Shows
Boogie Chitz100 Various Artists - Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed! (2016 comp)Fifteen track gift from Analog Africa proving that you can't spell Funaná without F-U-N. Bemba Restrepo's discovery on the shores of São Nicolau adds an extra jolt of weirdness to the traditional sounds of Cabo Verde.
2025-07-2342 min
Boogie Chitz099 Merl Saunders/Jerry Garcia/John Kahn/Bill Vitt - Live At Keystone (1973)Keystone Berkeley ran live music shows for twelve years and also served as a favorite hangout spot for rockers living in the Bay Area. Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia were two of those - and had been ripping it up together regularly for a year and a half when they decided to record their action to tape. Live at Keystone was the result and is a real-time capture of a musical friendship between two fat guys at peak electric output.
2025-07-1659 min
Boogie Chitz098 Gelli Haha - Switcheroo (2025)Gelli Haha is a new act and it is my job as Mr. Cool music show host to alert you of her existence. Switcheroo is fun-ass dance music - slammers about Italian desserts and pissing in glass jars that sound more like little electric kisses than songs.
2025-07-0932 min
Boogie Chitz097 Bleached - Welcome the Worms (2016)I love Bleached tremendously - so it's on a curve when I say Welcome the Worms is one of the better no-fuss rock records of the past decade - a controlled frenzy of catchy songs made by an instantly-likable band. Also - the Canseco Twins find themselves on a path to fantasy fulfillment - turns out that fantasy is only four blocks away.
2025-07-0249 min
Boogie Chitz096 Daft Punk - Homework (1997)Before Daft Punk got the robot sex change operations and became the sound of global gloss there was Homework - the self-financed and home-recorded debut. And it's fantastic.
2025-06-2542 min
Boogie Chitz095 The Replacements - Hootenanny (1983)While not the most coveted 'Mats LP - Hootenanny is the one that got them out of the icy Jesse Ventura-ness of their beloved Minnesota - and on the road to alt-rock knighthood. This is where Paul Westerberg began to fully embrace the joys of socially ergonomic songwriting...sometimes.
2025-06-1851 min
Boogie Chitz094 Sven Wunder - Eastern Flowers (2020)Here we are blessed with a baker's dozen of Anatolian-flavored funk nuggets via the side project of a Swedish film and television composer.
2025-06-1132 min
Boogie Chitz093 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)The eponymous third aka Grey Album from 1969 began the second half of the VU's run - the forgotten half - when they were an actual touring rock and roll band trying to pop big. No Warhol, no New York City and no John Cale. A deep track dynamo without the literal AND figurative feedback of the past. Lou's older brother Roy shows up though.
2025-06-0455 min
Boogie Chitz092 Amanaz - Africa (1975)Back to Zamrock with Amanaz (Ask me about nice artistes in Zambia). The group only made one album - 1975's Africa - but that's all that is needed to ingest the 'One Zambia, one nation, three chords' spirit.
2025-05-2836 min
Boogie Chitz091 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)Led Zeppelin return from the meadows of Bron-Yr-Aur, shave the beards and begin another three album run that would lead them to the top of King Shit Mountain. They would get one last look from its peak with Physical Graffiti - a deep track orgy that showcases Zep at full creative mast.
2025-05-2157 min
Boogie Chitz090 Missing Persons - Spring Session M (1982)A new wave band made up of musically-gifted members of Frank Zappa's backing band, Missing Persons dropped a solid debut in 1982 that's kind of a paradox - loose music made by the tightest of musicians. Oh, and they also had a singer that nailed Prince.
2025-05-1447 min
Boogie Chitz089 Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)The same year their Seattle cohorts made flannel globally sexy Mudhoney stayed local and loyal to their friends at Sub Pop and released Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - an unrelenting pounder that sounds the beating heart of the Grunge Hunx Dynasty.
2025-05-0749 min
Boogie Chitz088 Pino D'Angiò - Balla! (1981)Disco was becoming played out in America at the start of the 1980's but it was just getting started in Italy. Pino D'Angiò landed a YMCA-level Italian hit with the song Ma Quale Idea in 1980. The following year he unleashed the full Power of Pino with his debut LP Balla! This is Italo-Disco at it's Satanic best.
2025-04-3036 min
Boogie Chitz087 Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West (1982)WoV was way too loose with the drizzugs to build any sort of career sustainability - but they managed to uncork the forgotten classic Call of the West along the way - angular art rock that cuts through the collective 1982 whoosh of parachute pants.
2025-04-2338 min
Boogie Chitz086 Ghetto Brothers - Power Fuerza (1972)The Ghetto Brothers were one of thousands of street gangs that skulked the busted-ass neighborhoods of the Bronx in leather vests during the 1970's. I think they are the only one that formed a band though. Power Fuerza is the lone musical relic left behind by the good-guy gang known as the GB's.
2025-04-1536 min
Boogie Chitz085 Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)Hair Hunk Titans Poison fought their way thru pubic lice and a universally-perceived lack of talent to crank out their debut - Look What the Cat Dragged In - an overachieving classic squeezed into a 1986 already overstuffed with guitars, drums and spandex pant.
2025-04-0953 min
Boogie Chitz084 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River (1969)The USA was on fire in 1969 with Vietnam War protests and such. Everyone had a voice and wanted to be heard. But they also wanted to be SEEN. It was a flashy year of afros, flower power, bouncy boob-curtains and bush. The last year of the sixties was an eccentric one - and it was largely soundtracked by the four average Americans of Creedence Clearwater Revival. CCR dropped three in 1969 and Green River gets the gold star on it's forehead. Roots rock classic for your face.
2025-04-0144 min
Boogie Chitz083 Various Artists - Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea 1974-1988 (2024 comp)During the 1970's while China and Vietnam were busy playing grab-ass and keep-away with the Spratly and Percocet island chains in the South China Sea, the other countries surrounding the water like Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia funk'd their way into the next decade. Ayo Ke Disco, curated by Alice from Soundway Records, provides us safe listening passage thru this fantastic sea of sound.
2025-03-2636 min
Boogie Chitz082 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005) LCD Soundsystem is an exhaustive one-hundred minute affair that showcases the best of what the combination of rock and dance music can become when crafted by the hands of an erudite music nerd. LCD eponymous - the start of a relatively flawless catalog that continues into the now.
2025-03-1944 min
Boogie Chitz081 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)Marty Robbins' cinematic western music classic was released at the end of a decade that would soon be overshadowed by the one that followed. JFK was about to be President, the Beatles were about to form, but for now in 1959, we have Marty Robbins singing songs about other men. And horses.
2025-03-1146 min
Boogie Chitz080 Woods - City Sun Eater in the River of Light (2016)So few bands remain that were born during the post-MTV, pre-streaming and social media purgatorial zone of the mid-aughts. Woods are still with us. And despite having one significant kink in their curb appeal, they bring twenty years of codeine-dipped freak folk and high-value return to the listener's ears. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is my favorite of their hot dozen.
2025-03-0532 min
Boogie Chitz079 Various Artists - A Tribute to Bob Dylan in the 80s (2014 comp)The 1980s proved that as big as forty-something millionaire cultural icon Bob Dylan was during the decade, he was not bigger than the ever-evolving and fickle world of rock and roll. ATO Records' A Tribute to Bob Dylan in the 80s contains seventeen covers of songs from Bob's least-celebrated decade.
2025-02-2644 min
Boogie Chitz078 Dum Dum Girls - Too True (2014)Myself, my dad and the Canseco Twins neutralize Dee Dee's annoying production duo so that she can crank out a classic without interference. Too True is the final (boo) and best (yay) Dum Dum Girls album. A catchy atmospheric finale to a five-year run powered by good ol' work ethic.
2025-02-1841 min
Boogie Chitz077 The Grateful Dead - Europe '72 (1972 Live)Exclusion was a word rarely used in Grateful Dead world - so in April 1972 when it came time to decide who was and who wasn't joining the band for their spring tour of Europe the answer was simple - 'Everyone goes.' So off to Europe the extended Grateful Dead family went - forty-plus posse of band members, family, friends, the New Riders and even an LSD chemist named Bear. The triple-LP live album Europe '72 was released to recoup the expenses of this European vacation that Warner Brothers had fronted, and to also debut a slurry of new...
2025-02-111h 03
Boogie Chitz076 Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)Pixies (there's no the 'The') started their ascent into alt-rock wonderhood with Surfer Rosa. No album from the 1980s had a greater influence on the rock sound of the 1990s than this record. Good start Pixies. Nice work.
2025-02-0541 min
Boogie Chitz075 Lord Huron - Strange Trails (2015)The men who make Mangina Music suffer for us. They play with soft hands for our hard hearts - and we need to give thanks. Lord Huron's Strange Trails is a sprawling hallucinatory masterpiece that I'm pretty sure is way more popular than I think it is. It's also long and emotional - they're gonna need some assistance from the Canseco twins.
2025-01-2939 min
Boogie Chitz074 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)Several years before Parliament Funkadelic grew into a multi-banded gang of diaper daddies traveling around the country in a crack-fueled spaceship, there was Maggot Brain - a standalone gift of collective imagination and a sonic pillar of the early-1970's Lori Lightfoot Era of American black music.
2025-01-2238 min
Boogie Chitz073 Guns N' Roses - G N' R Lies (1988)We enter the Guns N' Roses Herpeverse via the band's second album G N' R Lies which contains songs recorded both before and after their historic Ape Tit debut. Initially released as a Geffen Records pacifier until the unpredictable band's next LP, Lies is an undervalued dudless wonder that bookends the group's opening volley toward global ambassadorship.
2025-01-1550 min
Boogie Chitz072 Holy Fuck - LP (2007)Holy Fuck are pure punk electronica - creating dance music using everything BUT the standard loops and laptops to achieve that sound. This chaotic urgency is never more apparent and beautiful than on LP from 2007. Songs born out of improvisational jamming and then refined for record.
2025-01-0836 min
Boogie Chitz071 The Cars - Candy-O (1979)With so many time-ambiguous single song bangers, it's tough to not classify The Cars as a 'greatest hits' band. But 1979's Candy-O is as cohesively beautiful as a standalone LP can get. And thank Christ The Cars got hot BEFORE the launch of MTV because they never would have gotten a glance with THOSE mugs.
2025-01-0140 min
Boogie Chitz070 Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (1990)Pantera ditch their hair hunk past yet keep the gay superhero band name and begin their groove metal assault on the nineties with Cowboys From Hell.
2024-12-2538 min
Boogie Chitz069 Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens - Melodi Yalla (1988)Mbaqanga was a style of music birthed in the segregated South African township of Soweto in 1964. The super-unit of Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, Mahotella Queens and the Makgona Tsohle Band pumped out a volley of bouncy mbaqanga classics before the genre fell out of township taste in the late 1970s. The genre received a global re-up during the 1980s however, when several popular albums by American and British artists came out that were heavily inspired by the swing of township jive. Melodi Yalla was released at the height of this mbaqanga revival.
2024-12-1845 min
Boogie Chitz068 Polaris - Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1999)One of a kind delight. A fictional band from a fictional television show creates a very-real compendium of sonic pleasure. Plus, we put the Hermanos Cansecos into action and show what happens to members of Boogie Chitz bands that quit.
2024-12-1150 min
Boogie Chitz067 The Limiñanas - Shadow People (2018)A chugging audio compote of cinematic psychedelia created by a garage rock lovin' couple from Perpignan, France. The Limiñanas are generally a two-person operation, but Shadow People is loaded with guests including one from Boogie Chitz past.
2024-12-0437 min
Boogie Chitz066 Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf 7 (1970)Seems like by 1970 Steppenwolf were already becoming a two-hit relic of the cultural past. Nonsense. Steppenwolf 7, which is technically their fifth album, is a furious nine-track assault that sounds like cocaine psychosis set to boogie rock. Love it.
2024-11-2751 min
Boogie Chitz065 Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's (1982)A neck-to-nuts banger of a synth album found in a genre mostly celebrated via individual songs and videos rather than LPs. Upstairs at Eric's contains by my count three 'oh yeah I know that song' songs that are probably recognizable to the greater American public.
2024-11-2036 min
Boogie Chitz064 Frog - GROG (2023)Marination/Hibernation season is ovah for the class of 2023. Let us celebrate one of the stronger bears to emerge from the cave - or in this case frogs...ManFrogs.
2024-11-1334 min
Boogie Chitz063 Grimes - Visions (2012)Grimes dropped out of college before uncorking this masterpiece - created during a nine-day frenzy of imagination in her Montreal apartment. Good. Class dismissed.
2024-11-0540 min
Boogie Chitz062 The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983)Los Angeles 1983. While the hair hunx were leaving leather pant ass prints on the hoods of laundromat dryers, bands of the Paisley Underground scene were quietly cranking out sixties-style jingly-jangly psychedelia across town. The Rain Parade were the shortest-lived of all the P.U. bands, but their debut album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip helped garden just as much musical fruit of the future as it did pay tribute to the past.
2024-10-3039 min
Boogie Chitz061 The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)After five wild years playing together as a support band for other artists, the corduroy boys of The Band find their original voice in the basement of a house in West Saugerties, New York and begin a near-decade run of rustic rapture.
2024-10-2348 min
Boogie Chitz060 Penza Penza - Alto E Primitivo (2024)Penza Penza is an Estonian big band/lo-fidelity sonic buzzsaw led by multi-instrumentalist/composer Misha Panfilov. Their fourth LP called Alto E Primitivo is fourteen instrumental rippers that could mow thru the thickest of Baltic bush.
2024-10-1637 min
Boogie Chitz059 The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (1992)Filled with breezy melodic beatitudes that are impossible not to enjoy, It's a Shame About Ray is an underrated alt-rock classic that proved Evan Dando did indeed deserve his lemon lordship.
{{{Gracias Hermanos Cansecos}}}
https://youtu.be/EzKcxQGOKKE?si=st8Z_R3rMnPmyxHC
2024-10-0941 min
Boogie Chitz058 Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly (1972 Soundtrack)Curtis Mayfield dropped a winner in 1972 with the Super Fly soundtrack. A masterwork so dense that its songs musically narrate the film while still maintaining accessibility to be plucked for off-the-reservation playlists. Your main boy, thick and thin.
2024-10-0235 min
Boogie Chitz057 Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (2021)For their sophomore effort, the sextet of Scandinavian riff-raffers known as Viagra Boys seek fresh musical adventures in less-shrimpy waters - and ultimately discover bang city with Welfare Jazz.
2024-09-2530 min
Boogie Chitz056 The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good (1988)The slightly off-kilter art punk of The Sugarcubes was the first rock music from Iceland to gain ears in America. The band's debut album - Life's Too Good - is a bouncy masterwork and the world's introduction to Bjork - who by the way, is the SECOND weirdest singer in this band.
2024-09-1835 min
Boogie Chitz055 Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)In 1969, Sly & The Family Stone were flower power royalty - a racially-mixed pop powerhouse armed with a slew of hits destined to soundtrack the Valtrex commercials of the future. Sly followed up on this glory by locking himself in his mansion loft with enough drugs to down the Hell's Angels and created a masterpiece out of the madness - There's a Riot Goin' On. Trouble funk is here.
2024-09-1143 min
Boogie Chitz054 Royal Trux - Accelerator (1998)Royal Trux were king and queen of the scuzzrock prom when they got signed to Virgin Records in 1995. Two years later, Virgin couldn't get rid of them fast enough and RTX made their best album on their way out the door - Accelerator - a masterpiece molded out of the sludge of confusion.
2024-09-0335 min
Boogie Chitz053 The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads (1965)The album that broke the band in America - Out of Our Heads is the musical bridge connecting the Rolling Stones American R&B-cosplay past with their Richards/Jagger-juggernaut future.
2024-08-2845 min
Boogie Chitz052 The Budos Band - The Budos Band II (2007)The Budos Band sprinkle some Ethiopian jazz into their menacingly-infectious sophomore album released on Daptone Records at the height of retro-soul revivalism in 2007. Full-time funk from a part-time band.
* The Budos Band live in the Netherlands in 2008 *
https://youtu.be/IkgD6AwsPZM?si=3hfoNHuY1jBqnQtk
* Musicawi Silt by Hailu Mergia *
https://youtu.be/r9pLeol6A9s?si=iPIf20IT-hUzJije
2024-08-2135 min
Boogie Chitz051 John Cale - Vintage Violence (1970)John Cale's scrappy solo debut recorded the year after leaving the Velvet Underground. His half century of creating high art out of low living begins here with Vintage Violence.
2024-08-1435 min
Boogie Chitz050 Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun (1985)The Meat Puppets third album - the Kirkwood brothers fire out a catchy collection of psychedelic swingers that help keep weirdness to the front of the American music underground in 1985.
2024-08-0741 min
Boogie Chitz049 Jo Bisso - African Disco Experimentals 1974-1978 (2020 comp)An affectionate curation of the disco-funk-fueled music made by Cameroonian Jo Bisso during his half decade living in America.
2024-07-3133 min
Boogie Chitz048 Those Darlins - Those Darlins (2009)Three southern girls that met at band camp bring their garage rock gravitas north to New York City and record a ripper more potent than the purest line of Appalachian meth.
The Whole Damn Thing live from Maxwell's in Hoboken 2010 - Look at little Jessi holding that big CHOOCH guitar -
https://youtu.be/3lYdlaEg2zY?si=b0sFRCxXmy7xJeUX
Be Your Bro from second album -
https://youtu.be/TyVs4B26_P4?si=bHrJbKgAo6Gr5tWl
2024-07-2440 min
Boogie Chitz047 The Mamas & the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)The sunshine pop banger debut from The Mamas & the Papas - a devilish foursome who soundtracked the summer of love before being drowned out of the cultural zeitgeist by the electric guitar gods.
2024-07-1759 min
Boogie Chitz046 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back! (1997)The 'should-woulda-coulda' sixth album from retro-revivalists The Brian Jonestown Massacre - led by the emotionally-compromised Anton Newcombe.
Anton going berzerk at the Viper Room 1996(?)
https://youtu.be/jSm5optFVUw?si=BOI8pzeljh_jJylr
Anton going berzerk in Australia in 2023
https://youtu.be/3MKRAzCkJfM?si=06lmZxqMulq4sRaA
2024-07-0947 min
Boogie Chitz045 Faith No More - Introduce Yourself (1987)Despite the occasional TMC (Too Much Chuck) moments, Introduce Yourself is a fun listen and criminally-ignored glance at a weird underground band right before they blast off toward the MTV universe.
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*** 1988 music video for Anne's Song ***
https://youtu.be/w7dD-JJJytM?si=LIiZIEqkhU89jQfk
2024-07-0344 min
Boogie Chitz044 Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (1975)Aerosmith's breakthrough third album is proof that hard work pays off - even while wearing a bedazzled, penis-flattening pelican unitard.
2024-06-2541 min
Boogie Chitz043 The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)Oh, Inverted World is a vivid, pop masterpiece that provides indie-cred to the men who make mangina music.
2024-06-1852 min
Boogie Chitz042 J.J. Cale - Troubadour (1976)Red dirt riffer J.J. Cale's songs were more known for being covered by other artists, but the creator of the 'Tulsa Sound' is not to be ignored - his catalogue is stuffed with swampy ravers - my favorite being 1976's Troubadour.
2024-06-1143 min
Boogie Chitz041 Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (2024)We got a fresh one here - released only a month ago - Ibibio Sound Machine merges 1990s fly-girl drum and bass with Afrobeat to pump out Pull the Rope. Put on your best lycra onesie and get ready to dance your way to the next Ekpo Masquerade!
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2024-06-0443 min
Boogie Chitz040 TAD - 8-Way Santa (1991)Named after a type of blotter acid, TAD's second album 8-Way Santa got a little lost in the shuffle of the 1991 Rise of the Grunge Hunx, but that certainly doesn't diminish it's pounding potency.
2024-05-2849 min
Boogie Chitz039 Warmduscher - At the Hotspot (2022)Post-post punk dance madness with At the Hotspot - the fourth album from (mostly) British band Warmduscher. Stuffed with hypnogogic funk reminiscent of decadent 1970s Fear City and Miami, At the Hotspot is just as much fun as it is absurd.
2024-05-2147 min
Boogie Chitz038 Colleen Green - Cool (2021)A celebration in simplicity. On her fourth album, 2021's Cool, Colleen Green makes catchy, colorful melodic magic out of songs largely structured with restraint. I love this album so much.
2024-05-1445 min
Boogie Chitz037 The Dillards - Back Porch Bluegrass (1963)The Dillards were the first band to bring the backwoods shredfest genre known as bluegrass out west. Within one year of their arrival in Los Angeles in 1962, The Beverly Hilldillards landed a recording contract with Elektra, a supporting role on the Andy Griffith Show and released Back Porch Bluegrass - fifteen metallic-acoustic rippers that serves as a fantastic introduction to traditional bluegrizzle.
2024-05-0741 min
Boogie Chitz036 J.M. Tim & Foty - J.M. Tim & Foty (1977)The central African Republic of Cameroon is partially located in the Congo Basin - one of the greenest lungs in the world - but nevermind botanicals and giant frogs, we're here for the funk. Jean Marie Taim and Maurice Foty Kembiwo aka J.M. Tim & Foty, were a Cameroonian musical duo that released a series of funk-infused banger LPs in the late 1970s - and we shall explore and enjoy the first of those.
2024-05-0132 min
Boogie Chitz035 Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987)Def Leppard's fourth album Hysteria is a hit machine - one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Released in 1987 and armed with seven hit songs, 'Thriller with a Mullet' was the biggest adversary to the emerging Hair Hunx dynasty at the time and continues to soundtrack our lives and pad cover band setlists to this day.
2024-04-2342 min
Boogie Chitz034 Hot Tuna - Burgers (1972)The only two likable members of iconic Vietnam War soundtrack band Jefferson Airplane peel away from the group in 1972 and put together a side project called Hot Tuna. Their debut studio album Burgers is pure back porch boogie warmth compared to the bloated and cold catalog of their main band. Classic rock stoner deep tracks all up in this one.
2024-04-1659 min
Boogie Chitz033 PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)This is the album to start with if you're looking to cash in your PJ Harvey V-card. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea is really just one story - an iconoclastic musician letting loose and enjoying her life. Then again, PJ Harvey says that most of her songs are not autobiographical, so who knows what.
2024-04-0943 min
Boogie Chitz032 T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me (1981)Before they morphed into a lower-tier hair hunk outfit, T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) were a troublemakin’ L.A. punk band. Their debut album Dance With Me is an under-the-radar banger that replaces the anarchist anti-Reagan punk bend of the time with humorous songs about death in various forms.
2024-04-0234 min
Boogie Chitz031 Delicate Steve - This Is Steve (2017)A half hour of bursting instrumental beauties from the second most famous person from Fredon, NJ.
2024-03-2742 min
Boogie Chitz030 Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)More Songs About Buildings and Food is the Talking Heads second album and the first of three masterpieces with Brian Eno riding shotgun. This is the LP where the Talking Heads find their sound in real time and begin a decade-long journey making asexuality...danceable.
2024-03-2043 min
Boogie Chitz029 King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye (1995)King Diamond was already a metal legend when he put out the semi-conceptual The Spider's Lullabye in 1995. It's almost an afterthought for King D - he considered it forgettable and difficult to make. For Boogie Chitz, The Spider's Lulz is a classic and contains some of the best 1990's dance beats this side of La Bouche - despite being a thematic European heavy metal record.
2024-03-1337 min
Boogie Chitz028 The Pleasure Seekers - What a Way to Die (2011 comp)The Pleasure Seekers were formed by the headstrong teenaged Quatro sisters of Detroit in 1964 and might just be the first all-female rock & roll band in cultural American history. They didn't record a full-length LP during their five-year run, but in 2011 the What a Way to Die compilation was released and provides us with a twelve track song history of a mighty awesome band that would otherwise be forgotten in time.
2024-03-0546 min
Boogie Chitz027 Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity (1977)If you're looking to get loose with some Euro-Disco - Giorgio is your man and 1977's From Here to Eternity is the place to start. Giorgio Moroder is often cited as the 'Father of Disco' for his string of bangers with Donna Summer - and his work as composer on the soundtracks of some of Hollywood's biggest movies of the 1980s is equally compelling.
2024-02-2742 min
Boogie Chitz026 New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973)For a band that only released two albums, and was around for such a short period of existence, the New York Dolls impact and influence on rock and roll has been extraordinary. Their eponymous 1973 debut album barely made it out of lower Manhattan at the time of release, but has grown into a cult classic and is universally regarded as the sonic prototype for the creation of punk music that would follow several years later.
2024-02-2054 min
Boogie Chitz025 Damien Jurado & Richard Swift - Other People's Songs Vol 1 (2013)Veteran acoustic-indie hump Damien Jurado was looking to get adventurous when he linked up with gifted producer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Swift in 2010. Over an eight-year stretch, the pair would create some of the most musically-enriched LPs in Jurado's catalog. One random weekend after the release of the first of those albums, the pair hung out and spontaneously recorded nine cover songs in Swift's dining room. Never originally thought to be album-worthy, a few years later this collection would be formally released as Other People's Songs Volume One - a half hour of huggable audio that thrives in the freedom...
2024-02-1338 min
Boogie Chitz024 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)The pristine quality of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album Rumours is even more amazing given the turbulent path the band took to get there. From sexual liaisons with crew members to weird penguin voyeurism - the party never stops with the Mac Attack.
2024-02-0650 min
Boogie Chitz023 Jacques Dutronc - Il est Cinq Heures (1968)Swinger-suited Jacques Dutronc introduced his sound to France in the 1960s by garnishing his pop melodies with psychedelic-garage-rock nuggetry. Jacques’ second album, 1968's Il est Cinq Heures, is his most adventurous - mixing buzzsaw guitar and doo-wop backing vocals into French chanson-style songs.
2024-01-3047 min
Boogie Chitz022 Janet Jackson - Control (1986)After releasing two underwhelming albums under the direction of her managerial father Joe, Janet Jackson seeks independence and becomes boss. She closes out her teen years with 1986's Control - an album that places the emphasis on 'Janet' rather than 'Jackson.' Also, a new gang forms and joins the Grunge Hunx and Lady Faces in the Boogie Chitz universe.
2024-01-2343 min
Boogie Chitz021 Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994)Ween had released three lo-fi, home-recorded albums by the time they were of legal drinking age. For their fourth LP, Boognish the demon-god navigates Gener and Deaner into an actual recording studio where they crank out 1994's Chocolate and Cheese - a genre-hopping masterpiece that paints the town brown.
2024-01-1749 min
Boogie Chitz020 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset (2022)A case of curious collaboration from ex-Spacemen 3 architect Sonic Boom and Animal Collective alpha Panda Bear. Built on a foundation of old chamber pop samples, Reset delivers inspiration with speed bag precision without ever being aware of it.
2024-01-0942 min
Boogie Chitz019 New Riders of the Purple Sage - New Riders of the Purple Sage (1971)NRPS was initially formed as an outlet for Jerry Garcia to practice his pedal steel guitar in front of an audience in between Grateful Dead sets. Their 1971 sing-songy psychedelic debut proved there was life beyond the 'side project zone' for the New Riders.
2024-01-0246 min
Boogie Chitz018 Skid Row - Skid Row (1989)The working class New Jersey guys of Skid Row acquire a stunning ladyman unit of a lead singer before dropping their self-titled party rock debut - an album that straddles the inseam of rock and roll's spandex past and flannel future.
2023-12-2641 min
Boogie Chitz017 Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)Bob Dylan closes out the decade he became the voice of with Nashville Skyline - a rustic masterpiece about happiness and contentment that goes in the opposite direction of 1969's explosive social pulse.
2023-12-2046 min
Boogie Chitz016 Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (2013)Officially catalogued as a compilation rather than a debut album, A Sea of Split Peas is a tasting menu for the audio comic strips of melodic life that Courtney Barnett continues to charm the world with ten years later.
2023-12-1438 min
Boogie Chitz015 X - Under the Big Black Sun (1982)Punkabilly legends X continue to provide a razor sharp soundtrack for murderous 1980s Los Angeles with their third album Under the Big Black Sun.
2023-12-0644 min
Boogie Chitz014 Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (2017)Veteran hypnagogic pioneer Ariel Pink stirs up ghosts of our cultural past while recording in isolation to create the lo-fi masterpiece Dedicated to Bobby Jameson - a sonic celebration of individuality that actually benefits from lack of focus.
2023-11-2842 min
Boogie Chitz013 Juaneco Y Su Combo - El Gran Cacique (1972)As the rhythm of Cumbia evolves throughout South America during the 1960s it finds a Martian groove in Peru. In 1972, Juaneco Y Su Combo strap on their parrot-feather headbands and ayahuasca jammy packs and bang out the Chicha classic El Gran Cacique.
2023-11-2736 min
Boogie Chitz012 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (1970)Led Zeppelin's first two years as a band was a wildly successful but tremendously hectic affair and the band was looking to retreat into nature to contemplate their next move. What emerges from the hills of the English countryside is the band's experimental 'timeout' album - Led Zeppelin III.
2023-11-1444 min
Boogie Chitz011 L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (1992)L7 are a monolithic all-female band celebrated in the annals of the hairy-chested Seattle grunge scene, but they actually originated outta Los Angeles. Armed with riffs and wit quick enough to capture the love of everyone they met, the band's third album Bricks Are Heavy is their catchiest buzzer.
2023-11-0840 min
Boogie Chitz010 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (1967)Despite mounting a legacy as a pioneer of experimental rock and roll, Captain Beefheart really wanted a slice of mainstream popularity - his debut album Safe As Milk provides the most substantial musical evidence of this desire in his double-digit discog.
2023-11-0636 min
Boogie Chitz009 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)The only thing The Stone Roses did right during their smug ten-year existence was release this infectious debut album - which has enough juice to cover-up the career flubs and fraps that would lead the Roses into the loo.
2023-10-2540 min
Boogie Chitz008 Ngozi Family - 45,000 Volts (1977)Blasting from the copper-enriched Republic of Zambia during the mid-1970's comes Paul Ngozi and the Zamrock scene - loaded with enough psychedelic fuzz guitar to fill your colorful floppy hat!
2023-10-1735 min
Boogie Chitz007 The Slits - Cut (1979)The Slits prove that passion can eclipse technical ability with their debut Cut - a unique sonic soup of punk, dub and art pop powered by their collective self-determination.
2023-10-1037 min
Boogie Chitz006 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)On their fourteenth studio album, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds age gracefully with an end-of-days swing whilst flooring the gas on aggression. Out of the fumes comes the perfect soundtrack for a resurrection party.
2023-10-0343 min
Boogie Chitz005 Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976)Easy listening studio maestro Mort Garson contributes to the healthy development of houseplants by composing an album solely on a Moog synthesizer for them to listen to.
2023-09-2630 min
Boogie Chitz004 Madonna - True Blue (1986)For her third album, Madonna aims to grab a more adult audience and ends up with a definitive pop masterpiece that reaches the entire world - including the Johnston Gang of Pennsylvania.
2023-09-1940 min
Boogie Chitz003 Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (1998)Billy Bragg fawns over Woody Guthrie lyrics on one side of the room while Wilco makes a pretty good album on the other.
2023-09-1232 min
Boogie Chitz002 Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)Chan Marshall's songs get hit by the plushest pillow in Memphis.
2023-09-0633 min
Boogie Chitz001 Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)Lou gets accessible in London with the help of Ziggy Stretchpants, Herbie Flowers and Thunderthighs.
2023-08-3043 min