The Final Early Morning Sunday Show

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:06]And welcome back to the final the final early morning Sunday show. The show where we say the plural of vinyl is vinyl for whatever stupid reason that is which I really don't get because why can't it be vinyls? Why can't there be an s you know sheep? Okay, I get, you know, sheep, if you have a sheep, they're um single or it's um, you know, plural. Deers, the same way. Deers, you don't have deers. You have a, you know, it's either single or plural. Maybe that's a double D thing. But vinyl has no reason. It ends in an L. Why can't you put an S at the end of L? Who came up with that? I mean, who who really decided that, you know, plural? No, don't don't add the S. It's just too confusing. Just if it's one or if it's a thousand, it's final.

[00:01:07]The decisions that are made some point in life, I guess maybe whoever came up with the word just goes, listen, this is what we're calling this. Here's what it is. This this round this round black thing. We're we're calling it a vinyl record, but we're not going to you can't you can't put an S on the end. If if you have, you know, 10 of these, it's still vinyl record or records, I guess. Maybe that's why we we we um it should be on the S on the records. So, yeah. Okay.

[00:01:41]Yeah, that that must be it. It's just as we're lazy asses. We don't want to add records to the end of it. We just [snorts] say vinyl. Yeah, that's all my vinyl instead of say that's all my vinyl records.

[00:01:55]Okay, it's our fault. We're a bunch of lazy asses. Cheers to you.

[00:02:00]Oh, that that was long-winded. Okay, so the final show at least here.

[00:02:10]Uh yeah, [laughter] you know, you know, now you you know, generally there might be something back there you can look at as I'm talking and I was like, "Oh god, there's nothing to do. I I have to listen or something."

[00:02:23]Wow. Oh, bummer, dude. Uh but yeah, we're um we move Wednesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It might all be in one day, which we're hoping it'll be done in one day and completed. We we've been well this has been my concentration.

[00:02:39]I still got I got to get the kitchen totally packed up. My wife's been hitting other things. Clothing which again we're so short like clothing spaces. We have all these years and I pull some more. I mean I I I ditched a whole bunch of stuff but I'm going to have to decide on some other stuff and said nah can't come with anymore. I got a bunch of Hawaiian shirts. When I used to work in Hawaii, you had to have Hawaiian shirts because suits, you don't wear suits in Hawaii unless you're a banker, which is is God honest truth. So, yeah, no, you got to get Hawaiian shirts, they told me. Okay.

[00:03:16]So, um I got a bunch of them, but I'm not wear It's almost always t-shirts.

[00:03:21]I'm a pool guy. I'm a pool guy. We t-shirts or um the long sleeve pool shirts. So, excited to be done.

[00:03:32]because it's um oh god I just I'm not getting the sleep or anything. Uh just need to be able to kind of calm things down back and everything. Uh did hire got my crew going started uh brought in 11 new people to for floor uh for cleaning pools. Really like this group.

[00:03:52]I'm sure a lot of them will disappoint me and not show up. Problem is I overhired by three. Lost one already.

[00:04:00]never showed up. Afterwards, typed, "Well, I had a flat tire and yeah, well, I knew the one day, but it didn't come the second day." Well, he finally in the afternoon says, "Yeah, I hadn't got fix yet." I already fired you. So, sorry, case up, dude. Uh, but you know, the the other ones I I like the crew, so I I I hope they'll stick around. I mean, there's there's a rock musician, there's a comedian, there's another guy that does standup, too, that knew the that comedian. And there's a couple in the audience go, "I know you." "Oh, yeah.

[00:04:32]I've been at your at your show and stuff." So, it was it was fun. And one guy is um speaks uh Spanish. And so, we're actually talking back and forth in Spanish some. So, that good time. But, let's do some music now, okay? Because that's what we're here for. And I got to go pack up a kitchen and that kind of crap. Actually, I got buy an IKEA cabinet. I can get an air I IKEA cabinet in there. I'm squeezing it all in. It's going to work. So, but besides that, we got this new album here. Brand new Magic Castles. Realize. Realize. Wow. Look at that. That's kind of fancy. Wait till you see this though. You haven't seen nothing yet. You ain't seen nothing yet.

[00:05:18]Is there a card in the This is a fuzz club record of the month. So, I keep forgetting to show these. Go ahead, get a download code. Hey, you. Whoever's first to get that will get this wonderful download and I think you'll be happy with it. I like this album. So, the vinyl.

[00:05:36]Look at that.

[00:05:40]Wowers. Huh. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably one of the greatest things they've uh decided to really go all out with colored vinyl because that's a shiny object and we love shiny objects.

[00:05:53]Many collectors. There's some collectors just want black. That's all they want.

[00:05:57]Um guys, you're kind of boring, you know. Yeah. So, realize this group is out of Minneapolis, formed in 2006, and have put out six albums so far. The music Cahazy Guitars, Pastoral Neil Psych. Isn't that a fun way to describe it? That's how Fuzz Club said. Pastoral Neil Psych. Go with it. Just go with it.

[00:06:24]Uh Jason Ed Jason Jason was Edmunds is the main person of this and he did these home recordings back 2006 and really like them. Some other people like them so he decided to form a band which he did and u this is now his sixth album.

[00:06:43]Realize came out this year.

[00:06:47]realize has dreamlike melodies kind of wrapped in a shoe gaze haze.

[00:06:54]Good way to call it folk psych feel I think um might also be a great way.

[00:07:01]There's a lot of lush strings on here like on songs like what was it?

[00:07:06]Abandoned abandoned mansions had some beautiful string work h happening. Uh, hey.

[00:07:15]You know, you always try to remember what's with some of this, right? Um, Hey. All right. Yeah, the very first song. Hey. All right. That was the one.

[00:07:23]Almost a spaceman type three vibe.

[00:07:26]Quieter spaceman type three vibe, which I'm a big fan of. Get Me Waiting was a song that kind of stood out. America. It was more like American garage rock from the 60s with a psych shoe gaze added in kind of that kind of a mixture.

[00:07:45]Summertime fingertips was a pretty cool sounding song. Uh it was um had these just these spacey vocals, great groove happening with it. This was a very enjoyable album. I really like this.

[00:07:59]This is probably one of my more favorite Fuzz Club albums I've gotten this year.

[00:08:05]And um it just the kind of the again quieter sight happening but shoe gazy.

[00:08:12]Yeah. Very very nice. Uh good stuff.

[00:08:16]Magic castles realize it's just fun to find albums, new albums that come out just to hear this kind of music. You know, I've missed the first five. I don't need the catalog, but I do like [music] [music] [music] [music] >> [singing] [music] >> Heat.

[00:08:57]Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> So that means let's look at a record store day album because there's still a pile to look at. And we have here Tom Petty live. Something I originally wasn't going to buy, but I did because this was an early concert.

[00:09:48]I believe from 78. And we have my god, it's another inner sleeve that has pictures. I knew that all my bitching about inner sleeves and crap from record store day would eventually catch someone's ears. I'm sure that was me.

[00:10:05]Vinyl is fancy dancy. So, very nice vinyl.

[00:10:12]Uh, this looks like a lot of my elbows from the flood except there's no printing on them. Uh, I could add pictures to them. So, it's made to be a bootleg. Look like a bootleg, but it is a live concert from 78 out of Boston.

[00:10:27]They recorded Boston Boston. Uh, there is they do a lot of great covers on here. Fought the law, you know, get your kicks off Route 66. I'm a king bee. Uh they do shout.

[00:10:43]Uh they actually don't do too many Tom Penny songs quite honestly. And it when you look at this don't bring me down. Uh but he does do intros and then you got you're going to get it breakdown and too much ain't enough.

[00:11:00]That's really about it. Then it's all covers. So, if you're if you buy this or you're thinking about buying it because you want to hear a lot of Tom Petty's songs done by him early on, you might be slightly disappointed, but if you enjoy covers, it's pretty good. I like covers.

[00:11:18]I think covers are fun. So, yeah, that's good. Sounded great. Sound very good to my ears. So, you know what else they say? Sounds great to my ears. Well, that isn't necessarily the highest [laughter] mark of excellence for hearing something. You know, I I just can't guarantee how good my ears are. I got one good one, one bad one. The next one, I didn't have this. I actually have almost nothing from the Temptations.

[00:11:49]I used to have a variety of Temptation albums. I had um this Mottown box set that came like in a little house. Really kind of cool.

[00:11:58]I like Mottown singles. Okay. Uh, for the most part, I don't need Mottown albums, but there are a few albums. And this is one I decided that I wanted to have. And here we have it. Um, look at them. Cool. That's called a gondola. That railroad car.

[00:12:17]Just for you, those of you that may not know your railroad stuff, that's to help you out. And the vinyl, it's just a mofi black. Do I really want to show it? I don't think I do. I got to shove it back in there, right? And I mean, there's nothing else in there.

[00:12:33]So, Cloud9 Temptations out of Detroit, of course, formed in 61.

[00:12:39]You know, this is just a group of five male vocalists and dancers. They could sing, they could dance, and they could do it at the same time, which is the key. You know, there there is that test, walk and talk at the same time. If you can't do it, you can't be a temptation.

[00:12:56]You know, out of that group came Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin, but they had already left by the time this album came out. Through their career, they had four number one Billboards uh singles and 14 number one R&B singles. So, they are quite prolific. This album, Cloud9, actually went to number four on the Billboard charts. So, it did really, really good.

[00:13:20]What makes this album important is really it pioneered psychedelic soul kind of created it, brought it to the masses and um got people excited. I think this was done in ' 68 if I remember 69. Okay, so 69 obviously that was the year things were changing so much within the music world and Cloud9 was a part of it. It won a Grammy. Final Richie, I apologize for that. I know this just went right off your list. This is a Grammy. You ain't going to buy it.

[00:13:56]Uh, but you may have it because this is a very good album. And it was produced by Norman Whitfield, which was important. Uh, they had the new lead singer on here was Dennis Edwards. He was that. Uh, this is gritty psychedelic funk um with kind of raw socially conscious lyrics and um some really innovative tracks. Side one is Psych Soul, side two regular Temptations. So Norman Whitfield, he really wanted to shake things up uh with the Temptations. They were kind of getting a little bit stale in that. What can we do to get things going?

[00:14:37]Barry Gordy uh Gordon Barry Barry Gordon he wasn't interested in that he had his formula he had the formula but Mottown's struggling okay the early 60s was great for Mottown then came rock then came real rock guitars everything Beatles would kept changing and Mottown was getting left behind Sly was coming out and so and there was just so much going on Vietnam war there was the protest there was the there was the the the killings, Martin Luther King. But Mottown didn't want to talk. Barry Gordy did not want to rock his white audience, keep it nice, keep it just, you know, about love and stuff like that. And Whitfield argued and argued, "No, we have to do something." And a lot of these other artists, Stevie Wonder wanted to do more. Uh, you know, Marvin Gay wanted to do more. People wanted to say something with this album they did.

[00:15:37]And really this changed Barry Gord's mind because it did really well. If this album had sank, you might never have heard you know what's going on by by Marvin Gay. You may never heard this the political Stevie Wonder if this album had sank. So important. Now the one problem with this album I bought MoFi. I thought, okay, I thought that'd be a great sounding album. And it is by my ears.

[00:16:03]It's 45 RPM. And it's a Mottown album, which means Oh gosh, I got two tracks on this side. Or oh, Jeepers, I got three.

[00:16:16]Mottown songs are not known for really going past three minutes. They're singles. So, you got to freaking change.

[00:16:25]It doesn't last very long on either on any of the sides. It sounds great, but you got to just keep flipping them. So, uh, but you know, this album is generally beat up and scratched up, whatever. So, [snorts] I got this way.

[00:16:40]You know, why why buy that cheap when I could spend more? And it does. It did.

[00:16:45]It sounded really good. I like it. I'm just not happy about the 45. Uh, but Side One is their masterpiece. It's an absolute masterpiece on there with Cloud9. I heard it through the grapevine, Runaway Child, uh, running wild. That actually is a long song. It took up one whole song, probably about five, six minutes. So, but then we get into more of the temptation thing. So, great stuff from Detroit. Let's go over to Brazil.

[00:17:16]O Mutantis. Os mutantes. We're going to work on Portuguese. This is one of those. Oh, so we got flipped like that.

[00:17:25]But now to flip like that, then your record comes out.

[00:17:30]Oh, the things we go through. We got a paper sleeve of zero interest to anybody. And we have that [music] [singing] >> screaming down the [music] letter. You want your mus [singing] [music] [singing] [music] what you say.

[00:18:04]album around people showing it, things like that. I've always thought about getting one of their albums, but I haven't. They're out of San Paddle Brazil. Formed in ' 66, broke up in 78, and reformed in ' 06. When this came out, I believe this was fourth album or fifth, it'll come to me. U they were a trio, just a trio, and they originally were called O and Oz. So I'm just saying it's all zero idea what it is. Bruno, which means the witches and they're going on TV and they say, "Well, maybe the witches is the best."

[00:18:44]So they changed it to o mutantis because it came and that came from a book called Emperor Empire of Mutants. So Mutantis is mutants. Okay, we got that. Great.

[00:18:57]Gilberto Gil was a big influence to this band. He got them to do Tropicalia, which was a merging of psych rock with other types of music in Brazil.

[00:19:11]This is their fifth album. This came out in 72. And Asus is comos noises.

[00:19:23]Now, I'm using more, it's Portuguese.

[00:19:26]I'm using more of a Spanish type pronunciation with it. So, I'm just going to say it's right. All right.

[00:19:33]They're kind of like anything else. I feel more comfortable with that than trying to do French, though. Uh the government hated this group. They they despised them. Why? Because they tended to talk about things the government didn't want to hear. Uh basically about the government being, you know, sucking about the problems, social problems, everything that was going on. And so they really delayed this album. and wanted it censored and everything. So, you know, they had they had one song on here was Cabayio Patria and Cabayo's hair and so it was basically hairy patriot was the name of the song. Government didn't like that whatsoever. Uh it was so they changed the name or whatever to um it was they changed it to Aora Dabo Naser and an hour of time I think with um Harry Naser. So okay I don't but uh it finally did come out and this is a mix of rock funk. There's balladery in here and jazz rock. So, it's it's all kind of tossed in here like you not knowing what they want to do. You second song on here which I got turned upside down. Va de kahoro kahoro.

[00:21:02]It's it's a ballad. Uh [laughter] it's the female singer is singing a song to her dog. It's about she's singing a song to her dog about a love for a Female dog is like, "What? What?" At least that's what I read. I go, "Huh?"

[00:21:23]All right. I didn't like the song either. So like [laughter] when I go, "What the hell is that even about?"

[00:21:29]That's the great thing about albums like this in different language. You don't even know what the hell they're talking about. You just Yeah. You're going with the music. It's about the music. So [laughter] Okay. Uh very interesting album, very diverse musically, shall we say. So not bad. [singing] >> [music] >> uh moves us into we got heavy connection here by the Nagoy Nagoy family. Uh, this is Negosi family's seventh album. Came out in 1978.

[00:22:24]And get this, the seventh album in two years that they put out and has Chrissy Timbo on there. It does come with the standard um, now now and again just has the same booklet that they put out on every one of their albums. So I have quite a few of these booklets. Um, this is a good N goi album. By now, seventh album, Negi was really learning to play his guitar. His first couple of albums, it was they're very, very simple guitar riffs because he really wasn't a good guitar player, but he was getting much better. This is full of high energy um, with all that great psychic, garage, rock, funk type feel. And of course, Zebie Timbo is on here too hitting the drums, which is really good.

[00:23:13]I I shot her. Here is a great song. It's it um it was like the third song, man.

[00:23:20]It just rocks hard. It just comes at you. Um and it has such a great groove happening, you know. Um Zamrock has really good grooves. Uh their opener Akazas Akaz Akazi Aazi um really gets the party going, gets it started. Um exciting song. There is some great guitar solos happening on here. This is more gritty. The lyrics are darker.

[00:23:48]Things were changing in Zambia. I mean, again, you know, in two years, this is the seventh album. Why? Because they're only playing Zambian music on the radio.

[00:23:57]So, you want to keep getting onto the radio, you want to keep your name out there, you got to keep putting on, you got to make more music. Got to keep going. So, they were and and so you had to be prolific. And most groups weren't.

[00:24:11]Uh Ricky Leanga was, Nagoi was, witch was, and a few others. They're pretty prolific on what they were putting out.

[00:24:19]This is uh they sing in English and in Zambanese. I'm just going to say that Zambia had multiple languages, so I can't tell you which one. Good album. I said lyrics are changing. They're getting darker because they're um they're kind of starting to buck the government now. And and things are falling apart in Zambia also. So there's just there's not a lot of great things to say about the government going on. So just I appreciate now and again releasing these different Zamrock albums. Um yeah, it's really good. I got another one coming in I found was released.

[00:25:05][music] >> [music] [music] >> And the final one, we got the Thompson twins here. Blow through this. Uh, formed in 77, broke up in 93. Very sad.

[00:25:29]New wave synth pop. Um, and I hate it. I like this album. I like the singles. I hated the album because what the the this hat this hat absolutely bothers me. It I think it's the stupidest fashion thing. I can't believe someone thought this hat is a great idea to wear. It's cool. Yeah, all the girls are going to want to do that. You know, all these ones that want to dress up like Badonna. Screw Badonna when I can wear a hat like that.

[00:26:03]No, I never saw a girl wear that hat.

[00:26:06]Now, again, not out of the UK. Maybe in the UK that hat was super popular.

[00:26:10]Please let me know. Uh, but the Thompson twins, uh, actually, uh, the the or not twins. Well, there's three of them.

[00:26:19]That's their first clue. Um, one's African, um, UK, I don't know. Uh, but black and two white. So, that also another clue. Not twins. Those two aren't twins. It came from there. I guess there was a co show over there called Adventures of Tintin. Adventures of Tintin. Is that correct? And there was these bubbly detectives called Thompson and Thompson. There's just a P difference on there. So there we have it. Uh it from 82 to 86 was their peak period. They started as a fourpiece, then we're a sevenpiece band. And then all of a sudden their manager says, "Man, let's let's just cut this thing down to three people." So, they went to four of these people and they says, "Hey, hey guys, guess what? We're going to let you keep your your your keep your instrument and your equipment.

[00:27:09]Here's 500 lb. Get lost. Never use the name Thompson Twins." And they took it and they left. So, obviously, they didn't think anything was going to happen. But from 82 to 86, they had a lot of success. And this album was their fourth album into the gap which had hold me now.

[00:27:28]A doctor doctor and there was another one that was fairly good on here. I think the gap did well. Uh final black or stuff. [laughter] It's blank on that side. Hey, that was Hey, that was really cool, Steve. Thanks for showing that. Uh uh Doc Hold Me Now was uh the single went to number four in the UK, number three in the US. I believe this might have hit number one uh position into the gap, but they did do a total of eight LPS and uh 93 they broke up and they formed a new group called Babel, which was a dubbased um kind of dance band. So, uh yeah, whatever. Uh so, there we go. the this guy which I can't remember his name. He now tours uh as the Thompson twins. So good. I mean [laughter] it's it's a cheap album. I just it's for memories wasn't like uh you know my favorite but I do like the other hits which are on my phone.

[00:28:38]>> [music] >> Stay with me.

[00:28:42]Let it start. Let it [music] start. You say I'm a dreamer.

[00:28:51]We're two of [music] a kind.

[00:28:56]Both of us [music] searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find.

[00:29:04]So perhaps I should leave [music] here.

[00:29:09]We >> got for this week. Thank you so much for hanging out. Check out the podcast. Two guys talking about records this week. We are talking kind of about the move about purging, where the purge ended up at. Uh so um should be a great broadcast.

[00:29:23]Please check check it out on the Believe Network, BLAV, Spotify, iHeart, Apple, and uh YouTube at Radio Wasteland Records. And um we're that's my hope uh Jim Gleason, my other partner in crimes there. Thank you everyone. Have a great week. Bye.