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Our opening song, “Civilization’s Dying,” features our guest on vocals. Our show today is a brief course, though a long Interchange, on the History of Punk Rock. This is a special 90-minute program detailing some of the greatest rock bands of the last 50 years. We’ll travel from Indianapolis, Indiana to Lima, Peru, by way of Bloomington to track the birth and course of Punk Rock, which according to Paul Mahern came screaming into the world in 1964 with the song “Demolition” by Los Saicos and continues its “Teenage Rampage” in garages and bars all over this wonder world. We’ll hear songs by the usual suspects, the Sex Pistols and the Ramones, but also by Death and Bad Brains and even hear Lesley Gore’s 1963 feminist pop song “You Don’t Own Me” the lyrics of which are “pure punk.”
I think Never Mind the Bollocks is a perfect record. It’s my favorite record ever made.
GUEST
As a 17-year-old Paul Mahern fronted the punk rock band the Zero Boys, formed in Indianapolis in 1979. Their first full-length album was Vicious Circle. Moving on from performing to producing Mahern became and is, among many things, a rock and pop record producer, mixing 
and mastering engineer, and a singer and songwriter. He is also a professor and yoga teacher and you may hear a few Yoga terms sprinkled throughout the conversation. As a producer Mahern has worked with acts such as John Mellencamp, Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Okkervil River, Afghan Whigs, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Magnolia Electric Co., and Neil Young, among many others.
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MUSIC
“Civilization’s Dying” by Zero Boys
“Surfin’ Bird” by The Trashmen
“Territorial Pissings” by Nirvana
“No. 2: Rataplan (Bouncer’s Song)” by Arthur Sullivan
“Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue” by The Ramones
“Livin’ in the 80’s” by Zero Boys
“No Institution” by Raw Power
“Demolición” by Los Saicos
“…Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears
“Holidays in the Sun” by Sex Pistols
“You’re Gonna Miss Me Baby” by The 13th Floor Elevators
“Raw Power” by Iggy and the Stooges
“Trash” by New York Dolls
“Teenage Rampage” by The Sweet
“53rd & 3rd” by The Ramones
“No Feelings” by Sex Pistols
“California Über Alles” by Dead Kennedys
“My Shadow” by Jay Reatard
“The Look On Your Face” The Cowboys
“Pay to Cum” by Bad Brains
“Politicians In My Eyes” by Death
“You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore
“Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by X-Ray Spex
CREDITS
Impresario: Doug Storm
Executive Producer: Wes Martin
