I have to confess, until very recently I was not fully aware of the phenomenon commonly referred to as “rage bait”. Live Bait, Squirrel Bait, Live Skull’s 1985 masterpiece ‘Bringing Home The Bait’, sure, rage bait, maybe not. But that was before I saw countless “Best American Band Ever” lists posted on social media over the past week and upon learning The Cheater Slicks didn’t crack the top ten in any of them, well, yeah, I was genuinely enraged.
All of that said, I’m not gonna be on the outside looking in with this whole rage bait windfall business. I’m neither diginified or wealthy enough to turn up my nose at some clicks-4-pennies action so here we go, episode 319 without one single track featured from The Cheater Slicks’ new ‘Cafe Bourbon St 06/26/26 release. It’s an inexcuseable, incomprehensible omission, one as callous as it is deliberate. As the saying goes, if you cannot beat ’em, Wally Joyner ’em.
Dx2ov – Riddim Shutter
Topdown Dialect – A 07
Emeka Ogboh – Lesli Ajah Freeway
Brokenchordd – Liquid Mind Experiment
Trigger Object – Gum Disease Mind Control
Cell/Borg – Who’s Got The Square Waves?
Equipment Pointed Ankh – An Almost Completely Clear Hat
The Shadow Ring – Spin The Animal Dial
OVER-GAIN OPTIMAL DEATH – Oversleep
Haverá Futuro? – Nada
Witchfinder General – Love On Smack
Nightstick – The Pentagon
Anton Pearson – Teeth To Cut The Grass
Hippie Diktat – Gran Sasso Pt. III and Pt. IV
Justin Broadrick – track 13, Solo Guitar 1997
Bent Light – Gain