Psychotic Distraction

05/09/2026

Day #104

Beastie Boys / Licensed To Ill / Def Jam / 1986

'Nuff said.

05/08/2026

Day #103

Be***al Mouths / Hissing Veil / DAIS Records / 2011

Debut full length by San Francisco CA tribal noise/post punk band, established 2009/still active. Vocalist Lynette Cerezo is the only constant member. I saw them at Township (Chicago IL, RIP), maybe 2012? RIYL: Savages, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Zola Jesus, etc.

05/07/2026

Day #102

Bauhaus / The Singles 1981 - 1983 / Beggars Banquet / 1983

6 songs, 45 RPM, absolute perfection.

05/07/2026

MAY 06 2026

Liquify / Neptune's Rings / Voyage to the Outer Worlds / Self Released

Blue Cheer / Second Time Around / Vincebus Eruptum / Phillips

The Cynics / Get My Way / Rock & Roll / Estrus

Thee Seizures / In With The Out Crowd / Introducing / Groovie Records

Robert Walter / Hellhound / Hellhound / Royal Potato Family

Cavs / Candiru / Sojourn / (P)Doom

The Gnomes / Stung / The Gnomes / Dog Meat

Gentilesky / Morning Regret / Dream / Slovenly Recordings

Bauhaus / She's in Parties / She's in Parties / Beggars Banquet

Sexbeat / Sexbeat / Batcave: Young Limbs & Numb Hymns / London

Soft Kill / Drowning in My Sleep / We Drink Blood / Self Released

Moonchild / Waves Hotline / Waves / OneRPM

Jimmy Smith / Home Cookin' / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Blue Note

The Sound Reasons / Love / Walk with My Shadow / Self Released

Choncy / Bypass / Trademark / Feel It

Suitor / Still Life / Saw You Out with the Weeds / Feel It

Savages / The Answer / Adore Life / Matador

45 Grave / Insurance from God / Sleep in Safety / Restless

Effigy / The Wall / Burnt Offerings / Sealed

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels / I'd Rather Go to Jail / Sock It To Me / New Voice

Barney Kessel / Tiger Rag / Let's Cook / Contemporary

The Trance / Foxy Rendez-vous / Do Right By Me / Self Released

Gaza St*****rs / Stinger / Transistor / Bam Bam

Lost Legion / Stuck in One Place / In My Skin / Contra

C**k Sparrer / Runnin' Riot / C**k Sparrer / Decca

Turbonegro / You Give Me Worms / Sexual Harassment / Volcom

Friko / Still Around / Something Worth Waiting For / ATO

New Model Army / First Summer After / Unbroken / Attack

Genre is Death / Repulse / Attractive People / In the In The Red Recordings

Young Prisms / Runner / In Between / Kanine

Accessory / Safeword / Dust / ACX

Bob Seger / UMC (Upper Middle Class) / Seven / Reprise

The Von Zippers / Kill That Guy / Bad Generation / Estrus

Melony / Wearing Shades on Rainy Days / Satisfiction / Minty Fresh

Sea Hags / Half the Way Valley / Sea Hags / Chrysalis

Dovetail Joint / Vitruvian Man / The Rock & Roll Conservatory / Self Released

The Mooney Suzuki / Yeah You Can / People Get Ready / Yep Roc

Failure / A Way Down / Location Lost / Arduous

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05/06/2026

Fat stacks of wax today on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT. All the way gone!

05/05/2026

Day #101

Bauhaus / She's in Parties / Beggars Banquet / 1983

The first song I ever heard by Bauhaus (I started at Burning from the Inside and worked backwards). I still vividly remember hearing this song at Earwax Records (Southgate MI, RIP) when I was 15 and being immediately taken by how off-kilter/menacing it sounded.

05/04/2026

Day #100

Bauhaus / 4AD / 4AD Records / 1983

Six song EP featuring four originals & two covers (T-Rex, John Cale). "Dark Entries" remains one of my favorite Bauhaus tracks ever.

05/02/2026

Day #99

Bauhaus / Ziggy Stardust/Third Uncle / Beggars Banquet / 1982

Note-perfect covers of the Bowie classic & Brian Eno/Velvet Underground, also features one original ("Party of the First Part") which would later appear on the CD reissue of The Sky's Gone Out.

05/01/2026

Day #98

Bauhaus / Live in Milano 3.5.82 "Odissea 2001" / Geebo Geebo Records / 1982

Live bootleg/limited edition of 400/blocked from sale on Discogs. I managed a record store in Dearborn MI in the mid/late 90's, a lot of bootlegs would come through and I would score them on the cheap. Decent quality/great setlist (see comments).

04/30/2026

Day #97

Bauhaus / Kick in the Eye (Searching for Satori EP) / Beggars Banquet / 1982

Four song EP with some deep cuts that would later surface on the full length CD reissues.

04/30/2026

APRIL 29 2026

Hollywood Brats / Sick on You / Hollywood Brats / Cherry

Answering Machines / Can't Work the Phone / The Disturbing Side of Music / Self Released

Gluecifer / I'm Ready / Same Drug New High / Steamhammer

Hedwig & the Angry Inch / Sugar Daddy / Hedwig & the Angry Inch / Hybrid

Jaguero / Postcards / Make Me Feel Alive Again / Anchor Away

Troubles / Full Moon / Red Alert / Blue Bear

The Damned / I Just Can't Be Happy Today / Machine Gun Etiquette / Chiswick

Tones on Tail / Lions / Lions / Beggar's Banquet

The Oscar Peterson Trio / Blues of the Prairies / Canandiana Suite / Mercury

George Green & the Ancestors / Soul Jazz / Soul Jazz / Tramp

Public Enemy / Tie Goes to the Runner / Hazy Shade of Criminal / Def Jam

Marquis Hill / The Pleasures of You / Beatifulism / Black Unlimited

The Impulse Int'l / Run & Hide / Arm the Girls / Deranged

Social Distortion / Partners in Crime / Born to Kill / Epitaph

Viv and the Sect / Penny's Arcade / Penny's Arcade / Rogue Records

Batusis / Bury You Alive / Batusis / Smog Veil

The Roaring 420s / Fear & Loathing in Vienna / We're All in It Together / Self Released

Makthaverskan / Black Waters / Glass & Bones / Welfare

OUTRONAUT / Godfinger / Godfinger / Self Released

The Catheters / The Door Shuts Quickly / Statis Delusions & Stone Still Days / Sub Pop

Devo / Mongoloid / Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! / Virgin

Didjits / Mr. DNA / Full Nelson Reilly / Touch & Go

Dead Finks / Eden / New Plastik Abyss / Bretford

Divinyls / Make You Happy / Desperate / Chrysalis

Lester Young / Three Little Words / Pres in Blue / Parker

Otis Rush / Midnight Special / Cold Day in Hell / Delmark

Five Eight / Help a Sinner / Help a Sinner / Self Released

The Fleshtones / Brainstorm / Hexbreaker / IRS

The Jam / In the City / In the City / Polydor

Pow Wows / Traces / Broken Curses / Get Hip

Wax Head / Takeover / Gnat / Sour Grapes

The Paybacks / Tie Me in a Knot / Knock Loud / Get Hip

Teen Su***de / Living Death / N**e Descending Staircase Headless / Run for Cover

Failure / Screen Man / Comfort / Slash

Corrosion Of Conformity / The Handler / Good God Baad Man / Nuclear Blast

Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine / Cinnamon Baby / Semantics / Self Released

Matt Ulery / Clown Drum / Pollinator / Woolgathering

The Fat Babies / King Kong Stomp / 18th & Racine / Delmark

Iguana Death Cult / Lazarus / Guns Out / Greenway

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