Mark Feldbush and I continue our discussion of Sam (Leslie) Phillips’ albums The Turning, The Indescribable Wow & Cruel Inventions. These three albums represent a pivotal time in Sam's life. In this episode, Mark & I discuss Cruel Inventions, her beautifully moody and tense 1991 album that explores exploitation, consumerism, capitalism and the dark side of love while struggling to understand just how we all fit into this crazy messed up world.

All song clips are used without permission but under fair use.

All other clips procured from publicly posted clips and used under fair use.

Check out Sam Phillips music:

Bandcamp:  https://samphillips1.bandcamp.com/

Sam Phillips Website:  https://samphillips.com/

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/samphillipsmusic?app=desktop

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Epdio7Ic0zhZkhXHFc8qa?si=nVWm3DgNSP6wK0Ymujz2bw

Princess Bride The Machine  YouTube clip used from https://youtu.be/BbgyppGqBgg

All Cruel Inventions clips used from https://www.youtube.com/@stripcyclemusic

“Black Sky” clip from StripCycle music on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Q_dJmTUbg

Singer Songwriter clip from Los Angeles Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN9aCPFmqlY

“Sister RosettaGoes Before Us”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANOrllutAhs

"Sam Phillips performs four songs with the help of Erik Gorfain, who plays an electric guitar with amps the sizeof cigarette boxes. He also trots out a Stroh violin — a contraption that mustbe seen to be believed".

Mark Feldbush and I continue our discussion of Sam (Leslie) Phillips’ albums The Turning, The Indescribable Wow & Cruel Inventions. These three albums represent a pivotal time in Sam's life and in this episode, Mark & I discuss The Indescribable Wow, her 1988 album that was the first on the Virgin record label.  We dig into each song, trying to describe the indescribable… and seemingly falling short.

All song clips are used without permission but under fair use.

All other clips procured from publicly posted clips and used under fair use.

Check out Sam Phillips music:

Bandcamp: https://samphillips1.bandcamp.com/

Sam Phillips Website: https://samphillips.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/samphillipsmusic?app=desktop

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Epdio7Ic0zhZkhXHFc8qa?si=nVWm3DgNSP6wK0Ymujz2bw

Bananas  YouTube clip used from https://www.youtube.com/@PervertedRogerEbert

All Indescribable Wow clips used from https://www.youtube.com/@stripcyclemusic

“I Want to Be You” clip digitized from the vinyl LP World on Sticks.

“Out of Time” - Sam Phillips – Live in Philadelphia, PA in 1988 https://youtu.be/XIWxAY1GK3A

Articles quoted:

“My record company was demanding dishonesty from me, saying weird things like ‘This song just sounds a little too sexy. We don’t know why, but you’ve got to change it. And no, we don’t know how you’re supposed to change it.’ At that point, it just got ridiculous. I said ‘This is ludicrous. I’m not going to continue with this label.’ At first they were upset and said ‘You have to.  You’re under contract.’ I was selling well enough for them that they didn’t want to let me go. But I said ‘There’s a moral clause in my contract.  And you know what? I’ve slept with someone that I’m not married to. And I’m not ashamed to tell anybody about that. And I will.’ They said ‘Okay, you’re free to go. You’re out of your contract.’ That’s how easy it was to get out of it. That’s how silly it was.” -  Jeffery Overstreet; Year unknown; A Conversation with Sam Phillips, The Image Journal; Issue 60; Date accessed 2/27/23;  https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-sam-phillips/

My friend Mark and I sat down to discuss Sam (Leslie) Phillips albums The Turning, The Indescribable Wow & Cruel Inventions. These three albums represent a pivotal time in Sam's life and in this episode, Mark & I discuss  The Turning, the album that started Sam's break away from the Fundamental Christian machine and CCM music. We dig into each song and reflect back how they relate to her transition.

All song clips are used without permission but under fair use.

All other clips procured from publicly posted clips and used under fair use.

In this episode, I briefly cover three of the musical artists that helped launch the Post-punk Heartstrings podcast with their music. I share two of my favorite tracks from each artist and talk a little about the background and musical style.

PLEASE check out each band’s music at the below links:

Pazz Kluger:

On Bandcamp: https://pazzkluger.bandcamp.com/music

You can also find the music on Spotify and YouTube

Songs shared are “Locked” and “Fairy Tales”

Fears (IRL):

On Bandcamp: https://fearsrecords.bandcamp.com/

You can also find the music on Spotify and YouTube

Songs shared are “Daze” and “H_always”

Glass Candy:

You can find the music on Spotify and YouTube

Songs shared are “Love, Love, Love,” “Crystal Migraine” and “Digital Versicolor” clip

My Guest: Chris Taylor of the band Love Coma In this episode, I talk with Chris about the wind down of the early Love Coma years, the move into his solo work, and how “The Mad Painter” was a major influence on his visual art. We touch on the political climate, the repression of the church on rock and roll and why Chris feels that the latest self-titled Love Coma release is the album the band was meant to make. I encourage you to check out and support the music and artwork of Chris Taylor and Love Coma at the below links: Website: https://christaylorworld.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/christaylorworld/posts Bandcamp: Chris Taylor: https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/ Love Coma: https://lovecoma.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma Facebook: Chris Taylor: https://www.facebook.com/christaylorfanpage Love Coma: https://www.facebook.com/lovecomatheband YouTube: Chris Taylor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmKVesamxvPpRPVG_wZXRQ Love Coma: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-Y3aJGKWuqPdhNoewD2zw Instagram: Chris Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/christaylorworld/ Love Coma: https://www.instagram.com/lovecomatheband/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/realchristaylor Intro song is "Locked" by Pazz Kluger https://soundcloud.com/pazzk Under Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Used only as an intro Songs used: Love Coma – You’re Just Another Angel Who Can’t Get No Sleep - Love Coma - The Early Years https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/the-early-years Love Coma – How Long Love Coma Self-Titled 2019 https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-2 Love Coma – Astronaut Love Coma (Language of Fools) https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-language-of-fools Sounds and clips: Transitional sounds: Zapsplat.com https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/ Clips: Sesame Street - Mad Painter # 8 - https://youtu.be/Xi-ODZ3ING0 The Rescuers - Orville's Take Off - https://youtu.be/b5z6eGG7_Fc Listening to Great Music 1957 clip is public domain from the Prelinger Archives “This is a new dimension in sound” – Taken from “How To Listen to Great Music” – public domain from the Prelinger Archives: https://archive.org/details/HowtoLis1957

My Guest: Chris Taylor In this episode, I talk with Chris Taylor about the early years of his band Love Coma, what they were trying to do and some of the thoughts and drive behind the music. I encourage you to check out and support the music and artwork of Chris Taylor and Love Coma at the below links: Website: https://christaylorworld.com/ Bandcamp: Chris Taylorà  https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/ Love Coma à https://lovecoma.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma Facebook: Chris Taylorà https://www.facebook.com/christaylorfanpage Love Coma à https://www.facebook.com/lovecomatheband YouTube: Chris Taylor à https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmKVesamxvPpRPVG_wZXRQ Love Coma à https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-Y3aJGKWuqPdhNoewD2zw Instagram: Chris Taylor à https://www.instagram.com/christaylorworld/ Love Coma à https://www.instagram.com/lovecomatheband/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/realchristaylor Intro song is "Locked" by Pazz Kluger https://soundcloud.com/pazzk   Under Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Used only as an intro Songs used: Chris Taylor and Windows – Love & Rhythm – ACM Journal CD2 https://www.discogs.com/release/6575281-Various-ACM-Journal-2nd-Anniversary-Compilation-CD Love Coma – Empty – Soul Rash https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/soul-rash-remastered Love Coma – Hemisphere (Astronaut) – Astronaut – 2020 https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/track/hemisphere-astronaut-2 Love Coma – Tomorrow Takes Too Long https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/language-of-fools-remastered Transitional sounds  Zapsplat.com Other sounds and clips: Davey And Goliath _ Episode 54 _ The Zillion Dollar Combo Feature Presentation (1994-2003)

My Guest: Steven Wesley Guiles

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Steven Wesley Guiles – We discuss Steven’s path to deconstruction, hear him perform an original song of his, Cosmic Soda Machine that he wrote long ago and cover some of the songs in his latest album, Transitions, which dropped to streaming services worldwide on October 4th, 2022.

I encourage you to check out the music of Steven Wesley Guiles at the below links:

Website:  / www.stevenwesleyguiles.com

New Cool Now: / https://newcoolnow.com/

Bandcamp: / https://stevenwesleyguiles.bandcamp.com/

Soundcloud: / https://soundcloud.com/newcoolnowmusic

Facebook: / stevenwesleyguiles

YouTube: / stevenwesleyguiles

Instagram: / swguiles

Twitter: / mrgeefun

TikTok: / mrgeewhiz

Twitch: / mrgeewhiz

You can also join Steven’s mailing list by texting “SWG” to 55444 in the US.

The Music, other sounds, etc.:

Mash up of hate preacher clips pulled from YouTube as contrasted with preachers and myself quoting scriptures about love. I won’t name the hate preachers, but they aren’t hard to find on YouTube.

The song, "Cosmic Soda Machine" is an original by Steven Wesley Guiles (SWG) that he performed for the first time on the show.

The songs, “Me in a Nutshell,” “Peace With Myself,” “Magnets” & “Some Hopes” are from SWG's latest album, Transitions. Please go and check it out and support SWG- You can find it at https://stevenwesleyguiles.bandcamp.com/album/transitions

Intro song is "Locked" by Pazz Kluger https://soundcloud.com/pazzk   Under Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Used only as an intro

Transitional sounds  Zapsplat.com

My Guest: Steven Wesley Guiles In this episode, I speak with Steven Wesley Guiles – Lead vocals and one of the guitarists of the band Pushstart Wagon and prolific solo artist. Steven and I begin our discussion with Pushstart Wagon and then transition into a transparent and enlightening discussion of religion and faith deconstruction. I quickly discover that the upbringing and life journey of Steven is uncannily similar to mine. This episode is part 1 of Steven and I’s discussion. In part 2, we focus on his latest album, Transitions which can be found in full on his Bandcamp site and will be also be available on all streaming services on October, 4th 2022. I encourage you to check out the music of Steven Wesley Guiles at the below links: Website:  / www.stevenwesleyguiles.com New Cool Now: / https://newcoolnow.com/ Bandcamp: / https://stevenwesleyguiles.bandcamp.com/ Soundcloud: / https://soundcloud.com/newcoolnowmusic Facebook: / stevenwesleyguiles Youtube: / stevenwesleyguiles Instagram: / swguiles Twitter: / mrgeefun TikTok: / mrgeewhiz Twitch: / mrgeewhiz You can also join Steven’s mailing list by texting “SWG” to 55444 in the US. The Music, other sounds, etc.: The podcast opening is a mashup of a vintage AJAX dishwashing liquid commercial going into the song “Open” from Pushstart Wagon’s debut album Squeaky Clean. The Phantom Tollbooth review read can be found at: http://www.tollbooth.org/2005/reviews/psw.html I encourage fans of any level of faith OR faithlessnes to check out The Phantom Tollbooth at http://www.tollbooth.org/ The song ”Paul” is from Pushstart Wagon’s 2ndalbum L.A. Was Our Alamo Intro song is "Locked" by Pazz Kluger https://soundcloud.com/pazzk   Under Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Used only as an intro Transitional sounds  Zapsplat.com The final song “Los Angeles” is from Pushstart Wagon’s 2nd album L.A. Was Our Alamo Other sounds and music used: The Lo fi coffee shop – by The Relaxed Movement: https://youtu.be/Mc-zPIVuOr4 Transition Music provided by TheRelaxedMovement. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRelaxedM... © Henry Keate t/a TheRelaxedMovement. All Rights Reserved

On my next episode, I'll dig a little into the band Toad The Wet Sprocket: Their beginnings and thoughts on some of my favorite albums and tracks. The focus will be on the first three releases: Bread & Circus, Pale and Fear. Here I offer you a little teaser for the next episode.

Song clip in this teaser is Toad the Wet Sprocket's track "Is It For Me?" from their album Fear.

In this episode, I give my definition of post punk and offer my pick for the first post-punk album released.  I share what this podcast is about, explain the post-punk state of mind and talk a little about where this podcast is headed. Don't forget to be the FIRST PERSON to reach out through Facebook messenger OR email and let me know what your favorite post-punk band is and I'll send you something very special!   Contact info below. PLEASE come say Hi and follow Post-punk Heartstrings on the Facebook page at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/PostpunkHeartstrings OR search for @PostpunkHeartstrings on Facebook OR email at [email protected] Please like the Post-punk Heartstrings Facebook page and share! --->   https://www.facebook.com/PostpunkHeartstrings In this episode we hear music from the following: Television - Venus from the album Marquee Moon - February 1977 The Stranglers - Goodbye Toulouse from the album Rattus Norvegicus - April 1977 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer from the album Talking Heads - September 1977 Ultravox - Artificial Life from the album Ha! Ha! Ha! - October 1977 XTC - Radios in Motion from the album White Music - January 1978 Magazine - Definitive Gaze from the album Real Life - June 1978 Wire - Marooned from the album Chairs Missing - September 1978 Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Staircase from the album The Scream - November 1978 Public Image Ltd. - Public Image from the album First Issue - December 1978 PLEASE CHECK OUT AND OR PURCHASE THE MUSIC OF ALL OF THESE BANDS ON SPOTIFY, ITUNES OR WHEREVER YOU STREAM OR FIND YOUR MUSIC.  SUPPORT THESE ARTISTS! Intro song is "Locked" by Pazz Kluger https://soundcloud.com/pazzk   Under Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Used only as an intro Transitional sounds  Zapsplat.com Outro music: ShoegazerDream Pop Backing Track in A major by Typhoon Jam Tracks  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWZT4jeMXkE  Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed):   https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468