happy holidays

no holiday music here tonight. i'm sure you're all tired of hearing it. and let's be honest, that cap'n jazz cover of winter wonderland is pretty cringe-worthy.

Manic Compression
Show: 045
December 23, 2013

Fugazi - "Bad Mouth" (13 Songs, 1989)**
Arcwelder - "And Then Again" (Pull, 1993)
Failure - "Stuck On You" (Fantastic Planet, 1996)
Lync - "Pennies to Save" (These Are Not Fall Colors, 1994)
Harriet the Spy - "The Forgetable Fire" (Unfuckwithable, 1997)
Shellac - "Pull the Cup" (At Action Park, 1994)
Polvo - "Thermal Treasure" (Today's Active Lifestyles, 1993)**
Lungfish - "Love Will Ruin Your Mind" (Artificial Horizon, 1998)

Refused - "Liberation Frequency" (The Shape Of Punk To Come, 1998)
The Bronx - "Heart Attack American" (The Bronx, 2003)**
Unsane - "Over Me" (Occupational Hazard, 1998)
Helmet - "Unsung" (Meantime, 1992)
Quicksand - "Thorn In My Side" (Manic Compression, 1995)
Young Widows - "Took A Turn" (Old Wounds, 2008)
At the Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor" (Relationship of Command, 2000)

Jawbox - "Savory" (For Your Own Special Sweetheart, 1994)
mclusky - "Alan Is A Cowboy Killer" (mclusky Do Dallas, 2002)**
Bear Claw - "Back Breaker" (Refuse This Gift, 2010)
31knots - "Hearsay" (Talk Like Blood, 2005)
Les Savy Fav - "Knowing How The World Works" (Inches, 2004)**
Cop Shoot Cop - "It Only Hurts When I Breathe" (Release, 1994)**
The Jesus Lizard - "Nub" (Goat, 1991)
Faraquet - "Cut Self Not" (The View From This Tower, 2000)

Drive Like Jehu - "Golden Brown" (Yank Crime, 1994)
Bluetip - "New Shoe Premonition" (Polymer, 2000)
Girls Against Boys - "Super-Fire" (House of GVSB, 1996)**
Guzzard - "Steepless" (Quick, Fast In A Hurry, 1995)
Big Black - "Kerosene" (Atomizer, 1986)
Metz - "Wet Blanket" (Metz, 2012)

**Profanity edited for radio play

no fones :(

Our phones are down tonight, which is way sad because I have tickets to give away.

Manic Compression
Show: 044
December 16, 2013

Host: Lauryn

Les Savy Fav - "Hold on to Your Genre" (Inches, 2004)
Theory of Ruin - "That's Why I Drink Too" (Front Line Poster Child, 2003)
Unwound - "Fiction Friction" (New Plastic Ideas, 1994)
Bitch Magnet - "Americruiser" (Umber, 1989)
Shellac - "Shoe Song" (1000 Hurts, 2000)

Drive Like Jehu - "Turn It Off" (Drive Like Jehu, 1991)
Cap'n Jazz - "Troubled By Insects" (Analphabetapolothology, 1998)
Traindodge - "Laughing Man" (About Tomorrow's Mileage, 1999)
Fireside - "Sucking The Dust" (Do Not Tailgate, 1995)

Bear vs. Shark - "Song About Old Roller Coaster" (Terrorhawk, 2005)
Rival Schools - "Looking" (Lost Album, 2003)
Bodyfather - "Slippin'" (Bodyfather, 2013)
Crain - "One Who Hangs" (Heater, 1994)
A Minor Forest - "The Dutch Fist" (Inindependence, 1998)

Shipping News - "Axons and Dendrites" (Flies the Fields, 2005)
Riddle of Steel - "Time For The Truth" (Python, 2003)
Owls - "Everyone Is My Friend" (Owls, 2001)
lowercase - "Neurasthenia" (Kill The Lights, 1997)
Kerosene 454 - "Continued" (Came By To Kill Me, 2000)

quarante-trois

Manic Compression
Show: 043
December 9, 2013

Host: Lauryn

Jawbox - "Motorist" (For Your Own Special Sweetheart, 1994)
Texas Is The Reason - "The Magic Bullet Theory" (Do You Know Who You Are?, 1997)
Smart Went Crazy - "Spy vs. Spy" (Now We're Even, 1996)
Chavez - "Cold Joys" (Ride the Fader, 1996)
Harriet the Spy - "Girls in Bikinis" (Unfuckwithable 12", 1997)
Retisonic - "Give Up" (Return To Me, 2004)
Young Livers - "Means of Buoyancy" (The New Drop Era, 2007)

Tar - "Barry White" (Toast, 1993)
Fugazi - "Latest Disgrace" (Red Medicine, 1995)
Burning Airlines - "The Deluxe War Baby" (At the Drive In/Burning Airlines Split 7", 2000)
No Knife - "Permanent For Now" (Riot for Romance!, 2002)
Shiner - "My Life as a Housewife" (Lula Divinia, 1997)
Nirvana - "Paper Cuts" (Bleach, 1989)
Table - "Unwind" (Table, 1995)
Squirrel Bait - "Tape from California" (Skag Heaven, 1987)

Failure - "Empty Friend" (Magnified, 1994)
Girls Against Boys - "In Like Flynn" (Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby, 1993)
Karate - "It's 98 Stop" (In Place of Real Insight, 1997)
Samiam - "Friend" (Soar, 1991)
Office of Future Plans - "Ambitious Wrists" (Office of Future Plans, 2011)**
Sweep the Leg Johnny - "Please Give Me Roses Before I Die" (Tomorrow We Will Run Faster, 1999)

At the Drive-In - "Catacombs" (At the Drive-In/Burning Airlines Split 7", 2000)
Far - "Wear It So Well" (Water and Solutions, 1998)
These Arms Are Snakes - "Briggs" (Tail Swallower & Dove, 2008)
Heroin - "In General" (Heroin, 1997)
Lungfish - "Ann the Word" (Artificial Horizon, 1998)
Uzeda - "Gold" (Stella, 2006)
Faraquet - "Parakeet" (Anthology 1997-98)

**Profanity edited for radio play

Mathy December

Manic Compression
Show: 042
December 2, 2013

Host: Lauryn

The Liverhearts - "Tan Sedan" (Ornament, 2008)
Unwound - "December" (Leaves Turn Inside You, 2001)
Hoover - "Weeds" (Hoover, 1998)
June of 44 - "I Get My Kicks For You" (Engine Takes to the Water, 1995)
lowercase - "Rare Anger" (Kill The Lights, 1997)

A Minor Forest - "So Jesus Was at the Last Supper..." (Flemish Altruism: Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
Abilene - "Detroit Locker" (Abilene, 2001)
No Kilter - "Space Raiders" (Galore Nation, 2007)

Turing Machine - "Bleach It Black" (Zwei, 2004)
We Are Knives - "Four" (We Have Become Like Knives, 2006)
Toe - "Path" (Songs, Ideas We Forgot, 2002)
Tera Melos - "In Citrus Heights" (Patagonian Rats, 2010)
The Littlest Viking - "One Malt. Two Straws" (Labor & Lust, 2009)

Adebisi Shank - "Logdrum" (This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank, 2010)
Battles - "TRAS 2" (EP C, 2006)
Taras Bul'ba - "Ogro" (Amur, 2012)
And So I Watch You From Afar - "7 Billion People All Alive At Once" (Gangs, 2011)
Rodan - "Big Things, Little Things" (Peel Sessions, 1994)

Bump music - "New Intro" by Drive Like Jehu

cuarenta y uno

Last week's set will be added soon. Thanks to Luke for covering! I hear it was awesome.

Manic Compression
Show: 041
November 25, 2013

Host: Lauryn

Bear Claw - "Nomad" (Refuse This Gift, 2010)
mclusky - "No New Wave No Fun" (mclusky Do Dallas, 2002)
Fugazi - "Repeater" (Repeater, 1990)**
Tweezer - "Sixeater" (Spider Virus/Tweezer Split, 1995)
Shipping News - "The Delicate" (One Less Heartless to Fear, 2010)**
Hot Snakes - "Hatchet Job" (Audit in Progress, 2004)
Arcwelder - "Cranberry Sauce" (Pull, 1993)
Lync - "Silverspoon Glasses" (These Are Not Fall Colors, 1994)**

Helmet - "Like I Care" (Aftertaste, 1997)
Quicksand - "Thorn in My Side" (Manic Compression, 1995)
Refused - "Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" (The Shape of Punk to Come, 1998)
Crain - "Blistering" (Heater, 1992)
Kerosene 454 - "Anti-Magnet" (At Zero, 1998)**
Barkmarket - "I Drown" (Lardroom, 1994)
Dyess - "Camp Arawak" (Keepsakes EP, 2012)
Shellac - "The Admiral" (The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger, 1994)

Below the Sound - "Hot Blooded Animal" (More Like A Gunshot Than A Car Wreck, 2002)
Tumor Circus - "Take Me Back or I'll Drown Our Dog (Headlines)" (Tumor Circus, 1991)
Rapeman - "Log Bass" (Two Nuns And A Pack Mule, 1988)
Freemasonry - "Everyday" (Split with Scout, 1995)
Fiddlehead - "I Can Make You Young Again" (Discography)
Les Savy Fav - "The Sweat Descends" (Inches, 2004)
Medications - "Pills" (Your Favorite People All In One Place, 2005)
31Knots - "Man Become Me" (The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere, 2007)
Smart Went Crazy - "A Good Day" (20 Years of Dischord, 2002)
Car Vs. Driver - "Good Riddance" (The Latest Hit Sensation from Seattle Demo, 1993)
Faraquet - "Carefully Planned" (The View From This Tower, 2000)
Dakota/Dakota - "Indian Givers, Cowboy Takers" (Shoot In The Dark, 2003)
Don Caballero - "Chief Sitting Duck" (For Respect, 1993)
Rodan - "Milk & Melancholy" (Rusty, l994)**

**Profanity edited for radio play

XXXIX

Manic Compression
Show: 039
November 11, 2013

Host: Lauryn

Drive Like Jehu - "Hand Over Fist" (Yank Crime [re-issue only], 2003)
Jawbox - "Breathe" (For Your Own Special Sweetheart, 1994)
Cap'n Jazz - "In The Clear" (Analphabetapolothology, 1998)
Distorted Pony - "Fine Man" (Unreleased Demo)
Brainiac - "This Little Piggy" (Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, 1996)
Big Black - "Jordan, Minnesota" (Atomizer, 1986)
NoMeansNo - "Self Pity" (Sex Mad, 1986)

Fudge Tunnel - "Grit" (Creep Diets, 1992)
Race Car Riot - "Broken" (Appleseed Cast/Planes Mistaken For Stars/Race Car Riot Split EP, 1999)
Bluetip - "Don't Punch Your Friend" (Polymer, 2000)
Fire Party - "Pilate" (State of the Union Compilation, 1989)
Crain - "Car Crash Decisions" (Speed, 1992)
Cop Shoot Cop - "Surprise, Surprise" (Ask Questions Later, 1993)
BEP - "Lovechild" (Gems, 1993)
The Martians - "Luna" (Harvey Milk/The Martians Split, 1994) [request]

Survival Knife - "Name That Tune" (Traces of Me/Name That Tune 7", 2013)
Starpower - "Megablot" (Rock Stars Kill Compilation, 1995)
Table - "Vacuum" (Table, 1995)
Polvo - "Can I Ride" (Cor-Crane Secret, 1992)
Freemasonry - "Kitty Come Home" (Live on WRAS 3/18/95) [request]
Cap'n Jazz - "No Use for a Piano Player" (Analphabetapolothology, 1998)
Cloud Nothings - "Separation" (Attack on Memory, 2012)
At the Drive-In - "Proxima Centauri" (Vaya, 1999) [request]
Shotmaker - "Now and Then" (The Complete Discography 1993-1996)

Faraquet - "Yo-Yo" (Anthology 1997-98)
Hausu - "Vasari Joust" (Total, 2013)
Sweep the Leg Johnny - "Inspection Area" (4 9 21 30, 1997)
Season to Risk - "Sleepwalkers" (In A Perfect World, 1995)
Soul Side - "Punch the Geek" (Soon Come Happy, 1990)
Surgery - "Feedback"(Amrep Singles Collection Disc 1)

yay it's november.

Manic Compression
Show: 038
November 4, 2013

Host: Lauryn

Obits - "Pine On" (I Blame You, 2009)
lowercase - "She Takes Me" (Kill The Lights, 1997)
Fugazi - "Give Me The Cure" (13 Songs, 1989)
Chavez - "Unreal is Here" (Ride The Fader, 1996)
Polvo - "Lazy Comet" (Today's Active Lifestyles, 1993)
At the Drive-In - "Invalid Litter Dept." (Relationship of Command, 2000)
Uzeda - "Nico and His Cats" (Different Section Wires, 2001)

mclusky - "Alan Is a Cowboy Killer" (mclusky Do Dallas, 2002)**
Crownhate Ruin - "Late Arriving Rock Dudes" (Until the Eagle Grins, 1996)
The Jesus Lizard - "Panic in Cicero" (Clerks Soundtrack, 1994)
Bear Claw - "Fool's Gold" (Refuse This Gift, 2010)
Distorted Pony - "Powerless" (Punishment Room, 1992)
Hoover - "Dries" (The Lurid Traversal of Route 7, 1993)
Tar - "Flow Plow" (Amrep Singles Collection, )

Retisonic - "Externalized" (Return to Me, 2004)
Barkmarket - "Little White Dove" (Lardroom EP, 1994)
Oxes - "Say Something to the Bees About Not Praying and Don't Bothering" (Oxes/Arab on Radar Split, 2001)
One Last Wish - "Hide" (One Last Wish, 1986)
Squirrel Bait - "Virgil's Return" (Skag Heaven, 1987)
Janitor Joe - "No Smokes For Wave" (Lucky, 1994)
MANRAY - "Lord of the Flies" (Tournament, 2011)
Bear vs. Shark - "Antwan" (Terrorhawk, 2005)

Medications - "Twine Time" (Your Favorite People All In One Place, 2005)
abilene - "silversides" (abilene, 2001)
Sleepytime Trio - "Like My Plain" (Memory-Minus, 1998)
Lords - "Pints of Wine" (This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's a Love Thing, 2006)
A Minor Forest - "Armigh is a Hovercraft" (So, Were They In Some Sort of Fight?, 1999)
Dianogah - "A Breaks B" (Qhhhnl, 2008)
Frodus - "Buick Commission" (F-Letter, 1996)