Audio of the Week: Noise The Show #25 and #52 with Tim Sommer, WNYU (1981-82)

Courtesy of Everybody Wants What the Next Guy's Got, here are more digitized rare tapes of the infamous WNYU show, Noise The Show, hosted by Tim Sommer, in the early 80's. For links to previous posts click here. 

Grab these two shows here.

Audio of the Week: Noise The Show #18, #19, #21, #24 with Tim Sommer, WNYU (1981)

Courtesy of Everybody Wants What the Next Guy's Got, we'll now be able to enjoy digitized rare tapes of the infamous WNYU show, Noise The Show, hosted by Tim Sommer, in the early 80's. And he did a real nice job in annotating each episode.

In the summer of 2014, I went googling to see if any episodes of Noise The Show were on youtube (there are) or on blogs similar to this one (there are.) I even stumbled across a facebook group dedicated to the show. Earlier this year, a group member mentioned having a box of tapes of a bunch of episodes, and lacked the gear necessary to digitize them. I spoke up and offered to get these tapes into a format that’s sharable on the internets. Which brings us to this post. Continued at the following link:

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Stupefied: The Tim Sommer Playlist

Good things come to those who wait, and its been a while since I've run a playlist from a friend. After a delay of some time, Mr. Tim Sommer answers the call with a hell of a list. I first knew of Tim many years back when he attended NYU with Jack Rabid. He hosted the locally influential show on WNYU, Noise, the Show - at the time the only radio show playing punk/hardcore. Tim would do voiceovers in an almost-screaming level to match the urgency of the music. Don't believe me? Listen to this or this! 

Also, around the same time, he contributed to UK music weekly, Sounds, as a NY correspondent, as well as Trouser Press magazine, and a host of other publications. He went on to do a whole bunch of other interesting projects in the name of art - like producing records, forming Hugo Largo, and signing Hootie & the Blowfish to Atlantic Records, amongst other things.

Jack Rabid, left, and Tim Sommer, 1982

To this day Tim still writes, on a regular basis, a column that's well worth checking out over at the Brooklyn Bugle. It's called, what else? Noise, The Column! Where else can you read about the Ruts, Boston, baseball, the state of New York City, why the New York Times sucks, Hootie & the Blowfish, and racial issues? Nowhere else...that's where! He also contributes an editorial twice a year to Big Takeover magazine...published over the last 34 years by our mutual pal, the aforementioned Jack Rabid.

Special thanks to Tim for writing an entire column inspired by my request to him for this list. Not to mention this great list! So fire up your RSS feed for Tim's column, and then hit play.

p.s. For those who might give a crap, I've given up creating a Spotify version of these lists. It's just too glitchy and slow. And they don't have all of the tracks I want anyway.

01. Hallogallo - NEU

02. Know Your Product - THE SAINTS

03. Dot Dash - WIRE

04. The Lonely Surfer - JACK NITZSCHE

05. Theme From A Summer Place - PERCY FAITH

06. Otis - DURUTTI COLUMN

07. Albatross - FLEETWOOD MAC

08. Cheree - QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS

09. Memphis Egypt - MEKONS

10. Ramones (album) - RAMONES

11. Mongoose - FU MANCHU

12. You Better Believe It - HAWKWIND

13. Albatross - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED

14. There There My Dear - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS

15. Handbags and Gladrags - CHRIS FARLOWE

16. Ceremony - NEW ORDER

17. More Than A Feeling - BOSTON

18. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore - THE WALKER BROTHERS

19. Tommy (complete, Live at Leeds version) - THE WHO

20. Astronomy Domine - PINK FLOYD

21. Dopesmoker (album) - SLEEP

22. Everybody Wants Some - VAN HALEN

23. Irene Wilde - IAN HUNTER

24. Gloria - PATTI SMITH

25. Song of the Siren - TIM BUCKLEY

26. Crucifixion - PHIL OCHS

27. All the Way From Memphis - MOTT THE HOOPLE

28. Jailbreak - THIN LIZZY

29. December - COLLECTIVE SOUL

30. Orinoco Flow - ENYA
31. & 32. Secret Bonus Tracks

Tim Sommer on the greatness of the Ruts

FoB©, Tim Sommer, has a terrific weekly column (entitled, appropriately enough, Noise The Column) over at the Brooklyn Bugle. In light of this week marking the 34th anniversary of the death of lead singer, Malcolm Owen, he writes an unabashed fan letter paying tribute to the greatness of the Ruts. 

"1980 was an extraordinary year in music.  It was the first year of the new decade, the first year of the first completely Beatles-free decade, and the first year of the first post-punk decade.  1980 also saw the release of Back in Black, Boy, Second Edition, British Steel, London Calling (in the U.S., anyhow), Underwater Moonlight, Freedom of Choice, Los Angeles, Killing Joke, Black Sea, Dirty Mind, Closer, The Black Album, Ace of Spades, and Double Fantasy. Stunning." 

Continued here.