Here we have an Interview with American Rapper,Singer-Songwriter and Fe man ale Warrior Protagonist Ashnikko. On this episode of ‘Making the Album’s she breaks down her Debut album ‘Weedkiller’ track by Track.
Ashnikko Breaks Down ‘Weedkiller’
Weedkiller by Ashnikko
‘Weedkiller’ is Ashnikko’s Debut album. Although she did already release her Mixtape Demidevil which many would consider an album. However, Weedkiller is her First actual complete studio album. The album is centred around the planet, and the environmental crisis that we face.
She describes it as a mix between Tank Girl and Mad max. She wanted to portray herself as the female warrior heroine with a big sword. Ashnikko says she’s done many survival courses and works towards Being that character.
The album is all about a dairy universe or planet which has been destroyed by industry, pollution and environmental crisis. However, she plays the protagonist feminist warrior girl. She is there to bring Justice. She adopts a part machine body to fight back against the evil Patriarchy to save the universe.
Ashnikko takes us through the album Track by Track. She gives us a lowdown on the song itself and what she had in mind and what was happening when she wrote it. She also discusses how she includes various Topics in her album including Feminism, Struggle, Environmentalism, Erotica and sexuality. However, she talks about how her mom was not impressed to begin with. But Ashnikko laughs it off and says she knows her mom gets it.
When it comes to the feminist struggle against the Patriarchy, she claims that we haven’t evolved at all. Not when she sees “Beast” of the male gaze being creepy and laughing like Hyenas as they tear womanhood apart.
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Here’s a good little Episode for lovers of Punk and New Wave. This episode of The John Peel Show was first broadcast on the 18th of September,1978. This was right in the heart of a time when the Punk movement was in its Hey day and New Wave also being the tunes of the day. Peeli gives us almost Two hours of non stop classics.
If you think the Tracklisting be slow has a mistake in it where it lists the Undertones classic ‘Teenage Kicks’ Twice, it’s not. He actually plays it Twice in a row. This was John Peels favourite song. He always said that when he dies, he wants the songs lyrics ‘Teenage Dreams, So Hard To Beat’ inscribed on his grave stone.
The John Peel Radio Show, September 25 1978
Tracklisting
01. Radio Stars: ‘No Russians In Russia (LP-Holiday Album)’ (Chiswick) 02. Europeans: ‘Europeans (7″)’ (Heartbeat) 03. Skids: ‘Hope And Glory’ (Peel Session) 01. David Bowie: ‘Ziggy Stardust (2xLP-Stage)’ (RCA Victor) 01. Motörhead: ‘Louie Louie’ (Peel Session) 01. Brinsley Schwarz: ‘I Cried My Last Tear (7″-(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love And Understanding)’ (United Artists 01. Penetration: ‘Firing Squad (7″)’ (Virgin) 01. Tubeway Army: ‘Bombers (7″)’ (Beggars Banquet) 01. Roman Stewart & Barrington Spence: ‘No Peace Until (7″)’ (Hungry Town) 10. John Cooper Clarke: ‘Valley Of Lost Women (LP-Disguise In Love)’ (CBS) S CBS 83132 11. Skids: ‘The Saints Are Coming’ (Peel Session) 12. Saints: ‘Every Day’s A Holiday, Every Night’s A Party (LP-Prehistoric Sounds)’ (Harvest) 13. Motörhead: ‘Keep Us On The Road’ (Peel Session) 12. Black Sabbath: ‘A Hard Road (LP-Never Say Die!)’ (Vertigo) 12. Wire: ‘Practice Makes Perfect (LP-Chairs Missing)’ (Harvest) 12. Whirlwind: ‘Tore Apart (Compilation LP-It’s Rock And Roll Vol Two)’ (Super Beeb).
12. Cravats: ‘Gordon (7″)’ (Small Wonder) 12. Lyn’s All Stars: ‘Return Dub (7″-Norris Reid, Got To Return)’ (Lucky Star) 12. Skids: ‘Dossier Of Fallibility’ (Peel Session) 20. Motörhead: ‘Tear Ya Down’ (Peel Session) 21. Jam: ‘Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7″)’ (Polydor) 21. Undertones: Teenage Kicks (EP) Good Vibrations 23. Undertones: Teenage Kicks (EP) Good Vibrations 21. Leyton Buzzards: ‘Villain (7″-19 And Mad)’ (Small Wonder) 21. Devo: ‘Space Junk (LP-Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)’ (Virgin) 21. Damned: ‘New Rose (7″)’ (Stiff) 21. Frankie Miller: ‘Darlin’ (7″)’ (Chrysalis) 21. Skids: ‘Six Times’ (Peel Session) 21. Dennis Brown Meets Jah Bop: ‘Tribulation (12″)’ (3 In 1) starts at wrong speed 30. Rich Kids: ‘Young Girls (LP-Ghosts Of Princes In Towers)’ (EMI) 31. Motorhead: ‘I’ll Be Your Sister’ (Peel Session) 31. Buzzcocks: ‘Sixteen Again (LP-Love Bites)’ (United Artists)
The John Peel show
The John Peel show was a Radio Show on BBC Radio 2 which ran for years up til the DJs death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock records on British Radio. He was most famous for his promotion of small, obscure Bands that wee unheard of and promoted them. Way back before the days of the Internet, if you had a band, you sent your demo tape into John Peel and hope it got heard by him and played.
However, he got thousands of Demo tapes sent into him. I once saw a documentary where he’d enter his office of a normal day and his door would have a massive pile of mail lying piled up behind it. He’d have to shoulder the door to get in. So you can imagine the backload of tracks he had to play. But when he died, the barn that he owned was stacked full of stuff that he still hadn’t had a chance to listen to yet.
Respect for the Tunes
But I think the thing I loved most about John Peel as a D.J was the fact that he let each single play fully right to the end before he said a word. Most DJs rabbit on over the music. Disturbing it. So annoying. Again, Back in the pre internet days before MP3 Downloads that take a few seconds, we used to tape things from the radio.
This required putting a cassette tape in the player and pressing record n play to capture songs we liked on the Radio. Since Peeli was an ex pirate ship radio D.J from the Radio Caroline days, he was onboard with this. So he always made sure he let the track play right to the end before talking. He also liked to be constructive when he did talk. As far as John Peel was concerned, he was there to play music.
However, broadcasting rules required DJs to have a certain amount of taking in the 2 hour slot he’d gave on a Tuesday and Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. So instead of just babbling Luke most D JJ s seemed to do for the same of it, he’d use the time wisely. Between every second song he would tell you the song that had just played and introduced the next track. But every half hour or so, hed spend about Five minutes telling all about a group or a new release, etc
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Here we have the Third Studio album from Bob Dylan. ‘The Times they area Changin’ was released on the 10th of February, 1964 on Columbia Records. This was Dylan’s First album consisting solely of his own material. These songs addressed Important Issues such as Racism, Poverty and Social Change.
Although the album had it’s critics at the time, it still reached Number 20 in the US Billboard Chart that year and reached Number 4 in the UK Chart in 1965. Hope you Enjoy!
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are a Changin
Tracklisting;
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Spanish Boots of leather
Restless Farewell
With God on Our side
The Times They are a Changin
Only a Pawn in their Game
When the Ship Comes In
Hollis Brown
North Country Blues
Who Is Bob Dylan?
Born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th 1941, Bob Dylan is an American Folk Singer who has released a massive collection of over 60 Studio Albums.Growing up in Small Town Hibbing, Minnesota, listening to Rock n Roll influences such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan loved the music scene but wanted to take part himself. He played in various Rock n Roll bands but the never really amounted to anything.
At age 20, he moved to New York City where he was soon busy playing the circuit around Greenwich village, performing under the stage name Bob Dylan. It was around this time that the Singer visited his own Folk Hero Woody Guthrie in the hospital where the aged Folk singer from Folk Revival of a Previous generation was dying. I think both singers were affected by this gesture and Dylan wrote his ‘Song To Woody’ which featured on his self titled Solo Album Bob Dylan which was released o n the 19th of March.
Dylan’s own Songs
Bob Dylan’s Debut album was almost wholly cover songs except for ‘Song to Woody’. But on his Second album which became a big hit ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan’, he sings a lot more original material with Eleven out of te album’s Thirteen tracks being his own compositions. However, his Third album which is this one here; The Times They area Changin’ was his First album that consisted wholly of his own material.
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Here’s a little album for all the Bob Dylan fans here. This is his Self titled debut album Bob Dylan. Released in 1962, he covers a few of the old folk songs that Influenced his music for years to come. If you aren’t familiar with the album (or even if you are), have a little listen and see what you think. Hope you enjoy!
Bob Dylan Debut Album
Tracks;
1. Fixing to Die 2. Talking New York Blues 3. In my Time of Dying 4. A Man of Constant Sorrow 5. Fixin to Die 6. Pretty Peggy O 7. Highway 51 8. Gospel Plow 9. Baby, let me follow you down 10. House of the Rising Sun 11. Freight Train Blues 12. Song to Woody 13. See that my Grave is Kept Clean
Who is Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing Minnesota in 1942 where he grew up for a keen taste for music and performing. Throughout his teens he played Guitar and Piano and was attracted to the Rock n Roll scene. Emulating the stars of the day like Jerry lee Lewis, little Richard and Buddy Holly. He played in various Rock n Roll bands at home. But he wanted to take his music to the world.
Inspired by Folk legend Woody Guthrie, Bob started playing many of the old traditional folk tunes of the dustbowl era and began to write his own. Dylan left Minnesota for the bright lights of New York city where he soon moved. Playing gigs around Greenwich Village Bob started to establish a name for himself as Bob Dylan. This name he took was inspired by his liking of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
While he was in New York city, Dylan decided to visit his hero Woody guthri in hospital where the aged folk writer was dying. This inspired him to write his song ‘Song to Woody’ which is featured here on his debut album. In 1965, Dylan went Electric, causing an uproar at the Newport festival that year by disgruntled, more conservatively Folk fans of his who called him ‘Judas’ for apparently selling out to the Pop industry. But this didnt deter Bob and he carried on with another Fifty Plus albums after that.
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Here’s a little album from the legendary American Folk Duet Simon & Garfunkel, who were quite famous throughout the 1960’s. This album features 25 of the pairs greatest hits as the name suggests. Hope you enjoy!
Simon & Garfunkel – The 25 Songs
Tracks;
1. Sound of Silence 2. Homeward Bound 3. Kathy’s Song 4. Most Peculiar Man 5. I am a Rock 6. Somewhere they cant find me 7. Leaves that are Green 8. Wednesday Morning 3 AM 9. Bleecker Street 10. Patterns 11. Angie 12. Richard Corey 13. We’ve got a groovy thing goin 14. April come she will 15. Cloudy 16.Benedictus 17. A poem on the Underground Wall 18. He was my Brother 19. The Times They are a Changin 20. Flowers Never bend in the Rainfall 21. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her 22. The Dangling Conversation 23. Last Night I had the Strangest Dream 24. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine 25. Go tell it on the mountain
Who were Simon & Garfunkel?
Simon and Garfunkel were a famous American Folk duet from the 1960’s. They were famous for their hits ‘Mrs Robinson’, ‘The Sound of Silence’ and ‘The Boxer’ among others. The duet was made up of singer and songwriter Paul Simon and Singer-Songwriter and future actor Art Garfunkel.
They first met at the Elementary School in Queens, New York that they both attended in 1953. The pair formed a duet called Tom & Jerry and had a minor hit with “Hey Schoolgirl” in 1957, a song about worshipping their Idols, The Everly Brothers. However, after a few years they decided to take their musical career more serious and in 1963, they signed with Columbia records using their own names Simon & Garfunkel. The Duet released their debut album Wednesday Morning 3AM in October 1963 but it was a bit of a flop.
After their album had poor sales, Simon went back to Solo singing. However, when their song The Sound of Silence hit Number One in the US Billboard Chart in 1966, the pair reformed and cut their second album, The Sounds of Silence. This was followed by a nationwide tour. They released their Third album Parsley, Sage , Rosemary & Thyme that same year and their music was featured in the Mike Nichols movie The Graduate featuring Dustin Hoffman the very next year.
In 1968 the duet had another Two big releases. Firstly, a soundtrack to the Movie and Secondly, their Fourth album “Bookends”. This featured their Number One hit Mrs Robinson. They released their Fifth and final album Bridge Over Troubled Water around the time of their break up in 1970.
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