Welcome to the webpage for Sonic Overload. As my regular listeners know by now, I play punk, hardcore, garage and other loud music, although there are surprises from time to time as well as decidedly slanted commentary on the “issues of the day” and that’s also presented through song selections and audio clips.

 

Recent shows can be streamed or downloaded from the archive at sonicoverload.blogspot.com. And check out the Facebook page.

 

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Sonic Overload

Al Quint

PO Box 43

Peabody, MA 01960

E-mail: subvox82@gmail.com

 

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

 

24 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In some ways, it just seems like so long ago but it’s still a day that ripped my heart out. That was the day my friend Jane Simpkin was taken from us at the age of 36. And it was the day where things really started to go south in this country—mindless jingoism and bigotry, warmongering and an erosion of civil liberties that continues unabated to this day. It was always there, of course, but it validated people to say the quiet stuff out loud. And, if anything, it’s become a LOT worse in recent months. I don’t even know what the answers are anymore. And I can’t be obsessed with it 24/7 and read every single meme about the horrors of Dear Leader. I’ll tell you this much—don’t be delusional. He’s not going ANYWHERE, at least for the forseeable future.

 

This week’s show features a bonus segment where I pay tribute to Bruce Loose from Flipper, who passed away last week.

 

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Sonic Overload 9/8/25

 

PART 1

 

WORLD BURNS TO DEATH-The Sucking Of The Missile Cock (Hardcore Holocaust)

 

YLEISET SYYT-Opportunistin Akuilta (La Vida Es Un Mus)

REJEKTS-Paranoid (No Norms)

NIGHTFEEDER-I’m A Letdown (self-released)

URBAN SPRAWL-Culture Vulture (Convulse)

TOWER OF ONE-Accept Your Fate (demo)

DUEL-Pessimist (demo)

INNOCENT-Architects of Despair (Side Two)

 

LAUGHING HYENAS-Here We Go Again (Touch and Go) in memory of Jim Kimball

MULE-Mississippi Breaks (Touch and Go)

JESUS LIZARD-Cold Water (Capitol)

 

FUGITIVE BUBBLE-Steel Dust Mites (Sorry State)

KNOWSO-Perfect For Bleach (Sorry State)

SMASHING TIME-Urban Terrorist (self-released)

OXYS-Lemons (Cleopatra)

ADDED DIMENSIONS-Overcompensate (Domestic Departure)

 

PART 2

 

FU’S-Preskool Dropouts (from “This Is Boston, Not LA,” Modern Method)

DEAD KENNEDYS-Terminal Preppie (Alternative Tentacles)

THE FALL-Hey! Student (Matador)

HAPPY FLOWERS-I Don’t Wanna Go To School (Homestead)

 

POISON PLANET-Border Fences (Third x Party)

LOS CRUDOS-Ilegal y Que? (Lengua Armada)

HARAM-Where Were You On 9/11? (Toxic State)

SLEEPER CELL-Bombs Under Baghdad (Cries of Pain)

PINKO AND THE ACTION BOYS-9/11 Is A Joke (self-released)

SPITS-Terrorist Attack (In The Red)

UPSTAB-9-11 Hoax (Way Back When/Even Worse)

 

SEX PISTOLS-Did You No Wrong (Virgin)

PROFESSIONALS-The Magnificent (Virgin)

THE JAM-News Of The World (Polydor)

 

PART 3

 

PLASMA-Syvemmälle Sisään (Sorry State)

ILLITERATES-Remember When (Sorry State)

THE HELL-Cut The Chord (Sorry State)

STATICO-Rat Race (Refuse)

PRIMITIVE IMPULSE-Asshole Parade (Feel It)

FLYING HEADS-Company Urchin (self-released)

 

CHEATER SLICKS-Trouble Man (In The Red)

SECRET PROSTITUTES-Awas! Gestapo Lepas (Bad Hair Life)

COWS-Walk Away (Amphetamine Reptile)

TYVEK-Animal (In The Red)

VARIX-Out Of Touch (Fashionable Idiots)

RUNNING-Asshole Savant (Captcha)

 

WHITE ZOMBIE-Ratmouth (Caroline)

BIRTHDAY PARTY-Sonny’s Burning (4AD)

THROBBING GRISTLE-Six Six Sixties (Rough Trade)

L-SEVEN-Insanity (Touch and Go)

 

PART 4

 

TERMINAL STATE-Your Rules (Deranged)

NUKES-Fascist Perverts (Man In Decline)

EXTERMINATORS-Bionic Girl (Slope)

LOUDMOUTHS-Basket Case (Punch)

MONGOLOID-Slam Pig (DerangeD)

ROCKS-You’r So Boring (from “Where Birdmen Flew,” Taz Devil) in memory of Steve Vanderschoot

 

DRILL FOR ABSENTEE-No Hums (Expert Work)

DRAGNET-Red Square (Idiotape)

NO PEELING-Can I Pet That Dog? (Feel It)

ISMATIC GURU-White Rabbit (Swimming Faith)

THEM-Gloria (See For Miles)

 

COCTEAU TWINS-Wax and Wane (Capitol)

 

PART 5—A TRIBUTE TO BRUCE LOOSE

 

FLIPPER-Ha-Ha-Ha (Subterranean)

FLIPPER-Get Away (Subterranean)

FLIPPER-In Life My Friends (Subterranean)

FLIPPER-Living For The Depression (Subterranean)

 

FLIPPER-Way Of The World (Subterranean)

FLIPPER-Sacrafice (from “Not So Quiet On The Western Front,” Alternative Tentacles)

FLIPPER-Now Is The Time (Das Boots)

FLESHAPOIDS-Nuke The Whales (Trashtone)

 

FLIPPER-Sex Bomb (Subterranean)