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A couple of days early, here's the brand spanking new April episode of COTU, freshly baked for your listening pleasure:

CULT OF THE UNDERDOG
Episode 16 : Let's Pretend We're Strangers (Apr 2024)





What are people saying about Cult Of The Underdog?
”Rock 'n' Roll is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and is the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth” Frank Sinatra
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked" Allen Ginsberg
"Mother please forgive them, for they know not what they do" Ozzy Osbourne
"I'm not black but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white" Frank Zappa
"I'm in love with Rock 'n' Roll, it satisfies my soul" Lemmy
"Don't pish in the water supply" Alex Harvey
"Get your fuckin' jumbo jet out of my airport!" Bon Scott

If you missed any of the previous episodes you can catch up here:
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First of all, 'kit, thank you for another slab of rocking splendor.

Second: There's DERRINGER's Sweet Evil (4th or 5th track) here!

Noisenik wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:21 pm First of all, 'kit, thank you for another slab of rocking splendor.
Second: There's DERRINGER's Sweet Evil (4th or 5th track) here!

I may have to somehow repurpose your excellent phrase "slab of rocking splendor", i like that a lot. And you of course correctly identified Derringer's finest moment.

Recognized Derringer as a song I knew (had & traded those albums away ages ago) and one other early track. But not able to identify anything. Fun mix came at a perfect moment as I was sorting records and was not interrupted.

The Four Horsemen - Rockin' Is Ma Business was one of the few I recognised. Oh, and Patti Smith - Pissing In A River.

doomedplanet wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:58 pm Recognized Derringer as a song I knew (had & traded those albums away ages ago)

Sounds very similar to my own Derringer experience. When i 1st read that Vinnie Appice & Danny Johnson from Axis & Kenny Aaronson from Dust had been in a band together i couldn't wait to hear them, but the reality turned out to be somewhat underwhelming, with the exception of the song 'Sweet Evil'. I only ever had the studio albums though, & have been meaning for years to check out their live records in hopes they might yet change my mind.

Khnud wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:37 pm The Four Horsemen - Rockin' Is Ma Business was one of the few I recognised. Oh, and Patti Smith - Pissing In A River.

The songs that people recognize often make me wonder about their journey through music & this is yet another prime example. Those really aren't acts you often see name-checked side by side.

It may feel even stranger. Intermission song is Brian Protheroe's Pinball.

Khnud wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:37 pm The Four Horsemen - Rockin' Is Ma Business was one of the few I recognised. Oh, and Patti Smith - Pissing In A River.

Was this really The Four Horsemen? I recognized the song but it sounds different than on their LP.
I like it less.
Is this an alternate version or from another band?

tbieri wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:14 pm Was this really The Four Horsemen? I recognized the song but it sounds different than on their LP. I like it less. Is this an alternate version or from another band?

It's the original album version though it's from the remastered CD, so perhaps that's why it sounds different to you?

Noisenik wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:52 pm Intermission song is Brian Protheroe's Pinball.

Well spotted, 'tis indeed.

Here's what's been ID'ed so far. Or to express it another way. 0.333 now known, leaving 0.666 to be identified :

01. DOUG GOODWIN - Panther Pink Panther From Head To Toes (from 'The Pink Panther Show' TV OST (1969))
02. BALTIK - Leslie Briggs (Cult Of The Underdog Theme) (from the 'Baltik' LP (1973))
03.
04.
05.
06.
07. DERRINGER - Sweet Evil (from the 'Sweet Evil' LP (1977))
08. BOOGIE HAMMER - Rock 'n' Roll Is Still King (from the '...Rocks' EP (2023))
09. JESTER - Find Out (from the 'Waiting This Way' 7" (1981))
10. PATTI SMITH GROUP - Pissing In A River (from the 'Radio Ethiopia' LP (1976))
11. BRIAN PROTHEROE - Pinball (from the 'Pinball' LP (1974))
12.
13. THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Rockin' Is Ma Business (from the 'Nobody Said It Was Easy' LP (1991))
14.
15. CAIN - Born Of The Wind (from the 'A Pound Of Flesh' LP (1975))
16.
17.
18.

Looks like it will remain in this ratio. Would like to know the band that starts the tracks shortly before 43rd minute, though.

Noisenik wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:45 pm Looks like it will remain in this ratio. Would like to know the band that starts the tracks shortly before 43rd minute, though.

Oh, that's CAIN - Born Of The Wind

Khnud wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:07 pm

Noisenik wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:45 pm Looks like it will remain in this ratio. Would like to know the band that starts the tracks shortly before 43rd minute, though.

Oh, that's CAIN - Born Of The Wind

Absolutely correct, tracklist in previous post amended accordingly.
I suspect you'll likely know track 9 too Khnud, the one right before Patti Smith Group.

bigfootkit wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:43 pm I suspect you'll likely know track 9 too Khnud, the one right before Patti Smith Group.

Ah yes of course, it's JESTER from Canada. The song is "Find Out". A 45 that's eluded me so far. I seem to remember purchasing a copy many years ago but it never arrived.

Khnud wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:43 pm

bigfootkit wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:43 pm I suspect you'll likely know track 9 too Khnud, the one right before Patti Smith Group.

Ah yes of course, it's JESTER from Canada. The song is "Find Out". A 45 that's eluded me so far. I seem to remember purchasing a copy many years ago but it never arrived.

I just knew you knew.
Sorry to hear about your misfortune with the Jester 45, hopefully you got your money refunded at least? It's a good little record that rarely gets mentioned, perhaps because the other song has a more overtly commercial bent. Personally i enjoy both sides, the songwriting, arrangements, playing & production are all of a very high standard which isn't usually the case when it comes to early 80's indie HR/HM 45s.