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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MARCH 23, 2026

 

So this musician named Moby, who I think used to play in a hardcore band called the Vatican Commandos and apperars to be some music star (for want of a better term) was interviewed by The Guardian in the UK and asked to provide an “honest playlist,” where he was asked about a song he’d play as a DJ and secretly likes but tells everyone he hates. One category was songs you can’t listen to, and Moby specified “Lola” by The Kinks, which he called “gross and transphobic” and how unevolved the lyrics are. This hack criticizing Ray Davies, one of the sharpest rock lyricists of all time. It’s just a sweet song about a guy being picked up by someone obviously dressed in drag and not caring about it, just that he’s in love. That’s always the impression I’ve gotten from it. And there’s been a lot of blowback, from Ray’s brother Dave and the song has been supported by some trans musical icons, including Jayne County and Ginger Coyote (I still have the issue of Punk Planet she traded with me in 1985). I mean, it’s just a humorous song from over 55 years ago. I guess it beats arguing about all of the madness emanating from DC and elsewhere.

 

So, of course, that’s the last song this week. Take that, Moby.

 

Sonic Overload 3/23/26

 

PART 1

 

SHEER TERROR-Here To Stay (Starving Missile)

 

THE VIRUS-Bomb Drop (Charged)

PINKERTON THUGS-One Day (VML)

ACTION-Submission (PunkCore)

OUTCIDERS-Outciders (demo)

DISTEST-Distest (self-released)

DFL-Second Chances (SBÄM)

 

HAMMERHEAD-Meanderthal (Amphetamine Reptile)

BL’AST-Sometimes (SST)

MELVINS-Forgotten Principles (Amphetamine Reptile)

EYEHATEGOD-Agitation! Propaganda! (Housecore)

 

RUFFIAN DICKS-Loose As A Goose (self-released)

VOODOO QUEENS-Supermodel-Superficial (Too Pure)

SAM SNITCHY-Lame (Voodoo Rhythm)

 

PART 2

 

THE DULL-I Hate The Motorcyclist (from “Decade of Disaster,” Westworld)

HATED YOUTH-Hardcore Rules (Burrito)

TH’INBRED-Scene Death (Frozen Sound)

CHRONIC SICK-Blood Type X (No Way)

ADRENALIN OD-Status Symbol (Buy Our Records)

PAJAMA SLAVE DANCERS-No Dick (Restless)

BAGS-Trapped (Restless)

 

SUITOR-Televangelist (Feel It)

LANDOWNER-Normal Returns To Normal (Exploding In Sound)

 

AVENGERS-Open Your Eyes (CD Presents)

ALLEYCATS-Black Haired Girl (from “Sharp Cuts,” Planet)

TOTAL MUZAK-Salt I Såret (from “Bosse Sound,” Dionysus)

FUNERAL ORATION-Motherlode (Diehard)

NRA-Bunk (BYO)

 

PART 3

 

HERE’S YOUR WARNING-Fuck You Donnie (Retreat To Nowhere)

STATICØ-Black, Gray and White (Static Shock)

DESTRUCT-Wars of Attrition (Grave Mistake)

BURNED UP BLED DRY-Drawing Board (Prank)

SKITKIDS-Massmedial Pest (self-released)

APATIA NO-Atrapado (from “South America In Decline,” Six Weeks)

 

MICKY & THE SALTY SEA DOGS-I Keep On Wanting (SmartGuy)

STABBING JABS-Bad Slime (Reptilian)

YEAR ONE-Colony Collapse Disorder (from “Noise Ordinance,” Maximum Rocknroll)

MAN-EATERS-Living In The Savage Land (Feel It)

MINNEAPOLIS URANIUM CLUB-Black Semen (Fashionable Idiots)

 

METHOD ACTORS-The Method (DB)

FLESH EATERS-No Questions Asked (Upsetter)

RINGS-Third Generation (MCA)

 

PART 4

 

SCANERS-Satellite Ruin (Adrenalin Fix)

GAY ANNIVERSARY-Lazy Boys (Slovenly)

THEE HEARSES-Space Invader (Tetryon)

FOLDED SHIRT-Wet Brain (Fashionable Idiots)

RUBY KARINTO-No Manchester (HoZac)

HOT CHICKS-Diggin It (from “Flennen No. 12,” Flennen)

 

SPECIALS-Monkey Man (Chrysalis)

SELECTER-Three Minute Hero (Chrysalis)

SECRET AFFAIR-Let Your Heart Dance (from “Mods Mayday ’79,” Castle)

ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT-Fat Lip (Interscope)

 

KINKS-Lola (Reprise)