We Try Harder – April 16, 2025

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Psychedelic-Post Industrial Dreamland

After a couple off weeks, due to powerlessness and connectivity issues, even now in the most modern era ever, we did the show we had planned to do the week before. From 21st century reworks of songs from Hair to a passel of songs about doggies, there was plenty to sing your teeth into.

Not sure where the Hair inspiration came from. Maybe all those protest signs the last few weeks reminded us of the Sixties, the era of peace and love, and the last time people were sufficiently angry to force change, although not quite as fast as people hoped and not for long either. We liked how the Persica 3 single “Problem” fit right in there.

Favorite new song of the week: Gregory Frost’s protest anthem “Constant Crisis” from the album of the same name. Thanks, dude. We needed that.

But wait — there’s more!

April 16, 2025
We Try Harder

Space Ghost – What Day Is It?

The Jennifers – Good Morning Starshine
Persica 3 – Problem
Reworks – Let The Sun Shine In featuring Evelyn “Champagne” King (Jay-K’s Club Mix)

Soupy Sales – Doggone Doggie
Andy Gainey – Chisholm Trail, Get Along Little Doggie
The Sundowners – Rich Little Doggie

Pea Green Boat – SeeSaw
Aquatic Lights – Arrows
Gregory Frost – Constant Crisis

Bill Hicks – Easter
E.U. Go Go Trail

Savage – The Hustler (Smok’nJazz Edit from Sonic Funk Foundry)
Propellorheads with Shirley Bassey – History Repeating
Jose Feliciano – I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

DJ Cumberbund – Earth Wind and Ozzies
XOXO Xopher – Urgency
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Elia Casu, Fancesco Ganassin, Matteo Mantoni, Andrea Ruggeri – Poniddi Pibadra
The Vertigo Swirl – Orange Platypus #3
Josh Rude – Beanpole (Song Machine)

Cartoon Planet Band – I’m Nasty
Prince and the Revolution – Sometimes It Snows In April

Shouting Sword – Love Rot (first take)
Helium – XXX
Aquatic Lights – Lunar Baedeker

The Sundowners – Wall St Alphabet
James Brown – Super Bad

LTJ X-Perience – Empty Street
Talking Heads – Zimbra

Photo credit: David Ziaran, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons