Lightnin' Licks Radio

Season friggin’ FIVE. Episode twenty-dang-EIGHT. We’re all likely still hungover from the bounty of sonic goodness 2022 offered us. What a wonderful year of music! What is the perfect way to celebrate such solid slate of new musical releases? Well…dig into the leftovers, of course! Special guest licker Josh joins Jay and Deon to discuss great records that found their way into our ears, hearts, and ultimately our collections in 2022; sort of a follow-up to our year-in-review, if you will. Make yourself a plate, this episode and its accompanying mixtape is guaranteed to be delicious. Chef's kiss.

“Leftovers” mixtape

[SIDE 1] (1) Alabaster DePlume – Don’t Forget You’re Precious (2) Deap Vally – Magic Medicine (3) Phife Dawg featuring Lyric Jones – Residual Curiosities (4) Plains – Line of Sight (5) SAULT – The Circle [SIDE 2] (1) Film School – Stratospheric Tendencies (2) Billy Woods – No Hard Feelings (3) Crossword Smiles – Parallel Lines (4) A.O. Gerber – Mount Washington Phone Company (5) SAULT – Run [END]

Sonic Contributors to the 28th episode of Lightning Licks Radio podcast include: LEE MOSES / HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND / JAMES TODD SMITH / DENNIS LLOYD / MAT WEASEL / FATBOY SLIM / NO DOUBT / ETHAN KLEIN / HASAN PIKER / JAMIE GRACE / DEAP VALLY / JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JR. / DEAP LIPS / THE FLAMING LIPS / THE WHITE STRIPES / ROYAL BLOOD / SAULT / BILLY WOODS / ARMAND HAMMER / FILM SCHOOL / ALABASTER DEPLUME / ALICE COLTRANE / WAXAHATCHEE / JESS WILLIAMSON / PLAINS / A.O. GERBER / A TRIBE CALLED QUEST / 9TH WONDER / MASTER P & THE NO LIMIT SOLDIERS / MARK RONSON / MYSTIKAL / RANDOM NEWS REPORTER / ROCKWELL / MICHAEL JACKSON / PHIFE DAWG / LYRIC JONES / CROSSWORD SMILES / THE OMAHA INTROVERT / THE LEGAL MATTERS / TEENAGE FANCLUB / NADA SURF / ARC OF ALL / THE CLOCKERS / MARLEY MARL.

Special thanks to guest Licker Josh. Send us a goddamn voice message, you animals!

EPISODE 27: Top twenty-two albums of 2022 (Year-In-Review)

Jay and Deon each reveal their top eleven vinyl releases of this past year. As is tradition.

Jay’s Top Eleven: #11 Nilufer Yanya – PAINLESS  #10 Mattiel – Georgia Gothic #9 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms #8 Whitney – SPARK  #7 Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe #6 Hatchie – Giving The World Away #5 Shout Out Louds – House  #4 Julia, Julia – Derealization  #3 Momma – Household Name #2 Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow #1 Winter – What Kind of Blue Are You?

Deon’s Top Eleven: #11 MICHELLE – AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS #10 The Chats – Get Fucked #9 Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers #8 Wet Leg – Wet Leg #7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down #6 Say She She – Prism  #5 Broken Bells – Into The Blue #4 Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) #3 Alex G – God Save The Animals #2 Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyes See Your Future #1 Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Sonic contributors to Lightnin’ Licks Radio's twenty-two for ’22 Year-In-Review episode and mixtape include: Lee Moses. Holland Dozier Holland. L.L. Cool J. Andrew Bird. Gus Lombardo. Tom Waits. Rob Reiner. Ric Parnell. The Irish Rovers. U2. Larry Fleet. Oliver from the "Deep Cuts" YouTube channel. J. Cole. Biggie Smalls. Height Keech. The Pixies. Nilufer Yanya. Mattiel. MICHELLE. En Vogue. The Chats. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Whitney. The Smith Westerns. The goddamn Beatles. Kendrick Lamar. Wet Leg. Passalacqua. Interpol. Hatchie. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Perfume Genius. Piya Malik. Say She She. Shout Out Louds. Peter Bjorn & John. Julia, Julia. Broken Bells. The Shins. Kurt Vile. Mama. Weyes Blood. (Sandy) Alex G. Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Denzel Curry. Gizzle. Bren Joy. 454. Buzzy Lee. Pachyman. Winter. The Sundays. Big Thief. Will Ferrell. Duncan Lamont. Stephen Grey. The Clockers. Eazy-E. Ali Alexander. Beastie Boys. The World's Famous Supreme Team. Big Bird, Brian Eno, random wooks.

Thank you for a wonderful year of sharing music with friends. We love you.

Lightnin' Lickers Deon and Jay have curated a 90-minute mixtape containing songs selected from their favorite vinyl releases of 2022. Enjoy! [EXPLICIT CONTENT]

Twenty-two for ’22 all-vinyl mixtape:

[DEON SIDE] (1) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Tidal River (2) MICHELLE – MESS U MADE (3) Hatchie – Quicksand (4) Kendrick Lamar – Mirror (5) Julia, Julia – Where Have You Been? (6) Wet Leg – Angelica (7) Weyes Blood – Children of the Empire (8) Kurt Vile – Fo Sho (9) Mattiel – Lighthouse (10) Alex G – Miracles (11) Broken Bells – Love On The Run {45:00} [JAY SIDE] (1) Say She She – Prism (2) Whitney – MEMORY (3) Nilufer Yanya – midnight sun (4) Interpol – Mr. Credit (5) Big Thief – Change (6) Shout Out Louds – High As A Kite (7) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Burning (8) Denzel Curry – Walkin (9) Momma – Speeding 72 (10) Winter – write it out (11) The Chats – The Price Of Smokes {45:00} [fin.]

Additional appearances by: Eazy-E, Ali Alexander, Beastie Boys, The World's Famous Supreme Team, Big Bird, Brian Eno, random wooks.

Quite frankly and if we’re being totally honest, episode 26 is 100% underrated. The songs selected for the end-of-episode mixtape all originally appeared on underrated albums in their respective band or artist’s discographies. Tune in and show some love to some classic LPs that are sadly too often overlooked.

Sonic contributors to episode twenty-six of Lightnin’ Licks Radio include: Lee Moses / Holland-Dozier-Holland / L.L. Cool J / Pink Floyd / David Bowie / Led Zeppelin / Anthony Fantano / Offset / Throwing Muses / The Breeders / Belly / The Rolling Stones / Sly and the Family Stone / T. Rex / Mott / De La Soul / Prince Paul / The JBs / Lou Rawls / Slave / Jay Dilla / Television / Neil Young / Crazy Horse / XTC / Tony! Toni! Tone! / Raphael Saadiq / DJ Quick / Mott the Hoople / British Lions / Pavement / The Clockers.

underrated LPs mixtape:

[SIDE 1] (1) T. Rex – Electric Slim and the Factory Hen <Tankx> (2) De La Soul – I Am I Be (3) XTC – Wake Up <The Big Express> (4) Sly & the Family Stone – If This Room Could Talk <A Whole New Thing> (5) The Rolling Stones – Winter <Goats Head Soup> [SIDE 2} (1) Throwing Muses – Dragonhead <Hunkpapa> (2) Television – Days <Adventure> (3) Tony! Toni! Tone! Featuring DJ Quick – Let’s Get Down <House of Music> (4) Neil Young – Hippie Dream <Landing on Water> (5) Mott – Shouting and Pointing <Shouting and Pointing>

This is what happens when two music nerds leave their mics on in between takes and talk about...football? Happy Thanksgiving!

Sonic contributors to "Sports." include: Sparks / gameplay from NES's Tecmo Super Bowl video game cartridge.

It should be noted: Since poo-pooing the big city kitties in the Lightning Licks studio, the Detroit Lions are 3-1. Forward down the field.

What happens when mics are left on in between takes. 

"I don't wanna fight anybody. I want to fist fight everybody."

Sonic contributors to this podcast outtake include: PiL / Herbie Hancock / Stu Gardner / W. Kamau Ball / Hannibal Buress / Eshu Tune / Vernon Reid / Pat Finnerty / Danny Boyle / Sex Pistols.

We Need to Talk About Cosby is available on SHOWTIME and Google Play.

The Public Image Is Rotten is available on The Roku Channel

Pistol is available on FX and hulu

Fuck Bill Cosby

God Save Johnny Rotten

Bonus eleven is dope. The Lickers speak with their super-secret special friend _________ (shhhhh...it's a secret) about what they’ve been f#@%ing with, sonically speaking. Whoa now. Hot $h!t.

Sonic (non-mix) contributors to the 11th bonus episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast include:

Redd Foxx / DJ Nu-Mark / Jurassic 5 / Dave Matthews Band / Zach Braff / Natile Portman / SAULT / Carolina Barlow / Ron Burgundy / Neil Young / Euro Trash Girl / Lana Del Rey / Tonya Donnelly / Heidi Gluck / MF Doom / Freddie Gibbs / Prince Paul / Peanut Butter Wolf / 10cc / Supertramp / Michael Jackson / J. Geils / Bernard Wright / will.i.am / Black Eyed Peas / Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg / J Dilla / A Tribe Called Quest / Easy Moe Bee / Isaac Hayes / Notorious B.I.G. / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / The Buzzcocks / Magazine / The Vains / Dave Kendall / John Lydon / Classix Nouveaux / The Railway Children / Forth Wanderers /Chris Spedding / The Tuff Darts /  The Shakin’ Pyramids / Ozzy Osborne / Cheap Trick / John Candy / Marshall Crenshaw / Link Wrey / Psychedelic Furs / L.A. Witch / New Order / Midnight Oil / Seals and Croft / Eric Burdon and WAR / Crosby Stills and Nash / Bob Dylan / James Taylor / The Temptations / Nick Lowe

Jay – the Watson Twins / Godley and Crème / Robert Gordon / INXS / the Isley Brothers

Deon – Madlib, Tom Browne, the Paranoyds

Our super secret friend Peter Brian Barry  – Barry Adamson / Trashcan Sinatras / Tanukachan

[SIDE A] (1) The Paranoyds – Freak Out (2) INXS – Not Enough Time (3) The Isley Brothers – Fire And Rain (4) Tanukichan – Lazy Love (5) Madlib – Medicine Show Mix (6) Godley & Crème – I Pity Inanimate Objects [Side B] (1) Tom Browne – Funkin’ For Jamaica (2) Barry Adamson – The Vibes Ain’t Nothin’ But The Vibes (3) Robert Gordon – Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (4) The Watson Twins – Powderfinger (5) Trashcan Sinatras – One At A Time [fin.]

Thanks, Peter. You rule!

LLR REWIND #5 features an excerpt from episode 4 of Lightnin' Licks Radio where Deon and special guest Cody discuss individuals in their lives who have served as musical influencers, those beautiful souls responsible for shaping their musical tastes. For Cody, a surprising number of said influencers all entered his life during his first abbreviated stint as a student at Northern Michigan University. Cody has since returned to the university and completed his studies, but the sonic impact made by those special friends remains intact.

If you aren’t streaming on Spotify, you can view the video here on YouTube. Check out Cody’s musical projects YUM, Ampersand Castles, Yard Waste, and the kick ass band he most recently formed with friends at NMU, Liquid Mike on bandcamp. Much of the supplemental artwork / photos featured in the video were created by Cody as well. Very little to nothing was used with permission. Better to ask forgiveness.

Sonic contributors to LLR REWIND #5 include: LEE MOSES / BROTHERS JOHNSON / L.L. COOL J. / MARVIN GAYE / EAZY E / SLICK RICK / JAM MASTER JAY / THE BOMB SQUAD / BEASTIE BOYS / DJ EVIL DEE / ISAAC HAYES / HEIGHT KEECH / YUM / RZA / GHOSTFACE KILLA / M.M. KNAPPS/ PILE / AMPERSAND CASTLES / HOOVER / NEIL YOUNG / JOHN FAHEY / SANDY BULL / STRIKERS.

Back from September sabbatical, the Lickers return for episode 25, playin’ the alphabet game again. This time they’re discussing their favorite bands or artists that are filed under “E” in their vinyl collections. Praise be.

In the early 1970s, legendary collaborator and self-proclaimed non-musician Brian Eno famously designed a deck of 115 cards containing elliptical imperatives to spark in the user creative connections unobtainable through regular modes of work. He called his creation "Oblique Strategies." For nearly one half of a century, countless artists and professionals across the globe have benefited from utilizing the oblique strategies technique when attempting to overcome a lull in creative output. In 2022, idiot basement-dwelling hobby podcasters and self-proclaimed Lightnin' Lickers Jay and Deon found themselves uninspired when contemplating the potential themes of their upcoming twenty-fifth episode. Together, they decided... to default back to the alphabet. Because they knew the alphabet pretty good. They had already utilized the letters A thru D, so naturally, they went with E. Genius.

The Filed Under “E” mixtape: [SIDE E-1] (1) EPMD – You Gots To Chill (2) The Easybeats – Sorry (3) EMA – When She Comes (4) Eye To Eye – Nice Girls (5) Ertlif – Camargue [SIDE E-2] (1) The Exploding Hearts – Modern Kicks (2) The Easy Side Kids – I See I Am (3) Yvonne Elliman – Muesli Dreams (4) The Electric Chairs – Rock-N-Roll Resurrection (5) Hazel English – Never Going Home

SONIC CONTRIBUTORS TO EPISODE 25 OF LIGHTNIN’ LICKS RADIO INCLUDE: LEE MOSES / BROTHERS JOHNSON / HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND / L.L. COOL J / ARC OF ALL / SOUNDS OF SHEA / DJ SHADOW / TOASTERS ‘N’ MOOSE / MORGAN FREEMAN / THE DOORS / MAC DAVIS / DAVID BOWIE / THE BEATLES / ERTLIF / PROCOL HARUM / YES / EYE TO EYE / STEELY DAN / EPMD / MANTRONIX /NAS / MA$E / DIDDY / MIAMI SOUND MACHINE / NAS / KOOL & THE GANG / DAZ / BEASTIE BOYS / THE EXPLODING HEARTS / THE ADVERTS / THE NERVES / BUZZCOCKS / FLAMIN’ GROOVIES / E L A / THE EASYBEATS / MERV GRIFFIN / AC/DC / JAYNE COUNTY & THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS / THE SEX PISTOLS / YVONNE ELLIMAN / THE JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARS PLAYERS / FATBOY SLIM / PETE TOWNSEND / THE EAST SIDE BOYS / GIANT CRAB / MARS BONFIRE / HAZEL ENGLISH / JOHN CAMERON / MADLIB / MARVIN GAYE / THE CLOCKERS.

RECORDED: 10/23/2022 RELEASED: 10/29/2022 COVER ART: M.M. KNAPPS & THE ELECTRIC CO.

LLR REWIND #4 features an excerpt from episode 4 of Lightnin' Licks Radio podcast, where Jay and Deon pay homage to some of the unsung sonic taste-shapers that inspired them to embark on their lifelong musical journeys. Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and CCR were all introduced into the soundtrack of Jay's life by a neighbor he met through a chance summer encounter. Who in your life is most responsible for strengthening your relationship with the music you now love?

Sonic contributors to LLR REWIND # 4 include: Lee Moses / Brothers Johnson / L.L. Cool J / Marvin Gaye / Slick Rick /  Beastie Boys / Jam Master Jay / Vance Wright / Seals & Croft / The Main Ingredient / Cream / Alice Cooper / The Partridge Family / Led Zeppelin / KISS

If you are not streaming on Spotify, view the video here on YouTube.