DJ Scummy B & Not American Top 40
You may call it art.
DJ Scummy B is joined by co-host Yoon from Planet Yoon to deliver 2 solid hours of nothing but 7-inch vinyl records. From obscure Chamrock to Dead Moon, Cheap Trick and Probot. It’s all analog, but now digital, because, the internet.
DJ Scummy B celebrates the lowly CD compilation. From discounted label samplers and radio promos to genre-defining collections, beginning in the 90s CD compilations became a cheap way to get a pile of tracks to voracious listeners. Featuring: Army of Lovers, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Johnny Violent, Omar Santana, Love 666, Chrome, Soundgarden, Excelsior, Guilt, Rise Against, Devin Townsend, OLD, Amorphis, Eyehategod, Diabolos Rising, Cianide, Loudblast, Believer.
The station’s new AI filter keeps DJs in line and on-format, preventing DJ Scummy B from playing anything actually Top 40, systematically replacing his attempts to play Beatles songs with AI generated facsimiles. The following managed to get through the filter: The Rutles, Beatallica, Melvins, Quorthon, Type O Negative, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Helloween, Lord Master, Love Tractor, MrDougDoug, Mukqs, Spinal Tap, Brujeria, Das DAmen, Public Service Broadcasting, Tõnu Naissoo.
A burst of Candian prog rock transforms into shredding. Featuring Rush, Triumph, Prism, Saga, Red Rider, FM, Cacophony, Al Di Meola, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Racer X and The Tubes.
This is the 45th edition of Not American Top 40, and we’re unsure of the significance, though we acknowledge a lost opportunity. Tune in to hear music themed to the number 45 is all its glory. Tune in to hear Stars on 45, Hooked on Classics, The Ex, Pain Teens, The Olsen Twins and Neu! amongst many other discordant discos.
DJ Scummy B returns to the Freeform Portland studios only to discover he has no bloody idea what the Sam Hell he’s doing. But he’s live and on the edge, or Livin’ on the Edge, like Aerosmith in 1994, but without any Aerosmith. But he’s got some old school hardcore punk from the likes of Naked Raygun, Hüsker Dü and MDC, along with new tracks from Godflesh, Bush Tetras, Puzzle Teeth, Ceramic Dog, y más.
Relegated back to Not AT40 studios, deep underneath Southeast Portland, DJ Scummy B rummages through his favorite industrial and EBM CDs. Features Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Skrew, Angkor Wat, Malhavoc, Chemlab, Nitzer Ebb, Missing Foundation and Dissecting Table.
DJ Scummy B is finally allowed out of his basement studio lair to produce his show live from the Freeform Portland studios. It was just his birthday, so tonight it’s all self-indulgence with sets of Ornette Coleman, King Crimson, Killing Joke, Therapy?, King’s X, Deicide, Coroner, and Painkiller.
The focus is on new music, not yet top 40. But who knows, maybe it will be someday? We can’t predict the future. Some guitar driven indie rock, industrial metal, doomy sounds and Fire-Toolz.
CDs are back, we hear, so this week we pay tribute to the format that promised Perfect Sound Forever. But first, we fondly remember Dr. Johnny Fever a/k/a Howard Hesseman (RIP)