The 'Fear of Music' Effect

Submitted by Cosgrove on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 01:15
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  • The Afghan Whigs ["Debonair"]
  • Tori Amos ["Cornflake Girl"]
  • Aphex Twin/Polygon Window
  • The Armageddon Dildos ["Unite"]
  • The Auteurs ["Staying Power" (live)]
  • Bad Religion [either "American Jesus" or "Struck a Nerve"]
  • Bauhaus
  • BiGod 20 ["Infidelity Groove"]
  • Biohazard ["State of the World Address"]
  • Black Flag ["TV Party"]
  • Black Tape for a Blue Girl
  • Boiled in Lead ["Newry Highwayman"]
  • The Boredoms ["Chocolate Synthesizer"]
  • The Breeders ["Cannonball"]
  • William S. Burroughs ["Junkie's Christmas"]
  • The Buzzcocks ["What Do I Get?"]
  • Camper Van Beethoven ["Take the Skinheads Bowling"]
  • Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine ["Every Time a Churchbell Rings"]
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ["Where the Wild Roses Grow"]
  • Compulsion ["Mall Monarchy"]
  • Concrete Blonde
  • Curve ["On the Wheel"]
  • The Dead Boys ["Sonic Reducer"]
  • Dead Can Dance ["The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove"]
  • The Dead Kennedys ["Holiday in Cambodia"]
  • The Dead Milkmen ["I Dream of Jesus"]
  • Die Haut ["Intoxication"]
  • Earth Eighteen ["Girl of the Downward Smile"]
  • Electrafixion ["Zephyr"]
  • Eve's Plum [either "Blue" or "Die Like Someone"]
  • Maggie Estep ["Hey Baby"]
  • Flipper
  • The Fools ["Life Sucks Then You Die"]
  • Front Line Assembly ["Millennium"]
  • Fugazi ["Repeater"]
  • Diamanda Galas ["Do You Take This Man?" (with John Paul Jones)]
  • Gang of Four ["Damaged Goods"]
  • Green Day ["Longview", about five months before the video blew up large]
  • PJ Harvey ["Down by the Water"]
  • Elvis Hitler ["Ballad of the Green Berets"]
  • Ichor ["You Lied"]
  • Jawbox ["Savory"]
  • Jewel ["Who Will Save Your Soul", almost a year before she broke on MTV -- and that's still the only song of hers I really like]
  • Karma to Burn ["Three", I think]
  • Killing Joke ["Money is Not Our God"]
  • KMFDM ["A Drug Against War"]
  • Lords of Acid ["Out Comes the Evil"]
  • Love is Colder Than Death
  • L7 ["Wargasm"]
  • Lucy's Fur Coat ["Treasure Hands"]
  • Lydia Lunch
  • Lush
  • Machines of Loving Grace [either "Butterfly Wings" or a remix of "Perfect Tan"]
  • Magazine ["Shot by Both Sides"]
  • Ministry [either "Stigmata" or "N.W.O."]
  • Miranda Sex Garden ["Serial Angels"]
  • Monster Magnet ["Negasonic Teenage Warhead"]
  • Morphine ["Thursday"]
  • Mr. Bungle ["Desert Search for Techno Allah"]
  • Mudhoney ["Suck You Dry"]
  • Ned's Atomic Dustbin [probably "Kill Your Television", though "All I Ask of Myself is That I Hold Together" is the one I remember]
  • 999 ["Emergency"]
  • NOFX ["Leave It Alone" and "Don't Call Me White" both in the same night]
  • Pennywise ["The Secret"]
  • Pigface
  • The Pixies [probably "Monkey Gone to Heaven"]
  • Pop Will Eat Itself [a remix of "R.S.V.P."]
  • Red Square Black ["I Lost My..."]
  • The Reverend Horton Heat
  • Revolting Cocks ["Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"]
  • Scheer ["Wish You Were Dead"]
  • The Sex Pistols ["God Save the Queen"]
  • Sham 69 ["If the Kids Are United"]
  • Sick of it All ["Scratch the Surface"]
  • The Sisters of Mercy [likely "Alice" or "Temple of Love", but it's a crapshoot -- the DJ loved the band and would play one or two songs by them every week]
  • 16Volt
  • Skinny Puppy ["Candle"]
  • Skunk Anansie ["Selling Jesus"]
  • Sleeper ["Inbetweener"]
  • Sonic Youth ["Kool Thing"]
  • Stiff Little Fingers ["Alternative Ulster"]
  • TAD ["Grease Box"]
  • Therapy? ["Nowhere"]
  • 22 Brides ["City of Brides"]
  • Ugly Mustard ["Quicklime"]
  • Van Gogh's Daughter ["Sacred Pole"]
  • The Violent Femmes ["Blister in the Sun"]
  • Wire ["Fly in the Ointment"]
  • World Bang ["Bizarre"]
  • XC-NN ["Young, Stupid and White"]
  • The Young Gods
Author Comments: 

'Fear of Music' was a four-hour alternative-rock radio show that ran on a local station during my formative years. I credit it with the development of most of my musical taste. Here's some of the bands I was exposed to through this show, along with the first song I heard from said band (if I can remember it).

vera04/27/2005

Look, it's Alphabetical! Outstanding List, I must say, I'm too mainstream (hit me over the head) to know most of these but I'm tickin them off and taking a listen. "Armageddon Dildos" doesn't exactly make me think of a great band however.

Cosgrove04/27/2005

They're really not that interesting (uninspired standard-issue German industrial rock), but I do remember liking what I heard at 15 so they're included for posterity.

cramoukji04/27/2005

seems like it was a very nice radio station indeed or at least a very nice radio music show...

professor04/27/2005

I'm going to see &nbsp The Buzzcocks and Stiff Little Fingers (and The Stranglers) this coming Sunday (1st May).

professor04/28/2005

I first heard The Buzzcocks (Boredom), on one of &nbsp John Peel's &nbsp shows. It sounds like your affinity to the 'Fear of Music' is very similar to the affect of John Peel to many in the UK (me included).

The Buzzcocks's 'Boredom' was of course written and sung by Howard Devoto, who left the Buzzcocks (in the hands of Pete Shelley) very early on to form (the greatly underated) Magazine, who I see are also on your list.