D and T discuss the acts in detail, what made them hip and enjoyable.
D points out the irony that the violin-and-drum combo Violent Screech was the most experienced act of the night.
Another GXC band--The Uncanny Valley Girls--is discussed for their absurd Fripp-Eno dynamics. We hear a track from them.
We round out the hour with a new segment titled "Is This Song About Me?" Before listening to Video Brats' only song, D makes his case that this song is about his exploits with the band members.
D and T discuss the line between homage and ripoff; D says ripoff artists take others' work and pass it off as their own. D points out Spacemen 3 are citing their sources in the very song title.
The next pairing is an unabashed sample: Liars usesESG's original. T draws comparisons between the two bands, both New York bands removed by a few decades. As usual, Lydia Lunch has some pretty harsh things to say.
D say these two songs sound to be of the same piece. T says the Liars song does stand on its own. However, the song blatantly references its inspiration, unlike other bands. [I didn't say this on-air, but the final lyric "Rather loved/ Than not loved" directly echoes Lunch's comments that Liars are looking for their moms' approval. Oddly, they've pre-empted her criticism and embrace that fact.]
B reads friends' submissions "My Supernatural Creation," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in School," which are from middle school and pret-ty embarrassing.
Taylor gets his lazy butt out of bed and into the studio.
T and B read Scott Leroux's creative writing from a couple years ago, and he calls in.
T reveals the not-so-mysterious origins of his series Lightswitch, and reads a selection from one of his notebooks.
