A Time Before This: ATPJR on WPRB 7-24-91

While LOLOTD prepares hundreds of sides from 1986-1991 for release, we foreshadow the ATPJR klangraum of 1992-2008. 

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By July 24, 1991, ATPJR's transformation was nearly complete. The evidence? Gaze thusly: once cherished scumbait and underground rock appears all but eclipsed and, despite Joe Carducci’s cautions, folk forms, radiant fire music, noise and associated anti-rock conceits are in the ascendant. On the Vertical Records front, it was goodbye Cop Shoot Cop, Royal Trux and Sebadoh and hello Suckdog, Caroliner and Merzbow…and Squirmbo, natch. 


The International Pop Underground Convention is one month away, and we are all informed that this is the year punk breaks.  I decline to attend, even though the party is about to launch. What better time to disembark? Gaze thusly twice: The only contemporary (as in 1991ish) rock in the first 45 minutes of this set is from Dutch weirds LUL, in stark contrast to the 1987-1990 sets posted elsewhere on Left of Left of the Dial. 


And so, despite perfunctory overtures toward union with the zeitgeist as I hang in there for a while, my self-imposed exile from this great rock music continued apace, sustained with passionate detours into noise, hillbilly, beard, fire, disco, house and that other garage until…early 2009!  

"Now so,

Now you know.

Here and now,

They come and go."

The real treat here, though, is an unadulterated air check from Trash Flow Radio's Ken Katkin, minting a midsummer guide for the independent thinker ("indie" as yet to be established as the default term for the denizens of different), as he muscles in on my air time.

"Affection is out, affectation is in."

A Time Before This: 

ATPJR on WPRB 

7-24-91

Air check gaffes are listed

 after the jump.

• KEN KATKIN Back announcing MUDHONEY/ FLIPPER/ MISSISSlPPI FRED MCDOWELL
• uncertain as to why Ken is referring to me as Jim Romeo

• KEN KATKIN On the "ins" and "outs" of July 1991
• ATPJR  Heinie Manush hello, Katkin goodbye

• ALICE SHIELDS  "The Transformation of Ani" (edit) Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary [LP box] (CRI - 1972)

• ATPJR Heinie Manush Air Check [with Alice Shields bed]

• MEMPHIS MINNIE "My Strange Man" (1936) Hoodoo Lady 1936-1937 cd (Columbia - 1991)

• BARBIE GAYE "My Boy Lollypop" (1956) Black Rock 'N' Roll, Volume 2 LP (Savage Kick, UK -1988)

• BLIND JOE TAGGART "God's Gonna Separate The Wheat..." (1927) Negro Religious Music - Sanctified Singers, Part 1 LP (Arhoolie - 1969)

• DEREK BAILEY/GEORGE LEWIS/JOHN ZORN  "The Warning Track" Yankees  LP (Celluloid - 1983)

• ATPJR Enos Slaughter Air Check [following Lewis/Bailey/Zorn]

• GONG "The Pothead Pixies" Flying Teapot - Radio Gnome Invisible, Part 1 LP (Virgin, UK - 1973)

• KRYSTAL KLEAR & the BUELLS "Like, Latin/Synapse" Ready for the 90's LP (K2B2 - 1980)

• some HUTU MUSICIANS "Take Me Back To Mabayi" (early 1960s) Music From Burundi  LP (Nonesuch - 1974)

• JANDEK  "Think About Your Lady" One Foot in the North LP (Corwood - 1991)

• Hutu Musicians  "Bernadette II" (edit) (early 1960s) Music From Burundi  LP (Nonesuch - 1974)

• ATPJR ATPJR Air check [with Hutu bed]

• the CONTROLLERS "Killer Queers" "Neutron Bomb"/"Killer Queers" 7" (What? - 1978)

• ATPJR Brief  aircheck with WFMU trash talk

• LUL "Stiff Chicken" Autolocation LP + 12" (Eksakt, Holland - 1989)

After the Jump

Uhs and hmmms On this episode, ATPJR's embarrassing air checks include the following: 

• My initial attempt at on air cleverness ("Jim Romeo has been killed. Heinie Manush is taking over") falls flat.

• Erroneous dismissal of Gong during a tentative prog moment.

• Inexplicably pronouncing Jandek as Jaaaaandek.  Only I laughed.

• Find the others and win an Easter egg!