Paul’s Boutique / Alley Oop’s Nolde Oldies

The Paul’s Ubutique Show: May 3, 2025

Sat, May 3, 2025

Today’s show is dedicated to the music of Crocus Behemoth aka David Thomas, art punk visionary, anti-singer, opionated dude and chronicler of the sound of Midwestern urban decay via his bands Rocket from the Tombs, Pere Ubu and subsequent solo projex. In addition to music by David Thomas, I’ve picked out some tracks released by friends and contemporaries in the Cleveland scene, artists he released via his Hearthan label as well as other fellow travelers. 11am-1pm!

Show archive

Playlist

Saucers, “Muckraker”

from What We Do

Orange Recording & Management - 1979

Mirrors, “Shirley”

from Something That Would Never Do (1974-75)

Mustard Records - 1974

Michael Yonkers Band, “Boy in the Sandbox”

from Microminiature Love

Sub Pop - 2003

Cheetah Chrome, “Still Wanna Die”

from Ork Records: New York, New York

Numero Group - 2015

Dead Moon, “Claim to Fame”

from Thirteen Off My Hook

Tombstone Records - 1990

Pere Ubu, “Heart of Darkness”

from Terminal Tower

Call Of The Void - 2018

The Fall, “Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers”

from Bend Sinister

Beggars Banquet - 1986

Pressler-Morgan One Plus One, “You're Gonna Watch Me”

from Soul Jazz Records Presents Punk 45: Extermination Nights in the Sixth City - Cleveland, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-west 1975-82

Soul Jazz Records - 2014

Tin Huey, “Puppet Wipes”

from Punk 45: Burn Rubber City, Burn! Akron, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-80

Soul Jazz Records - 2014

15-60-75 (The Numbers Band), “Animal Speaks”

from Jimmy Bell's Still in Town

Hearpen Records - 1976

The Bell System, “It's Over (feat. Craig Bell, Thomas Oconnell, Michael Barone & Claudia Bell)”

from AKA Darwin Layne

ever/never - 2016

Pere Ubu, “Navvy”

from Dub Housing

Fire Records - 1976

DNA, “Blonde Redhead”

from Fame (Jon Savage's Secret History of Post-Punk 1978-81)

Caroline True Records - 2012

Gordons, “Coalminers Song”

from The Gordons + Future Shock

Superior Songs - 1981

Les Batteries, “Identity Parade”

from Noisy Champs

Gazul - 2010

The Girls, “Jeffrey I Hear You”

from Soul Jazz Records Presents KEITH HARING: The World of Keith Haring

Soul Jazz Records - 2019

Human Switchboard, “Who's Landing in My Hangar?”

from Who's Landing in My Hanger? - Single

Fat Possum - 2019

Rocket from the Tombs, “I Keep a File on You”

from Black Record

Fire Records - 2015

Empire, “Expensive Sound”

from Expensive Sound

Munster Records - 2022

The Clean, “Thumbs Off”

from Boodle Boodle Boodle - EP

Merge Records - 2021

Pere Ubu, “Breath”

from Cloudland

Fontana

David Thomas & Foreigners, “Black Coffee Dawn”

from Bay City

Ninth World Music/VME - 2000

The Lines, “Old Town”

from Memory Span

Acute - 2008

M.A.M, “You're The Other Side (Remastered 2023)”

from Sammie America's MAM (Remastered 2023 / Expanded Edition)

Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV - 2023