By paulisded@yahoo.com (theledge) on October 11, 2024
If you follow me on the various social media platforms (paulisded) you’ve probably seen a variety of pictures with the tagline “The Hudson Basement Excavaton Project”. A little explanation is needed. Decades ago, my son needed a rack to store his records as he had followed in the old man’s footsteps and put together his own sizable library. As I did not at that point even own a turntable, my records were all boxed up and stored in the basement. A few years later, home renovatons meant that these boxes were joined by more boxes of CD’s, books, magazines, and other junk that needed to be moved out of the way of new carpet and paint. The original boxes of records were now buried. When I returned to vinyl a decade ago, I had a feeling that somewhere there just had to be a bunch of albums. I mean, come on. I would never sell or give away Replacements records, right? This feeling carried on whenever I saw a good stash of used records at local stores, or when a classic album was reissued. There just has to be records somehwere/anywhere! I would take tentative searches while doing laundry from […]
Posted in 70's, 80's, 90s, camper van beethoven, chris spedding, clash, hoodoo gurus, jayhawks, patti smith, Podcast, pretenders, punk, realpunkradio, replacements, Scott Hudson, The Ledge
By paulisded@yahoo.com (theledge) on May 31, 2024
Anyone who has listened to recent episode of The Ledge has heard me wax (somewhat) poetically about Steven H. Gardner’s four-part series of Another Tuneless Racket – Punk and New Wave In The Seventies books. They are quite possib…
Posted in another tuneless racket, dr. feelgood, modern lovers, new wave, patti smith, Podcast, punk, ramones, realpunkradio, Scott Hudson, steven gardner, stranglers, The Ledge
By paulisded@yahoo.com (theledge) on January 6, 2023
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been hinting that I’ll be starting 2023 with a big announcement. Well, tonight’s the night!In my eyes, “Teenage Kicks” is a perfect pop song; the greatest punk-inspired single of all time. Two minutes and 27 seconds of rock and roll at its finest. The sentiments are the same youthful expressions of the original rock and roll explosion of the 1950s. Instead of Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis boogie woogie piano, it’s buzzsaw guitars that accompany Undertones vocalist Fergal Sharkey’s desire for that “girl in the neighborhood” that he wishes “was mine she looks so good”. It’s the musical template later utilized by Husker Du, Pixies, Green Day, and hundreds of other pop-punkers for decades to come (for better or worse).Since I love the song so much, I have found myself collecting all kinds of versions over the years. In fact, a little glance at my master iTunes library a few months ago showed that I owned over 30 covers of this tune. Just two weeks ago, I discovered that a Minneapolis band I loved in the 90s had released a remake as a now rare b-side (more on that next week). With […]
Posted in adverts, boomtown rats, chris bell, clash, cramps, elvis costello, jm, music, patti smith, Podcast, ramones, realpunkradio, Scott Hudson, suicide commandos, talking heads, teenage kicks, The Ledge, undertones, wreckless eric
By paulisded@yahoo.com on November 27, 2015
A post-Thanksgiving episode celebrating just a few of the artists I’m thankful to have in my life.
Posted in alex chilton, aquadolls, babes in toyland, big star, box tops, chris bell, crash street kids, david bowie, flamin oh's, gene vincent, husker du, jerry lee lewis, joe strummer, joey ramone, johnny burnette, live ledge, liz phair, lou reed. t rex, lydia loveless, magnolias, muffs, music, new york dolls, patti smith, phones, Podcast, realpunkradio, replacements, rolling stones, sonics, stooges, suburbs, suicide commandos, talk scott hudson, tommy stinson, undertones, westerberg
By paulisded@yahoo.com on March 20, 2015
The second part of three episodes where host Hudson highlights albums that featured three classic tunes in a row.
Posted in cheap trick, david bowie, jesus and mary chain, live ledge, music, patti smith, pixies, Podcast, power pop, punk, realpunkradio, replacements, Scott Hudson, smiths, soft boys, sugar, uncle tupelo
By paulisded@yahoo.com on April 11, 2014
An entire show dedicated to those evil folks who control the record industry.
Posted in all, clash, dan baird, dead kennedys, elvis costello, graham parker, hot snakes, kathleen edwards, kinks, live ledge, minor threat, mudhoney, nervebreakers, nick lowe, nofx, patti smith, Podcast, poster children, ramones, realpunkradio, records, replacements, rezillos, robbie fulks, saints, Scott Hudson, sex pistols, stiff little fingers, supersuckers
By paulisded@yahoo.com on January 31, 2014
A trip down memory lane – nothing but tunes from that magical year of 1979.
Posted in ac/dc, alex chilton, beat, boomtown rats, buzzcocks, cheap trick, clash, cramps, curtiss a, damned, dave edmunds, devo, dickies, dils, elvis costello, fear, generation x, germs, graham parker, hypstruz, joe jackson, kinks, motorhead, music, nick lowe, patti smith, PIL, Podcast, ramones, realpunkradio, ruts, Scott Hudson, soft boys, stiff little fingers, suburbs, suicide commandos, undertones, wire
By paulisded@yahoo.com on May 17, 2013
Tonight we celebrate the passage of the Marriage Equality Law in Minnesota.
Posted in bikini kill, billy bragg, bob mould, breeders, circle jerks, jim carroll, joan jett, lou reed, love is the law, marriage equality, music, new york dolls, patti smith, Podcast, realpunkradio, suburbs, tom robinson, vaselines
By paulisded@yahoo.com on July 27, 2012
A show dedicated to our fine comrades across the pond, along with a celebration of one of their prime exports, Sir Michael Phillip “Mick” Jagger!
Posted in adverts, bob hocko, clash, creation, david bowie, dead boys, devo, dramarama, fall, flamin' groovies, graham coxon, groovie ghoulies, gunfire dance, hickoids, indie, jesus and mary chain, jim jones revue, jimmy cliff, joe strummer, meteors, mick jagger, music, olympics, pagans, patti smith, paul westerberg, Podcast, pogues, primitives, public image, punk, ramones, replacements, rolling stones, sex pistols, small faces, social distortion, stiff little fingers, talk
By paulisded@yahoo.com on July 6, 2012
A new jukebox and a pile of new releases inspires this week’s show!
Posted in alan vega, alejandro escovedo, dick seaton, fall, gallon drunk, goldblade, henry clay people, indie, jukebox, karen elson, kevin rowe, kinks, mike ness, mission of burma, music, nervebreakers, patti smith, payolas, Podcast, punk, realpunkradio, redd kross, replacements, scientists, Scott Hudson, son volt, soul asylum, talk, Teenage Bottlerocket, tim armstrong, urban voodoo machine, vibrators
By paulisded@yahoo.com on April 13, 2012
This was one strange week in rock news, and host Scott Hudson covered them all!
Posted in babes in toyland, cheetah chrome, courtney love, damned, dead boys, dictators, elvis costello, garage, hold steady, hole, hoodoo gurus, indie, japandroids, jesus and mary chain, jim jones revue, johnny thunders, keith moon, madonna, mono men, music, patti smith, paul westerberg, plimsouls, Podcast, primitive souls, punk, radio birdman, real kids, rolling stones, screaming females, sex pistols, slaters, stems, sunburns, talk, titus andronicus
By paulisded@yahoo.com on February 19, 2012
What started out as a collection of punk-era singer/songwriters turned into something completely different.
Posted in billy bragg, dave edmunds, dream syndicate, elvis costello, graham parker, green on red, guadalcanal diary, indie, joe jackson, music, patti smith, paul kelly, peter case, Podcast, r.e.m., ramones, realpunkradio, replacements, rockpile, Scott Hudson, talk, tommy keene, waterboys, world party, x