Everything Is Under Control

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Let's just make one thing clear, this is NOT a Christmas episode of the "This Are Johnny Domino" podcast! Even so, the boys do seem a little giddy with the joys of the season at times… and it does feature a Christmas song. 

The episode also includes:

• The usual 90s lo-fi wonderment 
• Jesus on a yacht
• Steve's school-day memories
• A very messy ending

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Listen to 'Kung Fu Santa with a Christmas Punchbag' on Spotify or the Artists Against Success Bandcamp

Watch a clip from the film "Pop Pirates"

Listen to Giles' "LET'S GO!" playlist on Spotify

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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward

Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com

Not You, Someone Who’s Like You

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Dreams appear to be a bit of a recurring theme in this episode, as Giles and Stephen dredge up another selection of recordings from the unconscious realms of their youth. There are anecdotes galore as they…  

• Rediscover the "right-wing McCarthy bongo" song
• Recollect their "proto-Riot Grrrl" phase 
• Relive an unfortunate Stereolab support slot
• Completely fail to make a decision

Let us know which one of these songs (if any) should go on the purely theoretical mixtape - leave a comment in the comment section for this very blogpost, or on Instagram or Facebook.

Watch Propaganda perform Dream Within A Dream in 1985 (It turns out that it's based on a poem by Edgar Allen Poe!) 

Watch the video for Boudicaaa by Memorials

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Her Golden Hair Was Timotei

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The brothers Woodward take more time out to craft another slice of Lo-Fi glory. Firstly there's a new candidate for The Eternal Hall of the Four Track Gods. Will it have what it takes to achieve immortality (and win a t-shirt)?

Then Steve and Giles put together a "head to head" of quirky nonsense from their back catalogue. To be honest, both selections contain "questionable" lyrical sentiments, but will their musical charms be enough to earn them a spot on the "Best of…" compilation tape? We’ll have to see…

Key features of this episode include:

• Pugwall riot
• "Sampling" 
• Toxic lyrics
• A Flute preset 

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Listen to the music of Lardpony and Vom Vorton

Related video material 

The Pugwall theme

The Breeders on Snub TV playing When I Was a Painter and Iris

Kim Deal smacks Kurt Ralske in the video for Special One by Ultra Vivid Scene 

All-4-One's I Swear

Ian Mackaye interviewed by Logan Kelly

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Love Does Not Compute

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Hello, 

I'm a podcast episode and I'm here to tell you that I am as entertaining as the preceding episodes of This Are Johnny Domino - if not more so! 

In all honesty, I feel that I have the punchy dynamism and vitality that makes me stand out from the rest of the pack… Giles and Stephen certainly had a great time filling me with the usual good-humoured banter and rambling conversation about music that you've never heard. 

Will you agree with them about which song should make it onto the "Best of…" compilation? 

Other features you're sure to enjoy about me are:

• Lonesome mods and sex robots
• Big Jim speaks and Elston tweaks
• 80s teens and motorway dreams

Kind Regards, 

Episode 14 

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Have a Fantastic Day watching Haircut 100

Watch and marvel at the original trailer for the film Rivers Edge

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Are You Confused Yet?

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"It's Episode 13, so surely this is a good time to ‘mess with the format’", say Steve and Giles.

"Maybe, maybe not," says the rest of the world.

"Listen with your ears and make up your own mind", replied the visionary podcasters. "It's a work in progress."

"Climb out of that belly button", yelled the rest of the world.

This one includes:

• Juvenile jazz-funk envy
• Alt-Country aversion therapy
• Psychedelic bath time-travel
• The return of the Ween section

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Listen to Uncle Sham.

Watch Uncle Tupelo perform live on cable TV in 1989.

Watch Ken singing to Barbie.

Watch the Rumpled Romeo himself performing the hell out of "Rocking Chair" on the Kenny Everett Show in 1979.

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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward

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Get Off The Road, I've Got Pigs To Feed

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This week Steve and Giles are joined by their old friend, vocalist, driver and muse, Dick. 

Listen as they peer through the mists of time, reassess old songs and share memories of their misspent youth.  

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

This one includes:

• Buttholes on the bus to Sandiacre
• Manipulating the Young Americans 
• Land Rover travel sickness simulation
• Visions of Heaven and Hell

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Watch Hurdy Gurdy Man by the Butthole Surfers from the album "Piouhgd"

Watch this awesome performance by Jonathan Richman of one of the songs from the "I, Jonathan" album

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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward

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You’re Too Straight To Play The Spoons

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Bill Hicks once said "It's just a ride", and in this episode we take you on a spin 'round our teenage dreams, hurtling down the Cobain slopes into the hairpin bend of 90s bohemia.

Put more plainly, brothers Giles and Steve have more fun unearthing trash and treasure from their C90 mountain and it's all quite enjoyable.

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

   

This one includes:

• Erotic matriarch has toasted posterior 
• 'Daddy, what did you do in the Grunge wars?' pt.1 
• Johnny Domino + drum and bass x performance art = ?   
• Word from the big J.C.

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Johnny Domino rocking the Mex Bar, Leeds, April 27, 1997

Watch 1991: The Year Punk Broke

Watch a video of Nirvana's show at Rock City, Nottingham

Get into Mik Artistik's Ego Trip and even go and see them on tour!

Watch the end of Taxi Driver (which CLEARLY TAKES PLACE IN TRAVIS BICKLE'S HEAD! - Steve)

With A Couple Of Guitars And A 4-Track Studio

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Maybe this one should be called "This Aren't Johnny Domino", as Giles and Steve head into the unexplored territory of earlier bands and alternative recording projects from their 'tape mountain'.  

Come along for the ride as the two brothers uncover more missed opportunities and blind alleys in the cause of showing you How Not To Succeed At Music.* 

(* While at the same time finding 'success' in a different sense and in other unexpected ways)

Also including:

• £25 a day recording studio
• Shoegaze shenanigans
• The best things about Ilkeston in the 1990s
• Remember Duckworth Square?
• Recording the TRUTH…   

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Music extract used for illustrative/review purposes: The No No Song, Goodnight Vienna, Ringo Starr (1974) - listen on Spotify 

Listen to The Millers on Bandcamp

Experience the 90s slacker ideal of Beck

Enjoy the Bon Jovi video Giles talks about (and imagine our version)

I’m Not 'In' Anymore

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They say that time is a great healer, but sometimes discovering evidence of past attitudes and opinions in recordings made 30 years ago can be painful!

Listen as Giles and Steve 'figure it out' and come up with further revisionist histories of their lo-fi recording career. This week the brothers rediscover songs ranging from acoustic 'punk' to straight-up indie pop - but which song will make it onto the purely theoretical 'best of' compilation tape?   

Also including:

• Spondon and Wollaton comparison
• Recording in a farm kitchen 
• Identity crisis sparked by arsey song
• Sarah Records debauchery     

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Watch the video for 'Song for a Future Generation' by The B-52s. 

Listen to 'You Should All Be Murdered' by Another Sunny Day.

Listen to 'Emma's House' by The Field Mice.

Bring A Friend

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 It’s the 30-year anniversary of our adoption of the name Johnny Domino, so to mark the occasion Steve heads to Ilkeston to record his part of this episode in the very room where it all started all those years ago.

Just to completely dispel any possible sense of jeopardy over the song choice for the "Best of" mix tape, the first track today sets out our Lo-Fi agenda right from the get-go. The second painfully destroys any possible conception that this podcast is ‘self-congratulatory’. The third track gets on the mix tape.

Also including:

• A miniature man playing a tiny guitar at high speed
• The sound of Steve developing a stomach ulcer whilst listening to a song
• The most ridiculous chorus ever
• Us blasting off into the Galaxie (500) 

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Listen to "No Nico, No Cale", a Spotify playlist of late-period Velvet Underground songs curated by us

Watch Randy Newman’s video for “I Love LA”