Nakedly Examined Music Podcast Mark Lintertainment

Ivan started as a teen guitarist in the early ’70s touring with The Foundations and then in 1977 was a founding member of Richard Hell and the Voidoids. After an album with them (and a recording with The Clash), he fronted The Outsets through the early ’80s and then toured with Shriekback, briefly co-led a group called Lovelies, toured and recorded with Matthew Sweet, was in a band with Alejandro Escovedo, and has become a producer for bands such as The Fleshtones.







We discuss “I am Not a Drone (Alone)” (and listen at the end to “Voodoo Christmas” from Swing Your Lanterns (2023), his second album. We then turn to the title track from his first solo album, 2011’s Naked Flame.  We look all the way back to Ivan’s instrumental that Richard Hell wrote lyrics over called “Liars Beware,” from Blank Generation (1977). Other clips: “Everything or Nothing” by Outsets from Punk Voodoo Collection (1984) and “Someone to Pull the Trigger” by Matthew Sweet from Altered Beast (1993). For more, see ivanjulian.com.







Watch the documentary You Don’t Know Ivan Julian (2020). Watch the video for “The Naked Flame.”







Watch the video for Ivan’s new single “Tell Me Lies.” Listen to all of “Godiva.” Hear all of “Everything or Nothing” and more Outsets tunes. 







Watch Ivan playing and singing “Blank Generation” live with Yo La Tengo. Here’s Ivan live with Matthew Sweet in 1997. Here he is is live with Alejandro Escovedo. Listen to his album with Lovelies.







While I can’t find live footage of Ivan with Shriekback, you can hear the kinds of tracks he was joining in on (with Lu Edmunds on guitar on the studio version). Hear my past episode with Shriekback’s Barry Andrews.







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Just a little extra interview footage and another song for you wonderful supporters: One of two tunes he wrote for The Fauntleroys 2014 album Below the Pink Pony, "Suck My Heart Out With a Straw."

John is on the left, Chris is hiding behind his hair and John’s guitar on the right.







Chris and John were friends since the ’80s in the Portland music scene, playing separately in several bands (sometimes as front men, sometimes not). By the ’00s, John was drumming for bands like the Decembrists, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and Elliot Smith, while Chris was doing a stint on bass for Guided by Voices and running a record shop. They recorded together as Boston Spaceships (aka The Takeovers) with Guided by Voices’ frontman Robert Pollard from 2005-2011 and then became co-frontmen for Eyelids, which has now issued 17 releases including four full albums.







We discuss “Runaway, Yeah” from A Colossal Waste of Light (2023), “Seagulls Into Submission” from 854 (2014), “Shrunken Head” by Chris’ band Svelt from Souvenir (1996), and we listen to “Blindfold Follies” by John’s band The Maroons from You’re Gonna Ruin Everything (2002) and “Ceremony” by Eyelids (featuring lyrics by Larry Beckett) from The Accidental Falls (2019). Intro: “My Will” by The Takeovers from Bad Football (2007). For more, see musicofeyelids.com.







Watch Eyelids playing live in 2017. Watch videos for their new tunes, “Colossal Waste of Light” and “Lyin’ In Your Tomb.” Some of their older videos include “Camelot,” “The Accidental Falls,” and “Bound to Let You Down.” Here they are live with Peter Buck doing an REM cover. A song they did backing John Cameron Mitchell is “Waves of Fear.” The previously unrecorded Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett song they recorded is “Found at the Scene of a Rendezvous that Failed.” Listen to their collaboration with Gary Jarman from The Cribs.







Listen to the Robert Pollard demo I referred to, and then the final Boston Spaceships recording that Chris and John created. Hear all of “My Will.” 







Here’s some interview and performance footage from Svelt. Watch the video from Chris’ pre-Svelt band Sprinkler. Watch Chris’ DEVO tribute band feat. Elliot Smith. Here’s Chris live with Deat...

Jad estimates he’s sung on 2000 songs and released over 180 albums between his band, solo, and collaborative work. He started Half Japanese as an improvisational punk band with his brother David in 1975, and its style evolved through jazz, rock,   and alternative; they opened for Nirvana on one of their biggest tours. The band was based in Maryland for most of its existence, though Jad has relocated to Austin. 







We discuss “Fate Is On Our Side” by Jad with Samuel Locke Ward from Happy Hearts (2023), “Hold On” by Half Japanese from Perfect (2016), “Frankenstein Must Die” (a solo tune recorded in 1977), “Do It To It” from Now It’s Back (recorded in 2021), and conclude by listening to “Cupid” by Teenage Fanclub and Jad from Words of Wisdom and Hope (2002). Intro: “Said and Done” by Half Japanese from Charmed Life (1988). For more see jadfair.net. For the results of Jad’s 150 albums in one year experiment, see jadfair1.bandcamp.com.







Hear all of “Said and Done.” Hear Half Japanese’s first release “Calling All Girls” (1977). Watch the band live in 1987, doing their big hit 1 Million Kisses, and in 2015. You can watch all of the documentary on the band The Band that Would Be King on YouTube, starting here.







 Heres Jad live solo with his rubber-band guitar, and here’s part of a live set where he plays classic Half Japanese tracks backed by a melodic guitar-and-drums combo while his own guitar is mixed almost inaudibly.







A fun, Residents-esque early solo Jad album is Monarchs. At one point I referred to his Short Songs album with intentionally hyper-mundane lyrics. Here’s yet another Frankenstein song, this time a collaboration with Daniel Johnston. Hear some of Jad’s collaborations with Kramer, Jason Willett (the Half Japanese bassist), and his brother David. A particularly nice collaboration is the one with Japanese band Tenniscoats and Teenage Fanclub guitarist Norman Blake.







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Claire started in the early ’70s as a folk prodigy, took some detours through country and Elton-John-esque pop rock, played with Wishbone Ash and members of Yes in the late ’70s and early ’80s, had her real career break-out as a New Age artist in the mid ’80s (with some of her music used extensively by the BBC), did a dance record, and has most recently released several records of sophisticated adult contemporary rock, where she writes songs on just an acoustic guitar and delegates the arrangement duties to her producer Kevin Jones. She has recorded 13 solo albums plus two more with her current prog band Fragile.







We discuss “Aphrodite Obscured” from A Pocket Full of Love Songs (2022), “Love Has a Mind of Its Own” from Over Dark Apples (2019), “The River Song” (with lyrics by Michael Coles) from One House Left Standing (1971), and conclude by listening to “The Last Shirt” by Claire Hamill and Andrew Warren from Summer (1998). Intro: “Leaf Fall” from Voices (1986).







Here’s the live acoustic solo performance we talk about. Here’s one from 2008. The latter performance refers to a lengthy interview with Mark Powell about her career, which starts here.







Watch one of the BBC videos made of her ’80s music: a vocal version she created of Pachelbel’s Canon, Awaken/Larkrise, and Tides. Hear all of “Leaf Fall.” 







Hear the Steve Howe Album song she sang in 1979, “Look Over Your Shoulder.” Watch her Yes tribute band Fragile playing live. Listen to the latest album of original music, Beyond, by Fragile. Here’s Claire in 2009 singing the song she co-wrote for Wishbone Ash, “Living Proof” (and here’s the studio version).







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Pat played saxophone and guitar with Lydia Lunch’s group 8-Eyed Spy in 1979, and then moved on to The Raybeats, a “neo-surf rock combo,” which recorded four albums through 1984. He wrote for stage shows and eventually joined the B-52s as a second guitarist/keyboardist in support of their Cosmic Thing album in 1989. In 1992 he had his first musical director role for TV with Rocco’s Modern Life. (The intro for this episode is the theme song featuring the B-52s plus “Rocco Needs More Time.”)







Since then he’s recorded soundtracks for various cartoons, indie films, documentaries, and prestige TV shows (including Nurse Jackie). We discuss “New Blood (Suite, pt. 3)” (built from Daniel Licht’s themes from the original show) and “The Letter” from his Dexter: New Blood soundtrack (2022), then “In Another Time” from Duets for Electric Guitar and Piano (2018) (another great version of the tune we discuss is a duet with trombonist J. Walter Hawkes from Wide Open Sky (2019); a clip from this serves as this episode’s outro), “Framed” from the Bored to Death soundtrack (2011), “Hoodlum Priest” by The Raybeats from Glass: The Lost Philip Glass Sessions (recorded 1982), and finally listen to “Winter Was Hard” (2022) by his band SUSS, an “ambient country” instrumental unit he’s now recorded four albums with.







For more, see patirwinmusic.com and sussband.com. Also, check out his two soundcloud pages here and here for more soundtrack audio and patirwin.bandcamp.com for his New Songs from the Lost and Found series of personal instrumentals.







Watch Pat and J. Walter Hawkes play “In Another Time” for the Tiny Desk Concert. Here he is doing a live guitar solo improv in 2020. Here are a couple of videos from SUUS: “Heat Haze” (an earlier tune) and “Winter Light” (more recent), as well as one for “Winter Was Hard.” Watch the band live in 2018. 







Watch The Raybeats live in 1980. Watch a video from one of their tracks, “Jack the Ripper.” I can’t actually find the version of that with Philip Glass playing online, so if you want to hear that, buy the album. Listen to 8-Eyed Spy. Here they are live with Pat on saxophone.