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Episode Ten – Typex

Published October 29, 2018

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“Crumb never met up with Andy Warhol or The Velvet Underground as far as I know. But I put him in the story anyway. Cause he’s very important for the way we see a lot of the 60’s, especially the underground. He changed the vision. Our vision of the 60’s is formed by Robert Crumb and other artists, I think, as well as the way we see the 80’s is informed by the drawings of Tom Of Finland.”

Aug Stone talks to Dutch artist Typex about his dazzling new book andy: A Factual Fairytale The Life And Times of Andy Warhol which tells Warhol’s life story in ten parts, each section drawn in the style of the time period it deals with, his extensive research on the book, falling in love with music and comics, drawing comix reviews of concerts, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman and MAD magazine, Guy Peellaert, and much more.

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Episode Nine – Even As We Speak

Published October 21, 2018

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“I was on the train to work listening to Camper Van Beethoven, thinking what’s gonna be a good direction. In particular, I was listening to the way they were using a lot of different instrumentation, and from that it occurred to me that we really need to stop having a style, stop looking for a sound or a direction, and just do everything. And do it in a very spontaneous way. The idea was to have no real filters on what we were doing, so there’s really no editing on Feral Pop Frenzy. Everything that came into our heads, we’d do it. It’s a record that was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, but at its heart it’s still pop music. It’s the creative process without being limited by what you think you should or shouldn’t do.” – Matt Love, Even As We Speak

Aug Stone talks to Australian POP legends Even As We Speak about creative freedom, America, rock masses, John Peel, their time with such luminous indie labels as Phantom Records, Sarah Records and now Emotional Response, their summer 2018 tour, and much more.

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Episode Nine Show Notes – Even As We Speak

Published October 21, 2018

Even As We Speak website.

Even As We Speak Bandcamp page.

Emotional Response Bandcamp page for Four Song Comp with Even As We Speak’s ‘Stay With Me’ & ‘Football Star’.

‘Drown’ video. One the finest POP songs of all-time. Awesome video too.

‘Clouds’ video. From The Black Forest EP.

‘One Step Forward’ video.

‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ (New Order cover)

‘Goes So Slow’

‘Love Is The Answer’

‘Getting Faster’ Live At Indietracks 2018. Note the spacesuits.

‘Drown’ Live at Indietracks 2018.

‘(All You Find Is) Air’ Peel Session. Available on Yellow Food: The Peel Sessions

<a href="http://evenaswespeak.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-food-the-peel-sessions">Yellow Food: The Peel Sessions by Even As We Speak</a>

Check out Mary’s Her Name In Lights project.

And Matt’s solo country project.

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Episode Eight Show Notes – Tim Booth

Published September 20, 2018

Video for ‘Coming Home (Pt. 2)’

“A certain romanticness prevails throughout the album, all the mightier for being born of a mature yearning for peace and love rather than escapist fantasy. Gorgeous and passionate, the “bruised love” of album highlight “Leviathan” shows this in spades. “Coming Home (Pt. 2),” thematic follow-up to the 1989 single, comes at you from many different directions, chaos blasting off with its heartfelt lyric. The song’s expansiveness is reminiscent of the huge space of the Seven album. On the opposite end of the spectrum, in the middle of “How Hard the Day,” they bravely drop down to a single note guitar and voice, paying off by the strength of the melody.” Read my full review of Living In Extraordinary Times for Under The Radar here.

Tim Booth interview by Emma Cook in The Guardian referenced in podcast.

‘Top Of The World’ from Gold Mother, orchestral workshop version 2011

‘I Believe’ from the Booth & The Bad Angel album. Tim’s 1996 collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti, Bernard Butler on guitar.

James – ‘Ring The Bells’, from the Seven album.

James – ‘Hymn From A Village’. Early song that has remained a favourite over the years.

James – ‘Tomorrow’. A classic.

James – ‘Say Something’

Patti Smith’s Horses.

Patti Smith’s ‘Birdland’. Tim’s choice for what to listen to while flying into the Sun. Take Tim’s advice and find the appropriate time to listen to this, put on headphones and block everything else out.

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Episode Eight – Tim Booth

Published September 20, 2018

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“We are psychically connected to each other whether we like it or not, but we are also globally connected.”

Aug Stone talks to James singer Tim Booth about Patti Smith, the transformative power of dance, global warming, Russia and our current political climate, Love being the answer to our problems, being a dad who has to go away on tour, the unconscious revealing itself through creativity, and much more. NOTE: Strong language is used. NSFW.

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Episode Seven Show Notes – Sarah Cracknell

Published August 30, 2018

Saint Etienne‘s ‘Good Humor’ is my favourite album of theirs and they are coming to North America to play the 20th anniversary shows in September. Dates on their Facebook page.

‘Sylvie’ on Top Of The Pops 1998:

‘The Bad Photographer’ on the Jack Docherty Show 1998:

‘4:35 In The Morning’:

If you like this episode or The Counterforce Podcast in general and have a couple bucks to spare, I’ve been trying to raise money for this project on DonorsChoose.org all summer. Donors Choose is a great site to help classrooms in need across the country, which, sad to say, America really needs right now. I would LOVE to get this project – MAKE MINE A GREEN THUMB! – funded for these four-year olds in Michigan. Their teacher is raising money to buy them a greenhouse and gardening materials so they can learn about growing healthy food and have food to eat throughout the day. Please help out if you can. I’d really appreciate it. The project needs to be funded by September 11th. Thanks for listening.

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Episode Seven – Sarah Cracknell

Published August 30, 2018

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“Good Humor is our fantasy America from when we were kids. It’s our vision of what the States was like, probably wholly inaccurate, but it’s our fantasy America.”

Aug Stone talks to Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell about the 20th anniversary of ‘Good Humor’, America, the band’s perceived “quintessential Englishness”, Swedish Pop, the use of the telephone in pop songs, and more.

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Episode Six Show Notes – Simon Indelicate

Published August 2, 2018

Showreel for Paradise Rocks!

The Indelicates – Songs For Swinging Lovers . One of the best albums ever made.

‘Beyond The Radio Horizon’ from Elevator Music.

‘Not Alone’ from Diseases Of England.

Corporate Records. Sign your band a la Bandcamp and listen to some other rad albums.

Simon mentions the Principia Discordia when we were talking about Robert Anton Wilson (I can’t recommend reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy enough) and Discordianism.

And Bad Wisdom, Bill Drummond & Zodiac Mindwarp’s account of bringing an icon of Elvis, wrapped in a Bon Scott t-shirt, to the Arctic where they’d place it on the North Pole to send good vibes down through the latitude lines and save the world. Essential reading.

Simon also says Cool As Ice, the Vanilla Ice movie, is very similar to Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.

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Episode Six – Simon Indelicate

Published August 2, 2018

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Aug Stone talks to Simon Indelicate about his new musical, Paradise Rocks! A reimagining of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ as if it were one of Elvis’ Hawaii movies. We get a brief history of The Indelicates, Corporate Records, and Simon’s other musicals, as well as an account of Simon and friends’ attempt to recreate Bill Drummond & Mark Manning’s ‘Bad Wisdom’ journey to place an icon of Elvis on the North Pole to spread good vibes down the latitudes and save the world. Also synchronicities, Robert Anton Wilson, performance poetry, and the Vanilla Ice movie…

“There is a sense that Elvis embodies this figure of pure rebellion, the James Dean ‘what are you rebelling against?’ ‘what have you got?’ thing, where you just rebel against whatever it is, subvert the dominant paradigm, that’s the first moral obligation, that Luciferian idea which reaches its apotheosis in Elvis. He’s the archetypal figure who represents that, and everyone since Elvis is like a version of Elvis, even Bowie and glam is a version of that, slightly androgynous, slightly weird, but just pure rebellion through the form of rock n roll.”

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