Idle Hands: Season 1, Episode 9

This week, we celebrate the True Sport of Kings, aka professional wrestling! Bands include the Novas, the Cleavers, Johnny Legend, the Foreign Objects, Cocknoose, and Gordon Solie Motherfuckers. Wrestlers include Freddie Blassie, Mad Dog Vachon, Terry Funk, Michael Hayes, Captain Lou Albano, Jesse Ventura, and Slick!

Our first episode of the new year sees us taking our third and final trip to Japan. Bands like C.F.D.L., D-Clone, Dust Noise, Effigy, Framtid, Iconoclast, Melt-Banana, Muga, Paintbox, and Sink bring much crazy chaotic crusty punk hardcore noise!

This week’s episode collects some of the favorites from my SUNDAY STOMP DJ night at Eli’s Mile High Club. No metal bands include Bad Manners, Cocksparrer, Demented are Go, the Eyes, Frankie and the Flames, (Impatient) Youth, Madness, Operation Ivy, Screeching Weasel, the Sweet, and lots more!

No theme or anything here, just the usual random assortment of tunes. Bands include Aryan Disgrace, the Bags, Cro-Mags, Deformed Conscience, Gay Cowboys in Bondage, Lazy Cowgirls, Load, Puke Spit & Guts, Rancid Vat, Upright Citizens, and much more.

Back to Japan and their great punk bands, this time from the mid-to-late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Bands include Lip Cream, Chicken Bowels, the Swankys, Mad Conflux, Poison Arts, Deathside, Bastard, Gudon, Battle of Disarm, OAC, Tetsu Arrey, and more.

We’re back up to our usual tricks. Bands include the Cramps, F-Word, Pere Ubu, Suburban Lawns, Mushroom Attack, Polikarpa y sus Viciosas, Blood Spit Nights, Question, Health Hazard, Christian Death, and lots more.

We listen to some of the early Japanese HC/punk bands of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Featuring Star Club, Typhus, Friction, Gauze, Laughin’ Nose, the Sexual, Kikeiji, the Clay, GISM, Zouo, Poisonous Cross Gibbet, Rose Rose, Outo, and more!

This week’s episode sums up the best of my Fucked Up Fridays DJ night at Eli’s Mile High Club. If you never showed up, you missed out on bands like the Accused, Black Sabbath, Christ on Parade, the Dead Boys, Generation X, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Too Short, and more! Fucked Up Fridays, RIP!

Our second season premiere is dedicated to the best holiday of the entire year—Halloween! Featuring Annihilation Time, Bathory, the Cramps, Demented Are Go, Ghoul, the Industrials, King Diamond, the Meteors, Septic Death, and more!

Our two-hour-ish season finale starts off with a salute to some of the great R&B and soul artists of years past and finishes up with a personal salute to a life in the Bay Area. Features Any Three Initials, Booker T & the MG’s, James Brown, Cancer Alley, Dead and Gone, Wynonie Harris, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Permanent Ruin, Shitty Fucker, Talk is Poison, Utter Bastard, Zero Hour, and a whole shitload more.