America Must Be Destroyed

No.176, aired July 4, 2012, celebrating American Independence Day, featuring readings of two poems by Amiri Baraka (A.K.A. Leroi Jones) written around 1966, the entire second side of the Mothers Of Inventions’ 1966 LP Absolutely Free, and two tracks from Bobby Hutcherson’s 1966 album Happenings – the chronological congruity was of course unplanned.

Part 1

1. Wake Up America – Dayglo Abortions
2. 5 Americans, 6 Canadians – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
3. America Must Be Destroyed – GWAR
4. When You Are Near – Bobby Hutcherson -- The Destruction Of America (from The System Of Dante’s Hell) – Leroi Jones
5. The Morality Squad – GWAR
6. The Omen – Bobby Hutcherson -- A Contract For The Destruction And Rebuilding Of Patterson – Leroi Jones
7. A Real Letter From  A Real Yahoo / Wouldn’t It Be Great If Everybody Had A Gun – Arogant Worms
8. Gasoline – American Flame Whip

Part 2

1. America The Beautiful – D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios): America Drinks / Status Back Baby / Uncle Bernie's Farm / Son of Suzy Creamcheese / Brown Shoes Don't Make It / America Drinks and Goes Home – The Mothers Of Invention
4. Americanized – GWAR
5. The Better Half – American Flame Whip
6. Je Declare – D.O.A.