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Song We Like: Walking Wreck by Gak

Song We Like: Walking Wreck by Gak

Gak is every bit as intense as Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, and Fear. And “fuck you you fucking prick” – gets the Cinnamon Kennedy lyrics award. They’re dipping their testicles into the metal genre – but the rest of the body and soul of Gak is a wonderful roll back to the pinnacle of 80s west coast hardcore.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Ro Sham Bo by Her Pilots

Song We Like: Ro Sham Bo by Her Pilots

Song We Like: Roshambo by Her Pilots

These suave mother-f*ckers have dropped some catchy rock all about love – you’re throwing your best game at her and maybe she’s playing the game, maybe? Or maybe you just threw a rock and she enveloped it with her paper. Enveloped your hard rock. The dynamics in this song are perfect – with the guitar dropping in and out and the vocals snapping and snarling. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Looking For A Date by Stevie and the Sleaze

Song We Like: Looking For A Date by Stevie and the Sleaze

I absolutely adore this mid-tempo garage rocker. There’s nothing fancy or over-elaborate and everything is perfect. The vocalist is all sneer and attitude like Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers. And also like Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers we’re not sure if they’re interested in the girl or interested in the score. This is wonderful rock-n-roll.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #87 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Christmas Time by Melting Alpha Coat

Song We Like: Christmas Time by Melting Alpha Coat

A more expressive and experimental Christmas carol. Very fascinating and interesting and dissonant at the same time – and then this collection of excellent ideas culminates into a chant “Christmas Time!” and an “oh for the birth of the baby king!” They are swinging for the fences – going for a commercial hit!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: The Devil Is Real by Supervillain

Song We Like: The Devil Is Real by Supervillain

These boys are unapologetic rock. This is in your face. This age old story of going too far and having to pay the consequences, of a life that spirals out of control. When you sell your soul – well – the devil comes to take your soul. Supervillain was kind enough to be the first band to share a song for the Musicians for Overdose Prevention collection. The devil is real.Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: A Chinese Restaurant on Christmas by Jeremy and the Harlequins

Song We Like: A Chinese Restaurant on Christmas by Jeremy and the Harlequins

Ohhhh I do like some doo-woop Christmas car wrecks. Yeah this singer is having a lonely Christmas at the Chinese restaurant – but he sings this song with so much fun and verve. Ohhh man the band backs him up with some classic “shoop-shoops” – Christmas may suck but this song is GREAT!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: The Score by Gold Light

Song We Like: The Score by Gold Light

This voice is pure gold – and the story is wonderful. This love is traveling, across the landscape, down into Central America – and the beautiful thing here is that there is faith in this love, that the love will bring this couple back together again. She will walk into his bar in El Salvador. That’s a deep love – the idea that the future will connect. This is poetry. Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

Song We Like: Another New York Christmas by Wyldlife

Song We Like: Another New York Christmas by Wyldlife

Every band should have a Christmas song – and every band should have a New York City Christmas song. There’s something so wonderful about the loneliness and heartbreak and bad behavior in New York City around the holidays. Plus this vocalist can deliver – so wonderful and trashy. Makes another Christmas all alone sound like a party! Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #86 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.

https://wyldlife.bandcamp.com/album/another-ny-christmas-piss-the-season

Song We Like: Burnout by Goldenhorseshoe

Song We Like: Burnout by Goldenhorseshoe

These boys start with some cowbell and then the song rolls forward with a massive wave of sixties psychedelic guitar. This song is all about the dynamics, loud-quiet, dropping back to voice and drums (is that a wooden block? – so many ideas), and then that guitar crashes around you in a thunderstorm. Burnout! Burnout! Burnout!Wanna hear us talk about this song? – Featured on our #85 podcast at www.hlycrp.com.