick Cave - Jack The Ripper (acoustic) John Tavener - Annunciation Against Me - 8 Full Hours of Sleep Cat Power - Red Apples |
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Edition #8: No One Cares - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 25, 2005 Zak Smith, Jeronimo Elespe and their guest, artist and author Sean Landers (some kind of Yale connection, this), trade wisdoms, quips, whining and spontaneous revelations on caring, suffering, commitment, and chasing your girlfriend to Thailand--along with an appropriately life-affirming soundtrack. Plus the secrets of Skull & Bones revealed at last! Playlist Frank Sinatra-No One Cares Nick Cave/Shane McGowan-What a Wonderful World Nick Drake-Clothes of Sand The Misfits-Come Back Tindersticks-Cherry Blossoms Abe Froman-July 1998 |
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Edition #7: Being Johnny Depp - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 21, 2005 Hot artist Zak Smith remains miserably single while coming up with a clever new way to attract some girls: by finding the inner Johnny Depp in his jilted cohort, Jeronimo Elespe (another artist with matinee idol charisma, except in Spanish) while playing some nifty music to swoon by. Playlist Iggy Pop--"Social Life" OLD--"Who Are You?" Bad Religion--"Into The Night" Roky Erickson and the Explosives-"You're Gonna Miss Me" Ramones--"Out of Time" |
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Edition #6: Mammary How We Loves Ya! - listen | listen with RealPlayer Aching bachelor painters Zak Smith and Sean McCarthy greet the imminent arrival of Valentine's Day with unusual optimism and the usual degree of envy, rage and sloth. Sean McCarthy's two man show (with Nicholas DiGenova) opens Feburary 12 (though April 2) at Fredericks Freiser Gallery in New York (Zak's gallery too!). He is a member of the comics collective. Partyka Playlist Dead Kennedys, "Forward To Death" Red Red, Meat "Comes" Leechmilk, "Garrote" Half Japanese, "School Of Love" Zeni Geva and Steve Albini, "Kettle Lake" Tom Waits, "Who Are You?" Black Flag, "Louie Louie" |
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Edition #5 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Without co-host Jeronimo Elespe's tastefully restraining European influence, Zak Smith leaps headlong into guest bachelor Sean McCarthy's youthful escapades in porn, to the accompaniment of the usual screeching metal and embittered blues. Sean McCarthy is showing new work with Nicholas DiGenova at the Fredericks Freiser Gallery in Chelsea in from February 12 through March. (Hmm. That's Zak Smith's gallery too.) McCarthy is a member of the comics collective. Partyka and, according to Zak, "a draftsman/pervert in the true decadent tradition." Playlist
Decay "Tattoo"
Howlin' Wolf "I Asked For Water"
From Ashes Rise "Hell In The Darkness"
Foetus and the Melvins "Mine Is No Disgrace"
Daniel Johnston "I Lose"
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Edition #4 - listen | listen with RealPlayer If bachelor painters Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe don't impress the ladies with their shock over the onstage murder (at a December 8, 2004 Columbus, OH concert) of metal guitarist (Damageplan, Pantera) Dimebag Darrell Abbott Then their shredding of Artforum's "Best of 2004" issue ought to do the trick. Playlist
Turbonegro--"Imorgen Skal Eg Daue"
Nina Simone-"Ne Me Quitte Pas"
Kyliesa-"Clutches"
Violent Femmes-"Add It Up"
Blood Circus-"Sea Chanty"
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Edition #3 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe are two perfectly eligible, handsome and talented men. Yet neither seems able to hold onto a girl. Sound familiar? Then listen as they soothe their troubled souls with some songs for the lonely and bitter and some that are just for the cool. Playlist Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds-Lay Me Low Screeching Weasel-Burnout Girl Manfred Mann-Fox On The Run Electric Wizard-We Hate You Jeff Lewis-Aaron H. Otis Redding-Pain In My Heart Small Brown Bike-Like A Future With No Friend Shubert-opus 100, piano trio in E flat major Johnny Thunders-As Tears Go By Dusty Springfield-I Can't Make It Alone Iggy And The Stoooges-Gimme Danger |
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Edition #2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Can Nick Cave and Patsy Cline make you feel better about being lonesome? Find out here, as bachelor painters Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe duke it out over who can get the best girlfriend first and what makes sexier art. Zak was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and is represented by the Fredericks Freiser Gallery. Jeronimo has a solo exhibition of new paintings opening at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in September. Playlist Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, "Jack The Ripper" Paco Ibanez, "El Lagarto Esta Llorando" Hellacopters, "You bore Me" Leadbelly, "In The Pines" Patsy Cline,"3 Cigarettes In The Ashtray" Black Sabbath, "Megalomania" (Live) The Animals, "Bring It On Home To Me" Roy Orbison, "Running Scared" Void, "Who Are You?" Leonard Cohen, "The Butcher" Rites Of Spring, "Persistent Vision" Syd Barrett ,"Dark Globe" Wreckless Eric ,"I Wish It Would Rain" Dead Moon, "Out In The Blue" (Live) |
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Edition #1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Welcome to Part I of "The Lonely Bitter Hour," as newly eligible bachelor painters Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe (aka "Spaniard") cry over bittersweet songs for the unjustly jilted. Zak was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and is represented by the Fredericks Freiser Gallery. Jeronimo has a solo exhibition of new paintings opening at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in September. Playlist Shellac-Prayer To God Daniel Johnston-And I Wonder Wendy O. Williams & Motorhead-No Class Nick Cave-Let Love In Rolling Stones-Pain In My Heart Laughing Hyenas-Home Of The Blues Rollins Band-What Have I Got Guitar Situations-Smiles Husker Du-Never Talking To You Again Jack Lewis-Another Girl Lightning Hopkins--Whiskey-Headed Woman The Trouble-Come to Grips Bob Dylan-Mama, You've Been On My Mind Jeff Lewis-Don't Cry, Folksinger Harry Dean Stanton and Ry Cooder--Cancion Mixteca |
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