The Prissteens - Staten Island Queen (3:17)
Deerhoof - Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers) (1:42)
The Shazam - So Awesome (3:45)
Lucinda Williams - Am I Too Blue (2:56)
Germ House - Video Life (3:08)
Underlined Passages - Feelings (2:40)
Chad Etchison - A Piece of Blue Sky (1:52)
Telethon - Flatpack (2:33)
Grudge - I'm Gonna Smash Your Face In (3:36)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 1 (1:13)
Lomelda - Nervous Driver (2:24)
Roger Roger Orchestra - Delilah (2:42)
Fazerdaze - Misread (2:30)
A Giant Dog - Photograph (2:47)
Game Theory - Valerie Tomorrow (2:55)
Slant 6 - Ladybug Superfly (2:25)
Courtney Farren - Hard To Tell (3:12)
Wild Meadows - Feel The Noise (3:08)
Lolas - Wild Blood (3:09)
Cobra Verde - Every God For Himself (4:24)
Rimshots - Little Boys & Little Girls (3:32)
Burning Palms - Nightstalker (2:45)
Psychotic Tanks - Let's have A Party (1:47)
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have A Party (2:10)
Flamin' Groovies - 11 I'd Rather Spend My Time With You (2:23)
The Laurels - Art School Girl (3:22)
Pugwash - The Perfect Summer (3:32)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 2 (2:57)
Grant Hart - The Main (Acoustic version) (2:56)
Mise En Scene - Waster (2:42)
Silver Sun - 17 Times (2:52)
Holiday Ghosts - Ron Song (2:05)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 3 (1:16)
Mirror Boys - Jumble Sale Suit (2:47)
Gem - Many Fanged Breezes (2:34)
Jane Siberry - The Taxi Ride (5:40)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 44
Guadalcanal Diary - Litany (Life Goes On) (3:42)
Tobin Sprout - To My Beloved Martha (2:19)
The Soledad Brothers - Shaky Puddin' (3:25)
Liquid Liquid - Rubbermiro (3:34)
Slant 6 - Thirty-Thirty Vision (3:24)
Secret Powers - Miss Lonely (3:55)
The Prisoners - Better In Black (2:21)
Julian Lennon - I Don't Wanna Know (4:06)
Pia Zadora - Clapping Song (3:29)
Underlined Passages - Ruthenia (3:09)
J Church - Tide of Fate (2:58)
Bill Browning - Sinful Woman (1:42)
Night Battles - Curse the Day (4:24)
Talking Heads - Air (3:34)
Baby Scream - Stay Forever, My Love (2:01)
The Starlite Desperation - Our Product (4:36)
Old 97's - Let's Get Drunk & Get It On (3:03)
Nikki Lane - Send The Sun (2:57)
GIRLS GO-YLE - B.B.Q (3:09)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Girls Talk (1:55)
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk (3:29)
Elvis Costello - Girls Talk (alternate version) (2:05)
Agony Aunts - Back to Back Bill (3:40)
Fleshtones - American Beat (1978) (2:30)
Rose Maddox - My Little Baby (1959) (1:52)
Rosemary Malign - These Walls (1:36)
Seminars - Fury Suit (1:48)
Liars - The Overachievers (3:16)
Germ House - Bad Organs (2:41)
Tera Melos - Warpless Run (2:33)
Frances Williams - It's Unanimous Now (1929) (2:57)
Strand Of Oaks - Goshen '97 (3:00)
Blaire Alise & the Bombshells - Telemono (3:04)
Scott Collins - The Upside (3:43)
Courtney Farren - Nothing Like It (3:12)
The TopDollar Hour - Grant Hart
Welcome to The TopDollar Hour. This is Tunacan Jones. Tonight's show is 3 hours that feature the work of Grant Hart.
In Husker Du, Nova Mob and his solo work, he was always honest with the art, relationships and the emotions involved. His music and words has influenced my own work from first listens to the revisits that I have done in the last couple of days. These next 3 hours, i hope, will give you what he gave me. I'll start the show with
a fun bonus track, an intro demo from The Last Days of Pompeii, named simply, It's Nova Mob
Nova Mob - (Intro) It's Nova Mob (bonus track) (1:26)
Nova Mob - Wernher Von Braun (2:17)
Grant Hart - Barbara (4:17)
Hüsker Dü - She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man) (3:21)
Grant Hart - A Letter from Anne Marie (6:00)
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (2:42)
Nova Mob - Admiral Of The Sea (79 A.D. Version) (2:24)
Grant Hart - I Will Never See My Home (4:36)
Grant Hart - Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou (3:45)
Hüsker Dü - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (3:31)
Husker Du - Terms Of Psychic Warfare (2:19)
Hüsker Dü - Sorry Somehow (4:29)
Nova Mob - Introduction (3:16)
Nova Mob - Over My Head (3:42)
Hüsker Dü - Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope (3:15)
Nova Mob - The Last Days of Pompeii (rough mix) (4:18)
Nova Mob - Little Miss Information (3:49)
Hüsker Dü - Dead Set on Destruction (3:01)
Grant Hart - Twenty-Five Forty-One (4:47)
Nova Mob - If I Was Afraid / Coda (6:02)
Q: Have your sources of inspiration for song writing changed over the years?
A: I would say that it’s probably more broad now. Quite a bit more broad. For example on the last album released, as well as there being the Echo and Narcissus song, there’s a song about Charles Hollis Jones, who’s a furniture designer, as well as something that is based on a remark made by a Buddhist monk during the selection of the Panchen Lama. He said, in reference to the candidate for Lamahood: “Oh, he is like the reflection of the moon on the water but he’s not the moon” and I used that as an inspiration. I guess I would have to examine the earlier stuff but I think it was probably more like emotional involvements, feeling your way through relationships and things like that. But that seems to find it’s integration into the new stuff as well.
Interview by Imelda Michalczyk
(August 2013)
Rockshot Mag
Hüsker Dü - She Floated Away (3:38)
Grant Hart - I Am Death (2:33)
Grant Hart - I Knew All About You Since Then (2:08)
Hüsker Dü - No Promise Have I Made (3:41)
Husker Du - Books About UFOs (2:49)
Grant Hart - California Zephyr (2:59)
Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer (3:02)
Grant Hart - Shine, Shine, Shine (4:33)
Hüsker Dü - Green Eyes (3:02)
Nova Mob - See and Feel and Know (2:43)
Q: Where do songs come from? I've listened many times to this explanation: "they are out there floating and you just have to be 'tuned' so you can get them". It's the classic idea of inspiration as an outer force. Is it just easier to attribute it to higher powers?
A: I believe we attribute to higher powers that which we find god-like in ourselves. There is a mystical moment often called the moment of inspiration when we realize we have an exciting idea. If it were a duplicable event, then it would not be special feeling. There is a certain gloating that happens when we realize that we are to be given credit for something that just occurred. What is better than to be able to say, if only for a moment, “I am brilliant!"' Whether we acknowledge it or not it, is satisfying to be creative, to be a creator, to match God. Doing what we like to do, in a fashion and to a degree uncommon, (it) feels pretty fucking good.
From an Inteview by Luis Boullosa
(August 2013)
Website: Perfect Sound Forever
Hüsker Dü - Turn On The News (4:27)
Hüsker Dü - Keep Hanging On (3:19)
Grant Hart - You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water (4:20)
Hüsker Dü - Never Talking To You Again (1:40)
Grant Hart - She Can See The Angels Coming (3:47)
Hüsker Dü - Every Everything (1:58)
Hüsker Dü - Actual Condition (1:52)
Nova Mob - The Sins of Their Sons (2:49)
Hüsker Dü - Dreams Reoccurring (1:40)
Grant Hart - Now That You Know Me (3:56)
Grant Hart - Come, Come (3:17)
Grant Hart - Underneath the Apple Tree (3:09)
Grant Hart - Teeny's Hair (3:17)
Grant Hart - It Isn't Love (4:15)
Grant Hart - Charles Hollis Jones (4:23)
Grant Hart - Out of Chaos (1:57)
Grant Hart - Morningstar (4:19)
Grant Hart - Awake, Arise! (5:16)
Grant Hart had demons that could fuel a life or tear it down. He has managed to navigate through them all with his relationshop to art, music and the written word. His success was defined by his unwillingness to compromise on an artistic and personal level. As the cliche goes, it was a blessing and a curse. Grant Hart's legacy, however, is best left up for him to define.
“A long time ago, I started looking at my permanent record — the history of me after I’m gone,” Grant Hart said. “Even to speak of it reeks of egotism run wild. But I think when all is said and done, the work that I produced in this lifetime will more than repay the world for any inconvenience I’ve caused it.” - from a 2009 Star Tribune interview.
We're going to end the show with Grant Hart's song, "The Main" from his first solo album, "Intolerance", which was released on December 12, 1989.
Thank you for listening.
Grant Hart - The Main (4:06)
Nova Mob 1989 - 1994
Grant Hart (Solo) 1995 - 2013
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 43
Black Market Baby - Downward Christian Soldiers (1983) (2:42)
Pizzicato Five - La Dépression (2:16)
Pearl Earl - Meet Your Maker (5:50)
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (4:41)
Muck and the Mires - Hang All Over Me (2:24)
Thunder Buffalo - Bring All The Drugs (1:27)
Guided By Voices - Little Whirl (1:49)
Enon - Believo! (2:09)
The Fans - You Don't Live Here Anymore (3:24)
Miya Folick - Trouble Adjusting (3:41)
Druggy Pizza - I Wanna Eat Until I'm Dead (1:48)
Dr Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (1975) (3:00)
Bitter Sweet Orange - Aimless Lady (1970) (2:31)
Korean Kittens - Can't Buy Me Love (1964) (1:54)
Magpie - Daisy Paints Her Fingers (3:00)
Lilly Hiatt - Get This Right (3:29)
Neil Young - Wonderin' - Original Version (1970) (2:12)
Neil Young and The Shocking Pinks - Wonderin' (3:16)
Mooseknuckle Sandwich - Poopyface (0:46)
BoPeep - Festival of BULUKANILO and CAMPANELLA [VOCALOID] (3:48)
The Mynabirds - Golden Age (4:45)
Yowie - Absurdly Ineffective Barricade (5:23)
STP - Go Jacqui Go (Demo 1990) (2:23)
New Orleans Owls - The Owls´ Hoot (2:44)
The Safes - Hometown (1:54)
Mooseknuckle Sandwich - Surprise Bag (0:34)
Warner Brothers - I Won't Be The Same Without Her (2:41)
Guided By Voices - Wings Of Thorn (2:10)
U.S. Maple - Songs That Have No Making Out (3:50)
The Flying Luttenbachers - Death Ray (2:12)
Splitsville - Ponce De Leon (2:19)
Eyelids - You Know I Gotta Reason (3:03)
The Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl (2:07)
Fits - Ice Cream on a Nice Day (1:16)
The Yawpers - Reunion (4:04)
Lou Reed - Vanishing Act (5:25)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 42
The Two Tens - Friends (2:49)
SAL MINEO - The Great Expanse (0:34)
MFC Chicken with Sister Cookie - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (2:53)
Five O'Clock Heroes - Head Games (2:53)
Moodring - Nobel Iron (4:19)
Chrysta Bell & David Lynch - Beat the Beat (4:01)
Black Pudding - Tillagio (5:25)
The Guts - Heartbreaker (2:18)
Yummy Fur - Frankenstein A Go-Go (0:35)
Lift to Experience - These are the Days (8:45)
Sleep Loan Sharks - Love in Bangkok 2 (3:12)
Trupa Trupa - Snow (2:35)
Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me (2:07)
The Meligrove Band - Free on The Air (2:41)
Henry's Dress - All This Time For Nothing (2:56)
Josephine Wiggs Experience - Head to Toe (3:36)
Golden Starlet - Girlfriend (1:36)
Magnolia - Human Race (4:46)
Bullshit Market - 21 Songs Live @ Precinct Detroit 5-18-2017 (4:41)
venta de garage - niña excelente (3:15)
Matthew Buster - Tonight (2:03)
Filthy Little Star - The Fractured Room (3:47)
La Tortuga China - Mi mejor amigo (1:36)
Throwing Muses - Hate My Way (4:06)
STP - Sweet Man (Demo 1990) (1:39)
Deathray- My Lunatic Friends (2:55)
Fullness Off Lack - Solid Clouds (0:58)
Lupers - Mi Novio Es Un Hater (2:12)
Royal Pains - Get Punched (3:08)
SAL MINEO - Sharp Dressed Man (1:36)
The PeeChees - Well Worth Talkin About from Life (2:14)
American Anymen - Late To The Party (5:49)
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars (Twin Peaks 2017) (6:59)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 41
Eureka Machines - Pop Star (3:42)
Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League - Bionic Beginning (0:25)
Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League - The Heart Bionic (3:17)
Jolie & The Jackalopes (Live at the Highball) - As Long As I'm Movin' (2:21)
Edith Nylon - Waldorf (2:26)
Valley Lodge - Kiss Me, I'm Drunk (3:32)
Swirlies - San Cristobal de las Casas (4:05)
Brendan Benson - Purely Automatic (4:34)
Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce (2:13)
Papa Charlie Jackson - You Put It In, I'll Take It Out (3:09)
Lady Flash - Death Safari (2:58)
The Tor Guides - Every Little Thing Is You (2:59)
Madd Blake Y Los Stalins - She's Like A Devil (3:11)
Waxeater - Cuddy vs. the Tiny Furniture (2:06)
Adventure Time Credits Music - (Island Song) - 8bit Chiptune Version (1:31)
Apollo's Apaches - Boss (Be Good to Me) (2:44)
The Nines - Beachfront in New York (3:04)
Ultravox - Rockwrok (3:37)
13 Bats - El Diablo en Persona (2:34)
101 Strings - Felicia, My Love (1:58)
Ray Martin - Cartoonik (3:08)
RLLRBLL - Robin with a Cheeto (3:30)
The Yah Mos - Domesticated (2:56)
The Raveonettes - Last Dance (3:47)
The Primitives - The Witch (4:01)
Mike Viola - El Mundo De Perfecto (3:35)
Darto - Truss (1:56)
Velocity Girl - I Cant Stop Smiling (2:43)
Shake Some Action! - Waiting On The Sun (3:31)
The Well Wishers - Impossible to Blame (3:02)
Kazumi Kitayama - Defeat Hedorah (Union Volume) (3:37)
Jam - Somethings Gone (1968) (2:54)
Bastards of Melody - Around You (2:57)
Neko Case - Prison Girls (5:25)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 40
The Darts (US) - Strange Days (2:26)
The Singles - Voodoo (2:00)
Kung-Fu Girl - Between You and Me (3:34)
Hank Snow - Let's Pretend (2:52)
The Beatmen - Now The Sun Has Gone (2:42)
X-Ray Spex - I Am a Poseur (2:34)
Sloan - Follow the Leader (2:56)
Madrugada - Blood Shot Adult Commitment (4:57)
Baby Scream - I Couldn't Care Less About My Life (3:33)
Fastball - I Will Never Let You Down (2:43)
Bleu - Get Up (3:51)
Daniel J White - Jess Franco's Las Chicas De Copacabana (Unreleased) (2:21)
Drunk & Horny - Tempe Town Lake (1:09)
Vacation - Cold Meat (1:21)
Betty Valchar & The Westerners - The Farmers Daughter (2:02)
The Rocketz - Holiday In Cambodia (4:30)
Darto - I Am (3:56)
Excel - What Went Wrong (3:01)
V.K and Sci-Fi - Awake (5:06)
Curtis Mosby And His Dixieland Blue Blowers - Whoop-Em Up Blues (3:21)
The Chicanes - Cry A Little (1981) (2:02)
Snakefinger - Womb To Worm (3:16)
The Mad Doctors - The Ballad Of Jort Dad (3:35)
Jared Letkites - Freebird (2:18)
Cancers - Be Cool (2:09)
Vacation - Gimp Suit (1:03)
Sonny Vincent - Totally Fucked (2:27)
Telephone Girl Sisters - Crazy Over You (3:57)
Putney Dandridge - The Skeleton in the Closet (2:33)
Enamorados - La Verdad (1:48)
Plasticsoul - Therapy (4:45)
Jodee Purkeypile - Cruel Movements (3:29)
Atomic Suplex with Hillary Burton - Really Stupid (2:00)
Tommy Lorente - Sexe Luxe Etc. (single) (3:39)
Vic Chesnutt - Supernatural (3:40)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 39
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The Satanics - Devil Music (2:02)
Diet Cig - Bite Back (2:21)
Kate Bush - The Big Sky (4:41)
Joe Clay - Sixteen Chicks (1956) (1:56)
Creekbird - The Gall (1:25)
Whiskeytown - Waiting to Derail (3:54)
T-Bone Burnett - The Murder Weapon w/ Mick Ronson, Masakazu Yoshizawa (2006) (4:32)
X-Ray Spex - Plastic Bag (4:54)
Bailter Space - Tanker (2:21)
Sunflower Bean - Wall Watcher (2:37)
The Tazers - A Bomb & A Bill (3:53)
Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends - Conversion
Alex Chilton - Hey Little Child (3:43)
Tommy Keene - Hey Little Child (3:17)
Dumb Punts - Put A Sock In It (3:50)
The Seagulls - Choke You In Your Sleep (4:50)
Eraserhead soundtrack - Lady In The Radiator (3:27)
The Free Spirits - Cosmic Daddy Dancer (2:36)
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen - Staying Cool (2:24)
The Bishop’s Daredevil Stunt Club - Come on Down (3:49)
The Seahorses - Happiness Is Egg Shaped (3:56)
GeorgeCMusic - Doctor Who theme (Jazz version) (1:33)
The Giant Worm - Our Story Continues (4:34)
The Bye Bye Blackbirds - Duet (2:48)
Montrose Man - Lazy Looker (3:14)
Ty Segall - Big Man (2:47)
Peanuts Wilson - Cast Iron Arm (1957) (2:23)
Wolf Parade - Valley Boy (3:38)
The Pillows - Century Creepers (Voice Of The Proteus) (3:24)
METZ - Drained Lake (3:04)
Ummagma - Lama (Robin Guthrie Mix) (3:43)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 38
Cosmic Psychos - Fuckwit City (3:19)
Surfer Rosie - Chugger (2:02)
Cotton Mather with Nicole Atkins - Call Me The Witch (4:08)
Ferrante & Teicher - Cumana (2:10)
Nick Lowe - Too Many Teardrops (2:35)
Angel Olsen - Never Be Mine (3:39)
Dusty Tears - The Cobra Den (1:36)
The La’s - Timeless Melody (2:49)
Lupé Velez - Mi amado from The Wolf Song (1929) (3:13)
Triptides - Invitation (3:33)
Cities Aviv - If I Could Hold Your Soul (1:47)
Count Chocula Goes To Hollywood (4:51)
Herschell Gordon Lewis - How Dry I Am (3:41)
Noiserpuss - 020817 Minimum Maximum (2:31)
Labyrinth Lounge - I Loves You Porgy (5:26)
Pattern Language - Squaresville (3:09)
George Van Eps Ensemble - Squattin’ At The Grotto (3:16)
Cuntz - Homeless (2013) (3:02)
Ferns - Love In A Handful of Beans (5:09)
Magnapop - I Don’t Care (2:40)
Bel-Tones - Breaktime (2:15)
Ulrika Spacek - Full of Men (4:44)
Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You (2:41)
Crimpshrine - Summertime (2:40)
Buffalos Bay - Weeping Onion (3:04)
The Prissteens - You’re Gonna Lose (2:31)
Jimmy Liggens - Drunk (2:31)
Screamfeeder - Half Lies (3:43)
The Heavy Blinkers - Gentle Strength (3:45)
Katie Von Schleicher - Hold (2:00)
Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! - Shameless (Part I) (3:27)
The Wrens - She Sends Kisses (5:57)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 37
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The Grumblers - I’m a Sweet Girl (3:03)
Big Dipper - Robert Pollard (4:08)
Oh Sees - The Static God (4:35)
Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto - The Robots (5:11)
Chook Race - Hard To Clean (2:45)
Nick Lowe - All Men Are Liars (3:20)
Cliff Hillis - Hey Pretty Face (2:28)
Mesa Cosa - Church Of The Snake (4:33)
Orchid Mantis - The Sky is Empty (2:48)
The Go Betweens - Quiet Heart (5:17)
The Shrills - Broadzilla (2:45)
DIIV - Mire (5:33)
Downtown Boys - Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas) (3:23)
The Ghastly Ones - Brand New Sin (3:05)
Super Unison - You Don’t Tell Me (2:16)
Lusterlit - Use Me (3:12)
Lusterlit - Interview (32:52)
Lusterlit - List of Equipment (inspired by MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING by Julia Child) (3:43)
Lusterlit - The Day of The Triffids (inspired by the book by John Wyndham) (3:50)
Lusterlit - Ceremony (inspired by BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy) (5:48)