Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio

One great thing about aging is that the teenaged/twentysomething notion of “guilty pleasures” eventually grinds itself into nothingness, until there’s only pleasure and no guilt. At least that’s true as far as music is concerned. Now I was never one of those schmoes who ultimately copped to some quiet Steely Dan or Fleetwood Mac obsession, but man did I fall hard for 1960s French female “Yé-Yé” pop in a big way about 25 years ago. I wear my Yé-Yé mania proudly, and I’ve enjoyed watching these loud, brassy and highly orchestrated French 45s find their way to new audiences and new compilations in the subsequent years. Feral House even put out a big beautiful book about it in 2014, Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe’s Ye-Ye Girls of '60s French Pop, that hit me right where I live.The purpose of this “wind it up and let it go” episode (with only one talking intro and no back announcing) is to help further Yé-Yé enthusiasm, such that it is, by pulling together the very best campy, silly and oftentimes moderately experiment