Plastic Crimewave

Chicago-native Plastic Crimewave, aka Steven Krakow, is known for being a "psychedelic guru" of sorts and is the creator of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, a hand-drawn magazine published by Drag City since 2001. Crimewave also runs the Galactic Zoo Disk reissue label imprint, which is distributed by Drag City and roving label Galactic Archives, draws/writes the bi-weekly Secret History of Chicago Music comics for the Chicago Reader for over a decade, books/founded the avant/psych festival Million Tongues featuring international musicians, has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary art, and has drawn countless comics, posters, album covers, and branding art for Lush Cosmetics and Jones Soda. From 2001-2011, PCW headed up Plastic Crimewave Sound, a space-punk ensemble that recorded 5 LPs and toured nationally with Acid Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, and The Ponys, whom Julian Cope described as "outta site." He currently leads Plastic Crimewave Syndicate (who have opened for Hawkwind, Keiji Haino, Chrome, Loop, Josefus, Purling Hiss, Woods and have released 4 albums); He conducts the Plastic Crimewave Vision Celestial Guitarkestra of up to 70 guitarists), plays in the spacey duo Spiral Galaxy, and has DJ-ed all over the world - from London to Tokyo.

All playlists and tracks by Plastic Crimewave

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Locked In — The Poets
Angel Dust — Odyssey
Mindbreaker — The Litter
Mind Destruction — Oxford Circle
Maze Of Love — Dave Clark 5
Doctor — The Outsiders
Love Is All Around Me — Crushed Butler
Chrysler — Dashiell Hedayat
Circus Days — Junior's Eyes
Billy the Monster — The Deviants
Donovan's Monkey — Stalk-Forrest Group
If You Don'T Come Back — Gary Waler and the Rain
Golden Glass — The Misunderstood
Thunderbuck Ram — Mott The Hoople
That's Alright — The Namelosers
Kid Was A Killer — Keith West
Seasons — Earth and Fire
Then The Heartaches Began — The Hollies
Dream On My Mind — Rupert's People
Sydney Gill — The Smoke
Taking Out Time — Spencer Davis Group
Floatin' — Vamp
Heavenly Club — Les Sauterelles
Where Is This Dream of Your Youth (alt ver) — The Strawbs
Coming Home To Me — Dando Shaft
What About Tomorrow? — Sir Douglas Quintet
Under The Sky — Giles Giles Fripp and Dyble
Trip On An Orange Bicycle — Orange Bicycle
Afterwards — Van Der Graaf Generator
It's Been A Long Time — Andy Ellison
Utterly Simple — Traffic
Life, The Unsuspecting Captive — Michael Nesmith
Neck Tattoo — The Joy Poppers
Ballad of the Seasons — Medical Mission Sisters

Gee Gee Seven

Living in Sin — Skin Alley
Egyptian Tomb — Mighty Baby
Know Who Your Friends Are — Jonesy
Hazard Profile Part 4 — Soft Machine
Lame — Incredible Hog
Madonna of the Seven Moons — Velvert Turner Group
Gold — MC5
Help Your Satori Mind — Cosmic Invention
Drive — Teengenerate
Ms. Lady Evans — Redd Kross
Ecstacy — Raspberries
It'll Be Me (BBC) — The Move
Tastee Freeze — Poother Ltd
Finding it Rough — Hat and Tie
You Don't Care — Plastic Cloud
Someone Turned the Lights Out — Our Plastic Dream
Charge of the Light Brigade — Jason Crest
Wait and See — The Revelation
Hurricane fighter Plane — Red Crayola
Where Evil Grows — The Poppy Family
King Croesus — World of Oz
Time and Motion Study Man — The Twilights
Spanish Armada — The Late Results
Looking For Me — The Walker Brothers
(The Best Part of) Breakin' Up — The Ronettes
I'm Not Sayin' — Nico
Lady Rose — Mungo Jerry
Below the Sky — Daze Of Night
There's Still Time — The Starfires
Reflections — Yama and the Karma Dusters
The Herald — Comus
E Dopo — Mario Schifano
On the Bombsite — Duncan Browne
Down Narrow Streets (live in Chicago) — Mark Fry

GG6

Harlem — Suicide
Signed DC — Spirea X
I Love You — Spacemen 3
Easy Fazer — Sun Dial
Walking On Thin Ice — Yoko Ono
I Walk — Don Cherry
Pound Get A Blow — The Upsetters
Stormy — The Devastator
Make Me Believe In You — Patti Jo
Ki Onoy Efei — AAKHE
Tapis Magique — Marc Hamilton
Someday — Laghonia
Devil's Grip — Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mr. Skin — Spirit
The Investigator — Brian Bennett
Freelance Fiend — Leaf Hound
Rhubarb! — Second Hand
Peace Loving Man — Blossom Toes
Old Man Going — The Pretty Things
Garden Of My Mind — The Mickey Finn
Looking At You (45 version) — MC5
Incense and Peppermints — A Little Bit of Sound
Think of Love — Love Sculpture
Girl From New York — Billy Nicholls
Tinker Tailor — Terry Reid
Ballad of Bad Guys — Faine Jade
Dawn Is Breaking — New Colony 6
Make Me Stay a Bit Longer — Status Quo
Here Come The Nice (French EP Version) — Small Faces
Setting Of Despair — Crystal Chandelier
Graveyard — Forest
Waving Prairie — Chet Nichols
Spike Fiddle Song — Spires That In The Sunset Rise
Window Over The Bay — Vashti Bunyan

GG V

Always Now — Section 25
Vamos Companeros — Harmonia
Tonight — Algebra Suicide
Thomas Dinger — Fur Dich
The Taxi — Young Marble Giants
Bubble Blasters — Space Lady
Treehouse/School Bell (Part 1) — Indian Ocean
It's The Marlin — Love
The Flood — Blue Orchids
Dark Rooms — DA!
So Tough — Dredd Foole and the Din
Composing One Tea Bag and 12 Cup Bra — Red Noise
Begin — Bailter Space
Headin' For the Texas Border (Live) — Flamin' Groovies
Drainpipe — Mad Timothy
Lost in the Future — The Stooges
Acid and Flowers — The Zero Tolerence
I'll Sell My Soul — The Allies
She Reminds Me of Spring in The Winter — The Equals
Johnny B. Badde — Mungo Jerry
Did You Ever — Damon
Giggy Smile — Faust
No — Food
Tin Angel — Hearts and Flowers
Wheels — Flying Burrito Brothers
Black Sheep Boy — Tim Hardin
All The Gold And Green Eyes — Ed Askew
I Am — Allysen Callery
Katie Cruel (live) — Karen Dalton
Cincinnati Flow Rag — Rev. Gary Davis
Maajun — Davy Graham
I'm Not Marching Anymore (live 68) — Phil Ochs
Eleven Willow — COB
El Proclive Necesario — The Blops

GG IV

Anathea — David Hemmings
Jefferson Airplane — Ford theater
The Conqueror — Genesis
Knowing the Game — Ian Matthews
The Collected Works of Justin Crest — Jason Crest
Summer — The Lemon Fog
Come In My Music Box — Paul Jones
Amaranthine — The Joy Poppers
Nothing's Going To Happen — The Tall Dwarfs
Permissive paradise — The Pleasure Garden
Something's Going — Telegraph Avenue
Concrete reservation — Syl Johnson
Give Me Your Love — Barbara Mason
Docker Freak Out — John O' Brien
Funky Express — Duncan Lamont
Eve and the Apple — Shocking Blue
Love is the Law — Eyes of Blue
Can You Get That Together — Jonesy
The Spirit — Apocalypse
Octavo Sendero — Miguel Abuelo & Nada
Atmospheres — Wimple Winch
Mother Writes — Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
End Of The Line — Frijid Pink
Na Na Na — Cozy Powell
Sick On You — Hollywood Brats
Gang Man — Shakane
Wayside — Artful Dodger
Podman — The Embarassment
My Mind — The Scruffs
Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes — Kevin Ayers
Come All Ye — Fairport Convention
Rambleaway — Shirley and Dolly Collins

GG3

America — Public Nuisance
Gravy Booby Jamm — The Ace Kefford Stand
A New Day Yesterday — Jethro Tull
My Cold Dimention — White Heaven
Shakedown — Thee Hypnotics
Illegal Bodies — Simply Saucer
Turn Over — Les Goths
The Last Goodbye (live) — Slowbone
You're Wishin I was Someone Else — The Whatt Four
Civilization Machine — Plastic Cloud
I Am Your Hour — Sound Company
Wind and Stone — United Travel Service
Trip On Out — Haymarket Riot
Before It Rains — The Terminals
Weird Hose — In Time
Don't Split It — Subway Sect
Do the Wait — The Scenics
Tonight Again — Twinkeyez
Third Uncle (live) — Brian Eno
If I Could Write Poetry — TV Personalities
Found Love — The Darkside
Suzanne — Moose
Sindy Makes Believe — Sweet Jesus
Square Room — Them
Live Edit — Jacks Marianne
Burning House — Sand
Tom Tiddler's Ground — Roy Harper
Rambleaway — Shirley Collins

Galactic Garden 2

Dr. Who Theme — Ron Grainer/Delia Derbyshire
Time Captives — Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come
Red the Sign Post — 50 Foot Hose
Fields of Regret — Alice Cooper Band
I Am the Noise (In Your Head) — Griffin
Whiskey River — Budgie
Chauffeur — Black Cat Bones
Slow Down — Barry Ryan
Ejection — Robert Calvert
Black Sally (single version) — Human Instinct
Erotica — Aguaturbia
Somebody — Grupa ABC
Rising Sun — Jim Ford
Song For You — Jules Blattner and The Warren Groovy All-Star Band
Persuaders Theme — John Barry
Mottey Mary Ann — Pisces
Moscow — Wonderland
Nightmares — The Creation
From Home — The Troggs
It'll Be Me (BBC) — The Move
Security — Thane Russal
Hole In My Shadow — Denny Gerrard
Red Lady — Phil Cordell
Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies — The Assocation
Thanks A Lot — Sea-Ders
Free Advice — Great Society
Getting Old — Svensk
Am I — Complex
Beginning At The End — The Chicago Loop
Apart Of Me — Country Funk
Sunshine Boy (alt ver) — Townes Van Zandt
I Talk To The Wind — Giles Giles Fripp and Dyble
Rosemary Hill — Fresh Maggots
Chariots Of Silk — Tyrannosaurus Rex
One Grain Of Sand — Wizz Jones
Kimbie — Jackson C. Frank
Hiawatha — Simon Finn
Dr. Who Closing Titles — Ron Grainer/Delia Derbyshire

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Zero — Groep 1850
Jay Time — Bullet
One Two Brown Eyes — Chants R n' B
Teenage Rebel — Pink Fairies
Black Sally — Human Instinct
My Time — Golden Dawn
Silence of the Morning — Glass Sun
Rebel Woman — Dean Carter
Showstopper — Iron Knowledge
I Call My Baby Pussycat — Parliament
Almokerkum Neber — Hirut Beqele
Mama Papa Brother — George Freeman
Carter Takes A Train — Harold Budd
Half Forgotten Daydreams — John Cameron
Theme 1 (BBC) — Van Der Graaf Generator
The Phycle — Yesterday's Children
Vacuum Cleaner (acetate) — Tintern Abbey
Arthur Green — Andy Ellison
Let's Do It Again — Sonic Rendezvous Band
Blenheim Shots — Swell Maps
Communist Radio — The Eat
So Messed Up (BBC) — The Damned
Future Shock — Gordons
Hysterie Connective — Metal Urbain
Visitation — Section 25
Worst Girl in This Town — Robin Gibb
Nobody Knows Where You've Been — State of Mickey and Tommy
My Mind's Eye — Ramases and Selket
The Way (single version) — July
Like A Tear — World of Oz
You Turn My Head Around — Ann Margaret/Lee Hazlewood
Sail Away To The Sea — Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
The Courtyard — Simon Finn
Stone Circle — Third Ear Band
Sweeney End Titles — Harry South