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.
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Sonic Overload
Al Quint
PO Box 43
Peabody, MA 01960
E-mail: subvox82@gmail.com
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DECEMBER 8, 2025
The week of
December 8, 1980 was quite tumultuous, to say the least. Just like this year,
December 8 fell on a Monday and that’s when John Lennon was murdered. I
remember exactly where I was—in my dorm room at Boston University watching Monday
Night Football and Howard Cosell broke the news. My next door George took it
really hard. Anyway, later that week, I spend a couple of nights with George drinking
beers and listening to the newly-released “Sandinista” triple album by The
Clash. It was only out as an import and George picked it up the night it came
out. I wouldn’t say it was a joyous event but did provide a respite from the
unspeakable tragedy, as Cosell put it. So I have both a tribute to Lennon and
also play five songs off “Sandinista.”
By the way, I’m
happy to say I’m still in touch with George—one of the few people from BU, in
fact. I imagine I’ll be reminiscing with him about “Sandinista” later this
week.
PART
1
SAMIAM-Clean
(New Red Archives)
CIGARETTE
CAMP-Tell Me Something (Dead Broke)
FREAK
PHONE-F.Y.P.M. (demo)
DE()T-Gamblin’
Man (Sorry State)
SCREAMING
URGE-Die (Hozac)
WENCH!-Vincent
Van Knob (Warren)
GERMS-Land
of Treason (Slash)
MORAL
DECAY-America (from “Buried Alive 2,” Bomp)
RF7-Submit
To Them Freely (GTA)
DILS-I
Hate The Rich (What?)
MIDDLE
CLASS-Home Is Where (Frontier)
TEENGENERATE-Right
Now (Hozac)
GINO
& THE GOONS-Push Your Luck (Big Neck)
PRIVATE
LIVES-Psychic Beat (Feel It)
SCHIZOS-Driller
(Sweet Time)
TV
FREAKS-Knife (Schizophrenic)
PART
2
LOST
GENERATION-LSD (Incas)
BETTER
BEATLES-Penny Lane (Hook or Crook)
WILD BILLY CHILDISH & MUSICIANS OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE-We 4 Beatles of Liverpool Are (Damaged Goods)
MUMMIES-I’m Down (SFTRI)
BEATLES-Money (Circuit)
THE PIST-Right To Choose (Eugene)
M13-Cops Get Away/FDA (Overdose on
Records)
DISPLEASURE-Real Men Don’t Wipe
(Limbless)
FIGURINE-Buying In (self-released)
INNUENDO-Never Going Back
(Roachleg/Unlawful Assembly)
THE SPARK-Then The Cops Showed Up (Mike
Fitzgerald)
BOOKER T. & THE MG’S-Green Onions
(Atlantic) in memory of Steve Cropper
SRC-Up All Night (Capitol) in memory
of Scott Richardson
THEE HYPNOTICS-Preachin’ & Ramblin’
(Sub Pop)
PART 3
INDUSTRY-Western Dystopia (La Vida Es
Un Mus)
HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE-Jaws (Maple
Death)
POP. 1280-New Electronix (Sacred Bones)
GOO GOO DOLLS-Up Yours (Metal Blade)
ERGS-Johnny Rzeznik Needs His Ass
Kicked (Grave Mistake/Firestarter)
NIGHT BIRDS-(I’m) Wired (Fat)
LOSER LIFE-I Want The World (Life’s A
Rape)
NO EMPATHY-Agrippa (Roadkill)
ICU-AP (Put-On)
MINISTRY-I Prefer (Sire)
BLACK BUG-Police Helicopter (Hozac)
CABARET VOLTAIRE-Nag Nag Nag (Rough
Trade)
DOTS-Judgment (Dirt Cult)
PART 4
CEL RAY-Clock Me Out (demo)
BRORLAB-Digital Extermination (La Vida
Es Un Mus)
RWETES-Bryzdal (Syf)
NICE FACE-Juju For Jenkem (Sacred
Bones)
SAVAGES-Husbands (Matador)
NEW FRIES-L’express (Telephone
Explosion)
THE CLASH-45th anniversary of
“Sandinista (Epic)
Junco Partner
The Leader
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
Midnight Log
Somebody Got Murdered