Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:00pm Handy Haversack:

Afternoon, Joe and the Montebanks!

12:01pm David (in London):

Hey Joe. Present and correct on the Monte train.

12:10pm V Priceless:

Rock, JB!! Hey!

12:10pm listener phillip in bronx little italy:

JOE B on Pres Day:)

12:11pm Listener Phillip In Bronx Little Italy:

Yeah Baby!!!

12:18pm V Priceless:

YAY! Feelgoods!

12:19pm David (in London):

Canvey Island kicks ass.

12:20pm Handy Haversack:

@David, now it might be that the car wasn't as dead as we thought ... mulling!

12:21pm Todd-o-phonic Todd:

Thanks for playing my theme song Joe...of course I'm referring to "Stupidity".

12:21pm David (in London):

@Handy - Don't know if (like me) you've named your car? If not, Lazarus might seem to be quite appropriate now...

12:23pm David (in London):

I know we're probably supposed to keep links to a minimum and all, but **** it, here are Dr Feelgood playing on home turf in Southend, Essex in the mid 1970s and it rocks. Man, I love this.
www.youtube.com...

12:24pm SmokinJ:

Soundin' great jojo!

12:27pm LastWhiteRhino:

Hey there JB, on the rocks with a twist and a shout.

12:28pm jake6573:

off the whole week ! HA !

12:30pm spodiodi:

Sweet Dreams is great

12:31pm matty from brooklyn:

Digging this!
Slip right into Jay Reatards Blood Visions, great set

12:33pm Handy Haversack:

Good point, David! Hadn't named one since Melmoth the Wanderer ...

12:34pm Beast of Boonton:

G E Smith played with Electric Hot Tuna a few years ago at the Stone Pony Summer Stage - had not seen him since SNL

12:38pm jake6573:

Big Quiet, guessing the Go-Go's are there biggest influence.

12:40pm LastWhiteRhino:

Is it true that Billi Eyelash likes the Eyelids?

12:42pm Handy Haversack:

Realized we're not going to be able to make the Eyelids Waffle Ganza -- we march (stagger) in the Tartan Day Parade that same Saturday in Manhattan.

12:47pm Listener Phillip In Bronx Little Italy:

Billie Eilish? who is this kid and doesnt she know the "seattle grunge" period is over. really!

12:49pm SeanG:

yeah man Sloan!

12:50pm Joe B:

handy, eyelids are at tv eye the night before

12:50pm David (in London):

@Handy - What kind of car (model) was Melmoth?

12:53pm LW Rhino:

@Listener Phillip: Oh ,so you're one on those.

12:56pm Handy Haversack:

David, Melmoth was a 1983 Buick LeSabre Ltd. 22' of American hubris. Like driving your couch. Sadly gave up most of its life saving me from a telephone pole -- but then still drove halfway across the country.

Lazarus is(?) a 2003 Toyota Corolla. Not a lot of charm, but it consistently actually works -- engine and transmission are great. But stuff that can age is aging -- catalytic converter, radiator ...

@Joe B: Just realizing that about TV Eye! Thanks!

1:03pm Hubig Pie:

I was hearing Pleasant Valley Sunday there for a moment

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1:04pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hiya, Joe and three chord crowd. Someone this weekend mentioned a Kim Shattuck benefit coming up in L.A. March 15. www.bigtakeover.com...

1:05pm David (in London):

@Handy - I just looked up the 1983 Buick LeSabre. Oh man, that's just my absolute mental image of an American car. Bugger the Dodge Charger, that LeSabre requires Don Felder's 'Heavy Metal' to play every time it goes down the street. And well, the Corolla might not be so romantic, but it gets the job done. Mine is a 1997 Nissan Primera, in psychedelic / Prince type purple. And mine, too, had to have a new cat last summer.

1:05pm David (in London):

Hey Ken.

1:09pm Hubig Pie:

Nothin' says "Murica" like a Crown Vic

1:10pm Handy Haversack:

@David -- I bought Melmoth from a friend who had driven it from Cincinatti to Seattle and back but had bought from his grandmother, who had *literally* only used it to drive to church. It had 60K miles on it when I got it. But it was semi-wrecked after the phone pole and was a lot of car to deal with parking when I moved back to NYC in my midtwenties. Alas for Melmoth, Melmoth the Wanderer!

13 mpg highway! 9 in the city!

1:13pm coelacanth∅:

Fuck Yeah!

1:13pm coelacanth∅:

-maybe my favorite shocking blue song!
-great version!

1:15pm coelacanth∅:

(and hi Joe!)

1:17pm David (in London):

@Handy - I will be raising a small glass of Scotch to Melmoth's memory later this evening.

1:19pm Handy Haversack:

Kate has a gig 4/3, it turns out, at Branded in Prospect Heights, which is just a little far from Ridgewood for me to attempt any Mrs. Doubtfire-style shenanigans.

@David, thanks, friend! Now I'm going to have to drink scotch, too, to honor your honoring Melmoth!

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1:19pm Hoboken Jack:

How about a live set from the Schmenge Bros Reenactment Society

1:19pm Marc15:

There is a Holiday next Monday?

1:20pm Joe B:

yes, next Monday is Todd o phonic Todd Day on Wake!

1:20pm Joe B:

hoboken Jack, a great idea!

1:20pm Joe B:

greetings all, thanks for tuning in today!

1:24pm Handy Haversack:

That Killer Kin was ... killer!

1:25pm Marc15:

@ Joe B: Yes! That is a Holiday!

1:26pm matty from brooklyn:

Oh yeah! Definitely into this

1:35pm Handy Haversack:

HELL YEAH, DNC! Man, I love Kevn Kinney! This sounds great, Joe!

1:39pm Handy Haversack:

_Scarred but Smarter_ is one of my all-time favorite albums. Formative for me.

1:43pm northguineahills:

I get it. I didn't like Midnite Vultures when it came out. 10 years later, all of a sudden it clicked, and now I dig it....

1:43pm coelacanth∅:

Neil Young did make one album that i couldn't enjoy one moment of. i tried 3 times! thought there had to be something for me there -but no.

1:44pm Joe B:

he's probably got a few like that

1:45pm Joe B:

midnite vultures - same for me, well, didn't take 10 years but i eventually got into it and realize it now for the classic that it is.

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1:45pm Hoboken Jack:

I was listening to Hyperspace this weekend; I like most of it quite a lot (including this one)

1:46pm northguineahills:

Hyperspace is like the 70s meets the 90s, meets the 2000s, great album!

1:51pm coelacanth∅:

i should check out that album. i'm not much into Beck, in general; i like sea change though. i haven't heard that many of his albums. probably 1/2 of them.

1:53pm Joe B:

it's a lot to wade through

1:53pm northguineahills:

Always got mad respect for Anti- Recs, after they put out the last few Merle Haggard Records. They were a staple since my HS days (ok, Epitaph Recs), and putting out Dream Syndicate is just icing on the cake!

1:55pm coelacanth∅:

i suppose this is the most challenging album for many Neil Young fans. it was for me until i read about his inspiration for it. then it clicked.
...far from my favorite! but i appreciate it.

2:00pm Chud:

@coelacanth∅, well I like the cover art! A start I guess

2:01pm Handy Haversack:

What was the inspiration, @coela?

2:01pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

Does anyone remember the Inca dance craze that Neil song inspired & enflamed? No? Me neither.

2:04pm mariano:

@coela: NY's Shocking Pinks would be a challenge too, I'd imagine. I frickin' love that video for Wonderin' though, he looks so absolutely demented in it!

2:05pm Handy Haversack:

Dungaroos Kipawah! It's Michael from Bar 81! Manny and I figured out your secret identity!

2:06pm coelacanth∅:

Handy he has a son with cerebral palsy and communication was an issue. the album was inspired by the different methods he tried to get through (hence the appearance of vocoder on a NY album) and the repetition of trying to get a point across.
...(along those lines anyway)

2:06pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

@Handy: Neil & family were involved in an intensive therapy sessions with their son who had CP & was unable to speak. Apparently the songs & style partially evolved from Neil trying to communicate with his son.

2:08pm coelacanth∅:

right. i should clarify that a lot of it was about not Neil trying to get through to his son, but the other way around.

2:09pm Handy Haversack:

Thanks, guys.

@Dungaroos Kipawah: Manny and I will come find you for a beer one of these weeks! We haven't had softball games at ERP and 10th in a while ...

2:11pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

Hey Michael!! Long time, man. Good to hear from you & yr secret id too

2:12pm coelacanth∅:

mariano that's the one! that album's a disaster!

2:12pm Handy Haversack:

Ha! All my secrets revealed. Manny showed me your NYE post -- I think about the Bar 81 days all the damn time, and those we won't see again. Glad to see you still have great taste in music!

2:13pm coelacanth∅:

(it does have "payola blues" though, which has potential, i think!)

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2:13pm Hoboken Jack:

Trivia: What is the local connection between the Surrender Your Poppy Field lp and the Hey Kid ep?

2:14pm coelacanth∅:

(mariano -never saw the video)

2:14pm Joe B:

same studio?

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2:17pm Hoboken Jack:

Correct, Ray Ketchem's Magic Door studio in Montclair. Though I think GBV only recorded drums there this time.

2:17pm pgalub:

Great show, Joe!

2:18pm Joe B:

that is probably why i like the recent albums so much. the lo fi thing i know was their trademark but the novelty wore off decades ago for me.magic door is magic!

2:21pm Joe B:

thanks pete!

2:22pm mariano:

@coela: it's so deliciously weird, could've been directed by David Lynch: www.youtube.com...

2:28pm McGroovey:

I used to but everything I could get my hands on by GBV, but I had to start buying other people's records at some point. like Mike Adams!

2:30pm David (in London):

@Mariano - That's such a great video. As you say, even Lynch could barely have done it better. You'd be breaking out in a cold sweat if Neil approached you at the beach looking like that.

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2:31pm Hoboken Jack:

I also used to buy every GBV release, then sold several back as it was getting ridiculous quantity wise. But I've been buying these last few/several.

2:34pm Joe B:

I have gotten the last six -- the six with the current lineup.

2:35pm mariano:

Yeah, totally, David! When I first saw it on MTV in the 80s I was absolutely gobsmacked. He looked like some wino you'd see at the bus depot! At that age I was really only aware of NY as the guy who sang Heart of Gold, so I had no way to process what I was seeing. I've always respected things that leave me gobsmacked and completely unable to figure out whether I loathe or love them.

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2:36pm Hoboken Jack:

That was a particularly great Brother JT track. Trivia: What do Surrender Your Poppy Field, Hey Kid, and Tornado Juice have in common?

2:37pm Joe B:

I DONT KNOW

2:38pm coelacanth∅:

thanks mariano i'll check that out later

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2:39pm Hoboken Jack:

Tornado J also recorded at Magic Door

2:39pm Handy Haversack:

@mariano, speaking of NY, winos, and "Heart of Gold," one my all-time heroes remains the guy using the polished, camera-concealing surface above a Brooklyn Citibank ATM --in the bank -- as a mirror to comb out his long golden locks while singing "Heart of Gold" at top volume and balancing is half-empty bottle of white wine on the ATM counter. At 9 AM on a Saturday.

2:41pm mariano:

Oh man, that's peak Brooklyn there, Handy!

2:42pm Handy Haversack:

Guy should have a Medal of Freedom.

2:42pm David (in London):

@mariano - If Lynch ever does manage to get a fourth series of Twin Peaks off the ground, NY should reprise his role in the Wonderin' video and make a guest appearance. It worked for Bowie...

2:43pm David (in London):

@Handy - Full 'Up-all-night' points to that man!

2:45pm Handy Haversack:

But he still cared about good grooming and Canadian rock and roll. We are living in a society!

2:51pm matty from brooklyn:

Joe I rarely get to listen to your show live, but the restaurant was slow so I bailed out early and have been listening while painting the living room.
Always enjoy the show, and today's was a really good one. Thanks

2:51pm mariano:

That would be incredible, David!

2:54pm Handy Haversack:

Thanks for another great show, Joe. Mondays are the best. Good times with the Montebanks!

2:55pm David (in London):

Hot rocking tonight Joe.

2:57pm mariano:

Thanks Joe, take care everyone, nice gabbin' as usual!

3:10pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Joe!

7:29am Georgio:

Killer Kin is HOT! thanks joe!

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Cheater Slicks	George Washington	Refried Dreams	In the Red	1999		0:00:00 Pop-up)
The Jack Cades	Identity Crisis	Music For Children	Dirty Water	2018		0:02:53 Pop-up)
Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue	High Society	The Collection	Rave On	1978/2019	GE Smith on guitar	0:06:06 Pop-up)
The Shivas	Gloria	Dark Thoughts	Tender Loving Empire	2019	live on the todd-o-phonic todd show this saturday!	0:09:26 Pop-up)
Shadows of Knight	It Always Happens That Way	Dark Sides: The Best of	Rhino	1966/1994		0:14:35 Pop-up)
Everly Brothers	Hound Dog	Rock 'N' Soul	Warner Bros.	1965		0:16:29 Pop-up)
Dr. Feelgood	Stupidity	Down By The Jetty	Liberty	1975/2006		0:18:11 Pop-up)
Coffin Daggers	Black Sand Beach	Eleki Album	Cleopatra	2020		0:20:21 Pop-up)

Pale Lips	Sweet Dreams	Got a Sweet Tooth EP	No Front Teeth	2015		0:29:02 Pop-up)
The Hussy	What I Want	Galore	Southpaw	2015		0:30:20 Pop-up)
The Whiffs	I Don't Wanna Know	Another Whiff	Dig! Records	2019	coming back to NYC area in May!	0:32:28 Pop-up)
Big Quiet	Interesting Times	Interesting Times	Unblinking Ear	2019		0:34:05 Pop-up)
Eyelids	The Accidental Falls	The Accidental Falls	Jealous Butcher	2020	portland, oregon supergroup coming to NYC/NJ in april!	0:37:47 Pop-up)
Crocodiles	Marquis de Sade	Crimes of Passion	Frenchkiss Records	2013		0:41:53 Pop-up)

Sloan	Money City Maniacs	Navy Blues	Murder Records	1998	at bowery ballroom thursday!!	0:49:50 Pop-up)
Sloan	Take It Upon Yourself	Hit & Run	Murder Records	2009		0:53:17 Pop-up)
Ugly Beats	What Was One	Stars Align	Get Hip	2019	austin texas	0:55:59 Pop-up)
Simon & Garfunkel	The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme	Columbia	1966		0:59:29 Pop-up)
The Gentle Cycle	Shells and Spells	The Gentle Cycle	Psychedelphonic	2017	san jose	1:02:03 Pop-up)
The Grip Weeds	Infinite Soul	Giant On the Beach anniversary reissue	Ground Up Records	2005/2020		1:07:43 Pop-up)
Bob Mould	Send Me a Postcard	Sunshine Rock	Merge	2019	shocking blue cover	1:11:11 Pop-up)

Killer Kin	Here Come the Killers/Snake Oil	Bad, Bad Minds!		2020		1:19:13 Pop-up)
Rocket 808	Digital Billboards	Rocket 808	12XU	2019	aka john schooley	1:23:32 Pop-up)
Daddies	She Sings	s/t EP	King Pizza	2019		1:27:15 Pop-up)
Xetas	The Heirophant	The Cypher	12XU	2020	austin texas	1:29:37 Pop-up)
Drivin' n Cryin'	Build a Fire	Fly Me Courageous	Island	1990		1:36:13 Pop-up)

Beck	Dark Places	Hyperspace	Capitol	2019		1:42:34 Pop-up)
Dream Syndicate	Still Here Now	These Times	Anti-	2019		1:46:08 Pop-up)
Neil Young	Like an Inca	Trans	Geffen	1982		1:50:24 Pop-up)
The Figgs	Waves Make Patterns	Shady Grove	Stomper	2019		2:00:05 Pop-up)
Karyn Kuhl Band	Hey Kid	Hey Kid EP	Karyn Kuhl Band	2019		2:03:19 Pop-up)
Guided By Voices	Volcano	Surrender Your Poppy Field	Guided by Voices Inc.	2020		2:06:14 Pop-up)

Josephine	Music Is Easy	Music Is Easy	Dig! Records	2020		2:15:29 Pop-up)
Wilco	Love Is Everywhere (Beware)	Ode To Joy	dBpm Records	2019		2:16:44 Pop-up)
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight	Educated Guess	There Is No Feeling Better	Joyful Noise	2019		2:20:14 Pop-up)
Chastity Belt	Drown	s/t	Hardly Art	2019		2:24:02 Pop-up)
Plates of Cake	The Man I Want To Be	Decline and Fall	Western Revisions	2020		2:27:57 Pop-up)
Brother JT	Zabriskie	Tornado Juice	Thrill Jockey	2018		2:31:30 Pop-up)
Mad Scene	Suzy	Blip	Siltbreeze	2012	first LP since 1996, includes Georgia Hubley, Brian Turner etc this time around	2:34:06 Pop-up)

The Golden Boys	Didn't I Tell Ya Babe	Dirty Fingernails	12XU	2012		2:43:37 Pop-up)
Arsene Obscene	Je Suis American	Rock Sauvage 7"	13 O'Clock Records	2011		2:45:52 Pop-up)
Brower	How Do You Do It	Lil' Bit of Liverpool 7"	Discos Meteoro	2019		2:48:23 Pop-up)
Los Shain's	Telstar '65	El Ritmo de Los Shain's 10"	Electro Harmonix	1966/2010		2:51:28 Pop-up)
Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited	Love Godess	The Fluid Soundbox	Mai Tai	1998		2:54:08 Pop-up)
Stereo Total	Mes copines	Ah! Quel Cinéma!	Tapete	2019		2:57:30 Pop-up)

February 17, 2020

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