South Florida Rocks: Vol. 12 '87 — '97

 

Many of these independent, non-signed bands in this twelve-album series aired on the South Florida airwaves of the non-commercial outlets of WVUM 90.5 FM and WKPX-FM, as well as WDNA 88.9 FM—before that station became an all-jazz outlet—broadcasting as a non-profit public access/variety station that aired many alternative music blocks. A few of the bands earned airplay on the “Locals Only” programming blocks of the mainstream/commercial radio rock outlets WZTA 94.9 and WSHE 103.5 in the early ’90s, as well as on specialty show blocks at WAXY 790, around 1993 to 1994, when it was a brokered programming outlet.

The “classic local” songs were heard on the early-to-mid ’80s airwaves of WCKO “K-102,” which held their annual “Homegrown Rock Festivals,” while a few more (Z-Toyz with “Miami Breakdown,” for example) had a video that aired on WKID-TV 51 Fort Lauderdale’s weekend local music video show: the days of Cryer, Young Turk, Slyder, Tuff Luck, Stranger, Lifeforce, and Vandal, the Eat, and Charlie Pickett and the Eggs.

All bands—unless otherwise noted—hail from the South Florida tri-county area. 

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The still missing local bands and their demo taps—yes, even after twelve of these “albums”—as well as local compilation albums, are compiled under the “POSTS” tab over at Over the Edge Radio You Tube portal.

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Listen to all twelve hours in one playlist on You Tube.

 

Track Listing: Band/Song (1:03:38)

1. Slyder – Good Girls Do (classic local)
2. The Kids – Time to Explain (classic local)
3. Z-Toyz – Miami Breakdown (classic local)
4. Motor – Reptiles (ex-Muggle Brothers)
   
5. Cell Mates – Bottle of Sin (ex-Gypsy Queen)
   
6. Bobby Friss Band – Runaway Train (Tampa)
   
7. The Big Bang – Broken Dreams (ex-Sylder)
8. Vandal – Mystery (drummer Derek Cintron went alt-solo)
9. Crunch Symphony – In My Head
10. Slyder – Money
11. Autodrive – Turn Me On (Tampa)
    
12. Gypsy Queen – Love Is Strange (went to U.K)
    
13. Lady Sabre – Strange Spell
14. Motor – Petal to the Metal (radio edit)
15. Panic – Fear Eater (Coral Springs thrash; became Type Zero)
16. Paramoure – Paramoure (J.C Riley in a pre-Basketcase thrash band)

South Florida Rocks: Vol. 11 '87 — '97

Many of these independent, non-signed bands in this twelve-album series aired on the South Florida airwaves of the non-commercial outlets of WVUM 90.5 FM and WKPX-FM, as well as WDNA 88.9 FM—before that station became an all-jazz outlet—broadcasting as a non-profit public access/variety station that aired many alternative music blocks. A few of the bands earned airplay on the “Locals Only” programming blocks of the mainstream/commercial radio rock outlets WZTA 94.9 and WSHE 103.5 in the early ’90s, as well as on specialty show blocks at WAXY 790, around 1993 to 1994, when it was a brokered programming outlet.

All bands—unless otherwise noted—hail from the South Florida tri-county area.

 

Track Listing: Band/Song (50:40)

1. Further – Gimme Indie Fox (Tampa)
2. Freaks with Beaks – Pounds and Inches
   
3. Postface – Two Face Fish Food
4. Pheontic Plumbing – Quackpipe
   
5. Gus – Get Well Soon
6. Vacant Andys – Spork
7. Naked Rhythm – Dive 
8. Collapsing Lungs – Headcrack (demo; not on their Atlantic-release)
   
9. Type Zero – Window to My World (ex-Panic)
   
10. Left for Dead – Writing on the Wall (Nectar-related, ex-Saigon Kick)
    
11. Velvet Revolution – Goodbye Pain (to Nectar with Talk of War members)
    
12. East of Gideon – Blessing in Disguise (ex-Talk of War)
    
13. Amazing Grace – Year of the Child

South Florida Rocks: Vol. 10 '87 — '97

Many of these independent, non-signed bands in this twelve-album series aired on the South Florida airwaves of the non-commercial outlets of WVUM 90.5 FM and WKPX-FM, as well as WDNA 88.9 FM—before that station became an all-jazz outlet—broadcasting as a non-profit public access/variety station that aired many alternative music blocks. A few of the bands earned airplay on the “Locals Only” programming blocks of the mainstream/commercial radio rock outlets WZTA 94.9 and WSHE 103.5 in the early ’90s, as well as on specialty show blocks at WAXY 790, around 1993 to 1994, when it was a brokered programming outlet.

The “classic local” songs were heard on the early-to-mid ’80s airwaves of WCKO “K-102,” which held their annual “Homegrown Rock Festivals,” while a few more (Z-Toyz with “Miami Breakdown,” for example) had a video that aired on WKID-TV 51 Fort Lauderdale’s weekend local music video show: the days of Cryer, Young Turk, Slyder, Tuff Luck, Stranger, Lifeforce, and Vandal, the Eat, and Charlie Pickett and the Eggs.

All bands—unless otherwise noted—hail from the South Florida tri-county area.

 

 Track Listing: Band/Song (41:02)

1. The Itch – God is a Pillow
2. Baloney Sandwich – Cold Mind
3. Groovie Coochies – What's Going On
   
4. Naked Rhythm – Meadowfly
5. Gus – Nothing New
6. Noah's Red Tattoo – Little Girl (Gainesville)
7. Radio Baghdad – Nothing Yet
8. Splat – I Don't Love U
9. Load – Gordon Sollie’s Daugther
10. Cell 63 – Rogaine
11. The Cichlids – Jewish Girl (Classic Local)
    
12. Quit – Sheperd’s Pie 
13. Vacant Andys – Glue
    
14. Radio Baghdad – Dan Burrito