This podcast is a riff on band names that favor the old-school approach: Blank & the Blanks. Echo & The Bunnymen. Adam & The Ants. Martha & The Muffins. Siouxsie & The Banshees. Peter & The Test Tube Babies. Plus a few that may be entirely new-to-you.
Playlist
- James White & The Blacks — Contort Yourself
- Teenage Jesus And The Jerks — Burning Rubber
- Danny And The Doorknobs — Poison Summer
- Adam And The Ants — Dog Eat Dog
- Holly And The Italians — I Wanna Go Home
- Snare And The Idiots — Pimples
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids — Lowest Common Dominator
- Billy Synth And The Turn Ups — I’m So Sick Of It
- Peter And The Test Tube Babies — Never Made It
- Dredd Foole And The Din — Not Right
- Roky Erickson And The Aliens — Creature With The Atom Brain
- Echo & The Bunnymen — Lips Like Sugar
- Lloyd Cole And The Commotions — Four Flights Up
- Lester Bangs And The Delinquents — Life Is Not Worth Living (But Suicide’s A Waste Of Time)
- Dow Jones & The Industrials — Rocking Farmers
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians — Balloon Man
- Martha And The Muffins — Swimming
- Siouxsie and the Banshees — Happy House (live at Royal Albert Hall, London, 1983)
- Nikki Sudden And The Jacobites — Wedding Dress