Stereo

You would know this band if you’re into emo-rock or if you watch the O.C. Red 104.9 played this track this morning when I got into me car, much to my delight. Tim and Shareena have a knack of playing great tunes that rarely get played on our local airwaves. They played Mansun and Primitive Radio Gods a while back. They even played the annoying but insanely catchy Dodgy some time ago. Tracks like this helps making the morning better, much much better.

Download: Phantom Planet - Lonely Day (MP3 format)

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I am never too fond of the local radio stations. The only time I would listen to radio is when I am driving to work in the morning, that short 10 minutes drive. So anyways, once in a while Tim and Sherena over at Red 104.9 FM would play some tunes that totally bring back those good old days of 90s alternative rock.

I remember the time they played Primitive Radio Gods’ Phone Booth song. It got me go crazy over that song all over again. And this morning, after a quick bank robbing session, they played Mansun’s Wide Open Space on a listener’s request. I can’t help but to just sit back, relax, drive at the slowest speed possible and enjoy the moment.

Thank you, listener. It has been ages since I heard that song.

Download: Mansun - Wide Open Space (MP3 format)

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I’ve been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met

Yes, another mid-90s era track, but this is a classic. Caught it playing over the radio this morning and I couldn’t resist to repeat it on my playlist now.

With one of the longest song name title I can remember and with an ultra cool band name, Primitive Radio Gods hit it big with B.B. King’s How Blue Can You Get sampled single Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand from the album Rocket in 1996. The track also appeared in Jim Carrey’s The Cable Guy soundtrack, which includes Silverchair, Cypress Hill, Filter, Ruby, Cracker, Porno for Pyros and Pearl Jam-affiliated $10,000 Gold Chain (both did Lou Reed covers) to name a few. Alice in Chain’s guitarist Jerry Cantrell also performed a solo track.

Phonebooth gave Primitive Radio Gods cult status for a while, before the evil-do of the recording industry dropped the Gods whilst still working on a next record. In the own words of singer/song-writer Jerry O’Connor, “It was like, ‘It’s fine if we fail, if we make a second record and there’s no hits and nobody likes it,’ but don’t we even get a chance to fail?”.

Bummer.

Download: Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth… (MP3 format)

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