(Larry Mullen Jr of U2 photographed by Anton Corbijn, 1988)Session No.12 for BrooklynRadio.Net
Download: "Can't Come Down"
DJ CARLOS RAMOS mixes up the big beats from the big bands.
It's non-stop classic rock, 80's college rock, post-punk kraut rock, Brasil rock, stadium rock...strictly rockers! Produced by LEE SANFORD and CARLOS RAMOS for the MRE.
01. U2 - "Hallelujah Here She Comes" - Island
Rattle&Hum era U2, before they started their final descent into Euro-trashiness they were the coolest band on the planet. This B-side to the "Desire" 12" is better than most of their A-sides lately.
- LEE
"Desire", The Stone Roses, INXS, all the big rock 12" singles would get mixed up with hip-hop and dance tracks for my nights at Iguana's on Park Ave. This was for a celebrity crowd that came out to the parties thrown by Downtown Julie Brown. Supermodels, Sylvester Stallone, Darryl Strawberry and Vanna White (!?) partied there.
- CARLOS
02. Rheingold - "Dreiklangs-Dimensionen" - EMI Electrola
Like every poor kid looking for a way out I enlisted when I turned 18. I was stationed in northern Germany when I was in the Army. We would go to a club called Kraftwerk where they played this record and Grauzone. They'd have rows of motorcycles out front and the German kids were all in leather jackets. The ceiling eventually caved in. Did I know it was the Cold War? No, we were kids, it was more of "when in Rome do as the Romans"...so we partied and I bought the records I was hearing in the clubs. - CARLOS
03. Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall" - Columbia
Another big band from when I was in Germany. There was a club called The Mayflower. It was a replica of the ship complete with sails and each deck was a different room. On the main deck the DJ was this Turkish guy who wore Indian war paint when he was spinning. He'd play Floyd's "Money" or Led Zeppelin. Big records played loud. They didn't mix over there so I came to appreciate the art of playing one record, letting it end and then the impact of the next one starting clean.
- CARLOS
04. The Stone Roses - "One Love" - Silvertone
05. Sinead O'Connor - "The Emperor's New Clothes" - Ensign
06. Dessau - "Isolation" - Carlyle
From the sets I would play in Miami and around Florida in the late '80's. This and The Cult, The Cure and industrial like Front 242 was for a hard partying afterwork crowd and for the goth kids that would float into the club after midnight.
- CARLOS
07. Grauzone - "Eisbaer" - Off Course
08. Echo & The Bunnymen - "Lips Like Sugar" - Sire
I can't front, I got introduced to this group through the Pretty In Pink soundtrack. They're a great band whose discography runs far deeper than most people think. I saw them play at Radio City on their tour last year. Powerful music.
- LEE
09. The Cult - "She Sells Sanctuary" - Beggars Banquet
10. The Clash - "Armagideon Time" (MRE Edit) - Epic
One of my favorite tracks. The lyrics relate to what we're still dealing with today. - CARLOS
11. The Police - "Spirits In The Material World" - A&M
12. The Police- "So Lonely" - A&M
13. Os Paralamas Do Sucesso- "Melo Do Marinheiro" - EMI Brasil
These guys would play at SOB's. A cool young band from Brazil. They loved The Police and Run-DMC. I'd take them record shopping to Vinyl Mania around the corner and we'd hang out when they came to town.
- CARLOS
14. UB40- "Reefer Madness" - Graduate
