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"They seek to celebrate the fall of man, or cause it if they can. They long to make everything as black and empty as themselves. Who can understand a thing like that?"
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
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
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
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
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
01 Fugazi - F/D
02 Bolt Thrower - Lament
03 Pink Floyd - Ibiza Bar
04 Malady - The World is a Tomb
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
01 Watch Me Burn - Watch Me Burn
02 Neurosis - Locust Star (Live)
03 El-P - Stepfather Factory
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
01 Melvins - Matt-Alec
02 Big Business - Off Off Broadway
03 Morbid Angel - Day of Suffering
04 Planes Mistaken For Stars - Thunder in the Night
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
01 Eye Hate God - Ruptured Heart Theory
02 Super Nice Guy Sitch - Stuck in Traffic
03 Skarp - Fuck Your Bad Day
04 Nillson - Lifeline
05 To What End - Love Me to Death
06 John Kessel - Bone Cold
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
01 Serge Gainsborough - Requiem for an Asshole
02 Jack Lewis - The Young Deer in the Woods
03 Tony Green - Punk's Punk
04 Cy Amundson - The Man Opened the Door
05 The Settlers - Kill the Sound
Edition #17: Guests Sean McCarthy and Jeff Lewis, Pt. 2 listen |
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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
01 Letherface - How Lonely
02 Uppercut - Misery
03 Tuli Kupferberg - I'm Gonna Kill You If You Sleep With Anyone Else But Me
04 Lou Reed - I'm Mad
05 Zeni Geva - Death Blows
Edition #16: Guests Sean McCarthy and Jeff Lewis, Pt. 1 listen |
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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
01 Tony Green - I Wish You Had Broken My Heart
02 Jeff Lewis - Anxiety Attack
03 Captain Beefheart - Grown So Ugly
04 Kevin Coyne - Uggy Song
05 Lee Hazlewood - I'm Glad I Never
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
01 Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Comin'
02 Jesus Lizard - Pastoral
03 Fugazi - Promises
04 Dead Boys - Not Anymore
05 Helmet - Bad Mood
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
01 Geto Boys - Fuck 'Em
02 Swans - You're Not Real
03 High On Fire - Eyes and Teeth
04 Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
05 Big Black - Tiny, King of the Jews
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
01 Daniel Johnston - A Man Obsessed
02 Bad Brains - House Of Suffering
03 Judson Fountain - Garbage Can From Thailand
04 Buried Inside - Time As Ideology
05 Double Fantasy - We Lie To Each Other
06 Rachel Lipsom - (we don't know the name of the song)
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
01 Lydia Mendoza - Que Hiciste Con Mes Besos
02 Converge - Bitter and Then Some
03 Isis - Collapse and Crush
04 Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil
05Leftover Crack With The Distillers - Muppet NAMBLA
06 Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
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
01 Led Zep - Tangerine
02 Ducky Boys - Ballad of the Forgotten
03 Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
04 Eyehategod - Lack of Almost Everything
05 Tom Waits - That Feel
06 Majority Rule - Burial Suit
07 Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring
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:
01 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
02 Daniel Johnston - My Baby Cares for the Dead
03 Fishbone - Sunless Saturday
04 Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes
05 Brutal Truth - Collapse
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
01 Frank Sinatra - No One Cares
02 Nick Cave/Shane McGowan - What a Wonderful World
03 Nick Drake - Clothes of Sand
04 The Misfits- Come Back
05 Tindersticks - Cherry Blossoms
06 Abe Froman - July 1998
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
01 Iggy Pop - Social Life
02 OLD - Who Are You?
03 Bad Religion - Into The Night
04 Roky Erickson and the Explosives - You're Gonna Miss Me
05 Ramones - Out of Time
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
01 Dead Kennedys - Forward To Death
02 Red Red - Meat Comes
03 Leechmilk - Garrote
04 Half Japanese - School of Love
05 Zeni Geva and Steve Albini - Kettle Lake
06 Tom Waits - Who Are You?
07 Black Flag - Louie Louie
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
01 Decay - Tattoo
02 Howlin' Wolf - I Asked For Water
03 From Ashes Rise - Hell In The Darkness
04 Foetus and the Melvins - Mine Is No Disgrace
05 Daniel Johnston - I Lose
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
01 Turbonegro - Imorgen Skal Eg Daue
02 Nina Simone - Ne Me Quitte Pas
03 Kyliesa - Clutches
04 Violent Femmes - Add It Up
05 Blood Circus - Sea Chanty
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
01 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Lay Me Low
02 Screeching Weasel - Burnout Girl
03 Manfred Mann - Fox On The Run
04 Electric Wizard - We Hate You
05 Jeff Lewis - Aaron H.
06 Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart
07 Small Brown Bike - Like A Future With No Friend
08 Shubert - Opus 100, Piano Trio in E Flat Major
09 Johnny Thunders - As Tears Go By
10 Dusty Springfield - I Can't Make It Alone
11 Iggy and The Stoooges - Gimme Danger
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.
01 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Jack The Ripper
02 Paco Ibanez - El Lagarto Esta Llorando
03 Hellacopters - You bore Me
04 Leadbelly - In The Pines
05 Patsy Cline - 3 Cigarettes In The Ashtray
06 Black Sabbath - Megalomania (Live)
07 The Animals - Bring It On Home To Me
08 Roy Orbison - Running Scared
09Void - Who Are You?
10 Leonard Cohen - The Butcher
11 Rites Of Spring - Persistent Vision
12 Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
13 Wreckless Eric - I Wish It Would Rain
14 Dead Moon - Out In The Blue (Live)
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.
01 Shellac - Prayer to God
02 Daniel Johnston - And I Wonder
03 Wendy O. Williams & Motorhead - No Class
04 Nick Cave - Let Love In
05 Rolling Stones - Pain in My Heart
06 Laughing Hyenas - Home of the Blues
07 Rollins Band - What Have I Got
08 Guitar Situations - Smiles
09 Husker Du - Never Talking to You Again
10 Jack Lewis - Another Girl
11 Lightning Hopkins - Whiskey-Headed Woman
12 The Trouble - Come to Grips
13 Bob Dylan - Mama, You've Been on My Mind
14 Jeff Lewis - Don't Cry, Folksinger
15 Harry Dean Stanton and Ry Cooder - Cancion Mixteca
