BBC Rock Hour #141
Broadcast week of Oct. 12, 1980
The cue sheet is missing. I've included
a 300 dpi scan of the disc label.
Flac files of .wavs.
Side 1: Eddie and the Hot Rods
01. BBC Rock Hour #141 Intro - Lesley Palmiter
02. Eddie & the Hot Rods - Quit This Town
03. Eddie & the Hot Rods - Echoes
03. Eddie & the Hot Rods - He Does It With Mirrors
05. Eddie & the Hot Rods - You Better Run
06. BBC Rock Hour #141 Break - Lesley Palmiter
07. Commercial - Scotch Recording Tape
08. Commercial - Heath Candy Bar
09. Eddie & the Hot Rods - Red Light Blue Light
10. Eddie & the Hot Rods - Tonight
11. Eddie & the Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
12. Eddie & the Hot Rods - The Ties That Bind
13. Eddie & the Hot Rods - The Power And The Glory
14. BBC Rock Hour #141 Break - Lesley Palmiter
Side 2: The Fools
Recorded at My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY, April 1st, 1980
01. BBC Rock Hour #141 Intro - Lesley Palmiter
02. The Fools - Spent The Rent
03. The Fools - Mutual of Omaha
04. The Fools - Night Out
05. Commercial - Heath Candy Bar
06. Commercial - Scotch Recording Tape
07. The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls
08. The Fools - Don't Tell Me
09. The Fools - I Won't Grow Up
10. The Fools - Psycho Chicken
11. BBC Rock Hour #141 Outro - Lesley Palmiter
Here are two bands that should have been more successful than they actually were...for different reasons.
Eddie & the Hot Rods were on the cusp of Punk Rock, there at the very start, but were essentially a Pub Rock band playing high-energy blues-based rock & roll. They were unfairly left behind as the times moved on, and bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Jam took the center-stage in the eyes of the British musical press.One thing to note is the cover of Bruce Springsteen's "The Ties That Bind" in the set list. This syndicated broadcast was on October 12, 1980...and Springsteen's "The River" wasn't released until October 17, 1980. The song is not on any of their albums at the time, although a studio version was recorded and eventually released in 1992 on "The Curse Of The Hot Rods," a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings. Did Springsteen pass the song along to the Rods before "The River" was released? It seems likely.
The Fools were a solid New Wave band, but were undermined by the "novelty record" aspect of their comic cover of the Talking Heads "Psycho Killer," reimagined as a song about fast-food chicken meals. Their parody cover is fun but silly...and after you record a song that's on the Doctor Demento radio show, you're pigeon-holed as a novelty act. They soldiered on, and are still performing today, however. Lesley Palmiter was an American radio disc jockey, appearing on stations in the American Northeast (Connecticut and Massachusetts). Lesley broadcast on WCOZ in 1975 along with George Taylor Morris, who has also appeared on prior shows I've digitized. The Internet tells me that she's now working as a real estate agent.
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